Arden Zwelling

And he's had quarter zone shots in the forearm and the thumb.

And I think you want to just be very deliberate with him coming back.

If you get Cease back into the rotation, looking like Dylan Cease, or 90% of Dylan Cease, I'm okay with going forward with Gosman, Cease, Corbin, and Savage, and a Miles...

based bullpen day of sorts to give Scherzer a bit more time to get ramped back up and to get to his best because I don't think you want to end up in this situation where Max Scherzer comes back at like 80% or 85% and then maybe pushes it a little too much too soon in a major league environment and has a setback or isn't quite as effective as he possibly could be down the line or ends up going back on the IL in July.

Like,

I think you want to get this right with Scherzer just considering, as you said, like his age, where he's at in his career, the miles on the arm, the amount of injuries he's been dealing with.

So I'm honestly okay with that five man with like the miles bullpen day in the number five spot, provided that Cease looks like himself.

Yeah, look, even if it's only 70-75 pitches for Scherzer after this next rehab outing, I mean, who else with the Blue Jays right now is giving them 70-75 good pitches?

I mean, competitive, keep us in the game pitches.

It's been really hard for them to find that.

And they've got TBD again here on Thursday, and we don't know what that's going to look like.

Only that...

It sounds like the Blue Jays really want somebody who can give them legitimate length so they aren't burning through like another four or five pitching change bullpen day so they could at least have somebody who could cover four innings, maybe four and two thirds or five.

even uh we saw austin both attempt that the last time this spot came up didn't go so well he's now a free agent we're gonna have to really keep our eyes on uh the buffalo uh bison's box scores this week and see uh hey did josh fleming pitch did chad dallas pitch where are those guys at i mean the blue jays were very close to calling up chad dallas uh

over the weekend to the point that he had a locker stall like set up in the clubhouse in Baltimore with the Blue Jays, with jerseys in it, with Dallas and the number 37 on them and everything.

And after I had brought that to the attention of a couple of people with the team, a few moments later, clubhouse attendant very surreptitiously walked over and removed the nameplates and folded up

The jerseys.

So like this is what the Blue Jays have been cycling through this.

Like this is what it's been like running these multiple bullpen days.

There's a lot of uncertainty and there's a lot of moving parts, a lot of moving pieces.