Ryan Spilborghs

So if you're Dylan Cease and you have this kind of stuff and now you're throwing six pitches with conviction instead of two pitches with conviction, you can probably live in the zone a lot more because the stuff is just so nasty on its own.

I know his overall zone rate on the season is still not that high.

Like, this is a last couple of starts.

But you wonder if the light starts to go on as he's getting longer into games and as he's attacking the zone more, it's not as if the hard contact is coming with it.

It's not as if he's trading this pitch efficiency and being in the zone more for, yeah, they're going to get a couple more.

It's probably actually going to set up your swing and miss stuff outside of the zone to an even stronger degree because guys can't do the kind of Brendan Little of sit back and like, I don't need to swing until you come in the zone a couple times.

No, you can't.

And the stuff mixed with the unpredictability, it's like, what if 2023 Chris Bassett threw 98?

It's kind of what he's going for here, which sounds unfair.

matchup for hitters so you mentioned that he is you know top of the top of the list right now in terms of K per nine in Toronto Blue Jays starting history now look it's nine starts it's 52 innings so you could take that with a with a grain of salt or whatever but the high watermark actually the high watermark weirdly is Wilmer font

because he opened so many games that one year.

So be careful with your filters, kids, because it might capture.

Yeah, I only had it at 35 because I wasn't, I couldn't recall offhand how many, but Cease has already thrown 50 plus.

So yes, be careful of your openers.

But the high water mark is Robbie Ray with 11 and a half per nine in 2021.

And then of course, from a total strikeout perspective,

Robbie Ray came third.

Roger Clemens had 271 and 292.

Gosman's also had 237.

Brandon Morrow had a 200K season in there and one of the best single game pitching performances in Blue Jays history.