Trevor Plouffe

This is who you should be, in my opinion.

I have you in the World Series.

Love the pick-off play because, listen, we've been talking about how do you combat kind of what's happening now with the three disengagements, the pitch clock.

People have been really taking advantage of that.

We've seen stolen bases go up, which is kind of the reason for it.

But teams are getting more and more brazen with kind of like the hop play and doing all this.

So this is just a simple, like,

It's not even a timing play necessarily.

It's the catcher reading what Naylor's doing.

You see him kind of fake back to get the guy to shuffle back, which is kind of like, all right, the pop is new.

Like the hops, that's new.

But you put yourself in a vulnerable situation.

I always tell my kids this.

As soon as your feet get close together, you're in a vulnerable position right there because you can't really get back going towards first base effectively.

quickly enough so it's exactly what they did and all the catcher here is looking at is nailer fake into first base getting the guy to go back and as soon as that guy hops back off to get his primary lead again catcher drops the glove logan gilbert's never looking at the runner so the runner's like well he's not even paying attention to me i'm fine all of a sudden he picks over it's things like this are going to start happening more and more timing plays just as teams try to fight back a little bit i don't know if you saw this

the stolen base thing is getting like the, the teaching methods are getting so crazy and, and, and, and good.

In my opinion, the Orioles brought a TV monitor out the other day.

So you could actually get the real read of the pitcher throwing.

And I'm like, man, like that's actually, I mean, I'm down with that.

I don't mind that at all.