Series Thread: Blue Jays at Cleveland

Friday, April 18 2014 @ 01:36 PM EDT

Contributed by: Eephus

"All this energy calling me, back where it comes from..."

The Blue Jays take their road act to Cleveland this weekend where they hope to forget all about The Minnesota Doubleheader (I sure know I'd like to). The Indians are currently last in the AL Central but with an 7-8 record, 1.5 games back of the first place Tigers (as a cool side note, how often do you see five teams within 1.5 games of each other yet all with different W-L records? Wacky).

Pitching Matchups!

Friday (7:05 ET) Drew Hutchison (1-1, 3.68) versus Justin Masterson (0-0, 5.87)-(2013: 14-10, 3.45) *A battle of the "sons"!
Saturday (1:05 ET) Mark Buehrle (3-0, 0.86) versus Corey Kluber (1-1, 5.40)-(2013: 11-5, 3.85)
Sunday (1:05 ET) Brandon Morrow (1-1, 5.52) versus Carlos Carrasco (0-2, 7.84)-(2013: 1-4, 6.75)

Jose Reyes is on track to join the team Saturday, which should infuse some much needed speed into the Blue Jay attack if his legs are good to go. The Cleveland starting pitchers have struggled in the early going but their bullpen is very strong, so it will be crucial for Toronto to grab an early lead and ACTUALLY HOLD IT, NOT BOUNCE IT AWAY IN THE DIRT GRRRRRAUGGHHHHH!!!!! Okay, got that out of my system.

Questions

Will Michael Brantley continue to abuse the Blue Jays? (career 397/.484/.538) How hilariously bad is Carlos Santana at third base? Can Nick Swisher ever stop smiling?

Oh, and there's that Gomes guy everyone always seems to be talking about.

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