Jason Lane

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Jason Lane, the man who caught the final out of the Houston's first pennant clincher, is back in the World Series with Milwaukee.

But first, the Astros need a general manager, and Matt Klein has emerged as the reported leading candidate.

And let's start with why his resume fits what Houston needs and whether Jim Crane will give his next GM the authority to shape the team's future.

Are teams gonna make trades before the lockout occurs? It seems like a quick turn of events.

But the biggest issue may not even be the person that they're looking to hire.

And what's cool is if you stay with us, we're going to talk about Jason Lane.

Pretty cool.

Because he's capable of doing this in terms of driving the baseball, hitting the ball hard.

And I think all the hard work that he's put in with Jason Lane and all the hitting coaches about some of the adjustments that he's been trying to make, I think they're finally kind of coming to fruition here.

in october i mean he had a home run off of edwin diaz and i know pat murphy said well it's because they expected you to bunny just like it's still a nasty cutter from edwin diaz for crying out loud he had a bomb to right center field he's got a live body with pop in his bat strong hands really good at great athlete and so he's capable of doing what he is doing and um Certainly everyone in Brewers country is happy he's doing it right now in October.

Do you

You know, and again, you wouldn't put it past the data and analytics team to kind of unlock this and maybe try and figure out a way to get a little bit more humidity in the ballpark.

to get that more lift on the baseball and get that air flowing underneath the baseball a little bit more.

I did talk to Jason Lane about this earlier on in the season.

How do you attack a guy that has a great vertical fastball that looks like it's going to be lower than it actually ends up? A lot of guys swing underneath.

And Charlie Green, the bullpen coach.

And then I also had some interaction when I was the pitching coordinator with Jason Lane, who is offense and strategy coordinator.

And that happened in spring training and when I made trips to Milwaukee.

So as a pitching coordinator, the first three weeks, maybe a month of spring training, you're on the big league side of things.

And so you get to know the big league staff.

And then also Derek Johnson, who was the big league pitching coach at the time, he would have me and any other coordinator come in for one series each year, come into Milwaukee and just see everything going on from the meetings before the series began and everything else.

So through that, I got to know Jason Lane.

And of course, I also got to know Pat Murphy.

This year, only the Yankees had a deeper contact point than the Brewers, and over the course of bat tracking, both teams have among the deepest five contact points in baseball.

Their hitting coaches, including the Brewers' Jason Lane, preach attacking the inside of the ball and using the whole field.

From Lindbergh's piece, In theory, we want to see the ball maybe a touch longer to be more accurate with our barrel, our eyes, and our hands, Lane said.

Balls tend to get deeper on us, so they would go the other way.