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  1. Masterbather
    Saucedo isn't bad, he's a serviceable lefty. Keeps the ball on the ground, doesn't give up a lot of home runs.
  2. Masterbather
    It's rare though, and those f***ers were cheating, I know they were. There's some ******** in some of the stuff they were hitting like they knew it was coming.
  3. Masterbather
    Verlander throwing a side session out there. Not breaking a sweat.
  4. Masterbather
    Talent is still the most important factor. The job of the front office is to put together championship caliber pieces and then the chips will fall as they may. Teams that win are still usually among the best teams, you still rarely see underdogs win it all.
  5. Masterbather
    They pulled an anti-Baltimore Orioles, changed the dimensions and hurt their own team.
  6. Masterbather
    Yeah there's a chance but it's just not very likely considering what they've shown this season. I think you pretty much are what you are after 162 games. Especially for it to happen for basically a month of baseball suddenly. Unfortunately two of their best power hitters per at bat were Jansen and Belt. One has a broken hand the other one has been sick and then hurt and now has missed so much time that I don't even know if it's worth putting him back in the everyday lineup given where his timing will be.
  7. Masterbather
    Yeah but to go all the way they just don't hit for a lot of power, and I don't see that changing much without a change of personnel. Other teams just have more of it. On the flip side, the starting pitching is good, it's deep, but outside of Gausman, their advanced stats have them projected more as number three or four starters. If you're going to lose the power game, you have to definitively win the pitching game. The gap between Toronto's top three is not wide enough over other teams' top 3, in some cases other teams have a better top three. Bullpen is a strength. In most series' they would have an advantage here, but that's just not enough. A lot of domino's would have to fall their way.
  8. Masterbather
    You still have to pitch well enough, but the more thunder you have the wider your margins. At the end of the day I don't think you can really win without some level of frontline pitching, you don't necessarily have to be deep, but you have to have enough to lock it down. You can't out-homer other teams if you're pitching keeps giving up homers to other teams. But yeah, you have to have thunder.
  9. Masterbather
    I tend to believe that frontline pitching, good defense and power is what you need to win most of the time. Didn't AA say something along these lines? I agree with him, It's tough to string together hits against good teams and good pitching. You need some guys that can just pop one from time to time and put multiple runs on the board quickly. That lack of power relative to others will hurt us I think. I wouldn't say each round is a coin flip, there are reasons to have statistical favorites but you're right because they are short series anything can happen but for an underdog to win multiple series in a row is less and less likely the more series they have to play. That's why a lot of Cinderella's tend to run out of gas eventually, even if it takes to the very final series. Miami heat, Florida Panthers, Philadelphia Phillies. It's hard to finish the job as an underdog.
  10. Masterbather
    Thank you friend, you're one of the better posters on here.
  11. Masterbather
    Damn man, why not just root for a team like Minnesota? They've been the Yankees bitch for so long and now they finally have a path.
  12. Masterbather
    Rangers have a poor middle of the bullpen and questionable starting pitching, Mariners and twins have some problems with their lineups but I take at least the Mariners over ours. And really pointing out that a team has some losses recently? You've devolved to this? That's a flaw in the team? Cuz we've never lost games to poor teams or neither has every other team in baseball.
  13. Masterbather
    Matter of perspective, we obviously disagree. So I guess you're trolling? That's how it works when you disagree with someone right? You accuse them of trolling. Hey what did you predict for this team when the season started? How did you see them finishing in the standings I'm genuinely curious. I don't recall
  14. Masterbather
    This team is exactly where I said they would be at the beginning of the season. I said they were a good team, that was maybe a playoff team, a contender for the third wild card spot. That's exactly where they are. EXACTLY. So I was right so far. I also said they're not a world series contender, I guess they remains to be seen for this year. Funny though I don't see anybody holding up their hands who were convinced this team was going to battle for the division. People who were offended by the very notion of me even suggesting that it was just going to be in the mix for the third wild card spot. None of them are holding up their hands to acknowledge that they were wrong. There is a lot of ******** on this board, but it's not coming from me. So I'll just leave it at that.
  15. Masterbather
    I think anybody with a good vertical needs to catch that ball. There was time to measure it and the wall is scalable. Not saying it wasn't a nice catch but I think there are a lot of running catches that don't look as sexy but are much more difficult.
  16. Masterbather
    There are still entirely reasonable scenarios that could see them eliminated. They are probably in, but it's not there yet.
  17. Masterbather
    I never said they were eliminated from the postseason, I said they're not in yet because they're not. Are they likely in, yes, can they still f*** it up, yes. Other teams would have to step up also. It would be far from the worst collapse. I don't know why you're jumping the gun, there's still a couple of things that need to happen, it's not like we're 10 games up with 10 games to play.
  18. Masterbather
    f***ing blind fans, honestly, and I'm the bullshiter?So when I end up being right about this team, like I was last year, I'm just being negative, others weren't completely wrong and I wasn't right it was just bad luck for the Jays. But if they end up winning, everybody else was correct and I'm just pessimistic. Beautiful position to take. That way you're either Right or unlucky or I'm just lucky or pessimistic. People act like this team has accomplished anything over the past 3 years, it hasn't won a playoff game, it completely s*** its pants in one of the most humiliating playoff defeats I've ever seen. It's supposed to be a championship team right? Wasn't that the goal? So stop with the ********. This team started with people here suggesting this was a world series championship caliber team. f***ing delusional. Sorry to point out the delusion.
  19. Masterbather
    I was a fan in 1987, my first year of fandom for the Blue Jays...it's not over, let's win a couple more.
  20. Masterbather
    I prefer honesty and realism. This is after all supposed to be a championship caliber team, that was the point right? So it's fair to judge them in this context. This is a flawed team for what is supposed to be championship caliber. More flawed than most playoff teams.
  21. Masterbather
    They need one big left-handed bat, one or two stop gaps and a little bit of health in their rotation. Maybe another decent starter. They can be right back in the postseason next year. Stanton is a mess, but his bat speed and power is still Elite of the Elite. Even with a tiny rebound from him he can become a big threat even if he's not quite worth his contract anymore. Good health is the biggest key for them. I don't think they're as far off as people want to pretend they are.
  22. Masterbather
    Eovaldi is the key for them. He has to rediscover his form without Scherzer. If he does, along with Montgomery they would have an excellent front two with Dunning and Gray as acceptable third and fourth options.
  23. Masterbather
    I don't see a lot of flaws with Tampa. We got two of their worst pitchers in this series, with a set rotation they pretty much have everything even with their problems. They won't be at their best but they still have enough of everything. We're the most vulnerable team. That's the point. Of course anything is possible in sports, Kansas city just won 10 of their last 11 games including five against Houston, yes anything is possible. Of the potential playoff teams in the American League I still maintain we're the one that most teams would rather face.
  24. Masterbather
    The bridge to Chapman is definitely going to be a problem for them. Scherzer going down really hurt them. That really really hurt them.
  25. Masterbather
    Indeed, what the f*** Houston?
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