Matt Clement
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Podcast Appearances
Well, I think that if you go back, like the person that probably was on this before it was something was Greg Maddux, right?
You know, he used to talk about the ball being like five to ten feet away, and then it goes a different direction.
It can be coming at a different speed.
Well, now with the technology, we can see everything that's going on.
With the velo being, you know, over the top right now, it adds to like this dimension.
It shows why hitting is the β
you know, arguably the hardest thing in sports to do when you, especially when you're facing a lot of these elite pitchers and he's able to do it where, I mean, he's just, he's thrown four different like versions of fastballs that are 97 to a hundred miles an hour that are making a different move coming out of the same tunnel at the very end.
And then we aren't even talking about the breaking ball, like the sliders and the stuff that are less speed.
So I don't know.
I don't know how somebody hits them and really nobody has.
It's probably a lot of work and a lot of discipline.
And, you know, that's why he's, he's the best pitcher in baseball right now.
It's been a lot of fun.
Like, you know, I think back in my career and I actually had to go look and, um, it came, there was two baseball world baseball classics in my, in my short, it's a very, when it started, it was the end of my career.
And the second one, ironically, I was coming off a shoulder surgery and with the Blue Jays and I was retiring about three weeks later and I got a start against the USA team.
I remember, I don't remember who was on it or what was going on, but I was like, this isn't what I need coming off a shoulder surgery facing the USA team.
So, but like watching last night and like hearing Aaron judge, I thought, I thought he, he put it in great terms, right?