Joe Siddall

And Papa said just to try to cover that outside pitch because what he was doing, it was feeling like he couldn't get there.

When you don't feel like you can get there, that's when your hands get away from you and you're really just reaching.

And that's, again, what you don't want to do.

Yeah.

Lots of good reasons for the adjustments he made, but it's just amazing that he made those adjustments, and it's showing dividends, paying dividends.

It's really, really paying dividends early here.

But we've been talking about the word make adjustments since spring training, and this is what it is.

This is what it means, making adjustments to the game.

The other funny one, I'll add one more, is that

pop made an interesting comment too about pitchers you know over in asia a lot of very fluid deliveries with with a good tempo and you can time that up as your hitter you can time your move up but major league baseball you come over here and there are a lot of different deliveries and he was he was quite frankly just rushed so they tried to make a correction and so far it's working yeah what do you think the jays have with brandon valenzuela i mean you know predictably after the game he had yesterday the home run you know

Well, I think what you've got is for sure a backup-type catcher, and then who knows where that leads to, right?

Because it's all about opportunity.

I mean, before his day yesterday, I think a lot of us were kind of talking about, yeah, we like what we see back there behind the plate, but not much going offensively, right?

And with Heinemann, we know Tyler is what he is, and I think he knows what he is.

He's a backup catcher.

He's a very good major league backup catcher.

And when he's playing and backing up behind Alejandro Kirk,

he can't be in a better spot because what he does behind the plate with pitchers, I mean, we know what he did offensively last year.

I don't necessarily think that's his hitter's profile, but what he does behind the plate can't be dismissed.

Like there was a reason why the other day, who was, was he catching?