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		<title>The Final Regular Season Blue Jays “STUFF” Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2016 16:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Sonne]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We did it!!! We&#8217;ve made it to the end of the season, and this is going to be the final regular season Stuff report. If you&#8217;ve read one, or you&#8217;ve read them all &#8211; thank you so much for making this such a fun experience. This Stuff report looks at the Jays pitchers over the [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We did it!!! We&#8217;ve made it to the end of the season, and this is going to be the final regular season Stuff report. If you&#8217;ve read one, or you&#8217;ve read them all &#8211; thank you so much for making this such a fun experience. This Stuff report looks at the Jays pitchers over the past 7 days &#8211; as opposed to normal, where we look at two week periods. Stay tuned later this week, where Nick Dika and I will be presenting the <strong>2016 Stuffy Awards</strong>. It&#8217;ll be a black tie affair. On to the Stuff!</p>
<h1>Starting Pitchers</h1>
<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/starters-table.png"><img class="alignnone  wp-image-7197" src="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/starters-table-1024x216.png" alt="starters table" width="844" height="178" /></a><a href="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/starters-table.png"><img class="alignnone  wp-image-7195" src="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/starter-figure-1024x743.png" alt="starter figure" width="666" height="483" /></a></p>
<p>A lot was made of the spring training battle between Gavin Floyd and Aaron Sanchez for the Starting Rotation. How silly we all were back then. Sanchez dominated, and the rest was history. Then just yesterday, on a day when Toronto needed him to be at his best, he carried a no hitter into the late portion of the game and silenced the best offensive team in the American League. His Stuff has remained legendary, and consistent all season &#8211; there are no signs of fatigue setting in. Pitchers are fragile &#8211; there is no arguing that. Who knows what the future holds for Aaron Sanchez, but it looks like we haven&#8217;t seen his ceiling yet.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Aaron Sanchez, arm action/glove side (front view) <a href="https://t.co/oHUGaQiClL">pic.twitter.com/oHUGaQiClL</a></p>
<p>— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) <a href="https://twitter.com/PitchingNinja/status/782906147212660736">October 3, 2016</a></p></blockquote>
<p>While not as mind blowing, Marcus Stroman also had a very consistent season from a Stuff perspective. He had his performance ups and downs, without a doubt, but in another game where the Jays needed a huge performance from their starter, Stroman pitched into the eighth inning against the Orioles (in a losing effort), and was cost a couple of runs by some shaky defence. Both of these young guns were there when their team needed them the most. All of Jays starters appear to be firing on all cylinders right now &#8211; and with a bit of luck (and hopefully some offence), it&#8217;s going to be exciting to see what these beasts can do in the playoffs.</p>
<h1>Relief Pitchers</h1>
<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/reliever-table.png"><img class="alignnone  wp-image-7194" src="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/reliever-table-1024x216.png" alt="reliever table" width="787" height="166" /></a> <a href="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/relief-figure.png"><img class="alignnone  wp-image-7193" src="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/relief-figure-1024x742.png" alt="relief figure" width="778" height="564" /></a></p>
<p>Consensus Blue Jays Rookie of the Year, Joe Biagini, saved his best stuff for last. In fact, Biagini had better stuff than all but four other pitchers in the MLB last week (Aroldis Chapman, Arquimedes Camineiro, Matt Bush, and Joe Kelly narrowly edged him out). Biagini has been put through the ringer this season &#8211; he has the second highest workload on the Blue Jays (per the Fatigue Unit&#8217;s metric &#8211; <a href="http://www.mikesonne.ca/baseball/giving-a-big-fu-to-workload-metrics-in-pitchers-part-2b-cumulative-fus-from-fangraphs/">which you can read about here</a>). He&#8217;s also been a great teammate &#8211; exhibit A.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Biagini kisses Grilli. Drunk already? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlueJays?src=hash">#BlueJays</a> <a href="https://t.co/AjdRWc2GXf">pic.twitter.com/AjdRWc2GXf</a></p>
<p>— Adam Virani (@adamv_23) <a href="https://twitter.com/adamv_23/status/782713621801558016">October 2, 2016</a></p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Bullpen-Workload.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-7198" src="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Bullpen-Workload.png" alt="Bullpen Workload" width="738" height="312" /></a></p>
<p>If you were concerned about big spikes in workload, Biagini should be number one on your warning list. I do believe that his recent struggles can be tied directly to his huge workload this season &#8211; but if you look at it from a Stuff perspective &#8211; Biagini does not appear to be showing physiological signs of fatigue. These last few bumps in the road may just be a matter of other teams finally getting a good scouting report on him, and hitters facing him for the second and third time.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s it! The end of the 2016 Regular Season Blue Jays Stuff report. Let&#8217;s hope there are a bunch of games we can use to evaluate stuff this postseason!</p>
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		<title>The Blue Jays &#8220;Stuff&#8221; Report &#8211; Volume 9</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Sonne]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Stuff report for your Toronto Blue Jays. Is it just me, or does Benoit have a huge head??? Starters Let&#8217;s face it &#8211; the Stuff report is about Aaron Sanchez, and looking for signs that he&#8217;s somehow losing his stuff as a result of fatigue. While there have been ebbs and flows [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to the Stuff report for your Toronto Blue Jays. Is it just me, or does Benoit have a huge head???</p>
<h1>Starters</h1>
<p>Let&#8217;s face it &#8211; the Stuff report is about Aaron Sanchez, and looking for signs that he&#8217;s somehow losing his stuff as a result of fatigue. While there have been ebbs and flows in his Stuff &#8211; he has remained shockingly consistent throughout the year. Last week, <a href="http://www.mikesonne.ca/baseball/who-has-the-best-stuff-in-baseball-volume-7/">I looked into the Stuff metric a bit deeper</a>. One of the things I wanted to find out was how consistent Stuff was throughout the course of the season. Sanchez has been in the top 20 of all starters for his consistency. Using PitchF/X data, there are just no signs that Sanchez is wearing down.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="ht">Aaron Sanchez, dirty 95 MPH two seam movement. <a href="https://t.co/DxMtxSxKid">pic.twitter.com/DxMtxSxKid</a></p>
<p>— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) <a href="https://twitter.com/PitchingNinja/status/764796725668306948">August 14, 2016</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Sorry for all of the links, but another pitcher I have written about is J.A. Happ. <a href="http://www.mikesonne.ca/baseball/let-it-happ-en/">When Happ signed with the Jays, I noted that his stuff has gotten better every year since he was last with the team.</a> In this volume of the Stuff report &#8211; you can see that his stuff has jumped back up to the 2015 levels &#8211; very encouraging, given how well J.A. has pitched this year. Marco Estrada is an elite pitcher, but it wasn&#8217;t necessarily because of his stuff &#8211; <a href="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/08/15/marco-estradas-changeup-and-its-place-among-royalty/">though his change up is legendary</a>. Throughout his back troubles, Estrada saw a steady decline in his Stuff. This marks the third week in a row that his Stuff has stabilized, and improved. Maybe Marco&#8217;s back is feeling a bit better again.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img class="alignnone  wp-image-5552" src="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Starters-Table-1024x221.png" alt="Starters - Table" width="598" height="129" /> <a href="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Relievers-Picture.png"><img class="alignnone  wp-image-5551" src="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Starters-Picture-1024x742.png" alt="Starters - Picture" width="570" height="413" /></a></p>
<h1>Relievers</h1>
<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Relievers-Picture.png"><img class="alignnone  wp-image-5550" src="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Relievers-Table-1024x244.png" alt="Relievers Table" width="596" height="142" /><img class="alignnone  wp-image-5549" src="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Relievers-Picture-1024x741.png" alt="Relievers - Picture" width="550" height="399" /></a></p>
<p>Roberto Osuna has continued to dominate for the Jays in his closer&#8217;s role, but looking at his season, he appears to have made some sort of a change in how he&#8217;s approached hitters. Looking at Volume 5 of the Stuff Report &#8211; Osuna had his best stuff of the season. Since then, it has dropped off a bit, but his performance has arguably been better.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/table-comp.png"><img class="alignnone  wp-image-5553" src="http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/table-comp-1024x116.png" alt="table - comp" width="697" height="79" /></a></p>
<p>Osuna&#8217;s velocity is down nearly one mph. He is also not separating his pitches on velocity, or break distance. Obviously, there are many ways to get hitters out &#8211; and it looks like Osuna has simply just gone to his best pitches more frequently. There is no reason to think that Roberto isn&#8217;t knocking at greatness&#8217; door.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>This is Osuna &amp; Martin&#8217;s best yet. <a href="https://t.co/n12pfUWWAl">pic.twitter.com/n12pfUWWAl</a></p>
<p>— Ian Hunter (@BlueJayHunter) <a href="https://twitter.com/BlueJayHunter/status/764548964632793088">August 13, 2016</a></p></blockquote>
<p>It is also really encouraging to see Brett Cecil increase his Stuff since his stay on the DL. Benoit, Grilli, and Tepera have all shown increases in Stuff. This bullpen struggled early in the season, but they are starting to look like a real weapon for this Blue Jays team.</p>
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