Here I found a quote.
“I guess my one regret is I wish it was a greater comfort level on our part,” said Anthopoulos in assessing his first year as GM last winter.
http://http://mopupduty.com/the-blue-jays-and-international-free-agents-1218/
Nicolino with a 3.01 fip in 80 inn in A+. Hes even been much better over the last couple of months.
Look at this filthy line over his last ten games.
1.15 era, 55.0 inn, 37 hits, 2 hr, 12 bb, 44 k, .186 opp ba
Hey ill take a lucky s***** pitcher over a unlucky good pitcher. (for one or two starts)
Its all about the team wins when you run out replacement guys. You know that they are not even medium term solutions. You just hope that they get lucky and squeek out a few 5 inn 2 run game. The jays got lucky and got enough of those.