Bob Pompeiani

You don't see many guys that big doing that.

And listen, he went out there.

He tried real hard in his offseason with Kevin Kiermaier to improve.

And we've seen just a short sample size.

Maybe this will get better.

Maybe it was just one of those games.

Maybe it was because it's on national television and people are making conclusions on one game.

The total O'Neal package for O'Neal-Cruz package for them has to be 30-30.

has to be a guy with power.

And then, again, I can live with mistakes defensively.

You don't want them, but if that's the tradeoff, I'll take the power.

Absolutely.

All right, Neal, thank you.

Welcome back to the Pomp and Joe Show.

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We're going to use it a lot today, and right now we're going to go back out to it and bring in...

Former Major League pitcher and our big contributor to our program here, Mr. Matt Clement, who was on yesterday.

We were talking about a lot of things, but I don't think we expected to talk about Connor Griffin being in the opening day lineup tomorrow, but it looks like that's going to be the case.

Matt, how are you and your thoughts about this promotion so quickly without a contract extension at this point?

So, Matt, he has the ability to hit the long ball.