The good news is that this time last year the Jays were on pace for 84 wins (0.519%) and right now they're on pace for 90 wins (0.560%) so they are not only ahead of the game, but there is also more playoff spots. If they can get it all together again and go on a solid run in the second half they should be able to win 95+ games.
Oh s***, well which way will Tiedemann go from here?
The way of Nate Pearson, or the way of Alek Manoah?
He's way younger than those two were when they became highly touted pitching prospects.
Well, well, well....Mr Pardinho was moved to Dunedin and pitched today.
2 IP, 0 hits, 0 walks, 0 runs, 3 K's, 20 pitches, 13 strikes
Stay healthy there young fella
Fair enough.
I wonder if 100 miles Giles arm will hold up, I see he is back now. He could be a nice pick up if he's still good, and Seattle doesn't crawl back into the playoff race.
I just don't know how they're supposed to fix the bullpen mid season in a cost efficient way. They could spend assets to get a couple decent relievers and then those relievers could come in and f***ing blow chunks and start costing us games right away.
Brad Hand was a piece of s*** last year for us and now he has 0.7 fWAR so far this season.
Richards was awesome for us last year and now he's completely useless when healthy.
Even Cimber the FIP beater has been getting knocked around lately.
Kimbrel is an elite closer went from the Cubs to the White Sox and sucked balls. Now he's good again LA.
Going to have to get lucky for this pen to get turned around. Hopefully some solid internal options emerge.
Only two Jays position players with a negative fWAR so far this season.
Zimmer -0.3
Tapia -0.8
Biggio 0.7 fWAR now with a 116 wRC+
I get that Tapia hasn't been a completely useless bag of s*** for the last month or so, but I'd say it's time to funnel any Tapia playing time over to Biggio.
23 year old 2021 11th round pick Trenton Wallace continues to own A ball.
Started and went 4 innings today, and gave up no hits, no runs, 1 walk and 6 K's. 68 pitches, 46 strikes
Season stats, 12.62 K/9 - 2.78 BB/9 - 1.26 ERA - 2.95 xFIP - 0.76 WHIP in 35.2 innings
Yep, I'd rather see any of Spraker, Eisert or Hernandez but the Jays front office doesn't seem to be in a rush to bring these guys up I guess. Handling them with kid gloves for some reason.
How nice would it be if Maximo Castillo is actually good?
I mean, is that a crazy thought?
He's never been an eye popper, but he's got a 6 year track record and been steady eddy at every single level on the way up.
And the dude just turned 23 a month ago.