Marcus Stroman won't stop tweeting; 2019 Vlad Guerrero Jr/Blue Jays thread

He has arrived. Ya llegó. @vladdyjr27 @VladGuerrero27 #VladDay #VladdyJr pic.twitter.com/pkKroNvshO

— Marly Rivera (@MarlyRiveraESPN) April 26, 2019

clem wins: he's batting fifth

I’m not sure I’ve ever heard the crowd clap at the end of batting practice before.

— Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) April 26, 2019

If he wasn't cool enough already, Vlad Jr.'s walkup song is Old Town Road 😎🤠https://t.co/0bwNdxtAut

— SI MLB (@si_mlb) April 26, 2019

why isn't mlb.tv's boxscore working, and what did he do first PA?

I haven't heard "Old Town Road"

Grounded out to 1B

ok I saw that one

I don't get all the fuss about Vlad Jr when there's a guy named Rowdy Tellez on the team.

rowdy rulez

I cannot stop calling him Rowdy Roddy Tellez.

Anyways. That game was awesome.
I had a capsule before going in and the experience was kinda surreal.

<3

Got to see his first AB in a bar; I had already bought tickets weeks ago to a documentary on a band whose contribution to history was such thought-provoking songs as "My Erection Is Over."

That sounds worthwhile tbh

with a 'capsule'

just woke up to look at the box. you gotta be kiddin me

The mega hype for Vlad's debut is one thing in "favour", maybe, of service time manipulation. There's no way it gets this much attention if they had brought him up for a few weeks last season. One then might even argue that delaying his debut raises his profile and therefore his marketability and future income, but I don't think I'd go that far.

Hey, look at us, scoring runs.

/s ?!

Thought this revive would be about Vladisaur Jr getting benched tbqh

He's sat for at least two games, maybe three. Which probably would've been the case even if he were hitting. Which he's not. Cliché, but he's almost certainly pressing.

stroman doesn't seem like the kind of guy who can go 1-6 with a 3.12 ERA without publicly ripping his offense/bullpen for long

he has arrived. two home runs tonight.

Great (though I wish they'd given him the traditional silent treatment on #1--I always love that). Maybe he needed a little space: late game on the coast, virtually the entire city focused on the Raptors.

jays fans seem v. perturbed that vladdy did not start this holiday home game

I don't blame them.

(I say "them" because I'm a Raptors guy now.)

Cavan Biggio up

just in time for the raptors game tomorrow night

btw mississauga's own josh naylor will also be making his debut tonight in toronto (for the padres)

Friend and teammate of Darren Shred, I think--has evidently made out much better.

I've been paying zero attention to the Jays this year during the Raptors run (to baseball in general, really), so I wasn't aware of just how bad the team's offense was in terms of BA. They were talking about it on McCown's show today. They were hitting .218 going into tonight's game...Lowest team average in AL history were the White Sox in 1910, .212. The Yankees hit .214 in 1968.

I like Rowdy Tellez--great name, and he's certainly more fun than Justin Smoak. He may be one of the six thousand guys who hit 30 HR this year. Unless he conjures up some plate discipline, though (17 walks in his first ~300 AB)--which doesn't usually materialize at age 24--he's really just a younger Kendrys Morales, but worse.

ya, Rowdy's power is fun, but man his avg/obp is horrid.

2/3 in Boston - not bad!

I've made it pretty clear I'm not the world's biggest Marcus Stroman fan, but hilarious that Eckersley was complaining the other day about his theatrics...Eckersley! The guy who used to do all that gunslinger schtick in the late '80s. I haven't seen it, but Stroman supposedly tweeted the image of Alomar after his ALCS home run in response--nice!

I am fucking loving this Biggio kid.

How long do they keep throwing Sanchez out there? He's either hurt or he's terrible.

They don’t really have many options. Maybe when Borucki (sp?) comes back they can move someone to the pen... but we have SRF starting and Law being used as an opener. Bad options all around.

Was down at the game last night.

2-0 Boston after two pitches.
4-0 after one inning.
We left in the 8th, down 10-3.
Missed Vlad's two-run double in the 9th.

Money well spent!

hahaha oh man

fwiw i went to the bos-nyy game Sunday. bos hit three home runs in the first. ended up losing by four. "daddy this is boring." well, fuck everything.

On the bright side: Devers was awesome, I'm always happy to see Price win (23-3 lifetime against the Jays now), and it was $1 hot dog day.

And I've got to say: Joe Biagini did something that really makes you wonder about the guy. He's pitching in the 8th, they're down 8-3, he gets two quick outs, then walks Betts on four pitches, a couple of which looked borderline. Why in the world is he nibbling in that situation? Jesus, throw the ball underhand, but throw strikes. So of course Devers comes up and hits a HR.

Home run was off underhand pitch.

dalton pompey dfa'd ;_;

If the call-in show is to be trusted, Sanchez's 10-consecutive-losses (meaning a decision every game, not spread out) is the longest streak since 1949. Whatever you think of W-L record, he's kind of earned it:

IP - 45
H - 68
HR - 9
BB - 28
K - 28
ERA - 9.40

There was one decent start in there.

En route for another L so far through 4. Not looking terrible tho. So far.

He’s off the hook!

Tough call with Stroman--I don't know where Shapiro and Atkins need to draw the line on return before making a trade, other than they can't fuck up another one.

Oops--that detour threw me and it slipped my mind. Back to brilliantly titled To What Extent Does Your Life Revolve Around Alejandro Kirk? (The 2023 Blue Jays Thread)