Jesse Rubinoff

But the last three starts, he's been decent.

He's gone five innings in each of them.

And you look at that and you say, well...

what should I be expecting out of a number five starter?

Like if you're your top three guys are giving you, you know, three 50 and lower ERAs and your number five starter is right around league average.

If he can give you anything, maybe even above four, but he's given you five innings and it's just a reasonable outing.

Five innings and three runs is not so bad that it can't be overcome by what's supposed to be a pretty decent offense.

So,

It's all about expectations.

And if you're expecting the Eric Lauer of last year, maybe that's a little bit unfair because he was truly dominant at times.

Maybe he's not that guy, but maybe he's adequate enough for a number five spot until Shane Bieber comes back or maybe Barrios figures it out.

Yeah, that's totally... Maybe he didn't like the at-bat that Heinemann took and it was almost... Maybe he ignored some signals, perhaps?

Yeah, and maybe it was punishment of some sort because it feels like if he was just relieving him, giving him a break for the last three innings...

then he wouldn't have, he wouldn't have spoken that way.

And it wouldn't just be, wouldn't have just kept it tight lit and in clubhouse.

So that's a, he almost never does that.

Like that's one of the more shocking postgame comments that we've heard from John Schneider.

In a long time, because you're right, he's usually extremely forthright about the way that he goes about answering questions.

He's he's pretty honest.

But to hear him say manager's decision leads me to believe that it's almost like a disciplinary thing.