What is it about Kyle Drabek that turns everyone into subjective fanboys here? He hasn't been good the entire season, but keeps getting a free pass. Is it because people want him to be good so badly because he was traded for Doc? The guy is walking more batters than he strikes out and has a terrible ERA/FIP/xFIP. He needs to be sent down, even if it's just to get another year of control. I see very little consistency in the way the FO has handled Drabek, Snider, and Cecil, and have to wonder if the way the team acquired the player is affecting how he's handled.

For the time being, I would rather see Drabek continue to receive coaching from Walton and Farrell. He's still very young, and has shown the ability to make adjustments before. Not sure sending him to the PCL to get shelled on a regular basis is going to help his confidence a lot.

I`m pretty down on all our starters, save Romero.  No point in sending them all down.  There`s no one breaking the door down to come up either.  Unless you think Mills is a different pitcher than he was last year.

Cecil, Alvarez or Stewart are the pitchers to watch to take a rotation spot, and none of them are ready yet, though I`d say Cecil is close.

Mills is having a great year and deserves a long look much more than Drabek, let Drabek become a finished product in the minors and then bring him up.

Well, if Drabek is sent down for 22 days then the Jays gain a year of his services pre-free agency (21 days of service coming into this season).

Travis Snider needs 127 days down for that, which would mean he'd be out until September.

Litsch needs 99 days in the minors.

Mills needed 42 days, which he passed awhile ago.

Woodward, in the opposite direction, needs about 1 year and 50 days in the majors to get to a full pension (worth about $175k a year or whatever the max allowed is nowadays in the US).

I think Drabek should get another start or 2 because I would not send him down on such a bad note. If he does not show improvement then he should be sent down to work on his problems. I would like to see 2-4 starts in AA then 3-4 in AAA just to challenge him. AAA would be interesting, if he cannot control his emotions he may get hammered in that environment, which should really teach him a lot about the emotional part of pitching.

IMO he has enough self confidence in his stuff and his successes so far to handle such a challenge. I wonder if the FO would try to protect him from AAA.

AS Stewart, Alvarez and others get their opportunity in the ML, they too will probably struggle. Morrow is struggling IMO. I don't know how we deal with learning, when expecting to contend in the near future.

John, a year of service is 172 days and the season is 180 days long, so Drabek would need to spend 8 or 9 more days than that for the extra year of control.

Last year, I was certain (and likely posted) that Brandon Morrow needed to be sent down by this time. At the end of April he had an era of 5.46, and in May he got even worse, finishing with an era of 6.

And then something happened. In June he got better and in the second half showed lots of promise.

The reason the Blue Jays didn't send him down when I thought they should have, is because they know more than me.

Absolutely nothing we're seeing from Drabek should be surprising. He joins the legion of other kids who come to the majors with great stuff and no control and get lit up. The front office knows where New Hampshire and Las Vegas are, and I suspect when they believe he'll learn more there he'll be sent down. I'm content with their judgment.