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00:00I heard Craig Breslow today on the Greg Hill Show and they talked about strikeouts and he's like, yeah, you know, we'll have to keep our eye on them.
00:07Yeah, you'll have to keep an eye on it. Yeah, no, yeah, you will.
00:11And it was, and I tweeted this out. It is bizarre that they are like neck and neck with the Dodgers with everything offensively.
00:17One and two in strikeouts, yet the Dodgers are the Dodgers.
00:21But where it leads me to believe is, and this is where we should keep an eye on this, is the whole driveline thing.
00:27I don't know if you guys are familiar with this, but the whole mentality of hit the ball in the air, right?
00:35And so sometimes it works really well. Christian Campbell is a perfect example of this.
00:40But when you have this many strikeouts and you have the other opponents not striking out as much against major league pitching,
00:48then it is something, as Breslow said, you have to keep your eye on.
00:51So, yeah, I mean, to come back to your question, it's not panic.
00:56Like, they're still as good as, this is such a flawed American league, you know, such a flawed American league.
01:01And Toronto is right there.
01:03Like, that's another reminder.
01:04You sign a big extension, you get some wins.
01:06That's how it works.
01:07Because they did strike out a lot last year.
01:09Yeah.
01:09Right?
01:10Like, they struck out a lot last year.
01:11I was looking this up because I don't remember it being like this, but last year in the regular season,
01:15they had the third most strikeouts.
01:18Yeah.
01:18And they would go through stretches where they would hit, they'd go through stretches where they didn't like it.
01:21Well, that's one of the reasons why they also wanted to get Bregman because, well, we need to counter this a little bit.
01:27And it does drive me a little bit nuts because you go back to a couple World Series,
01:32and when you're in the World Series, you say, oh, look, they're putting the ball in play.
01:35Look at that team.
01:36That's how everybody's going to do it.
01:37And I think the Red Sox were sort of going down that road.
01:39But I can tell you the mentality of the people that they've brought in.
01:45And I think Pete Fast is a really, really good hitting coach.
01:47But they brought in a ton of people from driveline.
01:51And the mentality is power, string hard, swing up, get the ball in the air, all of that.
01:57Once again, something to keep your eye on.