Doug Glanville

We had a decent offense, but played with some great players, with Scott Roland and Bobby Abreu and Curt Schilling and so on.

But there's no doubt that Francona gives you a lot of liberty as a young player to make your mistakes and to be aggressive.

And I find him as a great tactician.

That's something he didn't get credit for when I was with him.

But he slowly earned that reputation.

So it's a good guy to have in the division because he keeps it light, but it's also competitive.

With P. Crowe, I'm sorry, it's adjustments to the adjustments.

The league is constantly getting information on you and finding out, okay, he's going to chase.

He's going to have to always work on that zone.

And it's unique with ABS on top of it.

It's tailored to you.

So in some ways that could be good.

because your zone is the zone now.

It's like that fixed zone stays with you.

It doesn't change because, you know, home plate umpires, you know, umpire A versus umpire B, it doesn't change.

So in some ways it's like less to learn because that's your zone and that could help him a lot.

Lefties just getting reps over and over again and just seeing them and getting confidence.

I feel like, you know, Pete Cronstrom figures things out because there's no limit to Pete Cronstrom.

That's what's fun about him because he just doesn't see like, oh, I'm going to have a goal and that's all I'm going to do.

He's like, why not me?