The Eveland Era Expires

[Schad]

http://twitter.com/MLBastian/status/14586950131

DFA'd...he'll be assigned to AAA if he clears waivers.


Edit: the Jays have an off-day coming up after the Angels series, so they don't necessarily need to call up a fifth starter for the time being. Wouldn't be surprised at all if they call up Purcey to get a final kick at the can as a reliever...we could use a fresh arm out there.

[Randle McMurphy]

Purcey is a good guess, but I'll predict Tallet's return.

[Randle McMurphy]

Looks like they'll need a 5th starter on Tuesday in the Rays series. Litsch won't be eligible to return by that point, so it will have to be someone else (probably Tallet).

[SmoothTofu]

Thank god.

[Raider917]

Purcey is a good guess, but I'll predict Tallet's return.

is purcey still starting or strictly relief now?

[YogiStewart]

Purcey is a good guess, but I'll predict Tallet's return.

god no....
anything is better than Eveland, but Tallet's marginally better.
Cito can't understand that Tallet = long relief.

isn't this around the same time things went funky last year? couldn't find a starting pitcher that could pitch?

[Schad]

Not really; our nine-game losing streak happened in large part because our offensive output dried up. Eliminate the final 12-10 extra-inning loss (which was the doing of the bullpen), and we only scored 1.6 runs/game, while allowing 5.1/game, with the opposition scoring four or fewer in half of those eight games. So the pitching wasn't great, but had the offense been average, it would have been 3-6 at worst.

Edit: and the difference between a good fifth starter and an atrocious one is, at worst, perhaps 3 wins...bad enough to sink you in a tight pennant race, but not exactly likely to cause a team to implode.

[FreeAgent]

Purcey is a good guess, but I'll predict Tallet's return.

is purcey still starting or strictly relief now?

Relief.

[RapsFanInVA]

He will be sorely missed.

[Randle McMurphy]

Purcey it is, but Tallet will probably be up next Tuesday.

[Duffman100]

Can't we call up Halladay?

[Lateral Quicks]

Can't we call up Halladay?

I'd trade Beastita for Halladay. Maybe

[tsherkin]

Heh.

Well, it does seem like it was time. He had a couple of decent starts and then just sucked consistently. Should be neat to see who we bring up instead.

[YogiStewart]

you kind of want to feel sorry for him but then you look at his "stuff" and its pretty awful. his fastball topped out at something like 89 mph?

[Schad]

Eveland's average fastball velocity was slightly over 88...Marcum's is a couple MPH lower. Difference being that Eveland can't locate for ****, whereas Marcum can.

[Relentless88]

Bring in Brad Mills.

[Raptor_Guy]

Hm well Zep and Jesse and have both been pretty bad with their minor league starts. I'd like one of them to be back to form as the 5 starter and we'd be in decent shape.

[CapeCrusader]

Glad to hear about Eveland...it was about time

As for Zep and Litsch doing bad in the minors right now...I remember Romero having the same problems before they gave him a shot in the Majors.

[Geddy]

Good to here Dana is gone. He could barely find the plate and when he got hit hard.

With Cito being Cito i think we will most likely see Tallet back in the rotation.

[kwamebargnani]

Bring up Bobby Ray or Mills for couple of starts. If they pitch well, that's great, if they suck, then whatever. Either Litsch, or Rzepfkeialjkzmfjigjzinsky will be ready by then.