Brendan Donovan

[Donn Beach]

He has pitched right handed to left handers, that's what the article was about. He's been better pitching right handed to left handers which shouldn't be that unusual. How much better can he get pitching right handed to right handers who knows. As he is he projects as a middle of the rotation kind of a starter. Nobody is hoping for him to learn to pitch left handed to project as a middle of the rotation starter. That's about making him elite

I hope I have the left handed right handed stuff correct, I always confuse that, right handed hitting, left handed hitting, right field, left field

[Donn Beach]

The leftie thing really seems to be driven by Cijntje himself, I think it's basically letting him pursue it

The good news: Seattle wasn’t blindly selling a mystery. The Cardinals are treating it like “Seattle already had the right idea, now we’ll learn the player and build from there.” Bloom even acknowledged Cijntje’s own preference and routine — that he’s “passionate about keeping up the left side” — but framed it as something that might continue in a controlled practice setting while they evaluate him in-person