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As much as I hate to say this @joshjays44_PSN, your lineup looks brutal this year. Matt Chapman will need to up his game, but your team seems to do well with Oakland cast offs . What do you think about the addition of Tapia for Grichuk.
Ps: I love hot pockets. I know your hatred for DD runs deep....but lay off the hot pocket hate.
You like hot pockets?, well I guess not all of us are created equal. Anywayssss, Grichuk had to go, we already have Springer, Hernandez and Gurriel in the outfield..dude has such a low OBP....in Colorado he can play everyday and prolly hit 35 homeruns. Tapia will be a good 4th outfielder and provide pinch running and a left hand bat off the bench, if that dead weight Montoya decides to use him..worst manager in baseball....handles the bullpen like a DD player trying to hit on Legend at pitch speeds maxed.
Ok. This confuses you. In one sentence you state that it's good they got rid of Grichuk because the outfield was crowded. But then in the next sentence you saw that Tapia will be a good 4th outfileder.
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Unless you're saying that Tapia has better stats to justify replacing Grichuk.
Wow I take it you took a semester at Trump university?. Yes, Tapia will be a better choice as a 4th outfielder than Randal....Grichuk has like a .280 OBP, and as for an almost everyday player that's one of the worst in baseball, Tapioca has almost 50 points better OBP than Randal and is faster, strikes out at a much lower rate than Randal. For that last comment you deserve a whole box of hot pockets...Ericulous1 will deliver it to you.
What does Trump University have to do with my reply?
I asked a question. All you had to do was reply. You didn't have to be a smart @$$ about it.
No wonder people rag on you here.
Oh sorry I apologize, usually when I say someone took a semester at Trump University I take it they are uneducated or have no access to google or any other ways to find out stats or knowledge of a question they are unsure about and require additional information from another human beings.
If you actually looked at the stats, you’d see that both Grichuk and Tapia provided the exact same value to their teams last year. They both had exactly 0.4 fWAR in a similar amount of PA. They were both awful hitters, with Grichuk’s 85 wRC+ being better than Tapia’s 79 wRC+. Grichuk was a slightly better fielder when playing RF (he had more innings in CF, but there’s no chance the Rockies would ever put him there with their massive outfield) than Tapia in LF as well. Tapia’s BsR is the only reason he had the same amount of fWAR as Grichuk, but value is value regardless of how a player provides it.
And interestingly enough, Grichuk and Tapia were much closer in wOBA, with them having .300 and .305 respectively. But Grichuk’s xwOBA was actually .294, while Tapia’s was .279. This tells us that Tapia’s wOBA (and consequently OBP) benefited quite a bit from balls landing in the huge Coors outfield.
LOL OMG WTF FYI you've put way too much thought into a salary dump by the Blue Jays with a team that needed a left handed bat, they tried with Dickerson last season and that was a flop..the only significant left handed bat with a high OBP on the Jays is Biggio if he can play a full season this year without injury. To me a walk is just as good as a hit, and Biggio provides that and Tapia provides that too, as per at bats Tapia doubled Grichuk with walks and walks with speed can turn into two bases. You make it seem like the Blue Jays need more pop in their line up, they have enough of that..what they need is a left handed bat with speed to use as a back up..not a guy that's going to strike out and hits the occasional homerun. My guess is this year the Jays will have about 7 guys with 20 homeruns....what the Jays got with Tipia is a platoon left handed bat with speed..that's all he's needed for...the team is stacked with everything else and will most likely win the East. And get that argument that Tipia's OBP was helped out with Coors field outta here, that's such a moot point when half the games are played there and there's a 50 point difference between the two players.
I put too much thought into it because you’re an a$$hole and told someone to look at the stats without actually looking at them yourself. Your point was that Tapia is a better 4th outfielder than Grichuk, while I proved with stats that they literally provided the exact same value to their teams last year and that one isn’t better than the other. The Blue Jays quite literally added zero value by trading Grichuk for Tapia. The fact that you think a huge outfield wouldn’t make a difference for a player with no power is insane. We have park-adjusted stats for a reason. Apparently you haven’t looked at Tapia’s home/road splits either. In 2021 he had a .340 wOBA at home, with a .264 wOBA on the road. That’s a 76 point boost while playing at Coors. Another example is Garrett Hampson, who had a .341 wOBA at Coors with a .235 on the road for a 106 point difference.
You're still missing the point and oblivious at the reason why the Jays made that trade with their needs/deficiencies, if you can't see that with your clouded metrics and what I've explained above then there is nothing else I could say to you.
I fully understand, and my point is that it doesn’t matter. Btw, Tapia’s OBP on the road was worse than Grichuk’s on the road.
