John Smoltz

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The Dan Patrick Show · Hour 1 – MLB All-Star Game, John Smoltz · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

But I hope we get to a place where we dial that down.

Like, if you've got the ability to throw 100, why wouldn't you want to throw 95, 96 and ramp it up when you need to?

But that's not what they're asked to do.

That's why the reward system, in my opinion, is flawed.

Well, I've often believed that if we were going to go to the ABS, which we are, and thankfully it's only a two challenge, we needed to put the strike zone lower and create a little bit more opportunity for the hitters.

And they've done that a little bit.

They've lowered it, thankfully.

But you saw in a challenge last night, and it got one one-thousandth of an inch of the ball.

I mean, that's the part of the game where I've said, if you ever go to that system, pitchers are going to have a field day.

and hitters will have no chance.

So if they do lower it and do squeeze it in, I think that would be better.

But what the ABS is doing also, you always got to look at the side effects.

Swing rates down, walk rates up.

So you're seeing the evidence of what's going on that if we ever went to it full time, oh boy, we're going to get back to those games that we don't want to see.

Yeah, you're always going to have an uptick in the all-star game because of adrenaline.

You always worry about that with a young player.

And that adrenaline went up.

You know, Robolowski maybe doesn't have a, you know, doesn't strike out a ton of people, but he struck out five out of six.

You could tell that he had a little excuse.

So I think that's part of it in the all-star.

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