Matt Spiegel

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.

It's when a hitter is seeing the ball.

I feel...

I feel like bat speed is probably more indicative than launch angle.

And when this team is at last check a few days ago, about five days ago, tied for last in bat speed with the Cincinnati Reds, that gives me a better indication of what I'm seeing on the field right now than almost anything else.

They could use that, guys.

But I don't know.

I wonder if they thought that Bellinger's refound success was a flash in the pan again because the contracts would indicate that that was the case too.