SEATTLE – Ryan Borucki isn’t the vindictive type and he has mostly gratitude for his professional life with the Blue Jays.
“We play good defence and pitch well and hit well … and we are chasing the Jays,” Borucki said when we asked him how life in the Pacific Northwest has been treating him. “I really, really like it here. It’s a fun team to be a part of.”
“I feel really confident and I feel like my delivery is in a really good place,” Borucki said in describing his baseball rebirth. “I’ve been throwing the ball really well. I’ve been riding a lot of confidence lately and I just want to keep it going.”In 11 games with Seattle, Borucki has a tidy 2.53 ERA and has allowed just one earned run over his past 10 appearances. In Toronto, he had lost confidence of management after fashioning a bloated 9.
There was also Tommy John surgery that kept him out fo the 2021 season. Then began a tour of the entire Jays minor league roadmap: First Vancouver then on to Bluefield and Dunedin. Moving along to Lansing and New Hampshire and Buffalo, he finally make his big league debut on June 26, 2018.“It was tough, obviously,” said Borucki, who recorded his first win since May 2, 2021. “It was 11 years of my life. There were a lot of tough good byes to guys who meant so much to me in my career.
“You need your starters to give you a chance every day,” Montoyo said of the rotation struggles of late. “That’s what starters have to do. It starts with that guy on the mound and we need to get to that point.”With Alejandro Kirk and Vlad Guerrero Jr. heading to Dodger Stadium for the midsummer classic, the Jays will have multiple starters for the all-star game for the sixth time in franchise history.