Mike Vasil

To get in the box, he's a really, really big guy, and obviously he can hit a homer off you at any second.

But I think what was more impressive about facing him wasn't the fact that, you know, he's a threat to go deep, but, like, his –

his discipline and just his, I couldn't really read his body language at all.

Like there wasn't any like budgets to chase or do that.

Like he's so honed in on like what his zone is and he's not going to get out of it.

I remember facing him the first time I was like, yeah, that that's a, this is what an MVP looks like at the plate.

Yeah.

Like you're trying to like, I'm throwing my best put away stuff and like, I'm not even getting a budge.

Um, I'm like, all right, you know, like you, you got to really lock in for this.

Um,

You know, obviously in Cal Raleigh and Seattle, like, just the season he's had is just unbelievable.

And any time it felt like he was up at the plate this year, it was – you felt like you were about to be a part of his historic run.

Absolutely.

He was that hot.

And I think, honestly, Detroit's lineup as a whole is just so – they're so gritty.

Like, you can never –

count them out you know like there's so many guys top to bottom and even bench fats that they plug in there that it's tough for you to kind of navigate through that lineup just because of how they operate like there's just so many guys in that lineup that can

you know, work an eight pitch at bat and then flip a single to left or right.

Or they can, you know, hit a double in the gap.

So I think that lineup as a whole, for whatever reason for me, it was just more tough in terms of like, you felt like you were really working when you're facing them.