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Great job by Yimi.

The two of them have nearly identical numbers over the last 4 months so either one is fine.

He's trying to single handedly will the team to victory today.

Just what the doctor ordered.

Wow great play by Varsho limiting that hit to a single.

Green wasn't all that yesterday either though.

He's a prime candidate to be left off of the playoff roster just like Ryu.

Well f*** so much for that lead.

I still find the recent offence encouraging as the team wasn't even scoring against s***** pitchers for a good chunk of the season.

Varsho gets it done again!

Nice inning for Richards.

Wow that was a bomb. Varsho has been coming up huge lately.

They need to get Ryu the f*** out of there before the score becomes our of reach.

It looks like the leash on Ryu is going to need to be very short today as the Rays are all over his pitches early on.

I don't think there's enough information to make a properly informed choice. It's next to impossible for hitter B to actually exist, and to run this type of split would require an extremely small sample size of plate appearances.

I specifically recall that you were the president of the Raimel Tapia fan club last season so you must be heartbroken to see him on the roster of the enemy.

That's a good thing you don't take yourself seriously because nobody else does. For what it's worth I've yet to receive a single booster shot as of yet but thank you for your concern.

Who peed in your cornflakes this morning? You're fuller of piss and vinegar than usual, good on you as it looks like your balls finally dropped after years of serving as the resident board punching bag. I didn't claim anywhere that Varsho is having a great offensive season, but merely pointing out that he's turned the corner and given the team a few consecutive solid months of production at the plate at a time when the club really needs it given the struggles of much of the roster. He's been hitting much more like the player the front office thought they traded for over the course of nearly a third of a full season so it's not just a small sample size anymore. It's obviously hard for you to grasp that a player is going to see ebbs and flows at the plate over the course of a 6 month season, and it's a good thing that Varsho has largely been hitting well at the most important time of the year heading into the playoffs. Varsho still only has 1600 MLB plate appearances in his career and very well not be a finished product at the plate. Varsho has been one of the Blue Jays players who has struggled hitting at home this season as he's produced a 107 WRC+ on the road vs only 60 at home. Breaking down the numbers further it's specifically only right handed pitchers he's primarily struggled against this season, but once again only at home with 50 WRC+ vs 106 WRC+ on the road. At this time of the year I place a hell of a lot more importance over who is hot at the plate and who isn't rather than looking at overall season numbers and making proclamations about how so and so sucks and how so and so is awesome. Like Whit Merrifield has provided the team with a decent enough season with a 97 WRC+ and nearly 2 FWAR, but the guy has been ice cold for several months and has provided very little offensive help to a struggling team.

He's exactly as good as advertised in the outfield. His technique is pretty astounding as he doesn't have elite physical tools (good but far from elite speed, low end velocity on throws etc.).

I was perusing the team's stats and aside from Schneider's flashes of brilliance Varsho has arguably been the team's most valuable position player over the last few months. He's historically been a stronger offensive contributor over the second half in his brief career and this season is no exception. He's been hitting especially well since early August as he's produced a 120 WRC+ over his last 47 games. If Varsho can keep his bat above water while playing in center field full time next season he will have a very good shot to be the team's highest WAR contributor.

I generally don't wish injuries on players but in the case of Manoah it could be a blessing in disguise if his issues this season stemmed from arm related injuries as he and his camp seem to believe. I recall he received some sort of injections in his pitching arm recently, although there has been no information shared as to the nature of these injections, whether PRP, prolotherapy, corticosteroid (hopefully not this type) etc.

I'd have no issue with the team calling Tiedemann up to help the team if it was a break glass in case of emergency type of situation with the pitching staff but that was far from the case this season. They had really good health in the starting rotation and the bullpen had enough depth to cover the occasional short term injury as well.

David Price came out of college throwing 133 innings in his final year. He was about as close to major league ready as you can find out of the draft and made his MLB debut at age 22 after throwing 109 innings in the minors that season. Ricky Tiedemann by comparison has only thrown 122 innings in his entire career and would be debuting at age 20. The Jays have been very aggressive with promotions when they deem a player being ready for prime time (Manoah debuting with very little time in the minors, Kirk coming up straight from A ball etc.) but I would still side with being a little more cautious with Tiedemann given his importance to the long term success of the organization. Nearly half of this team's salary obligations are tied up in the starting rotation and they really need to start developing more of their own pitching if long term sustainability is to be realistic.

The organization has had a lot of success avoiding major injuries to their rotation for several years now. Eventually it should be acknowledged that it's more than dumb luck that has allowed the team to field consistently healthy starting rotations.

Some of it's luck for sure, and some of it could be attributed to not pushing the starters well past the 100 pitch mark every time out. I think it's smart to pull the starters a little earlier from time to time instead of having them empty the tank every time out as injuries become far more likely as fatigue accumulates over the course of a season.