I’ll bet there’s not another first base coach in baseball who feels better about the Jimmy Rollins trade than Ruben Amaro Jr. right now.
The young pitcher the former Phils general manager acquired in the Jimmy Rollins trade two years ago, 22-year-old Zach Eflin, shut down a dangerous Pittsburgh Pirates lineup last night, needing just 100 pitches to notch his first career shutout.
And in only his eighth career start, Eflin pitched his second complete game, something not a lot of pitchers, or teams, have done this year.
Zach Eflin has more CG in the last 17 days than DET SEA TEX ATL CIN HOU WAS NYM PIT AZ TB BAL KC MIL NYY OAK TOR SD COL MIA have all season.