Multiple MASSIVE Jays Updates... This is MASSIVE | Toronto Blue Jays News

Folks, we have multiple huge Toronto Blue Jays updates to go over today as we just got some very good news. and it has been the past 24 hours filled with some bad news surrounding Trey A. Savage and his injuries. We not only have a big update surrounding Savage, of course, but some very encouraging news surrounding a couple of key pieces to this team ahead of Opening Day, which is a week from today for the Toronto Blue Jays. We're going to break down these new updates and discuss what they mean going forward as well as Buck Martinez. there's some big news surrounding him but also a sneak peek into what their starting lineup is going to be on Friday of next week following a new report revealing the starter for the Athletics on Opening Day. Time to go over on this episode you're going to want to stay tuned to the very end of the video but before we get into it all if you're a part of the percentage who aren't subscribed to the channel is the place to be for daily Jays content you guys have been absolute peace with the support and it truly means the world to me now ladies and gentlemen a lot to go over today some Shane Bieber updates, Jimmy Garcia updates, Trey A. Savage Opening Day stuff, it's going to be lot and let's start with actually some Shane Bieber news now we of course have been filled with some rough news over the past couple of days Trey A. Savage is starting the season on the IL and as you look ahead and as we look ahead rather to opening day there are some big question marks now about the rotation but we got some good news surrounding Shane Bieber so Shane Bieber with his forearm injury is continuing to throw from flat ground at Blue Jays camp and John Schneider says that he's progressing well feeling good hitting every benchmark he needs to hit not putting a timeline on it but we're looking at hopefully touching the mound here fairly soon then of course once he touches the mound it'll be pretty uh pretty quick from there and of course this wouldn't be as big of a as news as it is if Trey A. Savage hadn't started the season on the IL, Jose Brios is not going to be starting the season on the IL, they need as many arms as they can get now, Shane Bieber is not going to be starting the season on the on the actual squad of course he's going to be on the IL as well, I guess on the actual squad he's not going to start in the starting rotation and for Shane Bieber, as you look now suddenly at the starting rotation It goes from very, very good to very, very thin and a bit less good. Now, you can see on the right-hand side, Dylan Cease, Kevin Gosman, Cody Ponce, Max Scherzer, Eric Lauer is how we factor in for the opening day weekend and probably for the first month or so. Now, we're going to dive into Cody Ponce later in this video. He's looked very good. Dylan Cease, crucial signing now, despite what some people thought at the time, even though most people liked the move. Kevin Gosman's, of course, getting the opening day nod, and Max Scherzer at 41, 42 years old. He's going to have to go out there and pump out a significant amount of innings. but this is really good for Shane Bieber. He's not going to be back anytime soon necessarily, but he is on the horizon and trending towards a return, which is extremely crucial as we look ahead to what's going to be a crazy starting five. Because you can see now it projects to be Gosman, Cease, Lauer, Ponce Scherzer might not be in that order, but Eric Lauer has now officially been moved over to the starting rotation. You can see like I covered in yesterday's video, in case you guys missed it, 68 pitches yesterday, over four innings, or not yesterday, a couple of days ago now, on Wednesday. So Lauer is going to get in there because of Trey Savage's injury. Now, people were asking quickly about Trey Savage and with his injury, if it's due to service time. And if they're trying to save some of their service time, it makes absolutely no difference. His service time is still being used up. So you can see here for Mitch Bannon, Blue Jays insider for The Athletic, I've seen some people suggest the Blue Jays are putting Trey Savage on the IL for service time reasons or would option him before an IL stint. That's not the case. He will be put on the MLB IL and will continue to accrue MLB service time. Now, I kind of figured this right, and Keegan Matheson came out yesterday on, I think, TSN, and basically talked about how this is not good news, and for them to actually be categorizing in his injury, he's actually hurt. And Keegan Matheson went on to talk about, you know, potentially flashbacks of Alec Manoa, who's now a horrible pitcher, no matter what you think about him. I'm not too concerned yet. They are being very, very cautious, and we heard reports that, I mean, Kevin Gosman came out and spoke about it, that, you know, and Trey spoke about it himself. he wasn't feeling he didn't bounce back quite the way that he wanted to now he still has been throwing he was scheduled to pitch on march 25th it's unclear at this point and at this moment rather how his current you know schedule has changed though he is still pitching he's coming off of an incredible incredible amount of uh of total innings and not at the MLB level you could see he only pitched in the regular season 14 innings pitched a ton of the playoffs the World Series Game Seven they pushed him hard right i think he's pitching back-to-back days game six and Game Seven regardless of that you know correct me if i'm wrong down below i tried to just completely get rid of that from my from my memory and focus on the uh the ton of knowledge i had to have for this upcoming season keep in mind your savage is going to still accrue service time but it's not great that he's on the IL now we look at injuries look at all these different things you have Cody Pons who has dominated in spring training now his spring training is finished and he finished with a 13.2 a total amount of innings pitched good for 12 strikeouts and he's 0.66 ERA you can't take you know results at face value here it is spring training but at the same time this is going to be absolutely crucial like all of a sudden now they went from a ton of depth can you use Cody Pons out of the bullpen as a long man you're never going to do that right but Eric Lauer potentially out of the bullpen as a long man that's shifted too you need Eric Lauer to be great off rip you need Cody Pons to be great off rip you need Max Scherzer to be great off rip you cannot afford to lose games yes it's 162 game season the early stuff you need to win games early on in the season because it's going to be a gauntlet of a division an absolute gauntlet and the Orioles got way better the Red Sox got better the Yankees around the same maybe worse maybe better depending on how you view it I'm probably gonna say they're gonna be a little bit worse but who knows right the Rays you can never count them out the team needs to be good and you need a starting rotation to do that now in that same vein we also have a bullpen arm who is nearing a return and Jimmy Garcia yesterday was throwing a bullpen at Blue Jays camp and that was yesterday as he continues working his way back from elbow surgery this is good news last time he touched the mound he was throwing 97 98 miles per hour there is no more setbacks at this point he continues to throw and he continues to look extremely good let's look at the bullpen they have some big decisions to make i'm gonna have a video tomorrow on it as of this juncture at this juncture rather like Angel Bastardo could make it i call him you know Connor Seabold both those guys are probably gonna make it in some capacity or at least one of those two they have a lot of decisions to make now surrounding this bullpen and I saw some of you guys commenting about Tommy Nance keep in mind he has no options so they have to release him if or DFA him rather if they don't or rather Tommy Nance will elect free agency if they don't want him they can offer him to go down to AAA he's not going to do it he'll elect free agency most likely so you have Hoffman Garcia Rogers Verland Garcia's health is absolutely paramount and crucial at this point outside of that you know Brendan Little Brandon Fisher Lauer's no longer in the bullpen that opens up a spot Yuri Rodriguez probably no longer in the bullpen that opens up a spot Mason Floridi we'll see how he does Brendan Little of course they're probably going to keep him because they have a shortage of lefties there's a lot of question marks and a lot of it revolves around Jimmy Garcia being healthy in the first couple of months and let's say that Trey Savage doesn't return until May which is a little bit pessimistic let's say it doesn't happen you're going to need a lot of bullpen help you're going to need and depending on Shane Bieber returns depending on everyone returns you're going to need a lot of help overall a group effort and all of a sudden now we're starting the season with i mean very very shorthanded luckily knock on wood here the position player side has looked very good in spring but it's also been very healthy and yesterday they hit six batted balls over 103 miles per hour not counting the two home runs that never registered they were insane yesterday yes it was against you know minor league pitching and yes it's just spring training the boys look good right and whether it be Kazuma Okamoto looking very comfortable at third and absolutely mashing baseballs Vladimir Guerrero Jr continuing his insane run from the World Baseball Classic onwards they they have some some decisions to make I mean Eloy Jimenez as well who didn't play in the World Baseball Classic uh you guys corrected me on that yesterday he looks really good in spring training .826 OPS there's so many question marks but also a lot of encouraging factors but most of it comes down ladies and gentlemen to what they're going to be looking like uh you know in their bullpen you have Brendan Little he needs to be like he has been in spring training thus far throwing four seamers up he was touching 100 miles per hour earlier on in spring you're gonna need Max Scherzer who wanted to come back to Toronto to absolutely dominate you're gonna need guys like Kevin Gausman to pitch well and Treacy Savage hopefully to heal quickly a lot of question marks but also you're gonna get it done and I have full faith in this team let me know down below what your thoughts are on this folks thank you guys for watching guys peace