Nate Pearson needs game action, which he can only get in the majors. He has the best pure stuff in the BlueJays' organization, and very few pitchers in the division can compare. That's why he belongs on the opening day roster, ShiDavidi writes.
TORONTO – Forget for a moment about the latest positive tests around the majors and the lingering doubts about this whole enterprise, and let’s have a baseball conversation.
That last part is especially tricky with the minor league season cancelled, making the majors the only place for young players to get meaningful reps, and that isn’t always congruent with getting results in the majors. “As we’ve talked a lot about in the past, just throwing someone into the major leagues on opening day just because it seems like they’re the hottest, they’re looking the best, we always want to factor in the body of work, what it means to be there on an opening day, what it means to be breaking with a team or the first time in your debut,” he continued.
A six-man rotation, piggybacking starters and a lot of opener-style outings are the likely byproducts of that. Talented, big velo arms maxing out for an inning or two really play in such a construct, which is why the Blue Jays “are talking about how to maximize that, how to think about that.”The game’s top pitching prospect checks every single box.
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