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Blue Jays Discussion: Manoah gets the Halladay treatment (optioned to rookie-ball to try and fix him)

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Bo Bichette...elite hitter, below average shortstop. It's not necessarily catching the baseball, it's throwing and decision-making that are the problem. At this point, he is what he is, I don't see him improving on the throwing but with experience his decision-making may improve. They seem to be reluctant to play him at second base. Perhaps they're not comfortable with someone else at short. Nevertheless, the kid can hit.
 
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Suntouchable13 said:
Seems like Alek struggles in game 1s. Last year playoff opener, struggled. Yesterday, struggled. He probably gets too hyped up for these.
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Not sure it's because of the big game, but his slider was flat out garbage yesterday and its his main secondary. It was either a non-competitive pitch or it was hanging right in the middle of the zone. Not to mention he couldn't hit the zone or even close to it with his changeup even though it looked way better than any other time ive seen it. Really made it easy for the Cards to focus on his fastball/sinker or wait for a hanging slide. It'd be like if Gausman's splitter wasn't splitting, they're dependant on their elite secondary pitch.
 
fancy lad said:
that game was bananas but what a start to the season. Hope it's foreshadowing and we're going to be for a ride this year,

Gotta love Romano shutting them down after the bullpen was struggling.
The team is looking solid and serious. I don't think i'll miss the goofy dugout antics too much.
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That annoyed the hell out of me. I mean its good to have fun. But you shouldn't be goofing around when you are losing.
 
CabanaBoy5 said:
Bo Bichette...elite hitter, below average shortstop. It's not necessarily catching the baseball, it's throwing and decision-making that are the problem. At this point, he is what he is, I don't see him improving on the throwing but with experience his decision-making may improve. They seem to be reluctant to play him at second base. Perhaps they're not comfortable with someone else at short. Nevertheless, the kid can hit.
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Espinal at SS and Bichette at 2B is appealing but we lose the platoon flexibility at 2B with Whit/Espinal/Cavan because Bichette would be the every day player at 2B. Merrifield/Biggio would get axed from the middle infield in this scenario, so there's a big cost. But if there's ever an injury, Bo could go back to SS and Biggio/Whit could draw back in.

If Bo doesn't turn it around by June, this option might have to be given a serious look. You would want to give Bo 90-100 games at 2B before the playoffs, to give him time to figure it out defensively. If they were to do this type of move, I could see them doing it in early or mid June imo.
 
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TheBeastCoast said:
It is interesting. We obviously put a emphasis on defense and baserunning this off season, Seattle seemingly did the opposite. They went out and got really bad defensive players in the hopes of giving their lineup a boost offensively.
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It will be interesting to see how they do. I liked Teo but the Jays needed to fix their outfield problems. They couldn't have the same outfield again. I was very glad they didn't extend him. He's a player that won't age well I think.

Ray had an awful game too. His FB velo was down.
 
Puckstuff said:
Espinal at SS and Bichette at 2B is appealing but we lose the platoon flexibility at 2B with Whit/Espinal/Cavan because Bichette would be the every day player at 2B. Merrifield/Biggio would get axed from the middle infield in this scenario, so there's a big cost. But if there's ever an injury, Bo could go back to SS and Biggio/Whit could draw back in.

If Bo doesn't turn it around by June, this option might have to be given a serious look. You would want to give Bo 90-100 games at 2B before the playoffs, to give him time to figure it out defensively. If they were to do this type of move, I could see them doing it in early or mid June imo.
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You can just move Bo back to ss if you need time off for Espinal
 
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As someone that preferred other options to Bassitt, this isn't completely out of his realm of nature. This was definitely the worst start of his career but he had a couple blowouts last year and still finished with solid overall numbers. He's not someone that typically generates whiffs but instead tries to get guys to swing at stuff on the edges. If he's not hitting those spots then he'll probably get hit pretty hard. Velo might be a concern but his first 10 starts in 2022 were:

1. 92.5 FBv
2. 91.6 FBv
3. 91.4 FBv
4. 92.6 FBv
5. 91.6 FBv
6. 92.9 FBv
7. 92.8 FBv
8. 92.8 FBv
9. 93.8 FBv
10. 94.0 FBv

After that it was consistently around 93 outside of a few starts.

Next series is against a very bad Royals team, although Berrios is lining up against their best starter in Singer.
 
Painful weekend but the Cards are very good. The pitching is obviously worrisome, but I think the Cards are just that good.
 
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