Blue Jays Discussion: Will play Texas in the ALDS (Playoff Avatars in Posts 1-4)

[TootooTrain]

Houston has no offense? They're 2nd to the bluejays in Home runs and OPS. Do not sleep on them.

 

[Trouba95*]

Houston is my darkhorse in the playoffs. I think they'll beat the Yanks.

 

[Edo]

Houston has no offense? They're 2nd to the bluejays in Home runs and OPS. Do not sleep on them.

The Jays scored 172 more runs than the Astros did. That's a bigger difference than the Astros and the lowest scoring team in the Majors. Their offence is average if anything.

 

[canucksfan]

The Jays scored 172 more runs than the Astros did. That's a bigger difference than the Astros and the lowest scoring team in the Majors. Their offence is average if anything.

They strikeout too much. Also, their 5-9 hitters are garbage.

 

[Eyedea]

The Jays scored 172 more runs than the Astros did. That's a bigger difference than the Astros and the lowest scoring team in the Majors. Their offence is average if anything.

I don't know if you've noticed but the team that finished second in runs scored is 128 back of the Jays. The Astros have been a top 5 team offensively this season.

They strikeout too much. Also, their 5-9 hitters are garbage.

Every starter outside of Jason Castro, Jed Lowrie, and Carlos Gomez have been league average or better offensively this season. That might not show in their ability to get on base, and they don't have great contact skills, but they can still smack the ball out of the yard. They probably won't fare as well as a more disciplined team but they still were not bad over the season.

 

[Man Bear Pig]

They strikeout too much. Also, their 5-9 hitters are garbage.

How many teams can go 9 hitters deep? Let's not pretend that we haven't been sending out the likes of Pennington,Goins,Pillar etc on the regular. And yes, I'm aware that we've had injuries to a few key players but injuries happen. Point is, the Jays have easily the best offense in the game and still don't go 9 deep because it's just not realistic.

 

[Trouba95*]

Think the Rangers might use Martin Perez instead of Holland/Lewis?

 

[Man Bear Pig]

Think the Rangers might use Martin Perez instead of Holland/Lewis?

I'd laugh if they did. He's pretty awful.

 

[Trouba95*]

Guys, I give it a 95% of being at 4 pm Thursday. Figure out your schedules!

 

[SDig14]

I'm assuming we are waiting till we know whether the Yankees advance for game times?

Kinda lame if we have to wait till then though, I need more time to find an excuse to go home after lunch.

 

[Trouba95*]

I'm an 11/10 on the excitement scale. Thursday can't come soon enough.

 

[Trouba95*]

I'm assuming we are waiting till we know whether the Yankees advance for game times?

Kinda lame if we have to wait till then though, I need more time to find an excuse to go home after lunch.

Bank on it being 4 pm.

 

[canadon]

Any thoughts/info on the possible Friday's game time please?

 

[91Kadri91*]

The Jays scored 172 more runs than the Astros did. That's a bigger difference than the Astros and the lowest scoring team in the Majors. Their offence is average if anything.

They had the second best wRC+ and positional WAR in the AL, and they have two pitchers who have WAR's over 3.5 this season. It would have been three, but McCullers only pitched 21 games.

They also have the second best BaseRuns record in the Major's (not just the AL); they're a good team.

 

[Edo]

I don't know if you've noticed but the team that finished second in runs scored is 128 back of the Jays. The Astros have been a top 5 team offensively this season.



Every starter outside of Jason Castro, Jed Lowrie, and Carlos Gomez have been league average or better offensively this season. That might not show in their ability to get on base, and they don't have great contact skills, but they can still smack the ball out of the yard. They probably won't fare as well as a more disciplined team but they still were not bad over the season.

There are 30 runs between Houston and 15th. This includes the NL teams that don't have DH's. And they just threw up 21 runs in a nothing game a few days ago.

The Astros offense is very average. It's not a strength. It just what it is. Altuve is fantastic and will be a tough guy to shut down. Correa-Springer are good. After that, it's meh. Hell, Rasmus is one of their better hitters. Freaking Rasmus.

They are pretty irrelevant as we won't be facing them anyway.

 

[Canada4Gold]

There are 30 runs between Houston and 15th. This includes the NL teams that don't have DH's. And they just threw up 21 runs in a nothing game a few days ago.

The Astros offense is very average. It's not a strength. It just what it is. Altuve is fantastic and will be a tough guy to shut down. Correa-Springer are good. After that, it's meh. Hell, Rasmus is one of their better hitters. Freaking Rasmus.

They are pretty irrelevant as we won't be facing them anyway.

a nothing game? huh? It's not like had they lost that game they would have had to play a tiebreaker for the 2nd WC or anything.

 

[Edo]

a nothing game? huh? It's not like had they lost that game they would have had to play a tiebreaker for the 2nd WC or anything.

They put up 14 runs after the 7th with already a 6 run lead and Keuchel pitching. It was pretty irrelevant.

Again, that's how their offense basically runs. Bunch of skewed numbers. They didn't win their division because of their offense anyway. Their first half pitching + Keuchel got them in.

 

[Dr Pepper]

I imagine Rasmus would be pretty pumped to waltz back in here and have a chance to knock out the team that cast him away.

 

[Dr Pepper]

If someone wants to stand out, there are a couple of nice ones I haven't seen in use yet.

Dickey #2, Goins #2 (from his walk-off HR. I see that shot a lot now in one of the playoff ads), Sanchez #1, or any of the alternates in the last post (like Donaldson's slide, or any of the highlight-reel Pillar grabs)

Didn't catch that the first time.

Dibs.

 

[Finlandia WOAT]

If someone wants to stand out, there are a couple of nice ones I haven't seen in use yet.

Dickey #2, Goins #2 (from his walk-off HR. I see that shot a lot now in one of the playoff ads), Sanchez #1, or any of the alternates in the last post (like Donaldson's slide, or any of the highlight-reel Pillar grabs)

Yo.

 

[Stats01]

So we'll have Gallardo, Hamels, Holland, Lewis. If we can keep their line-up down we should be able to hit these guys. I really want to crush Gallardo the guy seems to have our number but if we can figure him out we should be able to hit him third time through the order.

 

[Dr Pepper]

Whatever happened to Yu Darvish, anyway? TJ surgery?

 

[Stats01]

Whatever happened to Yu Darvish, anyway? TJ surgery?

yep, he hasn't pitched all year. he tore his UCL in spring training leading to TJS. He's only made 22 starts in the past 2 years

This is why Texas went out and got Hamels. Next year the Rangers should have a great rotation. Hamels, Darvish, Gallardo, Holland, Lewis/whoever else

The key is Darvish though, like every other big Japanese signing we'll see if he can come back from an injury and be the same pitcher. We saw this with Dice-K in Boston.

 

[Dr Pepper]

yep, he hasn't pitched all year. he tore his UCL in spring training leading to TJS. He's only made 22 starts in the past 2 years

This is why Texas went out and got Hamels. Next year the Rangers should have a great rotation. Hamels, Darvish, Gallardo, Holland, Lewis/whoever else

The key is Darvish though, like every other big Japanese signing we'll see if he can come back from an injury and be the same pitcher. We saw this with Dice-K in Boston.

Indeed, though I feel like Darvish at his best, was better than Dice-K ever was. Hopefully we see him return to form - and not in a miraculous, sooner-than-expected way like we had with Stroman.

 

[Diamond Joe Quimby]

Think the Rangers might use Martin Perez instead of Holland/Lewis?

They're in a tough spot with all those lefty starters. I think they'll be forced into using Lewis.

Facing the Blue Jays is the worst case scenario for them.