[JAKEPEAVY21]

If things continue downhill management could decide to blow things up and rebuild.

I wouldn't be surprised. You guys have a lot of older players on the roster. If a team won't be contending, might as well play some younger guys.

[LT Profits]

Jon Gray was diagnosed with a stress fracture in his left foot on Friday and will miss at least a month of action.

Gray had been battling what the club believed to be a toe injury, but X-rays revealed that he indeed has a stress fracture. It sounds like he'll be sidelined for a minimum of four weeks before being re-evaluated. It's a difficult blow to the Rockies and to fantasy owners who invested an early pick in the hard-throwing right-hander.

Source: Thomas Harding on Twitter

[BigSpoon]

1-9 start for the Jays is the worst in franchise history. At least the Leafs and Raptors are in the playoffs atm.

[mr. leisure]

Jon Gray was diagnosed with a stress fracture in his left foot on Friday and will miss at least a month of action.

Gray had been battling what the club believed to be a toe injury, but X-rays revealed that he indeed has a stress fracture. It sounds like he'll be sidelined for a minimum of four weeks before being re-evaluated. It's a difficult blow to the Rockies and to fantasy owners who invested an early pick in the hard-throwing right-hander.

Source: Thomas Harding on Twitter

Tough break for the Rockies

[koz-man]

Yankees manager Joe Girardi said he didn't think Matt Holliday's stiff back was anything serious. Girardi thought that Holliday could be in the lineup on Sunday.

[koz-man]

That's 225 career wins for CC Sabathia. baseball-reference.com/players/s/saba… NYY contract runs out in fall, but he intends to keep pitching for awhile.

[Andy117]

I wanna hear some early season MVP chatter, who do you guys have? I'll take Schwarber and Trout.

Trout's always a good bet.
It looks like Murphy's 2016 and 2015 playoff run wasn't a fluke. He's got a real shot at it this year.

[mr. leisure]

That's 225 career wins for CC Sabathia. baseball-reference.com/players/s/saba… NYY contract runs out in fall, but he intends to keep pitching for awhile.

Solid effort today

7.1 innings 3 hits and 1 earned run .

[BigSpoon]

Jays win 2-1 to move their record to 2-9. The offense is still crap.

[Cross]

Nobody wants a Canadian team to do well,its America's pastime.

[EmpireMaker]

Jays win 2-1 to move their record to 2-9. The offense is still crap.

Bautista can't buy a hit to save his life so far this season.

[koz-man]

FROM ELIAS: SEA's James Paxton is 10th pitcher in MLB history to begin a season with three consecutive starts of at least six IP and no runs

[mpaschal34]

FROM ELIAS: SEA's James Paxton is 10th pitcher in MLB history to begin a season with three consecutive starts of at least six IP and no runs

Watched his start last night and he looked great.

[Otters27]

Bautista can't buy a hit to save his life so far this season.

ya his at bats look terrible. He needs to turn it around fast.

[Chi_archie]

Last year Cubs started

17-5 and 25-6

they are 6-5 and in danger of going 6-6

[JAKEPEAVY21]

Bautista can't buy a hit to save his life so far this season.

He has never really been a high average guy...he will get locked in at some point.

[LT Profits]

Blue Jays placed RHP Aaron Sanchez on the 10-day disabled list, retroactive to April 15, with a right middle finger blister.

Sanchez first started dealing with a blister in his final spring training start, and it evidently must have been bothering him on Friday when the Orioles touched him up for five runs over 5 1/3 innings. It's possible that he'll be ready to go when his 10 days are up, but it just depends on how fast the blister heals. Toronto has an off day Monday, so they can put off a decision on their fifth starter for a little while if they want.

[EmpireMaker]

A day after placing Aaron Sanchez on the DL, the Blue Jays might have lost another starting pitcher today — J.A. Happ will have an MRI after leaving today’s game with elbow trouble, as Sportsnet’s Arden Zwelling and other reporters have noted. “I felt kind of a pull, a tug in my elbow,” says Happ. “And then I went back out there for the fifth and it just got progressively worse.” A significant injury to Happ would be yet another blow to a Blue Jays team that is already off to 2-10 start that had already led to whispers that the team could be sellers on the trade market this summer. Here are more notes on injuries.

• Dodgers lefty Rich Hill’s second start of the season ended just as his first one did — with an early departure due to blister trouble, as Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times notes. Shaikin further adds in a tweet that the Dodgers will decide tomorrow whether Hill will require another DL stay. The team could even consider moving him to the bullpen, manager Dave Roberts tells reporters, including MLB.com’s Ken Gurnick (link to Twitter). Presumably, pitching shorter outings could prevent blister flareups. Hill pitched just three innings in the Dodgers’ 3-1 loss to the Diamondbacks. “We’ve talked to a lot of different people that have issues with that outside of our game, and we just can’t pinpoint it,” Roberts said before the game of Hill’s blister issues. “We’re going to continue to try. We don’t have an answer.”
• Braves catcher Tyler Flowers is day-to-day with a strained hamstring he noticed during Sunday’s game, as MLB.com’s Mark Bowman notes. “We’re going to re-evaluate him tomorrow and see where we’re at. Hopefully it’s nothing real serious, because he’s swinging that bat real well,” says Braves manager Brian Snitker. The Braves will wait to decide whether to place Flowers on the DL. In Flowers is out for awhile, Kurt Suzuki will start and Anthony Recker will back him up. Both are already on the Braves’ active roster.
• Mariners infielder Jean Segura and reliever Steve Cishek are close to returning from injury, writes MLB.com’s Greg Johns. Segura has been doing some supervised running to test his ailing hamstring, and hopes to return on Friday, when is when he’s first eligible to come back after going on the DL last Tuesday. Cishek, meanwhile, is beginning a rehab assignment with Double-A Arkansas. Cishek is still making his way back after having microfracture hip surgery last October.

[Otters27]

Jon Gray was diagnosed with a stress fracture in his left foot on Friday and will miss at least a month of action.

Gray had been battling what the club believed to be a toe injury, but X-rays revealed that he indeed has a stress fracture. It sounds like he'll be sidelined for a minimum of four weeks before being re-evaluated. It's a difficult blow to the Rockies and to fantasy owners who invested an early pick in the hard-throwing right-hander.

Source: Thomas Harding on Twitter

Dang it. The Rockies are looking good at 9-5 also.

[Chi_archie]

Blue jays hurt by the injury bug

[LT Profits]

Whoda thunk it? Ranked by WAR

#	Team		W	L			SV		G		GS		IP		K/9		BB/9	HR/9			BABIP		LOB%		GB%		HR/FB		ERA		FIP		xFIP		WAR
1		Rockies			9	5		8		58		14		124.0		8.56			2.90	0.94		.283		71.7 %		51.3 %		14.9 %		3.92		3.43		3.19		2.5
2		Orioles			8	3		5		47		11		99.0		8.36			3.73	0.64		.341		76.3 %		40.8 %		6.7 %		3.82		3.32		4.08		2.5
3		Yankees			8	4		4		51		12		104.0		10.13			2.60	1.04		.280		77.5 %		44.6 %		14.0 %		3.12		3.16		2.98		2.1
4		Dodgers			7	6		3		52		13		113.2		9.34			2.53	1.03		.256		81.4 %		42.9 %		11.6 %		2.77		3.21		3.30		2.1
5		Mets			7	6		3		63		13		125.1		9.05			3.02	0.93		.299		75.1 %		51.5 %		12.3 %		3.59		3.32		3.32		2.0

Rockies could be a sneaky good team this year now that they finally have some pitching, especially when Gray comes back.

[JAKEPEAVY21]

offensive explosion by the Jays last night plating 4 runs...

[BigSpoon]

Blue jays hurt by the injury bug

The hitting has been the main culprit this season. Offense has scored 4 runs or less in 10 of its first 12 games, averaging only 2.8 runs per game.

[mr. leisure]

The Blue Jays don`t have any pitching now to go along with the weak hitting .

[koz-man]

Red Sox 4, Rays 3: Make it three in a row for the Sox, who won the annual 11 a.m. Patriots' Day game at Fenway.

Andrew Benintendi keyed a big second inning with a two-out, two-run double and finished with three hits. Craig Kimbrel nailed down another save with his third perfect ninth inning in as many games.

[koz-man]

*Mookie Betts' run of not striking out has reached 123 plate appearances, the longest streak by a Red Sox player since Denny Doyle (159 PAs) in 1975.

*Nationals RF Bryce Harper's start to the 2017 season has far exceeded how he finished up 2016, which included a .235/.458/.294 slash line in the postseason.

[stevenash]

The Blue Jays don`t have any pitching now to go along with the weak hitting .

Not only do they lack in starting pitching which was painfully obvious to most in spring training, the loss of Encarnciion in the middle of the order crippled the line up.

Bautista is a shell of the hitter he once was, bat speed is slower, and is no longer feared at bat.
Do I dare say it, the Blue Jays line up is soft.

They have no hitter on the team with more than two home runs, and that's Josh Donaldson and Morales.
Donaldson has a whopping four RBI's, Bautista is homer less.
Team is a mess, it really is.

[stevenash]

I wanna hear some early season MVP chatter, who do you guys have? I'll take Schwarber and Trout.

Aside from the obvious candidates (Trout, etc.)

Ozuna 5 HR 14 RBI .404 - has cut his K rate in half too.
Nolan Arendo (not just a one trick pony, can hit outside of Coors)
Cespedes despite hitting .250 so far.
Eric Thames just homered in his fifth straight game.

[Cross]

Cubbies definitely haven't hit their stride, watch out when they do.

[Andy117]

Cubbies definitely haven't hit their stride, watch out when they do.

Cleveland is also 6-7. It's early.

[EmpireMaker]

After his blister problem reappeared in his most recent outing, Dodgers lefty Rich Hill is heading back to the DL, per a club announcement. For the time being, corner outfielder/infielder Rob Segedin is headed up to the active roster while Alex Wood will take the open rotation spot.
There’s plenty of uncertainty in Hill’s situation. As things stand, the team is examining ways to treat the ongoing problem, though there’s no timetable at present and it seems there’s little in the way of clear answers. Manager Dave Roberts acknowledged that the organization’s medical staff has been stymied thus far in its efforts to get at the root cause, as MLB.com’s Ken Gurnick reports on Twitter. (Gurnick provided more detail on the confounding issue earlier today.)
The strategy of utilizing the 10-day DL to provide rest obviously wasn’t successful on its own. As Roberts notes, and Andy McCullough of the Los Angeles Times tweets, “ten days wasn’t enough.” Whether additional rest will provide a solution obviously isn’t known, though presumably that’s one possible action. It’s even possible that the veteran southpaw could move to the bullpen upon his return, Roberts says (as Bill Plunkett of the Orange County Register tweets), with the idea presumably being that shorter stints may help alleviate the problem.
Fortunately, the Dodgers do have ample depth built into their plans. Every member of the current MLB staff has at least some significant recent injury on his record, but the current top five seems to be a strong and healthy unit at the moment. Swingman Ross Stripling could also step into the rotation, while Triple-A starters Julio Urias and Joe Gunkel could also be called upon. Scott Kazmir and Brock Stewart both represent additional starting options who are currently on the mend.
While the organization always knew there was some health risk with the 37-year-old Hill, that doesn’t soften the blow. The Dodgers promised Hill $48MM over three years to bring him back into the fold, so while a bullpen move might at least allow him to contribute and stay fresh while the team looks for a permanent fix, such an approach would surely not return value on the contract over the long run.

[JAKEPEAVY21]

Whoda thunk it? Ranked by WAR

#	Team		W	L			SV		G		GS		IP		K/9		BB/9	HR/9			BABIP		LOB%		GB%		HR/FB		ERA		FIP		xFIP		WAR
1		Rockies			9	5		8		58		14		124.0		8.56			2.90	0.94		.283		71.7 %		51.3 %		14.9 %		3.92		3.43		3.19		2.5
2		Orioles			8	3		5		47		11		99.0		8.36			3.73	0.64		.341		76.3 %		40.8 %		6.7 %		3.82		3.32		4.08		2.5
3		Yankees			8	4		4		51		12		104.0		10.13			2.60	1.04		.280		77.5 %		44.6 %		14.0 %		3.12		3.16		2.98		2.1
4		Dodgers			7	6		3		52		13		113.2		9.34			2.53	1.03		.256		81.4 %		42.9 %		11.6 %		2.77		3.21		3.30		2.1
5		Mets			7	6		3		63		13		125.1		9.05			3.02	0.93		.299		75.1 %		51.5 %		12.3 %		3.59		3.32		3.32		2.0

Rockies could be a sneaky good team this year now that they finally have some pitching, especially when Gray comes back.

Bud Black is an underrated manager..He was around .500 with the Padres for 9 seasons with nothing to work with.

[Chi_archie]

Cubbies definitely haven't hit their stride, watch out when they do.

yeah, all those boppers will get hot at the same time and run of 10-15 straight games

the bullpen might be a season long question mark that will need addressed at or before trade deadline.

I think just about every starter will regress, if not get injured.

could be interesting

[El Nino]

Dbacks NL West Champs.

[LT Profits]

Dbacks NL West Champs.

Dodgers should ultimately run away with division, may be only team in NL West to top 90 wins.