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[BuppY]

Picking up Pennington is a good depth move. He will add insurance incase of injury or time off for any off, Donaldson, Tulowitzki, Goins and Revere.

 

[King Mapes]

So we're past the Angels now for the first WC. I think we may lose today, sweep Oakland then take 2/3 from them again and sit in the same spot we are in right now heading into next week.

 

[hoglund]

Picking up Pennington is a good depth move. He will add insurance incase of injury or time off for any off, Donaldson, Tulowitzki, Goins and Revere.

I think they picked up Pennington because of Travis's injury, I'd rather see Travis healthy, but Pennington will add to their depth.

 

[Bedards Dad]

Just got my tickets for Fridays game and FINALLY get to wear my fun Jays shirt!!!!

Cannot wait for the atmosphere!!!

 

[Shimso]

5 runs today and the Jays become the first team to score 600 runs. And the Yankees are the only other team with more than 495 runs.
Equally shocking to me, the jays league leading run differential of +127 is just 5 runs better than St Louis who've scored 159 less run than the Jays

 

[TheOtherSide]

5 runs today and the Jays become the first team to score 600 runs. And the Yankees are the only other team with more than 495 runs.
Equally shocking to me, the jays league leading run differential of +127 is just 5 runs better than St Louis who've scored 159 less run than the Jays

Ya, could you imagine how good that run differential looks if the Jays had better pitching earlier in the season!

 

[theaub]

No Edwin or Martin today

 

[Nasty Nazem]

Edwin is not in the line-up. He hurt his hand/finger yesterday so hopefully its not a long-term thing.

 

[Woodman19]

Looks like Kawasaki down to AAA and Pennington on the bench today according to the lineup card.

 

[Clark4Ever]

Hope Edwin isn't out too long, but our lineup will compensate in the interim.

 

[Nasty Nazem]

In 11 games, Tulo has produced nearly as much WAR as Reyes this season with the Jays (0.9 vs 1.1).

 

[Stats01]

Looks like Kawasaki down to AAA and Pennington on the bench today according to the lineup card.

not surprising. Pennington is just a straight up better player. Kawasaki has 0 range. Pennington is also very versatile, he can play 2nd, SS, and the outfield. He's a very good depth acquisition. After I witnessed the Royals get a hit through the shift while Kawasaki was playing 2nd I knew he wasn't going to last long up here. You can't give up hits like that.

 

[Woodman19]

I would also like to point out that our team ERA has shot up to 14th in the league, were now in the upper half of pitching

 

[RedLeaf099*]

We have on off day tomorrow. Why are we resting Martin and EE?
Thanks for the loss today Gibby.

 

[Puckstuff]

today's lineup

Tulo
Donaldson
Bautista
Navarro
Colabello
Smoak
Goins
Pillar
Revere

Estrada

 

[Stats01]

We have on off day tomorrow. Why are we resting Martin and EE?
Thanks for the loss today Gibby.

If you haven't noticed, EE is hurt, and Martin seems to need a rest. He doesn't look right, at some point some of these guys need a rest. I'm surprised Donaldson has kept up his pace. I can't even remember the last time he had a game off. Plus we're not going to win every game, playing EE when he clearly was in pain yesterday dealing with his finger injury plus he's dealt with a bad back. Rest him today and tomorrow and have him ready for Oakland. And Navarro is no slouch behind the plate, good bat as well with some power.

 

[Nasty Nazem]

I would also like to point out that our team ERA has shot up to 14th in the league, were now in the upper half of pitching

Everyone had been saying all along that Jays only needed league average pitching to be good and it seems we're better than that at this point.

The biggest reason why the record had been only .500 in the first place was because of the extremely poor record in 1 run game, which was inevitably going to regress to the mean anyways but improving the bullpen makes it a lot easier to improve in that regard.

 

[Canada4Gold]

In 11 games, Tulo has produced nearly as much WAR as Reyes this season with the Jays (0.9 vs 1.1).

Tulo was at .9 before last night, hits a homerun and still at .9? I'm protesting these horrible stats

Reyes is actually 0.7 on the season now since he's ben horrible with the Rockies, so Tulo's few games in Toronto at 0.9 has been better than Reyes all year at 0.7

 

[Nasty Nazem]

We have on off day tomorrow. Why are we resting Martin and EE?
Thanks for the loss today Gibby.

Martin caught Dickey on Friday + played in extras innings and caught a day game on Saturday. Any catcher would get a day off after that and the fact Jays have a back-up catcher that's better than a back-up catcher, there is no real reason to run Martin to the ground.

 

[Bluejaysfan*]

We have on off day tomorrow. Why are we resting Martin and EE?
Thanks for the loss today Gibby.

EE's long term health for the rest of the season is more important that playing in the final game of this series when we've already won it. We can still win this game without EE.

Martin gets the day off because Estrada is starting and he's had good success with Navarro catching him.

Stop being so damn negative.

 

[Canada4Gold]

We have on off day tomorrow. Why are we resting Martin and EE?
Thanks for the loss today Gibby.

well EE couldn't hold onto a bat yesterday after swinging, so that's a problem.

and Martin would normally have sat yesterday but with Price going yesterday it's today instead.

 

[Stats01]

Everyone had been saying all along that Jays only needed league average pitching to be good and it seems we're better than that at this point.

The biggest reason why the record had been only .500 in the first place was because of the extremely poor record in 1 run game, which was inevitably going to regress to the mean anyways but improving the bullpen makes it a lot easier to improve in that regard.

Pretty much this. This reminds me of 92-93 where the Jays cut down games to 6 innings. The job for our guys is basically get through 6 and lock the game down with our BP. Amazing how deep our BP is now, Hawkins, Hendriks, Sanchez, Lowe, Osuna, damn!

 

[Stats01]

I'm really interested in finding out how the ratings have been for this series.

 

[91Stammer*]

Tulo was at .9 before last night, hits a homerun and still at .9? I'm protesting these horrible stats

Reyes is actually 0.7 on the season now since he's ben horrible with the Rockies, so Tulo's few games in Toronto at 0.9 has been better than Reyes all year at 0.7

The League average is 11-20 range, which is what we are at for most of the year and now. Top 10 is above average to great and bottom 10 is below average to poor. That's how I see it.