The Debbie Downers are completely shook right now
The boys have won 7 of 8 games, and 4 out of the last 5 series
If the current scores hold, we will also take sole possession of the 3rd wild card spot
Only 5 games back of the fraud Yankees
Average Phillies player:
6'4''
190 pounds
pretty good hitter
the worst fielder at his position in the history of the game
Average Jays Player:
5'8''
255 pounds
gold glove caliber fielder
the worst base runner you've ever seen in your entire life
They have a bunch of tall lanky white guys with long hair running around and booting the ball all over the place
Reminds me of the stoner team we play in beer league softball on Wednesday nights
Fangraphs' scouting of him tracks this. They call him a statcast-darling with elite exit velos but they say scouts think he has a long swing which could lead to struggles in MLB.
But if he keeps mashing as he moves his way up the ranks I think the concerns with the latter have to dissipate some.
I almost forgot that the Rays have two stadiums.
The one mentioned above is only being used because the roof flew off of the other one.
So yeah, our AL East Rivals are all trash.
If our AL East rivals want to cheese out their ballparks we might as well up the ante
In addition to the retractable dome, we should have retractable fences that come in or out depending whether or not the Jays are at bat or in the field
It's only fair
Yankees: little league dimensions in right field
Red Sox: I'll allow the Green Monster since it's unique but pesky pole is even more little league
Rays: Yankee Stadium dimensions and it's always 90 degrees or hotter with high humidity
Orioles: they move their left field fence in or out depending on how many right handed bats they have in the lineup in any given year
We need a total and complete shutdown of our AL East rivals' park dimensions until we can figure out what the hell is going on
Yeah he's got to get his splitter back. Optioning him makes sense but I'm not sure who the heck replaces him right now.
Ideally you'd like to see Turnbull have a good 4+ inning start in AAA. But I might just call him up anyway. It's not like he'd be any worse than Francis right now.
Maybe we should start stretching out Yariel? Sandlin should be back soon.
Make Lauer a traditional starter? And team someone else up with Schultz for the bullpen days?
A trade makes sense and they can happen this early but I'm not sure it's in the cards right now.
At a minimum they need to move him to the bullpen. If he lets it fly for 2-3 innings he could be effective.
The problem is that we are already doing bullpen days with Lauer/Schultz.
The Angels always want MLB ready prospects so we could get Tyler Anderson from them for some Buffalo Boys. I bet they would even trade us Kikuchi.
The D-Bags have Merril Kelly and Zac Gallen entering FA, but I'm not sure they need MLB ready position players.
Nats would trade Soroka and Trevor Williams and both are having better seasons than it looks like. They need right-handed hitting infielders so they might have interest in Jimenez or Kasevich.
The Pirates will move Heaney and they will want MLB-ready prospects to try and contend next year (lol) while they still have Skenes and Oneil Cruz.
Don't laugh but I would have my nerds take a look under the hood of Kyle Freeland and German Marquez. Both have FIPs under 4 and if you get them away from Coors Field and the worst run organization in the history of team sports you could see improvement. They are tough to trade with though.