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Bluejays: "Hold my beer"

It might be time to send one of these to the Jays to hang in the locker room.

I can't say I love the fact a guy who shut the Jays lineup down is DFA'ed two weeks later. It's frustrating watching every s***** pitcher the Jays struggle against get lit up by other teams (gio last night)

It’s happened again. When 90% of your innings are high leverage bad things happen to your pitching staff.

Unfortunately, I don't have a way to produce any evidence of this and I'm fully aware it could be confirmation bias, but I can't tell you how many times that offence would conveniently break out of a slump when Dante would be in the dugout or visiting the team. Sadly without being able to figure out when he was with the team I can't even begin to look at those numbers.

I am a strong believer that Dante Bichette was a lot more responsible for that offensive output than Martinez was.

No, I actually think it would be ridiculous to fire him so quickly into his first year. This was more in reference to prior years (and perhaps a sign of a bigger problem that needs to be addressed elsewhere in the org) given this isn't a problem new to this year.

Rangers fire OC Donnie Ecker after extended run struggles - ESPN Imagine actually holding coaches accountable.

that's disappointing that Swanson is still at least 3 weeks away.

I wanted to say Lloyd Moseby, but I'm pretty sure he wore batting gloves. Mookie Wilson?

You mean the guy who already has 0.6 bWAR (tied with our half a billion dollar man and only behind Heineman and Springer)?

As a jays fan, I loved the contract he signed with the Yanks as I thought it was going to age so poorly. He's put up so much value already it's a huge win for them and now the Jays have saddled themselves to an even more expensive and longer contract for a player who puts up nowhere near the numbers Judge does :(

This is exactly the point we are making. He didn’t react to how gassed Yimi looked and managed according to the stat sheet/metrics to a fault.

I don’t think the criticism is as much on putting him out there as it is on leaving him out there after 30 pitches and looking just gassed.

It feels like they go into a game or inning often with a plan they want to stick too and don’t adjust based on what is happening. We’ve seen starters dealing pulled early or after a single runner reaches base and cases where guys who don’t have it are left in longer than they should.

How Schneider let him face Schneeman is beyond me. He was clearly gassed and had nothing.

I would be interested to know some things that could relate. Ie what is the Jays ground ball rate relative to other years and teams? Are they hitting grounders harder than other teams which would lead to legging out less hits. What percentage of their grounders are hit by slowpokes like Kirk and Vlad?

Dante Jr is playing as well so I guess him and Bo are on good terms despite the controversy between Sr and Jr

I am positive it is just coincidence but pretty sure all 7 runs and 3 homers came after Popkins was ejected.

Never in doubt. I definitely didn't mutter to myself "This team is so F&%^ing bad" many times early in the game last night.

LouBob has an ops of .588...he's not the saviour.

Shouldn't he be sacrificing that power to put it the other way?

Just one comes to mind this year

Read this article and start to understand why our hitting is in the state it is. Mattingly didn't have a clue what he was doing let alone how to explain it to someone else. Granted he was 24 here, but it seems much of his philosophy is still on the wrong side of this conversation. https://vault.si.com/vault/1986/04/14/a-real-rap-session Some Highlights: 1. the whole start of the conversation about shifting weight. Very interesting read. 2. "BOGGS: If your name was Webster, not Williams, what would be your definition of a slump? WILLIAMS: The inability to get hold of a ball and hit it with authority according to my potential." " 3. Do you think you make more outs in the air or on the ground? MATTINGLY: I think more in the air. WILLIAMS: I tried to hit every ball I ever hit in the air, and I made more outs on the ground than in the air. Wade, I know you make more outs on the ground. BOGGS: I popped up twice all season. But to me hitting the ball in the air means hitting a line drive, and I hit far more balls in the air. WILLIAMS: Why do you think [Carlton] Fisk hit so many home runs last year? Because he hit the ball in the air more often. MATTINGLY: I want to make more outs on the ground. I think I've got a better chance of getting a hit. WILLIAMS: You know what they would say about Don Mattingly. We'll give him the hit. How many doubles did you have? Triples? Homers? MATTINGLY: Forty-eight doubles, three triples, 35 homers. WILLIAMS: They weren't on the ground. That's where your production was, so why hit the ball on the ground?" 4. "MATTINGLY: Dave Winfield will hit a home run, I'll ask him what the pitch was, and he'll shake his head and say, "I don't know.""