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If Moreno hadn't suffered that hand injury and lost his power for several seasons after I don't think he would have been traded in the first place.

The Twins outfield defence on the other hand was fantastic and very well may have saved the game for them with a lot of great plays. And Correa made a tremendous play to absolutely nail Bo at the plate so they weren't THAT bad.

Wait you are saying Connorp is logical? That's a very illogical statement.

Kikuchi ran out of gas towards the end of the season. His stuff+ cratered to 94 in the last month of the season compared to his season average of 105. Hopefully the stuff plays out of the pen if he's needed in the wild card series.

Berrios had a 3.89 ERA/4.09 FIP in the second half, compared to 3.65/3.99 entire season numbers so he pitched pretty much the same as the rest of the season. You raise a good point about the lefty splits as Bassitt was hit pretty hard by left handed hitters as a whole this season and absolutely torched on the road where he allowed a .427 WOBA.

Dan and Buck were musing about how Jansen could potentially make it back for the playoffs if the Jays won a few rounds but I don't recall anything more concrete than that.

Because he's a walking bad luck omen? It certainly does seem like misfortune follows the poor guy wherever he goes. Maybe next season he can break the curse if he comes back to the Blue Jays in free agency.

I wonder if we will ever find out the rest of the evidence in the Bauer case. I recall there were supposed to be multiple accusers against Bauer but I don't recall any of that information leaking out at any point. The initial suspension was actually reduced by a large amount but this didn't seem to completely exonerate Bauer as his suspension was reduced from 324 games to 194 games which was still the largest domestic violence suspension in league history. It seems likely by that point that there were serious holes in the initial accuser's story and that it could pretty much be ruled to be ******** at that point, but if the 2 other accusers and 20 witnesses called produced zero evidence of serious impropriety it seems more likely the suspension would have been completely nullified. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/35307636/trevor-bauer-mlb-suspension-reduction-dodgers

Pretty much any team in MLB could benefit from having Bauer in their rotation. We shall see if there are any teams willing to put up with the eventual media circus enough to sign him to a contract.

The Jays are actually a better road team vs home team so playing this series on the road isn't necessarily a bad thing. They have a top 7 run scoring offense on the road vs bottom 8 at home so road games might be a benefit.

Wait the Blue Jays would have been playing the Twins on the road if they won 100 games?

Still beating this dead horse I see. I just can't see how it's worth throwing away several months of development of Tiedemann as a starter on the off chance that he can retire MLB batters out of the bullpen. He would have needed to be called up in August to test this out, and then he would have likely been limited to low leverage spots at first with limited opportunities to actually get into games based on how many close games the team plays. Then he would have eventually needed to work his way into more trusted leverage innings over time with sustained success in lower pressure spots. This could very well remove Tiedemann as a legitimate depth starter option for next season as he would receive far fewer innings and not have a chance to build his innings base for the future, and this could even stretch a further season into 2025 with a further limited available workload. Bringing him up would have necessitated sending down a deserving reliever to AAA or even cutting bait completely and losing an asset from the team as well. All of this would also entail starting his service clock early as previously mentioned as well. This could lead to situations such as Tiedemann becoming a super 2 player and reaching salary arbitration sooner, costing the team a very large extra amount of money for a single season potential bullpen bump.

So a one game sample in a fake simulated game means we should be ultra concerned about Lewis, yet you get your panties in a knot when I use samples of several months in my posts. Totally checks out.

It must really grind your gears to see Cavan picking up big hits and making defensive gems all over the field given how you've been s***ing on him for years now.

If he took his demotion to AAA like a man he likely would have been the first one in line for a call-up to start todays game and could have celebrated with the club.

Jesus Christ you're dumb. The team needed some length from their starter so Parsons was called up. It's zero to do with robots/people skills or whatever stupid s*** you want to fixate on.

Do you ever stop f***ing whining? Goddamn it's piss bitch whine moan 24/7.

I think I caught a glimpse of him.

Margot is having a truly awful series in the field.

Varsho has caught enough innings in his career that it's not like he's forgotten his catching skills. You would think after seeing how dangerous the position is this season and losing Jansen to a broken finger you would understand the danger of using Varsho behind the plate in anything other than an emergency situation.

You presently have a dildo up your rear end don't you? Nah man, I don't care about Bass'es opinions but the stupid motherf***er was entirely responsible for his own undoing as all he had to do was speak a few platitudes and then keep his damn mouth shut.

If you're going to tank you may as well do it right like today.

Yea bass was such a stand-up individual that you just have to feel bad for him.

Overdramatic much? It was mentioned in the broadcast that it's very unlikely anyone will claim Jackson and he'll most likely be available for the post season if needed.

I put a healthy Rays team right up there with the Braves as one of baseball's best teams, but they are so injury riddled right now that they are ripe for the picking. That team deserves a ton of credit for their organizational depth as they seem to be able to overcome a litany of injuries every season and keep on winning a ton of games.