John_Havok

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

Yeah for sure, didn't mean to suggest that you, personally, were worried about it. Just anyone... in general.

I dont see the sense in worrying about Otto Lopez. Dude was superflous on the Jays roster, was coming back from injury, and they needed a spot for Yariel. If there's a player to never worry about "losing" a trade over, it would be Otto Lopez.

I dont see how the Jays lost the Otto Lopez trade. They traded him to San Francisco for cash. He proceeded to suck in San Francicso and was DFA by them and picked up by Miami as a waiver claim. If anything, San Francisco lost the Lopez deal.

Sanchez has already been DFA'd once this year and cleared waivers in June, Valenzuela could be an insurance policy if he does get claimed this time I suppose.

Ali Sanchez DFA Buddy Kennedy selected. A 26-year-old utility guy who does absolutely nothing with the bat. So... looks like they brought him up for IF depth and to have a guy to make Ty France feel good about no longer being the worst hitter on the roster.

The Blue Jays announced that they have selected the contract of infielder Buddy Kennedy. In a corresponding move, catcher Ali Sánchez has been designated for assignment. The 40-man roster remains full. Sánchez was selected to the roster a little over a week ago when Alejandro Kirk landed on the seven-day concussion-related injured list. Kirk was reinstated on Sunday but Tyler Heineman had been removed from Saturday’s contest after being struck by a foul ball. The Jays decided to keep all three catchers for a few days to buy some time as they evaluated Heineman.

Exactly this.