Toronto Blue Jays 2018: Our Team Was Founded by Regular Canadian Guys, but It’s Being Run by People from Cleveland

weird to watch all the Jays wearing 42 and the Royals wearing their regular numbers.

Hmm, so they mentioned during the Royals@Jays game today that a 2001 Royals@Jays game in SkyDome was postponed because metal siding fell onto the field when the roof was opening. It was the only other time a game's been postponed in SkyDome

who needs Donaldson when you have Solarte?

They needed that. Flip side of last year--when's the last time they started a season 11-5?

start of this season just shows I'm wrong about literally everything ... so far

Last time they started a season 12-5 was 2009. They ended up 75-87, so perhaps I should curb my enthusiasm. Playoff years:

1985: 10-7
1989: 8-9
1991: 10-7
1992: 13-4
1993: 9-8
2015: 9-8
2016: 8-9

To echo the radio guys this morning, please tell me they're not going to demote Teoscar when Morales gets back. In 107 AB, he's now slugging about .650 for the Jays.

The answer, thank god, was “no”. And not a bad bebut for Gurriel!

Extra inning walk off homer off Kimbrel? This could be one of those "circle this game" games.

Granderson has been a great signing so far.

Outstanding. .321/.424/.571, 10 walks in 66 PA, 7 XBH in 56 AB.

Stroman's XFIP around 3.80 which is not the worst considering he is doing spring training in April. The ERA will adjust pretty quick.

Vlad just called his shot and went deep off the tee for @MLBNetwork. Carlos Pena approves. 🤩 pic.twitter.com/SrcMlYvdjY

— NH Fisher Cats (@FisherCats) May 7, 2018

#BlueJays closer Roberto Osuna was arrested this morning and charged with assault on a woman, Toronto police confirm. Story coming shortly.

— John Lott (@LottOnBaseball) May 8, 2018

ya that's unfortunate. it's Osuna shirt day thursday too.

banner day for the blue jays here.

Jays starters are not doing well, it was supposed to be a strength.

They rank 26th on fangraphs, relievers are ranked 7th, but now with Osuna gone, well...

Speaking of which: https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/roberto-osuna-the-blue-jays-and-the-limits-of-presuming-innocence/

Sachez is struggling :(

Teoscar out with back problems...

Sachez is struggling :(

― Van Horn Street, Thursday, May 17, 2018 8:45 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sanchez too :(

If I were a master impressionist, I'd make John Gibbons my first project. My Gibbons would have the same laconic, aw-shucks manner, but he'd be awkwardly, brutally honest, saying the things everybody knows. Try to hear this in his voice:

"Yeah, you know, we're doing okay. We're in this win-one, lose-one thing right now, just kind of piddling along, so we'll see where that takes us. The guys are out there playing, getting some hits, making a lot of outs, so, uh, it's not like we're not surprised or anything, we're really not that good. Pitchin's been good...I mean, sometimes, we've had some bad games too. We got a few guys like Biagini, and they're out there getting some outs, but, uh, you know, they're really not that good. I like our team, we're gonna be okay. We're really not that good, but we're out there playing baseball."

Now behind Tampa.

Sanchez doesn't seem able to shake off his walk problem.

clippard has gakked two games in four days eh?

we all knew this was where it would wind up.

I suppose Clippard has 'closer' attitude.

A nightmarish top of the 9th goes really well with a nightmarish bottom.

Russell Martin SS

When one albatross is hurt, you try to replace him with an albatross.

i love russell martin, but wtf at playing him at short and now left? they really needed to fit his 73 wRC+ bat in there somewhere? that's some serious mathenaging

Gibbons is pretty solid on the Matheny spectrum.

https://i.imgur.com/KBKBR04.jpg

Martin has a manager is happening one day and I'm very excited.

I just watched the condensed game, and every hit off sanchez seemed to be on a fastball grooved up the middle. where did his control go? :( this season hurtz

Whatever I may have said before, at this point they should not bring Guerrero up. Besides the fact that they're going nowhere, and also the window-of-control issue, I get the feeling this has the potential to be a somewhat toxic clubhouse at some point. I might be totally wrong there, but I can see the seeds of that.

They ought to move him up to Triple-A, though, no? Shouldn't that be done immediately?

yeah maybe the contract situation with Donaldson and Stroman soured the clubhouse a bit, it's pure speculation of course.

I feel like being around stroman, even in the best of circumstances, must be exhausting.

Luke Maile leading the team offensively in fWAR

Stroman is beyond irritating

i am saddened to see joe biagini turn into a pumpkin

There’s Gaviglio now! He’s been a bright spot so far.

I'm wondering when they'll feel there's enough evidence that Biagini is not worth a roster spot. He's 28, and he's pretty much been belted around for two years. Or, to put it another way, he's accumulated 0.1 WAR in three seasons (including his pretty good first year). So go get a replacement player instead.

free borucki imo. at least he's left-handed

who can take a rainbow
wrap it in a sigh
soak it in the sun and make a groovy lemon pie?

Ya - Grandy had himself a day!

Like Seinfeld, we finally met our perfect soulmate and it turned out to be us.

Kelly Gruber
I loved Barker's "who's that?" reply
not so much the misogyny and alcoholism-on-full-display :(

Osuna: 75 games

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/23878504/roberto-osuna-toronto-blue-jays-suspended-75-games-mlb

So - apparently the big problem when he’s eligible to come back is the charges might not allow him to cross the boarder?