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General 2016 Blue Jays discussion thread
Macsattack replied to G-Snarls's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
The Jays fans at the twins games are from all over the prairies I'm from Saskatchewan and we met lots of jays fans from all 3 prairie provinces on past trips when we have gone to games in Minnesota. Passion for the Blue Jays and MLB makes a 12 hour car ride more than worth it. -
Jose Fernandez killed in boating accident
Macsattack replied to Dr. Dinger's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Very unfortunate and sounds like avoidable condolences to the Marlins community and Jose's Family. The Player death that touched me the most was Darryl Kile heart attack and then Girardi heartfelt announcement to Wrigley field that the game was cancelled. -
One of the interesting things as we get more data in all pro-sports on the advanced stats side is how do you integrate the eye test in with the numbers. Sinkerballers in baseball would be a really interesting study as part of them being successful is inducing contact(weak contact) which goes against statistical based models favoring maximizing strikeouts. When a strikeout guy is dealing half the guys they face might not even put it in play and on the other hand a groundball guy might generate 75% or more groundball's. There's no right answer as to what is the best and hence why we're 7 pages deep on these tangents.
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Gone a little off topic from the two demotions. When the bullpen tosses 9IP there is going to be some collateral damage. Really the only option is to demote your most expendable assets and call up some fresh arms its a long season and the team needs to be put in the best position to win tomorrow. If a mistake were made with Boyd it was the call-up to begin with. Most AAA rosters are positioned with your Depth pieces to fill in for injuries and the jays have some AAA guys with MLB experience in Wolf, Francis, and Doubront. Make no mistake guys like these aren't going to dazzle if they can give you six innings with 3 or 4 runs allowed that might be considered success but they have enough experience to give you 5 innings without imploding which put the team as a whole in a more favorable position.
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I hope your trolling the only "Gas" is the heat Sanchez throws. Jo-jo had much different stuff than Sanchez brings to the table. Can you point out some additional f***ing terrible pitchers and let AA know as we could use a few more.
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Hey guys like you seem to know it all so if you say so. I'm glad baseball games are decided by who scores the most runs and not by hotly debated analytics carried out on an Internet message board.
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After today among AL starters Aaron is 27th in ERA and 35th in IP if this is reality for our 5th starter I'm all in. Seems to be very comfortable pitching at home looking forward to see him pitch in person @ ninny next weekend
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Dickey doing exactly what we need from him chewing up innings big time and letting our offense do what it does best!
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John Gibbons Thread (+ Venting)
Macsattack replied to Daniel Labude's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
Two nights in a row keeping the starter in there too long. 40 games into the year like to see a little better feel for the pitching staff. -
Next your gonna argue that the sky isn't blue enough or there wasn't enough clouds to block out the sun. Argue until I'm right......
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Because I always looked at having some top of the rotation talent is a little bit important in the playoffs
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Elaborate how you see a Baseball team be a winner
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Thanks I hadn't been insulted yet today. Now that we're moving on from that it takes 27 starts of 6 innings to qualify for the ERA title which isn't that big of task. That's about 40% of starters in the League that fit the 162 innings and 4.50 or less ERA. That's without carving up the list for things like Home park impact on ERA for the guys pitching in the AL west. The top teams win in a couple of ways 1. Having top shelf talent at the front end of the rotation that are well over .500 W/L records and 2. having the back end of the rotation give you innings and be competitive. The jays bigger problem is on the front end of the rotation.
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This directed at BTS. In the 2014 season there were 32 AL Starters with enough innings to qualify for the ERA title that had a sub 4.50 ERA. Not sure what you expect out of a #5 starter but anything in the 4.50-5.00 range and giving 5-6 innings a start is what a serviceable 5th starter is. If that comes with a guy that has upside to do better that's how good ball clubs are built.
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Who should the Jays be replacing Sanchez with?????
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Who would you rather see in the rotation?
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Hey appreciate your line of thought. I ran about 15 years in simulation league's and with most pitchers being wildly inconsistent I look for a few keys area's that lead to success. Ground ball % >50%/Low Whip/Less than 1 HR /9 Innings. You can survive a little higher Whip if the balls staying in the park and the balls in play are on the ground. For younger pitchers you tend to see some pretty absurd stat lines so I invest a lot more time watching the action to see the types of swings a pitcher generates.
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we'll just have to let it play out and see. I'm usually a follow WHIP for starters and agree anything over 1.40 doesn't pan out. Also note he has faced Baltimore and Boston each twice this year close together and both times the second start was better than the first which is something that excites me with starting pitching.
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SirBJay in Statistics there's something called sample size before hitting the panic button lets give the kid 100 innings and things will even out. Even if the kid rolls into September with a 4.50 ERA as a 5th starter in the AL east should be considered a major win for the Jays #perspective
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I've been checking out the commentary on here since spring training and the hate and doom and gloom on Sanchez is completely unwarranted. Most young power pitchers have some control issues and with plus stuff it often becomes "effectively wild" Look back on the Marlins stable of young right handers from the late 90's early 2000's in particular Ryan Dempster and AJ Burnett very similar stats to Sanchez in their early 20's even Josh Beckett and Brad Penny from that group similar early results. Advanced stats are worth only so much guys that throw a heavy fastball with movement 95-96 are hard to hit and unless Sanchez loses some velocity he's a tough matchup for any hitter. Having a guy at the backend of our starting rotation is the least of the jays worries.