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My name is Nick Pollock. Today is April 29th. And yes, we are going to talk about baseball. Merrill Kelly do not do well. And it's the third straight start. He has not done well. And yeah, you can just let him go on the wire for now because he gets the Cubs next. and then yeah, I'll get the Mets, but then he'll get Cores.

And look, I don't think that Merrill Kelly's going to be bad through that the year.

I think he's actually going to be a yeah, get the Mets, but then he'll get Cores. And look, I don't think that Merrill Kelly's going to be bad through that the year.

I think he's actually going to be a productive, like Toby type for your 12 teamers. But that's what you're chasing. You're not chasing a top 20 guy. And might as well just let him figure it all out on the wire and then he'll get back. The change up wasn't so far away. yesterday was pretty competitive, honestly, most of the time.

So we're good there.

Nick Martinez, we... and then he'll get back. The changeup wasn't so far away. Yesterday was pretty competitive,

honestly, most of the time. So we're good there. Nick Martinez, we hold for now because it's a

Vargas rule. My gosh, he went against the Guardian 70s, zero and runs three. It's one walk four K's.

He's getting a little bit fortunate. It is really cool to see sinkers on the inner half get front hip called strikes to

lefties, right? He's really good at locating that has been for the year, like 34% called strikes

and that, which is kind of wild. Now, he gets a very low to strike rate, like 44% of the time.

Average was around 57% of the time, which is why we haven't seen the strikeouts get there. And the thing is, I don't really think that Nick Martinez is this good. He's got some good matchups like the Red's Carpet and the Guardians here, where he's able to throw only against lefties and that changeup comes out. But now you get the J's and then Fenway, and I don't think that Nick Martinez is going to hold this.

Hays was Lizardo. Yes, it's nice win. Bad luck isn't just a rain cloud over you. He dominated a guy at a King Cole. Cam Schlitler and Jacob de Grown. What a really fun game that was. Both ace is going to ace here. And also Cam Schlotler had 7.1 feet of extension on a sinker. that was like 6.4 last year.

So if that holds, beautiful, this was plus three clicks from the season average, which was like

6.7, 6.8. So I don't know if that's going to hold and maybe that's just a Texas thing, but that's

really, really cool. Clay Holmes did great against the nationals. He's a sinkerballer, and I expect this to be a little bit worse against all these lefties, but he was really efficient getting to two strikes because they were just taking so many of these pitches. And then when they hit him in play, it was, yeah, hard contact, 63% of the time. I think Kovacs was kind of nice. And he was like, nah, let's just have the Bapit go his way. So yeah, we keep going with the Adobe. Against the Angels, Jansen Junk, destroyed the Dodgers, but I do not buy it. Yes, the four seamer came in was better upstairs. That's awesome. Zero for 30 whiffs on his secondaries. That is his breaking balls. Slider and sweeper. No. He's throwing them over the plate, and I'm glad that it worked okay,

but he's not... for 30 whiffs on his secondaries. That is his breaking balls. Slider and sweeper.

No.

He's throwing them over the plate and I'm glad that it worked okay but he's not totally having the full command that we want to see.

I see the Phillies next and I'm just like I'm not ready to jump in here.

86% strike rate on the four seamers cool but I'm not ready to say that, yeah, Jansen Junk is that guy. It's possible he does well there, and then it's the Nationals, and then the race, and maybe not against the Nationals. I don't know. I just feel too weird about it. Tray Savage, it was a still ill, so I didn't start him here, 74 pitches, and he had been doing well in theors, but it was zeroed runs. In 5.1 innings, four hits, zero walks, and three strikeouts. He got very lucky. And this one, the splitter was terribly commanded. Four seamers were just kind of there, and the slider even got a strikeout on a two-strike pitch upstairs. Obviously, two strikes. but like up and out of the zone that Wilson Contreras swung it like a two-two. Like, what are you doing? I, it just was not encouraging. However, if you have Trady Savage, you kind of need to just go with it. You know, you can't leave them on the IL. He gets the twins and angels and tigers next. Fine.

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