Vernon Wells

You were holding a bat just now.

Did you take part in BP?

I did.

Early batting practice.

Took part in that.

I'm going to deeply regret it here in about an hour when I sit down for a little bit, but...

Hit a few homers, brought back some good memories, but quickly realized that this game is far past me by.

I could give them a good two swings before I blow out.

Then I'd be kind of just another injury that just falls in line with everything that's going on, I think.

For this team, I think you start to see the toll that a postseason, a long postseason run takes on a team of guys, and you've got to weather the storm.

Oh, I think everything you mentioned, I think even from my time coming into the game to the time that I finished, just the evolution of athletes changes.

Training gets better.

Somehow genetics get better.

Like everybody gets bigger, faster, stronger.

And you look at that over every sport and that translates into velocity.

It translates into home run distances and exit velocities and all those things.

So

There's so many more metrics that are in the game now that you kind of wish were in the game so you kind of could match up and see what guys are doing back when you faced them and guys you played against.

That'd be awesome to be able to see what those numbers are, but it's fun to see just the evolution of the game and being able to bring the ABS system into something and allow for things to just be right.

You know what?