Hello and welcome to episode 1390 of The Sleeper in the Bus. It is Sunday, March 16th.

I'm your host, Paul Spore, joined this afternoon by Joe O'Rico. Joe. It is great to talk with you.

How are you doing? Yeah, it's been a little bit of a break since we recorded last. I think it was last Thursday we did a show.

But I'm excited to talk some pitchers, man. Pitchers are my favorite thing to break down.

Same.

I think there's more data.

Maybe there's not more data, but it feels like there's more stuff to break down with

pitchers.

You can get into the weeds a little bit more.

And that's my favorite position to analyze personally.

I think that's absolutely right because with pitch design and mechanics and all this,

I think the data is more impactful too. There is a lot of hidden

data out there, but for one thing a lot of it says is saying the same stuff in different ways.

Like I love baseball. Spond. This is absolutely no shade there. But when you're looking at what

Jeff Zimmerman calls the patriotic lollipops, the red, white, and blue lollipops there.

They're all a lot of different, a lot of them are different ways to say the same thing,

whether or not a guy has power, right? And they've added, you know, some fielding and speed stuff and all that.

So again, not dissing. But when you're looking at pitching, and now as we get deeper into, like, pitch shapes and all that, we can really get into the weeds of things.

And pitchers change so much too. Adding pitches, subtracting pitches, moving their mechanic,

you know, moving on the mound, changing their mechanics, this, that, and the other.

And best of all, we didn't even mention it, we fired Justin Mason. Finally, we got rid of him.

Wait, what's that? Oh, he's, hang on, I'm getting, oh,

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