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Yeah Martin's daughters are destined to become serial killers because they heard their mother called their father's partner. I am really going to grieve over this.

Exactly this dude, it's nobody else's business what somebody wants to call their significant other. That's completely irrelevant and has zero effect on society in any way or fashion. This feels more like a thinly veiled commentary that is actually railing against a completely different topic.

The raw stuff is legit. His command has been pretty poor pretty often though with too many center center meatballs.

Great play by Bo. I assume that is it for Berrios, he pitched really well. That's two really encouraging starts for both him and Kikuchi in this series. The Rays offence isn't exactly the Yankees but still great starts nonetheless.

If he pumps 97 MPH high spin heaters up in the zone like yesterday he'll do just fine.

Careful what you wish for...

So how many lucky hits are the Rays up to now?

Seems unlikely seeing how he's averaged 20 pitches per inning so far through 4.

Not exactly the tallest mountain to climb.

It's huge getting into the Rays bullpen in the 4th inning the day before a doubleheader.

Wtf? Only 1 run allowed through 4 and that should have been cut down at the plate.

Watching Kirk grit his teeth and turn on the afterburners is one of life's greatest pleasures.

A double for you and a double for you and a double for you...

Jays doing what they do so often and teeing off the starter second time through the order.

Umm 3rd inning man and score is 1-0, no need to jump off the ledge so soon.

Yeah he did a good job to limit the Rays to the single run and could have escaped with no damage easily enough.

Yeah defence not executing early on.

Chapman goes home there for sure.

Total s*** luck for Berrios.

Decent start for Berrios here. He threw some decent 2 seamers and curveballs, but also got away with some 4 seam meatballs.

I need to see more of Castillo before assigning any kind of MLB utility to him. His expected stats are vomit worthy as he's allowed a 70% hard hit rate on balls in play leading to an xERA of over 10. This should even out over time but the guy is red flags galore early on.

A few high quality additions to the pen will allow the remaining members to slot into more appropriate leverage levels. Removing the deadweight members from the pen will also allow the club to keep games close more frequently as well instead of regularly seeing gasoline poured on the fire by guys that don't even belong in MLB, let alone pitching in leverage situations.

I think Bo is just in a bit of a slump. For the first three weeks of June he was right at his career average with a 118 WRC+. His k rate was 23.2%, and his walk rate was nice at 9.5%. The last week has been pretty rough with a 54 WRC+ and walk rate of 3.7% and k rate of 33.3%. The small sample of bad at bats has a large effect on the overall numbers for the month. When we look at a larger sample of games, going back two months he's produced a 125 WRC+, and been worth 1.6 FWAR. This is a 6 win pace over a full season. He's far too talented of a player for this to be more than a bit of a speed bump where he's battling a bit. This appears to be much the same situation for Teoscar as well. For the first three weeks of June he really mashed, with a 180 WRC+, 5.7% walk rate and 26.4% k rate. The last week has been a struggle with a 41 WRC+, 0% walk rate and 38.1% k rate. Just like Bo we've seen enough of him by this point to know this is nothing more than a slump as he's had plenty of time to establish himself as a well above average hitter. Going back over his last 2 full seasons worth of play he's about a 4 win player per season and a 130 WRC+ bat. He'll emerge from this and continue to mash once again.

That's why I'm legitimately baffled that some people are advocating for the front office to sell at the trade deadline. This team has a very solid base of talent and has yet to fire on all cylinders as a team, yet is still in a good position in the standings. It seems every time the club has a rough week or two some people tend to panic over a small segment of games where the team looks bad instead of looking at the season as a 6 month venture that is going to naturally have peaks and valleys throughout.

LMAO that reminds of when the Jays dugout used a giant foam finger for high fives from Brett Lawrie for celebrations on the bench.