Arden Zwelling

And maybe if he had a bigger ego about it, he would have made a stink about not continuing.

But he said, hey, yep, did my job.

That's that.

I'm going to go get ready for my next one.

So that's kind of what you want out of your fifth starter.

And there really just hasn't been an Eric Lauer outing this year where there hasn't been some sort of extraneous thing that we are focused on other than the fact that he went out and threw five innings in the loud between one and three runs.

Right.

Yeah you could even throw an opener in front of you Savage if he isn't fully stretched out like it's possible he's only got 80 pitches for his next outing just because his last two haven't been ideal from like a volume and a workload standpoint and maybe that kind of makes some sense to like throw a Mason Fluharty in the first inning to face Roman Anthony and Masataki Yoshida and

willier bray you and then you bring in trey savage after them although trey savage uh can be a bit of a reverse splits guy because of his splitter so there would be some interesting things to be weighed there i think the most likely scenario is that savage probably throws one more minor league outing just because he hasn't had a really ideal one to platform off of to return to the big leagues and the blue jays don't have like a super pressing need right now but if eric lauer is going through something with whatever led to him

wearing the kin tape during his outing yeah maybe it is you savage um the stuff looks fine he just hasn't been putting it where he needs to if he's going to be most effective and he's been walking too many hitters so you would ideally like him to to refine that fastball command before he returns but blue jays are in a good spot right now where they have options uh it appears and another one on the way in jose barrios

Yeah, and then he could just kick the decision a little bit further down the road when who knows what you're dealing with at that point.

If you've got an injury or just like another reason why that,

There could be an opening in your rotation or a reason to do something differently.

As I mentioned, like Jose Barrios also on the way.

So there's going to be we're going to go through this process again, probably about two more starts from now for Barrios.

Got the 55 pitches with Dunedin on Wednesday and actually looked pretty good.

Like if you I didn't watch the entire outing, but just based off of like the data located 51 percent of his pitches in the zone.

four seamers 93 and a half two seamers 93 uh you look at the pitch plot it looked really good he stayed off the heart of the plate looked like he was locating to the edges there weren't any significant misses looked like he worked ahead of a lot of hitters and obviously the results were there as well didn't allow a run over four innings so having thrown 55 pitches in that outing i mean he could get up to 70 maybe for buffalo his next time out and then maybe one more for buffalo after that and then he's likely ready to return to the big leagues

And both conversations just as consequential as well.

You forgot to mention that.