Jose Bautista

It's the sequencing.

It's the locations.

It's the movement profiles.

I'd imagine it gets exponentially more annoying to prep for.

Another thing we're seeing with these guys who throw a lot of different stuff, and when Dylan Cease had that run of three really good starts of seven innings in a row, he was doing this as well.

He had been a fastball slider guy really heavily, and in those really good starts, he dialed away from those a little bit, and it adds an element of randomness where you're John Axford, you're coming out of the bullpen for one inning, you've got three pitches, and you're probably going to lean on your best one an awful lot.

If you were to be a guy that had five, six pitches, how much...

When you're thinking through the game theory of pitcher versus hitter, how much are you trying to, maybe not entirely random because you want to have a reason for anything, but keeping the hitter off their toes by being unpredictable and what extra pitches allows you to accomplish with that?

mean you don't use it if one guy is really good on the slider it doesn't mean you don't use the slider against them you still throw it you can just play with it off of something else that is going to disrupt their timing the best way possible kevin gosman a great example that we always think of him as a fastball splitter guy but his outing on friday was slider heavy and it just you know if you if you think a team's going to be on the scent of one thing

the extra pitch options gives you the opportunity to do another, um, you primarily through three, but did you have like other pitches that you, like, if you were up against me, you would be like, Oh, I could, I could definitely throw like a fourth, fifth, six pitch here.

It's amazing that a catcher would even throw that option down if you've never thrown it in a game.

Um, so this was, uh, pirates.

You briefly played for the pirate.

I think you've been briefer than your time in Toronto, right?

Yeah.

It was a month and a half.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Any, any like, I know PNC is great.

I'm sure you got some good photography off there, but, uh, but yeah, not, not much else to it.