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As it currently stands through just 41 ABs for Kyle Teel in 2026, it hasn’t exactly been pretty. Teel’s striking out at an alarming 39 percent clip, which is even higher than Colson Montgomery’s 31 percent clip and his chase rate at 29.1 percent is also very uncharacteristic of him if his rookie season in the bigs is anything to go by.

Teams are attacking him with fastballs primarily, he’s seeing fastballs at a 56.2 percent clip and very few sliders (only 7.7 percent), but the numbers point to him not being able to make reliable contact on breaking balls, as he’s whiffing at an astronomical 60.9 percent on those pitches.

Now that the bad stuff is out the way, here’s why there should be some optimism that this is more of a blip for a player being judged off a small sample size and not what we should be expecting moving forward.

Teel’s .219 batting average against righties is an outlier. His struggles adjusting to left hand pitching are well illustrated, as he batted just .186 as a rookie against lefties, but he hit .290 with an OPS of .835 against righties, putting him in that elite category amongst catchers last season when facing RHP.

Given his Barrel Rate (17.4), Hard Hit Rate (52.4) and Sweet Spot Rate (47.8) all rank in the higher percentile for not just catchers but MLB hitters overall, it’s clear that his outcomes are due to change overtime. He’s been hitting the ball notably hard, and he’s been robbed on quite a few hits by good defensive plays.

I would think that by season’s end Teel is producing close to what he did last year, but I do think that he needs to move down in the order when Munetaka Murakami comes back given his high strikeout rate.

Set aside the box office prospects and how much money the movie will or won’t lose, James Gunn officially made Supergirl very important for the future of the DCU because Ana Nogueira, who has a spotty track record as a writer on films, wrote the script for Supergirl and she’s currently writing a Wonder Woman script.

Listen, people swept it under the rug when it was first reported that Nogueira was writing Wonder Woman, but that’s a big deal in the grand scheme of things. I’m going to see Supergirl on Wednesday, had my ticket for weeks now, and if that film has a messy or is lackluster script, it’s fair to question James Gunn’s decision making on who should be writing what in his writers room for DC Studios.

Sweet woman, I’ve seen all of her interviews recently and she seems to have her heart in the right place when it comes to these characters she’s being tasked to write for, but anyone who read Woman of Tomorrow can clearly see that there’s a major contrast with Kara from the book and Kara from the trailers and footage we’ve seen in SEVERAL aspects.

I’ve given Gunn a pass for squeezing this film in-between two major franchise films, admittedly even underestimating the impact of those movies on the box office, but bad or underwhelming scripts from Nogueira being given the green light will be met with much haste not only from me, but others who have been more optimistic than pessimistic of the DCU early on.

Major difference in his stance hitting from both sides as a switch hitter. I wonder if over time they work with him on his stance hitting from the right side. A larger portion of his strikeouts come batting as a right hand hitter.

I’m not a Jazz fan, but I’d like to open up about this topic and chime in a bit as a Miami Heat fan from the outside looking in.

I’ve seen Jazz fans push the idea online that they’d be open to trading away serious assets to acquire the No. 1 pick from the Washington Wizards, some even throwing in a 6’10 bucket getter with guard skills who will only get better and has awhile before he even shows his true ceiling as a player.

Other Jazz fans have completely shunned the idea of doing something drastic to complete the trade with the Wizards for the No. 1 pick, only willing to trade away building block players who might not be in the long term future for the team.

Here’s my take: Be OK with not having AJ Dybansta. You lost 60 games this past year, had to deal with being labeled as the poster boys for tanking despite several other teams doing equally as egregious things to ensure they would be in position to cash in during the Draft Lottery and you play in a obscure market where talents like Donovan Mitchell aren’t a guarantee to fall in your lap.

Be OK with Darryn Peterson, who was the consensus projected No. 1 NBA Draft pick early into the 2025-26 College Basketball season. Miami Heat fans wanted Derrick Rose playing alongside Dwayne Wade, too, almost twenty years ago when we were in the running for the No. 1 pick but had to pick second (and we did pick wrong, Kevin Love was right there).

Don’t feel the need to cause civil war with each other or even Wizards fans who rightfully so would fantasize about their front office making the Jazz pay the ultimate fee in order to get the rights to the No. 1 pick, if the shoe was on the other foot, Utah fans might just be doing the same thing.

Good luck.