The MLB is Already Horrified of this...

The MLB is already horrified of this, and despite only being two games into the regular season, the Jays are not only off to a hot start, but there is one thing in particular that fans aren't talking about enough that has the MLB terrified of this team once again. We're going to break down exactly what I'm talking about and discuss what it means going forward, but not only that, we do have some other updates, including updates surrounding Mason Flority and his injury and a ton of other things on this episode, including some comments from some players following yesterday's walk-off win ahead of this afternoon's game as they look to win their third straight and sweep the series. But before we get into it all, if you're a part of The Percentage or unsubscribed to the channel, this is the place to be for Daily Jays content, folks. Uploading multiple videos a day for you all. And let's dive right into it. We're going to be diving into a bunch of different aspects of this team and what they're doing to win. But there is one play that, I mean, stands above the rest following yesterday's start. But let's dive into this. And we're going to be focusing in on Dylan Cease today, but not just Dylan Cease, even though he's going to be the headline. The way this team is winning, like they have put the MLB on notice. People are talking about it, but let's go through yesterday. Cease, Miles, Rodgers, Sanchez, and Okamoto, all of the new guys have been really, really good. And we look at what the team did last year and obviously heading into last season, the expectations were low. And now heading into this season, the expectations are a lot higher and they have been able so far, three games, of course, they've exceeded expectations. And Dylan Cease is obviously at the forefront of that. But we talk about how good this team could be if Kazuma Okamoto hits well, if Jesus Sanchez does well. And it's obviously a very small sample size. But one of the biggest variables here was Dylan Cease, ladies and gentlemen. And Dylan Cease has come out and been nothing short of absolutely spectacular. Now, we're going to dive into Mason Flority in a minute here. But it truly is impressive. Now, of course, again, we had guys like Spencer Miles making his MLB debut in extra innings. you have all these players playing well but at the forefront was Dylan Cease and he set a career high for strikeouts in a season debut um with an ultimately finished with 12 and at the point it was of course his previous career high was 10 but folks this was a start that again that tweet was through four scoreless innings he had eight strikeouts you look at what he's doing and it isn't just of course his velocity that has ticked way way up his stuff looks like his Cy Young caliber season and you might be saying Nick it's only game one it is only game one but we saw this in spring training he was on podcast talking about how Pete Walker and one of the main reasons he joined the Jays was because a the defense behind him which absolutely is going to improve his numbers but b the tweaks they can make to his throwing angle to his launch angle to of course his you know using his change up slider fastball and all of a sudden he looks like a completely different pitcher than what he was last season and you can see here through one pitch in the strike zone this first inning with the Jays a pair of strikeouts get used to this formula and the formula is getting hitters to two strikes and being absolutely dominant that is what he is able to do that is what he's going to be able to do all season and all of a sudden you pair that with the fact that he's throwing 99 100 miles per hour is a formula for success and this team is exactly where we all hoped they'd be and they're doing things like they did last year just this year It seems like a picturesque replica of the regular season last year. Again, only two games in, but you can see here he touched 100 miles per hour for the first time with the Jays, and he did so multiple times. He did it just four times in 2025. He's already doing it in his first game. His velocity is up. His location is dialed in, and one of the biggest aspects here is his defense, and Ben Nicholson-Smith said that Blue Jays believe that their defenders can help all of their pitchers, including Dylan Cease. In fact, part of their pitch to Cease in November was an estimate of how his numbers would change with Kirk Clement, Jimenez, and Bershow playing behind him. We saw an insane double play between Andres Jimenez and Dalton Bershow. Yesterday, we're seeing things that we haven't really, you know, seen for a while out of two Jays pitchers. Like you have Gosman and you have Cease. Cease looks like an ace, and the Jays haven't had that true ace in a while. You can argue Gosman's been kind of their, you know, their pseudo ace for a bit. It's unbelievable. And hopefully Dylan Cease is going to be able to kind of replicate it. Because you look at his stats last year, again, a 4.55 ERA. Obviously, now we're into 2026, but just showing you guys numbers last year, he underperformed his metrics heavily, and if he can continue to do what he did yesterday, which, of course, in case you missed it in game one, Gosman was fantastic, and then if the Jays can do what they did in game two with Dylan Cease specifically, five and a third with 12 Ks, the team's in a fantastic position, but you have Dylan Cease adding to his arsenal, making those adjustments, it's a very scary sight, and it's why a lot of fans of other teams are pegging the jays as uh you know i mean obviously they're no longer underdogs pegging them as the favorites but i made the take before the season i'm making it now dylan cease is going to be the guy to keep an eye out on and diving into that a little bit more so he threw his change up 13 percent of the time over his 83 pitches in his final spring start and then today or rather yesterday he threw a change up nine percent of the time it had a hundred percent whiff rate and his fastball slider combo you know it was 64 mixing some of his other pitches he is filthy but he's also learning how to kind of incorporate that new um you know not necessarily a fully new arsenal but the adjusted arsenal that he has so let me know down below what your thoughts are on that let's dive into some other updates here so John Schneider did say following the game that Mason Fulgheri suffered a right knee contusions x-rays were negative should be okay for today this is big news because Brendan Little the two lefties are Mason Fulgheri and Brendan Little out of the bullpen right Eric Lauer had to slide into uh the start today uh ultimately with the you know injuries Trey Savage Shane Bieber and Jose Barrios and Jimmy Garcia all those you know players and things right so looking at this if you were down Mason Fulgheri your only option against lefties in theory would be uh trusting one of your righties or using Brendan Little who we don't trust so this is very good news obviously took two comebackers off himself back to back and hopefully that he's all good the Jays have a little bit of a problem with uh i don't want to say they have a Mason Fulgheri problem yet but you look at that bullpen down there we're not in Mason Fulgheri Brendan Little i mean you look at that bullpen and of course you know Brendan Little's projected WAR was 0.3 he hasn't been able to locate that new electric nasty fastball he threw 100 miles per hour in the spring he wasn't able to locate and i want you guys to comment do you think they have a Brendan Little and Jeff Hoffman problem now i'm standing by the fact that in game one Jeff Hoffman was filthy he just Shane Langley has hit his first I think career like home run that low and it was a splitter low in the zone I'm fine with Jeff Hoffman at the moment we're gonna have to see if he proves otherwise but like you look at the rest of the additions they're all looking good was the bullpen an area they maybe should have focused a little bit more on now they got Tyler Rogers right who's looked dominant I still think they could have added one more arm and maybe that'll probably be their next potential avenue to upgrade but Brett Little scares me a little bit the good news is Mason Floridi is good and Tyler Rogers looks extremely good with a hundred percent ground ball percentage but man oh man it is it is exciting and Spencer Miles spoke out about making his MLB debut in extras we need a pressure cooker for sure turn up the leverage turn up the heat get some sweat going it was surreal and you could see why they kept Spencer Miles on the on the team even though he has barely any MLB experience he was throwing upper 90s he had a nasty nasty secondary pitches this is a guy they believed in and I got to give credit to Ross Atkins and Marshall Parnell they crushed it so far and Spencer Miles if he does nothing the rest of the way he helped this team win this game he gave this team an opportunity to win in the bottom of the 11th and they did so and again 4.1 percent of his career workload as a pro was yesterday in that one inning which is insane it didn't faze him he's ready to go and that's kind of the motto of this team whether it be Dylan Cease whether it be culmination of all the new guys even Jesus Sanchez coming off of the bench you know almost messing up in the bases but continuing to run the bases hard smoked a ball 106 miles per hour this team is back they are better than ever I truly believe that and all of a sudden now you're at a point where you got your second straight win go ahead do it again today with Eric Lauer on the bump and you can see here Eric Lauer versus Luis Morales and then on Monday you play against the Colorado Rockies if you can go ahead and continue to string together some wins before that Dodgers series you're going to be in a very good position going forward in a very good very good ball club let me know down below your thoughts