Arden Zwelling

So it's just a credit to this pitching staff and a credit to John Schneider, Pete Walker, and just everybody in the front office who contributes to all these personnel decisions here.

for really finding a way to dance through this.

Yeah, it's all game-state dependent, obviously.

John Schneider has just been crossing his fingers and his toes and lighting sage and doing everything he can for an offensive breakout right now because it would make things so much easier.

You can let Austin Vogt throw his arm off if you've got a six-run lead, but...

but if it's uh middle innings at camden yards and uh you've got a one run or a two run lead and austin vose about to see like a hitter for a third time uh that is a precarious scenario uh so like to your point over the last eight games the blue jays have allowed 2.4 runs to their opponents on average like that is remarkable

And they're six and two in these last eight.

I mean, it's really the sole reason why.

Like over that stretch, I mean, the only team in the AL that's allowed fewer runs per game are the Yankees, who are somehow allowing 1.7.

The Yankees is juggernaut all year long, no matter what happens.

But like just the Blue Jays pitching, if it hadn't been going as well as it has been over the last month, really,

we're having some pretty dire conversations, some pretty grim conversations right now, Ben.

Yeah, season low four seam and sinker velocity his last time out, to your point.

The stuff was not the same as we've seen.

And you don't want to overreact to just one outing when a guy didn't have his primo stuff.

with Spencer miles and the sun charted territory that, uh, you know, this is honestly like grand experiment.

The blue Jays are pulling off with them at something that, that bears monitoring because yeah, we'd seen him earlier, um, this year going out with like 97 with his four seam and his sinker.

And it was more so 95 his last time out.

And two times before that,

it was like 95 and a half.