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Schad wrote:I'm really very unenthused about the idea of giving Kris Bryant anything in the 6 year, $160m range that MLBTR projected.
JTT wrote:Schad wrote:I'm really very unenthused about the idea of giving Kris Bryant anything in the 6 year, $160m range that MLBTR projected.
Really, super duper unenthused. Let's do 1/14 or 2/24 on Kyle Seager instead. No need to block the youngsters coming especially on a contract thats not gonna age well and potentially stop us from resigning one of our own guys. We got our pitcher, short term contracts the rest of the way.
dagger wrote:Valera has been released and Shaun Anderson has cleared waivers.
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dagger wrote:Valera has been released
dagger wrote:Valera has been released and Shaun Anderson has cleared waivers.
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galacticos2 wrote:MLB needs to introduce an Amnesty clause. Bautista would be my first victim.
Randle McMurphy wrote:dagger wrote:Valera has been released and Shaun Anderson has cleared waivers.
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The Jays are tied 1-1 entering the bottom of the 9th. Left handed reliever Gregory Soto walks Hernandez on six pitches to lead off the 9th. Soto then walks Gurriel on six pitches to leave two on and no out with noted lefty masher Alejandro Kirk coming to the plate (.988 OPS vs. LHP in 2021). Sounds good for the Jays and Kirk, right? It wasn't. Montoyo decides this is the time he wants to make quite possibly the most inexplicable managing decision in team history. Instead of letting Kirk hit, he chooses to pinch hit Breyvic Valera (the worst hitter on the team) for Kirk. Valera isn't up there to hit, though, oh no. He's up there to bunt. He's up there to bunt against a LHP throwing 98 who just walked two batters in a row and had showed no sign of being able to hit the plate. I'll say that again. Montoyo has just pinch hit Breyvic Valera for Alejandro Kirk to bunt after two walks against a lefty in the 9th inning of a tie game. Valera, who is not a good bunter, fails to get the bunt down on the first two pitches. Montoyo, seeing this and being who he is, asks him to bunt for a third time with two strikes despite the Tigers 1B playing no more than 20 feet from the plate. By some chance, Valera makes contact but bunts it directly to the 1B who throws it to 3rd for the force out. Randal Grichuk (and yes, this is who we pinch hit Kirk with Valera to set up) immediately grounds into a double play to end the inning. The Jays lose in the 10th.
