Arden Zwelling

and ultimately the team had to go in another direction.

So I feel like this is perhaps a similar situation, and I wouldn't be surprised if you see Lenin Sosa go on to look more like the guy who he was with Chicago last year with another organization.

Yeah, he doesn't have options.

So he's coming here to be on the big league roster.

The Blue Jays didn't trade an asset for him just to then go and DFA him.

So he's somebody who we know that they like.

They really brought him into spring training as basically starting depth slash bulk relief depth.

He was ticketed to...

be a part of Buffalo's rotation or possibly just like a multi-inning reliever for them during spring training.

But then he showed up and he was throwing 96.

And that's just not something he's done in the past.

He's been more so like 92, 93, 94.

And part of this is, you know, I got to know him a bit during spring and he really dove in on his strength program this offseason and really just got after it with that.

He also worked with a private pitching coach, Ryan Chapman.

This guy's a former Mets minor leaguer, got a player development facility in Irvine, California.

And so working through some movement inefficiencies with with Ryan and just like ironing some things out in his delivery, he was able to.

find some velo and so he showed up in spring throwing 96 and really put himself on on the radar like if you'd ask people around jays during spring who's standing out like who's impressing like seabold's name kept coming up ultimately they get to the end of spring and they just didn't have a roster spot for him um so seabold had an out in his deal and he had not only shown the jay something he'd shown the rest of mlb something so he triggered that out and uh asked for his release got it and then the tigers signed a new split contract so it was like a great result for him as this

minor league free agent journeyman to come into camp and show something and get himself into the the big leagues with another organization ultimately seems like he ended up in another roster crunch with with Detroit and they just didn't have the 40 man spot they needed it for someone else so

He ends up back on waivers and ends up back with Blue Jays.

So it's a cool story in that way.