World Series pre-GDT Discussion - JAYS vs. Dodgers

[mphenhef]

3 hours ago, Omar said:

So the Dodgers have much lauded pre series scouting of their opponents. If as sliderguy pointed out that the Brewers had a higher line drive rate than either ALCS team that is worrisome. Perhaps they won't have as good of a book on the Jays being in a different league. 

One thing I noticed in the ALCS was Naylor's positioning was uncanny. He seemed to rob us of line drives every game. The Jays are going to need every edge they can find. Hopefully the Dodgers book on us won't be as perceptive.

The dodgers have also strongly suspected they would have to face the Brewers at some point from fairly early in the season and would have been scouting them.  I bet they didn't consider the Jays much as a prospective opponent and spent far less resources on them then they would other teams.  

[Omar]

15 minutes ago, G-Snarls said:

For the sake of curiosity only, two of his five home runs that WS were hit in Houston; three were hit in Los Angeles. Do we know if they were accomplishing cheating by stealing signals during road games or not?

Springer is just a good hitter. So are Altuve and Bregman. As much as I hate how they did it, the cheating can only help so much.  

MLB reports that they used them on the road as well. Was a big story in the Wall St Journal at the time.

[G-Snarls]

3 minutes ago, Omar said:

MLB reports that they used them on the road as well. Was a big story in the Wall St Journal at the time.

Thank you.  Never knew that for sure.  

[SeranthonySantander]

51 minutes ago, Omar said:

MLB reports that they used them on the road as well. Was a big story in the Wall St Journal at the time.

There are many quotes from high profile players who all said a lot of teams were doing similar things.  That’s why the players didn’t really face real punishment.

Any team with the slightest rivalry with Houston during the last decade will never let it go

[John_Havok]

1 hour ago, mphenhef said:

The dodgers have also strongly suspected they would have to face the Brewers at some point from fairly early in the season and would have been scouting them.  I bet they didn't consider the Jays much as a prospective opponent and spent far less resources on them then they would other teams.  

I mean, if there's one thing the Dodgers do, it's spending less on resources.

[G-Snarls]

45 minutes ago, SeranthonySantander said:

There are many quotes from high profile players who all said a lot of teams were doing similar things.  That’s why the players didn’t really face real punishment.

Any team with the slightest rivalry with Houston during the last decade will never let it go

[Stangstag]

40 minutes ago, SeranthonySantander said:

There are many quotes from high profile players who all said a lot of teams were doing similar things.  That’s why the players didn’t really face real punishment.

Any team with the slightest rivalry with Houston during the last decade will never let it go

Yeah exactly. The big secret is that the Astros probably weren’t the only one doing this. 

They were just the ones that got caught because a Yankees fan with lots of time on his hands and enough hatred of that team was lucky enough to actually find something audible.

[Grant77]

21 minutes ago, Stangstag said:

Yeah exactly. The big secret is that the Astros probably weren’t the only one doing this. 

They were just the ones that got caught because a Yankees fan with lots of time on his hands and enough hatred of that team was lucky enough to actually find something audible.

I believe it was actually an Astros fan that compiled video of the banging. Former Jays pitcher Danny Farquhar also brought it forward before Jomboy did anything on it, if that's the Yankees fan that you mean.

[Eat My Shatkins]

I keep trying to tell myself just making it this far is amazing enough, and losing to a $400 million payroll team ain't no biggie, but goddamn it would be so sweet to win this sucker since they made it here anyways.

I thought the coach had turned back into a pumpkin when they lost games 1 & 2 to the Mariners at home. This plucky team is something else. If anyone can KO the Dodgers, it's these feisty buggers.

[Grant77]

9 minutes ago, Eat My Shatkins said:

I keep trying to tell myself just making it this far is amazing enough, and losing to a $400 million payroll team ain't no biggie, but goddamn it would be so sweet to win this sucker since they made it here anyways.

I thought the coach had turned back into a pumpkin when they lost games 1 & 2 to the Mariners at home. This plucky team is something else. If anyone can KO the Dodgers, it's these feisty buggers.

Hopefully Ohtani bet on the Blue Jays to win.

[Terminator]

44 minutes ago, Stangstag said:

Yeah exactly. The big secret is that the Astros probably weren’t the only one doing this. 

They were just the ones that got caught because a Yankees fan with lots of time on his hands and enough hatred of that team was lucky enough to actually find something audible.

Mike Fiers played a huge role as well when he spilled the bills to Rosenthal a couple of years later. 

[G-Snarls]

 

 

[Stangstag]

1 hour ago, Grant77 said:

I believe it was actually an Astros fan that compiled video of the banging. Former Jays pitcher Danny Farquhar also brought it forward before Jomboy did anything on it, if that's the Yankees fan that you mean.

Source for this? Why would an astros fan out their own team lol. I know about the Farquhar thing and also Fiers i think it was? But i remember Jomboy being the guy that found the videos and stuff

[Grant77]

15 minutes ago, Stangstag said:

Source for this? Why would an astros fan out their own team lol. I know about the Farquhar thing and also Fiers i think it was? But i remember Jomboy being the guy that found the videos and stuff

https://www.nbcsports.com/mlb/news/astros-fan-logs-trash-can-bangs-from-2017

I don't know where this fits in the timeline, but a lot of the reports and stuff were based on this guy's work. I only remembered because it was mentioned in the recent baseball bits episode on YouTube.

[SeranthonySantander]

15 minutes ago, Stangstag said:

Source for this? Why would an astros fan out their own team lol. I know about the Farquhar thing and also Fiers i think it was? But i remember Jomboy being the guy that found the videos and stuff

Attention 

[Rin]

As a Dodgers fan from Japan, my personal (2nd) favourite team just happens to be the Blue Jays. I had figured if the Dodgers did not get into the WS, I will put my hopes on the Blue Jays. What I did not expect was for my two fav. teams to now go head to head in the WS. As a travel vlogger in my spare time, Canada has always been on my list of favourite travel destinations for holidays, hence the Blue Jays.

This will be a fun, nail biting series between two juggernauts, which ever team ends up winning, I will celebrate for them.

[Spanky__99]

3 hours ago, Eat My Shatkins said:

I keep trying to tell myself just making it this far is amazing enough, and losing to a $400 million payroll team ain't no biggie, but goddamn it would be so sweet to win this sucker since they made it here anyways.

I thought the coach had turned back into a pumpkin when they lost games 1 & 2 to the Mariners at home. This plucky team is something else. If anyone can KO the Dodgers, it's these feisty buggers.

500M+ friendo!

[max silver]

11 minutes ago, Spanky__99 said:

500M+ friendo!

It is probably is closer to $500 million once you account for the deferrals.

[L54]

550M with tax 

[M.E.]

Couldn’t stop myself. Bought the ticket, got the hotel and flying in Thursday from Cali. Goooooo Jays!!!!  Section 130

[mphenhef]

14 hours ago, John_Havok said:

I mean, if there's one thing the Dodgers do, it's spending less on resources.

When I say resources here, I don’t just mean money.  It’s time and people.  Their best advanced scouts would have attended far more Brewers, reds and Phillies games than Jays games.  Sure, they would be pouring over video now but I am not sure that hits the same.

[Doubleplay21]

Sportsnet reporting Bo taking ground balls at second base and running the bases Wednesday afternoon.

Not going to be playing SS.

[GoBlue41]

2 minutes ago, Doubleplay21 said:

Sportsnet reporting Bo taking ground balls at second base and running the bases Wednesday afternoon.

Not going to be playing SS.

This could get interesting....... 

[rydermike]

Interesting. Shows Springer prob not 100% so can't play OF, and there's no way that they can't have Gimenez at SS. 

[Terminator]

11 minutes ago, Doubleplay21 said:

Sportsnet reporting Bo taking ground balls at second base and running the bases Wednesday afternoon.

Not going to be playing SS.

Gee....I seem to remember someone from the board suggesting that Bo playing 2B might be a good idea. 

Oh wait, that was me:

On 9/16/2025 at 4:42 PM, Terminator said:

Let's assume Bo is back for the playoffs.

Would it be crazy to put him at 2B when he returns? 

[hanton]

I WANT THAT BAT IN THE LINEUP

[GoBlue41]

19 minutes ago, Terminator said:

Gee....I seem to remember someone from the board suggesting that Bo playing 2B might be a good idea. 

Oh wait, that was me:

We haven't seen the results yet.....  

Let's hope they are good! :) 

[Jays24]

22 minutes ago, Terminator said:

Gee....I seem to remember someone from the board suggesting that Bo playing 2B might be a good idea. 

Oh wait, that was me:

Ive been saying put him at 2B since the first game I saw him at SS so beat that!! Lol

Anyways, transitioning from SS to 2B is very easy as long as hes healthy enough to move around.  2B is for players who arent good enough to play SS anyways lol.  

Blue Jays' Bichette takes ground balls at 2B ahead of World Series
https://thescore.com/mlb/news/3376110

[Terminator]

Yeah he was barely a SS as it is, so if he's not 100% you can't play him there.

It'd be easy to DH him and put Springer in the OF. But Springer is the rare guy who gets a DH bonus instead of a penalty. Bo takes a DH penalty.

So if you could get Bo in the field and leave Springer as DH it could help quite a bit.

[Eat My Shatkins]

Hopefully this leads to Bo signing an extension with the Jays and being willing to move to 2B full time.

But first hopefully it leads to the Jays winning the World Series