Saturday, May 25, 2013
jays need not rush Josh Johnson back
Jays are having a tough time getting back into the playoff picture at 20-29 trailing the Yankees by 10 in the division and the Red Soxs by 9.5 in the wild card and the Cleveland Indians by 7.5 in the Wild card and sit dead last in the American League East.
With all this said there is no need to rush Josh Johnson back to the big Leagues as it is in everybody's interest to not bring him up until he is strong enough to handle major league batters because Johnson wants to prove to the rest of the league he is worth 150 million over 6 or 7 years. He wants to prove it to everybody else because he has shown an interest to not be a Blue Jay as his agent before the season started said that the Jays have too much starting pitcher and that they should send Josh Johnson to the Yankees for a bat and he made fun of how much his wife did not want to go to Toronto to a Florida radio station days after the deal was finalized. So when he comes up to the Jays he wants to be 100% and put as many wins as possible and the lowest ERA possible so that he can make that cabbage back South of the boarder.
For the Jays sake they should know better to rush guys back to the majors just look at Ricky Romero 3 innings to start and went throw the lineup but then was smacked around in the fourth and then in his next outing faced 7 batters and got only one out and now is suffering from confidence as triple A batters are using him like a piƱata. Then there is the lightening rode known as Brett Lawrie who is hitting just over .200 right now at ,203 after an injury and only 7 at bats in two games to get his bat major league ready and that was not enough time and him and the team have paid for the bad decision. Then there is last night starter Sean Nolin who had two minor league starts in double A this season before he was brought up and feed to the wolves known as the Baltimore Orioles as he pitched an inning and a third and gave up 6 runs on 7 hits and a walk and needed to comforted on the bench after he was pulled and hopefully he can go back to double A and better himself and when his time comes he will be back,
So the Jays need to get him 100% before bring him up as it maybe in their best interest to trade him at the deadline and get something that will help in the long term and better he performs the more interest there maybe but it will be extremely hard to keep him down in Buffalo as he followed up a single A outing of three innings where he k'd 5 with a four inning performance in triple A Buffalo today as gave up one hit and a walk and k'd 3 with 10 of 14 first pitch strikes.
So I hope double A and the Jays have learned their lesson and keep him their two more starts at least
TOM mehegan
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