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  1. max silver
    Not sure how that's really relevant. Orelvis likely wasn't ready for AA on his first go round, that's on the front office for an overly aggressive promotion.
  2. max silver
    It appears at a glance that Alex De Jesus hit for the cycle tonight. His line shows 4 hits, including a double, triple, and home run. Frasso has struggled tremendously in recent outings so with De Jesus heating up in recent days the sting of the White trade is starting to dissipate a little bit.
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    If Manoah really struggles the front office isn't saving face by keeping him on the roster, they would be actively costing the team a chance to win the games he's starting in. They would take infinitely more heat rostering an ineffective starter that wasn't ready to come back then they would if they reverse course and send him back down.
  4. max silver
    I don't imagine Manoah will be given a lot of rope, so if he's really struggling early on he will most likely receive a quick hook. Francis and Richards will likely both be available to soak up innings if necessary. It isn't the end of the world if he struggles, he can simply be sent back down to the minors to continue working on his craft. If he succeeds then the team added a much needed rotation piece, if he struggles and gets sent down they either make a trade or continue with the occasional bullpen days until Ryu is ready to return. I think the potential upside of a successful Manoah return likely outweigh the drawbacks of him needing to make more starts in the minors.
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    I don't think it's nearly that dire of a situation unless you think Manoah is a sensitive wallflower who can't handle a bit of adversity. It's far from ideal if he has to bounce back and forth a bit but ending his career because he has to go back to the minors?
  6. max silver
    Ryu made his first rehab start today for the Florida Coast League team. His final line looks encouraging enough, I haven't seen any reports yet how his stuff looked yet. 3 IP, 4 H, O BB, 1 ER, 5 SO
  7. max silver
    This team is right smack dab in the middle of what appears to be a 5 year competitive window. Each of Bo and Vlad only have two years of remaining control, with Gausman and Springer are under control for similar timeframes. Throwing away this season gives a giant middle finger to the players on the roster as well as the fanbase. That's great if some prospects are attained, but unless they are of the nearly major league ready variety they are not going to do anything to help with this current window.
  8. max silver
    Given the cost and makeup of this roster I don't know if any major external upgrades are going to be in the cards for this season. There is always room for another leverage bullpen arm and a righty slugging outfielder/DH type would be nice to have, but I have a hard time seeing Vlad/Kirk/Varsho etc. being benched moving forward so they are eventually going to need to find their way out of their respective funks. This team still hasn't really gotten it's offense going at the midway point of the season so it's perfectly fair to wonder if this is all the offense is going to be capable of, but given the names on the roster there should be more in the tank. If/when they finally figure out the RISP issues runs scoring will be far less of an issue, and this team has hit a surprising lack of home runs given how much power there is up and down the lineup. They really need to be examining the practice routines, approach, coaching methods etc. to get to the bottom of how badly this offense has underperformed so far.
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    The players would revolt if the team was torn down while still in the thick of the playoff hunt. This team has been built with the playoffs in mind and if the players perform up to their capabilities they can make some noise in the post season. Knee jerk reactions like firing the GM mid-season would accomplish nothing, but if the team fails to make the post season I agree Atkins should be shown the door.
  10. max silver
    Yeah this guy wants the front office to say f*** it and throw away the competitive cycle they spent years building up to.
  11. max silver
    I think Bo tried to slow down/stop and realized he was well past halfway to home already. He almost certainly would have been a dead duck at third much like he was at home so it's a pick your poison scenario at that point.
  12. max silver
    Wouldn't working on his pitching mechanics and overall stuff also help him to drop unnecessary weight as well? I don't see that the team has anything to lose by having Alek work on conditioning and overall pitching game at the same time with hopes of an eventual 2023 return unless you would prefer 2024 to be a guaranteed write-off.
  13. max silver
    Some of these guys are literally impossible to please. If the team loses a game all hell breaks loose. Win against the A's and it doesn't count because the A's suck. Win 2 of 3 against a white hot team and there is whining because it wasn't a blowout.
  14. max silver
    If Kirk's game calling is this big of an issue the only way he'll get better is by working with trickier pitchers calling their game for them. He can't be sheltered forever.
  15. max silver
    Yeah I don't see a lot of benefit to what would essentially amount to publicly tarring and feather the guy.
  16. max silver
    This should hopefully help the board feel a little better after last night's collective meltdown.
  17. max silver
    I have no doubt the guy is pushing 300 pounds, but it seems just a little over the top to suggest that he's twice the size he was in college.
  18. max silver
    So Manoah was 140-150 pounds in college?
  19. max silver
    Hard to find any kind of silver lining in that overall line. I guess can only get better moving forward at least. Does the organization dare to send him out against the opposition for his next start or is it back to the lab and simulated games for the immediate future?
  20. max silver
    Is Karen honestly the best you can come up with? On second thought that's about par for the course so carry on.
  21. max silver
    There are a lot of really good developments on this team that are largely overshadowed by the disappointments. Like Bo improving by leaps and bounds defensively while continuing to be an offensive force, Brandon Belt has been a stout offensive addition to the lineup, Kiermaier has bounced back completely defensively after hip surgery and been a solid contributor from the bottom of the order etc.
  22. max silver
    This is just one more example of us good Albertan boys getting treated like second class citizens. It seems that everything that ills this province is Trudeau's fault so to hell with that guy eh?
  23. max silver
    It's almost like there is a plague of online Blue Jays critic zombies. These people exist solely to spread their hatred of the front office. Their doctrine is largely based on worshiping the altar of Alex Anthopoulos. This directly leads to a tendency to hate everything about the current front office, and this extends all the way down to the manager whose sole purpose is to be a slave of the front office. I think one of the foremost board members of this zombie cult is Gruber who is constantly complaining about how Ross Atkins directly sets the daily lineup.
  24. max silver
    Having the potential of adding an impact arm like Chad Green available around the time of the deadline is a massive coup for the front office. Trade prices are likely to be insane this year due to the amount of teams battling for a playoff spot around the league.
  25. max silver
    This dude is targeting the highly affluential GTA members of the BJMB.
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