Ron Coomer

when you're a legitimate veteran player that has, that is in the middle of your career playing, you look at what they do year after year.

And you know what, by the end of the season, that's usually what, what they do.

You know, they, they find a way to have their ups and downs like everybody else, but they find a way to, to end up being that guy that, you know, is expected.

And I think that is something that has been talked about for a very long time about guys in the league.

And,

I think for Ian, that's probably fitting because he has had some months in the last few years, early in the year, that he struggled.

And then next thing you know, he heats up and then he ends up with his normal numbers.

And it looks like he might be on his way to that again.

Well, I just think he's becoming a better big league hitter in the sense that he's starting to understand what teams are doing to him.

And any, you know, counts always says he's a better hitter when he doesn't swing, when he swings a lot less.

And I think that's right because, you know, and that's when we have saying it, but there's also a bunch of other ways of saying the same thing.

And the sense that teams weren't going to throw him strikes.

They just weren't.

And they were going to let him swing and, and get himself out.

And now he is taking more pitches.

The power isn't, it's not that it's not there.

It's the swing itself that's not allowing some of that to show itself.

He's a really strong guy, and he's going to end up hitting home runs.

It's just right now, in this very young part of his career, David, the pitches he's seeing, he's not able...

with the stroke that he's putting on the ball right now to elevate the baseball to his pole side and hit home runs.