Blue Jays Discussion: 2024 Season - Complete without a great title in keeping with the performance

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The team is going to have really good piching this season and is going to be a run prevention type of team. I’m encouraged by the hitting of Kirk and Springer during the preseason. I’m predicting another 89 win season. “OK, Blue Jays, Let’s…play…ball”.
 
Took a looks at the schedule and yikes. It's pretty tough.

Tampa. Houston, and Yankees.

Damn. Really hoping they start the season on the right foot. Worst thing would be to start slow and get home with a 3-7 record or something. It would just suck for the morale of this fanbase (more for the fanbase than the actual team) given the lackluster off season.

Fingers crossed they start well today.
 
I like our chances to make the playoffs based on our pitching. Berrios , Bassitt , Gausman is a pretty strong backbone. If Manoah can get his shit together and Kikuchi has another decent season maybe we'll get another shot at playing an actual post season series. It's been too long. But I can't even watch baseball until after the NHL draft. Still holds more interest than the sad sack Raptors though. Go Jays Go.
 
Took a looks at the schedule and yikes. It's pretty tough.

Tampa. Houston, and Yankees.

Damn. Really hoping they start the season on the right foot. Worst thing would be to start slow and get home with a 3-7 record or something. It would just suck for the morale of this fanbase (more for the fanbase than the actual team) given the lackluster off season.

Fingers crossed they start well today.
Don't they always struggle with Tampa? Seems like it to this casual fan.
 
Don't they always struggle with Tampa? Seems like it to this casual fan.
oh for sure. Especially at that garbage stadium of theirs.
Not sure of the jays' record in tropicana field the last 3 years, but it can't be good.
 
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I like our chances to make the playoffs based on our pitching. Berrios , Bassitt , Gausman is a pretty strong backbone. If Manoah can get his shit together and Kikuchi has another decent season maybe we'll get another shot at playing an actual post season series. It's been too long. But I can't even watch baseball until after the NHL draft. Still holds more interest than the sad sack Raptors though. Go Jays Go.

Also, I think watch out for Bo Bichette. I think he is going to have a big time season. MVP type. Bold prediction: Bo and Vladdy are going to be both top 5 in MVP voting.
 
Don't they always struggle with Tampa? Seems like it to this casual fan.
They've kind of settled in against them the last couple years at 15-17. Not great, obviously, but good enough considering how good TB has been. They had a long history of struggling against them before that, though.

For all the talk throughout last year about their inability to win against the AL East, the only actual problem was the Orioles, who they went 3-10 against. They finished 6-7 against TB, NYY, and BOS.
 
I know spring training isn't worth much but it's given me confidence that something hitting approach wise was the most influential reason why our offense unexpectedly sucked last year.

The players on offense that need to either rebound or take the next step (Vladdy, Kirk, Varsho, Springer) all had good camps.

It will be interesting to see how much production we could get from Votto, Manoah and Rodridguez. Not one of those three is starting the season with the big team and the range of outcomes of what they give you this season is pretty wide.
 
Cautiously optimistic that they'll somewhat exceed expectations and hit 92 to 94 wins.

I'm expecting a slight regression from the pitching (albeit hopeful with the same relative health as last year), countered by an improvement from the offence.

The talent is there to contend. It's a matter of it coming together now, finally.
 
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