Caleb Joseph

And I think, honestly, it took a lot of pressure off of him.

This guy was a four-hole hitter on opening day, and I think he don't mind being a great defender and then just laying in the weeds in the nine-hole and just doing his routine, which is liners, liners, liners.

I got a two-strike approach, and every once in a while, I'll work on hitting a fly ball to center field.

And he's just crushing this entire nine-hole, eight-hole, seven, down there at the bottom.

He's crushing that routine, and he's being rewarded for it.

But, like, the pressure's off.

That's typically when some of these older guys really start to get consistent because they're not trying to do anything more or less than the same thing they did the day before.

It really is.

When he gets into it, it's one of the more...

pretty left-handed swings I think I've ever seen.

Nice.

Like, it's that beautiful.

Like, when it's perfectly on plane, it's like poetry in motion, much like a young Kevin Barker.

Let's do it.

There it is.

That's it.

No, I'm really not.

Uh, you know, it was a tough little six month span there for Lauer, uh, going back to the arbitration case.

Um, like that just really kind of threw him off the, off the rails a little bit.

And, uh,