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Alonso Sarinana

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Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Previewing The NLCS With 'Talk Dodgers To Me'

And that's why he went to the guys that he went to and listen, and I get it.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Previewing The NLCS With 'Talk Dodgers To Me'

He's trying to give those guys, he's trying to show those guys that they trust him, that, that the coaching staff trust the bullpen.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Previewing The NLCS With 'Talk Dodgers To Me'

And that's why they're going to those guys.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Previewing The NLCS With 'Talk Dodgers To Me'

Obviously, you can rely on Alex Vecchia.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Previewing The NLCS With 'Talk Dodgers To Me'

But one of the craziest things about Vecchia is he has one of the best ERAs for relief pitchers for the Dodgers since they acquired him.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Previewing The NLCS With 'Talk Dodgers To Me'

And he's like in the top 10 in like a minimum of like 250 innings pitched or something like that.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Previewing The NLCS With 'Talk Dodgers To Me'

Like that's a super, like one of those, like Friedman's going to put that on the mantle somewhere because for him, that's like the reason you go out and you get a guy is like.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Previewing The NLCS With 'Talk Dodgers To Me'

down the line, Moneyball is going to talk about that.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Previewing The NLCS With 'Talk Dodgers To Me'

Like you got Vessia for, I don't even know who, like a player to be named later, probably situation.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Previewing The NLCS With 'Talk Dodgers To Me'

And no, I know that's not the case, but you know what I'm saying?

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Previewing The NLCS With 'Talk Dodgers To Me'

It's one of those, like, you don't really think about that piece in that moment.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Previewing The NLCS With 'Talk Dodgers To Me'

And then you get the guy.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Previewing The NLCS With 'Talk Dodgers To Me'

And so, so I think.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Previewing The NLCS With 'Talk Dodgers To Me'

For me, I look at it from a couple ways.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Previewing The NLCS With 'Talk Dodgers To Me'

Like, the starting pitching's good.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Previewing The NLCS With 'Talk Dodgers To Me'

I'm actually really happy about that.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Previewing The NLCS With 'Talk Dodgers To Me'

My real worry going into this series is that the bullpen is just not going to meet the moment.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Previewing The NLCS With 'Talk Dodgers To Me'

And that's honestly just been my worry throughout the postseason has just been that.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Previewing The NLCS With 'Talk Dodgers To Me'

And the bummer is...

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Previewing The NLCS With 'Talk Dodgers To Me'

They've kind of – like the times that they haven't gone to the formula that we all know they probably should go to, that everyone kind of knows they should go to, the bullpen has kind of let us down.