Chris Domino

Yeah, what it is, think of it like a math equation, and to the right of the equal sign is their record, 40-20, 20 games over, best record in baseball.

But if you look at everything to the left, everything that will lead up to the equal is 40-20.

It doesn't really make sense.

I mean, you lost a catcher, best hitter on the team for a while.

Ronald Cooney was not very good.

Austin Riley has not been very good.

You lost a couple of pitchers in spring training, another one once the season got started.

The whole thing is sort of a little bit crazy at this point, and it's now fool's gold, because I'll tell you what they do do.

They attack starting pitching, and Walt Weiss's mantra is,

Like mantra one this spring training was we're going to go after starting pitchers.

We're going to knock them out of games.

We're not going to look at pitch count.

We're going to be aggressive but not careless.

We're going to be aggressive, not reckless.

And that's sort of how they're attacking the offense.

Then you throw in the back end of the bullpen, which is maybe you can tell me San Diego's bullpen is better, but nobody's pitched better than the Atlanta Braves.

They win close and late.

Run differential is fantastic.

It's through the roof.

But I'm more of a close and late.