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Here's a pretty good article on the kid. Maybe we can quarantine Kirk and Vlad at the Jenny Craig head office during the off season. https://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/blue-jays-alejandro-kirk-unique-catching-prospect-breaks-mould/

Rowdy Tellez gave a lengthy interview on "Loud Outs" this morning that I listened to on Sirius. When asked about the knee he said it's feeling better every day and he's targeting the playoffs. Maybe he isn't done for the season! When asked about Buffalo he said it sux..lol. Had nothing but great things to say about Teoscar and what a happy go lucky person he really is. Some pretty funny bits actually.

I really like Kirk's bat, but Boxy is clearly the leader of the Kirk Fan club! We need to give this young man some at bats to see what he can do!

I'm on the raps. I just checked the box score to see if Kirk got an AB. How is it possible for Kirk not to get an AB in an 18-1 game! WTF.

Seems odd for a playoff team. However, you were pretty vocal that our ability to compete for the playoffs was 2 or 3 years from now.

The bunting is probably all on Montoya. Siddal basically said on Twitter that batting Teoscar 8th wasn't Montoya's call and they are fairly close.

missing our 4 best hitters, one by choice! Come on tomorrow's a rest day. Hope Bo is back Friday.

Man..I wish I could convince the old lady to give me a back rub in the 5th inning....these 4 hour games are hard on the back...

Seattle, the orioles and the Tigers scoreboard watching....cheering on the Jays as they try and chase down the Yankees!

Danny Jansen! A TD and a field goal in the same inning!

Hand in air....My Panik hate was way off base!

It just feels like we're never out of it.

They sure do...welcome back to the board!

Man a decent lineup today. How refreshing.

Jim's desire to have play Rowdy over an EE had less to do with his belief in Rowdy and more to do with the fact that he doesn't like anyone over 30. In the off season, I was still hopeful Rowdy could progress but I wouldn't have been adverse to bringing in a guy like Edwin on a one year contract. In the off season we still thought Vlad would play 3rd. I still believe EE can turn it around. This year I felt Rowdy looked fitter come summer camp and he just wasn't pulling off near as many pitches. I've always loved his swing. He has great flexibility for a big guy and creates very good angles. The fact that he wasn't striking out near as much and was still hitting lots of fly balls combined with what he did in summer camp was why I said I felt he was going to be good this year despite crappy numbers. He still swung at way too many pitches out of the zone his first month of the season. He just made more contact as he was staying on the ball more. The last couple weeks he's had a much more discipline approach and his swings at pitches outside the zone have decrease a lot. This could just be a stretch where he's locked in and confident, but if he can continue laying off pitches outside the zone he will be an elite power hitter. Regardless BTS' Jabari Blash comp seems comical now.

We win!

They won't do it, but love it if it was Roark.

OK....can we bring in Hatch.

Vlad's K rates are still very good. It just seems he gets in a funk and strikes out a ton for 3 or 4 games and then he goes on a tear and won't strike out for a week.

Cavan Bo Gurriel Hernandez Rowdy Grichuk Vlad Shaw/Villar Jansen/Joseph Get healthy boys....that looks pretty sexy to me

He's stalking pitchers right now....I hope Teoscar doesn't miss too much time. When Bo gets back this lineup is going to be scary.

just not a lot of awareness by either player....to be honest I can't blame them. The sox suck.

There's Matt Barnes and then the rest of the Sox pitching staff are AAA pitchers.

man he goes home an it an easy out

f*** off ump