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White Sox are a useless franchise. Rebuilt themselves for this.
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The Pirates are 14-7. What?
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0-4 with 2 K's for Orelvis today. Brings his season slashine through 11 games to a blistering cold .073/.152/.220, .372 OPS.
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So Peyton Battenfield is debuting for the Guardians today, and he looks absolutely nasty. Cleveland pitching development does it again. Honestly baffling how they churn out quality starting pitching year after year.
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I know TINSTAAP is a real thing, but it’s really hard to look at Tiedemman body of work and pure stuff and not think he’s going to be a top of the rotation arm. I guess going deep into games is the next developmental challenge, but even if he can give us 5 innings from a rotation spot, that’s immensely valuable.
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I think AA truly learned a lot under the Dodgers and Friedman for the 2 years he worked there. Got to see how an elite organization is run. Probably realized how importance of good player development . He was good at drafting, but our player development system was absolutely arcane under his regime.
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I just watched highlights of the Red Sox/Pirates game, and boy are the Red Sox really bad.
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Aaannnnd he just injured his calf and is out of the game.
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So Jason Heyward is the latest project that the Dodgers decided to rebuild into All-Star form. He has 2 home runs already one of which was 113 mph off the bat.
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Bullpen day for them tomorrow and then they face Gerrit Cole after that. They could very conceivably be 0-6 for their opening series at home. People forget they almost choked away a playoff spot in September before they got unbelievably hot in October. They were never as good as they seemed when it came to their World Series run. Plus, now they’re missing Hoskins and Harper too.
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Addison Barger: 2-for-5 Bowden Francis: 4IP, 4H, 0ER, 0BB, 7K Pearson: 1IP, 0H, 1BB, 0ER, 1K
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Red Sox pitching in midseason form already. Chaim is so awful at building pitching staffs.
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Adley Rustchman just homered in his first AB of the season AL East is going to be absolutely crazy this year.
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ST GDT March 27th. Phillies vs Jays 1 pm
Ray replied to JaysAllMighty's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Berrios was cruising through 3 innings, and then got lit up in the 4th. Just can't understand how all his stuff became so hittable all of a sudden. -
ST GDT March 18th. Yankees vs Jays 1pm
Ray replied to JaysAllMighty's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Francis looking pretty good. It’s not dominant stuff, but he looks like he can capably fill in for spot starts. -
Super interesting. Toronto actually had the 2nd best pitching staff in the league if you look at team-wide Pitching+ (103 Pitching+, which is tied with Yankees, Astros, Dodgers, and Giants).
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Baseball-America Farm System Rankings came out the other day. Anybody mind posting them?
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ZiPS likes the Jays prospects it seems:
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I don’t disagree, but projection systems will often times lowball production for unproven guys like Bradish. Rightfully so because those guys have to prove their worth and breakout first, but overall given the young talent that Baltimore has assembled, they do have more potential for positive variance. That being said, they could also turn out like Detroit who took a step forward last year and then immediately regressed this year. We’ll just have to wait and find out.
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Robbie Grossman to the Rangers.
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According to ZiPS: Bassitt (2.5 fWAR) + Belt (2.0 fWAR) + Kiermaier (2.0 fWAR) + Swanson (0.7 fWAR) = 7.2 fWAR vs. Teo (2.5 fWAR) + Rodon (4.6 fWAR) = 7.1 fWAR It's actually closer than I thought. WAR-wise it's basically a wash, but I think the approach we ultimately ended up going with fills more holes, adds more versatility to our roster, and also hedges against underperformance/injuries.
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ZiPS projected standings for the AL: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-2023-start-of-spring-zips-projected-standings-american-league/ New York Yankees 89-73 Toronto Blue Jays 88-74 Tampa Bay Rays 86-76 Baltimore Orioles 80-82 Boston Red Sox 79-83
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Did the same with Josh Donaldson after his MVP year. Shapiro has been very vocal about not going to arbitration if they can help it. I believe the only arbitration cases we’ve had are Marcus Stroman and relievers like Ryan Tepera. Track record speaks for itself.
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My guess is something in the neighbourhood of $40M for the 3 arb years. Mayyyybe buying out a free agent year at $30M or so, but we’ll see.