Rob Friedman

You know, you can either out-velo somebody and just bully them, or you can throw multiple pitches, which makes a hitter have to guess more.

And you can't, like, with multiple pitches with a traject machine, how do you game against that?

So I think the future...

because of the way hitters have counterpunched with trajectory and getting used to velocity, is maybe throwing more and more pitches, more and more pitch types.

Yeah, I think this is exactly that.

It's the beauty of pitching is now we've turned it from –

it's just below where now if you get the below right you still may be wrong because if you have a one in three chance that even if you get the below right so it's really not fair you're throwing three different types of fastballs that'll end up in three different places.

So you can be great as a hitter I guess fastball but you get the wrong type of fastball and now your hose and this is what we're seeing is more and more pitches pitchers

attacking hitters with more and more options that's making hitting even tougher, even though they have all this ability to counteract some of the stuff.

Dude, this is why he is the centerpiece of my book.

And I don't know if you've gotten there yet, but there's a chapter dedicated to him that if we were going to make the perfect picture, this is what it would look like.

And I wrote this before last season because I was sitting there going, and thank God he came through last year with his Cy Young.

But I was like, this is a guy that I would draw up because of exactly that.

He's got so many layers to attack you with.

He's also really smart, even keeled.

simple mechanics low arm slot there's and a lot of confidence and he's just like because he came up as a catcher too so not a lot of miles on his arm there's so many things fighting in favor of Paul skeins that we've got to say like is he the perfect pitcher and yesterday was a great example of it

Oh, I give him a long run, Roy, because he's got as good a stuff as anybody in baseball.

You nailed it.

Like, if you're talking stuff for stuff, is he as good as Paul Skeens as far as electricity of pitches?

Yeah, probably he is.