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I vaguely remember reading some outcry directed at this front office for trading Dwight Smith Jr. to the Orioles for int'l pool money.
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Grichuk just barely missed his third homer today lol. Everything today has been hit hard by him.
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Grichuk has matched his 2019 fWAR in 17 games thus far.
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I'll have to do a bit of a deeper dive into the numbers, but I doubt Grichuk has ever had a BB/K ratio or O-Swing% like this over a 17 game stretch before. Even during the best of his times, he usually posted sub .300 OBP's with high SLG%. Take last September as an example. His O-Swing% is substantially lower, his BB% is higher, his K% is lower, and there's clearly a very tangible approach change that we all see in his AB's with the eye test. I think it's safe to assume there has been some approach change. Obviously, the 179 wRC+ is likely not sustainable, but if this approach change can leads to a .250/.330/.500 slashline over the course of a full season, combined with his defense, that contract would be a relative steal. Let's hope it sticks, because it's always been mental with him.
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This was posted 5 days ago, so he could be close
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Hard to say if it’s one of those phantom DL stints for him to work on his issues or actually something actually more severe. I would think if it was something more serious, it’d already be reported that he’s undergoing an MRI?
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Bo's 162 game pace: 7 fWAR, 40 HR, 22 stolen bases. He's looking to be an absolute stud. How much would it cost to extend him?
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Wilmer Font in high leverage would not be a good managerial decision.
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That was a very elevated ground ball
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Yamaguchi has actually looked quite good. Hitting 93 mph with his fastballs with a good splitter. When he’s on, he can be good. Unfortunately he’s the type of pitcher who will get shelled when he’s not. Not much room for error.
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Final line: 7IP, 4H, 0ER, 1BB, 10K against a hot hitting A’s lineup. Lowers his ERA to 1.57 and now leads all pitchers in fWAR. lol Orioles.
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Fire Charlie Montoyo - The thread worked guys!
Ray replied to TwistedLogic's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
I feel as if people are being slightly unfair to Panik on here. He's barely gotten any PA's to get going, and for a team that ranks at the bottom of OBP and contact, can actually provide both if he goes back to career norms. Consistently playing him over Fisher was infuriating, but giving him AB's over Tellez/Drury/Alford is hardly the worst thing in the world. -
Fire Charlie Montoyo - The thread worked guys!
Ray replied to TwistedLogic's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Tellez/Drury/Alford suck, Fisher is injured, and Panik at the very least gets the bat on the ball and has the ability to post a respectable OBP (both of which this team could desperately use right now). The optics of this seems worse than it actually is. Not defending Montoyo, but this has less to do with his lineup and more to do with overall roster construction. -
Stanton is apparently going to miss ~4 weeks with a hamstring strain, which means between ramping back up and getting ready for game shape, he likely won't be back until mid-September if he doesn't suffer any setbacks. Highly doubt he opts out after 2021 given his extensive injury history. There's still 7 years and $218M left on that contract, and it's looking like the Marlins were wise to sell high on him. Yankees of all teams can afford to eat dead money, but they could be looking at two landmines between Stanton/Cole within the next 5-10 years.
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He'll still be a free agent this season actually. He accrued enough service time to become a free agent end of this season. Brodie Van Wagenen has given up Anthony Kay, Justin Dunn, Jerred Kelenic, and Simeon Woods-Richardson within a 1 year span.
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We don’t say that name around these parts.
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The craziest part about Borucki is that he’s been mowing down hitters while barely using his best pitch, which is his changeup. Kid is looking like a stud.
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I know our prospects have loved working with Guillermo Martinez in the minors, but overall, the plate approaches have been horrendous going back to last season.
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Even when this team is hitting decently well like today, we'll still have struck out 10 times (probably more by the time the game is over). Ton of swing and miss in this lineup.
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I think I might legitimately prefer Billy McKinney getting AB's over Rowdy Tellez at this point.
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Teoscar better stop hitting this well, otherwise Montoyo is going to bat him 9th.
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What an outing for Kay. Will he out-WAR Stroman in 2020?
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I hope Montoyo isn’t planning on pulling Borucki for Waguespack. He can go another inning quite easily.
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Teoscar has more than 350 PA's dating back to his recall from AAA last season where he's OPS'ing over .900 in the majors. Not exactly a small sample. I don't know how you justify placing a guy like that low in the order when Tellez is batting 4th.