Ricky Romero

Like, you just never know where the pitches are going to go, and I mean that in a great way because he's very unpredictable from the offensive standpoint of his pitch sequencing.

And so, if he can avoid the middle part of the zone, I think you can start to get chase.

It's those, you know, those 1-2 counts or those 0-2 counts where you got to make sure that you're not missing with those breaking balls or the fastballs too much over the plate because...

we joke about Boston, but if you, if you leave it there, they're going to hit it out the ballpark.

So you cannot leave it over the middle of the plate.

I know that sounds simple.

And I know every pitcher probably everywhere is thinking the exact same thing, but if you can avoid the middle part of the zone, work the fastballs more up, uh,

especially the four-seam fastball, if he can get that pitch just a little bit higher in the zone, that to me is going to kind of open up more of the strike zone.

But that's where, when I looked at that start against the Phillies, when you look at the fastballs and where they were dotted, a lot of them dotted right in the middle part of that strike zone.

So avoid the middle, and then I think he'll be all right.

I think in my bag, see, I should have brought them out of my bag.

I think I have seven or eight in my bag, but I have, I did buy a whole pack of them, so I still have six of them that I have not taken out of the pack.

It's like, it was a multicolored pack, and I used the ones that I tried to

that I thought were going to be the most different from the four that I always used on rotation.

So it was always pink, blue, green, and then yellow highlighter color.

Now I've got orange.

I've got purple.

I'm blanking on my other colors.

You can see I did make a mistake.

Is that brown?