JTP: Vladdy’s Problems, Orioles Check-In & Dan Shulman
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What are Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s current struggles at the plate?
Quiet day in baseball yesterday as it pertains to the Toronto Blue Jays. Just a fun baseball though. I watched uh a very, very good Jacob deGrom start that the Rangers bullpen immediately ruined. Thought Julio Rodriguez got hurt at one point falling down the dugout steps after a home run, then flipped over and watched O'Neal Cruz. Maybe one up Las Montez as the best home run of the season. It was like 117 off the bat. That it was uh We don't have stat cast metrics for sound, but it was the most the swing has sounded like a home run uh that I've heard in baseball this year. Also took a little look at that Yankees game where Like we set up yesterday, the Anthony Volpe return is bigger than the Aaron Judge return.
Aaron Judge sits out. Volpey has uh a grand slam and a stolen base as the Yankees uh run away with one. Now we get set for a very big weekend of baseball around all of baseball, but especially here uh Baltimore visits the Toronto Blue Jays for a three set. Starting tonight at seven oh seven, Chris Bassett will take on Max Scherzer. If you Our scoreboard watching. Houston is at Tampa Bay. Houston is still relevant because if the Rangers, and this is unlikely now, but if the Rangers were to catch them, Houston would fall into the wild card race. Cleveland is at Minnesota. That is the most important out-of-town matchup to the Blue Jays as the Jays try to catch Cleveland. However, the White Sox are also at St.
Louis, and that has become a very important matchup because the White Sox are barely holding. Holding onto their lead over the Guardians. If the Guardians were to catch the White Sox, it would be the White Sox the Jays are chasing. And the notable difference there is that the Blue Jays own the tiebreaker against Cleveland. They do not own the tiebreaker against the White Sox. The Mariners are quite far out of this, but they are at the Athletics if you're keeping an eye on that. And then the Rangers are at the Diamondbacks, who are in a dogfight for the final NL wildcard playoff spot as well. Needless to say, Say there is a lot to cover. The Blue Jays, despite not playing yesterday, uh up their playoff odds by like a percent.
So they're at 34% as we sit here today and enter. This Oriol series. We will talk to Rob Long of Masson to get the lay of the land with Baltimore a little later. Dan Schulman's going to join us. Sido Gaston is going to be on the show around eleven thirty, which should be a lot of fun. Before we get to any of those people, uh let's lower the bar for them. Let's talk to our pal Jonah Birenbaum of the score. Jonah, what's up, buddy? I'm doing great, pal. How are you? I'm good, man. Um this is uh Going to be great Badi Ali shirt, by the way. Is that is that what's poking out there? Yeah. Okay. You better believe it. Represent. Yeah. Nothing. Uh I know Christy Pitts has done for the year, but uh that's uh that's a killer combo.
Um okay, so before we look ahead to this Oreo series, always a weird spot in high leverage times of year when there's a no game the day before to do the show. Yeah. Uh but looking back at that Oakland series, they put up a zero against the bullpen day from uh a last uh worst uh worst pitching staff in baseball. Um they get a lot of help on the out of town scoreboard, but it doesn't really matter. How how did you come out of that Oakland series or Oakland series, that athletic series feeling?
Uh th I don't blame you man. I I keep referring to them as Oakland as well. It's just Well it's like when Jose Kseiko's
doing the media rounds too. Yeah. Like I don't know, the Bash brothers are front.
100%. Um, but yeah, no, that series against the athletics in West Sacramento. I mean, it was a massive missed opportunity. You're going into a three-game series against a bottom three team in baseball with Dylan Sees and Jose Soriano slated to pitch. And as you mentioned, with the athletics going with a bullpen game on one of those nights, you're thinking about a sweep. And you're thinking that two out of three is kind of the the worst possible scenario. Instead, you come out with only one win.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s current struggles at the plate?
0:14–13:23
2
How is the Orioles positioned in the wild‑card race and what does Rob Long say about their outlook?
13:23–27:19
3
Why is Chris Bassett’s start against Max Scherzer a key storyline for Toronto?
27:19–38:31
4
What do the hosts think the Jays need to win the next two‑out‑of‑three series?
38:31–50:09
5
How are lineup spots being debated for Ernie Clement, Josh Smith and Anthony Santander?
50:09–1:03:56
6
What insights does Dan Shulman bring to the discussion of Dylan Seas, Dylan Cease and the bullpen?
1:03:56–1:14:31
7
What are listeners asking in the text line and how are the hosts responding?
1:14:31–1:27:28
8
How do the hosts wrap up the episode and preview what’s coming next week?
1:27:28–1:39:56