Matheson on Springer's return to the lineup, Guerrero Jr eyeing records and Yesavage making his way back

There he is, Keegan Mathis, so you didn't go and search for a snickers or something is that why you cut yourself off Keegan or what?

No fellas, I just had to jiggle the dial up here, you know, okay was

I I liked hearing a o-dog with one on the road

I'm picturing you just holding the snickers between your fingers like a dart out the window

He just ashes the the wrapper instead of addon just some caramel out, you know, yeah, why not I love it

All right, so Vladie

Chasing down a batting title. Are we are we willing to to dive into that conversation on April 30th?

Where do you stand on Vladie and his production?

Absolutely man, I think we've

Established that Vladie's not going to be the 48-homer guy again and that's okay

Maybe it happens once or twice down the road eventually when you have that much power at camp

But even when Vladie was coming up as a prospect

What people would tell you over and over is that he's more of a hitter than a power guy and even back then when Vladie was 18 or 19

I'd say nah come on just shut up powers way more fun to talk about let's focus on power

But Vladie hitting like he is right now is a damn valuable baseball player and

It's not showing up with big loud moments. It's not showing up with big home runs and as long as you're hitting 300 plus

That's okay if you're a singles guy who is hitting to nevety

But doing what he's doing right now is spectacular. He can be a batting title guy

I think very easily he can be someone who leads the league and on base percentage as well

It's just not what you picture when you look at big Vladie

Guys built for power who you expect to hit the ball 500 feet. It's just a little different

So Keegan we were talking about before you came on how

14 and 16 for a record is quite respectable

Given the injuries and all of that stuff that they've gone through the adversity early on in the season would you concur with that sentiment?

I would notice you know like if you'd told me and I hate to revise history too much

But if you had told me at the start of the month this guy this guy this guy this guy would all be on the IL

And this would be the record at the end

You'd probably take it you're not winning. It's not great, but it's okay. They survived cash out start over again

Okay, and with the names they have coming back when you have Addison Barger coming back

You're going to have Jose Barrios which will stabilize this rotation a little bit

It's getting better and it doesn't feel as terrible as it did a week ago two weeks ago

It felt real bad guys

And I think the context of Major League Baseball helps right now. I don't know who's won the games in the league this year

Like really I don't know where the wins are because it feels like so many of the big teams including a couple in the AL East one

We just fired their manager and the staff in Boston have not had good starts to this season

It's a weird very messy April so far that I think the jays will benefit from

And I do think that this is a month we're going to look back on as like hey remember when stuff was that bad

Because it feels a lot different just the last few days

Keegan how do you think Trayus avid just gonna respond to

The grind of a real season it seemed like last year he was

Living out a movie like a sports movie where this guy played in all levels ended up in the big leagues

Was the stud of the staff and just had an incredible run

How do you think he's going to adjust to like the grind where it's just real-life stuff?

It's every five days and you got to go out there and get it done

That's the important part now odog like that's the difference between being really cool for a year

Yeah, or sticking around in the big leagues for 12 years

And the fun part about sticking around is that you get the big contract. Okay. That's a good motivator

So for Tray now like we hear the word routines a lot. That's a boring word. It's not very sexy

It doesn't excite anyone

But that's what's important right now

That is what allows someone like Kevin Gosman to still be in the league and still be making big money at 35

Okay, and that's a great motivator again. So for Trayus avid

One benefit guys is that he's going to have the same address this year

I mean last year he was living in four or five six different places

But he's going to get used to these routines and that means

The two three four days in between your starts. What are you doing?

How are you taking care of yourself? Do you know when to pull back a little bit?

It means dealing with media constantly because everyone wants to talk to the wonder kid the Trayus avid

There are good and bad ways to go about that. I think he's doing a good job of it

But he's in the right place with the right people I think but this is the part that doesn't get talked about enough

Okay, we've seen a lot in the city when Alex Manoa came up

We saw it with Ricky Romero who ran into injuries

You see it around the league all the time guys everyone throws a hundred and can strike people out

That really doesn't excite me all that much anymore

When someone can do it the second or third year in a row

Then I start to get excited because you see they're adjusting and they're living the life

Which not a lot of these guys can actually do

With Keegan Matheson MLB calm jays twins in Minnesota tonight beginning of a four game series

Goswin on the mount for the jays and George

Springer returns to the starting line up he came in as a pinch hitter yesterday got himself a hit got himself an RBI

But he's back D.H.ing tonight

Where do things stand with George in terms of

The parometer being as close to 100% as possible where where do you think that lands with him in terms of how he feels and what kind of impact you think he can have

It's not a hundred percent. I don't think fellows

Haven't seen the toe no real interest in seeing the toes

So I can't provide much of a a visual statement report

But I don't think he is close to 100% right now. I'm sure it's still pretty bruised up

And something he's dealing with you know, you don't fully heal a broken toe this quickly

So the big test guys will be if he hits a double tonight

I want people to watch when he's going around first base at full speed

Because your left foot is that inside foot that you're really putting a lot of weight and pressure on

Let's see if he rounds the basis full speed

That's going to be the real test here

But even if he doesn't guys like I don't care if he's walking out there

He's an upgrade

Because to have George Springer at number one then you can play around with two and with four

But you have George at one gladiator three

You finally have something to tie yourself to which the blue jays haven't had him forever

We've seen miles straw they have a Schneider Nathan Lucas Ernie Clement batting lead off

It's not supposed to work like that for this team with George back it it just makes more sense

And I would take 70% of George Springer over no George Springer at all

Well, we'll see how it plays out tonight and throughout the weekend Keegan always great catching up with your buddy

We'll do it again soon. Thank you for this

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