Arden Zwelling

Be an absolute stud.

So I was very much looking forward to that.

But it ended up being one of the roughest outings of his career.

Like, I...

Gave up a career high in hits.

Had his second fewest strikeouts in a start with only two.

The under the hood numbers on just the job the Blue Jays did against him.

It was his highest contact rate in a game ever.

66 starts in the big leagues.

His highest outside the zone contact rate.

So even like he wasn't getting guys to like whiff off the plate.

He couldn't even expand.

He couldn't get pitches past guys on the plate or even off of it.

The average exit velocity for the Blue Jays was 92.9 miles per hour, sixth highest in 66 starts, 10 balls in play at 95 plus miles per hour for the Blue Jays, second highest in any start that Paul Skeens has ever had.

The Blue Jays just spoiled our opportunity to watch Skeens be Skeens.

Mike Petrello, he didn't say who was on which side of the ledger.

I know.

There were a lot of replies like that, where it's like, it did look like a mismatch in hindsight, looking back on it.

but up and in is actually pretty high.

So those first two fastballs were up and away.