Host (Bradfo)

Obviously, you were with them before, but when did you realize last season that, okay, the boxes are being checked off enough where I think this is going to be a very real possibility?

I mean, one of the things, the way you talk about the way they played,

and the this is a little wonky but the bat the ball thing right the not swinging the miss and the contact um you know we just did a podcast with isaiah kind of falafel and he talked about when he got there how that was noticeable i'm anxious to get from a pitcher's perspective of how that how impactful that was and do you think the baseball sees that and said hey man this is i get it launch angle everything else but we're gonna learn from what the blue jays did or was that this sort of

That's the way the Blue Jays did it.

Well, that's what I mean.

I mean, that's what it was.

Right.

But I appreciate it, man.

Thanks.

All right.

The great thing about this clubhouse is that you talk to a guy like Chris, and then you just go down the row a little bit, and there's Zach Eflin.

who is another guy who is secure in himself, who knows what's what, who knows how to get through a season, who knows what it's like to be good.

And he's been battling injuries the last couple of years.

I get it.

But when he's good, when he's healthy, he's good.

He's really, really good.

And he's always, always good on the podcast.

So we pick up sort of what we talked about with Bassett about the dynamic.

One of the things I find fascinating about the dynamic of where actually Major League Baseball hitting is going.

And that is, you know, why don't teams value lineups that just make pitchers' lives miserable when it comes to making contact and not swinging and missing, not striking out?