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Post by dcsoxfan15 on May 17, 2024 14:45:31 GMT -5
Skenes is unreal. Cubs hitters look absolutely dumbfounded, and it’s amazing! I keep wanting the pirates hitters to go down in order so we can get him back on the mound
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Post by seamus on May 17, 2024 15:43:53 GMT -5
Paul Skenes going nuts in his 2nd start. 9 strikeouts through 4, and throwing like this: That genuinely may be the greatest fastball ever thrown. Holy bananas.
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Post by bellhorndingers21 on May 17, 2024 16:41:54 GMT -5
Paul Skenes going nuts in his 2nd start. 9 strikeouts through 4, and throwing like this: That genuinely may be the greatest fastball ever thrown. Holy bananas. Remembering how Koji's splitter made his 88mph fastball play up. Skenes' splinker with that fastball is like playing MVP Baseball 05 with your make a player leveled up to 100.
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Post by bojacksoxfan on May 17, 2024 16:48:28 GMT -5
I was told that Paul Skenes has a dead zone fastball that might not play because MLB hitters can hit velocity.
Maybe they will, but yowza...
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Post by julyanmorley on May 17, 2024 19:08:08 GMT -5
Jung Hoo Lee out for the year with labrum surgery
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Post by asm18 on May 18, 2024 13:22:24 GMT -5
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Post by incandenza on May 18, 2024 14:42:43 GMT -5
He's making $20 million this year so he'll have to beat 6/138 as a free agent to do better than that offer. He'll be 30 and Zips projects him for 2.2 WAR in 2025 and 1.7 WAR in 2026.
I'd guess he might get something like Chapman's 3/54 deal with opt outs?
ADD: It looks like this wasn't actually Boras' call though: Funny that he switched just in time to watch Boras completely mangle the offseason for all of his top clients.
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Post by ematz1423 on May 18, 2024 14:50:58 GMT -5
Alonso should have taken that deal and not looked back.
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Post by cdj on May 20, 2024 6:03:34 GMT -5
Jack Flaherty is having a nice year with Detroit so far, nice to see him having a renaissance
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Post by julyanmorley on May 20, 2024 16:33:56 GMT -5
Royals DFA'ed their Rule 5 pick they stole from the Yankees, Matt Sauer. Everyone always brought up the Royals as a team that will steal anybody that the Red Sox don't protect, but they only took one guy and they DFA'ed him in May.
Shane Drohan is pitching in the complex league on rehab btw.
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Post by grandsalami on May 20, 2024 16:45:29 GMT -5
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Post by cdj on May 20, 2024 16:46:41 GMT -5
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Post by julyanmorley on May 20, 2024 17:15:55 GMT -5
After a hot start, Justin Turner is on an 0-29 and has sunk below replacement level
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Post by asm18 on May 20, 2024 17:32:27 GMT -5
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Post by ephus on May 21, 2024 16:13:02 GMT -5
Skenes is unreal. Cubs hitters look absolutely dumbfounded, and it’s amazing! I keep wanting the pirates hitters to go down in order so we can get him back on the mound I was at Wrigley on Friday amd my god. It was like he stepped out of a video game and onto the field.
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Post by asm18 on May 22, 2024 9:36:00 GMT -5
It’s really disappointing how little production Shohei Ohtani has provided to the Blue Jays offense since signing with Toronto
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Post by ematz1423 on May 22, 2024 9:41:38 GMT -5
If the way I'm saying this makes any sense the Jays seem like a team starting in 2-3 seasons that could have a long stretch of lean years. Their farm isn't very good right now, they have a fair amount of aging higher dollar vets and if Bichette ends up leaving then things might end up looking ugly in Toronto for a bit.
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Post by incandenza on May 22, 2024 9:52:39 GMT -5
The Blue Jays had a weird offseason. They let Chapman and Belt go; those were their second- and fifth-best position players by WAR in 2023. They replaced them with Kiner-Falefa (giving him a 2/15 contract when similar players were going for like 1/3) and a 39 year old Justin Turner. In addition, they brought back a 34 year old Kiermaier, but he was unlikely to repeat his 3 WAR season from last year. Beyond that I think the plan was for guys like Springer (who's 34), Kirk (a perfect sphere), and Vlad to bounce back. They have not; instead Bichette, their best player last season, is having a down year. This failure mode was fairly predictable.
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Post by asm18 on May 22, 2024 10:30:11 GMT -5
I just don’t get how their big attempt was Ohtani at 700 million dollars (or the Canadian equivalent) and then there apparently was no medium type move they went for after? (Unless you count Yariel Rodriguez). Like they could have tried going after Soto - if they could make that offer to Shohei couldn’t they also afford him? - or circled back with Matt Chapman after his market collapsed. And instead it’s like, “Oh we didn’t land the face of baseball for the largest contract of all time? Okay let’s sign Justin Turner and chill out for a bit.”
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Post by incandenza on May 22, 2024 10:48:09 GMT -5
I just don’t get how their big attempt was Ohtani at 700 million dollars (or the Canadian equivalent) and then there apparently was no medium type move they went for after? (Unless you count Yariel Rodriguez). Like they could have tried going after Soto - if they could make that offer to Shohei couldn’t they also afford him? - or circled back with Matt Chapman after his market collapsed. And instead it’s like, “Oh we didn’t land the face of baseball for the largest contract of all time? Okay let’s sign Justin Turner and chill out for a bit.” Kiner-Falefa and Turner are making more than Matt Chapman this season. It's bananas.
I'm not sure how much to blame the Blue Jays though. They offered him a 9-figure extension which he turned down, and he was surely looking for even more than that early in the offseason when Boras was on full tilt. So they fell back on their plan B and by the time Chapman's cost had cratered they had already filled up their roster and payroll.
But yeah, seems like they should have come up with a better plan than they did.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on May 22, 2024 11:47:22 GMT -5
It’s really disappointing how little production Shohei Ohtani has provided to the Blue Jays offense since signing with Toronto Juan Soto hasn't provided any offense for the Jays either. (For about 5 minutes the Blue Jays became "favorites" to deal for Soto)
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Post by kwodes on May 22, 2024 14:25:19 GMT -5
Listened to Baseball is Dead. According to them, Mason miller's last 9 innings...
9 IP 0 H 0 ER 1 BB 18 K
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Post by grandsalami on May 22, 2024 15:40:26 GMT -5
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Post by julyanmorley on May 22, 2024 15:43:35 GMT -5
The max luxury tax penalties make everyone cry uncle
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Post by incandenza on May 22, 2024 16:08:49 GMT -5
They're at $312 million this year and the top tax threshold next season is $301 million. Those 5 guys listed make $37 million but they'd have to replace those roster spots and also pay about 7 or 8 arb raises. Hard to see them fitting Soto in.
Unless Cole opts out... which I bet they're hoping he does.
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