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  1. max silver
    Hoffman has been almost comically unlucky with results on batted balls but his last few games have featured horrible stuff and command. Hopefully this is a result of fatigue and not underlying injury of some sort. Stuff+/Location+ 5-30 95/62 5-28 94/74
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    I'm not an angry simpleton who thinks that this was an easy situation and believe no matter where you inserted Hoffman he easily could have blown the game. If Hoffman came in during the 7th with how much rope Schneider gave him the team would likely be losing before he was replaced. They had a precarious 1 run lead at that point, and with how quickly things unraveled for Hoffman there's nearly no chance that the Blue Jays would have still been leading by the time he was replaced even if the manager had a much quicker hook. Hoffman was given the easiest job of any of the relievers that came into the game as he was facing the bottom of the lineup with a 4 run lead. It's hindsight criticism to suggest that it's Schneider's fault that Hoffman picked a really bad time to experience a meltdown. Hoffman had pitched to a 1.64 FIP in the month of May and was looking the best he had as a Blue Jay since the month of April a season ago.
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    I had that thought as well, but at the same time I don't know if Varland can keep being pushed to the degree he has been early this season. If the team loses him due to injury as a result of overwork they are rightly f#$ked.
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    I don't but this in the slightest. Hoffman came into the game with a combination of crappy stuff and no command and it likely wouldn't have mattered what inning he pitched in.
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    If I recall correctly the game was much closer in the 7th inning when Rogers entered and if Hoffman came in at that time featuring the lack of stuff and command he featured them he likely would have allowed the Orioles to take the lead at that point. There's just no easy solution here as the team plays a ton of close games, only has 3 healthy starters and is missing bullpen pieces as well. My only real complaint was that Hoffman was left in for several hitters too many which left an impossible situation for Seabold.
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    That is my main complaint as well. Hoffman had been pitching quite well recently including some 9th inning appearances. Varland took the tougher matchup in the 8th inning so unless Hoffman was used in the 7th and Rogers in the 9th Hoffman needed to be used somewhere in this game.
  7. max silver
    Fingers crossed he shows enough to enable an immediate Sosa DFA as soon as he is eligible to return from the injured list.
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    Valenzuela has been so good that there may not be a need to push Kirk this hard. I'm waiting to see if the club will be willing to put Springer in the outfield a bit once the toe is healed up as that can open up DH time for Kirk.
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    The same kind of thing has been happening to Ernie Clement this season. I think his second base issues are largely due to a basic defensive slump which is something he's gone through in the past, albeit this time it's taken him a bit longer to get out of the slump compared to prior seasons.
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    Yeah we shall see how Valenzuela looks at the plate once Kirk returns. I tend to think that Kirk is going to be eased back into action a bit and as such Valenzuela will be receiving regular playing time for at least the first few weeks. Valenzuela is bound to hit a slump at some point as he's still human but the quality of his plate appearances are very impressive at this point to the point of walking more than he strikes out since he dropped the leg kick. I think the Trajekt machines are a bit of a cheat code to allow players to keep their swings largely intact in reduced playing time bench roles but not seeing real live pitching with as much regularity will certainly be a test for Valenzuela.
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    Kirk maxed out at 965 innings last season. That works out to about 2 out of every 3 game and leaves about 3 games a week for Valenzuela. The team is dramatically better with a Kirk/Valenzuela tandem as they are both impact players on both sides of the ball when locked in at the plate. Heineman is basically like a bad hitting pitcher with the stick this season as he's an auto bunt every time a runner is on base ahead of him. I legitimately think there's a good chance he would pass through waivers if DFA'd.
  12. max silver
    Hoffman has been lights out spamming his slider continuously. It's kind of crazy the club waited this long to simply have him throw his best pitch more often.
  13. max silver
    Good grief this team feels cursed by the injury bug this season. It's good that the club had plenty of solid depth options for the pen to bring up from Buffalo as needed.
  14. max silver
    Yeah I see 0% chance that the MLBPA would accept this proposal.
  15. max silver
    He's had some really nice seasons as a bench player and underwent similar struggles last season before his Buffalo reset where he returned to MLB and mashed.
  16. max silver
    We shall see once he's activated.
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    I think the lack of time for Okamoto at first base is more of a knockoff effect of the team lacking in middle infield options. This largely forces Clement to second base and that largely staples Okamoto to third base as he and Clement are the only real options on the club to man the position presently.
  18. max silver
    I think Kirk is going to be very carefully eased back into game action coming off of a broken thumb.
  19. max silver
    It feels like it would be awfully rushed to speed Perry through the minors to this degree.
  20. max silver
    Valenzuela has been an impact player on both sides of the ball since dropping the leg kick at the plate. I'm really hoping that Heineman is sent packing once Kirk is ready to return as Kirk and Valenzuela would make for a very potent 1A/1B catching tandem.
  21. max silver
    If he can recover the stuff he displayed in his first start of the season before the elbow tendinitis flared up he's absolutely a reinforcement. The Blue Jays are reinforcing the old adage about how beggars can't be choosers and anyone that can even log some innings out of the rotation is worth a look. The guy is being paid whether he's pitching or not and there's little to no harm in allowing him to build up to find out what's left in the tank.
  22. max silver
    Hopefully the team doesn't continue with the constant shuffling of players on and off of the injured list.
  23. max silver
    Real men would just spit some tobacco juice on their elbow so who cares if you can't feel your fingers. You just put some extra pine tar on the bat so the good fingers get a little more grip to make up for it.
  24. max silver
    This stinks of confirmation bias. If Otto's results simply line up with the expected statistics that places him in the 115-120 wRC+ range. This is a player with an xBA .288 of and an xSLG of .450 which is a very solid combination of average and slug. Yes he's seemingly getting a little lucky with the results but the underlying numbers are still very solid. He'll need to prove that he can continue to produce over a full season but he's already produced for a far longer period than Gimenez managed a season ago as that only lasted a week or two.
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    There's far more to this conversation than just age. Yesavage was already built up to a far higher workload as he threw 93 innings in college in his draft season. Perry has maxed out at 46 innings in 2024 prior to UCL surgery and will likely be shut down far before the major league season ends.
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