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I’m sure once Nate is built up we will see closer the velocity we were expecting. I don’t think anyone was expecting him to be sitting 94-96 tho. Not that its bad or anything but when you’re hearing high 90’s deep into games in the mjnor leagues and regularly touching 100 or more during starts there is a lot of expectations.

Ah ok that makes sense.

Nah its literally one inning lol. He pitched like s*** it happens.

Wait what that pitch sailed high into the zone and barely caught a corner if it ever did lol

I mean that was a horrible slider but sure give him a gift lol.

Hes throwing fastballs right down the middle to try to get into the zone. And yea that’s what happens.

Sitting 94-95 so far. Has hit 98 once and 96 a couple times.

Blessing in disguise if he has a rough start. Makes the decision to keep him down easy : )

28 ribbies!

He looks worse than last year which is disappointing because in Spring he was looking much better. When you can visibly see someones belly fat that’s a really bad sign.

Yup if he doesn’t get himself in shape eventually I would be terrified to lock him up even at just age 27 or 28 because his body will fall apart in his early 30’s. I’m still holding out hope he can do. Josh Naylor was a fatty and now he looks great. Just takes discipline and an effort. Lets hope he cares. If I was him I would take the position change as motivation.

Red Sox treating Vlad like Ricky Henderson after he burned down the line

The Hustle!

Hopefully by September it won’t look like Vlad was trapped in a chocolate factory the entire quarantine.

Damn we got ghosted by a scrub

You had one job Sportsnet

Its still not as soft as grass. And every player would want grass over the turf. Maybe now is the time to finally start the major renovations to Rogers Centre. They could 100% grow grass in that stadium with that right drainage system. And adjustments to the roof.

Why not just keep the taxi squad quarantined in Toronto. Nothing else is going on here. I don’t understand why the entire team has to leave. Obviously being re-entered into Canada is annoying. But why not just keep the kids playing in Toronto. I know some will need to be moved on and off the roster. But you gradually move those players over to Buffalo. Tons of the players on the 60-Man will not see any major league time. Unless a disaster strikes. Like our entire MLB team gets Covid.

Everything suggests they were already doing that in the background but it was not something that was seriously going to be considered unless it actually became a reality. Sometimes people need to a push. I’m sure they were contacting teams for months about this possibility. And for all we know it could have been the other franchises that were saying will think about it and cross that road when we come to it. I think anyone suggesting that they just started doing this in that couple days and haven’t had these conversations before Saturday. That’s a very unintelligent person.

If only it were that simple. Was Rogers suppose to give Buffalo’s stadium a free upgrade just incase? This isn’t a video game. s*** doesn’t work like that.

I hope the PNC option happens. I think they would only have 6 scheduling conflicts as well as pointed out on Twitter which can be brought down to 5 with a minor schedule change. Or you can do it mostly at PNC and do the other 2 series somewhere else. I think they should keep Buffalo just for the secondary player pool and just run scrimmages all summer. Let all the starters build up innings and all our prospects play. If anyone hasn’thad the chance to go see PNC park before its absolutely gorgeous stadium. If you were going to make after Covid vacation plans. I would recommend going to a game at that ballpark regardless if the Jays are playing the Pirates or not. It will be nice seeing it on TV for this year though.

If the Jays make the playoffs I’m confident they will be allowed to use Rogers Centre in that circumstance.

Lets pray that dog s*** stadium is not even a consideration. One team shouldn’t’t be forced to play there let alone 2. I do think it makes sense just to host home games in the opponents stadium. Atleast it makes it easy. Wouldn’t be surprised if they just do that. Wouldn’t be the first time either. We have hosted home games against the Phillies in Philadelphia before. So its not completely unprecedented.

I disagree. Judging by the information we have got so far. Buffalo has always been looked as the emergency option and nobody’s first choice. Buffalo just doesn’t have the infrastructure to host a major league team under normal circumstances let alone with the Covid issues and trying to keep everyone distanced as much as possible. Looks like they leaning towards neutral sights. Pittsburgh is being strongly speculated on Twitter because they don’t have many conflicting home dates with the Pirates. And obviously the 2 teams never play each other. Still close enough to Buffalo to have the taxi squad in close proximity. I think if the Buffalo thing happens it will be because they had no choice. Buffalo needs a mini renovation to make it work regardless. And whose paying for that will be interesting. The Stadium is owned by the city but do you think tax payers will be happy paying for renovations for a team they will likely never be allowed to watch live lol. Either this is coming out of Rogers pocket or MLB’s. That’s why neutral sight makes the most sense.