KYLE DRABEK RUMORS & GOSSIP

With spring training officially just under a month away, we continue with a series of projections on what the 2012 Toronto Blue Jays might look like. Each day (don’t hold me to this), I will profile a 2012 Blue Jays starter, closing with a set of numbers based on my (usually positive) expectations. We continue to move along the projected rotation today with a look at former top...

Coming off one of the worst debut seasons in recent years, Kyle Drabek has become quite the enigma for Toronto. The centerpiece of the Roy Halladay trade, Drabek was expected to become a future anchor for the Blue Jays rotation. His first few starts in 2010 showed some promise, and despite the ugly 4.76 ERA, Drabek was expected to help the Jays improve on their 85 win season. Unfortunately...

The Yankees are interested in the Blue Jays young righty Kyle Drabek, according to Bob Elliott of the Toronto Sun. The Yankees are examining every option when it comes to improving their  rotation so it doesn’t surprise me that they would express interest in the Blue Jays soon to be 24-year-old. Drabek struggled in the majors last season putting up a 6.06 ERA over 78.2 innings...

The Toronto Blue Jays will recall righthander Kyle Drabek from Triple-A Las Vegas on Tuesday. Drabek was demoted to Triple-A in mid-June after posting a 4-5 record with a 5.70 ERA. He struggled with his control, walking a league-high 52 batters in 14 starts. His inability to find the strike zone has continued at Las Vegas. Drabek has 45 strikeouts and 41 walks while pitching to...

When the Blue Jays first demoted Kyle Drabek to AAA, it was expected that he wouldn’t be down there for long. Having thoroughly dominated AA ball, Drabek was supposed to go to Las Vegas to find trust in his stuff, fix the control issues, dominate for a bit before getting the called back to the big leagues. Unfortunately for Jays and Drabek, it hasn’t exactly panned out...

I wasn’t exactly sure what part of the game I should begin with here, but I suppose the implosion of Kyle Drabek would be as good a place to start as any. We’ve seen a lot of things from the short time that Drabek has spent in the big league so far, but one thing we haven’t experience yet was a complete and total meltdown on the mound. Well, that changed tonight...

Kyle Drabek, a large part of the hopes of Toronto Blue Jays' fans, has now made five starts in 2010. His record stands at 2-0. If that was all we looked at, Blue Jay fans should be ecstatic. His ERA is also an impressive 3.30, good for a 121 ERA+. Also party-worthy. Baseball-reference.com is somewhat impressed and gives him 0.6 WAR accumulated so far. Fangraphs.com isn't...

There wasn’t very much the Blue Jays could have done to top their rout of the Minnesota Twins in yesterday’s opener, but they came close to doing it today in the second game of the series. So far, the first games have been able making big first impressions – and fans were treated to a dazzling one on the mound, as rookie pitcher Kyle Drabek put on an dominating...

Whenever a young prospect is traded for an established MLB talent, the expectations are high for the prospect to provide returns to the team that traded for him greater than the vet that they traded away. When you’re a young prospect that’s being traded for the greatest pitcher in the big leagues over the last decade, I think it’s fair to say that expectations go...

Everyone already knows who ranks at the top of our list, and he’s the same prospects that has been at the top of the majority of Jays prospects lists created. He is one of the best pitching prospects in all of MLB and should be a valuable addition to the Jays rotation in 2011. At the very top of the 4th best system in all of MLB, he is none other than…. #1: Kyle Jordan...