Joe Siddall

Well, first of all, in that comparison on the pitcher side, Cease, and on the hitter side, Varshall, to me, that's not even a close comparison because I think Dylan Cease's toolbox is way bigger.

He's got a lot of tools in that thing, and we're starting to see them this year.

I think when he signed, we heard from him, too, and talking to him when he arrived in Dunedin, down in Florida, and what he was impressed most with when he had his Zoom calls with the Blue Jays is what they could do for him, what they were suggesting, the different pitch shapes.

And I'll never forget the quote.

For the rest of my time broadcasting, Dylan sees games because all he said, he looked at me and said, six shapes.

And it was his last spring training game.

And he was like a little kid in a candy store because he kind of had them all going.

Because I kind of walked up to his locker and I said, that was interesting.

Like, holy cow.

He said, yeah, six shapes.

And then we proceeded to talk about his game.

But that's what he means.

And the way he uses that sinker now, the way he can run that in on right-handers,

Those are quick outs.

You know, Jeff, back in our day, back in the 90s, sinkers and change-ups were great pitches because you could throw an 0-1 sinker to a lefty or 0-0 change-up to a lefty and get them to roll over one pitch, one out.

That's how you went seven innings back in the day.

Well, Dylan Cease has now gone seven innings and back-to-back starts.

I think he can do that.

He is very cerebral, as you probably know and have seen.

And what I mean by that is he's constantly thinking about his delivery.