InsideThePark

Make that 4 and 5 on the year

IFFB% is not the percentage of plate apperances that result in pop ups. It's what % of your fly balls are infield fly balls = pop ups/total number of fly balls. Fly ball% is number of fly balls/total number of balls you hit, not total number of plate apperances. To determine what % of the time you're hitting pop ups you need to multiple the IFFB% by the FB% and then again by the % of PA's that end up as non K's or BB. His FB% is 51.5% of which roughly a quarter(25.2%) are pop ups which means roughly 13.0% of balls he makes contact with are pop ups. Since he strikes out 29.9% of the time and walks 7.2% of the time he only makes contact 62.9% of the time. 13% of that is 8.2% so he's only popping up 8.2% of his plate appearances not 25% like you suggest. Along with the 29.9% K rate that makes 38.1% of his plate appearances useless. That's still pretty bad, but nowhere near 56% which would be entirely unrosterable.

Doughty 1st pro HR

If all the AL East teams continued their pace since July 3rd. Baltimore gets to 96 wins, New York to 91, and the Jays reach 86 wins. Yankees are in a rut, the O's are scorching hot and get to beat us up to 13 more times this year. I was trying to be slightly optimistic putting us there in 3rd but realistically it's probably Cleveland. Just a week ago people were saying well we're only 9.5 games back of the slumping Yankees, it could happen. Well the Yankees are still slumping, we've lost a half game in that span and red hot Baltimore is only 11.5 games back of New York. They might catch them by September the rate things are going. Yes that's an exaggeration, but by the end of the season it's not.

Irv Carter promoted to Dunedin

New York, Seattle and Toronto

Getting pasted tonight. Good thing they used Thornton for exactly 1 inning. Gage couldn't have done that.

Good point. Do we play there again before September? Use a September callup spot on Moreno and use him instead of Jansen the when we play there in September. Jansen's going to be a black hole in Baltimore with that new LF wall.

Pretty sure he's referring to the pen arms, and with the 13 pitcher limit we can't cut Zimmer to add a pitcher. If we want to add a pitcher a different pitcher has to go down. He's saying all the non Thornton ones are essential, barring a Kukuchi DFA or something.

Nope it would be suspended and continued tomorrow. Since the Jays took the lead in an inning that Baltimore hasn't had an opportunity to hit in yet. If the Jays took the lead in the 5th, and then it got suspended mid 6th inning that would be a Jays win. They should have tried to get the extra half inning in since it's not raining yet apparently

Does anyone know what Odor is doing? Anyone?

A ton of the 2022 draftees in the Dunedin lineup tonight. 2nd rounder Kasevich starting at SS 3rd rounder Roden starting in RF comp pick Doughty starting at 3B 7th rounder Williams starting at 1B 8th rounder Rock starting in LF 15th rounder Turconi starting at DH UDFA Brown starting in CF

Irv Carter 5 IP, 1 hit, 6 K's, 0 BB, 0 runs His 2nd good start in a row

Toman assigned to the FCL. 1 for 3 with a single and a sac fly in his first game today. De Jesus also there which is odd. Perhaps some organizational orientation thing before going to A+. He was 1 for 3 with a HR

That's Orelvis. Gabby is in A+ Vancouver

5.2 IP, 7 K's, 2 hits, 1 run, 1 BB

If the worst current players got cut then yes, though the high levels would still generally be the same, your bottom 2 teams full of the worst players would just all be removed along with the teams. But teams will be cutting the worst prospects which isn't the same as the worst player. Some bad veteran in AAA who a team no longer wants will get cut over the 8th round draft pick from the last draft who's in the FCL. The AAA cut will almost certainly be a better current player than everyone on the FCL roster, but those lower guys have potential so will be hung onto. Once a bunch of these holes are made at the upper levels guys who would normally be in the lower levels if we had 8 affiliates now need to get pushed up to fill holes watering down the entire minor leagues as a whole. Just look at where newly drafted College players get sent these days. Under the old system most of them went to Vancouver(Short Season A). That doesn't exist anymore so they either have to go to the FCL(lower level) or Dunedin/Vancouver(Higher level). Just about every College guy we drafted last year started in full season ball. That level is weaker than it used to be. As an exercise pretend every minor league team was getting deleted except AAA and AA. You only got to keep 50 prospects, send 25 to Buffalo, and 25 to New Hampshire. Everyone else is gone. There's a bunch of lower level guys you're be assigning to New Hampshire because you want to keep them for their MLB potential, and AA would be a hell of a lot weaker than it is now with guys like Irv Carter, Pinto, Beltre, Meza, etc, etc playing there. It's an extreme example, but going from 8 to 6 teams like they did within the last couple years would follow the same principle

Tiedemann 3 IP, 5 K's, 1 hit, 1 walk, 0 runs

That he was about to be DFA'd like Banda to open up a 40 man spot for one of the acquired players and the Jays got what they could rather than DFA him. You really think the Jays out here selling players to have enough cash to acquire someone?

Likely because that's where he was for the Dodgers at the time of the trade and we haven't activated him on either Jays or Bisons roster yet. I would assume he'll be coming to the Jays, but Richards doesn't have any options left and despite how bad he's been I suspect they don't want to lose him for nothing. White could stay stretched out in AAA until either a start or some length out of the pen is needed.

B All the moves were decent and about the long term, not rentals which I really like. Nothing really groundbreaking and none of the deals pop off the page as steals though so I don't want to give them an A. It's good though, if you try to go for the flashy ground breaking deals you often end up overpaying for rentals, or empty the farm to not win anyway and have egg on your face. They fixed the pen holes they had for cheap and got a depth starter/swingman. I don't really care for Merrifield but he was pretty much free so whatever. When you fill 4 holes with guys who have term and the only guy I'm even going to miss is Frasso that's a job well done.

I think those rankings are mostly a carryover from where they were before. Dodgers have more depth so De Jesus moved up jumping to our pool. Frasso was criminally underanked entering the season and they barely updated at all so he slots in later for the Dodgers because they haven't re-evaluated him yet. Though it is encouraging, and I like De Jesus. I'm curious once they do a full update with the drafted players added too where both guys slot in.

Thor + Iglesias had negative value because of Iglesias' s***** contract. I'd be a lot more upset if they did that TBH. Next year they'd still have the same s***** contract, no Frasso, no Thor and have to go trade Zulueta this time for another rental starter

I wonder if Dodger fans are panicking that the organization that's been great at developing position players just stole their diamond in the rough 20+ ranked infield prospect Alex De Jesus. I would guess no.

Not a fan of losing Frasso but the Jays filled the 4 holes they had with 2 guys with tons of term, Bass who has another year, Meh Merrifield, and got a lottery ticket prospect back and all they gave up of value was Frasso and the corpse of Groshans. Castillo, Beasley, and Taylor were 40 man/rule 5 fodder, and Brito is a complete young 1 in a million prospect. Hopefully these are 3 less holes the Jays have to fill next offseason/deadline. It's the opposite of flashy, and I really hope they don't regret giving up Frasso. Flashy would have been fun and possibly more effective this year but as a whole it seems pretty decent.