Rickey Romero doing his best Jason Voohrees impersonation by carving up Twins players all night long. Romero took notice of his two spot drop on the top 25 movers list this past week and made amends for it by pitching an 8 and 2/3 inning gem Friday night. Romero struck out eight Twins' batters and was virtually unhittable all night. This is the kind of performance that fans should expect out of Romero, who is arguably the best left handed starter in the AL East and a top ten pitcher in all of baseball. Even more fitting was that Romero pitched this masterpiece on the day legendary Jays' pitching coach Mel Queen passed away. Queen was in the Jays' organization from 1986 to 2000 and was a big part of Toronto's glory years in the early 90's. He became the team's pitching coach in 1996 and turned Pat Hentgen into a Cy Young winner that same year. He also oversaw Roger Clemens back to back Cy Young years for the Jays and Roy Halladay credits him for turning his career around and launching him into the pitcher he is today. I trust the Jays will find some way to honour him at the Skydome in the near future because he sure deserves it.
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