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And you see them and think, how does anybody ever hit that?
And frankly, right, they mostly don't against Mason Miller.
Yeah, but what really stands out, Blake, about the conversation with Bryce Harper is
I have done just over 100 of what is categorized at Fangrass as my tox hitting series.
Over the past few years, talking to a wide range of players,
And whereas you have somebody like a Joey Votto, who I think Jason Stark recently wrote about, you know, fascinating character, you know, Votto is post-retirement.
But, you know, he was very cerebral, very into hitting analytics, very, you know, he could be a hitting coach, you know, tomorrow.
Bryce Harper is sort of the opposite.
When I approached him, Bryce Harper is...
amenable to speaking but he has a reputation i'm not really saying a lot that's especially i don't know deeper insightful if that makes sense uh when i approached him that he said you know you know i i'm willing to talk to you about it but i don't really think about hitting all that much is this really worth your time to do it and i said dude yeah let's say you know sit down and talk kidding and it was certainly worthwhile although his approach is very straightforward
I don't know if he's quite the poster child for seaball, hitball, but he's close.
He's evolved as a hitter in 15 years, but he basically has unreal natural talent, and he just lets it play.
Latimer Guerrero is a good example of this.
I've never spoken to Latty, but his natural talent is off the charts.
Wow, that's a good question.
Somebody who I think maybe would be high that I didn't get this past weekend is Byron Buxton because the twins were just in Fenway.
I was told by one of the radio guys that Byron just sort of likes to keep to himself that even with their own radio guys,
and beat reporters.
He doesn't really say a ton.
He just sort of wants to do his thing.