Jon Fanta

When Pete joined the Orioles, the consensus from them was, what a helpful force for us, a guy that has postseason experience, a guy who delivered one of the Mets' biggest hits over the last quarter century a couple years ago in Milwaukee.

What does he bring to the table?

What does he add?

Because here's the thing.

Pete has not lived up to expectations to this point.

He's made some mistakes.

He's also taken full accountability.

You know, when he talks to the media, he said, look, I needed to be better there and I had to come through for my team there.

So I'm wondering how much has the climate change.

resulted in Pete trying to figure himself out here on this journey for Rushman and Henderson.

How did they deal with the failure and how they dealt with it in season this year?

And then, you know, I think what I'm curious to see is Colton Couser, who has really performed well here in the last couple of weeks.

He was one of their best hitters.

two short years ago had struggled early on, but now seems to have found it.

And this team seems to have found it.

Do they have enough pitching?

Yeah, we'll see, but they are top seven in baseball in hard hit rate.

You know, this is the team that can hit the ball.

They haven't always gotten the results in it.

They've had some hard-hit balls that have resulted in outs, and that's been a frustration for them this season.