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Bloomberg Radio New York
"charlie montoya" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Past the hour. And here comes Dan Schwartzman, Dan. A Manchester City star has confirmed his exit. That is crack Raheem Sterling has said he is out of the Etihad and a move to Chelsea's imminent for 47 and a half million pounds, plus two and a half million in add ons. The 27 year old spent 7 seasons at city helping the club win 11 major trophies. The blues, meanwhile, also closing in on a €40 million deal for Napoli center back Kali dukula Bali, who was finalizing a 5 year contract to move to Stanford bridge. Elsewhere Barcelona confirming that free agent dusman blade will be returning to the Catalan capital as a France international has agreed to deal to stay at camp no to at least 2024. Finally Manchester United on the verge of a €50 million move for ix Amsterdam midfielder and defender lisandro Martinez, the 24 year old is also highly coveted by arsenal on the eve of the 150th open championship the royal and ancient golf club of saint Andrews has made Tiger Woods Rory McIlroy and Paul Lowry honorary members, which has won the open three times, including twice the same Andrews, Rory and Larry have both won once Tiger, by the way, also played the of course as an amateur back in 1995. Calgary flames star Johnny goudreau hit free agency and it wasn't for long. He's going to the Columbus blue jackets 7 year deal for around 9 and a half $1 million per season reports say that he left one year and about a $1 million per season on the season to leave Calgary, the south Jersey native was rumored to be on the radar of the flyers, the islanders, and the Devils as well. Toronto Blue Jays firing manager Charlie Montoya with the team sitting in fourth place in the AL east 15 and a half games
Bloomberg Radio New York
"charlie montoya" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
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"They take three from the va's and that's where that's where they've made the turn now so you know if you're gonna ask me couple of weeks ago completely different situation to where we are now but the fact that stephen matt's was pitching as good as he has been the past month. I did give the jay's a glimmer of hope or a glimmer. Like i was a little bit optimistic for sure but then once you know it actually happened the app it sunk in to me that the potential to do it was there and then it really sunk in yesterday When in the ninth inning. Where i'm like. Oh my god. It's actually going to happen. Yeah i mean. No disrespect to stephen matt's when i say i expect erico on the yankees to win. That game is just on paper. You look at the matchup. Stephen mats or air coal. It's very lopsided. But even even knowing stephen matt's history over the past month month and a half but i'm one lash on our bullpen conversation with jordan romano Charlie montoya told wrong Rob longley of the toronto sun. That join ramona came to him and said quote. If it's a safe situation. I'm in so he wants to pitch back to back to back games. He wants to be involved if it's a close game and that's what you want from your players that's what you want from your bullpen. You want everyone involved in rooting for a win. And i think it was jose Who said this after yesterday's game but he said The thing about the blue jays is everyone's rooting for you. Everyone is rooting for each other. Everyone's rooting for the team to win. And everyone's involved every step of the way so that's part of what makes this team special. We've talked about it before but a lot of fun to watch. I think now if we were betting robbie ray has better odds to win the cy young in the american league than garrett cole and i think people have kind of taken a backseat on lance lynn. Well he's kind of taken a back seat in this race so it might be. Robbie raise race to lose now. He might be in the driver's seat for al. Cy young and i especially think so because even if this shouldn't impact the conversation we always know whether a team is a competitor or not makes an impact on these things right like everyone always talks about mike trout. Mvp a couple of years ago..
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"Charlie montoya over the course of the year. There are problems with the onfield decisions whether that's montolio whether that's a front office whether that's the coaching staff. The high performance department something has to change when it comes to onfield decisions. I think that's something that you can change within the person. I don't think you have to fire. Charlie montoya replacement john schneider or whoever you want to replace it with to get correct on field decisions. I think the risk of firing. Charlie manteo getting someone who manages yawn field decision correctly but screws up the clubhouse side of things having. That's a very high risk. And i'm fine with keeping trillium ontario and attempting to fix those problems. You know having him sit down in the off season and have that hard conversation of look you gotta stop punting with two strikes. You gotta stop putting rafael delete into these one-run situations having those hard conversations. I think you can fix the decisions within the man himself. I don't think you have to fire him. And i think you can keep the positives of the onfield of the field stuff of the clubhouse stuff well fixing the onfield stuff. i think. It's much harder if you had someone who knew the onfield stuff and was bad at the clubhouse stuff to fix the clubhouse stuff. I think i would much prefer the opposite. So that's why i'm still standing behind. Shirley manteo still want him to be the manager. And i still think he can be the long term manager of this club. I just think there has to be adjustments. Made in you have to sit down with him and say. This isn't sustainable. We gotta fix this longtre. Yeah i don't think. I don't think he's fired this off season. I think he will return next season. However i think there's going to be a lot of conversations in a lot of discussions lot of analytic looking back on things. There's gonna be a tough though you might as well clock in every single day something needs to change and i think there is going to be a lot of stuff.
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"A high performance department something has to change when it comes to onfield decisions. But that's not to blame for this weekend's loss you can blame some losses this year on charlie toy and the decisions that have been made but this is not one of those series. It's the fact that they went one for thirty one with runners in scoring position that grounded into four double plays on friday. I don't even know how many double plays grounded into on saturday and sunday including that one in the later innings on sunday when they had a golden opportunity to score and i think vladimir guerrero junior grounded into a double play. So something's got to change with the approach of this team and what they're doing with runners in scoring position because it's unsustainable you can't have a team trying to compete and go one for thirty one over a series it's just ridiculous numbers I don't know how you guys think they can solve this problem to me. I think it's just like i think it is an approach thing once once you start struggling. It's going to snowball and guys like not to name names but to oscar does flat. You're going to try to do too much at the plate and take big swings and try to end it all with one swing. I think that's going to snowball into what we're seeing right now with the horrible approaches. Were seeing so. It's just ridiculous and you can't blame charlie montoya for that. Even if he did make mistakes and friday night's game see the the other issue in the offense. It's definitely i mean we don't you don't eat meat. Say this. But they're struggling. It's obvious way too. Many double plays a lot of inning. Ending double plays regardless. If it's inning anger not double played deflates. The entire potential of a going on a runner scoring anything by oscar hernandez we talked about. How good of a roach be had. Oh for eleven in three games against the tigers. And i mean now you have a lot of your junior struggling doing a little bit better not still not as good but now you have another big guy. That's what took over in the entire series. Here with george springer i think and this is maybe too pessimistic. But i don't think that necessarily anything's going to change with the lack of offensive production until probably springer comes back whether he even comes back or not like. That's you know that's a big. If and i hate to say that. But i mean you look at it and the team feels deflated. I feel at this point and even in the in the field couple sloppy plays in the in the game with all one hundred kirk. If i'm scoring that play it's a passed ball. It's not a wild pitch. If you're a here. I think it was buck martinez or josette. A lot of these former major leaguers were saying all these catchers that go on one knee. You can't properly block those balls in the dirt and that was one..
Scoops with Danny Mac
"charlie montoya" Discussed on Scoops with Danny Mac
"I'm going to give you two names here for two different reasons. One is charlie montoya just because of everything. The blue jays have had to go through. You know that's a built in excuse if there ever was one for a team to not succeed and we haven't heard any complaining and their petted and they're playing well and i think he deserves a lot of extra credit just for holding that situation altogether. Because that's really difficult The other name. I think i'm gonna give you. Is gabe kappler and you look at the giants like he was kind of a device of higher. I think out there because he was hated in philadelphia. And i think maybe now we've learned It wasn't the manager. That was the problem. It's that they just don't have a bullpen. And what they've done in san francisco. He's he's fit in perfectly. They're like. I expected them. I was higher on them than most. I really liked the bones of what they are putting together because you could start to see this coming last year. I'm not going to say. I expected them to be first. Place over. The dodgers the giants. I don't think they will be first place to be honest. I still think the dodgers win that division. But they're going to be in the wild card. And i think if you want to go to the manager of the year award and think about it in terms of overperforming i don't. I don't know how you can do better than the giants this year yet. We need a new name. And by we i i guess i mean like the casual fan who's still refers to like any smart acquisitions or like a high floor. Potentially high ceiling low risk. Cairo award acquisitions get stop calling moneyball and start calling it something different. With what like the giants. And i guess the as are doing like teams that are being smart but also being smart in this market and maybe giving veterans appealing landing spots when there isn't as robust a A book of business per se. As as maybe there would have been five six seven years ago. I don't wanna make us both feel ancient here. Moneyball was twenty years ago is crazy happens. He's still and again. We not being you. But i think sometimes that term is still applied. And it's it's just different but like what the giants are doing. I guess if you were to describe it in a few words let's say to To my mother tell my mother how the giants went about building this team without a getting into some of the financial trouble. The team's got into trying to play the free agent market. Be without mortgaging the future and with also You know being able to bring prospects up and continue the The pipeline of the organization. I think it's two things that have very little. The first thing is that they have been outstanding at identifying players on other teams who either haven't had enough of a chance or haven't gotten the right instruction and helping them improve might stransky. Is that guy austin slater. They've had a bunch of the guys like that. They've hired really smart people who not only know how to look at the data and the bio mechanics but can express it to the players in the way that works. So that's that's one thing. And that's the thing i saw last year that i was excited about them improving this year. The second thing is the thing. I did not see coming. Which is that. They were going to be able to figure out a way to go to some of those aging veterans. The heroes of those world series teams. Were still around like brandon. Crawford like buster posey and help them get back if not to the level. They were at at least pretty close to it like brandon crawford..
Scoops with Danny Mac
"charlie montoya" Discussed on Scoops with Danny Mac
"I'm going to give you two names here for two different reasons. One is charlie montoya just because of everything. The blue jays have had to go through. You know that's a built in excuse if there ever was one for a team to not succeed and we haven't heard any complaining and their petted and they're playing well and i think he deserves a lot of extra credit just for holding that situation altogether. Because that's really difficult The other name. I think i'm gonna give you. Is gabe kappler and you look at the giants like he was kind of a device of higher. I think out there because he was hated in philadelphia. And i think maybe now we've learned It wasn't the manager. That was the problem. It's that they just don't have a bullpen. And what they've done in san francisco. He's he's fit in perfectly. They're like. I expected them. I was higher on them than most. I really liked the bones of what they are putting together because you could start to see this coming last year. I'm not going to say. I expected them to be first. Place over. The dodgers the giants. I don't think they will be first place to be honest. I still think the dodgers win that division. But they're going to be in the wild card. And i think if you want to go to the manager of the year award and think about it in terms of overperforming i don't. I don't know how you can do better than the giants this year yet. We need a new name. And by we i i guess i mean like the casual fan who's still refers to like any smart acquisitions or like a high floor. Potentially high ceiling low risk. Cairo award acquisitions get stop calling moneyball and start calling it something different. With what like the giants. And i guess the as are doing like teams that are being smart but also being smart in this market and maybe giving veterans appealing landing spots when there isn't as robust a A book of business per se. As as maybe there would have been five six seven years ago. I don't wanna make us both feel ancient here. Moneyball was twenty years ago is crazy happens. He's still and again. We not being you. But i think sometimes that term is still applied. And it's it's just different but like what the giants are doing. I guess if you were to describe it in a few words let's say to To my mother tell my mother how the giants went about building this team without a getting into some of the financial trouble. The team's got into trying to play the free agent market. Be without mortgaging the future and with also You know being able to bring prospects up and continue the The pipeline of the organization. I think it's two things that have very little. The first thing is that they have been outstanding at identifying players on other teams who either haven't had enough of a chance or haven't gotten the right instruction and helping them improve might stransky. Is that guy austin slater. They've had a bunch of the guys like that. They've hired really smart people who not only know how to look at the data and the bio mechanics but can express it to the players in the way that works. So that's that's one thing. And that's the thing i saw last year that i was excited about them improving this year. The second thing is the thing. I did not see coming. Which is that. They were going to be able to figure out a way to go to some of those aging veterans. The heroes of those world series teams. Were still around like brandon. Crawford like buster posey and help them get back if not to the level. They were at at least pretty close to it like brandon crawford..
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"Has been the only other consistent arm in there and even castro gave up a run last night. So when you look at that and say you have to slash three guys you can trust. Who else are you going to bring in. Besides thornton thornton had been pretty good prior to that outing. So that's why i don't disagree with montolio there and at the same time the blue jays loss game because they're hitting one for twelve with runners scoring position. It looks like they had carlos rodion on the ropes at multiple points wrote that game. They just couldn't get it done so. Don't blame charlie montoya for that. I know a lot of people would disagree with me. But i think it's a bright spot coming out of this series. They don't win it that it seems like their bullpen. Is getting back to a little bit of what it was. That tyler was returning to normal that to meza's returning to normal again small sample size bid to good sign moving forward and i just i don't really know how people want to blame for keeping tranformed in or bringing trend thornton because as you said he's been one of their best relievers all season even with that with that a five run first inning against the whites against the the actually. His era is only at three forty five so like he's been fantastic all season and three forty that was including his start against. The whites is is outing against the white sox but he's been good all season yes. He was charged for three earned runs. But he's not been a bad guy. He's not been somebody that you've had to worry about is gonna to get you out of an inning. His eating and get you out of a jam that was just a situation where he just wasn't e-egypt inhabit and okay fair enough that that's not really on montolio and at the same time. I don't fully blame. Trent thorn for that because People have bad day sometimes. So that's kind of just where i'm at like i would have put trent thornton that situation anyways. Because it's a one. Run game tyler. Chat would be looked better in the series. But i'm not gonna. I'm not gonna test out. How good he is in that type of situation in the situation yesterday's game with i think what the perfect situation to put him in so like. I don't really think we can blame on toy for any situations and people are i. I mean okay. Fair enough There's a bit of a track record. Where montoya was made. Some bad decisions and people are starting to blame. Blame him for kind of whatever they can. And i just. I don't really fully agree with that. Like i will call. Charlie montoya when i think he makes bad decisions but i will defend him and when people are saying that..
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"Airmont dryer hanging out hanging out to dry because you cannot afford to lose games. And i keep saying that but that that's just how it is and go back. Maybe in at the end of the season in the blue are out of the playoffs by a game. or two you can look back and say well. What about these games. That were not taken as seriously as they should. And that's just it's mind boggling to me and especially to your point mark the fact that the bullpen has been not as overworked as it normally has been. They've only played the whatever. It is ending thirty five innings when they should have played like ten more or something like that like this bullpen has not pitched a lot in the last week. So all hands should be on deck and you should have the guys available even if you like. I know you mentioned dooley's romano. Even if one of them does want to go out a second time. I would let them. But charlie's obviously not going to do that but the fact that nobody was warming up is it makes me angrier than if somebody was warming up because okay say anthony. Castro comes in two batters before and he allows two earned runs in the blue jays. End up losing okay fair enough then whatever but the fact that nobody was warming up and that somebody then had to come into an absolute mess of a situation it just it makes me very angry and that's just the way that this was handled it. Just i've been defending charlie montoya for quite a while. But i cannot defend this. And i understand. Why the pitchforks were adam. And he was angry in that interview people. I think it was Whoever it was. I don't remember talking my head whoever's voice it was that asked him the question. He was angry about that. He knows that the the heat's on him and he's got a defendant. I really don't know how. Defend it other than by going in managing your butt off in the month of june because you gotta come back from a terrible month after that. That's just that's not excusable. And that's not excusable for any team but especially considering. You're supposed to make the playoffs that you can't have that happen. You can't throw games. You can't mismanaged this. Many games going back to last season there were so many instances of this should have been done differently in. Yes i understand. Hindsight is twenty twenty and you can say of course like this should have been done differently but you gotta learn from your mistakes. You can't just continuously say well. We're learned from that where i should have done that differently. Like bottom line is is try. One toy is mismanaging this game or mismanaged that game. Somebody should have been warming up. And i i can't. I can under- frustrated about a bad performance but i'm even more frustrated that a bad performance was let was prolonged. Basically that point you gotta read the game. You gotta take is out when they're not doing well..
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"To episode one hundred twenty four section one thirty eight. I'm your host mark collie as always joined by our other hosts bryson and jacob. How're you guys well We got a lot to talk about today. But i'm i'm doing okay. You know very interested in a very excited record today for obvious reasons that will get into but overall doing okay jason. A road trip at four and two so it could have been worse but it was definitely a good step forward. It's going to be an action packed up. So i can already tell that yeah. They took two of three from the yankees. Then they take two of three from cleveland. Which charlie montoya seemed very proud of that fact they won. Eleven to two in a rain-soaked seven inning game. On friday off day on saturday with game being postponed and then sunday yesterday the doubleheader they take the first one four to one they lose the second one sixty five. And that's what we're going to be talking about mostly today jacob. How're you well. You listed all that. So i mean i'm not doing too well considering that little staff for people. Blue jays played five seven inning games in a row considering all the rainouts and whatnot. Which you know. It's kind of funny. They've played less innings. They should've which is good for the bullpen. But wasn't good enough. I guess but we'll we'll we'll get into that. The first team in major league history to play five consecutive senate. Seven games and the second team is going to be cleveland. Which i think is going to do it today. Because they have either double header today or tomorrow so today. It's it's a crazy time to be a baseball fan especially for the blue jays but yeah so just jumping right into it. Yesterday's game the blue jays. Al four zero going into the later innings. Bring in tyler chat would in the seventh. He walks bases loaded walks in iran to make it five to five. Finally charlie manteo brings an anthony castro to the bullpen. Castro does his job. He gets a sacked fly but that enza game walks it off for cleveland. There was no one warming in the bullpen. Before that charlie. Montayo couldn't have taken out tyler chitwood after he walked in after he walked three straight. Because there's no one warming in the bullpen. This move got. I think probably like the most criticism. I've ever seen against a blue jay manager in the time that i've been a fan. It's been pretty crazy. The amount of criticism that's been leveled onto montoyo. And he had a lot to say about it after the game. But i'll just play the clip from what he did say which is interesting. I'm sure there's gonna be a watch impact about it talking about just a one game two out of three from the yankees to other three from these guys and we're talking about one batting and you know what i'm saying. Yeah he could take him out all that stuff but he's one of our best relievers e you've got to trust somebody one time and let them get out of trouble but again it was a grotesque with the standing job to three hundred. Three doesn't get any better than that. Of course we could swept you. We got one more at one. Three more outs but didn't work out that way. So lots to pack their. What are your thoughts about this. The other people are lot. Lots of people are critical of the other moves. Montayo made removing stripling from the game early using upper fao. Jordan raimondo. in the first game. Personally i only blamed montevideo for the decision not to warm anyone up in the bullpen in that seventh inning. With toddler chat on the mound. That's where i stand..
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"It's unfortunate that they're still losing options but at least now they have a guy that can start. And you know that's three or four innings that you don't have to cover so at least with stripling bluejays. Now have the option to be a little bit more flexible and when their guys come back you know. Hopefully we see guys like julian meriwether. Hope we're expecting cdo leeson and phelps and all them back at some point throughout the season i think the bullpen will lethal once they finally and i say finally very cautiously finally get all these guys back. 'cause i it can be good. I don't think that we've we're very concerned about the potential of the bullpen concerned about who's actually in the bullpen. And the amount of players that keep leaving because of injuries. That's i think what's really holding them back right now. Well what's been remarkable is that they have been pretty lethal even despite these injuries or one of the best bullpens in baseball which is bonkers. I i don't know how the blue jays are doing it with all these injuries with just the incredible amount of work that they've been put up to by charlie montoya by the starting rotation. Somehow they've weathered the storm in so far they're doing well. I think we're gonna see that fall apart eventually but you know so far so good so. It's remarkable that they've lasted this long. I do want to talk about the bullpen management. Because there have been some instances where people have been upset about bringing guys in where they shouldn't be brought in. I know there's been issues with guys. You know shaking our frost like jordan romano. You had to put him in a few blowout situation so that he got some work in because he came back from the injury list. He was a bit rusty. A bit rough but you are seeing. The blue jays put high leverage guys. Guys who have been really good this season like i don't know ryan baraki into situations that aren't high leverage that that you shouldn't be using those guys in in my opinion you should be saving some these guys for incidences where the games are closer instead of using them up on games where you know there's a three or four or five run differential so i've disagreed with some of the bullpen decision so far and i think it's casa blue jays much rather see them use a guy like joe pay amps in a four run game instead of tim. Meza orion brockie in a four run game. It hasn't been the worst there. Bluejays are making do with what they have. But i had been frustrated a little bit with the decisions. They've been making just. Because i know it's going to have ramifications down. The line is yeah. I will agree with you on that..
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"Even for the pitching it could have probably gone a lot better just because of the injuries that we know how are occurring still for the starting pitching now the jays are finally back to a three man rotation before that it was a two man rotation with bullpen days. And that's a little bit concerning for me because we all know that eventually as much as this bullpens been really good. It's going to run at a gas eventually if this keeps up. And the jay's no that Charlie montoya knows that pete walker knows that so reinforcements slowly coming back with ross stripling back and hundred rio jacob again you mention may six as the target date for him to return and if not maybe sometime next week in houston. I guess you can't rule that out so hopefully within the roof you see him. Come back if that happens. Then you're back to a four man rotation and of course there's pierce in another other guys. Lingering around triple a. are now especially aaa since. They're slated to start this week. That could potentially be coming back soon. So for the jays rotation reinforcements are on the way slowly and slowly but even with the full pitching staff. This week definitely could have gotten better. So that's where. I look at it and kind of cancel it out with the fact that they have a full lineup and realized that this team was for real this weekend and it is going to be scary. When this clicks all season long. We've been talking about the stroke. Are the them struggling with runners in scoring position them struggling overall this past seven days for the offense has been very up like very exciting and it gives us a lot of optimism as we head into me because a lot of performances individual performances and the team itself. The team numbers are skyrocketing in terms of offense. And this is the offense that we all predicted in the offense that we were all waiting to see happen. And i guess in this case it took it took a full lineup For to get going. So you have george springer back now. Hopefully he stays healthy and a little bit of a scare yesterday where he left With fatigue so. I guess that could be better than i. Guess him. re-aggravating this quiet so that was kind of a little bit of a sigh of relief and then again with oscar and is in a lot of individual guys starting to get going Larger scale junior is a guy that comes to mind. You know other than him. There's been guys like vladimir. Grow junior bobick chat. Who had been carrying the team in are still hitting while which is good. See but people like alejandro kirk was another one who started hit while but unfortunately he was silent with the hip flexor strain. So that's a little bit disappointing. And now the jays are going to be half to or have to rely on danny janssen but either way someone who are again was laura's gurriel junior who is definitely a highlight this week for me and for someone who started off struggling and sony starting to heat up so you having a lot of guys. Who are these hot from. The beginning continued to stay hot and other guys that started off. Slow are starting to heat up up in other words is coming full circle and it's starting to come together which is really good to see. I think i'll just mention here. Sorry just because we're talking about gurriel. Previously he was getting under one hundred hundred two hundred actually going into the week and we last recorded. I believe it was on sunday since then. He's gone six for twenty with two home runs which is good for three hundred over the week so now his average is up to twenty six. So i just wanted to put that out there..
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"Maybe it does help depth in the bullpen. A little bit with these guys. But i'm not gonna stress about it because it is just a couple of days. It's just a few minor injuries. And and injure lead injured list stint. So i'm not worried about it i. I really don't think that there is too much to be worried about. Because i mean obviously we hope everyone's okay. We hope nothing lingers beyond any time frame that we've already been given. But i don't think that that's going to happen. I think the case will be that guys. Come back the second ready. And even laura's junior. Charlie montoya said in the postgame interview. The day that he was taken out of the game that begins at the beginning of the day. He was fine but then he just started to undergo some symptoms in the in the actual dugout sell. It could just be a one time thing. I'm sure we've all had the flu. A cold some type of thing that just hit you out of nowhere and then it goes away after a couple of days so we'll hope that that's what the case is. We obviously hope that he's okay. But i really don't think that the bluejays are going to be lacking they are lacking the depth but i don't think lacking of depth will negatively influence them. Because i do think that the bulk has been pretty good so far this year and again it's only a couple of days so worse case you call somebody up as we've seen anthony case not even with the team yet. So maybe you bring him up. You'd you shuffle. The la di di bullpen and the rotation of a little bit unless you completely mismanaged the entire roster. Think that this will be much of a problem for the blue jays sell. I'm not overly worried. Once guys come back. I think this team is still lethal. And hopefully they complain toronto. You can see leafless fully at montbard without one a couple of weeks ago. i think I i remember saying that. They have the depth and we all know they do. Just obviously the question. Mark is some of these guys still have improved themselves. Which gives you a little bit of question mark and that is more towards the bullpen. But either way they do have the pieces to do it and when you look at it now in terms of people. They've called up. Since i know tyson made his debut. Now santiago has been all you know. He came out on fire on our yesterday when he made his debut and he was somebody that was on the team for good bulk of last year so he was and he was this close to make the team This year of course. He fell behind joe panic. And of course josh palacios and other one. Who is the fifth outfielder on this team just behind..
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"charlie montoya" Discussed on Section 138
"And i believe it was a three to count that he had him on. And most of those balls were from the breaking pitches he finally did throw a fastball. Blew it right by. And so i'm not sure how much we can say. I mean he's going to work on things. I think he will still be very elite pitcher. But yeah i guess going into the season. I didn't expect many jitters or many things that needed to be ironed out. But i guess that's where we are. And i'm not worried about joyner. Mono or raphael think rebound. Just fine and be the pictures that we have expected them to be on top of some guys that have now proven to be elite on top of them for sure and you know something similar to going back to i guess last opening day as dulles had a shaky start as well so maybe that's just something you know something that's a coincidence or not but of course. It is the overreaction for the opening weekend and yeah people who are writing anything off like that. He'll be fine he will be fine and him and romano's well ramana will be a lot sharper meriwether pretty sharp and You know we had a new a series. Now where you've seen tj zoe pitch you've seen hundred raves in ross. Stripling a now Tomorrow or monday in texas. You see stephen mats. And of course on tuesday it is diesel truck season so You know a few more things to kinda see plays out but Yeah i i'm just. I was really impressed with the way the team played and this lineup looked scary. Not everyone is even clicking yet but you know they are doing. They had a decent opening weekend for sure. Obviously not the greatest but they weren't horrible and You know some people still stuck like we mentioned already and some people still get going but Once this team kind of comes fully together offensively. I think it's going to be forced to be reckoned with in pitching. Who knows how it's going to start. We know people like robbie. Ray are napier's from getting closer which we'll talk about later on but So far the in three starts. It's been decent so nothing to concerning at all pretty much right now and a lot of good things to take away from but an open and exciting opening weekend. I really real opening weekend since two thousand nineteen so it definitely feels good to have baseball back in april so You know. I just can't wait and all the excitement and all the talking from the off season is finally passed. The so we're now we're Were into a twenty twenty one regular season which is very very excited k. Last thing i want to touch on the pitching before we moved to the offense and defense which you alluded to prison we did see at least in thursday's game in saturday's game a little bit of a different approach in terms of pitching management from charlie montoya. The blue jays. Al east on thursday higher engine. You get into. I think it was a seventh. Did he record an out in the seventh. Which was you know insane opening day of all days for a pitcher to go deep into a game when they aren't totally stretched out that was encouraging to see..
Jay Bird Watching
"charlie montoya" Discussed on Jay Bird Watching
"Starts rain check exactly maybe next week if no news newsbreaks at the last second we can do that up to you though. Of course let's hosting. We bought the bit of news. Gentlemen that Totally shifted what. We're going to talk about. Tonight was the fact that charlie montoya has had his option picked up four twenty twenty two. Personally i didn't even remember what the deals of his contract like waiting for signed it. I didn't even know there was an option on the table. For twenty twenty two. He's locked in. He's locked in for this year. Obviously there in the middle of spring training. And they're doing pretty well and they've already felt confident enough to vest his option for two thousand twenty two so craig i wanna kick things off with you on this one. I don't know if you wanna put him on trial. I don't know what you want to kick things off. But what were your. What were your first thoughts. I guess when you heard that. Because i didn't see a whole collective celebration on blue jays twitter but i also didn't see any negativities. So what were your thoughts on that. Because it's a little weird when not a polarizing reaction to news like this. Now what marcus stroman tweets or whatever it might be and nobody said. The ship is sinking or anything. So we're not going there so no it's just that kind of like it's almost like the status quo right. That's kind of how it felt to me. He hasn't done anything blatantly. Obvious to lose confidence and blue jays nation but he hasn't done anything to really wow jays nation yet either because we more or less made the joke on this show a couple of times that he's the the corporate puppet right. he's just a member of the analytics team. He just happens to be the field. General of the analytics team is what it really boils down to right so that i think that's why you get the weird mixed opinions on things just because it's completely all over the place right. It's just okay. Great you showed up. You did a decent job. Let's just keep running with it. What else can you say really right. It was other than the fact that we've talked about many times on this thing. There's some things that need to change. As far as somebody actually having a pair of balls to maybe make some certain moves during the games and whatnot and maybe the analytics aren't the only thing that needs to be gospel but i think it's really just because he was a member of the analytics team gets to keep playing. Yeah i don't really mind the move. So i just checked out the contract details in two thousand eighteen. He signed a three year deal with an option for twenty twenty two so two thousand twenty..
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"charlie montoya" Discussed on Section 138
"Charlie montoya said the goal is for him to be a gold cup first baseman. That's what they're trying to do. They're not trying to move him to third. They're not trying to mess with anything and just on the topic of weight like i don't think it really helps him. All that much defensively like you said jacob the mistakes he was making were mental mistakes and i think you know maybe it helps him offensively because i mean we saw him having trouble with his swing in two thousand twenty just like hitting the top of the ball not getting under it not lifting it. Which was the main problem. He has the exit loss. Just doesn't have the the launch angle on it. It's all just line drive and maybe that helps and maybe losing weight helps him. Increase the launch angle. I don't know. But i think that's the thing we're going to be looking at. You mentioned it. Bryson and other player laura's girl junior. We talked about him last week. Playing third base playing at first base. Looks like he's going to be more first base than third base. What the bluejays are saying again. Just a late inning situation type thing. He has also balked. Balked up this offseason. He gained eight pounds. Apparently we've heard in muscle. He's up to two fifteen which is obviously encouraging not much talk about their but ronald grishik is another guy with some positional flexibility. That we're going to be seeing. The blue. jays have apparently told him that he's just moving over to right field right now and he said he thinks he strongest in right field. That's how he helps the team the best but he's also going to be slotting in a designated hitter. He said he said he's expecting be at d. h. This is par for the course. We knew the blue jays would have to move him somewhere with george springer coming along already. A jam packed outfield with gurriel and hernandez if it makes sense to give him d. h. Reps over a guy like rowdy rowdy till seems to have better offense of numbers and is certainly the future of this global randall. Grishik i think is a placeholder if not the past. So that's where i stand on this but again you have to play him somewhere. You're paying him. What is it eleven million dollars a year. You have to put him somewhere. So this is i. Think the best solution putting him in right field. Somedays d. h. some other days. I don't think that he's necessarily going to a lot this season. I think you just mentioned with rowdy. Tila he's gonna he's gonna be your primary. Hr your first baseman. Him and guerrero are interchangeable. Tasker is also exists. I don't think that he in a day that where he's not playing on the field is just going be out of the lineup because no..
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"charlie montoya" Discussed on Section 138
"Came over here to primarily plays second base and for those reasons alone just gives us optimism to believe that he can go back to his two thousand nineteen foreman even if he's not two thousand nine hundred and form is going to be closer to twenty nineteen forum than he was in two thousand twenty four in that that's even looking at his career stats as well but lots of lots of things to look at here. It's just it's not a bad signing at all. It's very very good. And he's going to be a key piece of this offense in this offense continues to improve and it's continues to be one of the top rejected lineups so far in not just the american league east but the entire american league itself One thing i wanted to ask you guys. Actually when chevy came out with that tweet saying that simians essentially taking over second base and bijou's moving to third a dvd also mentioned there that it kind of closes the door and vladimir guerrero junior moving to third base. He said charlie montoya was open to it. But it's pretty much third base is pretty much going to be gio. Do you think that will see guerrero at all or do you think that this is going to be kind of a. He's at first base essentially this year and most likely into the foreseeable future. I mean i've been seeing him at first base for the entire off-season even f has. We've been seeing these videos of him. Working out an improvement. I think he's still primarily a first baseman. I don't think that he really ever had a shot of playing at third base. But if he did you know if the front office wanted to see him at third base. I don't think this directly changes that. I think kevin bijou even with the signing of george springer can still play in the outfield. I think he can still play at second base. Shortstop whatever if bobishenko takes a day off if margaret siemian takes a day off. We saw him play at first a little bit. So if rowdy to as is in playing or guerrero is in playing of course that obviously impacts the question of whether grows at third i think kevin bijou might primarily be the third baseman now..
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Tampa Bay Rays' Kevin Cash, Miami Marlins' Don Mattingly win Manager of the Year awards
"Is the manager of the year. Kevin Cash of the Tampa Bay Rays has won the American League manager of the Year award Cache guided the Rays to a nail best 40 and 20 record in the pandemic shortened season. But cash was widely criticized for pulling a CE left hander Blake Snell in the sixth inning of the decisive sixth game of the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Voting by the Baseball Writers Association of America concluded before the playoffs began. Rick Renteria, who was fired after leading the Chicago White Sox threw a postseason berth, finished second in the voting, followed by Toronto's Charlie Montoya. Oh Don Mattingly of Miami was voted the National League manager of the Year I Mike
Sports X Radio
MLB awards: Finalists unveiled for Manager of the Year
"The fact that MLB started doing this naming the three finalists. Am I telling you for the past couple of years, and they've they've announced the finalists for the major awards day towards being handed out next week Monday. Next Monday, is Rookie of the year man to the years next Tuesday. Cy Young is on Wednesday and then m V P, of course, is on Thursday. So to me, the most interesting one is the manager of the year, especially in the American League and usually like man who cares, But I think it's very interesting because The three guys who they've picked in the American League to be the manager of the year. One of them is Kevin Cash, who had a fantastic regular season but has been blasted for one managerial movie made in the World Series, which was taking Blake snout too early. Yeah, he pulled a Dave Roberts. Yeah, and it makes no sense to me at all. Why he would do that, And he's going to say it's the analytics. But if you look at the numbers Blake they're actually the third time through the lineup is better than he is the second time through the lineup. And he was making them look ridiculous. Absolutely. I mean, it was. It was just stupid. How bad they looked any just struck out the top three guys in the orders twice. So that means none of them had made contact Justin Turner. Mookie Betts. Corey Seager had made zero contact, and that's the Yoon said Betts doesn't swing and miss. He makes contact and he was he made. That's look ridiculous. He absolutely didn't know that. But this year better actually hit worse against lefties. Entity is right. But that's beside the point. Yes, so Kevin Cash is one Of the three managers. Charlie Montoya. The Bluejays is another one, which I think is great. And I think it's hilarious that the third manager of the heirs, Rick Renteria, who is no longer manage manager, he was relieved of his job. So we have a guy who made a horrible managerial decision guy who's no longer managing, then you're trying. Montoya.