Zach Zaidman

It just spends a lot of time in the strike zone.

I don't know.

That's not a scientific explanation.

It's just when you watch it.

You know that for the hitter, it takes up a lot of real estate in the part of the plate that they want to hit the ball.

So because of that, you know, lack of movement, whatever you want to call it, run.

You know, a lot of people say that now.

But when there's no illusion to that type of ball, I think that it's easy for guys to be able to turn on it.

And perhaps that's what we're seeing.

But you only get a couple of those.

And the thing is, I feel like in this case, if he's knowing that he's pitching to avoid contact, but it's still being turned, that's what concerns me.

If you have no confidence that the ball is going to get to the spot where you need it to go, or your scouting report says it should go because it's been turned on, that to me is the biggest perhaps red flag of all of this.

Yeah.

Yeah, I think he earned his, he matched where he was in his career when he was with the Yankees before he came here.

I feel like that's why the Cubs were able to pay him and give him that three-year deal.

But he was the one guy you could count on in the playoffs.

That's the hard part about it all.

You guys see the Brad Keller appearance yesterday?

Gave me a flashback.

It was a sweeper, but here's the thing.