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Chris Cotillo

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Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Holy Errors & Adam Macko Joins the Show!

I don't know.

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Yeah, and I think, yeah, there's enough probably going on for catchers that maybe the only thing I'm really drilling home is an understanding of leverage.

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If you think it's a ball or a strike, you go for it.

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But let's not... The Astros on Tuesday's game were out of challenges in the second inning, and it was all bottom of the order, guys.

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Understanding that a little bit.

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As you dug into these numbers, and it's early.

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JTP: Holy Errors & Adam Macko Joins the Show!

The sample size of number of challenges is very large.

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JTP: Holy Errors & Adam Macko Joins the Show!

But as far as figuring out how all this stuff is going to work goes, we're still pretty early on.

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Do you have a sense yet of...

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where the line is for how aggressive catchers should be.

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When you dug into these numbers, did you come away thinking, okay, catchers aren't being aggressive enough?

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Because I look at the Blue Jays numbers, and StatCast has this percentage of reasonable challenges that you actually challenge, and the Jays are pretty on the low end.

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The numbers suggest maybe they aren't challenging enough.

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Is it too early for kind of learnings like that?

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Yeah.

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And I think that makes sense.

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And I actually I talked to John Axford earlier in the week about like as a leverage reliever where he spent his career, you'd be pretty ticked off if you didn't have any challenges left and you come into like a tight situation where maybe you'd want one there.

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So that pushes even a little further to don't use them if you're on the hitter side.

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Let's stay on catchers.

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Alejandro Kirk is back for the Blue Jays.