Blue Jays GDT: 2023 v5 | Wed, June 7 | vs HOU | 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT | Blanco vs Bassitt

[Leaf Rocket]

damn well done pearson

 

[Larcos_Unal]

That's the Pearson we've been waiting for

 

[canucksfan]

 

[BertCorbeau]

LOL that strike zone

 

[Leaf Rocket]

did...did the strike zone move during the three pitches?!

 

[trellaine201]

They are building Nates confidence with each outing hoping he can replace one these clunkers in our relief corps , looking at you Yimi.

 

[trellaine201]

I liked Cimber his first year in TO. Haven’t since.

 

[MS]

It feels like the clock might be striking midnight on Cimber.

 

[MK78]

Good win. Kikuchi was meh but just enough to get thru 5 innings, walks creeping up on him again, but Pearson looked really good again in 2 innings.

The hits early on were nice, but where are the homers damn it! Is Vladdy ever gonna hit one at home. It's almost JUNE!

 

[dredeye]

I must say that it’s insane that the jays have a better record than the brewers and somehow the jays are last in their division and the Brewers are first in theirs. It seems so overdue to re align the al east. It’s ridiculous

 

[canucksfan]

It feels like the clock might be striking midnight on Cimber.

There's some good pitchers at AA and Danner just got called up to AAA. There is some depth but I would give him more time.

 

[The Nemesis]

I must say that it’s insane that the jays have a better record than the brewers and somehow the jays are last in their division and the Brewers are first in theirs. It seems so overdue to re align the al east. It’s ridiculous

Geographically the Jays should probably be in the AL Central. Detroit/Cleveland/Chicago make more sense as geographic rivals than the eastern seaboard teams (though I imagine that there are probably some baseball casuals that will suggest that of course Toronto belong in the "big city" division with New York and Boston as opposed to Minnesota/Cleveland/Detroit/Chicago. )

The problem is how you juggle that to keep the 5 teams per division setup and still have it make sense without some other team whinging about being moved out of their historic divisional alignments. Maybe shuffle KC to the NL Central and Pittsburgh to the AL East? If nothing else that would change the oddity of the Pennsylvania teams being the only shared-state teams that are in different geographic divisional pairs (ie the Mets and Yankees are in their respective East divisions, the Cubs and White Sox are in their respective Centrals, the various California teams are all in the two West divisions, etc.) It would put the Royals into the same division as the Cardinals and make for the only place outside of California where there are multiple in-state teams that are in the same league/division (all the other non-Cali teams that are in the same state are split as 1 AL and 1 NL team)

Though of course that doesn't really fix the AL East meatgrinder any.

 

[The Nemesis]

It feels like the clock might be striking midnight on Cimber.

Relievers are voodoo.

 

[Blitzkrug]

I feel like any serious hope the Brewers had at contending went with Christian Yelich's kneecap at the end of the 2019 season.

That lineup just isn't good enough. Rowdy is a solid power hitter (i will never not love that man), Adames has been great since getting shipped there and Garrett Mitchell looked promising in his first season before the injury gods decided that was enough of that.


Stiffing Burnes in arbitration probably doesn't bode well either long term. Have to imagine he's traded at the first sign they're done done and/or leaves in FA.

I must say that it’s insane that the jays have a better record than the brewers and somehow the jays are last in their division and the Brewers are first in theirs. It seems so overdue to re align the al east. It’s ridiculous

To be fair, the Brewers are in a really similar spot to the Jays. Were actually playing good baseball through April and then forgot for whatever reason.

Another team that probably isn't nearly as bad as they've looked.

 

[trellaine201]

Relievers are voodoo.

They really are eh. Extremely volatile.

 

[Puckstuff]

They are building Nates confidence with each outing hoping he can replace one these clunkers in our relief corps , looking at you Yimi.

Ideally by September we have one more new guy from the deadline, Pearson and Green at the back end with Swanson/Mayza middle relief. Then you have Cimber, Bass, Richards, Garcia duke it out for low leverage spots.

1. Romano
2. New guy
3. Green
4. Pearson
5. Swanson
6. Mayza
7. Cimber/Garcia/Bass/Richards
8. Ryu/Kikuchi/Tideeaman (Long relief)

If Romano is a 8th inning guy and we acquire a closer, even better tbh.

 

[trellaine201]

Ideally by September we have one more new guy from the deadline, Pearson and Green at the back end with Swanson/Mayza middle relief. Then you have Cimber, Bass, Richards, Garcia duke it out for low leverage spots.

1. Romano
2. New guy
3. Green
4. Pearson
5. Swanson
6. Mayza
7. Cimber/Garcia/Bass/Richards
8. Ryu/Kikuchi/Tideeaman (Long relief)

If Romano is a 8th inning guy and we acquire a closer, even better tbh.

I like those ideas. Especially 8th inning.

 

[Blitzkrug]

I want Chapman if they're in a position to buy at the deadline.

He's back to throwing absolute gas and having him and Pearson as flamethrowers on both sides of the plate i feel like could be insanely valuable.

It'll be curious to see how the rotation shakes out. I honestly don't think Kikuchi is long for that spot. He's starting to miss badly with his pitches again though thus far he's limited it to getting smacked in the first inning and then settling down for now.

 

[phillipmike]

You guys will never guess who has the highest on base percentage for the Jays.

 

[MK78]

I must say that it’s insane that the jays have a better record than the brewers and somehow the jays are last in their division and the Brewers are first in theirs. It seems so overdue to re align the al east. It’s ridiculous

Same as the last series vs the Twins.

Baseball is in dire need of either realignment or some other incentive to have competitive divisions.

 

[Discoverer]

Same as the last series vs the Twins.

Baseball is in dire need of either realignment or some other incentive to have competitive divisions.

I would be all for a system where they regularly evaluated and re-aligned divisions. They can still be generally geographically-based, but they can shuffle them around based on balancing out recent success, projected wins, payroll, etc. every 5 years or something.

 

[trellaine201]

You guys will never guess who has the highest on base percentage for the Jays.

Please don’t say Belt.

 

[phillipmike]

Please don’t say Belt.

It is Belt.

 

[LaP]

Ideally by September we have one more new guy from the deadline, Pearson and Green at the back end with Swanson/Mayza middle relief. Then you have Cimber, Bass, Richards, Garcia duke it out for low leverage spots.

1. Romano
2. New guy
3. Green
4. Pearson
5. Swanson
6. Mayza
7. Cimber/Garcia/Bass/Richards
8. Ryu/Kikuchi/Tideeaman (Long relief)

If Romano is a 8th inning guy and we acquire a closer, even better tbh.

Jays definitely needs to add a relief pitcher at the deadline (a legit one this time not like last deadline). I'd say probably a DH too if Varsho doesn't wake up offensively. Belt is doing better but he's still weak for a DH batting in the middle of the lineup of a "contending" team.

 

[LaP]

You guys will never guess who has the highest on base percentage for the Jays.

Well he's getting lot of BB so not that much of a surprise. But i'd take some power instead. Getting on base is great when you can run but Belt and Kirk are slower than my 97 years old aunt. It's him who got caught at the 2nd base while admiring his double a few days ago right? That was a big wtf was he doing moment ...