Jason Mackey

But I, you know, Triolo needs to hit that, that much is fact.

Like if he's hitting in that six spot, if he's hitting in that seven spot, it doesn't really matter.

Like what he found over the final 52 games last year, I think he had a seven 75 OPS and,

and was actually a productive player at the plate.

Like they need that very badly in their lineup to stretch it out.

It can't be, you know, I think this is one thing you can look at with the pirates.

Like they fixed their offense in some key spots or, you know, at least on paper, they had, they have more options than they did last year, but you need some of those guys who were question marks, Jared Triolo, Henry Davis, uh,

even Joey Bart, you need those guys to produce more than they did in spring and, you know, to be actual factors in the lineup.

Um,

I mean, the easy out, Bob, I would say it's just health.

You know, if they run into, you know, losing guys because of injury or whatever.

Um, but I think a secondary one might be what we're talking about in the lineup, just not being deep enough.

I mean, if they're, if they're good one through four, but five through nine, they struggle, then it's, it's not going to be enough to overcome things.

Um,

You know, I guess the third point might just be the bullpen, if there's enough depth there to last the whole season.

Like right now, as things are currently constituted, I really like the look of their bullpen, but if they're dipping down to AAA, I don't know if Jose Urquidy maybe doesn't pan out or Hunter Barco needs more time or guys are hurt and they have to turn to some of the guys they added in the 40 this offseason, like an Antoine Kelly or Brandon Boudoir, and those guys can't come up here and contribute.

If there's not enough overall pitching depth,

then, yeah, I could see them running into issues there.

I mean, we saw Bubba Chandler, and sorry, they just cranked on the music here at Citi Field.

I hope that's not too loud.