Matt Clement details WBC hype, Henry Davis and Bubba Chandler's potentials
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All right, Limits, we have a treat here. His name is Matt Clement. You know him perhaps for winning 87 games as a major league pitcher. You know him perhaps from his career at Butler and now a coach at Butler, a basketball coach, the boys varsity basketball coach at Butler. He's going to be joining us every Wednesday during baseball season. Yes, in studio. That's correct, in studio. I can't wait for that. So consider this, I guess, Matt Clement's debut.
And people know him from joining the PM team once a week as well.
Of course. Of course they do.
Matt, how are you? I'm doing great. I appreciate you having me on. Looking forward to doing this every Wednesday.
Us too, man. We appreciate you making the time. And I guess we should start with the World Baseball Classic. Let's start with Paul Skeens. I mean, you're a guy who knows what it's like at the very highest level of the sport. What do you make of this man?
Can you possibly be above the highest level of sport? Because that's currently like where he is. I think one way to kind of quantify him as I think John Smoltz is an excellent analyst and an announcer for baseball. And to hear him talk about him with the admiration, he talks about him for a little bit of, you know, the two years he's basically pitched. You can tell even somebody like John Smoltz is like, who's one of the most clutch post-season pitchers that were at least my, when I was growing up and very successful and, you know, Hall of Fame career, everything else and hear him talk about him. and how amazed he is with what he's doing, it kind of gives credibility to beyond being the best pitcher in baseball.
What about... The idea of facing him as a batter and simply his stuff. I've seen a lot of these, you know, videos where they juxtapose the balls coming in at you straight. And his release point and everything else is the exact same. And then it can go about 17 different ways at different speeds. How is he able to have you seen many guys master this many pitches?
Well, I think that if you go back, like the person that probably was on this before it was something was Greg Maddox, right? You know, he used to talk about the ball being like five to 10 feet away, and then it goes a different direction. It can be coming at a different speed. Well, now with the technology, we can see everything that's going on with the velo being, you know, over the top right now, it adds to like this dimension. It shows why hitting is the, you know, arguably the hardest thing in sports to do when you, especially when you're facing a lot of these elite pitchers and he's able to do it where, I mean, he's just, he's throwing four different like versions of fastballs that are 97 to a hundred miles an hour that are making a different move coming out of the same tunnel at the very end.
And then we aren't even talking about the breaking ball, like the sliders and the stuff that are less speed. So I don't know.
What are the highlights of Paul Skenes' performance in the World Baseball Classic?
I don't know how somebody hits them and really nobody has. And it's, It's a credit. It's probably a lot of work and a lot of discipline. And, you know, that's why he's, he's the best pitcher in baseball right now.
Do you find yourself riveted to the world baseball classic at the moment?
It's been a lot of fun. Like, you know, I think back in my career and I actually had to go look and, um, it came, there was two baseball world baseball classics in my, in my short, it's a very, when it started, it was the end of my career. And the second one, ironically, I was coming off a shoulder surgery and with the Blue Jays and I was retiring about three weeks later and I got a start against the USA team. I remember, I don't remember who was on it or what was going on, but I was like, this isn't what I need coming off a shoulder surgery facing the USA team. So, but like watching last night and like hearing Aaron judge, I thought, I thought he, he put it in great terms, right? It's, it's, playoff baseball in March.
Yeah. And, and I think we're like, you know, I just want the, you know, get everybody through and how exciting, like the, the, the craziness of the Dominican Republic versus the like business, like of the U S or, you know, you know, Japan kind of business, like in what they do.
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