John_Havok

Judge

I can’t watch this game, this ump is f***ing infuriating

I was looking at the past month numbers. Yeah, he’s hot right now, but he should not be in the starting lineup as often as he is. He’s just not that good and he’s utter trash in the field

I’d dispute your definition of “well” but he has hit well enough to be a backup over the past month. Too bad he’s playing way more often than he should be

Espinal been scuffling lately, some bad swings early in counts

That was a fortunate hop right into the glove.

So sick of seeing Tapia in the lineup.

FO has been perfectly clear on Pearson, he’s being built up to be at least a multi inning reliever and he has to earn the promotion. Hasn’t done that yet, so far having thrown 4 appearances, all out of the pen, hasn’t gone more than 2 innings and has been 6 days between each appearance. Doesn’t sound like he’s coming back to the rotation this season to me.

Just checking in, seems the one bad inning curse as a result of using the worst relievers available isn’t a good recipe for success

GS spent $175m on team salary and another $170m on luxury tax penalties in 2021-22. Damn.

Probably Espinal at 3rd, Biggio at 2b and the rest largely the same I would guess. never know what course they would have taken with Biggio's injury time early one, maybe Lopez comes up sooner ... maybe Taylor ... hard to say really. But if that was the case, arguably the lineup might not have suffered at all. Espinals D at 3b isnt a massive drop from Chapman, though it's not top tier elite like Chappy for sure. I think if they had signed verlander, maybe they chase Ramirez that much harder and land him and he'd be playing 3rd, Espinal at 2b, Biggio and a pile of prospects gone. so hard to speculate.

Maybe, though if Lopez is already with the team and both Bichette and Chapman banged up, I dont think they carry 3 catchers and they'll just activate Lopez and punt Lawrence.

They signed Gausman on Dec 1, and were still offering 25 million to Verlander in mid december. Then Kikuchi and Chapman were added for about the same amount, just 12m each in mid March. It's kind of an interesting thought exercise to go back and consider if the Jays would even have traded for Chapman ( no way they would have signed Kikuchi at that point for sure).

INteresting that it took this long and an injury to BIchette to put the best players in the lineup.

Thanks, now we have an abomination from Laika. If the Jays lose, it's on you. If they win.... Laika gets all the credit.

jesus jumped up christ what have you done

Looks like most of the Jays also thought the game started at 7 since they didnt really show up at 1

There's 0 reason to overreact to one loss, it just stings the casuals more because it was Gausman who got torched and it was by a team they consider to be sub-par. In reality, Baltimore is probably the best team in the AL outside of the rest of the East teams and Houston. They just got ROFLstomped by the Yankees alot early on.

Its because as Laika said earlier, some guys are throwing max effort and throwing 93. Velocity is not the factor, its whether they are throwing max effort or not. It's like youre assuming that pitchers who arent throwing 100mph are not throwing max effort, when the reality is that in todays game, the majority of pitchers are throwing max effort, they just cant all get to 100mph with said max effort. And yes before you pick that apprt, of course there are other pitchers that do not throw max effort. There's no absolutes, just trends. As for the talent pool thing, it is deeper. It's a fact of life in every sport that as the sport moves forward, the talent pool gets bigger, and the replacement level player gets better. The gap between the best and the worst gets smaller and smaller incrementally over time.

Actual evidence is rather had to come by, given the tech to measure such things wasnt around back then. But logical thought says that with todays technology and massive amounts of data that we have access to now... guys are throwing 100-103 mph with as close to max effort as possible. Knowing this, and knowing the types of physical training regimens and the huge advances in said training that todays athletes have, it's not much of a stretch of thought to say that if todays athletes have all of these things and still can only top out at 100-103 at as close to max effort as can be measured, then someone throwing 100mph 30 years ago, was also probably throwing max effort when he hit 100mph, but he also didnt throw near 100mph with every fastball. He dialed it down quite a bit for most of his pitches and just used the 100 mph when he wanted to. He likely didnt throw max effort a massive amount of the time because he didnt need to. That is what liekly got him as many innings as he got. Look at how many pitchers throw at or near 100 mph now vs then. Ryan and the other (very few) hard throwers were the absolute unicorns of their time. They had fastball that were like 15mph faster than league average.

Awesome, put the worst OF on the team in CF. CAn't see that going horribly wrong at some point at all

Both teams, Teoscar was next with his HR, over 114….Mountcastle’ was a pedestrian 110. Hit the gym pussy

115.7. Hardest hit of the game In fact, Vlad had all 3 of the hardest exit velos at 114.8, 115.4 and 115.7

God I love teams that give away outs intentionally…

Ffs