Blue Jays Discussion: Off-Season VI: It's no longer the off-season, but the thread isn't done yet

[thehockeysong]

Orelvis and Tiedmann are the prospects I'm most hoping have good starts to the year. If they are what they've flashed the Jays are good for farm assets

 

[Blitzkrug]

The Rangers went into the time machine and came back as their 2007 version.

 

[Canada4Gold]

New Year, same team, same Kloffenstein. Not out of the 2nd inning yet and he's given up 7 hits and 3 runs. At least he's got 2 K's and hasn't walked anyone yet?

 

[Rysto]

Holy cow, the Nats' pitching staff is having control issues, to put it lightly:

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They're gonna kill a guy if they can't find, if not the zone, at least something below head level.

 

[phillipmike]

Toronto beating up Texas this weekend;

Leafs beat Dallas
Raptors beat Houston
Jays beat Texas

 

[phillipmike]

 

[Zero1]

I f*cking love Teo man.

 

[Discoverer]

This season is gonna be amazing.

 

[hockeywiz542]

 

[canucksfan]

Romano was the only pitcher to strike out a Rangers batter.

 

[BertCorbeau]

 

[canucksfan]

Cole seems like he is a giant shit stain

 

[BertCorbeau]

Cole seems like he is a giant shit stain

the perfect Yankee

 

[hockeywiz542]

 

[canucksfan]

Rangers fans must hate playing at Skydome. 2015 and 2016 sucked for them and then the team blows one of the largest leads on opening day.

 

[DanM]

Cole seems like he is a giant shit stain

I would HATE to have that man on our team. He was little swearing and yelling to get the game started.

He is just an entitled piece of shit.

 

[93LEAFS]

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Shouldn't have said it as it plays as an excuse, but not uncommon for starters like goalies to be absolutely nutty about their pre-game routines and timing them to the minute.

 

[Transplanted Caper]

Coming back and embarrassing the Rangers is glorious. What a shitty franchise.

 

[Cor]

Lets hope for a better start for Gausman.

Glad we got the W yesterday. I’m sure that makes it easier for Berrios to forget about that start

 

[canucksfan]

I saw a tweet saying Espinal had his top two exit velocities in his career, yesterday.

 

[hockeywiz542]

Nationals’ Steve Cishek apologizes for hitting Mets’ Francisco Lindor

The Nationals are sorry. There wasn’t much excuse-making or finger-pointing coming out of the home clubhouse Friday night after relief pitcher Steve Cishek hit Francisco Lindor near the face with a…

nypost.com

WASHINGTON — The Nationals are sorry.

There wasn’t much excuse-making or finger-pointing coming out of the home clubhouse Friday night after relief pitcher Steve Cishek hit Francisco Lindor near the face with a pitch and kicked off a benches- and bullpens-clearing incident. Twice in the first two games, a Mets star has been hit near the face. Pete Alonso was knocked down Thursday by a pitch that deflected off his shoulder and blooded his mouth.

Nationals manager Dave Martinez admitted “I’d be pissed off” if it were the other way around.

“They’re pissed off and I get that,” Martinez added. “Both times was unintentional — super-unintentional. But it did happen, so I have no ill feelings of what they did. I went out there to protect our players.”

Cishek and Nationals third base coach Gary DiSarcina were ejected. Lindor also left the game — a 7-3 win for the Mets — but X-rays and a concussion test turned up negative. The pitch was designed to go up and in because Lindor had squared around to bunt.

“It shocked me because I don’t think I’ve ever hit a lefty in the face or the head before,” Cishek said. “I put my head down and my first intention was to go over and see if he was OK. As I was doing that, I realized it was a bad idea because I just kind of fired up their bench a little bit.”

Cishek later walked into the medical room to check on the results of Lindor’s X-rays. He actually found Lindor waiting.

“I shook his hand and apologized and made sure he was OK. He said he was,” Cishek said. “I told him, ‘Sorry for what happened. Obviously your teammates have your back and I respect that.’ He was cool with it. Really nice guy.”

Cishek was ejected for his role as an aggressor in the skirmish (as was DiSarcina) and not for the pitch, umpires later confirmed.

“There was no intent,” Cishek said. “I thought I was going to have a warning for sure, but to be ejected was a bit of a surprise."

 

[Clark4Ever]

That was one hell of an opening act.

 

[Beaumaris]

Especially with an ace who struggles to get out of the first inning.

 

[Clark4Ever]

Especially with an ace who struggles to get out of the first inning.

Berrios will be fine. The whole team came out a bit unhinged last night in that incredible atmosphere.

I told my buddy last night when it was 7-0 that if the bullpen can settle things down that we would come back.

 

[Eyedea]

Especially with an ace who struggles to get out of the first inning.

On the bright side, Jansen/Teo are sweeping the AL awards.