The Mariners have claimed righty Casey Lawrence from the Blue Jays, as Bob Dutton of the Tacoma News Tribune first reported on Twitter. The club has announced the move, with Evan Scribner moving to the 60-day DL to create 40-man space.
The 29-year-old Lawrence will report to Triple-A Tacoma, where he’ll provide the Seattle organization with an additional depth option. He had made two starts and two relief appearances at the MLB level for the Jays, though those didn’t go particularly well.
Over 13 1/3 innings frames with Toronto — the first of his career in the big leagues — Lawrence surrendered 13 earned runs on 21 hits with a less-than-ideal 7:11 K/BB walk rate. That said, Lawrence has also turned in three strong starts at Triple-A this year (allowing just one earned in ten innings) and has been a sturdy (if unspectacular) performer in the upper minors in recent years.
Perhaps they will activate Lawrence and he will pitch against the Jays this weekend in toronto. If so, it would likely be a Jays win.
Perhaps if you read the article you’d know that Lawrence is being sent to Tacoma, so the Jays are destined to lose their customary 3 out of 4.
I think he was kidding and people need to lighten up.
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Perhaps it would have been funnier if you said
“Perhaps he was kidding and some people need to lighten up”
weren`t like 3 of his walks intentional or something
True Story: Casey Lawrence has had an entire career in the minors, 161 starts, throwing at 88-89 MPH tops. A baseball executive says to him recently, “in order to make the bigs, you need to throw harder”. Shortly after that conversation, he can now throw at 91-92 MPH, starts having more success in the minors and gets a call-up to the Jays. Question: How does that happen? Trying harder? More weights? Weight balls? B12? Yeeesh.
He changed his mechanics in AA last year. He was struggling, the pitching coach wanted to try some new things by modeling his mechanics more like Pedro Martinez. Those changes helped him gain 3-4 MPH on his fastball, and subsequently changed his career.
Sorry I don’t buy that story. I been around baseball 25yrs plus including being a pitching coach, and changes in mechanics rarely produce that kind of change in velocity esepcially later in a career. I wonder if he had vitamin help? And he will NEVER pitch like Pedro, or come close to anything like Pedro that is to silly to even consider.
When did I say he was going to be Pedro Martinez? I said they made changes to model his mechanics. I pitched professionally for 7 years and can tell you that I saw mechanical changes add MPH often, including myself, so to throw a blanket statement out there like that is ridiculous.