Laika

I am a God fearing man. Win the next two and clinch then push Gausman back. Gausman-Berrios-Bassitt vs TBR or Berrios-Bassitt-Kikuchi/Ryu vs MIN ????

I didn't say that. Toronto probably did get lucky with SP health this year. I say probably because you can kind of consider Manoah to be a 100% loss due to health issues, lol. BUT Toronto would have projected to have the healthiest rotation in baseball, pre-season! At least I bet they would. So the level of LUCK that happened may be minor. You can also cause your own LUCK sometimes in baseball. The Jays trainers may be part of the LUCK TEAM.

Acquire veterans with clean mechanics and pristine health records and this can happen!

We *probably* want the Astros to sweep Arizona so Toronto ends up as the final WC team Texas will win tonight.

There is no defense for it. Even if you honestly believe prayer = lifesaving surgery then you are essentially forcing a medical treatment on someone without consent. It's a f***tard move no matter which way you view it.

Josh Bell Tommy Pham Jake Burger Garret Cooper Luis Urias Nelson Velasquez AJ Pollock Jaimer Candelario Mark Canha Cron and Grichuk Carlos Santana lil' Nickyyyyyyyyyyyy Lopez Jace Peterson Amed Rosario Kike Hernandez Josh Rojas (Sewald) DeJong (lol) Most of these suck of course but some okay bats at the top. Pham would have fit Toronto.

I don't think a single MLB scout will like him on offense. It's not rocket science, we've all watched him. He has had absolute no idea how to hit for months. If I was running Toronto I don't know if I would even be playing him right now. Since August 1st: Chapman 48 wRC+, -0.2 WAR Whit 51 wRC+, -0.4 WAR Bo 63 wRC+. -0.1 WAR

On paper, yes. But I'm not so sure. There will be MLB scouts in every front office telling the suits that Matt Chapman can't hit anymore and they should not sign him to a big deal.

google it

This team was not intended to be a station-to-station offense. It has just ended up that way because a bunch of guys decided to not hit as many homers as they should. Or they got hurt (Jansen, Bo). The original design was basically... thump up top and then diversity at the bottom. If this offense is/was firing on all cylinders there are some total package hitters (Springer, Bo, Vlad), high average hitters (Kirk and Whit), OBP machines (Belt, Kirk, Biggio), a power/speed guy (Varsho), speed guy (KK), and a pair of bottom of the order big HR hitters (Chapman, Jansen). Of course it just didn't really work out this way. It is really boring. They don't do anything well. They are just "okay" at hitting for AVG and OBP and that's the core of the offense - just being okay at getting singles and getting on base. lmao. Toronto is 11th in AVG, 9th in OBP, 17th in SLG, 22nd in SB, 18th in HR, 28th in BsR (gross), tied 11th in wRC+, 3rd in defensive runs. I do think they need the HR hitters to hit some f***ing homers to do anything in the playoffs.

Biggio is alright. He's a mediocre defender, with middling power and middling speed. You can definitely find platoon guys who would put up more WAR in his amount of playing time. I'm kind of sick of him tbh! Really boring player. Not an impact guy at all. Not a game changer, ever.

Well Cole is unhittable with a wide zone like this lmao

I actually don't know who you are talking about. I don't remember your 2B fetish. Marte?

There is this idea that Whit Merrifield can make contact so he is more competitive against good pitching. I think it's ********. He has a lot of really feeble plate appearances. He kind of reminds of Kevin Pillar at this point.

Like, do you really think Cavan Biggio and Whit Merrifield are going to take you to the promise land? You probably need someone to get hot and hit 10 homers in 20 games to win the world series. Babe is the perfect candidate to do that. LET HIM EAT.

I'll probably be trying to deal Machado for a 2B this offseason.

1.9 WAR in 135 PA vs. 0.8 WAR in 316 PA (Biggio) vs. 1.9 WAR in 581 PA (Whit) SOME REAL GALAXY BRAINS IN THE JAYS FRONT OFFICE

Michael King isn't in the playoffs It's hard to score on Michael King when the ump is giving him calls 4-6 inches off the plate in full counts and bases loaded situations against your #3 hitter. lmaooooooooooo that scorecard +1.43 runs for NYY in a 2-0 game!

nah.

Gunnar Henderson was huge for me in the playoffs But I watched a couple Aaron Nola starts and wooooof he kinda looks cooked hahaha

Gausman suxxxxxx

Their entire team next year will be guys named some variation of Oswald and Estevan Oswald Peraza Oswaldo Cabrera Oswaldabus Pabrera Estevan Florial Everson Pereira Estervson Peraza Ostevan Cabraza Oeverston Floriaza Ostan Wells

Florida is close. Airplanes exist. Who knows if they actually have to report though. It might just be a paper assignment.

Pearson is horrendous. I dunno what happened; it looked like he really found it, for a window of time. I guess it's just that the piss poor command leads to meltdown outings too often. He has several blowups of 3+ or 4+ earned runs. If he had enough to keep those to 1 or 2 ER outings his ERA would be significantly lower. His K/BB rates aren't bad. Definitely this is the next Merryweather. He will give Toronto nothing then end up in Atlanta as a closer, clinching AA's third Word Series in a few years.