Bob Pompeiani

If truly their claim is we want to win now, we have to get to the playoffs.

Your best options are your best options.

I think the realization started to set in.

He's still your best option.

No matter who plays, Gonzalez is not a shortstop.

I'll ride with him at third because of his bat right now, but ultimately these guys are kind of platoon guys.

Gonzalez can play second as well.

They can move people around, but Connor Griffin's got to be your everyday shortstop.

To me, you know what he is.

Again, you identify, you know him, you've seen him the entire six weeks of spring training.

You saw what he did last year from single A to double A. I don't think you needed to see anything in triple A. And once they made that decision, that's where I would agree with you.

Then I'm thinking they're going to have to see a month of this

But no, after 14 at-bats, it was good enough.

I just think they finally realized that they need him up here to be part of what should be a really interesting lineup for them moving forward.

He brought that up too.

Yeah, they could have made an opener.

The opener already had big ticket sales.

They didn't need to do this now.

No, they could have done it Saturday.

To me, that's why I don't think it's a PR thing.