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Re: Tampa Bay Rays (13-0) @ Toronto Blue Jays (8-5) | April 14-16, 2023 

Post#321 » by Boogie! » Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:04 pm

So manoah Is toast.
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Re: Tampa Bay Rays (13-0) @ Toronto Blue Jays (8-5) | April 14-16, 2023 

Post#322 » by TOStateofMind » Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:04 pm

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Re: Tampa Bay Rays (13-0) @ Toronto Blue Jays (8-5) | April 14-16, 2023 

Post#323 » by Corinne » Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:04 pm

This is extremely ****.
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Re: Tampa Bay Rays (13-0) @ Toronto Blue Jays (8-5) | April 14-16, 2023 

Post#324 » by Greatness » Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:04 pm

Really hope Manoah doesn't turn into Ricky Romero 2.0
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Re: Tampa Bay Rays (13-0) @ Toronto Blue Jays (8-5) | April 14-16, 2023 

Post#325 » by hyper316 » Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:05 pm

Manoah may be our worst starting 5 pitchers
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Re: Tampa Bay Rays (13-0) @ Toronto Blue Jays (8-5) | April 14-16, 2023 

Post#326 » by Randle McMurphy » Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:05 pm

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Randle McMurphy wrote:Why is Manoah still in the game?


Should've been pulled after the first base hit

If we wanted a chance at still winning this, yeah. Glad the team/media can't wipe this start away now as they might have otherwise though. He's a mess right now.
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Re: Tampa Bay Rays (13-0) @ Toronto Blue Jays (8-5) | April 14-16, 2023 

Post#327 » by hst420 » Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:06 pm

Manoah's weight gain has him losing his balance and missing location full stop.. how long will it take for the Rogers' media to be even mildly critical of his conditioning affecting his performance?
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Re: Tampa Bay Rays (13-0) @ Toronto Blue Jays (8-5) | April 14-16, 2023 

Post#328 » by LBJKB24MJ23 » Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:06 pm

Let’s put Jansen in for Kirk as Manoah’s next catcher to see if anything makes a difference.
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Re: Tampa Bay Rays (13-0) @ Toronto Blue Jays (8-5) | April 14-16, 2023 

Post#329 » by Corinne » Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:07 pm

hyper316 wrote:Manoah may be our worst starting 5 pitchers


Right now for sure.
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Re: Tampa Bay Rays (13-0) @ Toronto Blue Jays (8-5) | April 14-16, 2023 

Post#330 » by Ranger One » Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:08 pm

Guess 10-6 isnt too bad considering our schedule.
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Re: Tampa Bay Rays (13-0) @ Toronto Blue Jays (8-5) | April 14-16, 2023 

Post#331 » by Randle McMurphy » Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:09 pm

hst420 wrote:Manoah's weight gain has him losing his balance and missing location full stop.. how long will it take for the Rogers' media to be even mildly critical of his conditioning affecting his performance?

He's always been this big, but questions do need to be asked about that given the troubles he's seemingly having with the pace of the pitch clock.
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Re: Tampa Bay Rays (13-0) @ Toronto Blue Jays (8-5) | April 14-16, 2023 

Post#332 » by Madvillainy2004 » Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:11 pm

Manoah has had a relatively easy schedule besides the Cards. Royals, Tigers and the Rays aren't playing their best unit either. And he's look unplayable - meh at best during all those starts. He needs to figure it out and fast.
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Re: Tampa Bay Rays (13-0) @ Toronto Blue Jays (8-5) | April 14-16, 2023 

Post#333 » by Corinne » Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:13 pm

For the love of **** can we get someone out? This inning is giving me a headache.
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Re: Tampa Bay Rays (13-0) @ Toronto Blue Jays (8-5) | April 14-16, 2023 

Post#334 » by PowerPlant1 » Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:18 pm

i hate apparently useless pick ups like Luplow. Rather than give Lukes a chance, they quickly find some kind of mediocre fringe MLBer with experience at sucking.

Not that Lukes is definitely better. But he earns a spot out of spring only to be demoted.
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Re: Tampa Bay Rays (13-0) @ Toronto Blue Jays (8-5) | April 14-16, 2023 

Post#335 » by hyper316 » Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:19 pm

Varsho can't do any worse than luplow, play varsho as an everyday player
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Re: Tampa Bay Rays (13-0) @ Toronto Blue Jays (8-5) | April 14-16, 2023 

Post#336 » by Randle McMurphy » Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:22 pm

hyper316 wrote:Varsho can't do any worse than luplow, play varsho as an everyday player

He has been an everyday player so far. Even those get rest days though.
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Re: Tampa Bay Rays (13-0) @ Toronto Blue Jays (8-5) | April 14-16, 2023 

Post#337 » by Raps in 4 » Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:23 pm

Madvillainy2004 wrote:Manoah has had a relatively easy schedule besides the Cards. Royals, Tigers and the Rays aren't playing their best unit either. And he's look unplayable - meh at best during all those starts. He needs to figure it out and fast.


2 of those 4 are likely playoff teams lol.

But I agree. He's been trash. He needs to figure his **** out. Everyone else has adjusted to the pitch clock.
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Re: Tampa Bay Rays (13-0) @ Toronto Blue Jays (8-5) | April 14-16, 2023 

Post#338 » by Mehar » Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:25 pm

I am confident Manoah will turn it around. Being humbled is never a bad thing in baseball. Manoah has talked a bit too much for my liking (whether it was cursing at Red Sox players last season in a couple of games, and a few of other situations). One of them being calling out Gerrit Cole for being the biggest cheater in MLB history in an interview this off-season, that made headlines. His response to Alex Verdugo's criticism of him earlier this month. Anyways, taking 2 out of 3 against the Rays with Berrios and Kikuchi is still a positive sign.
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Re: Tampa Bay Rays (13-0) @ Toronto Blue Jays (8-5) | April 14-16, 2023 

Post#339 » by Boogie! » Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:28 pm

Ump trying to get the game over with now calling all these borderline pitches.
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Re: Tampa Bay Rays (13-0) @ Toronto Blue Jays (8-5) | April 14-16, 2023 

Post#340 » by Cyrus » Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:35 pm

The underline metrics/numbers for Manoah, even last year was he was suppose to be 3.5 ERA pitcher, and viewed as more of 2nd/3rd arm, not an ace. However he preformed like an last year, a similar pitcher profile whose metrics are expect him to be worse, but he ends up pitching better, is Shane Bieber of Cleveland. He's consistently pitched better than the metrics show.

Anyways long story short, maybe we are putting too much on monoah thinking he's an ace, and it's always possibility 2nd/3rd year players will regress, and based on his first 4-5 outings, it's baring that.

Another pitcher whose number (In big games - which is subjective), who doesn't show up is Chris Bassist, just look at his last year in any pivotal games, and he gets batted around (got destroyed in the playoffs). We are going to have to hope our offense to carry the load and defense comes up big.

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