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Ryan Roland Smith joining us now on the Emerald Queen Casino Sportsbook Hotline.

I was really hoping, Ryan, that we could bring you on and talk about how the Mariners got a win to salvage what was left of a series against the Rangers.

And maybe they could build on it against the Astros.

Instead, they got shut out and swept.

And that's not great.

A really popular talking point that we've heard has been about bat speed.

What would be the reason do you think that the Mariners' bats would be slower than last year?

You know, I, this is something, and this is brought up, I was just over on the East Coast.

So you always get kind of that like outside of the mariner perspective when you start comparing to other

teams and whatnot. You do also have to factor in a few things like, you know, pitch selection

and how many times are they swing and what kind of defensive swings they have in, which all accumulate,

you know, obviously different bat speed and stuff like that.

To me, it is when you have, if a team overall or individual status for some of these players,

if you're looking at a metric like bat speed, you have to look at the player when they're in

rhythm and when everything's

clicking in regards to approach, when everything's clicking with plate discipline, when everything's

clicking in regards to swing decision and get your eight swing off every single time. Now,

the Mariners, when you look at bat speed know, bat speed and as a group or even some

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