I would say they are good enough as of right now and that you can only hedge so much.
I feel hesitant buying a longer term reliever because of the variance involved, especially when we’re talking about a guy like Iglesias. I’d be less concerned with a younger arm.
If there’s a longer term option out there for the pen, like say Greg Soto I’d be down with that. Otherwise Robertson or Bard would be solid. I’d also love to add Castillo, Montas, or Rodon(if available) but would settle for Quintana.
He missed or ignored the whole development aspect of your post.
Bo is extremely athletic and works exceptionally hard. it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that he’s continued being groomed for SS. And it’s already paying off. I believe he was -.5 WAR defensively for a part of this season and he’s now even in dWAR.
Ohtani drives significant revenue. If they can’t get him signed and he walks there’s still a whole bunch of $$ that makes it worth keeping him around. Likely not the correct baseball decision with how they’re trending but trying to tell your owner that Ohtani needs to be dealt is an uphill battle.
Apparently he added some launch angle hence the slight power increase but yeah, for the most part he just makes contact and is decently speedy on the path.
That's great!
Raimel started off his first 30 games or so not looking like much and I know he's no defensive wizard, but his bat has really come on the last 50 or 60 games. Even removing last night's game, he's been one of the Jays best/most consistent producers for a long period of time.
I might have to retract my previous sentiments on Banda. Obviously, not the highlight of the game last night but he does have electric stuff. It would be interesting if the Jays could somehow harness that.
Consider this article : http://research.sabr.org/journals/inside-the-park-home-runs
Parks have changed a lot over the years. I don’t know how many have been hit inside the park in the past 40 or 50 years but I’d guess it be less than 10% of the 224 cited.
Analytics have come far. Clean-up hitters like Joe Carter were a thing. Lead-off hitters were guys with speed. That’s why Devo was the lead-off hitter. Same for Henderson although I’m not sure what your issue with Henderson is? He’s one of the greatest of all-time
I would not think Tiedemann will be seen on the Jays this season and it’s even less likely that Frasso will.
I would think Zulueta will be at some point(rule 5 eligibility + his stuff and ability) as will Hernandez depending on how long his injury keeps him out. I thought he was going to be out for a short period of time but he hasn’t pitched since June 19th still.
Really nice win for the boys in red. Yimi continues to show that he’s the best high leverage pitcher out of the pen right now. And BABIP’ing the crap out of the Royals in the 10th felt pretty good.
International should signings are as important as the draft for the Jays. He as there been a team better at that?
Also our two highest rated pitching prospects are from the draft I believe in Frasso and Tiedemann one who looks like he’ll be moving into the top 100 of all MLB and is becoming regarded as one of the best pitching prospects in all of baseball.
As noted above it’s a big picture.
Are we just looking at 1st round picks? Because it’s certainly not as bad overall as that list. In fact, it’s pretty good especially when we factor in the prospects in the system right now that are up and coming and moving up the rankings combined with the young talent already on the Jays.
The lack of walks are telling. He’s not Bo aggressive at the plate but he’s been far too aggressive in pitch selection.
Vlad is good enough he only needs to wait for one pitch each PA but he seems to be forcing it.
Being in the two hole, I’d expect the hitting staff will be working on his plate approach - he hasn’t figured out that taking a walk on bad pitches is just as effective as slapping the ball for a base hit. Especially with the way the line up is constructed now.