Ben Nicholson-Smith

I know.

We're just in lockstep with Josh Fleming here.

He's actually pitching quite well.

As of this moment, three scoreless, a couple of Ks.

So...

He will not be pitching Thursday.

That is safe to say.

He's not pitching anywhere Thursday.

Won't be for the Blue Jays.

Won't be anywhere else.

So we can we can cross that possibility off.

And as for Chad Dallas, I'll just offer a thought there for anyone wondering, like, why would he be there?

And then why would they shy away from that?

This is a guess from the outside looking in.

No one's told me this, but my guess is that it's actually kind of valuable to have that 40-man roster spot as more of a, this is going to sound bad, but more of a churn spot where you have Austin Vothup for a couple days.

He doesn't pitch well.

he's gone and you DFM and then you bring someone new onto the spot.

And then with Chad Dallas, you're not going to churn him off it.

Once he's on the 40 man, you want to keep him on the 40 man.

So at a time that Alejandro Kirk is soon going to have to be activated and within the next 10 days or so, hopefully he is going to take a 40 man spot.