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  1. John_Havok
    Yeah, the manager has not a lot to do with poor hitting by the players, but he does have the power to move a windmill like Bo out of the 2 spot at least temporarily to try and get a message through that he needs to be better. Or take him aside and try to get in his head a bit and figure out wtf the problem is. Can’t keep running a guy with Bo’s numbers in the 2 spot hitting ahead of Vlad. At this point I’d rather see Espinal hitting second and Bo hitting 6th for a day or two
  2. John_Havok
    He got rolled early on in Dunedin, and Vancouver too and made the right adjustments after a month or so at each level. That’s what they’re gonna be looking for pretty soon
  3. John_Havok
    I love the deadpanned “Because he caught the ball” from Susan Waldman. That was awesome.
  4. John_Havok
    Right now, a big Jays problem is poor swing decisions. Can see hitters are trying do too much and trying to hit everything thrown their way. The entire lineup, outside of Springer, has Kevin Pillar syndrome.
  5. John_Havok
    Why? The problem is not getting runners into scoring position at all. Why give away outs to solve a problem that doesn’t exist?
  6. John_Havok
    Umm….the Jays problem is not getting runners into scoring position.
  7. John_Havok
    You gonna take a shot at explaining how to someone who probably thinks rbis and pitcher wins are relevant? Good luck bro.
  8. John_Havok
    XBA doesnt take shifting or any defensive positioning into account, just LA, EV and distance
  9. John_Havok
    I'm well aware of the general idea and times when the book says to always go left foot on the base. I just think that in some of those situations, depsite it's intent, it fails, like that time.
  10. John_Havok
    I posted it elsehwere but Bo and Tapia are in the bottom 20 players in the game on swing decisions. It's pretty gross
  11. John_Havok
    Debateable. I know in some situation like that you want to project a larger throwing target, but Vlads poretty mcuh the same width no matter which way he is facing, so RF on the bag and LF stretching for the throw makes more sense.
  12. John_Havok
    Check the replay, he had the wrong friggin foot on the bag. his left foot was on it rather than his right. Fundamental mistake
  13. John_Havok
    100% safe, beat it by a hundredth of a second or something
  14. John_Havok
    Damn. That hurts
  15. John_Havok
    I hate the app, I watch it on a browser every day becaue the app is horrendous
  16. John_Havok
    Great, you just gave Espinal AIDS.
  17. John_Havok
    Striploins changeup is lights out tonight.
  18. John_Havok
    No kidding. even if it's just a game or two.. something has to change. Bo is clueless at the plate right now and killing rallies before they can even start.
  19. John_Havok
    yeah. It's gotta be a little impacting though to see Bo in front of him trying to swat butterflies, but he's gotta keep his head on straight.
  20. John_Havok
    Is Bo legitimately blind? he's hacking at literally every ball thrown in his general direction
  21. John_Havok
    Those changeups to Rizzo were disgustingly good.
  22. John_Havok
    Montgomery is usually good for 5 runs so as long as we keep them off the board reasonably well, should be a W
  23. John_Havok
    Was just reading an article on fangraphs about swing decisions in 2021. Out of 424 players on the list, Bo Bichette is #402 and Rocket Raimel is #396. Top Jays? Biggio at #16, Danny Jansen at #25. Semien was 45 and current Jay Matt Chapman was 65. Full article here: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/who-makes-the-best-swing-decisions-in-baseball/ For reference on the zones they refer to in the article, check baseballsavant, click on Visuals, and then Swing Take Visuals to see the heart, Shadow, Chase and Waste zones referred to. Then, whatever you do, DO NOT search for Bo Bichette unless you haven't cried yet today.
  24. John_Havok
    No sir, a 6'2" 200 pound SS apparently.
  25. John_Havok
    I think his main point is, regardless of the uniform they wear, a team with a neutral run differential is decidedly gettting pretty good fortune when they have the recorcd the Jays do. Even saying good luck or good furtune isn't perfectly accurate as you cannot say that Springer making that catch was "lucky" in and of itself, but you could easily argue it was good fortune that it happened in the 9th inning in a 1 run game with a runner on second.
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