I've changed some things this year. It has been more mental. I don't think it's mechanical. I'm trying to continue to not chase bad pitches and look more for my pitches on different counts, ... Tom McCraw has gotten to my head enough by saying, 'Until you get two strikes, hit your pitch.' And I'm starting to do that a lot more.

Brian Schneider

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We've been in it the whole time. We haven't played our best, but you know what? The rest of the division isn't running away with it.

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Hopefully we will come out and do well and open some eyes. It's a change for us compared to the last couple of years.

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