Marcus Stroman will make his return to the Blue Jays’ rotation on Saturday, manager John Gibbons revealed today in an MLB Network appearance (h/t: FOX’s Jon Morosi, on Twitter). He’ll step into the rotation in place of Mark Buehrle, whom Gibbons described as “a little banged up.” Buehrle has returned to Toronto, where he’ll receive a cortisone injection in his left shoulder, tweets Sportsnet’s Shi Davidi.
Stroman’s return would’ve seemed impossible a few months ago, as the promising young right-hander tore his ACL just prior to the season. However, Stroman has healed far, far more quickly than anticipated and has already made a pair of minor league rehab starts. If healthy, he can provide a major boost to the Toronto rotation as the Blue Jays attempt to maintain their slim half-game lead over the Yankees in the AL East. Stroman will have the opportunity to immediately make a direct impact on that race, as he’ll take the mound at Yankee Stadium.
Stroman allowed four runs on eight hits and five walks with 12 strikeouts in 7 2/3 innings in his pair of rehab outings. The former No. 22 overall pick emerged as a potential rotation cornerstone for the Blue Jays in 2014 when he pitched 130 2/3 innings of 3.65 ERA ball, averaging 7.6 strikeouts and 1.9 walks per nine innings. ERA estimators such as FIP (2.84), xFIP (3.17) and SIERA (3.18) all believed Stroman’s true talent level to exceed his ERA in 2014.
And so officially ends Buehrle’s awesome streak of 14 straight seasons of 200+ innings pitched, sorry to say it probably won’t be broken ever again, what with the tommy johns and all…
well RA dickey might pitch til hes 75 so still hope
Buehrle did not look right in that game yesterday. Hope he’s okay.
Have fun with that yanks. Price followed by Stro! #this is where we bury you!!!!
relax guys, stroman might not be the ace that everyone thinks he is at this point in his career especially since he hasnt pitched all year. you cant just assume a guy who has missed all year is suddenly ready to go after 2 rehab starts. it’s possible, ala jose fernandez, but unlikely. he was having trouble in his last rehab start yesterday. he did well in his first rehab start but sending a mlb level pitcher to dominate low-a ball full of 17 year old kids that can’t hit proves nothing.
Very well put.. I like Stroman a lot and I think he has a very bright future ahead of him but he is still young.. The Yankees and other teams are full of veterans and this is the stretch run in baseball where veterans tend to put that little extra into their games to try to get their team into the playoffs.. Personally, this time of year I would rather have Buehrle (if 100% healthy) on the mound.. Kind of like the old movie Major League where in the final game Lou went with the crafty veteran Harris instead of the rookie Rick “Wild Thing” Vaughn.. I hope Stroman does well though.. Toronto has finally put a powerhouse together but their window is small.. I hope they are able to get that championship this year..
Do you really need to have an attitude like that? #jerk For one thing I don’t understand the “we” comment.. Are you a member of the Blue Jays organization? Fans like you should stick to football.. Toronto has built a great team this year but they sold the future to get a rental in Price and an oft injured Tulo.. How much time do you think he is going to spend on the DL in the future because of his fragile hips getting beat up on that turf? The Yankees are building a perennial winner while also waiting for their bad contracts to expire.. They will be in the post season hunt for the next 10 years and after next year Toronto probably won’t smell the playoffs for another 20 years.. That is when fans like you will crawl back into your cave or find another bandwagon to jump on.. I despise the Red Sox because of the rivalry with the Yankees but I will say that I have never seen a Red Sox fan make a comment like yours.. Its not just you though.. It seems like all of the Blue Jays fans are coming out of the woodwork and a bunch of them are classless big mouth jerks.. I wish I could understand the 5th grade mentality that it takes to make some of those comments.. I hope Toronto wins it all this year.. Them or the Royals.. Both teams and cities deserve a championship.. I just hope that if they do win people like you stay home and don’t go out and trash the city with a riot..
A little overly-dramatic for a relatively benign comment; relax man. He didn’t insult anybody or carry on, it was a mild boast. I take it you don’t interact with sports fans very often if that comment has you riled up.
Its not the first comment like that he has made.. I do my best to avoid sports fans.. I prefer to converse with baseball fans and avoid fans who only come out when their team is winning.
Don’t take it to heart, bro. It’s pretty evident that he’s never had the opportunity to be this excited about the Jays in his existence. It’s a whole new experience for him. He’ll be knocked down to Earth sooner or later.
Just so you know, I am an avid baseball fan and pay next to little attention to any other sport. Born into a true blue loving family, I’ve been with the Jays for 3 decades. As stormie said, it was a mild boast. Sorry if I offended your sensitive yankee pride. And yes, I’m ecstatic that my Jays are crushing it and look forward to seeing more of that. Hardly think we’ve sold out on our future. Don’t get your panties in a knot cause the yanks aren’t going anywhere. BTW, I would love to know what else I have said that set you off. Peace.
Hopefully Stroman can stop by Queens to show Matt Harvey how a real man behaves when his team is headed to the playoffs.
easy for you guys to say when it’s not your arm that could be potentially torn to pieces. everyone knows harvey isn’t supposed to pitch 200 innings in the first season back. cardinals are doing the same thing with wacha. you just dont hear about it because the cardinals know what the right thing to do is while the mets are a joke of a franchise and are telling their ace to do something that no other team would. remember, washington was in the same position with strasburg in the middle of a race and shut him down because it’s the right thing to do.
Oh please. You’re only telling half of the story. What about the other half where Harvey was not pleased with the 6 men rotation, which would’ve helped better manage his innings? Or getting mad when he deemed he was pulled too early in games? I’m certainly no Met fan, but to solely blame them is dead wrong.