John Gibbons
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Podcast Appearances
Well, I mean, if you look at it, I think it was, what, 15, 17, something in that range below 500 they played last year.
And that's where you want to get back to 500.
And, you know, we got off to a really good start.
And then, you know, we're playing good baseball.
And then we had a tough week, 10-day stretch.
You know, really, it's tough to pinpoint what it is, you know, other than a lot of times we weren't combining the pitching with the offense.
Because I tell you what, our strength is our starting rotation.
We've got some pretty good arms we can throw at you.
But our bullpen has been kind of, you know, we're trying to figure out really who's doing what.
You know, we've got some โ they're not necessarily young guys, but they're unproven guys.
They have great arms, but we're trying to figure what the roles are because we have struggled with that.
We've got Joyce who's coming back pretty soon who will step into the closing roles, so that will help.
It's really his team trying to find his confidence, but there's a lot of talent out there on the offensive side and in that starting rotation, even in our bullpen.
We've just got to figure out what it is.
The bullpens, you look around baseball,
as a whole, pretty much.
I mean, there's, they all run through that, you know, and, and so the key is you outslug some teams enough where you get, get a little breathing room down there.
But like I said, you know, they, they played below 500 by a pretty good amount last year.
So hopefully we shoot for that.
And then you never know what happens because, you know, the whole,