Jansen's arb years begin after this season. I think he's being moved in the off season, but depends on what they want to do with Kirk/Moreno (tandem at the big league level? Start Kirk at DH/part time C?).
Lots to time to make that decision though.
Agreed. Montoyo was hired because this job was undesirable in 2018-19 and someone had to absorb all the L's when the team was losing. To keep him now that the team has aggressively spent money to contend and are beginning their competitive window is 100% on Atkins. Someone had to hire him in the first place, and someone is keeping him hired despite him showing no signs of being any good at the job. Time for Shatkins to step in, but I'm not holding my breath.
I'm torn between rooting for the Jays to win, and wanting them to be bad enough so that Atkins gets rid of Montoyo. I'll take missing the playoffs in 2021 if it means Buntoyo is gone and the 2022-2025 team is managed by someone worthy of being a big league manager. I don't want to live in a reality where this young core is managed by that stooge during the peak of their run.
I can no longer laugh at Montoyo’s stupidity. It legit makes me mad now. Ugh. Giving free outs to a beatable McHugh, giving free base runners intentionally to the Rays when Beasley is pitching. I can live with a Dolis blown save, that s*** happens, but damn stuff like this is really bad.
Buntoyo letting a player bunt with 2 strikes when there were runners on 1st/2nd and 0 outs is a damn fireable offense. He should be fired anyway, but that’s like the dictionary definition of it.
Bergen, Mayza, Cole, Thornton, Payamps, Beasley........there's some misleadingly good ERA's in that group but holy s*** that's bad. Need some RP's to get healthy in a hurry.
I meant quiet as in people are going to look at it at the end of the season and be surprised that he was that good.
He's definitely testing free agency again, especially if he has the type of season it looks like he's going to have, but if the Jays had interest in a four year deal with him before settling on one, then they might have interest in bringing him back if he's also open to it. Depends on the cost obviously.
Man I really hate the 7:37 start times in Dunedin. Hopefully it goes back to 7:07 or earlier when they go to Buffalo. On days when Dolis pitches, the games could end at 11 pm or later with the current start time.
Chatwood and Romano faced the toughest part of the lineup if I recall. Dolis was facing the bottom of the lineup. So I guess that was the logic. Unfortunately with all the injuries I don’t know who else they could have used. They need to call up Edwards and hope he rebounds. There’s a lot of unusable s*** in the pen.
Wouldn’t surprise me if TLR and the team “mutually part ways” soon. He clearly doesn’t give a s*** and the court of public opinion is clearly on the players’ side. If the players publicly start complaining, a move might have to be done. TLR also called out Lance Lynn.