Kevin Barker
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Their base run is very spotty.
It's a little all over the place.
Their defense, I mean, we saw Okamoto.
That's a routine catch and throw.
Every big leaguer, I don't care where you're from, should be able to do that 1,000 times out of 1,000 times.
Just get in a hurry.
You're peeking at the runner.
Instead of just paying attention to what you want to do, follow your throw, hit the dude in the chest.
Like, it's baseball 101, and for this team to consistently look this way, they're just not hitting.
I think it was Dan Shulman at the end of the game said, if you were hitting, you could hide all these other things you're not doing well.
But when you're not hitting, when you're not hitting, your team looks awful, and you look what your record tells everybody what you are.
And right now, you're not a very good team.
Throw that one out there, too.
There you go.
Not until they get a hitter.
Look, I know the conversation we have with Jeff Passan and how hard it is to go out and think about trying to get somebody to hit in the middle of your order.
I just don't know how they can out-pitch everybody, Jeff.
That's what they're going to try and do.
I just don't know.