Bill Plunkett
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And who's the other one?
There's another.
Oh, Brock Stewart, last year's deadline pickup.
I think we see him a month or two into the season.
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?
If there's somebody in the sixth inning that's dangerous, Blake Trinan's going to get him.
If nothing dangerous comes up until the eighth, well, then maybe Blake Trinan pitches the eighth.
If there's a left-handed spot in the opposing lineup, that's when Vessia and Tanner Scott are going.
They're not going to wait until the eighth inning and hold one of them.
It'll be matchup-based all the way up until Diaz.
But the problem is they tried that last year.
That was the way they were going to handle the closer position.
Tanner Scott was not signed to be the closer.
He was signed to be one of the options.
Well, Evan Phillips was another option, and his elbow blew out.
Blake Trinan was another option, and he got hurt and didn't pitch for much of the season.
Kirby Yates was going to be in that mix, and he got old real quick and just did not pitch well.
And then it ended up being Tanner Scott just by default, and we saw how that worked out.
He was not up to just being the dedicated closer.
You go into a season, you think you have a lot of options, but things happen.