The Free Press is reporting that Jair Jurrjens will get the start Wednesday against the Indians. Jurrjens has spent the year with the Tigers Double-A affiliate the Erie Seawolves and lately been pretty dominant and has not pitched at the Triple-A level. For Erie Jair has posted a 7-5 record and 3.20 ERA. His last three outings have seen him pitch 23 innings allowing 12 hits, 2 earned runs and 24 strikeouts. Jurrjens was also the Eastern League Pitcher of the Week two weeks ago.
Jim Leyland was pretty positive on him:
“He has been throwing great, using more of his pitches, and is doing pretty good against left-handed batters,†manager Jim Leyland said in making the announcement.
This will be a major test for him in a situation that the Tigers need to walk out of with a win. This game is also scheduled to be shown on ESPN; lets hope he performs better than Virgil Vasquez did in a similar situation.
Either way I’m pretty excited to see what he can do at this level.