Final Series Before the Trade Deadline with John Schneider
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How is the Blue Jays approaching the final series before the trade deadline?
All right, welcome back to Blair and Barker. It is the last hour. Hey, it's a long weekend. For us? Yeah, you got big plans? Nah. For us? Yeah. Well, no, we're on Monday because of the trade deadline. Okay. So it's a short, long weekend.
It is?
No, I don't have plans. Oh, I do. I have a dinner. You have a birthday party. It's a dinner. We forgot your birthday party last weekend. 40 years old is a big birthday, and I feel bad that I didn't. It is huge. Yeah, I feel bad that I didn't mention it then. I think last year I bought you a little cake, didn't I? You never bought me anything. No, I brought you a donut with a candle in it. You literally have never bought me anything. So anyhow, happy birthday.
You wonder why you're not invited to my thing tomorrow.
Happy belated birthday. Well, I know I am. It's just it's too far. It's too far a drive anyhow. It is. It's just you keep moving farther and farther away from me. I mean, I can take the hint. I can take the hint, right? You're welcome.
You're welcome.
I can take the hint. You know, it's like a three-hour drive.
It's pretty far.
It'd be a solid two hours for you. Yeah. And that's two hours on the weekend Toronto traffic. I've only got a few years left, and that sucks a year off it right there.
You ain't got a few more. You got like 60 more. Yeah. Yeah, it runs in your family. At least 60.
What was I going to say? John Schneider, I think.
There it is. It is Friday.
It is Friday. And that means the manager of the Blue Jays, John Schneider, sits down with us. He did it today. And he had some interesting thoughts. I think I would say this is a very candid John Schneider today. Very pleased to be joined, as always, by the manager of the Toronto Blue Jays, John Schneider. John, thanks so much for joining us today. So Casey Mize has been scratched from his start. Freddie Peralta has been scratched from his start today. You know where I'm going with that. It's a softball question. No, but what I'm saying is at this time of the year, when there is a lot of trade discussions, does the idea of not... starting a guy like, does that enter a guy who may be in the trade trade block?
Does that enter the discussion at all with you guys? Or you just basically as a staff say, Hey, you know what? We just go ahead. And if we hear something, then we pivot. But if we don't hear something, you're in our team. Here's the ball. Go get them.
Yeah, the latter. You know, we're we're lining up how we're planning to line up with Dylan, Kevin, Max and preparing to go out and compete that way. Yeah, it's there's been no discussion about that. No discussion about, you know, scratching anyone or holding anyone back. It's, you know, kind of business as usual with us. So no discussions at all.
John, I asked you this before about the four guys that, you know, all the topic of conversation about the trades. You just mentioned Gosman, Varshow, obviously Hoffman's been thrown in there, Springer a little bit. Just the conversation with those four guys off the field. Has there been any with you, maybe Ross, just, you know, kind of saying, hey, just keep running them out. Like, just keep going out there and playing as hard as you can. Any conversation with that?
Yeah. You know, we've talked to the group and a few of them. It's just like, hey, go go play. You know what I mean? You don't know what's going to happen. You can't control it. You can control how you go play. And I think they've all done a fairly good job of doing that. You know, it's it's really we get this time of year and how much, you know, every year it seems like more and more stuff is made out of the trade deadline and just more coverage and more. rumors and thoughts and everything but it's you gotta we can't live in that world you know what I mean we and and the players have to live in in the present and not a hypothetical world of what will happen or what may happen um this game is hard enough as it is so they they all know they get it but we're we're planning to kind of just proceed as as we have all year uh you ever butt heads with Ross on what player maybe to go out and try and get
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
How is the Blue Jays approaching the final series before the trade deadline?
0:11–5:28
2
What did John Schneider say about managing players who might be on the trade block?
5:28–23:44
3
What are John Schneider’s goals for Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in the remaining 53 games?
23:44–29:05
4
How has Dylan Cease adjusted his routine to handle increased workloads and success?
29:05–39:26
5
How have Andrés Giménez and Ernie Clement adapted to new infield roles and chemistry?
39:26–45:04
6
How will Jesús Sánchez be used after his return from injury?
45:04–47:59
7
How does John Schneider respond to Kevin Gausman’s clubhouse chemistry comments?
47:59–49:28
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