Blue Jays (Urena) vs Mariners (Miller): 5/11/25, 4:10pm

[hanton]

um....I'd rather watch the roof close

[Omar]

The last time we swept the Mariners in Seattle in a three game series, Kelly Gruber was our third basemen. 

Great to see production from the bottom of the order.  We are now at .500'

GO JAYS!!  

 

[Masterbather]

Very good sweep!

[John_Havok]

Good series. 

SP was good, offense hit some dingers, RP was lockdown. Defense was great. 

So this is how it feels to click on all cylinders for a few games...

[HomeRunHomer]

[Laika]

Lukes higher OPS than Vlad 

[Brownie19]

1 hour ago, Omar said:

He has a propensity of overworking his pen.  We've seen it already this season with Hoffman, Garcia. John Gibbons was great at saving his arms.

I think the issue is he knows every win matters.  Margin of error for this team is razer thin.

So far, he's riding his best and is willing to live and die with his best on the board.  Before the recent hiccups, those guys had been nails.  Then they were overused.  I fully expect he'll try and walk that tight rope balancing act of pushing your best guys and overusing them.  It's not like he has several other reliable options (although Little and Fluharty have both really stepped up).

God knows if he was being too conservative with his pen use - trying to save guys and that was costing us games - fans would be livid...

Unfortunately, it's a tough spot.  That said, I LOVED Gibby and thought he managed the pen really well.  Always room for improvement, but he's in a tough spot IMO.

[jaysblue]

We got a real streak! 4 straight baby! Lets go! 

[hanton]

43 minutes ago, Laika said:

Lukes higher OPS than Vlad 

what's this?

[M.E.]

I like it when they win versus when they lose. ;-)

[Stangstag]

6 hours ago, Omar said:

Great to see Barger go yard in his home state where he has lots of family at the game.  Happy for him

Hell of a series for him. Sending absolute rockets all over the field

[max silver]

29 minutes ago, Stangstag said:

Hell of a series for him. Sending absolute rockets all over the field

He also fired off rockets with his arm as well. He easily has the strongest infield arm I can recall seeing with the Blue Jays. 

[John_Havok]

5 minutes ago, max silver said:

He also fired off rockets with his arm as well. He easily has the strongest infield arm I can recall seeing with the Blue Jays. 

Stronger than Rolen ya think? That dude had a f***in hose... and always centre of the chest.

And then there's was that Chapman guy... he's still topping the 3b arm charts in MLB this year

[max silver]

10 minutes ago, John_Havok said:

Stronger than Rolen ya think? That dude had a f***in hose... and always centre of the chest.

And then there's was that Chapman guy... he's still topping the 3b arm charts in MLB this year

I think Barger has both of those guys beat in terms of raw velocity. We'll get a more complete picture once Barger has enough throws to qualify. Rolen had the best throwing accuracy of any player I've ever watched, it was amazing how he could dive to snag a screaming liner, hop to his feet and fire a strike to first base every single time. 

[jaysblue]

6 hours ago, Stangstag said:

Hell of a series for him. Sending absolute rockets all over the field

[jaysblue]

This Mariners series definitely saved the Jays season IMO. Now back at .500 and only 3 GB from the Yankees. 

Lets hope they carry this momentum at home! Would be nice to bury the Rays season with this series! 

 

[mphenhef]

11 hours ago, Brownie19 said:

 

Unfortunately, it's a tough spot.  That said, I LOVED Gibby and thought he managed the pen really well.  Always room for improvement, but he's in a tough spot IMO.

I thought Gibby version 2 was really good at managing the bullpen, although maybe that is just because anyone would look good after the distaste that was John Farrell (I still say the Sox won despite him, not because of him).  Oddly enough, I thought Gibby 2.0 looked better because he started listening to the SABR guys/front office more.  Schneider seems to struggle because he listens too much at times.

[Spanky99]

Sweep!!!