GDT - Game #5 - April 01 8:10 ET - Jays @ Astros

[Daniel Labude]

Changeup on repeat lmao

[Orgfiller]

Varsho has been a complete pop up machine to start the season. It’s obviously early and this is all reactionary but man I definitely would’ve liked to see this revamped swing and approach. I’d settle for a hard hit groundball at this point to give me some hope again.

[CJ-Freeway]

Has Varsho made good contact in play yet this season? Holy f*** he looks bad.

 

Meanwhile, in Arizona, Gurriel & Moreno have been tearing sh*t up the past few days

[Daniel Labude]

Someone get a hit please.

 

Just accept being no hit again by someone who will be replaced in the rotation by June

[Stangstag]

KK is fading fast in the outfield lmao

 

I honestly feel like the KK signing will be the worst of the offseason for us. Just a big overpayment and a waste of an outfield spot. He should be relegated to bench/4th OF but the front office wont because they promised him a starting role.

[Spanky99]

Say whatever you want about Francis today but I will say...

 

There were some real positives here. And home runs can be somewhat random.

 

Some of those big Houston hits were not bad pitches at all.

 

The hanging slider was really the only pitch that sucked, tip your hat to the Stros.

[june.june]

Future baseball literatures will be written to reflect on how great Varsho’s approach in that batting box.

 

.118BA/ .250 OBP/ .118 SLG

amazing numbers early in his sophomore season donning a Jays uniform

 

Meanwhile Gurriel one of the league leaders in RBI

 

Atkins is a genius

[dippitybop]

Meanwhile, in Arizona, Gurriel & Moreno have been tearing sh*t up the past few days

 

They’ll be doing Jays a favour by beating the Yankees tonight hopefully

[Omar]

Just accept being no hit again by someone who will be replaced in the rotation by June

 

[Spanky99]

They have one hard hit ball (IKF) in 6 innings against Ronel Blanco with 15 swings and misses. Pathetic showing.

 

Agreed, it's been abysmal tonight.

[Orgfiller]

Cabrera really said f*** this I’m suspended the next two games anyway.

[bones10]

lmfaoooooooooooo holy s*** we getting the lows early this year

[MikeM3]

The scariest thing is Varsho still has the same holes.

[Omar]

This is ugly.

 

April fools.

[Laika]

By the way, Genesis Cabrera sucks and won't last the season in Toronto

[BTS]

I am not enjoying Genesis Cabrera's 2024 season

[Laika]

Literally nothing has changed. Nothing.

 

Brandon Belt became Justin Turner and Matt Chapman shrunk 4 inches and lost all his power.

 

Everything else is 2023

[june.june]

Guillermo Martinez our outstanding Hitting Coach has the easiest job when your boss is Ross Atkins.

 

Love is in the air.

[Omar]

Literally nothing has changed. Nothing.

 

Brandon Belt became Justin Turner and Matt Chapman shrunk 4 inches and lost all his power.

 

Everything else is 2023

 

Mattingly has a beard this season.

[CJ-Freeway]

They’ll be doing Jays a favour by beating the Yankees tonight hopefully

 

That would be the only ray of sunshine in an otherwise very dark day

[Ray]

I’m not going to overreact to one game, especially against a good Astros team.

 

But the offense looks not much different than last year, if not worse.

[Spanky99]

I honestly feel like the KK signing will be the worst of the offseason for us. Just a big overpayment and a waste of an outfield spot. He should be relegated to bench/4th OF but the front office wont because they promised him a starting role.

 

Why do you keep saying it was an overpayment? He was projected for more money than Atkins paid, again the FA market cratered, dude. No one foreseen that.

[WryNGinger]

Literally nothing has changed. Nothing.

 

Brandon Belt became Justin Turner and Matt Chapman shrunk 4 inches and lost all his power.

 

Everything else is 2023

 

The Brandon Belt that is still unsigned?

 

Not that he would be better but my god this is hard to watch.

[Daniel Labude]

Bad fastball down the middle...weak ground ball

[BTS]

If Kirk had a dollar for every additional hit he'd have this season if he lost 40 lbs, he'd have like two dollars

[Orgfiller]

Kirk had the best sprint of his life and he was out by 3 feet still lol.

[Terminator]

Good grief he’s only at 91 pitches

[Spanky99]

Dude might go under a 100 pitches to boot... Oof!!!

[Orgfiller]

Kiermaier is another one that has quietly been rather pathetic at the dish.

[june.june]

I am rooting for Blanco to get a no-no

 

maybe just maybe, this is the moment Atkins ship Guillermo Martinez somewhere that teaching the basics of hitting is not part of the job description