Rusty Staub Field.
So Jack Black did give his consent for the Jays to use the Nacho Libre theme to honour our favorite parrot keeper. But has the arrangement been fulfilled? He wants to sing the national anthems before a game.
Blue Jays: 2015 edition
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So Jack Black did give his consent for the Jays to use the Nacho Libre theme to honour our favorite parrot keeper. But has the arrangement been fulfilled? He wants to sing the national anthems before a game.
The naming rights would probably cost more than Staub earned in his career. Those guys weren't making the millions the stars are today.
EX-jays news:
Brett Lawrie struck out 4 times on 12 pitches last night LOL
Dustin McGowan signed with the Phillies for $1.5m, and is in their bullpen
Drabek got lit up in relief his first appearance of the season for the whitesox. Melky should have a good year for them hitting in front of Abreu
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JP Arencibia didn't make the orioles out of spring training, and wasn't placed on the 40-man roster. Travis Snider is the O's starting right fielder and is 4-5 with 3 walks through 2 games
Noah syndergaard didn't crack the mets rotation out of spring training. Took a ball off his ankle in spring training and they demoted him to delay his arbitration clock. He'll be up later this year. d'Arnaud is their starting catcher and this is his make or break season. He neds to stay healthy. Mets have a top catching prospect already at AAA.
JA HAPP had a horrible camp for the Mariners 1.81 WHIP in 5 starts , but is in their rotation to start the year.
Asher Wojciechowski had a great spring for the Astros, and is there number 4 starter to begin the season. He's one of the guys we gave up to get Happ. Big workhorse type of starter I think we'll regret in that deal.
5-tool Jake Marisnick (Reyes/Buerhle trade) had a good spring for the Astros , he's platoon outfielder for them to start the year, will split playing time with Colby Rasmus who oddly enough had more walks than hits this spring.
And anyone know where Juan Francisco went LOL? Mexican beer league?
Brett Lawrie struck out 4 times on 12 pitches last night LOL
Dustin McGowan signed with the Phillies for $1.5m, and is in their bullpen
Drabek got lit up in relief his first appearance of the season for the whitesox. Melky should have a good year for them hitting in front of Abreu
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JP Arencibia didn't make the orioles out of spring training, and wasn't placed on the 40-man roster. Travis Snider is the O's starting right fielder and is 4-5 with 3 walks through 2 games
Noah syndergaard didn't crack the mets rotation out of spring training. Took a ball off his ankle in spring training and they demoted him to delay his arbitration clock. He'll be up later this year. d'Arnaud is their starting catcher and this is his make or break season. He neds to stay healthy. Mets have a top catching prospect already at AAA.
JA HAPP had a horrible camp for the Mariners 1.81 WHIP in 5 starts , but is in their rotation to start the year.
Asher Wojciechowski had a great spring for the Astros, and is there number 4 starter to begin the season. He's one of the guys we gave up to get Happ. Big workhorse type of starter I think we'll regret in that deal.
5-tool Jake Marisnick (Reyes/Buerhle trade) had a good spring for the Astros , he's platoon outfielder for them to start the year, will split playing time with Colby Rasmus who oddly enough had more walks than hits this spring.
And anyone know where Juan Francisco went LOL? Mexican beer league?
RA did his job OK. Bullpen gives up 3 in the 8th. I think they had consecutively HBP, int. walk, HBP, wild pitch.
Osuna came on with bases loaded and one out and got two quick outs to limit the damage.
McGowan signed with the Dodgers, they released him in March.
April 4 he signed with the Phillies and will pitch out of bullpen.
Reminded me of that circus of a game last April in Minnesota. At least they got it out of their system, I hope.
Difficult weather to pitch in and the Yanks were the ones who ended up getting the breaks and the benefit.
...or good old-fashioned bad pitching by two consecutive relievers who for the most part have been pretty steady the last couple of years.
Martin should have been replaced after Gibby went to the bullpen. He was so focused on catching the knuckleball he had nothing left for the relievers. His pitch selection was poor and the relievers didn't respond. Sometimes you have to put the chance to win over an individual player, Gibby has never done that.
The A-Roids are what we thought they were and we let them off the hook!
The A-Roids are what we thought they were and we let them off the hook!
I was just following last night's game on the internet on the ESPN box score every 30 minutes or so because I couldn't listen to it or watch it and just happened to click in when Aaron Loup came into the game with 0.0 innings pitched and Jays leading 3-1.
And I said to myself, that's it, the game's over. There's no way they can survive a blunder move like that.
I know his stats are somewhat okay; but, still, Aaron Loup has screwed the team over way too many times in the past to be trusted late in a tight game in a high leverage situation.
Castro is bred to be a starting pitcher and was showing no signs of being tired; so, what was the point of switching over to a pitcher with much less talent than Castro.
I generally support John Gibbons; but, to me this loss is his fault. Sometimes a manager has to just get out of the way of the players and let them do the job they can do.
Instead he artificially meddled in a situation where meddling was not necessary. All he had to do was keep things in cruise control.
Anyway, Osuna and Castro both pitched brilliantly last night while Loup and Cecil were total clunkers.
I worship at the church of "whatever works right now baby" and I hope the wheels start turning in John Gibbon's mind because if he keeps managing the bullpen like he did last night, this team is going to melt faster than the wicked witch of the west.
I agree with what this blogger wrote about the bullpen situation last night.
http://jaysjournal.com/2015/04/09/blue-jays-game-analysis-shoulda-stuck-with-castro/
And I said to myself, that's it, the game's over. There's no way they can survive a blunder move like that.
I know his stats are somewhat okay; but, still, Aaron Loup has screwed the team over way too many times in the past to be trusted late in a tight game in a high leverage situation.
Castro is bred to be a starting pitcher and was showing no signs of being tired; so, what was the point of switching over to a pitcher with much less talent than Castro.
I generally support John Gibbons; but, to me this loss is his fault. Sometimes a manager has to just get out of the way of the players and let them do the job they can do.
Instead he artificially meddled in a situation where meddling was not necessary. All he had to do was keep things in cruise control.
Anyway, Osuna and Castro both pitched brilliantly last night while Loup and Cecil were total clunkers.
I worship at the church of "whatever works right now baby" and I hope the wheels start turning in John Gibbon's mind because if he keeps managing the bullpen like he did last night, this team is going to melt faster than the wicked witch of the west.
I agree with what this blogger wrote about the bullpen situation last night.
http://jaysjournal.com/2015/04/09/blue-jays-game-analysis-shoulda-stuck-with-castro/
Following a shaky performance by the Toronto Blue Jays bullpen on Wednesday night, manager John Gibbons has decided to shuffle some of his late-inning arms.
Sportsnet’s Shi Davidi reports that left-hander Brett Cecil will be ceding some of his ninth-inning duties to rookie Miguel Castro for the time being. While Cecil builds his strength, Castro is expected to be called upon in some save situations despite his lack of experience at the big-league level. Barry Davis reports that Gibbons has no reservations about using the young right-hander in the ninth inning. Castro has appeared in both Blue Jays’ games so far this season pitching two perfect innings with two strikeouts.
http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/blue-jays-shuffle-pen-as-cecil-builds-strength/
Sportsnet’s Shi Davidi reports that left-hander Brett Cecil will be ceding some of his ninth-inning duties to rookie Miguel Castro for the time being. While Cecil builds his strength, Castro is expected to be called upon in some save situations despite his lack of experience at the big-league level. Barry Davis reports that Gibbons has no reservations about using the young right-hander in the ninth inning. Castro has appeared in both Blue Jays’ games so far this season pitching two perfect innings with two strikeouts.
http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/blue-jays-shuffle-pen-as-cecil-builds-strength/
Even last night Gibby said if Cecil got through the 8th he would have used Osuna in the 9th.
