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| Daulton Varsho, styled uponst jauntily |
I can't be the only one who is a little surprised with how often Tyler Heineman has pitched so far this young season, right? Even if it is just three innings over two appearances, that's still more than you'd figure out of your backup catcher over the first ten games, isn't it? Not only is his 15.00 ERA not the worst one posted by a Blue Jays pitcher so far, but it actually suggests (incorrectly, but nevertheless suggests) that we'd have really been no further behind if he'd thrown the whole game Monday night against the Dodgers, who touched up five Blue Jays pitchers before Heineman shut the door (in an admittedly limited sense) in the ninth. Max Scherzer left after just two innings, and Dan Schulman understandably speculated that Scherzer might have caught the virus that had made things difficult for Eric Lauer recently, but no, he is in fact dealing with forearm tendonitis, which sounds appreciably worse as far as it relates to pitching in an ongoing fashion. What a mess! And there were nearly forty-one thousand people there to see it, too; I can only imagine the in-stadium vibe (the vibe on the broadcast was itself ungreat).
It's true that it's super early, and that things have been super weird for lots of teams so far (only four AL teams are above .500, and you can't even take that all that seriously since one of them is the Angels; the Red Sox, inexplicably, are but two-and-eight), and that the Blue Jays were not super duper better than this to open the 2025 season. All true! But wouldn't it be great to grab a couple against the Dodgers here before things unravel further? It's Gausman and Yamamoto tonight, Cease and Ohtani Wednesday afternoon, so plenty of potentially less cursed baseball ahead (possibly).
KS
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