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00:00If you were to highlight a pitcher you expect to be filling up the case sheet all year long, where do you look? What's the name?
00:07Yeah, let's go to the Guardians opening day starter and that's Tanner Bybee. It's not Spencer. Uh, excuse me, Spencer
00:14It's not Shane Bieber. Bieber's on the IL to start the year
00:17But Bybee over 162 and a half strikeouts for the season, you know throughout spring trainings
00:23He has like a 22 23 percent strikeout rate
00:25It's a little bit lower than what he showed last year at 25 26 percent
00:29I expect that to you know improve as the year goes on
00:31I think the innings will be there for him
00:33But what I love most about him are two specific things one. He is incredibly efficient on the mound
00:38He's not giving up a ton of walks and then his heart contact rate last year was 29 percent. That is so incredibly low
00:44So he's not getting hit hard and he's not wasting chances on the mound, which means the inning should be there for him
00:49You can allow him to go that extra half inning inning whatever might be because he's you know
00:54Not wasting pitches and then the strikeouts will be there. He is a good strikeout pitcher
00:57He's not some flamethrower this kind of a 30 percent strikeout rate
01:00But a 26 percent strikeout rate will get him there if he has 180 some odd innings
01:05So I really like Bybee. I really like what the Guardians have between him and Gavin Williams this year