Brandon Crawford

crazy.

Brandon Crawford, Brandon Belt, Madison Baumgartner.

That's who I was thinking of.

That's the other guy.

And so they're really good at returning to that.

Brandon Crawford, the...

The all-star multiple World Series champion with the San Francisco Giants once told me, I said, I asked him, what's the difference between the players that really make it in the big leagues from those that maybe don't? And he said, you know, look, we all have slumps.

It's the best ones are able to shorten their slumps.

It'd be like if Blaze Jordan next year gets replaced by Jesus Baez.

I'm not saying Blaze Jordan's a bad player, but you think Jesus Baez is that dude potentially, right? It's one of those situations rather than Brandon Crawford's been playing third base for you, and you're like, oh my gosh, we just have to make a change because this is bad.

I don't think it's the same thing.

And again, I don't want to undersell how bad the results were the past two years.

And you got to stop it.

So Paul Bien, 39 years old, Palo Alto native, graduate of Gunn High School, who grew up an avid Giants fan, earned two degrees at UCLA when Brandon Crawford was a Bruin.

All right.

So John Chase starts a conversation.

He's definitely...

it could definitely be a Brandon Crawford situation.

So I'm not trying to sell you on him being a great option for them, but I'd be, I'd be fine with that.

So any other mid tier options you want to look at before we kind of go more to the lower tier, like not going to make anyone excited to your, um, slash trade options.

Posey, for sure,

right? Well, I was just looking up Brandon Belt and Brandon Crawford.

Those felt like, you know, I was trying to rack my brain about what those guys did in their rookie years.

Crawford did like 204 with a 633 OPS as a rookie.

They played so clean.

That's, that's what happens when you have Brandon Crawford.

Did I tell you what, did I say this on the air or off the air the other day? When there was a, uh, replay of one of the high...

'Cause w- we're in October, so it's like, "On this date in 2010," you'll see a Twitter highlight.

He was not a glove, but he, he, he knocked down a ball, and he had to throw to second base, and he threw it just kind of in the vicinity of second base for a force.

And dude, this fricking ballerina, this fricking Fred Astaire-like figure, just this fricking athlete glided across my screen, snatching the ball from a bad angle, clipping the bag with his toe, and whipping a ball to first base to finish the double play.

And I was like, oh my God, that's what Brandon Crawford used to look like out there.

Yeah.

He's really good at it.

Reminds me a little bit of, like, Brandon Crawford, not the quickest guy, um, but was a really good base runner 'cause he kinda figured things out.

So Devers' not a great base runner in general, but first to third in particular, he's really good at.

You look at that just massive stats put together like that, and this truly was obviously the year of the young player.