Arden Zwelling
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23 games 24 games into his big league career and he's already earned that level of trust for his manager that he's going to give him like a really sound approach at the plate and he's going to have a plan he's going to get to his pitch I think that's awfully impressive for somebody who was pretty off the radar last year and then like left exposed to the rule five draft over the winter he was actually a minor league free agent for a little bit Blue Jays signed him back um
This is like not someone that even other teams in the league like saw this in.
He has come to the majors and early in his career, a time when a lot of players struggled to make the adjustment.
He's actually raised his game in the majors and been better than he was at AAA.
That was Ernie Clement a couple of springs ago, DFA'd by Oakland towards the end of spring, right?
And came into the Blue Jays on a minor league contract.
That was honestly like Miles Straw, Cleveland would have handed him over to anyone that was willing to take the money.
Just anyone who will take this contract off our hands, you can have them for whatever.
And Myles Straw has been a great contributor for the Blue Jays over the last couple of years.
When it comes to Pignango's swing, it's a very uncommon swing.
Because if you take the major league leaderboards and you sort it by bat speed, to your point, he's near the top.
But what you don't see from all those guys with huge bat speed...
is really short paths to the ball like you see pretty long swings which like makes sense right because the longer the swing you're typically going for more power so you're swinging harder and faster you're sacrificing a bit of contact but the thing about pinango's swing is he has a shorter path like and if you look at like those lists he has the shortest path of anybody who swings this hard