Martin to the DL, Lawrence DFA'd, Mike Ohlman promoted

[KingKat]

Because I think this is thread worthy...

 

http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/blue-jays-place-russell-martin-10-day-disabled-list/

 

TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays have placed catcher Russell Martin on the 10-day disabled list due to a left shoulder injury.

Manager John Gibbons said Martin is dealing with an inflamed nerve problem, but doesn’t expect him to be out for an extended period.

Martin said the issue has limited the movement of his catching hand and arm. He first noticed the problem during spring training and it became worse when he aggravated the shoulder on the field.

Martin said he’s not experiencing any pain, but is dealing with a lack of mobility and lack of normal strength.

The veteran backstop is batting .197 with three homers and seven RBIs this season.

The Blue Jays recalled catcher Mike Ohlman from triple-A Buffalo before Monday night's game against the visiting Cleveland Indians.

[KingKat]

Mike Ohlman has a 246/388/594 slash line in Buffalo this year. That's well above his career minor league line of 246/348/385. This seems like a case of the Jays opting to play the hot hand rather than burn an option year for Reese McGuire (who isn't very good offensively anyways). I don't really know anything about Ohlman other than the stat line I just posted.

[G-Snarls]

s*** season continues to be s***

[Sorrow]

Mike Ohlman has a 246/388/594 slash line in Buffalo this year. That's well above his career minor league line of 246/348/385. This seems like a case of the Jays opting to play the hot hand rather than burn an option year for Reese McGuire (who isn't very good offensively anyways). I don't really know anything about Ohlman other than the stat line I just posted.

 

Isn't McGuire hurt?

[Gary]

This is what happens with an old team.

[KingKat]

Isn't McGuire hurt?

 

Yes he is. I missed that.

[MunenoriKawasakiMVP]

Well this is Ohlman's shot at gaining a big league spot. The bat seems to be there but I don't know about the defense and the throwing arm. As for Ohlman's offensive improvement, he's obviously gonna regress but his flyball rate in the minors is up by 14% from last year and his pull rate is up as well. Looks like he is part of the flyball revolution and it's working for him right now. http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=sa501614&position=C

[Dick_Pole]

s*** season continues to be s***

 

Considering the 2-11 start when the team was at full strength and the 9-9 performance since then, the s*** season is not continuing to be that s***. The scrubs have picked up the slack and the really useless scrubs will be jettisoned from the team once the good players are back.

[G-Snarls]

Considering the 2-11 start when the team was at full strength and the 9-9 performance since then, the s*** season is not continuing to be that s***. The scrubs have picked up the slack and the really useless scrubs will be jettisoned from the team once the good players are back.

 

Well said actually

[KingKat]

Considering the 2-11 start when the team was at full strength and the 9-9 performance since then, the s*** season is not continuing to be that s***. The scrubs have picked up the slack and the really useless scrubs will be jettisoned from the team once the good players are back.

 

Yeah the scrubby team is treading water which is all you can ask. The unfortunate thing is that the healthy team dug a hole that the scrubby team has no chance to pull them out of. Just an unfortunated string of events to start the season. With Bolsinger and Biagini in the rotation now, it kind of seems like the team has an eye on the 2018 (though ironically it's not like Biagini and Bolsinger are likely to be worse options for 2017 than Latos and Lawrence were). I feel like if it was just a question of filling a hole they would exhaust options like Oberholtzer and House first but instead they are plugging holes while also holding auditions for the 2018 rotation.

[Terminator]

Yeah the scrubby team is treading water which is all you can ask. The unfortunate thing is that the healthy team dug a hole that the scrubby team has no chance to pull them out of. Just an unfortunated string of events to start the season. With Bolsinger and Biagini in the rotation now, it kind of seems like the team has an eye on the 2018 rotation now though ironically it's not like they are likely to be worse options for 2017 than Latos and Lawrence. Still I feel like if it was just a question of filling a hole they would exhaust options like Oberholtzer and House first. They are plugging holes but also holding auditions for the 2018 rotation.

 

The mighty Toronto Bisons are playing as well as we could hope all things considered.

[KingKat]

The mighty Toronto Bisons are playing as well as we could hope all things considered.

 

Yep. If the team had gotten off to a hot start, we'd be thrilled with this.

[FrozenRopes]

The fun continues for the First Aid Team

[Pendleton]

Yep. If the team had gotten off to a hot start, we'd be thrilled with this.

 

Or even a half decent start, something other than whatever the heck that was.

[Jonn]

Great opurtunity for Ohlman. Martin must be pretty f***ed up to go on the DL. He's played through pretty much everything.

[TheHurl]

First and only Martin Lawrence post here.

[Pendleton]

First and only Martin Lawrence post here.

 

Ohlman, you beat me to it!

[burlingtonbandit]

Great opurtunity for Ohlman. Martin must be pretty f***ed up to go on the DL. He's played through pretty much everything.

 

Sounds like he's going to be out for a while in Lott's article.

[bones10]

Yeah the scrubby team is treading water which is all you can ask. The unfortunate thing is that the healthy team dug a hole that the scrubby team has no chance to pull them out of. Just an unfortunated string of events to start the season. With Bolsinger and Biagini in the rotation now, it kind of seems like the team has an eye on the 2018 (though ironically it's not like Biagini and Bolsinger are likely to be worse options for 2017 than Latos and Lawrence were). I feel like if it was just a question of filling a hole they would exhaust options like Oberholtzer and House first but instead they are plugging holes while also holding auditions for the 2018 rotation.

 

You really think this team is completely dead in the water? If the scrub team, and thats what it is a really scrub team, can hold and play like they have for another week even, Tulo + Donaldson + Sanchez could be a huge boost I feel.

[KingKat]

You really think this team is completely dead in the water? If the scrub team, and thats what it is a really scrub team, can hold and play like they have for another week even, Tulo + Donaldson + Sanchez could be a huge boost I feel.

 

Dead in the water would be an exageration but I don't think it's terribly likely they climb out of this even if they play relatively well the rest of the way through.