Rob Friedman

I'm doing great.

How about you?

It was a lot of work.

It's really good to get it out there.

I don't know.

It's almost like having a kid.

You get your kid, you put it out there in the world, and then you let everybody make their own opinions on it.

You kind of hit on it, but there's a bunch of people over the years, like I've been doing this for a long time, and I get a lot of people asking me, is hitting just that bad today?

Are pitchers really that good?

Why isn't it like back in my day?

Why aren't guys doing this, this, and this?

So I really wanted like one place to show everybody this has all been intentional.

Pitchers have been engineered differently.

to be dominant, to be unhittable today.

And it's up to hitters to try to catch up.

But the game is very different and pitchers are built differently today.

They're just actually literally built as opposed to kind of locking in to mechanics, to pitch grips and all that like we used to do.

I think people really like to see, because I wanted to address the history of the game too.

So I think what really jumps out to people is the historical look backs versus where we are today.

And I'm not saying that pitchers are necessarily physically, they are physically better, but that's not really the focus because pitchers back then might have been better had they pitched today in this environment.