OT: The Toronto Blue Jays

[manny]

View: https://x.com/scottymitchtsn/status/1788742938924622292?s=46&t=slYb4pobkRS2d95qyz2U3g

4th round pick out of high school from last year’s draft. They gave him $1.5M (triple the slot) to sign instead of going to college. Looking like Maroudis made the right choice. He’s 19 and a long way off, might as well just get the TJ out of the way now.

 

[zeke]

lineup finally looking merit-based.

springer should come back in in the 7 slot.

 

[manny]

Schneider
Varsho
Vlad
Turner
Jansen
Bichette
Biggio
IKF
Clement

lineup today with Springer off.

Biggio in RF and IKF at 2B is kind of interesting.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

Falafel heroics not enough?!

Drop another one.

 

[anne25]

Certainly can't blame the pitching.

 

[worm]

What can we trade the pitching for?

 

[manny]

The Jays have the second worst run differential in the AL. 5th worst in baseball. Their Pythagorean record is 14-24. And the end of the series will be the 1/4 point in the season, so while it’s early, it’s not that early.

 

[Pwner]

They have the same problem as last year - shocking Mattingly didn't fix it - their hitting approach sucks (technical term).

Also, who had these guys as their top 5 in fWAR through 1/4 of the season?

	fWAR
Daulton Varsho	1.4
Danny Jansen	0.9
Isiah Kiner-Falefa	0.8
Davis Schneider	0.6
Ernie Clement	0.5

 

[axlsalinger]

View: https://x.com/Jomboy_/status/1789045246707257360

 

[Deckie007]

Quite the comeback

From 7-1 to 10-8

 

[zeke]

#titlerun

 

[Deckie007]

Maximum Fried with a no no through 7

 

[axlsalinger]

Fried got pulled after 6 innings of no-no 2 starts ago. Hopefully he can stay in and finish it off this time.

Oh shit, he's already at 109 pitches. (100 pitches in 6 innings on 04/29)

 

[Deckie007]

They took him out

 

[axlsalinger]

Shame. I thought only the Blue Jays limited pitcher outings, while simultaneously having all their starters near the top of innings pitched rankings.

 

[MapleLeafBlueJayBoy]

Score 10 runs, time to change the lineup completely.

 

[MyNameIsJonas]

George Springer back in leadoff spot after Davis rakes and Jays score 10.

John Schneider is the absolute worst manager, and this is assuming he's not getting his orders from the worst front office using the worst data.

 

[zeke]

I don't even get why he'd do this. Literally no upaide to this move, only downside. Just making things more difficult for himself.

 

[MapleLeafBlueJayBoy]

I do not understand any of this.

 

[MyNameIsJonas]

I don't even get why he'd do this. Literally no upaide to this move, only downside. Just making things more difficult for himself.

Like, does George Springer have photos or something?

Every interaction i've ever seen with Springer indicates he's a team guy to the nth degree. I cant imagine he'd have a problem moving down the lineup, he fucking moved Bo, why not George?

Jansen ( who is also raking) getting an offday for Vogelbach ( who Schneider doesn't trust to PH for like, IKF) is also not only starting, but in the middle of the god damn order to boot.

Im not sure if its Schneider or the front office " analytics" that are telling John that these are the matchups/decisions to go with, but it's fucking mental.

While im on my bender. I absolutely abhor, that these morons are allowing for people like Jeff Blair and other crotchety boomer baseball morons to take the shitty job this front office has done and declare war on analytics in general, because that's what this front office presents themselves as. No, these guys just suck at analytics, that doesn't mean they aren't a useful primary tool of any reasonable front office in 2024.