Blue Jays (Gausman) vs Rays (Rasmussen): 5/5/26, 6:40pm

[HomeRunHomer]

Why are pitchcom devices so s***?

[Jays24]

[Omar]

Hope the pen can hold this. Hate extras at the Trop.

[neverbeenhere]

1 run lead and Hoffman on, that's scary

[Spanky__99]

98 gas! 😍

[Rynodb1]

They just run all over us. Need a K here, Hoff.

[Jays24]

Hoffman looked good.  I think that guy can become our closer one day lol.

[Abomination]

Good job!

[neverbeenhere]

Good inning Hoff

[G-Snarls]

Well done Hoffman

[dancingmachine]

Omg Hoffman did it

[dancingmachine]

More runs please 

[G-Snarls]

Another run please

[Rynodb1]

Can he pinch hit HR?

[G-Snarls]

Maybe pinch hit Vladdy is like post season Vladdy

[Rynodb1]

A swinging sacrifice bunt. Good strategy, Vladdy. 

[neverbeenhere]

why does JS bring him in, knowing he would hit a ground ball

[dancingmachine]

This offense stinks

[neverbeenhere]

that sucks

[G-Snarls]

Failure to score another run looming large

[Rynodb1]

Well, s***. Even our strong bullpen guys can't break the curse here. 

[Jays24]

Just another game where the offense puts the Jays in a horrible spot having to be perfect.  

[hanton]

smart AB by Diaz

[max silver]

1 hour ago, jaysblue said:

The point is context.

Yes, you can say it about a lot of young players. Baseball is full of adjustments, and plenty of talented players go through rough stretches once the league gets a better book on them. But that doesn’t mean every young player carries the exact same level of risk, or that it’s pointless to discuss it.

Barger isn’t Gunnar Henderson or Caminero in terms of pedigree or established track record. He has exciting tools, especially the power, but there are also real approach questions and swing-and-miss concerns. That makes it perfectly reasonable to say expectations should be tempered a bit.

Nobody is saying he can’t help the team. Nobody is saying he’s a bad player. The point is that some people act like any caution around Barger is “negativity” or “wishful thinking,” when really it’s just a rational read on where he is developmentally.

You can be excited about the upside and still acknowledge that young players with flaws often have growing pains. That’s not some controversial take.
 

That's not how the conversation unfolded in the first place. I made a perfectly innocuous statement that Barger has potential to add some much needed thump to the lineup once he's locked in at the plate. There is literally nothing to attack in this statement. This was countered with a bunch of strawman style arguments about how I was saying Barger was a savior, or that it I was suggesting it was guaranteed that he would immediately hit to his ceiling. That poster obviously isn't interested or even capable of rationally discussing opinions that run counter to his without pivoting to logical fallacies in reply. If there was single poster on this board who was going to defend that garbage it's no big surprise that it turned out to be you riding in to white knight for this antisocial buffoon. 

[Jays24]

5 infielder strategy would have gotten us outta this inning with 0 runs lol

[G-Snarls]

Weak hits for days

[Rynodb1]

f*** this game. 

[Stangstag]

When Rogers gives up 4 straight hits… you know nothings going right 

Get us tf out of this hellhole

[dancingmachine]

Fack

[gruber9292]

All you can do is laugh playing in this hell hole