CJ Nitkowski

He's got the ability to drive the ball to all fields, but he's also not afraid to hit a hard ground ball to the opposite field as well, especially when they're playing him in what today's version of a shift will look like.

As a left-handed pull power guy, he can hit that ground ball, that line drive the other way as well.

So it's nice.

It's refreshing when you see a team especially kind of string those at-bats together, at least teams that have more guys than not that will take those unselfish team at-bats.

Yeah.

So he's got a lot of coverage, right?

And we have a tendency and I do it.

We'll talk about chase all the time and what that means.

And it is an important stat to keep an eye on, but all chase is not created equal.

And Ozzie Albies knows as good as anybody where he can go outside of the zone with his really good bat to ball skills to be able to make something happen.

Right?

So it was an opposing pitcher.

You may see a spot or you might just even see the number.

Hey, this guy's going to chase.

He's going to go for pitches outside of the zone.

Well,

You know, that got Vladimir Guerrero into the Hall of Fame.

Like, you can still chase and be productive.

Ozzie probably does it as good as anybody.

He went through a little bit of a rough phase last year, and he was dealing with some injuries where he was popping the ball up in the air.