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  1. Stripling resembling the Dodgers version of him pre-2020 is a nice surprise so far. Hope it continues. Contract Year Strip wants to get paid.
  2. At least Kirk will be in the lineup tomorrow before his scheduled off day Monday.
  3. Agreed. Charlie and/or the org doesn’t know how to time these off days to the team’s advantage. If Kirk is going to catch 4 days a week, then you have 4 games a week to DH Springer/Vlad. That seems pretty reasonable. Just f’n plan the DH days for the days Kirk catches. They could have easily had Kirk DH today and Springer DH tomorrow with Kirk catching. It’s the Tigers so hopefully it doesn’t matter but if this was an important series against a good team then that would be horrendous. Tapia is going to end up with more PA’s than Kirk this season, and it will be done intentionally.
  4. The question I have is if you replaced Tapia on the roster with Katoh, would Kirk have still been on the bench today? If yes, then it’s clearly an org thing and we have to deal with this BS. But with Charlie you never know. A year ago he was pinch hitting Valera for Espinal and Kirk. Now the latter two could be all stars and Valera isn’t in the league. I don’t trust Charlie with anything.
  5. Springer gets a much needed DH day after playing like 7 innings in the field after an off day. Kirk on the bench and Tapia in the lineup.
  6. Jansen is definitely the one they trade, it’s just a matter of when. It won’t be during this season so this off season at the earliest. He has the fewest years of control left and can’t stay healthy. Plus, while Montoyo doesn’t do it often enough, he at least uses Kirk in the DH spot from time to time, something he won’t do with Jansen, so Kirk is likely the more useful player to the team.
  7. Jays and Rays about to win 95-100 games each and face each other, while the Red Sox going to win like 86 and face the Twins.
  8. The long man out of the pen pulled after 23 pitches (+ being really effective), replaced by a 1 inning reliever who sucks and is allowed to go up to 36 pitches because Charlie wanted to squeeze another (bad) inning out of him. Letting the long man who was actually effective pitch deeper into the game was probably too complicated.
  9. With the way Montoyo uses the DH, I don't think Tellez would have panned out here. The Jays basically need to trade for Ian Happ (or someone who can play a bunch of positions + being able to hit) to get the most of the DH spot the way it is used currently. The org seems to want to use DH to rest regulars, and that hurts when they have DH's on the roster.
  10. Wow I had no idea Richards was this bad on the season (5.68 FIP, -0.5 WAR). Probably need to get him off the roster.
  11. Not sure why Thornton was taken out of the game. He threw 2.1 innings but only threw 23 pitches and was doing pretty well. I know it's an off day tomorrow and using as many relievers as possible is Charlie's drug of choice, but would have thought they'd try to get as many innings as possible out of Thornton with Kikuchi giving no length.
  12. It's possible/likely that rest days are out of Charlie's control, but batting Tapia 5th is 100% him. That's undisputable. No one is that insane in this sport except him.
  13. Jansen going to the IL apparently. Luckily the Jays have a great young catching talent in the minors who is already on the 40 man roster that they can bring up. Welcome back, Zack.
  14. The Baseball God’s saw the two catcher lineup and Tapia on the bench, and said “not on my watch”.
  15. Yeah this is the A lineup. You can argue about placement with certain players, but all the right players are playing, and that's all that matters. Appreciate the days we get to see the 2 catcher lineup.
  16. No team was willing to go more than 3 years on Ryu if I recall, and 3 years was probably the right amount. Jays had to go higher to get him. Hopefully he can be useful when he's back on the mound but he was always a health risk, never mind age.
  17. He has a .429 BABIP over that span, so it's not going to continue, but at least he showing some signs of life. Grichuk post 2018 was basically a 0.5 WAR level player, give or take, so the bar isn't high to at least match his level of value.
  18. Today was the right call. When he pulled Manoah last time when he had like 80 pitches, that was BS.
  19. We saw a good lineup two games in a row. Expecting a 3rd was selfish.
  20. Ryu starts tomorrow, and Jansen always catches him, so will be interesting to see if Buntoyo puts Kirk at DH again tomorrow or DH's a regular and gets Tapia's big bat into the lineup. Either way, I'll enjoy these 2 catcher lineups whenever they happen.
  21. Kirk up to a 132 wRC+ on the season. That'll work.
  22. There's no doubt in my mind that Montoyo is not going to use the two catcher lineup often. Not only does he like to use the DH spot to rest regulars, but he just had a game where Tapia was the DH, so clearly he and/or the organization want him to play everyday. If we see the two catcher lineup more than once or twice a week, I'd be surprised given the way Charlie has operated so far.
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