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  1. TimInBC
    It's hard not to think this week that the Jays are tanking. They really looked OK for a while there, and now the last half of each game is unwatchable. UPDATE - OK, it's just the relievers giving up homers early. The position players and starters are busting their butts.
  2. TimInBC
    He's got a team full of guys who don't know how to win. Sorry, George S., even you now.
  3. TimInBC
    Quite a lineup today. If I remember right, the only one of the nine who was even with the team a year ago is Clement, and he was probably riding the pine. And here they are up 1-0.
  4. TimInBC
    So is this officially Rock Bottom? Joe Shlabotnik could start for this team. So could Joe Btfsplk. These are not incompetent players, there's something bigger that's stopping them from producing results. It might be veterans taking too long to adjust to the new ways of pitching, and the batting coaches have to wear that. Start there.
  5. TimInBC
    For all the bad results this year, this is the first time I think it's necessary to say with absolute certainty: "They choked." They're in a spiral they won't get out of without some kind of drastic action.
  6. TimInBC
    If we never have the lead he won't get much work anyway.
  7. TimInBC
    And once again Schneider leaves his starter in too long. OK, he's got bullpen issues too, but grrrr. And ... until we score a run it doesn't matter anyway.
  8. TimInBC
    Disagree. That was true even 5-6 years ago, but now every team's third-best P has three filthy pitches. The breaking balls move half a ball width more than they did 5 years ago, and the average fastball is faster. A pitch can start inside and end up as a ball away. Some pitches sink 18" more than a fastball. Batters have to decide each time which pitch they're going to attack and which one needs to be ignored or fouled off. And THAT's where our players and their coaches aren't getting it done. In the few games I've seen, every team has some "what was the batter thinking there??" swings but the Jays have quite a few more, and they aren't all Vladdy.
  9. TimInBC
    Enjoy your 19.9 million while you can, Vladdy. At this rate you'll be driving a hotel shuttle this time next year. BUT when everyone except Clement & Turner is choking, you have to look at the "offensive coordinator"
  10. TimInBC
    So how long does Mattingly last as offensive coordinator? Look at those averages.
  11. TimInBC
    Jays hitting coaches seem unaware that other teams' pitching coaches are eating our lunch. Obvious example: Everyone knows how to pitch to Vladdy now, and he and the coaches have had no solution. Should have kept Teoscar, for the intangibles. Should have moved Kirk, not Moreno. And if Pearson hadn't been a bust we might have had some money for a professional pinch hitter - remember Rance Mulliniks? One of those. It's a shame because so many Jays had good seasons. Shows you how good the top half of the league is now; with all our good players, we might still have been the weakest team in the AL playoffs.
  12. TimInBC
    I like the decision to send him to Florida where there's support and expertise and time. Triple A or wherever wasn't going to do it. I'd like to know his current weight; the idea that he needs more time is believable. CC Sabathia, same height as Manoah, was listed at 300 lb and I doubt Manoah's that big yet. He's listed - probably from the past - as 6'6" 285 lb. Aaron Judge is 6'7" 282 lb and no one calls him fat. But David Wells is listed in the same place (baseball-reference.com) as having been 6'3" 187 lb and that has GOT to be way low. Maybe it's the weight they entered MLB at?
  13. TimInBC
    For me it isn't that the whole team sucks. It's almost as if they suck only enough to lose the game, but no more. Most of the guys who weren't hitting are coming around; the starting pitching has been mostly OK after a bumpy start. But now Romano's slipping, Vladdy's forgotten how to hit again, Varsho was never much of a hitter, and we just can't get people across the plate. I can't see management being patient with Schneider (although Mattingly has a .483 record as a manager and isn't an automatic replacement).
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