Ben Nicholson-Smith

His chase rate has gone up by 10 percentage points this year.

Like, it's really, really high.

That really tells pitchers what to do.

And it's don't put anything over the middle.

Make him chase.

And...

Until that changes for an extended period, more than just one game or one at-bat, then it doesn't really matter where he's hitting.

He's got to find ways to make that adjustment to his approach.

That's right.

All right.

Well, we will leave it there for now on At The Letters.

We'll actually be back very soon because there's more to discuss when it comes to the Yankee series looking ahead and some of the big decisions facing this team.

But we will save that for tomorrow.

So for now, thank you so much for listening.

Thanks to Arden.

Thanks to Christian Ryan for producing this episode of At The Letters.

And thank you for listening.

Well, I definitely think it's accurate for the last little while where they have been building this momentum and they haven't been able to fully just seize it and push it forward to where it needs to be.

And that was certainly the case over the weekend where they get to 500 and it's like, wow, this is the first time in a long time, despite all these injuries, they seem to be on the brink of turning it around and even going over 500.

And then the Jeff Hoffman game happens and