Trey Yesavage is heading into the offseason with a clear mission: give hitters one more thing to worry about.
The Toronto Blue Jays right-hander said on Saturday that he wants to add a fourth pitch to his mix, and he’s already exploring a couple of options. As he put it to MLB.com’s Keegan Matheson, “Dabbling with a curveball and a two-seam, but we’ll see what works best,”
Yesavage’s current arsenal is built around three pitches: a four-seam fastball, a splitter and a slider. The splitter has been his best weapon so far, the pitch he leans on when he wants to finish at-bats and rack up strikeouts.
For Yesavage, the next step is about making life harder on opposing lineups. If he can turn either the curveball or the two-seam fastball into a reliable major league pitch, it would give him a deeper toolbox and another way to attack hitters. The key, though, is whether he can get one of those offerings to a point where he trusts it in big-league games.
The 23-year-old’s first full MLB season didn’t quite turn into the breakout many around Toronto were hoping for, but it was still a solid body of work. In 20 starts, Yesavage went 5-6 with a 3.69 ERA and 97 strikeouts, even while missing 70 games because of injuries.
That leaves the Blue Jays looking ahead to a season in which Yesavage’s biggest goals are pretty straightforward: stay healthy and keep building toward becoming one of Toronto’s top pitchers.
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