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To be fair I bet most of the people watching don’t want to hear some stat nerd come on and talk about xwOBA when the Jays have looked downright awful the last week.

Not too mention Valenzuela looks completely overmatched at the plate. Although not really his fault as he’s expected to be crap offensively as a 3rd string catcher. Without Kirk and Barger the bottom of the lineup really falls off and that’s with a lot of guys not hitting already.

Kirk injury just killing the Jays. Catchers have been a mess so far with tons of mistakes in big moments.

And that’s why the Kirk loss is so bad because he was a 115wRC+ kind of bat. Now you have a dead spot at the bottom of the order with a team that already isn’t hitting well.

I think people are vastly overrating him based on a good ST. It’s tough to come up and contribute as a rookie catcher. The demands of the pitching staff alone is a ton of work then you add in trying to hit MLB pitching. Even a best case scenario from him is a huge downgrade on Kirk.

Worst part is Kirk could be gone for a month to 6 weeks. He’s probably more valuable than Vladdy given the replacements at C. That’s a massive loss for a team scuffling already.

Yeah there’s a bigger chance the jays don’t get back to the World Series for 5 years than they do of getting back once. But that’s just baseball.

He pitched fine. Even got the K with 1 out guy at 3rd. Not his fault Heinaman sucks ass

As soon as Heineman comes in he loses them the game. That kirk injury couldn’t be worse.

Okamoto can’t make any contact the last few games.

Have to think those guys were getting extorted by the Mafia and they feared for their own or a family members life. They wouldn’t be throwing away millions to make a few extra thousand dollars makes no sense. I think that’s what happened with the Raptors player Porter he had a bunch of gambling bets he couldn’t pay and the mafia told him well you’re gonna throw some points to “even it up”

Yeah that was the most annoying part of that. This is the manager that brought in his best relievers all postseason long in blowouts plus low leverage literally giving the other teams "free looks". Maybe don't bring in your best relievers up 6 f***ing runs last night if you had that same logic. Schneider has made some great moves this postseason I'll the first to tip my cap but he's truly has some puzzling and moronic bullpen decisions and it clearly cost them tonight. You just hope the Jays can bounce back as it would be a huge shame for the season to end like this.

Schneider mismanagement is going to cost them later in this series. You don’t let them have a free look at your best bullpen guys when you have to win 2 more games.

Lmao he has Little warming.. just terrible managing.

Does JS have varland warming in the pen yet?