John_Havok

The word "best" often gets misused when what people really mean is "surprising"

Article from the Athletic about the Jays offense, snippets only: After play on Wednesday, they had a .695 OPS with runners in scoring position, which ranked 26th in the league. The Blue Jays offence has been strange this year. The team ranks second in hits (635) and average (.265), behind only the Rangers, and third in on-base percentage (.334). But their slugging percentage (.422) ranks ninth and their runs scored (317) are 11th. This is a team that can hit as well as basically any team and should be more productive offensively, but they’ve not been making the most of opportunities with runners on. They’ve also not been able to rely on the home run to score in bunches as much, either. Their 79 home runs as a team rank 12th. The Blue Jays have a .674 win percentage (31-15) against all non-AL East opponents. They have a .304 win percentage (7-16) against their own division. The Blue Jays have played AL East teams more often on the road (13) than at home (10), so once that begins to even out, maybe that’ll tip the wins more in their direction. But they’re in tough spot trying to at least break even against their division. After Wednesday, they have 29 more games left against AL East teams. They’ll need to go 19-10 the rest of the way to be .500 against the division. “You got to get it done against your division,” Schneider said. “You don’t want to put more pressure on these types of series at this time of year, but they all add up.” “Guys do not feel the pressure,” said Schneider. “They are confident in themselves. It is a uniquely talented division. We’ve been saying that for a long time between Tampa, Boston, New York, Baltimore, us, it’s a uniquely talented division.” THat was basically it, no analysis or anything, just declaring raw stats. When discussin gthe upcoming trade deadline they talked about the Jays needs... again pretty uninspired writing as anyone here could have come up with this: "With uncertainty about when Manoah will return to the majors, acquiring a starting pitcher has to be the top priority for Toronto. Another bench bat, preferably someone who can mash left-handed hitting, would be another asset. That player could be a fourth outfielder type, but there is some flexibility with the position here. Lastly, relief help is always sought after at that time of year and the Blue Jays could use another reliable mid-to-late inning arm to shore up their bullpen for the stretch drive."

I really like that there's been absolutely 0 mention of Manoah and what hes working on by the media since he went down. Just leave him the f*** alone for a while until he's sorted.

And a full and fair representation of the Rays would be... "at this point, they're probably cheating better than everyone else"

June 15 Bichette - 1 Point Varsho - 2 Points Springer - 2 Points Vladdy - 3 Points - JaysAllMighty Chapman - 3 Points - JaysBlue Jansen - 3 Points Biggio - 5 Points - mphenhef, John_Havok Merrifield - 6 Points Kiermaier - 7 Points Off the bench: 10 Points

Guess that would be playoffs in Round #2

Coulda sworn Cox went to Brown…maybe he will after Oral.

Let’s hear some ideas for the rebuild.

Springer dinger. Wry gets +2+1

Unreal. Gets out of New York and he becomes Freddie freeman overnight

Either way it’s a good idea lol

Absolutely. He’s easily earned it. Just don’t hit him higher than 7th…

Mayza near f***ed that up by stabbing at that ground ball up the middle, one minor deflection….

Bad risk there…just let Biggio hit

The hitting coach needs to go, not even because he’s doing a s*** job, just because something needs to happen to wake the offense up. They just seem like they have no idea what a pitcher is going to do to them and have no ability to adjust

Berrios for GG. That was nice

He would have to be Ozzie Smith with the glove to be a starter honestly. His walk rate is already cut down to normal since moving up each season after that redonklus 21% walk rate in low A ball a few years ago. He's actually eerily similar to Espinal's AA numbers from a few years back.

Jimenez is basically the next Espinal, with even less power. Might get on base a bit more but... bench guy for sure if he makes it.

June 14 Bichette - 1 Point - Jonn Varsho - 2 Points - Spanky Springer - 2 Points -WryNGinger Vladdy - 3 Points - jaysblue, Dylan, Candy Maldonado Chapman - 3 Points - Omar Kirk - 4 Points - wilko Biggio - 5 Points - Abomination Merrifield - 6 Points - JaysAllMighty Kiermaier - 7 Points - JohnHavok Off the bench: 10 Points There, now nobody gonna hit one for sure.

No love for Davis Schneider? The 5'9' phenom?

I think i figured out Vlad's mental problems. He, for some reason, hates having strikes called against him. He will swing at anything close just to avoid the possibility of a called strike.

Vladdy double play incoming on the first pitch?

In no way does Vlad deserve to be an all star this year.

Yeah, the first throw over was ismply because he was about to run out of time on the clock, but the 2nd one... dumb. He shouldnt have been on base to begin with, he looked beyond stupid on 2 stright curve balls, then they throw him a fastball. Just keep throwing him the s*** he clearly cant hit

Mateo SB incoming Just pitch out here. 0-2 count... not like Bassitt walks a ton of guys