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Originally Posted by malcolmk14
Really enjoying watching the Jays this season so far, we're almost at the 1/3 point in the season. Marcum, Romero and Cecil have been good.
Bautista has been a nice surprise and it's shocking to see Lind and Hill as the two guys struggling most in the lineup.
If they can get through this stretch without running into disaster, this has potential to be a magical season.
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Yeah, I feel a couple other guys have been good: Gregg, FLewis, Snider.
Yet, I also agree with the surprise of Lind and Hill's struggles.
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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Yup fun times! I've always found Garza sparatic, hopefully the Jays can get to him tonight. Niemann and Price are tough although Price got torched by the lowly White Sox on Friday. Too bad it isn't Davis and Shields cause they suck. Despite Tampa being first overall, they don't impress me, they're coming back down to earth after a torrid start. You put the two lineups together and the Jays are far superior right now 1-9.
Tampa 5-9 are Jaso, Aybar, BJ Upton, Brignac, S.Rodriquez. Who are these guys? And at 4 Pena is struggling too. Keep Crawford off the basepads and the Jays should be fine.
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The highlighted areas are what I contend. The white sox, with their moribund offensive start are still a decent team that gave us fits. When their offense clicks, their pitching carries them quite far. They have a good BP, rotation and Rios is playing like a man on fire there
Tampa's 5-9 are quite interesting if you know about their prospect profiles. Jaso is a very good prospect from a very deep farm system. Aybar is talented, not 300 talented but talented. Upton is enigmatic, with surprising speed and power. Brignac was too ballyhooed a prospect to give up for halladay. They offered Wade davis but no brignac. He's going to be a stud. Rodriguez is another guy with upside at C. They all come from a deep system. So, really, I;m wary of similar trend with what happened last series, 8 runs in one inning. The jays have to be ready. And GArza although sporadic, seems to get it together against the good guys.
