Diamondbacks (Rodriguez) vs Blue Jays (Lauer): 6/18/25, 7:07pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

The Jays are on something of a run, now somewhat comfortably into a postseason spot.

[Laika]

The AL East might get crazy this year. 

[Orgfiller]

8 minutes ago, Laika said:

The AL East might get crazy this year. 

The f***ing Rays always being annoyingly good despite a mediocre looking team is always the worst part.

[G-Snarls]

39 minutes ago, Laika said:

The AL East might get crazy this year. 

AL East teams surging past the pretenders in the central in the WC standings 

[Laika]

27 minutes ago, Orgfiller said:

The f***ing Rays always being annoyingly good despite a mediocre looking team is always the worst part.

It doesn't really compute 

21st in pitching fWAR but 7th best in ERA
12th in position player fWAR 

9th best team in baseball with a +64 run differential? 

Their ERA-FIP on the team level is -0.72, by far the best in baseball. What's up? Over a full season that would be the best since the 2020 Dodgers. And TBR is a good to mediocre defensive team so it's not that. 

[AMS528]

41 minutes ago, Laika said:

It doesn't really compute 

21st in pitching fWAR but 7th best in ERA
12th in position player fWAR 

9th best team in baseball with a +64 run differential? 

Their ERA-FIP on the team level is -0.72, by far the best in baseball. What's up? Over a full season that would be the best since the 2020 Dodgers. And TBR is a good to mediocre defensive team so it's not that. 

Only semi connected to that, but the bWAR/fWAR divide on Taylor Walls is wild. Cause according to fWAR he's unplayable and anywhere from below average to slightly above average defensively, and according to bWAR he's the best defensive fielder in the world. He has 9.4 bWAR for his career and 0.8 fWAR. 

[Brownie19]

5 minutes ago, AMS528 said:

Only semi connected to that, but the bWAR/fWAR divide on Taylor Walls is wild. Cause according to fWAR he's unplayable and anywhere from below average to slightly above average defensively, and according to bWAR he's the best defensive fielder in the world. He has 9.4 bWAR for his career and 0.8 fWAR. 

That's pretty crazy!  I'd love to know how MLB teams view his value...but honestly, his bat is so terrible that he needs to be Ozzie Smith to warrant a starting job at the MLB level.

[G-Snarls]

I like Lauer

[CJ-Freeway]

1 hour ago, Orgfiller said:

The f***ing Rays always being annoyingly good despite a mediocre looking team is always the worst part.

Seriously...  these broke f**ers are almost always good, year after year after year! With no ballpark, to boot.

They are so annoying lol.

[Doubleplay21]

Jays running out of centre fielders.

Varsho when are you coming back?

[Omar]

I suspect we haven't heard the last of the Orioles.  A couple of hot weeks and they could be right back in it.  

[Grant77]

Just now, Omar said:

I suspect we haven't heard the last of the Orioles.  A couple of hot weeks and they could be right back in it.  

I think the starting pitching is going to prevent any prolonged hot streaks, even if the hitting is much better.

[Laika]

6 minutes ago, Omar said:

I suspect we haven't heard the last of the Orioles.  A couple of hot weeks and they could be right back in it.  

They would need to go like, 55-35 over the rest of the year to make any noise. 

I guess it's possible but that's getting close to having to be the best team in baseball for the rest of the season. 

 

[Jays24]

I really want to see how this lineup looks with Varsho/Santandar.  Hurry back please!!!

Bo - Barger - Vlad - Kirk - Springer - Varsho - Santandar - Clement - Gimenez 

[Stangstag]

6 hours ago, Orgfiller said:

The f***ing Rays always being annoyingly good despite a mediocre looking team is always the worst part.

Gotta wonder how much better our team record would be if we had the Rays’ front office resources/stats/info

[Brownie19]

52 minutes ago, Omar said:

I suspect we haven't heard the last of the Orioles.  A couple of hot weeks and they could be right back in it.  

[M.E.]

54 minutes ago, Jays24 said:

I really want to see how this lineup looks with Varsho/Santandar.  Hurry back please!!!

Bo - Barger - Vlad - Kirk - Springer - Varsho - Santandar - Clement - Gimenez 

Sounding like Santander isn't even close.  My guess is August

[Terminator]

1 hour ago, Omar said:

I suspect we haven't heard the last of the Orioles.  A couple of hot weeks and they could be right back in it.  

Fangraphs only gives them a 4.5% chance to make the playoffs.

Being 6 games back of WC3 isn't insurmountable but they would have to jump SEVEN teams to get there and that's just too many. One of those 7 teams is going to play well from here on out.

The trade deadline is quickly approaching and to have a chance they'd have to be buyers but they probably won't be within spitting distance by that point. 

[BatFlip]

2 hours ago, Omar said:

I suspect we haven't heard the last of the Orioles.  A couple of hot weeks and they could be right back in it.  

[neverbeenhere]

I think jays likely win big today

[John_Havok]

The Jays are facing the Diamondback's version of Bowden Francis... so hopefully they light his tits up

[neverbeenhere]

3 minutes ago, John_Havok said:

The Jays are facing the Diamondback's version of Bowden Francis... so hopefully they light his tits up

that's good to know

[Omar]

[Omar]

Bichette bomb.....Wow Bo heating up.

[neverbeenhere]

give him the money and keep him

[hanton]

2 hours ago, Stangstag said:

Gotta wonder how much better our team record would be if we had the Rays’ front office resources/stats/info

with the same roster yep.

[infinitebook]

what happened there, did Vladdy pull up because he thought it was a walk, or cause he was out by alot?

[gruber9292]

Kirk felt compelled to swing with Vladdy running. Normally he doesn't even sniff at that, should have been first and second with tons of damage potentially. Next inning.. 

[gruber9292]

1 minute ago, infinitebook said:

what happened there, did Vladdy pull up because he thought it was a walk, or cause he was out by alot?

All their eggs were in one basket counting on Kirk to make contact, which wasn't that bad a move considering. So yeah, out by a lot. 

[hanton]

Lauer knows what he's doing