Blue Jays GDT: Opening Day!

[Blitzkrug]

DFA this f***ing schlub. He sucked in Spring and he still sucks now.

Sure Santander should have had that but he isn't the guy who loaded the bases. twice.

 

[Tony Romo]

Santa is so bad in the OF, holy shit

 

[mikeyz]

Lovelady is a gascan.

We got rid of Yarborough for this POS???

 

[saska sault]

What was the upside of keeping Lovelady over Yar? Was it simply for cost savings?

 

[MS]

And the weird bullpen roster decisions come back to bite the team 48 hours into the season. Incredibly frustrating. Total unforced error.

 

[Blitzkrug]

What was the upside of keeping Lovelady over Yar? Was it simply for cost savings?

Yar's underlying metrics weren't exactly amazing either. I don't think he would have been that much better.

 

[MK78]

Well, the big bats are gonna have to wake up if they are gonna win this...

 

[Suntouchable13]

Yar's underlying metrics weren't exactly amazing either. I don't think he would have been that much better.

Both are jabronis, but Yar is less so. imo.

 

[Vector]

His Lovelady pervert might be bad.

 

[Blitzkrug]

Well, the big bats are gonna have to wake up if they are gonna win this...

Gimenez 3 HR game incoming.

Sorry, *Nacho 3 HR game incoming.

 

[LaP]

DFA this f***ing schlub. He sucked in Spring and he still sucks now.

Sure Santander should have had that but he isn't the guy who loaded the bases. twice.

It's fine to have a guy you're going to use when you lose by 4-5 runs. Pretty much all teams have one and usually it's not a good pitcher but just a guy who will accept to throw many innings in a losing situation. But that guy should not pitch in a game you lead 4-2 like ever.

 

[Blitzkrug]

It's fine to have a guy you're going to use when you lose by 4-5 runs. Pretty much all teams have one and usually it's not a good pitcher but just a guy who will accept to throw many innings in a losing situation. But that guy should not pitch in a game you lead 4-2 like ever.

Yup. He shouldn't be anything more than an innings eater if he does get more looks. Every pitching staff generally needs one of those types.

 

[mikeyz]

Lovelady now with an ERA of 21.60 on the season. LMFAO

 

[saska sault]

Yar's underlying metrics weren't exactly amazing either. I don't think he would have been that much better.

Maybe not, Yar just seems a more known commodity with about 6 or 7 x's the experience. Its only one game regardless and I wont pretend to have ever heard of Lovelady prior to this year.

 

[MS]

Yar's underlying metrics weren't exactly amazing either. I don't think he would have been that much better.

Yarbrough has like a 7 year sample size of pretty consistently being a very solid bulk guy who can chew through 100-120 innings with a roughly league average ERA.

He's literally the exact player you want in a situation like this and a game like this, and it was incredibly predictable that this would happen given Scherzer's pre-existing injury issues and red flags during spring training. And instead they cut him to keep two bad one-inning relievers who have already been pounded.

And Barnes is heading out to get knocked around now.

 

[hockeywiz542]

What was the upside of keeping Lovelady over Yar? Was it simply for cost savings?

 

[saska sault]

So you are telling me we could have had 2 Yarbroughs instead of 1 Myles Straw?

 

[LaP]

We are 3 games into the season and we already have seen Lovelady and Barnes twice. No matter how good or not the offense is it's going to be an issue that will need to be adressed.

 

[LaP]

If Barnes give only 1 point i'll consider this a resounding success

[edit] and nope did not happen

 

[habamillions]

We are 3 games into the season and we already have seen Lovelady and Barnes twice. No matter how good or not the offense is it's going to be an issue that will need to be adressed.

Combined in their career's they have a minus war

 

[Blitzkrug]

Well good to see the Bullpen is still an issue... /s

 

[Blitzkrug]

Not much Kirk could have done there. Got a good throw off but Cedric got a better jump.

 

[LaP]

It's crazy that this game was 100% winnable before the coach and GM decided to throw it away. That loss will be 100% on management. I don't want to see a single person criticize the players if the offense don't come back in the game.

 

[WhyYouHaveToBeMad]

Well good to see the Bullpen is still an issue... /s

instead of trying to spend 750 mil on soto maybe they should have spent it on the bullpen and vladdy.

 

[ULF_55]

It's crazy that this game was 100% winnable before the coach and GM decided to throw it away. That loss will be 100% on management. I don't want to see a single person criticize the players if the offense don't come back in the game.

I checked and it was 4-2 IIRC and then saw all those bases occupied, went to another page, came back and ...

Does it matter though?

Aren't the Yankees and Dodgers already booked for the WS?