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

Was just going to post: XBH in nine straight games, first rookie to do that since Ted Williams of the MFL.

Ridiculous start. Plus Vlad Jr seems like he has some potential too...

Cavan Biggio has 41 walks in a little over 200 AB!

(59 games)

seems legit

so the one game i do not check in on.

vlad since bo arrived: .373/.429/.686, 191 wRC+

never let them be separated again

Bo now 1/5th of the way to his dad's career bWAR! (only a smidgen over 1/10th of the way according to fWAR).

Another record last night...sort of--these x-number-of-games records are admittedly a little contrived.

🚨 MLB HISTORY ALERT 🚨@19boknows is the only player EVER to record 15 extra-base hits in his first 15 games! pic.twitter.com/5PL1ljeUsw

— Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) August 13, 2019

They Won't Shut Up About Bo Bichette: 2019 Blue Jays Thread

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EB7t92uXUAAP4xh.jpg:small

ha!

2020 Blue Jays Thread: *I* won't shut up about Nate Pearson.

Didn't realize we had more spawn on the way: Griffin Conine, currently leading the Midwestern League in HR. (22 in A-ball doesn't seem that special, but they had somebody on the call-in yesterday who was high on him.)

http://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=conine000gri

Oh--50-game suspension last year.

http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/suspended-blue-jays-prospect-griffin-conine-releases-statement-twitter/

he's def got his flaws. his k-rate is the big red flag. he's also playing around dudes roughly his age, normally with prospects you like to see them succeeding against players older than them. not sure why they haven't promoted him either – if it's the Ks or his defence or what.

That's the thing that gives me pause too--by "22 in A-ball," I meant his age, not how many HR he's hit. They'll have to start moving him up the ladder quickly if they want him up here before he's 25.

(They always link fathers-sons-brothers on Baseball Reference, but they don't Griffin linked to Jeff yet.)

maybe BR knows something Jeff/Griffin don't!

I clicked on "contact" and sent them a message about this a few days ago, got a response today:

"We only link major league player relationships. If Griffin makes it to the majors, then we'd add the link on his newly created major league page."

That seems kind of silly to me. Your father is only officially your father if you make it to the majors.

I wonder if Guerrero's finished for the year? Not a lot of incentive to bring him back too quickly.

http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/expect-blue-jays-cautious-guerrero-jr-regardless-diagnosis/

This would be his 3rd IL stint this year iirc?

They’re saying that the mri came back clean, so I’d be surprised if he was done for the year, even with being cautious.

#17 prospect and 2016 first round pick TJ Zeuch just threw a no hitter for the AAA Bisons!

First Bison no-hitter since Bartolo in 1997:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u2Hb12Tieg

(Odd that Zeuch only struck out three, though--more luck than usual, I would think.)

I know there was some good plays behind him. I think pitching to contact and not having a lot of battles was what allowed him to go the full 9.

True enough--the high-strikeout, CG no-hitter is pretty much extinct.

Getting killed, but Bo has homered twice off Kershaw.

Thermo's guy, Nate Pearson, had a great triple-A debut last night: 7 innings, 3 hits, 3 strikeouts, no walks or runs, 55 strikes in 88 pitches. Maybe he and Zeuch and one more solid starter will be enough to get us back into the wild-card picture next year. (Probably jumping the gun by a year--and if they're looking to trade, they'll likely have to part with Biggio or one of the young catchers to get that starter. I don't know what else they can offer.)

i see Zeuch as another Pannone/SRF type who could eat up innings at the major league level, but not much beyond that. Pearson I'm obv pretty high on – Kay could also have some impact next year (who we got for Stroman). and then it's probably 1-2 full years before we see the younger guys in our top-10 (Manoah, Pardinho, SWR, Kloffenstein). hopefully we can lure a mid-rotation guy in the offseason – see if we can compete for the WC next year - and bridge us to the younger, high-ceiling guys who are all looking p good so far.

Former Jay, but I'll post here.

http://nypost.com/2019/08/24/mets-marcus-stroman-sounds-off-on-just-about-everything/

The title reeled me in: "This should be great, he's going to go off on the Jays, Shapiro, Sanchez, everything." I've only skimmed, but he sounds off on just about nothing.

the pen blew it, but Kay's debut went well today. his curve looked filthy at times. even my five year old was wowed by the pitch he ended the first with, that Meadows thought was going to hit him.

Stroman also pitched tonight. 4 ER in 4 IP with half the strikeouts (4) Kay racked up through 5.2!

must you?

Bo wears a throwback mullet

my daughter wants me to have hair like him.

http://bluejayhunter.com/2019/09/impossible-task-naming-every-2019-blue-jays-pitcher.html

i got 21. missed a couple obvious ones.

blue jays twitter is aghast that the team released clayton richard on his birthday

he apparently just taught Thornton the curveball he used in the Red Sox game yesterday (where he did pretty well) too!

Jesus - Tim Meza justvwent down in a heap on the mound. Dude was in tears, it did not look good.

this game was emotional.

saw the clip on the twitter: looked like a UCL tear. has he been TJ'd?

Not that I know of - UCL was my guess right away.

TJ confirmed.

2/3 from the Yanks - not bad! Was there today to see Zeuch get his first pro W.

Biggio!!!

https://i.redd.it/cugsfbebkdn31.png

Keith Laws irrational hatred of anything Blue Jays is becoming comical.

Wild game tonight, I wonder how many lead changing two out ninth inning grand slams have there been in Jays history?

This is such weird/bad baseball right now, I love it.

V. happy we avoided the 100 losses season.

We’re looking at pick#5 in the draft.

And I came here because BIGGIO JUST LEGIT BUNNTED A MF DOUBLE

Trent Thornton now tied for the team lead in wins (six).

Along the same lines: sad, but Grichuk is the first Jay to lead the team in six key offensive categories (they ran through them last night: I think it was hits, 2B, 3B, HR, RBI, and something else). A .233 hitter, OBA under .300.