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Originally Posted by bluejays
How can anyone call the Varsho deal amazing? He doesn't do anything offensively. At best it's a wash. Him being a black hole in a good way one way, and terrible in another will never be a win for me.
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Well he has been tied for the 13th most valuable player in all of baseball according to WAR, and 9th most valuable position players
https://www.espn.com/mlb/war/leaders
The list of guys ahead of him
Betts
Witt Jr
Henderson
Tucker
Judge
Ohtani
Duran
Soto
Those are some pretty good players last I checked.
But instead we could be trotting out Gurriell (Assuming we even signed him) and his 0.3 WAR and Moreno and his 0.5 WAR!
This is why I say your wrong. Because you continue to think replacing Varsho, KK, IKF with.... someone.... (Who you never actually say who the someone's are) would make a difference
The problem is your presumed all stars
Vlad 1.4 WAR
Bo 0.1 WAR
Springer -0.5 WAR
Kirk 0.3 WAR
Thats a total of 1.3 WAR through a quarter of the season from your core hitters. These were the 1-4 hitters at times when they were hitting well, and almost always 4 of the top 6
To put it in prospective - Varsho who you call a black hole offensively has a 1.2 OFFENSIVE WAR
If we were trotting out 4 Varsho's - exluding his D - just on offense instead of those bums above, we would have another 4 wins.
Those 4 are underforming by about 6 wins so far this season. That would put the Jays at 30-23 and in the wild card. Add in a bullpen implosion no one saw coming which has cost a few wins, and the team is right there with Baltimore, etc.
It isn't the supporting cast that is the problem. It is the (presumed) all stars.