Jason Mackey
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I think we're going to have baseball today.
Yeah, Cruz last night, I don't know what got him there, but it looked like a different hitter.
It looked like he relaxed a little bit.
Maybe it was just connecting with something.
Maybe it's confidence.
I don't know.
His first at-bat to me was notable.
Him sort of sticking his bat out there and just getting the bat on the ball and getting a little fillet single.
I don't know.
Maybe that lightened the load a little bit.
He's a tough player to figure out, man.
And to talk big picture about it, like the Pirates –
made this commitment to him.
You can disagree with that, but they've signed up for the whole year.
They're going to see this through.
They're going to play him.
They're going to figure out what they have.
That doesn't mean he has to play every day.
It doesn't mean they're
They don't have to address things when they go awry, like you're talking about with opening day, but you're not going to DFA him.