Nationals (Gore) vs Blue Jays (Lucas): 4/2/25, 3:07pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

[Spanky99]

I'm guessing Lucas pitches once through the order and we all need to butt clench through that, than all hands on deck after that, with a day off tomorrow, the leash should be short with Easton. 

 

[Masterbather]

Well this is certainly a less than ideal matchup. 

[Orgfiller]

Gore just got finished carving up the Phillies so this will be a tough matchup to say the least. At least our slap hitters don't strike out so there's a chance for some BABIP magic.

[Spanky99]

Jays are busting out the brooms guys...

[G-Snarls]

48 minutes ago, Masterbather said:

Well this is certainly a less than ideal matchup. 

Need some power from the 1-3 spots 

[Spanky99]

21 minutes ago, G-Snarls said:

Need some power from the 1-3 spots 

Bo has a wRC+ 167, he's been excellent as a table setter thus far. 
They certainly need some SLG from Santander and Vlad. 

[John_Havok]

11 minutes ago, Spanky99 said:

Bo has a wRC+ 167, he's been excellent as a table setter thus far. 

Yeah, but it's incredibly difficult to pick up wins against premium pitching trying to string singles together. You know that.

Vlad and Santander specifically need to start hitting for power. It's nice that some unexpected pop from Gimenez has shown up, and Heineman, but they need it from the guys who are supposed to provide it too. 

Jays have the same amount of team HRs that the Yankees hit in 1 inning a game or two ago. That has to change. 

[BatFlip]

2 minutes ago, John_Havok said:

Yeah, but it's incredibly difficult to pick up wins against premium pitching trying to string singles together. You know that.

Vlad and Santander specifically need to start hitting for power. It's nice that some unexpected pop from Gimenez has shown up, and Heineman, but they need it from the guys who are supposed to provide it too. 

Jays have the same amount of team HRs that the Yankees hit in 1 inning a game or two ago. That has to change. 

I agree.  It will come!

[Spanky99]

17 minutes ago, John_Havok said:

Yeah, but it's incredibly difficult to pick up wins against premium pitching trying to string singles together. You know that.

Vlad and Santander specifically need to start hitting for power. It's nice that some unexpected pop from Gimenez has shown up, and Heineman, but they need it from the guys who are supposed to provide it too. 

Jays have the same amount of team HRs that the Yankees hit in 1 inning a game or two ago. That has to change. 

Extremely small sample aside, the power should come from the other guys, don't forget about George Springer though Big John, he's been excellent so far.

Who'd a thunk that?

These Jays are hitting the ball hard and rarely striking out, I think this offense is set up really well, love the approach of both Wagner and Roden. 

 

 

[G-Snarls]

24 minutes ago, Spanky99 said:

Extremely small sample aside, the power should come from the other guys, don't forget about George Springer though Big John, he's been excellent so far.

Who'd a thunk that?

These Jays are hitting the ball hard and rarely striking out, I think this offense is set up really well, love the approach of both Wagner and Roden. 

 

 

It's definitely looking like a deeper lineup than most of us were expecting :)

[max silver]

42 minutes ago, John_Havok said:

Yeah, but it's incredibly difficult to pick up wins against premium pitching trying to string singles together. You know that.

Vlad and Santander specifically need to start hitting for power. It's nice that some unexpected pop from Gimenez has shown up, and Heineman, but they need it from the guys who are supposed to provide it too. 

Jays have the same amount of team HRs that the Yankees hit in 1 inning a game or two ago. That has to change. 

Vlad has an unusual issue this season in that his launch angle is actually a bit too high as he's getting under the ball too much. The exit velo is excellent as per usual, hopefully he can level the swing out a bit as he appears to be attempting to lift a bit too much. With Santander he's a notorious slow starter for his career but the power should come eventually. He has a career 84 wRC+ over Mar/Apr for his career with only 12 career home runs.

[glory]

The Jays winning today would be the most baseball thing ever considering the pitching matchup and the lineup, which includes the Murderers Row bottom 4 of Clement, Schneider, Heineman, and Straw. 

[Laika]

another must win game today. 

[Terminator]

Their best hitters are all left-handed or switch hitters with left-handed splits so hopefully Lucas can eat 3 to 4 innings

Barnes is going to have to pitch too, hopefully he can throw a scoreless inning. If he doesn't it could be his last in a Jays uni. 

 

[Masterbather]

34 minutes ago, Laika said:

another must win game today. 

Season literally on the line here.

[Stangstag]

59 minutes ago, Laika said:

another must win game today. 

If you dont win, you lose. And if you lose too much, you don’t make the postseason.

Must-win game tonight. Or else it counts as a loss.

[Terminator]

It's a must-win for my general mood over the next 48 hours

I can't stand losing before an off day 

[BB17]

Good thing the game is played in a Dome, terrible thunder snow storm happening right now with huge wind gusts.

I'd be surprised if even 15K make it to the game.

[Jonn]

Glad we won the first 2 games because the Gore will be brought today. Especially with that less than ideal pitching match up. I would like to think they could do better than Easton Lucas at this point of the Season but here we are.

[Orgfiller]

2 hours ago, glory said:

The Jays winning today would be the most baseball thing ever considering the pitching matchup and the lineup, which includes the Murderers Row bottom 4 of Clement, Schneider, Heineman, and Straw. 

That's second on the team in HR, Tyler Heineman to you sir.

[Spanky99]

24 minutes ago, BB17 said:

Good thing the game is played in a Dome, terrible thunder snow storm happening right now with huge wind gusts.

I'd be surprised if even 15K make it to the game.

Yeah freezing rain after, and then it'll be 16 degrees celsius tomorrow, lol.

[max silver]

4 minutes ago, Jonn said:

Glad we won the first 2 games because the Gore will be brought today. Especially with that less than ideal pitching match up. I would like to think they could do better than Easton Lucas at this point of the Season but here we are.

This feels a lot like last year when most of the better rotation depth options started the season on the injured list. 

[Jonn]

30 minutes ago, BB17 said:

Good thing the game is played in a Dome, terrible thunder snow storm happening right now with huge wind gusts.

I'd be surprised if even 15K make it to the game.

The Kawartha Lakess are in a state of emergency due to the ice storms. Those people have been without power for 5 days. Those cream puffs in Toronto have it easy.

[Jonn]

7 minutes ago, max silver said:

This feels a lot like last year when most of the better rotation depth options started the season on the injured list. 

Hate to be that guy but makes you wonder what really happened with Yarbrough because we are already here. Especially considering apparently they aren’t going to use Y-Rod in Long Relief.

[Stangstag]

37 minutes ago, BB17 said:

Good thing the game is played in a Dome, terrible thunder snow storm happening right now with huge wind gusts.

I'd be surprised if even 15K make it to the game.

More fuel for the h8rs to say nobody cares about the Jays

[Orgfiller]

8 minutes ago, Jonn said:

Hate to be that guy but makes you wonder what really happened with Yarbrough because we are already here. Especially considering apparently they aren’t going to use Y-Rod in Long Relief.

What happened with Yarbrough is everyone in the rotation was healthy to begin the season and they did a replacement level veteran a solid by allowing him to find an open opportunity elsewhere. It's not that hard to reason jfc. There wasn't some conspiracy against Ryan Yarbrough, he's awful and throws 86 so they thought they could easily replace him internally if the opportunity presented itself.

[Spanky99]

3 hours ago, G-Snarls said:

It's definitely looking like a deeper lineup than most of us were expecting :)

Speaking of which...

https://www.mlb.com/bluejays/news/bo-bichette-george-springer-lead-blue-jays-hot-lineup-to-win

[Jonn]

2 minutes ago, Orgfiller said:

What happened with Yarbrough is everyone in the rotation was healthy to begin the season and they did a replacement level veteran a solid by allowing him to find an open opportunity elsewhere. It's not that hard to reason jfc. There wasn't some conspiracy against Ryan Yarbrough, he's awful and throws 86 so they thought they could easily replace him internally if the opportunity presented itself.

He’s always been a pitch over stuff guy. It never made sense but projections have never liked him and he just always out performs them.

The real question you have to ask yourself is would you rather have him make this spot start or Easton Lucas. It really does just come down to that.

[max silver]

1 minute ago, Jonn said:

He’s always been a pitch over stuff guy. It never made sense but projections have never liked him and he just always out performs them.

The real question you have to ask yourself is would you rather have him make this spot start or Easton Lucas. It really does just come down to that.

I'll reserve judgment on who I'd rather see pitch between Lucas and Yarbrough until I've actually seen Lucas pitch. He did produce pretty decent numbers in AAA last season and his stuff+ numbers look decent as well so he may prove to be a cromulent depth rotation option.