Toronto Blue Jays (60-48) @ Baltimore Orioles (56-52) - August 8-10

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This team has a sub-.500 record against teams with +.500 records. It's just not that good, and it's not just Kikuchi.

[Madvillainy2004]

This team has a sub-.500 record against teams with +.500 records. It's just not that good, and it's not just Kikuchi.

If this was basketball I'd be more worried. Baseball playoffs is just about making it and hoping for the best lol the list of only "good" regular season teams to win it all is pretty long.

[Corinne]

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[Randle McMurphy]

A postponement would be our best case scenario. Can we get lucky here?

[s e n s i]

This team has a sub-.500 record against teams with +.500 records. It's just not that good, and it's not just Kikuchi.

If this was basketball I'd be more worried. Baseball playoffs is just about making it and hoping for the best lol the list of only "good" regular season teams to win it all is pretty long.

and conversely, the list of amazing regular season teams to not win it all (or even make it out of the DS, for that matter) is also pretty damn long.

[Randle McMurphy]

A postponement would be our best case scenario. Can we get lucky here?

Yes we can. Postponed to September when Orioles are (hopefully) less on fire and we (hopefully) have Springer and Stripling back.

[SharoneWright]

A postponement would be our best case scenario. Can we get lucky here?

Yes we can. Postponed to September when Orioles are (hopefully) less on fire and we (hopefully) have Springer and Stripling back.

Oct.6. Book it. All the donero on the line!

(Mountcastle nursing a glute injury )

edit:::: no play-ins??? Well,,,,,,, we better get some W's in the regular season slosh.

[Mehar]

With Berrios Starting tomorrow at home, and with Stripling pitching a Rehab Start- hopefully this means no more Kikuchi Starting for the rest of the year. Have White as the 5th Starter, and put Kikuchi on the IL with Neck Strain- since he hurts his neck turning around on a consistent basis, watching the opposing team hit home runs and hard contact off him in multiple innings. Maybe Kikuchi can be an additional Club Mascot in the stands for the rest of the year as well. The Jays could employ him in multiple ways, as long he does not Start again for the team. We do not need to see his Stupid Deer in the Headlights Look on the mound when he is unable to locate his pitches, and gets battered lucky to pitch 4 Innings.

[LLJ]

This team has a sub-.500 record against teams with +.500 records. It's just not that good, and it's not just Kikuchi.

If this was basketball I'd be more worried. Baseball playoffs is just about making it and hoping for the best lol the list of only "good" regular season teams to win it all is pretty long.

Yeah, baseball is all about who's streaking at the right time. That being said, there are teams with certain talents who you would rather gamble on having the potential to get "hot" and others you just know will always shat the bed no matter what...

[Schad]

This team has a sub-.500 record against teams with +.500 records. It's just not that good, and it's not just Kikuchi.

All but six teams in baseball, including every contender for the AL Wild Card spots other than Cleveland (which might end up winning the division instead), have sub .500 records against teams with records above .500.

Atlanta had a record of 31-37 against teams above .500 last year, and then went 11-5 to beat teams with 95, 106 and 95 regular season wins en route to the Series title. Baseball's weird, man.

[VanWest82]

I haven't been following it closely but a buddy was claiming that Manoah's velocity has been down lately. Is this true?

[Schad]

I haven't been following it closely but a buddy was claiming that Manoah's velocity has been down lately. Is this true?

Doesn't appear to be. Velo varies start-to-start, but there's no real downward trend that I can see:

https://www.fangraphs.com/players/alek-manoah/26410/graphs?pitchgraphs=true&statArr=&legend=1&split=base&time=daily&start=2021&end=2022&rtype=mult&gt1=15&dStatArray=FA&ymin=&ymax=