by Seth Trachtman Updated On: June 25, 2021, 3:50 pm ET
Coming off his worst season, albeit severely shortened by the COVID-19 pandemic, Robbie Ray was at a crossroads entering free agency. Fortunately, the Blue Jays kept the faith and are being rewarded.
The left-hander is having an odd but splendid season in Toronto, flashing the best velocity of his career and ironically showing off the best walk rate of his career (6%) after a career-worst and embarrassing 18% walk rate last season.
Ray has had a lot going against him in finding success this season, including two months of home games at hitter-friendly Dunedin, but he’s been able to overcome an AL-high 18 home runs allowed to post a 3.35 ERA and 1.13 WHIP in 14 starts. He also happens to have a brilliant 11.5 K/9, marking the sixth consecutive season that he’s carried a K/9 of at least 11.0. Among MLB starting pitchers, only Max Scherzer and Chris Sale have better overall K/9 rates than Ray (11.8) since 2016, showing th
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The Mets turned their fortunes around in Baltimore to the tune of a 14-1 rout of the Orioles, earning the series split at Camden Yards. The Mets faced off against old friend Matt Harvey for the second time in 2021. And for the second time they had his number.
This night’s contest began with an absolutely spectacular catch by Cedric Mullins on a ball off the bat of former Oriole Jonathan Villar that was destined for the gap in left-center. But after a good at-bat from Francisco Lindor resulted in a one-out walk, Pete Alonso hit a blast off Harvey to left-center that would not be caught by Mullins a two-run homer and his third home run in two nights to put the Mets on the board early. After retiring Dominic Smith (one of only two Mets in the starting lineup to take an 0-fer on the night) on a groundout, James McCann hit a bloop double that snuck under the glove of a diving Anthony Santander. But Harvey then got Billy McKinney to ground out to