Blue Jays GDT: (2020 v2) Next: @TB |Fri, Aug 21| 6:30pm ET/3:30pm PT | TBA vs Yarbrough

[Brock Boeser Laser Show]

Bunting for a base hit on 2-0 pitch ? That’s a bold strategy

 

[The Nemesis]

Dingers!

 

[trellaine201]

Bunting for a base hit on 2-0 pitch ? That’s a bold strategy

Yeah that was really odd.

 

[as Pure as Evil]

just don't be too hard on the 21 year old kid . .

 

[Cloned]

Jays have such bad timing this year.

Yamaguchi having his best outing in a low leverage situation.

Hitting solo and two run shots instead of three run shots.

Hernandez hot to start when everyone else was cold, now vice versa.

Pitching was good early when they couldn’t hit, now vice versa.

Only the Jays man.

 

[The Nemesis]

Jeter-like range by the Marlins 2B there.

 

[PanniniClaus]

Am I drunk or could Grichuk have scored with ease on that ball down the line?

 

[The Nemesis]

We may need to adjust our expectations on Vlad. It's very possible he has an Eric Homser type career and that's still a 3-4 war player. We have these Miguel Cabrera type expectations on the kid and how many players get to that level? Like a few of those type of players in the entire league.

Or he's 21 and has less than 600 PAs in the bigs and there's still plenty of time to become something close to what everyone expects out of him. It's not like he's up there striking out at a prolific rate or chasing balls like crazy or looking overmatched by MLB pitching. He just needs to fix how he's making contact to get his loft back. That's doable.

It's too early to be passing any real judgement on Vlad yet. Sure we can be concerned the longer this drags on for him, but I'm not ready to pull the chute after not even a year's worth of play out of him.

 

[The Nemesis]

Borucki has been filthy this season.

 

[as Pure as Evil]

Borucki has been filthy this season.

yeah he deserves to be in the rotation. but has been right nasty relieving so far this year

 

[stickty111]

Delete

 

[trellaine201]

I have had a soft spot for Griffin. Liked the short time he gets to be coach, and love him as lead assistant.
A huge upgrade over Rex Kalamian for sure.

what about Montoya?

 

[The Nemesis]

I have had a soft spot for Griffin. Liked the short time he gets to be coach, and love him as lead assistant.
A huge upgrade over Rex Kalamian for sure.

But what's his stance on bunting, double steals, or bullpen management?

 

[Puckstuff]

Or he's 21 and has less than 600 PAs in the bigs and there's still plenty of time to become something close to what everyone expects out of him. It's not like he's up there striking out at a prolific rate or chasing balls like crazy or looking overmatched by MLB pitching. He just needs to fix how he's making contact to get his loft back. That's doable.

It's too early to be passing any real judgement on Vlad yet. Sure we can be concerned the longer this drags on for him, but I'm not ready to pull the chute after not even a year's worth of play out of him.

Yep, for sure. I'm just pointing out if he is a 3-4 WAR, 1B and bats 5th (which is still extremely valuable) I'm not going to be mad. That's great production. If he develops into a superstar, even better. But i'm not expecting it. 5+ War from 1B is super rare.

Here are war leaders from 1B in 2019

Major League Leaderboards » 2019 » First Basemen » Dashboard | FanGraphs Baseball

 

[Maplebeasts]

Bo is a monster. This team's best player by a country mile.

 

[Forgotusername]

That was a bomb.

 

[Cloned]

Bo’s back, lol.

 

[The Nemesis]

 

[stickty111]

Bo is a beauty, but we already knew that

 

[Cloned]

This game tho

 

[Forgotusername]

Who scheduled the homerun derby for tonight?

 

[Advanced stats]

What the heck

Breakout game?

 

[Maplebeasts]

Holy shit save some runs for the rest of the season.

 

[Morgs]

"The Blue Jays can't hit"

Lol ok

 

[hoc123]

They're are really making up for the first two weeks of games.