Kevin Barker

It's got to be kind of lanes off the fastball, have a little sharper break to it.

You know, occasionally if he wants to, he can 12-6 that thing if he holds the grip sort of the way he wants to hold it.

This is kind of the grind of trying to figure it out.

You know, just the walks, there's no excuse for it.

You know, there's one thing of giving up runs, especially, you know, it's an art pitching with the lead.

For whatever reason, even when he got a big lead, he wanted to pitch around Ben Rice, which made no sense to me.

He just seemed like he was nibbling to certain guys in that lineup, even with the big lead when you should be attacking guys, getting after dudes.

The saving grace is here they scored a bunch of runs, which is kind of nice to talk about, and they kind of saved him.

It's just when he's going through it,

How does he kind of be competitive enough to not walk six guys, get the middle of the order out when he's supposed to get it out?

I think that's what he's trying to learn.

And I think he'll learn it because he's a good pitcher.

Yeah, he had one whiff on the split finger.

He had two whiffs on the slider.

Like, again, this is what the Yankees do.

You know, the Yankees are not just up there swinging at everything that they throw at you.

Like, you know, that's why a fastball command, again, we talked to John today, and I asked John about him, and he says he's got those strikes.

No matter which one of the three he's throwing, they all got to be for strikes.

That's how he gets dudes in swing mode.

That's how he gets them chasing the strike to ball, split finger, or slider is to attack the zone with the fastball.