Jays may want to trade Jose Bautista

Trading Jose Bautista I guess that the Jays would get a great package for him and be set for seasons wait not really as Jose Bautista is on paper much better than any thing they could get back for him. So I think that the Jays should trade Jose Bautista because his hot temper and his decision making on the field has become a much bigger negative than his production has been a positive as he pimps what he thinks is a home run in a game on the first game of the home stand against David Price and the Rays in the first inning and it becomes simply a long fly ball. Then Sunday looking at 2 and 7 going into the finale of a 10-game home stand Edwin Encarnacion hits a Ball to center field and thinks it a home run and get his arm out for his parrot and it turns out that it hit the top of the fence and was lucky not to be thrown out at second. So everybody pimped homers early the first game of the home stand with J.P., double E, and even Bautista did it all before the fourth inning and then slowly watch the game slip through their fingers picking up only a single hit over the last 4 innings with Price on the mound and only a Brett Lawrie solo shot against the pen as they lost another one. Then Jose Bautista today decided he was more than the team as in the seventh inning was at the plate with runners on second and third with one out and did not like a strike call by the ump early in the at bat and finished the at bat with strike out on a ball out of the strike zone and turned to the ump and gave him a piece of his mind and was tossed out of the game. He simply needed a fly ball to score Brett Lawrie from third to give the Jays the lead 2-1 and be able to get that ball to Casey Janssen with the lead. Jose Bautista was not the only Jay thinking about himself as Rajai Davis had 4 stolen bases and was on third and could of scored once if he slide around the catcher but he went in standing up and was out on Josh Thole bunt. Colby Rasmus has been hitting over .375 on the 10-game home stand but when he has had a shot at putting Casey Janssen in a better position to save a game as he got k'd with two out in the seventh inning of a 1-1 tie with Lawrie on third and this past Wednesday with the Jays up 5-4 with Bautista on third with one out he k'd for the third time in the game in the eighth. Then got his glove and a strike left to the Dodgers name he drove for a ball and missed it allowing the tying run to score and give Janssen an undeserving blown save as he should of laid up for the ball and had first and second and allowed Janssen another shot at saving his only save opportunity of the home stand. Casey did get a win in the finale of the home stand as Colby Rasmus did get a single to drive home Emilio Bonifacio from second with one out in the bottom of the ninth and it was the second appearance for Janssen in the last 10 games which is not good for a closer. So in the end Bautista attitude is bad for the team as it rubbing off on the Jays dugout in the worst way and it maybe time to cut ties and separate ways for the better mint of the team going forward even if we all that production from the lineup Tom Mehegan

Mark Buehrle shows Jays fans what should of been

So on the day that Brandon Morrow's season official ended and the day that someone decided that red bull (Brett Lawrie) would be the everyday third baseman (really tomorrow they could wake up and say he is are second baseman) Mark Buehrle faced a team worst than the Blow Jays and did what was supposed to do on the Rogers Centre mound. Mark Buehrle lead the 45-55 blow Jays and snapped a season low 7 losing streak and gave the Jays their first post all-star game win (should been the night before Right COLBY RASMUS) and he treated the 33-67 Triple A Houston Astros as his personal test study as he had a complete game shutout on 3 hits. Yes It was the Astros but he should of been chewing up innings and spitting a lot of zeros out and the reality is that he has been only chewing up innings but not coming even close to spitting out zeros as he would allow crocked numbers especially right after they fixed one of his crocked numbers he would allow another crocked number. So I am diffidently not saying that he pitches to 7 Astros over the first two innings and have one ball hit in play which was by Jose Altuve (5 ks and a walk) and finished the game with 9 ks and 108 pitches which again is un-Buehrle-like but it is the Astros. The were very nice to Erik Bedard from Navan, Ontario so the Jays must not be Leaf fans as he is from Senators country and Leafs do not like the Sens as they only got three hits off him over 5 innings and one run but leave it to the Blow Jays to make it a photo finish as Joey Bats barely crossed the plate before double E was thrown out trying to stretch a double into a triple. So the Jays have blowed all season long in the seventh decided to give Buehrle a cousine so he can put it into the hands of Casey Janssen (RASMUS welling) to do what he is paid to do (save games) but instead they use Lucas Harrell in seventh inning as their rent moul as they put up 3 runs to make it a non-save opportunity so Buehrle finished what he started. Adam Lind came off the bench for a RBI double and Maicer Izturis singled home two. I have to say the most embarrassing thing to the game was that Jose Reyes was on first and he is usually fast and the guy behind him Rajai Davis is like one of the fastest runners and Davis hit into not one but two double plays on ground balls and if it was not for Jose Reyes being tired of being part of double plays on the base pace and getting a double on his third hit of the night, This post goes out to Missy the family will miss you and the Rogers Box will not look the same when it gets colder (MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW) Tom Mehegan

Jays pimp homers early but has nothing late

Jays pimped out three homers before the fourth inning and Edwin Encarnacion pimping it in the second and J.P. pimped a solo shot to lead off the third inning and when Jose Bautista pimped his second ball of the game in the third (he pimped his long fly ball out in the first) a two-run shot to make it 4-1 it looked good against David Price. When Colby Rasmus came up with the bases juiced with two out in the third it looked like Price was going to start his Rogers Centre popcorn eating but when Price got him to foul out to end the inning his popcorn got stale as he lasted four more innings and gave up only one hit. Standing @ home plate and watching the ball leaving the yard is called pimping a homer and it is not something a team that is now 5 games under 500 (45-50) is not the right way to handle yourself on the field and it makes the Jays put the ass in class and it really shows a bunch of players who basically felt the entitlement of being the best team in baseball without stepping on the field and playing a game. When they did finally played a regular season game and it was a struggling to get on the same page and piling up win after win became harder then they thought and it still have not humbled them as they still the cats mow. So if the Jays put the ass in class then the Tampa Bay Rays the class in classy as they battled back to take a 8-5 victory to go up 15 games above 500 (56-41) in second place behind the soxs which is a far cry from the bottom feeding Jays as they took advantaged of Esmil Rogers as they hit four sole homers in 5.2 innings and they ran to first base every time they hit it out. Then when they got into the bullpen the clawed, bit, and scratched 4 runs off the staller Jays bullpen by running out balls to put extra pressure on the Jays fielders and help create two errors and even though J.P. kept the ball in front him and when it got rough he let s ball pass him and in the end Brett Cecil ended up getting the lose as he allowed Kelly Johnson to singled to open the eighth inning and came around to score one of the two runs in the inning after hitting a homer in the sixth inning. Even though the Rays are classy John Madden still spent a long time in the second inning fighting the umps because he felt his team had caught a foul ball off the bat of Colby Rasmus and instead it was ruled after a long debate they decided thr ball was dead and on the next pitch Price k'd Rasmus to end the inning. Madden and the Rays should fell lucky to play half their game @ Tropicana Field where balls can hit catwalks above the field and it is called a bleeping home run. The staff @ the Rogers Centre were kept very busy with annoyed beer girl who spent too much time in a section and got on the nerve of a season ticket holder and then had to make sure the right people had the beers in the stands and kept safe for everyone Tom Mehegan

Jays post all-star changes

To finish of the dog days of the Blue Jays season as they will be seller not buyer once again they will be advised to make changes: 1. Josh Johnson will go anywhere else for less money in the off-season so if u can get something for him most in the national league they should do so. 2. Darren Oliver was forced back to the Jays this past season when he did not want to so if someone wants him they can have for the stretch drive. 3. If the Jays can find a third baseman for the future they need one with Lawrie know at second but that is most likely in the off-season. 4. They will most likely need a fourth and fifth starter for the rest of the season for one and Esmil Rogers may last the rest of July but after that I do not know. So the names in Buffalo are former major leaguer doing well David Bush and maybe if he stays strong for a few more starts Ricky Romero maybe given another chance but not Marcus Stroman. 5. In late August u may see the likes of Brandon Morrow and Sergio Santos returning to the Jays and then maybe when the rosters expand u may see DREW Hutchison and Kyle Drabek along with J.A. Happ, Anthony Gose, Moses Sierra. 6. Dustin McGowan has been solid and might be a good fit on a contender and the Jays worked hard to help him back to the majors and should get something if possible for him. 7. Brett Cecil maybe an option for the starting rotation when things fall apart in the late season with starters but he looks amazing in the bullpen and should stay there. 8. A veteran catcher to teach and push J.P. Arencibia to get better or get out. It will be a tough last two and a half month ride with the Jays Tom Mehegan

10 negatives to the Jays 2013 first half

The Jays who came as the favorites to win the World Series have falling flat on their faces with a 45-49 which is the worst record since 2004 at the all-star break meaning that teams with the likes of Vernon Wells, Alex Rios, A.J. Burnett, Lyle Overbay had a better record than this so-called team. Here are 10 reasons why: 1. Plays not made which goes far beyond their 58 errors meaning an outfielder going back to the wall and sticks out his glove and the ball just misses it and it is a triple and winning run is on third, or dropping a double play ball and getting only one out and they put up runs with their extra outs, or not putting your body in front of a wild pitch/passed ball and a tying runner or winning runner to move up. 2. Josh Johnson has one win on the season in a contract year and it has to be one of the worst seasons with all that money on the line even Melky and Bartolo had all-star seasons before being PED'd. His wife may of put her dislike of coming North for her dislike of how much money her husband has thrown away this season. 3. Mark Buehrle and R.A. Dickey were supposed to give the Jays solid innings and they do eat up inning going through 6 or into the seventh inning but even if the knuckle ball is not knuckling if the Jays battle back and get these two a lead they should be able to put up a few zeros in a row instead of given the lead right back which they have been doing all season. 4. These starters including the flake Brandon Morrow or the hard luck kid J.A. Happ along with any other starter not named Esmil Rogers has not gotten that ball to the pen in the seventh or eighth with led because the Jays leading they are something like 32-0 going into the eighth the lead. 5. AA's rash decision making like Sean Nolin may 24 against the O's 1.1 innings into the game with 6 runs on 7 hits and he is sitting trying figure what happened, Brett Lawrie brought up after two games and 7 at bats of a rehab stint just to come up and not be able to catch up to the major league speed. Then their is Ricky Romero who pitches to low A ball in one games and is brought back and goes throw a major league lineup once well and then falls apart completely and AA has no clue what next to doo with Ricky but if he rushes Marcus Stroman to the majors it will be what kllls his career in his home country. 6. Players believing they are bigger than the team i.e. if Jose Bautista yells at a ump or even looks at a ump in the second have I may have to throw a shoe through my TV or J.P. Arencibia not able to take constructive criticism and go off on former ball players as the reason he can not block the plate or get on the same page as his pitchers. Brett Lawrie may need to take a step back because even though he is Canadian he does not own that clubhouse and he needs to allow other to run things. 7. The k boyz of Colby Rasmus (105 ks) and J.P. Arencibia (98) are way ahead of anybody else oon the team along with their all or nothing swings kill rallies more often than not. 8. The bats do not show up on a nightly bases as they have been shutout 6 times and lose a lot of low scoring 1 and 2 run games and had a battng average of .220 earlier this season and that can not happen. 9. Jays are 25-21 at home which is brutal as they should be at least winning 3 of every 5 home games if not 2 of 3 it is their home and should be clubbing their opponents at home. 20-28 on the road could be closer to .500 but u set your reputation on your home turf and that makes a poor team good and a good team great. 10. Casey Janssen has sat in that Jays bullpen not getting a sniff at a save opportunity and if the Jays gave him more chances they would be a much better team and Janssen would be at the all-star game instead of Delabar. Pre-all-star Jays sucked mightily and it does not look better in the post-all-star game world Tom Mehhegan

10 positive about the Jays first half

It have been a very long tough first half of the Jays 2013 regular season but there are diffidently positives to take away from it: 1. The Bullpen has been unconscious and playing out of their mind and because the starters pitched the second fewest innings 515 innings they needed to pitched 334.2 innings (the most in the majors) and still had an era under 3 (2.90) which was the third best era. 2. Brett Cecil has crawled out from under the rock he was hiding under and he pitched 46.1 innings and has a whip of .97 and at a point he retired 40 straight batters and has a 1.94 ERA. 3. Steve Delabar goes from a substitute teacher to MLB all-star in three years and has blown 58 batters in 42 innings and picked up his first ever save. 4. ESMIL ROGERS has been the best starter for the Jays and has been a rock in the bottom of the rotation with an ERA of 3.29 and has been outstanding besides three batters in St. Petes and a 5 inning performance against hungry Tigers who took him to the woodshed (7 runs on 11 hits). 5. Adam Lind has found himself and was awesome early this season and had a .340 batting average and has slipped a bit now hitting .306 but still has 20 doubles, 11 homers, 37 RBIs with 25 walks. 6. Jose Reyes has only played 28 games and has reached base 26 of those 28 games and is a great leadoff hitter and is the best piece from the Marlins trade. 7. MUNENORI KAWASAKI has been breath of fresh air from a guy who had it all in Japan and came over to North America and quickly learned that the Majors is much different than in Japan and figured out that he just had to have fun and simply just gets it and is the biggest fan favorite I have ever seen in Toronto. 8. Jays have not been able to see great baseball but still have come out in huge numbers to support the team and keep the Rogers Centre a lively place. 9. Edwin Encarnacion and Jose Bautista still have put up all-star numbers with Edwin (25 homers, 16 doubles, and 72 RBIs) and Jose Bautista (20 homers, 20 doubles, 55 RBIs) 10. Casey Janssen is a great closer and has blown only 1 save and had to only be taken out of a save opportunity and ended up racking in 18 of 19 saves and if this team was better he would be an all-star. Lets hope better in the post all-star game but I do not hold hope Tom Mehegan

Marcus Stroman is not ready for the majors

Chien-Ming Wang has been horrible in his last two starts he has given up 13 runs in 3.1 innings pitched and it is time to cut him loose as they did get a three above average and to get starts and picked into the seventh inning of all of those first three starts as a Jay. So with the league catching up with Wong so they need to choose someone else to pitch on Sunday afternoon and here are the choices: 1. is Marcus Stroman who has not pitched a full season in the Jays system including only 42.1 innings pitched and has 4-2 record with a 3.38 ERA this season with the New Hampshire Fisher Cats in his first real test after coming out of college and was chosen 22Nd in the 2012 draft. He does have a 13 k performance tonight but if the Jays want to move him up to triple a Buffalo but it is not an option to bring him to the big smoke because the Jays have been bad decision makers with their young arms as Kyle Drabek, Drew Hutchison, and Luis Perez has all been sent to Dr. Andrews for the Tommy John treatment. 2. David Bush was the starter Buffalo Bisons tonight and went 6 innings 1 run and in his 6 starts he has had 4 good starts and 2 bad starts with his first start (4 runs) and the start before tonight (5 runs) and only 6 runs in those 4 good starts and he would be the pitcher from Buffalo (not Romero leave him alone please) to come up to make the start on Sunday and maybe another before mid-July (all-star break). He is not a kid he is 33 and he has been major league starter from when he came up with the Jays in 2004 and 2010 when he finished with the Brewers after been traded for boo (Lyle) Overbay before the start of the 2006 season. 3. AA could either pluck another pitcher off the wire or make a trade for another pitcher and I do not think they will trade for someone before the break but the wire is possible. 4. They could bullpen the game just like they did with Esmil Rogers his first two starts and workout well for the Jays It will help the Jays til Sunday as they will be able to bring up Anthony Gose or Moses Sierra to help fill in for the group of aligning Jays Adam Lind, Edwin Encarnacion, and J.P. Arencibia and be the Jays DH or taken one of the outfielder and putting them in as the DH. The Jays are hurting Tom Mehegan