Why the Blue Jays trade for Shane Bieber is a ‘gamble'
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How many players got moved at the deadline this year who are going to start a playoff game?
Over under 0.5?
I mean, the only one who feels like he is actually Plan A is Shane Bieber, um, and that, for a lot of reasons, is not a guarantee.
I think Toronto going out and getting Shane Bieber, who has still yet to return to the major leagues but looked good in the AA rehab outing earlier this week.
We knew Cleveland was going to flip him, even if they weren't going to trade Kwon.
That's the idea.
I think Toronto was trying to raise their ceiling, more than raising their floor, and I think Bieber qualifies as that.
But the Blue Jays quietly have five competent starters right now, and so how they work Bieber into this rotation down the stretch, let alone in the postseason, is very interesting.
But too many good pitchers is a good problem to have.
Are you going to be the one to tell Max Scherzer he's going to the bullpen in the postseason?
I don't envy that.
John Schneider has to do that.
It's more likely to be Eric Lauer.
What would it mean for Basset, Gossman, or Brios, who are, of course, older veteran guys, but Bieber, and maybe Bieber just isn't awesome because we just don't know.
Maybe he just isn't, we just don't know what exactly he's going to look like.
So it's clearly a gamble.
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