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Originally Posted by evman150
Seattle has had Felix forever, Iwakuma for three years, and Chris Young is a guy with an 84mph fastball.
Why are the Blue Jays pitchers so bad? Why has the Toronto starting staff become a graveyard for otherwise successful pitchers? Could it possibly be the toxic atmosphere surrounding the team?
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So Cano makes the Seattle pitchers better, and Bautista makes the Toronto one's worse...makes sense.
It's not that hard to see that Dickey just wasn't suited for the AL, especially the AL East where the murders row of long ball hitters can jump all over any knuckleballs left hanging and hit them for HR's.
Behurle was almost too successful early on because I think the innings caught up to him this year.
Morrow, Hutch, Happ, etc are either injury prone, unproven, or just not that good. If not for Stroman this team would look even worse this season.
But you are right, the Seattle pitchers (and defense) aren't doing anything special this year, it was all the addition of Cano that made them better.
http://www.si.com/mlb/2014/08/19/mar...ng-and-defense
You can probably add defense to the reasons the Blue Jays struggle, especially in the in-field but I would say injuries have had a lot to do with that too.