John Smoltz

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546 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 1 Jul

John Smoltz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Those matchups have been diluted because we devalued the great role of a starting pitcher by analytics.

Right, and there's a couple ways you can do it.

And when you would have thought about the rule changes that we have today, when those came up, everyone said, you're crazy.

Not really, because now we realize the game's moving along.

The shift, which was killing left-handed ground balls and killing right-handed ground balls is no longer.

So when you have a society of the game that is trying to lift the ball out of the ballpark because it's counteracting high velocity and

You have to find a way to incentivize clubs to teach their pitchers to do different.

So one of the ways, and I floated this out five years ago, and of course they thought I was crazy, was you tie your starting pitcher to the DH.

Well, what is that going to do?

Well, that's going to give you a competitive advantage if your pitcher goes seven or eight innings versus the four or five.

That's also going to eliminate the stupidest idea in the history of the game as an opener.

Because if you want to start a guy for one inning, then you got five or four pinch hits coming down the pipe because you lose your DH.

So that's one way to think proactively towards, all right, I'm a club that sees this rule and goes, I'm going to continue business the same way.

Great.

You can do it.

See, it doesn't say you can't.

It's just, I don't think you'll be advantageous down the road.

Now your club says, okay, I got these guys that throw 103.

I got to teach them

I really don't want them to max effort every single pitch.

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