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1.2 IP, 1 hit, 1 walk, 1 K, 1 run

Nate Pearson sighting in Florida

I really really really wanted Zac Veen during that draft and got clouded by the Austin Martin love. His draft scouting report screamed Jack of all trades, master of none to me. I wonder how the Berrios trade would have looked if we had Veen instead of Martin. The 2020 draft could look a bit different too, underslot with Veen, then get someone overslot in the 2nd round instead of CJ Van Eyk.

Welcome to 2022. I know you're a few years behind but the Jays won 91 games in 2021.

Just a few more Hernandez gems in Buffalo and a few more Romano literal s*** storms and my prediction of him getting 5 saves for the Jays this year becomes closer and closer to maybe being realistic.

Orelvis power is just bonkers. I do have some concerns about his ability to handle offspeed stuff at the MLB level but he's adjusted well to multiple levels fairly quickly and the jump from A+ to AA has always been said to be the biggest one as you start to see pitchers with more consistent offspeed stuff. Meanwhile almost the entire top end of the Jays pitching farm is now with Vancouver. Looks like they're going to be running a 6 man rotation which with the 6 game series and Monday off gives everyone their 1 day per week. Using the MLB.com list as reference 6 of their top 11 pitching prospects are now the Vancouver rotation. Tiedemann, Robberse, Kloff, Zulueta, Dallas, Palmer. Of the other 5, 2 are pen arms(Hernandez, Danner), 1 is injured and would have been in Vancouver(Van Eyk), 1 is in extended spring(Carter) and then there's Bowden Francis. If we were going to be accurate then Juenger should definitely be bumped up in the midseason list but wow is that Vancouver rotation ever stacked. They've also got Paulino and Gregory who've been good and have been starting who are just forced to come out of the pen to probably piggy back a couple of these guys at this point.

I think the only chance of that will be if he DH's in both. More likely I think he plays the field in 1, is off for the other and the DH's Sunday. Get used to seeing Tapia. I expect Spring/Teo DHing will happen at least 50% of the time for the next month sadly.

Good for Tanner, he's having a great year so far. He's not PK Morris which is also a plus.

Hot take but I agree with Montoyo's decision not to pinch run for Kirk. In the 7th with the runner only on 1st the marginal increase is run probability I think is less than what you lose by Zimmer or Capra hitting in the 9th instead of Kirk(I think if you PR Kirk you're committed and PH Collins for Heineman). Unfortunately Kirk did nothing in the 9th and Zimmer might have scored on that double(which might not happen because I think Collins is PH there if Zimmer is PR). If the runner gets to 2nd then the benefit increases enough to where it might make sense. Or if it's the 8th or 9th Kirk might not hit again so it might make sense. Leading off the 7th Kirk is definitely hitting again, likely in a pretty big spot.

Definitely not going to jinx it because he's probably getting pulled soon anyway but 7 innings no hitter god Trent Palmer is perfect through 6 innings with 8 K's

Entering today his wRC+ was higher than last year. I assume it went down some but still. Sure his OPS was 58 points lower but still over .900, and offensive numbers are down league wide. Proportionally to the rest of the league he's about as good as he was last year, perhaps a bit worse now after today's game

Hopefully 19th to the Jays

Tiedemann is literally striking out everyone swinging tonight. 7 K's in a row. 22 strikes, so only 1 more than the minimum require to K 7 guys. edit: Make that 8 K's in a row with 25 strikes.

That's a weird rule. I get it taking you off the 28/26 man roster. A week with Covid taking you off the 40 man but a month with an oblique injury not doesn't make sense to me but whatever. Guess thuis buys us a few days before the move has to be made then

He's already eligible to come back. So in Jansen. DL is minimum 10 days, they've both been gone for 15+ now. They need a 40 man spot for Capra though. Someone would have to be DFA or put on the 60 day DL to open one up. I doubt either Jansen or Teo would be out that long. Perhaps Pearson as he can rehab during the DL stint for a certain period of time

Phillip Clarke having a good start in AA. .901 OPS, walking more than he's struck out. He's had a good K/BB ratio his whole career too. Lord knows we need another catcher /s

Adrian Hernandez with 3 K's in an inning of work to pick up the save for Buffalo. Just getting prep work for when he comes to the majors and gets saves for the Jays Samad Taylor a HR in each half of the double header today

Zac Cook with the casual .229 average, 1.060 OPS. 9 HBP and 4 HR in 50 PA will do that alright

Jansen's got to be in there instead of Collins most of the time when healthy.

Sure but the offense and pen impacts games as well. You'd think we'd have outscored out issues in a couple of the lefty games, or went completely cold offensively or had the pen blow more than 1 of the 13 righty games. Kikuchi also hasn't given up more than 2 earned runs in any start. Berrios has 1 horrific start and 1 marginal start. Stripling is also among the righties and he's had 2 marginal ones. The 1 righty start we lost wasn't even any of those 4 games it was a good start from Gausman. Ryu's 2 starts were expected to lose the majority of the time. Even if you had 13 righties go 6 shutout innings and 5 lefties go 3 innings and give up 5 runs I would expect more than 1 of those games to have an unexpected result.

Jays are 12-1 this year in games started by a right handed pitcher. 0-5 when a lefty starts

Current roster is 12 hitters, 16 pitchers so 2 pitchers have to go down. Should be Francis and Saucedo. Heinmann and Katoh likely go down when 2 of Teo, Jansen, and Biggio are back. When all 3 are back I would guess they option Thornton for the 3rd spot if nobody else gets hurt before then. When Ryu is back things get interesting. Assuming it's before May 30th they'll have the choice to go 14 or 13 arms. Merryweather/Borucki or Biggio/Collins/Zimmer have to be optioned/DFA'd. Someone will probably get hurt before then though

If he's not making the decisions then it's not his fault obviously, but if he's making bad decisions and management is letting him do it then it's both their fault. Management for letting it slide but the decisions are literally Montoyo's job(if he's making them). If they're bad decision you don't get to avoid blame because management is letting you be bad. You get blame for being bad. Management gets blame for not doing anything about you being bad.

The bases were loaded. He pulled a top 10 prospect in baseball for a guy with a .700 career minor league OPS. Either the Bisons have a dumb manager or he doesn't want to tell us the answer

Saucedo is back with the team(they went Saucedo to Kay back to Saucedo) so he's an easy one. Then probably Thornton(Romano, Cimber and Mayza all have options as well, but that's obviously not happening). When Ryu is back then the tough decision happens. Depending on how Borucki fares it's probably Merryweather that gets optioned, but someone else could get hurt before then