Angels (Detmers) vs Blue Jays (Cease): 5/8/26, 7:07pm

[Stangstag]

1 hour ago, Olerud363.354 said:

I am not sure why I am getting a rep as negative.  In fact in a recent post I already speculated as to who the White Sox (I think they could be a surprise division winner) will pitch against us as we sneak into the last wild card spot with 79 wins.

Jays (79-83) over white sox (80-82)  2-1 ALWC

Jays (79-83) over Rays (105-57) 3-1 ALDS

Jays (79-83) over Yankees (108-52) 4-1 ALCS

Dodgers (114-48) over Jays (79-83) 4-2 in WS

Sorry I am not completely positive but that is my prediciton!

 

[Stangstag]

1 hour ago, Olerud363.354 said:

1.7% chance of winning the division.   30% chance of making playoffs.  Projected for 79 wins.

Yankees projected for 95.  I am neither negative nor positive, just reporting the news from fangraphs

Same date last year,

Never tell me the odds

[Laika]

4 minutes ago, mphenhef said:

Me looking for Barger who "Worse case scenario is back on Friday"

maybe doing that stupid thing where he is on the bench

it is a lefty... 

Schneider in the lineup makes me think he is not active though. Unless they are cutting Sosa? Which I fully support. 

[DownSouthBlueJay]

Someone inform JS its okay to have a lefty bat in the line up against a lefty pitcher

[Spanky__99]

 

[Spanky__99]

Meh... hard throwing K Lefty, he'll be in after Detmers leaves for a Straw swap if needed.

[Laika]

 

 

[Spanky__99]

21 minutes ago, Stangstag said:

All these negative nancys are scaring the more POSITIVE people off the forum.

TheY'Re sO uNWelCoMinG aNd RUinINg tHe BOarD

Funny thing about that is you're right, the likes of jays24 and family, we've lost the likes of really good posters, nox, jf&s, p2f, pendleton, jfl19, hurl, king, gd to name a few off the top of my head. Yeah, but fans that talk baseball rationally without uncontrollable urges to scream at the sky are the people that bully people from the forum, there's really only so much you can try to teach a moron without giving up. Just sayin' 🤷‍♂️

[Spanky__99]

1 hour ago, RA Whiffleball said:

Chill out dude, I just posted a snapshot of the WC standings. 

You lot are so easily triggered. If I were a troll, I could have a field day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh, the irony. 😅

[Governator]

We got our secret weapon batting 2nd tonight I see.

[Terminator]

[Brownie19]

1 hour ago, Olerud363.354 said:

I am not sure why I am getting a rep as negative. 

Your schtick is getting old, repetitive and incessant.  Sorry dude.

[Brownie19]

3 minutes ago, Terminator said:

We need Bieber back.  It feels like Berrios and Max might both be dead.  I'm sure we're trying to hold off on using Bieber as long as possible...

[Slade]

That's going to be at least another month if not more for Berrios. I guess Bieber end of May is our best hope for rotation help. 

[Terminator]

Will be interesting to see who they option/DFA for Barger tomorrow. 

Sosa, Schneider and Pinango are the options.

When Lukes comes back then they'll need to get rid of another.

[Terminator]

1 minute ago, Brownie19 said:

We need Bieber back.  It feels like Berrios and Max might both be dead.  I'm sure we're trying to hold off on using Bieber as long as possible...

Yeah we do. If he can come back and everyone else is healthy, we should be able to rip off some winning streaks. Gausman-Cease-Yesavage-Bieber-Corbin is a damn good rotation.

[Olerud363.354]

57 minutes ago, Stangstag said:

All these negative nancys are scaring the more POSITIVE people off the forum.

TheY'Re sO uNWelCoMinG aNd RUinINg tHe BOarD

They are scared because they see someone post the fangraphs playoff odds?

Maybe we should post the Blue Jays Message Board odds beside them. 

Fangraphs:  1.7 % chance of division, 30% chance of wild card

Jays Centre odds:  39 % chance of division, 85% chance of wild card.

My advice.  Different systems do the odds a bit different, each has their bias so maybe take the average?  Again just my suggestion and all our welcome, love to hear all views, Positive Petes you are very welcome here just in case you have been scared a bit by the Negative Nancies. 

[Olerud363.354]

58 minutes ago, Stangstag said:

 

The AL is crazy.  Realistically the White Sox probably don't win. 

But could have the crazy situation where WC1 and WC2 are strong teams, and WC3 and Central winner are awful teams but play each other so one awful team makes the ALDS with the easier path. 

[Olerud363.354]

14 minutes ago, Terminator said:

Gausman-Cease-Yesavage-Bieber-Corbin is a damn good rotation.

Agreed with that.  Part of my negative outlook is that I'm skeptical Bieber and Yesivage are going to be fully healthy and Corbin can keep itup.   If they are, if Corbin can keep it up, if that rotation is healthy for 100 games then I raise the Jays division odds from 1% to 100%.   

They go 82-18 over last 100 if Kirk back, Barger back healthy, Vlad gets our of Arraez mode, I think that is a great team, just don't know if we see it. 

[RA Whiffleball]

32 minutes ago, Brownie19 said:

Your schtick is getting old, repetitive and incessant.  Sorry dude.

You could say the same about yourself.

[RA Whiffleball]

54 minutes ago, Spanky__99 said:

Funny thing about that is you're right, the likes of jays24 and family, we've lost the likes of really good posters, nox, jf&s, p2f, pendleton, jfl19, hurl, king, gd to name a few off the top of my head. Yeah, but fans that talk baseball rationally without uncontrollable urges to scream at the sky are the people that bully people from the forum, there's really only so much you can try to teach a moron without giving up. Just sayin' 🤷‍♂️

But you've also gained quality posters like myself who provide some much-needed balance and insight.

You're welcome.

 

[Spanky__99]

Just now, RA Whiffleball said:

But you've also gained quality posters like myself who provide some much-needed balance and insight.

You're welcome.

 

You're statistical noise... 🧐

[RA Whiffleball]

Funny how Ken Rosenthal was skeptical about Bieber's health after he re-signed with the Jays, and how quickly he was demonized by the Happy Clappers.

Turns out old Ken knows a thing or two about baseball.

Trust the bow tie, my friends. 

[RA Whiffleball]

2 minutes ago, Spanky__99 said:

You're statistical noise... 🧐

Just trying to help folks like you figure it all out.

[Spanky__99]

3 minutes ago, RA Whiffleball said:

Just trying to help folks like you figure it all out.

You ain't helping squat... friendo!!!