2020 Blue Jays General Season Thread

[Bender]

No jays in Toronto.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ottawa-to-reveal-blue-jays-decision-1.5654846

And I for one am glad saner heads prevailed.

No kidding. It made absolutely zero sense.

They can literally play anywhere without fans. The MLB needs to drop it's fantasy of having teams travel. Kind of nonsensical.

 

[Arn]

Pittsburgh emerging as the favourite for the Jays to play out of.

Nice park.

 

[Kin]

Pittsburgh emerging as the favourite for the Jays to play out of.

Nice park.

It'd be great if the team used this opportunity to tear down the Dome and build a Pittsburgh-esque park in its place.

 

[bustaheims]

It'd be great if the team used this opportunity to tear down the Dome and build a Pittsburgh-esque park in its place.

Wouldn't that be nice.

 

[Joe S.]

https://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/pennsylvania-department-health-wont-allow-blue-jays-play-pnc-park/

No pnc park. I find these turn of events funny.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

No worries, I bet they have plenty of time to figure this all out. Now to take a big sip of water and look up when their "home" opener is...

 

[herman]

https://twitter.com/bluejays/status/1286092897478090752
Yo

 

[herman]

https://twitter.com/wilnerness590/status/1287097687972642817
https://twitter.com/ardenzwelling/status/1286859861821620225

Also laid down a bunt single against a 4-man outfield shift and bopped a 3-run homer en route to the win.

 

[L K]

Giles arm looked bad today.  His velocity is way down and then his control was gone.  Montoyo kept him in the game.  I?m really not happy with his game management.

 

[Arn]

Probably cost them the game too.

I watched games 2 and 3 of the series. I feel the Jays should have taken the series 2-1 and could possibly even have taken it 3-0. The youngsters will hopefully learn from games like game 3 how to hold on and grind out wins. It's a positive to go into Tampa and be disappointed to lose the series I guess but they gotta start winning.

In other news I'm kind of looking forward to seeing them play the home games in the park at Buffalo.

It's a weird world at the minute.

 

[Highlander]

Giles arm looked bad today.  His velocity is way down and then his control was gone.  Montoyo kept him in the game.  I?m really not happy with his game management.

Giles arm went somewhere on batter 2.  They spoke with him and he said he was fine, he had done this several times in the past and closed out. Not yesterday.  Considering who was in the pen I can see why Charlie left him in.  I guess Romano now gets his chance to close.

 

[Highlander]

2 wins in D.C.  Starting rotation looks very good, so much more depth.  Getting good hitting, perhaps Dante Bichette has been a very good coaching addition.

 

[Deebo]

Nate Pearson is making his debut tonight.

 

[L K]

5.0 IP 2 hits, 2 walks, 5 Ks

Damn fine debut so far

 

[Frank E]

5.0 IP 2 hits, 2 walks, 5 Ks

Damn fine debut so far

Beat me to it. Kid has been great. That's some velocity!

 

[Frank E]

5.0 IP 2 hits, 2 walks, 5 Ks

Damn fine debut so far

Beat me to it. Kid has been great. That's some velocity!

It's too bad they couldn't hit the ball last night, but Pearson looks very good. 

They got to Yamaguchi pretty effectively.

 

[herman]

https://twitter.com/jaysonst/status/1288875149555634176
Just shut it down. (Jays were scheduled to double header with the Phillies on Saturday)

 

[Kin]

Another important reminder that "There's not a lot of risk, these are all young healthy athletes" stuff was really, really stupid.

 

[herman]

https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1288987551638970368
Spread it faster and more thoroughly?

 

[L K]

I'm not going to advocate for intentionally throwing at players but I still find it hilarious that Joe Kelly faces more punishment than ALL Astros players who cheated to win a World Series.