Robbie Ray has been nothing but amazing all season for the Toronto Blue Jays. It amazes me how we got him and how his career has turned around ever since joining the Toronto Blue Jays.
On August 31, 2020, Ray was traded to the Blue Jays from the Arizona Diamondbacks for Travis Bergen. Ray's stats weren't good at all in 2020 with the Diamondbacks. Ray was posting a 1-4 record with a 7.84 earned run average. Before Ray got traded, he lead the national league in walks with 31. Once Ray was a part of the Blue Jays, Ray made strides in the right direction. In five starts with the Blue Jays, Ray went 1-1 with a 4.79 ERA. That's not great but, it is way better than his stats with Arizona. The Blue Jays saw this and decided to take a chance on Ray. In the offseason, Ray resigned with the Blue Jays for a 1-year 8 million dollar contract. Getting Ray for 8-million dollars might be one of the greatest offseason signing baseballs has ever seen.
Ray is a serious Cy Young candidate in 2021. Ray is 10-5 with a 2.71 ERA and has 202 strikeouts this season. On August 25, Ray had 14 strikeouts which tied his career-high for strikeouts In a game. Ray also became the first Blue Jays left to have 14 strikeouts in a game. Yesterday Ray became the second player in Blue Jays history to have three straight 10-strikeout games. Another milestone he passed yesterday against the Orioles was 200 plus strikeouts in 26 stars or fewer, and Ray has the most strikeouts in his career through 1,000 innings. Ray has been lights out all season and is making a case to win the Cy Young award.
Ray will get paid a lot of money in the offseason. Hopefully, the Blue Jays back the Brinks truck up to his door and give him everything he wants and more.
Every Blue Jays fan loves Robbie Ray from his grunting on every pitch down to his compression pants on the field. The dude is an absolute stud.
The trade the Blue Jays made to get him and then resigning him for only 8-million should go down as one of the biggest fleece in MLB history.
Here is a video of him hitting the apple in center field in New York.
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