MLB 2018 Season |OT| Introducing Shohei OhtAAAni

lazybones18 said:

Tigers hitless through 6

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It's too bad Trevor's not going back out for the 7th. :/

Welp, there goes the no-no.

Aaron's the judge

but Brandon's the Drury

omg

Tigers really need to trade Fulmer for a good haul before they use too much of his service time

clemenx said:

Tigers really need to trade Fulmer for a good haul before they use too much of his service time

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Yankees have a Clint Frazier with their name on it.

Malo said:

Yankees have a Clint Frazier with their name on it.

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You'd have to give up Gleyber and Chance too

Fulmer's a superstar

Aaron Judge throwing that smack down upon former Dodger and Canadian Russell Martin?

I shall rise for that. The kid's okay in my book.

Raise it.

Glad to see Rivero come in and dominate the heart of a lineup after that rough opening day outing.


Also, is "We can't wait to trade Clint Frazier for your team's best player" the new "We can't wait to trade Javy Baez for your team's best player"?

Jays should have 10 runs today. All these strikeouts.

Ohtani time

Welp

That at bat by Smoak was legendary.

Boone plz

SMOAK

I thought Boone was supposed to be a computer.

HE SMOOOAKEEEEEEEEEEEED IT

So...this team is not very good so far in late innings. What a deflating opening to the season.

Damn.

Great win for us today. Still going to be a long season, but if we can be halfway competitive like this I'll be happy.

Not really sure how to dissect this since it's early but wow, 4 games in and there are already way too many questions about the team.

Jays have been missing opportunities all afternoon. Good to see them finally make something happen. They might need to move some pieces of the lineup around but Smoak stays put.

Bleed a fastball down and in to a lefty power hitter? Not a good idea.

Best bullpen in baseball

Jays are going to shock the world.

Only 12k in Oakland to see ohtani's debut. Move the A's to Montreal.

O, how I missed the toth takes. The season has truly started.

Waffles said:

Bleed a fastball down and in to a lefty power hitter? Not a good idea.

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It was a terrible idea to intentionally walk Donaldson in the first place. All the credit to Smoak, been killing this series.

Xclash said:

It was a terrible idea to intentionally walk Donaldson in the first place. All the credit to Smoak, been killing this series.

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I like that cone was trashing Boone basically as it was happening.

Right before the Smoak home run, i turned to my wife and said I would buy a Smoak jersey if he came through. Considering the result, I might need to name my next child after him lol.

y'all can stop blaming betances now, Boone is the problem. Cone was right. Don't load the bases for no good reason. Since when is Robertson a ground ball pitcher anyway?

Malo said:

O, how I missed the toth takes. The season has truly started.

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Yup, just offering my usual honest impressions of the team that has been lauded to heaven and back as being a juggernaut and yet....its' hard to be positive after this weekend's 8th inning trainwrecks.

Boone and Kapler are setting the analytics movement back a generation.

Toth said:

Yup, just offering my usual honest impressions of the team that has been lauded to heaven and back as being a juggernaut and yet....its' hard to be positive after this weekend's 8th inning trainwrecks.

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We're four games into the season... Four

Aaron Boone, the boy genius! Coming up with new and interesting ways to lose horribly.

Toth said:

Yup, just offering my usual honest impressions of the team that has been lauded to heaven and back as being a juggernaut and yet....its' hard to be positive after this weekend's 8th inning trainwrecks.

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Four games in. Brilliant.

The Jays are .500 for the 1st time since 2016.

Malo said:

We're four games into the season... Four

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Okay fine, you are right. Still, there should be some (minor) concern about some of the moves thus far.

But I was told the Yanks had by far the best bullpen in baseball, no question.

Flaherty is saying "new school thinking winning vs. old school baseball" but you're going to have to explain to me how anyone with a brain makes a decision based on a sample size of 5.

Y2Kev said:

Flaherty is saying "new school thinking winning vs. old school baseball" but you're going to have to explain to me how anyone with a brain makes a decision based on a sample size of 5.

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Y'all need to chill with all this damage control jesus

Ohtani looking sick

evil solrac v3.0 said:

y'all can stop blaming betances now, Boone is the problem. Cone was right. Don't load the bases for no good reason. Since when is Robertson a ground ball pitcher anyway?

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I mean letting someone steel 2nd 3rd and home has little to do with boone. But If they walked Donaldson to load the bases and face Smoak at least bring Chapman to have a better matchup, I feel todays game and yesterday game was lost by Boone tough.

Ohtani looks good.

Tall4Life said:

Y'all need to chill with all this damage control jesus

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I don't like it when people point to this as evidence of "new school management gone wrong."

MatPiscatella said:

Boone and Kapler are setting the analytics movement back a generation.

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Don't blame the strawmen.

They are empty suits

Fox318 said:

Don't blame the strawmen.

They are empty suits

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I thought they were full of straw

Joe Kelly whyyyy

At least Kelly isn't walking anyone this time /s

Y2Kev said:

I don't like it when people point to this as evidence of "new school management gone wrong."

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How else to you explain it?

Did the Blue Jay's provide free mooneshine?

Othani getting that run support. Now to see how he does the rest of the way