Daily News | ‘I didn’t want to leave:’ Zach Eflin couldn’t rejoin the Phillies. Maybe now, with the Rays, he can beat them.
. Likeclose. He follows their social media accounts and scans their boxscores. He even cheers them on.“I’m still so close to a lot of guys on the team,” Eflin said in a phone conversation over the weekend. “I care about their careers. I care about how that team does. I don’t think I need to sugarcoat it or hide it. At the end of the day, man, I root for the Phillies.
For weeks, maybe even a month, Eflin peeked at the schedule and counted the days to see if he would line up against his former team. It crystallized two weeks ago, when the Rays pushed back ace Shane McClanahan to rest a lower back injury and put Eflin on track to start the series opener. Indeed, Eflin is proof that the grass sometimes really is greener, a fact that may not be lost on Nola if, as expected, he reaches free agency after the season.
Oh, and Eflin has benefited from Tampa Bay’s progressive pitching program. His 3.29 ERA in 15 starts would be leading the Phillies’ rotation. He ranks at or near his career-best totals in most other metrics, including fielding independent pitching , walks/hits per inning pitched , walks per nine innings , strikeout rate , and home-run rate .
But after the Rays committed to him, Eflin wanted to be open-minded to their approach. The result: A reconfigured pitch mix that incorporates more curveballs and cutters to augment his signature sinker. He has thrown fewer change-ups and sliders and all but ditched his four-seam fastball. Eflin returned from his knee problems last September to join the bullpen, even closing out the victory that clinched the Phillies’ first playoff berth since 2011. But when his agent asked about the mutual option after the World Series, the Phillies “said they hadn’t talked about it,” according to Eflin.
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