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OT: The Toronto Blue Jays

Clearly all the guys have decided to try, Gibbons cares now, and Chad Mottola has become the greatest hitting coach of all time.
 
it sucks that the pitching and hitting were collectively ice cold to start the year.... but it's un****ingbelievable that dickey/morrow/buehrle/johnson... all of whom posted sub-4 eras last year... couldn't muster a single start between them over the first 30 games as the one ramon ****ing ortiz gave them today. that's ridiculous.

those guys didn't even have to match their career highs... if they were at least average the team could have weathered the storm, and if they were at their best(s) the jays are probably only a game or two back right now.

but every single one of them shit the bed.
 
Think I told you guys about my cousin (inlaw...is that a thing?) that had a stroke at 15 and lost most of his motion in his left side...anyway this is what his dad said...

What else can I say as thank you doesn't seem to be enough but here it goes. A BIG BIG thank you to the Rainbow Society of Alberta and Roxanne Rosenberg, The Toronto Blue Jays and Shannon Curley for making this all happen. Matt got the chance to meet J.P. Arencibia, R.A. Dickey and Jose Bautista. Jose personally signed one his bats for Matt as well. We also got to meet Greg Zaun & Jamie Campbell from Sportsnet and Brian McGrattan of the Calgary Flames. It was just an awesome evening. Matt had such a great time. A few more days and then we will be home. The Jays even organized to have one of their team photographers take photos for us. They will be sending us the disk once it is done and we will post those pics when we get them.
 
bats are coming around a bit.

1 SS Jose Reyes 43pa, .991ops, .433woba, 177wRC+
2 RF J.Bautista 149pa, .925ops, .391woba, 148wRC+
3 DH Adam Lind 95pa, .879ops, .382woba, 141wRC+
4 1B Encarnacion 176pa, .798ops, .345woba, 116wRC+
5 CF C.Rasmus 140pa, .743ops, .326woba, 103wRC+
6 C J.P.Arencibia 147pa, .745ops, .317woba, 97wRC+
7 LF M.Cabrera 178pa, .680ops, .298woba, 84wRC+
8 3B B.Lawrie 114pa, .641ops, .282woba, 73wRC+
9 2B M.Izturis 126pa, .575ops, .251woba, 52wRC+

UT M.DeRosa 63pa, .765ops, .326woba, 103wRC+
OF R.Davis 76pa, .721ops, .317woba, 97wRC+
IF M.Kawasaki 83pa, .616ops, .283woba, 74wRC+
UT E.Bonifacio 101pa, .567ops, .245woba, 48wRC+
C H.Blanco 30pa, .339ops, .153woba, -14wRC+


not quite up to expectations yet, but already a huge improvement over that embarassing first month.
 
hockeylover said:
So I haven't been keeping up. Are we way too far back to make anything happen here at this point?
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There are 120 games left.

If you take a look at the schedule you'll note that the Jays have a lot of division games coming up. Starting with this weekend against the Yanks. If all goes well we can be 4-6 games out of first place in 3 weeks.
 
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zeke said:
bats are coming around a bit.

1 SS Jose Reyes 43pa, .991ops, .433woba, 177wRC+
2 RF J.Bautista 149pa, .925ops, .391woba, 148wRC+
3 DH Adam Lind 95pa, .879ops, .382woba, 141wRC+
4 1B Encarnacion 176pa, .798ops, .345woba, 116wRC+
5 CF C.Rasmus 140pa, .743ops, .326woba, 103wRC+
6 C J.P.Arencibia 147pa, .745ops, .317woba, 97wRC+
7 LF M.Cabrera 178pa, .680ops, .298woba, 84wRC+
8 3B B.Lawrie 114pa, .641ops, .282woba, 73wRC+
9 2B M.Izturis 126pa, .575ops, .251woba, 52wRC+

UT M.DeRosa 63pa, .765ops, .326woba, 103wRC+
OF R.Davis 76pa, .721ops, .317woba, 97wRC+
IF M.Kawasaki 83pa, .616ops, .283woba, 74wRC+
UT E.Bonifacio 101pa, .567ops, .245woba, 48wRC+
C H.Blanco 30pa, .339ops, .153woba, -14wRC+


not quite up to expectations yet, but already a huge improvement over that embarassing first month.
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Like seeing that. When JoeyBats is dominating we are very good.
 
mbow30 said:
it sucks that the pitching and hitting were collectively ice cold to start the year.... but it's un****ingbelievable that dickey/morrow/buehrle/johnson... all of whom posted sub-4 eras last year... couldn't muster a single start between them over the first 30 games as the one ramon ****ing ortiz gave them today. that's ridiculous.

those guys didn't even have to match their career highs... if they were at least average the team could have weathered the storm, and if they were at their best(s) the jays are probably only a game or two back right now.

but every single one of them shit the bed.
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Morrow went 8 innings and gave up 2ER his last start and Beuhrle has looked really good his last 15 innings.

Everything will even out.
 
It might be too late to dig out of the hole they are in, but its good to see them turn things around relatively quickly. It just proves that it was a bad start and this team really is good.

This wasn't a one chance to win it all season for the team. They have a 4-5 year window to compete.
 
leafman101 said:
It might be too late to dig out of the hole they are in, but its good to see them turn things around relatively quickly. It just proves that it was a bad start and this team really is good.

This wasn't a one chance to win it all season for the team. They have a 4-5 year window to compete.
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If they Jays win the next 7 of 10 - they're right back in it. We're playing the right teams right now with 110 games to follow.

For example IF they sweep the Yanks they will be 5.5 games out of first.
 
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Looking more and more like lind made a real change in his approach. he had the best monthly bb% of his career in april...by far...nearly doubling his previous best, and is currently working on the second best bb% month f his career here in may.

meanwhile his o-zone swing% has plummeted to career lows.

He just isn't swinging at the junk this year...for the first time ever.
 
zeke said:
Looking more and more like lind made a real change in his approach. he had the best monthly bb% of his career in april...by far...nearly doubling his previous best, and is currently working on the second best bb% month f his career here in may.

meanwhile his o-zone swing% has plummeted to career lows.

He just isn't swinging at the junk this year...for the first time ever.
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if he keeps it up that is huge
 
Yeah, if he keeps it up I'll start taking back some of the horrible shit I've said about him (all of it deserving) over the last few years.
 
heh, here's a timely article today....http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/davidi-patient-approach-paying-off-for-lind/

........“I wasn’t being a smart hitter, I was being stubborn and for lack of a better word, stupid.”

Lind is certainly being much smarter at the plate right now, and it all starts with a selectiveness at the plate he has never shown before that goes well beyond his 17 walks against 12 strikeouts.

Consider that of the 43 outs he’s made on balls in play through 95 plate appearances, only five have come on balls out of the strike zone, according to pitch charting by Bloomberg Sports. Of the 74 times he’s swung and missed, only 10 have been on balls out of the strike zone.

That means the vast majority of the time he’s forcing pitchers to put the ball over the plate to earn an out, rather than doing the heavy lifting for them. As a result, good things tend to follow.

“I’ve decided not to be stubborn anymore and just try to hit fastballs,” explains Lind. “There are times you can do that, but there are times you have to realize pitchers aren’t going to throw you fastballs. There were times last year they’d throw me two fastballs for balls on purpose so they could throw me a 2-0 changeup and I’d just ground out. Hopefully with the walks I’ve taken and the at-bats I’ve had, it won’t let them go about it that way because I’ve been more patient at the plate.”

Lind has also shown an ability to do damage against a variety of pitches.

Of his 22 hits, nine have come on fastballs (six singles, two doubles, one homer), six on sliders (four singles, double, homer), six on changeups (three singles, two doubles, homer) and one base hit on a curveball.

That’s both a product of his discipline in the zone, and improved game-planning, as evidenced in the first inning of Wednesday’s 11-3 whipping of the San Francisco Giants. Having watched the swings other hitters took off Ryan Vogelsong in previous outings, Lind felt he’d have a good chance to identify the right-hander’s pitches so he decided to look fastball and adjust.

With the count 1-1, he unloaded on a changeup for a two-run shot that put the Blue Jays up 4-1.

“Sometimes you might have a feeling from pitch to pitch, sometimes you’ve got to sit on that one pitch the whole at-bat and wait until he throws it, because most likely they’re going to throw you a slider or changeup at some point, and when they throw it you’ve got to hit it,” says Lind. “But when you’re looking for those pitches, it’s also a lot easier to lay off if they’re balls.”........
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now quick, somebody teach JPA the same thing.
 
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