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

[The Nemesis]

Hittin' Machine.

 

[Maplebeasts]

The difference in Teoscar this season is wild. He always had outrageous power but the bat to ball skills are actually there now.

 

[The Nemesis]

Grichuk.

He's gonna hear about that one.

 

[as Pure as Evil]

damn pitchers acting like cavin is a life time astro. everytime i looked at the box score i saw he got hit by a pitch

 

[Maplebeasts]

Imagine striking out on that. Grich is never gonna hear the end of that one.

 

[landy92mack29]

Bichette is legit in the convo of position players you'd start a franchise around.

 

[Muston Atthews]

Big dingers

 

[The Nemesis]

The difference in Teoscar this season is wild. He always had outrageous power but the bat to ball skills are actually there now.

Small sample size, but I'm maybe a little wary about how sustainable this is when I look at his plate discipline #s

He's swinging at more pitches out of the zone, less pitches in the zone, more overall, and he makes far less contact (which is any time bat meets ball, including foul tips and the like) and has more swinging strikes.

That said, the optimist in me though would point out that it's resulting in less overall strikeouts (30.2% vs 33% last year) and his batted ball profile includes a huge uptick in hard contact and far far fewer ground balls so he's turned those easy outs into more liners and flies (which lets him use that prodigious power to clear the fence)

 

[weems]

Bichette is legit in the convo of position players you'd start a franchise around.

Looks like someone photoshopped each players eyes

 

[weems]

 

[jetsforever]

Bichette is red hot right now

 

[Leafs at Knight]

Bichette is legit in the convo of position players you'd start a franchise around.

I don't know if him being the best player is a good thing or not.

 

[landy92mack29]

I don't know if him being the best player is a good thing or not.

I have no clue how it can be viewed as a bad thing. He's probably the best one for it as he seems very humble and modest. He even wanted to come to the Jays at the draft.

 

[BertCorbeau]

Looks like someone photoshopped each players eyes

Impressive company.

Bo knows baseball.

 

[Cloned]

Bichette is going to be better than his father was, which is saying something.

 

[Maplebeasts]

Small sample size, but I'm maybe a little wary about how sustainable this is when I look at his plate discipline #s

He's swinging at more pitches out of the zone, less pitches in the zone, more overall, and he makes far less contact (which is any time bat meets ball, including foul tips and the like) and has more swinging strikes.

That said, the optimist in me though would point out that it's resulting in less overall strikeouts (30.2% vs 33% last year) and his batted ball profile includes a huge uptick in hard contact and far far fewer ground balls so he's turned those easy outs into more liners and flies (which lets him use that prodigious power to clear the fence)

Fair enough. I hadn't looked at all the numbers yet, was just going off what I was seeing. That being said the hard contact rate is a huge positive sign and he's a big help to the team right now.

 

[PanniniClaus]

Why was Bass in, in the 8th last night? Hoping Roark can pitch a bit deeper as the season goes on.

 

[NeverGoingToWin]

Game was only 8-4. Probably was a sign that Romano is the closer now.

 

[supermann_98]

Bichette is legit in the convo of position players you'd start a franchise around.

Tatis Jr, Acuña, Soto are the only 3 I can think of in the <23 age group I’d take over Bo, and that includes Vladdy who’s shown very little so far, offensively or defensively

 

[The Nemesis]

Why was Bass in, in the 8th last night? Hoping Roark can pitch a bit deeper as the season goes on.

I think they'er trying to let Bass work though his shakiness from his last couple outings by giving him some non-closer assignments. And that for the time being Romano has passed him on the bullpen pecking order.

 

[PanniniClaus]

I think they'er trying to let Bass work though his shakiness from his last couple outings by giving him some non-closer assignments. And that for the time being Romano has passed him on the bullpen pecking order.

I thought they may give him one more go but I can't argue with Romano in the ninth.

 

[Fonzieleaf]

Vlad is a ground ball machine right now.

 

[xxOCZMSxx]

Bichette is going to be better than his father was, which is saying something.

Can we also do this with Cavan? 3000 hits here we come ;P

 

[xxOCZMSxx]

So, I’m setting the over under at 6.5 dingers tonight

 

[The Nemesis]

Can we also do this with Cavan? 3000 hits here we come ;P

I like that in the little piece on Cavan that was just on Blue Jays Central that he thinks he sees more of Jeff Bagwell in himself than he does his dad.

I would be thrilled if Cavan could be a Jeff Bagwell type offensively. I'm a huge fan of Bagwell, who was tremendously underrated for his career.