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He is so f*cking stupid. Not like your closer could use a challenge in the 9th...

Varland is coming in

Never in doubt Hoff

Hoffman threw a 94.4 MPH fastball and the bullpen phone immediately rang. Nobody up yet though...

Hoffman is coming in.

Try sitting here watching this pathetic effort...

Perhaps a glimpse as to why they don't like using him at 2nd...

What is wrong with Popkins?

Going to need the offense to wake up. Just awful since the 1st ended.

It is rammed in here today. So I doubt it.

The offense better work today.

Why isn't Cease starting today like he's supposed to? I'm going to the game today. This blows.

The Jays bullpen is 2nd in baseball in K/9 this year and #1 in xFIP. Velo doesn't guarantee results. If you don't appreciate having rational discussions like this - perhaps this board isn't for you.

Limiting the amount of resources spent on the bullpen is pretty common around baseball. Bullpens are super volatile and unpredictable. You see it all the time where teams think their pen is a strength going into the season, only to find out it's a weakness - and vice versa. The pen is also the most likely place you discover an uncovered gem by throwing stuff against the wall. Annually, there are more surprise breakout players in the pen than any other position in baseball. When teams invest more into the pen, than that almost always comes with less investment in other areas. You can't just say "if he knew how to build a pen, we'd have won the WS" because maybe assigning more assets to the pen means we don't have Barger, or we didn't extend Kirk, or we don't land Bassitt or Bieber. You can't just look at it in a vacuum like that. Positional players and/or starters are often more consistent performers. Personally - if I have to choose, the pen is one of the last places I want a lot of assets and resources spent. That said - Atkins has shown a willingness to add to the pen when it makes sense (as was noted above).

That's an exciting development in Toman. He was highly touted at one point. This thread is great BTW.

Typically it's your brother. I hope you and your brother are having fun 😘

I suspect he wanted Ward and Henke brought in. Real men from an era when baseball cutthroat.

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At this point, it's probably worth finding out. Even if it just helps his confidence a bit.

I'm sorry, but this is nonsense. Rash decisions based on small sample sizes rarely work out in the long run. Baseball is a long grind full of statistical noise, and short-term results are often outside a player’s control. That’s why you constantly hear players, coaches, and managers preach a level‑headed, consistent approach. You keep putting in consistent, process based work and don’t overreact to every high or low. Will this approach be perfect? Obviously not. The nostalgia driven “winner’s mentality” narrative from 30+ years ago ignores how modern baseball actually works. Teams that consistently win now do so by trusting process, information, and probabilities - not by yanking players at the first sign of variance and calling it accountability. Mistaking impatience for decisiveness doesn’t make a team smarter, it just makes outcomes noisier. Overreaction isn’t a winning mentality; it’s how you lose the edge over a 162‑game season. Culture doesn’t replace performance, but it’s what allows performance to stabilize instead of fluctuation turning into chaos. We were inches away from winning the World Series last year and we heard all kinds of great benefits of the culture that JS has instilled in the clubhouse. It's also a reason players now want to come to Toronto.

That's a nice development. We'll probably need him this year.

Puig and Fernando Rodney in the IBL (now the CBL) is pretty cool. I'll have to catch a game or two when he's playing in Barrie. One of my son's coaches also plays for the Toronto Mets, so maybe we'll get a Puig autograph!

That's a bizarre statement. I'm neither salty, nor was anything I said about Hoffman particularly wrong. I'm just pointing out how hypocritical and inconsistent you are. Nothing more. Picking Eric Lauer as the hill you're willing to die on is certainly a choice.

That's wild. Puig to the IBL!