Daniele Franceschi

Oh, you mentioned, let me go back to this first.

Okay, yeah.

You mentioned that he went 0-2 on 12 hitters.

What's funny is,

He still ended up being behind in the count to nine of the 16 guys he faced.

So you know how much that's a skill.

That's an art form.

That shows he was getting ahead early.

There's some foul balls involved.

But then even when he was ahead, he couldn't put anybody away.

He kept finding himself back into those precarious counts of being behind.

behind a guy, and now you have to come to him.

Similar to what happened in that Martinez at-bat where you get the moonshot and a majestic homer to right field where it's an 11-pitch AB and the mile per hour, the velocity on the fastball was 91 on the pitch he eventually hit out.

That's where some of the problems lie, and I think you saw it right away.

The first batter of the game, Daniel Schneeman, who goes deep, it was an 0-2 count.

He starts the game out ahead.

0-2 on Daniel Schneeman, works it back to full, and then it results in a homer.

And I think a lot of the texters are absolutely valid in their criticism of the way that this was managed because I had that thought too.

They come out, it's 5-0.

The Jays put a couple of runs on the board.