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Levi Weaver

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206 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Blue Jays' Controversial Series Win & Phillies Check-In + John Axford

Yeah.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Blue Jays' Controversial Series Win & Phillies Check-In + John Axford

Yeah, yeah.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Blue Jays' Controversial Series Win & Phillies Check-In + John Axford

Let's talk about batting average instead, Manny.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Blue Jays' Controversial Series Win & Phillies Check-In + John Axford

This is not a battle that's even being argued anymore.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Blue Jays' Controversial Series Win & Phillies Check-In + John Axford

This has been decided, right?

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Blue Jays' Controversial Series Win & Phillies Check-In + John Axford

Like, look at the Colorado Rockies who are like, nah, we're good.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Blue Jays' Controversial Series Win & Phillies Check-In + John Axford

for the last decade and a half, they're terrible.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Blue Jays' Controversial Series Win & Phillies Check-In + John Axford

They've been terrible.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Blue Jays' Controversial Series Win & Phillies Check-In + John Axford

And their analytics department is largely to blame because it's almost non-existent.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Blue Jays' Controversial Series Win & Phillies Check-In + John Axford

Dick Monfort was like, we don't really need that.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Blue Jays' Controversial Series Win & Phillies Check-In + John Axford

And you see, this is what happens.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Blue Jays' Controversial Series Win & Phillies Check-In + John Axford

This is what the organization looks like without leaning into the analytics.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Blue Jays' Controversial Series Win & Phillies Check-In + John Axford

They exist for a reason.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Blue Jays' Controversial Series Win & Phillies Check-In + John Axford

And you're exactly right.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Blue Jays' Controversial Series Win & Phillies Check-In + John Axford

It's not about, you know, is...

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Blue Jays' Controversial Series Win & Phillies Check-In + John Axford

Let's look at tunneling as one example, right?

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Blue Jays' Controversial Series Win & Phillies Check-In + John Axford

So tunneling the idea that your, your listeners are smart.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Blue Jays' Controversial Series Win & Phillies Check-In + John Axford

They probably know this, but just in case that it's, if I throw a fastball and I throw a slider tunneling means that they look like the same pitch for about the first two thirds of the way to the plate.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Blue Jays' Controversial Series Win & Phillies Check-In + John Axford

And then they, you know, the fastball stays up, the slider breaks.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Blue Jays' Controversial Series Win & Phillies Check-In + John Axford

If I'm bad at tunneling, you can recognize that they look exactly, they look different from the minute they're out of my hand.