Matt Clement

I think the one thing you're starting to see out of Murphy is the pitching coach.

And now these guys, the improvement I see...

They're flipping the first pitch curveball over getting strike one.

And you hear that, you hear caps talk about that on the, on the broadcast first pitch curveball, get them ahead, make them guests, turn things different, finish them with hard, hard fastballs or whatever the case may be, but an impressive, but a shame that you, the two, three and four stars, we can get a win out of any of those great outings.

Yeah, absolutely.

And I think that early on, because I was kind of frustrated that after Cruz's rough first day and a day off, that he wasn't in the lineup the next day.

And, you know, it was almost like, you know, was he being punished or like, let's get him back out there and let him, you know, we're going to go with him.

They've committed to him.

And then I heard the comments from Donnie Kelly that some of these guys have been off for a lot of days in a row coming off of spring training, and they're trying to get certain guys, make sure they're fresh and getting at bats and seeing pitches.

And that was the explanation.

Because to me, like, Cruz is a guy you only bat – you only take off when it's Chris Sale.

Like, Nick Kurtz is off today because Chris Sale is pitching.

So, like, if Nick Kurtz is off, that's the day you give Cruz off.

Don't put him in a situation to make things worse.

But like, you know, the Peterson that was pitching against him, the guy last night, you know, Abbott's a pretty good lefty today.

No, he's a righty, I'm sorry.

But the guy last night, the lefty, you know.

I just saw righty on the board, and I thought he was a lefty also.

I thought he was a lefty.

Maybe they had the board wrong because he is a lefty.