The Jays head to Sarasota to take on the Baltimore Orioles, and… yep, Spring Training’s still going.
First official day of spring and #bluejays have been #wintertraining for 35 days already. 13 days until the opener. Maybe it is #toolong
— Richard Griffin (@RGriffinStar) March 20, 2013
Uh-huh.
Scuttlebutt
A quick notebook piece from John Lott of the National Post talks about Henry Blanco catching R.A. Dickey’s knuckler yesterday, the important week this is for Casey Janssen, and the fact that Brett Lawrie played catch this morning. Lott has a pic of Lawrie throwing for the first time over on his Flickr page.
Brendan Kennedy adds that Lawrie says he feels good and expects to be ready for April 2nd.
Wilner also adds that the club hopes to have him in game action on the weekend.
Elsewhere, Kennedy tells us that Jeffress will pitch three innings today, followed by four from Dave Bush, and two from the just-acquired Guillermo Moscoso.
TV: None, but, of course, you can listen to the game online for free via MLB.com.
And now the lineups…
Toronto Blue Jays
A. Gose CF
E. Bonifacio 2B
M. Cabrera DH
A. Cibia C
A. Lind DH
M. DeRosa 3B
A. LaRoche 1B
R. Langerhans RF
M. Izturis SS
J. Jeffress RHP
Baltimore Orioles
N. McLouth RF
B. Roberts 2B
A. Jones CF
M. Wieters C
C. Davis 1B
J. Hardy DH
N. Reimold LF
M. Machado 3B
A. Casilla SS
Z. Britton LHP
Image via Britt Ghiroli.
oh lawdy 2 mo weeks
There are still 14 more days to continue our collective freak-out about Rickey’s mechanics, Buerhle’s one bad inning, who’s on second, Adam-fuckin’-Lind and Colby Rasmus.
That implies people aren’t still going to be freaking out about those things when the season starts
when we are 4-0, facing boston, after JJ complete gamed 2 hit shut them out the day before – no one will care how RR pitches that day, and we will be more open to rope with him and others for the first few weeks after the collective boners start a mini wave in the skydome April 2nd – 5th….
Should never use the words “boner” and “mini” in the same sentence. Just looks bad.
Unless you use your boner to open a mini-bar. Or minivan.
Never mind. Where’s the edit button?
lol
It looks like the Orioles are trying today
would someone humour me and explain the “Aaron Cibia” inside joke? I think I started following DJF just after the joke came into being…
I could be wrong, but I don’t think there is any joke to the joke.
In a nutshell.
A reporter covering the Jays kept refering to JP as Aaron Cibia in an article. He did it many times and Stoeten has been refering to it ever since.
Stoeten can give you the specifics of the story.
thanks RADAR
Big swing and a miss.
http://blogs.thescore.com/djf/2010/08/08/the-story-of-that-aaron-cibia-guy/
Inside jokes are no fun when you’re not inside.
- Elementary school BJ Fledgling
am i seeing this right?
3 solos in one IP?
Yup.
The first two on back to back pitches.
This bullpen might be my biggest concern for the 2013 Blue Jays.
I feel oddly assured in the back end – Santos, Janssen & Oliver (though I imagine Janssen will regress some) and I think Loup will be mostly ok. I think we’ll see some regression from the Delabar we saw in 2012 & I’m fairly concerned about Rogers, Lincoln, Jeffress / Cecil. So yeah…middle, long relief seems problematic.
So you are saying that we have 5 quality relievers to fill in for the 3 innings or less needed after our starters leave the game?
I’m saying my fingers might be crossed an awful lot. I’m among those worried about getting quality innings from Romero & to a slightly lesser degree, Buerhle. The middle relief corps are concerning if we’re not getting quality innings from those guys & if Santos & Janssen’s health keep them back…well, things are obviously very fucked.
The best teams will lose 2 games of every 5. This will likely have nothing at all to do with how well our long reliever is pitching and who is picking up the scrap innings when we are down or ahead big.
There are a lot of if’s and but’s in your prerogative. Middle relief and Long relievers will not be the downfall of this team.
You’ve got to be kidding or trolling.
Every analyst has said this is the best Jays bullpen in many years.
Fuck everybody is arguing about RR or Happ.
Do you realize that Happ isn’t good enough to replace Loup in the BP?
So, because a talking head says it’ll be ‘the best in years’, than I should take that as gospel?
Who has said that? Why would they say that?
The Melkman is hitting around .360 this spring?
He’s not talked about much but last year he played in a pitchers park and dominated.
Understandably going into this year there was some concern about the PED impact on him, but I think this FA signing is a steal and huge for the Jays.