Ben Schulman

All of that is compounding to this kind of negative attention on the defense that based on their play, where they are kind of middle of the pack defensively, so far this year has been somewhat warranted.

Yeah, I think going into, for the first part of the question, going into last night's game, I thought that with the exception of really one play, there was one play prior to last night where he and Okamoto kind of pulled up looking at each other and a ball dropped in down the left field line, actually in Trey Savage's last start.

So I'm sure that's not, you know, a super fond memory overall for Savage, what's gone on in left field the last two.

I thought that other than that, he had made all the plays.

There hadn't been any spectacular plays.

There hadn't been any plays where I was like, whoa, I'm not sure if the average outfielder makes that play.

But he had made all the plays, and given what he has meant for them offensively, I thought that it was pretty solid.

But you do hear, you know, what people have said that we're evaluating him coming up.

And I remember talking to Mark Budzinski when he first came up.

And Pignango, for the record, according to Budzinski, very clear that he needs to improve some things out there.

This isn't a situation where there is like a lack of recognition.

It's been for a while that the bat was probably outpacing the glove when he was a prospect.

And so you keep advancing him because he's too advanced for the pitching.

But he's still been trying to work on that defense.

I think that, you know, there's been a couple times he looked turned around, but he seemed athletic enough to get going.

But there were a couple plays before yesterday that may be foreshadowed.

A couple of times when they've set them up a little deeper, Andres Jimenez has gone out into left field and caught balls that I don't think the shortstop usually catches.

And he's Andres Jimenez, and it's a rookie in their first 20 games.

And I kind of understood it.

But I almost wonder if that's created not the best precedent because the one against the Yankees, he came in on a ball that he's coming in and infielders going straight out.