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This guy kind of has some outfield Raimel Tapia in him. Horrible defensive CF despite 70 speed. I checked and Fangraphs even had this nailed in their 2021 Red Sox list. Has him as a 35/40 defender. So he must have been visibly horrendous in the minors.

From what I've read his raw power is below average

There is zero problem with position player depth. There has not been a problem with it at any point this year. And Tapia starting a bunch of games is not really a problem - all teams have players of that quality starting a big chunk of games at some point. Pitching depth issues this year are a function of bad luck AND the system not producing fruit AND some unexpected underperformances (all the AAA SP depth being completely worthless) AND probably a tough offseason when it comes to attracting free agents because of border s***. I don't think it's fair to slam them. I mean they addressed the bullpen at the 2021 deadline and brought in multiple controllable relievers. They did that again this deadline. In the last year they have acquired Yimi Garcia, David Phelps, Trevor Richards, Adam Cimber, Zach Pop, and Anthony Bass. Literally 6 out of the 8 RP right now are acquisitions over the last calendar year. Also the two rentals Hand (ugh) and Soria last deadline. Traded for Berrios. Signed Gausman. Signed Kikuchi (ugh). Traded for White. Traded for Strip as a forward looking move in 2020 to help for these years. All they do is add, improve, in a more-often-than-not positive way. They are always deliberate and smartly adding pitching and other depth where needed. I don't actually know what you complainers all want. It's like you think this is easy and there aren't 29 other teams, most of which are very competent, fighting them for every available asset. Players like Trevor Richards would have projected very well in the offseason for the record. I mean even right now his xFIP is 3.98; he probably has better projections than most of the RP arms that were considered at the trade deadline. That he has LOOKED like a lost cause over a few dozen innings this year is more noise than signal and a good example of the randomness that can make fans think that teams were fatally flawed from the start when they really weren't.

Yeah people who wanted the Blue Jays to do MORE at the deadline are essentially saying they should have traded guys like Moreno and Tiedemann. They traded Groshans, a recent top 100 prospect consensus, and Frasso, one of the hotter prospects in the system, and none of their trades were overpays vs what the rest of the market did. A month ago the asking prices on some of these relievers would have probably made you faint. Teams were probably asking for Tiedemann for guys like Scott Effross and the conversations just went nowhere.

I think Gary Sanchez blew it by dropping his knee too early. He really didn't need to drop his leg at all. Just catch and tag and Whit is probably out. But if he had waited another split second to drop his body down it's also probably clean. When you watch it slow mo he's clearly blocking the sliding path before the ball is in his glove.

Yes lolllllll

I had Covid this spring and now all of my boners last for more than two hours. Is this long Covid?

Haha holy f*** As soon as he winced on they swing he should have been placed on the IL

Literally dies on the mound Mumbles these last words - "I wish I never got the vaccine"

It's also clever marketing to potential draftees to do this midseason pitching lab checkup thing. It just makes the organization look advanced to outsiders, lol.

Only on the 2022 Blue Jays Message Board would a 32.5 year baseball player sucking lead to this statement: "You do know that medicines, vaccines and medical treatments aren't one size fits all. Anyone with brains would know that." Common sense torn out of brains, replaced with shriveled indignancy.

It sucks. He looked so good in the first couple of months. Came in all jacked up, smoking baseballs, looking like a 15 HR infielder all of a sudden. Turns out he just made himself slower and he's a hacker now, with a barely noticeable uptick in power. Sigh. Anyone else notice all year that he runs funny now? Very unnatural, like his legs are too stiff or heavy.

The vaccines are fake anyway. Just sugar water with some toxins so you feel bad and think it's working. smh

Santiago Espinal is now playing worse than he did last year, in almost every way. So much for the new Espinal...

I mean he's also 32.5, well into his physical decline and at an age when most MLB players stop being productive. And has not been particularly good since 2018, save for a bounce in 2020. It's probably extremely hard for lots of players to ever admit that their skills have eroded. Year to year, there is always some other reason that they couldn't play well - some injury, some distraction. Some players probably never admit it and just end up... not employed anymore so they retire.

More on this, Yankees have the 8th hardest strength of schedule remaining while the Blue Jays are 12th. So not a huge difference. Fangraphs PROJECTS Toronto to win 32 games rest of season and the Yankees to win 31. So they only project to pick up 1 game. That's why they need to streak hard, and/or hope the Yankees scuffle, and/or dummy the Yanks head to head.

7 games left against the Yankees. It is possible to catch them but they probably have to go like 6-1 head to head. Other than NYY, Toronto's remaining schedule is not that scary. 9 against TB is not easy but that's more than offset by having so many games against bad and mediocre teams. 13 against Baltimore, they play the Cubs, Angels, Rangers, Pirates, the sad Red Sox... The Yankees schedule is a bit tougher. Mariners, Mets, Brewers, Cardinals, Twins, and also the Rays for 9. It would be nice to see the Yankees scuffle in the next week against the Cards and M's.

Workhorse I wonder what the career record is for hit batters..Manoah is going to break like 19 hands and 50 fingers in his career.

That's not a good thing. Twins pen good

That's not a good thing. Twins pen good

How are they missing some of these fastballs lol

Lol yeah I don't see the point in keeping the header after like 1 year of service time

You were sexist and when confronted you layered on racism. Look, if a short timeout bugs you that much that's a you problem. Good luck in life.

I was just going to say this Same issue we Vlad Some of it is probably the ball. Oppo flyballs are outs a lot more often this year vs 2021.

Zimmer is definitely more useful than Collins. You can use Zimmer a little bit here and there. But Toronto has like ONE player you might ever pinch hit for with Collins (Espinal) and even then it's so specific because Espinal is a better contact hitter against even RHP I bet.