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Huh. Garrett Cooper.

If Acuna hits a deep fly ball tonight, I hope he walks to first base like he's taking a pleasant autumn stroll.

There's plenty of time to figure this out. We'll have more data on Acuna's post-surgery defense at the end of the year and a better sense of how we feel about Ozuna as well -- he's 34 years old. He might struggle the rest of the year, end up with mediocre numbers and that'll resolve that issue

Kent Mercker cracks open his daily bottle of champagne.

Beating the Freeze doesn't seem to mean much these days.

Did you guys know that Nick Allen is married to Bret Boone's daughter?

Huh. We won a Coors Field game started by Bryce Elder in which we didn't hit a home run.

The Statcast data puts his fastball velocity this year at 93.7 MPH, which is slower than his starter days. He sure doesn't seem to be enjoying that massive reliever velocity spike people have been counting on.

Anderson has racked up -0.6 WAR in 9 1/3 IP with seven walks, 17 hits and an ERA of 11.57. Guys, he's just done.

Verdugo has 12 hits as a Brave. Eight of them have come in two games. I don't really mean that as a criticism -- the sample size is really small and you get oddities like that. I just think it's funny.

Ryan Fernandez, the guy White homered off of yesterday, has -1.1 WAR in 8 2/3 innings.

I have to say, the entire argument for Snitker as the team's manager is that he's a great clubhouse guy, someone all the players like and respect, someone who can keep everything on an even keel during a long season and ensure a certain degree of harmony in the clubhouse. If he loses that...

Olson had kind of a day, huh?

He hit 36 in 2000 and 38 in 2001. He wasn't 1996 Brady Anderson. Can I sit here and promise you to a metaphysical certainty that Chipper never used steroids? Of course not. It was a pretty steroid-suffused era. Juan Cruz apparently tested positive and he was rail thin. Alex Sanchez was the...

Juan Cruz? Didn't that guy weigh, like, 125 pounds?

Seriously. Ozuna was a sub-replacement level player in 2021 and 2022, and on April 26, 2023 he was hitting .085/.194/.203. And then he hit 79 home runs in 2023 and 2024 and now he's OPSing over 1.000. What the hell? Has he been freebasing untraceable Profaritol?

Marcell Ozuna makes no sense.

Look, the details are fine, but the important thing is that Schwellenbach is the greatest pitcher in the history of the game.

I remember when we thought 2024 was the nightmare season.

I'm a little surprised spring training could move a projection that much.