Justin Willard

So it goes back to, okay, cool.

What are we going to do to get you back to your superpower instead of just solely relying on that superpower?

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 ripping 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.

Now, which way is it going to go?

Yeah.

Hitters are really good.

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

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

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

I've seen too many pitchers be wrong.

I think catchers are the best ones to do it.

Yeah, I think ultimately, like, you 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?

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.

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

And I think there were some, like, advantages there.

Okay, cool, like...

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

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 and

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

For sure.