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Blue Jays Discussion: End of the Hand

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I think we all need to calm down a bit. 2 weeks ago this was the worst team ever and heads needed to fly.

25 games left, a lot can happen and we aren’t even in a playoff spot yet.

I remember in 2016 we were in a wild card spot with 3 games remaining vs the Red Sox. Cecil gave up a lead late in game one with a 3 run shot to Ortiz and we lost. People, including me thought we were done. We won on Saturday and Sunday to keep home field advantage and prevent the Tigers and O’s from catching us.

Nothing is over until it’s over especially since we have 2 series left with the Rays.
 
Is there a Baseball equivalent of HFBoards somehwere? Where its just MLB talk
 
theaub said:
There should be less teams in the playoffs, not more.

If the Blue Jays are the fourth best team in their own division after playing 162 games they definitely do not deserve any chance at winning a championship.

e: I am admittedly pretty comfortable with 5 teams (gives you a reward for winning the division, a couple bail out spots for extremely strong divisions like ALE/NLW this year etc).
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lets see how that will go over with fans of the NBA and NHL. Answer: not very well
 
Puckstuff said:
Remember when there was so many questions about the rotation? Man Shapkins has done a good job with assembling a rotation. There was no need for spending money on Paxton after all.

They look like geniuses.


1. Ray - 2.60 era - Cy young front runner.
2. Ryu - 3.77 era
3. Berrios - 3.55 (3.79 with t.o)
4. Manoah - 3.63 era
5. Matz - 3.70 era.
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agreed its a great pitching rotation but im not sure it will be enough to win a world series. Gonna need at least one more ace imo.

the bullpen is looking scary though.

postseason chances: i predict we need to go 16-9
 
Cloned said:
A’s losing too.

This is like some kind of bizarro world where literally everything is going right.
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Like the first time this year. Crazy how just one stretch of things going right across the board can close the gap so quickly.

Lightsol said:
You don't know zeke, do you?
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Oh, I do, I just wanted to give him a chance to deal with me personally.
 
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The Jays currently sit 2.5 games behind the Yankees for the first wild card and 2 games behind the Red Sox for the second wild card. There are no teams between them and the Sox. The As and the Mariners sit a game back of the Jays.

Also, the Jays have 4 games in hand on the Red Sox, 1 on the Yankees and the Mariners, and have played the same number of games as the As.
 
Age 21-22, min 100pa, Blue Jays history:

1. Guerrero .312babip, 153wrc+, 4.7war650
2. Kirk .303babip, 142wrc+, 4.7war650
3. Bichette .361babip, 134wrc+, 5.0war650
4. Olerud .283babip, 118wrc+, 2.7war650
5. Lawrie .312babip, 112wrc+, 4.1war650
 
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Wow another night where everything went the way it needed to. This was probably the series where the Jays had/have the best chance to make hay. Playing the Yankees while the Sox, A's and Mariners play the three division leaders. It's funny I stopped into my friends campsite the Friday and they had the Jays/As game on and I saw the As go up 6-2 and thought "they're just gonna run out of time aren't they" Get home that night in time to see one pitch and it was Semien's walk off. What a different feeling 4 days later. Here's hoping they keep it up (even with those Rays series coming up)
 
Let's hope the trend of the Jays playing down to the level of the competition doesn't continue for the remainder of the schedule. If not, we've got a shot at the wildcard.
 
If there was a must win game today's game is it.

If we can somehow win tonight it puts the Jays in the drivers seat to sweep the Yanks tomorrow and put us a half game behind a wildcard spot pending what happens with Boston.

Everything seems to be going per script and if they can keep winning it also allows them to rest up Springer for a couple more games. Would rather have him in lineup for entire Rays series at DH then him playing at 50% this series.
 
Clark4Ever said:
Let's hope the trend of the Jays playing down to the level of the competition doesn't continue for the remainder of the schedule. If not, we've got a shot at the wildcard.
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has this actually been a thing this year? makes me want to check.
 
Vs Opponents in order of w%

SFG ---
TBR 5-8 ----> 6gms remaining
LAD ---
MIL ---
HOU 2-4
CHW 3-4
NYY 8-6 ----> 5gms remaining
BOS 9-10
Vs .550+: 27-32 (.458) ----> 11gms remaining
TOR ---
SEA 2-4
OAK 5-2
ATL 6-0
SDP ---
CIN ---
PHI 2-1
STL ---
NYM 1-2
CLE 5-2
LAA 3-4
DET 3-3
CHC ---
COL ---
Vs .450-.550: 27-18 (.600) ----> 0gms remaining
KCR 4-3
MIN --- ---->7gms remaining
WSH 1-3
MIA 4-0
TEX 4-2
PIT ---
ARZ ---
BAL 8-4 ----> 7gms remaining
Vs < .450: 21-12 (.636) ----> 14gms remaining




I'm not sure i'm too worried about them playing down to Minny and Baltimore tbh.

But these head to heads with TB and NY are the big test.
 
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Play .500 ball during the week and win the weekend series and you're looking at ~15-10? That honestly should be close to enough at this point.

e: forgot we have the big edge in games left...probably need to still go 17-8 or something.
 
theaub said:
Play .500 ball during the week and win the weekend series and you're looking at ~15-10? That honestly should be close to enough at this point.

e: forgot we have the big edge in games left...probably need to still go 17-8 or something.
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If the Jays go 15-10, the Yankees have to go 12-12 and Boston has to go 11-10 to tie. Doable, since those teams aren't particularly great and have been bad lately, but there's not a lot of wiggle-room there.
 
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