Mariners (Castillo) vs Blue Jays (Lucas): 4/20/25, 1:37pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

I like how there are so many Castillos in baseball that "Castillo, L" isn't good enough. Even "Castillo, Luis" isn't good enough. More specificity is needed!

[Laika]

Must win game 

Easton Lucas' career will be defined by this performance. 

I've never flip flopped on an opinion in my entire life, I still believe in Santa 

[Barrelsandbombs]

 

[jaysblue]

Damn that sucks about Sandlin.

Glad to see Barnes DFA finally haha

[Gen.Disarray]

Hopefully Easter Lucas can resurrect the hype train. 

[Grant77]

Our lack of bullpen depth is comical at this point.

Call David Robertson, please.

[max silver]

1 minute ago, Grant77 said:

Our lack of bullpen depth is comical at this point.

Call David Robertson, please.

Tate is a solid enough depth option.

[Grant77]

1 minute ago, max silver said:

Tate is a solid enough depth option.

We'll see where he velocity is. It was down last year and he sucked. If we see consistent 95 then I'll have some hope.

Schultz couldn't even manage a FIP under 4 last year in the minor league and walks a bunch, so I'm not optimistic there.

One of the many, many  good minor league options that were available in the offseason would look awfully good on our roster.

[max silver]

2 minutes ago, Grant77 said:

We'll see where he velocity is. It was down last year and he sucked. If we see consistent 95 then I'll have some hope.

Schultz couldn't even manage a FIP under 4 last year in the minor league and walks a bunch, so I'm not optimistic there.

One of the many, many  good minor league options that were available in the offseason would look awfully good on our roster.

Tate posted a 3.71 FIP/0.2 FWAR last season. That's perfectly cromulent for a depth relief arm. He's been striking out 10.5/9 innings in Buffalo with an 18.2% whiff rate so the stuff is likely decent this season. The team could really use a healthy/effective version of Swanson though as that would be a more effective replacement for the loss of Sandlin.

[John_Havok]

1 hour ago, Grant77 said:

Our lack of bullpen depth is comical at this point.

Call David Robertson, please.

I can't justify a 10m dollar price tag for a 40 year old reliever in my mind. It just doesn't compute. 

5? Sure. 

[Jonn]

So they literally just Jacob Barnes get his ass torn apart yesterday just to DFA today. Makes sense. Almost like he shouldn’t have been put in that situation to begin with.

[John_Havok]

Just now, Jonn said:

So they literally just Jacob Barnes get his ass torn apart yesterday just to DFA today. Makes sense. Almost like he shouldn’t have been put in that situation to begin with.

He was like, the last arm available yesterday. It's almost a blessing he got rocked so the game didn't go any further and completely annihilate the pen

[HomeRunHomer]

It's all part of the plan for the Jays to use a s*** relievers arm before DFA'ing him. They will cycle through some more s*** arms this season.

it's not a good plan but it's the plan.

[Jays24]

9 minutes ago, Jonn said:

So they literally just Jacob Barnes get his ass torn apart yesterday just to DFA today. Makes sense. Almost like he shouldn’t have been put in that situation to begin with.

Everyone didn't want Lovelady and Barnes on the roster to break camp so just took them a couple of blown games before coming to that realization sadly. Luckily they weren't kept around a lot longer to blow more games. 

Regardless, this is more about the pathetic offense than the backend of our bullpen.  

[Masterbather]

That was quick lol

[MikeM2]

This guy legit throws BP i think

[HomeRunHomer]

I guess Lucas sucks.

[Masterbather]

So what's the plan if this goes really off the rails?

[Jays24]

The Lucas era ended quickly lol

[HomeRunHomer]

Well that was absolutely demolished.

[MikeM2]

Dude who in the FO watches this guy pitch and thinks it's ok 

[Laika]

Well well well 

[Jays24]

Are we back to 2023/2024 times where 3 runs against us in the 1st inning means game over or is this a new team? Stay tuned...

[saskjayfan]

1 minute ago, HomeRunHomer said:

I guess Lucas sucks.

We really need to figure out if or when Scherzer is going to be back.

[Daniel Labude]

So thats what a team is suppose to do with middle middle pitches...hit a long long long way

[Masterbather]

Just now, Jays24 said:

Are we back to 2023/2024 times where 3 runs against us in the 1st inning means game over or is this a new team? Stay tuned...

You're assuming they're going to stop at 3

[Jays24]

1 minute ago, saskjayfan said:

We really need to figure out if or when Scherzer is going to be back.

Relying on a 40 year old with injury concerns isn't anything you should be relying on ever lol.

[Masterbather]

Lucas' ERA is currently higher than Ryan Yarbrough's

[gruber9292]

Let's hope the game isn't already over, but it's highly probable. 

[Jays24]

1 minute ago, Masterbather said:

Lucas' ERA is currently higher than Ryan Yarbrough's

What about Lovelady and Barnes though?