I haven't been following the team as closely as I normally would. I assume the bats are laying pitiful waste to the opposition?
The 2016 Blue Jays have been a damn weird team thus far. It's like the Baseball Gods took most of our expectations and opened the box with the "This Side Up" arrow pointing downwards. I mean, Michael Saunders is OPSing over .900? J.A. Happ is 5-1? Aaron Sanchez looks like a legit big league starter? That 2016 AL East flag should be hanging under the dome roof by now, surely.
Baseball is weird. It's why they play the games, after all.
Opposition Scouting Report
The Twins are really bad. They can't score runs and are bad at preventing them. Just what the doc ordered for the struggling Blue Jays, right? Not so fast. Toronto unfortunately gets the misfortune of facing Minnesota's best two starters (Ervin Santana and Tyler Duffey) to begin the series. Miguel Sano and Korean import Byung-Ho Park can bop a ball or two out of the par... er, yard as well, combining for 16 dingers (nearly half of the Twins overall total) thus far. So, you know, that has the potential to be annoying.
Pitching Probables
THURS 8:10 -- Estrada (1-2, 2.89) v. E. Santana (1-2, 3.38)
FRI 8:10 -- A. Sanchez (3-1, 3.29) v. Duffey (1-2, 1.85)
SAT 2:10 -- Happ (5-1, 3.40) v. Dean (0-1, 4.50)
SUN 2:10 -- Stroman (4-1, 4.23) v. Phil Hughes (1-6, 5.70)
Be nice to win a few.
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