David Adler

Their turnaround started mid-to-late May last year.

Yeah.

There is a lot that's gone wrong that you could be under 500.

You have not had much injury luck on the pitching side.

You have not had any individual player have what you'd call like a great season.

Everyone's kind of just been okay, which is good.

You have a high floor.

This is how you end up being a 500 team.

You don't have a lot of terrible spots, but you don't have a lot of great spots either.

It's,

We're kind of describing a 500 team even in the American League this year.

We're describing a 90-win team in the American League Central, but we're describing a 500 team in the American League East.

you know, offensive identity and this year's team is going to be different from last year's team.

And it hasn't really changed that much since two weeks ago when we talked about it.

But yesterday they did something and they've done a little bit more of this lately that at least they can work with.

And look, they didn't execute particularly well when they got guys on base yesterday.

They went one for nine with runners in scoring position, 13 men left on base.

However, they really ran the pitch count up on Hunter Brown early.

And that was because of traffic.

That was because of deeper at-bats.