Blue Jays (Cease) vs Twins (Prielipp): 5/2/26, 2:10pm

[dancingmachine]

Hopefully Banda pitches tomorrow at some point

[ComeTogether]

16-17

1 more w and back to 500.  

[Omar]

Well, well, well....

Despite some early misgivings the bats came alive in the 8th.  Oka continues to mash.  Valenzuela hit Banda into the shadow realm. The bullpen continues to get it done.  Bury them tomorrow. 

 

[Laika]

Valenzuela has to get almost every start until Kirky is back 

[Laika]

I guess we get irrationally excited about Okamoto now?

He's Troy Glaus 

[Spanky__99]

GG BIRDS... WIN THIS SERIES TOMORROW GO JAYS GO!!!

 

[G-Snarls]

Didn't get to watch 

Love the score 

Is Springer OK?!?!

[Spanky__99]

4 minutes ago, G-Snarls said:

Didn't get to watch 

Love the score 

Is Springer OK?!?!

No man, he was hit directly on the toe, find out later or tomorrow, wasn't good.

 

[Brownie19]

2 hours ago, Jays24 said:

The defense on this team has become a joke man.  Practically all these errors are on nibblers.

1st in baseball. 

[Brownie19]

38 minutes ago, Laika said:

Valenzuela has to get almost every start until Kirky is back 

He seems to be settling in nicely.  Love to see it.

[Brownie19]

Now that's a nice W for the Jays. Let's keep it going.

[Spanky__99]

Lots of Jays fans in Minny, love to see it.

[max silver]

32 minutes ago, Brownie19 said:

He seems to be settling in nicely.  Love to see it.

He's been chipping in with a lot of big hits in recent games. I like the power potential in his bat a lot if he can find a way to put the ball in play with more frequency. I also have to give acknowledgement to Myles Straw who may be on his way to showing that his solid 2025 season (by his standards) wasn't necessarily a fluke.

[DonJays]

2 hours ago, neverbeenhere said:

Cease is just not good

f***ing moron 

[max silver]

33 minutes ago, Spanky__99 said:

No man, he was hit directly on the toe, find out later or tomorrow, wasn't good.

 

It sounds like he's fine as X-Rays didn't show any new damage. I can't even begin to imagine how much it had to hurt getting hit exactly on the broken toe even though he had a guard in place.

[Spanky__99]

4 minutes ago, DonJays said:

f***ing moron 

Right, dude goes 7 strong giving up 3 ER and 7K's... sucks, Cease just not good lol... F*ckin' 🤡's 

[DonJays]

3 minutes ago, Spanky__99 said:

Right, dude goes 7 strong giving up 3 ER and 7K's... sucks, Cease just not good lol... F*ckin' 🤡's 

These reactionary fans are just absolute clowns.  Depending on the outcome of a pitch or an at bat, a player can be trash or an MVP. Baseball is a hard game. You fail 70% of the time if you are a good player. How can a ball “fan” be that stupid lol 

[Stangstag]

1 hour ago, neverbeenhere said:

I think he was wearing, wasn't he?

Didn’t look like it

[Brownie19]

1 hour ago, Spanky__99 said:

Right, dude goes 7 strong giving up 3 ER and 7K's... sucks, Cease just not good lol... F*ckin' 🤡's 

Great to see him grinding it out today.  Twins got to him early, but he kept pitching and gave us 7 strong.

I have no idea if this is true, but it feels like in the past Cease was the type of guy who when you got to him early, he'd struggle to find it and would end up throwing 100 pitches in 4 2/3's or something.  Nice to see him stay aggressive, trust his stuff, find a groove and give us 7.

[Laika]

9 minutes ago, Brownie19 said:

Great to see him grinding it out today.  Twins got to him early, but he kept pitching and gave us 7 strong.

I have no idea if this is true, but it feels like in the past Cease was the type of guy who when you got to him early, he'd struggle to find it and would end up throwing 100 pitches in 4 2/3's or something.  Nice to see him stay aggressive, trust his stuff, find a groove and give us 7.

I think classic Cease is definitely an inefficient 5 innings 

Or 5 clean and then gets destroyed in the sixth 

[Spanky__99]

Cease ranked 6th in baseball... suxxxxxxxxx

Defense ranked 2nd in MLB... suxxxxxxxx

Vlad 149 wRC+... suxxxxxxxxxxxx

🖕 

[Jonn]

I don't think anybody can/should complain with what we got from Cease so far.

[Jays24]

2 hours ago, Brownie19 said:

1st in baseball. 

Curious what youre using to determine that.  I see us near the bottom in Defensive Runs Saved, Fielding percentage, errors, throwing out base stealers but 2nd in defensive WAR.  

[Jays24]

3 hours ago, Rynodb1 said:

7 IP, 3 ER, that's not that much "suck." Lol. 

I used suck in quotes because I was just playing on the words.  Although, Cease had allowed 4 runs (3 earned) over 6 innings at the time.  For his standards, that wasnt good enough against a horrible Twins squad, which was all I was saying here .  Dont need to explain Vladdy lol.

[Spanky__99]

8 minutes ago, Jays24 said:

Curious what youre using to determine that.  I see us near the bottom in Defensive Runs Saved, Fielding percentage, errors, throwing out base stealers but 2nd in defensive WAR.  

They were passed by the Bosox overnight so 2nd... normally their far ahead, it's not dire or anything, lol

 

#	Team	Pos	G	GS	Inn	Throwing	Blocking	Framing	Arm	Range	FRV
1	BOS	---	406	288	2523.0	1	1	3	1	9	14
2	TOR	---	466	288	2562.0	1	1	5	0	7	13
3	CHC	---	406	288	2565.0	-1	0	-2	2	11	10
4	STL	---	448	288	2601.0	1	0	1	-1	7	10
5	LAD	---	413	288	2538.0	0	0	-1	2	7	9
6	CLE	---	445	297	2613.0	-1	-1	4	1	5	8
7	ATL	---	439	297	2655.0	-2	0	1	1	6	8
8	KCR	---	432	288	2541.0	1	-1	2	2	2	6
9	SDP	---	414	279	2493.0	1	1	0	1	1	5
10	SFG	---	408	288	2550.0	1	0	4	-1	1	5

[max silver]

14 minutes ago, Jays24 said:

Curious what youre using to determine that.  I see us near the bottom in Defensive Runs Saved, Fielding percentage, errors, throwing out base stealers but 2nd in defensive WAR.  

Statcast paints a completely different picture and that's what Fangraphs utilizes to calculate defensive WAR.

[Eat My Shatkins]

41 minutes ago, Jays24 said:

I used suck in quotes because I was just playing on the words.  Although, Cease had allowed 4 runs (3 earned) over 6 innings at the time.  For his standards, that wasnt good enough against a horrible Twins squad, which was all I was saying here .  Dont need to explain Vladdy lol.

You need some context though. In the inning where he gave up 2 runs (1 earned) Klemens hit a weak 77mph single, then Keaschall battled him for an 8 pitch walk (tip your cap), then he got a 65mph swinging bunt groundball out that advanced the runners, and then gave up a 70mph infield single that resulted in one run coming in and a throwing error which scored the 2nd run.

That's not bad pitching, that's just s*** luck.

[Eat My Shatkins]

The Rays are an inning away from a 20-12 start.

Man that organization is like annoying little turd that won't flush.

[Jays24]

14 minutes ago, Eat My Shatkins said:

You need some context though. In the inning where he gave up 2 runs (1 earned) Klemens hit a weak 77mph single, then Keaschall battled him for an 8 pitch walk (tip your cap), then he got a 65mph swinging bunt groundball out that advanced the runners, and then gave up a 70mph infield single that resulted in one run coming in and a throwing error which scored the 2nd run.

That's not bad pitching, that's just s*** luck.

Again, I didn't mean he actually sucked.  Just used that word since it was the one being used between those posters.  

I watched the whole game and thought he was alright but could have been better considering the competition.  Hes been good so far this season... just hoping he could go longer in games.  

[SeranthonySantander]

3 hours ago, G-Snarls said:

Didn't get to watch 

Love the score 

Is Springer OK?!?!

This isn't Bo we are talking about, he wants to play.  He will play.  Soon.  Maybe.