Obviously meant as sarcasm but not entirely inaccurate. In Japan they celebrate their stars and players even when things are going poorly. American culture you can be the hero one minute and everyones punching bag the next. Yankees fans boo Aaron Judge when he slumps.
Imai has opened up about his struggles multiple times about the culture, life style changes, issues being away from family. It all kind of takes its toll. It also doesn’t help help that he experienced dead arm and the MLB Travel schedule is a lot more taxing than what they see in NPB.
if people here really want to try to dog on me for saying I wanted him on this team because I think he can be very good that’s fine. I still think that. His ERA is inflated and obviously the walks have been high but I like a lot of the other numbers.
Once he gets things situated in the off-season I would not be shocked if he bounced back next season as one of the better pitchers in Baseball. He has that kind of ability.
I’m all in favour of bringing Guasman back. Right now the focus needs to be extracting as much value out of Gausman, Bieber, Springer, Varsho, and potentially Hoffman as possible.
If the owners don't back of their stance of wanting a salary cap I don't think their is any chance we have Baseball next Season. The players will push back against it until they have no choice. It's going to be a long Baseball Winter.
You’re telling me you don’t entertain it at all if you could completely change the trajectory of the future with one haul. I think you have to listen with how much people overpay for relievers.
Jays gotta explore trading Varland. If you can get anything in the realm of that Mason Miller package you have to explore it. A closer is useless when you’re several quality pieces away from being good. Jays basically lost its whole foundation in the 2025 off-season. Bo left and Vlad had his Baseball talent sucked out of him. Gotta sell the rentals but if you can sell high on guys like Varland and even Ernie you gotta take that opportunity all day.
AL is so weak this terrible White Sox team is going to make the playoffs and we won’t and its embarrassing. They are literally playing Randal Grichuk against a RHP and has a decade long career of never hitting them and has also been cut by half the league.
Ofcourse Trey blew his ******* out.
Jays have to go 40-26 to finish the Season to get to 85 wins which is projected currently to be what it will take to snag the 3rd Wild Card spot. Sounds like a tough task.
Jays should be spending the next 10 days retooling for next Season. This is a lost Season but a retool by selling now can turn a multiple years of missing the playoffs into potentially getting back in the mix next Season with some key off-season moves.
There has been been zero indication this team is good enough to compete. And I would be shocked if they won 75 games even if they stood pat.