Hello and welcome to the Approach Angle podcast, a pictureless podcast dedicated to teaching you all things baseball analytics.

I'm your host, Nate Schwartz, joined as always by Director of Analytics, Kyle Bland.

Kyle, how's it going?

It's going great, Nate.

Another good day to talk some baseball stats, especially today going through individuals and seeing how the stats line up for them rather

than more abstract concepts. Yeah, it's a pretty funny dichotomy with on my second monitor,

I'm watching all of the NCAA regional games going on and talk about abstract and chaotic baseball.

All of these regionals get really, really wonky really quickly,

so it's fun as we drill down into some very specific things here. I'm watching kind of the most

unethical baseball on my other screen. But yeah, as Kyle kind of mentioned here, we're going to be

doing something a little bit different today. So no spitat spotlights spotlights, no specific methodology to breakdowns or stuff like that.

We spent a lot of time building out the analytical toolkit, especially on the hitting side.

And today we're really going to put it into use.

So we're going to dive deep onto four different hitters who have, for better or worse,

been impossible to look away from,

generally for kind of different reasons. So we're first going to look at Gunner Henderson and Fernando Tatish Jr. as guys who have been really disappointing this year relative to expectations

coming into the season. And then we're going to, on the good side, look at Munateka Murakami

and Jordan Walker as guys who really look like

they're coming into the projections and pedigree that they had from a couple seasons ago.

So we're going to be talking everything from, you know, swing metrics, plate discipline,

bad to ball profile, you name it.

So if there's any episode and any things that we start talking about that, you know,

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