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Boston won in 2013, Yankees in 2009, before them the Phillies before them the Sox etc Power teams historically do better. Only recently in the past 5 we've seen 4 being light hitting teams 2-1!!! -
It's allowed but so is criticism, which is what I'm doing. Don't take offence to this stuff it's just discussion. Boston has an elite offence but they're not the same team as us. You expect Bautista, EE, Martin, Saunders - all pull hitters to start slapping the ball and playing to their weakness? Why don't we try stealing bases and get thrown out too? Might as well since we're not playing to our strengths. We're the second in baseball in homers and third in runs scored, our objective is to hit the ball hard and so far we're in first place.
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Yeah yeah yeah and if we had the Yankees BP from earlier in the year we would have had a winning September and a better record than Boston and their better rotation, but they don't and we don't and we're up one game, so what's your point?
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Stop complaining. We're in first place. And stop wanting to be like the second place team. If Boston is so good then they should have overtaken us when we keep f***ing up. We're 3-4 so far this road trip and we're still one game up on them
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He's still young. Next year he'll be much improved with Tulo, Barney and Goins all there with him next ST
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I'm sorry, you want to be like the team that's a game behind us? All you guys harping about our offence are idiots or very new fans. This has been blue Jays baseball for the past 10 years and in case you haven't noticed, last year we won the divison. So not only is this philosophy staying for at least the remainder of the season but it has been (and since we're in first place for the past 2 weeks, still Is) the best you can get.
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Nope. Lots of borderline strikes went our way when we were batting too
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Have you seen how healthy it looks??? Looks healthier than mine!
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Our stadium is a shitbox with a retractable roof!!
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Booooo two out walks
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Ehhh it just feels so plain to me. But I guess it matches the Yankees
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That's a good point from buck, batters stay frozen in the batters box they don't move
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What a bland stadium
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Lmao Buck
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That was not a bad throw at all wow nothing like the old Jose, but still nice
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Dat arm lol
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How does the shift effect spray charts? I'm guessing they take them into account now
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Travis has so much range, can't wait until he improves his hands
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Wow. Crushed
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General 2016 Blue Jays discussion thread
fatcowxlive replied to G-Snarls's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
No that makes sense but you usually see the usual 8 hitter batting 9th... Travis is not a usual 8 hitter. Barney is and it made sense to me yesterday -
Saunders breaking out of his s*** spell lets us finally try this platoon thing!
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General 2016 Blue Jays discussion thread
fatcowxlive replied to G-Snarls's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
No I think Blair said something along the lines that Gibby wants to have Travis turn the lineup over. I think that's why we also saw Barney hit behind Thole despite Thole being worse, Barney puts the ball in play and can turn the lineup over successfully. Which is still stupid IMO, the best lineup you can roll with is similar to last year's lineup where you have: Travis Donaldson Bautista Encarnacion Martin Tulo Saunders Smoak/Upton Pillar Travis can get on and he has decent speed, prototypical leadoff guy. Then Donaldson can continue to get his atbats, and when Bautista's at the plate he's almost guaranteed that he has at least one runner on, and with Encrancion protecting him, it means he'll get lots of strikes and he's disciplined enough to lay off bad pitchers... also can run into homers like we've seen in his limited abs so far -
Oh man I can't wait to see Donaldson just absolutely tee off on this gas can. I'd resign Edwin just to see him hit bombs off Dickey in the Rogers Center lol Honestly I see an NL West team signing him, maybe the Padres. Big ballpark and it's a low-cost signing. Plus they seem to love signing our old pitchers (Johnson, Morrow)
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Wait what? How does RA9 take into account Thole? Do you mean his pitch-framing or something? Because I thought I saw somewhere that his pitch-framing was also subpar this year
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I want to argue that Dickey is less valuable because of Thole. I really do. Because we've had 3 different starting catchers since he's been here (Arencibia, Navarro and Martin) and he's been (almost) exclusively caught by Thole during these past 4 years. This year Dickey's fWAR or RA9-WAR, whatever metric you want to rate Dickey by, has him slated at 0.8-1.0 WAR. HOWEVER, fielding him means also that you are always fielding a -0.6 WAR player as well. This has to be taken into account. I'd much rather have Liriano, who's projected to have around 0.5 fWAR this year as a Jay if he were to continue to start, because it allows us to prevent employing a player who really shouldn't be on any MLB roster.
