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- Updated: April 20, 2016
BALTIMORE — The Blue Jays’ starting rotation has been a pleasant surprise, but the club intends to take a cautious approach with its young pitchers to make sure that trend continues.
Toronto’s starting staff entered play on Wednesday leading the Major Leagues with 95 innings. That’s an encouraging sign, but it does create some problems, considering the workloads of Aaron Sanchez, and to a lesser extent, Marcus Stroman, have to be closely monitored.
One possibility the Blue Jays have come up with is to temporarily add a sixth starter to the rotation. That would buy an extra day of rest for each starter and help the club get through its current stretch of 29 games in 30 days.
“There’s a couple of guys you want to be cautious with a little bit. It might help more to give those guys a break when we can,” Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. “We’ve definitely been talking about …
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