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Justin Willard

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286 total appearances

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Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

So it goes back to, OK, cool, what are we going to do to get you back to your superpower instead of just solely relying on that superpower?

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

Um, so that's something I think the game of baseball woke up to this past year of, again, you look at crochet, like that fastball is a hundred miles per hour, but then when he starts working off the sinker, like good luck or Chapman as well, two fastball guy has the, uh, the splitter and the slider, but like those two fastballs, you can be sitting a hundred.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

Now, which way is it going to go?

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

Yeah.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

Hitters are really good.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

Like again, they're just solving problems at a higher and quicker rate than we've ever experienced.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

So presenting them little wrinkles in our problems is, is really, really helpful as we move forward.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

And especially now with going to the ABS, like it's going to be ever more present.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

I just don't like, I've, I've seen too many pitchers be wrong.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

I think catchers are the best ones.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

Yeah, I think ultimately, like, you would have a set amount of pitchers on your roster, and you want to set it up to where, again, you're playing basically every day to maximize as much winning potential as possible, right?

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

Like, I think we saw last year was May, June-ish, where starters for the Red Sox weren't going past, like, the fifth inning.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

They were kind of getting cut off third time through the order.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

And I think there were some advantages there.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

Okay, cool, like...

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

We can use our bullpen, but are we using our bullpen now too much that it's actually taking away from the effectiveness of our ability to actually win baseball games because we're using these guys over and over and they're getting fatigued and tired.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

So it's like, it's all very much a juggling act of, we always want to maximize for winning and understanding kind of who we have currently available and who's starting this game and how do we maximize our ability to win this game?

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

And whether to push that guy out there for another time through the order or take him out is just understanding how do we win each baseball game.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

For sure.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

That's, yeah.