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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It just tells you that big, strong dude hit it 117 off the bat.
No kidding.
It's going to go over 400 feet when you're addicted to miles per hour.
That's all.
So what I've asked them to do is I said, come up with the stat.
It's not sexy to see all these stats that they come up with.
They want to they want to they have a quantifiable factor behind it.
The one I don't like is expected X. Like, how can you tell me what a player is going to do based on
this current 10 game span or as 10 starts like that's the one area where I say nope you lost me because when you throw 240 innings there's an there's there's there's an ability for you not to be as good at the end that when you're throwing 160 when a Cy Young and everyone goes crazy because you they try to translate well at 240 this is where you'd be now doesn't work that way so the staff that I like
is that exit velocity, you give me the average exit velocity of every time a ball is put in play or an out is made.
So in other words, if you hit a ball at 110, great, you get that.
But if you swing and miss and strike out, you get a zero.
and at the end of the year all the different things that you're going to have an average exit velocity of a lot lower number but I guarantee you the number that that is going to be in 70s to 80s is going to be your best hitter and that's been proven because they've taken the value of every time he hits a ball and the value of every time he doesn't hit a ball because when I when we get the exit velocity they don't tell you that that guy struck out 210 times a year yeah right you're just cherry picking a bad pitch cherry picking a good swing
And to me, there's no value in that.
We just get to see like we're enamored with, oh, wow, 117 off the bat.
So that to me is when you start drawing a line to that's a stat that doesn't mean anything.
Give me a stat that's more relevant and I'm all in.
Like that's the way I think.
And when they come up with those, I'm like, great job.
But when they do the ones that just –
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