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Leo Morgenstern

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84 total appearances

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Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Davis Schneider Interview + Michael Schur/Joe Posnanski Join the Show!

And if they keep winning the way that they've won to this point, that's the team that's going to move up in power rankings.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Davis Schneider Interview + Michael Schur/Joe Posnanski Join the Show!

Right now, they're still suffering, I think, a bit from this team has won a lot of games.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Davis Schneider Interview + Michael Schur/Joe Posnanski Join the Show!

Are they as good as all the games that they've won?

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Davis Schneider Interview + Michael Schur/Joe Posnanski Join the Show!

So there are still some American League teams that seem... There's other American League teams that haven't won as many games as you'd expect that seem on paper like they should be fantastic.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Davis Schneider Interview + Michael Schur/Joe Posnanski Join the Show!

I feel like the Mariners are a good example.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Davis Schneider Interview + Michael Schur/Joe Posnanski Join the Show!

I think the Blue Jays are a little bit in the middle there.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Davis Schneider Interview + Michael Schur/Joe Posnanski Join the Show!

If all of the right guys are clicking, then this on paper is definitely one of the best teams in the American League.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Davis Schneider Interview + Michael Schur/Joe Posnanski Join the Show!

It seems maybe a little hard to know.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Davis Schneider Interview + Michael Schur/Joe Posnanski Join the Show!

It feels hard to compare them to those top teams in the National League, which are just...

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Davis Schneider Interview + Michael Schur/Joe Posnanski Join the Show!

It's just really dominant right now.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Davis Schneider Interview + Michael Schur/Joe Posnanski Join the Show!

So yeah, we do have a dominant top class in the National League, but I don't think it's maybe quite as imbalanced as it looks right now.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Davis Schneider Interview + Michael Schur/Joe Posnanski Join the Show!

Oh, that's a great... That didn't go where you thought it.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Davis Schneider Interview + Michael Schur/Joe Posnanski Join the Show!

I thought that was going for how many Blue Jays-themed articles are pitching to the Beaverton, and the answer is constantly... Yes.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Davis Schneider Interview + Michael Schur/Joe Posnanski Join the Show!

I've seen a couple pop up, yes.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Davis Schneider Interview + Michael Schur/Joe Posnanski Join the Show!

Yeah, definitely more than they're publishing.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Davis Schneider Interview + Michael Schur/Joe Posnanski Join the Show!

No, I mean, I think it's definitely fun to throw some humor into baseball writing, and it's just about finding that line of making sure that your point comes across and that your point is trusted and that the humor isn't getting in the way of that.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Davis Schneider Interview + Michael Schur/Joe Posnanski Join the Show!

I will...

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Davis Schneider Interview + Michael Schur/Joe Posnanski Join the Show!

And Fangraphs is a great website for, you know, allowing sports writers to also stretch their funny side.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Davis Schneider Interview + Michael Schur/Joe Posnanski Join the Show!

There were definitely some jokes in this piece that my editor, Meg Rowley, said, OK, we got to we can't be too jokey.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Davis Schneider Interview + Michael Schur/Joe Posnanski Join the Show!

And there's some that got cut out of the editing process, but definitely some is the line or two in there that gets to stay.