Baseball is so weird... stealing the pitcher's grip and relaying it is not dirty but stealing the catcher's signals is somehow bad? Pick a lane.
I really hope the Jays bats stay hot. Rodon's strikeout rate is tailing off as he gets older and his FB is down to 94... he had a lot of Ks early season but later in the year he was pitching more to get bad contact so I think they can really light him up if they stay hot.
If you look at his bad outings he was also giving up 3-5 walks a game so I think staying patient in the box will be key, waiting for the right pitch and maybe even grabbing some free bases with the BB would be good.
Bieber only really got hit hard in one of his 7 starts but he also didn't really dominate after that first start and seems like he will give up a base an inning pretty consistently, just hope he scatters them enough to give the jays 5 or 6 quality innings.
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