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If he plays more like he did in the Boston series vs the rest of the year he can certainly continue with the swag.

The bolded quote sums up the entirety of why you are so reviled around here. You have a history of poorly thought out hot takes, and when this is pointed out to you instead of reflecting on why you keep on receiving negative responses and trying to make better posts, you instead get your back up and just carry on. You've basically turned into the BJMB version of the 1980's WWF jobber in that you are constantly being pinned for easy 1 2 3 victories. Just like Barry Horowitz you pat yourself on the back and carry on with the constant stream of unnecessary negativity. Newcomers are generally pretty well treated around here until they show that it's undeserved. Respect on this forum is earned, and until you stop acting like a teenage emo girl you aren't going to receive any. Charlie isn't very popular on here but when ranting and raving about how awful he is it might be best to choose decisions which actually warrant it. Collins sitting last night is very easy to defend as he was catching today's game following last nights game. This is a typical managerial decision to give the starting catcher of a day game the previous night's game off as catcher is the most physically demanding position on the diamond. Collins wasn't on track to become the next Barry Bonds, acting like a single game decision is going to make or break his career is just more needless hyperbole.

It's obvious that having Collins sit yesterday has effectively ruined his career. The irrefutable evidence provided of the Gary Sanchez decline after sitting for a game is the smoking gun that proves JennyFritters123 or whatever this idiot calls himself.

I'd disagree as it hurts my brain to read the continuous stream of drivel that flies out of the dudes keyboard.

A more intelligent troll would wait for the save to be blown first and then could revel in getting his shots in. A stupid troll would still open his mouth despite his team largely resembling a minor league outfit in the field and just end up looking pathetic. It's obvious which end of the spectrum this particular poster fits into.

Why are you even here? Your team just lost 2 of 3 and looked like a clown show on defence. Your lineup scored all of 5 runs in a 3 game series, and were effectively shut down by the Jays 5th starter. There is really no reason to be gloating.

The one angle looks like it's out to me. Holy hell Chapman has a cannon.

Yeah absolutely filthy up to this point. His slider looks pretty effective to me so far and the split finger is completely unfair.

I recall the league was contemplating pre-tacked baseballs. There were tons of reports of AAA experimenting with these balls in the last week or two of the season in 2021 but I haven't been able to find any results for how the experiment turned out.

Ryu really didn't show a significant change in his spin rates after the sticky stuff crackdown. I have suspicions he was more of a sunscreen+rosin user instead of something like spider tack.

At a glance it looks like Grichuk is off to a decent start with the Rockies as he's presently rocking a .369 WOBA. This looks to be largely undeserved as his xWOBA is only .308. Upon further inspection though it appears as though the Rockies have basically turned him into a right handed version of Raimel Tapia. Each of Grichuk and Tapia have ground ball percentages of over 70% so far with negative launch angles. Grichuk has managed to lower his strikeout rate early on to an impressive 12%, but he's seen a corresponding decrease in his exit velocity and hard hit rates as each are by far the worst of his career.

You're too late as he only has eyes for Trevor Bauer.

I think putting Bengay on your balls would be a better suggestion.

I don't really buy the deadened ball theory as an explanation for his shrinking offensive output. Cavan needs to start squaring up baseballs at a greater rate if he's to return to his previous power output. In 2021 he largely went away from his strengths, namely his elite plate discipline, and started swinging at more pitches off of the plate. This resulted in an increased k rate and decreased walk rate. When you look at his batted ball numbers his best output by far was in his 2019 debut season, his hard hit rate was easily the best of his career. Since then he has stopped squaring up baseballs with as much regularity, as is evidenced by shrinking hard hit rates and barrel rates from 2019 onwards. I think this year is his make or break year to remain with the Blue Jays given the large amount of good infield prospects in the upper levels of the minors. His injury plagued 2021 season can largely be ignored, I don't see how you can reasonably expect any player to play up to their capabilities when dealing with injuries to both hands, the neck and back as well as an elbow injury issue. It's far too early to make any conclusions in 2022 as he has all of 6 batted ball events at this point. It might be time to pump the brakes a little on definitively concluding that the guy is washed up.

I don't think that applies to the electronic strike zone, as far as I can tell the 45 day notice for rule changes applies to bigger bases, pitch clocks and a ban against the shift.

Given the absolute garbage quality umpiring we've been subjected to this season I didn't think it would be possible for an umpire to make the rest of the dipshits calling balls and strikes in Jays game to seem competent by comparison. I honestly can't recall a single game impacted to the same degree as today's game was. Jays pitchers were consistently squeezed on pitches well within the strike zone and A's pitchers received calls several inches off the plate all game long. This was a total travesty. It was nice for Charlie to finally stick up for his team but what in the hell was he thinking not using Springer in the 6th when they had him ready to pinch hit? A run there could have made the difference for the victory.

I recall an interview with Atkins where he stated that Charlie had full control over lineup decisions. Even aside from that I have an incredibly hard time that an analytically inclined team such as the Jays would be dictating lineup decisions to the manager and we would end up seeing decisions like Tapia batting 5th and in the leadoff spot. I don't think Charlie likely has control over general availability as that likely falls to the high performance department. I don't have a big issue with that as they would have data that none of us would see with regards to player fatigue, and losing a player on a scheduled off day once every week or two is infinitely preferable than losing them for weeks or months at a time due to injury.

Can't take them lightly though as they gave the Rays all they could handle. I'm not overly confident in the Jays lineup as only 4 members of the starting lineup were off to good starts and 2 of those guys are out with injury. The team could really use Gurriel and Kirk to get going, although at least Kirk looked like he's starting to lock in tonight as he had a lot of great at bats. Thankfully the rotation is rounding into shape and the bullpen has been reasonably solid for the most part.

This whole game was a total lesson in frustration. Sure Severino was nasty as hell but Gausman was arguably even better, just having s*** luck as the bottom of the Yankees lineup f***ed him up the ass with small ball dickery. Gausman is rocking a 0.35 FIP after tonight's start, he's just been getting BABIP'ed to death so far. I can't say I'm surprised that the Jays were shut out based on the atrocious lineup that they fielded for the game, but they had plenty of chances to score as they loaded the bases twice with the top of the lineup coming up and came up with nothing to show for it. The bottom of the order did a great job getting on base but the big bats did f*** all to repay the favor.

I can't help but wonder what kind of money Bo is looking for to sign an extension, the club would have to think they have at least a decent chance to sign him long term or they wouldn't bother trying, kind of like what occurred when David Price hit free agency. Perhaps Bo wants to eventually climb out of Vlad's shadow and become the man for his new team as he's always played second fiddle right throughout their careers. Then again having two generational talents play their entire careers together would be awfully special as well, these guys have played their entire careers together up to this point and it's obvious that they are super close.

Hey come on let's be fair, he's only discussing Greg Bird to properly portray how much he hates discussing Greg Bird. (Ripped off from my favorite moment from the Hotel Transylvania series of movies)

That would feel like a minor miracle given how much pain he was in walking off the field. *fingers crossed*

This certainly isn't the kind of lineup I would have predicted a week into the season. What in the world is Tapia doing in the 5 spot in the lineup? That's legitimately insane.

I really have no reason to have beef with you, I was simply pointing out the irony of you telling somebody it must be that time of the month while you are acting like a drama queen in your post about blocking them. If this is enough reason for you to become so angry and defensive then that's obviously your prerogative.

Whatever man, rage on then.