Be it weeks or months, Ryu’s absence makes the Blue Jays vulnerable, and they’ll need the rotation at its best because the padding around it is gone. And depending what comes with Ryu, they may need an external addition to get it back. ✍: ShiDavidi
Back in spring training the obvious second layer was Nate Pearson, the electric-armed righty with the tantalizingly high upside. At the moment, however, he’s trying to get untracked after being derailed by mononucleosis, is only up to two innings at triple-A Buffalo and isn’t yet throwing the ball with the consistent authority necessary for him to thrive in the majors.
For a contender like the Blue Jays, that’s a worrisome soft spot and it shrinks the margin for error around the rest of the rotation, especially, who was roughed up for four runs on three homers over 4.2 innings of Friday’s 9-3 thumping from the Minnesota Twins. Signed for $36-million over three years once the lockout ended, Kikuchi has been trending toward what the Blue Jays believed he could be since transitioning his cutter into a harder slider and making minor mechanical tweaks during an April makeover.
“I’m not really worried about that too much. Obviously, we will go and look at film,” Kikuchi said through interpreter Kevin Ando. “But at the same time, if I were to be tipping, I feel like I would have gotten that many strikeouts. I felt like for the most part, it was more of they had a game plan and they stuck with it, maybe they were looking for certain pitches in certain counts, they got it and they executed.
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