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Cyrus wrote:Springer expected to be on the IL longer than 10 days, oh brother lol.
This guy gonna be our new Donaldson?
Randle McMurphy wrote:Cyrus wrote:Springer expected to be on the IL longer than 10 days, oh brother lol.
Well considering it took him a month to come back the last time he hurt his quad and he wasn't even 100% when he did return, I'd imagine we won't be seeing him for at least another month or so.This guy gonna be our new Donaldson?
That would actually be nice. We can only hope he'll be as good as Donaldson. JD was the MVP of the league and the best player on one of the best teams of the past couple of decades.
Parataxis wrote:Does anybody know what the MLB record for homeruns in different parks in one season is?
With the Jays potentially having home stands in three different parks this season, that seems a record ripe for the plucking.
Schad wrote:Parataxis wrote:Does anybody know what the MLB record for homeruns in different parks in one season is?
With the Jays potentially having home stands in three different parks this season, that seems a record ripe for the plucking.
I'd imagine that the max would be 20 in a regular year: all 15 parks in your own league, plus 5 in interleague, and a quick check shows that has been done (first team I looked at was the 2019 Yankees, and they hit homers in every park in which they played).
Metallikid wrote:Randal Grichuk is on pace for 130 RBI
Schad wrote:Metallikid wrote:Randal Grichuk is on pace for 130 RBI
Hitting behind Vlad is RBI manna from heaven, but Grichuk has certainly cemented his place in the lineup. I've basically done a 180 on him: I really wasn't fond of Grichuk when we traded for him, and grudgingly accepted the extension, but he's a far different (and better) player the past two years. He was an exit velocity darling that has actually gotten better while his EV has declined (mildly) by becoming an all-fields hitter with pull-side power who puts the ball in play. Did not see that coming.
The all-fields thing is a bit nuts. Grichuk always recorded a fair number of hits to the opposite field, but he was very pull-heavy overall: Statcast had him at between 42-47.2% pull-side every year of his career. This year? 24.4%. DJ LeMahieu is pulling the ball more than that this season! Fangraphs (which uses slightly different metrics) has him in the bottom five in all of baseball in percentage of balls in play hit pull-side. In 2019, he was in the top twenty.
AthensBucks wrote:Lowry is done.
Nurse is below average at best.
Masai is overrated.
I dont get how so many people believe in the raptors,they have zero to chance to win it all.
“What I took away from it most as an athlete is the importance of being a good teammate,” Biggio said. “You can tell that he’s had a very good career and that he values being a good teammate over a lot of things.”
The four athletes, joined only by a translator for Guerrero, spoke for about an hour. It was the first time Bradley has had a chance to sit down with other Toronto athletes in such a way.
“You’re always trying to take the experiences that you have and draw on them and reflect on them and think to yourself, ‘What’s similar here? What are they going through? What challenges have they faced that now may be similar to something that I may see?’ ” Bradley said.
One of Bradley’s key experiences was bringing a championship home. He wanted Guerrero, Bichette and Biggio to know what it is like to be a winner in the city. So he shared two stories that, to this day, give him goose bumps.
One was of a night shortly after Bradley arrived in Toronto, before he won anything, when he learned firsthand the kind of legacy winning in the city can leave. During a timeout early at a Raptors game, someone on the screen caused a deafening roar that caught Bradley’s attention. That someone? Joe Carter.
“At that point it was like, ‘S---, it’s 2014’ … A lot of the people in the arena that night weren’t even alive when he hit that home run (to win the 1993 World Series) but here we are … he’s at a Raptors game and he’s getting that reception,” Bradley said. “It was this moment where you realized to yourself, man, this city is different and if you can win in this city, then the pride and the respect, it never goes away.”
He got a similar reminder a little more than a year later when TFC clinched its first playoff spot in franchise history hours after Jose Bautista produced his iconic bat flip down the street at Rogers Centre.
“I joked, half-joked, because I swear, when he hit the home run you could hear the roar at BMO,” Bradley said. “It was another little reminder for me at that point, another little way to try to tell these guys, ‘There is not a better sports city in the world than Toronto.’ Yes, it’s going to take time and, yes, it’s going to take sacrifice and effort and there’s going to be pain and heartbreak and work along the way, but if you can do it here it is special.”
The three Jays later told Shapiro what a powerful interaction meeting Bradley was, he said.
They weren’t the only ones who left inspired.
“Those guys are younger than me but in a lot ways I’m a fan of theirs and I look up to them,” Bradley said. “Their energy and just motivation was so clear to see. Their desire to establish themselves as really big-time players for the Blue Jays and to help the Blue Jays now win again, that was so apparent."
“As an athlete, as a competitor, just being around other guys who have that motivation, who you can see that in their eye, not only is that exciting but that’s motivating for you as well.”
AthensBucks wrote:Lowry is done.
Nurse is below average at best.
Masai is overrated.
I dont get how so many people believe in the raptors,they have zero to chance to win it all.
Schad wrote:Hard to say. Really, there are some red flags with Bo this year: beyond the errors (which I'd still expect to sort out), his K-BB is abysmal and his GB% has skyrocketed. I'd imagine that you would be looking at something in the $90m/6 range to buy out his final pre-arb season, three years of arb and two years of FA*, but I'm not sure which party would be unnerved the most by that.
*That would break down to roughly $500k for next year, $8/$13.5/$18m for his arb years and $25/$25m for his FA years, which doesn't seem unreasonable.
