Blue Jays acquiring RHP Chase Lee from Tigers for a minor leaguer

[Terminator]

• Sidearmer who only throws 89 mph.
• Fastball sucks but his sweeper gets a Stuff+ grade of 120
• Graduated as the Tigers #33 prospect in 2025.
• 2 options left. 

[Jonn]

Quality depth

[Laika]

Nice trade. Potential Sandlin/Cimber dude but with full control and options.

[Pendleton]

Fun fact: Chase Lee is not the son of five time Oscar nominated filmmaker Spike Lee 

[Pendleton]

But yeah it does look Cimber esque

 

[Orgfiller]

FO always seems to like having one of these funky delivery arms who give you a different look out of the pen. Lee having options makes him attractive as depth. K/BB in the minors has always been excellent, classic ROOGY guy.

[Terminator]

Johan Simon is who we gave up. He doesn’t look like much. 

[Spanky__99]

3 hours ago, Terminator said:

• Sidearmer who only throws 89 mph.
• Fastball sucks but his sweeper gets a Stuff+ grade of 120
• Graduated as the Tigers #33 prospect in 2025.
• 2 options left. 

Tidy work, Term... our Tyler lite, lol

[Spanky__99]

2 hours ago, Pendleton said:

But yeah it does look Cimber esque

 

That sweeper is deadly, lmao.

[Pendleton]

18 minutes ago, Spanky__99 said:

That sweeper is deadly, lmao.

I was trying to figure out based on the pitch tracking there, is he actually throwing a fastball and a slider at roughly the same speed? Or is that just his fastball movement sometimes registering as a slider due to his arm angle? 

[Spanky__99]

6 minutes ago, Pendleton said:

I was trying to figure out based on the pitch tracking there, is he actually throwing a fastball and a slider at roughly the same speed? Or is that just his fastball movement sometimes registering as a slider due to his arm angle? 

Good question, statcast will have his movement on all 3 pitches, but I thought I saw all 3 there.

 

[Joltin Joe]

He will be effective coming in behind Yesavage 

[G-Snarls]

On 12/12/2025 at 6:45 PM, Spanky__99 said:

That sweeper is deadly, lmao.

He gets a lot of "chase" on it??

[Spanky__99]

19 minutes ago, G-Snarls said:

He gets a lot of "chase" on it??

Yes.

 

[bronson44]

We lit the poor guy up last year lol