Jose Bautista

He's unbelievable in those leverage spots.

Is this a case where even if Hoffman, you know, it's been four games, so let's give it some more time.

But if Hoffman is right and you're happy with where Hoffman is, you kind of just got to ride with Varland in it given how successful it's been?

Hoffman's incentives, by the way, are innings pitch-based, not games finish-based.

So you don't even have to worry about that financial side.

When it comes to Varlin's success in the role, the stuff kind of speaks for itself when you're hitting one-on-one on Friday and you're barking to let you get a second inning.

But what have you seen from him that's allowed him to be so successful in that role?

And this can go back to 15 appearances in the playoffs as well.

Yeah, it's pretty good stuff.

Only two earned runs on the season so far.

A couple of unearned ones in the extra innings and stuff like that, but 40 strikeouts to nine walks in 27 and two-thirds innings.

He's rolling pretty good.

Yeah.

Okay, want to end with a couple of fun ones here.

So there were two instances of memorabilia stuff.

On the weekend.

I don't know if you saw this.

The first was that Hideki Matsui gifted Kazuma Okamoto a signed jersey.

They were both Yomiuri Giants alumni.

That's very cool, obviously.