Rob Bradford

What didn't work was that split.

What did work when he's going to throw it like two or three times a game is that changeup.

What really, really works is when he gets in trouble, okay, here comes the 98-mile-an-hour fastball with a good cutter, and then I'm going to walk off the mound and call you a name.

That worked for Garrett Crochet.

I think, first of all, he was really good.

And I think he was really good in an impressive way in the sense that he has four pitches.

He commands them all.

He gets up to 96.

He basically picked up where he left off last year.

And I do think this.

I think they're going to run him out there, and they're going to try to say, hey, you're a major league starter.

We're going to rely on you.

we think that you can actually be in the rookie of the year conversation.

Because this is another part of this whole equation, which is, yeah, you can do contract manipulation and all that.

But as I've said before, like you also, if you can get a guy into the rookie of the year conversation, you get draft picks, like really, really good draft picks.

So that comes into, I think, the thinking here.

I think they absolutely think Conley Early can be in that conversation.

And I think that's one of the reasons he's there right now.

I feel like, first of all, I don't think we've utilized the tapping the head thing more in social circles.

Like,