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Chapter 1: What are the Blue Jays' current challenges ahead of their series against the Red Sox?
All right, welcome back to Blair and Barker on the Sportsnet Radio Network and Sportsnet. Hey, we got baseball tonight. 645, Jays and Red Sox.
I need you to lift your spirits a little bit more. My spirits are lifted. They stink. I need you to get a little better and stop fishing on the other TV, okay? I got vested interest in fantasy soccer.
All right. I got vested interest. 645 will be the first pitch tonight as the Jays take on the Red Sox in Boston. It'll be Dylan Cease against Peyton Tolley. And we'll be along following the game with Blue Jays. The Jays lineup is out, and we've run through it, of course. There you go.
Chapter 2: What insights does John Schneider provide about player injuries and lineup changes?
We'll do it again. Springer, Clement, Guerrero, Kirk. What's the star beside Guerrero's? I guess all-star. I think he's leading all-star voting. Is he really? Okamoto, Lucas, Schneider, Jimenez, Stroud. Don't be surprised. I told you. If I'm not mistaken, if I'm not mistaken, Ernie is either leading or close to the top at second base.
He should be. Okamoto is. He should be, too. He's like top three and everything in the American League for third basements. He should be, too.
Chapter 3: How does pitching at Fenway Park differ from other stadiums?
The dude with the star beside his name.
You know it doesn't matter. You know we all love him. You know it doesn't matter. It's a beauty contest. It's a popularity contest. It doesn't matter. Fans do it. You can vote 25 times a day or whatever it is. Fill your boots. I love fan voting. It's just a popularity contest. It's for the fans. Fans want to see Vladdy in there. That's true.
Chapter 4: What strategies should pitchers use when facing hitters at Fenway?
Go for it. Fans want to see Vladdy in there. Yeah. They really do. There's nothing wrong with that.
You think Vladdy would want to go if he doesn't hit a homer at the Rogers Center for the All-Star break?
I don't think it matters. I think Vladdy will go. Absolutely he'll go. Absolutely he'll go. And he'll be in the home run derby as well. I bet he won't. I bet he does.
No. He was doing all that.
Chapter 5: How is Roman Anthony's injury affecting the Blue Jays' plans?
That's called eye wash before you get paid. He'd do that. You'd do that? You wouldn't do that. You haven't had a home run in three years.
No one cares.
Yeah, he does.
He does, too. It's a home run derby. It's like hitting baseballs with an aluminum bat. Where's the All-Star game? Philly. Ball flies there? I don't know. Let's go to John Schneider, the manager.
Chapter 6: Who are the potential trade candidates for the Blue Jays at the deadline?
You're overthinking it. John Schneider, the manager of the Blue Jays, and get his pregame thoughts.
Yeah, off the top, Varsh back to hitting in the cage today for the first day and felt pretty good, so he'll continue to do that here. Beebs pitching tomorrow in Buffalo, shooting for like 75 pitches, and then he'll rejoin us to throw his in-between side and see what's next for him.
And Garcia tonight in Buffalo hopefully feels good again, and he'll probably join us here and kind of reevaluate where he's going from there.
barge in florida um getting hopefully pretty close to some rehab games he was thrown out to 150 feet heading off traject feeling pretty normal um so hopefully later in the week he can get into some games just yeah better i think in terms of calming everything down having a day off um you know, getting some treatment, getting some work done, and then feeling better today.
So hopefully that's kind of behind us. We'll kind of monitor him the next day or so and see how he's feeling. But hopefully he's pretty much back to normal.
Is that something he's been managing for a while now?
No, it was more recent. It was weird. He's never really had that. You know, so I think that's where, like, the initial, like,
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Chapter 7: What managerial changes might the Blue Jays consider moving forward?
hey, this is a little bit weird and different kind of came from. So it kind of crept up, you know, over the weekend. And he's never really had that before, so hopefully it's not a reoccurring thing.
Dayoff was good for Himme, too?
Dayoff was good for Himme, yeah. Yeah, and they were both going to play. You know, Vlad was going to hit, you know, when we were home on Sunday, and Himme was going to go in to play. But Dayoff was good for him, too, in terms of both offense and defense.
It looked like Ricky Tiedemann pitched a complex today. Just what's it taking him to get to where he's at right now with the playoffs?
We'll see. I think initially just get back onto the mound and face some hitters and get into some games. So we'll see. You know what I mean? It's obviously a guy that we're high on, and expectations have been there for a while for him.
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Chapter 8: What can the Blue Jays do to turn around their season?
So see how he responds in the next couple days and keep going from there. Still don't know in terms of role or timeline or anything, but I just want to make sure he can get out there pretty consistently. You know, you see all the readings from bullpens and things like that and kind of player feedback, and it was trending in the right direction.
Velo was good today, I think, up to 97 and kind of sat 95, albeit in one inning. But recovery has always been the thing for him, so we've got to just monitor that.
If he ceases tonight against this lineup in this ballpark, it's always an interesting place to pitch.
Yeah. We don't want him to alter his game too much, but I think you just have to be aware of left field here, you know, against their righties and lefties and kind of what his stuff does. I still think he needs to pitch. Curveball, changeup are going to come into play, and I think if he's doing that, he'll be fine. But it's always a little bit unique here.
I think their approach, certain hitters can be different here with the monster, both righties and lefties, so you take that into consideration as well.
Changeup last time against lefties, like eight whiffs, nine swings. You go back, you look at the pitches, they weren't, you know, devastating.
Right, right.
It's funny.
We talk all the time. He talks with Pete and the guys all the time about it. It's a complimentary pitch. You know what I mean? I joked with him today about it. It's like the... Steve Kerr, Scotty Pippen to his Michael Jordan, you know what I mean? Like, fastball slider being what everyone knows about, and it's setting up other pitches. You know, when it's really good, you know, it's in the zone.
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