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I love how the Manoah recap starts with "Did not hit anyone." Finally some semi-positive news. He's definitely looking like a roll the dice reclamation project for next season as opposed to current year depth, but that's fine given where we are at with the rotation right now.

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I would tend to agree. He's not arb eligible till 2028 and he's great depth to have on the roster. Roster depth has been an incredible strength this year, both for injuries and specific match-ups.

Hahaha yeah. It's still entertaining to hear people surprised about him being a 'giant' douchebag.

Rojas was a tough one for sure. As everyone has speculated, the Jays must be considering the possibility of trying the starter route again or they see a high likelihood of Varland continuing to perform as a high leverage reliever. Before a certain someone goes on a rant, everyone here knows that relievers have greater variability. Greater variability does not mean complete randomness - relievers with great stuff and a younger age are still very valuable, just look at the multi-year contracts that educated GMs are signing high-end relievers to in free agency. The Jays probably see Rojas as a likely high leverage reliever and valued the Varland control years x probability of performance > Roja's control years x probablity of performance and have dramatically lowered expectations on Roden in a show-me year given he turns 26 soon. At the end of this year, I suspect Roden will have fallen way down the prospect rankings. It's disappointing because I had high hopes for him at the beginning of the year, but prospects usually break your heart.

For all those people complaining about the price of this deal, what do you think Bieber would cost if he was currently healthy and performing at Bieber level? This is exactly the kind of high risk, raise the ceiling, type move we needed out of Atkins. We are going for it this year and we are a big market team that can spend in the off-season. We don't need another Berrios 2.0, we need a big swinging d--k like Bieber. Let's goooooo!

That's such an incredible show.

Words can not express how much I have always hated the O's. Day off, then on to the next. Hope to see Springer and Kirky back on the lineup card early next week.

It's been a complete backbreaker today

That's totally fair, but on a 14 year $500M contract he's being paid to stack up the WAR in his younger seasons because the back end won't be pretty. You're 100% right though, he's deserves some credit for working on fielding and being less boneheaded on the bases. Hopefully it sticks moving forward.

This just reinforces the need for some pitching depth - we really need to acquire starting pitching.

Yup, waiting for the fireworks....

It would be interesting to see some past comps for guys like Bo as I tend to agree that his skill set is going to erode rapidly through his 30s. I don't want to bodyshame, but he looks like he's plumped up a bit and his sprint speed has dramatically declined over the years. He broke into the league at 28.4 ft/s (83rd percentile) and he's now at 26.2 ft/s (23rd percentile). Basically he's a minus defender with well below average speed at age 27. I also love contact guys, but you can't pay this guy a premium shortstop FA deal and expect a good outcome.

100%. There were definitely a few others on team positivity that deserve a chicken and half rack combo.

This team is something! That was an incredible at-bat by Bo today and it looks like Vladdy might finally be heating up. Let's gooooo!

tremendous at-bat

The juice is definitely not worth the squeeze on Severino

We got our ace on the mound. Let's go Jays!

I have a feeling at least one of those buttons are coming undone if the Jays win the AL East

Statement win boys! Into the pit goes Fried!

We will take it!

Safe

I like this pitch count moving up

Schneider has really turned his season around. Nice at bat.