JTP: Phillies Check-In & Why Didn’t Toronto Add a Deadline Bat?
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Why didn’t the Blue Jays add a bat at the trade deadline?
Some days it's late on A little thick, a little obvious. The Toronto Blue Jays who'd won three series in a row, but hadn't felt like it was they had turned the corner in terms of playing better baseball, uh, maybe some better pitching, maybe some better defense, but certainly not better at hitting. They were just winning some games. And sometimes if you're gonna turn things around, if you're gonna go on a run, those breaks have to go your way and you have to get a few more than your share of them. And then yesterday rolls around where you're handed a few of those breaks and you still manage to lose a game three two in eleven innings to a team that is getting a lot of those breaks lately. And then you look across the division late at night, and while you blew a lead and hung around and got out of jams, uh a team in your division that was in an even worse spot than you maybe six weeks ago, seven weeks ago.
Comes back five times in one game, in a similar game to that one spiritually, not in in terms of specifics. And then they walk it off in the 13th, and you look, and they're 31 and 5. In their last thirty six and you are now six and four in your last ten, and that's one of the high watermarks of the season. And yeah, you're only three and a half games out of the wild card spot, but the playoff odds are down to four percent. Not only that, but Your star hitter who you've been waiting to turn around. Misses two games in a row. Once again, he's now at a career high game this season. You have one of your kind of only positive surprise bats in Luis Arias uh get hurt in that game, and one of the guys you added for the trade deadline who would on paper be the kind of sigh of relief after Treya Savage undergoes um imaging for his
Knee injury in Spencer Arghetti leaves a rehab start after apparently aggravating the nerve issue in his right foot. So a lot. Laid on, a lot laid on, pretty thick in one day. Now it's not over. Of course, there's a lot of baseball left to play, but the next 16 are gonna be really, really challenging for the Blue Jays, starting with three this weekend in Philadelphia. Um, yeah, I just thought it was all a little uh everything was pretty condensed. The story of the season was pretty synthesized yesterday with how things went around baseball. Later today, we will get you set for this Jay's Philly series. Charlotte Barnes of the Athletical join us. Mike Patriello of MLB dot com. Will join us before he's on Blue Jay Central a little later.
Kevin Pilar, also on Blue Jay Central later, will hop on fresh from the Argos game. But right now, uh to break down an ugly one last night and kind of re-level set here, heading into a pretty big stretch of games, is our pal Jonah Bierenbaum of the score. Jonah, how are we doing?
Doing all right, man, after that uh that turd of a day. But you know, we uh the sun rose this morning. We're still alive, we're still here.
I don't know. There's no windows in this studio, so I have uh I have no idea. They just chained me here from uh I was gonna say April to top. I was gonna say in perpetuity. Yeah, the truth is all all year round. Uh I do have to ask. We'll we'll do game stuff, we'll do trade deadline thoughts. But you were camping with a relatively newborn through the deadline, and I am very, very curious what the experience was like. Not only the take a newborn camping, but I I know that you would Would wanna stay some level of abreast of what's going on in baseball, uh, but I can't imagine there was elite cell phone signal and uh the ability to to stay tethered to your phone. How how did deadline day go for you?
Yeah, it was uh it was definitely a unique deadline. Um the service was was definitely spotty, but um it was you know, I I still I still uh had my moments where I was able to to sneak away and go on a little uh mini excursion and try to scrounge for a little internet and see oh. Traded for Jose Soriano. That's really cool. Or uh Jeff Hoffman's on the move. Or man, that was a bit of a disappointing return for for Kevin Gossman.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Why didn’t the Blue Jays add a bat at the trade deadline?
0:12–10:19
2
What was Jonah Bierenbaum’s experience at the deadline and how did the Jays’ recent loss reflect their season?
10:19–52:33
3
Why do the hosts keep mentioning “magic” and “chemistry” when talking about team performance?
52:33–59:07
4
What was the Blue Jays’ deadline strategy and how did the hosts evaluate it?
59:07–1:05:38
5
How do the hosts use Baseball Savant’s new player‑comparison tools?
1:05:38–1:12:59
6
What are Charlotte Barnes’s insights on the Phillies’ defensive overhaul and playoff outlook?
1:12:59–1:39:56
Speakers
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