Dave Feschuk

You don't see it very often, Ryan, where a guy goes from low A all the way to the Major League Baseball playoffs and then the World Series and becomes an essential piece of the team all in one year.

And now we see he's down with the shoulder impingement, and they're going to take it slow, as you say.

But what would your level of concern be that it was a bit of an unnatural progression?

Like they asked too much from him last year, and that is now sort of the bill is coming due for that this year.

Is that something we should worry about, or is this something that doesn't concern you?

What's your take on what to expense from Cody Ponce?

Because he comes back from a lengthy stint in Korean baseball, hasn't been in the major leagues in a few years, and obviously they're betting big on him.

He's got to come through for them.

He's got to be a member of their five-man rotation right out of the gate here.

Coming back from Korea, Ryan, in your experience watching guys do it, what is sort of the downside, upside, sort of yin and yang on that?

Is there a way you can look at that that gives you any sort of indication of what we might expect?

You know?

Hey, Ryan.

Ryan, one of the optimistic views of the Blue Jays is, hey, they're the reigning World Series finalists.

Look what they did last year.

Why can't they do it again?

The other outlook on that is, hey, what are the odds they'd do it again, given the fact that they had so many guys that overachieved by any measure, including the guy that in a lot of ways was the engine that drove

the vehicle in George Springer at age 36.

When you look at the Renaissance season Springer had last year, and then you think about, hey, he's got to do it again.

He's not getting any younger.