This week in baseball blogs:
- Jays Journal writes that Toronto’s Justin Smoak and Jose Bautista are covering for Edwin Encarnacion’s offseason departure.
- Outfield Fly Rule breaks down the Braves’ trade assets.
- Baseball Hot Corner defends Giants catcher Buster Posey for not involving himself in the brawl between teammate Hunter Strickland and Nationals right fielder Bryce Harper.
- Inside the ’Zona offers analysis on how Diamondbacks southpaw Robbie Ray is overcoming a high hard-hit rate.
- Camden Depot wonders if Orioles third baseman Manny Machado has a contact problem.
- A’s Farm talks with Athletics assistant general manager Billy Owens about the team’s best prospects.
- Motor City Bengals argues that Tigers catcher Alex Avila should make the All-Star team.
- Call to the Pen (links: 1, 2) looks back at the Phillies’ offseason and names the Padres who could end up on the move by the trade deadline.
- Underthought revisits the preseason projections for both the AL East and NL East.
- BP Toronto looks at the various 2017 versions of the aforementioned Jose Bautista.
- Clubhouse Corner’s Bernie Pleskoff, a retired major league scout, shares his thoughts on pitch framing.
- District On Deck examines the possibility of the Nationals acquiring reliever Brad Hand from the Padres.
- Pirates Breakdown asks if the Bucs should attempt to acquire just-designated Rangers reliever Sam Dyson.
- Mets Mind has a piece on top infield prospect Amed Rosario’s defense.
- Sports Talk Philly interviews ex-Phillies Billy Wagner and Brett Myers about the team’s current struggles.
- The 3rd Man In profiles 50 of the draft’s top prospects.
- Brew Crew Fever has a May report card for Milwaukee.
- The Runner Sports recaps the Yankees’ May.
- Jays From the Couch notes that Toronto closer Roberto Osuna has been “sneaky good” this year.
- Mets Daddy isn’t writing off the club just yet.
- Reviewing The Brew points to Milwaukee righty Jimmy Nelson’s latest outing to show that a pitcher’s record doesn’t matter.
- Pinstriped Prospects features a scouting report on young Yankees righty Chance Adams.
- ThinkBluePC focuses on Dodgers infield prospect Edwin Rios’ 2017 success.
- The Point of Pittsburgh uses Cleverbot to humorously answer questions about the Pirates.
- Notes From The Sally scouts Yankees outfield prospect Estevan Florial.
- The Runner Sports sees catcher prospect Deon Stafford Jr. as a potential draft target for the Astros.
- Everything Bluebirds compares this year’s Blue Jays offense to the 2015 version.
- Big Three Sports is optimistic about Angels righty Alex Meyer.
- Rotisserie Duck creates a baseball card collection based on players’ nicknames.
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So sick of the same teams always being on the links. I.e the Blue Jays. They are always one of the first teams listed… all the time! And four articles on them just now. Let’s have a variety of some sorts
It’s the Canadian conversion factor in full effect. If Montreal still had a team, there would only be two Jay articles. #missingexpos
The Blue Jays beat up on the weak teams at home before the Bombers came to town. If they lose again today then they go on the road! Stop acting like this team is gonna make the playoffs,because they’re no better then the Rays!
They’re 3 games out of s playoff spot…
With how many teams to leap over and they’re coming down to earth. Let’s see where they are after this next road trip.
Where do you get two games out of WC spot. They’re 3 behind Cleveland and 4 behind Boston and Baltimore. You can’t play all your games against the Reds at home!
They won with all their backups playing, now they’re playing with Tulo, Donaldson, happ and liriano. Sure they won’t win at a 100 game place like they were, but they’ll still compete. Same could easily be said about your yanks anyways. They’ve seemed to be playing above their heads and many expect them to regress
And that’s with 3 teams to leap over, and ONLY 4 more months of baseball
They weren’t winning at a 100 game clip this year at all. The Jays aren’t that good, look at this weekend, they were lucky to get a spilt. 0-24 with runners in scoring position all weekend is brutal.
They went something like 17-9 in May. That’s over a 100 game clip
Under thought is underwhelming. Anyone writing a blog with this kind of exposure should exemplifying learning from the last two months and modifying positions as a student themselves of a game that is a moving target. His predisposition for the Red Sox is apparent.
The outfield fly rule blog was ridiculously stupid.
Seemed pretty knowledgeable and informative to me.