Baseball Thread

[Windflower]

Yeah those are nice, I think Chicago has one of the nicest ball parks in the NL.

Wrigley is a shit hole lmao.

Good joke

[Karth]

thought it was yankee stadium..

[Dan the Seagull Chef]

New Yankee Stadium has no soul

[MarshalKim]

New Yankee Stadium has no soul

Very important aspect. In cars or architecture too. I agree.

[junedragon]

Someone needs to make a 2016 compilation of pitches thrown behind, above, or straight at Donaldson. Not sure if it would fit in the 15 minute time limit though...

[Windflower]

Someone needs to make a 2016 compilation of pitches thrown behind, above, or straight at Donaldson. Not sure if it would fit in the 15 minute time limit though...

More so with Edwin

[junedragon]

If we blow this fucking wild card spot there's got to be changes (actually scratch that, we need changes regardless both long term and immediate).

11 wins from 27 games since the start of September is disgraceful for a team with playoff ambitions (let alone deep-run/WS ambitions). Yesterday's performance (which may now end up being the last home game this year) was one of the most pathetic performances I've seen in the MLB this year. Not simply the fact they got shut out and overall played like dogshit, but that it seemed like 90% of the players ran out of fucks to give by the bottom of the 3rd.

The real killer too is 31 losses out of the bullpen. For perspective the Orioles only have 14 or so losses out of the pen. Not going anywhere when you basically need at least a 2 or 3 run lead for them to hang on with any reliability.

Edit: But wait there's more! Let's look at some other fun Jays stats:

-24th in the league in hits (1335)
-23rd in the league in batting average (.248)
-22nd in the league in batting average with runners in scoring position (.250)
-11th most strikeouts with runners in scoring position (317)
-8th most strikeouts overall (1336)
-1st in the league (most/in a bad way) in GDP (Grounded into Double-Play) (150)
-4th worst BAA in the league (Opponents' batting average) (.242)
-10th worst bullpen ERA in the league (4.08)
-3rd most losses out of the bullpen in the league (31)

[~NickCole~]

If we blow this fucking wild card spot there's got to be changes (actually scratch that, we need changes regardless both long term and immediate).

11 wins from 27 games since the start of September is disgraceful for a team with playoff ambitions (let alone deep-run/WS ambitions). Yesterday's performance (which may now end up being the last home game this year) was one of the most pathetic performances I've seen in the MLB this year. Not simply the fact they got shut out and overall played like dogshit, but that it seemed like 90% of the players ran out of fucks to give by the bottom of the 3rd.

The real killer too is 31 losses out of the bullpen. For perspective the Orioles only have 14 or so losses out of the pen. Not going anywhere when you basically need at least a 2 or 3 run lead for them to hang on with any reliability.

Edit: But wait there's more! Let's look at some other fun Jays stats:

-24th in the league in hits (1335)
-23rd in the league in batting average (.248)
-22nd in the league in batting average with runners in scoring position (.250)
-11th most strikeouts with runners in scoring position (317)
-8th most strikeouts overall (1336)
-1st in the league (most/in a bad way) in GDP (Grounded into Double-Play) (150)
-4th worst BAA in the league (Opponents' batting average) (.242)
-10th worst bullpen ERA in the league (4.08)
-3rd most losses out of the bullpen in the league (31)

That is some great research. Braves are playing hot right now 

[Windflower]

Hopefully the Braves can beat the Tigers in this series since we kinda need them to win in order to keep our Wild Card spot against them.

Aaand we get stuck with playing Boston, great. The Jays have been playing so badly. We had the division pretty much, all we had to do is play .500 baseball, maybe a little better, but we really let our shit go.

[junedragon]

Oh FFS what a time for a balk.

[Windflower]

We needed that win boysssssssssss

[Theodin]

I believe in the Jays

[Audiate]

Anyone else scared of the ball hitting you in baseball?

any coincidence that zimmerman swung and a black guy had an injury?

[junedragon]

ENCARNACION MY GOD THANK YOU BASED PARROT MAN

[Theodin]

ENCARNACION MY GOD THANK YOU BASED PARROT MAN

What an unreal finish