saskjayfan

time for a bautista steal

come on Eddie

what an effort RA!!!!

at a boy RA!

you got to be f***ing kidding me

looks like the yanks get every border line pitch tonight

come on...let's get on the sticks

what the f***....the Yankees get calls out of the zone....the jays don't get calls in the zone

so excited for tomorrow's game! OK! OK! Blue Jays! Blue Jays! Let's Let's! Play Play! Ball!

are multi hit games good?..lol

We can't all be as smart as you boxy. Fip is infallible. I never suggested fip and Xfip on the macro are not great indicators. 5 years from now we'll see who is better Sanchez or hutch. Hopefully both are good. You seem to be certain one will be good and one will be bad and anyone who thinks different is just dumb, but maybe you aren't as smart as you think you are. I'm just playing devils advocate and thinking outside the box.

xfip simply adjusts the home runs to reflect league average fly ball to home run rate, so ground ball rate is somewhat accounted for, but it does not differentiate ground balls and line drives. You may feel line drives fluctuate randomly, but if you step outside the box and look at Hutch and Sanchez the difference in line drive rates is real. They both struggle with fastball command, but when hutch leaves it over the middle of the plate he gets crushed. When Sanchez leaves it over the middle of the plate, more times than not he induces weak contact because he has such good late movement. His issues come when he can't find the strike zone. In early games Sanchez ball was flat and wasn't getting the movement and that's when he got crushed. His line drive rate after the first few games when down quite a bit. You may feel the line drive rate is just an element of luck, but I disagree. The batting average on line drives is .685 vs .239 for ground balls and .207 for fly balls. Line drives are the death of pitchers producing 1.26 runs/out. Fly balls produce .13 runs/out and ground balls .05 runs/out. If we look further, 31% of the balls off hutch are hit hard, vs Sanchez who has 21% of the balls off him hit hard. Sanchez was also on a path prior to getting injured of reducing the number of walks, which was resulting in better fip and xfip numbers. His season was cut off short and he won't log enough innings to have potentially improve on the numbers that were so damaging in his early starts where he couldn't find the strike zone. I think some of you given the choice would get rid of Sanchez and keep Hutch at the end of the season. Personally I would keep both, because Hutch's issues is fastball command and this is reflected in him getting hit hard. His secondary pitches are swing and miss. Sanchez, needs to develop that change up and this will result in him getting more swing and misses. Both can improve to become very good pitchers...time will tell if the do.

hutch gets a lot of strikeouts because he has a good slider, but his fastball doesn't have a lot of movement and on the days that he isn't locating and especially on days when he isn't locating and the velocity is down he gets crushed. Hutch has a 22% career line drive rate (over 25% this year) and a 38.8% career ground ball rate. Sanchez has an 18% line drive rate and a 60% ground ball rate. I guess you could chalk that up to randomness, but I would suggest that when both are having trouble locating the fastball that the one that has more velocity and sinks is a lot tougher to square up than the one with less velocity and less movement. I would bet my left nut that Sanchez has a higher ground ball rate and lower line drive rate over the next 5 seasons over Hutch.

old man coming out to get the save...

yanks lose

Tulo has to hit a solo homer for the cycle

poor kid...

let him swing away

You could always sell your shares and find the 5 other rays fans and re-invest in a startup on the ground floor of a new Raysfansmessage board. That sounds exciting. I don't understand why you don't like the Jays. Martin, tulo, EE, Price, travis, Buehrle...all class acts. Bautista and Donaldson can be perceived as loud, but Donaldson is top 3 MVP this year in the AL and bats despite being perceived as moody does a lot for the community, always makes himself available to the media and when not in the heat of the moment is very level headed. I don't understand, which players on the Jays would make you cheer against the team.

boom goes the dynamite

let's go blue jays...let's go red sox..let's go A's

27 straight strike outs coming up..lol

he definitely threw at him in the first, and deliberately threw inside in the 3rd although he may not have meant for the ball to be so high.

what are you talking about? What do you do let your rage out when the Jays start doing well other than make asinine comments about the Jays. Do you push little kids off their bikes..lol. You're going to lose it when the Jays are in the playoffs. I highly doubt you'll post under this screen name when they do, but you likely have other screen names you'll post under.

jd needs to be a baller like you BTS....lol How them Rays doing...speaking of playoff choke artists...you're now cheering for the 300 million dollar gorilla that can't get it done?