Adam Lind is finally put on the DL while Eric Thames is brought up to the show

Adam Lind after basically sitting on the bench for over a week without being able to help the Jays on the field because of his sore back and have been placed on the DL as of May 8 so he will be able to come off on the 23 on Monday at the earliest. Instead of bringing back up Travis Snider hitting .302 (19 for 63) with 4 doubles and 9 walks but the sore thumb seems to be his 14 strikeouts in 16 games and no homers in 16 games but the Jays are saying he still working on new things with his swing and he making advances but they do not have a timeline yet on his return to the show. So instead they have brought up Eric Thames (LF) who is hitting .342 (50 for 146) with 17 doubles, 2 triples, 6 homers, and 30 RBIs to go with his 17 walks and 30 strikeouts in 36 games for Triple A Las Vegas and I feel he should be put right in the lineup most likely replacing Juan Rivera at DH because a DH hitting a lot better than just over a toonie (.203) so he should take a seat and maybe a day or two watching may help him with his stroke watching how the other are hitting. If it is not Thames then it needs to be David Cooper either at first or at DH and maybe have Edwin Encarnacion at DH but if it is Cooper or Thames at least one of them needs to be in the lineup because the bench is not the best place to keep a young player as they can watch a game maybe two but more than that it was a disadvantage for them.

In other farm news ...

Brett Lawrie is hitting .321 (52 for 162) with 13 doubles, 2 doubles, 8 homers, and 26 RBIs with 11 walks which is lower than Thames and 31 strikeouts which is the same as him.

Brett Cecil after his first triple A start has had 4 starts and at least finishing 6 innings inning in all of them with given up 3 earned runs in 3 of the 4 starts with a 1 earn run game which had 4 hits in 6 innings. The other starts had 6 hits in 6.2, 9 hits in 7, and 6 hits in 6. He has struck out 5 or 6 batters in these 4 starts that he has all won but Left handers are hitting .324 against him (right handers .308) while given up 5 homers (1 homer to right handers).

Lets see what happens with Eric Thames in the show

Tom Mehegan