GDT: 3/3 Chicago White Sox @ Toronto Blue Jays 1:07 PM EST

[Jonn]

Omegalul at the people who wanted to DFA Richards

[The_DH]

Missed the game: did something happen to Springer? Not a lot of ABs for him.

[Terminator]

Missed the game: did something happen to Springer? Not a lot of ABs for him.

 

He got hit on the hand by a pitch and left the game. But he but took X-rays which came back negative so he's just day-to-day.

[The_DH]

He got hit on the hand by a pitch and left the game. But he but took X-rays which came back negative so he's just day-to-day.

 

Espinal V2.0?

[Spanky99]

The final 11 outs by the Jays pitching staff 10 K's 1 GO... lol they stink.

[Omar]

Sweeeep!!! Omar stand in...

 

 

Thanks pal. Work is starting to get in the way of baseball. What a cruel world.

[Governator]

Thanks pal. Work is starting to get in the way of baseball. What a cruel world.

 

Hence why I passed the torch

[Terminator]

 

Lol what a quote

[L54]

They must not like the bongos

 

You keep saying things like this but early evidence says less f***ing around has lead to more wins

[Omar]

 

Lol what a quote

 

Wow. Sound’s totally defeated.

[G-Snarls]

Whit Merrifield makes less than $3M right now

 

Why did the Royals even trade him?

[Laika]

Why did the Royals even trade him?

 

I guess they were worried he was cooked?

 

It's looking like they sold low on him though so good for Toronto, in hindsight.

[glory]

Samad Taylor has potential, and hopefully he gets a shot with the Royals at some point, but yeah that's looking like a sneaky good trade in hindsight. Merrifield clearly has something left in the tank, and has basically been playing like a ~3 WAR player since the trade. He's been a huge pickup given that Espinal looks more like a utility IF and there's a good chance Biggio stinks. There's no way the Jays pick up that 2024 option, but wouldn't shock me at all if they brought Merrifield back on a multi year deal assuming both sides are interested. Not like the internal options on the Jays for 2B or 3B look promising right now with Chapman's impending free agency. They could use the depth/insurance. Still a lot of season left though, so a lot can change.

[Brownie19]

You keep saying things like this but early evidence says less f***ing around has lead to more wins

 

Or have a better/deeper team leads to more wins. There is no way to draw any conclusions about this. It's not even worth the discussion.

[Stangstag]

I guess they were worried he was cooked?

 

It's looking like they sold low on him though so good for Toronto, in hindsight.

 

Playing for a s*** team year after year is probably a mental drain

[wilko]

Playing for a s*** team year after year is probably a mental drain

It doesn't help that they won the World Series a year before he came up. Poor guy.

[Jonn]

 

Lol what a quote

 

The f***ers the new team nickname for 2023.

[Grant77]

Didn't get to see the game, but noticed that our pitchers struck out 10 of final 11 batters. Very impressive!

 

Our relievers are actually striking out about 25% batters which is pretty good. They just need to cut down on the home runs.

[jaysblue]

Great series win and sweep by the Jays! Need to beat up on the crappy teams!

 

Gotta be happy with this start from the team!

[max silver]

Didn't get to see the game, but noticed that our pitchers struck out 10 of final 11 batters. Very impressive!

 

Our relievers are actually striking out about 25% batters which is pretty good. They just need to cut down on the home runs.

 

I think the home runs are going to work their way down as the season progresses. The relievers aren't being overused so badly with the rotation rolling the way it is.

[max silver]

The White Sox batters couldn't have had much fun in this game, they struck out a combined 17 times against Jays pitching.

[L54]

Or have a better/deeper team leads to more wins. There is no way to draw any conclusions about this. It's not even worth the discussion.

 

Right there is no place for discussion on a discussion board lol

[L54]

The fellas are rolling. Staff has done a complete 180 and alleviated any major concerns for now.

 

Pearson in the pen

 

Tiedemann in the wings

 

Mitch White time soon!!

[THANOS]

The fellas are rolling. Staff has done a complete 180 and alleviated any major concerns for now.

 

Pearson in the pen

 

Tiedemann in the wings

 

Mitch White time soon!!

 

I wonder who gets demoted when White is ready, if Pearson & Pop are both pitching well? In a major contended year, it doesn't make sense to play the options game just to keep everyone and demote a better option in Pearson or Pop.

 

Is there any chance White gets waived or do they just DFA Bass?

[Stangstag]

I wonder who gets demoted when White is ready, if Pearson & Pop are both pitching well? In a major contended year, it doesn't make sense to play the options game just to keep everyone and demote a better option in Pearson or Pop.

 

Is there any chance White gets waived or do they just DFA Bass?

 

There’s no way they risk losing White IMO.

[Laika]

I wonder who gets demoted when White is ready, if Pearson & Pop are both pitching well? In a major contended year, it doesn't make sense to play the options game just to keep everyone and demote a better option in Pearson or Pop.

 

Is there any chance White gets waived or do they just DFA Bass?

 

Yeah I think they'll cut Bass, or make the unpopular choice to option Pop or Pearson.

No chance they let White go. SP depth is way too thin.

 

Tiedemann - the exciting good option

Bowden Francis - decent option

Zulu - can't throw strikes

Thompson - horrible

Robberse - too green

Hatch - is relieving now

Hutchison - lol

Ryu - who knows

 

You'd probably slot Juenger as a 2-3 inning "SP" third on this list.

[L54]

I wonder who gets demoted when White is ready, if Pearson & Pop are both pitching well? In a major contended year, it doesn't make sense to play the options game just to keep everyone and demote a better option in Pearson or Pop.

 

Is there any chance White gets waived or do they just DFA Bass?

 

Have to keep White. He sucks but he’s #6 on the depth chart right now.

 

It’ll be interesting what they do. I’d cut Bass, and then Cimber would be next. They’re going to have to bite the bullet on some of these guys eventually. Green and Ryu, Tiedemann maybe at some point. Not enough seats at the dinner table.

 

I bet they chicken out and option Nate though. Pop is tough to justify at this point.

[Eat My Shatkins]

Unfortunately optioning Pop or Pearson makes the most sense so you don't lose any depth, unless Bass continues to suck and it really hurts the team to keep him over the other two.

 

I don't see them cutting Cimber. He was obviously pitching with an injury and he's also under control next season, where as Bass is a free agent. No way is Bass back next season, but Cimber might be.

[jaysblue]

When you have the rotation pitching deeper into games, that's going to help keep the bullpen fresh on a day-to-day basis. It makes a difference.

[Terminator]

The other relief options on the 40 man SUCK. Jay Jackson, Thornton, Hatch, etc.

 

Calling upon someone not on the 40 man doesn't really help the situation either, it would just add to the logjam.

 

For that reason it makes sense to keep Bass and move him down the pecking order while he works through the kinks. They could juggle it by optioning Pop or using the IL for both real and phantom injuries. It's not ideal but this is the inconvenience we deal with when it comes to having a stacked bullpen.

 

We could also try him for a non 40-man lotto ticket but I doubt he'd fetch much.

 

It would just suck to lose Bass for nothing, get a couple of injuries and then all of the sudden Jay Jackson and Trent Thornton are logging meaningful innings.