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You can find this information under the pitch modelling tab in fangraphs when viewing a team's overall pitching stats. This can be sorted by date in order to isolate an individual start. Manoah's second start back doesn't seem to be available in the Stuff+ rating on Fangraphs. Vs Tigers 4 seamer 85 Sinker 83 Slider 88 Changeup 49 Stuff+ 82 Location+ 112 Pitching+ 109 Vs Mariners 4 seamer 92 Sinker 72 Slider 99 Changeup 47 Stuff+ 86 Location+ 79 Pitching+ 75 Before Demotion 4 seamer 92 Sinker 95 Slider 96 Changeup 71 Stuff+ 91 Location+ 95 Pitching+ 93 After Return 4 seamer 88 Sinker 79 Slider 94 Changeup 48 Stuff+ 84 Location+ 95 Pitching+ 92 The stuff+ numbers are unfortunately worse across the board since he's returned from the minor leagues.

This is a false equivalency. The Yankees rule is essentially an on field dress code and simply requires a player to shave and get short haircuts in season. A no fat player rule would directly police a players out of season eating habits which is something which would never fly with the players union.

For a guy that is arguably MLB's best outfield defender, and in a split where he's going to receive the vast minority of his playing time given the relative scarcity of left handed pitching in MLB? Absolutely.

What makes you think Danner is ready for a callup? He's currently sporting a 6.14 FIP in AAA while allowing 2.66 HR/9. I'll take Yimi and his impending $6 million vesting option any day of the week over that kind of output thank you very much.

So let me see if I have this right. Only last year's numbers count against left handed pitchers and not his 2021 and 2023 seasons. But when it comes to total offensive output only 2023 counts, and not his contributions from 2021 and 2022. I'm sure you can see why I take issue with this line of reasoning. Varsho is so good in the field and on the bases that I'm perfectly fine if is more of a slap hitter against left handed pitching and a power threat against right handed pitching. All he has to do against LHP is basically hold his own and it's incredibly easy to justify playing him every day in center field.

The thing to keep in mind is that if Varsho is able to return to being the player with the bat he was prior to becoming a Blue Jay he offers even more value than Kiermaier for a fraction of the cost, and without the inherent injury risks to potentially take him out of the lineup for large stretches of time.

Garcia isn't nearly so bad that he's a DFA candidate. He has posted mid 3's FIP and xERA numbers and has had terrible BABIP luck this season.

Varsho has hit lefties better than righties this season, and that was also the case in his half season in 2021 as well. He's still inexperienced enough at the major leauge level that's he is far from a finished product at the plate.

Fair enough. I think that father time is going to eventually catch up to Kiermaier as he seems to have a bit of a chronic back issue that knocks him out of commission from time to time. If Varsho can regain his stroke at the plate he offers more overall upside than Kiermaier, but that's obviously far from a given.

I'm less than thrilled that the club decided to immediately roster Cabrera instead of making even a cursory attempt to straighten him out in AAA first. I don't see how they are in the position to roll the dice on reclamation projects at the major league level given how tight the standings are.

Varsho is having a bad season. In his other 1.5 seasons or so he was approximately league average offensively. It would be monumentally stupid for the organization to assume that Varsho can't hit for the entirety of his remaining control without at least letting him fail first. How in the world is Varsho a "princess"? The dude is one of the hardest working players on the field of play I think I've watched in recent memory.

Wow impressive use of Trudeau and sweatpant references. Your online insult game is as weak as your poorly thought out baseball opinions.

It's a bit of a surprise to see Nate sent down to AAA but he really needs to start commanding his secondary pitches if he's to have any success in MLB. I didn't realize how ugly his overall numbers are becoming since the early success after his callup.

Spencer Horwitz is on a tear in AAA as he has hit 5 home runs in his last 6 games.

I'd like to see Kikuchi be given a little more rope in games where he's dealing like he was last night. He was absolutely dominating the Mariners and it didn't seem like he had started faltering at any point in the game. Last night the team was receiving a top of the rotation level of performance from their number 5 starter, and it felt entirely premature to give him the hook after a runner got on base due to a soft serve infield single. Kikuchi has made dramatic gains compared to last season and I just can't shake the feeling the team is ultimately doing itself a bit of a disservice with the quick hooks on days where he's completely in command of the game.

This feels like a bit of a chicken and egg scenario where Kikuchi isn't going to be able to prove he can go deeper into games if he's always yanked at the first possible opportunity. Kikuchi's numbers are actually pretty good third time through the order this season. I'd have no issue with giving him more rope on a night where his stuff and command both looked to be in peak form.

The players on the field didn't get the job done yesterday. I don't agree with the choices that were made with regards to the substitutions on the field but the manager can't swing the bat, run the bases, pitch for the team or play a position in the field. It seems like Schneider saves his worst decisions for games against the Mariners. Last year's playoff meltdown featured several questionable moves, the game at the end of April had a lot of questionable moves, and last night's game also featured plenty of questionable moves as well.

I can see him eventually putting things together sufficiently to have a few nice seasons out of an MLB pen. I think his raw stuff is good enough to retire MLB hitters but his usefulness to the Jays has run out given how many better options the team has available.

Yeah Pete Walker absolutely has his pitchers up the usage of their least effective pitches. Like Jordan Romano basically going 50/50 fastball slider, Richards dropping the breaking pitches completely and going fastball/changeup, Kikuchi dropping the cutter completely etc. I'm not so sure about these recommendations, although there is the caveat that I haven't seen Cabrera pitch and I'm solely looking at Statcast numers. The curveball is arguably Cabrera's most effective pitch results wise, and his 4 seam fastball appears to be his least effective pitch as it generates minimal whiffs and has largely been teed off of.

I guess we'll never really know what the optimal approach would have been with regards to when to start opening the pocket books. Vlad and Bo arrived at basically the same time and improved the team sufficiently that it's possible the team would have been choosing middle of the first round after that. The shortened covid season really f***ed the team over in several aspects, in that the minor league system lost a lot of development time and Vlad and Bo each burned a full year of control despite only playing for 2 months. For a team just working it's way towards a competitive cycle this couldn't have happened at a worse time. I really hate the qualifying offer system, as it really punishes teams that actually want to spend money and add impact pieces to their roster. Losing several draft picks over the years certainly hurt after signing the likes of Springer and Gausman to supplement the young core, but at the same time there were a lot of misses on the guys who were selected through the draft. Maybe having a few extra picks in those draft years would have led to another piece or two being available to the major league squad but given this front office's drafting record this is far from a given. I have zero issue with the front office trading away prospects to supplement the major league core. They have generally been adept at identifying the true keepers in the system and cashing out on the prospects less likely to make an impact at the big league level.

I would hope the plan isn't to actually roster this guy at the major league level as he's been downright terrible for several consecutive seasons.

I'd like to eventually see a spot opened up at AAA for Leo Jiminez as he's been having a very solid season in AA New Hampshire. With Schneider/Barger/Orelvis all ahead of him there isn't a lot of space though.

I think Merrifield could cool his jets a little with the 3rd base stealing attempts. His overall season baserunning contribution is solid but he's been one of the primary culprits recently with making unnecessary outs on the bases.

I suspect part of the reason why Kirk's framing numbers are a little lower this season is due to how poorly Manoah was placing his pitches for most of the season. Kirk was Manoah's primary catcher early on and really didn't receive as many framing opportunities, and with a pitcher locating so poorly perhaps this would lead to receiving less calls on closer pitches due to the scattershot command.

You've gone full Oriole nutsack licker lately. I get it, they went scorched earth rebuild (likely forced into this due to the complete ineptitude of the previous front office and terrible ownership policy) but I don't see why you seem to spend so much of your posting time on here constantly pumping their tires.