Carlos Danger

AP: Reports are coming out that Angel Hernandez's retirement came out from a meeting with top MLB officials. Officials were questioning Hernandez's ability to see and comprehend correctly. Angel got so worked up that he stormed out and slammed the door behind himself. It took Angel 10 minutes to realize he was in the closet...His announcement of retirement came soon after.

This is exactly correct. Hence why I wonder WTF this team is doing sometimes. After Babe Schneider hit a game winning HR in Houston the previous night, he was benched. After Clement was on a heater early season and benched, the reason given was putting guys in situations they can have success, or setting them up for success. Then, after a short ST and very short rehab where Swanson had not performed well, they call him up and his first game action of the year is a high leverage situation against the New York Yankees. Then, they call up poor Adison Barger and stick him in LF for his first time in his first MLB game. Not a position he was even playing in the minors. Shortly thereafter, we have a key situation with runners on base late in the game and we could either tie or go ahead in a close game. They leave Volgebach in to face a lefty when we had JT on the bench along with other RHH, (back when JT was on tear, and we don't PH. I can go on with these examples. So from one side of their mouth the Jays talk about putting guys in situations for success, and the other hand they f*** over Swanson, Barger and Volgelbach, et all the Team and the fans. Plus leaving Springer in the leadoff spot for 1/4 of the season, I just don't know WTF is going on with the asset management and this team. Don't let 2 Ws against the CWS and a AA pitcher and an emergency sub from the minors fool you.

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This is a AA batting practice pitcher. No reason for the Jays to lose this one.

Except one hits singles, the other HRs. One I am worried about his knees or back in 5 years, the other one I am not. One brings WS cred to the team, the other Romper Room.

Your ok with $28.5 AAV for Vlad for 7 more years, if 7 even gets it done?

Not interested in $25-30 mil AAV a year for Luis Arreaz lite who plays a s*** 1b seems to make a mental blunder once a week and has a body type that could have him out of baseball at 32.

Well simply to distinguish that you can be both a great closer in save situations and a horrible option in non save. Being that today’s situation where he sucked was a non-save situation.

Dude, we are not arguing about saves and Romero. We look at splits and counter with everything in baseball. You can be the best hitter in baseball for 5 yrs against RHP, but horrible against LHP. You can be the best pitcher against lefties, but atrocious against RHB. There are pitchers who dominate the 8th or 1 inning of work, you put them in the 9 or for two innings they suck. We need to recognize that Romano has not been effective in non save situations for two seasons and adapt. Now, what the Jays can do about it with what they currently have, I don’t know. But same as Springer in the lead off spot and countless other examples. The metrics don’t support Romano in non save situations.

Your post does not address my point. Romano had an over 6 ERA in 2023 in non save situations, haven’t even checked yet for 2024. And yea, ERA is not a good measure etc blah, blah blah. Memorial Day weekend and not going to do a deep dive in HRs allowed non save etc. The fact is with RPs, what they did in 2021 doesn’t mean a hell of beans. I am talking about non-save situations, he has not been an effective option the past 200 plus games. Fact.

Romano is/has been horrible going back a while in non save situations. Especially with the long ball. An elite pen knows how to keep the game close or tied and not just execute holds and saves.

This isn’t the try league. This is the get it done league! JD

Keep in mind we are missing Skabul, most likely odds on AL Cy Young winner so far. If they were facing Skabul, God help them!

Mookie has slow bat speed or EV or something. Who wants that!!

Remember when Tampa started all left handed batters against Romero. That worked and was the mental nail in Romero’s head along with his other issues and his knees. I don’t see the Jays having the balls to make a change like that.

I come from the school that IF you are going to talk smack, you need to be able to back it up. Your Fantasy smack talk was just that no walk.

Yea, but he looked Elite at the MLB level to start the year. I would also say D is more transferable to the MLB level from the minors than hitting.

I honestly thought he was elite D. What the hell happened?

Stop with the personal attacks against Connor.

Who is your current SS?

Great interview. Seriously more out of that 10-15 mins from AA of substance then I have heard from Ross in 8-9 yrs. Not hyperbole. AA also talked about EV and how you will always hit ground balls with more velocity. So you need to look at contact rate and ground ball % etc and not live and die by EV. Fnnn really good interview and spot on!

If the Jays can’t beat that CWS lineup and SP tonight, might as well switch over to a beer softball league

They sucked and were underperforming before LaRussa.

Approval in my business also means accountability. Ergo, if Shapiro's underling is not performing and Shapiro doesn't/hasn't take/en corrective actions, it is ultimately on Shapiro.

The second strike call to Lowe was a ball and put him in an 0-2 hole, so it is going both ways.