On a tough start in Minnesota, Jansen's health, Springer's health, the inimitable Robbie Ray, Semien's love for Toronto, Manoah, Romano, the week ahead, Ryu vs. Taillon, scoreboard watching and more!
Watching game while reading this. Walker just came to the mound to talk to Ryu. Find it hysterical Ryu's interpreter is also covering his mouth in case someone reads his lips.
I'm taking a Zen-like approach to these last 6 games because I can't help thinking that the baseball gods need to line up in our favour in a lot of ways. So be it.
Here's a question. Is it financially realistic to re-sign Semien, Ray (and Matz?) and still address our main needs - another quality starting pitcher and quality bullpen arms? Theoretically yes given Rogers purse, but I don't follow the budget so I don't know.
I was looking at our old season records to see how this year compares with 87 wins so far. I forgot how good our 1983 and 1984 teams were as both had 89 wins. It was the bullpen at the time that was our main weakness. But we had the young core that would sustain us for many years to come.
Jays and the Yankees rank among the streakiest teams in all of baseball. I don't know what fangraphs statistics pertain to that reality but it is true from what I've seen. All year the Jays seem to have some of the worst luck of any team in baseball, while the Yankees (along with the Mariners) always seem to have a horseshoe up their butts.
The series against the Red Sox was a case in point as each team tried their best to lose each night and Boston prevailed mightily in that respect by blowing multiple opportunities handed to them by Yanks errors and then serving Stanton more cookies than a visiting girl guide jamboree. If even the modestly good version of the Jays shows up with solid pitching and at least three or four runs a game then I like our chances for two or three wins. Of course I'm all for a sweep where we completely annihilate them and utterly crush the Yankees dreams of a post season!
Watching game while reading this. Walker just came to the mound to talk to Ryu. Find it hysterical Ryu's interpreter is also covering his mouth in case someone reads his lips.
I'm taking a Zen-like approach to these last 6 games because I can't help thinking that the baseball gods need to line up in our favour in a lot of ways. So be it.
Here's a question. Is it financially realistic to re-sign Semien, Ray (and Matz?) and still address our main needs - another quality starting pitcher and quality bullpen arms? Theoretically yes given Rogers purse, but I don't follow the budget so I don't know.
I was looking at our old season records to see how this year compares with 87 wins so far. I forgot how good our 1983 and 1984 teams were as both had 89 wins. It was the bullpen at the time that was our main weakness. But we had the young core that would sustain us for many years to come.
Jays and the Yankees rank among the streakiest teams in all of baseball. I don't know what fangraphs statistics pertain to that reality but it is true from what I've seen. All year the Jays seem to have some of the worst luck of any team in baseball, while the Yankees (along with the Mariners) always seem to have a horseshoe up their butts.
The series against the Red Sox was a case in point as each team tried their best to lose each night and Boston prevailed mightily in that respect by blowing multiple opportunities handed to them by Yanks errors and then serving Stanton more cookies than a visiting girl guide jamboree. If even the modestly good version of the Jays shows up with solid pitching and at least three or four runs a game then I like our chances for two or three wins. Of course I'm all for a sweep where we completely annihilate them and utterly crush the Yankees dreams of a post season!