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Originally Posted by flamingred89
http://https://www.tsn.ca/toronto-blue-jays-tanner-roark-sounds-off-after-being-pulled-1.1521900
Tanner Roark sounds a little frustrated after being pulled last night. I can understand where he’s coming from and share in that frustration. 12 million is a lot to pay for what amounts to an extended reliever going 4-5 innings a game. He says that he generally gets better the longer he’s in games but we haven’t had a chance to see him do that. That could just be blowing smoke, but pitchers like Dickey and Bheurle we’re similar in that regard.
I think the Jays are incredibly fortunate the bullpen has been as good as they are and you can only hope they keep it up. But you can see signs that they’re wearing down right now. I hope this is more of an experiment for the shortened season because I can’t see it being successful over a full schedule.
With that being said, Roark also needs to pitch better haha.
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Roark is the definition of mediocrity as a starter (he's a middling 4th or 5th guy) . However, I would have liked to have seen him get into the fifth last night. He had a very clean fourth inning and probably deserved to start the fifth with a decent pitch count. Plus I didn't like bringing Stripling into his first bullpen gig in a such a high leverage situation.