Arden Zwelling

So David Popkins, Lou Iannotti, like you said, he had Edwin Encarnacion and he had like a bunch of his buddies as well.

So like he there was a serious crew in there with them late on Saturday night, like very late.

We're getting out of that clubhouse and he was getting after it.

So I think that the approach has been better lately.

We're seeing him like take his walks more often than he was.

We're still just waiting for just the quality of contact to come back around with him.

I guess the biggest missing ingredient right now.

This is a rather prolonged slump, even for him.

Like he's a guy who's good for one pretty much every year.

And like, I think that's OK for a baseball player to have a slump.

But this is this is long, even for him.

So clearly there's a lot of work going going on there to try to get him out of it.

Can't imagine that taking 92 off the funny bone is going to necessarily help with that.

We'll see how it goes.

Elsewhere in this batting order, Johendrik Pignongo is suddenly the cleanup hitter.

And he's also hit second for this team.

And he's also led off.

And I said to John Schneider the other day, like, look, this guy, you know, batting order doesn't matter, but I know that you always want your best hitters near the top, and you're consistently putting Johandrik Pinyongo at the top.

And he was like, yeah, I trust him.

Like, yeah, he's going to give me a good plate appearance.