Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Jays have three rookies in their starting rotation

So the Jays have set the first five starting pitchers on the season and it includes three rookie pitchers and of course it begins with Ricky Romero who had a record of 15 and 11 with a 2.92 ERA and 178 Ks in 225 innings pitched last season. Then the water gets very very murky as the No.2 pitcher is Brandon Morrow who can either pitch at home or on the road but not both as last season he was 6 and 3 on the road with a 3.07 ERA and that is much different than he did @ home where he was 5 and 8 with a 6.31 ERA. This was the opposite of what happened in 2010 when he was 8 and 1 with a 2.74 ERA @ home and 2 and 6 with a 6.72 ERA on the road and he pitched 13 games on both the road and home so he is a very big mystery. Then three,four, and five are rookies with Joel Carreno being the No. 3 in the rotation will have his MLB debut on Sunday after going 7 and 9 with a 3.41 ERA in New Haven (double A) and pitched 15.2 inning and a 1 and 0 with 1.15 ERA in 11 relief appearance with the Blue Jays. Then there is Henderson Alvarez who was 1 and 3 with 3.53 ERA in 63.2 innings in his 10 starts with the Jays last season with 64 hits and 40 Ks while the No.5 will be Kyle Drabek who was 4 and 5 with a 6.06 ERA in 18 games and 14 starts as he spent time in both Toronto and Las Vegas and will hopefully be able to take advice well and use it to his advantage. It looks like after the five game of the season someone will be sent down to the minors for a few weeks and that will most likely be Drabek or Carreno which ever has a worst start in the next week. A good start will help the Bullpen stay strong and hopefully get closer to the magical 1000 innings pitched for the starters Tom Mehegan

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