Jeff Blair

They're no better, I don't think, or no worse than the Astros necessarily.

They're coming in town, and you don't know what you're going to get from the Blue Jays.

But the inability to come through, however you want to define clutch, the inability to come through in situations like that,

is uh boy it it's it's really telling and i know ross atkins said today you know that the thing that gives him hope is that one of the things that gives him hope is that the american league isn't that great this year and the jays feel they have their best baseball still in front of them well god i hope in front of them comes you know sooner as opposed to later

They were crap at times early in the season last year, too.

I mean, John Schneider did have to address the base running, did have to address the defense.

They had Bowe last year.

They had a guy in the cleanup spot who was coming through, and they don't have Bo.

Now, Kaz Okamoto in the cleanup spot, I mean, hey, I think he's exceeded most people's expectations offensively.

For sure.

It would be nice to have Bo hitting cleanup and Kaz Okamoto hitting cleanup.

you know, hitting fifth.

But yeah, it's, you know, and to the caller's point about Varland, here's the thing to keep in mind with Louis Varland, with all due respect to the caller.

John Schneider, Pete Walker, and the coaching staff have a better handle on how healthy, how tired he is than we do.

Trust me, if Louis Varland

was able to pitch yesterday without risking injury, Louis Varland would have been in that game.

So, you know, I'm not, I'm really reluctant to question John's use of Varland because it seems to me that they've pretty much used him when they needed to.

Yesterday's game was lost, again, I don't want to re-litigate that game, but

When you put Tyler Rodgers in a game, you're going to get balls in play.

And when balls get in play, there's a chance of stuff happens.