 Things were simple for him today and look he's been erratic to start the year and he hasn't got the swings and misses That's been the strange thing. Well today. He was just a machine complete game for him shut out four hits ten strikeouts Everything that he hadn't been doing he did it today and we we take you through the phases Frank of Noah's Cinder guard These are his his early starts on the year see the hair and the pony tailed a beard got thicker and thicker When you got those Hollywood looks you can change it up You got to change it up and when you go out and pitch a game two hours and ten minutes And you hit the game when the home run what a day. That's a big day I think you probably saw Avengers and feel like he just you know change it up He was inspired by the Thor Thanos conflict in that movie and and yeah, you know Terry Look you've seen him a million times you matters him in New York. He wasn't himself beginning of the year So what was different about him today? Well, I Watched two of his starts and one of the things I saw today is he had that two-seam fastball working You saw a bunch of the bunch of the strikeouts for balls starting off the plate coming into the zone His is to see fastball and when he's when he's right It's almost hard to hit the ball and when they do he gets easy outs and therefore that's why I kept the pitch count down today You know when he's so forcing fastball he's behind in the counts sometimes and today He just pounded the zone with good stuff Yeah, he threw 35% sinkers and he also threw the most curveballs he had all year 17 I did his last start up for us on FS1 You know get curveballing through it I think six seven times in that game is it's something you want to try and get him to throw that sinker that curveball a little bit Well, that's what made him successful. You know when he first came up He was obviously a real power pitcher But you know he was at a hundred pitches in five innings because he was trying to strike guys out He had trying to throw the four-seam fastball and when he started using that to see him But he was getting easy outs and when he if he has to you know, and he locates like he did today He's gonna get strikeouts Right. I need to break down the opposite field power now I know there's a big man right but that was that was serious pop It was a great swing this guy know what he's doing I guess they have a lot of competitions between the pitchers like Terry said they all can hit But man, I mean to pitch like he pitched today and hit a home run from a struggling Mets offense Put the team on the back, you know, you need that some time for a pitcher just to go out and say hey I got you boys. That's what he did today very impressive. I know a synagogue and I look at him the same way I look at Strasburg He's the most the second most important player on this team because when he pitches well You know what the Grom's gonna bring but when he pitches well The Mets have a great chance of a long way with another shot at the postseason And the Grom is great last night synagogue great today and tell me ask is you know as a manager when you have these guys Everybody throws everybody throws hard now, right? Is it hard because you fall in love with that last pitch a hundred on the corner That's beautiful, right? Is it hard to get them to understand to throw the secondary stuff to throw? Maybe the off-season stuff to help is that is that a battle you face with some of the younger guy Well, it's starting to go throughout baseball. So they're seeing other guys do it too You know Kevin they sit on the bench and they watch a game and they'll see They may see Max yours or throw more sliders and maybe he normally does and they're saying geez Maybe I need to throw my breaking ball a little bit more So it spreads throughout the leg But these guys their stuff is so good and they do a good job of preparing and I will tell you I remember when Noah first came up one of the things he kept saying he kept watching Jake and saying You know what I can do that I know whatever he's doing I can do it and now all of a sudden like Frank said that competition amongst that pitching staff Hey, look, I can do it too. They got a chance to be dangerous Yeah, so there you go. Jacob the Grom last night looked good Cineguard complete games today not too bad the Hall of Fame with a big hurt Frank Thomas Terry Collins and his maiden voyage here on FS One again good to have you Terry You know we figured having a year for the first time and obviously all your years of managing in the minors in the majors And most recently with the Mets you want to pick your brand a little bit and take us into the role of manager today And how it's changed. How has the role of manager in your job changed? Well, it's changed dramatically due to all the numbers in the game now due to all the information that's out there You know, it's it's very important stuff and and everybody has to use it But you know the time of getting to the ballpark at 11 o'clock in the morning for a 7 o'clock game So you can review the video over the night before so you can try to decide who you're gonna play and who to give a Day off to those are over, you know that the managers today walk in and and laying on their desk is the lineup or Who should be playing today and who should be off today? And so the manager today his job is to make sure all his players are informed of what's going on So, you know the human element here and look everybody's using analytics We know that everybody's using him to their advantage, but the human element, right? So tell me a how hard is it for you not to be able to write a lineup because you know You take pride in that and then when you have to go and tell this man that hey I know you've hit five home runs last three games, but you're not playing today Well, you know it all starts first of all as a major league manager or even as a minor league manager You're accountable for your team, you know that everybody used to say well boy you take the game too serious or you're too intense Yeah, I was intense because I was you mean I was responsible for the way they played and Nowadays I don't know if the managers have to really worry about that stuff You know that the lineup is taken up taken away from them and yeah, and I will tell you Frank Thomas walks in your office and he said hey How come I'm not playing today and I said well you've played 12 games in a row and the numbers say you need a Day off. There's a fight. There's gonna be a fight and I'm not winning it Is that really difficult because I'm like thinking last year when Matt Kent was with the Dodgers to walk off Game one of his two nights in a row the next day put him on the bench And I was saying to myself as a player you want me to swing the bat tonight because I got good vibes I'm hot and the guy has done it for a long time Does it make this part of a situation that veterans could be sitting themselves out of the game? You know Frank I don't I don't know if that's gonna happen because I think it's it's starting to be established even at the minor league level So guys are used to it by the time they get to the big leagues and by the end with what's going on in the big leagues Now they understand that those things are they're gonna be happening I think that's the role of the manager day to explain what the system is it whatever Organization to happen to be with and yet they're not gonna like it. I'm telling you these good players They do not like it. They want to be in that lineup. That's why they play they play to play every day They play to win and when you take them out of those out their elements You can have some problems before we get an update from Anaheim, you know, we talked about this I don't know. Maybe a month ago Frank right in terms of there's so many guys that are you know, so young They don't have managerial experience and you know, I think I know it was we're talking about Bruce Bochee, right? And those guys aren't around anymore Terry Francona Bochee not a lot of those guys To surprise you now that guys don't have to run through the minors to learn how to manage anymore I mean even Korra was on the bench for a year with AJ Hint. So he got that experience. Yeah, I just think it's important I got I think it's important for you for you to understand what it takes to get your players motivated I mean a lot of players a lot of the great players I'm telling you this guy you didn't have to motivate Frank Thomas to go out and play her hard every night So there but there are certain guys that you've got to be able to get into their psyche and get them Better prepared each and every day and and I'm not sure unless you've done that you understand what it takes to do it And it's every day and there's other things that come across your desk every day as a major league manager Kevin that has nothing to do with the game and if you haven't been involved in it it could frustrate you interesting interesting That's not an easy job. Not at all TV is a lot easier. Yeah, it'll be just That's good stuff