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Javy Guerra of the Toronto Blue Jays celebrates their victory with Luke Maille during MLB game action against the Detroit Tigers in Toronto on March 29, 2019.Charlie Montoyo’s willingness to take deep dives into baseball analytics was one of the attributes that led to his hiring as the new manager of the Toronto Blue Jays.
But as any serious seamhead will tell you, there’s more to these things than just head-to-head pitcher-batter encounters – or so we’re led to believe.McKinney had an infield hit that helped move along a big four-run fourth inning that was enough to propel the Blue Jays to a 6-0 victory. The win was Toronto’s first of the season. It was also Montoyo’s first win as a major-league manager.
Brandon Drury, for example, was batting leadoff for the second consecutive game after collecting one of Toronto’s two hits in Detroit’s 2-0 win on Thursday. But in the Montoyo way of thinking, Drury’s spot on the top of the batting order is not guaranteed for any prolonged period of time. And head-to-head matchups, Montoyo stressed, is not the only metric he uses when filling out his lineup card. “How the guy [pitcher] throws, the bat speed of the hitter, how he swings the bat and all that,” Montoyo explained. “It all goes into that equation.”
Matt Shoemaker, who had two injury-scarred seasons with the Los Angeles Angels before Toronto GM Ross Atkins made him an off-season reclamation project, got the start and he was terrific. Shoemaker struck out seven over seven innings and allowing just two hits. Javy Guerra pitched two runless innings of relief to back Shoemaker’s solid performance.
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