Craig Misch

He's a lot of swing and miss in his game, and so that's going to have to improve.

He's had some big moments for the team.

He had a walk-off home run earlier in the year, and I think he just went through an awful patch of time where the bench coach sat down with him and had a talk with him and said, hey, look, you know, got to make more contact, got to get the mental part of your game right, and it seemed to work this weekend.

I know he didn't have a great game on Sunday, but

Making a little progress, fair to say, over the last couple of weeks.

Walking more, that usually leads to better success on the field.

And predominantly only plays against right-handed pitching right now.

So naturally when a lefty pitches, he doesn't play.

Well, for now, they're not necessarily in a rebuild per se, but it is only the second year of them trying to do things differently.

And they basically are trying to innovate in ways that other teams do not, meaning taking chances and implementing some ideas that the league has not.

If that would work, I'm sure that you've heard about their pitch calling, where they're calling pitches from the dugout.

That's been very well documented.

Also, they have live sessions with their pitchers and hitters almost every single day, meaning there's always some level of competition.

when they throw their bullpen.

So working the margins, so to speak, and trying to find ways that maybe if they can get an edge, whether it's 1% or 2% or 5%, I mean, guys, you just have to be realistic when you're talking about some teams in the market's

And the revenue that the Marlins make, they have to try to find ways to get better by working those margins.

And that's what they're attempting to do in the current CBA system.

There's really no end game, per se, other than getting smarter.

Yeah, well, look, we don't know, Jeff, what the end result is going to be.

I mean, the data is going to tell the story.