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Jose Bautista

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
634 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Vladdy Gets Dinged, John Axford In-Studio & Bautista/Encarnacion Interview

You know him a little bit from WBC stuff?

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Vladdy Gets Dinged, John Axford In-Studio & Bautista/Encarnacion Interview

That's awesome.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Vladdy Gets Dinged, John Axford In-Studio & Bautista/Encarnacion Interview

Yeah, so that'll be cool.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Vladdy Gets Dinged, John Axford In-Studio & Bautista/Encarnacion Interview

Dome open would be cool, and we'll see.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Vladdy Gets Dinged, John Axford In-Studio & Bautista/Encarnacion Interview

Sandy Alcantara and Yuri Perez are pretty difficult matchups, but yeah, we'll see how this one goes.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Vladdy Gets Dinged, John Axford In-Studio & Bautista/Encarnacion Interview

I want to talk a little bit more bullpen with you.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Vladdy Gets Dinged, John Axford In-Studio & Bautista/Encarnacion Interview

So this was in my notes the last time you were on, which was two weeks ago now, because the change was a little more recent, and Jeff Hoffman was still figuring things out.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Vladdy Gets Dinged, John Axford In-Studio & Bautista/Encarnacion Interview

While Jeff Hoffman has...

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Vladdy Gets Dinged, John Axford In-Studio & Bautista/Encarnacion Interview

you know, figured things out pretty well over the last little bit here.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Vladdy Gets Dinged, John Axford In-Studio & Bautista/Encarnacion Interview

Um, I obviously the, the home run issues from a little earlier in the season are still there, but he's striking out 16 per nine.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Vladdy Gets Dinged, John Axford In-Studio & Bautista/Encarnacion Interview

Um, the walks are, are pretty limited.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Vladdy Gets Dinged, John Axford In-Studio & Bautista/Encarnacion Interview

I know the era is still up at five Oh nine, but you look at some of the underlyings, it's like two and a half expected era, two and a half FIP.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Vladdy Gets Dinged, John Axford In-Studio & Bautista/Encarnacion Interview

When it comes to working on stuff and trying to figure that out, how much easier do you think it was for him to get right that he did come out of the closer role there and Louis Varlin was able to run with it and he got to work on some things in seventh inning and eighth inning appearances?

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Vladdy Gets Dinged, John Axford In-Studio & Bautista/Encarnacion Interview

Yeah, there are some successful examples of Blue Jays teams in the 90s that had like dual closers or two options late in the game.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Vladdy Gets Dinged, John Axford In-Studio & Bautista/Encarnacion Interview

So the Louis Varland side of this is, you know, look, I think why you came into the season with Jeff Hoffman as the closer is because, I mean, you paid him and he was pretty good game seven aside.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Vladdy Gets Dinged, John Axford In-Studio & Bautista/Encarnacion Interview

But you also like Louis Varland in this kind of like fireman role of he can be an opener.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Vladdy Gets Dinged, John Axford In-Studio & Bautista/Encarnacion Interview

He can come in in the seventh with the bases loaded.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Vladdy Gets Dinged, John Axford In-Studio & Bautista/Encarnacion Interview

Yes, you can use him in leverage.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Vladdy Gets Dinged, John Axford In-Studio & Bautista/Encarnacion Interview

But at this point, he has a

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Vladdy Gets Dinged, John Axford In-Studio & Bautista/Encarnacion Interview

0-6-5 ERA.