Matt Spiegel

We've seen the slump happen for everybody at the same time.

Of all the places where you should be able to get hits, knowing what we know about...

This lineup and how it looked even earlier in the season prior to May.

How is it that everybody is acting and presenting in this manner outside of Michael Bush?

He's my outlier right now.

Yeah.

But you know what I'm saying?

Everybody's that predictable?

I don't know.

I wonder about approaches at times like these.

Briefly, you got Schwarber for a moment in time compared to his career.

When Nico Horner is not hitting like Nico Horner.

And that's how I feel.

Like, do I need him to be different necessarily, or do I need him to be his best self, which is get on base because they need people on base.

The other thing is, and I think we were talking about this a little bit in our pre-show meeting today backstage, this is a very seam head, so if it's too undeveloped of a discussion, I get it.

But you remember how launch angle was the thing.

Like, that was the very unfashioned thing to discuss.

Then you have guys like Carlos Pena who would say launch angle is a function of timing.

Like, a lot of times what you're really seeing is timing.

It's not necessarily launch angle.