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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

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

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.

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.

Holmes wrote: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.

Schadenfreude wrote:

Holmes wrote: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?

number15 wrote: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.

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