LeatherAntenna

Heartless, gutless baseball. Things won't change for this team until large-scale changes are made in the dugout and/or the Front Office. The longer we wait, the worse this will get.

I noticed the Bluejays have a strange batting approach.....they hit the ball.

He's not very close to being an ace.
I'd say he has another $15M-$20M/yr to go before he gets there.

If Buxton gets injured again this year as much as we love the guy why extend him?  He is at this time a frustrating figment of baseball imagination and continuous injury eventually tells us MLB baseball much longer may not be in the cards for him.

If Buxton gets injured again this year as much as we love the guy why extend him?  He is at this time a frustrating figment of baseball imagination and continuous injury eventually tells us MLB baseball much longer may not be in the cards for him.

If Buxton gets injured again this year as much as we love the guy why extend him?  He is at this time a frustrating figment of baseball imagination and continuous injury eventually tells us MLB baseball much longer may not be in the cards for him.

Technically eight homeruns up? They are averaging 1.95 per game, so isn’t that just under four games up?

Technically eight homeruns up? They are averaging 1.95 per game, so isn’t that just under four games up?

Should happen easily, the lowest monthly total this year is 49.

True Championship contenders? I like your optimism but that is one heck of a leap for a team that has mostly been playing sub 500 ball for a long long time.

True Championship contenders? I like your optimism but that is one heck of a leap for a team that has mostly been playing sub 500 ball for a long long time.

By my California math as Bert would say, if in 2009 Mauer has just 1 more hit every two weeks that season he bats .400+ for the season.

By my California math as Bert would say, if in 2009 Mauer has just 1 more hit every two weeks that season he bats .400+ for the season.

Count me as change of heart guy. I’ve always been suspicious of that 29 home run year followed by the big contract and then the lack of power that followed. Not anymore. It started this year as I for some reason isolated him more watching games. It hit me that the way he carried himself this year and perhaps thinking it could be his last year while playing on a struggling team was done in a very very professional way. In September I started to read anything about him I could find. Some stories from this web site reminded me that i’d Forgotten how special his 09 season was. Especially batting over .400 the one month, and very near .400 another month. He really wasn’t more than 2 hits more a week batting .400 for the year. His drop in power after signing the big contract may have been the toils of catching all the years and then concussions on top of everything. I now believe had injury not started to derail his seasons that perhaps some other bigger HR years would have occurred. It doesn’t matter now about HRs. If the double was his last big league hit, the hit was a textbook bookend to a solid career. Did he only take one pitch as catcher as part of the script, or did his emotions cause him to lose his composure and pull a Lou Gehrig? I kind of want to believe that both happened.

By my California math as Bert would say, if in 2009 Mauer has just 1 more hit every two weeks that season he bats .400+ for the season.

Count me as change of heart guy. I’ve always been suspicious of that 29 home run year followed by the big contract and then the lack of power that followed. Not anymore. It started this year as I for some reason isolated him more watching games. It hit me that the way he carried himself this year and perhaps thinking it could be his last year while playing on a struggling team was done in a very very professional way. In September I started to read anything about him I could find. Some stories from this web site reminded me that i’d Forgotten how special his 09 season was. Especially batting over .400 the one month, and very near .400 another month. He really wasn’t more than 2 hits more a week batting .400 for the year. His drop in power after signing the big contract may have been the toils of catching all the years and then concussions on top of everything. I now believe had injury not started to derail his seasons that perhaps some other bigger HR years would have occurred. It doesn’t matter now about HRs. If the double was his last big league hit, the hit was a textbook bookend to a solid career. Did he only take one pitch as catcher as part of the script, or did his emotions cause him to lose his composure and pull a Lou Gehrig? I kind of want to believe that both happened.

Bring up the whole triple A team. Triple A could score 3 runs in 23 innings.

Bring up the whole triple A team. Triple A could score 3 runs in 23 innings.

Real disappointment this season. After last season, I was expecting to look forward to several or more years of Rosario, Buxton and Kep playing together and getting more potent year over year in the outfield. Looks like that doesn’t happen. I see one or more of them gone soon.

He grew up in life and now he is enjoying the spoils of life? (And apparently no obvious discipline) OK, others are always not wired that way but assuming that is something that you give him then it is also acceptable for fans to criticize him. Those sadly, are our spoils.

Isn’t his batting against left handed pitching still much improved this year and makes his 2018 year more perplexing? 

Agreed he should have hit Betts except he didn’t know he would face Betts with no runners on when the inning started. Now if you are saying he should have plunked Betts after Leon, that would have been interesting and also may have started a bench clearing brawl. Maybe that should have happened.

The guy in the Robert Redford movie “The Natural.”

The guy in the Robert Redford movie “The Natural.”

The guy in the Robert Redford movie “The Natural.”