Ryan Spilborghs sees a more calm hitter in Pete Crow-Armstrong this season
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That is Ryan Spilborgs, our analyst, who is joining us just a little bit later than expected today on our show. SpillyGoat19 on X. He is the Rockies TV analyst. You heard his work with the Rockies there. Former Rockies outfielder. He is part of the call of Cubs and Brewers tonight on Apple TV. Ryan, thanks for joining us.
Yeah, apologies. So I travel a lot. I'm usually in God's time, a mountain time zone. I'm in Milwaukee today. And for some reason, I thought I was on East Coast time. And so it gives you a good idea. I might be good at baseball analysis, but I'm God awful at geography and time. So apologies. I was an hour late.
Baseball players never know what time it is. That's like one of the first things I learned. Time or day. Those are the two things that they always get thrown off by.
Yeah, well, that's exactly right. I mean, we're we're such creatures of habit. We just kind of you know, we show up in a new city and we have, you know, like our phones. Hopefully they adjust to the right time zone. But, you know, in your mind, you have, you know, when I when I this happened to me last week, I had another phone call that I had to make. And when I scheduled it, I was on Kansas City time. So I was like, yeah, 10 o'clock, no problem. So then when I flew back to Denver, the 10 o'clock was really 9 o'clock. But in my mind, I knew it was at 10. So, yeah, so this happens quite a few times to us baseball players.
Well, Ryan, one of the things you are good at is foreseeing things because you told us about this time last year that— that Pete Crow Armstrong was probably going to fall off and there was going to be not as much production as a guy who was at one point on pace to have, what, a 40-40 season, if not a 50-50 season. What did you see then, and do you foresee something similar happening in 2026?
So one of the trends with PCA was he swung at more pitches and chased more pitches than anybody in baseball. It was him and Michael Harris. And when you have that combination, if the ball looks big to you, your timing's good, you're going to rake. If you lose timing or if pitchers start expanding the strike zone, you crater, and you crater quickly. Now this year, you know, I happened to see PCA – quite a few times in the last couple weeks when he got locked in. And what I see now is, you know, ever since he lowered his hands, and if you see he's kind of been resting the bat on his shoulder, he's a lot more calm. So you can see that, like, the demeanor. Because any time when you're in the big leagues or at any stage, you've got to picture, like, getting into the batter's box is the equivalent of,
a field goal kicker you know with everybody's eyes on that field goal kicker to kick kick it or uh you know a golfer you know getting ready to tee off you know with this driver in front of the gallery so like that's the feel you get every time you go up into the plate is all eyes on you and you have this moment and guys that are really good at it they're calm like It's a moment, but there's a sense of calm. They're breathing. And you can tell, like, when the game speeds up, bases loaded, two outs, late in the game, you can tell from the mannerisms and body language of a player if they're calm or if they're geared up. You don't want to be geared up. You want to be in that happy place of aggression, but calm.
And what I'm seeing now from PCA is that there's a calm about him. I think he understands if the game doesn't allow him to have a pitch, He doesn't have to swing. He can pass the baton to the next hitter. And that's what I've seen in the last couple weeks. Now the problem that you've had with this Cubs offense is that you've had multiple guys that are struggling. Like I've never seen Dansby struggle this bad.
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