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Originally Posted by evman150
Why has the Toronto starting staff become a graveyard for otherwise successful pitchers?
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Who are these "otherwise successful pitchers"? Because Hutch & Stroman (who are basically rookies) haven't pitched anywhere else Buehrle & Happ each have a FIP in line with their career norms. So the only otherwise successful pitcher is Dickey... a 39 year old with a trick pitch that never played in the kind of offensive environment that exists in the AL East.
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Originally Posted by evman150
Could it possibly be the toxic atmosphere surrounding the team?
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Uh huh... if theirs a bad atmosphere around the team it's because they're losing. I think you have your cause and effect reversed.
... and your really going to credit Cano with improving pitching? Really? Not the fact that Safeco probably takes up half the landmass of Washington State? The Jays issue is a combination of mediocre starting pitching and injuries. The bats are good enough to overcome the pitching inadaquacies but when the bats are injured the jays don't have the depth to pull out wins (and they're not given the money to fix either problem).