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The 2025 Toronto Blue Jays

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Vlad a non factor again in a big game. We're reduced to making a big deal out of a single that normally would have been an out as the 2nd baseman was shifting.

Imagine winning the division and not interviewing your star player after because nobody cares what he has to say. He'd be the 4th or 5th guy I'd want up in a clutch situation.
I agree. And the announcers will keep making excuses for him and when he flies out talk about how good the swing was. Getting Bo back will help Vlad, with Bo behind him they have to pitch to Vlad so as to not walk him.

Vlad is a solid player but too sporadic and not clutch enough to be called a superstar so Schneider needs to stop treating him like a superstar and put him down in the lineup where he will get less at bats

On the positive he is solid in defense. When he threw to home to get the runner that was a good instinct and his arm is very strong for a first baseman.

Our best two hitters are Springer and Bo, not sure who is better but Springer has more power and gets walks so I vote for Springer. After that we can argue is it kirk, vlad, varsho or someone else?
 
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The Cincinnati Reds are the first team in MLB history to make the playoffs in a non-shortened season without any qualifying player:
----hitting .270.
---hitting 15 home runs.
---winning 15 games as a pitcher.
---striking out 200 batters as a pitcher.
 

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Yes to Scherzer, no to Santander.
I agree but Scherzer probably in bullpen role. I see Gausman, Bieber and Yesavage as top 3 starters and then evaluate. Maybe Bieber starts and Gausman goes 2nd but Yesavage #3.

Satander never found his stroke this year and the playoffs are not the time to work on things with the hope of maybe returning to form.
 
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I agree. And the announcers will keep making excuses for him and when he flies out talk about how good the swing was. Getting Bo back will help Vlad, with Bo behind him they have to pitch to Vlad so as to not walk him.

Vlad is a solid player but too sporadic and not clutch enough to be called a superstar so Schneider needs to stop treating him like a superstar and put him down in the lineup where he will get less at bats

On the positive he is solid in defense. When he threw to home to get the runner that was a good instinct and his arm is very strong for a first baseman.

Our best two hitters are Springer and Bo, not sure who is better but Springer has more power and gets walks so I vote for Springer. After that we can argue is it kirk, vlad, varsho or someone else?
The khakis would never let schnieder move him down, that's how it works when they might be made to look bad. This is why signing bo will be impossible. Bo is the straw that stirs the drink and he should have 500 mil in his jeans too. I'd have vladdy hitting 5th or 6th in clutch situations. I might even put lukes ahead of him, like that guy as a player.
 

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I agree but Scherzer probably in bullpen role. I see Gausman, Bieber and Yesavage as top 3 starters and then evaluate. Maybe Bieber starts and Gausman goes 2nd but Yesavage #3.

Satander never found his stroke this year and the playoffs are not the time to work on things with the hope of maybe returning to form.
Scherzer has made it an easy decision not to give him another year, he's finished.
 
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