Blue Jays GDT: Opening Day!

[PanniniClaus]

Incredible luck... Sox defense is putrid.. Vlad did hustle

 

[MK78]

2-1 Jays Red sox defense gifts us one!

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Heineman and Straw lmao. They keep hitting

Cora looking like an idiot. Love it.

 

[Vector]

Incredible luck... Sox defense is putrid.. Vlad did hustle

Exactly how everyone drew it up.

 

[MK78]

Come on some hit a freakin DINGER

 

[MS]

I would say a few guys are having a good approach. There are a handful that look completely lost at best.

The overall approach from the team has been very good. We have a high OBP, low K rate, lots of hard contact. We're seeing a lot of pitches and getting starters out of games early.

You're never going to have everyone going all at once. Santander and maybe Kirk are the only guys with approach issues. And Davis Schneider, whose days in MLB are pretty clearly numbered right now.

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Incredible luck... Sox defense is putrid.. Vlad did hustle

Yep. A clean exchange may have gotten him, but Vlad put a ton of pressure on Story by hustling down the line

 

[Cloned]

Crazy that Heinemen is the better option at catcher right now lol.

Kirk needs to start hitting.

 

[LaP]

The overall approach from the team has been very good. We have a high OBP, low K rate, lots of hard contact. We're seeing a lot of pitches and getting starters out of games early.

You're never going to have everyone going all at once. Santander and maybe Kirk are the only guys with approach issues. And Davis Schneider, whose days in MLB are pretty clearly numbered right now.

I think the Jays have been kind of very unlucky with the hard hit balls. I've not check the stats and maybe i'm biased but from what i can recall there has been lot of line drives right to outfilders and couple of balls hit to the warning track that could have been HR in warmer climate.

 

[LaP]

Yep. A clean exchange may have gotten him, but Vlad put a ton of pressure on Story by hustling down the line

If Vlad doesn't run and concede the out the 1st baseman just leave the base to catch the ball and touch the runner. He was safe cause he ran the fastest he could.

 

[Cloned]

I’m gonna sound like Buck here, but they’re actually playing baseball this season.

Just grinding out games and finding ways to win.

 

[LaP]

I'll give the ump this he has been very consistent with giving the strikes below the knee. When a ref is consistent thru the whole game it's less frustrating.

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Stay hot, George

 

[Tony Romo]

bring him home, come on guys.

 

[LaP]

Devis Schneider really

Barger is 25 does he really need to play every night would not he befenits more from facing MLB pitchers

 

[Tony Romo]

ump?????????

 

[Vector]

This is some truly atrocious strike calling.

 

[MK78]

This ump is brutal.

 

[PanniniClaus]

That might be Babe's best at bat of the year.

 

[Canada4Gold]

Ball 6 it's a walk

 

[Forgotusername]

Schneider almost got jobbed there. 6 balls to get a walk.

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Zero actual strikes to Schneider. Those two called strikes were Angel Hernandez esque

 

[Tony Romo]

took 6 balls there.

 

[The Nemesis]

I think the Jays have been kind of very unlucky with the hard hit balls. I've not check the stats and maybe i'm biased but from what i can recall there has been lot of line drives right to outfilders and couple of balls hit to the warning track that could have been HR in warmer climate.

I don't know where you'd find splits by type of contact outside of maybe some site's paid tools, but on overall BABIP the Jays are 3rd in the AL at .311, so they're generally getting slightly better than normal luck on balls in play.

It's actually kinda funny: if you consider .300 as the sort of accepted average BABIP that should be achieved independent of team-by-team random chance and fluctuations, there are only 10 teams in all of baseball above that mark.

Small sample size caveat, obviously.

Also sucks to be Texas in the basement at .230

 

[habamillions]

Crazy that Heinemen is the better option at catcher right now lol.

Kirk needs to start hitting.

Heineman is a 0.3 war. Kirk and jansen are both -0.3 war. Now its early but who would have predicted that haha. Jansen really struggling in tb. Has paul dejong in a jays uniform numbers