Arden Zwelling

And it's still like low for where it's been in his career.

I remember like one of the first podcasts of the year that we did was like just looking at very early bat speed returns and Sanchez's bat speed has just dropped off a cliff.

I remember talking about it and saying, I don't know what's going on here, but this probably isn't what you want to see.

And I wonder if some of it was just him trying to fit in a bit to the Blue Jays lineup and like the Blue Jays offensive approach and

just trying to reduce whiffs and minimize strikeouts, you know, make more contact.

Like that has been a huge gap in his game earlier in his career was just the amount of swing and miss and the amount of strikeouts and just how long his swing was at times.

So I wonder if he just like swung a bit with like a bit less recklessness, maybe a bit more under controlled, but,

um in order to just try to fulfill what Luigi's wanting to be a bit and maybe now um they found kind of a happy middle ground where he's not having like the 76 mile per hour swing speeds that we've seen in the past but he's more so like 74 and a half or 75 rather than the like 72 73 was earlier this year so he's still able to access that power

and he's still able to OPS like 1,100 as he is over the last three weeks, but he's still making some more contact and still limiting some of that whiff and some of those strikeouts that made him the player that he was prior to when he got to Toronto.

I don't think so.

I'm very interested in whether or not Josh Fleming is about to throw a pitch, but he's on game day, so he must be out there.

It all sounds pretty great for players.

So yeah, as a pretty pro player guy, sign me up.

But we have to realize as well, this is the very first proposal.

So it's typically going to be the most ambitious proposal because you don't really...

in bargaining and negotiation, you don't start from a weaker position than the absolute maximum.

So I expect that the league will respond with their absolute best case scenario proposal.

And that at least will kind of frame the negotiations and sort of set the poles and the two sides can kind of chip away on various issues and start working towards the middle, which is something that is going to take months.

So I don't blame any fan who's like,

yeah I'm not going to worry myself about like the particulars of any of this right now because this MLB proposal the stuff that's in it it's actually likely that none of this will come to fruition as written just as whatever MLB's proposal will be it's likely that none of that as written will come to fruition but this is at least where the two sides are starting and it does at least give us some sense on what some of the major topics and just major points of discussion are going to be for the two sides