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  1. max silver
    Why would you say Varsho is a 85 wRC+ hitter when that's the outlier season in his career up to this point? Too many fans instantly assume a single bad season is the only one that counts because it happened in a Blue Jays uniform when they were watching and the previous more successful seasons basically don't exist because they didn't see it occur.
  2. max silver
    I'd be totally on board with the team making a bold move and sacking Mattingly and replacing him with Matt Hague. Hague seems to largely be behind the success of the AAA crew and with how poorly the offense has been performing there really isn't much to lose.
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    I would largely expect a rebuild behind the scenes similar to what occurred after the 2015/2016 teams reached their nadir. That didn't exactly prove to be the best strategy last time around as the team wasn't blown up when it became apparent the writing was on the wall, and likely won't be the proper strategy this time around either.
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    I felt he showed enough stuff and command wise that it was worth it to pick up the options. I think the TJ is largely a non factor at this point as the shoulder issue is something else altogether. Hopefully he's not out too much longer as the pen could really use another dependable arm right now.
  5. max silver
    Posting online about the Blue Jays right now is about as enjoyable as attending a funeral for your favorite childhood pet. It seems that most of the fanbase has forgotten that a baseball season is 6 months long, and a team is never quite as good as they seem when they are rolling and never quite as bad as they seem when things are going poorly. I won't go pretending I'm not concerned about the recent skid the team finds itself in, but there is still time to correct course as Manoah aside the rotation seems to be rounding into form and the offense has been showing signs of life. The bullpen is a big concern right now as there is a definite lack of trustworthy options right now.
  6. max silver
    You have so little self awareness that it's astounding. You are the poster child for ascribing all of Atkin's successes to "luck" so there's no reason to be patting yourself on the back.
  7. max silver
    The Green deal still has plenty of time to work out for the team so I don't know why you feel the need to dunk on that signing at this point.
  8. max silver
    This outing makes me wish Stuff+ results were broken down by inning. Alek appeared to be a completely different pitcher past the second inning or so. He flashed some really nice stuff and command in the early going including 95 MPH sinkers on the corners and some nasty sliders. His inning was already extended from the early Bo error and he suddenly lost his command and walked a bunch of hitters. He had a solid second inning where the stuff and command were both crisp, and then he started morphing back into the s***** 2023 version of himself where he had no command and his stuff completely backed up. Just a totally baffling outing given the extreme variance between where he started stuff and command wise and where he ended up.
  9. max silver
    That would have depended on getting Rogers to actually open up the pocketbooks to allow the team to make more significant trade deadline acquisitions.
  10. max silver
    I wonder if the team largely viewed Horwitz as trade bait given how they effectively blocked him with signings of Vogelbach and even Votto. Now with the team completely floundering it may actually make more sense to open a spot for Horwitz at some point, but that would mean moving one of Vlad or Turner to clear a spot for him.
  11. max silver
    It's sad that this entire window never really fully opened and it largely hinged on whether a certain heavyset player developed into the franchise player he was seemingly destined to be. Atkins used to take a ton of heat for not extending his young superstar players, but he may have actually been wise in waiting to see what these two players actually were before signing them to long term mega deals.
  12. max silver
    Yeah I just looked that up myself. No harm in my view in tweaking the lineup order a little depending on the starter so no big deal as long as the right guys are in the lineup.
  13. max silver
    Left handed starter on the mound today.
  14. max silver
    JP's *best* team won 87 games and still likely wouldn't have made the playoffs a single time even with expanded playoffs. This doesn't really feel like an apples to apples comparison if you are going to legitimately say that JP had more success in his tenure as Blue Jays GM. That makes no sense whatsoever.
  15. max silver
    Ok genius why don't you go ahead and inform me of what the JP era Blue Jays accomplished.
  16. max silver
    I'd absolutely lump Springer into that total to make a combined 0.1 FWAR for the 3 of them 5 weeks into the season.
  17. max silver
    By the time Atkins took the mic Schneider had already chucked himself in front of the oncoming bus so I don't see why Atkins should have been fired. That would just be a meaningless sacrifice to placate fan anger. If the team continues to flounder as it has for the first month and a bit Atkins will have fully earned his pink slip.
  18. max silver
    Holy crap there's some negative posters around here but this really takes the cake. There has been a lack of recent post season success no doubt but how many post season appearances did JP teams have exactly?
  19. max silver
    I recall hearing a rumor that the Angels hands were tied with regards to trading Ohtani due to the various marketing deals that were contingent on his presence with the team.
  20. max silver
    The team actually has a solid middle of the batting order and a passable bottom of the order. If/when the top 3 gets their s*** together the team should score plenty of runs. 4. Turner 154 wRC+ 5. Varsho 131 wRC+ 6. Jansen 191 wRC+ 7. Schneider 127 wRC+ 8. IFK/Clement 94/104 wRC+ 9. Biggio 102 wRC+
  21. max silver
    He largely has already returned to form as the last 3 starts are very solid. All that's missing is command of the splitter and then he'll be peak Gausman again.
  22. max silver
    I guess we can take solace that the offense can't get any worse...right?
  23. max silver
    I find it weird that someone would hate Joe Siddal to such a degree. My only complaint when he's doing color commentary during broadcasts is that he tends to talk a little too much like he's getting paid by the word or something.
  24. max silver
    This is 2 out of 3 solid starts for Alek. In his first AAA start it sounds as though he was largely BABIP'ed to death as his FIP was solid at 2.19. His second AAA start was pretty good with 2 ER over 5.2 innings of work and he allowed no walks. The 3rd start was the disaster where he had no command and walked a ton of hitters and garnered a lot of solid contact against, and that was followed up by the gem yesterday. All told in the 3 starts where he appeared to be commanding his pitches and working in the strike zone he walked only 3 batters in a combined 14.2 innings so it appears as though his strike throwing ability and command are improving a lot over time.
  25. max silver
    It will be interesting to see over time how the braced ligaments hold up compared to the fully recovered ligaments.
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