All in all an encouraging game. Lets admit it, Harden was not good, but the Jays managed to work him to 90 pitches in his 3-2/3 innings, and that's an important thing. There aren't many times a starter is going to have a good outing against you if he's throwing 100 pitches in 4 innings, and most of the jays batters didn't let him off the hook. Tallet repaid management's faith, but he had good outings last season too as a starter. Hopefully he can put enough good ones together to generate some trade interest before the bad ones start piling up. Vernon positive of course. Errors were a big negative, as well as multiple strikeouts and some other things, but that's what's going to happen with a team that's going to loose around 100 games. 60 times a season you are going to overcome your general crappiness and 100 times you aren't.
Today Romero continues his quest to prove that he is not the worst draft pick in history, I like his chances. Texas counters with their own lefty, but Cito won't be changing up the lineup from what I have gleaned. I think that makes sense for the first 15 games or so. I would like to see them get Ruiz in sometime sooner rather than later though.
2 afternoon games in a row, and then a saturday evening game. That kind of sucks.
Update: Hill is out for this game and McCoy makes his Blue Jays debut. How exciting! Hill has some hamstring tightness and is day-to-day.
Update II: How does Jose Molina bat ahead of Travis Snyder? Are the lineup cards already photocopied for the season with snider marked in for 9th everyday of the season and it would just blow the budget to get another one fresh one so you could move him?
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