Welcome back to breaking balls.

First full week of the major league season coming up.

Red Sox lost two out of three to the Cincinnati Reds over the weekend.

A couple things happen in this series that I think are worthy of exploring and frankly

of busting balls.

So let's start with Caleb Durbin.

Now, if you listen to Felger and Maz after opening day, I had some fun at Durbin's

expense. Okay, Felger asked me on Friday, the Red Sox opened on Thursday, Mike Felger asked me on

Friday about a number of things in the game. One of the things he asked me about was Caleb Durbin.

It was the first time I'd ever really seen him play in a big league game or noticed him

in a big league game and paid attention.

So here's the exchange we had on Durbin.

Sucks.

I watch one game and I'm out.

I'm out.

He's got nothing. Okay, little harsh, one game. They

obviously played 162. But I'll tell you what stuck out to me with Caleb Durbin in the first

game of the year. His bat speed. The first couple of bats, I watched him. In fact, I can remember vividly, it was a foul ball.

And I thought, boy, that swing took a long time to get there. That was slow. And so I did a little research.

I started wondering, okay, how did this guy hit 11 home runs last year for the Milwaukee Brewers and emerge as a candidate for rookie of the year.

So here's what I found out.

I did a spray chart or looked up a spray chart, courtesy of fan graphs on Durbin to see what

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