Ben Shulman

But the rest of the league hits better or hits worse against some of these high-octane relievers.

It seems like they have a couple guys that feel their way into the game for whatever reason, like maybe they need to get into a bit of a groove.

But it's a hard one for me to 100% diagnose.

I think you'd have to...

Give a little bit of credit to, you know, the folks, obviously John Schneider being at the front of it, who are setting up some of their matchups because they are a team who, you know, reliever comes in, they'll pinch it very quickly.

They have their righties that are sitting there all day game planning for the lefties.

You know, he's now not with the Major League Club, but I remember talking to David Schneider about what his days are like.

Typically, and he's spending a whole day if he's on the bench, just hitting off their traject version of the lefty relievers, vice versa for lefties who are on the bench waiting for righties.

So I think a lot of that stuff they're doing well and really diving in.

But, you know, I would still acknowledge that that it doesn't totally make sense because they're game planning for the starters even more than that, in theory.

And for whatever reason, they have not been able to solve a lot of these starters and they have been able to.

They're way above average against relievers, and they're way below average against starters.

And I don't know how to fully put that together either.

I mean, they want to get it going.

You know, I think especially the chase stuff, they were not very happy with that.

And it's, it's hard, you know, you bring in a couple new guys and then you bring up a couple new guys because injury.

And now you're, you know, the days are twice as long for David Hopkins as it, as opposed to what he was projecting his roster to be for him in terms of hitters, which would have been like 12 of 13 guys who were there last year.

So yeah,

A lot of work for him to do, and I think probably a lot of grace from the people who manage him in the fact that he's dealing with a ton of new players and a ton of a lot of situations, like a lot more situations than I think expected.

I think you're starting to see some positive gains.