New Fuel to Blue Jays-Yankees + Alejandro Kirk's Playing Time
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What were the Blue Jays' biggest takeaways from the Yankees series?
All right, well, Kevin, I don't want to tell you that your baseball team sucks, but Germany scored more goals in 90 minutes of soccer than your boys scored in a pair of baseball games Saturday and Sunday. What do you have to say for that team?
I mean, right now they're not a very good team. offensively, they're especially not a very good team. Runners in scoring position all year has been a thing. Yep. One through nine. I mean, Kirky getting back, if he plays, well, you know, he'll help. You know, but there's some guys that are really going through it when kind of those money at bats hit, those big time at bats where you need to drive a run in just for whatever reason. It's not happening right now. And, You know, you can have an okay rotation, and if you're hitting a bunch of homers and you're hitting for a high average with runners in scoring position, when you're doing either one of those and your rotations, you're going to lose a bunch of baseball games, and that's exactly what's happening right now.
Yeah, and I think, you know, the thing I think from this series that really concerned me, well, a lot concerned me,
You hit me pretty hard right out the gate with this stuff.
Well, I did, yeah.
Why is Alejandro Kirk's playing time a topic of discussion?
Yeah, you did. Well, I did because it's, quite frankly, that was a very disappointing weekend for the Blue Jays.
So if I told you they were going to lose two out of three to the first place New York Yankees at home, you would have been shocked.
If you had told me that they would get the performance they got from Kevin Gossman and pissed it away, yeah, I would be. If you had told me that the bullpen would implode, yeah, I probably would be. I mean, that's the biggest takeaway for me in this series is not so much the fact that they can't hit with runners in scoring position. I mean, I'm used to that. But... I'm wondering if maybe all that work that we kept talking about, the bullpen, if that's not starting to catch up to guys. Because that was arguably some of the worst pitching we've seen out of the bullpen this year.
Maybe Ben Rice is better than Braden Fisher. Maybe – who else gave it up? For me, it had nothing to do with the bullpen. It was in the two losses. They were three for 19 with runners in scoring position.
What factors contributed to the Blue Jays' struggles with hitting?
They had plenty of chances. Just when they did have their chances, they didn't do anything with them. And then people yelling and screaming about, you know, Ernie Bunning and Kirky not pinch hitting for – You know, for a certain guy in a certain big spot with the bases loaded, I think that's game two. Game two?
Well, that happens when a team isn't scoring runs. People start looking at the way the game is managed. I didn't like the Ernie Clement bunt. I don't pretend that that necessarily cost them the game. Just didn't like it. I don't know. How many bunts has Ernie dropped in his career?
They're hitting 235 errors. Yeah, that's great. They're 13th in baseball.
How did the bullpen perform against the Yankees?
But are you asking, is this something Ernie does all the time? What I'm saying is I thought the whole point is don't ask a guy to do stuff that he can't do. I'm just asking. I don't know. I don't know how many bunts Ernie can have. He didn't look comfortable doing it, I'll tell you that. I don't think it has.
So, optically, you're going on how he basically did everything right except the ball went where he wanted it to go. He didn't jab at it. He didn't raise up out of his crouch. None of that.
Ernie had seven bunts last year. All right. So, I take that back. I still didn't like it.
What are John Schneider's thoughts on the pitch clock controversy?
No? No. And I don't understand – I don't understand not pinch hitting Kirk. If he's healthy, let him pinch it. And, you know, the thing with Vladdy, again, I get back to this. I trust Vladdy did have back spasms. If you're good enough to pinch it, you're good enough to play in a game as far as I'm concerned.
I would think that back thing has more to do with the defensive side than it does the offensive side. And if you're not going to play defense with who they want DH, and I'm assuming that's why he didn't. play on the defensive side. I would assume his back has more to do with the crouching over on the defensive side.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What were the Blue Jays' biggest takeaways from the Yankees series?
0:05–1:20
2
Why is Alejandro Kirk's playing time a topic of discussion?
1:20–2:21
3
What factors contributed to the Blue Jays' struggles with hitting?
2:21–2:56
4
How did the bullpen perform against the Yankees?
2:56–3:31
5
What are John Schneider's thoughts on the pitch clock controversy?
3:31–4:10
6
What fan concerns were raised about the Blue Jays' performance?
4:10–4:57
7
How does the team plan to improve moving forward?
4:57–5:26
8
What are the implications of the recent trades for the Blue Jays?
5:26–49:21
Speakers
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Blue Jays on the Brink + Red Sox Shed Chad Tracy's Interim Tag
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