Ryan Dempster

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1,598 appearances 12 recordings 5 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 19 Jul

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OverDrive · Dempster on Trey Yesavage's injury, the gauntlet that is the AL East, and if George Springer is poised for another big season · 20 Mar 2026 podcast

you know spring training can last like into that beginning part of that season you know sometimes you see a guy here here's a problem that presents itself guy comes into camp trying to win a job right uh goes out there maybe it's just like the 26th guy on the roster maybe not maybe it's the backup infield or whatever and he has a great spring but then the season starts and he doesn't play so then all of a sudden that timing gets affected a little bit and it goes away and then all of a sudden it's like man he had a really great spring don't know what happened well

The only starts he got off were two reigning Cy Young Award winners.

So he's kind of like, you know, it's all like, it just depends.

And I think for the most part, you know, if a ball's coming out of a pitcher's hand really well and the velocity's there and there's a break on the breaking ball that you're looking for, that spin and that shape on the breaking ball, I think results in spring training don't really matter if the stuff's there.

I think that those can quickly shift come regular season and a guy can dominate the

when it matters rather than when it doesn't.

Yeah, I think sometimes going overseas, whether it's Korea or Japan,

for some guys, I think it gives them an opportunity to find themselves.

We've seen it in the past.

I remember I played with Colby Lewis and in Texas, he was a guy that went over and then came back.

Miles Michael is like, um, I know there's more that I'm forgetting, but it happens a lot where, you know, maybe a guy is, you know, labeled as something.

Um, and then every team that has them just tries to, tries to, I don't know, find, help him find it rather than him find himself.

If it makes sense, you know, we're,

you get an opportunity to just be like, okay, let me try something here and see if it works.

And all of a sudden you find something that works.

And if the numbers are there and the metrics are there, and now you have confidence behind that and development in yourself as a pitcher, yeah, man, why not be successful?

I think there's been a ton of guys that have gone over, done that, and come back and been successful.

And, you know, it's a different look than guys might have seen before.

So I think it's, you know, a good pickup and the potential to really be something that could help the Blue Jays in a big way.

Yeah, right on, eh?

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