00:00Yeah, I mean, it's hard for me to penalize them this offseason because I think much of baseball is going
00:05to be frozen.
00:06And it's hard.
00:07Mads can probably speak better to this.
00:08But I do think even if you take the financial part out of it, it's hard for any baseball operation
00:14to operate when you don't know what the rules are going to be, ultimately.
00:18That's challenging overall.
00:20So I give them sort of a pass on this one.
00:23Where I don't give them a pass is, again, the idea of you can train velocity.
00:28You can train to hit velocity.
00:30And it goes back to what we're sort of talking about.
00:33And we've spoken about this repeatedly on this show.
00:36When things don't work for them, when you look at a 32 and 46 start, and I think they were
00:43better than that.
00:44And if I'm them, I understand why they thought they were better than that.
00:47They're saying this doesn't add up.
00:49Then they'll say, oh, look at the under the hood numbers.
00:52This is underperformance.
00:53This has to equalize.
00:54When there's overperformance, they think it's, oh, we trained Anthony Siegler to hit velocity.
01:01That's why this is working.
01:03We trained Mickey Gasper to hit with power.
01:05So everything good is because of the hard work they're putting.
01:08It becomes confirmation bias.
01:10You think you can affect all these things and change all these things.
01:14So when they happen, instead of looking dispassionately at the data, the way you do when things aren't going your
01:20way, you look at it and say, no, this is confirmation that we're doing it the right way.
01:25And that we can affect these outcomes.
01:26That to me is their single biggest inconsistency and their single biggest flaw over there.
