Austin Bonta

I'm going to look it up to make sure.

Well, so according to the game log, I'll tell you this.

He famously did not pitch in the...

postseason in his last opportunity to pitch.

The Cubs skipped him, did not throw him out there.

He gave up three home runs over two postseason appearances, so he gave up home runs in each of those.

And if you go back to the regular season and add his last nine regular season starts, he gave up 11 straight starts home runs.

But that's fine.

Six and a third, three hits, one earned run.

That's the show you thought you signed up for.

I think it's clear that as of right now, he feels like insurance.

Because you look at the other starters in this rotation to start it off, and I think honestly, unless something...

I don't want to say drastic changes, unless there's a return to what he looked like in the first half of the season.

He's not in your top five pitchers, and that's including Colin Ray, I'm going to be honest with you.

Well...

sometimes insurance is costly depending on where you live and what kind of weather patterns are happening.

Like, you know, to get, to get insured in Florida now as an arm and maybe both your legs.

Uh,

It's Matthew Boyd, it's Eduardo Cabrera, it's Cade Horton, it's Jamison Tyone, and then it's Shota Imanaga.

And you could argue it should be Colin Ray, the spot starter, the sixth swing man ahead of Shota Imanaga.