Toronto Blue Jays @ New York Yankees, July 21-23

[rarefind]

Give Bo the bag.

Definitely not but give him the qualifying offer

Lol yes, that.comp pick will impact winning in this current window.

[Randle McMurphy]

Give Bo the bag.

Definitely not but give him the qualifying offer

Lol yes, that.comp pick will impact winning in this current window.

Bo won’t impact winning much in the current window at the rate he’s declining either

[Michael Bradley]

The decision between Him\Davis\Lukes is gonna be tough

I'd keep all 3. When healthy we can demote Jiminez, Wagner and Loperfido. Straw is out of options and we are paying him a lot so he is least likely to go.

Yeah I agree. It should not be a decision between Straw/Lukes/Schneider. Schneider can also play in the infield, so this scrub Leo Jimenez can be sent packing back to Buffalo as soon as possible.

Jimenez is definitely a short term roster spot. He's only up because he can play SS and 2B with Gimenez injured. Straw is not going anywhere due to his contract (which they voluntarily absorbed when no other team would have gone near it), so they clearly like him. As mentioned the bubble guys are likely Wagner, Loperfido, and Jimenez. One of Wagner/Loperfido is going to go down when Varsho comes back. Jimenez will go down when Gimenez comes back, but that seems a long way off since I haven't heard anything about him in a while. Santander may not be back at all this season.

Of course with the trade deadline coming up, the roster is going to look different by this time next week, so some of the above names may not be here anymore.

[Randle McMurphy]

Batter interference is an absurd call there lol

it was a strike or Vladdy broke the plane. but interference was a redic call lol

Not even sure Vlad swung either but that umpire completely lost it if he called that interference

[WaltFrazier]

I'm really enjoying Caleb Joseph on postgames, insightful and enthusiastic about the current team. Thought he was good doing game analysis a few weeks ago too

[SharoneWright]

Tiebreaker secured, right?

[WuTang_OG]

George springer mvp of this team

Who woulda thought

Love this guy

True leader and talented player

Clutch

[HangTime]

Reaching first on an Error is better than a single, just try and put the ball in play, and let their defense crumble.

It may be a negative in traditional stats, but the advanced stats should tell a different story.

You'll take a better, more relaxed approach, and occasionally hit homerun. you might put 8/10 out balls in play.

[Randle McMurphy]

Tiebreaker secured, right?

Yes, probably the most important part of this series

[Parataxis]

Good lord, the Yankees are terrible at fielding.

[xAIRNESSx]

Jays twitter account has been fire lately

Read on Twitter

[JN]

I continue to look at this team as probably not a great team .. a team that could well go .500 the rest of the way.

But we now have an 18 game gap above .500. Which is huge, Going .500 the rest of the way gets us to 90 wins, which should easily get us in the playoffs in the current format.

[Mehar]

I continue to look at this team as probably not a great team .. a team that could well go .500 the rest of the way.

But we now have an 18 game gap above .500. Which is huge, Going .500 the rest of the way gets us to 90 wins, which should easily get us in the playoffs in the current format.

Could be a great team with one more high leverage reliever, another front line Starter, and a Right Handed power bat. However, that could be said for many other good teams.

[dagger]

I continue to look at this team as probably not a great team .. a team that could well go .500 the rest of the way.

But we now have an 18 game gap above .500. Which is huge, Going .500 the rest of the way gets us to 90 wins, which should easily get us in the playoffs in the current format.

Could be a great team with one more high leverage reliever, another front line Starter, and a Right Handed power bat. However, that could be said for many other good teams.

Pretty much, but I suspect the reliever or relievers is most likely to make a difference since our offence is good enough most nights to claw back runs given up by the starters. But with Garcia so injury-prone, and his injury absences so pronounced, I'd say more wins will be saved by adding in a high leverage arm or two. Otherwise, we're going to overuse Hoffman and Rodriguez, the only trusted arms for 8th and 9th innings.

[Mehar]

I continue to look at this team as probably not a great team .. a team that could well go .500 the rest of the way.

But we now have an 18 game gap above .500. Which is huge, Going .500 the rest of the way gets us to 90 wins, which should easily get us in the playoffs in the current format.

Could be a great team with one more high leverage reliever, another front line Starter, and a Right Handed power bat. However, that could be said for many other good teams.

Pretty much, but I suspect the reliever or relievers is most likely to make a difference since our offence is good enough most nights to claw back runs given up by the starters. But with Garcia so injury-prone, and his injury absences so pronounced, I'd say more wins will be saved by adding in a high leverage arm or two. Otherwise, we're going to overuse Hoffman and Rodriguez, the only trusted arms for 8th and 9th innings.

I agree. The bullpen to me is the most pressing need, with Garcia and Sandlin also injured and who knows how they will look once they are healthy. You do not want to have to rely on guys like Justin Bruihl in the 8th Inning like you did tonight; facing a guy like Judge with runners on first and second, when thankfully the double play call got upheld by video replay.

[Potential]

The tiebreaker just said we're 5 games up on the stankees

[vaff87]

For some reason there’s a much bigger gap this year in home and away records. By my math:

Winning percentage of away teams
2023 — 47.9%
2024 — 47.8%
2025 — 45.0%

[JaysRule15]

Amazing game to be at. Crowd was rocking. Every Yankees miscue was getting super loud cheers.

What a stupid decision to pitch to Judge though, with the base open. Legit everyone in the stadium was wondering why we didn't walk him. Stuff like this can't be happening if this team wants to be a serious contender.

[Tripod]

Amazing game to be at. Crowd was rocking. Every Yankees miscue was getting super loud cheers.

What a stupid decision to pitch to Judge though, with the base open. Legit everyone in the stadium was wondering why we didn't walk him. Stuff like this can't be happening if this team wants to be a serious contender.

I think the mindset was even if he hit a home run, game is tied.

Walk him and a homer happens, now losing.

As great as Judge is...he doesn't homer every time and still gets out 6/10 times.

[Hottie McShotty]

You have to go all in now don't you??

19 games over .500 Wow.. what a turnaround.