JTP: Gausman Takes Blame, Prospect Report & Kevin Morby
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What led Kevin Gausman to blame himself after the loss to the Braves?
Well, it turns out that best team in baseball and best bullpen in baseball mean you're going to have to play some pretty good baseball to come up with a win. The Toronto Blue Jays did not do that yesterday. They fall four to three to the Atlanta Braves in the first of three. The Braves are able to get to Kevin Gosman a little bit early. Gosman kind of finds it from there, especially with his fastball, but ends up getting hung with four earned. Over six. On the other side, the Jays couldn't quite get to Bryce Elder, who I still am not a thousand percent sure how he's doing this. Did a Blue Jays central thing on his new cutter and how that's helped him against lefties. And sure, but it still doesn't look like it should be at 263 ERA.
The Blue Jays continue.
What are the Toronto Blue Jays' struggles at the plate this season?
their trend of being able to hit the high stuff guys, but having trouble with more of these kind of kitchen sink, pitch ability, mix and match kind of guys. That's something for them to figure out as this season goes, because they need the offense to turn around in a hurry here. They did manage nine hits yesterday, but situational hitting is, continued to be a bit of an issue. They went 0 for 6 with runners in scoring position. They are now down to 28th in the league in weighted runs created plus with runners in scoring position. So that's a lot of words, but runners in scoring position, weighted runs created plus takes everything into account. The extra bases, the walks. adjust for park factors and things like that.
So the Jays are, when we adjust for all these things, a bottom three team right now hitting with runners in scoring position, their bottom five and things like slug with runners in scoring position.
How does situational hitting impact the Blue Jays' performance?
So if it feels like the Jays haven't been able to get that big hit very often and build a big inning, that's because They haven't been relative to league average. There were two instances last night that really stuck out. The sixth inning, they get runners on second and third with nobody out, and they go sack fly that doesn't move the runner from second to third, and then a ground out that doesn't advance the runner, and then a soft fly out. So runners on second and third and nobody out. Against the pitcher who's facing an order for the third time through, your expected runs or what you're hoping for there is pretty high. It's certainly higher than one. They also got two on with only one out. in the ninth inning and weren't able to do anything with that.
What insights does Derek Van Riper provide on projecting upside in fantasy baseball?
Now, Rysel Iglesias is having a tremendous season as a reliever here, an 096 ERA. Robert Suarez has an 068, and he was the in-between guy. So you can understand it, but we set this up yesterday. This is the best bullpen in baseball by ERA and by a couple different metrics, and you look at the numbers of the – you know, four, maybe even five guys at the back end of their bullpen. And this is a series where you've got to get to the starter. You did that a little bit to Bryce Elder, but not quite enough. Let him get into the seventh. You'll try to do it with Grant Holmes today, who doesn't go super long into games, even though he has pretty good numbers overall. You will probably struggle to do it tomorrow against Chris Sale.
Although, as I mentioned, the Jays have done a little better against these high stuff guys tonight. It's Patrick Corbin against Grant Holmes. We'll set you up for that one throughout the show. We'll also have Derek Van Ryper of the Athletic and Rates and Barrels. We'll talk a little Brewers. We'll talk a little fantasy baseball as well. Doug Fox will join us at 11 o'clock to take a look through the Blue Jays farm system. And then Kevin Morby, a musician who is a huge baseball fan and grew up a Braves fan, will join us on the way out. Again, we'll get you set for Corbin and Holmes throughout all of that as well.
Who are the top prospects in the Toronto Blue Jays' system?
Right now, though, we're going to go down to Atlanta and talk to our pal Ben Nicholson-Smith of Sportsnet.
What progress have Charles McAdoo and Johnny King made in the minors?
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Doing great. Hey, Blake.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What led Kevin Gausman to blame himself after the loss to the Braves?
0:17–0:55
2
What are the Toronto Blue Jays' struggles at the plate this season?
0:55–1:42
3
How does situational hitting impact the Blue Jays' performance?
1:42–2:23
4
What insights does Derek Van Riper provide on projecting upside in fantasy baseball?
2:23–3:29
5
Who are the top prospects in the Toronto Blue Jays' system?
3:29–3:34
6
What progress have Charles McAdoo and Johnny King made in the minors?
3:34–5:00
7
How does musician Kevin Morby connect his music to baseball fandom?
5:00–5:34
8
What are the highlights of Kevin Morby's new album and tour?
5:34–1:39:40
Speakers
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