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They’re hanging in. They haven’t swept a series since April; however, they’ve won several series, making it a good run. If Fat Bastard could start hitting home runs and stay out of the double play, they have a chance. But that fucking Apple-TV contract is fucking up the fanbase. They need to lose that fucking albatross!
I don’t think that will work with both Lazy Willie and Loser Laine on the same team. It’d be a shit-show with those two guys on the ice. I think chemistry is important, and bringing in a talented malcontent is a mistake. I’d rather take Bunting instead. At least he gets dirty and will help against a team like Florida. Having ballerinas on the ice isn’t going to cut it.
How about a what-if for tonight? Would you trade Matthew Knies to Columbus for Adam Fantilli? If Fantilli were to sign a contract for around $10M per season, for 7 years, I’d do that trade. Take advantage of a team that needs to watch its pennies and would give up a good young center. If Fantilli wants the big money, like Gautier is after, forget about it. He gets to play in a city with a lot of good players if he takes less on his contract. He also skips the bridge deal and could sign another huge contract when he hits 28 years old. It’s a prove-it-to-me contract. The Leafs need to get a top-end young center on their roster who could replace Matthews, or play a top-end 2nd line position with really good talent on his wings. So what’ll it be?
This “what if” scenario is actually a “what if” Columbus was retarded.
He’s a two-way center, drafted 3rd overall, 21 years old and Columbus has 13 million in cap space that they’re probably going to use most of to sign.
I like Knies, he’s a big body and he’s a good player on a good contract but he’s not what Columbus wants or needs for Fantilli.
That’s why it makes sense. Columbus is in financial trouble, and signing Fantilli to a Bedard-sized contract makes it impossible for them to stay in business. But a Knies contract, under $8M for 7 more years, gives them Cap security. Yes, Knies has the size and ability to put up 70 points, but getting an actual young Centre for around the $10M number is something the Leafs could swing. The Leafs would have a very young core moving up through the ranks. It would make it easier to move Matthews after this year, knowing that you have a good young center coming in behind him. This is where you get your rebuild done quickly, with Cowan, McKenna, and Fantilli giving you a young 1st line, and the picks and prospects coming back for Matthews filling in the blanks.
How about a what-if for tonight? Would you trade Matthew Knies to Columbus for Adam Fantilli? If Fantilli were to sign a contract for around $10M per season, for 7 years, I’d do that trade. Take advantage of a team that needs to watch its pennies and would give up a good young center. If Fantilli wants the big money, like Gautier is after, forget about it. He gets to play in a city with a lot of good players if he takes less on his contract. He also skips the bridge deal and could sign another huge contract when he hits 28 years old. It’s a prove-it-to-me contract. The Leafs need to get a top-end young center on their roster who could replace Matthews, or play a top-end 2nd line position with really good talent on his wings. So what’ll it be?
Absolutely not, with Laine. He’s a lazy player who’ll cost you goals due to poor defensive play. He’s been a cancer on every team that he’s ever played for. The Leafs look like they could have good chemistry this year. Having this millstone is something they can do without.
At least the Jays are trying to make a last-minute run for a wildcard spot. Hockey needs to come around soon.
Fat Bastard decided to take the year off, which also killed the chemistry. The Jays are stuck with Pork Chop until the Leafs win the Cup. In other words, decades.
I think it’s unfair to say he took the year off because that doesn’t seem to be in his character. If anything, he’s trying too hard and making it worse. For everything he did in the playoffs last year, he gets a mulligan for this season. But he better show up next year or else the Jays are going to be in a full blown crisis moving forward.
I kind of agree with you. I hope they keep Gausman, but it wouldn’t hurt my feelings to see Kirk traded. Valenzuela looks like a great young catcher who’s a switch-hitter. Maybe Vasrsho could be traded, but they need to get an above-average center fielder. Springer? I’d keep him, but the AAV needs to fit.
If the re-signed Bo, they either dont sign Okamoto or still do and they split time in the infield Okamoto/Bo/Clement/Gimenez. Even if Bo was a 5war player this season with the Jays, it might make 2 wins difference, since you just shift time between them and other will be less.
and Bo on the team doesnt suddenly make Vlad also have a 5war season.and wtf are you talking about with saving money, first they didnt, they spent, also I posted here many times I wanted them to get Kyle Tucker and Bo if possible.
Wrong. They could have retained Bo and still brought in Okamoto. Having a four man platoon in the in-field would have worked great with Bo and Okamoto also being capable of playing DH when Springer went down to injury. They could have also traded Gimenez for help in the bullpen or for a bat in the outfield. Either scenario would have made the Jays a better team and only cost them money, which they have plenty of to spend.
Again, your autistic obsession with stats doesn’t account for team chemistry and morale. Bo and Vlad grew up together in the system. Notice how Bo started off shit but then has been rather good the last 30-40 games. Vlad never figured it out though. That’s something they could help each other with. It’s not as direct a connection as Matthews being shit without Marner but there is a level of familiarity and team chemistry that was disrupted when the Jays didn’t bring back the core pieces that helped them get to within one out of a World Series victory.
The Jays did not fill in the required gaps. They signed Cease, which was great, but they didn’t bring in a starting LHP. A couple of injuries and all of a sudden Corbin and Miles are starting games. They needed an elite closer but instead they trotted Hoffman out there, watching him blow games until they made Varland the closer. If they had signed a closer, they’d have Varland as an elite set-up guy and an elite closer or vice versa. Instead, they forced themselves to promote Varland (30 games too late) and still have a weak bullpen outside of him.
They also did not add a bat to the outfield. Varsho has been nothing special offensively, just like he was shit in the playoffs last year, Barger got hurt, Springer was hurt and they’ve just been rotating guys all year. If they had added more weapons, those injuries would have hurt them a lot less than they did. When you build a team, you have to account for injuries. The Jays built a team thinking everything was going to go perfect and when things didn’t go perfect, the season was quickly lost.
Yes, they “tried” to get Tucker but when they didn’t succeed, instead of shifting that money over to Bo, they him walk too. And then, didn’t even use that money on any other bat in the outfield or arm in the rotation. They could have spent that 60 million on addressing their other needs. They basically said, it’s either Tucker gets 60 million or we spend 0 more dollars. It was retarded.
If the Jays had done what I said which was retain Bo, sign a legit starter LHP, bring in an elite closer and add a bat to the outfield, this team would still be at worst in a wild card spot. I know it brings you tremendous pain to admit I was right but the facts are the facts; the Jays fucked up the offseason hard and didn’t add enough to bring them back to the World Series.
Fat Bastard decided to take the year off, which also killed the chemistry. The Jays are stuck with Pork Chop until the Leafs win the Cup. In other words, decades.
You can tell it’s the dog days of summer. The Shitwings at Skydome are imploding and Rogers doesn’t give a fuck. The tickets were all sold, when the customers expected another long run into the playoffs, so Rogers took the money and ran. Now they have the Canadian National Hockey Rights and they’ll screw everyone once more. They almost doubled the streaming rates, then sell a piece off to Prime. After all of that, the last free over-the-air option, CBC and Hockey Night in Canada is now gone. Canada’s number one program for 70+ year is gone. Fuck those Corporate Monkeyfucks. Next will be the Maple Leafs and soon the TSN regional rights will follow and once that happens, TSN will be either bought out or folded. Then the price will skyrocket once again. In speculating, I really think that Rogers is after an NFL franchise and will pursue one, with owning all of the Toronto Sports properties, they’ll do it. Heaven help us, if that happens as it will end up behind a streaming paywall. The Leafs are nothing but aftertaste, after a corporate style blowjob. Fuck this company needs a boycott severely. Enjoy the last year of reasonably priced sports entertainment. After that it’ll be too expensive for the majority of people out there. If you think your hacked boxes are going to save you, something new is going to destroy that. Right now, they’re using AI and killing VPN servers. I know that NordVPN is swapping out servers at an alarming rate. Last weekend my Salt Lake City server was taken out. Almost all of the servers were hit and there’s few options out there. I have exactly 2 working servers in the United States after having hundreds.
Still a lot of tweaking to do. Not sold on Stecher and Andrea. Too small and ineffective for the Atlantic Division. Too many teams with offensive power and grit. They might work against a bottom-feeder, but the Division is too stacked to take that chance.
