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Originally Posted by Berger
4th 5th best reliever? Im pretty sure he had only given up 1 run in 8 innings in the regular season plus 9 shut-out innings in spring training...... he is also 3-0 from keeping games close enough in late innings that the jays came back to win. Yes he was awful tonight but every reliever has games like this. Hopefully they can rebound tomorrow to take 2 of 3 in tampa which any team in the mlb would be happy with.
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Yes, Janssen is their 4th or 5th best reliever. I don't use 17 inning sample sizes (including 9 spring training innings) much to judge stats. It's hard to argue that Gregg, Frasor, and Downs are easily better pitchers. Camp and Arcardo are right in the ballpark too. Janssen is very unproven since his surgery.
Either way, Janssen is completely the wrong type of pitcher to bring in in that situation. The guy has never had anything resembling an out pitch (as displayed in his career K/9 numbers) and losing 2 years due to surgery didn't help. How do you expect that sort of pitcher to get out of a jam? Double plays are nice, but they're unreliable. The strikeout is the pitchers best weapon in that situation.