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Ben Schulman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
334 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Tough Errors & Jays Prospect Sean Keys

And so Clayton McCullough just threw all his lefties out there.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Tough Errors & Jays Prospect Sean Keys

Kate Gibson, the last one, in more of a let's finish this game, you're the lowest leverage guy in the pen situation.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Tough Errors & Jays Prospect Sean Keys

But the other two, Nardi and King, they didn't have a lot to counter.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Tough Errors & Jays Prospect Sean Keys

And that was the day they had Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Tough Errors & Jays Prospect Sean Keys

sitting down.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Tough Errors & Jays Prospect Sean Keys

in their dugout.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Tough Errors & Jays Prospect Sean Keys

Now, I guess on most days, that would be Lenine Sosa instead.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Tough Errors & Jays Prospect Sean Keys

So you would have a righty bat in Sosa, but they don't have that many options right now to hit against lefties.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Tough Errors & Jays Prospect Sean Keys

I do think they're taking right now all the players that have been most productive for them.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Tough Errors & Jays Prospect Sean Keys

So since Schneider's production is a little bit six and a half dozen, but he doesn't have options and he can play first base for you right now.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Tough Errors & Jays Prospect Sean Keys

Well, Vlad isn't there.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Tough Errors & Jays Prospect Sean Keys

So I think that there's some utility there, but I'm guessing that it means a, they want David Schneider to work on stuff and B you could argue right now, some of their lefties who are hot and they do happen to have arguably all three of their left-handed hitting corner outfielders hot.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Tough Errors & Jays Prospect Sean Keys

If you want to, you know, get real small sample with Nathan Lucas, you know,

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Tough Errors & Jays Prospect Sean Keys

Maybe they just think they'll get more production out of those guys left on left than they would right now with David Schneider.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Tough Errors & Jays Prospect Sean Keys

I'm not saying in perpetuity, but just exactly right now with the way that David Schneider had produced over the last couple of weeks, it might make more sense to play a lefty against the lefty who's a little bit hotter in general, let Davis get himself hot at AAA, and then I think the overall design of the team

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Tough Errors & Jays Prospect Sean Keys

is a month, six weeks, whenever from now.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Tough Errors & Jays Prospect Sean Keys

They want David Schneider to be back on this team.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Tough Errors & Jays Prospect Sean Keys

They just need him to be the more productive version of Schneider they saw in the second half of last year.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Tough Errors & Jays Prospect Sean Keys

Yeah, I mean, it was fun.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Tough Errors & Jays Prospect Sean Keys

I'm not going to lie.