Ben Schulman

he had not produced upon as much.

Now it seems like he's, A, kind of dissuaded teams from trying to spin him to death all the time because he's hit breaking balls pretty well, but, B, been able to marry the two together a little bit where he can get to that slider and still somehow hook it to left field even when it's way outside, and he's not getting beat by that fastball that might be up and in a foot off the plate, and for some reason he can still hit that pitch for a double.

As well.

I still don't totally understand how he covers everything he covers.

It's in a very Boba Shett way, not what you would teach someone to do if you were teaching a kid how to hit.

But some people have special hands.

Ernie Clement is one of them.

And when he's able to be on time for everything somehow and cover everything like he is right now, he gets really dangerous because he can square up the ball pretty well.

And he just really understands what he's trying to do.

I think he really, you know, he'll hit some quote unquote softer doubles and some quote unquote softer hits.

But he is guiding everything to a certain spot and really almost aiming kind of like in a way Danny Jansen would, although with with very different types of results they're looking for.

And it's been huge for the Blue Jays when they've won recently.

He's typically been right in the middle of it.

And, I mean, I know you went on a tangent yesterday about why we don't look at errors.

I will say that three-double game he had, you should check out that first double.

That's an interesting double handed out by the official scorer at Yankee Stadium, who I think was trying to not be mean to Ryan McMahon, but instead would hurt his pitchers or Yankee pitchers' ERA in the process.

But he's been locked in, and you could argue the best Blue Jays offensive player over the last 10 to 12 days.

So important I think and I mean you mentioned it I want to say he saw somewhere in the neighborhood of 11 or 12 pitches in his first two at bats came up with hits in both of them even if he blooped his first one it was still a good at bat before he ended up you know getting a little fortunate on the soft contact there and I think that he's one of the guys and we came on talking a little bit about.

the defense or the lack thereof that they had at times last night.

He's one of these players that, for them, can be an average to above-average offensive player and provide them solid defense, especially in the corners.