Late last week there were a lot of Top 10 lists flying around baseball circles and social media, and one of them in particular caught my eye.
If you ask the MLB Network, the Blue Jays made a big splash by signing one of the top-5 starting pitchers in baseball “right now” when they landed Hyun-Jin Ryu. They released a top 10 list on February 1st and Ryu was behind only Jacob deGrom, Justin Verlander, Gerrit Cole, and Max Scherzer, which is pretty exceptionable company. It was compiled by a system they call “The Shredder”, and wasn’t influenced by the opinion of any of us mortal humans.