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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.

He was still really damn good his first two seasons before completely falling off in 2023.

Huh? Bieber is on the normal 4 days of rest so you can't blame extra rest here.

I don't know which one I would rather see removed. France is a decent enough backup first baseman and has hit reasonably well as a Blue Jay, and IKF adds a bunch of extra defensive versatility but his bat is just awful. Santander has a bit of time at first base in his career so he could potentially backup at first base from time to time if the need were to arise, and IKF is just a bit of a budget/Temu version of Clement so who knows what the correct decision is.

Yeah the man is an artist on the mound because most of his pitches are painted on the corners exactly where he wants them.

Based on how hot Bo is at the moment I suspect his latest 45 games are his best of the season. He's also on a pretty crazy heater right now as well over the same sample: 69 hits 32 runs 39 RBI 6 HR 19 2B This all makes sense that he's scored fewer runs given where he's positioned in the order. He's hit a lot fewer home runs but he's been cranking out a double nearly every other game. The total slashline over these 45 games basically represents peak Bo: .371 /.418 /.570 .988 OPS 176 wRC+

I was hoping that maybe in a perfect world George could bounce back to being something like a 110-120 wRC+ bat based on his expected statistics but I never thought he'd be capable of one of his career best seasons at age 35.

I don't think there's anything in the rules that dictates how recently the injury needs to have occurred.

Then he's gone for over 2 weeks. Maybe a certain young hurler in AAA could come up to take his place as a multi inning reliever, although I don't know if the team would want to instantly throw him into the fire in close games or not without first getting his feet wet.

That's an imperfect solution as well as Lauer would have needed to stay in Buffalo for 15 days outside of an injury to another pitcher.