Arden Zwelling

Like, we're not talking about Vlad, Springer, Kirk.

We're not talking as much about Okamoto, although he's had really strong plate appearances of late.

Like, the players who were counted on to be stars offensively

have not been stars so we don't we don't need to complicate it um any more than that and like gossman even sort of alluded to it a little bit um in his comments last night um and i'll quote him quote every year is so different last year i didn't know when we were going to hit our stride but it felt like we were on the right path this year has been a lot different because we've lost a lot of guys so it's asking a lot of guys to do things that maybe they haven't been asked

to do and that's what you're seeing with the Blue Jays right now where it's every night you've got Valenzuela and Pignongo and Sanchez in really big spots and the lineup Charles McAdoo is up and on this team right now the Blue Jays have three starters so like

Beyond that, you're asking the Austin Voth's and the Spencer Miles and Adam Macko's and insert name here to try to paper over those final two spots in the rotation.

The Blue Jays just once they do start to get players back and they do start to get their some of their injured stars back, those guys have to hit the ground running, but also the ones who have been available and been playing regularly so far.

need to perform better and for me that just keeps coming back to Vlad and Kirk and it's hard to criticize Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

when he's been flirting with like a 300 batting average but eight home runs this season is just not what the Blue Jays were counting on from him as a guy who really needs to produce in the power department for this lineup to work.

I assume you have Schneider's numbers in front of you because I wanted to play this little game with you, but I guess I can't now.

So maybe we'll play it with the audience.

For the audience, Davis Schneider right now, don't look it up.

He has 28 plate appearances with the Buffalo Bison so far.

How many walks do you think that he has, audience?

I'm going to give you three seconds here.

take your best guess how many walks did you guess 11 because he has 11 in 28 plate appearances with three hits he has a 536 on base with buffalo right now and he's hitting 188 and slugging 250 it's just the most ridiculous slash line you've ever seen but like to your point the blue jays before they uh optioned davis they wanted him swinging more they wanted him being more aggressive being on attack um

when pitches are on the plate and in the zone.

They just want him being more assertive in his plate appearances rather than defensive and looking to walk.

So I don't know that for as much as he's getting on base, I don't necessarily know that the Blue Jays are seeing what they were looking for from David Schneider so far in his small sample in Buffalo.

run into a couple and and provide a little bit of right-handed pop i mean that's a that's a positive for this ball club yeah mackadoo's funny he's just so understated and like just so very literal and direct in his interactions with us which i uh which i appreciate but it's like hey man like what were you thinking with your first home run and he's like i don't know off the bat i thought it has a chance it has a chance and i saw it clear the wall and i ran the bases