What is happening? Welcome to the PlusBitch Podcast.

You're more pitching podcast from PitcherList.com.

My name is Nick Pollack.

Today is August 8th.

And yes, we are going to talk about baseball Bowden Francis.

Man, he'll earn a gold star yesterday as he went five innings, 200 runs, three,

it's one walk, seven strikeouts against the Orioles.

And if you remember in the preseason, Eric Samolsky and I were thinking,

Bounden France is kind of a good fastball.

Maybe you could curve in there.

Maybe the splitter works well.

This could be interesting.

Did not have an interesting time in April.

And now that he has another opportunity with Kikuchi Gone

and this kind of Yarraud Rodriguez or Bauden

Francis who's gonna really get most of the time here you have an opportunity for Bauden

and now you might be thinking oh ho ho he just did well against Orioles is he good

well here's the thing no I've actually been following this a lot and I wonder if there is a metric or like a way for us to really quantify this further.

But when it comes to success on four seamers that traditionally don't have success.

And what I mean by that is Francis is a 47% ICR this year.

So what you want with Bounden Francis is for seamer is just don't be in play.

Because if it's in play, then it's going to be good contact half the time for the hitter,

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