General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2022)

[Spanky99]

Makes sense, Ryu to the 60 day.

[TwistedLogic]

Atkins was reported to be one of, if not the most active and aggressive GM in the offseason, so this doesn't come as too much of a surprise to me. I wonder how many other close deals there were? In a parallel universe, there is a Jays team that is fielding Jose Ramirez and Verlander.

 

Syndergaard was the same story as Verlander. Jays pretty much matched the winning offer, they missed out by like $1M.

[connorp]

 

Looks like a fan that put on a jersey

[Eat My Shatkins]

Let the Max Castillo era begin!

 

lol

[gruber92]

Moreno not in the line up for the second day in a row. I thought we rested a lot of key players in the Baltimore series so we can field the best line up possible against the Yankees, which would be Moreno catching and Kirk at DH. I guess the front office shares the same views as Chuckles when he was asked about the importance of this series by saying that it's just another game/series. This group has a pre determined scheduling of rest days, no matter what the situation.

 

What a sad sack of f***ing losers. Shapiro better wake up and hire a real GM that is also respected around the league which Atkins is obviously not. Like it or not, this matters big time. Take Chuckles, Martinez and Rivera with you and helicopter drop them in a volcano with Atkins. We won't win a f***ing thing with this group.

[Omar]

Moreno not in the line up for the second day in a row. I thought we rested a lot of key players in the Baltimore series so we can field the best line up possible against the Yankees, which would be Moreno catching and Kirk at DH. I guess the front office shares the same views as Chuckles when he was asked about the importance of this series by saying that it's just another game/series. This group has a pre determined scheduling of rest days, no matter what the situation.

 

What a sad sack of f***ing losers. Shapiro better wake up and hire a real GM that is also respected around the league which Atkins is obviously not. Like it or not, this matters big time. Take Chuckles, Martinez and Rivera with you and helicopter drop them in a volcano with Atkins. We won't win a f***ing thing with this group.

 

Maybe Charlie hates the rest days as well but he is between a rock and a hard place. Everyone answers to someone.

[gruber92]

Maybe Charlie hates the rest days as well but he is between a rock and a hard place. Everyone answers to someone.

 

I know it's not all on Montoya. I'm more furious with Atkins than anyone else.

[gruber92]

Teo DHing today after being the DH on Wednesday night. Is he nursing something? I find it hard to believe that a player in his prime can't play RF for the fourth day in a row.

 

LOL.. WTF is going on?

[John_Havok]

Teo DHing today after being the DH on Wednesday night. Is he nursing something? I find it hard to believe that a player in his prime can't play RF for the fourth day in a row.

 

LOL.. WTF is going on?

 

They’re probably all nursing something to some degree. Vlad has DHd on opposite sides of an off day, we know Bichette has a foot contusion that he’s playing through, Chapman and his hand also. You could probably find a reason to DH any regular in the lineup right now, which is why we keep seeing Tapia continue to get way more starts than he should.

 

I’d be playing Biggio over Tapia, but it’s obvious the staff sees things differently.

[King]

Gruber is acting like he's never followed a baseball season before.

[jerb]

 

Keegan Matheson

@KeeganMatheson

 

Nate Pearson just left his AAA start after two pitches.

 

He sailed a fastball high and his catcher came right out. He walked off with the training staff. #BlueJays

[JFD]

That's our Nate

[Omar]

 

Keegan Matheson

@KeeganMatheson

 

Nate Pearson just left his AAA start after two pitches.

 

He sailed a fastball high and his catcher came right out. He walked off with the training staff. #BlueJays

 

It's bordering on the absurd now. Damn.

[Stangstag]

 

Keegan Matheson

@KeeganMatheson

 

Nate Pearson just left his AAA start after two pitches.

 

He sailed a fastball high and his catcher came right out. He walked off with the training staff. #BlueJays

 

Pearson f***ing sucks. Waste of talent

[L54]

Pearson f***ing sucks. Waste of talent

 

I promise he’s more frustrated with the injury than you are. Relax man.

[Stangstag]

I promise he’s more frustrated with the injury than you are. Relax man.

 

You’re right, but still it’s frustrating

[L54]

You’re right, but still it’s frustrating

 

I agree there’s no doubt it’s frustrating and at this point it’s probably better to expect nothing from Pearson in the same way we expect nothing from Merryweather.

[L54]

Trade Tiedemann at the deadline pitching prospects suck

[Stangstag]

I agree there’s no doubt it’s frustrating and at this point it’s probably better to expect nothing from Pearson in the same way we expect nothing from Merryweather.

 

Yeah agreed. Its worse though since Pearson was a top 10 prospect

[L54]

Yeah agreed. Its worse though since Pearson was a top 10 prospect

 

At least we have Manoah

[Masterbather]

If you expect nothing, you can't be disappointed.

[G-Snarls]

You’re right, but still it’s frustrating

 

Would be even more so if Manoah hadn't emerged

[keggy]

They’re probably all nursing something to some degree. Vlad has DHd on opposite sides of an off day, we know Bichette has a foot contusion that he’s playing through, Chapman and his hand also. You could probably find a reason to DH any regular in the lineup right now, which is why we keep seeing Tapia continue to get way more starts than he should.

 

I’d be playing Biggio over Tapia, but it’s obvious the staff sees things differently.

 

You've got it backwards. They're not playing Tapia because guys have to DH. They're DHing guys so that Tapia gets more PAs. That's why the guys that are actually hurt (Bichette, Chapman) don't ever DH because Tapia can't cover those positions.

 

They're playing Zobrist-ball with Tapia, except he sucks.

[RustyTrombone]

Trade Tiedemann at the deadline pitching prospects suck

 

Better yet call him up.

[John_Havok]

You've got it backwards. They're not playing Tapia because guys have to DH. They're DHing guys so that Tapia gets more PAs. That's why the guys that are actually hurt (Bichette, Chapman) don't ever DH because Tapia can't cover those positions.

 

They're playing Zobrist-ball with Tapia, except he sucks.

 

How you think Tapia is in the lineup in any kind of Zobrist-like deployment makes by brain hurt.

[DigitalRock]

Gruber is acting like he's never followed a baseball season before.

 

Nothing changes lol

[Spanky99]

 

Keegan Matheson

@KeeganMatheson

 

Nate Pearson just left his AAA start after two pitches.

 

He sailed a fastball high and his catcher came right out. He walked off with the training staff. #BlueJays

 

This legit sucks donkey dicks, flippin' pitchers.

[BigCecil]

Hell of a gm yesterday! This is not a project year for the Jays. Optimists and pessimists on Kooch. Guys wanting to dunk on a good start or a few bad ones. He has sucked mostly(for a year now) and $32M AAV being paid to him and Ryu.

 

We can't keep throwing a 5th out there for 2 to 4 IP when Strip is our 4th. Any way you slice it. We don't have the pen to carry that and get many W's.

 

Keep talking his upside. He cant command the FB so his secondary stuff is meh. Improbable he is ever close to a Ray makeover V 2.0 or even Matz '21 IMO.

[connorp]

Hell of a gm yesterday! This is not a project year for the Jays. Optimists and pessimists on Kooch. Guys wanting to dunk on a good start or a few bad ones. He has sucked mostly(for a year now) and $32M AAV being paid to him and Ryu.

 

We can't keep throwing a 5th out there for 2 to 4 IP when Strip is our 4th. Any way you slice it. We don't have the pen to carry that and get many W's.

 

Keep talking his upside. He cant command the FB so his secondary stuff is meh. Improbable he is ever close to a Ray makeover V 2.0 or even Matz '21 IMO.

 

I’m not knocking Stripling but he’s never really sliced it as a SP. The bottom will come out eventually. His best use seems to and long relief and when he’s needed as a fill in SP. Even if you don’t like Kooch, what’s the answer? A trade? Most people would be happy with that if it’s for someone clearly better but it probably won’t happen. Or do you want to give Anthony Kay and his upside a shot?

[Laika]

May 4th to May 28th

Kikuchi had 5 starts

2.36 ERA

2.64 FIP

5.1 IP per start

Only 1 HR

 

He was bad before this for his first four starts (failed to pitch 4 innings three of the times) and bad in the four starts since.

 

I wonder if this was just random or if something did click but then he lost it.