Omar

While everyone is aware that the Darth Vader school of management is now an anachronism there has to be consequences. We’ve witnessed some absurd mental errors on the base pads and in the field this year. I haven’t seen a player sitting the next game after blunders and I have been paying attention. It is apparent Charlie manages players in such a way that they fear no repercussions no matter how big the gaffe. Good managers don’t manage out of fear of their direct reports. It is so obvious that he is afraid of giving Bo a rest day like the rest of the team because Bo would call him out on it. So Bo doesn’t get rest days and everyone else does. The Laissez faire approach to managing a ball club doesn’t work. It never has. He is a terrible skipper.

The American League gave up on catching NY a month ago.

Yikes....we're screwed.

Perhaps this is the low point of the season. When looking into the abyss, it is then that the Jays find themselves. .....or it's just not our year.

Last time Gsnarls started a gdt was against Boston on June 29....final score that game? You guessed it, a loss 6 to 5.

What is going on here? The Mariners will upset the Yanks and will be going to the Series this year. The drought will end in 2022. Calling it now.

You know he has great instincts on defense. His body has not caught up to his mind. He is going to be really good.

Yep. Lot of posters s***ing on him and his approach; and I understand. But he has excelled at every level he's been in since little league with that approach. He isn't going to change it based on a rough stretch. He's an iconoclast when it comes to hitting.

Here put on the HR jacket! Bo: "f*** off"

Nice pick by Vladdy.

He wants to be somewhere else.

Should we just start playing the Benny Hill music in the background?

Terrible, just terrible.

What's going on with Mayza's release point? Seems different every game since he came back from the IL.

Rodrigues with a Clemente like arm.

Clean first inning! All hail Maximus!

You dodged a bullet.

Let's give the western Canada Jays fans in attendance something to cheer for today!

We need a crooked number today to let them know we're not pushovers.

Do you know what goes in to pitching development? How many years? The success rate? First of all, teams don't just decide to get better at pitching development. They don't turn coal into gold. Pitching development is completely dependent on the raw material scouting gives them (Alek Manoah!). The seeds are planted in scouting. Read scouting reports on pitchers before they enter milb, they all look to the same stuff: Velo, Delivery, Secondary pitches, Control, Command, Mound demeanor. Many teams have had the same scouts for years, some turn them over every 5 years or so. Across the league teams have been reducing their scouting departments over the last decade. In the Riccardi era the Jays had something like 35 scouts. When AA came aboard he bumped it to over 55 (he came out of scouting himself) and with Shapiro/Atkins they pared it down to about 50, choosing to go with a balance between statistical analysis and traditional scouting. The depth of scouting (# of scouts) doesn't make you better. Sometimes early scouting pans out and sometimes it doesn't. So every 6 years or so, a team may look like it has s***** scouting or poor scouting based on actualy results at the AA level and higher. If it was 2010 to 2016 you would be saying the Astros don't know how to scout pitching. They do. So do the Jays. Oh and you know who has one of the smallest scouting/development departments in mlb? The Astros, around 18 scouts currently. So when you say other teams "have done it in less time" I don't think you're taking in account all the variables. Do we need better arms? Yes, everyone does. Does our dearth of good arms in the pen doesn't mean we need to overhaul pitching development. No.

July 10 Vladdy - 1 Point - Kirk - 1Point - Springer - 1 Point - Bichette - 2 Points Chapman - 2 Points - Hernández - 2 Points - JaysAllMighty, Omar Gurriel Jr - 4 Points - Dylan Espinal - 6 Points - Biggio - 6 Points - Moreno - 8 Points - LTBF Tapia - 8 Points - Zimmer - 9 Points - Off the bench: 10 Points -

They are soft. No grit. They need a guiding hand of a manager who has some piss and vinegar.

What are you having fun for?

Now only three games up on the Orioles.....let that sink in.