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Grayson Rodriguez Dealing With Renewed Elbow Soreness

Tougher matchup today for sure Need some big hits and Lauer to Lauer

That might be the best OF throw of all time Certainly top 5

Where is everyone? At the game!?

Nice inning!

Okay double play Jays

Ugh

Frig. Shi Davidi @ShiDavidi Lengthy list of injury updates from John Schneider includes some bad news for the Blue Jays pitching depth: Yimi Garcia, on the IL with a left ankle sprain, is now experiencing "ulnar nerve symptoms" in his right elbow; due for exam to determine next steps Bowden Francis felt "bit cranky shoulder-wise" and will be shut down for at least 10 days to "see if we can calm the shoulder down." Ryan Burr will undergo season-ending shoulder surgery for a capsular injury. Daulton Varsho playing 3-5 innings in the outfield for single-A Dunedin tonight, aim is to get him to triple-A Buffalo next week, number of rehab games TBD Andres Gimenez is with team in Toronto, doing defence work on his knees to protect ankle, some hitting Anthony Santander arriving in Toronto on Saturday "to see our doctors here and kind of hopefully get a plan in place with him moving forward." Unclear what next steps are. Nick Sandling playing catch, feeling better Alek Manoah starts Sunday at Dunedin

When is the signing deadline? It's pretty quick now, right?

Verlander's overall package is decent stuff with poor command. But his fastball is no longer plus. Jays need to work the count and get fastballs over the plate. Don't swing at his offspeed stuff (which is still rating well) or let him get you jumping at fastballs over the zone early.

Justin: 0-7 with a 4.70 ERA Maximus: 1-0 (undefeated in the AL East) with a 4.70 ERA

Verlander is 0-7? lmao

xwOBA is still too hot league wide, by about .012 but even when you correct xwOBA down for that misbalance most of the Jays core players are getting unlucky PLAYER wOBA xwOBA Adjusted xwOBA wOBA - axwOBA Alejandro Kirk 0.336 0.371 0.359 -0.023 Ernie Clement 0.313 0.293 0.281 0.032 Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 0.357 0.402 0.39 -0.033 Bo Bichette 0.331 0.377 0.365 -0.034 Addison Barger 0.349 0.37 0.358 -0.009 George Springer 0.368 0.393 0.381 -0.013 Tyler Heineman 0.366 0.28 0.268 0.098 Nathan Lukes 0.34 0.335 0.323 0.017 Andrés Giménez 0.282 0.324 0.312 -0.03 Myles Straw 0.27 0.296 0.284 -0.014 Daulton Varsho 0.319 0.321 0.309 0.01 Davis Schneider 0.345 0.302 0.29 0.055 Joey Loperfido 0.419 0.308 0.296 0.123 Alan Roden 0.263 0.232 0.22 0.043

There is just a financial penalty for spending up to 5% more than total slot value. The real penalties start after 5%. You lose a first round pick (or more). So it's essentially a hard cap. Rounds 11 onward anything past $150,000 counts towards the pool I don't know about the $5,000. I wonder if it's just the minimum amount permitted.

Yeah. No real soft spots remaining on the schedule to be honest. Next 10 are SFG NYY DET Then at BAL, home vs KCR, and on the road for COL and LAD. Jays have not been great on the road so you can't expect the BAL and COL series to be easy ones. They have PIT and MIA for six straight in August but again it's on the road. So they need to stay in the race over the next 10 games and then figure out how to be a better road team. They will need to bank a good number of wins in those remaining road series vs. bad teams. Need to go 5-1 against Pitt and Miami in late August, not 3-3 like they just did against CHW and OAK.

he was involved with the Bananas for a while

Rojas might have some of the higher SP upside in the system. I don't think he's a backend SP prospect. All of Yesavage, Tiedemann, King, Stanifer, Rojas, have SP3 upside or more. IMO. Stephen and Bloss might be more like SP4 upside but you can imagine them being better; Bloss' stuff was popping before injury and Stephen might have sneaky good stuff and command that lets it all play up to SP3. Obviously Maroudis, Barriera, maybe Messina, could be more than back end starters but it's too theoretical and remote for all of them. Just lottery tickets. The system has so much going on that you almost forget about people. I don't know enough about Watts-Brown to slot him anywhere but he's not a boring prospect either from what I have read and belongs in the above discussion somewhere. Guys with RP or SP5/6 projections, you just don't even think about anymore. Guys like Connor Cooke and Chad Dallas use to almost crack the team's top 10 prospect lists. Adam Macko is barely hanging onto relevance. Really, I don't remember the Jays farm system ever looking like this. Just so much going on. The Jays lead the AL East and have an exciting farm system at the same time. Wow.

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Sann Omosako is a 19 year old P in the complex league but he has a 0.84 BB/9 this year after a 0.65 BB/9 in the DSL last summer. How often do you ever see a BB/9 that low?

He must be the backup upside pick. They'll negotiate with him if they can't sign Bullard?

Charles McAdoo through April 30th Date Team Opp BO Pos BB% K% BB/K AVG OBP SLG OPS ISO Spd BABIP wSB wRC wRAA wOBA wRC+ Total - - - - - - 7.4% 40.7% 0.18 .200 .259 .253 .513 .053 4.6 .357 0.4 5 -4.3 .243 54 Charles McAdoo from May 1st to present Date Team Opp BO Pos BB% K% BB/K AVG OBP SLG OPS ISO Spd BABIP wSB wRC wRAA wOBA wRC+ Total - - - - - - 7.8% 27.0% 0.29 .263 .324 .495 .818 .231 7.1 .320 1.5 31 8.3 .368 137

I guess I am wrong about Piasentin. He won't be under slot. That is great, it just makes the draft look even better if they can sign everyone.

Anyway, nice to see the velo back. I don't think the results or the ratings on the slider (5 pitches thrown) matter much at this point. Not expecting anything, anyway; this guy probably sucks.

For comparison, these were his tjStuff+ numbers before surgery: