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  1. glory
    Merrifield's been an automatic out for a while now. Varsho definitely catches that.
  2. glory
    Man that Vladdy shot looked like 2021 Vlad. If he has a 2 week hot streak in him, now is the time.
  3. glory
    Yeah, David Samson went over the deal a few years ago. Apparently, both Johnson and Henderson Alvarez failed their physicals, but the deal was pushed through regardless, and the Marlins apparently chose Nicolino over Syndergaard. Unfortunately the Mets didn't choose Sanchez over Thor in the Dickey deal. Or maybe they asked for Thor, I don't remember. Those two deals were awful. No other way to slice it. AA improved significantly after that (2014-15), but everything those two trades represented was just awful. Trading a glut of prospects, taking on enormous salary attached to 30-something's, etc.
  4. glory
    Bloom had one of the worst runs I have seen. He messed up practically every big move he made. Surprised he even lasted this long. Bad news for the Jays since if the Red Sox hire someone who actually knows what they are doing, then they have some of the pieces there for a quick turnaround.
  5. glory
    He showed glimpses with the Jays, but he wasn’t a finished product yet (see the Marlins trade, Dickey trade, etc). He really took off after leaving the Dodgers, and he hasn’t been making any of the mistakes he made while here. Even the big trades he made with the Braves that involved prospects were basically rehashes of the Donaldson deal where he traded prospect depth for a star (Olson, Murphy). Nothing close to the Dickey trade or anything like that. The other aspect is that Beeston didn’t want deals exceeding 5 years so that limited what AA could do, and Rogers likely has different expectations than other owners. Plus it’s easier to get the Morton’s of the world to sign in Atlanta than Toronto so he has that advantage. Not quite apples to apples. Either way he went from good in Toronto to elite with the Braves.
  6. glory
    Yeah AA inherited quite a bit but his fingerprints are all over that roster now, either in terms of contracts, homegrown players, trades, etc. No one can question his work at this point, he’s one of the best in the game. With that said, as others have mentioned, he’s not the same guy now as he was in 2010-15. Without those two years with the Dodgers, I’m not sure he turns into this type of executive. Although, in hindsight, I do wish he stayed on post 2015. Having seen how Atkins rebuilt this team, I am curious how 2015-16 AA would have done the rebuild.
  7. glory
    Yeah the Jays really needed a split with the Rangers at the bare minimum. Losing 3, possibly all 4, is putting them in a very difficult position. Losing today might be the nail in the coffin since the rest of the season is all AL East teams who the Jays have bent over for all season. Thankfully I enjoy watching playoff baseball even when the Jays aren’t involved (lord knows I’ve had a lot of practice with that over the last 30 years), and the 2023 Jays team is so boring to watch that missing the playoffs might be doing the fans a favor from an entertainment standpoint.
  8. glory
    Looks like there won’t be a mystery as to whether Green exercises his player option.
  9. glory
    Other than Babe, has any hitter on the Jays pulled anything so far tonight?
  10. glory
    Not even a Term game thread can fire this team up.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. glory
    Jays get a break there but what a stupid base running decision.
  16. glory
    This team sucks to watch.
  17. 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.
  18. glory
    2 WAR and 133 wRC+ in 382 PA. He was a great signing. Not having him down the stretch is going to hurt.
  19. 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.
  20. 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?
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. glory
    Great play by Biggio. He’s a good utility player to have.
  24. glory
    The number of human beings on earth who can’t beat Kirk in a foot race have to be the single digits.
  25. 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.
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