Lance Brodzowski

And as a result of that, he ends up carving through a lineup.

But he has multiple paths that he can go down as a pitcher.

He can embrace the wind blowing in and throw a bunch of fastball.

And alternatively, I think there are going to be situations where he's on the road in a park that's maybe more advantageous for hitters where he can go and generate some whiff.

So I love the malleability he has as a pitcher to be able to strike the ball, but also generate a ton of swing and miss.

Is it in line?

Yeah, I mean, he's going to allow homers.

Council said this in his postgame presser.

I think that is who he is.

These guys with these more vertical shapes that want to pound the zone as aggressively as he does are just going to run into barrels more often, and you're just really hoping the wind's blowing directly in from right field when he allows those barrels to righties.

I'm encouraged by the velocity being back.

We went through this dance all of last season where we were thinking that he could just command the ball better at 91%

90 and he would be fine I always just didn't believe that I thought there was some residual from the hamstring most of the time if someone's not telling you about an injury you can look at ball velocity or just raw bat speed we saw this with Kyle Tucker kind of back into the fact that he's not entirely healthy and we saw that what showed us so the fact that he was 92 is really encouraging to me that looks a lot more like 2024 I will point out to the ball that Joey Weimer hit it was the weekend of Joey Weimer for some reason I have no idea why

This happens occasionally with like, wouldn't we, didn't Scooter Jeanette come in here and hit like three homers randomly?

I know, I know.

But Weimer's ball, the ball that he hit.

Okay.

That was the second lowest home run off the ground.

Shota has ever allowed that.

That ball does not get hit out.