Astros (Garcia) vs Blue Jays (TBD): 9/9/25, 7:07pm

[Stangstag]

59 minutes ago, Omar said:

Oh Shite!!

 

 

Yeah figured. Surprised he continued the game when it initially happened 

[Spanky__99]

 

[Stangstag]

19 minutes ago, Terminator said:

Dammit that is a big loss. 19 games left and 10 of them are without our star shortstop.

 

No guarantee he comes back right after the 10 days too

But might not be 10 games, it would be retroactive to Sunday

[Terminator]

I am furious right now

[Terminator]

 

[glory]

Of course Tony has a setback.

Man, not much good news coming out today. 

[harvey16]

1 hour ago, Omar said:

Oh Shite!!

 

 

It must be pretty bad if they are putting him on the IL especially now that rosters are expanded. I'm guessing he might be out for the rest of the regular season or maybe come back for the last home stand. He'll likely need a couple of rehab games even after his stint on the IL is up. This is a major blow! Guys like Guerrero, and some of the bottom of the order guys are gonna have to step up. That IKF waiver claim is huge now. At least it will be a defensive upgrade at SS. Bo could have probably played through the injury, but guaranteed he doesn't want to risk it with pending free agency.

[JaysAllMighty]

JC Bo.  What happened to playing with a broken leg like the hero Kirk Gibson

[glory]

The Jays have been pretty reluctant to put players on the IL even when they are unavailable to play for a few days (ex. Vlad after doing the splits), so for Bo to actually hit the IL it's probably fairly serious. Hopefully not something that will prevent a return before the end of the regular season. 

[Jays24]

1 hour ago, Masterbather said:

MF'er better be on crutches to take 10 days off.

Ill give you a better angle.  If he wasn't so fat and unathletic, he wouldn't have gotten hurt with that mockery of a slide at home.  Every SS other than him scores easily on that play.  

:)

[Brownie19]

I don't understand MLB.  Why is the catcher allowed to block the plate (once they receive the ball), but the player can't run the catcher?

It's either you can't block and the plate and you can't run the catcher (which IMO, is the correct answer), or you can block the plate and you can run the catcher.  Those are the only 2 logical options.

If a catcher wearing all that protective gear is allowed to block the plate, you should be allowed to come in hot - shoulders, cleats to the face - all fair game for the guy who is trying to score without any padding.

[Terminator]

2 minutes ago, Brownie19 said:

I don't understand MLB.  Why is the catcher allowed to block the plate (once they receive the ball), but the player can't run the catcher?

It's either you can't block and the plate and you can't run the catcher (which IMO, is the correct answer), or you can block the plate and you can run the catcher.  Those are the only 2 logical options.

If a catcher wearing all that protective gear is allowed to block the plate, you should be allowed to come in hot - shoulders, cleats to the face - all fair game for the guy who is trying to score without any padding.

Yeah Wells was too out of control there and treated it like a football play (with the celebration to match) and ended up blocking the plate. Bo should have been called safe.

[Jays24]

1 minute ago, Brownie19 said:

I don't understand MLB.  Why is the catcher allowed to block the plate (once they receive the ball), but the player can't run the catcher?

It's either you can't block and the plate and you can't run the catcher (which IMO, is the correct answer), or you can block the plate and you can run the catcher.  Those are the only 2 logical options.

If a catcher wearing all that protective gear is allowed to block the plate, you should be allowed to come in hot - shoulders, cleats to the face - all fair game for the guy who is trying to score without any padding.

I legit thought Bo was able to run over him if a catcher chooses to block the plate. 

[max silver]

26 minutes ago, Stangstag said:

No guarantee he comes back right after the 10 days too

But might not be 10 games, it would be retroactive to Sunday

And this certainly isn't going to help with Bo's already diminished range at short stop. 

[max silver]

10 minutes ago, Brownie19 said:

I don't understand MLB.  Why is the catcher allowed to block the plate (once they receive the ball), but the player can't run the catcher?

It's either you can't block and the plate and you can't run the catcher (which IMO, is the correct answer), or you can block the plate and you can run the catcher.  Those are the only 2 logical options.

If a catcher wearing all that protective gear is allowed to block the plate, you should be allowed to come in hot - shoulders, cleats to the face - all fair game for the guy who is trying to score without any padding.

I fully agree with this assessment. The plate blocking rules are likely among the dumbest in MLB. It just makes no sense that a catcher is only disallowed from blocking the plate before he receives the ball, but has free rein to set up fort if he's either moving to receive the ball or has already received it. In this particular play the way the rules are set up was a direct cause to the collision at the plate as Bo had very little time to alter course once the throw was received. It's dumb that the catcher only needs to leave a sliding lane open when he doesn't have the ball in his possession if the intent of the rule was supposed to be reducing collisions at the plate. 

[Omar]

Silver lining (yeah I'm reaching here):

Springer to LF and Bo dh through the playoffs.

 

[keggy]

1 hour ago, Masterbather said:

So I guess Clement becomes our shortstop, Barger becomes our third baseman.

Who's our backup shortstop? Gimenez?

 

Kiner-Falefa and Gimenez.

And Barger and Straw (yes Straw) are emergency SS.

Roster wise we're covered, it's losing Bo's bat that will hurt.

[max silver]

2 minutes ago, Omar said:

Silver lining (yeah I'm reaching here):

Springer to LF and Bo dh through the playoffs.

 

If that leads to Santander playing right field more often than not that's a really bad defensive alignment in the outfield so it's just strengthening the infield but weakening the outfield.

[Masterbather]

37 minutes ago, Terminator said:

 

🤦🏻‍♂️

[Masterbather]

44 minutes ago, harvey16 said:

...Bo could have probably played through the injury, but guaranteed he doesn't want to risk it with pending free agency.

It wasn't me this time...

[Jays24]

1 hour ago, Omar said:

Silver lining (yeah I'm reaching here):

Springer to LF and Bo dh through the playoffs.

 

This would actually upgrade our defense immensely lol

[Omar]

Anybody here remember Tony Fernandez going down with an injury the last week of September in '87?  

Oh what could have been?

Hopefully this ends better. 

[Horses Fart]

Strange question but who would rather the injury be on Vladdy instead of Bo? 

[neverbeenhere]

16 minutes ago, Horses Fart said:

Strange question but who would rather the injury be on Vladdy instead of Bo? 

Bo is one of the best in MLB and has driven in runs in many high leverage situations.... so those 2 are incomparable and the answer is obvious.

[hanton]

Huge loss, to compensate move Kirk up in the batting order

[John Balkabella]

24 minutes ago, Horses Fart said:

Strange question but who would rather the injury be on Vladdy instead of Bo? 

Yes, a strange question.

Would you rather inhale or exhale.

 

 

[Jonn]

I don’t want to call it a must game but it’s a must game. Been a pretty brutal September so far.

[Wake n bake]

6 minutes ago, Jonn said:

I don’t want to call it a must game but it’s a must game. Been a pretty brutal September so far.

Feels like a must win game every game lately, big blow losing bo, but I’m thinking back on that 4 game sweep on the Yankees and Bo didn’t play so I’m hoping that’s how this will end up 

[neverbeenhere]

11 minutes ago, Jonn said:

I don’t want to call it a must game but it’s a must game. Been a pretty brutal September so far.

I think we will win this one 

[neverbeenhere]

that sucks