Brad Pearson

It's hard to think about later when you're fighting for your life now.

So I think that's something that we always think about trying to do in terms of whether we're going to give a guy more time, reduce volume in a start or skip start or things like that to be creative to play the long game.

Yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head.

I think our monitoring processes are much better.

We have a lot more data to go on instead of just a conversation with the coaches and the players.

So we try to be able to use the data a little bit more effectively of being ahead of when fatigue sets in.

Because ultimately that's what you're trying to do.

Once somebody's already hit the wall, it's almost too late.

So you try to be more prospective with it.

Yeah, I mean, first of all, Garrett gets all the credit.

He's got the nickname Beast for a reason in this clubhouse because he is a beast.

he works his tail off to be able to pitch every five days and give us a chance to win every five days and he's just maniacal with his work so you know he makes us look good because he sets the table for success so for us it's actually trying to convince him that you know we are playing the long game here this is Boston we expect to be in the playoffs we expect to go deep in the playoffs we have experience doing this so it's really just kind of aligning our our thought process of

of what the game plan is here.

And we want his input too.

And if we don't have that trust, then I don't think we'll get to where we want to be.

So thankfully, like, I think we were able to get to that place where Alex is on board, you know, Brez is on board, Bales is on board, and most importantly, you know, Garrett's on board with a long-term plan while still fighting for our lives every day to win.

dipping a little bit maybe it's time for a rest like how does this happen yeah I think uh I think it's multifactorial of course and uh

There's so much data that we can glean and obtain from the games themselves, which is best case for us.

There's everything from the pitch counts, the volume side of things, to the intensity side, which is miles per hour.

And we have all that in their bullpens as well.