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If only Yusei Kikuchi were himself aloof about it all, it might feel different for the rest of us, too, but as it stands, the utterly earnest displays of both hope and suffering broad blown before us nearly every time he takes the mound are almost too much to bear. And I just mean emotionally: this is setting aside the grim maths of the five runs Kikuchi gave up on three home runs in the first three innings Monday night. It felt low-key miraculous that Kikuchi made it through five full innings, and the Blue Jays kept it a reasonably close game (home runs from Biggio and Chapman helped), but this one felt like it was over pretty early on (John Schneider choosing the "Trent Thornton to Trevor Richards" bullpen route suggests this feeling was shared). It's fast approaching the point where Kikuchi is only going to be viable as The Long Guy out of the bullpen; maybe we're past that point already? I would wonder about this further but then I would have to bear it.
KS
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