Jason Mackey

You could see, obviously you're athletic and you cover a lot of ground and you need these really dynamic tools.

With Griffin, it just fits together so much smoother.

There's confidence and there's maturity.

So I have zero issues, zero concerns about him holding his own defensively.

Well, they have a light hitting, well, I shouldn't say light hitting, but I mean, Jared Triolo, you know, you probably, if you have some offensive questions between Triolo, Lau, and Griffin, like it's Triolo, right?

So you'd probably prefer more power at third, but if you have Griffin at short and Lau at second, like I, you know, the configuration that the caller mentioned, Donnie, I mean, that's the exact wrong thing that I would do.

I mean, Triolo is a gold glove third baseman.

Like there's a lot of benefit there to playing him at third.

People forget he's been a seven war player in his career.

I mean, that's actually a pretty good defensive alignment.

If you have Jared Triolo at third, Connor Griffin at short, the left side of your infield is solid, man.

So, yeah, I mean, they're getting some home runs from nontraditional spots, but it doesn't matter.

At the end of the day, you just got to score more runs.

Yeah, I mean, yes and no.

He's in the lineup because he can field, because he can play a bunch of different positions.

I don't think it has anything to do with anybody else.

He's a very valuable player on this team.

I really like him a lot.

I hope he continues what he does over the final two months.

So, I mean, there's zero question about him making the roster.