Jon Morosi

And I actually think the psychology of this is really good.

Because this is akin, guys, and we've all been around the game enough, to calling the meeting...

The players-only meeting or the close-the-door meeting right before Christopher Sanchez pitches for the Phillies, okay?

Or you fire the manager and you hire Don Mattingly right when Zach Wheeler comes back and all of a sudden, hey, we're a better team now.

Well, the starting pitcher or the context has a chance to help you.

And so I think this is a little bit of a shake things up a little bit, do it against a good team in Philadelphia where there's no shame in losing to Christopher Sanchez last night.

But you try something different now, and then you say, hey, if all else fails, Kirky's coming back this weekend, and here we go.

Right.

This is the psychology of baseball.

I think we all, we're all around the belief that

vladimir guerrero jr since last season did not forget to hit he's not hurt that we know of so this appears to be a a mindset and a a shift in perspective shift in approach however you want to describe it it is more of a mental adjustment than it is a physical one and when that is where you're at

then the place that you go to is, again, adjusting the situation, adjusting the spot and the order.

And also, guys, I think it's important, 50-50 on this, let's not forget the guy that's moving out of the leadoff spot to create the spot for Black.

is what you're going to do with George Springer.

Now, there's been so much talk.

I am like I suppose most of the people in the 416 area code would agree that Valenzuela is not going anywhere.

He's too important right now.

So I'm very much with you on that train.

The one thing that I wonder about, and it pertains to this conversation,

Has George struggled for long enough that this could be explained by an ailment, a chronic type ailment of some kind?