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Steve's avatar

Ok, we're far enough away (I think) to begin to wonder how much the minor league parks helped Vlad out in his almost MVP year. He's still a great player but do you think he ever gets back to that level or is he more of what we saw last year given that we have a good sample size now?

Also, Tabby seems like a great guy but the broadcasts have improved a ton this year with Buck/Joe as analyst. No more "he's a baseball player" type of stuff, prove me wrong DJF! Steve

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Jesse Whiteley's avatar

One question (and I'm only half kidding here), is the book on pitching the Blue Jays out? By teams saying "how to get the Blue Jays out? Put them on base!"

But by digging deeper, are other teams' advanced scouts looking at Blue Jays hitters and see that the book to pitch them with RISP is to pitch up and in because they will chase? Because from the eye test it seems with runners on this last week they would often take swings that are too big, and swings that often seem to lead to a double play, a jam pop up, or a strikeout, at least until they show that they can lay off those borderline pitches, as I know they have before. One of the reasons the lineup seemed deeper in April was because more hitters were being more selective and were able to lay off more of those pitches.

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