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  1. mphenhef
    The Raptors and Grizzlies were brought in with some rules that made live a lot more difficult for them compared to other expansion teams (especially compared to what the NHL does now). The big one is they were barred from having top picks for three years (Imagine the Raps with Iverson and Grizz with Duncan as that's what that rule prevented) but they also weren't allowed to spend up to the cap. They were very mismanaged and didn't put an exciting product on the court (Big country Bryant Reeves was a decent player but not exciting in any way. Same with Shareef Abdur-Rahim who was a good player but didn't have an exciting game. Steve Francis being drafted and refusing to play for them may have been the nail in the coffin for the team). Surely a lockout early in the teams history didn't help either.
  2. mphenhef
    I'm not sure I would trust anything Heyman says.
  3. mphenhef
    I think you are correct in the sense that Tony Clark likely doesn't consider that pre-arb players getting paid peanuts is why middle of the road vets can't make any money. Why pay a guy $10 million for 1-1.5 WAR when you can get 0.75 from a 600K pre arb guy?
  4. mphenhef
    pythag records only take runs scored and allowed into account right? I would think there are some pretty big luck and timing aspects to runs scored (ie stringing together hits). It's interesting that their pythag was so good when the Jays actually had a better team WRC+ last year AND a better XFIP. Orioles were superior in base running metrics which could have had an impact but Jays were significantly better defensively.
  5. mphenhef
    Time for rookie scale contract minimums to increase too
  6. mphenhef
    I voted 85-89 as that's the safest bet. The offense has to be a massive concern and I'm not sure the elevation of Mattingly is enough to fix the issues they had when also accounting for downgrades from last year at several positions. Pitching was unusually healthy last year and it's looking early on that that may not be the case this year.
  7. mphenhef
    I am sure this is all true but knowing this makes spending 17.5 million on IKF and KK a terrible mistake and shows a terrible understanding/forecasting of the market from the Jays front office.
  8. mphenhef
    Keep in mind Vlad is hitting free agency at a much younger age than those guys, which could impact things if the performance dictates it.
  9. mphenhef
    I feel like when Jackson got drafted they were saying Ethan was even better. I wonder if that is still possible?
  10. mphenhef
    The fact you can see his shirt through his pants is the embarassing part. I had higher quality uniforms on my non competitive little league team in the 80's..
  11. mphenhef
    Like his toe nails need to be clipped?
  12. mphenhef
    My only real thought on his comments was that he has absurd god given talent making to be one of the best on the planet for a few years without baseball being a passion...although I suppose getting paid was his passion driving him pre big contract.
  13. mphenhef
    Personal preference, but I liked the following: Colorado Washington Houston Atlanta Cincy I'd say the only one I downright hated was Boston
  14. mphenhef
    I'm surprised the Yanks with Verdugo, Judge and Soto aren't on this list.
  15. mphenhef
    Chourio, the fact he has signed a contract already makes it almost guarantied he makes the opening day roster.
  16. mphenhef
    I'd be interested to see Vlad's number when Dante Bichette was with the team versus when he isn't.
  17. mphenhef
    This front office hasn't drafted and developed a single effective reliever after 8 years. I wouldn't trust them to do so going forward. Honestly, to me this is one of their biggest failings as they have had to use trade and monetary assets for a position that should be easy to develop.
  18. mphenhef
    Last year he put up decent numbers in A ball and ridiculous numbers over a 27 game stretch in high A. That's a pretty small sample size so I'm not ready to anoint him yet Soto didn't even get as high as Basallo in the prospect lists and jumped from A ball to the majors in one year. Vlad was consistently rated highly but much of that was based on his advanced eye at the plate where he was taking more walks than strikeouts (hopefully he goes back to that approach) combined with crazy swing speed and bat to ball skills. I'm not saying Basallo won't get there but I need to see more. I've seen lots of guys go off for 27 games and come back down.
  19. mphenhef
    That Barger profile sounds like a lot of the mlb guys in terms of what they did with the'r batting approach
  20. mphenhef
    I'd argue 95% was too low and 4.9% of voters don't have a clue.
  21. mphenhef
    The more important thing to note in that video in my opinion is that he's not falling off to the left hand side like he did for much of last year.
  22. mphenhef
    They're the kind of guys who should be developed, but this front office has been unable to do that.
  23. mphenhef
    The arb system doesn't quite work that way. Vlad is in his 3rd year of arb due to super 2 status while Bo would only be in his second year. while Bo has been the better player recently, Vlad's near MVP season still weighs heavily in his favour for comps and led to a high starting point as he entered arb. That would account for a quite large difference between what he would file at this year and what Bo would have filed at.
  24. mphenhef
    probably his proctologist
  25. mphenhef
    Hear me out here...what if we got Varsho to don the catcher's gear again so we could get Clement into the lineup?
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