Justin Willard
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And it did.
And it showed up.
But the success he saw kind of halfway through last year in AAA and then even the big leagues, a lot of it was just derived off of pure like power coming at you.
Like, let's go.
That's a pretty good place to start.
That ghost fork is absolutely disgusting.
Yeah.
It's how do you build out the arsenal?
How do you get to advantage counts?
How do you do these, these, these things to put you in advantageous positions to maximize your superpower?
Yeah.
Again, you go back to Tully.
We know his fastball is his superpower, but big league hitters can eliminate that superpower.
You have to use the rest of the arsenal to get back to it.
Kyle Harrison was a perfect example when we acquired him from San Francisco.
It was like, Kyle, your superpower is your fastball.
Anything we do is not going to affect your superpower, but it's to maximize your ability to get back to your superpower.
Yeah, it's really just understanding the person in front of you.
There are some people that are very accepting of a bunch of ideas and can cognitively handle that information.
There's other guys, you got to slow drip it to them because they maybe haven't been in a development environment similar to what we've had both with the Red Sox and the Twins and now the Mets where we expect you to continue to work on things and get better and improve and you're not just going to stay stagnant.