Arden Zwelling

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915 appearances 9 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2025 last heard 3d ago

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Blue Jays Talk · JTP: Rays Check-In, Eric Hartman & What’s Happened to Toronto? · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

So you always want to have an idea of the values, the prices, the availability, the inventory, whether you are buying or selling.

So I imagine that Blue Jay is being very thorough on that right now.

I think you're always looking for best value because you can just sort out that unevenness over the offseason, right?

So if you create a surplus internally with just... If you get a Will Wagner, you can turn him into a Brandon Bellenswell.

Yeah, if you create a surplus, you can just then use that in the offseason in order to...

fill whatever hole you weren't able to address at the trade deadline so really you just have to like the market will tell you what to do like it's just really what's available what's the most value and then you you know because it's always an ongoing thing just constructing your roster like the Blue Jays right now are thinking about how they're constructing their 27 roster their 28 roster they're constantly like

shifting the puzzle pieces around.

You're looking short-term, but you're always looking medium and long-term as well.

That comes payroll considerations, CBT considerations, like that all plays into it.

Whether you want to duck under that second apron and not have your draft pick bump back 10 spots like it was this year.

When you were operating with the second smallest bonus pool to the Los Angeles Dodgers, that hurts your ability to get better.

Your ability to pick higher in the draft and have a larger bonus pool, that's such a bigger leverage point than acquiring Joey Loperfito or Charles McAdoo at the trade deadline.

That's so much more valuable to you is getting to make your own pick.

with an amateur player who hasn't yet turned pro and get them into your system and groom them your way.

So that's also a big consideration in this deadline.

It's just whether you want to lower that CBT expenditure so that you can have a better pool going forward.

What's tricky is that's in the current system and the CBA is about to expire.

So who knows what it's going to look like?

Yeah.

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