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  1. max silver
    Vlad has actually been getting under the ball a tad too much so far. Leading up to the game his groundball was easily at a career best 35%, which is a 10% drop from his previous best.
  2. max silver
    Well this game certainly went the way everyone expected. Lucas handily outpitches Mackenzie Gore Gore is roughed up by the Blue Jays Springer dinger off of Gore Several hits from Straw off of the bench It's really easy to feel good about this team right now. Once Santander and Vlad start chipping in with the home run ball this offense could be downright dangerous. I was very impressed with Lucas, as his fastball in particular was a weapon up in the zone and the command was very solid as well.
  3. max silver
    Still prefer Yarbrough at this point? We know that Yarbrough's ceiling is decent long man, but Lucas really opened my eyes as a dude who looks like he might be a legitimate option for the back end of the rotation.
  4. max silver
    I think Wagner has looked very good at third base in spring training and early in the season. He's not a gold glove candidate like Ernie Clement but the defense has been very solid so far.
  5. max silver
    I'll reserve judgment on who I'd rather see pitch between Lucas and Yarbrough until I've actually seen Lucas pitch. He did produce pretty decent numbers in AAA last season and his stuff+ numbers look decent as well so he may prove to be a cromulent depth rotation option.
  6. max silver
    This feels a lot like last year when most of the better rotation depth options started the season on the injured list.
  7. max silver
    Some of the tools look to be a little better than advertised. Roden's sprint speed has worked it's way up to above league average at 27.5 ft/s, albeit with an awkward looking running technique. The defense has been very good so far as well.
  8. max silver
    Vlad has an unusual issue this season in that his launch angle is actually a bit too high as he's getting under the ball too much. The exit velo is excellent as per usual, hopefully he can level the swing out a bit as he appears to be attempting to lift a bit too much. With Santander he's a notorious slow starter for his career but the power should come eventually. He has a career 84 wRC+ over Mar/Apr for his career with only 12 career home runs.
  9. max silver
    Jake Bloss was torched for 9 hits/8 runs (3 earned) in only 4 innings last night. Schneider mentioned that they wanted Bloss to be pitching well before a potential rotation callup so this start didn't exactly help his cause.
  10. max silver
    I didn't specifically reference any past performances directly, but thanks I guess. I would tend to think that the 141 wRC+ that Gimenez produced in 2022 is at least somewhat inspiring, but perhaps your standards are better for some reason. He's never been a Statcast monster even in his best season, but the 2024 result saw him underperform the expected statistics to a decent degree, suggesting that the bat could have been pretty close to league average that season with a little better luck on batted balls.
  11. max silver
    April Fools?
  12. max silver
    At the end of the season that's ultimately true but a bad start in April still leaves 5 months remaining to play catch up in the standings.
  13. max silver
    Thanks for the Statcast copy/paste job, but you seem to have forgotten to mention what point you were actually trying to make.
  14. max silver
    That's after removing a 30-40 home run bat in Santander from their roster as well.
  15. max silver
    Yeah Manoah was the opening day starter a single time in between the Berrios starts.
  16. max silver
    The Gimenez trade felt primarily financially driven in nature. I recall shortly after the trade Cleveland GM Mike Chernoff stated on record that he felt that Gimenez was capable of making the necessary adjustments at the plate to return to being more productive offensively.
  17. max silver
    The first game of the season was just one of those games where the Orioles parked every single mistake pitch in the seats like they knew what was coming. I believe Berrios' command was just off a bit in that start, and the Blue Jays opening day starter seems to get bombed by the opposition in most seasons in recent memory.
  18. max silver
    Too many fans only look at the latest season in isolation with zero regards to prior performances when formulating their opinions on a player. Gimenez is a perfect example of this.
  19. max silver
    I thought Francis was tremendous for the first 5 innings but he ran out of gas in the 6th.
  20. max silver
    Based on how many players had increased swing speeds in the early going I was sort of wondering if there was some sort of calibration issue. I recall that Springer was several MPH higher before the results were updated this morning, somewhere around 73.5 MPH or so. He's increased his fast swing rate by 10% which is encouraging and the overall quality of contact has been solid as well. I also recall Roden was sitting about around 73 MPH before the results were posted. With Roden I'm thinking he hasn't been getting his best swings off recently with quite a few awkward swings/jam shots etc.
  21. max silver
    I've been tracking this as well. I've noticed that the average speeds in particular are swinging pretty dramatically at this point, it just seems like there aren't nearly enough data points to make any broad conclusions at this point.
  22. max silver
    Fingers crossed some of the spring training success carries over to the regular season.
  23. max silver
    I simply don’t think the situation is nearly as dire as you have been portraying for the last 2-3 seasons. The AL in general is wide open this season and I fully believe the Blue Jays have a very realistic shot to compete for the playoffs. I don’t think that trading either of Vlad or Bo this offseason would have brought back assets that outweigh what these players would offer to the Blue Jays in their final years of control due to the injury riddled season that Bo just endured and the fact that Vlad loses a lot of excess value due to the inflated salary he’s on track to earn.
  24. max silver
    Barring multiple breakouts and/or resurgences this team almost certainly won’t be a World Series contender. I’d still rather see competitive teams attempt to have playoff success vs a constant cycle of rebuilding attempting to build a perfect team. Nearly every team in the sport aside from the Dodgers has a ton of holes and it’s not like they have been some sort of playoff dynasty either as regular season success means little once the playoffs start.
  25. max silver
    I'd wager it has something to do with 14-15 years of Vlad.
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