Masterbather

If the Blue Jays go 1-2, and Houston goes 2-1, the possibility of four 89 win teams still exists if Seattle goes 3-0. I believe that would result in Seattle winning the West end Texas and Houston being the wildcard teams. So then, that can't be an "OR" scenario, unless I have the tiebreaker order wrong.

Don't need to? We're trying to win a world series. That's the need to. It's neither silly nor short-sighted. It's the whole point. I'm not thinking about down the stretch next season, we're in the playoff hunt this season, who knows what next season will bring. Deal with it when you get there. If he's dominating in the playoffs, nobody anywhere would be complaining about AAA innings. Who knows how well it might actually benefit him? Who knows how much it might have benefited us? Nobody knows because they didn't try. We would only keep him here if he was succeeding. Having our major league coaches see him in this environment first hand would also be useful. If they could see he wasn't quite ready, just send him back and carry on with the offseason plan. The kid will be fine. It won't hurt him any. Throw him in the deep end for a minute, maybe he'll swim. He may be the second most talented pitcher we have at our disposal after Gausman and we didn't even take a look at him. 6'4" lefty with serious strikeout stuff? Thank you very much, I'll have another, please! Be aggressive, take a chance on talent. Try to win a championship. Any thought that this would somehow be detrimental to his development I think is way overblown. When you put the upside on the scale versus the downside, the upside breaks the scale.

The Blue Jays got extremely lucky with their starting pitching this year both with injury and effectiveness, notwithstanding the regression by Manoah. Considering the front office left us with zero safety net, they should thank they're lucky stars it didn't blow up in their face.

Dramatic ending! Chapman needs a shrink

Holy cow Chapman Dude is a f***ing enigma

When you have a postseason opportunity, no, nothing is more important. Absolutely nothing if he helps you win now. Not for me. Besides, it either works and he gets the most incredible experience and opportunity of his life, or he's not quite ready and you carry on with the plan. There is never going to be such a thing as too much great pitching when you're trying to win a world series. Besides he would be supplanting a guy like Cabrera, or one of the long guys, so what? You can easily blow through six relievers in a single postseason game.

That's all secondary in importance if he could help us now. Secondary by a mile. If he came up, and he was outstanding, and we had him f***ing people up in the postseason there would be nobody talking about him not getting innings in the minor leagues in September. Nobody. Make up for that later. Nothing is more important than winning. Would also be quite the experience for him, better than anything he'll see in the minors or the AFL. And if it didn't work, then it didn't work, you send him to the fall league and whatever. I maintain the downside was very small compared to what could have been the upside. They should have tried it.

This one had all the drama though. Must win, at home, there was some doubt because of his pitch count and because of the guy at the plate. Strikes out Judge to walk off to an ovation. Pretty close to picture perfect. Babe was a moment too. Bautista was nice but anticipated so no drama.

That actually made me lol

Yeah that definitely helps wash out the rancid taste of the last couple of days lol

The good thing about only needing two-thirds of an inning is that it allows Bassitt to walk off to an ovation also.

We know who goes number one, I probably go with Berrios 2 and Bassitt 3, if you win game one. Otherwise Bassitt for game two if you lose game one since it's a tougher matchup. Also gives you Kikuchi for the bullpen which is an idea I'm very in favour of.

We might still need another win, so we might need him for a save tomorrow.

He does have the propensity to give up home runs, that's the only concern with him but I have to agree, with the way he's been rolling, statistically it shouldn't be him, but he looks like that guy right now. Although, strategically maybe you save him for a potential game three and then he could be your game one starter if you advance.

I will say, it's nice to see that Belt did not lose his timing with all the games he had off. That is a much needed boost to a lineup that's going to need all the boosting it can get. Also gives Bassitt a little bit more leeway to get to 200.

It's actually becoming criminal at this point. This f***er shouldn't have a job, The most insulting part is his cluelessness, he has the audacity to think he deserves more. This ******* thinks he's good at his job, despite all subjective and objective reality and facts.

Agreed, Vlad rushed a play that didn't require him to rush.

198.1 Does he make it?

No reason not to take a look at him. No such thing as too much pitching especially when, like I said, you have only one elite guy. I don't care how many pretty good pitchers you have, you always substitute elite for good if you have a chance. You don't take postseason appearances for granted, you take a look at him and you could have had lightning in a bottle. There's no downside, absolutely no downside. He also gets to work with the Major League coaching staff, gets to bend the ear of major league vets. I didn't expect the Blue Jays to ever do something like this because they don't have the balls to be that aggressive. It's just a shame, I wish they had a more aggressive mentality.

I've done extremely well on a fantasy baseball, football mostly, but I just don't have the patience anymore.

Eat it motherf***ers!

My standards are world series champion. So yeah that sounds about right. Most teams will not have enough pieces to be a world series champion so the pieces required should be rare. Aces are rare, elite closers are rare, superstars are rare. That's why there's only a handful of teams that are actual favourites. Of course we could have made up for the fact that Berrios is a notch below by having a much better offense, you need one or the other but you can't have neither is my point.

Nobody shuts out the Blue Jays in THREE straight games...NOBODY💪🏼

Bassitt isn't our best pitcher, but there's nobody I enjoy watching pitch more than him on this team.

Because you don't want people giving you that look. That look of impending doom, that look of pity. You want people to look at you and treat you the way they always have and most people just can't do it if they know something like that. It's not their fault, it's human nature but I can totally understand why somebody would want to keep it a secret.