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Is Felger and Matt? What? On 985. Unbelievable. The Sports Hub. Andrew and Burlington. What do you got, Andrew? Hey, guys. Good afternoon. Maz, you get the nail right on the head, buddy. Because for me with this team is that there's absolutely no fight on this team.

Because even last year during the playoffs, when they were down by like one run to the Astros, it felt like seven, because like for me it's this, if Severino throws at Ben Intendee's head, right? Do you think they had to come piling out of the dugout and like tackle the guy and punch him right in the stomach? No, they're just going to sit there in the dugout and be like, well that was weird you know

like are we allowed to do that

because for me

it's at the end of in all seriousness in the stomach. No, they're just going to sit there in the dugout and be like, well, that was weird.

You know, like, are we allowed to do that? Because for me, it's at the end of all seriousness is this, is that I think that their approach to the plate is total pink hatish, which is basically

like, let's take a bunch of pitches, maybe we'll get a walk out of it, maybe we might

luck out and someone will throw it to the backstop when we get a run off of a pass ball, which is why these games are nine and a half hours is because no one hits home runs. And I know that it could be a meaningless stat, but it just makes this lineup so easy to pitch to in the playoffs because when you face good pitching in the playoffs, they're not going to be afraid to throw you a strike because worse comes to worse. All you're going to do is hit a single. So, Andrew, let me just stop because I think

you're hitting on, to me, this is so much more important than the clubhouse vibe and guys

having fun and, like, that nonsense. They're changing the offensive approach. They want more swings

early in the count. They want more aggressiveness.

You know, launch angles, all this stuff. This to me is going to be the different. This is going to be the thing. The Red Sox are sort of lagging behind. They are one of the teams that set the tone in terms of on base and all of that. The whole league caught up and started doing it. Then the league trended back in another direction. and the Red Sox have been slow to trend back in that other direction,

and now they're going to follow suit.

This is what I want to see. So that's a big part of it. My question about this idea is, because look, they need to be more aggressive, as can you make guys who by nature are more passive, can you make them aggressive? Like, is that something you can teach?

Right, and we gave you these stats a couple weeks ago.

I don't know if you were in or not, but something like, you know,

Zander Bogart swung at fewer first or second pitches than any player in the major leagues, and third to last was Betts or Pejorie or someone.

Like, when you look at all the guys that looked at pitches earlier in the count, the Red Sox have all the leaders. You know, they're all down there. So that's how they've been, that's how they were brought up through the system. Yes. Right? Because that's how they built their team for years and years and years. That's the kind of players they wanted. That's how they developed them. and now they get to their fourth year in the major leagues after being in the system for seven years or whatever it is,

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