2007 Toronto Blue Jays Thread

[SmileyEH]

I think the jays still have a chance.

I was looking at some stats at the hardball times and the jays are getting unlucky in a lot of different metrics. They are 1 game win below expectation based on runs, their pitchers are giving up way more than league avg. home runs/fly ball while having the highest ground ball percentage, the lineup has one of the lowest BABIP in the AL while having one of the lowest ground ball rates. Throw in their injury troubles and I think they can put together a run in the 2nd half.

[Zurvan]

Smiley

I have no idea what you just said, but I like the conclusion.

Can you translate some of that to English?

[vin17]

We do have the second best BP in the AL over the 5 most relevant categories.

[Pudge714]

I have to say the I really feel Gibbons should be getting a lot more heat over Burnett. Here are Burnetts pitch counts this year
75
82
131
118
127
104
103
118
97
116
113
118
95
103
55
I don't know why are most injury prone pitcher is regularly throwing over 115 pitches a game. Gibbons should be getting blamed for this not Riccardi, not Burnett.

[vin17]

I'm pretty sure you were one of the first ones to say that Gibbons alone has cost the Jays several games due to horrendous pitching change decisions. At times he leaves a guy in when he should have been gone the last inning, and now with an injury prone pitcher he doesn't take him out.

Overall, he's a pretty bad manager.

[zgall1]

What I really despise about the Jays upper management is the fact that most people could probably determine that John Gibbons is a total moron after listening to him speak for a few minutes but yet they have the utmost confidence in him despite his incredible number of mistakes this season.

[vin17]

http://tsn.ca/mlb/news_story/?ID=217273&hubname=

Surprise, surprise.

[ QUOTE ]
But I don't think it's anything major in the sense that it's going to be debilitating. - JP

[/ QUOTE ]

It'll be interesting to know how long he's been playing with it.

And of course:

[rafiki]

more then ever I just want this year to be done so that next year can come. This team is a new manager and some team speed away from being so good. I'm officially not sold on the whole 4 home run hitters in a row type lineup. Because it's just too streaky. Is there a worse team in baseball at moving runners when it's man on 1st and 2nd with no outs ? God how do we manage to consistantly mess that up ? Or cashing runners with 2 out...

[Degenerasian]

5.5 GB of a Wild Card. Very unlikely, but how great would that be? We're playing good baseball right now, our pitching has really stepped up. This is gonna be a huge series.

[rafiki]

5.5 is unlikely when you're not playing the guys you chase. But we play the yankees SEVEN times.

That said our schedule is brutal. By the end of this redsox/tampa spurt, we'll be 8 back, so whatever.

Anyone else catch all the Gibbons screw ups this past week ? He was owned as a manager. Oh man the pitchouts, the screwed up order, all that. Yuck yuck yuck. Double play ball got us back to 5.5 out...