Matt Brash Exits Early, But Cole Young Comes Up CLUTCH as Seattle Mariners Return to .500!

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The Mariners have flipped the script on their road, woes going five and one in St. Louis

and Minnesota, winning today five to three with yet another big day from Cole Young.

We'll break it all down coming up here on the Lockdown Mariners podcast.

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There is beat the twins five to three this afternoon to get back to 500 on the season.

That's right.

After everything that's happened this year, the Mariners are 500 at the end of the first

full month of the season.

This win did come out of cost, though.

Of course, Matt Brash had to leave after throwing just two pitches.

We'll talk about that a little later on seems like maybe the Mariners have dodged a little

bit of a bullet there, but we'll go over that a little bit later on, like I said.

But to get things rolling here, really nice way to wrap up this road trip, and the Mariners

Colby have gone from being one in eight on the road now, get this six and nine on the

road.

Nice.

Nice.

I mean, that record is actually not that nice, but the Mariners are the meme kings, as we

know.

Yeah.

Say no.

They have a nice road trip.

Win a series after a not so nice game on Monday, in which it did it appeared.

They didn't even want to play that game, but they managed to bounce back and take a couple

of games against two guys who are all star candidates, on the mound, and obviously they didn't

really beat those guys, although technically Joe Ryan did get a loss.

So I mean, technically, but they walk away 2-0 and games started by the twins, two best

pitchers.

Good on them for finding a way to scratch out a couple of wins here when, you know, they're

not playing at their 100th percentile.

They're playing better, certainly, but we know that, you know, this team can play even

better.

They could play a little bit cleaner.

Today, they didn't get really anything from 2-3-4.

They got a big sack fly from California insurance run, but really not all that much

from them.

And it was the bottom door that stepped up and you kind of look at all the games of

this road trip with the exception of Monday.

It really was a grinded out kind of, you know, find a way to win the game at the end type

of road trip for them.

And that's, that's Marinor baseball right there.

It's not pretty.

It's never as easy as it should be.

It doesn't matter if you're playing good teams or bad teams.

You know, you kind of find a way to keep the game close and you win it late.

And, you know, that's kind of what the Mariners have, you know, become known as.

And you look at all their wins on this series, two runs or less in every single game.

So it really is a good sign to see.

And again, after a brutal month of, you know, a brutal early month of April, the Mariners

clawed their way back to 500 and, you know, they've managed to do it dealing with J.P.

Crawford's injuries and Brennan Donovan's injuries and Bryce Miller's injuries and Luis

Castillo not pitching well.

And Munoz's blow up outing and the bullpen, you know, kind of doing a high wire act for

parts of this month and then just being really good on this road trip.

So yeah, it really is nice to see and a big part of that is, you know, the bottom of the

order of Cole Young types, especially now.

But yeah, it was a very good road trip.

Find a way to win games doesn't matter how pretty it is.

You have to find ways to get into the win column.

And here they are.

They've won five out of six.

Seven of the last 10 like they are.

They're on a good little run here.

And then they have to face a pretty hot Kansas City team this weekend, which we'll talk

about tomorrow.

And you'll get to face there are three best pitchers.

Two of them are left handed, by the way.

So awesome, but that's the way it goes and baseball, man, you really don't get a day off.

But you do get a day off tomorrow at home, which will be nice for the team to have.

Well, and this team is starting to find ways to win even in some not great circumstances,

right?

Joe Ryan, Taj Bradley, like, you know what the deal is here with this twins club.

You want to get into that bullpen, right?

The mission is ultimately get Joe Ryan and get Taj Bradley out of the game as quickly

as possible.

So you can get as many bites at the apple as possible against this bullpen.

And you know, Taj Bradley winds up going seven in this one.

So didn't necessarily do a fantastic job of that today.

But you were able to get a couple of runs off of him, especially there towards the end

of his start to not things up.

So overall, the offense did a pretty solid job against two of the better pitchers and all

of baseball here to start the 20 to 26 season.

And again, you mentioned it, all the things that have happened leading up to today.

You know, you mentioned all the, you know, the injuries and some of the hiccups along the

way and the two, three, four struggling and all that.

And yet here they are 16 and 16 very much well within range of accomplishing.

You know, everything that they have set out to accomplish this year.

I think that's a real testament to the talent on this ball club.

Yeah, I think that's fair.

You know, they've kind of weathered it and looked that every team is going to go through

similar things that the Mariners have gone through this year.

And more bad things are going to happen to the Mariners.

So this is why you build the deep, you know, you build the depth and you build a deep team.

You try to have the deepest line up you can.

You try to have the deepest rotation you can because you're going to need all of these

guys to step up.

And so yeah, I think one thing we said at the beginning of the year is like, yeah, there's

probably no team in the American league that is definitively more talented than the Mariners.

And you know, again, they're only 500, but you look at the rest of the American league.

Really only the Yankees have played consistently good baseball thus far.

So yeah, I think it's I think it's safe to say the Mariners are obviously a very talented

team.

And part of the reason that they've been able to claw their way back to 500 is just that

they're just straight up more talented than some of these teams that we've seen.

And so when other teams find a way to lose those games, the Mariners are finding a way

to win them because, you know, obviously a their talent, but also it's a veteran team.

And many of them have been there and done that before and they know how to get it done.

So yeah, very good signs all around for the Mariners.

Yeah.

Again, I think it's a testament to the talent on this club.

I think it's a testament to the makeup of this club getting into some of the specifics

here.

You know, again, it was another great series for cool, young, great day for him at the

plate.

He drives in the the winning run of this game on a broken bat single of the middle, which

was kind of catholic to watch, you know, I mean, how many times have we seen the Mariners

what the infield and give up a hit like that where they get like the weak ground ball

that they want, but it just finds a hole, it just somehow finds some grass.

And that's what happened there for for coal.

He drives in three today on a couple of hits, had a nice day yesterday as well in the

Mariners Blot win over the twins.

Again, like we talked about a few episodes ago, I don't know if he actually is the best

second baseman in the American league, but he's certainly playing like it right now.

Yeah, I mean, some of us made him their number one flag player and had a bold prediction

that he'd be in all star to be fair.

He was both of our number one, whatever, like who got him tie, who's list.

But I, but I didn't have to make up for, I didn't have to hold on.

I did have to make up for how last year when I did have to go get Randy first, uh, play

my music tie because that's right.

I don't think I have a loaded in added in most.

So yes, I nailed it.

I also said he was going to be an all star now that was in the bold predictions episode.

But whatever, it's a prediction, sort of being all star.

What I say, he's going to lead the team in on base two.

So yeah, Cole Young's been obviously exceptional.

And yeah, he is easily the starting second baseman for the all star team.

If it was based on merit and not fan vote, it's based on fan vote.

We'll see if Marin or fans get out the vote, but it's probably going to end up being

Ernie Clement.

Give vote again.

Yeah, yeah, but probably going to be like Ernie Clement or some

BS like that.

But oh, yeah, God.

Yeah, the whole country of Canada is going to have the entire four days roster into the

ulcer.

It feels like something.

Maybe you know, Major League Baseball should, uh, should look into.

But, uh, you know, what are you going to do?

What are you going to do?

But yeah, Cole Young's been an all star quality player this year, which is more than you

could have hoped for.

Um, and you know, he's also had his own little dip where he started off really well.

And then he had a week or so where he wasn't looking all that good.

And, and then he's just kind of grind it through it and then he stayed with it.

And now he's properly here.

Best player, um, at 22 years old, obviously, just had an incredible road trip.

He had 500, uh, in this, in this road trip.

And he continues to make really good plays defensively.

Did have an air yesterday that may have changed the entire discourse on Logan Gilbert's

outing.

I don't know if we're going to be able to talk about that today.

But, uh, yeah, other than that, he's been rock solid in the field to, to plus.

And at the plate, he's been incredible.

I don't, I haven't looked at the updated numbers, but I assume his WRC plus is at least close

to the one twenty five, twenty five, yeah, his, his slash line is two eighty six, three,

fifty seven, four twenty meme kings, baby, nice.

Kings.

Yeah.

So yeah, uh, Cole Young off to a fantastic start, um, this cannot say enough good things about

him.

They've also won six of their last seven.

So, um, they really are the meme kicks crazy, crazy, uh, but yeah, awesome, awesome,

awesome game, awesome series, awesome road trip for Cole Young, um, you know, Julio had

himself a hell of a game yesterday as well, you know, I posted the updated numbers.

Uh, after last night's game for him, the slug game is starting to come around.

You know, thanks a large part to those three doubles yesterday, only one one for five

today.

You know, it wasn't particularly great game for the two, three, four, like you mentioned

earlier, but, um, you know, nice to see, you know, Julio, uh, you know, kind of cooking

here in the first month, um, and the two, three, four overall really started to turn

things around over the last, you know, a couple of weeks, and that's been a huge part

of this whole thing as well.

And then getting back to, to 500, feels like today was like the first time in a little

bit that you didn't get really anything from two, three, four, like even like, oh,

Cal had a bad game yesterday.

Oh, well, that's fine.

Julio and Josh were great.

Yeah.

You know, and so this really does feel like the first time to three of them combined to

be bad for, you know, a couple of, uh, for, I don't know, probably last week to two

weeks, where at least one of those guys wasn't very good or didn't have a very good day.

Cal almost had a grand slam, like he got semi close to it and ended up being a sec

fly.

Um, so, you know, but just not a ton of production from them today, but they found a way

to win.

Thanks to large part to Cole Young, um, and I'll, I'll give you the, the sneaky, like, I,

I know Andrew's likes to do, uh, unsung hero, uh, in his post game shows.

I'll tell you in the same time, I mean, I guess we are timing is, yeah, I'm sure, sure,

three, two, one, don't work as well.

No.

Oh, wrong.

Good for Chris.

Well, unsung hero, three to three to two game, bases loaded, Byron Bucksons up.

Obviously, brash can finish that it.

You don't have brash.

You've already used, uh, Pizzardo, you know, they're not gonna, God forbid, they ask

Munoz to get four outs.

If you even score more runs than the night to extend that game.

So it's got to be Chris while he's got to hang a zero there.

So you have a chance to win that game and he does it.

So, yeah, that was huge.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But yeah, dominant can zone as well.

I, you know, obviously, Cole's gonna get a lot of the praise today, but can zone.

I mean, the, you know, game doesn't get tied without can zones, double down the line against

Bradley there to extend Bradley, start and bring young up to the plate to drive him in.

And then, you know, can zone and the ninth inning there has a hard hit single to, uh,

move, you know, Randy over to third and set up, you know, Cole Young's game winning single

there.

You know, Leo Reeva eventually comes in and pinch runs for, for can zone gets to second

there that allows young to not just tie the game, but take the lead there.

Um, so I thought it was a really nice day from can zone despite the two strikeouts from

him.

He had a couple of really, really big heads on this game.

Strikeouts were bad.

Uh, can zone is can zone Rayleigh is Rayleigh.

He's, he's kind of, it's kind of the full Dom can zone experience today, actually.

Yeah.

I mean, and we're kind of seeing the month of April was like the full Luke Rayleigh experience

there because he was great for two weeks and now he's been bad for two weeks and just

kind of the ups and downs you have to live with one other guy that had a pretty good game

today.

I don't know if you have time in this segment, but do despite the, the obvious critical mistake

made by JP Crawford, uh, he also got on base four times, including a home run to make

it a one nothing game.

Yeah, you know, real quick on, on the, on the play, that was going to be a tough out to

make.

It's going to be tough throw, even with Karatini, uh, running that's not the problem though.

But, uh, he's got to, he's got to find a way to keep that ball in the infield there.

You got to tackle that, that baseball, and honestly, it's not a, it's not a particularly

difficult ball to get to.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That showed, that showed the range issues.

Right.

Any shortstop.

Any mediocre shortstop and major league baseball gets to that ball and at least keeps

it on the infield.

JP's just not that.

However, again, this is part of what you, you live with that because he's going to hit

a home run and, you know, how important he is in your clubhouse and all that, you know,

how big he comes up in those big spots, you know, nobody, nobody else on this team, you

went up with the bases loaded in a big situation than JP Crawford.

So that's the trade off.

And no, Colt Emerson is not the answer.

Not yet.

He's not ready all of a sudden just because JP didn't make one play that he needed to, uh,

but JP had a, had a good game at the plate and, you know, the defense is what it is.

And you're just going to have to live with it for another 129 games, uh, and the trade

off at the end of the year, it will be worth it.

All right.

So, uh, let's dive into the pitching a little bit.

Let's talk about George Kirby.

We'll also try and talk a little bit about Logan Gilbert's start last stand if we have

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I thought George Kirby was really good today.

But his final stat line will more or so look like it was it was a solid day, but it just

it really does not tell the full story.

So he gave up eight hits in this game and five and two thirds.

Not a single one of those hits registered an X of velocity of 95 miles per hour, which

is the threshold to consider a ball hard hit.

Those that don't know.

Now he did give up two hard hit balls in this game, but both of them were outs eight hits.

And out of them hard hit, the closest was a 94.4 mile per hour single, I think.

So they got close, but yeah, it was all week to middleing contact from the twins.

That was their whole offensive output against George Kirby, even the Brooks Lee to run single.

It's really frustrating.

Now obviously he had some issues putting guys away, you know, in that balloon, the pitch

count a little bit, that's, you know, why he had ultimately why he had to leave this

game after five and two thirds.

Again, I thought he was really good, five strikeouts, couple walks, you know, again, like

I said, the only just two hard hit balls in this one, none of them go for heads.

I really liked what we saw from George Kirby today.

Yeah, you know, again, just got nickel and dime, you know, thousand paper cuts, whatever

your phrase you want to use, but yeah, he just got incredibly bad bad luck overall.

And yeah, he did have a couple opportunities to get, you know, deeper in this game, he

had a bunch of one, two counts, and I think at one point, he had four or five of those

in a row.

And then the hitter ended up seeing like three or four or five extra pitches after that.

That's, you know, that's the Logan Gilbert path.

We don't want to see another starter go down there.

You know, he was able to make up for that because he's getting a ton of ground balls right

now.

Just an elite number of ground balls.

And the next inning, after he had to kind of long ending through six pitches to get

three outs, he was right back on track as well.

And you know, again, the kind of continued growth from George Kirby.

Last year, we are really his entire career.

Things kind of don't go his way.

He kind of gets a little unlucky here, a little bloop single here.

Maybe he's mad at himself because he walked a guy here and he just starts piping these

fastballs down the middle and he's trying to throw 120 miles an hour to get guys out.

And he doesn't trust his defense.

And no, he, he stayed calm, you know, at least outwardly calm.

And he was able to kind of manage his way through those situations.

And again, the two, the two runs he gives up come on a little bloop single, change up,

a really good change up off the end of the bad, approximately, that dumped in front

of Rayleigh.

And then obviously there was the blooper in front of Cal or in front of Julio.

There's a soft line drive in front of Julio in that inning.

There was the walk.

And so those things, you know, it kind of looks like it's starting a snowball on them.

And nope, he hangs tight.

And so yeah, it was a, it was a really nice outing from George.

Pretty different outing though.

I mean, only a, only a 14% forcing fastball.

Yeah, she threw the sweeper more than any pitch today.

You know, the sweeper, by the way, according to this, he hadn't thrown one this year.

Now they were classified as sliders before I believe.

So, you know, the whole sweeper slider thing, who's to say, sometimes it gets miscategorized.

But every single one of them got categorized as a sweeper today, according to stat cast.

And he threw that pitch almost 30% of the time.

And then the two seamer, he's still fastball heavy, but it was the two seamer in this one

that he threw a ton.

And then he flashed the change up.

He doubled up on the change up usage, and that's something that Logan did last night as

well.

And that both of those pitches looked pretty darn good from both guys.

So yeah, it was, it was kind of a different looking George.

And this one only, only 11 whiffs, 22% that's not great by any stretch, but he did have

a 57% with rate on that change up and a 29% with rate on that sweeper and a 39% called

strike plus with on that sweeper.

So that'll play, as they say, it was also 19 of 25 and first pitch strikes as well.

So yeah, I thought George was really solid today and opportunity to go six or, you know,

seven innings in that outing were there.

There's just a few, you know, a few at bats that kind of got away from them a little bit,

had to throw a couple extra pitches.

And then just a couple of blue singles that had no business being hits just continued

to kind of stack on top of the pitch counts.

So almost gets through six.

And with the Mariners bullpen in pretty good shape, thanks in large part to Alex Hoppy and

Cole Wilcox taking the, you know, taking the heat on Monday night.

That was more than enough for this Mariners bullpen who had another pretty darn good day.

All things considered.

So we haven't had the chance to talk about last night.

You know, I talked a little bit about what what Julio did last night, but I want to talk

quickly about Logan Gilbert only goes five again, but like I said in my reaction video last

night that maybe some of you saw, I thought he looked better than he typically does.

And a lot of these five innings that we've seen from him as of late, gives up just the

one run on the, the solo home run by Bucks and six hits, four strikeouts, one walk.

You mentioned the, you know, the botched double play and how that kind of helps balloon his

pitch count a little bit there.

You know, had to dance around some trouble for a couple of innings.

But again, I thought Logan, again, despite not being able to get deep into this one,

I thought he actually looked pretty solid.

Yeah, I do think that botched double play.

I mean, at the very least you get one out out of that, but you know, having to get two

extra outs, at least probably that Josh Bell that that hit into it.

Yeah, I think so.

I think you're probably turning that.

Yeah.

So that again, I didn't keep track afterwards and it's hard to know because maybe you

don't get to blah, blah, blah, blah, but probably added 15 pitches.

I believe there was nobody out at the time of that play too.

So probably added 15 pitches to his pitch count, which unfortunately means you can't get

that six inning.

But I honestly, I never really felt like Logan was laboring to get through five.

It just kind of felt like some bad things happen to him that he had to kind of manage.

And that's why it was only able to go through five.

And actually, that Logan looked pretty good as well.

And kind of the big change or the big difference maker, really, I thought was the change up.

He threw the change up more than he threw the splitter.

Yes, yesterday.

And that's kind of the splitter is kind of his go to strikeout pitch.

But we know we can't really throw that for a strike, like he needs to get a chase on

the splitter for that pitch to be effective.

Well, the change up, you know, in last night's game, he got, you know, 40% whiff rate on

it.

And most importantly, he got three called strikes on that pitch.

He had zero called strikes on the splitter and he only had one whiff on it.

So if he can throw two separate off-speed pitches, two distinct different pitches, the

change up and the splitter that playoff of his fastball, and he can throw one of them

in the zone consistently, then the splitter should actually play up even more because

now you have to protect against that pitch.

I thought the change up had a really good movement to it as well.

So I think that could be a legitimate game changer for Logan and could help him get deeper

in the games because it is an off-speed pitch that he can throw for a strike.

The splitter, he has to get a chase.

So the change up, he could put down, he could put, you know, in the zone and get a groundball

or, you know, get a get a get a call strike out of it.

And then also the splitter was very good last night as well, 38% whiff rate on the splitter.

And, you know, forcing fastball, Logan's not getting the same fastball value he used to

way back in the day.

That's not anything new for Logan.

So he really does need those off-speed pitches to play up because the fastball, he's not

going to get a ton of value out of that.

The fastball is mostly there to set up everything else that he has.

So, you know, only one whiff on 13 swings on the four-seymour last night.

But yeah, in general, I thought he was pretty darn good and I think to change up in kind

of the new looks slider, it's kind of more of a gyro slider it looks like.

I think that those two pitches could really help him go deeper into games.

So yeah, he only got through five and he had to throw 93 pitches to get there.

I feel like he was very well on pace to get through six if not for that botched double

play.

You know, it is what it is.

He only went five.

So at the end of the day, the results are the same.

But I actually thought Logan would pretty darn good last night.

And I'm interested to see if he carries that change up more regularly into the starts

now and the splitters kind of mostly there to try and get chases and the change up is

there to try and get strikes and quick outs.

All right.

Well, again, this win did come at a cost for the Mariners.

Met brash had to leave this one after throwing just a couple of pitches with side discomfort.

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So scary moment there in the eighth inning for the Marriars, Matt Brash comes into the

game, throws just two pitches and then has to leave Calc calls out the train staff, calls

out Dan Wilson, Dan and Matt have a very lengthy discussion.

But the decision is ultimately made to pull Brash from the game through his first pitch

and did one of these numbers was very clearly in some some sort of discomfort.

We weren't sure what, but it's come out now from Dan after the game that it was some

side discomfort.

Ryan Davis did say that Wilson didn't seem that concerned.

Dan said it was a precautionary move and Brash also spoke to the media and said that

this is something that he's been dealing with for a little while.

He felt it even last night when he pitched and he was fine.

He was trying to target you with Dan to stay in the game today, but Dan just wasn't

having it.

So maybe a bullet dodged here for the Marriars, but when you hear side discomfort, you got

to worry about oblique stuff like that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, this was only the second time Brash is pitched back to back games.

Well, third time this year, but second time in this road trip, we was asked to pitch

back to back games and so I don't know if I had anything to do with it.

Just kind of bad luck for Matt any time he leaves the game, you're going to hold your breath.

I mean, really any pitcher, but Matt especially because of the previous Tommy John and because

obviously he spends the baseball so much and he's got a such a small frame and he's

a pretty violent arm and all that.

Yeah.

I would say this is relatively good news because there's nothing to do with the arm at

least.

Sure.

Not shoulder, not elbow, so that's good.

But obliques, not much better, but we're usually not talking about like, you know, they're

out for part of next year too with an oblique or anything like that.

Whereas shoulder arm, that's shoulder elbow, I mean, especially shoulder that that's career

threatening anytime you hear the word shoulder.

So yeah, we'll see how it goes for him.

I mean, this this bullpen already needed another high leverage arm in it.

Now they're probably going to lose their best one, second best one.

The only the only reliever in baseball hasn't given up a run yet, Ty.

That was that was put out there yesterday.

Actually, so there's two qualified relievers who have yet to give up a run.

You know, Mason Miller, you have a peron finally.

Yeah.

Want to take a guess who the other guy is?

Is it Rico Garcia?

Nope.

It's a former Mariner.

Oh, is it?

No, recently, fairly recent, uh, no, no, he's in the minors, Brennan Davis,

Humberdoff, a family, other than actually, oh, yeah, that's where I saw him.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No.

I'll give it.

I'll give it away with this.

But he, uh, he got walked off in Houston a couple of years ago.

Lefty.

Oh, I think it was his first game on the roster.

They had, they had to use him.

I think they ran out of guys and got walked off.

Yeah.

I don't know if I sat here for like three or four minutes, I could probably piece it

together in my head.

So we don't have that.

It's, it's Brennan Bernadino.

Ah, okay.

Yeah.

He's the other guy on top of Brasch who has, you know, it was more of a red sock, but

yeah.

Qualified reliever who has yet to give up a new run, either way, they need another high

leverage arm.

It's going to be the number one on the priority list whenever we get around to the

trade deadline, which might be tomorrow because I don't know what we're going to talk

about for 30 minutes tomorrow.

We do have a couple of questions though in the discord mail bag, which by the way, Ty,

I've been asked for all of you into putting a fresh discord link in the description of

this episode because apparently the one you did yesterday didn't work either.

But anyways, really, put a new one in on the page, put a new one on on on Monday.

Okay.

All right.

Yeah.

We'll fix it.

Yeah.

All real quick though.

We will also be doing a our first monthly flag player check in.

Let me know, um, let me know right now on the show.

Cool.

Yeah.

No, we have.

Okay.

To be fair, we have talked about the idea of that segment in the past.

Yeah.

And I'm pretty sure I said that sounds stupid, but you know, you want to, which is exactly

why we're doing it.

Uh-huh.

Anyways.

Yeah.

Brash.

Relatively good news, but anytime your picture comes out of a game, it's not great.

And anytime we're talking about a side pain that's apparently lingered for a week or

so.

Yeah.

You know, it feels like they're probably going to end up putting them on the I.L.

Uh, no, maybe it's just what Daniel, that's what Daniel Kramer speculated.

Well, he said an I.L.

Stimp would be on the table, um, especially given how early in the season it is.

If this is something that you can take care of right now, then you probably, you probably

want to do it.

Yeah.

But, uh, yeah, not, not a great time, uh, to, uh, to lose brash as, as we know, you're

already pretty thin.

Uh, thankfully, bizarre.

It was throwing the ball better.

Uh, Munoz looked incredible today.

He's throwing the ball a little bit better as well and, and so yeah, you probably survived

it for two weeks.

If you can't survive one reliever missing two weeks, you had bigger problems than that

reliever to begin with, but, uh, yeah, it's still not great.

And it still is a little bit, uh, scary anytime of picture leaves, leaves the field, uh, because

of an injury.

So we'll see what happens.

I'm sure they'll do an MRI when they get back into town tomorrow.

And I'm sure we'll have an update on Friday when, uh, Justin Hollander meets with the

media before the homestan and all that, um, but yeah, you're, you've already, you know,

you've already had to go one rung, uh, or well, two rungs down in your, in your depth

chart, uh, in the bullpen already this year, so you have to go a third rung down.

I would have, I, now I, to be clear, I haven't checked the, uh, the numbers of the Tacoma

relievers because of why would I, uh, but I would assume Zuluetta is probably the, the

guy that they would go to if they needed to make a roster move.

Um, he's already on the 40 man, uh, unfortunately, brash is a pitcher, so that means he has a

15 day I else, then instead of a 10 day I else, then which they should change for a reliever,

if you ask me, but, uh, it is what it is, uh, and, uh, we'll, we'll see what they decided

to do with brash.

But yeah, relative, relatively good news for now about, uh, a pitcher who left had to

leave the game after two pitches today.

So you'll, you'll take it.

And if it's only, it's up being a two week, I else didn't, and he's fine after that,

then that, that's a good trade off.

Yeah, for sure.

Again, you know, when you, when you see brash having to talk to trainers and you don't know

exactly what's going on, and, and for me, my, my experience with this was I, I didn't

see his first two pitches.

I was doing something and I walked back in the room, I had the game on my computer here

and I, I see I'm talking to Dan and the trainers and I'm going like, please don't be the elbow,

please don't be, please don't have it.

Anything to do with his arm.

He was kind of doing this whole thing and I was like, Oh, that shoulder, that shoulder.

Uh, please be the neck.

That, that's not essentially here very often.

Don't hurt the neck, hurt the shoulder, hurt the neck, but, uh, yeah, no, it's relatively

good news, but still it's, it stinks and, and, you know, again, they want to put them

on the IL.

I kind of have to trust them and, and hope that, uh, that, that a short stint fixes it.

Um, I, I think you'd probably rather do that than have this thing.

Or it's like, Oh, well, he's only available every other day for the rest of the season type

of things.

So we'll see what happens.

But, uh, yeah, I guess all things considered, okay, news, uh, coming from the, uh, from

the injury front.

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