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  1. glory
    Jays starters can't just give up regular hits, they have to be home runs.
  2. glory
    I could be wrong, but I don't think Bo's market is going to be that big. How many big market/spending teams need shortstops? The Dodgers are the only one I can think of, and Bo doesn't strike me as the type that they'd give a huge contract to. The Tigers will need a SS but they are pretty cheap, their best prospect is a SS in AA, and not sure they have an appetite to spend huge on a SS with Bo's profile given what happened with the Baez contract. The Yankees, Phillies, Red Sox, Cubs, Mets, Rangers, Padres, Angels, etc, are not going to be spending on shortstops. I think Bo on whatever contract he gets is going to age like milk left outside on a hot day, so I hope the Jays aren't the ones who give it to him, but if they wait out his market this winter and he becomes available on a shorter term deal due to lack of big money interest in him, then that wouldn't surprise me.
  3. glory
    My biggest fear with the Vlad extension was that his best remaining years would be on teams that weren't going to be good. The 2025 season has helped changed that perception a bit. It's easier to envision a path to sustainable contention, even if it's WC contention, over the next few years than it was when he signed the contract in April. The team has gotten fortunate internal development that if sustainable is massive and their farm system outlook has improved. They will have money to spend this coming winter in an off-season where many teams may not spend due to the impending lockout and/or revenue uncertainty, and the market just happens to be very strong on the one thing the Jays absolutely need to be spending on (SP). The Jays can be buyers in the winter with a much better marketing position (Vlad extended and the team coming off a good 2025). If 2025 went the way many of us (me included) thought it would go, and they were selling at the deadline, then that would have changed everything. If the team is actually competitive for all/most of his remaining prime, then it becomes a lot easier to rationalize the cost.
  4. glory
    Jays just ran into a hot SP. It happens.
  5. glory
    Athletics (minor league park), Rockies (historically bad/Coors Field), Orioles (awful pitching), and Angels (nuff said). Those are the only teams who have given up more home runs than the Jays. That’s not what you want.
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  7. glory
    Finally.
  8. glory
    Lauer is arbitration eligible after this season, so they'll have him for 2026. Beyond that, it's Gausman, Berrios, and nothing else. Manoah shouldn't be counted on until he proves he's back, and that might never happen. Yesavage is a possibility but pitching prospects are scary to count on. I definitely think they should add at least 2 SP's and then leave the remaining spot for Lauer, Manoah, Yesavage, etc, to fight it out. If Bieber is healthy and is one of the two they add for 2026, then that's a nice start.
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  10. glory
    Nice to see Hoffman have a nice clean inning after Sunday's meltdown.
  11. glory
    Varland looked amazing that inning.
  12. glory
    Great play but please don't stretch like that too often, Vladdy.
  13. glory
    Unusual bad send by Febles there. France is slow as hell.
  14. glory
    Sounds like the delay is that he hasn’t been cleared from concussion protocol, so that’s probably not a good thing. Hopefully it won’t impact his return this season or performance if/when he’s back. He’s super important to this team.
  15. glory
    Gimenez back at 2B batting 9th. Rest of the lineup not released yet. Seems pretty likely that Clement will be the starting 3B moving forward and Loperfido will go down once Springer returns, but let’s see what they do tonight. Loperfido has been starting fairly consistently against RHP lately.
  16. glory
    Yeah winning the division and still having to play the WC round would suck. The Jays won the season series tiebreaker against both the Red Sox and Yankees so they are in a decent spot to win the division. Avoiding the WC round is a much bigger issue. There's very little difference between winning the division and playing WC3 vs losing the division and being WC1. The bye is what's important. The Jays got swept against the Astros the only time they met, so they can't win the season series (only tie it if they sweep the Astros next time). Plus the Tigers are in the Central and without looking at the schedule they probably have a bunch of games vs the Central teams down the stretch, so Houston seems like the much bigger concern here. Seattle overtaking them would be nice (Jays won the season series against the M's).
  17. glory
    Yeah the only team I wouldn't be afraid of as an AL playoff team is the Guardians but otherwise any of the Jays, Tigers, M's, Astros, Red Sox, Yankees, and Rangers could come out of the AL and it wouldn't surprise me. Really wide open field even ignoring the crapshoot nature of baseball.
  18. glory
    Fluharty saved the Jays (and Schneider’s) ass there. Wow. What a relief outing from him.
  19. glory
    Letting Hoffman walk everyone because you want to save a pitching change for Ohtani is insanity. John Schneider is absolutely clueless.
  20. glory
    Fisher reminding me of 2015 Liam Hendriks in the sense that the manager doesn’t seem to realize how good he’s been and is using him way down in the depth chart. Ugly game. Hopefully they can salvage the series tomorrow.
  21. glory
    Bassitt on the road is not favorable.
  22. glory
    For me personally (started watching baseball in 1991), I'd say Carter and Bautista. One helped shape my love of baseball with the 1992-93 run, and the other brought Blue Jays baseball back from 2 decades of irrelevance. The Halladay/Delgado years were tainted by how irrelevant the teams were. I never saw the peak Fernandez or Stieb years, so never built that nostalgia for them. Alomar didn't spend enough time with the Jays.
  23. glory
    The Jays offense was absolutely brutal in April, due to a combination of slumps, slow starts, injuries (Varsho), or fringe big leaguers with no pop getting everyday AB's (Wagner, Roden). From May-onwards, it's been a substantial increase in overall offensive performance. March/April 85 wRC+ (24th in MLB) 104 Runs (26th in MLB) .110 ISO (29th in MLB) 19 Home Runs (29th in MLB) 19.2 K% (t-2nd in MLB) 8.5 BB% (20th in MLB) May-onwards 124 wRC+ (1st in MLB) 472 Runs (1st in MLB) .174 ISO (8th in MLB) 114 Home Runs (9th in MLB) 16.3 K% (1st in MLB) 8.7 BB% (t-6th) As mentioned, a healthy Santander and a healthier Varsho probably reduce the team's contact rates over that span while increasing the power, but when you consider the main beneficiaries of the playing time in place of Tony and Varsho were guys like Straw, Clement, etc, I think I would have preferred the added pop. Or at least I'd prefer it in a playoff setting.
  24. glory
    The Yankees were +22 after the first 3 games of the season (surprisingly against the Brewers). Run differential has value but I think people can go overboard with it. There are a lot of ebbs and flows during a long season.
  25. glory
    Since May 1, the Jays have a MLB leading team wRC+ of 124. The 2nd best team over that span is at 111. “Low hanging fruit” was laughed at, but Boss Atkins found a way to mix the best contact rate in the league with actual damage at the same time.
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