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I see Mitch White was designated for assignment by the Brewers. I missed that he was cut loose by the Giants earlier in the season.

Aside from the making the world series/success in the playoffs part Jays fans can relate to these type of disappointing seasons from key players on the roster.

Mayza has generally been solid since around the second week of April as well. He had one really bad outing on the 10th of April where he allowed 3 ER in a third of an inning but has pitched to a 3.38 ERA/2.45 FIP since. His strikeouts are way down though which is certainly not ideal.

I'm in no way advocating trading for McMahon. Trading for guys experiencing a breakout season certainly can work out just fine if the guys maintain that type of pace. There's always risk in trades, if you trade for a guy coming off of a bad season there's always the inherent risk the guy is actually bad as well so it goes both ways.

McMahon may have taken a step forward with the bat. He needs to show he can keep it up but he's sitting at a 128 wRC+ presently. The .378 xwOBA is actually better than his actual of .370 so it's not like he's been lucky either. On top of that it's largely been built on games away from Coors Field as he's running a home away split of 95 wRC+ at home vs 158 wRC+ away.

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Vlad has a chance to come close to earning his money this season if he keeps anything remotely close to his present numbers up. Projection systems have him ending up in the 3.5-4 win range which is a lot more palatable.

One thing that's nice about this year's version of Vlad is that he's been producing a ton of value despite the lack of home runs. Over the last 30 days he's produced a 181 wRC+/1.1 FWAR which would correlate to a 6+ win season.

Febles has been a real breath of fresh air. I don't recall a single bad send in all of the games I've watched this season. I haven't looked up the numbers but it feels like the team baserunning has been much better so far this season as there just aren't so many unnecessary outs on the bases.

Just more weaksauce strawman type arguments from BJMB's most insufferable poster.

That was the most logical demotion of anyone in the pen given Swanson's extended struggles.

I don't know if I should be terrified that you are so obsessed about me or whether I should be satisfied that I'm living in your head rent free. It seems as though you mention me by name something like 10 times per day so I must have made a very solid impression.

There were enough examples of this kind of output (something like scoring 9 runs 4 times in 10 days) that it's not a total fluke. I still don't necessarily believe the nearly worst in MLB offensive output is a true indication of overall talent level, unless both of Springer and Turner are completely cooked as productive hitters. The team constantly has several hitters simultaneously in deep slumps, and on top of that a manager that refuses to make the needed changes to mitigate the issues caused by the slumping players.

Bit of a mixed bag. I certainly enjoyed the 9 run offensive outbursts and was just as frustrated as everyone else at the rest of the games where the team can't score more than a run or two.

I think Barger offers a lot more upside and better toolset and if he's given a bit more rope and played in positions he's comfortable with he might be able to add another solid bat to the lineup. Lukes would almost certainly offer more with the bat than Springer has until this point though.

I'd like to see previous years bat speed results to see how precipitously it's been declining year over year. Maybe it's a case of George simply needing to adjust to making due with a little less swing speed than previous years but the complete lack of results this season is pretty alarming.

Even without the IL stint I'd still call up Barger to primarily man right field and make Springer a part time player until he can prove he's able to contribute anything offensively. Vogelbach could be sent packing to create a spot on the roster as his presence doesn't serve any purpose other than making the team even less likely to use Jansen out of the DH spot.

The team really had no one better than Manoah until Ryu came back from Tommy John surgery so they were unfortunately stuck with Alek at that point. The lack of pitching depth has been exposed the last few years, although I admittedly thought the depth looked decent enough both years it eventually proved to ultimately be inadequate a year ago with this year sort of remaining to be seen as Francis and Rodriguez are nearing return. I thought Alek looked far too close to the terrible version of himself yesterday as he was constantly spinning out of his delivery and the stuff was downright mediocre as well. I think the club essentially views Kiermaier as a 400 PA type of player vs everyday as he needs more frequent rest days, but fully agree bringing him back for a club that desperately needed to add thump to the lineup was a total headscratcher. Given the limits of available offseason budget it's perfectly fair to question whether the available dollars were wisely allocated. Ultimately the team can only sign the guys who are actually willing to take their money but the early results for the offense have the decision making looking rather suspect.

The team is largely getting in it's own way at times. Whether it's the stubborn refusal to move Springer down in the order, or cut Turner's playing time due to a month long slump, or dragging their feet on playing Schneider every day, or inserting Jansen into the DH spot more frequently. If the offensive situation weren't so dire these issues wouldn't be as big of a deal but on a team that has mostly struggled to plate runs for most of the season it's high time for more desperation.

I typically don't gripe too much about managerial decisions but the decision to start Turner over Jansen at DH despite him being 6 for his last 57 AB heading into the game and then hitting him second is beyond f***ing egregious. Over and over again Turner's spot in the lineup came up in big situations and he repeatedly failed over and over again to deliver.

Some of the runs were a result of bad luck but at the same time Alek looked an awful lot like the terrible 2023 version of himself.

There have been far too many games like this one so far this season. Oh well, gotta hope the lineup aside from Vlad and Bo accomplish something tomorrow.

I'm not aware of how to look up those particular splits. Baseball Reference does have a handy splits breakdown page where you can find a treasure trove of other stats however: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.fcgi?id=kirkal01&year=2024&t=b

I don't recall reading any reports that stated Orelvis was anything better than below average at third base, but at the same time there weren't reports of him being an absolute butcher at the position either. Perhaps this could be a case of where the short throw at second base messed with his head or something although I haven't broken down the ratios of throwing errors to errors due to shoddy glovework.

I mentioned earlier in one of the threads that it's gone under the radar that Kirk has actually been a pretty solid offensive contributor for awhile now. He got off to an awful start at the plate but he's been steadily trending upwards with the bat. You can go back to as far as the second week of the season to illustrate this, as he's produced exactly league average offence 100 wRC+/0.8 FWAR in 21 games/77 PA since Apr 5. Fast forward to April 14 and he's provided a 137 wRC+ over the following 5-6 weeks with 0.7 FWAR in 14 games/50 PA. Jansen has deservedly received the bulk of the catching duties given his elite offensive contributions but Kirk has also been a very steady contributor as well after a really bad initial week to start the season.