AL Wild Card Round: Toronto Blue Jays vs Tampa Bay Rays

[JFD]

losing to Margot is like losing to Goins

[gruber92]

Wouldn't it have made sense to pitch the batter inside with the right side open?

[Deadpool]

Rays positioning >>>> Jays positioning

 

Pitching him outside, but playing him to pull seems sub-optimal to me.

[Stangstag]

losing to Margot is like losing to Goins

 

Or Alcides Escobar

[Stangstag]

Pitching him outside, but playing him to pull seems sub-optimal to me.

 

Yup doesn't make much sense to me either

[JFD]

wtf was that throw..

[havok24]

Wow Bichette.

[Stangstag]

Gotta love this

[gruber92]

Go to second if you have to ffs.

[Spanky99]

BO???? Ughh...

[EdwinsParrot]

jfc...

[Deadpool]

f***, what the crap was that? That was just dumb as f*** from Bo there.

 

Why didn't he throw to second there?

[Ex Player]

We're getting outpitched, outhit, outeverything'ed

[CJ-Freeway]

lmao

[Stangstag]

A base hit here could be game over

[THANOS]

Come on Ryu, bail out Bo

[Deadpool]

f***, even when the calls go our way, I HATE when umps blow calls like that.

[Jays24]

Huge strikeout man.

[glory]

That could have been A LOT worse. Wow.

[el duque]

Not a good start by Ryu but the damage is only one run, need to score now

[devo]

4 hits and an error = 1 run

 

Lets get it right back here.

[Spanky99]

Big K... Ryu was BABIP'd that inning, dammit.

[bones10]

Get us going Vladdy

[KevinGregg]

It looks to me like the Rays are looking to take Ryu the other way. Lots of those singles were on pitches several inches out of the zone. Plus he was able to get 2 strikeouts on inside pitches. They are leaning waaaay out there

[Stangstag]

4 hits and an error = 1 run

 

Lets get it right back here.

 

Lol yeah and 4 hits and an error yesterday = 3 runs for them

 

Baseball is weird

[connorp]

I don't know why they chose Cole over Pearson, Borucki, several other options but I wonder if even a fresh AJ Cole is better than Shoemaker and Ray going through an order multiple times. Shoemaker had a terrible FIP this season and Ray sucked overall and was bad with Toronto too. AJ Cole had a decent year by ERA and FIP.

 

I'm not letting you have any little piece of this. The fact that Cole gave up a bomb and they lost proves nothing. Toronto needs to use weird but thoughtful processes exactly like this to have any chance to win in the playoffs with this pitching staff.

 

Your (and your kins) problem is you’re so adverse to anything “old school” even if it makes sense.

There’s no doubt analytics are vastly important to judging pitching. Being able to break down a pitcher’s ERA and WHIp etc to determine luck and try to predict future performance are no double critical and anyone against it is stupid.

But I can even tell you from watching my son and his teammates pitch for 10 years...

Some days you have it and some you dont. It doesn’t change at any level but obviously the guys that are most consistent are the most successful.

 

Obviously there’s other things at play like going through lineup second time. Like you said, there’s times where someone looks great and then blows up, it happens. And you should prepare for it but when you have a guy with everything working, you should ride it at least a little if your alternative that you’re handing ball off to in gas can that’ll prob be on 6 teams in the next 8 years. If you’re a team with a really good bullpen, maybe it makes sense to not ride the hot hand and in that case, I could support giving the ball to a guy you can trust with good reason. AJ Cole is not that guy. I’ll take the percentages with the hot hand all day

[Laika]

It looks to me like the Rays are looking to take Ryu the other way. Lots of those singles were on pitches several inches out of the zone. Plus he was able to get 2 strikeouts on inside pitches. They are leaning waaaay out there

 

Yeah pitch in.

 

In any event it doesn't look like Ryu will be able to go deep.

[JFD]

It looks to me like the Rays are looking to take Ryu the other way. Lots of those singles were on pitches several inches out of the zone. Plus he was able to get 2 strikeouts on inside pitches. They are leaning waaaay out there

 

yeah, pound them in with cutters

[connorp]

Holy shot. Didn’t realize game was on lol. Thought 5 again. Would’ve have wrote the long post sorry

[THANOS]

Best pitch Vladdy will likely get all AB was the 1st