Toronto Blue Jays (65-55) @ Boston Red Sox (60-62) - August 23-25

[Hottie McShotty]

This kid has great stuff. Could be a problem for years to come.

If he can command it consistently. Could be one hell of a relief arm even if he can't.


Berrios has given us five innings of borderline adequacy again, and I really don't think we should chance a sixth against the half-decent part of their lineup.

Glad you're not behind the bench making these decisions.

[Randle McMurphy]

We needed to score off Barnes because Whitlock is one of the best RPs in the game and can go 2-3 innings easily.

Probably should be pulling Berrios before he gives up a HR to end this thing.

[Schad]

We lead baseball in hits on the first pitch last year by a mile. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

We have a .390 wOBA on first pitches, and a .322 wOBA after the first pitch. And we're actually one of the best teams in baseball at hitting deeper in counts.

You don't want to swing at bad pitches obviously, but there's a significant incentive to swing at first-pitch strikes in good areas. Not only because the outcomes are better, but because it makes it less likely that the pitcher will simply pump in a fastball.

[Schad]

Glad you're not behind the bench making these decisions.

One of the fun things about baseball is that bad decisions succeed only marginally less frequently than good decisions. Berrios, for all of his badness this year, has significantly more clean innings than he does innings where he gives up runs.

Consequently, on an inning-to-inning basis, leaving him in will retroactively look like a good decision more frequently than it'll look like a bad decision, even if it's still a really bad decision.

[Fairview4Life]

Glad you're not behind the bench making these decisions. :lol:

One of the fun things about baseball is that bad decisions succeed only marginally less frequently than good decisions. Berrios, for all of his badness this year, has significantly more clean innings than he does innings where he gives up runs.

Consequently, on an inning-to-inning basis, leaving him in will retroactively look like a good decision more frequently than it'll look like a bad decision, even if it's still a really bad decision.

The Ned Yost corollary

[Lateral Quicks]

Berrios reverting to form would be huge for our chances in the playoffs. Gausman-Manoah-Berrios could be really good, with Stripling a possible 4th starter or long man.

[vaff87]

Berrios reverting to form would be huge for our chances in the playoffs. Gausman-Manoah-Berrios could be really good, with Stripling a possible 4th starter or long man.

Will probably be hard for Berrios to overtake Stripling on the depth chart before this season is over. Stripling has been tremendous this season.

[Randle McMurphy]

Brutal error in that spot from Vlad. Ball needs to be kept in front of him at the very least.

[Hottie McShotty]

Ouch.. That caught Vlad on the thumb. Hopefully he will be okay.

[Hottie McShotty]

**** ump!

[Schad]

Berrios reverting to form would be huge for our chances in the playoffs. Gausman-Manoah-Berrios could be really good, with Stripling a possible 4th starter or long man.

Will probably be hard for Berrios to overtake Stripling on the depth chart before this season is over. Stripling has been tremendous this season.

Yeah, if we get deep enough in the playoffs, you probably have to make a call between Berrios/White for a couple starts, but barring injury our top three is pretty well set in stone at this point.

[johanliebert]

Schulman doesn’t breath when he calls games. It may work in college football but not baseball and he has no chemistry with Tabler as of yet.

[Fairview4Life]

Never in doubt.

[Fairview4Life]

Schulman doesn’t breath when he calls games. It may work in college football but not baseball and he has no chemistry with Tabler as of yet.

Then the answer is to fire Tabler.

[vaff87]

Brutal error in that spot from Vlad. Ball needs to be kept in front of him at the very least.

The ball bounced to the side and hit his barehand. Also, he got enough of it to keep it in the infield, so the run didn’t score.

[Randle McMurphy]

Stripling has been pitching like 2015 Estrada since he entered the rotation. Barring something unforeseen happening to his performance the next month, he's not getting replaced by a guy who was on pace to have the worst qualified SP season in Jays history until 2 starts ago.

[Randle McMurphy]

The ball bounced to the side and hit his barehand.

Sounds like a groundball right at him to me. That ball needs to be in his glove.

Also, he got enough of it to keep it in the infield, so the run didn’t score.

That needs to be an out.

[linery88]

Here comes some runs now.

[pilkoids]

Atleast this ump is consistently bad

[Randle McMurphy]

Can we score some runs now.

Not against Whitlock. Maybe in a few innings when he's gone.