Blue Jays (Taillon) vs Royals (Lynch IV): 9/4/26, 8:10pm

[Brandon Glick]

Standings Watch: The Blue Jays are 0.5 games behind the Cleveland Guardians for the final AL Wild Card spot.

[Brandon Glick]

	SUN	MON	TUE	WED	THU	TOT
Tyler Rogers	0	0	0	0	9	9
Spencer Miles	17	0	16	0	18	51
Spencer Arrighetti	0	0	62	0	0	62
Ricky Tiedemann	0	0	21	0	0	21
Paul Sewald	0	0	0	18	0	18
Michael Lorenzen	0	0	20	0	0	20
Mason Fluharty	0	0	0	0	30	30
Louis Varland	0	0	0	0	18	18
Joe Mantiply	0	0	22	0	0	22
Brendon Little	0	0	0	15	0	15
Braydon Fisher	10	0	0	27	0	37

[Terminator]

• Taillon vs. Lynch XI
• Scherzer vs. Lugo
• Spaghetti vs. Dobnak

[Laika]

We just saw Lugo and Dobnak and Lynch isn't that good so hopefully the bats show up 

They also just saw Scherzer and Spaghetti but pasta is more of a bullpen game anyway. Maybe JS has learned his lesson and won't try to get 4 innings out of him unless completely necessary 

[Omar]

[Governator]

1 hour ago, Terminator said:

• Taillon vs. Lynch XI
• Scherzer vs. Lugo
• Spaghetti vs. Dobnak

Pretty sure none of them are anyone's fantasy team.

[ComeTogether]

All hands on deck. 

[ComeTogether]

 

 

[Terminator]

Not sure that this is the game to do it, but with all the talk about getting Keys some ABs in LF, what about playing Josh Smith there instead? He's got good sprint speed and he's played a little bit of LF at this level. 

I guess Straw has been kind of sneaky-good since the ASB though. 112 wRC+ since the start of August.

[G-Snarls]

Want to go at least 4-2 over the next 6 games

Let's start by winning today

[John_Havok]

1 hour ago, G-Snarls said:

Want to go at least 4-2 over the next 6 games

Let's start by winning today

Exactlyy. Just worry about going 1-0 today before thinking about series

[Omar]

Need TB Rays to do us solid here and win some games against the Rangers.

[max silver]

2 hours ago, Terminator said:

Not sure that this is the game to do it, but with all the talk about getting Keys some ABs in LF, what about playing Josh Smith there instead? He's got good sprint speed and he's played a little bit of LF at this level. 

I guess Straw has been kind of sneaky-good since the ASB though. 112 wRC+ since the start of August.

Smith has proven to be a sneaky good pickup by Atkins as he's infused some much needed power off of the bench. My primary complaint about Atkins previous trade deadlines has been the lack of effective offensive support and Atkins killed it this time around with both Smith and Bateman proving to be offensive catalysts as the team has run up the standings.

Straw does deserve a lot of credit for turning his season around. I believe the Sanchez disaster class game in left field in the Trop was a bit of a starting point for seeing more and more of Straw in the lineup but he's been earning his keep and then some. His last 35 games/98 PA have seen him produce 117 wRC+/0.7 FWAR which is a pretty dramatic turnaround for his first 4 months of the season where he was sitting at 62 wRC+/0 FWAR.