Yea get rentals who can k people. That's like the only job.
Atkins finds a way to over complicate, not get someone who can k people and then bask in all of the control.
Varland's sinker grades out as good as his fastball and he seems to be better at locating it in a smaller sample.
Maybe reduce 4 seam and increase sinker? Try to get the fastball up, sinker down, and knuckle curve down.
They built a pitching lab.
Its essentially one starter in ten years. They do a good job spending tons of money in free agency. Usually get healthy guys who chew innings. That's literally it on the pitching side. In ten years.
Buddy, smart people online will tell you it is extremely valuable to get 5 years of control of the most volataile player type in baseball.
That clown Cashman when he isn't actually developing pitching (i didn't know teams were allowed to do that) was too dumb to get that sweet sweet control and just grabbed multiple relievers instead. What a dummy. He's not smart like Ross.
They need homegrown pitching to come through. Its just not tenable to have rotations full of free agents. Its by far our biggest weakness.
Gimenez and straw are interesting. Its kind of clear to me that defensive WAR is just not considered as valuable. Its possible that the reason for that is defense degrades quicker so elite defenders don't often reach free agency as still elite defenders?
When the front office trades for people the manager kind of has to play them. That's on the front office. They did manage to downgrade the team at the deadline.
He gave up runs in two of his last 4 outings but that's it. He had 11 scoreless before that.
At no point has he had a spell as Varland is in right now. He also is just statistically a better pitcher. He strikes people out. Its like we downgraded our pen for no reason.
Looking at the jays relievers, they were probably looking at Ks minus walks. A lot of people think that is the most predictive stat for pitchers and fisher is the only guy on the jays close to hoffman in that stat. He really was too good to be sent down when he was.