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He's done it.
I think you just have a lot of examples of it, then you have a lot of testimonials from it happening, right?
And that's what's different.
Well, I think in Houston, if you just look at kind of the arc of his career, he came up kind of as they were getting good.
And he was a young player, like on their early kind of run, on that early run that they had.
And he learned Spanish because he understood it was Correa, it was Altuve, and he needed to be a part of that, right?
And he needed to connect with them.
And I think, like, that's just a simple thing, but it's a big thing.
It really is.
And it just tells you a lot and tells you what was important to him.
It's pretty rare to have like this, the inverse, right?
That's really rare.
That's exactly right.
Yeah, I mean, I think...
I think he fits kind of like the Wrigley thing that was important to us last year is just making contact, making a little more contact.
I mean, that's something he controls the strike zone exceptionally well, makes a ton of contact.
Those skills very much play kind of as you get into the playoff season for sure.
Those are huge, very important skills during playoff season.
Very good defender.