Laika

Everybody who is any good on this first place team was developed or acquired by this administration. Put some respect on Ross Atkins.

Don't sleep on Freeland! He's not bad at all.

The Blue Jays minor league system is no longer thin. This is a fact. There might be a couple of specific positions that don't have great present AAA depth, but every organization suffers from that.

I dunno man. Entirely possible France was a throw in for temporary injury coverage and nothing more

Phew. Need two more runs to get out of grand slam territory

I don't like Colorado

Wow!

Late career Varsho could actually be similar to Schwarber Maybe ten less homers but decent LF defense. .210 with 32 dingers.

The ball just explodes off of Varsho's bat. Crazy stuff.

it is literally one poster baiting all of us

wow he has been brutal i had no idea

Even that characterization is just the worst possible lens for Varland. Fisher is a pop up reliever because he has never started and never been able to throw strikes until 2025 when it clicked. Varland logged tons of SP innings and got tons of strikeouts for years, until he was converted to the pen. I don't call that a "pop up reliever". You would expect a guy with his K-BB numbers in AA and AAA as a SP, and his stuff, to be a good reliever. Like, there is analysis of this trade where Toronto was just like "how the f*** is this guy even available? we have loved him for years"

Teams rarely trade a player like Varland. Cheap, good, controllable for a long time. Teams also rarely want to pay for guys like Alan Roden (they like to acquire them for free). Pop up prospect from last year who looked like garbage in the MLB, has fringe tools, isn't young. So a lot of this is just timing and striking on something while you can. The trade market isn't a 24/7 buffet. The Jays did not really have a Mick Abel, or a Taj Bradley to trade (viable 2026 MLB SP). They probably didn't even have a Jesus Rodriguez or a Jesus Baez or a Rafael Flores or Eduardo Tait to be honest (a lot of the Jays closer to MLB bats are corner OF profiles). Unless the other team is in love with Josh Kasevich??? They probably could have acquired Maton, Coulombe, Shelby Miller, Brock Stewart, Finnegan, Sewald, Kittredge... guys like that instead of Seranthony or Varland. If any of them float your boat more. When you take a step back and think about what the Jays had to sell you can understand why it may have been hard for them to land the top RP on the market like Bednar, Helsley. They don't have an expendable up-the-middle bat in AA to trade. They don't have a lot of plug and play SP prospects (most of the SP on the rise are lower minors). How much do these other teams even value an arm like Gage Stanifer for example? Maybe they pushed Rojas a bit in recent weeks (promotions) to kind of turn him into a more viable looking trade chip.

Tony Taters revenge szn in 2026 is going to be dynamite though

wtf

what do you think Jose Berrios' ERA would be if he pitches for the Rockies?

So do Gimenez and Springer eventually bump... Ali Sanchez obviously but Ty France? How can they possibly demote Loperfido or Schneider

I'm mad at your launch angles too, Vlad.

Hard to imagine him slotting into the lineup but surely he can help. Ernie so bad against most RHP.

Seems like some of these newer negative posters are all the same dude

Spooner Horwitz is on fire and the Jays just traded for a limp bat only player at the deadline. Worth monitoring

Rojas is indeed the only one I care about losing I was getting pretty excited for him

The other way to think about France is that he might just be a free throw in to use until Kirk and Springer are back and healthy.

Incredible

Yeah this is what happens when the team isn't horrendous. A gaggle of goofs emerge and post.