Despite Brandon Morrow's best efforts, the Jays actually made it close.
This'll be a short one; sometimes, life just doesn't give you enough time, y'know? Other times, you have to go to dumb evening meetings. Still other times, you spend way too much time on Minor League updates ("9,623 more words"?!?!?! That is the most amount of words I have ever created, ever, even if many of them are quotes and tables).
Anyway, here's something to talk about. We all assume that Eveland is the first one out of the rotation. But what if Morrow keeps having terrible control problems? He's the kind of guy who could go into a pretty bad funk with his mechanics, and maybe he needs to spend some time down in the minors to straighten things out. I'm not suggesting that should be the course of action now; it's just one start, after all. But if this happens two or three more times, what do you do? He's got options; sending him down is not a problem.
On the other hand, might it be counter-productive to send a guy to a different environment with different catchers and pitching coaches? I would think that consistency is important in fixing problems such as this one. Would you move him to the bullpen then, instead? Or just give him a very long leash?
Dumb Fact of the Day: the Jays have three guys slugging over .598. And then two more between .470 and .490. And none of those guys are Aaron Hill or Adam Lind.
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