2019 Blue Jays Season Thread

[fundmark19]

Originally Posted by flamingred89

Man. I hate the Ray's. Hate everything about that team. Their stupid players, their stupid uniform, their stupid stadium, their stupid fans. The only reason they ever have a competitive record is because they beat the Jay's 18/20 times a year. Garbage baseball at best. And yet, for the life of them, the Jays can never beat them.

As a rays fan I feel I should buy you a drink and help you talk this out. We aren’t the only reason the jays are 30 games out. We can get you through this and focused on the future of the jays. Rays fans are nice people all 5 of us

[flamingred89]

Originally Posted by fundmark19

As a rays fan I feel I should buy you a drink and help you talk this out. We aren’t the only reason the jays are 30 games out. We can get you through this and focused on the future of the jays. Rays fans are nice people all 5 of us

Haha. I appreciate the gesture!

I guess I can leave the 5 of you out of my bitter rant.

[flames_fan_down_under]

74-114 lifetime record at the trop.

[flamingred89]

Which is ridiculous when you think how God awful the Rays were the first ~10 years of their existence.

[Roof-Daddy]

Jays claim RH SP Zack Godley off waivers from the Dbacks.

Had 350 strike outs in 333 innings the last two seasons and a 23-20 record with 4.1 ERA

Worth taking a look at for sure, especially with only a 4 man rotation at the moment and Borucki/Merryweather living life on the IL.

[Roof-Daddy]

SWR is pitching today for Dunedin.

6 IP he has 76 pitches, 54 for strikes.

9 K's and 0 walks.

4 hits though, 1 of them a home run so he's given up 3 earned runs.

Still, he's 18 years old pitching in advanced A ball. Fricken stud.

[Inferno]

Anyone know the last time Vladdy took a day off? I'm really hoping it's not Sunday.

[Roof-Daddy]

Originally Posted by Inferno

Anyone know the last time Vladdy took a day off? I'm really hoping it's not Sunday.

He's off today.

[flames_fan_down_under]

Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy

SWR is pitching today for Dunedin.

6 IP he has 76 pitches, 54 for strikes.

9 K's and 0 walks.

4 hits though, 1 of them a home run so he's given up 3 earned runs.

Still, he's 18 years old pitching in advanced A ball. Fricken stud.

Those are pretty incredible numbers. He has to be one of the youngest if not the youngest pitcher in high A.

[flames_fan_down_under]

Grichuk and Drury have been actually not terrible lately. Grichuk's OBP is approaching .300!

[agulati]

Didn’t realize it is an afternoon game today.

[flames_fan_down_under]

Fisher with a 2 run home run!

[Roof-Daddy]

Thank goodness Fisher cracked one.

[flames_fan_down_under]

Really good piece from Shi Davidi that highlights a lot of reasons as to why so many Jays fans are frustrated with Shapiro; a lot of it comes down to messaging.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/ml...-conversation/

In it, Shapiro needlessly extended the franchise’s ongoing self-flagellation by:

• Feigning ignorance about why Anthopoulos left. It’s been widely and accurately reported that as Anthopoulos’ team was winning the 2015 American League East, Shapiro eviscerated everything Anthopoulos built in their early conversations and has since spent four years undoing all he had put together;

• Criticizing “the anecdotal decision making” that had to be changed to make the Blue Jays “an organization that I felt comfortable being a part of,” while refusing to acknowledge that such decision-making had ended a 21-year post-season drought, left behind Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Danny Jansen, Ryan Borucki and several others, plus the people who fought hard for the drafting of Bo Bichette in 2016;

• Complaining about how he’s “been disappointed too many times by people who get written by a journalist, they just present one side to them,” while going on to say he presents a full picture of himself, but ends up being written in precisely the manner he criticizes.

His comments are disrespectful to the people who helped win the AL East in 2015, which serves no end, and helps sends the discourse back in the wrong direction.

...

Some of the most pressing issues not being talked about nearly enough:

• Can a team be successfully built by acquiring numerous players of similar skill sets and profile (e.g. Derek Fisher, Billy McKinney, Teoscar Hernandez, etc.), rather than seeking specific pieces and methodically plugging them into place?

• Is the organizational emphasis on making players positional jacks of all trades, masters of none, setting the Blue Jays up to be a subpar defensive team that ultimately undermines the pitching staff?

• Why, in its fourth year, is the expensive and arguably excessively large High Performance Department still drawing quiet complaints throughout the organization for the way it functions? Is it being given too much leeway in deciding when players should be resting, and what exercises they should be doing? Why are so many players in the organization suffering lat/oblique injuries? Has it actually helped keep players on the field?

[flames_fan_down_under]

The Jays just took two of three at the Trop!

[Karl]

2 out of 3 at the Trop ain't bad.

[Roof-Daddy]

Could have easily been 3 of 3 as well, too bad they blew that 6-0 lead yesterday.

Ah well. 2 of 3 is a good go for sure.

[Cowboy89]

Good road trip! In tanking years like this there needs be something else to motivate a fan. For me it's the number 16. It's the number of wins the Jays need to avoid losing 100 games this year.

[Roof-Daddy]

Haha yeah. Jays schedule is tough though with about 60% of their remaining games against playoff teams. Will be a good test for the young team.

[cross16]

I just appreciate they are fun to watch. Was really challenging early in the season but with the youth up they are fun, they stay in games, they come back in games, they have fun doing it and they are so much more talented. Lots of holes for sure but at least I want to tune in again.