BRADENTON, Fla. -- The plan, as Mitch Keller would share with me later, was to stay thick on the offspeed stuff. In particular a "new" slider he's been perfecting.
Made sense, too. As Roberto Perez, his batterymate, would explain a few stalls down, "When you're throwing that hard, we know what you've got. That was me. I wanted to see more. Let's see the rest. Let's sharpen up."
But there's a time for sharpening, and there's a time to just shut it down.
Which is to say, this:
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That, my friends, is 98.