Not trading Toronto starting pitcher... 46 billion won in Japan motivation for lefties? 155km KKKKKKKK '8 wins'
Will the Toronto Blue Jays recruit starting pitchers from outside. While the prospects of local media are mixed, a pitcher with a flexible position threw well.
Yusei Kikuchi (32) started the 2023 Major League Baseball away game against the LA Dodgers at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California, on the 27th and won eight wins (3 losses) of the season with seven hits, eight strikeouts, and one run in six innings.
Toronto sent right-hander Trent Thornton to the Seattle Mariners on the same day and agreed to a trade to sign infielder Mason McCoy. General manager Ross Atkins vowed to recruit a starting pitcher earlier this month, but there are no results so far.
The views of the U.S. and Canadian media on Toronto's starting lineup are sharply divided. If Ryu Hyun-jin returns and Alec Manoa is revived, the argument that he does not have to recruit a starting pitcher as a trade and that it is difficult to predict Ryu Hyun-jin and Manoa's performance in the second half are at odds. 토토
However, many predict that even if Toronto actually recruits a starting pitcher, it will not even recruit a special ace. Lucas Giolito, the biggest player in the actual starting pitcher trade, moved to the LA Angels on the same day. Perhaps trade rumors can be a healthy stimulus for Toronto's existing starters.
Can a kind of sense of crisis lead to performance. On this day, Kikuchi seemed to be like that. Kikuchi's quality start is exactly one month after the Oakland Athletics match on June 26. The winning pitcher is also the first pitcher in a month since that day. On this day, the pitching was quite good.
In the first inning, he struck out J.D. Martinez and Chris Taylor in the first and second bases with no outs. I actively mixed the curves. Max Muncy induced a grounder to second base with a slider. In the second inning with two outs and a full base, Freddie Freeman struck out with a curve again. Of course, I did shoot a 96.5-mile four-seam. In the third inning, he struck out Martinez, Taylor and Muncy. He also used a lot of curves and sliders. In the fourth inning with one out and a runner on first, Miguel Rojas hit a double play to shortstop with a 95-mile four-seam.
After inducing a shortstop double play with Freeman at first and second bases with no outs in the fifth inning, Martinez also induced a fly ball to right field with a four-center. In the sixth inning, he threw a 94.8-mile four-seam at James Outman with two outs and a runner on second base, and was hit on the left field. But he struck out Rojas with a slider.
I shot 155km, but I pitched well with more fun with an off-speed pitch. Compared to last year, the ball control ups and downs are significantly better. On top of that, he strengthened his internal stability with a pitch that does not rely only on speed. It is true that Ryu Hyun-jin has already announced his return, and Kikuchi's position will be shaken if a new starting pitcher joins the trade. In this regard, Kikuchi once again showed his competitiveness to the outside world. 8 wins for the first time since our debut in 2019. He also has 10 wins for the first time.