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As weird as it may be that Robbie Ray is probably two decent starts away from winning the AL Cy Young -- and that's pretty weird! -- it seems even weirder still that Hyun-Jin Ryu is, at the moment, the least reliable of anyone in our starting rotation. And whenever Ryu struggles, one worries a little (does one not) that at the relatively advanced age of thirty-four, that maybe this is it, the struggle from which he does not recover? "One of the uses of reading is to prepare ourselves for [pitching] change[s]," the rightly disgraced literary critic Harold Bloom once wrote, "and the final [pitching] change alas is universal." I do not wish to be unduly dramatic but five runs in just two innings of work is a dark turn of events, and leads one to ponder both mortality and the eternal, a little. You only get so many seasons.
In brighter news, we got to watch Byron Buxton play, which is a joy. What a stance! And it was very nice that the Toronto crowd welcomed the returning Josh Donaldson so warmly. Even though Josh Donaldson was never at all "my guy," and never seemed to me "my kind of guy," this was all very nice. I would invite him, in the future, to hit fewer homers, though.
KS
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