General 2019 Blue Jays Discussion Thread

[LGBJ29]

Pompey is looking like he belongs. I would be surprised if the Jays let him go.

 

Maybe based on todays game only but he hasn't walked and has struck out 11 times in 37 PA this spring, that wont get you far in the bigs

[TheHurl]

Jays enforcing a pre-game clubhouse curfew for video games. This on the heels of the story that Carlos Santana took a bat to a TV after finding out pitchers were playing Fortnite during the game.

[Ray]

Jays enforcing a pre-game clubhouse curfew for video games. This on the heels of the story that Carlos Santana took a bat to a TV after finding out pitchers were playing Fortnite during the game.

 

Good. Play on your own time.

 

Bo Bichette and Cavan Biggio reassigned to minor league camp. Both will start the season at AAA.

[Terminator]

The Astros reportedly play Fortnite like crazy. I'm sure the Jays are just cutting it off a couple of hours before the game starts or something.

[Deadpool]

Jays enforcing a pre-game clubhouse curfew for video games. This on the heels of the story that Carlos Santana took a bat to a TV after finding out pitchers were playing Fortnite during the game.

 

Yeah, they really don't need to be playing video games DURING the game...

[Laika]

I bet there is a decent case to be made that certain video games are beneficial to hitter development. Reaction time and recognition - stuff like that.

[Jimcanuck]

I bet there is a decent case to be made that certain video games are beneficial to hitter development. Reaction time and recognition - stuff like that.

 

For sure. My driving skills have improved from playing Need for Speed

[Abomination]

For sure. My driving skills have improved from playing Need for Speed

 

I bet your judgement hasn't...

[Slade]

I don't blame Carlos Santana. I don't care if they play games in the clubhouse but during a game is really disrespectful. You should be out there supporting teammates even in exhibition games.

[TheHurl]

I don't blame Carlos Santana. I don't care if they play games in the clubhouse but during a game is really disrespectful. You should be out there supporting teammates even in exhibition games.

 

He maybe should have did it earlier.

 

When the Philadelphia Phillies lost their ninth consecutive game toward the end of last September, veteran first baseman Carlos Santana felt like he needed to send a message to his teammates who he said spent portions of the game against the Atlanta Braves playing video games in the clubhouse. Santana grabbed a bat, retreated to the room at Citizens Bank Park where the gaming took place and smashed the TV to ensure there would be no more “Fortnite” the final two days of the season.

 

“I see a couple players — I don’t want to say names — they play video games during the game,” Santana told ESPN. “We come and lose too many games, and I feel like they weren’t worried about it. Weren’t respecting their teammates or coaches or the staff or the [front] office. It’s not my personality. But I’m angry because I want to make it good.”

[tazsub3]

For sure. My driving skills have improved from playing Need for Speed

 

Great happy to learn. So based on your result i am going to train on GTA5.... if anyone asks i blame you

[Terminator]

I remember when Rickey Henderson and Bobby Bonilla played cards during a playoff game.

[Carlos Danger]

I bet there is a decent case to be made that certain video games are beneficial to hitter development. Reaction time and recognition - stuff like that.

 

I can attest to this.

 

Last time my ex-military buddies and I took down a drug kingpins houses for over $500 million stuffed in the walls, just over the border of Brazil and tried to escape across the Andes to the ocean in an old Russian Helicopter, I really felt my Call of Duty Modern Warfare and Black Ops skills served me well. As a matter of fact, I am going to put my self in for a Medal Of Honor I performed so well. I credit hours and hours of advanced level first person shooter games for honing my soldiering skills.

[Spanky99]

Jays were on 30 in 30 yesterday... some clips!

 

https://www.mlb.com/video/bichette-on-his-strong-spring/c-2523753283?tid=67608260

 

https://www.mlb.com/video/blue-jays-stellar-farm-system/c-2523755183?tid=67608260

 

https://www.mlb.com/video/c-2523753383?tid=67608260

 

https://www.mlb.com/video/catching-up-with-ken-giles/c-2523755283?tid=67608260

 

https://www.mlb.com/video/c-2523753783?tid=67608260

 

https://www.mlb.com/video/grichuk-on-competing-in-2019/c-2523753983?tid=67608260

 

https://www.mlb.com/video/jansen-on-his-spectacles-martin/c-2523753883?tid=67608260

 

https://www.mlb.com/video/smoak-on-his-approach-in-spring/c-2523753583?tid=67608260

[Spanky99]

Jays streaming today, here... http://www.worldcupfootball.me/mlb/565024/h

[Carlos Danger]

Jays streaming today, here... http://www.worldcupfootball.me/mlb/565024/h

 

Game is rained out

[Spanky99]

Game is rained out

 

Figures on a televised game.

[Deadpool]

I bet there is a decent case to be made that certain video games are beneficial to hitter development. Reaction time and recognition - stuff like that.

 

Just not guitar hero. RIP Joel Zumaya.

[Terminator]

 

So either Teoscar gets optioned or Pompey is gone.

[bones10]

 

So either Teoscar gets optioned or Pompey is gone.

 

Curious what they will do, Teoscar has mashed in the spring, but we kinda know what he has to offer at this point. Pompey has had an okay spring but still probably has some value yet undiscovered if he could stay healthy + consistent.

[The Cats Ass]

 

So either Teoscar gets optioned or Pompey is gone.

 

Or Clay Buchholz doesn't start the year with the team. He hasn't made an appearance yet.

[BTS]

 

So either Teoscar gets optioned or Pompey is gone.

 

Buchholz is probably going to open on the DL so they can carry Hernandez and Pompey if they go with a 4-man bench and 7 relievers. I think that makes sense, because they're not facing any immediate roster crunch on the pitching end. The bullpen right now is:

 

Giles

Norris

Tepera

Biagini

Mayza

 

So they can still roster Lucianio if they want to, plus one of the guys with options (Gaviglio, Pannone, Paulino, Thornton). I guess it depends how much they care about losing Pompey, because I don't think Hernandez is being optioned.

[glory]

CA Jansen, Maile

IF Smoak, Gurriel, Galvis, Drury, Urena/Sogard

OF Grichuk, Pillar, McKinney, Hernandez, Pompey

DH Morales

 

DL Travis

 

SP Stroman, Sanchez, Shoemaker, Borucki, Richard

RP Giles, Tepera, Mayza, Biagini, Norris, Luciano, Gaviglio

 

DL Buchholz, Phelps

 

Of course things will get dicey when Vlad needs to come up and when injured players get healthy, but that's probably what we are looking at to begin the season.

[Terminator]

Yeah they may just cut Pompey loose. There's a way to keep him for a little while while Buccholz gets his feet under him but it's going to be hard to roster 5 OFers. I would have liked to see them keep him somehow but McKinney and Teoscar probably need to be playing in the bigs and Alford is waiting in the wings and is a better asset.

[Jimcanuck]

Move Pillar

[Bobthe4th]

Yeah they may just cut Pompey loose. There's a way to keep him for a little while while Buccholz gets his feet under him but it's going to be hard to roster 5 OFers. I would have liked to see them keep him somehow but McKinney and Teoscar probably need to be playing in the bigs and Alford is waiting in the wings and is a better asset.

 

Yeah and if they are serious about keeping Luciano it makes sense going with an 8 man bullpen to try to protect him. Paulino, Barnes (out of options) or Axford could make the team.

[Orgfiller]

Yeah and if they are serious about keeping Luciano it makes sense going with an 8 man bullpen to try to protect him. Paulino, Barnes (out of options) or Axford could make the team.

 

Danny Barnes was DFA'd and he wasn't even claimed. There's next to zero chance that he makes the team, considering we'd have to bump someone off the 40-man to make room for him. Axford could make it in theory but he's also not on the 40-man so it's the same scenario.

[Bobthe4th]

Danny Barnes was DFA'd and he wasn't even claimed. There's next to zero chance that he makes the team, considering we'd have to bump someone off the 40-man to make room for him. Axford could make it in theory but he's also not on the 40-man so it's the same scenario.

 

The 40 man isn’t an issue as they’d be replacing Pompey who would be dfa.

[Carlos Danger]

CA Jansen, Maile

IF Smoak, Gurriel, Galvis, Drury, Urena/Sogard

OF Grichuk, Pillar, McKinney, Hernandez, Pompey

DH Morales

 

DL Travis

 

SP Stroman, Sanchez, Shoemaker, Borucki, Richard

RP Giles, Tepera, Mayza, Biagini, Norris, Luciano, Gaviglio

 

DL Buchholz, Phelps

 

Of course things will get dicey when Vlad needs to come up and when injured players get healthy, but that's probably what we are looking at to begin the season.

 

The guy in red should be on short leash.. He sucked as a starter, then sucked when he went back in the pen...

[glory]

Yeah they may just cut Pompey loose. There's a way to keep him for a little while while Buccholz gets his feet under him but it's going to be hard to roster 5 OFers. I would have liked to see them keep him somehow but McKinney and Teoscar probably need to be playing in the bigs and Alford is waiting in the wings and is a better asset.

 

They seem to want to keep Morales around for his presents, but they might as well make him a bench guy and go with Hernandez at DH while platooning McKinney and Pompey in left. At least the right players will be getting AB's. We really don't need to see Morales playing everyday.