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[Jeffrey Smith]

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Jays fired Montoyo!

First time in 14 years they've fired a coach midseason

They've promoted John Schneider to interim coach.

Interesting decision. Schneider was the guy fans thought would've gotten the job after Gibbons. He's been the Jays manager in the minors when all their young guys were coming up.

And people are wondering if what happened last night was the final straw. He challenged a play that Vlad told him not to, and it ended up being a wasted challenge and Vlad didnt seem too happy. Not THE reason for his firing, but he's also dead last in the majors in challenge percentage, winning under 40% of challenges. Makes you wonder what's been going on lately in the clubhouse. Jays recently held a players only meeting too.

Hopefully this is what turns around their season because the past few weeks has been horrible.

Really feel bad for Charlie. Seems like a very likeable guy. But sports are all about results and the Jays have been in a nosedive the past couple weeks so I guess a change was inevitable.


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[DieHardYankee26]

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Gotta give credit where it's due:





Don't demean guys like this for doing fantastically at his job with threats of a robot strike zone because we have others who shouldn't have the job to begin with.

I remember seeing an onion article about how no one could watch baseball anymore because of the lack of pitchers hitting .124. There definitely will be something about how people hate that they can’t see mistakes being made anymore when the U-1000s come in.

[Majingir]

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Really feel bad for Charlie. Seems like a very likeable guy. But sports are all about results and the Jays have been in a nosedive the past couple weeks so I guess a change was inevitable.


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That's the thing though, he's likeable, but will he get the job done?

Hopefully this is like the Raptors situation where you let go of your coach, bring in one of his right hand men down the bench and see the team do even better.

You can't always just keep guys around because he's liked. You need a guy who will get the job done. Can't afford to waste years when you have a good young core under team friendly deals, or else you end up like the Leafs.

[Madden08PCgmr]

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Inexcusable that these guys were not all stars

Zack Wheeler, Josh Bell, JD Martinez

If I was more biased, I’d add Taijuan Walker to this list, but the NL is stacked enough at pitcher and he’s never been a high strikeout guy

Logan Gilbert

2nd in wins, 5th in IP, 5th in Win%, 8th in Ks

.. pretty good case for Ty France too, but I get it at that position. And the recent injury hurt him.

[Master Live 013]

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10 unvaccinated players for the Royals, damn.

[Majingir]

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Fun fact about Jays new interim manager John Schneider.

I knew he had been in their farm system as a coach for years, but never realized he was a Jays prospect too.

Drafted in 02 by Jays, last pro season was 07 in Jays AAA affiliate, became Jays catching instructor in 08, rookie ball coach in 09, went through their system and now is their manager.

20 years and 1 month from when he was drafted by the Jays, he's now their MLB coach. I'd imagine he's one of the organizations longest tenured people.

And his new bench coach is the Jays AAA coach Casey Candaele, who used to play with Craig Biggio (of course, now Cavan Biggio is one of the guys he's managing). Biggio was the Astros catcher when he first came up and Candaele was their 2B. Biggio of course would wind up being their starting 2B and move Candaele around the field.

[Blzer]

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Logan Gilbert

2nd in wins, 5th in IP, 5th in Win%, 8th in Ks

.. pretty good case for Ty France too, but I get it at that position. And the recent injury hurt him.

He's a great candidate, but that is a weak argument.

Wins are already an overrated stat as is, and win percentage is directly tied to wins. Innings pitched is great if you're doing well in those innings (also nice to rest bullpen arms but better if dominant), and you'll naturally get more strikeouts if you pitch more innings.

I think his ERA and K/9 would've been decent arguments alone.

[DieHardYankee26]

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10 unvaccinated players for the Royals, damn.

Whit Merrifield saying he’d consider getting it if he was on a team that was going to the playoffs but won’t bother on the Royals is absolutely wild.

[Master Live 013]

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Agent Casey Close sued radio host Doug Gottlieb for libel Thursday, alleging in a complaint that Gottlieb defamed him and Excel Sports Management in a tweet regarding the contract negotiations of Dodgers star Freddie Freeman, according to court documents obtained by ESPN.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) July 14, 2022

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[Blzer]

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Whit Merrifield saying he’d consider getting it if he was on a team that was going to the playoffs but won’t bother on the Royals is absolutely wild.

Maybe if he helped his team out time to time while in the lineup every day, his team would be in contention in such a weakass division.

[steelerfan]

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Agent Casey Close sued radio host Doug Gottlieb for libel Thursday, alleging in a complaint that Gottlieb defamed him and Excel Sports Management in a tweet regarding the contract negotiations of Dodgers star Freddie Freeman, according to court documents obtained by ESPN.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) July 14, 2022

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I found this article on the matter interesting. I don't pretend to know the truth but a valid claim is presented here, in my opinion.

https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2022-07-01/dodgers-freddie-freeman-plays-role-of-entitled-athlete-perfectly-braves

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[p_rushing]

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I found this article on the matter interesting. I don't pretend to know the truth but a valid claim is presented here, in my opinion.

https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2022-07-01/dodgers-freddie-freeman-plays-role-of-entitled-athlete-perfectly-braves

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It could be true that Freeman said I will only take 6 years.

We may find out if the lawsuit actually makes it to discovery. Not sure that it will though. It would be easy to prove if Freeman was told about the deal or not by looking at phone records.

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[l3ulvl]

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That's the thing though, he's likeable, but will he get the job done?

Hopefully this is like the Raptors situation where you let go of your coach, bring in one of his right hand men down the bench and see the team do even better.

You can't always just keep guys around because he's liked. You need a guy who will get the job done. Can't afford to waste years when you have a good young core under team friendly deals, or else you end up like the Leafs.

Yeah bringing up the successful coach from the minors doesn't always work, see: Blashill, Jeff


edit: oops, you mentioned the Leafs and I forgot which thread I was in

[TripleCrown9]

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Juan Soto just turned down the Nationals' $440 million offer.

The Nationals will now entertain a potential trade.

[Blzer]

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Just checked game logs.

On July 4th, Josh Hader had a 1.05 ERA and 1.71 FIP.

Eleven days later, these numbers ballooned to 4.50 and 3.88, respectively.

Wow.