Vernon Wells

So if he didn't start that thing in the right place, it was going to be hard, but there's no telling where it was going to end up sometimes.

You have freakish people when it comes to different things, and Barger obviously has the power and the powerful right arm that obviously, in this case, couldn't withstand the power that he was throwing with.

So he's a guy that, again, you need in right field, you need on the field, you need him in the lineup to allow everybody else to kind of take a breath and do their roles.

Yeah, I don't think anybody's going to let out really what's going on.

So, yeah, let's hope what they're saying is accurate.

Yeah, and that's the beauty of the playoffs and the way it's set up now is there's so many teams that are still in it.

I wish we had the luxury of that, but we didn't.

Me too.

Yeah, now it's like, okay, like you said, a couple games out of having a chance.

And for this group and what they were able to accomplish last year, there shouldn't be any panic in that room.

There should be now panic.

Well, you don't want to get stuck in the saying, oh, well, it's early, because you keep saying that, and all of a sudden there's 50 games left, and you're still sitting in the same seat.

Looking at what they were able to do, there's enough guys in that room that produced, there's enough guys in that room that were vital pieces to what they were able to accomplish last year and know what it takes, that they'll come together.

They'll start getting guys healthy.

And I fully believe they'll go on a run and give themselves a chance to just be in the playoffs.

And once you get in, you got a chance, especially if everybody's healthy.

Not as sore as I thought I would be.

After an hour of fitting, yeah, about an hour in, I sat down and I got back up and I realized, okay, I'm old.

But if I'll get to be back out there, like it's that stadium, just being at the plate and looking back out at the pitcher's mound, there's a euphoric feeling there.

Now, whether I could do that now, I actually got in the trajectory machine and faced Garrett Cole on the trajectory machine.