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General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2024)
BTS replied to Ryu In My House's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
RA - "We're seeing really positive signs with the offense" Reporter - "What are those signs?" RA - "We're getting into really good counts. We're working starting pitchers better. We have been, over the last month, getting into really good hitter's counts and working starting pitchers hard" Please get this f***ing guy off my TV -
The problem here is pretty clearly deeper than the decisions made last offseason (Shatkins is 100% right that this wasn't fixable with a few offseason moves). It's also deeper than a choice to value run prevention. The team has to identify why almost nobody in the org is playing to their abilities, and why they've been a bottom of the barrel team when it comes to acquiring young talent and then developing that talent into quality major leaguers. The only solution here is poaching someone from an org that does things properly and giving them the autonomy to overhaul the baseball ops side of the organization however they see fit. Atkins will probably learn from his failures here, go work for the Dodgers for a couple of years, go to St. Louis mid-rebuild, spare no expense on cutting edge nerds, and turn them into a dynasty.
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It remains absurd that Springer gets the most PA of anyone on the team
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I don't even know if he's interested in keeping the job, but he can probably buy himself another 5 years by firing Atkins, saying that there's been a failure of development here, then poaching Matt Arnold or something and giving him complete autonomy over baseball ops. That would be fine.
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I realize that everyone is angry and the knives are out. But there's absolutely a scenario where Shapiro is retained and this team thrives. You don't need to replace the President to fix the development issues on the baseball ops side.
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Well, no. But Atkins will absolutely fire Schneider as a scapegoat on his way down.
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6 perfect innings from an absolute gas can This is the kind of game that gets a manager fired
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Poor Bassitt, having to pitch in front of this fantastic bunch of losers
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Holy s***, having 0 baserunners through 4 against Tyler Alexander might be the most humiliating part of a humiliating season
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Old baseball is wild. This guy was a high school track star that the A's owner signed right to the MLB team with no baseball experience. He even sucked at baserunning because he had no experience at all with it.
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Also, look at this Fangrapsh page: https://www.fangraphs.com/players/herb-washington/1013656/stats?position=DH
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Just finished reading Jason Turbow's book about the 1970s A's. Really, really good read. It's insane how dysfunctional the entire team was, and the owner was a lunatic.
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Not true, you were banned for a day once. I think I banned like half the forum that day.
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Got him on the hand
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Yimi for MVP
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Seriously. Dude was just standing there watching Vlad try to make a running over the should catch like 8 feet away
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Springer easily gets to that if Vlad pulls up
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If Schneider gets tossed there Bo easily hits an oppo double off the right field wall
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Gibby would still be out there trying to fight someone from the umpire crew
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Vlad flexing a bit with a 2-run bomb here would be swell
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Jesus, 104 series the Orioles haven't been swept
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A bit of an odd spot to use Turner
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This team sure looks better when Bo and Vlad are actually doing their jobs
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I hope he holds up this year and next and the Braves end up picking up the 2026 option. It's fun when guys finish their career strong and make a HoF case.
