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May 15-16 Blue Jays play the CITI game @ Mets
Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 3:30 am
by dagger
Tuesday, May 15, 7:10 pm
Jaime Garcia (2-2, 5.40 ERA) vs Noah Syndergaard (2-1, 3.09 ERA)
Wednesday, May 16, 1:10 pm
J.A Happ (4-3, 4.80 ERA) vs Zach Wheeler (2-2, 5.03 ERA)
Re: May 15-16 Blue Jays play the CITI game @ Mets
Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 1:52 pm
by Lateral Quicks
It would be nice to stay above .500. That means we somehow need to win the first matchup, which is not at all favourable.
The team really misses the Granderson/Pearce platoon, which carried us for much of April. It would also help if Donaldson could get hot - a .788 OPS and 31 K in 103 PA doesn't cut it for your best hitter.
With the Alford demotion the active roster sits at 24, including 13 pitchers and 3 outfielders. Most likely Dwight Smith Jr gets added before tonight's game since they want Pompey and Alford to get regular at-bats.
Re: May 15-16 Blue Jays play the CITI game @ Mets
Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 5:17 pm
by So_Fresh
Jays are 0-11 at Citi Field.
Re: May 15-16 Blue Jays play the CITI game @ Mets
Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 5:19 pm
by So_Fresh
Need Pearce to come back. But man is this guy made out of glass for what.. He's always injured.
Agree with Lateral, Donaldson needs to get going, and Martin needs to pick things up. Can't have your starting catcher batting .150 with an OBP under .300 and OPS of .670 and making $20 million.
Re: May 15-16 Blue Jays play the CITI game @ Mets
Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 6:20 pm
by Skin Blues
The good players need to do good, and we need to score more runs than the other team. More on this tonight at 7.
Re: May 15-16 Blue Jays play the CITI game @ Mets
Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 7:43 pm
by rotty
Re: May 15-16 Blue Jays play the CITI game @ Mets
Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 7:45 pm
by Schad
Not unrelated: the average age of those players is about 33 and a half.
Re: May 15-16 Blue Jays play the CITI game @ Mets
Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 8:30 pm
by JaysRule15
Wait, Morales' WAR is only at -0.8? That's pretty good actually. I would've expected at least -1.5 by now.
Re: May 15-16 Blue Jays play the CITI game @ Mets
Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 8:37 pm
by SharoneWright
So_Fresh wrote:Jays are 0-11 at Citi Field.
Mets don’t even have LeBron!
Re: May 15-16 Blue Jays play the CITI game @ Mets
Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 8:47 pm
by Schad
JaysRule15 wrote:Wait, Morales' WAR is only at -0.8? That's pretty good actually. I would've expected at least -1.5 by now.
He's on pace for a mere -3 fWAR!
Re: May 15-16 Blue Jays play the CITI game @ Mets
Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 9:47 pm
by Natural11
JaysRule15 wrote:Wait, Morales' WAR is only at -0.8? That's pretty good actually. I would've expected at least -1.5 by now.
The fact that he is only -0.8 casts doubt on the entire metric. He has cost us more than one game this year by doing nothing with runners on. This surely isn't balanced out by the 2-3 games all season where he has had a meaningful impact.
Re: May 15-16 Blue Jays play the CITI game @ Mets
Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 9:59 pm
by BigLeagueChew
LF C. Granderson (L)
3B Josh Donaldson (R)
1B Justin Smoak (S)
RF T. Hernandez (R)
2B Y. Solarte (S)
CF Kevin Pillar (R)
C Russell Martin (R)
SS Richard Urena (S)
P Jaime Garcia (L)
Re: May 15-16 Blue Jays play the CITI game @ Mets
Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 10:24 pm
by rotty
Isnt there a tornado warning down there? I doubt the game is played today
Re: May 15-16 Blue Jays play the CITI game @ Mets
Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 12:39 am
by SharoneWright
Loved, LOVED!, that RA Dickey era!!
Re: May 15-16 Blue Jays play the CITI game @ Mets
Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 12:40 am
by HangTime
How the hell did we trade Noah for a 40 year old knuckle Baller.
Re: May 15-16 Blue Jays play the CITI game @ Mets
Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 12:42 am
by SharoneWright
HangTime wrote:How the hell did we trade Noah for a 40 year old knuckle Baller.
Phil Niekro wasn't available. Joe wanted too much term...
Re: May 15-16 Blue Jays play the CITI game @ Mets
Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 12:58 am
by dagger
That farce of a trade continues to rankle me. And Garcia better get the message that if he gives up a couple of runs early, we're not going to win.
Then again, thank goodness for Jay Bruce.
Re: May 15-16 Blue Jays play the CITI game @ Mets
Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 2:16 am
by So_Fresh
Garcia is garbage... This Mets team can't hit lefties and yet they chase Garcia out of the game early. Another Blue Jays starter with a short outing. When will this pain end!!! Can this season end already?
Nice pickup Shatkins. $8 million. lol.
Re: May 15-16 Blue Jays play the CITI game @ Mets
Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 2:39 am
by Schad
When you're signing a guy on a short-term contract in the $7-10m AAV range, you're signing a guy who is badly flawed. All of them are badly flawed, or they wouldn't be signing for that even in a weird-as-hell FA season.
The problem is that we're spending all the money on a whole bunch of broken old dudes, and consequently had to hope that a couple of our old dude starters didn't decline, and that Jaime Garcia (who might as well be an anthropomorphic coin flip, so varied are his seasonal results over the years) was the best we could afford.
Re: May 15-16 Blue Jays play the CITI game @ Mets
Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 2:42 am
by rotty
I just wish we rebuild at this point. Sell high on Pillar now before he goes back to being his old self
Hopefully Josh picks it up so his trade value rises