Blue Jays Discussion: 2024-25 Off-season: The free agent watch begins (and sometimes old baseball radio broadcasts)

[MK78]

Is Dan Shulman back this year?

Why wouldn't he be? or are you talking about Buck? Both were on during a preseason game.

 

[Bjindaho]

Is Dan Shulman back this year?

Dan does college hoops for ESPN that takes him away from spring training.

 

[trellaine201]

Dan does college hoops for ESPN that takes him away from spring training.

Thanks. I don't know how long his contract runs.

 

[phillipmike]

Sure, 25... not sure where I got 17. It's approximately the same level of meaninglessness since it amounts to a little less than a week of baseball.

I suspect if you look at players with a significant number of playoff appearances in their career, you'll find that their career regular season numbers are far more predictive of how they perform going forward in the postseason than the first 5-10 games of their postseason career.

I don't understand how you're not projecting forward when you're factoring it into the size of contract he should get. The contract you give a player should be based entirely on how you project them to perform for you going forward.

It should be. But in reality teams use this in negotiations for contracts and vice versa. Agents will say my guy is a playoff performer no matter the sample size.

And I bet if Vladdy had a strong record in the playoffs his agent and poster here will say he is a proven playoff performer, hence why he is worth his ask.

This is my point, there are a lot of warts around Vladdy’s game on and off the field that hesitate to give him hundreds of millions of dollars and playoff performances is one of them. And if he had strong playoff performances, you bet it would be working the other way in his favor.

 

[Suntouchable13]

Everybody riding the Red Sox makes me sick. They are nothing special.

 

[phillipmike]

https://www.mlb.com/milb/prospects/bluejays/

Arjun Nimmala

Trey Yesavage

Orelvis Martinez

Ricky Tiedemann

Alan Roden

Jake Bloss

Josh Kasevich

Landen Maroudis

Will Wagner

Kendry Rojas

Khal Stephen

Fernando Perez

Johnny King

Charles McAdoo

Brandon Barriera

Adam Macko

Juaron Watts-Brown

Enmanuel Bonilla

Mason Fluharty

Sean Keys

RJ Schreck

Ryan Jennings

Adrian Pinto

Carson Messina

Jace Bohrofen

Lazaro Estrada

Angel Bastardo

Dasan Brown

Peyton Williams

Victor Arias

 

[habamillions]

Everybody riding the Red Sox makes me sick. They are nothing special.

I have Yankees then baltimore. Then any of of jays,rays and redsox seed after that. I agree boston nothing special. Crochet and bregman are only big adds. Then lost o'neill. Jays had the better offseason imo. But a lot of ifs still. Can guerrero do what he did last year? Can bo stay healthy and get back to what he was?. Can santander hit 40 again? Can scherzer stay healthy? Is francis for real? Is garcia and hoffman healthy? Can kirk handle a full season?

 

[LaP]

There aren't a lot of times Vlad has had pressure at bats but these limited showings he's mustered these kinds of result. Those two games are the equivalent of the first round of the playoffs as an example. If Vlad went 0-6 with two walks in a best of 3 round would you be happy with it?

No but i'd also be bothered by the two walks. That means the guys in front of him did not get on base and the guys behind him did not frighten the other team.

 

[dredeye]

No but i'd also be bothered by the two walks. That means the guys in front of him did not get on base and the guys behind him did not frighten the other team.

Or he just took two walks because he does have a good eye. His down years he was chasing all the time. This year he corrected that and maybe that's why he got the free passes. But he certainly did not have anything intimidating around him in the lineup

 

[Bjindaho]

Here's a crazy stat

Vladdy's xWOBA by year has ranked 71 (.313 in 2020), 3 (.421 in 2021), 26 (.351 in 2022), 13 (.378 in 2023) and 5 (.408 in 2024). The underlying data suggests that awesome Vladdy is the real Vladdy and that the rough years had a lot to do with luck.

 

[Tony Romo]

I'm curious if Ross has even approached Bo on an extension yet and what his ask is.

Locking in Bo and having Gimenez. Means we could potentially trade the 1203912903 middle IF prospects to upgrade other spots.

 

[Beaumaris]

Here's a crazy stat

Vladdy's xWOBA by year has ranked 71 (.313 in 2020), 3 (.421 in 2021), 26 (.351 in 2022), 13 (.378 in 2023) and 5 (.408 in 2024). The underlying data suggests that awesome Vladdy is the real Vladdy and that the rough years had a lot to do with luck.

Lol! There is no such thing as Luck.

 

[dredeye]

I'm curious if Ross has even approached Bo on an extension yet and what his ask is.

Locking in Bo and having Gimenez. Means we could potentially trade the 1203912903 middle IF prospects to upgrade other spots.

I don't think there's an interest there. I'm really starting to think players just don't like our front office staff. Bo is going into the most important season of his career by a country mile