Blue Jays will need creativity with pitchers as workload jump looms
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February 19, 2021, 7:39 PM
TORONTO – Even without the strain of jumping from a shortened 60-game season back into the full 162-game grind, constructing a pitching staff along traditional lines has for years become increasingly difficult for major-league clubs.
Consider that from 1977 through 1994, the Toronto Blue Jays used less than 20 pitchers in all but one season, requiring only 13 arms for both the 1982 and 1984 seasons. From 1995 through 2010, they typically needed between 20 and 24 total pitchers, the 18 in 2005 and 19 in 2008 the sole anomalies. In the decade since 2011, they’ve averaged 31.7 pitchers a season, never using less than 27 and needing 29 to surviv
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While the Toronto Blue Jays have reshaped their roster in significant ways this season, if the team wants to add an impact arm via trade, it will need to risk more than it did for Steven Matz.