00:00The Toronto Blue Jays have a problem and it's coming up at a really really bad
00:04time. So let's talk Blue Jay bullpen problems.
00:20That music is far too cheerful for our mood around the Toronto Blue Jays as what was once
00:26pretty solid lead atop the AL East is now down to just two and a half games and it feels like
00:32they might be circling the drain a little bit. I know that that is it feels very doomsdayy it
00:37feels very hyperbolic but I do think it is a relatively okay summary of what we are seeing
00:42right now because of the problems they are having with this bullpen um I understand like Bassett
00:49saying like look I get people are mad but this bullpen they're just tired okay great I'm glad
00:55that we have figured out the solution or figured out the problem what's the solution then because
01:01you need one you can't just I mean look yeah we're um getting knocked out of first place in the division
01:07but our guys were tired so can you just put us in the playoffs anyway it's not gonna work like that
01:11everyone's tired you guys have been doing this since February that's why this is such a hard thing to do
01:18is like the baseball season I know people oh baseball whatever but you have to survive this marathon of
01:24162 games to get into the playoffs for a chance at a crapshoot of a tournament to win a world series
01:32this is the hard part this is the time where like this is why people look so exhausted and so relieved
01:38when you win championships because you have to grind through the tired through the sore to be able to win
01:44a championship right now the blue jays are not doing that um Hoffman I get like a lot of the other
01:50metrics look fine I'm I'm worried about him and his confidence right now like I you can tell me the
01:58tired thing he's thrown more innings than this like he's probably going to eclipse his mark as a reliever
02:04but he threw 66 innings last year like it's not like this guy threw 20 and now he's being asked to do
02:08a lot of different things the one thing I will say and the one concern that I really do have is like
02:15he is missing his spots quite badly and then to make up for it he is just hanging him in the middle
02:21of the zone and that's why you're seeing the big hits in the home runs and or the walks because he
02:27is having such trouble just getting it to the zone that like instead of nibbling it's a foot outside
02:32and okay well I need to adjust and he I don't want to say over corrects because you still need to find
02:36the strike zone but the way he corrects is just putting it right down the middle and guys are teeing off on
02:41it you're not going to get Jimmy Garcia back this season Yariel Rodriguez's velocity is down little
02:48has really been able to get the most out of not a lot and get himself out of a lot of jams this year
02:55and he wasn't able to yesterday and so again not to harp on it but this is why I wanted excess at the
03:02trade deadline for the Blue Jays because like it's great to in your head Varland Dominguez Hoffman shut it
03:10down seven eight nine that's great that's best case scenario you cannot plan for best case scenario
03:15at the trade deadline you are trading for guys based off of what what bad things could happen
03:21that we could fix and one of them is the bullpen sucks and just add a few more arms to take some
03:26of that pressure off I get a few of the other high leverage arms haven't done very well either across
03:32baseball Helsley Duran um everyone with the Yankees have all had some issues but this was something they
03:37could have fixed and I don't think they did enough to do that and now I don't know what you're
03:42confident in because the the option that is going into the bullpen from the starting rotation seems
03:47like it's going to be lower and he just got beat up after missing a few days and not being in his
03:52regular routine there's no routine in the bullpen so is that going to be the big fix I just I don't
03:58know where the fix is coming from I like tired that's a good explanation and probably accurate
04:04tired's the toughest to fix if they were just bad I can fix bad we can coach that out of you
04:08tired they're not going to sit off in for two weeks now they're not going to rest these guys
04:13for uh two weeks to okay well now let's get them back this is a very important two weeks coming up
04:19for the blue jays with these last couple against the reds that lord almighty they have to win
04:23and then a huge series with the Yankees and a almost equally as important series with the Houston
04:28Astros the rest time is gone so okay you are tired I my greatest sympathies for that figure it
04:36out Don Draper style that's what the money is for it's not so that you can pitch great while you're
04:41feeling awesome in June it is so that when the weather gets a little bit colder and the games
04:45mean a little bit more and you're tired because you've been doing this for eight months now you still
04:50find a way to be your best the blue jays haven't been able to do that and that's been a problem
04:55one thing that has also been highlighted by all of this is the bats really need to wake up like the
05:02other day Hoffman blows the save but he blew the opportunity when the Jays had one run in the game
05:07and they got three in the ninth the other day after getting one the rest of the game
05:13it's just not happening for them right now um offensively like they're getting a couple guys
05:19getting a hit but like aside from Bo who's having some pretty big days you're not getting like okay
05:25and Springer's two for four and now Kirk's two for four and Bo is all this it's like one guy will
05:28get one hit and then it's just it's not they're not putting those big chunk innings together the way
05:34that they were earlier before where everyone was kind of playing at their best case scenario
05:39which again not to harp but is why I was saying we need some more bats here at the trade deadline
05:44because you are getting best case scenario out of Lucas and Clement and Classe and Jimenez
05:51both of them um and Barger and now Barger has really cooled off you need to get that guy out
05:56of the two hole immediately um the Clement is obviously banged up and that's not clicking as
06:02well Lucas a few of the home runs are now flying out to the warning track like you're some of the
06:07regression has started to kick in so now you need to really step up in a big time way and get the other
06:13big guys too toxic brings up Vladdy we'll talk about him in just a second but I do want to remind you
06:18that um we are streaming on a few different platforms today including on twitch.tv slash
06:23primetime pk the next video game stream is going to be tomorrow at 10 a.m why not let's do some blue
06:29jays stuff on there we got a couple of seasons we really need to wrap up so we're going to do blue
06:33jays on the video game stream tomorrow at 10 a.m toxic in the youtube chat Vladdy has been struggling
06:40big time that is accurate I I don't think he's healthy right now like the the stretches at first
06:47base and getting him um getting a couple those highlight reels and then he gets hurt for a few
06:52days I I don't think that hamstring is right I see him at the plate you see him fielding you see him
06:59running that hamstring is not it's not there you're not getting the same kind of explosion out of it
07:04it's a lot more of the upper body reaching on those swings that the lower half is not getting
07:10utilized as much when you are seeing him up at the plate and that is causing some major problems
07:16in this offense again like so much of what the blue jays do and I get like they they got a lot of big
07:21wins when he wasn't producing at an mvp type of level but this team goes from good to great when
07:27he does that and it just makes so much makes everything so much easier when he's just mashing
07:32in the middle of the lineup and right now he's not and like talking about trying to get guys days off
07:37I don't know if I would play him in the field again in September like just make sure that
07:42hamstring is healthy until he starts to really come around and I get like maybe just sitting there
07:47lets it seize up a little bit but get the gun thing on it the entire time and then go up take your
07:54hacks and then back to massaging that thing like it's just it's not working and it is actively
07:59setting the team back right now and that's not a spot they need to be in with their most valuable
08:04player now the cavalry is here as isaiah kinder falefa is making his return to the blue jays and
08:11I think that's really going to help like clement is obviously banged up uh like I said so is Vladdy
08:15there is going to be enough there for ikf to be able to bounce around the diamond every day
08:20that he's going to be a very valuable piece for the blue jays here down the stretch and a good
08:24enough bat that like he's not going to make up for Vladdy's bat but I think he can make up for
08:27clements and kind of help keep the line moving with this team offensively I would just like to say
08:34I get that it got a little excessive with pitching matchups and everything like that but
08:38now that we have the three pitcher rule or three batter rule for pitchers I don't like that we can
08:42only call up two guys now like maybe 40 was a bit much but yeah 30 you know like just a couple of
08:48extra guys to help out with the slog at the end of the season I just yeah give some kids an opportunity
08:55why not uh but anyway blue jays need to get it figured out hopefully they can tonight against the
09:00the Cincinnati Reds
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