Alonso Sarinana
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And that's why he went to the guys that he went to and listen, and I get it.
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.
And that's why they're going to those guys.
Obviously, you can rely on Alex Vecchia.
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.
And he's like in the top 10 in like a minimum of like 250 innings pitched or something like that.
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.
down the line, Moneyball is going to talk about that.
Like you got Vessia for, I don't even know who, like a player to be named later, probably situation.
And no, I know that's not the case, but you know what I'm saying?
It's one of those, like, you don't really think about that piece in that moment.
And then you get the guy.
And so, so I think.
For me, I look at it from a couple ways.
Like, the starting pitching's good.
I'm actually really happy about that.
My real worry going into this series is that the bullpen is just not going to meet the moment.
And that's honestly just been my worry throughout the postseason has just been that.
And the bummer is...
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.