Blue Jays Discussion: Confirmed: Vladimir Guerrero Jr is still good at baseball

[SeaOfBlue]

Pat hates the Jays. Confirmed.

Has there been a game this year where it has heavily favoured the Jays (i.e. more than one run)?

If all is fair and equal and it happens both ways, shouldn't there be just as many games where it favours the Jays as it does the other team?

 

[theaub]

Its 10 games in settle down everyone

Jays umpire runs favoured by year, during statcast era, with MLB rank

2015: +14.68 (5th)
2016: +29.01 (1st)
2017: +9.06 (7th)
2018: +15.27 (6th)
2019: +4.11 (11th)
2020: -2.10 (19th)
2021: -7.02 (23rd)
2022: -3.87 (29th)
TOTAL: +59.62 (4th)

And also yes, a bunch of 6'9'' dudes are fouling Joel Embiid everytime he drives.

 

[Discoverer]

Its super cool. The home run lights are also fun.

Hopefully this is a step towards marketing star/fun players in the league. For all the changes to rules to try to speed things up and draw in more fans, the best thing they can do is just make the sport more entertaining.

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Has there been a game this year where it has heavily favoured the Jays (i.e. more than one run)?

If all is fair and equal and it happens both ways, shouldn't there be just as many games where it favours the Jays as it does the other team?

No games yet. Highest was +0.66 first game of the As series.

 

[Blitzkrug]

Hopefully Kikuchi's second start goes better than his first.

 

[Discoverer]

Fun with early-season prospect stuff:

Zac Cook - 27 PA, just 4 hits but 3 of them are HR, 4 BB... and a .556 OBP thanks to 7 HBP.

Obviously to some extent it's just early-season noise, but I would love to see what the hell he's doing to get hit 7 times in 27 trips to the plate.

 

[Bjindaho]

 

[trellaine201]

I am going to the Canadians game tonight. Was Zach Britton a relatively high pick? Is he much of a prospect?

 

[nilan30]

Pat hates the Jays. Confirmed.

So the only call he missed was the first pitch of the game? Impressive

 

[Dr.Funk]

 

[ShaneFalco]

Never seen Romano interviewed - seems like a good guy!

 

[tmlms13]

They should take an extra 2-3 weeks just to make sure.

 

[tmlms13]

No games yet. Highest was +0.66 first game of the As series.

Pretty sure that was Stu Scheurwater...... he's from Regina Sask.

 

[ShaneFalco]

What are they doing with Biggio? Is he still not 100%?

 

[dredeye]

A little off topic but I forgot to mention one thing that annoyed me about the game I went to. For some reason on the scoreboard instead of showing a players batting avg which has always been the case they showed the players ops. Why would they choose that. At least go with obp. It really annoyed me. Stayed that way for the whole game

 

[Suntouchable13]

I'd rather give Biggio a shot at RF consistently than play Tapia. Come on.

 

[Tony Romo]

I'd rather give Biggio a shot at RF consistently than play Tapia. Come on.

I’m just hoping Conforto will take the jab at this point.

 

[Suntouchable13]

Why did they sign this guy again?

 

[hoc123]

Why did they sign this guy again?

Well that Dalbec at-bat is a good example why

 

[Dr.Funk]

 

[ER89]

Its 10 games in settle down everyone

Jays umpire runs favoured by year, during statcast era, with MLB rank

2015: +14.68 (5th)
2016: +29.01 (1st)
2017: +9.06 (7th)
2018: +15.27 (6th)
2019: +4.11 (11th)
2020: -2.10 (19th)
2021: -7.02 (23rd)
2022: -3.87 (29th)
TOTAL: +59.62 (4th)

And also yes, a bunch of 6'9'' dudes are fouling Joel Embiid everytime he drives.

eh i dunno about this one.

 

[dredeye]

That’s actually a short game at just under two hours. That’s a lot of lost concessions

 

[MarkusKetterer]

That’s actually a short game at just under two hours. That’s a lot of lost concessions

Long games are good for those at the game. It makes for really boring tv though.

And I say that as someone who likes baseball

 

[Puckstuff]

I’m just hoping Conforto will take the jab at this point.

Issue with Conforto long term aside from the fact he's not vaxxed is he can't play CF... So if Springer can't go or needs to DH we still have to play Tapia in CF.

 

[dredeye]

Long games are good for those at the game. It makes for really boring tv though.

And I say that as someone who likes baseball

Oh I’m not disagreeing the stepping out of the box off the mound all that stuff can get old. That’s what they need to stop but 2 hours is a fast game. Especially if you’re paying for premium seats.