Bluejays are scared of LA teams
Angels Vs Bluejays game 2
I disagree, Romano gave up a ton of hard hit balls early in the season that were just marine layered or wind aided to stay in the park.
This didn’t match my memory at all so I reviewed the data. In his six appearances before Yankees Stadium, only four balls total reached the outfield.
Two were routine flyballs well short of the wall, one was a line drive to Mike Trout sixty feet short of the CF wall in Chicago, and the final one was Adell’s spectacular catch over the short wall in by the RF foul pole in Angels Stadium.
So while there wasn’t a “ton” of hard hit balls that were marine aided or wind-aided in any way, there was one flyball that would have resulted in a HR in roughly half of MLB parks, and not in the other half. It wasn’t even particularly well struck – 93.5mph EV and Crawford got under it – but it took a heroic play by Jo to rescue it nonetheless.
I’ve reached the point where I think Rada is a better bet to help the team than Lowe against righties. Can the Angels find some injury for Lowe that he needs to rehab from or does the guy still have options?
When most of your run scoring has been the result of BBs and HRs, and you stop walking and hitting HRs, you stop scoring runs.
Pomeranian ain’t the answer as a late inning high leverage guy…
We need Joyce and Yates and anybody else we can throw in there instead !! No soft-tossing left handers !!!
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Both Shores’ and Talon’s nights are done.
Shores got really rocked – seven hits, five walks, five runs in three innings. Only struck out one. Looked more how I recalled him in college.
Haley looked very promising – no hits, 8 Ks across four. Got a little wild in the fourth inning, lost his release point a bit, but was impressive with the soft stuff across three and ended strong.
TT – what’s up with Slawinski? Has he not pitched at all in the minors yet?
He’s still in extended spring training in Arizona. All of the seven prep arms drafted in ’25 are there save for Talon Haley at the moment. We’ll like see Slawinski, Gray and Mitchell in the AZL rotation once short season ball commences.
Not unusual by the way. TGA and Jordan took the same path – opened the year after drafting in Arizona, and performed well enough to have a monthlong cup of coffee in the Cal League end of season.
It’s actually a little unusual to see Talon Haley in low-A already. You see first or second round HS arms in low A (like Seth Hernandez and Kruz Schoolcraft), but the majority of prep pitchers start in developmental leagues.
