Chris Archer calls concern over his health ‘comical’

Over the weekend, Blue Jays announcer Buck Martinez reportedly said that he thought Chris Archer isn’t “physically right.”

I found this comment odd and out of the blue, but Martinez is a former big-league catcher and manager and had just called a game against the Rays earlier in the week, so maybe he saw something the rest of us were missing. To figure it out, we dug into the numbers and there definitely appeared to be some red flags with Archer’s velocity.

This didn’t sit well with Archer, calling concerns over his velocity “comical,” according to Roger Mooney of TBO.com.

“I’ve seen some headlines, and it’s comical,” Archer told the media. “I was throwing 92 to 96 last game instead of 94-97,…