John_Havok

Escalators in the deal could push it as high as 230 million. Good deal

It's the other side of the coin really. If one is of the opinion that the Jays are extremely "lucky" this season, one would also have to admit the previous season was especially "unlucky" All of the outcomes from players on the roster last season were within the realm of possibility. However, many of the lower percentile outcomes ended up happening at the same time. This year, its really the opposite. Does that mean we should have expected every lower percentile outcome that happened last year to suddenly turn into like the 80th+ percentile outcome this year? Nope. But, it was within the realm of possibility. Like, of all the things that I would laughed at the most and thought "not a f***ing chance" of that happening would be Heineman doing what hes been doing. I would've bought the defensive side for sure...but not the offense. Like, if you could explain the Jays 2025 season thus far and had to point at a specific player as a representation of the team as a whole.... it would be Heineman.

Even excluding todays game, Buddy slapnuts will be turfed first. France is the DFA when/if Santander ever makes it back this season

And 2 HBP. Perfect day really. Played some good D too

Kinda hit the nail on the head there. 5-4 would be about the minimum you'd want to see. Basically the equivalent of winning 2 of the 3 series without a sweep either way

It's about the time of year now where the goalposts start shifting. At the beginning of the season, most of us would have been over the moon with a chance at the wildcard. Now? If they don't win the division at minimum and maybe hold the best record in the AL and avoid the WC round and at least make the ALCS.... it'll be a letdown. Unexpected success does it every time.

Absolutely. Gimenez coming back allows Clement to get some respite from RHP, where he is objectively not good. Varsho coming back allows Straw to be parked on the bench and deployed as a PH/PR/Defensive replacement as he should be. Santander coming back gives them additional power threat in the middle of the lineup and on days where he sits, a perfect pinch hitter late in games who can't be platoon disadvantaged and can then be lifted for a runner like Straw or Clement. They're all important in their own way

By no means am I trying to defend Masterbather, but I think there is merit, to a point, about the Jays experiencing some really good fortune. The "luck" aspect of the team is that literally everything that needed to happen for the Jays to be at this point ... has happened. All of the guys who needed to return to normal or better after down seasons....did. All the callups have basically delivered at the upper end of their percentile outcomes. SP has been largely healthy and when they did get hurt, the guys brought in exceeded expectations. All the starting position players that have been hurt... Varsho, Gimenez, Santander... none of their absences have hurt the team due to the depth guys stepping up an delivering. Think of all the nobody pen arms they cycled through early on to keep things going. Even those 2 brilliant starts from Easton Lucas (evened out by his following 2 turds... for sure). Little coming out of virtually nowhere to be utterly dominant in the pen. In isolation, none of these things on their own is overly "lucky". One could reasonably predict Kirk and Bo rebounding .... Springer, maybe not to the point he has, but somewhat. One could predict at least somewhat of a Schneider bounceback, but again, not to the level he is at right now. Would anyone have predicted Loperfido running as hot as he has? Nobody could have predicted Lauer being what he has been. Same for Fisher honestly. I think the contention that ALL of these happening at the same time is the fortunate part, not that any individual piece of the luck pie is or isnt probable.

Jesus jumped up Christ... this team is destroying baseballs. They'll never want to leave Coors

That's actually a really good sign for Vlad to be taking those high outer-half fastballs oppo. He was missing those for a quite a long stretch this season.

he was 0-2 with a walk. Only starter without a hit against this sh*tbox team. Hit the pine son and think about getting better. 1st place team can't be carrying dead weight like this

Gaus still getting it done. We really need him to keep that clock turned back for the rest of this season and into the playoffs. Would be huge

Ty France for PoTG . Those HBPs were huge

No doubt.... we got two guys who would've caught that while napping.

LOL, Jays are just charmed at this point with Lukes sending rockets out there off a lefty.

One thing about France, he's jacked as f*ck.

France with 2 HBP and a double. What is this universe?

I think you might have left some of your point form notes in that finished article... Good read though.

Got drilled with 98 on the side of his front knee,.a bit towards the posterior side. Im sure they'll get an MRI but it didn't look like anything was broken. He limped off woth some assistance and his knee will he very very swollen tomorrow.

I think he actually tried to hit Tovar with that inside sinker and just missed, then let the thought go. Clearly no reason to hit that idiot at that time

Kinda feels like someone should get hit on Colorado. Berrios is gonna be done soon anyways...just let a slurve "slip"

Where are all those morons who figured Varsho should be traded for middle relief ? Oh ya... my ignore list. F*cking clowns

In this park i'd be more than tempted to start then both with all the real estate out there

HR in 16/30 parks. Just the wrong part of the field. Same with Barger except his was a HR in just 8/30

The Yankees should not be our concern... those Red Sox are realky steamrolling right now