Atkins offers trade deadline vision as Blue Jays’ bats stay quiet vs. Padres

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Published 20.07.2023

Atkins offers trade deadline vision as Blue Jays’ bats stay quiet vs. Padres

TORONTO – Consider Ross Atkins’ newest media availability a strategic positioning of the Toronto Blue Jays for the commerce deadline, an overview to each the membership’s followers and the broader baseball business of how he plans to strategy the essential juncture from now to six p.m. ET on Aug. 1.

Additions are coming as a result of “we need to make this team better in any possible way,” though becoming new gamers in is considerably sophisticated given how set the present roster is, stated the overall supervisor. From a position-player standpoint, “we are better suited for a right-handed bat, but we are open to any way that we can make our team better.” In phrases of starters, “you can never have enough pitching, as they say, so we have to contingency plan, but having (the current group) as a starting point is a good place to be.” For the bullpen, “creating depth in our left-handed relief category” is right, “but it’s more just who’s going to allow us to get the most outs.”

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Lastly, pay attention to this: “What we don’t want to do is subtract (from the current roster). We believe in the group that’s here. We believe they’ve earned that right. We can’t say that we absolutely won’t, but we would prefer not to.”

Coming from an government navigating the rumour-mill grist inherent to this time of yr, that’s as particular and clear a blueprint as you’re going to search out. Given how rigorously deliberate and managed the membership’s public messaging is, you will be sure that they’ve a obscure thought of what’s already sensible for them given the place the market sits proper now.

Everything is topic to alter, after all. Two-thirds of groups within the majors imagine they’re both an actual contender, or are giving their gamers extra runway earlier than deciding in or out. A deadline add up the meals chain could emerge. Shifts within the standing of Hyun Jin Ryu and Chad Green may alter the present calculus. Other wants could abruptly take priority.

By and enormous, although, Atkins made it clear the Blue Jays are planning to experience or die with who they have already got.

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“We certainly don’t need significant upticks,” stated Atkins. “You’ve seen not too long ago with simply among the extra well timed hitting, which we all know and in some instances will be very a lot luck pushed. But you possibly can’t fall again on that, after all. So we imagine on this group a lot that making it higher, now we have to work to do. Hard to do with out some stage of subtraction. But we do assume there’s a approach so as to add slightly little bit of offence to the staff with out having to subtract anybody.

“And on the pitching side, every team in contention is trying to add a reliever, and then every team in contention is trying to add some level of starting pitching depth. So there are different ways to do that. I think we’re in a relatively strong position, but we need to work to improve upon it as well.”

A second straight loss to the San Diego Padres later Wednesday – 2-0 behind six shutout innings from Yu Darvish and a two-run single by Manny Machado throughout a fifth inning prolonged when Jose Berrios threw behind a stealing Trent Grisham however the Blue Jays couldn’t convert the out – underlined the chance for enchancment.

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A tough-hitting righty will surely have been useful throughout the ninth inning, when southpaw nearer Josh Hader got here in to face a super pocket that included lefty hitters Dalton Varsho and Kevin Kiermaier. Santiago Espinal flew out instead of Varsho and after Danny Jansen was hit by a pitch, Alejandro Kirk subbed in for Kiermaier and struck out. That left all of it as much as George Springer, who struck out to finish it earlier than a crowd of 42,948.

Berrios, who allowed 4 hits with 4 walks with 9 strikeouts over six innings in his newest spectacular outing, deserved higher.

“He had electric stuff from the get-go. Kind of held it throughout,” stated supervisor John Schneider. “Broken-bat single for the two runs and had the pickoff there and Grisham went a little bit earlier than we thought. Jose has been as consistent as anyone over the last 18 or 20 starts, he was in total control, all three pitches. Couldn’t really ask much more from him tonight.”

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Atkins was fairly deliberate in describing the necessity for a part-time, right-handed hitter, saying of the offence’s wants that “it’s not several opportunities, really seeing it as one for that final push where there would be potentially not even every-day at-bats for it depending on how we ended up making that move.”

There isn’t any scarcity of choices alongside these traces already on or more likely to hit the market. Available proper now’s veteran Nelson Cruz, however that’s a clumsy match, particularly if he continues to wrestle and needs to be launched briefly order. Cruz was launched by the Padres earlier this month.

They’re experimenting within the interim, choosing the contract of Jordan Luplow earlier within the day whereas optioning Nathan Lukes to triple-A Buffalo, and Davis Schneider, who’s emerged this season with the Bisons, continues to be on the radar.

Atkins’ point out of a lefty reliever is intriguing because the Blue Jays have been positive to make use of Tim Mayza in key spots versus southpaws – he struck out Juan Soto with two out within the prime of the ninth – and increase with righties Trevor Richards and Erik Swanson as wanted.

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How the Blue Jays would match one other lefty on the pitching employees isn’t clear with each Ryu and Green on the horizon and solely two replaceable spots in Mitch White and Jay Jackson. Injury, after all, may change the outlook there, and an alternative choice if Ryu and Alek Manoah are each within the rotation is utilizing Yusei Kikuchi in reduction.

Trade assets may then be allotted towards a bat and maybe an optionable starter – maybe akin to the Blue Jays’ pickup of White, who’s now out of choices, on the deadline a yr in the past.

That’s a tall order with out paying a steep worth, and whereas in previous deadlines the Blue Jays sought to do a few of their low season procuring early – assume Berrios in 2021 or Whit Merrifield final yr – they not have the identical roster flexibility.

“The challenge now is we don’t have the holes,” defined Atkins. “We have really, really good players at every position. Some of them maybe not performing to their levels, but there’s not a position where we’re looking and saying we really need to fill that void. So that makes it more challenging. You could acquire a player that comes into an awkward situation and maybe has more runway after the fact, but that’s not our focus right now. But I wouldn’t eliminate that from happening.”

Nor ought to he, as a result of eliminating prospects isn’t a good suggestion. But the Blue Jays appear to have at the very least hatched a plan for this deadline, able to act on what the subsequent two weeks current.