By Frank Zicarelli
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His start was pushed back one day to ostensibly give Bieber extra rest time.
The overall health of the Jays’ rotation is a bit sketchy.
Jose Berrios is no longer in the rotation having been bumped to the bullpen.
He went on the injured list Thursday as the club awaited results from an MRI.
The imaging revealed no structural damage, but Berrios will seek a second opinion from noted surgeon Dr. Keith Meister in Texas, the same individual who repaired Alek Manoah’s elbow last year.
Manoah, by the way, was claimed by Atlanta after the Jays DFA’d the right-hander.
As for Berrios, there’s still the chance he’ll pitch again this season, but so much will depend on the second opinion he receives and how deep a post-season run the Jays manage to forge.
In another development, the Jays swapped bullpen arms by recalling Justin Bruihl, while optioning Paxton Schultz.
In the regular season’s penultimate game, rookie Trey Yesavage will make his home debut Saturday (3:10 p.m. first pitch) against the Rays, who faced the right-hander when Yesavage made his big-league debut in Tampa two weeks in an outing that featured nine strikeouts across five innings; in the two games Yesavage has started, the Jays went on to win both.
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