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Matheson on Alejandro Kirk returning to the lineup, Vladimir Guererro Jr.'s offensive struggles, and Max Scherzer's role moving forward
And you can feel good about process stuff, but process is what people talk about when they lose.
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Matheson on Alejandro Kirk returning to the lineup, Vladimir Guererro Jr.'s offensive struggles, and Max Scherzer's role moving forward
I don't care about process.
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Matheson on Alejandro Kirk returning to the lineup, Vladimir Guererro Jr.'s offensive struggles, and Max Scherzer's role moving forward
I care about who won the game.
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Matheson on Alejandro Kirk returning to the lineup, Vladimir Guererro Jr.'s offensive struggles, and Max Scherzer's role moving forward
When you look up at the end, who had the most runs.
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Matheson on Alejandro Kirk returning to the lineup, Vladimir Guererro Jr.'s offensive struggles, and Max Scherzer's role moving forward
We can break it down with any analytic and any advanced metric we can, and those are valuable and they matter over a long season.
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Matheson on Alejandro Kirk returning to the lineup, Vladimir Guererro Jr.'s offensive struggles, and Max Scherzer's role moving forward
But people only talk about process and those types of things when they have lost.
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Matheson on Alejandro Kirk returning to the lineup, Vladimir Guererro Jr.'s offensive struggles, and Max Scherzer's role moving forward
You want to talk about results and winning some games, and that's got to happen quick with Scherzer, because it's him and Corbin, essentially, at this point.
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Matheson on Alejandro Kirk returning to the lineup, Vladimir Guererro Jr.'s offensive struggles, and Max Scherzer's role moving forward
Kirk can go in a lot of places, but I like him in kind of that 4-5 spot.
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Matheson on Alejandro Kirk returning to the lineup, Vladimir Guererro Jr.'s offensive struggles, and Max Scherzer's role moving forward
You need some sort of secondary offense behind Vlad.
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Matheson on Alejandro Kirk returning to the lineup, Vladimir Guererro Jr.'s offensive struggles, and Max Scherzer's role moving forward
Well, Vlad needs to provide primary offense, number one.
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Matheson on Alejandro Kirk returning to the lineup, Vladimir Guererro Jr.'s offensive struggles, and Max Scherzer's role moving forward
But you need something else behind him, a little bit of protection.
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Matheson on Alejandro Kirk returning to the lineup, Vladimir Guererro Jr.'s offensive struggles, and Max Scherzer's role moving forward
And Kirk can be so many different types of people.
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Matheson on Alejandro Kirk returning to the lineup, Vladimir Guererro Jr.'s offensive struggles, and Max Scherzer's role moving forward
If there is a runner on third base and one out, and you just need a ball in play to score a batter...
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Matheson on Alejandro Kirk returning to the lineup, Vladimir Guererro Jr.'s offensive struggles, and Max Scherzer's role moving forward
I want Kirk up more than I want any other hitter in this organization, more than Vladdy, I think quite easily.
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Matheson on Alejandro Kirk returning to the lineup, Vladimir Guererro Jr.'s offensive struggles, and Max Scherzer's role moving forward
He is the guy who can understand a situation and put a ball in play.
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Matheson on Alejandro Kirk returning to the lineup, Vladimir Guererro Jr.'s offensive struggles, and Max Scherzer's role moving forward
So I love him at that 4-5 where he's getting opportunities to produce runs.
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Matheson on Alejandro Kirk returning to the lineup, Vladimir Guererro Jr.'s offensive struggles, and Max Scherzer's role moving forward
You don't want him one or two.
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Matheson on Alejandro Kirk returning to the lineup, Vladimir Guererro Jr.'s offensive struggles, and Max Scherzer's role moving forward
He'll clog up the bases a little bit, and that's okay.
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Matheson on Alejandro Kirk returning to the lineup, Vladimir Guererro Jr.'s offensive struggles, and Max Scherzer's role moving forward
That's not part of his game.
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Matheson on Alejandro Kirk returning to the lineup, Vladimir Guererro Jr.'s offensive struggles, and Max Scherzer's role moving forward
But give him some opportunities to break a couple games open because this team is just having little bursts of offense.