Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Is Cal Raleigh Having the Greatest Catcher Season Ever?

Episode Date: May 28, 2025

Ty and Colby discuss Logan Evans' brilliant start against the Nationals, the Mariners' best offensive game in a while, and how Cal Raleigh is on pace for one of the greatest seasons by a catcher ever.Check out our Patreon!Follow the show on Twitter: @LO_Mariners | @TyDaneGonzalez | @CPat11Follow the show on Bluesky: @lockedonmariners | @tdg | @mlbcolbySupport Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Wonderful PistachiosGet snackin' and get crackin' with the snack that packs a protein punch. Visit WonderfulPistachios.com to learn more! Supply HouseJoin the TradeMaster program today at SupplyHouse.com/TM and start ordering plumbing, HVAC, and electrical supplies with just a few clicks. Plus, use promo code S-H-5 for 5% off your first order. That’s SupplyHouse.com! Monarch MoneyTake control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use code LOCKEDONMLB at monarchmoney.com for 50% off your first year. FanDuelRight now, new customers can get TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS in BONUS BETS when your first FIVE DOLLAR BET WINS! Download the app or head to FANDUEL.COM to get started. Bet with FanDuel—Official Partner of the NBA. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Logan Evans was nearly on Maddox watch last night. How do you get it done? We'll talk about that and more coming up here on the Lockdown Marrars podcast. Colby, hit it. You are Locked on Mariners. Your daily Seattle Mariners podcast. Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. Ahoy, Sailors.

It is Wednesday, May 28th, 2025. This is Tadda Gazzalus and Colby Patnode for the Lockdown Marr's podcast. Part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. As always, if you want to hear from me and Colby even more and help support the show, you can check out our Patreon. All you have to do to check that out is click the link in the description of this episode. Marys beat the Nationals 9 to 1 last night. We're going to talk about Logan Evans' brilliant start. Marra's bats having their best game in a while.

And if we're seeing the greatest season by catcher ever unfolding in front of our eyes. But let's start by talking a little bit about Logan Evans, who goes eight innings strong last night. Just gives up the one earn run on. a solo home run to deep center field off the batters eye by James Wood. A hell of a home run there from James Wood. That dude has a ton of power. But four hits, four strikeouts, just one walk for Evans. Did give up 11 hard hit balls.

Didn't miss a ton of bats. That was mostly because the nationals were just hyper-aggressive last night. He finishes this night at 88 pitches. And again, despite all that hard contact, the nationals were only able to get one run off of him on that home run by James Wood. I would have liked to have seen him go the distance in this one. Dan Wilson disagreed. Whatever.

Nevertheless, Logan Evans, fantastic last night. How do you get it done? It wasn't as dominating as the box score would lead you to believe. It was really good. And he got a lot of help from his defense, sure. But, you know, that's part of run prevention. And I thought Leotie Tavares had a really good game out and right field. He tracked down a couple of look like doubles off the.

bat. So, you know, it's one of those things where you get the good defense behind you. You're pumping strikes. You have a super aggressive team and you kind of end up with this kind of perfect situation where you are just cruising. Games never really in doubt. Just again, I don't want to say he just made the one mistake. He made a few, but he got away with them except for the one to James Wood, which, holy smokes. That's one of the more oppressive homers I've seen at Team Mobile Park. So, um, Yeah, he was good. You know, he threw a lot of strikes.

It was an interesting-looking game plan from the Nationals. They came out swinging, and by the time they realized that they needed to work some counts, it was already too late at that point. The game was basically out of hand, and all they managed to do was prevent Evans from throwing a complete game, and that's mostly because of a coaching decision more than anything. So, yeah, it was a really weird game plan by the Nationals, although they would probably say we had a 50% hard hit rate so it worked. We just got unlucky.

And there's some merit to that. Again, the Mariners played really good defense last night. But Evans just pounded the strikes and went right after guys. He was not afraid to mix it up. It was a real kitchen sink method for him. And it was an interesting matchup because the nationals took zero at bat from the right side yesterday. Yeah, we talked about that before the game yesterday. Yeah, not even a pinch hitter or not zero played appearance.

from the right side. So it was all lefties. And, you know, it was an interesting look at how Evans was going to handle the lefty heavy lineup. And he threw just a ton of cutters and a ton of sweepers and curpoles, all things that break in on the hands of the lefties. And so it was a really interesting pitch mix for him. He threw 24% cutter, 23% curve, 22% sweeper, 16% change up, 15% for scene, only one two seamer all night. Yeah, the Vilo was fine, lots of movement on the pitches last night. And again,

every time it looked like the nationals, they'd get a hit, they'd hit into a double play, like the next hitter. I think there was, is it three, four double plays turn last night? It was a lot.

Yeah. That's the answer. There were a lot. Yeah. So again, like, is it the most dominating start we've seen from a mariner starter this year?

kind of depends on what you mean. Like what you're looking at? Are you looking at statistically? Like, yeah, eight innings, one run ball. Like, that's really good. Is it, did he just blow his stuff by these guys? Did they just not have a chance? No, they did.

But again, the defense really played well. And part of that is, you know, Evans is pounding the strike zone, blah, blah, blah, and all that. So I don't want to take anything away from Evans. He was very good last night. Did he get a lot of help? Sure. and that's part of what makes, you know, last night's game so fun is that the defense showed up. The pitching was really good.

And the offense was mostly really good. So it was really just a complete game, complete team effort by the boys last night. But yeah, Logan, and probably what's probably his last start too. Maybe. Because Bryce is to enter the rotation on this homestand, it would make sense. And the mayors don't want to run a six-man rotation, we've been told. I doubt they take Hancock out of the rotation over Evans. So this was probably Evans' last start, at least for a little bit here, with the Mariners.

We'll see what they want to do with that way. But it's a heck of a way to, you know, kind of end your first run in the big leagues. 35 innings he gave you. Right now he's had a sub three ERA. You know, you look at the expected numbers and all that. Like he had five earned runs taken off of his ledger because, they reversed an error on Ben Williamson. Sure.

Yeah, I think overall he's been, he was solid. I think you look at Logan Evans. He looks like a number five starter to me. Stuff wise, probably number four. Need some more swing and miss if he wants to be, if he wants to be a full-time starter. But whatever, first time through the big leagues, that was kind of the capping moment last night.

It was really fun to see. And, you know, you just got to a point where you just kind of expected to where it's like, yeah, whatever. A guy got on base. He'll get a double play ball or. And Leotie will run one down in the gap or Randy Rosarena will make a really nice play in foul territory. Like the defense was feeling it last night. And so was Logan Evans.

And it worked out beautifully. It was really fun to watch and really kept the game moving at a really fast pace. I mean, typically one team scores nine runs. That is a three hour game. Yesterday's game, I don't even know if it made it to two hours, 20 minutes. So that just speaks to. Yeah. Yeah, I think it was over before midnight my time, which is rare and much appreciated, by the way.

Yeah, it was just kind of a perfect storm of, you know, the nationals being aggressive, the Mariners playing really good defense. Evans throwing a ton of strikes and getting a ton of ground balls and double plays. And so, yeah, it was just probably the most complete night of run prevention we've seen from the Mariners all year. Yeah, it was really awesome. Like you said, just kind of a complete effort across the board from the pitching to the deep. defense of the offense. We'll talk about the offense a little later on. But, you know, we talked yesterday about this. If you can get around C.J. Abrams and James Wood, you should have a pretty good night against this nationals lineup. You know, Wood got the solo home run, but other

than that, he struck out three times. CJ Abrams struck out once, went 0 for four. Evan started out the game great against those two guys, struck both of them out. So, you know, kind of set the tone there early. And, yeah, the rest of the nationals lineup really wasn't. able to do anything. Jose Tanya had three hard hit balls at the bottom of the nationals lineup, had one hit for it. He also stole a couple hits from the Mariners. Yeah.

Annoyantly. Yeah. Tanya had a good game last night. Yeah. But really, yeah, outside of Tanya, that of their, I mean, Louis-Scarcia had a couple of hard hit balls. He had a double to the right field corner. But, yeah, it was really just like-

That's the only ball Lioti couldn't catch yesterday. Yeah. But yeah, Garcia and Tanya, they were like the only role players for the Nationals that really did much of anything yesterday. And again, because you handled Abrams and Wood. So well, there just never really was much of a threat from this Nationals lineup. So hopefully that continues tonight and tomorrow. Let's talk about the Marin's offense. What they were able to do last night.

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to every Mariners game, be sure to tune in to the Mariners Postcast with Anderson, Harrison, Christopher Crawford, available on both the Lockdown Marys YouTube and podcast feed. So the Marriss score nine runs last night. It was by far the best offensive performance we've seen out of them in a little while here. They jumped all over national starter Mitchell Parker. They had three runs in the first inning on a couple swings of the bat from Julio Rodriguez and Cal Raleigh. Two run shot for Julio and a solo homer for Cal, his first of two homers on the night to of them 19 on the season.

We're going to talk a little bit more about Cal and depth later on. So let's just focus on the rest of the offense here for the time being, Colby. Let's start with Julio. Another three-hit game for Julio last night. He's starting to heat up quite a bit, right? Yeah, I mean, he was also probably robbed of a fourth hit by. Tanya.

Yeah. Was he playing third last night? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, to be fair, that ball did get in on his hands just enough to slow it down, but it was still a really nice play. But he could have easily had four hits in that one. And, yeah, it's Julio up to 244 now.

If you're a batting average guy, if you're an OPS guy, it's 750. I believe he right now in the month of May is up to a 145 WRC plus. he is up to 119 on the year the strikeout rate continues to go down the walk rate is right now a career high it's funny you know we talk about like yeah Julio hasn't been like he hasn't really taken off yet and we say that as he's in the midst of finishing off like a 145 WRC plus month and that just speaks to how like nuts Julio can actually go but yeah numbers here in the month of May I'm looking at 293 33511 with a sub 12% K rate. Yeah, that's really, really good.

And yeah, I mean, like maybe this is the year Julio doesn't have that like big explosive 200 WRC plus month. But maybe this is just the year where Julio's just consistently good. And you kind of look at what he's on pace to do right now. The stone bases have really slowed up for him. So that's a little bit tough. but he's on pace to have 30 home runs. You know, if he hits 250, he the,

naturally the home runs are going to continue to race his slug. He's going to, he's still drawing walks. He's striking out less, which means like, if he just does this for the rest of the year, he's going to finish the year hitting 300 with like a 360,

370 on base and probably 30 home runs. And, I mean, I think Julio will get to 20 steals. he'll find a way to get there. He's just not on pace for that right now. But, yeah, Julio's been fantastic this month. And, you know, it's just funny.

We keep on saying, like, yeah, Julio still hasn't even quite gotten it going yet. And here he sits like 119 through the month of May, basically on the year. I don't know if he's ever been at a 119 at the end of May in his career before. And he just, I mean, there's still a little bit of time, too, to add to it. But, yeah, 145 WRC plus in the month. then we're still sitting here like, yeah, there's more there. There's more there. Anybody else does this?

We're like, they're having an amazing month. But because we've seen Julio literally be the best player on the planet for a month before, we're like, there might still be another gear here. So we'll see. But yeah, Julio's been fantastic this month. Really, the last, I don't know, week or two, he's really starting to regularly barrel up the baseball and really hit it hard. And again, the strikeout is something we noticed at the beginning of the month.

month. They've continued to go down. He hasn't reverted back. And even the approach is better. He's laying off of those sliders outside more and more. He's, you know, not swinging at that first pitch fastball in off the hands and just chopping it to the shortstop. He's giving you better at bats overall. So yeah, it's been a really good month for Julio. And it's been a very, almost quietly, like, super mature month for Julio where we're seeing things that we've complained about for years. He's doing he'll still do it every once in a while. He's still going to expand the zone. I mean, he isn't a aggressive hitter. That is part of who he is. There are some things you don't want to change about that. So, yeah, I mean, again, he's going to have games where he goes O for four with a couple strikeouts and a double play ball. Like, that's going to happen. He's not Aaron Judge. I'm sorry. But he's really good player and he's having a really good month right now, a great month even. And it speaks to how good he is and how good we know he can be when we look at his month of May and we're like, yeah, I mean, he was good. Not the best we've seen. He was good.

So, yeah, Julio starting to pick it up over the entire month of May. And it's been huge, frankly. Yeah, his strikeout rate is down to 18.6%. And I think his strikeout rate in the month of May is like somewhere in the 12% range. I think he's also like 11.4 or something like that. Yeah. He's also not really walking a ton this month, which tells me he's being aggressive early on and counting and making a lot of contact.

And, you know, being aggressive early on and counts isn't nothing new for Julio. We've seen him swing a lot on, you know, first and second pitches. But he's actually making more contact on those pitches now, which I think has played a huge role in this. Ben Williamson, a couple of hits last night, two hard hit balls. I made the joke in the chat last night on the mayor's postcast with Anders and Chris that, you know, Ben Williamson is getting a hit. It's probably going 140 feet between the first and second baseman right now because it's just, an incredibly defensive swing and he's constantly

hitting things to the opposite field but uh you know what's working out for him he's getting quite a few hits over the last few days uh so he's at least contributing and he's not contributing in a huge way but he's contributing so that's uh that's nice to see uh you know who else is actually like kind of contributing right now donnie barrels had a single last say in a walk yeah he also struck out with the basis juice so yeah yeah yeah i think it was there but but yeah yeah yeah yeah that wasn't a right And then Laotie didn't have a credit of bat after that was either. Yeah.

Not one of the bright spots for the mayor's offense last night. There were plenty of others, though. But Donnie Barrels, is that you? Are you back? Dillmore, three hits, a couple of doubles last night for Demo. So that's nice to see. But, yeah, I mean, JP goes one for three. A couple Overs in the lineup.

Randy goes O for three. Mitch goes O for five. and then Laoti goes over for, but overall, like really, really good night for this offense, and they needed it. Because, yeah, this offense doesn't look particularly great since the start of the Chicago series. No. And I mean, even Leody and Garber, they're overest. They had a couple hard hit balls. And like I said at the top, Leotie and Randy actually played some really good defense last night, particularly Leotie.

So everybody pitched in to win. I mean, JP only had the one hit, no hard hit balls, but he walked twice, scored twice. had an RBI. So yeah, everybody really did contribute last night. Dylan Moore had probably the quietest good game we've seen in a while. You know, most of you have three for four with a couple dubs that you're the player of the game. You're the guy we're talking about. And unfortunately for Dylan or fortunately for us, he got the spotlight stolen from him last night by a guy who was.

granted it look it's not it's not early anymore right I think we can agree like it's not early no we're officially a third of the way through the season right it's not early but it's not like we're not at a point yet to me

where we could be like oh my god you've seen like this guy's on pace for blah blah blah which I'm sure we're going to talk about we're going to talk about that yeah it's just like yeah it's like when people are like Oh, 400 watch for Aaron Judge. I'm like, can we wait until at least the All-Star break before we start doing that type of stuff?

But whatever. I honestly forgot where I was going with this. But yeah, Dylan had a really good game last night, which is good because he has struggled recently. And so it's good to see him get three hits and a couple of dubs, probably lost an RBI on the ground rule double. But yeah, it was just kind of a pretty much everybody had at least one good at bat. last night. They all they contributed some way either on the bases or in the field, or they had some hard hit balls and just didn't have the right launch angle or the luck or whatever you want to call it. So, yeah, it was a really complete game all the way around. And that includes

the offense last night who had 12 hits, which wasn't the problem in Houston. They would get hits in Houston. But this time around, they had three homers and a couple doubles to go around all the singles and they also and they were also able to manufacture some runs on you know a couple of infield outs and demo scored on a contact play which typically don't like the contact play but it worked out in that situation so yeah you know they just they found a bunch of different ways to score runs last night which is nice to see yeah four walks a hit by pitch uh only eight strikeouts and plenty of hard contact so yeah it was just a really good night all the way around for the And everybody found a way to contribute to this win, either offensively, defensively, or on the mound.

So just a good, hopefully a get right game that they can kind of carry over to today. So they don't have to beat McKenzie Gore to salvage the series. But we'll see how that goes. You never know. But yeah, really good win for the Mariners last night. You're listening to the Locktime Mariners podcast. So again, we're officially a third of the way through the season with tonight's game, game 54 for the mayors.

Cal Raleigh last night with his two home runs, got to 19 on the season. He is just one behind Shohei Otani for the major league lead in that category. He is now at 3.2 on the season. We'll talk about that a little bit more in a second, why that's important. But his two home runs last night, again, gave him 19, which is not. now the most by a catcher in the history of the game and a team's first 53 games of a season, which is kind of arbitrary, but whatever. Sarah Lange's put that stat out, so we're going to share it because that's pretty cool.

Another major league record for Cal Raleigh. Speaking of Major League records for Cal Raleigh, is it possible we're seeing the greatest catcher season ever unfolding before our eyes? I know it's earlyish, Colby, but bear with me here it's early ish for player performance it's not early ish for team performance sure so cal we're gonna we're gonna talk about pace here cal is on pace for 57 home runs on the season which is insane uh and he and he's on pace for uh 9.6 f4 which uh by my count would be the second greatest season ever by a catcher just 0.2 f4 being

behind Buster Posey who won the MVP that year. Now, even if Cal gets that point, even if Cal gets that point, it's very possible he might not win the MVP because a guy named Aaron Judge exists. Unless Aaron Judge hits the IL for an extended period of time and even then, everybody's fighting for second this year.

Yeah. I'm sure if this actually happens, if he actually gets that point, we will do an episode at some point where it's trying to make the case. Aaron Judge is amazing. Don't get us wrong. But like, no catcher has ever done this before. Yeah,

I mean, we could say that, but also I'd be sitting there like, I know I would have to resort to like, and plus, you know, Aaron's already won one. Like,

does he really need another? Yeah, like Aaron Judge has been the best player in baseball this year. Yeah. And he also might hit 400. He might hit 400. He might hit 60 homers. Like,

come on. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah. But yeah, so Cal is obviously just to have an insane year. He's breaking records. The kind of a sneaky thing here is, is he going to go 20, 20 from both sides of the plate?

Because he's at 11 from the left side and I believe eight from the right side now or nine from the right side. It would be eight. Yeah. Yeah, he's 11 from the left side and eight from the right side. I mean, statistically speaking, no, he's probably not going to get enough at bats right-handed. But I mean, I don't know if he's going to get 700 plates. appearances like he's on pace to or whatever, which would be an absurd number for a catcher, by the way.

That's the thing, right? Look, at some point, it's great and you're riding it fine, but you got to get this guy a day off, like multiple days off in a week because it's great to do this in May, but when you get to September and he's playing on one knee and his thumb is all jacked up and because he's caught 125 games, like, yeah, you're going to wish that you'd taken a few chances here in the season. So I get it. It's tough to take him out of the lineup.

He's arguably the second best player in baseball right now, at least statistically what he's doing. Probably not better than Pete Kerr-Armstrong, but whatever. Yeah, it really is nuts, but here's a fun little stat. I don't know if you saw this one, Ty. From Opta stats. Okay. So already, Cal Rale, has Homer from Bulls,

sides of the plate in a game. Yeah. Homer twice from the left side in a game and Homer twice from the right side in a game. He's the first catcher in MLB history to do all three in the same year. It's May 28th. It's May 28th. Yeah, that's what I was about to say. It's May 28th.

It's, uh, yeah, it's pretty insane. It's like, no matter how, how you look at it. And I don't think that people in the national scale are talking about this enough. Cow Raleigh is having an insane season. And even if it doesn't wind up being the greatest season by a catcher ever, what he's doing right now, because look, we've talked about this at nauseam, what he brings to you defensively and what he brings to you in terms of his, just his relationship and understanding of all the pitchers and the rotation and then in the bullpen. On top of all of that, he's like, surefire 30 homer guy, right? And now he's taking yet another step where he might hit 40. he might hit 50 this year while also hitting for average,

which was kind of like the big knock on him for no good reason. But that was like the one knock on him and now he's doing that. The other area where he was, you know, where it was probably his greatest weakness was hitting from the right side. And he's cleaned things up a ton on that front as well. Like this year hitting for the right side. It's not just the power.

He's got a 174 WRC plus. He's hitting 243.992-560 from the right side. You know, and the power really hasn't come from the right side until last year. I mean, from 2021 through 2023, he only had seven home runs from the right side of the plate. He had, I believe, 13 last year. And now he's already at 8. He's definitely going to surpass 13, even if he doesn't get to 20. He's definitely going to surpass 13 for the right side.

Like, he's having just a complete season. Like, any aspect that you look at in his game, he is excelling at. there are no flaws in Cal Raleigh's game right now. I would even say, though, that he is, he hasn't even been as good defensively as he was last year. So, like, you could argue. The one nitpick that you can make is like some of his throws over to second haven't been great this year.

And that's really it. That's really all you could say about Cal this year. So here's where things stand right now. Cal Raleigh today on May 28th. is already in for the ninth best season by a Mariners catcher ever. Again, it's May 28th. He will, by the way, he owns that record last year, at 5.4.

So he's already only two wins shy of that. Cow Raleigh already has three of the four best seasons by a catcher. the only guy who is keeping him from eventually having all five Mike Sanino 2017 remember Mike Sanino in June that year it was fun to dream

he was special he was special that was generational but yeah so Cal already the ninth best season amongst all catchers in Mariners history and we're a third of the way through so yeah yeah Cal is

is having a special year. Any other year, he'd be right in the, the middle of a true MVP discussion. Just, you know, bad timing this year. But it still is kind of funny because I see,

like, content creators, they'll like, let's build the world baseball classic team. And they'll still have Adley, Rutchman and Will Smith catching. And it's like, I mean,

opposing broadcasters don't even get his name right half the time. I've heard him called call Raleigh. I've heard him called Cal Rally. And it's just like, the dude is, is the best catcher in baseball. It's not close right now. Like stop with the wood about this?

No, no. I'm going to keep it a buck here. Adley Rutchman can't hold Cal Raleigh's jockstrap. No. So it's just one of those things where like people still, like people outside of Seattle and I'd say more casual fans. I think the diehards really know,

but there's still people out there who should know. And they don't. And then they still think Adley Ruchman is the best catcher in the American League. And they still think Will Smith and Will Smith, and Will Smith's having a great year. Cal Raleigh is the best catcher in baseball. It's not close. There might not be a bigger gap between the best at a position

and the second best at a position in all baseball than there is right now to Cal Raleigh to whoever the second best catcher is. So the dude's insane. He had a great game last night. You still have to find a way to give him time off. He needs days off. Yeah. And I know that sucks.

and nobody that's September's problems it's May blah blah blah blah September problems are problems in May and you have to take these steps and you have to find a way to give them days off and there have been opportunities to give him two days off in a row where you have a day off and you just day game after a night game okay cow you're not catching on Sunday and you have Monday off there's two days off and you only miss one game and the Mariners haven't done it yet so they really do need to start to do that and I hope they do I totally get it's tough and you take Cal out of this lineup it gets ugly really fast but you got to do it you got to play the long game here uh so i mean

cow's appeared in every game this year yep like 40 42 games catching loving games dh in yeah and you know i know that in one of those games he didn't come off like he came off the bench in like the seventh eighth inning but like still yeah it's like more like 41 and a third games catching but whatever not even third really out of 53 that's a lot yeah yeah so you do have to find a way to get him off his feet you do have to find a way to give him multiple days off in a week, especially, again, in about a month where we're going to be in the midst of a 17 games and 17 day stretch. You can't have Cal play 17 straight days when he's catching 12 or 13 of them. So you got to start thinking about that, but his season has been absolutely incredible.

And yeah, I mean, right now it is one of, if not the best thirds of a season by any catcher in the game. history of the game. So you can keep it up, but I do wear and tear a little bit. That's going to do for our show. Thank you so much for joining us here on the Lockdown Marriss podcast for Colby Pat. I'm Tad de Gazzalas. Be sure give us a follow on Twitter at L0 underscore Merrers. You can follow me at Tadacquit. 11. That's CPAT 1-1. We're also on Blue Sky. You can follow me at TDG, Colby at MLB Colby in the show at Lockdown Merrers. You can also find us on Instagram and TikTok at Lockdown Marrars. Have yourself a beautiful baseball day and we'll see you next time. Peace.