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Dylan Cease's big change bodes well for Blue Jays

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Toronto's $210 million signing is improving.

Dylan Cease's big change bodes well for Blue Jays originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Dylan Cease didn't sign his $210 million contract with the Toronto Blue Jays and rest on his laurels.

Nope, he got better, including one major change to his pitching arsenal. Literally -- Cease's changeup is much different than it used to be. In a new article by MLB.

com's David Adler , he ranks Cease's new changeup as the No. 2 new pitch to watch across MLB. MORE: Explaining the absurdity of 2 MLB players named Max Muncy Cease's changeup used to be slower and less useful.

Now, it has velocity, movement and trust from Cease. "Cease has tried forever to figure out a changeup," Adler wrote in a new article on Saturday. "Maybe he finally has.