Ben Nicholson-Smith

He's kind of in his own category when it comes to just...

understanding what it means to get back from an injury or to try to build up.

Like he's, he has so much experience, more than a lot of pitching coaches, more than a lot of managers.

When it comes to doing this, not, not Pete Walker and John Schneider necessarily, but this is, this is someone who knows himself in that process really, really well.

So if he says he needs time, give him time, totally agree.

You can roll with Spencer miles.

Conversely, if Scherzer says,

I feel great.

I threw 60 pitches.

We're good to go.

At that point, I probably would be inclined to trust him and say, all right, you say you're good to go.

You got bullets that you're ready to use in the major leagues.

Let's go.

And maybe that means a piggyback with Miles.

Maybe that means Scherzer goes five and Miles covers the sixth, seventh, eighth, whatever it is.

You keep him semi-stretched out.

But I would kind of play it off of Scherzer at that point and see what he says and see what his stuff looks like.

For sure.

So two things off that.

One, Josh Fleming, for the second consecutive time that we're recording ATL, he is pitching as we record this.