Mike Grella

sure same deal healthy so this is the mvp war is the mvp thing not always but yeah usually like last year uh shohei and judge had the two highest wars by a mile and they both won mvp so you can usually kind of like if you have a very high war then yeah you're one of the best players in the league okay i'm happy we learned about this war stack because we definitely knew what that was connor oh yeah no doubt about it i definitely have seen it before today

I mean, it is very telling, but it is a very analytical thing and the type of thing where usually I'll just look at it, and if a guy has a high war, you should be like, oh, yeah, that guy's really good.

But I'm not big on calculating any of that mumbo-jumbo.

All the best players in the league typically have very high wars.

Bingo.

It's much harder to play shortstop than it is first base.

So if like your starting shortstop gets hurt, the chances of you finding a guy who is as good as your starting shortstop is much different than like a platoon first baseman coming because that guy might still hit a lot of homers.

He doesn't need to be great defensively, you know, etc, etc.

I can't remember what it ended at, but at the end of the season last year, I want to say Judges was like 9-point-something, and Shohei's was very similar as well.

Some sort of off-speed pitch, you know, some sort of breaker that it actually looked like he hung it a little bit.

Yeah, you very, very rarely see a guy tag up from first base going to second base.

Graveline, we don't need to be hitting a three-run homer.

Come on, you've got to duck on the pond.

Just fucking put it in play, Graveline.

Or maybe you throw a high fastball because this guy is trying to hit a homer very clearly, so maybe you try to entice him into swinging at a high fastball.

Yeah, Grella!

Boys, what's going on, man?

It feels like coming home every time I'm with you guys.

Honored.

Pat, you probably remember this.