GDT (2/3) | Toronto Blue Jays (9-10) @ Tampa Bay Rays (10-10) | April 24 — 6:10 PM

[TwistedLogic]

Game #20

Blue Jays (Ray) @ Rays (Honeywell)

 

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Edited April 24, 2021 by TwistedLogic

[TwistedLogic]

Haven't made one of these in a long time, partly because I got burned out on baseball, partly because I've been really busy the last few years and partly because my user account on this forum is broken and can't format BBCode (I've reached out to admin and haven't gotten a response yet). But getting married last year and introducing my wife to baseball has kind of rekindled my love for the sport and I'm firmly back in the saddle. I'm still not posting here as much as I used to because I'm watching every game with her but I'm definitely around a lot more.

 

Going to start trying to contribute here a little more often and I've found a BBCode editor I can use to build out threads like this and the draft threads down the road so I can provide people with graphic and info-rich discussion posts again. Hopefully admin figures out what's wrong with my account and can fix it so I can go back to building these threads in-house.

 

OP will be updated when lineup is announced.

[Stangstag]

Welcome back

[Spanky99]

Stealing G-Snarls thunder man,

[TwistedLogic]

Welcome back

 

Thanks!

 

Stealing G-Snarls thunder man,

 

lol sorry, I had no idea that the person who was making the game threads was predetermined.

 

@G-Snarls, feel free to delete this thread and put up your own! I'll get a future game.

[King]

lol sorry, I had no idea that the person who was making the game threads was predetermined.

 

@G-Snarls, feel free to delete this thread and put up your own! I'll get a future game.

 

We haven't forgotten about the time you were stealing all the David Price starts.

[Jays24]

Now that's a sexy game thread. Feel dirty for the ones I've created by comparison lol.

 

Let's hope some more players surprise us and get activated for today.

[Stangstag]

I didn’t realize Zoinks was injured? Good riddance I suppose

[TwistedLogic]

We haven't forgotten about the time you were stealing all the David Price starts.

 

lmao I don't remember. Why was I doing that?

[Spanky99]

Throw strikes tonight Ray... please!

[Deadpool]

I didn’t realize Zoinks was injured? Good riddance I suppose

 

Yeah, I feel like that wasn't announced anywhere... I'm sure it's one of those "yeah, he's uhhh... 'injured'... that's the ticket" injuries...

[Sammy225]

If Ray can throw strikes he is good

[BlueRocky]

Vlad & Bo needs some help.

 

Vlad Jr - 218 wRC+, 1.2 fWAR

Bichette - 141 wRC+, 0.7 fWAR

Grichuk - 131 wRC+, 0.4 fWAR

 

Espinal 95 wRC+

Panik 94 wRC+

Biggio 73 wRC+

Semien 66 wRC+

Kirk 61 wRC+

Rowdy 27 wRC+

Gurriel 24 wRC+

Davis 21 wRC+

Jansen -29 wRC+

 

Everyone else has a 0 WAR or negative war. And yes Jansen has a negative wRC..

 

Update from 04-21-21

 

Vlad Jr - 222 wRC+, 1.3 fWAR

Bichette - 132 wRC+, 0.7 fWAR

Grichuk - 142 wRC+, 0.6 fWAR

 

Espinal 94 wRC+

Semien 90 wRC+

Panik 85 wRC+

Palacios 82 wRC+

Kirk 74 wRC+

Biggio 60 wRC+

Teoscar 39 wRC+

Davis 36 wRC+

Rowdy 22 wRC+

Gurriel 13 wRC+

 

Jansen -32 wRC+

[Deadpool]

If Ray can throw strikes he is good

 

If Ray could throw strikes, he'd be one of the best pitchers in baseball, the reason we got him for $8M is because he can't...

[TwistedLogic]

Lineups added to the main post.

 

 

[Spanky99]

Great news!

 

[DigitalRock]

Win the first two at the trop would be great, wish the team would get healthy already, need springer and teo back.

[DigitalRock]

Great news!

 

 

Romano back is awesome.

[Virgil_Hiltz]

Haven't made one of these in a long time, partly because I got burned out on baseball, partly because I've been really busy the last few years and partly because my user account on this forum is broken and can't format BBCode (I've reached out to admin and haven't gotten a response yet). But getting married last year and introducing my wife to baseball has kind of rekindled my love for the sport and I'm firmly back in the saddle. I'm still not posting here as much as I used to because I'm watching every game with her but I'm definitely around a lot more.

 

Going to start trying to contribute here a little more often and I've found a BBCode editor I can use to build out threads like this and the draft threads down the road so I can provide people with graphic and info-rich discussion posts again. Hopefully admin figures out what's wrong with my account and can fix it so I can go back to building these threads in-house.

 

OP will be updated when lineup is announced.

 

welcome back!

[Deadpool]

Romano back is awesome.

 

Except that we're going to get 14 thousand posts from Jaysarus (or whatever) about how much he sucks.

[Jays24]

Except that we're going to get 14 thousand posts from Jaysarus (or whatever) about how much he sucks.

 

The only thing that sucks about Romano is his setup. My God does he waste a lot of energy unnecessarily. They even have his setup down for The Show on PS4 and it makes me hate using him lol.

[Spanky99]

Except that we're going to get 14 thousand posts from Jaysarus (or whatever) about how much he sucks.

 

The only thing that sucks about Romano is his setup. My God does he waste a lot of energy unnecessarily. They even have his setup down for The Show on PS4 and it makes me hate using him lol.

 

lol... I was going to say you were missing one. It's his damn setup, there's nothing wrong with it.

[G-Snarls]

Thanks!

 

 

 

lol sorry, I had no idea that the person who was making the game threads was predetermined.

 

@G-Snarls, feel free to delete this thread and put up your own! I'll get a future game.

 

Heck no it doesn't matter

 

It's a free for all

 

Yours looks great

 

(And they lost 2 during my GDTs before they finally won one last night)

[G-Snarls]

If Ray can throw strikes he is good

 

I would have put Ray and Matz on equal footing headed into the season , maybe even with a slight edge to Ray. But Matz has obviously been wayyyy better so far.

[Jays24]

lol... I was going to say you were missing one. It's his damn setup, there's nothing wrong with it.

 

As long as it doesn't affect his ability to hold runners on, go nuts. If he tried that as a starter, he would be gassed after a few innings for sure lol.

[TwistedLogic]

The only thing that sucks about Romano is his setup. My God does he waste a lot of energy unnecessarily. They even have his setup down for The Show on PS4 and it makes me hate using him lol.

 

His setup is one of the most obnoxious things in baseball for me, lol. It's also a massive welcome mat for people to steal on him. I wouldn't be surprised if he leads all relievers in steals given up by the end of the season.

[Spanky99]

As long as it doesn't affect his ability to hold runners on, go nuts. If he tried that as a starter, he would be gassed after a few innings for sure lol.

 

Of course it doesn't, once he's set, that's where he's slow to the plate, he needs work holding guys on.

[Spanky99]

His setup is one of the most obnoxious things in baseball for me, lol. It's also a massive welcome mat for people to steal on him. I wouldn't be surprised if he leads all relievers in steals given up by the end of the season.

 

No man, his setup has nothing to do with stealing bags. WTF people?

[Jays24]

No man, his setup has nothing with stealing bags. WTF people?

 

Ya we get it. The only thing that actually matters is his slow leg kick on his delivery. We're just saying everything about his delivery/setup is slow as hell. He better hope the pitch clock doesn't make its way to the bigs lol.

[Spanky99]

lol... I can't anymore.