June 7th, 2024 – the day the <a href="https://bluejaysnation.com/">Toronto Blue Jays</a> designated Cavan Biggio for assignment, ending a seven-year tenure with the organization. Five days later, on June 12th, he was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers for a double-A reliever by the name of Braydon Fisher. At the time, it seemed inconspicuous enough. A 26th man on the roster is getting dealt for a depth reliever who was pitching in double-A.
Fast-forward one year, and <a href="https://bluejaysnation.com/news/toronto-blue-jays-found-diamond-rough-braydon-fisher">Braydon Fisher</a> has turned into one of the key relievers in a very good Blue Jays bullpen.
Consider this: Fisher didn&#8217;t make his season (and MLB) debut with the Blue Jays until May 11th of this year. He&#8217;s only pitched in 23 innings to this point. Yet when you look a the Blue Jays fWAR leaderboard amongst relievers, you&#8217;ll see Fisher sitting at the top of the list with his 1.0 mark.
The Blue Jays have a multitude of feel-good stories and unexpected breakouts from different players and different times this year. Fisher&#8217;s ascension in particular is massive, when you consider at the time of his big league debut the Blue Jays were without Yimi Garcia and Nick Sandlin and hadn&#8217;t truly deployed Yariel Rodriguez as a shutdown reliever. The former Dodgers fourth-rounder has truly stabilized this bullpen in a time where the state of it has been in flux.
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When you look at what&#8217;s made Fisher so dominant, you&#8217;ll quickly find that his slider/curveball combination has been the leading cause.
Both pitches have a sub .212 expected batting average against, both pitches have a sub .320 expected slug% against, and both pitches return a 31% or better whiff rate. The tall right-hander also has a 4-seam fastball in his back pocket, which he uses sparingly, that has outlier traits (18″ of IVB), and a cutter, which he&#8217;s used just 3% of the time.
Pitching to the opposite handedness hasn&#8217;t been an issue for Fisher either, in fact, he&#8217;s been better against lefties this season, especially from a missing bats standpoint.
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Earlier in the season the <a href="https://bluejaysnation.com/news/looking-which-relievers-would-pitch-healthy-toronto-blue-jays-bullpen">Blue Jays</a> used Fisher in multiple different roles, including having him open a game against the A&#8217;s ahead of Easton Lucas pitching the bulk innings. The righty struggled in that outing, allowing five earned runs over 1 2/3 innings pitched. If you were to remove that outing completely, Fisher&#8217;s numbers would be even more ridiculous: you&#8217;d be looking at a 0.75 ERA/1.09 FIP/30.1 K-BB% across 25 innings for the Texas native. With a larger sample size of dominance under his belt, however, it&#8217;s become clear that the Blue Jays see him the way the fanbase sees him, and that&#8217;s as a trusted, shutdown leverage arm pitching the late innings.
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The Jays bullpen is slowly starting to get healthy again, Yimi Garcia aside, Nick Sandlin and Ryan Burr are back. Rodriguez has emerged as a late-inning force, and Fisher&#8217;s done the same. Even Chad Green is putting up some strong innings as of late.
This has been an area of strength for the team, at the same time it&#8217;s been an extremely overworked group. One more high-impact addition to this group could catapult them from being a really good bullpen to an elite one (Jhoan Duran, anyone?). Regardless of if and who that addition may be, one thing is for certain: Braydon Fisher is going to remain a key contributor moving forward.
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June 7th, 2024 – the day the <a href="https://bluejaysnation.com/">Toronto Blue Jays</a> designated Cavan Biggio for assignment, ending a seven-year tenure with the organization. Five days later, on June 12th, he was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers for a double-A reliever by the name of Braydon Fisher. At the time, it seemed inconspicuous enough. A 26th man on the roster is getting dealt for a depth reliever who was pitching in double-A.

Fast-forward one year, and <a href="https://bluejaysnation.com/news/toronto-blue-jays-found-diamond-rough-braydon-fisher">Braydon Fisher</a> has turned into one of the key relievers in a very good Blue Jays bullpen.

Consider this: Fisher didn't make his season (and MLB) debut with the Blue Jays until May 11th of this year. He's only pitched in 23 innings to this point. Yet when you look a the Blue Jays fWAR leaderboard amongst relievers, you'll see Fisher sitting at the top of the list with his 1.0 mark.

The Blue Jays have a multitude of feel-good stories and unexpected breakouts from different players and different times this year. Fisher's ascension in particular is massive, when you consider at the time of his big league debut the Blue Jays were without Yimi Garcia and Nick Sandlin and hadn't truly deployed Yariel Rodriguez as a shutdown reliever. The former Dodgers fourth-rounder has truly stabilized this bullpen in a time where the state of it has been in flux.

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-88082" src="https://publish.bluejaysnation.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-06-115610.png" alt="" width="408" height="559" />

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When you look at what's made Fisher so dominant, you'll quickly find that his slider/curveball combination has been the leading cause.

Both pitches have a sub .212 expected batting average against, both pitches have a sub .320 expected slug% against, and both pitches return a 31% or better whiff rate. The tall right-hander also has a 4-seam fastball in his back pocket, which he uses sparingly, that has outlier traits (18″ of IVB), and a cutter, which he's used just 3% of the time.

Pitching to the opposite handedness hasn't been an issue for Fisher either, in fact, he's been better against lefties this season, especially from a missing bats standpoint.

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-88085" src="https://publish.bluejaysnation.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-06-120223.png" alt="" width="727" height="66" />

Earlier in the season the <a href="https://bluejaysnation.com/news/looking-which-relievers-would-pitch-healthy-toronto-blue-jays-bullpen">Blue Jays</a> used Fisher in multiple different roles, including having him open a game against the A's ahead of Easton Lucas pitching the bulk innings. The righty struggled in that outing, allowing five earned runs over 1 2/3 innings pitched. If you were to remove that outing completely, Fisher's numbers would be even more ridiculous: you'd be looking at a 0.75 ERA/1.09 FIP/30.1 K-BB% across 25 innings for the Texas native. With a larger sample size of dominance under his belt, however, it's become clear that the Blue Jays see him the way the fanbase sees him, and that's as a trusted, shutdown leverage arm pitching the late innings.

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The Jays bullpen is slowly starting to get healthy again, Yimi Garcia aside, Nick Sandlin and Ryan Burr are back. Rodriguez has emerged as a late-inning force, and Fisher's done the same. Even Chad Green is putting up some strong innings as of late.

This has been an area of strength for the team, at the same time it's been an extremely overworked group. One more high-impact addition to this group could catapult them from being a really good bullpen to an elite one (Jhoan Duran, anyone?). Regardless of if and who that addition may be, one thing is for certain: Braydon Fisher is going to remain a key contributor moving forward.

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