Arden Zwelling

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10,401 appearances 37 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 4d ago

Arden Zwelling’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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At The Letters · Losses and Lessons · 22 Sep 2026 podcast

And so the Dodgers were like, if you're willing to try some really crazy stuff, like you're really if you're willing to really lean into the weird, we believe we can get you some more velo. voice-verified

It's just not it's just you're going to have to buy into some pretty unconventional things. voice-verified

And he was like, hey, man, I want to get to the big leagues. voice-verified

I want it to be a professional pitcher. voice-verified

let's do it so he starts this delivery where he is uh leading back so so far and he is like extreme third base side of the rubber he is starting essentially facing left field and he doesn't even like look at the plate until very late in his delivery um voice-verified

um and through that he also increased his extension to get way far down the mound which is helping his velo play up as well he's every bit of six foot six and has like the longest legs you've ever seen in the world so he's kind of built to get a ton of extension so um he they they helped him craft this delivery where he like starts by looking at a point on the ground between the mound and voice-verified

third base with his back almost entirely to the plate and he leans way back and he uses like this three quarters arm slot and he's super whippy and he gets super far down the mound and lo and behold when he started doing that all of a sudden the velo bumped up to like 96 97 and then 97 98 and he's hit 100 voice-verified

this year in the minors and the strikeout rate jumped uh the average against plummeted um and i think that what he just has to accept is that there's going to be occasional control and command issues because like i said he doesn't even pick up the catcher's glove until he's almost like releasing the ball um because it's just such an unusual delivery and it does require a ton of voice-verified

drill works between outings and a ton of mental cues that he has to stay on top of and he has to be really careful pitching inside to righties because like just locating arm side is always gonna be very hard with the way that he's throwing and like that crossfire that he's getting um that's part of like the third base side um thing he's so extreme to the third base side just so that he isn't like yanking everything extremely and so that he can like locate arm side a bit better um voice-verified

Um, there's a lot going on there, but I mean, this it's working for him and it's got him to the big leagues. voice-verified

Uh, and it's just fascinating to watch. voice-verified

Yeah, I think of Zach Gallen when I think of super simple, repeatable, textbook, clean deliveries. voice-verified

That's who comes to mind. voice-verified

And this is not that. voice-verified

It speaks to Jose Rodriguez's athleticism that he can even pull this off. voice-verified

But it's a cry to him and it's a cry to the Blue Jays for identifying him as well. voice-verified

They liked him in the Rule 5 draft when he was eligible last winter and ultimately they took Spencer Miles instead and that ended up working out very well. voice-verified

So that was clearly a good decision on their part. voice-verified

But they kept in touch with the Dodgers throughout the year and they were like, hey, if you get to a point where you're not going to be voice-verified

promoting this guy um were interested and it did get to that point where the dodgers weren't going to be promoting him and he was going to become a minor league free agent and um ultimately the blue jays and dodgers ended up consummating a deal for him like at the 11th hour um ahead of him being playoff eligible it's not gonna matter this year for the blue jays unfortunately but like you had to be within the organization at 12 o'clock noon on september 1st voice-verified

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