Submit your questions for next week's mail bag!
Plus a small sneak peek at part of my upcoming Weekend Up! post...
I just checked and apparently I haven’t done a mail bag since before the season started! That seems completely impossible to me, but I suppose the archive doesn’t lie.
I also suppose that it’s high time we did something about that!
To do so, of course, I’ll need questions, and this is the place to submit them. So leave me your best Jays Q's in the comments below, and I'll supply a whole bunch of A's early next week!
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Now, before we move on, and before you all go and rush to submit a bunch of questions about how terrible Yusei Kikuchi is, please let me assure you that there will be slander in the Weekend Up! piece I’ll have up on Sunday evening. I may just end up having you covered before this mail bag even comes out. And to prove it, here’s a sneak peek straight from Substack’s CMS in one of my other open browser tabs!
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Anyway, best of luck to José BerrÃos in the rubber match on Sunday! What could possibly go wrong???
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Is it time to trade Biggio? The Jays seem to suffer from too many players competing for roles when a good role player would do. Zimmer is the perfect example. Obviously he is in no way a starting player or even a regular platoon. But as a role player he's fantastic at what we need him for. Swapping out Biggio for a reliever we need strikes me as a good move.
Do you think Cavan Biggio could be a better hitter if he just went to the gym and bulked up a bit?
It seems like with more power and his disciplined approach, he could be more dangerous as a hitter. Maybe bigger muscles isn't the only key to power, but should help.