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There is also an alternate universe where Dark and Faithless Montoyo buries Jansen and Gurriel in the second half because they were horrendous in the first half and the team is mathematically eliminated before the Baltimore series.

Moreno playing 3rd base is another possibility. This is the JimCanuk wet dream solution.

Yeah I kind of like Kirk @ DH (maybe he catches 20% of the time), Jansen and Moreno start in a time-share with the hope that Moreno takes the starting job and Jansen becomes a backup. That's if there are no trades.

- how close is Groshans? is he an impact player? If he dominated the minors in 2022 he could be up but 2023 would be his more likely timeline to be an MLB starter. - Moreno looks to be slated to AAA unless the MLB logjam at C is broken up Moreno is the future. He could start in AAA but the team could do so many different things with the catcher position. Trades to make room for Moreno are possible. - Martinez is a couple years away, may start next year at AA Yes. Could start in AA but don't expect MLB time in 2022. - do we have any impact arms to give us the Tampa/NYY bullpen model with multiple high velocity guys who can shut down the opposition from 5inning on Probably not any time soon. Kloffenstein, Palmer, Van Eyk, Robberse, Joey Murray, and Hoglund are all 2-4 years away and some of them struggled a bit in 2021, particularly with walks. Toronto needs to be in pitching talent acquisition mode at all levels of the organization. Note that many of Tampa Bay's MLB arms were acquired by trade and not developed in house. - is Pearson ready to pitch in the majors? if he throws with confidence and challenges hitters he is a great pitcher, but appears to be tentative in the strike zone. Get him the Tampa Bay mentality and he's a stud Related to the question above - if you want to see some multi-inning weapons out of the bullpen the answers for 2022 are probably already on the team and they would be Merryweather, Borucki, and Pearson. Those guys need to figure it out and stay healthy. Of course Pearson may be a traditional SP which would be even better. Thornton, Kay, and Hatch are not lost causes and could also be helpful but don't expect contributions from them.

Gotta wait at least a couple more years before using the P word. Law has the momentum though.

I'm not sure that's fair. I mean, the front office did everything reasonable to amass quality pitching depth in 2021. Bringing back Ray, signing Ryu two years ago, bringing in Matz, trading for Berrios, trading for Stripling last year, being aggressive with Manoah, and then a number of pen additions. I doubt the team thought about Stripling as a reclamation project - more likely they saw him as a solid arm who was likely to regress to the mean. Perhaps same could be said of Matz. I think the organization DID expect to compete this year and tried hard to field a pitching staff. The thing is, you can only do so much in a year or two with acquisitions alone. It takes 5+ years to actually construct the pitching/developmental pipeline from the minors up, and this organization is just not quite there yet. Getting essentially NO CONTRIBUTION from young arms like Kay, Hatch, Thornton, Merryweather, Pearson, Zeuch, Murphy, and Borucki was a killer. I think only two young arms really helped - Manoah and Mayza. That's not a fantastic developmental hit rate. Pete Walker gets a lot of credit for guys like Ray and Matz but he does so while sitting on top of a pile of useless prospect corpses. Some of those non-contributing youngers have wicked stuff.

No. He's here next year I do believe. If they fall short again.... maybe.

I don't want to read any "it was a fun season" ********. This season was agony 2/3 of the time and ended up as perhaps the biggest waste of talent / production in baseball history. Cy Young winner. MVP candidate. Record setting second baseman. Phenomenal rotation health. Franchise shortstop playing like one. And they end up as "the best 4th place team in baseball history" as their only solace. Just awful.

Thing is, Rays bench players are good. And I bet the Rays want all of these teams to experience chaos and the longest possible tie break scenario

Pretty f***ing nuts.

I mean even if they don't make it in, being alive in game 162 is basically the same as making the wild card game. lol.

Rays relying on the pen heavily today means they will ride Wacha hard tomorrow. Not great.

Okay here is the Rays taking it easy on New York. Resting Baz. Hopefully Rays pen can limit any damage.

I think he's lined up for it but I'm not 100% sure. If they clinch today then obviously they won't

Yeah same. Sale vs Corbin is like an 80% win prob for Boston. And Josiah Gray is struggling so unless he has a random great game (possible because he's talented) then Boston probably sweeps. Meanwhile, Yankees are in for two tough games.

Mom is on roids

Quite an age gap between this kid and Robinson. Get him on the juice!

They both hurt. Bats chokes against Yankees pitching in two of the games and the arms didn't execute. Both losses vs. the Yanks were very annoying.

The quote looks fine in hindsight. The team turned it around and are playing meaningful games into the last series.

Probable Pitchers Matz vs. ???bullpen game maybe??? Manoah vs. Means Ryu vs. Bruce Zimmerman Gonzales vs. Jose Suarez Flexen vs. Jhonathan Diaz Anderson vs. Reid Detmers Rodriguez vs. Josh Rogers ???? vs. Josiah Gray Sale vs. Corbin * Ohtani could pitch against Seattle but I am seeing these other names on the probable pitcher websites so maybe he won't be. ** Detmers I could see stealing a game from Seattle *** Unclear who is lining up for Boston in the middle of their series. Hard to see a tough game for Boston. Maybe Corbin will have a revival, or Gray will steal a game. **** Means is good but the Baltimore series will be more about the bats. I'm sure Baltimore will score a bit, Toronto needs to pound their pitching. sweep and hope to get lucky! the reasonable expectation is that every team will go 2-1

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