Blue Jays (Bassitt) vs Reds (Greene): 9/1/25, 1:10pm

[Stangstag]

1 minute ago, Jesusindashed said:

Yeah I initially thought js did nothing wrong but I change my mind. No reason to bring in erratic little give Nance a shot

Fair enough, i suppose i can see that. I did want Nance to be given the chance but maybe he should have been given more rope.

[Jays24]

Team had 6 good starters and could have strengthened their bullpen by using one of them there.  Instead their indecision has led to wasting our best starter all year in Lauer by hardly using him for almost 3 weeks now while the bullpen falls apart.  Kudos to management..

[glory]

Since June 1, Little has a BB/9 of 7.2. Since June! If you look at his numbers since July and since August, they get progressively worse. This BS of "he's my guy" and using 5 expletives in every post game interview to show how much support you have for whoever messed up that particular day is great when you're a minor league manager, but when you're playing in a division race, you need to adjust on decision making. 

[jaysblue]

5 minutes ago, Spanky__99 said:

There are no words, good evening, time for a few pints to wash the sorrow away.

Probably need more than a few pints. What’s in the liquor cabinet Spanky? Crack open the good stuff haha. 

[Rimar]

2 minutes ago, jmomcc said:

I usually like Schneider as a manager but two singles was not a reason to pull Nance that quickly. 

Also, not pinch hitting schneider for clement and just leaving bassit in too long. 

Everything to do with pitching on this team is 90% the front office's fault but still bad decisions i thought today. 

Schneider need stop regularly overusing in the same game Rodriguez,  Dominguez,  Varland and Hoffman. Because we end up without reliable pitchers for closing game next day.

[Stangstag]

1 minute ago, Jays24 said:

Team had 6 good starters and could have strengthened their bullpen by using one of them there.  Instead their indecision has led to wasting our best starter all year in Lauer by hardly using him for almost 3 weeks now while the bullpen falls apart.  Kudos to management..

Yeah bigger picture decisions like this have been a problem. Plus not doing more at the deadline. The day-to-day decisions of JS are the least of the team’s problems IMO.

[hanton]

I don't blame JS too often but why not use Tate?  perfect opportunity to see what he has instead you go to Nance and Little ; both have been used way too much already

[Doubleplay21]

Only person who thinks Little is top 10 relievers in all baseball is Schneider.

[Stangstag]

2 minutes ago, jaysblue said:

Probably need more than a few pints. What’s in the liquor cabinet Spanky? Crack open the good stuff haha. 

Breaking out the green chartreuse 

[neverbeenhere]

Just now, hanton said:

I don't blame JS too often but why not use Tate?  perfect opportunity to see what he has

With 2 run lead, he could have done it 

[gruber9292]

Things are starting to get a little too big for JS. Give Nance a bit of rope, he's been good all year. 

[Rimar]

1 minute ago, glory said:

Since June 1, Little has a BB/9 of 7.2. Since June! If you look at his numbers since July and since August, they get progressively worse. This BS of "he's my guy" and using 5 expletives in every post game interview to show how much support you have for whoever messed up that particular day is great when you're a minor league manager, but when you're playing in a division race, you need to adjust on decision making. 

Should have get one of the reliever from Pirates at the deadline. And Barger, Clement, Lukes, France are good utilities players, but they play too much. Needed a good bat too. that can play everyday.

[BB17]

Little has been dog s*** for a while. He really should only be used in low leverage until he finds his command.

[gruber9292]

This is ALL ON ROSS. These idiots been through this before but The Forehead and Boy f*** Face refuse to acknowledge the importance of a strong pen heading and into the post season. 

Wake me up when ownership cleans house. 

[jmomcc]

11 minutes ago, Jays24 said:

Team had 6 good starters and could have strengthened their bullpen by using one of them there.  Instead their indecision has led to wasting our best starter all year in Lauer by hardly using him for almost 3 weeks now while the bullpen falls apart.  Kudos to management..

Yea honestly we could look back and that could be the reason we lost the division. 

[Grant77]

12 minutes ago, Rimar said:

Why the useless Lucas here and Little piece of s*** still here? Instead should have recalled yesterday  Fisher and Fluharty, and send back Little and Lucas to Buffalo. 

We can't bring them up right now because of roster rules, but I would expect both to be back soon.

[jaysthebest]

The most frustrating fact is that JS would insist using Little in high leverage after this game as well

[Spanky__99]

8 minutes ago, jaysblue said:

Probably need more than a few pints. What’s in the liquor cabinet Spanky? Crack open the good stuff haha. 

By few I mean many, no good stuff unfortunately.

[Rimar]

1 minute ago, BB17 said:

Little has been dog s*** for a while. He really should only be used in low leverage until he finds his command.

I prefer Fluharty 

[neverbeenhere]

1 minute ago, Grant77 said:

We can't bring them up right now because of roster rules, but I would expect both to be back soon.

Lucas was there

[jaysthebest]

I'm prepared to see that JS still believes in our bullpen and he thinks Little is our high leverage pitcher.

[Stangstag]

6 minutes ago, gruber9292 said:

This is ALL ON ROSS. These idiots been through this before but The Forehead and Boy f*** Face refuse to acknowledge the importance of a strong pen heading and into the post season. 

Wake me up when ownership cleans house. 

They still haven’t figured it out even after leaving Cleveland in 2016 and seeing what happened with Andrew Miller. Or how we missed a playoff spot in 2021 because of the bullpen. Or how we choked the 2022 playoffs. Or how we never improved the offense in 2023 and lost 2 close games in the playoffs.

 

[glory]

Looking at the splits, Friedl and Marte are both significantly worse against LHP. So the move to Little wasn't illogical and in the end it might be easier to just blame Little for not doing the job, but he hasn't been doing the job for months, so as a manager you have to have some feel for the game and take recency into account. Hell, bring Lauer into the game if he's in the pen now. Little is broken and has been for a while. 

[jaysthebest]

With these bullpen and manager, we will get swept in the wild card series. 

[G-Snarls]

I can't believe they blew this game

[G-Snarls]

No one is trustworthy to close

[hanton]

7 minutes ago, glory said:

Looking at the splits, Friedl and Marte are both significantly worse against LHP. So the move to Little wasn't illogical and in the end it might be easier to just blame Little for not doing the job, but he hasn't been doing the job for months, so as a manager you have to have some feel for the game and take recency into account. Hell, bring Lauer into the game if he's in the pen now. Little is broken and has been for a while. 

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[neverbeenhere]

Just now, G-Snarls said:

I can't believe they blew this game

bad management lost the game 

[Stangstag]

3 minutes ago, G-Snarls said:

I can't believe they blew this game

Its crazy at this point, not much you can do. They need to turn it around 

[jaysthebest]

A lot of Jays fans expected the Jays to blow this game when Little came in. Another JS masterclass.