John Danks understands his statistics won't back up cheap john danks caps his comments, but the veteran southpaw feels as close to pre-2012 surgery form as he has in the past three seasons.

"Really, every year I've started to feel a little better," Danks said prior to Friday's series opener with the Twins. "This year took a cheap john danks jerseys online bigger jump than I had to that point.

"I'm excited. I feel like when I was going into surgery, the idea was maybe change my philosophy for lack of a better way of explaining it. Be more [Mark] Buehrle-like I heard. I tried that, did that, had some success, had some failure with it."But the ultimate goal wholesale john danks jerseys china was to hopefully get my stuff back, the actual fastball and a little more bite on breaking balls," Danks said. "Then use that with the knowledge I gained from pitching with less stuff. I feel like going into next year cheap john danks socks and even with the second half this year, that started to emerge a little bit. I think this cheap john danks t-shirt can only get better."

Per fangraphs.com, the 30-year-old's fastball velocity has risen from 88.6 mph in '14 to 89.5 this season. He's also featuring the curve and even the changeup more than he has in the past.

Danks will take the mound Monday at home against the A's working on nine days' rest since his last victory at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City. He has a 7-12 record and 4.60 ERA over 154 2/3 innings, with a 1.377 WHIP, which is somewhat commensurate with his previous two years' numbers post-surgery.

Those results aren't exactly representative of a pitcher who agreed to a five-year, $65 million deal prior to the 2012 season. Danks feels the angst of not living up to that contract, but he hopes the development and growth post-surgery will help cheap chicago white sox john danks jerseys him salvage the final season in 2016.