Anthony Heron

He's really changed the way that he approaches the fastball, but the pitchers have not changed the way they pitch him yet.

I don't know how long that takes for the scouting reports to catch up, but they haven't caught up yet in the first two series, and I think he's going to feast on fastballs until pitchers figure it out otherwise.

Yeah, you kind of throw that in on ones that you think might be close.

I mean, you can kind of read the body language of everyone involved where they even start to think about maybe using it and then deciding not to at times when they do use it.

So it comes through pretty quickly.

We had one the other day that was a game-deciding moment because the Angels were tied in the eighth inning against the Astros.

Houston had the go-ahead run on third with two outs.

Two strikes on the batter, Paredes.

And there was a pitch at the bottom of the zone that ABS would have called a strike, judging by how it came through on the game cast that Major League Baseball puts out.

And Logan O'Hoppy decided not to use the challenge there.

He felt it wasn't going to be reversed when he caught the ball.

Of course, the ABS showed it would have been.

And the next pitch, Isak Paredes lines a base hit to give the Astros the lead and subsequently win the game.

So it became a big moment that, you know, Logan didn't use the challenge that was available to him.

One pitch later, the tie is broken and the Angels are behind when if he had used it, that inning would have been over.

They would have gone to the ninth inning with the top of their order up in a tie game and a chance to take the lead from there.

So it was really interesting to have that conversation with

This early in the season, especially because we don't have a lot of data either.

We don't know how many runs are being saved.

We don't know how many at bats are really changing.