Major League Baseball’s leader in starts over the last eight seasons isn’t thrilled with the recent change to his role. <\/p>\n
“Honestly, I don’t feel happy to talk about it,” said Berrios, per Sportsnet’s Arden Zwelling. “But, putting that aside, I put my team first. So, I was able to be out there with my team. That’s the way I see it.”<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old has made exactly 32 starts in each of the previous six seasons, not including the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, and leads MLB with 234 starts and 1,365.2 innings pitched since the beginning of 2018.<\/p>\n
Berrios has pitched to a slightly-above league average 4.06 ERA over 30 starts this season but has struggled since the start of July, owning a 5.37 ERA and allowing 13 home runs over 62 innings. The right-hander allowed three earned runs over four innings and didn’t record a strikeout in his last start on Sept. 16 against the Tampa Bay Rays. <\/p>\n
While he didn’t get into the game in the Blue Jays’ 20-1 loss to the Royals on Friday, Berrios was warming up in the bullpen during the middle innings.<\/p>\n
“Obviously, right now, with where the team’s at, we need to do our best. And that’s the only care I have,” Berr\u00edos said. “To go out there in the bullpen and do my best. I know the team needs it. So, hopefully I can do it.”<\/p>\n
The Blue Jays did put fellow starter Chris Bassitt on the injured list with lower back inflammation on Saturday, but the team plans to keep a four-man rotation for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major League Baseball’s leader in starts over the last eight seasons isn’t thrilled with the recent change to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-157887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}