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Barger has the strongest infield arm in the Blue Jays organization, and the team really has no other available replacements for Chapman if he leaves. It would be a bit of a waste of his toolset to park him at second base.

Chase Field has actually been slightly pitcher friendly over the last few seasons.

Any idea what he's changed for this season? It seems that his batted ball issues have only become worse, with an extremely high flyball ratio with little line drive contact and far too may popups. He's at least cut down on some of the strikeouts though.

I'd like to see Nate receive a little more regular work. He's barely been used since his callup as he's only appeared in 4 games in the roughly two weeks since he's been called up. It would have to be a bit difficult to show pinpoint command with such infrequent work.

I think Bo has improved tremendously defensively up to this point. He'll likely never be an above average defender but he's been very steady for the most part this season and making the plays he's supposed to.

The icing on the cake of misery is the likely Tiedemann injury.

I recall Schneider's explanation for bringing in Mayza was something along the likes of Santana being less likely to hit a home run from the right side, and Mayza was likely to coax a ground ball out of him to alleviate a lot of the pressure. I'll never understand that decision as nearly every other reliever in the bullpen was far more suited to face Santana from the left side than Mayza was to face him from the right side.

Yeah I'd probably flip Kirk and Varsho in the order but that's a relatively minor gripe.

Marcus Semien received a 7 year $175 million contract from the Rangers. I would expect this would make a good starting point for prospective Chapman bids in free agency.

For what it's worth he basically played a full season in 2020's covid shortened season. His contract is a warning sign for the potential downside of signing long term deals with 30+ year old players. You can never tell how a guy's body is going to hold up over time.

It seems to me that Schneider outlines exactly what his thought process was after every game when moves don't work out. I don't always fully agree with his reasoning but there is always a certain amount of logic behind them. It's early in the season, and the team is still trying to establish a pecking order for the bullpen, and determine which players are going to be contributors and which ultimately aren't going to get the job done. It seems that a lot of the moves are taking the long view on a six month season instead of applying the type of pressure that would apply to a post season game. I can get behind trying to save certain relievers for different parts of the lineup, not using relievers when they are in the yellow zone/use only in case of emergency instead of green zone and fully available, and placing a certain amount of trust in players until they show they aren't to be trusted. A manager that manages every single game like it's game 7 of the world series is going to leave a good chunk of his players mostly rotting on the bench and burn out his most trusted relievers by the end of May. Ultimately a team that is on a 100 win pace despite a tough early schedule and not having yet clicked on all cylinders is in a really good place.

The Red Sox and Mariners aren't necessarily basement teams though. The Mariners were a playoff team last season, and aside from against the Jays the Red Sox were better than a .500 team last season. The Rays and Orioles have had very easy schedules compared to the Jays up to this point as well, once they start playing tougher competition on a regular basis we will get a better idea where each team stands.

The team has played at a 100 win pace since Schneider took over. If that is indicative to you of a manager that is hurting his team I would suggest you don't have very realistic expectations.

From what I can gather this front office has always been cognizant of leaving available funds to add at the trade deadline to shore up any obvious weaknesses. Aside from that it appears as though Shapiro has much better support from Rogers higher ups than was previously the case under other regimes. The days of going around in the clubhouse with a hat for salary donations is a thing of the past.

There is also other extenuating factors to consider such as umpires who are having a rough game calling balls and strikes, and the seemingly random luck related factors that can directly contribute to extra runs being scored. Bassit was f***ed over hard by the home plate umpire in last night's game for instance, and instead of being out of the inning with zero runs scored allowed a grand slam later in the inning. Garcia for instance made a great pitch in the 9th last night that led to a weak grounder to second, but it was so softly hit that the runner was able to advance to second, scoring on a base hit later on. A little harder hit ball may have led to a force out or even a double play and then the game ends before extra innings. The manager putting his relievers in a position to succeed matters a lot as well. Using Bass in a leverage situation against a left handed batter late in the game despite his struggles instead of Mayza, who's only use is retiring left handed batters was asking for trouble.

Darryl Sutter was fired today. This was well earned as I can't recall a more disappointing Flames season in all my years of fandom.

Right on, I look forward to seeing the results. I recall an interesting Chris Black Twitter thread which outlined how Kirk had a better ERA in 2022 with quite a few key members of the Jays pitching staff vs Jansen. I think he was outlining the difference was more due to Kirk's better framing vs Jansen vs a pitch calling issue though. It seems odd that they would call a dramatically different game though given how each player is using the same scouting reports and the information is readily available in their wristband cheat sheets, but it certainly seems reasonable to think that Jansen is better at this given how much more experience he has vs Kirk.

Is there a tab or something to click for this, or did you need to crunch some of the numbers on your own? I think the reliever information may be more useful if you were to compare individual relievers with Jansen calling vs Kirk calling to make it more of an apples to apples comparison. Let's hypothetically surmise that Kirk has been saddled with a bunch of Cimber and Bass appearances for instance, where Jansen has seen appearances with more effective relievers like Swanson and Romano (not saying this is the case, just wondering what the splits look like).

Where do you go to look up this information?

Did Kirk originally call slider or was that pitch shaken to by the pitcher?

The club's overall pitching numbers are insane the last two times through the rotation. The team as a whole has put up a 1.91 ERA/2.53 FIP with 10.52 K/9 vs 1.92 BB/9.

I was perfectly fine with the construction of the Jays pen and I'm on record stating I thought it could become a strength if Pearson and Green were able to pitch up to their capabilities. I'm perfectly fine with the team signing Kiermaier as he fit in the team's budget better, however I didn't feel the need to constantly run down the other choice due to an obvious deeply rooted set of insecurities such as you display. I like both Jansen and Kirk as the two of them formed MLB's most productive catching duo last season. Early on Jansen's framing numbers look to be greatly improved so he very well may have shored up his only major weakness. If you think it's cool or somehow gives you credibility to talk s*** about a legitimately good player who plays in the team I assume you are cheering for, then you are even dumber than you appear based on the constant stream of nonsense that you post. The incessant back patting and low quality troll baiting are simply exposing you as the loud mouth low knowledge fraud that you are.

Jansen is arguably the team's hottest hitter right now, but I wouldn't expect the likes of you to actually recognize that. Over his last 8 games Jansen has produced a 225 WRC+ with very solid underlying numbers to back it up.

Just like you told us that Bellinger was completely washed up. Oh wait, he's already produced 1.1 WAR in only 22 games. Or how about when you told us that Nick Frasso was a total nothing prospect. At a quick glance he's currently tearing up AA with a 1.86 FIP and 13 K/9. It seems that more often than not you are shown to be completely full of s*** with your bold proclamations.