Blue Jays GDT: 2023 v1 | Fri, Apr 7 | @ LAA | 9:30pm ET/6:30pm PT | Bassitt vs Sandoval

[TheBeastCoast]

I was just mentioning guys during AA’s tenure

I assumed you meant Devon Travis? lol

 

[HamiltonNHL]

slow start for Springer

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Damn. Thought Chapman hit it out

 

[Blitzkrug]

Chappy has been unreal. Even that last AB he nearly went yard.

This is the guy I was hoping the Jays would get. Was solid last year obviously but he looks more like the guy who set the league on fire in 2019

Friendly reminder that Matt Chaan is always intense

 

[HamiltonNHL]

Need a bounce back for Manoah.

 

[Blitzkrug]

That ball was was crushed. Wind blowing in?

 

[TheBeastCoast]

Manoah hasn't thrown a pitch over 91mph so far. He doesn't look great.

 

[Blitzkrug]

Drop in velocity + what appears to be control issues.

Certainly not ideal

 

[TheBeastCoast]

Clean inning but he was leaving bad pitches over the middle of the plate that he just didn't get punished for.

 

[HamiltonNHL]

Damn his 4-seam was good last year.

 

[Blitzkrug]

George Brett reference. Drink.

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Lol Belt

 

[Blitzkrug]

Grenike didn't even need to break a sweat against Belt. Yeesh

 

[HamiltonNHL]

deadly vs righties.

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Woof that lineup. Corey Koskie the legend

 

[Eyedea]

I assumed you meant Devon Travis? lol

Whoops, that evaded me twice lol

 

[MS]

Woof that lineup. Corey Koskie the legend

I was so excited when they signed Koskie who was probably the top Canadian player of the time and who had had a string of fine seasons in Minnesota but he fell off a cliff basically instantly.

 

[Blitzkrug]

Woof that lineup. Corey Koskie the legend

That's Anola, Manitoba legend Corey Koskie. Driven by the sign letting you know he was born there several times in my life lol.

It's honestly remarkable he made the bigs at all. Anola is f***ing tiny even by small prairie town standards. Shame his career ended the way it did too because he was actually a solid player.

 

[dredeye]

Not sure about that. Eric Thames, Corey Patterson, Rajai Davis, Devon Travis, Anthony Gose, Russell Martin, Ben Revere, Dalton Pompey, DeWayne Wise, John Mayberry, Fred Lewis, Marcus Stroman, David Price, Darren Oliver, and LaTroy Hawkins. All of them played on the Jays during the 2010-2015 seasons.

No I’m not saying he didn’t bring them in. I remember this narrative with him for some reason. Nemesis I think figured it out

Are you thinking of that time during, I think, the Ricciardi era where there was a newspaper article about the "Toronto White Jays" because there was a span where there were almost no non-white players on the team?

To the point of the original comment: It's been widely noted that African-American (and probably African-Canadian too) participation in baseball at the youth and developmental level is down significantly from where it was 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago. The reasons are likely varied and complex and well outside of the scope of baseball discussion and include both benign and malignant factors (ie discrimination/racism)

Maybe that’s what it is. I didn’t think it went that far back but that’s likely what it is.

 

[red devil]

Nice double play ball by Manoah

 

[Blitzkrug]

You love to see that.

 

[HamiltonNHL]

Pitchers are throwing to the bases when they run into time troubles.

 

[MS]

The team really did use up all their BABIP luck in the opener. A bunch of balls scorched right at fielders today.

 

[HamiltonNHL]

The team really did use up all their BABIP luck in the opener. A bunch of balls scorched right at fielders today.

Exhibit A

 

[Blitzkrug]

They're speedrunning this one. Not even an hour in and we're already at the end of the 4th