Blake Murphy
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That's down a little bit.
And now he throws six pitches to both righties and lefties.
So there is a lot for you to be worried about there as far as
coverage of quadrants and different pitch types and stuff.
If you're a Blue Jay, you're looking at a 97-mile-an-hour sinker, a slider, a four-seamer, a change-up, a cutter, a sweeper.
All those breaking balls have pretty good results from a run value perspective.
The change-up gets a lot of swing and miss.
The slider is pretty hard to square up for hits or for extra bases.
And the Jays haven't seen a lot of them, so there's an unfamiliarity
factor at play here too.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr., the only guy who's seen him for a pretty good sample and is five for 11 against him with a home run.
We'll see if that can carry over here.
Michael Bauman of Fangraphs recently wrote about Sandy being part of the way back.
Let's see how Michael's doing and talk about that.
Michael, good morning.
Thank you for doing this.
How are you, bud?
There is nothing that is a safer bet than if I do a show or a segment from home, my cat will attack the webcam.
So I'm with you.
He doesn't do it otherwise, but the second that thing turns on, he knows to climb up on the back of the computer and knock it off.