Sam McDowell
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And right now, all of baseball does not, I mean, too bad you don't get the Mets now, right?
But, you know, all of baseball, it seems to be landing in the middle, with the exception of, like, the Dodgers, which in some ways you're like, okay, great, the Royals, you know, there's not so many great teams.
Yeah, but there's no one for them to beat up on either, right?
I mean, the teams that have the worst record are not supposed to be there, right?
Yes, the Mets, the Blue Jays, the Red Sox.
And it compounds and you start doing these things, you start pressing and that's what they're doing.
And that's where, to me, you've got to relieve some pressure.
And that's, you know, at some point it's going to be the manager.
Now, the one thing I will put at Matt Quintero's feet, and we talked about this, we haven't talked, mentioned it today, but you know, last year they were not good on the bases either.
At the end of the year press conference, Matt Quattrero, one of the things when asked is like, well, we've got to do a better job of being aggressive on the bases.
No, like you're running into outs everywhere.