Guardians (Cantillo) vs Blue Jays (Gausman): 4/25/26, 3:07pm

[Brandon Glick]

Fun fact: Jose Ramirez is batting just .167 in his career off of Gausman.

	MON	TUE	WED	THU	FRI	TOT
Tyler Rogers	9	12	0	0	0	21
Tommy Nance	0	0	24	0	13	37
Spencer Miles	0	22	0	0	28	50
Mason Fluharty	0	7	0	0	13	20
Louis Varland	20	1	0	0	0	21
Joe Mantiply	0	0	23	0	19	42
Jeff Hoffman	17	18	0	0	0	35
Braydon Fisher	12	0	20	0	14	46

[hanton]

I really hope Lukes isn't out for long.  Straw is leading off today

[Laika]

Sucks to have the off day sort of wasted by needing to use so many RP yesterday 

[Laika]

The IL / hurt situation is wild 

Alejandro Kirk 

George Springer

Addison Barger

Nathan Lukes

Trey Yesavage 

Shane Bieber 

Cody Ponce

José Berríos 

Yimi García 

Lazaro Estrada 

Tony Taters

Bowden Francis 

Ricky Tiedemann 

Jake Bloss 

Jeff Hoffman (at least has a bruised ego) 

Eric Lauer (no balls) 

Max Scherzer (geriatric f***) 

[Omar]

The over 40 crowd on this board really pulling for Max.  

[glory]

Lauer about to go into a rage (of public complaining).

[jaysblue]

31 minutes ago, Omar said:

The over 40 crowd on this board really pulling for Max.  

I do wonder what Max would look like out of the bullpen. He could just air it out for one inning and let it fly every pitch. I think Jays24 even floated the idea during the offseason of trying him as a closer.

I’d definitely be interested to see whether Max would be open to a move to the pen - kind of like what Smoltz did later in his career.
 

[Jays24]

5 minutes ago, jaysblue said:

I do wonder what Max would look like out of the bullpen. He could just air it out for one inning and let it fly every pitch. I think Jays24 even floated the idea during the offseason of trying him as a closer.

I’d definitely be interested to see whether Max would be open to a move to the pen - kind of like what Smoltz did later in his career.
 

Practically every reliever/closer is a failed starter.  Scherzer is at a point where hes a failed starter now due to performance and health. 

It wont hurt to see how he does if given 1 inning to air it all out.  Just not sure if Max cares to go down that path but thats his only remaining path if he wants to stay on the field.  

[Jonn]

Nice to have an MLB Starter on the mound today.

[Abomination]

It's insane that it's still April and Clement already has 12 doubles.

[Jays24]

We will settle for a Vladdy single right now

[ComeTogether]

Good D Oka 

[ComeTogether]

5 minutes ago, Abomination said:

It's insane that it's still April and Clement already has 12 doubles.

He's a double machine. 

[Jonn]

Sut the f*** down Valera you blind *****.

[HomeRunHomer]

Love it when the opposition blows their challenge early in games.

[Jays24]

4 minutes ago, HomeRunHomer said:

Love it when the opposition blows their challenge early in games.

Its honestly become a big part of the game and i love it.  Hope more importence is placed on the ABS metrics as it can change games dramatically.  

[ComeTogether]

Will be funny if a batter challenges a ball by mistake. 

[Doubleplay21]

This plate umpire is really bad. Calling balls as strikes

[HomeRunHomer]

3 minutes ago, ComeTogether said:

Will be funny if a batter challenges a ball by mistake. 

Davis has a habit of touching his helmet after pitches.  He's going to make an accidental challenge one of these days.

[Jonn]

They should make it a verbal sign and not a helmet tap to avoid this scenario.

[Jays24]

Damn... Davis was too shallow on that one

[neverbeenhere]

4 hours ago, hanton said:

I really hope Lukes isn't out for long.  Straw is leading off today

Ya, Lukes was really getting hot.

[Jonn]

Honestly kinda glad he bobbled it. I don't think he gets him at home.

[Jays24]

IKF... thats how you take lead offs from 3B...

[Abomination]

Man, that was way too close to risk your final challenge on. Delauter was lucky he was right.

[Jonn]

It sucks that every walk and single is basically a Double vs the Blue Jays because our Catchers can't throw the ball to second.

[Jays24]

Are the Jays last in baseball in throwing our base stealers? Like its gotta be horrible

[Rynodb1]

Just got home from coaching a little league team. 

Can't wait to bless you all with that same expertise in here for this game. 

[VladdyAlomar]

[Abomination]

3 minutes ago, Jonn said:

It sucks that every walk and single is basically a Double vs the Blue Jays because our Catchers can't throw the ball to second.

We have a lot of pitchers that do a terrible job holding runners. You can't pin it all on the catcher.