Terminator

I like giving Springer plenty of rest after last year’s debacle of a season. Day game after a night game makes sense. He can pinch hit if needed.

So Tilapia and Collins both had multi-hit games tonight and Biggio threw up another 0-fer. Maybe Ross Atkins knows what he’s doing after all?

Maybe the Jays brass corrected it! And nice throw by Collins lmao

Lmao where the hell does he even get his baseball pants from? Too tall for the children’s section and no hips for the women’s section.

Yeah maybe the Jays think with a tweak or two he can hit a not completely empty .280 with acceptable defense and good base running.

Oh man a Stripling-Collins battery tonight. Better score some runs tonight boys.

Last I heard his blood pressure got so high after the daily nukes I was dropping on him (aka my quote replies) that his doctors forced him to retire from TV and he is now living in a retirement home in Florida. To be clear it brings me no joy to say that and I don't wish him any further harm but I do not regret any of my previous actions. In fact, if anyone knows how to get a hold of him I'd be interested in reaching out to him simply to ask him what the hell he was thinking coming here and challenging us like that. They won the AL East in 2014 and should have been minding their own business but instead they had to come over here and pop off. Big mistake because shortly after the entire franchise went into a tailspin and now they are perennial basement dwellers. What dumbasses.

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so what was Chapman thinking? Trying to get to 3rd n a single so he could be the tying run? The play happened right in front of him it’s weird that he thought that was for sure getting past the 2B

Come on Chapman what the hell was that

For someone who doesn’t like discussing Greg Bird you really do talk about him a lot! Just saying!

Awesome! Have fun!

Looks like they approached Vlad as well. Seems like they were just putting feelers out for more serious discussions after the season.

Me when Greg Bird is mentioned on BJMB:

Greg Bird hit 2 home runs in spring training and it's sadly probably the best thing he's done since his rookie year. One of those homers was against Sam Howard who has a career 5.26 ERA and the other was against Reggie McClain, a guy I've never heard of and who has 16 BBs and 13Ks in brief stints at the big league level. As Spring Training wore on, and Bird started to face actual MLB talent, he started to predictably suck ass. In his final 4 games he went 1 for 11 with 4 Ks and no walks. The guy absolutely stinks.

He's currently in Scranton in the midst of a 2 for 15 slump to start the year. Although I'm not sure slump is the right word because that would imply that he's actually a better hitter than that and he's not really.

Lmao yes! More Greg Bird discussion! Yeah the guy that Steamer projects to slash .202/.294/.387 is exactly what we need right now. Nevermind the fact that Biggio can barely crack the lineup after producing 4 WAR in 160 games in his first 2 years. Greg Bird is the guy that will fix our 4-2 team.

Yeah the lineup still isn't even that bad; it's just bad compared to our usual All-Star lineup. Kirk can really hit. Biggio and Espinal project well. Tapia isn't a strong hitter by any means but against righties he's not a total zero. Zimmer probably can't hit but he's batting 9th and is one of top defensive outfielders in baseball. The lineup is fine.

Ok I see what you’re saying.

But what does it matter if Springer is in the field or not? I think you basically end up with the same 9 right? Only one of them would be DHing. Tbh it seems like the perfect day to DH Springer because Zimmer is being forced into action anyway. Might as well take advantage of it and give Springer a little breather.

Yeah that would make sense but with Chapman and his hip issues maybe they want to give him the full day off every once in a while instead of a half day off. Kirk is going to need days off now too now that he is the primary C. So getting Chapman his day off in now before Kirk gets his is a decent way to stagger their days off. Also, the team wasn't planning on Teoscar getting hurt last night and if that didn't happen this lineup would be looking much better. The only real complaint I have with everything is Tilapia batting 5th over Biggio. I like splitting the lefties up so I'd put one of them in there ahead of Kirk so the lefties can go 5-7-9 but I would have chosen Biggio over Tilapia. So all that said, is switching 7 and 5 all that big of a deal? Not really so I don't have too much to complain about tbh.

Surely they don't plan on using him over what we've got. Maybe if Tilapia flops (get it!?) but otherwise there is no need for Fowler's old ass.

I hope they DH Springer once a week all season long.

True that and we aren't even that much of an underdog to boot. We've got some regulars out and it's a road game but I think we have the better pitcher on the mound. Yankees are -140 tonight. Last night they were -165 and lost.

Well 2 guys got hurt and then 1 guy has an off day. This is what happens when 3 regulars are out, the latter half of the lineup looks like s***. I think this basically confirms that the team is really down on Biggio though. I get if he's not in the lineup over Tilapia for defensive purposes, but when both are in the lineup at the same time and Tilapia is still hitting higher than him? Pretty much confirms that Biggio is buried on the pecking order.