Am sure you'd agree however - it's awfully embarrassing to have another org immediately deploy him to such great effect -
I think what mojician is saying, and I agree is that NO, it is NOT embarassing, because he HASN'T be deployed to great effect. He HASN'T been changed. Morrow is still the same guy in Toronto that he was here. He is handsome, He looks great in a uniform, he falshes the triple digit heat, he picthes with confidence and pace, He gets lots of strikeouts, and you think he is doing great and then you look at the scoreboard and realise, "wait what, when did he give up 4 runs???". Dont let his best game of the year (the one he threw against us) fool you, Morrow has not been a good starter for the Blue Jays! THAT is what Mojician was saying!
Morrow for the Blue Jays has run a 4.4 and 5.1 ERA the last two years, ERA+'s of 93 and 83 (below average), and played pretty much .500 ball (19-17), which for an offense like theirs is pretty alarming. One could say that I am using atiquated stats, and it is true that his FIPs and xFIPS make the statistical picture a little more rosy, but I have also noticed a trend with Morrow that he always underachieves. For all the talent, and all the strikeouts and all the offense he has behind him, he should be better! And his FIPs and xFIP bear this out, his real ERA is always higher than his theoretical ones, and when a pitcher has a trend of underperforming his fips I think that has to be unsettling. BTW I was trying to look up team DER to see if the blue jays have a terrible defense and I couldn't find it, can someone provide a link?
Anyway, bottom line is no I am NOT embaressed with anything Morrow has done or will do, or anything the Blue Jays did to "fix" him. And I am extremely glad to have League (a very valuable comodity either as our closer or as a trade pice). Not to mention Chavez who had a down year in AA, but who has the power potential and youth to find success.