What is happening? Welcome to another episode of the craft. My name is Nick Pollack. Today is August 13th.

And after a brief hiatus among the Alps, I have returned and I thought, man, I just need to talk about pitching for what's coming in the second half.

We're really just kind of planning for 2026. Like we're starting to get the idea of the guys who are showing us things.

What could they show us more that make us more excited?

And, you know, who better than going to the athletic and saying,

hey, is DVR available?

No.

Well, now I'll try Enosaris.

Thanks for that.

Good to see you, you know. Good to see, you know.

Good to see you too.

Could have stayed in Austria.

Geez.

Oh, yeah.

I sent, you know, a, uh, a photo or two of like, I went to Stiegel, uh, brewery.

I was like, oh, man, look at this, you know? We should have done a live podcast here. That would have been great. But how you been, man? What have you been working on? What kind of stuff have I missed or the past 10 days? Oh, I did like a piece on how Native Avaldi's been doing it. And, you know, of course, it posted the day that he had like the worst start of the season.

I mean, the thing that's uncomfortable about doing pieces like that is like, you know,

there's obviously the statistical part of it where I could be like, hey, of course regression is coming. And maybe I should

have put in a line about that, but it's just not that much fun because you're, the piece, the idea of the

piece is like, what's changed and like, you know, what's, what's like, what's different? Like, how's he doing

this, you know? Right. And so I, I highlighted that his curve is different this year he's leaning into it um he's uh he's

really dialed down the fastball usage also there's something that's hiding that um i was proud of

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