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I believe the Blue Jays have baseball's best offense and also think they have a legitimate shot to beat the Dodgers. Bo believes he's going to be good to go for the World Series and he can be a massive difference maker.
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Hoffman stepped up big time when it really mattered. He was dealing with diminished velocity but commanded his pitches so effectively it didn't matter.
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Wow the boys got it done. I wasn't feeling great about their chances but in true 2025 Blue Jays fashion they pulled off a big comeback late. Bieber wasn't great today but the pen put up a tremendous performance with Hoffman completely shutting the door in the 9th inning. George Springer hit one of the biggest home runs in the history of the team and I can't wait for the Dodgers on Friday.
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Why on earth would I feel the need to delete it? Varland has coughed up home runs at really inopportune times and allowed a lot of inherited runners to score. XFIP can't account for this, and ERA isn't able to either.
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The 5.10 FIP paints a much different picture. He's been scary at times when brought in with runners on base given the inability to keep the ball in the park.
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I think it largely comes down to IKF being a better option against the high velocity fastballs largely featured by the Mariner's rotation.
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Thank goodness the rotation has generally pitched very well throughout the post season.
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Have you actually been watching Hoffman pitch in the post season? He's been tremendous and has hardly given the opposition anything. He's presently featuring a 1.42 ERA/1.72 FIP and has been the type of shutdown reliever the team has needed when he's been called into games.
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Holy moly man somebody needs to back off of the ledge. Hoffman just pitched 2 tremendous innings and struck out 4 hitters. Apparently we weren't watching the same pitcher because I saw a guy dominate the Mariners.
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I think this team has what it takes to beat the Dodgers. Fingers crossed they get the job done tonight, but whatever happens it's been a magical run this season.
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Jays stepped up big time in this one. Trey Yesavage has balls of steel as he added another post season gem to his already impressive resume. The defense put on a clinic, with little plays like Varsho holding the runners with a quick relay to the infield, to the 3 double plays and so on. Superstar Vlad just keeps on shining brighter and brighter and he's playing the best baseball of his career in all 3 phases of the game, including creating runs on the bases and providing stellar defense. Of course John Schneider had to do something stupid with his bullpen as that's entirely on point in recent games. Thankfully Hoffman was given the chance to face the top of the Mariners lineup and looked tremendous in closing the door, but why on God's green earth did he need to come back out for a second inning of work with a 4 run lead? Like Schneider refuses to use him in a 1 run game but leaves him out there for 6 outs with a 4 run lead, I just don't understand.
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You forgot to add no Brendan Little in a close game in the later innings.
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The Blue Jays are perfectly capable of beating the Mariners twice in a row, but holy f@ck it would be nice if they only had to win one out of two games to close out the series.
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I don't think we need to look beneath the surface for reasons to excuse this decision. Hoffman hasn't been given an actual leverage inning in a close game in this post season, and this speaks volumes about how little faith his manager has in him. I was right alongside everyone else feeling nervous at times when Hoffman was brought in to close games late, but I never felt that completely avoiding using him in close games was a palatable solution due to the lack of better options. This has turned into a careful what you wish for scenario as there was a lot of the sentiment that Hoffman simply couldn't be trusted in close games in the post season, and the rest of the bullpen has simply not gotten the job done in close games in this series.
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Schneider said post game that he considered using Hoffman in this situation which would seem to indicate he was fully available.
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The decision to bring in Little to face the top of the Mariners lineup was inexcusable. Little has been struggling tremendously to retire right handed hitters, and both of Raleigh and Polanco are better hitters from the right side. This gave me flashbacks to the 2022 post season when Schneider brought in Tim Mayza with Carlos Santana a single hitter away in the lineup. Mayza had pronounced splits that season, and Santana was a more dangerous hitter from the right hand side. History just repeated itself, and with Schneider going completely off script instead of actually using his closer in a close game he opened himself up to every bit of criticism that comes his way. The reasoning that was given for inserting Little into the game was asinine, as he simply hasn't been very effective dating back several months now, and for the manager to insist that this is the best choice to bring into a 1 run game in the highest leverage spot of the entire season while his closer sits on the bullpen bench just doesn't pass mustard.
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There's no justifying the decision to use Little in the 8th inning. Chris Black shared a statistic that Little had allowed a .500 average to right handed hitters over the last 7 weeks. To bring in a struggling reliever in a matchup situation where he didn't have the platoon advantage was setting him up to fail. Hoffman has been the team's best reliever in the post season, and a 1 run game in the 8th inning was the highest leverage situation of the entire season, and it's possible this won't be topped if the Jays fall behind a large amount in game 6. Saving Hoffman for a potential 9th inning save was inexcusable enough, and choosing the reliever who is arguably the least likely to succeed in that spot is managerial malpractice.
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Yay fat shaming. That's exactly what we should care about right now after a botched pitching change in the post season.
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I think this offense is really damn similar to the WAMCO days as they feature a ton of high quality contact hitters that can put up runs in bunches without hitting home runs and when the home runs come they are capable of running up the score in a hurry.
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General Blue Jays Discussion Thread (2025)
max silver replied to Ryu In My House's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
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I thought the Vlad grand slam was pretty damn magical.
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Raleigh is having a hard time blocking behind the plate as well.
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This has easily been one of my favorite Blue Jays seasons of all time. Fingers crossed they can eliminate the Mariners and continue working towards the ultimate prize.
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Scherzer and Bieber both stepped up large for the Jays to even the series up.
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I have zero issues with using whoever is available to shut down the Mariners to finish the game. Dominguez will still be available tomorrow and the day after that with the upcoming day off.
