After Monday’s game, when Junkball Jenkins ripped through the opposition like a man possessed, he had a few words with Canadians radio caller, Rob Fai.

What follows is a (very, very) rough transcript, so you can get a little more insight into how the kid operates.

Q: You seem to line hitters up by going after them with breaking stuff, and then surprising them with the fastball. Is that your usual method?
A: Oh yeah, when you get out there you use your strengths, so we do a lot of backwards fishing. I don’t throw very hard but I have good breaking stuff, so when you get those curveballs, the fastball will creep up on you.

Q: You piled on the K’s tonight, is that something you’ve done a lot of in school?
A: Well I’ve always been known as a strikeout pitcher, in college and high school, so I came from college with the same mentality; use my fastball late in counts, and that seems to be working right now.

Q: You seem to have a real swagger about you on the mound, like you’re in control. Is that a conscious thing?
A: Oh yeah, that’s 50% of the game, if you can let your teammates know you’re confident and not worried about letting up on the hitter, people can sense that, and it can turn the game around.

Q: Tonight’s win must have felt good after the recent run of losses.
A: Yeah, it’s nice to come away with one. We kept the runners from scoring and put the win on the board today, and hopefully that builds from here. 

I really like this guy. His performance the other night brought back memories of Dallas Braden striking out 8 and 10 and 12 hitters back in 2004 with a screwball nobody could touch. He doesn’t throw hard, but he knows how to keep a hitter on edge with everything else in his arsenal, and he makes them work to get to base.

If his next outing is anything like this one, he won’t stick around at this level for long.