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He was good in AAA, but hes whiffing more guys in his first two starts in the bigs. Maybe hes just commited to the changeup more at the big league level with Joh as his catcher?
With the RJ hype I think Joh would be a better fit for the Fister or French (more sliders please) type pitchers. I'm starting to think that the M's veteran pitchers just have built their own way of pitching through the years and Johjima threatened that. They took Joh's different approach as a negative, stopped having positive visuals on the mound, and then before you know it they actually started pitching worse with Joh behind the plate. Johjima has done just fine with the rookies.