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2021 Blue Jays General Discussion Thread

bustaheims said:
Big price to pay, but Berr?os really does solidify the rotation
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I think many of us might be a little gun shy given the Leafs' brutal trade deadline acquisitions over the past couple of years.

I hope it works, they're still 4.5 games out of a wildcard spot.
 
Frank E said:
bustaheims said:
Big price to pay, but Berr?os really does solidify the rotation
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I think many of us might be a little gun shy given the Leafs' brutal trade deadline acquisitions over the past couple of years.

I hope it works, they're still 4.5 games out of a wildcard spot.
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That?s fair. At least Berrios isn?t a pure rental. He?s under team control for another season.
 
The bullpen is going to be interesting in another week or so.

Cimber and Richards.  They added Soria today and Hand yesterday.  John Axford is pitching extremely well in AAA.  Nate Pearson is close to coming back and will pitch out of the pen for the rest of the year.
 
LittleHockeyFan said:
I think my heart just melted:

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/posts/bo-bichette-toronto-blue-jays-mlb-baseball
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Wow, well worth the read, I teared up pretty good. When Bo is finished his baseball career he has a future as a writer.
 
Highlander said:
LittleHockeyFan said:
I think my heart just melted:

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/posts/bo-bichette-toronto-blue-jays-mlb-baseball
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Wow, well worth the read, I teared up pretty good. When Bo is finished his baseball career he has a future as a writer.
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With articles on The Players' Tribune, just because a player is listed as the author doesn't automatically mean he or she solely wrote it. I believe the majority of these articles are ghost-written for the player.
 
I would imagine it's almost 100% certain that Bo wouldn't have sat down and typed that out. Any modern sports agency will have PR people who would have worked with him on key points, then had someone actually write the thing.
 
Berrios looked pretty good for a guy who got into town last night and was originally supposed to pitch on Friday for Minnesota. 

3-game sweep of the Royals who had won 8 of 9 coming into the series.  Vlad Jr sat for the first time in a season (had played 161 consecutive games prior that that).

Right now the second wildcard is on pace for 91 wins.  For the Jays to match that they would have to go 37-23 to finish the season (.616 winning percentage).  Right how there is only one team in baseball playing at that pace for the season.

Going to be tough but should be a fun stretch run.
 
man I hate these west coast jaunts when I have to be up at 6 am......

on the plus side, apparently Bo didn't play last night so I didn't miss anything.......except Manoah's great outing
 
Vlad Jr is finally slumping to the point that he hasn't been good.  His at bat after missing the ball in the sun was awful.  He's in his head right now.  They obviously aren't going to sit him with Ohtani on the mound tonight but I wouldn't mind seeing them potentially rest him in the two games against the Nationals this week.  They have off days on Monday and Thursday.  You can always pinch hit him in those games but it might be a good time to give him 3-4 days off to regroup.
 
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