Blue Jays GDT: 2024 v1 |Sun, Apr 7| @NYY | 1:30pm ET/10:30am PT | Francis vs Gil
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tmlms13
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Suntouchable13
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What's so impressive about Tampa's rotation? Why are they picked to be so good or at least a playoff team?
It's more about the pitching staff as a whole with the Rays since they usually have a dominant bullpen and a ton of depth. Plus they always seem to find a hidden gems each year and turn waiver wire pickups into mid-rotation starters, so you should probably expect them to far outperform their name value.
At the same time, they've usually had a couple of known quantities to anchor the rotation, and this year they have Eflin (who broke out last year, because Rays, but has a track record as a back-end starter beyond that), and a bunch of questionmarks. I don't want to doubt them because they're the Rays and this is what they do, but the rotation looks worse than it has in years.
Also, apparently Jacob Waguespack made the team out of the pen. There's a name I didn't expect to see.
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Also, last year who had the TB rays scoring that many runs and so many guys breaking out offensively? Why can't that happen in Toronto? I believe that can happen.
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Should have told him sports betting is legal in Ontario. Would have sealed the deal.
But will the Blue Jays play there young players over IKF, Biggio and Kiermaier? I'd love to see what Barger, Clement and Schneider can do with actual playing time.
I think the young guys will get more and more playing time as they prove themselves.
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I think if Clement can take Kiner-Falefa's job he'll have every opportunity to do so. Because the optimal setup would be Clement being a better hitter and getting more innings at 3rd while freeing IKF to be the thing he's best at: a first-off-the-bench defensive super-sub who can be the guy that spells basically any of the non-Vladdy infielders or any of the outfielders when they need a day off. That way Clement gets a starter's workload to show what he can do and Kiner-Falefa probably racks up 100-140 games just by virtue of being the primary substitution option and getting into 20+ games at 5+ positions
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Excellent first "real" interview for Vladdy in English (aside from that casual spring training chat)
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It's always funny that Siddall and Joseph are good at explaining hitting and talking and dissecting mechanics when they were career .169 and .222 hitters respectively.
I guess it's a "those who can't do teach" thing
I guess it's a "those who can't do teach" thing
The Nemesis
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That's a depressing looking turnout for a season opener for a good team, even considering that The Trop is a shithole in the middle of nowhere and they've never drawn all that well. The entire upper bowl is empty, which suggests that the Rays don't even entertain the idea of opening it.
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Everyone one is a POS! Vladdy and Kirk are fat!
Thought I’d get it out of the way before Shanner did.
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