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General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2023)
John_Havok replied to Krylian's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Mystery of Aaron Judge glance is solved. https://theathletic.com/4526717/2023/05/17/yankees-aaron-judge-blue-jays-tipping-pitches/ Paywalled, so ill give you the condensed version. "Before Jackson came to a set position, he brought his hands up near his ear as he gripped the ball. The grip, indicating which type of pitch he was about to throw, was visible to Yankees first base coach Travis Chapman, according to multiple Jays sources." From Jackson “It was (less) my grip when I was coming behind my ear. It was the time it was taking me from my set position, from my glove coming from my head to my hip. On fastballs, I was kind of doing it quicker than on sliders. They were kind of picking up on it." Blue Jays manager John Schneider said “he didn’t see anything” with his team’s catcher, Alejandro Kirk. It's also the reason they were being so attentive to the yankees 1b and 3b coach positioning, thinking that had they been in their boxes, they wouldnt have been able to pick up on it as clearly. -
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Well yeah, nobody wants to throw a bad pitch. It's just that Gausman and Swanson's repetoire is so similar, just the fastball and slider for Swanson are probably even less effective than Gausman's. Both guys splitters are evil. I was moreso just wondering if a reliever following a starter with nearly identical pitches, when some of those pitches are worse than the starters, is at some sort of disadvantage due to the batters having already seen it all game long. As for the pitch selection... there's only two places where you can really get judge out consistently..., hard fastballs up and out of the zone, and sliders low and away. Obviously they were going for the slider low and away and he just threw a bad one. Looks like they were trying to throw to the hitters weakness rather than going with the pitcher's strength.
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Just wondering if a guy that throws fastball/splitter is the best choice to follow a guy they’ve seen all game that also throws fastball/splitter. Might have diminished Swanson’s effectiveness. No idea if that’s a real thing or not
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Yeah…espy has been incredibly sub par in the batters box this season. Even then, why is he swinging at a pitch way low in the zone when you know the only thing you’re gonna do is roll over it. Gotta take that strike and hope you get a better hittable pitch next
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Did Swanson come in right after Gausman? I missed a few innings
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Yeah. I rip on him there but his first AB he should have had better fortune. Smashes a liner to the base of the wall in CF for an out.
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gotta love these 2 out rallies.
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attaboy Bo! now lets go Vladdy
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Biggio asking KK what the secret is... KK: "I swing the bat sometimes"
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Kiermaier with a bomb for Abom! +6 +1
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Biggio is really hard to roster right now.
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They are, theyre just trying to get lucky and see if he gets himself out. And he did
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Judge is gonna get the unintentional-intentional walk
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looked safe at 2. need a replay
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and now the ump doesnt call low strikes... wtf is this game
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what a luck shot HR.... lol. he was so late
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another .520 xba that doesnt fall in. Snake bit
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Cant aim them... Jays have 3 line drive outs in 3 innings with XBAs of .480, .620 and .700
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Feels like some s*** is going to go down tonight
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Interesting he went away from the changeup there. Dude was all over his fastball
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What is with our guys not being able to recognize that slider is nowhere near the zone. That was never a strike out of his hand
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Why does Bader have a mouth guard thats like 13 sizes too big?
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Bader's sweet sweet ass.
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wtf vlad... jesus that was awful
