Dan Shulman

And I know StatCast has ways of breaking down like caught stealings above average and so on.

And the Blue Jay catchers both grade out very well.

I think another thing that bears mentioning is Andres Jimenez is elite at tagging down at second base.

And we don't talk about...

Tagging is a skill very often, but there was one on Wednesday.

There were nine of them, so I can't remember which one it was.

But there was one of the four outs at second base where the Heinemann throw, it kind of tailed a little bit more than I think Heinemann wanted it to, to the first base side of second base.

But Jimenez caught it.

I went back and watched it kind of frame by frame as slowly as I was able to on my laptop, seeing when he caught the ball and when he put the tag on the runner.

And it's almost instantaneous.

Like he is looking the ball into his glove as his glove is swiping the leg of Jimenez.

of the runner and it's one of those in live time without replay I think that you know 10 years ago I think that runner gets called safe nine times out of 10 but now you know with replay just get the tag down and and if they get it wrong they'll fix it assuming you have a challenge but he is absolutely elite at tagging the rear end or the leg or the foot of the runner as he dives in head first and and I think Jimenez deserves a lot of credit as well

Yeah, with him, I think I trust him more to keep the heart rate down and take close pitches than most younger players because we've seen it.

I think we've got a pretty good sample size right now, and you might have the numbers in front of you, but his chase rate, I believe, is one of the two or three lowest on the team, if I'm not mistaken.

I thought I looked at it a few days ago when it was kind of in the 25% range, which is pretty good.

I think the team is up in the 30s.

especially with change-ups or splitters.

Same thing with off-speed pitches.

We have seen him...

have a pretty good idea about watching it into the mid, and if it starts kind of at the knees, he's taking that pitch more often than not, recognizing it's a change-up, and that pitch is going to drop below the strike zone.