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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4761173, member: 1969"]
I'm not sure if Vlad is dumb or not - but he does some really stupid things out there on the basepaths.    He also at times shows some good awareness or clever things at first defensively - which is a head scratcher.

The whole team plays stupid baseball and is awful at baserunning.   Vlad just fits in.

This is a list I complied on a Jays board I am on.  This all happened in the sixth inning or later. By the time Vlad pulled the boner in the 13th I thought Buck Martinez was going to have an aneurysm.   Thankfully the Red Sox CFer pulled off the biggest boner of the game by misplaying what should have been the final out of the game in the 9th.

Starting from the 6th
Kirk stupidly going for a double and getting caught
Chris Bassitt making a nonsense pickoff throw to first almost leading to a run.
Chapman and Espinal not PH for in the 7th.
Espinal not pinch hit for again, and again, and again.
Bo Bichette not tagging up at 3rd properly on the fly to Verdugo
Whit being a tad slow reacting to Kirk's lin, and getting doubled off second.
Bo Bichette not getting up the plate in time putting him down 0-1 in a crucial at bat.
Vlad not tagging up at second in the 13th.

The team just plays stupid baseball as a whole except for Daulton Varsho, Kevin Keirmaier and a few others.   But they can't hit.

The game I went to in late August had Santiago Espinal swing at a 3-0 pitch with runners on first and second in a crucial at bat.  An inning earlier (or later) Cavan Biggio and somebody did a double steal on a 3-0 count which is about the dumbest thing I have seen.
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