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

[Carlos Danger]

OK seems you are right both parents born in Canada. He specifically said he chose to play for Canada in honor of his Canadian mother, who died when he was only 10 years old. But he is born and raised in California. As I said, he is 'eligible' to apply for Canadian citizenship by having at least one Canadian citizen parent. Wikipedia says he 'carries dual citizenship' so may have applied and received the Canadian born abroad status. I know the drill: my wife and I are both born and raised Canadians with 2 kids born and raised in the USA. We decided not to pay the ridiculous fee (about 400 bucks per application 10 years ago). For a Freddie Freeman, that is pocket change.

https://twitter.com/FreddieFreeman5/status/829502282060414977/photo/1

 

ETA: Mike Soroka who in the words of the legendary Don Cherry is "good Western Canadian boy" is our best player in MLB right now. Freeman is not a 'real Canadian' having grown up in Kalifornia - regardless of official citizenship status.

 

Speaking of which, Cleveland now has both young Quantrill and Josh Naylor (went 4 for 4 in game 1 and then a 2 RBI double in game2). Cleveland is seriously challenging Atlanta for 'Canadian content' !

 

Cleveland's best catching prospect, not too far away is Bo Naylor, Josh's brother.. So, they actually have three.

[EastCoaster]

This is pretty silly. What is "short ball" anyway? Good young core. Young pitching is closer then anyone thinks (Manoah and Richardson would be knocking on the door if there was a minor league season). Nate Pearson has as good of an arm as anyone.

 

And when the time comes

in the next couple of years

in a key playoff game

with everything on the line

and only one small move

needed to move the critical run

into scoring position...

 

I have no doubt we have a manager with the balls to call for the bunt against all sabermetric ******** wisdom

 

Short ball or small ball which ever you prefer is when a team emphasize placing runner on base and moving them in scoring position to score. This mean placing high efforts on individual runs and scoring them without the extra base hits. That means using every means available such as base on balls, stolen bases, sacrifice bunts, sacrifice fly, hit and run and the contact play. In other word manufacturing runs. The team who can adapt to the various type of ball will be the better team.

[DigitalRock]

Same team structure relying on the long ball to score the runs the 2016 and 2017 teams were structured in the same way with probably more pop in the line up than this one. The end results were the same when it come to the playoffs you need good pitching solid defense and timely hitting and this team couldn't deliver when they need to change their game to the short ball.

 

This is dumb...

[Stangstag]

Short ball or small ball which ever you prefer is when a team emphasize placing runner on base and moving them in scoring position to score. This mean placing high efforts on individual runs and scoring them without the extra base hits. That means using every means available such as base on balls, stolen bases, sacrifice bunts, sacrifice fly, hit and run and the contact play. In other word manufacturing runs. The team who can adapt to the various type of ball will be the better team.

 

Im not sure how people come up with/believe this ********.

 

Tell me, how did the Rays score the majority of their runs in those 2 games?

[DigitalRock]

Im not sure how people come up with/believe this ********.

 

Tell me, how did the Rays score the majority of their runs in those 2 games?

 

Its stupid, but we live in a world full of stupid and ignorant people.

[Dokken]

Im not sure how people come up with/believe this ********.

 

Tell me, how did the Rays score the majority of their runs in those 2 games?

 

Earl Weaver style: 1 to 2 dink singles, a walk then a HR

[Boxcar]

My wife grew up 10 miles from the US border, although that was Montana/Alberta, not Windsor/Sewer (aka Detroit).

 

More importantly, is there any doubt of my assertion that Calgary's own Mike Soroka is our best Canuck in the MLB currently (Joey is getting a little long in the tooth)!?

 

ETA: I will take that non-response by any of you Southern Ontario boys as a begrudging YES, LOL

 

Apparently Detroit is a lot nicer now. Idk, I had a prof who traveled back and forth all the time because our college had agreements with a college in Detroit. Apparently there has been massive gentrification, so that's good.

[Slade]

[Laika]

I think in hindsight the only real mistake Buntoyo made was using AJ Cole in game 1.

 

In a 3 game series you have to just empty the barrel in order of talent, if a game is very close. Nate Pearson was evidently ready and would have been throwing 101 in his recent mound work. It sucked to see him dominate in a blowout loss. What might have been if Pearson threw two shutdown innings after Ray left game 1...

 

Today the White Sox took Dane Dunning out after two singles in the first inning because Matt Olson was up and they had Garrett Crochet in the pen.

 

AJ Cole may have been used later on but no manager should lead with their ~5th best RP. It's the lesser version of Zach Britton watching Ubaldo Jimenez blow it.

[Stangstag]

I think in hindsight the only real mistake Buntoyo made was using AJ Cole in game 1.

 

In a 3 game series you have to just empty the barrel in order of talent, if a game is very close. Nate Pearson was evidently ready and would have been throwing 101 in his recent mound work. It sucked to see him dominate in a blowout loss. What might have been if Pearson threw two shutdown innings after Ray left game 1...

 

Today the White Sox took Dane Dunning out after two singles in the first inning because Matt Olson was up and they had Garrett Crochet in the pen.

 

AJ Cole may have been used later on but no manager should lead with their ~5th best RP. It's the lesser version of Zach Britton watching Ubaldo Jimenez blow it.

 

100% agree. They were trying to save Bass/Dolis/Pearson for when they had the lead, but the game was only 1-0 and they should have been trying to win it. I think they were banking too much on winning Ryu’s game.

[glory]

I think in hindsight the only real mistake Buntoyo made was using AJ Cole in game 1.

 

In a 3 game series you have to just empty the barrel in order of talent, if a game is very close. Nate Pearson was evidently ready and would have been throwing 101 in his recent mound work. It sucked to see him dominate in a blowout loss. What might have been if Pearson threw two shutdown innings after Ray left game 1...

 

Today the White Sox took Dane Dunning out after two singles in the first inning because Matt Olson was up and they had Garrett Crochet in the pen.

 

AJ Cole may have been used later on but no manager should lead with their ~5th best RP. It's the lesser version of Zach Britton watching Ubaldo Jimenez blow it.

 

Yup. In that spot you go with Pearson, Bass, or Dolis. You don't save them for a save situation, or for the game the next day, you try to win the 1st game at all costs and worry about the next one when it happens. No guarantee the Jays win that game even if they held the Rays to 1, but would have liked their chances better with Pearson/Bass/Dolis than Cole.

[FrozenRopes]

Should've started Walker.

[Stangstag]

Should've started Walker.

 

I mean... Shoe was excellent, and Ray only gave up 1. Ryu was bad and there's no way we would have skipped him.

 

So no.