🚨 BREAKING: The Toronto Blue Jays Sign Dylan Cease 🚨

Peter Klein

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00:00what a day welcome everyone to a special edition of couch potato diary uh my name is peter klein

00:21thank you very much for hanging out as the toronto blue jays make one of the biggest splashes of the

00:26offseason probably the biggest splash of the offseason so far as they have signed dylan cease

00:31to a contract uh this was not in a lot of the rumored plans for the blue jays at this particular

00:39time um so a bit of a surprising move today coming from toronto but the news coming down

00:45just a little bit ago um as uh yes dylan cease the announcement uh has signed with the toronto

00:52blue jays this from jeff passan um an agreement on a seven-year 210 million dollar deal pending a

00:59physical sources tell espn the defending american league champions get one of the best arms on the

01:05free agent market so obviously a lot happening there one defending american league champions has

01:12a pretty good ring to it doesn't it doesn't it like we kind of gonna gonna milk that one a lot

01:17i think this year um but that's really cool that this is just a thing that is happening that uh that

01:23we get to say about the toronto blue jays um but this is a major move for toronto that there's no

01:28doubt about it this is people have been saying that this is a front office that will look to go all in

01:35now that the the team got so close and we've heard that before as blue jays fans haven't we we've heard

01:44a few times like oh yeah no they're they're in on this guy they're in on that guy but this is

01:48absolutely putting it out there that the blue jays are open for business because this is a big contract

01:54for dylan cease um seeing a few people saying overpay and things like that espn's projection

02:01had it at five years at around i think it was like 140 ish it was 29 million dollar aav so i guess

02:09that would be 145 i guess right no i'm off on that either way doesn't matter um they had it around

02:1429 million dollar aav at five years i'm sorry that i can't do that math on the fly but so this is more

02:20years at just a little bit extra term so um or a little bit extra dollar amount so i i guess maybe a

02:28touch of an overpay but this is this is what you do when you are in your championship window is you go

02:35out and you try to just get the best players that you can and toronto is certainly doing that uh with

02:42dylan cease for those who are unfamiliar uh the stats here from fan graphs uh for those watching

02:47uh on the live stream or i guess watching the video after the fact uh last season with the padres

02:52eight and 12 we don't love that 168 innings pitched been 11.52 k per nine um the the era right

03:00around 4.55 but the fip and xfip right at 3.56 kind of in line where a few other of those are

03:08throughout his career we see babbip wise maybe a little bit more on the unlucky side and if that

03:15can kind of normalize again with one of the the better defensive teams in baseball with a guy who

03:21can strike out dudes at that type of a rate it's to me that's the type of a player that you bet on that

03:29those are the types of numbers that you try to just kind of lock in with a starting rotation with

03:35a defense like toronto has so i i'm excited about the move i i really am for the blue jays um

03:41for the people who are crying overpay and everything like that i want to especially in

03:46baseball i want to be abundantly clear with this i don't give a fuck i don't it's money like

03:53salary cap next year might be a problem if uh if that's something that actually gets implemented but

03:58for now i could give a fuck if you're spending too much money on a starting pitcher i want the blue

04:05jays to win and this is a win now move it is a move that makes them better than they were

04:12three hours ago before they made this signing um it gives you just a solid rotation now with

04:19beyond solid this is one of the best rotations in baseball now with gosman at the top and we can

04:27quibble about order or anything like that but gosman yasavage bieber cease and jose barrios i am

04:34still a little skeptical as to whether barrios will start the season as a toronto blue jay um

04:42his absence was noted from all of the things that were happening around the jays and that that playoff

04:48run when there were a number of other injured players who were hanging around and barrios obviously

04:52did not take kindly to being demoted to the bullpen after the back part of the season so i i just i

04:58wonder about that relationship going forward but this is one of the best rotations in baseball now

05:04obviously when you look at what the dodgers can throw out there with yamamoto and snell and glass

05:08now and otani and all of those cats that's really good as well but looking at the american league

05:13i don't think you can compete with that um cole coming back for the yankees with rodon but you're

05:21kind of hoping for best case scenario out of him freed hoping for again like yankees have a very good

05:26rotation i don't want it to get you know it's not like the blue jays are head and shoulders above

05:31everybody but you one through five that's one of the best rotations maybe the best rotation in the

05:37american league it moves lower into a bit of a long relief spot start sort of a thing and gives you

05:44another lefty option out of the bullpen where he was very solid at least in the 18 innings game for

05:49the blue jays in the world series so i i love this move for toronto um this is again like passin says in

05:58the tweet it's one of the best arms that's available and now every single night barring injury of course

06:05but every single night you are going out there with a starting pitcher who you would feel comfortable

06:11in any playoff setting you know and like we were when the playoffs were going on with the blue jays

06:17um scherzer was great we weren't exactly confident about that you know like the game what was the game

06:23three uh game three game four game four of the american league division series the blue jays were going

06:31with a bullpen game that's where this rotate like i get like scherzer came on and he was great and all

06:36of that but toronto had three starters that they trusted and then a fourth that they really hoped

06:41and it worked in a couple of instances right but now like you look at that rotation let me just pull

06:48it up again for those watching um live or watching the video after burrios i understand it wasn't great

06:55last year but when all four when all five of these guys are at their best i trust all of them in a

07:02playoff game i trust all of them as potential like when again when all are at their best all five of

07:09those guys that are on the screen gosman yasavage bieber c spurrios all five could be a game one

07:16starter for me in a playoff series and i'm feeling pretty good about it so if this year doesn't go the

07:22glorious way for toronto the way it did a season ago and the blue jays are just a wild card team

07:30or something like that you know like if that ends up being the case and it's just a wild card well

07:36one of the things we were worried about with the wild card with toronto was you have to use gosman

07:40yasavage bieber in a wild card round and now we're getting into i don't trust you territory already

07:46with the rotation if you have to go gosman bieber yasavage in a wild card round and

07:51oh i'm so excited we're dropping microphones and dylan zeese is your game one starter

07:58oh well dylan zeese is my game one starter like this just this is a fantastic move for toronto

08:07is it a touch of an overpay probably is that going to be every free agent contract in baseball

08:13yeah it absolutely is when you just stick to projections and when you just stick to well this

08:20guy that the math says this guy is worth this so we're only going to pay this that's a great way

08:24of coming in second on every free agent that you go after the blue jays are in their window and so

08:32to me this is this is a win now move if they win the world series next year this contract frame it in

08:38gold and put it up around the rogers center who cares um i i just this team is ready to win a

08:44championship and this is showing everyone that hey we're not going away we're not gonna be a one

08:50hit wonder here and another aspect of this is i think pete walker i know there have been some

08:56criticism uh criticisms of him but pete walker gets a lot out of guys with this level of talent

09:03right when you look at robbie ray how much he got out of a guy like steven matts um he has gosman now

09:09on the best stretch of his career and looking at this with um with cease i this feels like the type

09:18of guy that pete walker can absolutely get the most out of for toronto so i again i cannot stress this

09:25part enough i love this move for toronto to have that rotation set up in that way um absolutely

09:34fantastic work for for toronto um that that rotation is dangerous now this is the the nature

09:42of the beast but it is not simply okay we got dylan cease done um there is still the boba shet of it

09:52all i do still think that there needs to be another impact made on the starting lineup where we did the

09:57preview episode about the um the starting rotation or sorry about the offseason and i wanted bellinger

10:05as well um so obviously i'm getting greedy i didn't think they would go this hard in the pitching

10:10market um i i was wondering if it would be maybe uh kind of one of the secondary guys and with bassett

10:20or scherzer or anything like that so i i do maybe have to recalibrate things if if getting cease means

10:30no bichette or bellinger or something like that then i start to have some concerns about the overpay and

10:35everything there but um if you are still able to bring in an impact bat whether it is bow or it's not

10:42him and it's bellinger or something along those lines um then this this becomes again um i i

10:50if you don't get one it sucks if you do then a fantastic offseason for toronto i still don't

10:56want them to spend too much in the uh bullpen market i kind of thought they'd address honestly

11:01the pitching rotation via trade so this is again just kind of changing my um calibrations i guess

11:09a little bit on where i thought the offense or sorry the offseason was going for toronto but i love

11:14this i love this move for the blue jays and again just showing the world that look this was not

11:19a one-off man we are we're coming for it again this season and they are coming out of the gates

11:25firing away with this move excellent excellent work for the toronto blue jays and their front office

11:33here um yeah this is this is massive on it um just sorry just i i'm in a group chat and there's a bunch

11:42of people messaging about it um and so i was a little bit concerned that there was a oh jokes this was

11:46actually just a fake blubbidi blubbidi blue uh no this is everyone is confirming it uh ken rosenthal

11:52john hayman was the first on this one so apologies coming out with the um um coming out with the pass

11:59and tweet but excellent move for toronto i i like this one i don't for baseball i don't care if like

12:06dollar amount overpaid i don't care um there's no salary cap as of right now and the blue jays are

12:16owned by the largest telecom company in canada and they just had an unbelievable run you spend this is

12:22your moment to go out and be aggressive and just make a good team great this is the blue jays making

12:28a good team great so excellent work for toronto again as they sign dylan cease to a seven year

12:35contract worth 210 million dollars uh for those watching live we're gonna call it here um this was

12:44just a instant reaction get an oh my god out there but uh for those watching after the fact let me know

12:48in the uh in the comments what you guys think i know it's a bit high on the dollar amount but what

12:53do you think of this deal for the blue jays is this now the best rotation in the american league

13:01best in baseball is it even the best in the american league east let me know your thoughts

13:05and what you think is next for the toronto blue jays thank you guys so much for hanging out today

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13:36for 25 off dylan cease is a toronto blue jay feels pretty good feels pretty good i will talk to you

13:44guys soon have a great rest of your day everybody

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