Ernie Clement
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kind of reveals their mindset on these things.
And I would be surprised if Heinemann goes, but I would have been more surprised if you said it to me, you know, two weeks ago, three weeks ago.
It's only becoming more possible that Valenzuela stays.
You can make a case that, listen, if you DFA Heinemann and you keep Valenzuela, people say, oh no, now you only have two catchers and you're in trouble.
You could make a case that Heinemann is reaching the sort of area where just the veteran catchers that you can find on waivers or in a completely inexpensive trade like the Lenin-Sosa type deal, that player available isn't enough worse than Heinemann that it's that much of a problem that you're losing one catcher from your organization.
And have some time for that.
Yeah, they have Willie McIver from the Rockies organization.
So maybe they see him in that realm where he's a AAA slash third catcher type that they actually believe in.
It's early to say how the organization feels about him.
The organization has always felt fairly positively about Tyler Heinemann, probably more than consensus.
They keep acquiring him.
But that is an argument I have time for.
The idea that, like, listen, you can lose Heinemann from the organization and
And whether it's McIver or whether it's another veteran catcher you kind of find on the scrap heap, you're not necessarily losing that much.
There's sort of two ways to think about this outing.
One way is, okay, what did Yusavage do today and how impressed with that are you?
And to be honest, I don't think it was very impressive.
The command, as you mentioned, was kind of spotty.
He was in and out of trouble.
He was fairly reliant on his defense to make some important plays.