saskjayfan

The Jays have only been shut out twice this year...the offense is very good any way you slice it and now that Travis is back and if we ever start playing smoak over Navarro the offense is going to continue to be stellar.

yeah...because having a ball tipped 2 feet in front of you is easy to adjust to...

can never go wrong with the reverse jinx...and Edmonton doesn't deserve McDavid!

or maybe not so much

he's 22...his last 4 starts his xfip has trended in the right direction. His last start he threw 40 straight fastballs and still had success. His body as a 17 year was still developing physically in some of those 300 innings. People want Samardzjia and his numbers weren't that hot in the minors and his minor league stats were accumulated from the ages of 21 to 25 with his major league stats as a 24 and 25 year old being hot garbage. There are numerous pitchers who had fantastic careers who didn't have great stats prior to the age of 22. Sanchez finally puts together 3 really solid games in 4 starts and the stat nerds are getting nervous and want to kick him down a notch. I get it..those last few starts weren't improvement, they were luck.

Let's go get Price after the Tigers throw in the towel!

The Argo's will be playing at BMO field starting in 2016....can't blame them for the turf anymore..

coin flip is probably the best way to decide this one

There's no way that Cuddyer should have scored from first even on that lucky bloop. Carrera from short left field should be able to make a stronger throw and if Donaldson catches the ball he would have thrown out Cuddyer. There were mistakes from far too many players defensively to blame this game on the manager....

hopefully no structural damage. The fact that he would have had to bat maybe played into it too....hopefully they are just being overly cautious.

I thought we were talking about how ridiculous this offense was..lol. Travis should be back in a couple weeks and it should be: Reyes Donaldson Bats EE Martin Smoak Travis Collabella/Valencia/Saunders Pillar That`s fricking insane..especially against lefties.

playing through pain is one thing....playing injured is another...the jays made the wrong call. I'd rather have him playing healthy for 130 than playing through injury and playing 145 to 150. Regardless, his cumulative WAR has likely more than doubled in a matter of 4 or 5 days and he's going to end up with being a 3 to 4 win player this year.

What would his "WAR" be at if you excluded the games he played with a cracked rib. His wRC+ would be in the 140ish range if you excluded his time playing injured. As it is once his WAR numbers are updated he's going to be quite a bit higher than the .3 you posted just a few days ago. It doesn't take long for the stats to change.

when are we going to hear some news on travis....are they taking things slow because we are on a win streak He should be in buffalo's lineup soon.

Pillar does have less swinging strikes though..so there's that..lol

Pillar is 26. Is there no room for improvement for the kid? He's played 147 games over parts of three years. That isn't even a full season's worth of games. His defense has been great and his base running has been equally good stealing 7 of 8 bags. I must admit I was more than skeptical about his bat coming into this year myself. He looked like a fish out of water for a stretch there as well, but it's his first full season in the big leagues and young players press to much at times. The homer he hit against the twins looked like he hardly swung at the ball. The kid hass some pop in his bat. Then I look at his K rate of 16.9% and Pillar swings at pretty much everything. That's a pretty impressive k rate for someone with zero plate discipline. He can put the bat on the ball. Does he need to develop his approach, continue to refine his mechanics and become a more complete hitter? Of course he does. 2 walks to go along with 2 hits last night was a good sign. If Pillar can take more walks, and start swinging at more pitches inside the zone, he could become a decent hitter. I'm not saying he won't be like JPA and never get better, because that may be the case. However he's far too young in his career for me to write him off. I'm on the fence with Pillar.

What are his numbers going to look like with a .300 babip?

so when discussing Sanchez is fip and xfip the only numbers that matter? Should one ignore his ground ball rate, or line drive rate?

he had such good sink and movement tonight, the hitters knew it was coming, but they just couldn't get it in the air...it was ground ball after ground ball after ground ball. Sanchez has shown some moments this year where he's had decent command of his curveball and to a lesser extent his change up. The change up is a big pitch...if he can start commanding his other pitches the strike outs will mount up, but that heavy sinker was working and they just stuck with it tonight. The kid still has a lot of developing to do, but he's been pretty good 3 of his last 4 and even in the game he wasn't as sharp he only gave up 2 runs so his confidence must be pretty good right now.

PIllar doesn't have a career .780 OPS. Reyes bat does not project to be league average, and bringing up league average doesn't matter as it's what his bat brings at the shortstop position. League average OPS last year in the AL was .710ish so Reyes bat is still better than league average. The Reyes hate is ridiculous. You couldn't find a happier more positive person..

Reyes is batting .333 and has a .349 obp since coming back. He just missed a homer the other night and he's going to hit a few out and get his slugging up. He's made some mistakes, and a couple dumb ones with a couple defensive blunders mixed in but he's still a positive player for this team.

wouldn't have guessed pillar would get on a hot streak playing the nationals

okay...you're welcome...a post in the proper gdt at the beginning of the inning and the jays take the lead

losing due to the lack of respect for a proper game day thread..lol

come on JD....let's get those bats going...