Blue Jays: 2015 edition
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Because ol' Gibby overmanaged today. Dickey was only at 84 pitches and wasn't pitching poorly.
That's what you get with young pitchers, they must learn from adversity to be career major leaguers.
Osuna wants to be the closer, he should know that Mariano Rivera got lit up numerous times. It's how he dealt with blowing saves that made him what he became. I'm not worried both Sanchez and Osuna are smart enough to figure it out. Good effort in almost winning the game anyways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wunyc_T4S7E
Osuna wants to be the closer, he should know that Mariano Rivera got lit up numerous times. It's how he dealt with blowing saves that made him what he became. I'm not worried both Sanchez and Osuna are smart enough to figure it out. Good effort in almost winning the game anyways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wunyc_T4S7E
guys...chill out...it's baseball. It happens...
Every single pitcher in baseball gives up runs, otherwise they would all have ERA's of 0.00.
Just watch this and maybe you'll all chill and feel better.
Every single pitcher in baseball gives up runs, otherwise they would all have ERA's of 0.00.
Just watch this and maybe you'll all chill and feel better.
I thought Holt struck out before he hit that double. He swung and missed the ball with 2 strikes. Normally, that is a strike out.
That was what I saw too! Apparently the umpire saw a foul tip that hit the ground before being caught. It looked to me like the call rattled Osuna. If it was a missed call by the umpire it probably cost the Jays the game!
I thought it was a missed bat/ball as well. Condescending Mike Wilner said on Twitter that the ball ticked the bat.
Yup, another bad game.
More importantly, I didn't like the way they played. Lower intensity, waiting for something to happen, easing up after the 3-0 lead and 4-2 lead last night. 3 errors today by a so-called top defensive team? That's just lack of concentration.
Hopefully they can get pumped up for the NY Yanks and sweep.
Blue Jays have a really bad record in 1 run ball games this year and I think most of it stems from weakness in the bullpen.
They don't seem to be getting the job done in high leverage situations recently.
A couple of weeks ago I heard Keith Law on TSN radio say that the bullpen is the Achilles heel of the Blue Jays team and it sure looks that way from the results of the past 6 games.
Sanchez especially is doing a Johnny Cueto impression recently by giving up so many hits and runs when he appears in games. Can't seem to get anybody out.
Set up guys for a million years in baseball have been expected to go more than 1 inning so the excuse that he can't be asked to pitch in 2 different innings doesn't really wash, especially since he was able to do it last year in the bullpen with no big issues.
This past week the Blue Jays lost 3 one run games. Losing pitchers were Sanchez, Osuna and Cecil.
Starting pitchers went 3 -0 while relievers this week went 0-3. (Estrada, Price and Stroman winning games.)
Playoff teams with a poor record in 1 run games in the regular season seldom do well in the post season.
Blue Jays outscored Atlanta and Boston by a total score of 31- 16 this past week in 6 games; but only go 3-3 because they can't win 1 run games.
Getting 7 innings out of a starter is also crucial. In the 3 wins this week the starters went 8.0, 7.0 and 7.0 innings.
In the 3 losses the starters went 5.0, 6.0 and 6.0 innings. That's 22 innings vs 17 innings by starting pitchers of winning games vs starting pitchers of losing games. Asking the bullpen to do an extra 5 innings of work looks like a recipe for loses.
Thank god Stroman is back because he looks like someone who can give you 7 innings every game.
They don't seem to be getting the job done in high leverage situations recently.
A couple of weeks ago I heard Keith Law on TSN radio say that the bullpen is the Achilles heel of the Blue Jays team and it sure looks that way from the results of the past 6 games.
Sanchez especially is doing a Johnny Cueto impression recently by giving up so many hits and runs when he appears in games. Can't seem to get anybody out.
Set up guys for a million years in baseball have been expected to go more than 1 inning so the excuse that he can't be asked to pitch in 2 different innings doesn't really wash, especially since he was able to do it last year in the bullpen with no big issues.
This past week the Blue Jays lost 3 one run games. Losing pitchers were Sanchez, Osuna and Cecil.
Starting pitchers went 3 -0 while relievers this week went 0-3. (Estrada, Price and Stroman winning games.)
Playoff teams with a poor record in 1 run games in the regular season seldom do well in the post season.
Blue Jays outscored Atlanta and Boston by a total score of 31- 16 this past week in 6 games; but only go 3-3 because they can't win 1 run games.
Getting 7 innings out of a starter is also crucial. In the 3 wins this week the starters went 8.0, 7.0 and 7.0 innings.
In the 3 losses the starters went 5.0, 6.0 and 6.0 innings. That's 22 innings vs 17 innings by starting pitchers of winning games vs starting pitchers of losing games. Asking the bullpen to do an extra 5 innings of work looks like a recipe for loses.
Thank god Stroman is back because he looks like someone who can give you 7 innings every game.
