Blue Jays 2021
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A few rare events in the game last night.
4 Blue Jays struck out in the top of the 1st (rare, but that happens).
Toronto also scored 4 runs in their half of the 1st inning.
4K's and 4R in same inning?
Once before, in 1902, in major league baseball.
Grichuk owns Glasnow, 3 career hits off him, all HRs!
Good defensive game by Gurriel Jr, great catch at wall and a cannon for an arm to throw out base runner attempting to score.
Good defensive game by Gurriel Jr, great catch at wall and a cannon for an arm to throw out base runner attempting to score.
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So you're going to just throw away Gurriel Jr. because he's had a slow start while Grichuk has been hot? How about looking at their stats over the past two seasons
AB/BA/OBP/HR/RBI/R
2020
Gurriel Jr. 208/.308/.348/11/33/28
Grichuk 216/.273/.312/12/35/38
2019
Gurriel Jr. 314/.277/.327/20/50/52
Grichuk 586/.232/.280/31/80/75
Seems to me that Gurriel Jr. is the superior hitter. Neither one of them defends particularly well so that's a wash. Grichuk is 29 and Gurriel Jr. is 24.
I say move Grichuk now while he's hot.
Grichuk has matured as a hitter , he's a very good outfielder.
Gurriel is not 24, he will be 28 this year.
Gurriel is not 24, he will be 28 this year.
Ryu has a glute strain, hopefully he won't be out too long.
He's had this injury before during his Dodger days.
He's had this injury before during his Dodger days.
I didn't know who Steve Matz was before this season, he's impressive. I know it was a matter of free agency but if the trade was Taijuan Walker for Mr. Matz, I'm happy with it. Supposedly he had an off year with the Mets last season and they wouldn't re-sign him. Whatever, if he continues pitching with authority I'll have to start calling him Steve Mazzone...for the "big pile" of batters no reaching base safely.
And he does bear a striking resemblance to character actor David Tennant, perhaps the most popular Dr. Who. Whom he played for eight seasons.
And he does bear a striking resemblance to character actor David Tennant, perhaps the most popular Dr. Who. Whom he played for eight seasons.
My bad. I misread. He made his debut with the Jays at 24.
I will agree with you in that Grichuk looks like a different hitter in 2020 and 2021, albeit a small sample size. In his 2 years as a Jay prior to Covid19 hitting, his OBP was dismal and he was striking out at a 26% clip. In 2020 and 2021 so far he's only striking out 16% of the time. Big improvement. But his defense is subpar he's had a negative defensive WAR for 3 of the past 4 seasons prior to 2021.
After two quiet games, Vlady wanted to stir the drink. Youngest player to hit 3 dingers in a game.
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More like youngest ever with 3 HRs and 7 RBIs
