Jays make SNEAKY good trade... - Schneider CALLS OUT Team | Toronto Blue Jays News

It's big news to go over today as the Toronto Blue Jays have made a sneaky good trade in despite their slow start to the season and some wild things happening in yesterday's game. The Jays have made a trade that has big implications going forward. But not only that, we have Jon Schneider calling out the team yesterday following their collapse and multiple other updates, including one surrounding Patrick Corbin. That is way better than fans initially thought. A ton to go over on this episode, folks, including an MLB debut occurring today. So stay tuned for all that in this episode. So before we get into it, if you're a part of the percentage who aren't subscribed to the channel, this is the place to be for Daily Jays content. You guys are an absolute beast of support. Now, ladies and gentlemen, a lot to go over today. And obviously, yesterday I had my post-game video with Brendan Little talking about him getting, how he should get sent down, DFA'd, and whatnot. There is a pretty big trade that happened here, and it is surrounding Tyler Fitzgerald. So the Blue Jays say that they've acquired infielder Tyler Fitzgerald from the Giants for cash, and that Fitzgerald was optioned to Buffalo. Now, I was actually going to be I was starting to prepare a couple of days ago a video on Tyler Fitzgerald. Now it makes a ton of sense. He was DFA'd by the Giants and the Jays had an opportunity opportunity here. Sorry to kind of fill in some of the depth that they lost in the Leo Jimenez trade. I love this move. I absolutely love this move. And it is a move that allows them to obviously maintain some flexibility. But also, you now add another infielder who's had some really good years. You can see this here again. It was just for cash. They didn't give up any players, which is really good. And they had an open 40-man roster spot, so no corresponding move was necessary. It made all the sense in the world, especially when you didn't have to get rid of anybody else. But you see that the Giants DFA'd Fitzgerald earlier this week. And ultimately here, he made his debut in 2023. He was pretty darn good at times for the Giants. Now you can see here, Fitzgerald was running a .380 BABIP back in his good year, which means maybe there was some luck that contributed to it. last year he had a down season was uh you know ultimately was also dealing with a left rib fracture but folks he is uh you look at his stats and again in 2024 he had a really good year and he's only 28 years old now he's just a couple years removed from an .831 OPS season his rookie year .733 OPS this is a guy in Fitzgerald where you are you automatically have some more infield depth you have some really good upside here and someone who's done it at the MLB level before and And I'll be at a smaller capacity. I love the move because there is absolutely positively no risk, right? There's no risk whatsoever. I guess the only risk technically would be a roster spot and opportunity cost. If you could have got somebody else, but they didn't have to make a corresponding move here. You just add Tyler Fitzgerald makes a ton of sense. And as Ben Nichols Smith says here, he has 178 games of MLB experience with a career 739 OPS. he hit 15 homers in 2024 fast runner versatile enough to play multiple positions replaces some of the depth loss via Leo Jimenez but there's more flexibility here since Fitzgerald can be optioned and that's another thing that people don't realize and it's why this signing is so you know sneaky good or this trade sorry he has options he has speed he's done it at the MLB level before and I love love love the the move and you can see his career Triple-A he's a career 825 OPS hitter in AAA good for 32 out of his 37 stolen base attempts that's extremely good and then of course in the MLB in 2024 he ran an .831 OPS with some pretty good numbers to place every position on the diamond hard to believe they got that guy for nothing and that's a big thing they got him for absolutely nothing and I'm excited about this move will it make you know will he make a huge impact going forward that's a you know still a big question mark it is up in the air but one thing is for sure they gave up nothing they were able to acquire a useful piece that is going to have some sort of impact on this team whether it be at the minor leagues for depth or most most likely the major league level at some point and uh i'm excited this is the leo jimenez backup even though in theory or their backup plan even though in theory leo jimenez a bit more of a shortstop than Tyler Fit but gerald is but comment down below do you think this is a good move again you gave up cash considerations so no nothing of value there now a couple other We have a lot of other updates to dive into today. So I want to start with this one here. I believe we covered it in yesterday's video. The Blue Jays won't have a real timeline on Alejandro Kirk until after he meets with the specialists on Monday. And this is relevant for the update in a minute here, but that will narrow down exactly what treatment and recovery they're dealing with. Until then, I let my dog do my taxes before listening to a Twitter doctor, because there's some Twitter doctors out there talking about how Kirk is an injured and all these other things, right? Kirk has a, he's dealing with obviously a thumb injury. It is a fracture slash broken thumb. So you're dealing with that thumb injury. The good news is you get to see Brandon Valenzuela and he is making his debut today. And that was following Tyler Heinemann's disaster class game. So let's say Kirky misses one week, two weeks. It's going to be at least a minimum week, right? It's probably going to be a month potentially. We'll keep you up to date. We'll probably get some more information today, maybe tomorrow. We get to watch Brandon Valenzuela, who has been really doing really good. And this is someone they acquired last year at the trade deadline for Will Wagner. So this is a trade that, again, they were going all in last year. they were able to retool and acquire a catcher which all of a sudden now you desperately needed right like we've seen last year and we can think back to uh there's a lot i think his name is riley smith uh whatever the catcher was for the jays a while ago um way back there's a lot there was a lot of different options here like not now and i'm saying in previous years that weren't great when you when alejandro kirk got injured or danny jansen got injured the guys coming up weren't fantastic even ali sanchez last year in the year before like they weren't great this year you have a prospect who has some very very high upside which is uh which is pretty exciting and you're going to need it because john schneider called out the team and he said that early he was very direct post game rather speaking to some of the blue jays early mistakes and he said we've got to set the tone here to what we expect and if you're not doing it someone else to get we'll get a chance to do it now he also spoke out about brendan little and basically said that every single game matters at this point each game is important and we're going to have internal conversations to see if we can make this team any better so essentially that's paraphrasing of course they're having a conversation internally about sending Brendan Little down he does have options there's no reason not to you can go up get a dip or go down rather and get a different arm and Adam Mako and you know i don't know CJ Van Iexpect somebody else to get the bullpen has been absolutely abysmal so you're going to need to figure it out and uh speaking of which like Tyler Heineman i was on i was on his butt yesterday for kind of you know selling the game a little bit everyone was fans but after the game he took full responsibility for his mistakes and he was in tears and he said the last two games those losses they're on me sugar-coated any way you want to yeah there's other things going on but they're on me and i believe the other things going on he's talking about are you know there's a flu going around the clubhouse like a stomach bug or something which is why Eric Flowers Stark got pushed to today instead of yesterday but um yeah unfortunate we move on i'm not going to harp on it too much everyone has bad days Tyler Heineman had a couple bad games in a row he did ultimately cost them a couple times but that's baseball right that is uh that is baseball and he's a very good backup catcher he's one of the best backup he was the last year was like the best he was the best backup catcher in baseball or at least one of them he was running a crazy OPS this year is above a 900 OPS but he's a negative four because of his defense which is usually one of his calling cards right being serviceable behind the dish and calling and managing a great game so let me know down below what your thoughts are in this comment are you upset with Tyler Hyndman i'm more upset with Brendan Little like at the end of the day here you look at the way that the game went Lazaro Estrada gave you four hitless innings you should be able to win a game there uh brendan little blew the game completely second blown save terrible terrible terrible you look at the bullpen and their numbers this year like little ranks obviously last of them by far but uh Hyndman by the way they are hilarious they're running a few guys who haven't given up a single run and then like if you told me that this was the bullpen like that's a pretty good darn good start Fisher Rogers Relan Estrada Hoffman and Nance barely gave up any runs, but Miles Fleury, Hyndman, and Little, like those are guys you kind of expect to give up runs. You figure you'd be in better faith, but comment down below what your thoughts are. One thing before we wrap up as well is Patrick Corbin. Unbelievable yesterday. So he actually just went out and started yesterday's game, and five innings, zero runs, four hits, one walk, nine strikeouts, which is crazy, but Pete Matson said encouraging start from Patrick Corbin, and of course the pitchers and innings are what matters most here. Perhaps he makes another start against more advanced hitters, but there's not much reason for the Blue Jays to slow play this. If he's built up, that's one of the biggest reasons they signed him. He's built up, right? He's built up, ready to go. He had already been built up to 80 pitches before this. Now he threw another 74. He's going to be called up soon. You guys are absolutely piece of support. Comment down below if you're excited.