Blue Jays 2024
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Good for Teo, but as a Jays fan this makes me sad. smhTeoscar Hernandez is hitting- 290, 5 hr, 17 rbi, 924 ops.
I was saying since day one, run producers like this do not just pop up to be found easily.
Teoscar Hernández's two-run home run (5) | 04/12/2024
Teoscar Hernández smacks a two-run home run to right field, extending the Dodgers' lead to 7-3 in the bottom of the 3rdwww.mlb.com
Looks like those moves may not have worked out in our favor...
* Varsho: .190, 1 HR and 1 RBI
* Keirmaier: .143 0 HR and 2 RBI
* Springer: .182 2 HR and 4 RBI
* Schneider: .261 2 HR and 7 RBI
* Teo: .290 5 HR and 17 RBI
* Gurriel: .304 3 HR and 14 RBI
Our entire outfield sucks offensively.
* Varsho: .190, 1 HR and 1 RBI
* Keirmaier: .143 0 HR and 2 RBI
* Springer: .182 2 HR and 4 RBI
* Schneider: .261 2 HR and 7 RBI
* Teo: .290 5 HR and 17 RBI
* Gurriel: .304 3 HR and 14 RBI
Our entire outfield sucks offensively.
Look. Atkins promised that he was going to address their lack of hitting after last season. IKF is just a tad below Ohtani, Soto and Bellinger. He seems like a decent guy, though. And now we have an offensive co-ordinator and all the guys who are guaranteed to rebound from off years.
As Bautista proclaimed about 10 years ago prior to a losing season, "I don't see what can go wrong".
Teo was gonna be a free agent so they let him go and he sucked on defense and is hot/cold hitter. He is hot right now
One thing you miss is how Jays outfield is best defense in baseball which has made our ERA the best in baseball
BTW, Moreno is 250 with no homers and 6 rbi
He is as bad as Captain Kirk has been and Kirk is better catcher and Kirks bad hitting can be blamed on his work overload as catcher.
Jansen should not only add a power bat but Kirks bat should improve with more games off
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Right on
He was and still is hype to sell tickets
Trade him if you can still get quality for him. Power hitting first basemen are easy to acquire
Most of the time he grounds out to left infield creating easy double play, which is why Bo bats behind him , or he strikes out
Nothing against Vlad, just bad Jays management judgement in assessing players
They could of swapped him for Judge a few years ago
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I've already stated this but we traded a bat for a pitcher who was swing and miss and Swanson lived up to that last season. I still think we gave up too much for Varsho and should've something more in return.
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I’ve been more disappointed watching Bichette throw over the entire first base area, only to watch the winning run coming to score, than anything Hernandez ever did. I would have rather built a better relationship with him and his agent….. Lock him up for four or five years back in 2022, and let Pearson develop. They had a true Dominican Blue Jay, that enjoyed his role, had fun and was always smiling. liked being a Jay, and that was Vladimirs big brother and his protection in the order. Lmao I have heard the argument for “he was going to be a free agent and his defence sucks” 20 billion times…. I personally like this lineup much better with him, than I do without him.
Regardless what’s done is done. I don’t agree with it and I will never agree with it. And I still think if Bichette hits over 300 and Guerrero hits over 30 Home Runs, we may be looking at the 2024 WS champions. I think this team is a lot closer than many people realize.
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You're looking at stats over a small window frame. But what you fail to mention is that Moreno has a .358 OBP. He's already shown that he's clearly a better overall catcher than Kirk.
What's up with Judge?NEW YORK -- Gerrit Cole threw a baseball for the first time in four weeks Monday. He threw it 25 times from 60 feet. He noted 22 of the 25 tosses hit his target.
The catch session, the first of three scheduled this week, represented an important checkpoint in Cole's recovery from nerve inflammation in his right elbow that will sideline him at least until late May. That's a better outlook than a few of his peers across the majors.
Cole is one of several prominent pitchers to sustain a major arm injury since teams reported for spring training in February. The recent surge was unnerving enough for Tony Clark, the Major League Baseball Players Association executive director, to release a statement Saturday blaming the increase in elbow injuries on the pitch clock. Major League Baseball responded with its own statement, without attribution, dismissing Clark's thesis that day, pointing to the rise of pitcher injuries in recent decades, long before the pitch clock was enforced.
For 20 minutes Monday, Cole, the reigning American League Cy Young Award winner, addressed the surge of injuries and the ensuing exchange between the parties, saying he was "disheartened" by the back-and-forth.
7hJeff PassanYankees' Cole set to begin throwing this week
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"I'm just frustrated it's a combative issue," he said. "It's like, 'OK, we have divorced parents and the child's misbehaving and we can't get on the same page to get the child to behave.' Not that the players are misbehaving, but we have an issue here and we need to get on the same page to at least try and fix it."
In the meantime, numerous pitchers are dealing with similar injuries.
Across the clubhouse from Cole on Monday was Jonathan Loaisiga, diagnosed with a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his elbow. He said he is tentatively scheduled to undergo season-ending surgery next weekend.
Across the field were the Miami Marlins, the team perhaps hardest hit by pitcher injuries. Last week, the club announced 21-year-old Eury Perez, one of the sport's top young pitchers, will undergo Tommy John surgery. He joined fellow starters Sandy Alcantara (elbow), Edward Cabrera (shoulder) and Braxton Garrett (shoulder) on the Marlins' injured list.
In addition to Perez, Guardians ace Shane Bieber found out he needed Tommy John surgery, and an MRI revealed structural damage in Braves ace Spencer Strider's elbow over the weekend. They joined a list of players out with significant arm injuries that includes Shohei Ohtani, Jacob deGrom, Robbie Ray, Shane McClanahan, Walker Buehler, Lucas Giolito and Dustin May, among others.
Cole said he didn't have any solutions for the problem but contended MLB's assertion -- that the pitch clock isn't a factor in the injuries -- after one season of implementation is "shortsighted."
"We are going to really understand the effects of ... The pitch clock maybe five years down the road," Cole said. "But to dismiss it out of hand, I didn't think that was helpful to the situation. I think the players are obviously the most important aspect of this industry and this product. And the care of the players should be of utmost importance to both sides."
Cole, 33, recalled "a couple of situations" early last season when he was caught off guard by fatigue. He said he believes the pitch clock was the reason, but he was "able to handle it." Fellow Yankees right-hander Clarke Schmidt said the clock is a factor.
"I think it can play a factor for sure," Schmidt said. "I think when you're having a high-stress inning and it's like that thing seems like it's almost zero seconds every single time when there's runners on base and you're rushing to get back. So it definitely plays a factor."
Cole argued the pitch clock is just one variable introduced in recent years that could have negatively impacted pitchers. He noted the shortened ramp-ups before the 2020 and 2022 seasons, the crackdown on pitchers using foreign substances for grip and the industry's relentless arms race to throw harder and spin the ball more than ever as other possible elements.
"I think it's just irresponsible for either side to say any one of those things definitely has no impact on pitchers' elbows or shoulders," Cole said. "That's not helpful."
Cole 'disheartened' by discourse over arm injuries
Yankees' Gerrit Cole is one of several prominent pitchers to sustain a major arm injury since teams reported for spring training in February.www.espn.com
To the Jays fans...Do you think the pitch clock might explain the problem with Manoah? I recall he was a methodical worker.
Cole brings up some good points here.
The reconstruction (in that area) was done to get much better viewing angles for fans farther down the lines, who are now facing the infield / pitcher, rather than the outfield.
Ever sit farther down the line (either line) in the prior configuration. If you looked straight forward you stared at the outfield. You had to contort your neck the entire game.
They can complain about left field at Fenway at the same time and some other parks as well.
