The Jays start a four-game series with the Yankees at Yankee Stadium tonight.
Tonight it is Patrick Corbin (1-1, 3,93) vs. Ryan Weathers (2-2, 3.00).
Tuesday: Dylan Cease (3-1, 2.41) vs. Will Warren (5-1, 3.42).
Wednesday: Trey Yesavage (1-1, 1.40) vs. Cam Schlittler (6-1, 1.35)
Thursday: Bullpen Day, likely with Spencer Myles (1-0, 2.55) doing the bulk of the work vs. Carlos Rodón (0-1, 5.63).
As much as it has been all doom and gloom around the Jays, they are only one game back from the last Wild Card
spot. On May 18th last year they were 22-24, three games out of the Wild Card spot. So there is hope, but they better start hitting soon. I’ve been in New York when the Jays were swept in a four-game series, it isn’t much fun.
Kazuma Okamoto, after a really hot stretch, has two hits in his last five games (.111/.227/.167) and is .225/.319/.375 in his last 11. I said, yesterday, that maybe he should move up in the batter’s box again.
Vladimir Guerrero is .136/.231/.273 in his last six games and .143/.229/.214 in his last 12. As much as the home run was great to see, we really need him to start hitting.
Ernie Clement is .158/.200/.158 in his last 6 and .256/.267/.326 in his last 12. And he seems to be taking his hitting issues out to second base. Fangraphs has him at a -5 Outs Above Average (last year he was a +5 at second base) and he’s made 4 errors.
Davis Schneider is .182/.308/.182 over his last six games. His playing time has dropped with his batting average below a buck fifty this year.
George Springer is .100/.182/.100 in his last five. I’d say it was his toe but he wasn’t hitting all that much better before that. His bat speed is still good, but he seems to be popping everything up.
And, even with the two home run game Andrés Giménez isn’t hitting a lot, .200/.238/.550 (slugging is good because of the homers) in his last six and .179/.195/.359 in his last 12.
Myles Straw is .143/.250/.143 in his last five, but that’s limited playing time.
Brandon Valenzuela is .167/.333/.167 in his last six games.
On the good side:
Daulton Varsho is one of the few who is hitting, .310/.383/.476 over his last 12 games.
Jesús Sánchez is also hitting .429/.400/.500 in his last 6 and .290/.324/.419 in his last 12.
Yohendrick Pinango is hitting .227/.292/.409 in his last six and .286/.324/.429 in his last 10. Not quite what he was doing when he first came up, but not bad.
Shi Davidi has a nice profile on Pinango on the Sportsnet page. Yohendrick’s father was killed when he was a young boy and he has a tattoo on his arm of his father with fu en cielo, yo en la tierra, un solo comazon written underneath. You are in heaven, I’m on earth, one heart.
His father played profession basketball.
Pinango also said:
“I had in my mind that this year I was going to be in the big-leagues – I wasn’t expecting to be here this soon,” said Pinango. “But my goal was to be here at some point this year.”
The lips on his neck? “When you are young, you do things”. I’d imagine alcohol was involved.
Dan Bellino had a bad day yesterday, but the teams didn’t do any better on the challenges:
