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00:00We're about a week in, here's what I'm seeing, Buck.
00:02I'm seeing a lot of runs being scored.
00:04I'm seeing this new park in Sacramento.
00:06A lot of runs being scored there, more home runs, a lot of velocity chasing as well.
00:11I don't know if I missed anything there, but at least that's my initial thought.
00:15I generally don't see 15, 20 run gains in the first week of April.
00:19I feel like there's been a lot thus far.
00:23Well, I think 20, 30 years from now, if you're trying to project what ballparks
00:27are going to look like, you know you're being old.
00:30You know you're old when ballparks you remember as new are being torn down.
00:34That's where I am in my life.
00:36Some of them are on their third, Texas on their third stadium.
00:39But I think you're going to see people cover their fields and
00:42not let the elements affect it.
00:44You know, we all know it rains at four o'clock every afternoon, it seems like,
00:48in Florida, so you better have a good indoor cage in Tampa.
00:51Sacramento with the elevation, you know, I was in Utah and, you know,
00:57Salt Lake City's being talked about as a possible expansion or relocation.
01:02And I don't think people realize that it's not too far behind Colorado.
01:06That ballpark will be very conducive to offense.
01:10And the top three elevations are Colorado, Arizona, and
01:15a lot of people don't know Atlanta.
01:16That's why they call it the launching pad.
01:19So the elevation plays a lot into how you put the club together.
01:22But I think with Sacramento, it's, you know, we see all these trends.
01:28I've always gone by the adage that never judge a player in the spring or
01:31the fall.
01:33You know, you judge them over a track record.
01:37You know, the first thing I look at when I look at stats of a player when I think
01:40about acquiring them is I look at games played.
01:42Can they post up?
01:43Can they play?
01:45You know, and with off days and load management and all the things going on,
01:49the guys that can post up, you know, that's what's so valuable about Lindori.
01:52He plays 155, 160 games, so you can count on it.
01:57You know, his 90% is better than the 100% of the guy you replace him with.
02:01But, you know, it'll be interesting to see how the Dodgers and
02:05the Braves play out in the long haul.
02:07But that's what's different, Craig, is we play a sport every day for
02:10seven or eight months to roll the dice in October.
02:13And I think October's more of a roll of dice than ever before.
02:17But I just think that you gotta trust the length of the season and
02:22play the long game while people around you are in full panic mode.