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2021 Blue Jays General Discussion Thread

Eesh.  The Jays are 14 for 76 with runners in scoring position in this stretch against borderline teams in the last two weeks.  The bats have really crapped the bed
 
L K said:
Eesh.  The Jays are 14 for 76 with runners in scoring position in this stretch against borderline teams in the last two weeks.  The bats have really crapped the bed
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Runners on 1st and 2nd, nobody out in the bottom of the 9th against a pitcher with heat as well as control issues and they decide to bring in the "bunter" essentially allowing the 1st baseman to set up a chair 6 feet from home plate and allowing the pitcher to take a little off his pitch to make sure they were in the strike zone. The Jays basically handed them the outs in that inning. There was no way, with the velocity the pitcher was throwing, that the bunt wasn't going to go up the 1st base line. If they were going to bunt, they should have brought up a leftie to bat, forcing the ball down the 3rd baseline making it almost impossible to get Hernandez out at 3rd base.
 
Frank E said:
Early returns on the Berrios trade not too shit hot eh guys?
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Ya maybe Simon Woods Richardson would have pitched at least 2 innings.  Hope he can turn it around very soon, he was supposed to be one of the best pieces of our new puzzle.
 
Frank E said:
Early returns on the Berrios trade not too shit hot eh guys?
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He's had a couple rough starts, yeah, but with only 5 games in a Blue Jays' uniform, hard to say much. His numbers are skewed by an unsustainably high BABIP of .392 compared to .263 at the time of the trade (and MLB avg of .297). He should come around once guys stop hitting it to where his teammates aren't.
 
I?m not too fussed about it because I?m playing the long game with Berrios. Maybe he?s had a few rough outings but he?s had enough of a track record to know that he?s better than this.

I?m not disappointed because I never thought this was a playoff team this season, but to have him next season and potentially beyond? I?m good with that.
 
Bender said:
Man Ryu is not very good.
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Having a rough stretch, for sure, and has not been at his absolute best this season. Not worried about him, though. He had 3 straight Cy Young calibre seasons coming this year - two top 3 finishes, and a third where, if he stayed healthy, almost certainly would have been top 5. He'll sort himself out.
 
I haven't followed much of whatever the current AL Cy Young conversation may be right now but he's leading the AL in Pitching WAR via Baseball Reference. That'll earn votes even if he's not in the larger narrative.

 
Gotta think the weekend series with Oakland and the following four with the Yanks is the season. Fare well and there may be a playoff chance. Lose those two series and it's the end of the line.
 
So I hardly know anything about baseball stats but it does seem interesting that the Jays are 2nd in run differential in the entire MLB but aren't even close to the WC spot yet.
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