But it does not appear the Jays have lost faith in the player they signed to a three-year, $33-million contract before last season. “I think it will come for him,” Jays manager John Gibbons said of Morales’s hitting. “Pitchers have thrown me sliders in the past,” Morales said, through Jays interpreter Josue Pelley. His hard contract rate is right at his career average, 37 per cent, but his soft contact rate, 20.3 per cent, is the highest of his career. It’s also increasingly apparent that pitchers are throwing more breaking pitches at the Jays, not just Morales.

Source: thestar May 09, 2018 22:41 UTC