Ron Coomer

or third spring training ever.

So very different situations for different guys.

I think you have.

As a position player, you're kind of doing the same thing, too.

You're working on different things also.

You know, it's just for a pitcher, it's easier for him to work on something in a game than it is anybody else because he's got the ball in his hand every game.

You know, we can't play until he decides to throw it.

So he gets to decide what he wants to do.

And I think it's smart for a guy that understands what he's doing and has made the team and all those things.

I think it's smart for him to use spring training and try to either develop a pitch that's not quite working and keep throwing it, developing a new pitch, you know, trying to do something different with his fastball, you know, maybe a different grip.

Um, something like that.

I got no problem with that at all.

I I've watched, you know, hall of fame pitchers get clobbered in spring training.

Um, you know, I, I remember watching Nolan Ryan years ago when I was a kid, just, you know, on my first scan and he was getting killed in the first three innings.

All he threw his fastballs 91 92.

He was working on trying to hit each corner with fast fall and they were killing him.

That was Nolan Ryan.

He didn't even bat an eye.

The only thing I'll say is nobody bat flipped on him when they hit a home run.

They would have got that 90 mile per hour in the back.