Dan Schulman

What do you make of the fact... And I was talking to Joe a little bit after the game last night.

I'm sure I was at the game, so I didn't hear you guys, but I'm sure you got into it a little bit on the broadcast.

What do you make of the fact that when it comes to Vlad's power production, we're kind of back here again, and we can probably safely be like, yeah, he'll...

he'll find his way back to an OPS over 800 at some point over the course of this year, maybe even soon.

But it does feel like one of these is kind of built in every year.

Yeah.

And, you know, you mentioned a couple of metrics there in terms of hard hit and stuff.

The one that stands out to me when I look at the profile page that says he's reaching a little bit career high chase rate right now.

Like even what you mentioned, the stretches where when he's hitting lasers and maybe they're just not clear in the fence or whatever.

You're also seeing him in those times.

You know, he'll spit on something that's right on the edge.

And his eye is untouched.

And now he's, you know, chasing up over 30% of the time.

Like, I think it's the first time his career has been above league average, chasing outside the zone.

So to me, that says, you know, maybe it's pressing a little bit.

Maybe it's just not adjusting yet to the way pitchers are.

You know, he's had a tough time with breakers and stuff like that.

But...

Yeah, that to me is the I'm pressing stat when I look at Vlad's profile.

So like you said, he'll surely come out of it.