Ryan Lefevre

And I love talking to Vinny.

He's so interesting to talk to because he doesn't miss – he'll be a good manager someday.

He doesn't miss anything going on around him.

He's just very perceptive.

Two years ago, Vinny Pasquantino hit – two years ago, 2024, he drove in 97 runs in four and a half months.

Because he didn't drive in a run until his 11th game, and he missed the end of August and all of September, and he had 97 RBIs.

97 RBIs in basically four and a half months.

You know all he heard during the offseason?

Well, his hard hit wasn't very high, and his OPS wasn't very high.

He drove in 97 runs in four and a half months.

I mean, I've been doing this.

This is my 32nd year doing this.

I've never at the end of the game

when we're going over who won, is who had the higher hard hit rate or who had the higher OPS at the end of the game.

It's usually, I mean, the Royals right now, I can tell you this, the Royals right now, Saran, are 19-0 when they outscore their opponent.

So there's a statistic you can hang your hat on.

And good players and good teams find a way to just outscore their opponent.

And there are so many helpful numbers today.

I'm not an anti-

numbers within the numbers within the numbers they're very helpful tools they're helpful tools i think when you're putting a team together and you're looking at a player's history when you have a nice long history that maybe some numbers are deceptive hey this is helpful hey this number is not very good but hey let's look at this one maybe this will start to blossom like i get all that that's interesting but in the day-to-day in the game the game where i live