00:00Where the Toronto Blue Jays added another strong arm and continued to build up a very good
00:06offseason so far with a couple of big tickets still out there.
00:10But Tyler Rogers, come on down to the Rogers Centre for the Blue Jays.
00:14The Blue Jays remain one of the busiest teams this offseason, bringing in Tyler Rogers on
00:32a new contract, and I think this move makes a ton of sense.
00:37The one that everyone has pointed out is obviously you go, in a game you could go, from Yesavage
00:43who has one of the higher release points in baseball, to Rogers who literally couldn't
00:49have a lower one unless they let him submarine through the bottom of the mound and just kind
00:57of like softball the pitch in there.
01:00This is obviously going to be a bit troublesome for hitters.
01:04But I do think that Rogers has some value on the other four Jays where Yesavage isn't
01:08starting as well, and I also don't think that the Blue Jays are going to look at pitchers
01:12from now on and go, traditional arm slot, loser.
01:17I don't think that's going to be the case.
01:19But I think that this works a lot for Toronto.
01:23The one thing that he is, is a really solid innings eater.
01:28He's just, for the amount of torque that he puts on his body, he stayed pretty healthy
01:32and pretty reliable.
01:34I don't know how many saves this guy is going to get for Toronto or anything like that,
01:38but just in terms of guys who can eat innings, guys who are going to be able to get on a
01:45rocky night, just get us to Hoffman, get us to Garcia, get us to those guys in the back
01:51part of the bullpen, and we'll be fine.
01:53This is a really, really solid, reliable arm that the Blue Jays are bringing in and one
02:00that I think Jays fans should be excited about.
02:03And you can start to see how this bullpen takes shape.
02:06Obviously, your mileage may vary on Jeff Hoffman, but I think having a pitcher like Rogers to
02:13be able to get to, like I said, the Garcias, the Hoffmans, and whoever else is going to
02:17be in the back part of that bullpen is going to be a really valuable thing.
02:20And Toronto saw how important it is to just have a guy that you can rely on to go out there
02:24and get out on a consistent basis.
02:26They saw it with Louis Varland, who I wonder where he kind of factors into everything this
02:30season, but this is a strong move for the Blue Jays bullpen and just a really, really
02:36smart one when Diaz gone, Suarez, Williams, all of them off the board.
02:42Where do we go now?
02:43This is a very, very solid add to the Blue Jays bullpen and just adding a little bit of
02:49a different dynamic and just adding another major league reliever out there.
02:54And that was an issue at times this season for Toronto.
02:57Again, we all look at the season with rose-colored glasses because of how awesome it went for
03:03about six months there.
03:05But one of the reasons why there were issues with Hoffman is because they had to use him
03:10for two innings in a lot of games.
03:12And that led to a bit of a downfall.
03:14Like he was going at an all-star level to start the season off.
03:17And then right around the time of that Angels series, it was just, it was two innings every
03:21night because they just needed everything.
03:22And look, the way the season played out, they needed every win that they got.
03:27So all of those were worth it.
03:29But there were so many nights that there was only a couple of guys that you trusted.
03:33And how often did Dan and Buck on the broadcast during the playoffs talk about the circle of
03:37trust?
03:37This is a guy that you can add to that circle of trust.
03:39And this is a guy that can save some mileage on Varland, on Garcia, on Hoffman as the year
03:46goes on.
03:47So maybe Garcia's arm doesn't fall off by the time we get to playoff time.
03:51Maybe Hoffman can be a little bit more effective and reliable with, say, one out in the bottom
03:55of the ninth of Game 7 of the World Series.
03:57Maybe just having a few of those innings that were taken up by guys that we all kind of watched
04:03through our heads a little bit, have that be more reliably taken care of, very strong
04:10thing for the Blue Jays.
04:12So just another really, really solid add to the bullpen here for Toronto.
04:17Obviously, the big topic right now for the Blue Jays is Kyle Tucker or Bo Bichette.
04:21Could it be Kyle Tucker and Bo Bichette?
04:23A lot of those conversations happening.
04:25I do want to caution that the Braves signing Kim the other day, and a lot of people being
04:31like, well, takes him out of the Bo business, takes him out of the Bo Bichette business.
04:36I don't know Alex Anthopoulos personally, but he was the general manager of my team for a
04:40couple of years, and he's been a very good general manager.
04:42For the Atlanta Braves since then.
04:44Alex Anthopoulos is never out of any market.
04:47I will just put that out there.
04:48And the Braves are never out of any market.
04:49They can get very creative.
04:51They have a very well set up salary structure there in Atlanta.
04:57They are not above paying to do $20 million to sit on the bench.
05:00I'm not saying that they're going to bench the guy, but I did not see that move and think,
05:07okay, one off the board for Bo Bichette makes it a little bit more tricky.
05:12Maybe it takes away some of the motivation for Atlanta, but I don't view them as any less
05:19of a threat in the Bo Bichette business now than I did before that signing took place.
05:24But I would really love it if that market could start moving here a little bit with Tucker,
05:31Bo Bichette, and everyone else that is kind of falling into place right now.
05:34Because you are starting to see some of those other smaller moves that could have been pivots
05:38that are starting to go away a little bit.
05:40Now, the Blue Jays, again, they've done their, done what they needed to do.
05:44If the roster they have under contract right now goes into spring training this year as
05:51the team, if Tucker and Bo both just, you know what?
05:54We just, man, fucking love Colorado.
05:57So we're going there.
05:59If that happens, and the Blue Jays don't get anybody with the pitching staff they have,
06:02with the addition to the bullpen here, and with the lineup that we are going to presume
06:07maybe some regression coming from, but still, with that lineup that they have, the players
06:11that they have under contract right now, it's a playoff team, right?
06:15Obviously, our goals are a little bit higher in Toronto now after what happened, but they,
06:21as they are currently constructed, that's a playoff team in Major League Baseball in 2026.
06:26It is now just, can you get that piece that makes you championship contender in the upcoming
06:32season?
06:33We didn't think the Blue Jays would be there last year, and look how that played out,
06:35but I do think where they're at right now is fine.
06:39It's just, we're shooting for higher than fine now with the Toronto Blue Jays.
06:44But yes, more, more reactions to come on Couch Potato Diary as baseball's offseason continues
06:50to roll forward.
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