Kevin Pillar

I think it's really highlighted how really talented these umpires are and how great they can be when they have

you know uh repercussions for their actions of just making calls because for a long time whatever they said went and there was nothing you could do about it now there's this challenge system all of a sudden we're seeing these umpires be really really good at their jobs but i think it just adds an extra layer i think the teams that are going to master the abs are going to have an advantage um as the season goes on and ultimately uh you know games down the stretch that really matter into the postseason

Yeah, I'm a huge Mike Trout fan.

I think he's, you know, you know, to my generation of people, he's our Barry Bonds.

He's our, you know, Willie Mays, you know, like he was on that trajectory of being the greatest player potentially of all time, you know, and obviously injuries the last couple of years have kind of derailed him from that conversation.

But if you look at his body of work, I mean, he's up there and one of the greatest players ever played this game.

And

One of my greatest, I guess, things I'm sad about in my career is I got to be his teammate and I never got to share the field with him because he was hurt that entire year.

But I think it just speaks wonders to who Mike is.

You know, you talk about all these accolades and all these things we're talking about.

If he hung up his jersey today, he's going to be in Cooperstown, right?

The fact that he's willing to go out and make these changes to, you know, raise his bar of what he can be as a productive player in this game.

But honestly, the step back thing to me is,

is just maybe something where he's just getting a little bit older and he's having a little bit harder time loading on that back hit that back leg the fact that he could kind of step back into it kudos to him for trying it because obviously and too with brady anderson being a new hitting coach over there right it's hard to come in as a new guy uh especially with a guy like mike trout and make these sort of suggestions to him that might seem like crazy to him but i think i

it speaks wonders of maybe who Brady is as a hitting coach or the respect that he has to that organization.

I think there's, you know, other layers that go into it too.

Mike probably threw his knee injury when I was there and some of the people that he saw to rehab him, he was, and the work that the angels do in terms of their medical staff, their strength and conditioning staff, maybe they identified, Hey, you're not able to get in your back hip as easily as you did four or five, six years ago when you were elite, let's try this.

And,

Obviously, it takes multiple people, but obviously it takes Mike willing to do it.

And I love it.