Today Donn Roach will make his second career start. He replaces Tsuyoshi Wada, who still has an ailing shoulder. It appears like this will be a spot start as Wada might be able to avoid a stint on the DL. The Cubs did not lose much in the all important bad name pun department with the swap, but the two pitchers’ style could not be more different.
Neither pitcher is overpowering in terms of velocity, but Wada is a flyball pitcher that relies on a deceptive high fastball to generate swinging strikes.