Blue Jays (Fisher) vs Yankees (Rodon): 5/21/26, 7:05pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

Well, as disastrously as this series felt in the early going, get a win today and you walk away from the Bronx with a split. It's hard to complain about that. Of course, that requires the Jays to win today...

Who is going to follow Fisher today, BTW?

	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	WED	TOT
Yariel Rodríguez	0	14	20	0	0	34
Tyler Rogers	11	20	0	0	10	41
Spencer Miles	56	0	0	0	0	56
Mason Fluharty	0	0	0	9	8	17
Louis Varland	26	0	0	6	24	56
Jeff Hoffman	0	0	17	0	8	25
Chase Lee	0	0	0	13	0	13
Braydon Fisher	20	0	27	0	0	47
Adam Macko	0	0	15	14	0	29

[Brownie19]

Looks like Fisher, Miles, Yariel, Hoffman and Rogers to close tonight.  Macko as the lefty specialist.

[jmomcc]

Honestly, 3-4 road swing isn't terrible. So its all gravy today. 

[John_Havok]

3 hours ago, Brownie19 said:

Looks like Fisher, Miles, Yariel, Hoffman and Rogers to close tonight.  Macko as the lefty specialist.

Yeah, feels like you hope Fisher can give ya 2, Miles 4, then go from there. 

I really dont want to see Yariel again perosnally, but that probably cant be avoided. 

[Laika]

Still trying to decide if Macko is an MLB guy

He does not seem to have a good fastball. He may have a plus slider. His control/command has looked quite solid in his two appearances. I dunno. Not sure about his other offspeed offerings.

Like, if it's a deadzone fastball he has to throw 30% of the time, that's not great. 

Maybe his pitching style can be more like Braydon Fisher's. Not as weird with the high breaking balls and stuff, but maybe just being more of a 20% fastball guy and trying to command junk. Seems like with Macko it would be more traditional, sliders/curves/changeups down. 

[Laika]

I love Fisher's curveball heat map 

 

[Omar]

10 minutes ago, Laika said:

Still trying to decide if Macko is an MLB guy

He does not seem to have a good fastball. He may have a plus slider. His control/command has looked quite solid in his two appearances. I dunno. Not sure about his other offspeed offerings.

Like, if it's a deadzone fastball he has to throw 30% of the time, that's not great. 

Maybe his pitching style can be more like Braydon Fisher's. Not as weird with the high breaking balls and stuff, but maybe just being more of a 20% fastball guy and trying to command junk. Seems like with Macko it would be more traditional, sliders/curves/changeups down. 

What about his 82mph slider, you like that too right?

[Stangstag]

Must-win today 

[Terminator]

Lefty killers Straw, Sosa and Schneider all in the lineup today

Good luck Carlos Rodon

[Smokinitup420]

I hate when we face lefties, what’s the point of taking out decent left handed hitters that may run into one and putting in right handed hitters that don’t matter who they face they do nothing

[Smokinitup420]

I would love to eat my words but Sosa and Schneider are not mlb players

[Terminator]

A lot of lefties just can't hit LHP.

It was one AB but Pinango's AB against Tim Hill was really really bad. As bad as they've been, Schneider and Sosa are probably better against LHP.

So I don't mind the platoons but I wish we had better short side platoon partners.

[G-Snarls]

Would be nice if Vladdy could carry it today for once

His career stats vs Rodon are absolutely nuts:

[DownSouthBlueJay]

I'm tired of seeing Sosa on my dam team. He better not be hitting clean up.

[Rynodb1]

6 hours ago, jmomcc said:

Honestly, 3-4 road swing isn't terrible. So its all gravy today. 

1-3 against the Yankees is never "gravy."

[Stangstag]

8 minutes ago, Rynodb1 said:

1-3 against the Yankees is never "gravy."

Totally agree, that’s premium copium 

[max silver]

42 minutes ago, G-Snarls said:

Would be nice if Vladdy could carry it today for once

His career stats vs Rodon are absolutely nuts:

I think Vlad is dealing with a hand or wrist issue presently. In recent games his top hand is flying off of the bat on his follow through and I wouldn't be surprised if the chronic wrist issue is causing him grief presently.

[G-Snarls]

8 minutes ago, max silver said:

I think Vlad is dealing with a hand or wrist issue presently. In recent games his top hand is flying off of the bat on his follow through and I wouldn't be surprised if the chronic wrist issue is causing him grief presently.

That's starting to seem more likely than just a slump isn't it

[max silver]

9 minutes ago, G-Snarls said:

That's starting to seem more likely than just a slump isn't it

I think it's some of both. Vlad's mechanics look off at the plate and he is swinging at pitches he shouldn't be right now but it looks pretty clear that he's dealing with an underlying issue as well that's affecting his swing.

[Jays24]

45 minutes ago, DownSouthBlueJay said:

I'm tired of seeing Sosa on my dam team. He better not be hitting clean up.

Oh he'll hit cleanup today and then get DFA'd tomorrow for Lukes lol.

[Jays24]

Now we know why he runs like a newborn Giraffe.  Idiot has 10 pounds of gold swaying him from side to side lol.  

[SeranthonySantander]

So turns out schitler wasn’t actually good.  Glad we were the ones to expose him.

[DownSouthBlueJay]

Okay ima go out on a limb and predict sosa gets a sac fly

[Omar]

[DownSouthBlueJay]

Way to set the tone springer jeez

[Omar]

Never seen Springer so aggressive at the plate.

[Laika]

1 minute ago, Omar said:

Never seen Springer so aggressive at the plate.

He has ZERO sense of the strike zone this year 

[Abomination]

Who had Vladdy with more SB than HR on May 21st? That would have been a hell of a prediction.

[neverbeenhere]

Varsho.....

[Jays24]

What a laser!!!