00:00Aaron Duran was RJ's trade target Bobby has his all right so I know that the word out of
00:20Pittsburgh is that they are not going to trade O'Neal Cruz who has become the exit velocity god
00:26used to be Ellie De La Cruz now it's O'Neal Cruz he is the one that is just mashing the baseball he
00:31set the uh what a couple weeks ago he set the stat cast record for the highest exit velocity
00:36in the stat cast era on a I think it's just like a line drive to ride or whatever but he is he smokes
00:41the baseball now one of his problems in recent years has been the fact that he's got a a bad
00:48chase rate he doesn't walk very much it's kind of like the adultly symptoms we've seen in the past
00:53that he'll chase some stuff and he'll walk I think his walk rate was like seven percent heading
00:58into this year well over at fan graphs they've done a breakdown of the subtle shifts that O'Neal
01:04Cruz has gone through that now I look at and I go okay this is a guy that I think project you can
01:10project out and say this is somebody that the Rangers should target if they want to buy if they
01:14want to say we're buying in on this pitching staff this is somebody I'd be willing to sacrifice capital
01:17for so they talk about how his numbers have have jumped he's doubled his walk rate basically his
01:25chase rate is way down he was 27th percentile I think last year he's like 62nd this year so his
01:33approach has changed and they were trying to figure out over at fan graphs all right what is the most
01:37significant thing we can see in his stat cast data that'll tell us something has shifted it's this
01:42slight tweak it's this very small tweak that he's made where he's changed his swing path subtly on
01:49the lower zone and so the attack angle on his on breaking balls is up from 13 degrees to 16 degrees
01:56basically just means contact point has moved farther out front
01:59in the lower zone
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