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Originally Posted by One Red Seat
MDC keeps spitting the bit every time it's offered. They need to get Hansen back up as soon the 10 days pass and see what they've got there. MDC is looking more and more like a middle of the game reliever, and not an end game option.
I will say this in his defense last night. It made absolutely no sense to pitch MDC to Lind. I know JHB posted his power pitcher splits in the game thread, but he's got a pretty strong LH/RH split too, and Oki is just a better pitcher. I think the stronger power pitcher split is negated by the quality of pitchers involved. Oki hadn't thrown since 4/24, so he was well rested. When your usual 8th inning guy hasn't had work in 5 days, give him the ball to start the inning in a 1-run game. I'm pretty sure the intent was to buy an inning's worth of outs from MDC and not pitch Papelbon on consecutive days, but it almost blew up in his face, and luckily, Oki was able to shake off the rust and get the job done after coming in without his full warm-up.
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This is why the move made sense. The Jays had 891 coming up.
Believe it or not, I'm surprised by how quick the hook was. It seemed like they had a plan going...let him pitch until he allowed a baserunner. Unfortunately, it happened on the 2nd pitch.
Okajima didn't look so hot last night to start either. If not for a great play by Moss, we could have been looking at an Okajima loss.