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Chapter 1: 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.
Chapter 2: 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.
Chapter 3: 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.
Chapter 4: 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.
Chapter 5: 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.
Chapter 6: What progress have Charles McAdoo and Johnny King made in the minors?
of at the letters, of Suspetta's family, barbecue, of everything right now. BNS, how we doing, buddy?
Doing great. Hey, Blake. Good to be on with you. Yeah, I still feel like it's relatively early in our Jays Talk Plus conversations this year, so I still feel like we have a lot of ground to cover.
Yeah, we sure do. And then we can also just, if we run out of Jays ground, we never end up actually getting to do baseball-wide stuff together, and then I watch you filling in on the Barbacast, and I'm like, oh yeah, BNS loves doing league-wide stuff, not just Jays stuff. It's just so hard when we have, obviously, a pretty high-leverage Jays going on right now?
100%. Well, as you know, Blake, and we talk about other teams all the time, like I love following the entire league, love talking about other teams. The Jays, of course. I mean, I'm from London, Ontario. I've followed the Jays my whole life. So that has always been the number one team that interests me. But beyond that, yeah, there are tons of storylines.
We could talk about Aaron Judge's shoulder or whatever's happening with the Padres. So, you know, definitely keep that in the back burner if we want to go there as well.
Aaron Judge's shoulder is in my notes. For anyone who missed it, Aaron Judge had been dealing with the shoulder thing. They now think it's a bone bruise, which that is a less common injury in baseball. In basketball, it comes up all the time. And my co-host on the Raptors show, Matt Bonner, has dealt with those before.
And anytime the word comes up, he kind of cringes at, you know, how tough that is to rehab and things like that. So maybe we'll circle back to that. I did want to ask you one question.
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Chapter 7: How does musician Kevin Morby connect his music to baseball fandom?
Getting to do the national podcast is fun. You were also on the Orioles series as the color commentator on the Sportsnet Radio Network. I know, like me, you've done that before for a handful of games. How was that? How much fun do you have shifting into that role?
Really fun. Yeah, back in 2022, 23, I want to say I did maybe 30 games each year. So it was a lot and built up a rhythm for it. But of course, there's working with different broadcasters at that point, Ben Wagner and Ben Shulman. So this time I was working with Eric Smith. That was a blast. Obviously, you know, Eric really well. And so we had a really good time doing the series.
Chapter 8: What are the highlights of Kevin Morby's new album and tour?
And for a while, it seemed like that series was really going to go the Blue Jays way. And it was going to be this, oh, man, they're back. They take a series on the road. And of course, Saturday afternoon happened and Jeff Hoffman and everything else. So didn't end up going great from a Blue Jays standpoint. It was solid rather than, you know, this turning point that it could have been.
But for me, it was fun. It's a good challenge. And it makes you dial into the game every single play of the game in just a different way. So that's always something I enjoy.
Yeah, it's such a obviously like we're watching the games no matter what. But how I prep for radio show versus prep for like, oh, I have a postgame radio versus live. Like it's a it's a different way to watch the game. And I talked to Chris LaRue about this, too, because he shifted from color commentary to Blue Jay Central. He's like, oh, yeah, it's way, way different way of watching the game.
So it's cool to experience that. But nice to be back in the pocket, I'm sure.
Yeah, no, it's every role really is different. And I've been fortunate enough, as you have to try different ones over the years here at Sportsnet, where, you know, one day you're writing another day, maybe it is the radio another day, maybe you're preparing for a podcast or helping out on Blue J Central occasionally. And each one of those things comes with different challenges. Like there's
Certainly, being at the ballpark or even here in Atlanta, you're surrounded by different fans, different environment. You have to get ready for that. You have to understand where to go and just how to handle those logistics. And the radio, it's really... you have to be prepared for anything, but you can't get too far ahead of yourself.
You have to stay like in the moment with that play, which is really part of the fun challenge where you can't drift off. You have to stay with the game every step of the way. And that for me is really where it starts.
Yeah, it's very different, but very fun to get to do it. I didn't get to check out a ton of you and Eric, but caught a little bit on the weekend, and it sounded like a fun one. So the Jays, as you mentioned, that series, it looked like it was going to go one way. I kind of joked the last two days, half joke, because I'm a little serious.
Had the sequencing of that series worked out a little differently, people probably would have felt okay about it, but you lost two in a row, and the issue with that is... Not just that you squandered at least one of those games. Sunday, I think we could have written up as you're probably going to lose one of the bullpen days.
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