Dan Schulman

That's probably a conversation for like a month and a half from now.

Okay, Dan, there was some news on the pitching side last night.

Aside from Kevin Gosman having a rough outing, before the game we found out Eric Lauer was designated for assignment.

And this comes at a time when Shane Bieber is just about to face live hitters for the first time.

Jose Brios is visiting Dr. Keith Meister today to check out what the heck's going on because the latest MRI showed something different than the last one.

Max Scherzer's getting cortisone shots in the forearm and in the thumb.

Cody Ponce is done for the year.

Bowden France is done for the year.

What does it tell you about how far away, and you obviously watch the game, so you've seen it as well, but just how far away Eric Lauer was from figuring it out that even with all of those injuries, even with no clear contingency space,

No, and the cost of doing the bullpen day thing is it's not only are you not in as good a position to win that game, your bullpen is then thinner and more guys are yellow and red in the subsequent games.

So, you know, and, you know, there's an option with the Thursday off day

The guys who pitch in this series maybe slide up one day, and you can buy yourself a couple days, but most of your rotation is 30-plus.

You don't want to be doing that to Kevin Gosman and Patrick Corbin.

No, and then there's the, you know, Patrick Corbin's been excellent, but the underlying stuff is not 360 ERA.

And he was, there was a reason he was available as he was.

So you got to kind of cross your fingers that that spot's there too.

So Dan, I have to go back to the off season.

I don't know how much of this you got.

And I don't know how you're probably smarter than me for not looking at your Twitter mentions and stuff like that.

At the time, the Blue Jays added Max Scherzer back, which was SP8 at the time.