

And he mostly pitched in the seventh or eighth innings. He faced 3 or fewer batters 44 times in his 63 appearances, but then he was tied for third on the team in appearances. He was a straight one-inning guy last year, pitching more than an inning just four times all season, never getting more than five outs. The four-seam fastball has disappeared in the last couple of seasons.

He throws the sinker hard (averaging 93.7 MPH). He throws mostly sinkers (82.5% of the time), with the occasional slider (17.4%). We were better off when we could use him as a LOOGY. Too many home runs (and it will likely be worse this year). 63 games, 3.14 ERA, 8 vultured wins, and 17 holds (and 3 blown saves). Mayza isn’t number 1 in career holds, Paul Quantril has 86,Jason Frasor has 83 as a Blue Jay, and Duane Ward has 67 as Blue Jays (I didn’t check further). But no one keeps track of those things (but he is 20th in appearances for Jays pitchers). It would be kind of cool to be able to say ‘Mayza is sixth in team history in holds. He has pitched 248 games in his career, with a 3.98 ERA and 57 holds. In his other three seasons, he’s had an ERA of 3.28, 3.40 and 3.14. And if you ignore the 4.91 ERA in 2019 he’s been very consistent.

Well, if you ignore him missing out on the 2020 season after Tommy John surgery. Since then, things have gone much better for him. He wasn’t an immediate success, putting up a 6.88 ERA in 19 appearances. He was very good in OOTP Baseball, and, well, if I like them in the game, I tend to like them in real life.Īfter hanging out at the back of our 40-man prospect list for a bit, it made it to the Jays in August 2017. But then Danny Jansen was our 16th-round pick. For context In the first ten rounds, we took Phil Bickford, Clinton Hollon, Patrick Murphy, Evan Smith, Dan Lietz, Matt Boyd, Conner Greene, Kendall Graveman, Chad Girodo and Garrett Custons.īickford, Boyd, Graveman and Murphy joined Mayza as the only three who played in the majors this past season. Tim Mayza is a 31-year-old lefty reliever.
