Meg Rowley

And I think his malleability has allowed them to do two things.

First, they're putting him in positions where he can be the most effective and beneficial to the team.

It's also allowing them to think very carefully about how they're

playing Bryce Miller as he's coming back from injury, right?

They want to make sure that that guy is healthy for them down the stretch.

All of this is necessitated by the fact that Emerson Hancock has had this breakout season and that he was pitching well to the point that they couldn't move him out of the rotation when Miller came back.

So I think that the piggyback role allows them to accomplish a couple of goals.

obviously facilitated by Castillo's willingness to do it.

But, you know, hopefully take some of the pressure and stress off of Bryce Miller, keeps him healthy, allows Castillo to sort of be best used and best deployed and puts them in a position where, yes, they have a very stout starting group.

I think that, yeah, I think it's quite similar.

And I think that maybe the better way to think about it isn't so much that he's necessarily a slow starter, although he has been, but that he's a streaky performer, right?

And that when things are going good for Julio, and particularly when you're seeing him sort of actualize the power production, he's one of the better hitters in baseball.

When things aren't going as well, he's,

you know, he's underperforming.

He can still be a threat on the base pads, although he hasn't been quite as effective there.

And obviously, his center field defense always gives him a pretty high floor.

But yeah, he's a streaky hitter.

If you look at his monthly splits at Fangraphs, I think he had a 99 WRC plus a month of April, something like 152 in the month of May.

June is off to a slow start all four days in, right?

But I think the real difference that you saw for him...