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Jesse Rubinoff

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709 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Target (Field) Practice: Jays Explode Late to Crush Twins

early, along with Lenny and Sosa's home run in the second inning, really set the tone.

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Target (Field) Practice: Jays Explode Late to Crush Twins

Two runs scored in this game.

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Target (Field) Practice: Jays Explode Late to Crush Twins

He has the home run, and he draws two walks as well, which is not always his calling card.

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Target (Field) Practice: Jays Explode Late to Crush Twins

But I think for this team, we've seen over the years getting on base is so vital and so important.

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Target (Field) Practice: Jays Explode Late to Crush Twins

And Vlade can't be the only guy that's always getting on base.

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Target (Field) Practice: Jays Explode Late to Crush Twins

But Myles Straw, in addition to the home run, which is welcome from him because he's not a home run hitter, only his second of the season, but to get on base,

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Target (Field) Practice: Jays Explode Late to Crush Twins

twice other than the home run, I think was also huge.

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Target (Field) Practice: Jays Explode Late to Crush Twins

So a multitude of guys you can give it to, but for me, it's the right fielder today.

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Target (Field) Practice: Jays Explode Late to Crush Twins

Oh, it's ridiculous.

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Target (Field) Practice: Jays Explode Late to Crush Twins

Like, you look at his average on April 17th was 188.

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Target (Field) Practice: Jays Explode Late to Crush Twins

I mentioned it's all the way back up to 235 now.

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Target (Field) Practice: Jays Explode Late to Crush Twins

Even as recently as April 21st, it was 202.

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Target (Field) Practice: Jays Explode Late to Crush Twins

So look, he's on a pretty significant tear here.

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Target (Field) Practice: Jays Explode Late to Crush Twins

And you're right, it's probably not...

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Target (Field) Practice: Jays Explode Late to Crush Twins

what we should come to expect, just like any other baseball player, like baseball is a game of failure.

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Target (Field) Practice: Jays Explode Late to Crush Twins

And every time he comes up to the plate, he's not going to be hitting absolute mammoth, 453 foot home runs.

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Target (Field) Practice: Jays Explode Late to Crush Twins

But I think you can expect some level of regularity to his success.

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Target (Field) Practice: Jays Explode Late to Crush Twins

Like he, he strikes me as the type of guy that when he's on, there's really no safe place for,

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Target (Field) Practice: Jays Explode Late to Crush Twins

to throw the baseball.

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Target (Field) Practice: Jays Explode Late to Crush Twins

And, and it just, I keep going back to how important it is to have someone like that in the lineup.