Jose Bautista

So you start to see kind of the where, why maybe the Jays are dealing with some injury question marks.

And then, you know, C's not the longest guy, but sixth in total innings over that span as well.

And then I'd imagine taking care of it from the injury perspective, but from a like kinetic chain and quality of your pitching perspective, if you took your next start and it wasn't all the way there and you were overcompensating, I imagine that could really mess you up mechanically.

So the Jays already have 13 players on the IL.

A couple of those are pretty important.

A couple of those make a lot of money.

Like, they have more payroll on the IL.

If a salary cap passes, the Jays are going to take this year's injury report and be like, the long-term IR cannot count toward the salary cap.

Please, we need an NHL-style salary.

LTIR stash.

So that's already swelled.

It's obviously had an impact on their performance overall, and you can't use it as an excuse.

The guys who are healthy got to play, and they got to win a little bit more.

But when you're in that room, and, you know, the feeling I got yesterday when Cease comes out and then Vlad comes out the half inning after is, like, this just doesn't stop this year.

What is that like in the room?

And I guess how do you, as a group, try to fight off that, oh, my God, here we go again aspect of it?

It's enough that there is one locker that is open and it's lost and found.

It's just like stuff that got left here.

I guess, yeah, that's such a tough contrast where, you know, if it's a long homestand, you can, they have tons of resources in Toronto.

You can get your work in, but it's the road trips, right?