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That tie breaker feels like a really big deal right now.

I think Atkins has easily done enough to let him play out the rest of his contract. He has his team in first place in September largely on the strength of internal improvements that the team has been chasing after since the massive offensive underperformance th 2023 season. The offense is arguably the best in the sport this season with the pitching taking a step backwards. If the team can find a way to improve the pitching as they did with the offense this can be a really scary team next season.

That one still stings. I think Ohtani's presence alone last season could have been sufficient to push the team close to contending for a wild card spot.

Thankfully there were a few silver linings from this series. The bullpen was largely tremendous, and Fisher came back looking like he didn't miss a beat and can be a key arm for the stretch run. Vlad also appears to have locked in at the plate again as well which is huge for the lineup.

I don't think that's really worth fretting over too much before the front office has had a chance to make their offseason moves. You could have made the same point about this year's team and here they are in first place in September. There is a lot of money coming off the books after this season is up, but I can fully agree there is a lot of work to be done in the rotation in order to have a solid group for next season. It appears as though the team has a really good shot to finally start using their own home grown pitching at the big league level, but this will require finally getting some of these guys across the finish line.

You aren't on the Blue Jays high performance/training department and as such you are making a bunch of assumptions, and further to that you are making baseless accusations against Bo. We've seen over the years that Bo is essentially impossible to convince to come out of the lineup for maintenance days so it's a pretty grand leap to assume that he's insisting that he wasn't in the lineup yesterday. I can only guess his offseason training routine in the winter prioritized keeping him healthy all season long and avoiding reinjury to his wonky calf. This part was a success, but it's a shame that he's so slow in the field this season. He does appear to be carrying a few extra pounds this season and slimming down a little could help to improve his mobility a tad. It's stupid as hell that you are suggesting that Bo is running slower in an attempt to make more money in free agency. His range is diminished at short stop to the point where he is going to need to change positions sooner rather than later, and it's not exactly a selling feature for a player to have lost a bunch of speed on the bases in the season prior to free agency. Let's surmise that Bo has been in fact running at something like 80% effort to avoid reinjury as you suggest. He's avoided the rash of lower body injuries this season and been able to stay on the field, and this has been of tremendous benefit to the team as one of their most important bats.

I guess you've never heard of post injury inflammation before. It's obvious that the injury felt much worse the day after it occurred. You haven't been paying attention whatsoever to how the Blue Jays have been managing injuries this season. All season long they've taken the opportunity to sit a player to get them 2 consecutive days off when a single game is followed by an off day. It's a small sacrifice to lose a player for a single game but to gain an opportunity to allow them to heal more effectively to avoid the injury becoming worse. But yet here you are insulting Bo Bichette for something that was obviously a team decision. Sigh. I don't get why you feel the need to s*** all over Bo like he peed in your cornflakes or something. He suffered from a bunch of calf injuries and as a direct result he's slow in the field now. I thought you weren't too dense to recognize that baseball players who suffer from leg injuries don't always get their prior levels of speed back. This reminds me of Josh Donaldson who lost most of his foot speed after his own series of recurring calf injuries. I guess you also think that he was just playing for himself as well. Apparently you hate Bo Bichette but that shouldn't come as a surprise as you generally act like you hate the entire Blue Jays organization from top to bottom.

Why are you so quick to assume that this was even Bo's decision in the first place? Just so you could post some fake macho ******** and insult a player who is nursing an injury? It was mentioned during the broadcast that Bo was noticeably limping in the clubhouse and I have no doubt this factored into the decision to sit him for the game to give him a few days off to heal up. The only thing softer than athletes these days appears to be your brain. Given how excited you were about posting about how the Yankees were going to sweep the Blue Jays you should be happy that Bo missed this game.

This is a legitimate contender for the worst post of the year award. Not surprising given it comes from the leading contender for least valuable poster award as well

That's incredibly presumptive of you. I specifically recall Montoyo ripping his players in the media when they were struggling and there were reports that he had lost his clubhouse.

Hey Masterbather:

Were you wearing your Yankees pyjamas when you wrote this? This seems like a lot of projecting on your part to so called "Yankees" fans. Maybe you didn't get the memo but the Blue Jays feature an elite level offense. The Yankees have recently been facing teams that are below average offensively and the Blue Jays represent a much larger challenge to their pitching staff. The last time they faced a team with a good offense in the Red Sox they lost 3 out of 4 games in that series. Of course you would essentially be predicting a Yankees sweep here as you legitimately think that the AL's highest winning team is terrible.

Absolutely. I don't think either fanbase should feel super confident heading into this series as the Jays are among MLB's best offenses/comeback teams, and the Yankees are playing at home in a bandbox stadium where they club a million home runs against a pitching staff that allows a ton of home runs.

Thankfully the Yankees are having the same kind of issues in their pen so if the Jays can get the Yankees starters out of the game reasonably early this may give them a shot to run up the score a bit.

Vlad had a few big games to end the series against the Reds so hopefully he's getting his timing back in time for the Yankees series. The hamstring issue unfortunately took him out of his rhythm as Vlad had been positively killing it post all star break.

This shows how fearsome a lineup of hitters the Blue Jays possess this season. Add in the breakouts of Barger and Varsho along with a very solid supporting cast and this places the offense in a very good place for the final month of the season.

I think you'd be hard pressed to find more than a handful of people in the entire Blue Jays online sphere that believes Vlad has been the best player on the Blue Jays this season. I don't think he's even been the team's second best player as I would give those honors to Kirk at this juncture.

It doesn't always feel this way as there are a few stinkers mixed in but Gausman's stretch over his last 12 starts is really damn good as a whole. He's thrown 74 innings of 2.77 ERA/3.38 FIP baseball. The strikeouts never came all the way back as he's averaged 8.80 K/9 in this period but he's been pitching like a borderline number 1 starter for 2+ months which is a good sign heading into the stretch run.

Varsho has been hitting absolute tank no doubters this season so he doesn't even need the short porch.

Why do you need to be this way? The Blue Jays are enjoying a miraculous season and have a legitimate shot to win the division for the first time in a decade but nearly every single post from you is about how something on the Blue Jays sucks and that they have no shot to win the division, they wanted to lose the game because a reliever or two had a tough game, they have no shot to do anything in the post season, they should rebuild the team or #insert doom post of choice here#. We are all aware of the warts on this team right now as they are clearly smacking us all right in the face, but speaking for myself I really don't appreciate a miserable sadsack "fan" acting like a giant wet blanket and seemingly trying to prevent others from enjoying when the team actually wins the goddamn game, which has been a helluva lot more than when they lose if you hadn't noticed, even with the recent pen struggles (I use the term fan very lightly as most of the time it appears that you actually hate the team, front office and manager). You claim that you are enjoying this season but it would be nice if you actually acted like every once in a while. While it may be true that Term can go a little overboard at times with the cheerleading/chest pounding there's a key difference in the two of you. He actually makes the board enjoyable to visit as he makes a lot of really fun/funny posts, whereas you are the complete opposite in that you appear to revel in wrapping the proceedings in a giant black cloud and continuously go out of your way to try to piss in everyone else's cornflakes.

I’m pretty sure southpaws throw from down under.

This dude very quickly became the board's foremost pitching guru. You can easily tell he understands pitching on a much higher level than even the most pitching savvy board members.

I think that IKF unfortunately had a rare tough game at third base yesterday. He's produced tremendous defensive metrics this season and for his career as a whole but he coughed up a bit of a clunker with a really badly timed error.

Well to be fair we are seeing Springer maybe having a career season, and Kirk's bat is potent again, and Varsho is a middle of the order home run monster, Bo is on track for his best ever full season result etc.

4 days rest is normal rest for a starting pitcher. You can't complain about the manager screwing up the rotation's rest and causing bad starts when the pitcher is pitching on normal 4 day rest.