saskjayfan

sort of like a super fun, charismatic fat chick...man I wish you were hot

why was he throwing sliders with the bases full last inning....that splitter looked amazing.

I do

f***.....nice hit goins...s*** luck

f***ing ump....why is bautista not hitting

crap

why would pearce try and run against martin..dummy

f*** that...he was out

the way ubaldo is pitching tonight he'd be blanking most teams tonight

well at least Norris seems to be having a decent night

you're right..he was traded for lind who has a .987 OPS this year. That's even worse

is Santana even pitching off a mound yet

there were lots of people who could hardly wait for Estrada to start...he's garbage

Everyone wanted him gone. Ricky pitched injured for a long time. His knees were shot. If he gets healthy who knows maybe he can come back in some capacity at some point. It better not be anytime this year though.

When a guy who has had multiple hamstring injuries gets another hamstring injury, it's fair to say you probably should have known that could happen. Saunders stepped on a sprinkler head. It doesn't get any more freak or unpredictable than that. If your point is that Saunders is cursed and the Jays should have known that, then I guess your point is well taken.

The Jays had a higher team WAR than KC last year. I'd be much happier to have a lower team WAR and make the playoffs this year. Sanchize can be the luckiest man on the planet as long as the jays make the playoffs....that's all I care about..lol

Sanchez hasn't been bad. He hasn't been good. He's somewhere in between. I really think he has gotten better as the season has progressed.

his ability to throw the ball in a fashion that prevents one of the best lineups in baseball from squaring up the ball, or is there no such thing...there's just luck?

I was listening to MLB radio and one of the announcers who pitched in the mlb was talking about Sanchez was talking about his sinker and he said when he is throwing it down in the zone with that type of movement and the angle he creates it's almost impossible to hit it in the air. He went through a number of former pitchers who threw with a lot of movement and went through the time that it took for these pitchers to harness, understand and control that movement, but when they did they were devastating pitchers. He said when sanchez gets up in the zone and that movement flattens out he can get rocked, but his upside is tremendous. I fully understand that Sanchez needs to reduce his walk rate, and improve all three pitches. People are trying to define what Sanchez is and will always be when the kid is 22. He literally is changing every start and what he is today could be very different that what he is mid season. You can't just judge young players solely with statistics. In his first couple starts Sanchez did not look good on the stat sheet, or with the eye test. He didn't have great movement and was leaving the ball up a lot. The last couple starts his pitches have been better quality pitches. He hasn't given up runs which means nothing to the guys who want to proclaim that he's been terrible, but what it has done is given the kid a boost confidence and this matters. This could help place a small building block on the road towards Sanchez improving on the road to which both statistical nerds and qualitative assessments with eventually come together in recognizing he's a pretty good pitcher. How long will it take for him to become a good pitcher...weeks, months, years, never...it's really not that easy to say. Baseball just isn't as easy as some who proclaim themselves to be "real fans" would like to believe.

He doesn't just get ground balls. He doesn't get hit hard. His line drive rate is more than 25% less than league average. He just doesn't give up a lot of hits when he has the good movement. Some call it pure luck, maybe it's more than just luck

12th in the al in runs scored....not exactly average

I think the changeup is an important pitch for him long term. If he was getting killed in the MLB you would probably send him down as his confidence wouldn't be there. He's getting results and being far from perfect. If anything this is good for his confidence, and I don't see a reason to send him down until he starts giving up a lot of runs.

Sanchez has a materially better ground ball rate and his line drive rate is materially less than the average. His change up and fastball command needs to improve and the statistical pool isn't large enough to come to conclusions, but you can see his stuff. The movement is there. He isn't easy to hit. He's gotten out of jams due to some luck, but also due to the stuff he throws. His ability to keep the ball on the ground and limit line drives is also part of the reason he gets out of jams. It isn't all luck like some would suggest. The Jays don't have a better option to throw out every 5 days so I'll go with the stuff the kid has. He is getting valuable experience and is still developing. I don't for a second think he has peeked and can't cut down his walk rate or refine his pitches.

my brother has season tickets, but couldn't go to the game. I wish I lived in Calgary so I could go. I went to a round 3 game in 04 against the sharks. The rink was electric that night too!