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OT: The Toronto Blue Jays

manny said:
I don’t think Clement has a contract yet for 2026. It’s his second year of arbitration.

Will be interesting to see what he gets after a 4-win season, two gold glove nominations, and possibly an all-time playoff run.
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He is listed on Spotrac at $3.5m for 2026, which doesn't really make sense. Maybe it's just an estimation, I'm not sure. He made $1.975 this year.

At any rate, we have his rights for 3 more seasons (26-28).
 
I feel like in the shatkins decade we’ve seen 15-20 Clement’s and Lukes’s and Schneider come through. What I think separates these three from the drury, fishers, etc is D hasn’t been deprioritized and most importantly they have plate discipline. They aren’t power bats, and not even great hitters but they work counts and are always difficult outs.
 
axlsalinger said:
He is listed on Spotrac at $3.5m for 2026, which doesn't really make sense. Maybe it's just an estimation, I'm not sure. He made $1.975 this year.

At any rate, we have his rights for 3 more seasons (26-28).
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Yeah it’s just an estimate and I think from a few months ago. This is from early October and has him at 4.3: https://www.bluejayscentral.com/mlb...-jays-projected-arbitration-salaries-for-2026

After this postseason, and if he wins a GG, he’ll probably he above 5. Still a great deal for what he does.
 
Have said it before, but Popkins has to get a lot of credit. This is almost the same lineup as last year but suddenly they’re all superstar plate disciple/low K monsters. They didn’t strike out a lot last year either but this year has been next level. Team OBP went from league average to #1. And every single player can grind out an AB and make the pitcher work. They also all have a good 2-strike approach.

It’s not a super fun approach in the regular season but in the playoffs where every pitch is high drama, it’s amazing to watch.
 
CH1 said:
After the six runs they coughed up in this game, this Dodgers bullpen now has a 6.16 ERA in this postseason, in 30 2/3 innings. And it’s a good thing Roki Sasaki has been doing his best Mariano Rivera impression, because Dodgers relievers not named Sasaki have an ERA in this postseason of 7.30.
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I can’t recall the exact number, but I think they said last night before the game that their starters had pitched like 28 of the 36 innings in the last series, so it must be a super small sample.
 
manny said:
Have said it before, but Popkins has to get a lot of credit. This is almost the same lineup as last year but suddenly they’re all superstar plate disciple/low K monsters. They didn’t strike out a lot last year either but this year has been next level. Team OBP went from league average to #1. And every single player can grind out an AB and make the pitcher work. They also all have a good 2-strike approach.

It’s not a super fun approach in the regular season but in the playoffs where every pitch is high drama, it’s amazing to watch.
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I thought the regular season was awesome.

In past years, the games would drag, the players were boring, they weren’t winning big games. Everything from the new rules to the new approach at the plate this year has made games exciting, fun, dramatic, and mostly satisfying with all the winning. Loved it in the regular season, loving it more in the playoffs.
 
No one should be convinced that Sasaki is actually good too.

6.75 K.9 in the playoffs, .143 Babip. 1.49 HR/9 in the regular season as a starter to 0.00 in the playoffs as a reliever.

He doesn't miss a lot of bats and we don't miss a lot of pitches. His pitch mix as a reliever is basically fastball-splitter about 90% of the time so his success is based on hitting the zone with the fastball early and getting chases on the splitter late with neither pitch grading as elite (don't have data on how they've ticked up out of the pen, but assuming a normal bump they're both just a bit above average). That sounds like a bad time against this lineup that doesn't really chase.
 
They mentioned this last night, which is pretty awesome. Home field can be attributed to one AB going one way instead of the other.

Flu game
Back in August, when Mason Fluharty struck out Shohei Ohtaniwith the bases loaded for the first and only save of his MLB career, the win allowed the Blue Jays avoid a sweep in Los Angeles. What wasn’t yet apparent: the Blue Jays would end the season with 94 wins, one more than the Dodgers’ total of 93 and just enough to secure home-field advantage in the World Series.

So it was at Rogers Centre instead of Dodger Stadium that Fluharty faced Ohtani next. This time the bases were empty rather than full, but the leverage was still extremely high when Ohtani stepped in to lead off the fifth with the game tied 2-2. And thanks to that weekend in August, Fluharty had an idea of how to approach the two-way star.
“I remember that moment. I know what I did to him and what worked,” Fluharty said Thursday. “I understand how I’m gonna attack him based off of that. It comes down to executing pitches.”
 
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