lol every interview I see him in an interview and whenever the interviewer comments on the great talent of the starting rotation or the team in general, Max Scherzer always says something like "I've been on some great teams in the past and I've been on some great starting rotations" almost as to say shut up Toronto media dont over play this, you haven't won anything. Cool your jets!
HaHa!!! This is Mad Max's way of telling the Jays coaching staff "I'm not going to make pitching rotation decisions easy for you this year".
.... oh God, the nightmare of JP Ricciardi... literally the nightmare. The wasted years of Roy Haliday and Carlos Delgado ... letting Delgado walk, not building a winner around him. Even though Gord Ash played a role in that as well. Drafting Vernon Wells, instead of Tulo. It goes on and on… Surprisingly, he's only 66 years old. That feels like a lifetime ago.
Ricky Romero was drafted over Tulo by guess who. It wasn't Gord Ash. J.P. thought they were set at short with Russ Adams. J.P. also let Chris Carpenter walk for nothing when they could've kept him at a low cost. Ash did pretty well with drafting. Wells Hudson Haliday and Carpenter. He also signed Roger Clemens. Now when it came to making trades he was only slightly better than Brad Treliving.
Let's also acknowledge Ash had to work under abyssmal ownership(Interbrew SA) who didn't give a shit about the Jays. Interbrew purchased Labatt's and the Blue Jays just happened to be part of the deal. Ash's whole tenure was unfortunately under Interbrew.
So you're saying injuries have hit our starting rotation already. That's why they say you can never have enough pitching.
Yeah, this came about in a very peculiar way. José Berrios feels fine he says, and while he was trying to put some kind of insurance on his arm so he can pitch for Puerto Rico, they spotted elbow inflammation.
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The Depth was needed! Its actually 8 starters if we include Lauer, and Lauer will probably be part of the 5 to start the season. Bieber is probably out for April, Berrios a ??. I don't think they plan on having Yesavage on the major league roster for the first few weeks of the season either... they delayed his spring ramp up as a means of controlling his innings this year. A luxury they have due to the depth (as of now)
Greg Maddux was as pin point as you can get. Plus he was an extremely intelligent player. There's a lot to be said for those type of pitchers. They get injured far less often. I don't know why teams don't encourage that more instead of flamethrowers. What good is a guy that throws 100mph if he's constantly on the injured list.
There are exceptions to this. One well known flame thrower was Nolan Ryan who pitched 27 seasons of 130+ innings. He threw a pitch in 1974 that using todays radar equipment would have clocked 108 MPH! With a career ERA of 3.19 he was certainly one of a kind in our era.
''Nolan Ryan exhibited a significant, and in some years drastic, difference between his home and road earned run averages (ERA) throughout his 27-season career. His career home ERA was 2.77, while his road ERA was 3.73''
