Jaime Jaquez Jr.

They're going to be so tough because all of these guys work counts.

They see a lot of pitches.

I think they saw like 180 pitches from the Pirates in game one.

And since then, it's just been the opposite, where they've been undisciplined and they all kind of are slumping simultaneously.

And so I hope I'm proven right after game one.

And I do think that that is ultimately where they're going to revert to.

But Alvarez is a guy who, no matter what happens, is always going to be a little bit undisciplined as a hitter.

He's never going to be a 380 on base percentage guy.

That's not really his game.

That's not why he's in the lineup.

He's expected to hit for power, opposite field power.

So, you know...

I'd love to see him get hot tonight.

I don't know what to make of it.

It does seem like they're obviously not best of friends.

It doesn't seem like they're close.

They seem like two very different kinds of people.

I think that the rank speculation about whether or not that is...

to the team's fortunes is a little bit worthless because there are plenty of teams that have been great that had guys that did not get along at all.

The example that you hear New York sports talk hosts reference all the time is Reggie Jackson and Thurman Munson in the 70s.