Caitlin McGrath

I saw as the ninth inning was happening, he just runs out of the dugout.

So he knew he was getting that second inning.

And

He handled it.

Great win for the Blue Jays overall.

And shout out to the crowd at Wrigley.

There was a lot of Blue Jays fans there, which was kind of fun to see.

Yeah, I know.

You have to think back.

I mean, obviously the Blue Jays have had some good closers in recent memory.

Jordan Romano, while he was here, he had a few great years for the Blue Jays, but in terms of looking big picture broadly across the American League and across the majors, yeah, I mean... B.J.

Well, it's interesting you bring it up because I was on Blake's show earlier this week and he actually asked me about Varlin and within the context of like...

what would a reliever have to do in this day and age to win the Cy Young?

And we kind of had a conversation about that.

And I said, well, actually, I was in the room a couple years ago at the BBWA meetings where some members were pushing for a reliever of the year award for the exact reason that relievers, it's almost impossible for them to get Cy Young votes, even when they're having incredible seasons like Louis Varlin is right now and Mason Miller, another guy, having a really great season.

And so...

I kind of made the point where like, I don't even know what you would have to do to, to win a Cy Young as a reliever at this point.

I think you'd have to like have an ERA close to zero and, and have 40 plus saves or something like that.

Just in this day and age and how, how valuable starters are, but lucky for Louis Varlin this year is the first year that we'll have a reliever of the year award voted on by BWA member.

So I think he is going to be a leading candidate for that American league award.