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Berrios has escalators in his contract based on innings pitched, so I don't see him voluntarily going on the IL. I really don't know what the solution is here. He has 3/66 left on his deal at a minimum, and it could go up to 3/68 if he throws 150 innings in 2026. The Jays have to figure out a way to fix him somehow,.

BNS seemed pretty confident on X that Yesavage is an option for September and that the Jays will be granted the exemption to have him be post season eligible. Adding him and Fisher to the staff should be a big help. Beyond that, they need to hope the relievers get right and quickly. Not much else they can do at this point. Berrios looking awful and Lauer falling back down to earth is another issue for this team.

It’s actually amazing that he’s even been as effective as he has been. Location+ is still above average but no chance he gets away with that much of a stuff drop for much longer if it holds. Maybe he’s hurt, who knows. At this point I’d strongly consider Yesavage as a 5th starter rather than a reliever in September.

Berrios had a Stuff+ of 77 coming into tonight’s game. I’m not sure how much longer he can be an ~4 ERA innings eater at this rate without some type of drastic change.

The Rogers Centre sound guy when the Jays are batting is the most obnoxious in the league, IMO.

Jays now have the best record in the AL again. Lol. What a roller coaster ride.

Big insurance run there. Yankees up 6-0. Red Sox already won. Need to get this game.

Damn I didn’t even think about that.

Can’t believe they found a sucker to take IKF but they bring him back during the most important month for the franchise in a decade and then immediately start him for no reason. Ugh.

Springer now has a 162 wRC+. This is year 5 of a 6 year deal for a dude in his mid 30's. Unbelievable. By far the MVP of this team in 2025.

IKF is a gamer so just keep throwing him out there at 3B and eventually he'll figure it out.

Bichette up to a 133 wRC+ (Vlad at 139). Having a big season at the right time.

SN is pretty bad in general but you see it more clearly when you watch the same play on another feed.

I saw the Kirk double on the Jays feed and then rewatched it on the Reds feed, and the Reds feed was 100% better in terms of the camera catching the entire play. Sportsnet really is not good at that.

I'm liking this game so far.

The 3 batter minimum makes pitchers like Borucki a lot less desirable to roster. How down on Adam Macko must the Jays be to have him on the 40 man roster yet still see him as less of an option than Borucki?

I said it before, IKF is going to start a few times a week. John Schneider is what he is (unfortunately).

It's interesting because other than Hoffman and Dominguez, the rest of the pen (that are healthy) has no track record. Varland has been good this season (recent stretch aside) but that's it. Fisher is a rookie. Nance is in his mid-30's and didn't do much prior to this season. Yariel was a starter last season. Little had a -0.5 WAR for his career coming into this season. Fluharty and Schultz are rookies. And so on. You can make the argument that Schneider's blind faith in Hoffman is actually justified because at least there's a track record of elite performance there, even if it was only a couple of seasons. The rest is really hit or miss. Bullpens are volatile to begin with but relievers with no real track record just adds to it. As much grief as Schneider gets, he's been put in a tough situation here with the pen. Some of it is his own doing with the bullpen usage (or over usage), which may have contributed a bit to the meltdowns recently, but beyond that, there's a bunch of unproven arms that he has to trust because he has no choice. Garcia's injury is really underrated as far as significance, that was a huge blow.

I don’t mind babying the starters to some degree as long as the pen usage is spread out to avoid relievers getting overworked, but if the game is close then Schneider is only going to use the guys he wants to use. Hoffman for example has at least 5 instances this season where he pitched 4 of 5 days. Little was pitching practically everyday when he was going well early on. Yimi came off the IL and threw 30+ pitches in his first outing back, then was never seen again. Even yesterday they could have just rolled with Nance, for better or worse, but had Little warming up as soon as Nance threw his first pitch. The pen holding up all season with their early season usage was probably a pipe dream in hindsight.

Schneider and the Jays have prioritized resting starters consistently, whether it be with extra rest or super low pitch counts and early hooks. The pen was used pretty hard early on. It might just be catching up to them

Nance gave up a hard single to McLain but the two hitters prior to that had EV’s of 71.5 and 82.7. There was really no reason to pull him. My guess is the stats told JS to go to a LHP when it got the top of the lineup, and he blindly went with that. Zero feel for the game.

Looking at the splits, Friedl and Marte are both significantly worse against LHP. So the move to Little wasn't illogical and in the end it might be easier to just blame Little for not doing the job, but he hasn't been doing the job for months, so as a manager you have to have some feel for the game and take recency into account. Hell, bring Lauer into the game if he's in the pen now. Little is broken and has been for a while.

Since June 1, Little has a BB/9 of 7.2. Since June! If you look at his numbers since July and since August, they get progressively worse. This BS of "he's my guy" and using 5 expletives in every post game interview to show how much support you have for whoever messed up that particular day is great when you're a minor league manager, but when you're playing in a division race, you need to adjust on decision making.

This is definitely on JS. Little has pitched a lot recently and has been awful for the most part. Nance has pitched well, and there was only one LHB coming up (Friedl). Elly is a switch hitter if it got to him. No reason to take Nance out there. If he lost the game for you then you live with it, but bringing in Little when Nance gave up 2 singles (one of them being 71 mph) was ridiculous over managing.

Need a K here.