Blue Jays GDT: 2023 v7 | Sat, Jul 29 | vs LAA | 3:00pm ET/12:00pm PT | Detmers vs Manoah

[ChuckNorris4Cup]

So they decided to hit lol

 

[the valiant effort]

Lmaoooooooo what a legend

 

[MK78]

Man is Kirk ever useless at the plate these days.

 

[frizzer1]

It’s alive its alive!!!

 

[jetsforever]

Jansen!!

 

[shaner8989]

Wow

 

[Cloned]

He expected some players to maintain or be better than last years numbers. Unfortunately, Kirk, Espinal, Biggio, Jansen, Vladdy, and Varsho have had below-expected numbers,

Varsho was always a risk. He paid premium price for a player who hadn’t shown any offensive consistency so far in his career.

Vladdy isn’t too far off his career norms tbh.

Espinal, Biggio and Jansen shouldn’t have been expected to be huge parts of the offense. Anything from them would’ve been a bonus.

Kirk is the major disappointment, but again not totally surprising given how he tailed off last season.

 

[MK78]

wow, why was Kirk placed as the ghost runner? brutal call.

 

[Woodman19]

God im so sick of Kirk

 

[MK78]

wow they got lucky with the next play scoring varsho from first.

 

[Forgotusername]

wow, why was Kirk placed as the ghost runner? brutal call.

Probably cause Jano is out of the game as a pinch hitter. Moot point now that Likes doubled.

 

[McFly2544]

wow, why was Kirk placed as the ghost runner? brutal call.

He was the last out and nobody else left on bench other than Belt

 

[Suntouchable13]

Yay Lukes!

But Kirk can't hit, can't run for shit, he is a liability.

 

[MK78]

yeah he's a huge liability on the bases. Last year it wasn't so bad, but he seems noticeably slower this year. plus last year his offense was much better.

 

[canucksfan]

Ugly win but it’s a win

 

[MK78]

Well well, they somehow salvage this series when it looked like another massive clunker.

 

[Leaf Rocket]

 

[BertCorbeau]

Nice comeback… that was a no business winning that game win

 

[mikeyz]

What a massive win

 

[Puckstuff]

wow what win. Clutch from Jansen, Garcia and Romano.

 

[McFly2544]

Heading into break at 9 games over .500…even with all the RISP and Mariah issues

 

[dredeye]

God im so sick of Kirk

I hate that we weren’t able to maximize on his value last off season. Moreno isn’t lighting the world on fire but I’d be much happier if he’s the one we still had. I think it’ll be a steady decline with Kirk unfortunately

 

[canucksfan]

Well he took the gamble and it was wrong. This teams offence is pathetic. No consistency game to game.

The offence isn’t pathetic. It’s been below expectations sure. Not really sure if he was completely wrong. They have a better record compared to last season. So far the Varsho gamble isn’t paying off offensively.

What’s nice is the improvement with the team can be fairly easy to fix.

 

[al secord]

We're great again!

 

[canucksfan]

Varsho was always a risk. He paid premium price for a player who hadn’t shown any offensive consistency so far in his career.

Vladdy isn’t too far off his career norms tbh.

Espinal, Biggio and Jansen shouldn’t have been expected to be huge parts of the offense. Anything from them would’ve been a bonus.

Kirk is the major disappointment, but again not totally surprising given how he tailed off last season.

Having two players taking the next step or having close to career years is a realistic expectation.

The biggest mistake was not getting a right handed batter that hits lefties well.