David Adler

All your prep for the show is just like looking at your own stats, the size of your head.

Yeah, and still doing it at this stage, although not quite to the same level.

So the other thing he did, he challenged a couple pitches in that first at-bat.

The home plate umpire had three calls overturned in the first inning for the Astros.

This is something the Astros hitters do well.

Isak Paredes is the best in the league.

Jose Altuve is fifth, and Jordan Alvarez is also in the top 15.

in terms of overturns versus expected, given the same diet of pitches.

The only Blue Jay in the top 70 is Davis Schneider, who obviously doesn't play a ton and doesn't have a huge sample, but he's actually third in the league behind Isak Paredes and C.J.

Abrams.

So this is not specifically about the challenges that the Astros made that were successful.

The Blue Jays burned both their challenges immediately.

They were out pretty much right away, and you didn't play with the challenge system, but especially as someone who pitched in the leverage innings, what are your impressions of it so far?

And further to that, how mad would you be if you get into a game and it's a tight spot and your team's out of challenges?

The catcher impact is fascinating because I think people, the first assumption was, well, this will make framing a little less valuable.

If you frame one up and you trick the umpire, the hitter can challenge it.

And there have been 1,074 overturned calls by the batter so far this year.

That's a pretty good number.

However, I also think, and I have no idea how we, this is too many layers of math, but like the value of if you are a really good framer

Springer and Okamoto both challenged pitches that were like a hair inside the bottom of the zone.