Erik Kratz
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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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Like this guy, anytime somebody goes through a rehab process this lengthy and now gets just thrown into the fire of a playoff chase of a World Series contending team,
It's going to be some – there's just high levels of expectations.
You want a soft landing spot?
Sorry, there's no soft landing spots.
Even with a five-game lead, if he gets activated Friday, which I agree that's what I've read is going to happen,
It's going to be put up or shut up.
I don't care what his career numbers are, what he could be, his potential.
It's put up or shut up.
There's no like, well, we'll just give him five or six starts.
They don't need that.
One, they can't afford it because they want to continue this and they want to continue their hot run.
But two, they have dudes that are doing well.
So you come in, you better be game ready.
So the excitement around that...
is what will really build all of this is he has to step in right away if he wants to be a part of this team moving forward.
He has to step in and have success right away because everybody else is having success.
Like, it's one of those things, well, you don't really need you, but it's great to have.
I mean, to have depth in your rotation, there's plenty of teams that are looking at it going, whew, we're so glad we have depth right now.
I remember it was probably about the seventh or eighth time in my career where
We were like, okay, well, this is the chance.
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