Arden Zwelling

make it better, throw it differently, change the grip, throw it harder, locate it better, and just take the strides that he's taken this year.

That is looking like a tremendous trade for the Blue Jays, and we aren't even a year past it being made.

Tyler Rodgers, no questions about him.

He's going to go out, and he's going to do what Tyler Rodgers always does.

Jeff Hoffman, there are questions about him because he has been just the most uncanny beast

difficult to understand difficult to analyze maddening impossible reliever in baseball this year because he is striking everybody out he is getting all kinds of chase he's getting all kinds of whiff his stuff grades are off the charts like he this is the best stuff from just a pure like metric arm talent standpoint that we have seen from him as a blue jay possibly in his career

He's made adjustments throughout the season to his pitch mix.

He has done things differently.

And yet every time he finds a bit of consistency where he goes four, five, six outings in a row, looking really strong, looking really dominant, looking like the Phillies guy again.

It is then interspersed by like the blow up of all blow ups, like just a meltdown unlike you have ever seen before.

And it's just completely impossible to figure out because these are just such confounding variables when you look at the stuff and the process and you look at the ultimate results on the other side.

I mean, you want to talk about results.

The guy has the sixth best strikeout minus walk rate in baseball among relievers.

I mean, it's 28.5%.

That's an elite number.

And you want to talk about like what a pitcher can actually control.

It's strikeouts and walks.

And hit by pitches as well.

Uh, but like to me, it's strikeouts and walks are the, the huge part that a pitcher can really control.

And Jeff Hoffman, 28.5% strikeout minus walk rate.