Jeff Blair

We've seen that time and time with him again.

Now all of a sudden you get him back.

Yeah, you got a really good bullpen, but you want to use it the way you want to use it with the lead.

You can't be 8-0 going into the fourth inning.

Are we almost at the point, given what we've seen from Lauer and Max and Patrick Corbin after one starter, do we have to start looking at the possibility of at least using an opener in games?

Yeah, you're not going to use it with Max.

I mean, he's a first-battle Hall of Famer.

You can imagine trying to sell that to Max.

I don't know if that makes any sense.

I don't think that has anything to do with who he's facing.

He's 41.

He's thrown a lot.

You know, arm speed on everything yesterday.

It was a little everything.

There was some bad luck thrown in there.

There was some not being able to put guys away.

I mean, he was 10 for 15 throwing strike one, so he got ahead.

The velocity was okay.

Didn't have his cutter to lefties.

I mean, you face that many lefties, you got to have something to keep them honest up and in.