G-Snarls

Yeah, this is the time of year that nagging injuries catch up with guys, and days off can help We often have no idea how much each guy is hurting

Agree on all counts

Several afternoon games today including Red Sox vs Rays

Yes A win today puts BAL 4 games back Nothing wrong with that Then the best BOS can do is stay 2 back Please win today

Saunders career OBP .295 vs LHP Barney career OBP .328 vs LHP Meh

Career I think he's quite good vs LHP? Too tired to look it up. Tough situation and we neeeed a baserunner desperately against a super tough lefty Move probably made sense

Then we need admin to hack it beforehand and remove their mod control

Idea: The day that the Orioles are statistically eliminated from the post season we make the next GDT on the Orioles hangout

s*** I even used to have it marked in my calendar "Rays Board takeover day" We missed it this year

I can't imagine the org putting Pompey on the post season roster Is he even going to get a September callup for sure? And even if he does will be play much? Which puts him in awkward spot. They clearly don't want to call him up and not play. He seems stuck.

Bench will include Smoak/Upton (whoever isn't starting), Barney, Carrera, Navarro? Who would you take in addition?

Exactly Career vs Liriano RH batters OPS 0.719 LH batters OPS 0.596

2nd best record in the American League

Huge win Team had a bad stretch of losing series openers Given how huge this series is, sure was nice to start it off with a victory

Huge win Team has a stretch of.losing series openers Given how huge this series is, sure was nice to start off with a victory

Sale's Revenge!!

f*** yes Can't wait for this one

That SHOULD be a top 3 lineup in baseball.

Maybe. I still expect Estrada to come out one of these starts back in business and stay that way. Fingers crossed it's tonight.

Lineup order looks about as good as you can get if everyone is healthy. Those lineups should score a ton of runs.

Speed doesn't make up for his poor OBP skills and high strikeout rate. He should hit 8th or 9th when he playss and he should not be playing every day. This guarantees he gets fewer at bats than our elite hitters who should all be at the top of the lineup. ... If your post was serious

Big time We avoid Tillman and Bundy and they don't get to face Dickey or Liriano. We couldn't ask for a better set of pitching matchups against a team we could bury 4-6 games back with a good series

Yeah. Few people editorialize as much as Blair does.

JEFF BLAIR AUGUST 29, 2016, 9:30 AM John Gibbons called his starting pitchers into the manager’s office following Saturday’s win over the Minnesota Twins to deliver a message: Stop it. Shut it. Stow it. OK, so that’s a bit of a simplification and, yeah, maybe a shade dramatic. Got you, right? As one Toronto Blue Jays pitcher said, it was more a matter of the manager reminding all the starting pitchers that the whole six-man rotation setup was brought into place only after all of them signed off on it. “I think Gibby felt there was a little bitching and moaning going on,” was how it was described to me. “Nothing major, but with Aaron (Sanchez) joining the team this week, he wanted to make sure everybody was on the same page.” Sanchez, who was sent down to single-A Dunedin to bide his time as part of an innings-management scheme that has forced the other starters to adjust their routines for extra rest, is scheduled to rejoin the Blue Jays and likely pitch Wednesday against the Baltimore Orioles. The advent of the six-man rotation hasn’t quite been the tire fire that some predicted. Marco Estrada has wobbled since then, but there’s some questions whether that’s because of a balky back or, as was the case in his last start, some good pitches being hit. As it turns out, when general manager Ross Atkins said this was uncharted territory, damn it if he wasn’t correct.

This front office has made some great frugal moves so far The only sizeable financial gamble was Liriano and even there it's balanced by picking up two good prospects and it's short term