John_Havok

Well based on the start to the season, it's looking like step 1 of stinking up the MLB team is a resounding success.

At this point, may as well throw some s*** at the wall and see if it sticks.

To be fair, it's kind of the fantasy websites job to hype the s*** out of players. 20 PA is nothing to judge a promotion on

GuerrerBo?

BAL: Gausman (0-0 , 5.40 ERA) TOR: Liriano (0-0 , 135.00 ERA) TORONTO -- The Baltimore Orioles finally got their offense together Wednesday night. The Toronto Blue Jays are still waiting for their bats to make some noise. The two well-established slugging teams will get together for a four-game series at Rogers Centre, starting Thursday night. Baltimore won both games in a season-opening series at Camden Yards. The Orioles (5-2) hit five home runs in a 12-5 win over the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday to gain a split in the two-game set at Fenway Park. Two of the home runs were by Trey Mancini, who became the first player in club history to hit five home runs in his first 10 major league games. He has three homers in five games this year after hitting two in five games last September. Meanwhile, the Blue Jays (1-7) were held to four hits in a 2-0 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers, who swept the two-game set at Rogers Centre. The Blue Jays are off to the worst start in franchise history. They have lost four games by one run, and six of their losses were decided by three runs or fewer. The Orioles and Blue Jays entered Wednesday 14th and 12th in runs scored and 11th and 14th in home runs. The Orioles were batting .215 and the Blue Jays were at .196. The Orioles doubled their home run total to 10 with the onslaught Wednesday, with four of their homers coming against Red Sox knuckleballer Steve Wright. That followed an 8-1 loss to the Red Sox. "I've been watching this team the last few years, ever since I got drafted, and I know if there's a couple of slow offensive games, there's one game where it's just an outpouring of offense. And tonight was the night," Mancini said. "The first inning and after that, you just kind of had that feeling. It was one of those nights, and hitting is really contagious. ... One guy went up, got a hit, and the next guy came and did the same thing. It was really awesome to be a part of that." The Blue Jays' offense has shown little this season. Toronto has been outscored 34-23. "With hitting, it's such a fine line -- you want to have passive-aggressiveness," said Josh Donaldson, who returned to the lineup after being limited to pinch-hitting Tuesday due to a tight right calf. "You don't want to get too aggressive because then you get out of control and you start swinging at bad pitches. "At the same time, you don't want to be too passive because then you're letting too many pitches go by that you could possibly hit. So it's a fine line, and I feel like we haven't quite found that fine line yet, to be passive-aggressive. It's something that hopefully with time is going to get better." Toronto manager John Gibbons said, "Some of our better hitters are missing their pitch. There are some times, too, when I think we're taking too many fastballs early in the count, and we can swing our way out of it a little bit." The Blue Jays will send out left-hander Francisco Liriano (0-0, 135.00 ERA) against the Orioles. He is coming off a dreadful first start of the season -- a no-decision in the Blue Jays' 10-8 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday. He allowed three hits (one home run), four walks and five runs in one-third of an inning. It was the shortest outing of his career. "One of those games where you don't even know what you're doing," said Liriano, who is 2-4 with a 4.34 ERA in nine starts against the Orioles.

Vlad and Bo are 4th and 5th respectively in OPS in the Midwest league. Not bad for just turned 18 and just turned 19

Maybe we should change it up to be picking a guy to get a hit. Baby steps

Well that's a fitting end to this steaming pile of s*** game.

I'm doing the GDT tomorrow if/when the Jays lose. Putting an end to this streak

There's just no defending that move. Gibby just put Smoak in against a guy who exposes all of his weaknesses.

There was never a chance at anything happening there

Good lord.... the guy can't hit heat or a curve and you put him up against a guy that throws mid 90's with a good curve. Pretty much an auto K unless Knebel shoots himself in the foot and loses command

Pretty much a garbage approach by most of the hitters and he's really hitting his spots well.

You do realize they can't send him to Buffalo right?

Bottom of the order needs to do something. Can't have another 0 for 18 or whatever it was last night

Strike 3, oh wait.. sorry... ball 2 Strike 4.... And strike 5 for the out.

See? That's the corner.

Does he have to protect a plate 5 inches wider than everyone Else? Bad enough you're 0 for the season and the ump f***s you

Lolololol not even close ump.

Costco all beef hot dogs with smoked gouda and chopped pickled peppers. Heaven on a bun

It's a gdt worthy of the jays start to the season.

Game 8: Bautista (2 Pts)- baseballsss Donaldson (2 Pts)- LetTheBallFly Morales (3 pts)- Tulo (4 Pts)- Condor13, johnhavok Martin (4 Pts)- Smoak (5 Pts)- P2F Pearce (5 Pts)- Travis (6 Pts)- Pillar (7 Pts)- Barney (9 Pts)- Carerra (9 Pts)- Goins (9 Pts)- Bench (10 Pts)- Jays4life19

Pearce to LF please. Smoak out the would be so big an abomination the comissioner would probably step in.

Look at the bright side. We could be in for 1 great big helluva fire sale in July.

Seems like a 50/50 proposition.