Masterbather
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He's done enough tonight. -
Makes it look easy out there.
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Fluharty with a big 6 outs. Nice to see.
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Damn, Vladdy's bad luck is back. Thankfully his teammates came through, back in this thing.
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If the Blue Jays ever came back to win this, they might actually kill poor Volpe in New York.
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Clement's been hitting way too many balls in the air. Dude's got to be a line drive hitter.
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Yeah that was encouraging. I really liked him earlier in the season. He's an interesting change of pace from Little coming out of the bullpen from the left side.
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Interesting to see if Fluharty can be his old self. We could really use him.
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Hey look, good luck for Vladdy for a change. After watching another fastball down the middle.
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To burn it maybe. Or at least try to use it in some ritualistic cleansing of the spirits that inhibit him.
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Did you just say we're not supposed to criticize an athlete based on the money they're paid? In what universe does that make sense what you just said? What the f*** are they paid for? Aren't you supposed to pay them commensurate with their production? So if they don't produce they get rightly criticized. This isn't difficult.
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You get evaluated relative to your expectations. If Nathan Lukes was having his season, we'd be over the moon. But he gets the superstar treatment so he's going to be evaluated as such. What's the problem?
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Somebody quick give me an advanced statistic that tells me that was just bad luck for Vlad.
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General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2025)
Masterbather replied to Ryu In My House's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
I didn't say I expected Manoah to do that, I actually do not expect him to do that, I'm saying you hope and pray that he can. Because realistically he's got the best chance of any of our pitchers to be that guy. We have ample evidence over the past two seasons that no one else can be. As far as Guerrero, the second half started a long time ago, I'm really sick of hearing about his bad luck or good luck whatever f***ing luck he seems to always be battling. I don't think they're going to acquire a big bat, that would actually be down on my list of priorities. Realistically our best chance might be to get high-end bullpen arms and again, hope Manoah comes back as something closer to what he was in 2022. That probably gives us our best chance if they can't trade for an ace which is looking like it's going to be very difficult to do. -
General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2025)
Masterbather replied to Ryu In My House's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
If the plan is for Max Scherzer, the 40 year old with a wonky thumb, to be your big arm and Vladdy to be your big bat then that's a really bad plan. 15 million "large" doesn't buy you an ace these days, it buys you rotation depth. Suarez in the middle of a lineup with Judge, Stanton and Bellinger is terrifying. You're f***ing insane if you think otherwise. -
General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2025)
Masterbather replied to Ryu In My House's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
That's why I've been saying, the plan is Manoah and pray. The best thing they can do alternatively is go hard at some of the absolute best relievers out there and just form a nice bridge of closers. -
Big win. Relieves a lot of pressure in the series. Nice to have Bo this time around.
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Some insurance would be nice to not have to bring in the Hoff.
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Phenomenal start by Gausman. We needed the good version of him today and he showed up.
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Hopefully Gausman not too rusty after that long delay. Be real nice if he can give us another couple of innings.
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Swing at everything Ernie. Swing at absolutely everything.
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General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2025)
Masterbather replied to Ryu In My House's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
I agree with the deadline plans don't change regardless, but I think we might be kind of screwed if Manoah does not come back as a frontline starter. Remember the 2015 rotation? History is repeating itself. That rotation had serviceable veteran arms but no frontline guys. Then they traded for Price. But even then they needed a returning Marcus Stroman to be their number two. I remember people said similar things about Stroman at the time, about how his return was more about 2016, maybe he can help us out of the bullpen, about how we shouldn't be counting on him. No dice, we NEEDED him and even then our pitching was on fumes by the end of the Kansas City series. We might need Manoah either way. -
This is very telling in terms of how the Blue Jays internally see our starting five given they could have set up the rotation however they wanted for this series. Clearly they have all three of those guys ahead of Berrios. I wonder if it was a four-game series if Berrios would even be ahead of Laurer at this point.
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Nothing short of a sweep either way really changes much of anything with this series. The pitching matchups aren't ideal but that was always going to be the case with them setting their roation to force us to face Fried and Rodon. Just don't get swept. I know they probably chase us down eventually anyway but it would hurt too much for it to be that sudden and in our ballpark.
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I assume Toronto did their due diligence and maybe they came to the conclusion that they didn't feel he was worth it for one reason or another. Maybe he didn't want to come here anyway. My only contention is that money should not be the issue and I don't think would have been the issue. If the Blue Jays' front office really wanted him I don't think Rogers would have balked at the $6 million price tag is my point.
