2025 Toronto Blue Jays Season Thread

[JTech780]

Originally Posted by Sidney Crosby's Hat

I thought this was interesting. Pretty good second half numbers (for Hoffman. Not so much pretty much anyone else).

https://twitter.com/user/status/1960533997877940495

The walks are the biggest concern I see on that list. That's 53 walks in 100 IP, can't give that many free bases to any team, let alone good teams.

The fact that they are carrying 6 SP, means they are down 1 RP, which means more IP for the RP that already have a lot of innings under their belts. Jays have the 5th most IP by the bullpen in the AL at 485:

White Sox 525.1 IP
Athletics 519.0 IP
Twins 503.1 IP
Tigers 501.2 IP
Blue Jays 485.0 IP
Orioles 480.0 IP

Not sure if it's because the rotation is really old, or if the Jays just have a quick hook on the starters, but putting that much wear and tear on the bullpen might come back to haunt them in the post season.

[Roof-Daddy]

The Jays have a nasty bullpen that creates a ton of swing and miss, but nasty stuff is hard to control so they unfortunately are prone to too many walks at times. Hopefully it's just the dog days of August and they find their groove again through September and into October. If a bullpen like this gets hot at the right time they will be very hard to score runs on.

[puffnstuff]

Less than ideal start

[KelVarnsen]

Sigh

[Hockey]

Thankfully Keaschall struck out, cuz ball 3 was definitely a strike

[puffnstuff]

Tied it up...and then Buxton un-tied it

[Blaster86]

Holy ####. Every single Blue jays pitcher is suddenly awful, all at once. Keep it in the ####ing park, you bums.

[Skaloper]

Well 3 HR against and it's only 3-1 still in it but can't afford to give too much more

[Hockey]

Once I bet Jays -1.5 I knew they were done

[puffnstuff]

Varsho can make some catches!

[Blaster86]

So much for that comfy AL East lead. Pissing it away against the ####ing Twins of all teams. Preeeeeettttty embarassing.

[puffnstuff]

66 pitches to get thru 3 innings isnt ideal either

[flamingred89]

This cant be real. 2 leaping catches by Varsho or this game is a blowout. What a pathetic effort so far.

The Jays better wake the #### up. This is why last night's game stings so much. Going 4-5 in the easiest 9 game stretch of the season is beyond awful.

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by puffnstuff

66 pitches to get thru 3 innings isnt ideal either

Can take a pitcher out of the Blue Jays bullpen but can't take the Blue Jays bull pen out of the pitcher.

Glad we kept the drunk driver for these stellar results from the pitching staff year after year.

[Hockey]

Funny enough the Jays record vs teams above .500 is slightly better against teams below.500

[Blaster86]

Team is making the young pitcher they traded for Berrios, who has been absolutely ####ing awful his whole professional career look like the pitcher they thought they were getting in Berrios.

[flamingred89]

Ok Vlad. Ill take the walk. But that second pitch you should've hit to the moon.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Another ump with just awful calls

[flamingred89]

Clutch Bo is my favourite Bo.

Funny the left fielder pulled up. That looked like a catchable ball...

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

Another ump with just awful calls

I am Glad Bo came back on that because that low strike call was ugly as hell.