General 2019 Blue Jays Discussion Thread

[Ex Player]

^^^^ I agree with you. You especially dont wanna bench a player after he's hit a HR the day before.

Not smart at all.

 

Lets hope he at least gets 1 or 2 pinch hit at bats

[glory]

I’m starting to think the Jays don’t deserve Vlad. Between holding him back longer than they had to (after they already got the extra year) to benching him a week into his debut, to now benching him again when they could have DH’ed him. I’ve never seen a team have an elite young player and find as many ways as they could to not play him.

[JFD]

Is he injured or what? This makes no sense otherwise..

[BTS]

Looking forward to Vladdy getting a rest day on July 1st.

[Spanky99]

Looking forward to Vladdy getting a rest day on July 1st.

 

Somebody's not thinking this through, lol. *smh* I was looking forward to him taking Price yard.

[glory]

I think Buntoyost is in way over his head, but this has to be a front office call, right? I mean, no way a rookie manager who wants to win games would give this many days off to a 20 year old who puts the team in a much better position to win, right? There is a reason Charlie didn't get a manager job in 20 years, and we are seeing why first hand, but I doubt this is his call.

 

The question is, why is Atkins giving Vlad the load management treatment?

[DigitalRock]

Is this on Montoyo or higher up? Starting to think there is a lack of intelligence with the Jays decision making. No reason Vlad should need this may days off all the time. At least DH him? Dude has been hot the last week, f***ing stupid.

[Grant77]

Maybe he tweaked something yesterday or has some general soreness. Let's not overreact.

[Ex Player]

Sanchez says he will most likely make his start on wednesday

[BTS]

Somebody's not thinking this through, lol. *smh* I was looking forward to him taking Price yard.

 

Like, if he absolutely couldn’t have 4 PAs yesterday and today, why not sit him yesterday on the road vs. the RHP and play him at home, on a holiday, vs a LHP?

[Spanky99]

Like, if he absolutely couldn’t have 4 PAs yesterday and today, why not sit him yesterday on the road vs. the RHP and play him at home, on a holiday, vs a LHP?

 

Or sit him tomorrow, especially when the roster is short, they could've used Drury at 2nd and used him at 3rd or DH? Boooo...

 

 

Pregame crew ripping the decision, and rightfully so.

[Terminator]

Is this on Montoyo or higher up? Starting to think there is a lack of intelligence with the Jays decision making. No reason Vlad should need this may days off all the time. At least DH him? Dude has been hot the last week, f***ing stupid.

 

Yeah just DH him twice a week. Hell- 3 times a week if they have to, who cares, just keep his bat in the lineup.

[Barkerfan23]

Vlad isn't hurt

 

this is a scheduled offday.

 

Also I dont think Shatkins chime in on daily lineup decisions.

[L54]

Lol at this team. May long weekend and lets sit the only reason people have to come watch our team

[Terminator]

This is what happens when the team is run by American business people like Shatkins. They come across as tone deaf. Halladay goes in to the Hall w/o a logo, Vlad Jr. sitting on a Canadian holiday day game, etc.

 

Is this particularly egregious? Not really but it is kind of a slap in the face to the few who actually are showing up to the game today.

[Barkerfan23]

This is what happens when the team is run by American business people like Shatkins. They come across as tone deaf. Halladay goes in to the Hall w/o a logo, Vlad Jr. sitting on a Canadian holiday day game, etc.

 

Is this particularly egregious? Not really but it is kind of a slap in the face to the few who actually are showing up to the game today.

 

I honestly think this is just Montoyo.

[Spanky99]

Lol at this team. May long weekend and lets sit the only reason people have to come watch our team

 

Montoyo says it was a scheduled program, because he missed ST, why not sit him yesterday or tomorrow, soooooo dumn?!

[Terminator]

I honestly think this is just Montoyo.

 

I'm sure it's his final decision but he could have been made aware of the situation. Even with Sogard going down he had the perfect opportunity to fix it and still didn't.

[JaysAllMighty]

They have idiots running our team.

[glory]

To be fair to Sir Bunt-A-Lot, he gives everyone days off once or twice a week and cycles a bunch of different lineup configurations, so maybe this was a scheduled day off, but damn, improvise a bit dude.

[Frag]

Only reason to watch the Jays on a holiday?

 

Let's sit him!

 

This team loves s***ing on its fans.

[Jaysareus]

Really the only reason to watch this team is vladdy

[Abomination]

After it looked like Vladdy was a little overwhelmed early on with all the attention, I suspect they scheduled this game as a day off for him for that reason.

 

They aren't sitting him just to piss people off.

[gruber92]

This is on Shatkins, not Montoya. This day should have been planned a week ago. Front office and Montoya need to be cleared the f*** out.

[jerb]

 

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What a treat it was for the baseball fans of San Francisco and Chicago to see the American League player of the week in action.

[Terminator]

The Jays are getting dragged hard over this lol

[Pinkfloid]

The Jays are getting dragged hard over this lol

 

As they should be. Hyperbole gets thrown around about "idiotic" moves by management all the time in pro sports but this was a literally idiotic decision.

[Pinkfloid]

Guerra claimed off waivers too. Lol.

[Daniel Labude]

Cubs have come calling for Giles....

[Barkerfan23]

Cubs have come calling for Giles....

 

No thanks. The Giles trade needs to result in a consensus top prospect and the Cubs have none.