Carlos Danger

That article doesn’t have my favorite scenario. Trade Vlad Jr for Soto. Padres save a lot of money and we get better, change culture. Yankees are already in discussions with Padres, we better act fast.

The saying is just make the playoffs and a team can get streaky. A streaky team can go either way obviously. However, by the fact they are a streaky team, shows they can win in streaks. The Jays longest winning streak of the year was 6 games, once, they also had one 5 game winning streak. Compared to other teams, such as the Ranger and Diamond Backs, who each had many more streaky winning periods. As far as the Blue Jays were concerned, it was unlikely a team that had shown over 162 games that it could not even go on many sustained winning streaks, would all of a sudden go on one in the playoffs.

On paper, maybe, with a capital M. Each of them was very inconsistent and none of them were firing on all cylinders at the same time.

2 run game bro. Phils have a lot of bashers, ain’t close to over.

They teach you to make the turn and go to 2b if the throw goes through. I have never been taught or seen taught, go regardless if they cut or not. You make the turn with the ability to get back to 1b or go to 2b. Big difference between drawing a throw or cut and sacrificing yourself. You are not taught to sacrifice an out in that situation. They would have cut it, the run would have scored, the Phils would prevent the runner going to 2b and you have two outs runner on 1b.

Carroll was basically at the plate when they cut it. They were going to cut regardless to prevent the runner to go to 2nd if he just rounded first but stayed within range or they saw him dancing out in no man’s land. Point being they were going to cut regardless and that’s what the players on the field would be shouting based on Caroll’s proximity to the plate.

If the fielding team thinks they can get the runner at home with 2 outs and no one else on base they will. Regardless of what the runner rounding first is doing. If you cut the ball in that situation it is because you know you can’t get the runner at home. Two out with Carrol running.. You don’t need to sacrafice yourself for nothing to get him to score.

Blue Jays system base running showing it’s ugly head.

A lot of studs, leadership and steady hands at the helm in that series. Blue Jays have a lot of work cut out for them. We don’t intimidate anyone..

Garcia is a stud. Solid leadership also.

His body shape/type affects his mechanics.. So they have a symbiotic relationship IMO.

I don’t understand why we can’t have more than 3 SPs in the SP spots?? I voted against the change. However, even if it was going to pass, I understood it to be only changing RP slots to P, not restricting the amount of SPs you can start???

I will give him high marks for his handling of the media and the stadium renovations so far. However, he is not a design architect nor the Media relations VP. At the end of the day he needs to deliver a WS. Going to be much harder next year. Where do you stop saying, ok, one more year…?

If you guys are done filatiating Shapiro. What does it say about their process that it took them 164 games to recognize there is an offensive problem and communication/informational flow issue and need the off season to deep dive and fix it. The issue were very apparent by May. Nothing changed by July, nothing changed end of July, nor into October. Failure to identify and process flows that fail to adapt accordingly. Successful companies are able to pivot or use the two way door approach to decision making. Wasted season, wasted time in the window. hi

The Blue Jays offense can't even hold the jock strap of 4 of the 5 teams left and might be able to sniff the 5th team. We would have only been postponing the inevitable if we made it by the Twins with our pitching.....

No he does not.

Isn't Gibson better then Kremer...?

Just as a side.. Dusty Baker was considered a horrible playoff manager and had not won the big games in the playoffs until he came to Houston.. Who probably won despite him..

Or maybe something happened with the Jay's offensive scheme this year that took Varsho (and a bunch of others) from a decent hitter in the minors and with AZ to an 8th or 9th hole hitter. My point being, on another team, maybe he would have thrived with the bat or stayed what he had been.

I saw this somewhere else but LOL. Atkins- Manoah is very motivated Poster- Wish he was motivated to report to Buffalo. True!

My bad...

Or this might have helped AA's decision if you want to believe it.. Apparently confirmed by other media members as well. Source: In their 1st & only meeting, new Jays prez Mark Shapiro scolded Alex Anthopolous & staff for trading so many top prospects this yr — Rick Westhead (@rwesthead) October 29, 2015

Well, I for one had been converted to an Atkins fan to start the season. I was harping about Bassitt and Varsho in the off season thread and sure enough, he goes out and gets them. I was bitching about run prevention and the pen, and sure enough, he goes out and strengthens all. I loved the Merrifield trade the season prior and the Belt signing. I was also really happy with JS being made full time and Mattingly coming onboard. I didn't think we had enough SP depth and probably didn't if we didn't get very lucky and have great SP health. I also saw a GM who was aware of the offensive issues at the deadline and didn't address it properly. The offensive issue were prevalent in April and were consistent all the way through the end of July. Roster construction that has Biggio hitting 5th in a playoff game is problematic. The fact they were not able to figure out this informational flow process change for the hitters after 162 plus 2 is not acceptable for me. The fact that Shapiro and Atkins have been here almost 7 years and zero division winners, zero playoff wins not counting 2016 which was not a season Atkins can take full credit for. We finished 3rd in our division. The Red Sox and Yankees have the ability to get good very fast. We have no substantial reinforcements and a team that was very bad at scoring runs especially with RISP and we broached the luxury tax. The Anthony Bass situation was not handled well and f***ed up our pen for a few weeks after. Then the whole Berrios thing.... I hadn't read one single article when the presser was over and my first thought and apparently thousands!! Of others based on the time stamps, was that Ross threw JS under the bus. That is where I went from on sliding off the fence to tearing down the fence... Good leaders take accountability and even jump on a few grenades for their Team or company. Ross took the grenade and threw it back into JS's office.

That is what I thought. The poster was saying the O's were one game away from playoff defeat or whatever...

Anyone have access to the Toronto Star - Rosie Di Manno article about Shapiro. It is behind a pay wall. Thanks