Orioles (Eflin) vs Blue Jays (Berrios): 3/27/25, 3:07pm

[saskjayfan]

I'm intrigued to see how Barnes' stuff looks 

[KevinGregg]

Does Dick Lovelady remind anyone else of Brian Tallet?

[Steeljays]

Only one hit. This has been the pattern the past seasons. Is Mattingly the common Denominator? Their approach is terrible. 

[Spanky99]

Congrats kid!

[Omar]

need a Vladdy bomb here please..

[Stangstag]

Well, Bo looks good so far with the stick. 2 pretty hard hit balls to RF

[Stangstag]

6 minutes ago, Steeljays said:

Only one hit. This has been the pattern the past seasons. Is Mattingly the common Denominator? Their approach is terrible. 

It almost feels as if they do 0 gameplanning against opposing starters.

[PitaBaby]

1 minute ago, Stangstag said:

It almost feels as if they do 0 gameplanning against opposing starters.

They grab some bench and stare at an ipad, way after the fact. Solid approach.

[Angrioter]

New approach "Hit dingers"

[L54]

Guys I think the fact is that they simply do not have a great lineup 

[Omar]

3 minutes ago, PitaBaby said:

They grab some bench and stare at an ipad, way after the fact. Solid approach.

Like, it's game effin one.

[Masterbather]

Just now, L54 said:

Guys I think the fact is that they simply do not have a great lineup 

There isn't much in the way of expected good batting average in this lineup, so it stands to reason that they won't get many hits or hit well with RISP. 

[Stangstag]

3 minutes ago, L54 said:

Guys I think the fact is that they simply do not have a great lineup 

All hitters in the lineup are projected for over 100wRC+. Not many teams can say that. The lineup is perfectly acceptable for a competitive team

[saskjayfan]

let it be known I said the Jays should sign O'neill as soon as the off season hit..lol

[saskjayfan]

2 minutes ago, Stangstag said:

All hitters in the lineup are projected for over 100wRC+. Not many teams can say that. The lineup is perfectly acceptable for a competitive team

You rarely face a number 5 starter on opening day...lol.  Like we're facing a decent pitcher...people get too worked up.

[Masterbather]

1 minute ago, saskjayfan said:

You rarely face a number 5 starter on opening day...lol.  Like we're facing a decent pitcher...people get too worked up.

And all we had to offer was batting practice Berrios.

[L54]

3 minutes ago, Stangstag said:

All hitters in the lineup are projected for over 100wRC+. Not many teams can say that. The lineup is perfectly acceptable for a competitive team

certainly debatable 

[saskjayfan]

1 minute ago, Masterbather said:

And all we had to offer was batting practice Berrios.

I'm pretty sure Gausman is our best pitcher not named Max.  Berrios wouldn't have been my choice.

[Masterbather]

Well, it's not like we expected the bullpen to be great.

[L54]

Wow I’m really glad I didn’t trade Cedric Mullins to Spanky !!!

[Omar]

It's a band box.  Yikes.

[gruber9292]

What was the point in bringing Greene in at this point? 

[Masterbather]

Just now, gruber9292 said:

What was the point in bringing Greene in at this point? 

White flag, we're playing our donkeys.

[Laika]

Going to be a long season, boys. 

[Angrioter]

John Patrick Schneider, you suck

[gruber9292]

Barnes looked ok.. Schneider trying so hard to be strategic with moves he's allowed to make. 

[JFD]

2 minutes ago, Laika said:

Going to be a long season, boys. 

 

At least the new forum looks great. 

Great forum and great stadium upgrades. Maybe next we can get a great team.

[PitaBaby]

The O's are just a much better team, we saw this coming years ago boys. Maybe the 4 people in the 500 level restaurants are enjoying the game.

[Laika]

Jokes aside Jose Berrios is dogshit as far as "opening day starters" go Eflin was always the heavy favourite. 

Sigh. 

Why not Gausman? Kind of disrespectful to give the OD nod to the guy who is your 4th or 5th best SP. 

[glory]

It's one game so pointless to draw any sort of conclusion over it, but Berrios is definitely someone I'd worry about, and this is dating back to last season. Feels like he's heading towards "league average innings eater" rather than something closer to a mid rotation starter, and that's not ideal. Again just one start but people have had this concern about him for a bit.