What not Deck or Jenkins?

[number15]

with all the injuries to pitcher the JAYS have resorted to giving shots with no bodies.... why not bring in 2 of our older and better prospects in instead.

Deck McGuire and Chad Jenkins

[Holmes]

The answer is quite simple. They aren't MLB pitchers. They have been disastrous this year at Double A.

[Schad]

Because they are older, but not better. Deck has posted an ERA of 6.62 in double-A, while Jenkins has lost the plot and turned from a mediocre-but-manageable groundball artist into a Deckian launching pad.

[Holmes]

Sad part about Deck, is not Chris Sale, but the fact that he was already a well known low-upside 1st round pick to begin with at the 2010 draft. So seeing him struggle so mightly in double A is so defeating.

[Schad]

Sad part about Deck, is not Chris Sale, but the fact that he was already a well known low-upside 1st round pick to begin with at the 2010 draft. So seeing him struggle so mightly in double A is so defeating.

He wasn't universally considered a low-upside pick...not beyond this board, at least. Law liked him, and John Sickels believed that he'd be a good mid-rotation guy at least. A good #3 starter isn't actually low upside for any pick beyond the top five, so it wasn't a failure if he could become that. Unfortunately, the straightness of his fastball -- and the declining velocity thereof -- demonstrated why there ain't no such thing as a safe pitching prospect.

[Al_Oliver]

Sad part about Deck, is not Chris Sale, but the fact that he was already a well known low-upside 1st round pick to begin with at the 2010 draft. So seeing him struggle so mightly in double A is so defeating.

He wasn't universally considered a low-upside pick...not beyond this board, at least. Law liked him, and John Sickels believed that he'd be a good mid-rotation guy at least. A good #3 starter isn't actually low upside for any pick beyond the top five, so it wasn't a failure if he could become that. Unfortunately, the straightness of his fastball -- and the declining velocity thereof -- demonstrated why there ain't no such thing as a safe pitching prospect.

how long before he becomes a reliever or a total bust?

[kwamebargnani]

with all the injuries to pitcher the JAYS have resorted to giving shots with no bodies.... why not bring in 2 of our older and better prospects in instead.

Deck McGuire and Chad Jenkins

Have you seen their numbers? They're both write offs at this point.

[xAIRNESSx]

Too bad our high-celing pitchers are all in A-ball.