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  1. max silver
    I don't know if either of Tate or Walker have earned enough trust to be thrust into setup situations.
  2. max silver
    I think the rotation should be decent as a whole, with the overall pitching depth being the largest issue facing the club at present. With the team lacking a proper 5th starter/long man combination at the moment the starters are being forced to pitch deeper into games when they don't have their best stuff/command on a particular day. Recent Francis and Gausman starts are good indicators of this, where each of them were kept in games when they were obviously struggling in that start and ended up allowing a bushel full of runs when they would have benefited from much earlier pulls. The team will likely have to hope that one of Bloss, Lucas or Lauer can hold the fort until Scherzer is sufficiently built up to provide some innings and/or Manoah is able to return later in the season.
  3. max silver
    That's your prerogative to look at the negative run differential as some sort of indicator if you prefer. I don't think it's particularly relevant given the easily demarcated segments of games where the team was largely playing well and the awful slump where the team was struggling in every phase of the game. Laugh all you want, I conversely think that it's laughable that you would use a negative run differential that is 100% due to a bad 9 games of play as an indicator of what the team's overall record should be and think that it's somehow relevant.
  4. max silver
    Exactly this. The Blue Jays had an excess of catchers and needed a controllable left handed outfielder, and the Dbacks had an excess of controllable left handed outfielders and needed a controllable catcher. It feels like a win/win trade at this point.
  5. max silver
    You are doing exactly the same thing pretending like the extended stretch to start the season where the team was playing very well didn't occur. The club started the season with a 14-8 record with a +6 run differential despite receiving no power output from the top of the lineup. But according to you that stretch should be completely ignored and the week and a half where the entire team slumped is the true indicator of the quality of the club.
  6. max silver
    I think the biggest thing holding back the offense has been the lack of power from the top 3 of the lineup. Prior to the slide where the team was struggling as a whole the bottom of the lineup was largely doing their part getting on base, but the top of the lineup wasn't doing their job particularly well driving in runs, largely due to lack of extra base hits with runners on base.
  7. max silver
    The awful run differential is entirely due to the lousy 9 game stretch where the pitching and hitting simultaneously slumped and the team puked out a 1-8 record. The run differential during this period was -41 runs, which is really unlikely to be indicative of the overall quality of the team over an entire season of play.
  8. max silver
    Yimi has been aging like fine wine to be certain. I fully believe he was a little underappreciated in his first few seasons with the club as he was one of MLB's best all purpose firemen out of the pen. I just hope and pray that his elbow doesn't act up like it did last season as he and Hoffman have made an unbelievable 1-2 punch in leverage situations.
  9. max silver
    Exaggerate much? The team has played 31 games and Springer has appeared in 28 of them. The team has done a very good job keeping him healthy in recent seasons and the baked in time off has to be a big part of why.
  10. max silver
    That batted ball that Varsho easily snagged had a .960 xBA.
  11. max silver
    Yeah it appears as though Bloss has largely righted the ship after the horrendous start to the season. I can only assume the club will wait for him to have more than 2 effective starts before calling him up but the Alek Manoah situation from a few seasons ago shows it's possible to see Bloss in a big league game before that happens.
  12. max silver
    That's a bit of alternative history. You were tarred and feathered for suggesting that the rotation performance had been anything other than fantastic for the first few weeks of the season/turns through the rotation.
  13. max silver
    It's not even 3 bad weeks, it's like a bad 9-10 days as the team had a very solid record before the recent slide.
  14. max silver
    ******** I never said anything of the sort.
  15. max silver
    Wait a minute, on one hand it's too early to panic with regards to the Braves lousy start but then it's perfectly fine to declare the Blue Jays season being over before the calendar turns to May?
  16. max silver
    That error was primarily on Semien as he bounced a throw to first base on a super routine play.
  17. max silver
    Lat strains are no joke. I've dealt with one of those and it greatly affected the surrounding area of the injury including the shoulder.
  18. max silver
    Tate posted a 3.71 FIP/0.2 FWAR last season. That's perfectly cromulent for a depth relief arm. He's been striking out 10.5/9 innings in Buffalo with an 18.2% whiff rate so the stuff is likely decent this season. The team could really use a healthy/effective version of Swanson though as that would be a more effective replacement for the loss of Sandlin.
  19. max silver
    Umm you might have missed this but Casey Lawrence is terrible? He's a mediocre sub-replacement level arm with a career 6+ ERA.
  20. max silver
    The team had golden chances to win the game in the 9th, 10th and 11th innings. It seems to be missing the plot entirely to blame the worst reliever on the roster for a loss in the 12th inning.
  21. max silver
    Tate is a solid enough depth option.
  22. max silver
    Oh come on now there's no need to rage on about how the manager should be fired because you don't like where a few of the hitters are inserted into the lineup.
  23. max silver
    Bingo we have a winner. Last season we had the good fortune of watching both of these issues during the losing streak that sunk the season.
  24. max silver
    I have infinitely more patience for a team that struggles to score vs one with a leaky bullpen. Nothing ruins my enjoyment for the sport of baseball more than witnessing my team losing a bunch of winnable games due to a bullpen that's incapable of holding leads.
  25. max silver
    I found the 2023 team to be a bit frustrating to watch at times due to the inability to plate runs but I still think that was an enjoyable season as that was a very solid pitching and defense team that was less than the sum of it's parts offensively. I can't get on board with describing an 89 win team as somehow being "horrible" as an entertainment product as I've following the Blue Jays religiously since the late 80's and have watched a lot of awful teams over the years that actually qualified for this kind of description.
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