Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Palmegiani moved to Surrey when he was six years old and grew up playing with Cloverdale Minor Baseball until he was 13. Years later, he moved to the U.S. to play junior college baseball at the College of Southern Nevada.
The backstory is that Matt Gage probably sucks
he's 30.
Toronto was his 4th organization and he was in the Mexican league in 2019.
I guess sucks might be harsh - he might be a replacement level arm - but the only ones on the 40 man right now that you could really want to lose in his favour would be Hatch/Thompson. And I can see why they are keeping Hatch/Thompson around... you need optionable SP depth even if it is bad.
If three teams are tied the first tie-breaker is actually:
Lowest quotient of fewest runs allowed divided by the number of defensive outs recorded in games between the teams that are tied.
This means that Canada might have a slim chance if Colombia and the USA have a slugfest that Colombia wins. The runs allowed against GB don't matter.
Canada gave up 12 runs in 16 total innings against USA + COL. 0.75 runs per inning.
If the COL - USA game goes 9 innings and ends up say 13-9 for COL... then USA will have given up 14 runs in 18 innings (0.78 per inning) and COL will have given up 14 in 18 innings (0.78 per inning). Just an example, numbers might be slightly off if they didn't finish out the 9th inning or whatever.
Incredibly unlikely, but at least conceivable. USA pitching did surrender 11 runs to Mexico and Colombia has an okay lineup.
Much easier to just beat Mexico of course. Probably something like a 35% chance to beat Mexico but a 1% chance to lose and advance on a tie breaker.
this is the other annoying thing about watching Canada baseball
every other team can just throw out their mediocre LHP and absolutely nuke our lineup full of milk bags