Justin Willard

Justin Willard.

Does it concern you, though, Evan, that he did most of his shuffling when the Mets were losing games?

Maybe more of a me guy, not a we guy?

You wouldn't be happy, Evan, just to have a guy to watch, a fun superstar great player?

He's the Bloody Sock.

I got to talk with, uh, with the other people with the Mets before I started.

Yeah, I think when you like, so it started really early on with the twins of understanding like, okay, we can do some pretty cool stuff with a baseball, but talking to hitters, right?

Like if you can, cool, you can present them different profiles of pitches and different movement solutions and all these things.

But if you can also close down that decision window that they have by throwing things harder, it's just going to make their life a living hell.

So that's kind of where it all started.

And then

I think it was an area of baseball and driveline and tread and all these other organizations that are external to professional baseball have done a great job of pushing that forward.

But within baseball, it was definitely an area that teams can still continue to maximize.

Are we focusing on velocity development in the right manner at the right time to push better pitchers?

Yeah, I think it's reassessing kind of how we've always done things in baseball, right?

Like even from something as simple as a buildup for a season, right?

Are there better opportunities to build more robust throwers and more robust ligaments and more robust musculature around these small joints to maximize injury prevention, right?

So that's the way we approached it, starting with the Twins and approached it with the Red Sox.

And then now we'll obviously have some discussions with the Mets on how we can do this better.

But historically, it's been like, oh, you do this like big volume ramp up and then you get to spring training and you start doing live VPs.