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  1. glory
    Not even a Term game thread can fire this team up.
  2. glory
    This season does resemble 2008. IIRC that year they had the best pitching in the league but stopped hitting for power (or hitting period) until Cito came on board. I vaguely remember Matt Stairs blaming the hitting coach for messing some of the hitters up (in his opinion). Thankfully there are 3 WC’s now so the Jays have a better shot than they did in 2008, but the parallels are there.
  3. glory
    The one benefit for the Jays is that the Rangers and Mariners play each other 7 times. That’s 7 days where at least one of those 2 teams is guaranteed to lose. Of course the Jays also have to win, which is the hard part. The Jays have been ass against the AL East and face nothing but ALE opponents after this series. It’s going to be a tough last couple of weeks.
  4. glory
    That same logic should extend to other teams too then. Every decision the Rockies make is good because they too hire people to run a multi million dollar business, and they have better information than all of us, so that explains why their moves don't make sense to the general public. We don't have the right information. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. If you believe this team can't make a wrong decision or be questioned for any decisions, then we will have to agree to disagree. People are going to question decisions, inconsistencies, etc. It happens. If you want to argue back (ex. I thought keeping Bassitt in the game was wrong, you could easily argue why that was not the case), then that's fine, but if the only argument is "they have information none of us do so let's accept it", then that kinda defeats the purpose of a message board.
  5. glory
    The team doesn’t have any HR power for some reason, and now they are minus the two guys who actually displayed power this season (Belt and Jansen). Against good teams this is going to get exposed. Either the pitching is going to carry them or it’s outside looking in.
  6. glory
    Jays get a break there but what a stupid base running decision.
  7. glory
    This team sucks to watch.
  8. glory
    Babe plays everyday, Biggio plays most of the time, and Varsho/Merrifield platoon in LF. That’s probably the best alignment at the moment with what’s available.
  9. glory
    2 WAR and 133 wRC+ in 382 PA. He was a great signing. Not having him down the stretch is going to hurt.
  10. glory
    When did I say they were morons? They make decisions that don't make sense a good amount of time. When that happens, people will call them out on it. This is an org that intentionally benched Davis Schneider for a week in order to play Espinal when DS was having one of the most historic starts in league history. I'm not giving them the benefit of the doubt on s*** that's clearly wrong. If JS brings in Romano in a save situation and Romano blows it, then that's not on the manager. When Carlos Santana is up in a playoff game and his only skill at this point is hitting LHP, and you bring in a LH reliever who is significantly worse against RHB to face him with runners on base, then that's pretty cut and dry. All I'm saying is, keeping Bassitt in the game was not only inconsistent with how JS has managed all season, but didn't make sense given how Bassitt looked all game. It didn't pass the eye test or the stat test.
  11. glory
    Decisions that make sense and fail are fine. Sometimes players don’t come through. Decisions like last night, much like everything he did in Game 2 last year, are not fine. At least when a SP is pulled early we can guess that maybe he felt tired or communicated to them that he was gassed, or something. What logic is there behind a decision like last night with Bassitt, when there’s an entire season of sample size that shows that Schneider can’t wait to go to the pen even when the starter is doing well? Analytics? Eye test? Blind faith? If you’re going to manage every game like Game 7 of a playoff series even when it’s game 37 against the Royals, then why isn’t the same urgency there when it’s the biggest series of the season to date?
  12. glory
    Also calls into question what exactly he is using to determine these pitching changes. If it’s aNaLyTiCs when it comes to Kikuchi, then what was the logic behind keeping Bassitt in the game last night when he not only looked like s*** but was giving away free runs? It couldn’t have been data, and it certainly wasn’t the eye test, so what was it? And what was different between that and Kikuchi looking good for 5 innings and being pulled? This org needs a complete coaching overhaul. It’s ridiculous. I mean, Schneider did what he did in Game 2 last season, and it still took Atkins 25 seconds to write up a contract extension, so maybe the front office is the issue here, but some of the decisions have been ridiculous.
  13. glory
    Kikuchi could have been perfect through 5 on 62 pitches and he would have been pulled for Yimi Garcia by now. Not sure what the Jays saw with Bassitt to think he could get through 6 here, although he spoon fed them 2 runs for free.
  14. glory
    Great play by Biggio. He’s a good utility player to have.
  15. glory
    The number of human beings on earth who can’t beat Kirk in a foot race have to be the single digits.
  16. glory
    With how hard it is for the Jays to score runs most nights, that's a horrible blunder. No excuse for that s*** in September when the rule changes should be very well known by this point.
  17. glory
    What the f*** Bassitt?
  18. glory
    Yeah that’s the disappointing part. There doesn’t seem to be any urgency from him to get better so he could be part of another playoff push, and that’s after he s*** the bed in game 1 last year. I hope no one compares him to Stroman because Stro was a machine who worked hard and did everything he could to contribute. Manoah is the opposite of that. Tough spot for the Jays because they have trouble developing starters and Manoah is their only success story in 8 years. They’d either have to sell low or hope he gets in shape during the winter, and the latter seems like wishful thinking. Maybe there’s a team desperate for pitching (Cardinals, Padres?) that might give some value rather than low ball.
  19. glory
    Yeah a 3 game series at Camden where the Jays would have less expectations and more vetrin presents would be more appealing than any playoff game at the Trop, much less 3 in a row.
  20. glory
    If the Jays don’t make the Varsho trade then a KK extension would be a no brainer, but they can’t afford to go into next season with both KK and Varsho in the OF again. Have to view KK as a pure one year rental.
  21. glory
    Is JS ok? Letting Berrios get out of that inning was so unlike him.
  22. glory
    What a start for Gausman. Much needed to rest the pen.
  23. glory
    91 pitches in Schneider's mind might as well be 131, so I can't imagine Gausman comes out for the 8th, but they probably should let him given how last night's pen was used. Of course if the Jays can add some runs here then they can go to the lower leverage arms in the final 2 innings.
  24. glory
    The KC feed just showed Kirk running, and holy s***, he might be the slowest athlete on earth.
  25. glory
    This umpire is screwing both teams. This is going to be a frustrating game to watch regardless of the result.
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