Blue Jays (Gausman) vs A's (Lopez): 7/12/25, 10:05pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

Another lovely Saturday evening in... *checks notes*. Oh, Sacramento. Gross.

[Nexii]

Moneyline has Jays at -144, Athletics +119.

Might be a tough game. Lopez is having a decent season, and Oakland can hit as we saw last night 

[Laika]

Jays almost ended Lopez's SP career earlier this year 

[Terminator]

Lopez has a pretty crazy stat line.

11.37 K/9, 3.38 BB/9, and only a 22% groundball rate.

He has a terrible fastball that sits at 90 mph but a good slider and changeup. Very low release point.

I trust that Popkins will come up with a good game plan to once again destroy this soft tossing turd. His gimmicks don't work against us.

 

[G-Snarls]

Yankees and Tigers already lost

And Tampa and Boston play each other 

Let's win and make it a great day 

[John_Havok]

5 hours ago, Terminator said:

Lopez has a pretty crazy stat line.

11.37 K/9, 3.38 BB/9, and only a 22% groundball rate.

He has a terrible fastball that sits at 90 mph but a good slider and changeup. Very low release point.

I trust that Popkins will come up with a good game plan to once again destroy this soft tossing turd. His gimmicks don't work against us.

 

https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/road-woes-resurface-for-bassitt-blue-jays-in-blowout-loss-to-red-sox/

An article detailing that at least up until that time, the Jays hadn't been taking any type of pitch simulator on road trips to help with opposition pitchers. They are now 

[Stangstag]

3 minutes ago, John_Havok said:

https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/road-woes-resurface-for-bassitt-blue-jays-in-blowout-loss-to-red-sox/

An article detailing that at least up until that time, the Jays hadn't been taking any type of pitch simulator on road trips to help with opposition pitchers. They are now 

Wow that’s actually super interesting and can somewhat explain the difference in offense at home vs road.

 

”BOSTON — Recently, Toronto Blue Jayshitting coach David Popkins met John Schneider in his office and told the manager their team needed to start travelling with an iPitch machine.

Similar to Trajekt — a Canadian-developed robotic pitching system that can replicate the arsenal of every MLB pitcher with precise speed, spin, break, and release point, shooting balls out from behind a large screen projecting their delivery — an iPitch can simulate pitches of various velocities and actions to help hitters prepare for any given day’s matchup.”

 

So it seems like they have that more advanced machine at home and it seems to be working 

[John_Havok]

1 hour ago, Stangstag said:

Wow that’s actually super interesting and can somewhat explain the difference in offense at home vs road.

 

”BOSTON — Recently, Toronto Blue Jayshitting coach David Popkins met John Schneider in his office and told the manager their team needed to start travelling with an iPitch machine.

Similar to Trajekt — a Canadian-developed robotic pitching system that can replicate the arsenal of every MLB pitcher with precise speed, spin, break, and release point, shooting balls out from behind a large screen projecting their delivery — an iPitch can simulate pitches of various velocities and actions to help hitters prepare for any given day’s matchup.”

 

So it seems like they have that more advanced machine at home and it seems to be working 

Yeah. I cant imagine they didn't have one in years past either as its not exactly new tech, but not taking a smaller version on the road?  Seems like a pretty obvious thing you'd wanna take.

Maybe we give some of these guys a bit too much credit on the common sense side of things

[Jays24]

Has this version of Barger not earned a longer rope to determine whether he can or cannot hit against lefties, considering he's only been at this level for a few months?  Wouldn't it make sense to get these reps now so we can determine come playoff time whether he should sit or not?

To me, its an easy decision when the alternative is giving Jimenez ABs.  Barger has also been great defensively so its not like you're not getting anything from him in the worst case.  

[hanton]

^absolutely, he's an everyday player IMO

[Pendleton]

Gonna take a pre game nap to prepare for this one 

[hanton]

how come we don't get the line-ups posted anymore?

[Laika]

Let's goooooo lock up this series please 

[Laika]

Red Sox are on fire but at least it's at the Rays expense now 

[keggy]

1 hour ago, Jays24 said:

Has this version of Barger not earned a longer rope to determine whether he can or cannot hit against lefties, considering he's only been at this level for a few months?  Wouldn't it make sense to get these reps now so we can determine come playoff time whether he should sit or not?

To me, its an easy decision when the alternative is giving Jimenez ABs.  Barger has also been great defensively so its not like you're not getting anything from him in the worst case.  

I would've penciled him instead of Jimenez but he's almost guaranteed to get an AB today if it's close.

[neverbeenhere]

AL east is a true dog fight. If the post season were today, except for Baltimore, every team of the AL east would go to playoff games.

[hanton]

There's a little Dick Mountain in Lopez

[HomeRunHomer]

Jimenez hits a dinger!!

[Jays24]

f*** me... im gonna hear it for the Barger over Jimenez comment arent I lol

[Laika]

Gausman would be so much better if he had a second kind of fastball. I wonder why he hasn't picked up a two seamer like Bassitt throws. 

[Laika]

2 minutes ago, Jays24 said:

f*** me... im gonna hear it for the Barger over Jimenez comment arent I lol

You're lucky this is a 10 pm game against Oakland on a Saturday 

[Jays24]

5 minutes ago, Laika said:

You're lucky this is a 10 pm game against Oakland on a Saturday 

Haha I've been sitting back and enjoying the winning streak but sitting Clement/Springer/Kirk to end the winning streak got me brave.   I will go back to shutting up lol. 

[Omar]

4 minutes ago, Laika said:

Gausman would be so much better if he had a second kind of fastball. I wonder why he hasn't picked up a two seamer like Bassitt throws. 

I think it is because he relies on spin for his four seam and he would likely lose some of that with the two seam.  Also I suspect he doesn't have the command for it (two seam) vs four seam.

[Omar]

[Terminator]

2 hours ago, Jays24 said:

Has this version of Barger not earned a longer rope to determine whether he can or cannot hit against lefties, considering he's only been at this level for a few months?  Wouldn't it make sense to get these reps now so we can determine come playoff time whether he should sit or not?

To me, its an easy decision when the alternative is giving Jimenez ABs.  Barger has also been great defensively so its not like you're not getting anything from him in the worst case.  

[neverbeenhere]

out

[Omar]

Vladdy frozen on the change up.....damn.

[hanton]

Great approach there by Bo, cut his swing down and put the ball in play

[neverbeenhere]

Maybe Bo should have been given $500M

[keggy]

Just now, neverbeenhere said:

Maybe Bo should have been given $500M

Great career for us so far, but his athletic decline worries me