Rangers (Rocker) vs Blue Jays (Bieber): 6/28/26, 1:37pm

[jmomcc]

I do think Vlad should have been moved down the order a month ago and told to work on his plate approach. 

I do believe that the highest paid player sets the culture, and players seeing him not have to be accountable for his approach makes them looser. 

[DownSouthBlueJay]

Hindsight is 20/20 we all were expecting the Jays to have a 2025 type year.Unfortunately injuries happened and our 500 million Dollar superstar forgot how to play baseball.Plus everyone else regressing all at the same time especially Springer.Pitching has been mostly solid this year its what kept us in it till this point.

[SeranthonySantander]

1 minute ago, DownSouthBlueJay said:

Hindsight is 20/20 we all were expecting the Jays to have a 2025 type year.Unfortunately injuries happened and our 500 million Dollar superstar forgot how to play baseball.Plus everyone else regressing all at the same time especially Springer.Pitching has been mostly solid this year its what kept us in it till this point.

yea 

[Olerud363.354]

1 hour ago, M.E. said:

Well, I think you could criticize the GM/Pres.  They have had 1 great year, 2 good and the rest s*** in their tenure.    

2016 they did a good job.   Well all they did was sign J.A. Happ but that move got them back into the playoffs.  Otherwise kept the team functional and operating well. 

2017/2018/2019 bad

2020/2021/2022/2023 good

2024 bad

2025 excellent

2026 disappointing 

I got 5 bad 6 good 

[jmomcc]

I would break it down into ‘I don’t believe in this front office because they can’t develop pitching’ and now ‘I think they probably can’. 

Now, I’m finally in the second camp and I like their previous drafts, it would be bad time to get hasty with the front office.

[abola2121]

3 hours ago, jmomcc said:

I do think Vlad should have been moved down the order a month ago and told to work on his plate approach. 

I do believe that the highest paid player sets the culture, and players seeing him not have to be accountable for his approach makes them looser. 

I think they should rehire Charlie Montoya as a bench coach. He had success in getting through to Vlad during his time here (another post mentioned how he was on his ass for hitting too many ground balls, etc).

[decosabute]

7 hours ago, jmomcc said:

I do think Vlad should have been moved down the order a month ago and told to work on his plate approach. 

I do believe that the highest paid player sets the culture, and players seeing him not have to be accountable for his approach makes them looser. 

100%.

Vlad is just being indulged at this point and not only is he not making big changes to address this extended awfulness, he's still f***ing around - not running properly to first, still clowning around with the jacket and Gatorade acting like this wretched season is all a big laugh. When other players see the face of the franchise suck that badly (by his standards) and still just get away with it and fool around, then you can bet they drop their focus a percentage point of two. 

While I don't think Kirk blanking him with the jacket was aimed at Vlad personally, I was glad to see it, because this team needs to stop the BS and get mad. And I hope that the message got through a bit to Vlad. 

[John_Havok]

4 hours ago, decosabute said:

100%.

Vlad is just being indulged at this point and not only is he not making big changes to address this extended awfulness, he's still f***ing around - not running properly to first, still clowning around with the jacket and Gatorade acting like this wretched season is all a big laugh. When other players see the face of the franchise suck that badly (by his standards) and still just get away with it and fool around, then you can bet they drop their focus a percentage point of two. 

While I don't think Kirk blanking him with the jacket was aimed at Vlad personally, I was glad to see it, because this team needs to stop the BS and get mad. And I hope that the message got through a bit to Vlad. 

This. Vlad needs to get mad. 

I saw something on MLB the other day too with Pujols breaking down what he thinks isbwrong woth Clads swimg amd that hes wrapping the bat too far behind his head and consequently the bat head is taking longer to get to the hitting zone. Pujols himself said he used to go through stretches like this and he would look at his stance from the 1b side on video and if he saw the bat head poking out behind his head when he was waggling the bat, he knew he had to adjust his hands.

Im probably explaining it poorly but it made sense when they showed the video 

[jmomcc]

1 hour ago, John_Havok said:

This. Vlad needs to get mad. 

I saw something on MLB the other day too with Pujols breaking down what he thinks isbwrong woth Clads swimg amd that hes wrapping the bat too far behind his head and consequently the bat head is taking longer to get to the hitting zone. Pujols himself said he used to go through stretches like this and he would look at his stance from the 1b side on video and if he saw the bat head poking out behind his head when he was waggling the bat, he knew he had to adjust his hands.

Im probably explaining it poorly but it made sense when they showed the video 

I saw something that said tons of the hitters on the DR team have struggled this year so listening to Pujos might not be the smartest idea either, 

[John_Havok]

19 hours ago, jmomcc said:

I saw something that said tons of the hitters on the DR team have struggled this year so listening to Pujos might not be the smartest idea either, 

Yeah who knows really... i just dont understand how a hitter like Vlad is happy with his results and isnt doing everything under the sun to try and figure out what he was doing differently in the playoffs last year vs now. 

It's a night and day difference in not just stats, but underlying skill numbers as well.