ST: Wild Card Prospectors @ Wild Card Pipedreamers | August 14-17

zilby · Post #1 » by **zilby** » Mon Aug 14, 2017 3:37 pm

When you're unsure whether you're supposed to be tanking or not:

Game 1 - Monday, August 14th
First pitch 7:07PM

Nick Tepesch (0-2, 9.00 ERA) vs. Jake Eggs Odorizzi (6-5, 4.38 ERA)

Game 2 - Tuesday, August 15th
First pitch 7:07PM

Marco Estrada (5-7, 4.85 ERA) vs. Blake Smells (0-6, 4.69 ERA)

Game 3 - Wednesday, August 16th
First pitch 7:07PM

Marcus Stroman (10-6, 3.00 ERA) vs. Jacob Faria Carey (5-3, 3.19 ERA)

Game 4 - Thursday, August 17th
First pitch 4:07PM

Chris Rowley (1-0, 1.69 ERA) vs. Sterling Archer (8-7, 3.84 ERA)

Lateral Quicks · Post #2 » by **Lateral Quicks** » Mon Aug 14, 2017 4:16 pm

Nine games left against Boston. Go 5-4 against them and 22-14 against everyone else leaves us at 83-79 which might be enough. Doable, but unlikely. Rowley would have to keep them consistently in it, and we'd need a solution to Tepesch/Valdez/etc having ~9 starts left. We can't afford to get blown out every fifth day, particularly against Boston. There are four off-days left, so we could cut that down to 5. Then if you can add Sanchez, Ramirez, Biagini, Mayza and other reinforcements in September you can get that number closer to zero (pitch games by committee out of the pen). A healthy Travis would be a huge boost too.

So_Fresh · Post #3 » by **So_Fresh** » Mon Aug 14, 2017 5:00 pm

3 out of 4 is a must. I just don't think we'll get it done this series. Tampa has always played well against us.

polo007 · Post #4 » by **polo007** » Mon Aug 14, 2017 6:58 pm

Read on Twitter

dagger · Post #5 » by **dagger** » Mon Aug 14, 2017 7:34 pm

Another new face joins the bullpen: Tim Mayza

polo007 · Post #6 » by **polo007** » Mon Aug 14, 2017 8:46 pm

dagger wrote:Another new face joins the bullpen: Tim Mayza

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Natural11 · Post #7 » by **Natural11** » Mon Aug 14, 2017 9:11 pm

polo007 wrote:

Read on Twitter

Tough break for Cole. Guy spends 6 years in the minors, finally gets his shot, throws a turkey and gets the boot. I wonder if there was a handshake agreement involved to get him off the 40-man, but re-sign him to a minor league deal in the winter.

So_Fresh · Post #8 » by **So_Fresh** » Mon Aug 14, 2017 9:54 pm

Campos needed to go. Happy to see Mayza called up. He's a good kid and has solid numbers in the minors. Need that extra bullpen arm in case one of our rookies implodes this week.

Post #9 » by **Schad** » Mon Aug 14, 2017 10:19 pm

Natural11 wrote:
polo007 wrote:

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Tough break for Cole. Guy spends 6 years in the minors, finally gets his shot, throws a turkey and gets the boot. I wonder if there was a handshake agreement involved to get him off the 40-man, but re-sign him to a minor league deal in the winter.

Doubt there's a handshake agreement, but it's unfortunately how they had to do it: you cannot demote an injured player, so to free up his roster spot, they had to unconditionally release him. Good chance they do try to re-sign him, though.

HangTime · Post #10 » by **HangTime** » Mon Aug 14, 2017 10:51 pm

OT

I don't like the expanded Rosters in September, it's the most important part of the year, and teams can use an additional 15 guys if they want.

At the very least they should have a 25 man active roster for September, including the 4 starters that aren't playing that night, just so each team is playing with 25 on any given day.

TOStateofMind · Post #11 » by **TOStateofMind** » Mon Aug 14, 2017 11:25 pm

JD is hot

fouronesix22 · Post #12 » by **fouronesix22** » Mon Aug 14, 2017 11:33 pm

hopefully tepesch doesnt screw this up

fouronesix22 · Post #13 » by **fouronesix22** » Mon Aug 14, 2017 11:34 pm

nvm what was I thinking

Lateral Quicks · Post #14 » by **Lateral Quicks** » Tue Aug 15, 2017 12:18 am

Now would be the time to get Tepesch out of there. If you want to win the game.

Lateral Quicks · Post #15 » by **Lateral Quicks** » Tue Aug 15, 2017 1:04 am

Tepesch has been incredibly lucky tonight. Putting him out there in the seventh is really pushing your luck, Gibby. I would have lifted him after 5, if not sooner.

Post #16 » by **Schad** » Tue Aug 15, 2017 1:11 am

How did they rule that a double play? 2B became unoccupied when they forced the runner. He's perfectly able to be safe on second after that, unless I am very much mistaken.

It's definitely not an infield fly, though.

Edit: now they got it right, but I have no idea how they got it wrong in the first place.

Lateral Quicks · Post #17 » by **Lateral Quicks** » Tue Aug 15, 2017 1:19 am

Loup against Longoria? Really?

Edit: Worked out. Team is winning in spite of Gibby's terrible decision making tonight.

ldnk · Post #18 » by **ldnk** » Tue Aug 15, 2017 1:20 am

Loup vs. Longoria with the bases loaded not a matchup I expected him to win. Well done Loup

fouronesix22 · Post #19 » by **fouronesix22** » Tue Aug 15, 2017 1:22 am

oh man loup came through

zilby · Post #20 » by **zilby** » Tue Aug 15, 2017 1:23 am

Schad wrote:How did they rule that a double play? 2B became unoccupied when they forced the runner. He's perfectly able to be safe on second after that, unless I am very much mistaken.

It's definitely not an infield fly, though.

Edit: now they got it right, but I have no idea how they got it wrong in the first place.

I get how that could be kinda tough at first glance. They got it right, I'm only surprised it took so long during the actual review to come to what should've been a very clear conclusion.

Yeah, Jays have gotten very lucky so far tonight. Either winneryness, or implosion is overdue and on the way.