Jeff Passan

Sure, sure.

Go with someone.

Go with someone else.

Yeah.

Why wouldn't you put Lynch in there?

You know, I get that you are concerned about the splits.

Like, Daniel Lynch is a terror.

on left-handed hitters.

And right-handed hitters, I mean, they haven't been great against him this year.

They haven't been... It's been, like, a little bit above league average.

So I get that if you're putting him in a situation in a close game in the ninth inning and there are any left-handers there, the likelihood is the opposing manager is going to go to the bench and you're going to see just a spate of right-handed hitters against him.

But, man...

in the most important moments, I get security blanket that Daniel Lynch provides Matt Quattro right now in that he, uh, you know, he can use them at any time.

He can use him multiple innings as necessary.

Like there, there's a lot of flexibility there.

That's really nice.

But,

Man, when you're blown as many leads the Royals have this year, when you have the closer who has more blown saves than anyone, who took over for the guy who in the first two weeks of the season had more blown saves than anyone, effectiveness at the end of the game...

really matters, and I think you give up that binky that Daniel Lynch provides in order to win some baseball games.

Uh, I think that... I think you're painting with a little bit too broad a brush.