Pillar is ****ing stupid. He can't throw a strike. Swings at two pitches way outside of the zone
Buck thinks we have 9 catching prospects with viable major league consideration?
I know he said "in the minors" but let's assume that he's Buck Martinez and actually includes Jansen and McGuire in that figure.
So...
Jansen
McGuire
Adams
Pentecost?
Kirk
Danner
Moreno
Uh.....?
I'm only at 7, already feel like I'm stretching it, and not sure who else to even consider.
9 is definitely pushing it so it's a Buck being Buck.
I doubt he went this deep but Chris Bec, Alberto Mineo and Joneivy Molina just because his last name is Molina and he is a catcher. Ryan Gold and Yormam Rodriguez are other potential names.
An argument can be made for Bec, not a good one but an argument nonetheless. The others not so much.
So in conclusion I can't see 9 either. In fact I only see 3 in Jansen, McGuire and Adams. Kirk, Danner and Moreno are nice high upside lottery tickets but far from viable major league considerations in my opinion.
Not sure quite what you mean by "Seen enough". If you mean enough to know what he is, then yeah. He's an OK #5. If you mean that it's clear he shouldn't be around, I disagree. He's been decent enough (and after starting out super strong and outperforming expectations, his later cold streak has pretty much left him underperforming vs his peripherals.)
I'm not expecting him to break out and anchor a rotation, but the team could certainly do worse than having him as the 5th starter next season. He strikes out an OK # of guys, doesn't walk too many and is mostly an acceptable low-end pitch-to-contact type guy whose bad ERA is in part due to some crappy BABIP luck and in part due to a tendency to have a clunker of a game every 3 or 4 starts. It's not flashy and he's not stealing you games, but it's not entirely his fault that he's had such a hard time collecting wins over the last couple months.
Godammit Yangervis. What happened to you? You used to be cool.
lol Buck sounds bitter about the 10-day DL and options and how teams can "manipulate" the roster because the Yanks have that one pitcher that's been yo-yo'd.
It's almost mind boggling to think how quickly what was thought to be a very deep, strong and talented Blue Jays pitching staff became a complete dumpster fire.
All the conventional wisdom heading into this season said if the Jays were going to be a winning team, they were going to rely on their exceptional pitching.
The starters, yeah. The bullpen is a little less mind-boggling simply because the very nature of bullpens is that they are incredibly fickle. Great pen arms implode out of nowhere and nobodies and also-rans emerge to become stabilizers and there's very little you can do to predict who'll be who except trust that if you lay in enough talent things will be fine.
Today is an example of the fickle pen costing the team after a very nice start from Reid-Foley.