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  1. max silver
    I don't think there's any cause for concern. I believe in his prior start he didn't reach 80 pitches because he was too efficient. If I recall correctly the team didn't want more than 5 up/downs and once he was finished 5 innings he was finished for the day.
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    His stuff and command were much better than his season averages in his Blue Jays debut. I don't recall hearing whether the club had been working on any adjustments with SWR or if this was just a result of an extended break between outings.
  3. max silver
    And just like that Scherzer ended up on the injured list again with back spasms.
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    Bieber made it up to 80 pitches today in Buffalo so I'm guessing he is good to go workload wise. The results in his AAA starts haven't been great for the most part so hopefully that's not indicative of what to expect upon his MLB return.
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    Yeah his outing last night was excellent. He's had consecutive outings where the stuff looked like it was close to normal with the diminished stuff outing looking like a bit of an outlier. It will be interesting to see who the club jettisons from the roster once Garcia is ready to return.
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    Keys feels like a keeper to me but the club will need to find a position for him to play in the majors. First base and third base are largely occupied and it appears as though he may not possess the requisite athleticism to play the outfield as he's received a 40 grade for speed from MLB Pipeline and 30 grade from Fangraphs.
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    Varland still blew this game no matter how his season has gone up until that point. I hated the Clement bunt as well as the pitcher was having trouble throwing strikes and was on the ropes. It was counterproductive to hand him a free out even if Clement managed to get the bunt down.
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    Doug Fox had a recent Star article where he suggests Tiedemann started throwing bullpen sessions at the end of May and that barring setbacks he has a chance to start a rehab assignment in mid June. He'll need to actually stay healthy enough to pitch in games but he's not dead yet.
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    Yeah I thought we were well past this point by now. This was a team loss in every possible way. The entire bullpen was largely crap as I believe only Varland pitched a clean inning with everyone else allowing a run to score in their innings of work, just the same as Hoffman. As you mentioned the team had several chances to pad their lead early and didn't, and then a glorious opportunity to win in the 9th inning. Varsho failed to get the ball to the outfield to score the runner from third easily, but then the coaching staff had IKF take a minimal lead and he took no secondary lead and then compounded matters further by sliding into home plate vs running at top speed. Then the team had another great chance to tie the game in extra innings and Kirk hit into a season ending double play. But of course Hoffman still get assigned 100% of the blame when the team wasted innumerable opportunities to score more runs so that his single run wouldn't have mattered.
  10. max silver
    Ah it seems as though I missed the context of the original discussion.
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    This isn't game 1 for Yimi. It's his 4th appearance in the last 10 days or so but the first in AAA. His velocity and spin were much better in his Dunedin outings but this recent appearance is definitely cause for concern for a player who has suffered so many setbacks on the way back from elbow surgery.
  12. max silver
    That's an awful look considering how he essentially held the organization hostage with his ridiculous contract demands.
  13. max silver
    Yeah the Statcast box score is the stuff of nightmares. Yimi's velocity was down 2-3 MPH on most of his offerings with a corresponding decrease of approximately 300 RPM. Maybe he'll be able to return as more of a middle relief option but it appears as though the premium fireman version of Garcia is a thing of the past.
  14. max silver
    I don't think lack of aggression is the issue. The team is 2nd worst in chasing pitches out of the strike zone this season so I think the issue is far too much aggressiveness.
  15. max silver
    Maybe but I do think Miles was showing signs of slowing down with the string of extended outings and his stuff was starting to drop off.
  16. max silver
    It's been a little boring without him around but at the same time there's been a lot less drama as well.
  17. max silver
    Even if Hoffman's xFIP isn't a true indication of his actual talent level this season the 3.19 xERA, 2.86 FIP and 2.04 SIERA all point to a reliever that should be enjoying more success than he has so far. Ultimately I believe Hoffman is a reliever that needs a little more downtime compared to rubber arm guys like Rogers and Varland who can pitch 2 out of every 3 days. I think with Hoffman the disaster outings/weeks tend to arrive when he's throwing 3 out of 4 or even 4 out of 5 days. Fingers crossed we get something close to a fully loaded version of Yimi back as that would add another high quality leverage arm and allow the club to pull back a little on the entire leverage group to avoiding burning them out.
  18. max silver
    Hoffman had an excellent xBA last season and suppressed line drive contact with a 16.5% line drive rate so the BABIP wasn't necessarily completely underserved. His primary issues were regarding the home run ball and that's not captured by BABIP anyway. I think your counterpoint is a bit of a false equivalency anyway as potentially being 50 points on the lucky side of BABIP isn't really a direct counterpoint to being punished 200 points on the bad fortune side this season.
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    Last night was yet another instance of Hoffman being comically unlucky on the results of batted balls in play as he gave up a single which shouldn't have occurred with proper fielding. Hoffman is only allowing a 27% fly ball rate this season so the HR/FB ratio isn't hurting him to any great degree. I fully believe the historically unlucky BABIP is going to eventually normalize we'll eventually get a better read on what Hoffman actually is this season. The underlying numbers are elite and there's no conceivable way he's going to be subjected to a .500 BABIP over a full season of play. He very well may be an elite reliever this season once his luck normalizes albeit one still prone to the occasional meltdown.
  20. max silver
    I'm hoping the stuff has returned to what he featured in his first start of the season. His stuff metrics dropped precipitously right as the forearm issue was announced .
  21. max silver
    Sanchez has handily outperformed Kyle Tucker with the bat so far this season. He's an outright disaster in the field but he's delivered a solid 135 wRC+ against right handed pitching.
  22. max silver
    I can agree that SWR needs to sufficiently command the baseball to maximize his chances of success. Having said that the worse the stuff is the more likely it becomes that even well located pitches lead to solid contact against him. I recall seeing somewhere that his arm angle had changed this season and wonder if this is something the Blue Jays are working towards addressing. I believe a key factor in whether he can turn his season around will be commanding the splitter more effectively. I believe that can potentially be an out pitch for him if he can avoid the number of apparent mistakes shown in the heat maps.
  23. max silver
    It's a little early to make any declarations about SWR. He had something like a 10+ day break in between outings and he'll need to prove that he can continue to show improved stuff with more frequent usage.
  24. max silver
    I wasn't expecting a win coming in but I thought Okamoto's deep drive was going to leave the park to tie the game up.
  25. max silver
    The Jays are all of half a game out of a wildcard slot and have ton of injured players returning soon.
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