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  1. AMS528
    3-3 2HR, 1BB and 6.1 IP 10k and just 1 ER. Ohtani is currently tracking for like a 12 WAR season. Completely bonkers. They'd never do it, but I'd love to see what his numbers would be if he played a passable LF for like 4 out of every 6 games.
  2. AMS528
    It's not a complete disaster, and there are some bright spots, but from like a entire organizational perspective the lack of potential call-ups with the combination of no real pieces that can be dealt to improve the big league team sucks. Long term hopefully more pieces pan out, but obviously the minors act as a tool with multiple purposes for the big league team. And the minors this year are, in the two biggest ways they potentially could be, not helpful at all for the Jays. There's no one knocking on the door to help with the pitching since Tiedemann has lost some significant time to injury. And I'm not sure I see guys like Schneider, Palmagiani or Leo Jimenez being particularly enticing to other teams if we were looking to trade. It would hurt less if the Jays were having a more successful year. Then it's fine if you're going to have a barren year, like the Braves currently since they both graduated a bunch of guys, and then dealt the rest to max out the roster.
  3. AMS528
    Fair enough. I was responding to someone calling it generally right wing politics, but it was probably too much.
  4. AMS528
    It's incredibly valuable to have a guy you can reliably pencil in for 6-7 innings allowing 2-3 runs an outing. It's why Buehrle was so valuable (not that Stroman is at that level). If he stays reasonably steady for the next 4 years, he could finish his career with like 35 WAR. Maybe even 40. That's great.
  5. AMS528
    Stroman has picked a great year to have a Cy Young finalist season. If he finishes strong, I wonder what kind of contract he can get for next year? He's reasonably safe to sign since his floor has been pretty stable. He won't be as good as this season, but he's generally always pretty good. 4/100? 5/120?
  6. AMS528
    It has been a very low BABIP and should be expected to, but even then not this low. He's hitting less infield fly balls than he did last year. Some of this probably is a bit of bad luck.
  7. AMS528
    That's fair. Not really a lot of ways to make any kind of big move. This isn't a team with the prospects to add some real move the needle pieces. It's more just hope things start working better internally. Kirk hits better, Vlad hits better. The pitching is less volatile. That either Manoah or Ryu come back and provide some positive value. The roster really is mostly set, it's just going to be about those pieces working better. And that RISP regresses back to a reasonable level.
  8. AMS528
    I mean I certainly have, but I've managed to keep it away from being publicly visible. I didn't go search this, it's already out there because of him, which was then amplified by others on social media. It's not avoidable, it's a different world with social media and it's going to come up every time forever. You can say who cares, and you don't need to, but people will and already have.
  9. AMS528
    Oh come on. Don't call election denial stuff general right wing politics. Have some more respect for them than that, unless you figure that's standard and normal for them, which frankly that seems like taking a pretty dim view of them. Also it's his likes page that people found, and I cannot imagine a way in which to see that Mel Gibson one as normal haha.
  10. AMS528
    I mean simplifying it to that doesn't so much sense to me. Taking his numbers as a whole and not just from the hot streak, he's walking way more, and striking out significantly less in the 230 PA's. Going from a 8/28 K%/BB% to a 12/20 K%/B% is a big change. Without a historically low BABIP, even if the BABIP was like .217 the way it was last year makes his numbers pretty impressive.
  11. AMS528
    I see Twitter and Reddit have discovered Dave Hudgens (Jays bench coach) twitter likes. That may not go down great for him, since beyond the usual type of anti-pride month stuff, he's got a good mix of denying elections, anti-vax, BLM, Tucker Carlson supporting stuff. And also some weird about Mel Gibson related post, that's definitely on the questionable end of things. I gotta say looking through it, whatever you think about any of the individual topics, taken as a whole this man is like a grade A moron. Anyone like him who genuinely really believes like Kari Lake was robbed of an elections is a remarkably stupid person.
  12. AMS528
    Love seeing Votto come back with a big night. One more decent half season to really lock in the HOF.
  13. AMS528
    I forgot how highly touted he became that one year. Top 50 prospect across the board in 2015. https://www.thestar.com/sports/bluejays/2022/08/20/its-the-fall-for-dalton-pompey-the-former-blue-jays-outfielder-who-is-leaving-baseball-on-his-terms.html Seems like he's got a solid perspective on things though.
  14. AMS528
    I'm aware, but also he was ok with the Dodgers. And he's been terrible since. So the hope was maybe he'd recapture whatever form he'd had while with the Dodgers.
  15. AMS528
    Dropped his strikeouts a lot as well over the past two years. He just kind of seems to do things to improve his game all the time. He might already be worth half of that contract by the end of the season (he'll blow past that according to bWAR which loves him). I figure even if his hitting drops off, his smart baserunning and solid defense means he'll eke out positive value for at least couple of those seasons and be pretty close to worth the entirety of that contract.
  16. AMS528
    Good point. Very unfortunate thing to happen twice in to start a year, especially when you're relying on one of them to replace the other in that kind of situation (really the expectation would have been Mitch White replaced Kikuchi who is the same as last year).
  17. AMS528
    Looking at the unsigned former MLB pitcher pile you have Michael Pineda, Mike Minor and that's basically it. It's uh not good. Can't believe that Mitch White went from being ok, to literally worthless in less than a season for no particular reason at all.
  18. AMS528
    In non Josh Towers starts that year we were on a 93 win pace. Second best offense in the AL and pretty solid pitching outside of him. We were 3-12 in those starts. 84-63 otherwise. That was a really good team.
  19. AMS528
    Vlad doesn't really deserve his current numbers. Just glancing over it but his hitting profile this year is way closer to 2021 than 2022. Like he's barreling it, he's hitting it in the air, his hard hit percentage is higher. The results aren't there, but that's bad luck. He's doing the things he should be.
  20. AMS528
    There was some pretty great depth. I really wish Henderson Alvarez' career had worked out. He had that one amazing season where he threw 3 CGSO. It would have been so cool to have a guy dominating while striking out 5/9IP. He could have been Beuhrle's heir.
  21. AMS528
    Does Oakland want to trade us JP Sears? They're terrible at picking prospects so it's always worth it.
  22. AMS528
    Grim is the right description. And I understand minor league depth for pitching isn't necessarily easy to find. You're not just going to have a good starter sitting around there unless you're the Dodgers the last few years. But I think people talking about that are missing the fact that the large glaring issue is that there wasn't even anyone to throw in for a spot start while Manoah was pitching like the worst pitcher in baseball which has now culminated in this incredibly humiliating last start. If we had a trash can to throw out there, then at least this would have been avoided. He absolutely cannot start again. And really that means that functionally even one other shortish term injury to another starter like Kikuchi or Berrios would probably doom us in this division. And given Kikuchi sucked already last year, that means the margins on this season were completely razor thin. Bowden Francis is our hope now that Mitch White is as expected not an actual option.
  23. AMS528
    I don't think he's injured. I think there was a long rain delay during his last start. Or at least that's what I had read on twitter during his last start.
  24. AMS528
    And Frasso has a 0.91 ERA with great K numbers and is apparently sitting 96. He has a violent delivery, but he looks great.
  25. AMS528
    Well Orelvis Martinez is now slashing 195/299/530. Good for a 113 wRC+. The numbers are way more impressive in the just the past month. Great walk numbers, honestly surprising strikeout numbers. The walks have shot up and the strikeouts have shot down a lot in just the past couple of week. And still just a .143 BABIP. It really looks like if his BABIP was just horrible instead of the worst BABIP ever in baseball, he'd be having the kind of year where he'd be shooting back up the prospect rankings?
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