Ben Nicholson-Smith

Hopefully it's not literal paper, although I know for their actual contract, they sign it, but hopefully otherwise it's just, you know, a little PDF, a little email, DocuSign.

Let's go.

Not in the least.

I don't think anyone does.

I actually, John Schneider and Jeremy Reeser and Pete Walker have a really good idea.

You know, otherwise, I don't think a lot of people know.

Yeah, it is genuinely hard to make sense of.

I mean, I'm looking at a pitcher who's getting a ton of strikeouts.

And normally when you get that many strikeouts, you're not getting hit hard.

For Hoffman, he's getting hit really, really hard when it's not a strikeout.

So it's just incongruous to see that combination.

Again, we've talked about this before.

I will point out

His BABIP, batting average on balls in play, over 500.

You know, league average hovers around 300, give or take.

So it's way up there.

Now, partly, that's probably because he's not putting the pitches where he needs to.

Partly, it's fluky.

There is a flukish element to this.

Now,