Lucas Giolito

What do you say?

I watch the games and I talk to guys.

Yeah.

The strike zone's small.

So...

know it requires pitchers to be to be on their on their p's and q's you know uh throwing strikes yeah um more so than in the past more so than ever i mean you watch any game from like the early 2000s and before and it's just different yeah i mean you you watch you watch so many of those games the strike zone would depending would be you know this far off the plate uh that doesn't exist anymore yeah um and even if a umpire does screw one up that

And if it's a good hitter that has good recognition of the strike zone, they'll immediately challenge and win.

It's a ball.

Yeah, and umpires aren't going to take that chance.

Yeah, umpires want to get great.

They're getting graded, too, just like players are.

That's the feedback I'm getting, is the strike zone feels smaller because umpires are very much aware of ABS.

They want to be graded well.

They want to do well offensively.

So, you know, they're trying to be cognizant of that.

And, you know, the everyone you can challenge pitches now and overturn them, which can change the course of a game.

Yeah.

In the right situation.

I don't think so.

No, no, no, no.