Arden Zwelling

So maybe he won't have the day off.

Wow.

we'll see uh Vlad was also telling him like he still can't fully extend his elbow and like it's still he's still dealing with quite a bit of discomfort in there like just think about the worst funny bone um impact possible right 92 miles per hour in that spot losing sensation down to your fingers um yeah it's probably not going to feel great right afterwards but um Vlad said he was going to take it day by day and like speaking of guys who don't miss games right I mean Vlad

Only Matt Olson has played more games of Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

since he came into the league.

So this is, again, a guy who is regularly like 156 plus.

So it's remarkable that it was those two individuals just because of like how important they are to the Blue Jays from like a wins above replacement standpoint.

And then just how durable they've been over the last five years.

If it was a spot start, like literally just one start, I actually think it would probably be Austin Voth.

Sure.

But if it's an extended stage in the rotation, I think either...

Chad Dallas plus some bullpen because he's not like fully stretched out coming off of Tommy John or if you want someone who like you could feel better about throwing for 100 pitches then CJ then I could be that guy or even just waivers might also be that guy and you start looking at hey who was a June 1st opt out

Less than two months ago, every radio hit you and I did and every appearance everywhere was, what are they going to do with all these starters?

How are they going to sort out this log jam?

Somebody's going to be pissed off and someone else is not going to like it.

And it was...

they don't there's no such thing as too much pitching it's literally never happened in the history of the sport this is a great problem to have these things tend to sort themselves out and you just like to even go back and just look at that depth chart coming out of spring training and it's like jose brios tommy john surgery lost for the season shane bieber who in like the first couple weeks of spring training it was yeah you might be getting off a mound soon

He's going to be beginning a rehab assignment now in late May, months later.

Bowden Francis, Tommy John, lost for the season.

Cody Ponce blows out his knee, lost for the season.