Omar

Jano you sweet bastard!

What is Schneider doing with these bunts?

Tapia...the gift that keeps on giving.

What a waste of a three bagger:mad:

Wow....Bo doing it!

Yimi!

Nice catch JBJ

Day 1 of bootcamp: "We don't bunt."

I don't like the seating behind home plate. Noticed one woman who has yet to turn her head to look at the on field play.

Yeah, the org had a lot of good will built up from 92/93 and they used every bit of it the rest of the decade.

When Tapia is in the batters box with runners in scoring position and you see him knock his skinny elbows together, your best course of action is the intentional walk.

In 97 I went to almost every game Clemens pitched at home. I don't ever remember seeing less than 25K in attendance. Less than 10000, never.

I just saw the Hicks play in left field. OMG that was horrid. What was he thinking?

At this point give Zimmer a start over Tapia....at least one game.

His feet didn't leave the ground.

Bo owns Dunning. That is his third home run against him.

Bo on fire

Good looking ballpark.

Tapia: "let me help you George by sticking my glove in your line of sight"

These camera angles are throwing me off:p

Fvck You Rangers! [h=3]Game #1[/h]The two teams haven’t played since the opening series of the season that saw the Blue Jays win two of the three games. Friday night’s game will see Dane Dunning, who happened to be a Blue Jays draft pick back in 2013 that went unsigned, pitching against Ross Stripling. Dunning started the second game of the opening series picking up the loss when he tossed five innings surrendering three runs on five hits over five innings, which included a Bo Bichette home run. The right-hander faced the Blue Jays once before in 2021 and was more effective that outing, as he allowed just one run over five innings picking up the win, but again surrendered a Bichette home run. In total, Dunning has a career record of 1-0, with a 3.60 ERA over his two starts against the Blue Jays. As you can imagine Bichette has had the most success against Dunning as he is 3 for 6 with the pair of home runs, especially since he is one of the hottest hitters. In September, Bichette is currently 16 for 31 (.516) in seven games with eight extra-base hits and 14 RBI. Another player to also watch for is George Springer as he was 2 for 2 against Dunning in their first matchup.

September 9th Vladdy - 1 Point - Springer - 1 Point - Bichette - 1 Point - Kirk - 2 Points - JaysAllMighty Chapman - 2 Points - Jansen - 3 Points - Stangstag Bradley - 5 Points - Dylan Espinal - 6 Points - Tapia - 8 Points - Spanky99, Omar Off the bench: 10 Points-

The manager should be able to deploy his players how he sees fit. MLB is going to micromanage the s*** out of these games.

Players have unique and varying swing planes, so I'm not convinced about launch angle being the definitive metric to analyze Vladdy. It may be a better metric to analyze a given pitcher rather than a batter based on the contact he gives up. I much prefer barrel % which also coincides with LA but LA is derivative of barrell rate to me. Start barreling up balls more and your sweet spot % and launch angle will be optimized to a players swing whatever number of degrees that is for that player. Vladdy needs to swing a lot less imo. If it's a low strike let it alone and try to draw the walk, but swing less. 2021 gave him a hero complex and now he thinks he can hit anything. He can't. All that ******** talk about the trailer/movie was indicative of his mindset. It's not going to get better for him until he fixes what's between his ears (his approach). Ballplayers do not live on natural talent alone. Then again, he's still a kid...