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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:They should keep Moreno cause he's actually a catcher. Kirk isn't very good at the catching part. On the other hand Kirk has actually shown he can hit at an elite level for an MLB catcher. Gerblederp posted:You would think they’d move one of them. I dunno if they’d do anything with Jansen. I figure it's more value efficient or whatever to keep Jansen as a backup and move one of Moreno or Kirk rather than consign Moreno to being a rookie backup to Kirk.
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Twin Cinema posted:I truly don't understand Berrios' season. Like I mentioned before, you never know what to expect. Sure, his season numbers are awful, but seems to either have a great or terrible game. No in-between. I wish I knew more about how to pitch to understand why this has been a trend. I saw some slo-mo video and apparently he changed his delivery again. Hopefully it stays working this time. Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:His fastball isn't a great pitch but sets up everything else with sequencing. When he can't locate it where he needs to he gets shelled and when he can he's fine. From what I've read he can locate his fastball just fine it just sucks rear end for mysterious reasons (release point too low so it's too flat?) so he never throws it over the plate.
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Aug 19, 2022 17:15
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Angels fans: is there any reason to think the Angels might do anything to push back any Ohtani starts? The Angels are coming through Toronto and I am trying to time up if Ohtani is pitching (looks like it'd be Friday, I think).
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Aug 20, 2022 20:02
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Johnny Bravo posted:He's scheduled to start tomorrow and next Saturday, I believe, but his start tomorrow might get rained out so your best bet is probably Saturday or Sunday Well I hope it's rained out because Saturday is the Jays' "92 Celebration day" and tickets are closing in on $100.
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Aug 20, 2022 20:20
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STAC Goat posted:what a revelation that if your a misanthropic narcissist who just poo poo talks everyone and predicts nothing but failure then you get to ignore when you were wrong and be smug when inevitably something goes bad for someone. Because that’s all you really enjoy anyway. Please don’t spin someone not liking their team into an elaborate story of personality defects.
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Aug 20, 2022 23:13
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A nice new Greinkeism https://twitter.com/ByMcCullough/status/1562268852503085056?s=20&t=4jT6kveLKqzFhavG5VkrZg
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Nodoze posted:The Red Sox are 3-13 vs the Jays and have been outscored 100 to 52 in those games I was wondering the other day if the Jays had a positive run differential outside of the Red Sox games and I guess the answer is “yes but not by much.”
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:On the day when the Blue Jays celebrated the 30th anniversary of their first World Series win, the Blue Jays made a convincing statement demonstrating their potential for a long post-season run by getting a whopping four (4) total base runners, two (2) hits and zero (0) runs. Dave Stieb tribute game.
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I have no idea what to make of the Jays but they’ve been pretty seriously Baseball this year. I feel like they could just as easily win the Series as miss the playoffs.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Kevin Gaussman has 5.1 fWar but only 2.7 bWar It has been a very weird year.
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thehoodie posted:great video on just how weird his year has been (and its actually only been weirder since the video came out as jays have stopped shifting but his babip is still insanely high): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSEEP9o5_XQ This is a neat video, thanks for sharing. It sounds like there's a twofold problem, one a baseline with the Jays overshifting (and this seeming to skew the babip of everyone) and one specific to Gausman. For the Gausman specific stuff, I wonder if there's something specific where he's tipping his breaking stuff and so batters are getting their bats on them for flares, or if it really is just pure bad luck. A 372 BABIP is wild.
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Am I being a homer if I think Manoah has kind of slipped under the radar for just how good he is?
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:It's wild Gaussman has a .370 Babip and Manoah has a .230 babip Clearly they fired Montoyo for poor strategic distribution of babip
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Speaking of weirdness, the Jays are gonna have two five-game series with Tampa this season.
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It doesn't seem wild to me to say that the Yankees' play is particularly frustrating in light of the expectation that they should be better. After all, the Dodgers have given us an example of just how good an equivalently-resourced team can be. Still might hold off on the "lovely franchises that never win anything" bit.
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Oh yeah the Yankees losing is delightful and I hope to continue enjoying it all the way until the Orioles pass them in the last week of the season. But it's not like the fans are being incoherent or incomprehensible when they're upset.
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The Pussy Boss posted:The first time a division winner gets bounced in a 3-game series will be glorious The AL Central winner will almost certainly have a worse record than the third wild card this year.
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One of the funnier outcomes available to us is the Yankees getting passed for the division and mouthbreathers using that as a reason to not vote for Judge as MVP even as he maintains a >200 OPS+.
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Popete posted:WAR doesn't take into account a 2 way players roster efficiency. So really you can add in the next best player on the teams WAR to Ohtani's total and oh would you look at that it's Mike Trout +4.6 WAR. Does an additional roster spot for Arte Moreno to play with leave the Angels better or worse?
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https://twitter.com/BlueJays/status/1567607780340539393?s=20&t=FwhzHEolwr16XdlG6t1giw I assume that the Jays' roster management will have to get creative over the next week or so but also hey cool Moreno's back.
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The Rangers-Blue Jays rivalry added another layer today: https://twitter.com/RossStripling/status/1568989681353736192?s=20&t=5yoGhqA5-Qra_GX591TDrQ
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Caught this looking at the schedule after the day game: There's "close," and then there's "all three teams with 79 wins and a +66 run differential."
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Gobias Ind. posted:WC3 does seem tempting but I want the Jays to get WC1 so that they can have home games and we can see just how dedicated to their anti-vax stance people like Robbie Ray are. Don't we know that Ray is at least minimally vaccinated from last season?
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So I apologize for bringing up the Astros' sign stealing again but: As you may have heard, there's a major cheating scandal going on in chess right now. Part of this is that a young player, Hans Moke Niemann, has been repeatedly banned from one of the major online chess sites chess.com. In an interview, Danny Rensch for chess.com talked a bit about how they algorithmically look for cheating, and revealed that they actually consulted with MLB on the Astros case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIMIfjYNZ1A
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I hate the Rays so much.
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I made a celebration thread for number 700: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4013215
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Looking at the Jays-Yankees series and wondering if I should shell out for an outfield seat. I think if Judge doesn't hit #62 tomorrow I just might do it.
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Manoah is the fastest Jay to 300 strikeouts. I don’t know who was the previous holder, but from quick look he’s well ahead of the obvious suspects (Stieb, Hentgen, Doc).
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Twin Cinema posted:I assume it's by IP. Guzman had 300K in roughly 334IP. If it's not Guzman I can't imagine who else it would be. I guess if we're including relievers Henke might be there. e: oh hey Henke started with the Rangers.
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Sep 25, 2022 18:11
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Great for the Jays to get a split with the Rays, especially after how feel-bad the first two games were. Now they just have to survive a three game series with the Yankees, after which they have the BoSox and hopefully-by-the-eliminated Orioles to set their rotation.
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LonesomeCrowdedWest posted:Blue Jays have a +86 run differential. +67 of that is from playing the Red Sox. The Red Sox have a position record and run differential in their non-Jay games.
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Twin Cinema posted:Also, I will be happy that in the playoffs, the Jays can focus on starting Manoah/Gausman/Stripling, because anyone beyond that top-3 is hell to watch. I would bet that they have Berrios above Stripling in the playoff rotation.
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Twin Cinema posted:May need more than 3, but at least Berrios can spin the wheel and he may get one of his good starts. I guess there's also the added variable of playing for home field in the first round, since that could mean the Jays are pitching e.g. Gausman against the Orioles at the end instead of setting up 1-2-3 for the Wild Card series. And, thinking about it, a serious playoff run probably involves at least one game of Mitch White, Yusei Kikuchi, and a lot of prayer.
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Jays finally tally against the Red Sox: 16-3, 125 runs scored, 55 runs allowed (+70) Jays absent the Red Sox: 74-66, +19 run differential Red Sox absent the Jays: 72-68, +8 run differential
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Jays clinched the fourth seed last night, which is nice. That's two games against Baltimore to line things up for the playoffs now. e: also Whit Merrifield now has a 127 OPS+ with the Jays. 289/333/465. He's been real good.
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thehoodie posted:Jays-Os PPD today, playing a double header tomorrow for, uh, reasons. Looking forward to mitch white and kikuchi each going 150 pitches Time to wheel out the corpse of Nate Pearson.
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Happy final day of the regular season.
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