Matt Clement

But I would say somebody like some of the young pitchers, you go through our rotation right now, the Pirates.

Would you rather face Bubba Chandler or would you rather face Kyle Hendricks?

I honestly think if you pick the brains of some of these hitters because they feel like they can catch up to the velocity where they get very frustrated with all the slow speeds.

And that's why you see some of those guys hang around that can perfect it.

Now, on the flip side, the ceiling for the Bubba Chandlers is off the charts.

It's not like they enjoy facing him.

You're putting the two extremes of not enjoying in place, like Chandler, Hendricks, the slow-throwing, annoying one, or the guy that's throwing 102 miles an hour.

Right, and I think that the hitters, the less that they have to think about, they'll take their chances because they're getting in the cage the day before the game, and even though it can't replicate what Chandler does because it's so amazing, they're going to put a gun on 102 high in the zone like Chandler likes to pitch, where when they're facing Hendricks, they aren't putting a gun on 88 with a changeup and trying to front door sinker you as a left-hander and all the other stuff.

it's funny because you had you bring up tyler glass now and that was somebody that i had written in my notes to talk about with the cruise like everybody wants to get rid of cruise yeah you you gotta watch what you wish for when glass now and glass now was to me that's the closest comparison to cruise even though it's a different position yeah he always had it he just couldn't figure it out he's throwing 100 miles an hour and then he goes somewhere else he's successful so so as far as chandler

I just worry to me, you know, the pitching coach, Murphy, the pitching coach, is really thought of well, and he's helped Valdez and Javier and some pitchers with the Astros.

He's got – this is going to be fine with Chandler.

The worry for me with somebody like Chandler is because you hear that, you know, I've heard Curt Schilling talk about he throws too much max effort.

That's why this is happening.

Everything else is Kurt wrong.

No, but I worry like if you if you try to do something different, that's that's how Chandler throws.

And you might take completely away from what makes him really good by trying to ease off him.

That might be a project that happens in the offseason at some point.

You just got to let him go.

And the walks were really – like when he was up last year, the walks were really good when he came up last year.

They weren't bad.