#MLBVideos: Adam Ottavino breaks down the biggest stories in baseball!

Adam Ottavino breaks down the biggest stories in baseball!

Hi out there. Welcome to Baseball and Coffee. I’m Adam Aino. This is really cool. Um, we’ve been doing this stream on my channel, Adam Oavino Zero on YouTube. Um, I think I’ve had about 13 live streams so far. I’m very excited to be with you guys on Mo today. Uh, this is really, really cool. Um, I want to talk a little bit about the concept of the show. We call it baseball and coffee because I’m going to get a coffee every morning. Um, I’m going to try to stream almost every day on my channel and then once a week on Fridays I’ll be here on MLB. I’m going to try to get a coffee every morning and look at a little baseball from the night before. MLB has been awesome with me. They have been so gracious. They have given me the Dugout iPad. This might be the iPad that you have seen on TV in the past. Guys looking at it between at bats, between innings, checking out their at bats. Um, I am no stranger to this iPad. I used it every day for the past four or five seasons when I was playing. Um, it’s really useful. You can jump around to every game, every pitch. You get all the metrics, the pitch data, the hit data. You have a bunch of cameras to play around with. So, there’s a lot of magic that comes with this iPad. And I’m super lucky that MLB let me jump on board and use it. Um, every day I’m grinding my own coffee beans, making my own espresso. I love double and triple espressos in the morning. Today’s coffee is this brand right here, Peramino. It’s a Colombian brand straight from Medían. Uh, this was actually recommended to me by my teammate last year, Alex Young, who was with us with the Mets, left-handed relief pitcher. Uh, he’s out this season with Tommy John, but he put me on to these beans. We tried a bunch of different ones. Um, and it’s super cool. A big part of this show is going to be the chat. Um, I’m always going to come in with uh with something I want to get into, something I want to talk about, but at the end of the day, really, the chat makes a big big difference. Um, it’s an opportunity for you guys to help me produce the show, tell me things from last night you want me to check out, other things. Um, trying to think what else uh here in the intro. You know, it’s it’s fun. It’s fun to come here and just do it in the morning. have a little refreshment, caffeine refreshment, and get into it. So, this is how it’s going to look. It’s a screen share format, very similar to a gaming stream. All right. And this is the iPad that they provided me with, and the dugout app kind of sends you to this format. And I chose today to talk a little bit about Steven Quan, who to one of my favorite players in the game. And the more that I dig into Steven Quan, the more I like him, the more I’m intrigued by him, the more I’m impressed by him. And I think little kids everywhere should really be inspired by him because he’s a complete player who does it without having some sort of freakish strength ability. Um, you know, like an Aaron Judge or a show or guys that can hit the ball out of the line. Man, Big Brain Sports is really spamming this chat right here. Um, that’s a little much, but anyway, I’d like to say hi to you guys. Uh, it’s really cool. Yeah, we’re going to have to make it like some sort of requirement here to get in the chat. But anyway, um, we’re going to get into Steven Quan a little bit. He did hit two homers yesterday and that’s probably the most bizarre thing you’ll ever see. It was his first multih homer game of his career. And even before we watch the video, uh, I’m going to go ahead and pull up some of his pages here so we can get an idea of what Stephen is bringing to the table. When I talk about being an all-around player, you do it with batting value, base running value, and fielding value. He’s above average at all three of those categories. Uh being the leadoff hitter and the left fielder for the Guardians, um they are actually only eight games back now of the Tigers who suddenly are really, really struggling. If you go over here and look at the standings really quick, Tigers 1 and nine in their last 10, Cleveland eight back, they’re at 500. very unlikely that they would catch uh Detroit, but I’d love to know your guys’ thoughts on that. Is Detroit uh starting to get into the danger zone here with the way they’ve played lately. I don’t know. That’s a that’s an open that’s an open-ended question. Um spamming block button in here early. Very true. We got to get rid of the spamming. Um all right, so Stephen Quan, as you can see, expected batting average excellent 281 81st percentile. Um he doesn’t do it with slugging. He doesn’t do it with exit vo. He doesn’t do it with hitting barrels. He doesn’t hit the ball particularly hard. He also has first percentile bat speed. So, you know, all the rage these days is guys who swing hard because if you don’t swing hard and swing fast, you’re not going to hit for a lot of pop. And obviously, uh the game is really valuing power at the moment. But this is a guy who gets it done differently. He’s 97th percentile and squared up percentage. He doesn’t chase, 85th percentile in chase rate, so he’s not swinging at bad pitches. He’s literally a 100th percentile in whiff. So, he doesn’t swing and miss. Uh he doesn’t strike out. He walks at a reasonable clip, but it’s more than just his hitting. It’s also his defense. He’s 100th percentile in arm value. We’re going to watch some of his plays from the outfield. Um he’s amazing at throwing guys out. And early in his career and most of his career, that range stat outs above average, he was one of the best. This year, he’s been neutral so far, but expect that number to go up with the way he hunts down balls and his reaction time out there. uh sprint speed has declined a little bit, but it doesn’t matter. He’s got great instincts, great jumps. But I do want to dig in a little bit to this bat speed question. So, first percentile bat speed. If you go over to the Statcast back bat tracking leaders, and right now, this is organized by average bat speed, highest to lowest. And you can see John Carlo is way ahead of the pack at number one. But if you flip to the other end of the spectrum, we got Louisa Rise at 62.6. And then our guy Steven Quan 63.5. But taking a look at this at this uh bottom end of the leaderboard here is actually pretty fascinating. Uh Jacob Wilson, all-star rookie, possible rookie of the year contender, 63.7. Chandler Simpson, who’s come on the scene as a very interesting player. Um you go a little bit further down, Justin Turner, uh legend Donovan Solano, excellent contact hitter. So these guys are mostly contact guys. Um, the only issue when you’re a guy with really, really slow bat speed is you’re not going to hit for a lot of power. Now, if I go look at uh Steven’s swing path and attack angle, one thing you’re going to notice about him uh right away is that he does have a little bit of tilt to his swing. So, it’s not a straight chop. He does have an ability to loft the ball, but if he’s going to hit for power, it’s going to all happen on the pull side. and it’s going to usually be a pitch down and in that he can get the the big fat part of the bat out front. Other than that, he’s looking to take his hits to left to left field for the most part up the middle and kind of drop them in. If we go look at his spray chart from this year on hits, as you can see, there’s really no pop to center or left center. All the home runs are straight away straight away to the right, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t use the other side of the field. Um, he drops them in for base hits over here on the left side. So, as a pitcher, there’s a good question in the chat from Alex Fast. How would you be getting Quan out? Well, Quan’s got some hits off me, so I didn’t do a very good job of that. Um, but the goal would be to get him to hit a fly ball to left field. Not a line drive, but a fly ball to left field. So, I’d be looking to go up and away, up and in. Something where you can get him to kind of be late and hit a fly ball to left field. Because if he he can keep his launch angle into the line drive range and the ground balllet range, he’s going to have a ton of success. He’s got unbelievable bat path. It’s going to be hard to deal with him with two strikes. you’re almost better off going right at him and seeing if he can just get himself out. Um, yes, most contact hitters do have slow bat speed, but I do think it’s just fascinating um that at times he has made a concerted effort to get the bat head out and hit for a little bit of power and he actually hit two home runs last night. So, let’s go ahead and get into watching those two at bats. They reverts Charlie Morton and let’s watch Steven Quan’s first multih homer game. rounded out his first time up to the third base. So, it’s a three nothing lead when he comes up his first time. It’s actually this is actually his second time. One out in the bottom of the third. They’re already down three nothing. Chuck starts him with the four seamer. That’s a take all the way. And then odds are, I haven’t watched this yet. Odds are it’s going to be down and in. Let’s see. Change up. Yep. Absolutely. Quan does a good job dropping the bad head on it. This is the type of pitch he needs to hunt if he’s going to hit home runs. seven home run. It’s something down and in. It’s something that he can get that barrel to out front. Um, also helps that he’s in a pretty good ballpark to hit the ball to right field. This ball’s only 984, but it’s at a nice launch angle of 29. He back spins it nicely. Sends it out maybe about two, three rows beyond the fence. Nothing special, but they all count the same. Doesn’t matter how far you hit it. Let’s watch his stance from the side because it’s also peculiar. So you can see here right away I think he has the narrowest stance in the game. Feet are awfully close together. There’s a leg kick stride. All right. So let’s watch it in slow-mo. He comes up kind of curls back. Actually the cleat is touching the pant here. Interesting kind of leg hang and then a like a almost like a double move here. So, if there’s an initial leg kick and then like a double move that kind of that hip into a loading position here, gets himself into a power position. Catches it out front. That’s the only way he’s going to hit homers. A lot of the guys that hit homers with the slow bat speed. It’s all about catching the ball really out front and hitting it right down the line to the pull side. Isaac Paradus is a great example of this with Houston. Justin Turner is kind of the OG of this. I know he learned it from Marlon Bird even before that, but the idea of like catching it out front, getting it in the air to the pull side with backspin. Um, if you can anticipate and beat the ball to the spot, a lot of it is more of a timing thing than a bat speed thing. But the bat speed, you know, being slow allows you to have a little more barrel accuracy, so you’re not going to pop these balls up and miss them and stuff. So, that’s what Steven Quan’s bringing to the table on a home run. He’s got to get the ball out front. So, if I’m facing him, generally I’m not worried about giving up damage. Um, but at the same time, I know that all his damage is going to occur in that bottom uh that bottom quadrant that that down and in this spot. Hold on, let me get it. Let me get the pen out here. This spot in here is the danger zone. The issue is when you pitch Quan away, he takes his hits all day long. So, I’d be looking to work him the top rail mostly with fast balls. Um, and then just kind of read the at bat as it goes. So, we can go ahead and, you know, although they’re saying Bellinger is narrow in the chat, too. So, I’m going to have to go ahead and look at some of the batting the bat the batting stance metrics to see who’s who’s actually the narrowest. But, while we’re here, let’s watch the second home run. I would imagine it’s also a pitch down and in. Let’s see. Chuck goes at him. First pitch cutter, back door attempt. That’s a miss. Second pitch, curveball attempt. And Chuck had a really good curveball going yesterday. He got seven whiffs on his curveball. I think he had 15 whiffs in this game. He’s just starting to round into form. Although Charlie started off um not so great early. Interesting chase there. As we mentioned, Quan’s one of the best in the game and not swinging a bad pitches. But I think what happens here, you got a little two count. They’re down by one. He knows Charlie doesn’t want to walk the leadoff guy here. So, he’s assuming and anticipating a strike here and he wants to get the bad head out and do damage here. So, he ends up chasing this pitch way off the plate. But this is kind of a modern phenomenon, something that a lot of the best hitters in the game do now is they will take their wild hack with no strikes in the in the count. Because when they take their wild hack with no strikes, it accomplishes one of two things and they’re both positives for the hitter. Either you crush the ball or you miss the ball. And why is missing the ball okay with no strikes? Well, because they need two more strikes to get you out. And if you hit it and you mis hit it uh when you have no strikes on them, um then you might just give yourself a quick out and you really kind of wasted your at bat. So you take your huge swing and you want to either murder that pitch or you want to completely miss it. In this case, Quan misses it and there’s more pitches to go in this at bat. So let’s see the two-1 coming. Very good pitch to hit. He’s a little bit under it. You can see by the reaction from Quan that he he really wanted this pitch back. comes right into his bat path, but he just didn’t. It looks to me like he was actually a little bit late timing wise on this. He doesn’t quite get the bat head to where he wants to. All right. Well, the next pitch is a homer, so let’s see what it is. Interesting that Charlie’s going to double up on the curveball. I think this could be walking into it. Let’s see the adjustment. Oh, it’s almost identical pitch from the pitch before. And when you have a hitter that’s this good at squaring up the ball backto-back identical pitches, not usually the best strategy. And that’s his first multih homer game. You can see this is not normal. You can actually see the smirk. I don’t know who that is. Is that who is that hitter right there? Anybody know in the chat? But anyway, you could see uh look at this little smirk from Jose Ramirez. He knows he knows that this is weird for Quan. But uh anyway, two homer day. super interesting uh player here. And it’s funny that I’m highlighting him on a two homer day because he doesn’t hit hit homers hardly ever. This was only his eighth homer of the year. If we go back to this, last year he had 14 homers, which was a careerhigh. The year before that, five homers. Um and that’s really not how Steven Quan affects the game. He affects the game by getting base hits, being impossible to strike out, being a flea, being a a thorn in the side of opposing pitchers. This is the type of pitcher that I never wanted to face. He wasn’t going to leave the strike zone. Um, he just does a lot of things really fundamentally well. And it’s a beautiful thing about baseball is you can be any shape or size and find a way to dominate in this sport. We have way more to dig on him, but let’s check the uh Oh, yeah. The boat aura celebration is crazy. That’s what he was doing coming around second. I wasn’t sure what he was doing with that right away. But yeah, he’s doing that little the little boat or thing. I’ve seen that guy on on front of the uh I guess the crew boat. What would you call that? I don’t know. But um this kid’s a stud, man. And I and I want to dig into more than just his hitting. One of the questions about his uh one of the questions about his batting stance got me thinking. So, let’s see. Distance between feet. Distance between feet. Steven Quan is number one at only 8.2 uh inches. I believe that’s is this is this in inches? Yeah, this is in inches. 8.2. The next most narrow is Mason Win. But this is what Steven Quan looks like in the box. And you can see as he does his swing that lead foot goes over the plate. I mean, at one point his foot is completely in the strike zone. So, that’s a weird visual as a pitcher. And um I don’t know, it’s just everywhere you look with Steven Quan, he’s on the high end or the low end of every category. Like, he’s an outlier in every way. So, he’s got the narrowest stance in the game. Uh let’s see about distance off of plate. He’s pretty close. He’s 10th in the game in terms of closest to the plate. So, he’s on top of the plate. Super tall stance. Wants the ball down. Uh line drive hitter. Won’t strike out. Doesn’t have a lot of power, but will sell out for home runs in the right moment. Um Adam, your dad is a legend. He is. He’s the man. You know what? And actually, in the future on this program, we’re going to have some guests on. I’m going to bring my dad on talk about some rules, some umpiring stuff. I’m bring my friends on. We’re gonna break down some hitting things, some pitching things. We’re gonna do some trivia stuff, Hall of Fame stuff. Uh, actually, speaking of the Hall of Fame, Stephen Quan’s game, when I really look at it in totality, it reminds me of somebody who’s getting inducted uh this weekend, and that’s Ichro Suzuki. Um, contact game, awesome defensive game, awesome base running game. So, that’s Steven Quan uh from a batting perspective. There’s so much more to really look at, but that’s the batting stance. um you kind of get a sense of how what he’s bringing to the table and what he does. Um but now we’re gonna also we’re going to get into Mr. Quan’s defensive game, which to me is actually one of the coolest parts of his game and one of the things that makes him a separator. He has won the gold glove every single year of his career. As you can see here in the stack fielding run value, he’s been in the positives every year of his career. This year is no different. It is interesting that he’s doing it a little bit more with his throwing now than he’s doing it with his uh like the range, like the amount of range that he’s covering. Um, but uh he’s doing a really nice job throwing runners out. He’s got great anticipation. He’s very accurate with his throws. He’s really good going towards the line. And uh we can go ahead and look at some of his some of his plays that were considered five-star plays. His baseball savant is one of the coolest websites that’s ever been made. And let’s check this play out right here. Let’s see what we got. 32. Yeah, he’s really good going towards this line. This was a huge play, too. This is the looks like the bottom of the tenth. That’s a huge first out to keep that ghost runner on second. But you can see how he attacked that ball. See what else we got. Lameuanthriven. This one’s more of a range thing. He He had such a good jump on that. Cut that down in the gap. So that’s him going one direction, then going the other direction. But I want to go look at some of his throws. So, if we go to leaderboards, outfielder arm value. Steven Quan is number one in the sport and outfielder arm value. Hold on. We got a lot of We got a lot of talk in the chat uh about the ABS. I love the ABS challenge system. I don’t want a full-time uh robot umpire because I think that would kind of really drastically change the catcher system. Uh you know, basically the the job for the catchers and I want to keep that. Uh, I think that’s sacred, but at the same time, I love the challenge system. I think it’s really good from a fan perspective and from a um entertainment perspective, especially how quick it was. We saw it in the All-Star game. You know, you tap the tap the challenge uh make the challenge signal and you find out the result really really quickly and everybody there’s no arguing and we just move forward. And I think it’s important because in big spots um you know, we can get the calls right. And as as we know, the count really is the game in the big leagues, and it’s not something that can be messed with, especially in a big spot. So, it’ be nice to clean that up. I know I would have loved the ability to challenge a few pitches over the years of my career. Um, I never used to beg for a lot of pitches, but there was some that I knew that were in there in big spots, and it would have been nice to have a lever to pull to at least see where we’re at. So, anyway, back to Stephen Quan. I want to look at some of these throws. Let’s see if we can find him throwing somebody out. Some of these might be relays, so sometimes they’re tough. Yeah. Here we go. But the key on this play, if you watch this play, is how he feels this ball off the wall. Quan gets in position and he waits. He’s patient. He waits it for the hop and then he already starts angling his momentum towards second as he catches it. Being a lefty, he probably didn’t play a lot of infield growing up. Uh but he treated that like he was a shortstop. And if you’re a kid out there, you can translate shortstop tools, shortstop um athleticism into almost any position on the field. Um, in fact, if we look at the last draft, almost all of the players that were drafted as young players, high school players were shorts stops. And a lot of those guys are going to end up in the outfield or a catcher at short or a third. And you know, those skills translate. So, if you’re a young kid and you want to work on your athleticism and things that are going to translate even if you’re a lefty, why not? Why not take a few balls in the infield, do what Dansby Swanson says, field everything on the run with one hand, throwing the run, become athletic. Um, don’t become a robot. and uh you know maintain that flow state and that feel. People are saying he was safe. Well, you know, maybe he was, maybe he wasn’t, but the umpire called him out, so he’s going to be out. All right, what else we got? Let’s see if we can get another throw out by my guy. Steven Quan. All right, here we go. See what we got here. Another ball off the wall. Let’s see how he plays it. I mean, it’s a really quick pivot and he’s just so accurate. He’s just so accurate. It’s a beautiful choice. I’ve talked about this for a little while. Uh if you’re going to make a long throw and you’re not sure exactly how accurate you’re going to be, the bounce throw is the way to go. If you bounce it, gives the fielder a chance. If you throw it too high, you can sail it over everyone. Quan turns. He knows exactly where he is. Look at the quickness on that. They might get him. The throw in time. And this is how you can impact the game without just hitting homers. You do a little bit of everything. And this is one of this is why he’s one of my favorite players. He contributes on offense. He contributes on defense. He contributes base running. Um I think he also contributes in the clubhouse. Uh quick funny story. Uh last year we we go to play Cleveland and uh I’m a big chess player. I love I play chess all day on my phone and I play chess in the locker room over the years with with my guys with my teammates and Sean Mania was one of the guys that I would play chess with last year and he tells me hey when we get to Cleveland you know Steven Quan’s a big chess player he wants to play now me being 38 takes me all day to get ready uh for the ball game so I didn’t have any time to do any pregame chess but being that I is a starting pitcher he had plenty of time because he wasn’t pitching in that series so him and Quan met they actually sat Indian style behind the plate and played a chess game and Steven Quan wiped him out. Uh to the point where Sean’s like, I need to go reevaluate my life and my chess life. So, uh this guy’s elite in all facets. He’s a he’s a great baseball player and he’s a great he’s a great clubhouse guy and he’s he’s a guy also who can uh who can whoop your ass in chess as well. All right, let’s see if he’s in on this. See if he makes that play on this or if this is a relay. Sometimes these are a little tricky. All right. Yeah, check out the speed getting to the ball. Oh, this is a horrible throw by him. Actually, we should not have watched that one. But the way he attacked that ball just shows you what he’s usually uh what he’s usually trying to do, which is just use his legs, use his speed, get in position, be athletic, and make strong throws. Here’s another one. Another ball off the wall. Let’s see how he plays it. kind of overruns it, but then man, the transfer’s quick and Vlad’s going to be dead to rights here. So, we can see how his arm really manifests itself. He’s playing left field. As a left fielder, you get you get quite a few opportunities uh for plays. You get some short throws to third. You get a lot of guys getting sent around going to home and then really in left field in a lot of the stadiums, especially Cleveland with the big wall, Fenway with the big wall. You’re going to get a lot of opportunities at second. So, I love watching outfielders throw. and Steven Quan right now is the best in the business. Um, and I compared him to Ichiro a little bit earlier. Um, I’m also a big WBC fan and I’m hoping to see him maybe get the opportunity to play for team Japan. I know that show um screen share is off. Oh, my bad. That’s so bad by me. I’m sorry about that. Anyway, he’s the best in the game at throwing guys out. And I do think that uh you know, when you put it all together, when you put it in totality and when you’re looking at this guy, you know, I think any team would be lucky to have him. And I hope that Cleveland doesn’t trade him. I hope they hang in there and try to keep going in. I’m sorry about that. You guys in the chat, I messed that up. I stop screen sharing. This is this is uh this is all new to me, too. And I’m a little nervous. I got more people watching me today, so we can fix it. Uh oh, The Fining Forester Breakdown. It’s one of my favorite movies. You You know, you got New York City, you got underdog stuff, you got sports, you got literature, all the things I love. So, that was one of my that was one of my classic movies back in the day. I’m sorry about the screen share. Uh let’s see what here. Mitch Doug, arm value has a sweet spot. Your arm can’t be so strong that no one challenges you, so you end up with more opportunities to runners out. I think Mayor Mir’s inc. Yeah, I don’t think arm value only takes throwouts into account. If you look at it, also takes holds into account like uh let’s see here. I was looking at this earlier. Yeah, advance opportunities above average. Attempt above average. Yeah, how often does the runner attempt to advance? So, it’s also taking advantage that you do have a good enough arm uh to shut them down. All right. Right. So, that’s it for that’s it for Mr. Quan today. Uh, you saw the two homers. We’re going to get into some more stuff. I’d love for you guys to hit me in the chat with anything you’d like to see. Uh, I think the first thing we’re going to look is something on the opposite end of the spectrum, which is Mason Miller. Uh, because this is a guy who’s doing stuff uh not necessarily with a lot of nuance there. It’s just pure gas, no brakes. Mason Miller throwing over a 100 miles an hour um with ease it seems like. And last night he threw a ball 104.1. So we’re gonna get into that a little bit and just kind of take a look at him from the side and kind of see how he’s doing it. This year he’s averaging a absurd 101.1 miles an hour on the heater. Uh I don’t really understand how anybody throws this hard. Uh but it’s a gift and he needs to protect it. needs to stay healthy and keep doing it. Um, it can be a curse sometimes to be this good this early uh with this much power, but if he can hang on there, he’s going to help he’s going to help a team. He’s going to find himself in one of the big markets more than likely. Um, and you know, eventually he’ll get paid a lot of money. So, anyway, Mason Miller last night it was the A’s and the who did they play last night? The A’s in Houston. So, let’s head over there. s super weird not to have them as the Oakland A’s anymore, but is what it is. All right, Mason Miller. Let’s see if we can find said 104 mph pitch. A lot of sliders. Here’s a 102. Just a just a casual 102 as my first fast ball of the night, which is insane. I think it’s probably the last batter. Oh, we missed that. Cam Smith. Yep, here it is. 104.1. It’s a ball. So, I know that’s going to come up in the comments. Actually, a pretty welllo pitch. But to throw a ball 1041, what do you have to be able to do? you have to be able to whip that arm at a at a crazy rate. So, it usually helps to be tall or have long levers or to be able to get into an extreme range of motion. I’m not sure that he does any of any of the extreme range of motion stuff, but let’s take a look at Mason from the side here first in full speed. I mean, he’s built like a he’s built like a brick. He’s got these wide shoulders. Look how big these shoulders are. Let’s get into Let’s get into a little bit of the mechanics here as I erase that. All right. So, leg lift and a slight drift forward. This is key to harness the gravitational energy. Then he’s going to drop a little bit. He has actually very little depth with the back knee. I watched a few pitchers recently. Chapman is another one who throws really hard. Um I looked at Jordan Hicks who throws really hard. They both get a lot deeper in the back knee than Mason Miller telling me that that’s not necessarily a prerequisite to throw hard, but I think everybody can kind of find the depth of the back knee drop that you need. And then from there, it’s an early landing. So the hand’s not even up yet. So because of the early landing, the hips open kind of early. As he progresses through that, you see a huge stretch across this trunk here and up through this pec. And then it’s all just a timing thing. So it goes landing. And then hips, torso, shoulder, and then hand. And then he also has a really, really good front knee. Watch how this front knee locks into place, which shoots the energy up the chain and produces just an absurd amount of velocity. So, it’s strength plus mobility plus timing and mechanical efficiency that creates this possibility. And it’s crazy because the hardest pitch I ever threw in my career was 99.8 back in 2014 before my Tommy John. And I don’t know, it felt like I would throw it and the ball would hit the glove before I even knew what happened. And this is a full 5 miles an hour faster than that. Um, we’ve really reached a point in uh, Major League Baseball now where the talent level and just the pure power that’s being produced, both hitting and pitching just gotten to a crazy spot. And a guy like this guy or Ben Joyce are very good examples of that. When you can throw this hard, just the amount of reaction time for the hitter is uh, just so much smaller and it’s going to help everything else play up. And really, it’s fun to watch these guys pitch and you just hope that they can do it for a long period of time. Let’s watch it in quarter speed. Teao the Harvey question. Otto, looking how you pitched with the Cardinals your rookie year compared to 2024 with the Mets, your pitching stance was drastically different. Why did your stance change? Well, for me personally, I was a guy who uh I’m going to go back to the solo shot for a second. Please don’t let me not go back to the main screen. All right, solo shot. All right, let me answer your question, uh, Teao the Harvey. So, when I first signed, I threw kind of the way I ended up throwing, which is funny. I kind of had to come full circle in my in my pitching career. I always threw kind of cross body. I threw a lot of breaking balls. My arm angle was kind of low. Um, but at the time when I was drafted by the Cardinals, the Cardinals had a big stand tall, stand uh step directly towards home plate, drive the ball with downhill angle, two seams at the bottom of the zone philosophy. think Chris Carpenter, think Adam Wayright, think Kyle Lo, think Jake Westbrook at the time. So, I wanted to be one of those guys. Um, at the time I didn’t realize what made me good, right? I just thought, “Oh, you know, I’m a big kid. I throw hard. I’ve got a good breaking ball. These adjustments are just going to make me better.” So, I spent about two years of my career working on perfecting that technique. And I did throw a little bit harder. And I did, my ground ball rate was excellent. I got good at throwing sinkers down in the zone. And that’s actually the delivery I got called up with. So, if you watch me pitch at all for the 2010 St. Louis Cardinals, there’s only five games. You can see that my deliver is a lot more linear. I step right towards the plate. There’s no crossfire. And you can also see that my slider kind of sucks. Um had a better fast ball in some ways velocity-wise, probably not shapewise, but I also had a way worse um breaking ball. And being that that’s kind of my style of pitching, once I got out of Colorado and I I mean out of St. Louis and I went to Colorado and was able to kind of reestablish who I was as a player. I kind of went back to that deceptive crossbody action. Um, and then from there it was just refining it and figuring out exactly how far cross body to go, what I could and couldn’t do out of that delivery, how to stay healthy with that delivery, what the pros and cons of that technique were, uh, relative to other techniques. You know, kind of making some own personal player development choices. And I think I did a good job of recognizing that deception was a big part of what made me successful. Um, I didn’t have the 104 in the tank like a Mason Miller. Um, I didn’t have a true backspin on my fast ball like a Justin Verlander or Garrick Cole. Um, I had to kind of come up with my own lane which was a lot of east west sinker slider. You know, being uh nibbling nibbling a little bit and kind of using my my lower slot to my advantage. So that that’s how I would answer that question. bases load. Did that say 94.7 change up? Yeah, I know. That’s that’s actually sad to me a little bit because 94.7 is faster than uh my average fast ball the last few years of my career. All right, what else we got here in the chat? Huge huge fan of the Mets. Your pitching was amazing, but I have a question. You still basically pitch with your leg like Edmond said. You stop wind up and pitch. I don’t know what that question really means. I think it has something to do with my uh I think it has something to do with my inability to hold runners. Yeah, I was terrible at that. Edwin was really bad is still bad at that. Um it’s just tough. Like I tried so hard to slow myself down so that I knew that where I was in space mechanically. And I also thought my slow delivery helped me with timing to mess with the hitter. But it also really affected me with guys on base because then when I had to speed it up, it was very uncomfortable to me. I used to initiate my delivery a lot with my hands, which gave them even more time to queue off of me and run. Um, with all the technology these days, these first base coaches are really, really good at um, kind of picking up any tell you might have, and I felt like I was giving out tells left and right. So, that’s one of the things that probably drove me into into not playing. Um, but at the same time, um, you know, I think it helped my pitching effectiveness. So sometimes there’s a give and a take and it does seem like everything in baseball is somewhat of a tradeoff. Now last night I’m going to go back to the main screen. I’m not going to mess that up this time. Last night there was really only five games in baseball. We had Baltimore beating Cleveland. We had Toronto over Detroit, St. Louis over San Diego, the A’s over Houston, and Seattle over the Angels. Tonight we got a lot a lot better pitchers. I mean a lot better games. Um and we have almost the whole league playing. So, uh, we should have a lot more to break down after that. I’d love to see if there’s anything in the chat from last night that caught anybody’s eyes because I would love to dig in a little bit more as we still have a little bit more time here. Um, maybe we could watch some of these home runs. There were some home runs hit in the Cardinals Padres’s game, so maybe we should dig in there a little bit. This was kind of a back and forth affair. All right. So, we need San Diego Pods, St. Louis Cards, Miseroski. I already did a pretty good um breakdown on him when he started against the Dodgers a little while back. Um he’s a he’s unbelievable. He’s a freak. He’s another one sort of like Mason Miller, but he has more extension. He has more pitches in his game, so he’s able to be a starter. He’s going to be somebody to keep an eye on. He’s He is uh definitely appointment viewing for me every time he’s on the mound. Jacob Miseroski. All right, let’s watch this Tatis homer for Sunny Gray. Wow. Stays through a sinker. Middle down. Going to go oppo. That’s a big ballpark, too. That’s not an easy poke. Spent a lot of time watching balls get caught out there on the morning track. 1032 at 29 at 402. Oppo. Now, one thing I want to point out with his swing here is this. This watch his watch watch Tatis’s feet here as they kind of scissor. There’s kind of like a scissor action with this swing. that front foot. So, he’s got the front foot in the ground giving him leverage and then this back foot, there’s like a scissoring action. This is how you stay through a ball and you can back spin a ball to right field. That scissor action with the swing allows you to do that. A lot of great hitters do that. Uh Frank Thomas would go completely one foot off the ground, but also Mike Trout is a scissor hitter. A lot of guys. So, this is a this is the style Yordon Alvarez from the left side and it really allows you to have big time pop. Let’s check out Tatis from the side. Nice quick easy swing. Nothing forced. Not a lot of movement. And I think it’s kind of similar to this Machado home run which is also on a sinker. Let’s see it also. I think oppo. Yeah, very similar too. Very similar swings. Ball flying in St. Louis. This is a little abnormal. A two-run homer for Machado. Yeah, I looked at Freddy’s walk-off hit yesterday. Uh I thought a big mistake in that game was uh the targeting by the catcher Jeffers with Jackson in the game. Jax didn’t execute very well and gave Freddy a really good pitch to hit. All right, let’s get back to this homer here. Same thing here with Manny’s feet on contact. That back foot kind of sweeps behind. Hold on, I need the pen back. the back foot kind of sweeps behind a little bit and he’s really hitting off a really strong front leg that once he sticks out in the ground that’s going to able to give him the leverage to really fire his bat head through there. So, both guys simple moves, not a lot going on in the load, which is key. The best hitters in the game don’t do a lot with their load early. This is very quiet. All he does is kind of get his hands back into position, kind of hover that front foot, and then once that front foot lands, he can bring the boom. Boom. That’s a sick home run. 107.3 at 20. To hit a ball 400 feet with a 20 degree launch angle, you got to hit the crap out of it. 1073 definitely qualifies. Yes, please. Yeah, I talked about that too. The walk-off catcher interference. Hated that play. And and I wasn’t mad at Narvas about it. I just hate catcher interference. And I also felt like in that spot the hitter was beat. Um and I hate rewarding a hitter who got beat uh by a play. So, I talked about that the other day. Um, I’m not going to rehash that right now, but uh, so those are the homers that were interesting from the Padres’s guys last night. And then let’s look at Brendan Donovan. This guy’s a stud, by the way. This is the homer off Darish. It’s that slow speed down and in in the zone to a lefty. Very common home run location, but he hits this ball 1096. I don’t know. Donovan had that in him. Um, that’s a really good swing. Ball came out hot. It’s a really nice job by a versatile player and probably the Cardinal’s best hitter, I would say, this year. Also a very compact swing. Let’s look at it from the side. I mean, you talk about having a little bit of movement. He’s got almost no movement in the swing. He starts with a little bit of a wider base. So, this is going to limit his overall, you know, swing power. Um, but at the same time, it’s going to keep him a little more consistent. He’s going to be um he’s going to be down in there in his legs with a nice base and he’s going to be able to attack the ball um whether it’s high or low or whatever with a very simple swing. His hands barely move in his load. They go back a little bit naturally as his body drifts forward, but that lack of movement is going to allow you to launch and be very, very consistent. And that’s what makes you a dangerous hitter um in terms of not, you know, getting blown away or not being under or over the ball. Uh that type of swing is very consistent. But I mean, it still generates almost 110 uh exit vloan that I wanted to highlight real quick. All right, let’s answer some let’s answer some questions in the chat. I’ll go back to the solo shot here. All right, let’s see here. Did you talk about your top 10 or top five pitchers? I do think I would like to come up with that list at some point. I’ll tell you right now, Scubble’s my number one. Skins is my number two. Wheeler is my number three. After that, I’m very partial to Deg Grom. And uh there’s so many that are awesome this year. But I’ll tell you right now, um, 100% Scooball is my number one. I just feel like he is elevated himself to a crazy level. He’s barely walking anybody, striking out even more guys than his Sai Young season last year. He’s over 10 strikeouts per walks uh, ratio, case to walk ratio. He’s up to 103 with the heater, left-handed. The change up is diabolical. People are hitting like 100 off of it. He goes deep every game. He’s a dog. Uh, you can’t run on him. He’s pretty much doing everything. plays in a big ballpark. There’s really nothing that uh there’s no red flags on school. He threw the ball awesome in the playoffs last year, so he showed me something there. I know he got clipped, I think, by maybe Carrie Carpenter. Um but to me, he’s the best pitcher in the world right now. Hunter Brown’s another good another good one. Um there’s really a lot of lot of studs this year uh pitching, so we can get into all of that, but Scoo’s definitely my favorite at the moment. What else we got in the chat? use is now over nine. Yeah. Well, I think he’s only made like three starts, so I know. Uh let’s not let’s not judge him too quickly. U Darvich is a legend. Sanga. Sa’s been awesome. You know, he’s just been hurt a little bit with the calf. Um he’s had kind of a weird year. Sa we can go look at him for a second. Sa my buddy. 179 and 15 starts. So, the results are there, but it’s it’s less than a strike up per inning. It’s 11% walks. Um, it’s hard for me to give him the nod as a top 10 pitcher right now just because he’s not pitching at his best. If you ask Kodai right now, he would tell you that something’s still off. He’s still not clicking the way he wants to. Uh, he knows 11% walks is too many. And if he just does a better job of getting himself ahead in the count, uh, he’s lethal because the ghost fork is one of the best pitches in the entire league. Uh, yeah, that’s his number two pitch, the fork ball. You can see the location on it. It’s nasty. But I want to see his first pitch strikes because I feel like that’s a big deal for Kodi. Yeah, he’s only at 53.2 first pitch strike percentage. Uh, that’s below average. You want to be over 60, closer to 65. if he can get to 65, he could maybe get himself in the top 10 because he’s got all the tools uh to do it, especially that ghost fork, which is probably for my money probably the best putaway pitch in the game uh on a per pitch basis. He just has to get to it, right? So, that’s the only reason I wouldn’t give Kodai the nod into the top 10, but you can’t argue with the RA. He’s going to be huge for the Mets. Uh looking at the Mets, I think it’s super important. Um let me share my let me share my screen while I’m looking at SA here. It’s going to be super super uh super important to notice a couple things. His first pitch strike rate, like I showed down here, 53.2. He needs to get that over 60 um for him to really be pitching at his optimal level. Um his run value is eight on the split finger. So really, it’s just a matter of how often can he get to the split finger. It’s not a great pitch. Um it’s not a great pitch behind in the count. It’s really a much better pitch when he’s ahead in the count and he has leverage. So, it’s all about getting ahead. That’s where those first pitch strikes come in. Last year, it was the cutter that really helped him get in the zone early and often, but his four seam command has been a little iffy this year. If he can clean up those two things, he’s got more than enough weapons as we can see on his pitch chart over here. And simply by the fact that he goes one, two, three, four, five, six, seven pitches deep uh to get you out. Let’s see. Screen share was off again. I’m really I’m really sorry. All right, here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Do you think Brett Rooker gets traded? I don’t know. I don’t know what the A’s are doing. I don’t really know exactly where they’re at. Let’s go look at them in the standings. All right, so they’re in dead last. They’re 12 and a half back, 43 and 62. They might need to make a move. Brent Rooker, I don’t know where he is in terms of his salary arc. Let’s take a look with his uh his service time and everything. Coming into this year, he was at where’s the service service time? Three years 59. So he’s going to be at four years. So he’s going to have two more years of control after this. See the salaries. He’s making four million this year. Oh, and then he signed that extension. So, he’s got a lot of trade value because those numbers aren’t crazy considering how good he’s been. Uh, but at the same time, I think Oakland might want to hang on to this guy at least for another year before the numbers really start getting higher and see how he can keep going. Um, he is mostly a DH, but he’s been raking. I mean, 853 OPS, 840 for the career now. Uh, he’s now a two-time all-star. with the A’s. I don’t know. I don’t know if I would trade this guy. It’s kind of a tough one. Yeah, like you said in the chat, for those new to the show, this is a daily show, not weekly. Something happened a couple days ago. Chances was already discussed. Yeah, a lot of the stuff that’s been coming up in the chat, I already covered over on my channel the other days. I’m going to try to be on there every day. So, if you could hop over to my channel, Adaminozero, like, subscribe, comment, all that stuff, join the conversation. Um, you got to subscribe to be in the chat. You know, we’re trying to build a little bit of community here and have a little bit of fun in the mornings. Um, but at the same time, I will def I could definitely go back into a couple topics every week once we hit Friday if they’re really in demand. Um, yeah, Chris Bryant trade. That’s not going to happen. He’s hurt. He’s probably done. Who is your baseball best friend? Uh, coming up with the Cardinal system. I used to live with John J. Danielso, Alan Craig. Those are some of my best friends. Um, from the Cardinal side, Rocky’s Days, DJ LaMahu, uh, Nolan, Aronado, Charlie Blackman, uh, Chad Bettis, Tyler Anderson, uh, you know, that that list can go on and on. I was there for a really long time. Yankees, I was tight with Guardy, um, Garrick Cole, Aaron Judge, obviously DJ was there, too. Um, trying to think who else, but a lot of dudes. Um, Mets, I was really close with uh really everybody. Lindor, Pete, NMO, uh, Deg Grom when he was there. Shers, me and Sherzer were good buddies. Uh, Verliner. So, really everybody. I mean, as I got older, I used to gravitate more to the older guys, of course. Um, but that’s one of the best things about baseball. You get to hang out with your friends all summer and and play ball. You know, what’s better than that? All right, I think we’re going to maybe call it a little bit early. Um, we can keep going a little bit here in the chat, but then I want to go look at the probable pitchers for today because there’s a lot of good baseball coming up tonight. What do you think the Yankees have to do to write the ship currently? They just need to play better defense. They need to just do the fundamentals. They’re really good in offense. If we go to our uh we go to our leaderboards by, let’s see here, Stackcast League batting 2025. I like to look at the visual here and then I like to go to expected wobba because this is probably the best uh representation of how your team is actually uh doing at the plate. Yankees are number two right behind the Dodgers. So I don’t think they have a hitting issue. I know a lot of people are clamoring for Yuenno Suarez. I don’t think that would be the best move for the Yankees. I think they should go for more of like a Ryan McMahon or somebody with that’s going to add the add to their defensive value. That seems to be an area they’ve been scuffling, especially in tight games, is defensively they’re getting a little tight, I think. Uh, let’s see about pitching because they’ve done a nice job pitching, but they’re going to need some more guys. I think Cashman is definitely going to um prioritize the pitching side of things, especially bullpen. From a pitching perspective, the Yankees. So, you want a low number here. Yankees are third best. So, they’re second best at hitting, third best in pitching. They’re doing a lot of things right. I think fielding would be an area that I would love to see them uh do a little better in because they’re blowing teams out, but it’s in the tight games that they’ve shown uh some of their warts a little bit. So, I’d like to see them clean up their fundamentals uh especially on the defensive side. So, that would be my advice uh for the Yankees. What was your throwing program when you were young? I did lots of long toss. Um I played other other sports, other positions. Um, I threw breaking balls from a young age. Um, I wasn’t somebody who, um, worried about throwing breaking balls too early. I always felt like you needed to groove those patterns before you actually get strong enough to hurt yourself. Uh, if you try to do it, I feel like a little bit too late, you’re actually walking into a danger zone. So, um, we were never afraid to do that. My father was instrumental in my career, helping me from a young age kind of plan how to get a little bit incrementally better every year and kind of set my sights in the right place and eventually I knew that we would get there. Personal channel is Adaminozero Ze R at YouTube. That’s where Baseball Coffee is going to live uh the majority of the time. Now Mitch, my friend Mitch just put it in the chat. Um I’d really appreciate you guys heading over there and uh having fun with us on a daily basis. I do think tomorrow there might not be a stream because I have to go uh to visiting day at sleepaway camp for my oldest daughter and I’ll be at the road on the road bright and early tomorrow. Uh but if there’s a way to stream I might find I might find a way certainly I can bring the uh laptop on the road and stuff like that. Base is loaded. I throw 78 at 12. Is that good? Yeah. I mean I guess that’s fast for 12 but I I don’t really to be honest with you. I don’t care how hard you throw at 12. I care about you developing your skills and, you know, learning good habits to stay healthy and the velocity will come. It’s not something that I think matters yet. Uh there’s no reward for being the hardest thrower at 12. The biggest reward comes from being one of the best players at 18, 19, 20, and all the way through your 20s and 30s because that’s where the real deal is. That’s where the big leagues is. As a pitcher, can you describe how good Deg Grom’s bullpen was? Yeah, sure. I’ll actually pull up a righty hitter just so I can show you a visual of exactly what I’m talking about. Now, imagine this is Deg Grom and this is a bullpen. All right. When Jake would throw fast balls, every single one of them would be on this outside corner. I watched him throw a bullpen where he literally didn’t miss along this outside corner. Um, and then I’m going to switch up my color for slider. every slider he would throw would be grouped right down here. And then for change up, we’ll make green change up. Every change up would be like right around here. Now, a lot of times if you’re watching a guy throw a bullpen like you’re throwing like a guy like me throwing a bullpen, you know, I’d throw fast balls here, here, here, here, here, here, here. I’d be spraying them all over the place and I’d throw a bunch of them on the corner, but not I’d still have misses. Jake didn’t miss. It actually gave me goosebumps watching him throw a bullpen a few times. So, it’s not all about um it’s not all about VA with him. A lot of it’s about command, and I think that’s what makes him super special. Ah, good question, Brett Wolf. Will you do giveaways? Yes, in the future, we’re going to do some giveaways for people that are subscribers and are part of the community. We’re going to give away autographs. We’re going to give away other memorabilia that I have. Um we’re going to do some trivia games. We’re going to do some things to try to drive the engagement and try to get you guys to participate as much as possible because that makes it a lot more fun for me. Um, it also helps me serve what you guys want. You know, uh, this is supposed to be a hangout. I think the chat and what you guys want is a huge part of this. So, that was a little bit of a breakdown of what make Jake so special is just that command. Like, he just didn’t miss. It was crazy how good he was and is still. And I think that’s why he’s been able to do it even though he’s dialed back his VO a little bit. What are your thoughts on Peterson and Maniah this season? Well, those are two of my buddies. Peterson’s another one I’m really close with. I I um super happy for him because if you go look at uh David Peterson over the years, um you know, this baseball savon page has always been kind of my bible, but Peterson kind of flies in the face of it a little bit. And I think I have a couple reasons why I can break down really quick. Andrew Abbott’s another one where if you go look at their page here, they it kind of makes it seem like they’re getting lucky, but he’s now 2.90 RA in his last 40 starts uh and over 200 innings. So over 200 innings, last 200 innings, David Peterson’s under three RA. I’m going to show you a little bit of how he gets it done. Number one, it’s this ground ball percentage. 56.7% ground balls. When you pitch with a ground ball style, you’re going to limit your slugging percentage. Um, and how do runs really get scored? They get screw scored by easy base runners. So, it’s like walks and the singles you give up and then they come around to score because of extra base hits. And extra base hits almost always happen in the air. They almost never happen um on the ground. And I’m going to I’m going to show you that real quick as we go to a high home view. So, this is an old exercise that Dave Duncan used to do with us, the old pitching coach for the Cardinals to demonstrate why ground balls were so important. He would call up a young guy to the board and he would say, “Can you show me, can you show me where all the extra base hits are on the ground?” So, a guy would come and he would draw a blue line down this line and he would draw a blue line down this line because those are ground ball doubles. And every now and then, maybe you get like a ground ball that gets through into the gap and you can get a hit. But that’s about it. That’s the only way extra base hits come on ground balls on fly balls. And this is all very self-explanatory stuff, but sometimes when you visualize it, it’s a little bit different. Um, and then here’s the home. Here is the extra race hits on fly balls. So, it’s everything. Hold on. It’s everything over the wall. Those are all everything off the wall. Everything in this gap on a line. everything in this gap on a line and everything in the air over here down the line and everything over here that line. So, a lot more extra base possibilities on fly balls or balls in the air versus balls on the ground. So, that’s the style that Peterson’s trying to pitch. As we head back to his page real quick, as we’re continuing, take a quick look at my guy Petey. So, he’s eliminating a lot of balls in the air with this n with this 95th percentile ground ball. He also has 95th percentile extension. So despite the fact that his stuff seems relatively pedestrian speed speedwise, 911 on the sinker and 924 on the forseam, those pitchers are going to play up speedwise because he’s releasing the ball literally closer um than 95% of the other pitchers that are in the big leagues. So he does a very good job of kind of getting the ball on on the hitter um and also keeping you on the ground. Also, this this concept of having both fast balls, the sinker and the four seam, having both shapes allows you to um really control your batted ball outcomes really well by reading the atbat. Like if you throw a fourseam fast ball and he is on top of it on a foul ball, then you can be pretty reasonably sure that if you throw a sinker, you’re guaranteeing him to be even more on top of it and drive the ball on the ground and vice versa. So, you can do a lot of bat path reading during at bats by having both fast balls. So, he’s got both heaters. His walk rate has improved a lot. He’s over he’s 53 percentile in walks, whereas before he was kind of uh I think below average in the walk category. So, there’s those two things. And then this is something else that’s super key. Go all the way down here to the to the uh Stadcast pitcher running game. Peterson is one of the best in the world at keeping runners on first base. So, you’re going to pitch a ground ball style. That’s going to help you in two ways. It’s going to keep you out of extra base hits, but it’s also going to generate you double plays, right? One pitch, two outs. Pitcher’s best friend, but you can’t get a double play if they’re always stealing second. This was one of issues I had is I could eliminate extra base hits for the most part. But if a guy got in first, they were almost automatically on second. So, by the time I got my ground ball, there was no double play possibility anymore. He’s only allowed a stolen base attempt 0.3% of the time. A guy’s been on first. they’re afraid to run on him. He also has Torren or Alvarez back there who are good throwers, but if he can keep him on first, that’s gonna allow him to get a lot of double plays um and allow that ground ball style to play up even more. If he’s bad at holding runners, then it kind of craters the entire um the entire process. So, that’s a little bit of a look into David Peterson and how he’s doing what he’s doing. It’s been awesome to watch. It’s awesome to watch a guy do it in a little bit of a different way in a league where we’re all obsessed with chasing strikeouts, obsessed with getting chased from the hitters. Um, he’s found a way to do it and it also allows him to go deep into the games because he’s forcing contact. But it’s the key is it’s not just any contact, it’s the contact that he wants, which is ground balls and weak pop-ups and stuff like that. All right, let’s go back to the solo shot. What’s your favorite moment as a pitcher? Ah, it’s a tough question. I’m gonna have to get back to you on that. I have to rethink that. Um, being that you as a relief pitcher, you only pitch 10 minutes at a time. It’s kind of hard to isolate favorite moment as a pitcher, especially from a guy who never won the World Series. What are your thoughts about Sodto this season? You think he’s what people talk? I don’t think he’s any worse this season. I think it just took him a little while to get comfortable. Wan Sodto, if you go look at his page, um, he’s been I mean, he’s been unreal. Look at that 100th percentile XBA. So, I’d say he’s been doing pretty darn good. Um, I don’t think the body language was great early. Uh, he definitely looked like he was getting comfortable, but I think he’s all good now. I actually think Starling Marte’s been a big part of making him comfortable, you know, his country man. Uh, kind of helping him get accustomed to the to the metropolitan lifestyle as opposed to that Yankee lifestyle. They can be a little different, but they’re both really fun. Your name is satisfying to say. That’s funny. Do you think there’s anything to guys like Crochet and Deg Grom lowering their arm angle? There’s been a lot of scuttlebutt about that. I certainly felt better when I lowered my arm angle a little bit. Um, I just feel like I don’t know as I would raise up higher I always felt like I was crunching my shoulder in a little bit. I also felt like the elbow had a hard harder time like getting to this like nice easy turnover. It was a lot more vGus stress getting put on when I would try to go over the top. But I think it’s a little different for everybody. And I’m certainly not a biomechanist. And in fact, I don’t really value mechanics that much like other guys do who are obsessed with mechanical efficiency. I think that sometimes when you strive for a perfect mechanical efficiency, you might throw harder, but I actually think you put yourself at a little more risk at times. That’s just my opinion. I also think the lower the slot, the more your force team can play up in the zone, look like it’s uphill. Gives you a little more uh possibility to throw more east west pitches. I think your arsenal can be a little bit more expanded. But, you know, some of the best pitchers are over the top guys. Some are sidearm guys. So, once again, in baseball, there’s a million different ways to go about that. Um, and it’s one of the things I love about the game is that there’s so many different ways to get it done. Um, but anyway, I think we’re going to wrap it up for today. This has been awesome. First time through on Mo. Lot of cool uh chat interaction today. It’s awesome that people have been in the chat with me. I think that’s huge. Please join me on my channel, Adaminozero Z-ER O. Um, on YouTube almost every day. You can follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok. Um, and then obviously uh you can follow my personal page, Adamino Instagram. I’ll be announcing all the times I’ll be going live. Just love watching baseball. Love this is how I like to do it. I like to have a little coffee in the morning, catch up on it. This is a beautiful platform for me. MLB is awesome to help me out with this iPad. Now I can catch up all the stuff I didn’t watch last night. One thing I have noticed is it’s very hard to cover the game on a national level. Um, and watch and be aware of everything. Um, I’m not really a big highlight guy or storyline guy. I like to I like to kind of just look for myself, look at the nitty-gritty, look at the X’s and O’s, see what I can see, see what we can learn, watch the best, be inspired by the best. That’s the type of way I like to consume baseball. So, we’ll be doing it almost every day, virtually every day on baseball and coffee. Most of the time in the morning. Um, so the last thing I like to do as we finish out and I’ll head back over to the main screen for one second. The last thing I want to do is I want to look at the pitchers for today so we can get excited about tonight’s games. First game today is the Marlins and the Brewers. Calantrol, Freddy Peralta, the Brewers ace. The Brewers have been amazing lately. I think they’ve won something like 14 out of 15. Um, I talked a little bit about them the other day. They’re doing it with one of the least powerful offenses in the game. Actually, the the lowest amount of barrels, but yet they’re pitching their butt off. They field their butt off. They have a really good timely offense. Um, and they’re a force to be reckoned with. They’re not a team anybody wants to play. I actually think they have the best record this year versus over 500 teams. Ryan Nelson, Mike Burroughs, Diamondbacks in Pittsburgh. Diamondbacks made the early trade now. They they got rid of Naylor. They sent him over. So, they’re clearly selling. Be curious to see what the Pirates do in terms of selling. Got the rock show. My guy Kyle Freeland uh versus Baltimore. Two teams kind of bottom of their divisions. Uh Dean Kmer on the mound for the O’s. Uh 705 game at Camden Yards. This might be a good offensive game. Can be hot in Baltimore this time of year and the ball can fly. Oo, Phillies Yankees. Taiwan Walker, my former teammate. Great dude getting an opportunity to start tonight for the Phils facing off Will Warren, the young buck from the Yankees. Strikes out a lot of dudes. Got some good pitches. That should be a fun one. Dodgers, Red Sox. This is a great matchup. I love these teams playing at Fenway tonight. Beo and EMTT Sheen. Two young guys going at it. Beo’s been pretty darn good of late. Zack Latell, Nick Martinez, also two good pitchers, very crafty dudes. Uh, Raising Reds, Great American Ballpark. That could be an interesting one. Barios and Montto. Blue Jays are redhot. Blue Jays looking to continue their hot ways. Tigers looking to get back on track. Montero has struggled versus the Blue Jays in the past, so we’ll see how he fares tonight. Nikki P. Nick Paveta vers the Cards. Miles Michaels. Nikki P has been on a burner this year. Nikki P, this might be his breakout year finally. We’ve been waiting for it for a long time. One of the nastiest dudes in the league, uh, but has had a home run problem in the past. Starting to put it together now that he’s been in San Diego this year. Shota Imanaga, Adrien Hower. Both of these pitchers are rolling. Hower’s actually been ridiculously good for the White Socks uh, since getting over there. He was a teammate of mine with the Mets last year. Big- time ground ball pitcher. And we all know about Imanaga. Guy executes. He’s a stud. Wentz and Nasty Nate. Evaldi, one of my faves. Braves at Rangers. I expect Evaldi to keep shoving. He’s been shoving all year. Gavin Williams and Michael Waka. Waka, another dude that I love watching pitch. One of the best changeups in the game. Jeffrey Springs and Ryan Gust. Little bit of A’s Astros matchup. Jeffrey Springs came over from the Rays. McKenzie Gore, big-time strikeout dude, still looking to translate that into more consistent success in terms of runs. He’s going up against Sebie Matthews. Pretty nasty rookie for the Twins. Brian Woo and Jos Soraniano. So, two guys that dominate with their fast balls. Woo does it with mostly four seamers. Soraniano mostly sinkers. That’s a nice AL West matchup. Mets out and San Fran. Two sinker ballers. Klay Holmes, Logan Webb. I think Logan Webb would be kind of the blueprint a little bit for what Klay Holmes would like to be as a starter. Um it’s going to be interesting to watch Klay as we go. He’s already at a careerhigh in innings. Uh they have the bullet in their back pocket to send him to the bullpen come playoff time if they need to, but he’s done a nice job for the Mets. And let’s see how he comes out of the gate here in the second half. I believe this is his first start of the second half um here in San Fran. This should be a fun game tonight. Uh two good teams, two good pitchers. So that’s it for tonight. I’ll be locked in mostly on that Mets game, a little bit on that Yankees Phillies game. Uh, of course, I’m going to watch a lot of teams I played on, but I’ll be I’ll be bouncing all around. And please join me uh on baseball and coffee as much as you can. I really really appreciate you guys hanging with me today. This has been fun. Comment, like, subscribe, all those types of things. And u we’ll get into it and we’ll get better and better as we go. I really appreciate you guys for joining me. And that’s going to be it for today. See you guys later.

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