Jose Fernandez exploded onto the Miami scene harder than Vanilla Ice in 1990, dude was mowing people down like he was the Cuban sales manager for John Deere. JFer looked like he was going to be the foundation for the Miami rebuild collecting All Star honors & ROY in 2013. He was young, exciting, electric, fiery and then he had a visit with Dr. Freeze. Dr. Freeze immediately put him on ice and for the next 14 months the only time we got to see JFer pitch was for a 5 hour energy commercial on the MLB channel (seriously, that commercial ran non stop last year). Thankfully he came back late last year and looked sharp racking up 79 K's in 65 Ing's with a solid 2.91 ERA. He was in Grey's top ten SP's at the beginning of the year and personally I was excited to see him come back and pick up where he left off. Then the season started, Chen was tapped as the opening day starter and after that it seemed like the JFer banner season went sideways. I'm not sure what happened in the clubhouse or front office, but who the eff decided that JFer wouldn't be the opening day starter? I get that they're trying to keep his innings down, but this is your 23 year old franchise starting pitcher you're messing with. I get that they're supposed to be professionals and it's business, but this kid just got bumped for Wei-Yin Chen on Opening Day. Yeah I'd be super pissed too. I'm not saying his rough start is due to not getting the nod on Opening Day, but maybe, just maybe he's like that crazy ex GF that messes with you just to prove a point. I could be way off base here, but maybe, just maybe JFer is making a point to Loria and the rest of the Miami Minions, he's Numero Uno snitches! I'm banking on the fact he sowed his April oats, he's done pouting and that he's proved his point to the peeps in charge. This wild horse's reigns have been weighing him down to start the season and now it's time for the guys in charge to let this stud run free like Nyquist, cause he's a got a lot more in the tank Vanilla's five point oh. At $11,300 he's on the bottom end of the aces, but I think he be under owned due to the juicy match-ups for Corey Kluber and Jon Lester.
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