Hill is currently on the DL for Vegas so doubtful it would be him, but I'd like to throw out one other name, Robert Ray.  He hasn't been great since coming off the DL but his last start was promising.

When you see what happened to Strasburg, and knowing the plague of injuries to young Blue Jay pitchers over the last few years, it's not surprising they're adopting this kind of approach with Morrow. 

What I don't understand is why there are so many more serious arm injuries now, particularly the torn ulnar collateral ligament, which is the one that requires TJ surgery.   When I grew up watching baseball in the 60's and 70's, teams had 4 man rotations, and pitchers routinely threw 8 or 9 innings in a game, often topping 275 IP in a season.  You'd hear the occasional elbow injury that ended a career, as this was before TJ surgery, but it was not nearly as common as it is now.  

Look at, for example, Jim Kaat, who had 9 seasons of more than 240 innings, including 304 innings in 1975 at the age of 36.  In 1958, in the Pioneer League, at the age of 19, he threw 223 innings.  He was on the DL once in his career, for  2.5 months, in 1972, and continued to pitch in the bigs until he was 44.  Gaylord Perry , from 1966 to 1978 (13 seasons), AVERAGED 295 innings a season.  From '67 to 75, his IP totals were 293, 291, 325, 329, 280, 343, 344, 322 and 306.  He was still  pitching regularly in the bigs in 1983 at the age of 44.  He NEVER went on the DL his entire career.  Fergie Jenkins pitched 289 innings at the age of 23, and would pitch at least 270 innings a season for 9 years in a row starting that year.  He stayed in the bigs until he was 39, and NEVER was on the DL.  I don't know if it's the types of pitches being thrown, or changes in conditioning, or throwing routines on off days, or what, but something is different.  I know back in the late 19th century and early 20th century, pitchers were coached to save their best stuff for when they really needed it, and didn't throw with full velocity for much of the game, but that wasn't still true in the 60's and 70's.  It really puzzles me.

It's nice to see the team finally make a move that is more in tune with a rebuilding season. I understand with a deep draft next year flooding the market with FA's. Sitting Snider, not letting Lind take over first earlier. I just can't wait until next year where there  won't (hopefully) be these throwaway lineups everytime there is a getaway day. Fans paying money for games at the dome deserve better from Cito. Look, I'm not going to barbecue the sacred cow if he wants to do that on a road trip, but he's doing it to Toronto's fans at home. That's garbage. I guess I'll have to see what the damage was from Cito at the end of the year on these getaway day games.