ST: Jays @ Rangers May 13-15

Graham's Cracker · Post #2 » by **Graham's Cracker** » Sat May 14, 2016 12:26 am

May 13- 8:05 PM

VS

MAY 14 - 8:05 PM

VS

May 15 - 3:05 PM

VS

Natural11 · Post #3 » by **Natural11** » Sat May 14, 2016 12:57 am

We're great at padding the ERA of average pitchers. We need some of these underachievers to break out.

The_Hater · Post #4 » by **The_Hater** » Sat May 14, 2016 2:27 am

Don't look now but Smoak is hitting .318 with a 928 OPS.

Where are all those clowns who thought we wasted $2.9m now!

(raises hand)

The_Hater · Post #5 » by **The_Hater** » Sat May 14, 2016 2:44 am

Dickey's ERA down to 4.31. If that's your worst starter then starting pitching isn't your problem.

Thole just raised his OPS to .486. That's 100 point higher than Martin. Yikes.

Lateral Quicks · Post #6 » by **Lateral Quicks** » Sat May 14, 2016 2:47 am

Smoak for leadoff.

Sifu · Post #7 » by **Sifu** » Sat May 14, 2016 2:49 am

Great game. Maybe the most complete game by both hitters and batters for the season.

Edit: hitters and pitchers...

Randle McMurphy · Post #8 » by **Randle McMurphy** » Sat May 14, 2016 2:52 am

The Dickey whiners are going to have to take another week off. 3 good starts in a row.

Boogie! · Post #9 » by **Boogie!** » Sat May 14, 2016 4:16 am

the jays and raptors can never win on the same day... if theyre both playing sunday, i would rather the jays lose that one tbh. no one hurt me.

raptors2019 · Post #10 » by **raptors2019** » Sat May 14, 2016 5:37 am

Dickey pitched very well.

dballislife · Post #11 » by **dballislife** » Sat May 14, 2016 8:08 am

man pillars lead off numbers are horrible, but then his numbers hitting non lead off are amazing

The_Hater · Post #12 » by **The_Hater** » Sat May 14, 2016 12:24 pm

Boogie! wrote:the jays and raptors can never win on the same day... if theyre both playing sunday, i would rather the jays lose that one tbh. no one hurt me.

Fear not. The Jays and Raps have won games on the same night 3 times during the playoffs.

Lateral Quicks · Post #13 » by **Lateral Quicks** » Sat May 14, 2016 3:31 pm

dballislife wrote:man pillars lead off numbers are horrible, but then his numbers hitting non lead off are amazing

I wonder why Gibby moved him back into leadoff. Saunders seemed to be doing just fine. In all seriousness I'd rather ride the red-hot Smoak at leadoff right now over Pillar.

Let Pillar hack his way to a .300 batting average and .320-.330 OBP in the bottom third of the lineup. I like Pillar, but he won't be a leadoff hitter unless he becomes more disciplined at the plate.

Fun fact: the Jays have three regulars with an OPS over .900 right now, and that list doesn't include Bautista, Encarnacion, or Tulo.

The_Hater · Post #14 » by **The_Hater** » Sat May 14, 2016 7:01 pm

Lateral Quicks wrote:
dballislife wrote:man pillars lead off numbers are horrible, but then his numbers hitting non lead off are amazing

I wonder why Gibby moved him back into leadoff. Saunders seemed to be doing just fine. In all seriousness I'd rather ride the red-hot Smoak at leadoff right now over Pillar.

Let Pillar hack his way to a .300 batting average and .320-.330 OBP in the bottom third of the lineup. I like Pillar, but he won't be a leadoff hitter unless he becomes more disciplined at the plate.

Fun fact: the Jays have three regulars with an OPS over .900 right now, and that list doesn't include Bautista, Encarnacion, or Tulo.

At first it seemed that he was going to use Pillar against LHP and Saunders against RHP which would be a terrible idea. Who knows what goes on in Gibby's head. He does some pretty illogical things.

Natural11 · Post #15 » by **Natural11** » Sat May 14, 2016 8:53 pm

The_Hater wrote:Who knows what goes on in Gibby's head. He does some pretty illogical things.

Like announcing a platoon at second base and still giving the majority of the at-bats to the .160 hitter over the .327 hitter?

Barney will likely revert at some point, but in the present he's a .327 hitter who should be getting 100% of the at-bats at second until Travis returns.

The_Hater · Post #16 » by **The_Hater** » Sat May 14, 2016 9:25 pm

Natural11 wrote:
The_Hater wrote:Who knows what goes on in Gibby's head. He does some pretty illogical things.

Like announcing a platoon at second base and still giving the majority of the at-bats to the .160 hitter over the .327 hitter?

Barney will likely revert at some point, but in the present he's a .327 hitter who should be getting 100% of the at-bats at second until Travis returns.

Nobody supports Goins more than Gibby, the number of AB's he's received over the past 4 seasons is ridiculous. He treats him like a son

zilby · Post #17 » by **zilby** » Sat May 14, 2016 11:54 pm

Tuned into the pre game, the entire thing is dedicated to Jose Bautista (it's his 1000th game). They did a phone interview with JP Ricciardi (the GM who traded Robinzon Diaz to Pittsburgh for him), who was talking about how in Toronto they "didn't have a lot of money, and so internally guys had a lot of opportunities". Thought that was interesting.

Randle McMurphy · Post #18 » by **Randle McMurphy** » Sun May 15, 2016 12:44 am

Natural11 wrote:
The_Hater wrote:Who knows what goes on in Gibby's head. He does some pretty illogical things.

Like announcing a platoon at second base and still giving the majority of the at-bats to the .160 hitter over the .327 hitter?

Barney will likely revert at some point, but in the present he's a .327 hitter who should be getting 100% of the at-bats at second until Travis returns.

He has been platooning them. They just face more righties than lefties.

Randle McMurphy · Post #19 » by **Randle McMurphy** » Sun May 15, 2016 12:46 am

Well this one just ended early. First bad start for a Estrada in a long time.

pingpongrac · Post #20 » by **pingpongrac** » Sun May 15, 2016 12:46 am

I had a feeling that the borderline strike 3 that was called a ball was going to come back to bite Estrada, but I wasn't expecting it to cost 4 runs.