Ryan O'Hearn

When I got called up, maybe I was kind of pushed into that platoon role a little early.

And, you know, players start to believe that, I think, about themselves, that that's what their role is.

But just practicing it, man, like the last couple of years, really like practicing.

We had a great left handed BP thrower in Baltimore.

I would do left handed shakes on machine work.

And just just trying to get better, man, trying to improve on it.

And it's just like anything, you know, you get in there, you have like a swing or two that you stands out in your mind and then you kind of chase that feeling.

And then, you know, it sounds really, really simple.

But I I was like chronically late on left handed fastballs.

And getting destroyed by sinkers like leaving your thumbs at home plate because I was so like worried about getting up the offspring pitch that I should hit and not being like.

I don't know.

Like I didn't know how to – like when I had a right-handed breaking ball, I could be on a fastball, see it, and then sink and stay through it and smash a right-handed breaking ball.

With a left-handed breaking ball, I felt like I was like always looking for one.

And then I'd swing at a fastball and it would be like on me.

So just really trying to be early was the thing for a while.

And then you have a swing where you're like super early and then you see a breaking ball and you just have a great swing and then it like –

you build a little bit of confidence on that.

And, uh, I don't know.

I, I started getting to face him more.

And it's kind of fun.