Erik Kratz
speaker
1,975 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 15 Sep
Erik Kratz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It is easy to sit there and go, okay, he pulled that guy out too soon.
Why did he pull him out too soon?
Well, because the next guy, because Louie Varlin came in and gave up the home run, okay?
But then if they scored in the seventh inning when Louis Varlin should have been in the game, well, then he took him out too soon.
And Louis Varlin did get the job done right when he took him out.
But then you really made your bullpen thin.
It's all about the loss.
And to me, if I'm John Schneider, I think he's done a good job of seeing the game.
more than he did the infamous Jose Barrios.
You know, seeing what's going on, seeing who has what, you know, has what is working and what's not working.
And I think it's something that is, it's fluid.
It's day to day.
Him and Pete Walker know his guys.
Like you have to trust that they're going to make the right decision and
Unfortunately, it hasn't really worked out.
It hasn't worked out in a sense that you're down 0-2, and now you're up against Shane Bieber, Max Scherzer.
What does the rest of the starts look like for these guys?
And everybody's going to second-guess that.
And the reality is I, you ask me my opinion on all this, I stick with my starters longer.
I have a, I have, I have a different view on it and it's probably why I'll never be a manager and that's okay.
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