Matt Gelb

That's an organization, obviously a fairly new one, that we've asked to do something nearly impossible.

And I don't like the imbalance that it's caused in Major League Baseball.

And so I don't have any objection to the A's being in Vegas.

In fact, it might be an unpopular opinion.

I think it's an objectively good thing for our game, and I think it will be a cash cow, candidly.

But it goes without saying that if they're going to do this thing and do this thing right, the dimensions of the ballpark need to be such that they're not creating an enormous disadvantage one way or the other.

What you want is, at least within reason, a context-neutrally environment that the home team can weaponize, but not to such an extent that it's going to throw off the balance of power in anything meaningful.

It was sort of an alarming number of runs, and considering Kyle Harrison started that game for Milwaukee, it made it all the more pressing.

Yeah, he'll figure it out is not satisfactory, even if that is the correct explanation, if that makes any sense, which is to say, like, he'll figure it out is probably correct.

But that isn't that is an analysis that is not critical thinking.

And so he will probably figure it out if dot, dot, dot.

And when, of course, what it comes out to that dot, dot, dot is far and away the most important thing.

From afar, and I'm someone that has seen, we'll call it dozens of Vlad Jr.

at-bats this year, not the hundreds like you've seen.

But I've obviously looked into the numbers the same way that you have.

What most stands out to me is how pull-happy he's gotten.

And that's not to say that pulling the baseball is not optimal.

We know it is optimal.

But it is to say that for someone like Vlad Jr., whose superpower has been lashing the ball from line to line for as long as,

We've seen him hit baseball since he was a teenager still.