The Implications of Re-Signing David Price
Featured image courtesy (COLE BURSTON / TORONTO STAR) The Situation Alex Anthopoulos rocked the baseball world on July 30th, 2015, acquiring ace David Price from the Tigers in exchange for top prospect Daniel Norris, Matt Boyd, and Jairo Labourt, officially cementing the Blue Jays as contenders and AL East favorites. While the value of the deal was questionable, it sent ripples throughout the league, and sent Blue Jays fans into a...
The Trade Market for Ben Revere
In 2015, Toronto had left field problems – Michael Saunders couldn’t get healthy, Dalton Pompey failed to immediately hit MLB pitching, and Chris Colabello and Danny Valencia proved incapable of catching enough flyballs. Revere came in via trade and stabilized the position well with a 102 wRC+ as a Blue Jay during the regular season. For Revere it was his fifth straight season producing like a league average outfielder. He...
Breaking Blue 2015 NL MVP
I’m not sure if we should apologize in advance for the lack of analysis that’s about to happen in this installment of our 2015 awards picks, but really there doesn’t need to be a lot. John Havok – Bryce Harper. You might wonder why there’s a period behind his name. It’s because that’s where the conversation for NL MVP starts and stops. I don’t care that his team didn’t make the...
The 2016 Blue Jays According to Steamer
Steamer projections came out on Fangraphs a few days ago, and they are very kind to the 2016 Blue Jays. Here is how the team looks right now according to Steamer600, position by position, while including some 2016 free agents who could re-sign in Toronto. Remember, Steamer600 scales the projection to 600 PA for all position players excluding catchers, who are scaled to 450 PA. Pitchers are scaled to either 200 or 65 IP, depending on...
2015 FRIAS Pitching Projections Review
(Title photo courtesy of Keith Allison, https://www.flickr.com/photos/keithallison/) Back in March, I decided that it would be interesting to have a pitching projection system that only used one season of data to project the next season and so I created FRIAS, which projects the three basic DIPS components (walks, strikeouts, home runs) and folds them into a projected FIP. I thought that this was an interesting idea for a few reasons....
Chris Young: Better Than You Think
Chris Young is trash. He was a replacement level starter last year with a 5.02 FIP, and his FIP this year isn’t much better (4.52). It’s a miracle that the Royals are rolling him out there in game 4 today. The thunderous Blue Jays are probably salivating at the prospect of launching bombs off of his batting practice fastball. Except maybe he’s not trash. And maybe Toronto should be more thoughtful with their game...
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