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

i'm really starting to hate Stroman. constant humble bragging about his lifestyle to bitching about how unfair the game is to him/players and now this:

Stromans puppy 4 days ago. Stromans puppy 24hrs ago. Apparently HDMH stands for Height Doesnt Measure Humanity. pic.twitter.com/SiMZuYGWF2

— 🕶 (@JaysTrain2Reign) March 11, 2019

which is a shame because i love the intensity and hustle he brings to the field.

anyways. Anthony Alford is having an electric spring and i'd love to see him open as our starting LF or CF. hopefully last year was a fluke. (i hope this comment doesn't age brutally)

ugh - didn't realize the pic would display like that... sorry everyone!

When he's winning and the team's winning, I want all the theatrics from him that I don't want when they're not. (I get the feeling he's really worried about going on the market--another poor season and his value will be comparatively nothing--so he's flailing about trying to do this, that, and the other to get an extension.)

Why the fuck would you do that to a dog

Sorry, I just glided past the dog photos--Stroman did that? I don't get it. When I said theatrics, I meant his on-field theatrics.

Ya he did that for reasons beyond my understanding. I had to unfollow him on social medi a while back because I couldn’t handle his jeuvenile bs anymore.

https://www.thedodo.com/ear-cropping-cruel-1212872917.html

it's a shitty thing that people do to their dogs for aesthetic reasons. when i see it in vancouver it's exclusively rich peoples' dogs. but i think the practice has origins in dog fighting

That was my first thought when I saw the ears (not that I thought he was fighting the dog, but it’s the dog fighting “look”.

So the Jays just gave 50% raises to all their minor leaguers apparently!

Bo Bichette this spring: 42 PA, .421/.476/.816. That has to be ideal for a young guy playing in the shadow of someone like Guerrero.

it's just spring, but ya - certainly beats him going 5/30. he's also looked pretty good in the field. he keeps this up and i think we'll see him up some time after the break (whenever the super-two date passes).

with him, Vlad, Jansen and Borucki all (probably) playing this year, i'm going to enjoy watching them this season. when i saw that "faith and hope" thing on mlbtr, all i could think about is how much i'm looking forward to this season and the seasons to come – with Biggio, Smith and Pearson all due to debut over the next couple years. it's going to be fun.

i'm going to the game at the olympic stadium tonight! no vlad :( but maybe bichette/biggio?

anyone i shd keep an eye out for? man the jays depth chart is one of the most deeply uninteresting rosters i've seen in a while :/

conversely the brewers depth chart is nice

I was going to lead with "Please post if you see the ghost of ______________," but I just looked up 15 or 20 Expos from the early '70s, and every last one of them is still alive.

Only spring training, for sure. I was just thinking of how much harder it would be for Bichette if all the focus were on him. He's totally under the radar--if Guerrero had had that kind of spring, he'd probably be a bigger story than the Raptors or Leafs right now.

not much on display at that game i am afraid! barely anything even hit as far as the outfield for the first six innings. nice little rally to win it though, and the fact that there's a dude named nate orf meant we got to yell ORF SIDE LONG BEACH a few times, so that was fun! also a "bo bichette" chant started and it took me a second to realize they weren't saying "holy shit"

Bo-ba-fett! Bo-ba-fett! Bo-ba-fett!

Kendrys traded to the As! it's Rowdy time!

Keep getting rid of that dead weight--couple more to go.

48 mil going out to players not on the team!

And looks like they added Alford instead of Tellez.

If Stroman were to have a great year on a poor team, I think he could well be unbearable.

I'm looking forward to seeing whether the Jays can pull off their first proper rebuild since the 80's. Hopefully Stroman also realizes that the window opens next year?

If anyone was born to berate management and demand a trade via Twitter, Stroman's the guy. So I hope you're right.

Between us being the '71 Orioles on the mound or the Tigers being the '68 White Sox with the bat, I'm guessing it's the latter.

Too bad we don't have anyone in the minors who might help jumpstart the offense.

Bichette?

http://phildellio.tripod.com/vladimir.jpg

Not bad. The fact that I noticed Cleveland was the beneficiary before I thought "April Fools" tells you how trustworthy I find current management when it comes to possible collusion.

pillar to the giants

You're next, Stroman.

I'm liking this DePaula guy we're getting back, btw.

Down at the game tonight. Until Vlad gets here, that place is officially a morgue. Attendance: 12,110.

What do we think of Grichuk's extension? I guess the price is right, so why not.

Through six games, the Jays are 1 for 55 in the first three innings.

re: Gritch – it's ok i guess. he a good defender, young and can hit some dingers. so there's some value there and they pay looks appropriate. maybe what's more important is the team is signalling (in this small way) that they are interested in keeping *some* guys around.

Vladisaur Jr. will be activated off the IL for tonight's Dunedin Blue Jays vs. Clearwater Thrashers game.

first homer of the minor league season belongs to cavan biggio (off gio gonzalez)

This season is going to both suck - and be fun as shit.

VladJr goes 1-4 with a run scored for High A Dunedin route of the Clearwater Thrashers.

Outshined by Cavan Biggio!

https://syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/2829741-blue-jays-reply-to-fan-asking-about-source-of-justin-smoak-info-literally-us.amp.html

Looking at the Jays boxscore today (so today's game is included), eight of the nine guys in the starting lineup are hitting between .077-.217; five are sub-Mendoza.

I thought Toronto's .183/.261/.318 slash line might be historically significant, but there are three or four teams right there with us or worse this year.

ya, it hasn't been that long. just feels long. gonna be another long two weeks.

matty shoes for cy young

bo bichette, broken hand

matty shoes for cy young

the Curse of Mook

Happy Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Day! @BlueJays

— Marcus Stroman (@MStrooo6) April 26, 2019

We were trying to guess where he'd be in the order today: 2nd or 5th for me, a co-worker thought 7th.

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

— Marly Rivera (@MarlyRiveraESPN) April 26, 2019

I think it'd take them advancing to the second round for me to begin to take a sincere interest, but it they were to win today, that'd be a half-step towards that: .550 is at least a legitimate record for a playoff-bound team. So I guess the schedule just lined up perfectly with whatever good 60-game stretch they were going to have during an actual season.

they oscillate between frustrating to watch and really fun.

i don't like this Shoemaker thing.

Ryu & Walker 1-2 makes a lot more sense, especially since they only need 2 wins, and then throw everybody you have into game 3 if you need to
oh well, we'll be in much better shape if they actually pull game one out

So Shoe did ok. I guess he had really good splits v the Rays and Walker's are terrible.

"I did not get to the second training well, and I told myself that this cannot happen again. I was overweight, I said that it couldn't happen again, and I got to work at once."

That's a start.

https://www.thescore.com/mlb/news/2047080

Vlad has reportedly dropped 40 pounds.

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/baseball/mlb/jays-gm-atkins-sees-benefits-of-gurrero-jr-off-season-weight-loss-1.5920904

why do you refuse to say he's in the BEST SHAPE OF HIS LIFE

As long as he's not still round, any shape will do.

dropping 30-50 lbs before spring training every year can't be good for your health or baseball production

Kirk, too, is all aboard the best shape of his life train.

bo: fastest to 100 hits in blue jays history

An unexpected list of names there.

Also Julian Merryweather has looked like a fucking god in the two innings he’s pitched so far.

Matz looked great today. Good start to the season this far!

Ryu + Scrubs seems like an ineffective game plan, with hindsight

Two of the scrubs are there because the starters are injured!

I know, but relying on Pearson as the number 2 guy was my main problem even before he was foreseeably injured. Just frustrated is all

Yeah I wish they went for someone like Odorizzi.

vlad's off to a nice start eh

Him and Grich!

man, Grich was looking like Pillar in that first Angels game -- couple of huge diving grabs

One was because he jumped the wrong direction at first tho.

hah i didn't realize that. he personalized it then

Well this game was fun. The new kid, Polacios, had himself a night!

Walk-off HR for Bo.

Another fun game to watch. Glad the pen kept it together even tho they e lost three solid arms now and Romano can’t throw strikes.

Didn't realize Teoscar tested positive the other day.

Yup. And they just added three more pitchers to the IL. That’s our closer out, our set up guy, our replacement closer, our replacement set up guy, our long man and also Phelps.

Pearson can't come back sooner.

He had such a rough time starting last year, I’m not expecting him to be the jays saviour this year either way.

Hoping George Spring is real.

Springer even.

george springs eternal

Grand slam for Vlad off Scherzer.

!

i think the kid might've figured something out

Youngest to get 3 hr & 7 RBI since 1901, apparently!!

Consider how often I watch the Jays these days, I'm lucky I got to see the first.

wow Alomar. i remember some allegations back in 2009, but nothing came out of it that i knew. then all of the sudden he's banned from baseball and the jays are dropping his banner from the level of excellence. crazy.

Just read about that. Is he banned or suspended? I've heard so much stuff about Alomar over the years, things that seemed plausible and things that seemed crazy made-up. Sad.

St. Marys weighs in:

https://lfpress.com/sports/local-sports/roberto-alomar-no-longer-welcome-at-canadas-baseball-hall-of-fame

always curious about what ‘special assistants’ to teams and ‘consultants’ to the league actually do

This game right now is ridiculous. 10-0 in the 6th. Kirk has two home runs. So far.

I feel like every game we lose a reliever to the IL.

Not quite on the bandwagon yet--that's me sitting roadside on a lawn chair--but I am starting to keep tabs online. Glad they didn't blow that one.

Next 10 games are against division rivals and then 4 against the team their ties with for the wild card.

It will be nice to not be the only one on here watching the games live. I lost one of my best friends last week and we would text regularly during games.

I didn't realize that--very sorry to hear that. I saw a couple of photos on FB but missed any explanation if there was one.

Thermo I'm very sorry to hear of your loss - I've been watching games. Fun one today (super sloppy on both sides!), I'm on the bandwagon for sure with this bunch (tho I'm still pissed about the lack of veteran starting pitching)