Trey Yesavage has made three major-league starts.
His fourth will come on Sunday afternoon on the largest of stages — an American League Division Series playoff start — against the New York Yankees.
Combined, Max Scherzer and Chris Bassitt have started 692 big league games, thrown for some 4,231 innings.
The first inning in Game 2 will be Yesavage’s 15th in a big-league career that’s about a minute long.
The Jays have made the correct call, going to the kid, Yesavage, ahead of either of the Scherzer or Bassitt in their starting rotation, just not necessarily the comfortable call.
The conversation manager John Schneider had to have with Bassitt and Scherzer, telling them they have been dropped from the playoff series roster, had to have been a little prickly.
Nearing the end of his ca