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..Randy Arozaena is the second coming of Rickey Henderson. That is all.
..The Jays have lost the first two of this series maybe disappointing, because I thought we were similar level teams, but there are positives
..Jays are better, clearly, relative to performance last year against the Rays. Painful two losses but Jays wouldn't be consistently playing this close to them per last year.
..The Rays are a really good team. They are laters of depth & interchangeable players; boy does it work.
Those were two tough games to watch. And it's only May! Did anyone watch the Tampa broadcast? They were convinced that something fishy was going on with the way the Jays hitters were handling Glasnow. They worked themselves up into a tizzy about how unhittable pitches were being fouled off or left alone....they didn't come and say we were cheating, but it was fairly implied.
Funny that googling “Montoyo fucking bunt fuck” (ahem) last night came up w a certain Athletic article from 2 years ago on the same subject. Trying the bunt? Fiiiine. (Especially w Santiago pulling it back to swing at first - I was so excited that the bunting “experiment” was over) then W 2 strikes? Yeah sorry there is no excuse that makes sense.
I had no problem with the bullpen management on Thursday. Attrition will force you to do some undesirable things.
My biggest problem with Friday is this some bad choice has been made over and over, and apparently nobody above Montoyo has said "never do that again".
Observations & comments after Saturday game:
..Randy Arozaena is the second coming of Rickey Henderson. That is all.
..The Jays have lost the first two of this series maybe disappointing, because I thought we were similar level teams, but there are positives
..Jays are better, clearly, relative to performance last year against the Rays. Painful two losses but Jays wouldn't be consistently playing this close to them per last year.
..The Rays are a really good team. They are laters of depth & interchangeable players; boy does it work.
Those were two tough games to watch. And it's only May! Did anyone watch the Tampa broadcast? They were convinced that something fishy was going on with the way the Jays hitters were handling Glasnow. They worked themselves up into a tizzy about how unhittable pitches were being fouled off or left alone....they didn't come and say we were cheating, but it was fairly implied.
Funny that googling “Montoyo fucking bunt fuck” (ahem) last night came up w a certain Athletic article from 2 years ago on the same subject. Trying the bunt? Fiiiine. (Especially w Santiago pulling it back to swing at first - I was so excited that the bunting “experiment” was over) then W 2 strikes? Yeah sorry there is no excuse that makes sense.
I had no problem with the bullpen management on Thursday. Attrition will force you to do some undesirable things.
My biggest problem with Friday is this some bad choice has been made over and over, and apparently nobody above Montoyo has said "never do that again".