John_Havok

Bench

Speaking of Asians, anyone know how that Korean high schooler Seojun Moon looked in minor league camp?

My list of parks include Seattle, Minnesota, Toronto, White Sox stadium, Fenway and whatever the Giant's park is called now. As far as experience outside the stadium goes, like pre and post game, Fenway takes that and it's not even close but dead last by far on in-game experience. Seattle, Minnesota and White Sox have very nice parks. Chicago's is kinda... plain (not the right word but...) there's really nothing about it that stands out, but it does everything you want it to do.Seattle and Minnesota are nicer from an esthetic standpoint though. Toronto I was there before the recent renovations and the lid was closed, and the team sucked at the time, but it was easy to get in and out, view was fine from where I was in the TD Comfort Zone. Easy to get food and take a piss. Average experience. Probably would be very different now, or with the lid open or a packed house. San Francisco still takes the cake for me. Everything about watching that game was excellent. Views are incredible, people were nice, easy to get food, drinks, and get in and out even from the nosebleeds. Great walk around the stadium and the neighborhood, though still not even close to the former Yawkey Way (now Jersey Street).

while not having experienced old or new Yankee stadium, one key thing that developers need to consider is how to modernize new buildings but still keep the history of the old building as a focal point. Yankee stadium tried to do that with the monument park and some other things according to what I've read, but then they screwed the pooch by being allowed to just build using the same old dimensions, continuing the problem of RF being a joke. Like, building a "new" Fenway is about as hard a task as you could get. Rebuilding the Green Monster, pesky pole and the ridiculous dimensions of that field really should not be done, but everyone would cry if they didn't. At least Wrigley could fairly easily duplicate the ivy walls with a new stadium.

I'm a little more harsh on my take of Fenway, but ... yes. There's only so much lipstick you can put on a pig these days. Boston having a real modern stadium to play in, ditto the Cubs... would be actually amazing for both those franchises. Just don't grandfather in BS dimensions like they did with Yankee stadium because reasons.

What happened?

Barger

Precisely. If anything, Atkins deserves major credit for bolstering the rotation the way he did just in case something exactly like this happened. The Ponce thing though... gut punch to the guy for sure.

grabbed some quick data from umpscorecards from 2015 when Bucknor ranked as one of the most accurate umpires at 90.91% which was almost a full 1% over expected accuracy. Fast forward to 2025. Bucknor actually improved his accuracy over time up to 92.81%. Problem is.... that's BELOW his expected accuracy rate by 0.6. To put some of this in perspective... the WORST umpire's accuracy in 2025 (92.5% - im excluding the guy with only 4 games behind the plate due to sample size)was BETTER than virtually every ump in 2015. The BEST ump's accuracy in 2015 was 92.68. umpires as a whole have improved tremendously over the past 10 years. Bucknor himself has even improved. The problem is, the rest of the umps as a whole have improved to a far greater degree.

Why be sorry for pointing out a stupid statement is stupid?

Springer (1) Schneider (3) - Jonn, Orgfiller Vlad (1) - Laika Kaz(2) Kirk (3) Clement (3) - John_Havok Sanchez (2) Straw (5) Gimenez (3) Bench (10) - mphenhef

Auburn hadn't been with the Jays since 2010, basically Vancouver replaced them at the time as the SS A affiliate, but they changed that up pretty soon since some players coming out of college and international settings couldnt play there due to visa issues. But yes, the NY Penn league was still around for other teams to use.

Gimme dat bench!

Your memory is a bit off... Jays havent had Pulasi since the early 2000s. GCL Jays was Rookie, Bluefield was advanced Rookie, Lansing was A, Dunedin was Advanced A, Vancouver was short season A.

My mom did, gave one to each of her kids. I fell asleep in the 1st half page. Suffice to say she is no Shakespeare.

Monday, March 30 Jays versus Colorado with RHP Sugano on the bump. Springer (1)- Spanky_99, mphenhef Sanchez (2)- Jonn, John_Havok Vlad (1) Barger (2) Kirk (3) Varsho (1) Kaz (2) Clement (3) Gimenez (3) Bench (10)

50 Ks thrown by the staff over the 1st 3 games of the 50th season. Coincidence??

There's a ton of difference websites and companies out there now who will do this for you. My brother gave my mother a "gift" of this service for her to write a compilation of her memories growing up. How this one worked, the service sends you a different topic every week and you just write whatever comes to mind about that topic like " your first job " or "the worst boss you've ever worked for" etc etc ... then after however long you decide to, you stop and they'll put everything together in a hardcover book. She gave each one of her kids a copy. I encourage Olerud to pursue this

There were plenty of scouts who thought Bo had 1st round talent, they just didn't buy his approach of "swing at everything even vaguely close to the strike zone" and weird swing at the time would play in pro ball.

But what can he do? *points at Pete* Pete: He gets on base.

He fits that Jays archetype too. High contact, lower power, can play multiple IF positions. He jumped multiple levels last season (im not counting the 1 game at AAA) and settled at AA with a 124 wRC+ as a 22 year old. Guy didnt even rate in their top 60 according to fangraphs last year.

Then youre changing the definition of a strike?

Yeah I think ya gotta

Kaz being a legit threat ... would be amazing Also, what's the record for strikeouts for the first 3 games of the season by the starters? Jays SP are on a tear right now

sorry for not copy pasting I am on mobile and driving so text to talk I like Barger today