Canada4Gold
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I'm sure Blue Jays excutive is talking about the team in the 3rd person and randomly leaking their intent for no reason whatsoever. This obviously came from elsewhere
Blue Jays Discussion: 2024-25 Off-season: The free agent watch begins (and sometimes old baseball radio broadcasts)
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Stephen
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The Jays first offseason priority might be to acquire some dignity before anything else.
Using batting average to determine who is an effective MLB hitter is like using goal totals to determine who is an effective NHL defenseman.
His OPS+ was 99. He's a league average hitter.
He's a tiny smidge below average both last season and for his career, which is 'average' to any reasonable definition.
saska sault
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Varsho is not a concern. If he stays what he is, he is still a great asset. Hopefully his bat picks up a hair, I'm sure no fan will complain.
Get Vlad signed now!!! I feel any serious impact player with term wants an idea of how this team will look in a few years. You have what your entire rebuild was based on ready to walk into free agency... Vlad and Bo.
I'd put Soto chances at 15%... Likely we are used to bring the price up, but always a chance. Really think the chances increase substantially if you get Vlad here long term also.
Get Vlad signed now!!! I feel any serious impact player with term wants an idea of how this team will look in a few years. You have what your entire rebuild was based on ready to walk into free agency... Vlad and Bo.
I'd put Soto chances at 15%... Likely we are used to bring the price up, but always a chance. Really think the chances increase substantially if you get Vlad here long term also.
phillipmike
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landy92mack29
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Yeah Soto would be awesome but I'd rather have some clarity on Guerrero+Bichette's future with the team....hopefully both signed to long term deals with us
Da Cool Rula
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Just don't understand why its taken so long for these clowns to sign Vladdy and perhaps Bo.
Were not getting Soto.
Its gonna be another lousy season season with a lousy farm club.
Excuse my negative attitude today. I'm in a "Shane" pissed off mood.
Were not getting Soto.
Its gonna be another lousy season season with a lousy farm club.
Excuse my negative attitude today. I'm in a "Shane" pissed off mood.
Hellcat
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Terrible analogy on two fronts the Norris tends to go to the Defenceman who generates the most offence and OPS+ not a pure hitting metric.
OPS+ is not a good measurement to gauge the quality of a hitter, OPS+ is an offensive metric not a hitting metric per se. He is not a league average hitter, he is league average with a offence metric.
If you feel .214 is an average BA, would you take a lineup 1 through 9 who hit at a .214 pace?
You and many other Jays fans.
He's a league average batter, if you want to argue semantics.
Using batting average to evaluate hitters is nearly useless. There are better statistics. Use those.
Jesus Christ, no one is saying he has an average batting average. He has a poor batting average and makes up for it by doing other things well, making him an average hitter.
OPS
OPS+
wOBA
wRC+
Those all give a decent idea of his value at the plate, and he's around average in all of them.
LaP
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Not that i fully disagree with you but let's put aside the debate about whatever Varsho is an average hitter or not the question to your question will be no either way. A lineup made of 9 average hitters wont go far you need at least around 3 hitters who are significantly better than the average and ideally 1 or 2 you can be good contact hitter who get on base and can steal bases.
Personally i would call Varsho average. He's obviously not an average contact hitter in that regard he's clearly below average but he got some power which make him globally average as a hitter. He's a 7th, 8th or 9th batter in my book though. Too easy to strike out and not enough power to be in the middle of the lineup.
Strictly as a hitter Gurriel is better than him though.
It's more subjective than objective if you ask me. The current lineup will miss again.
Varsho will probably do better when he's not being bounced around the lineup because Schneider is desperately tying to move around the pile of trash he has to work with to get something going around Vlad/Bo. Not like massive improvement, but from average to like 103-105 OPS+. Keep in mind hitting in different spots does require a different approach. And they had Varsho from everywhere to lead off to bottom of the order.
99 OPS+ plus gold glove caliber defense is still incredibly valuable and i'm not sure why this is still being argued because of counting stats. He put up 5 WAR which is in all-star territory.
99 OPS+ plus gold glove caliber defense is still incredibly valuable and i'm not sure why this is still being argued because of counting stats. He put up 5 WAR which is in all-star territory.
