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Bill Plunkett

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317 total appearances

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Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

And who's the other one?

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

There's another.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

Oh, Brock Stewart, last year's deadline pickup.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

I think we see him a month or two into the season.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

So all those guys in front of Edwin Diaz, Blake Trine and Tanner Scott, et cetera, Alex Vessia, they're going to be matchup-based decisions, right?

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

If there's somebody in the sixth inning that's dangerous, Blake Trinan's going to get him.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

If nothing dangerous comes up until the eighth, well, then maybe Blake Trinan pitches the eighth.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

If there's a left-handed spot in the opposing lineup, that's when Vessia and Tanner Scott are going.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

They're not going to wait until the eighth inning and hold one of them.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

It'll be matchup-based all the way up until Diaz.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

But the problem is they tried that last year.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

That was the way they were going to handle the closer position.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

Tanner Scott was not signed to be the closer.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

He was signed to be one of the options.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

Well, Evan Phillips was another option, and his elbow blew out.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

Blake Trinan was another option, and he got hurt and didn't pitch for much of the season.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

Kirby Yates was going to be in that mix, and he got old real quick and just did not pitch well.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

And then it ended up being Tanner Scott just by default, and we saw how that worked out.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

He was not up to just being the dedicated closer.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

You go into a season, you think you have a lot of options, but things happen.