Laura Albanese

And so he was going to have that trust until he lost it.

And now we're kind of more into the you're back to having to prove yourself kind of phase.

I don't think you do that.

No.

Absolutely not.

Nolan McLean might be the real deal.

I, and I'm not a prospect hugger by any sense of like the imagination, but I saw this guy in real time.

Like he, he's going to be, he could very well be the rookie of the year next year.

If not more than that.

I don't, I don't think that, especially with the amount of team control, like right there, you said, no one McLean.

I'm like, no.

No?

All right.

I knew there was going to be more than that.

And I'm like, Nolan McClain and how much of your farm system?

I mean, I think you almost have to.

I mean, we saw it like, OK, so if you look at the top five in rotational ERA over the season, four of them is like the Brewers, the Dodgers, the Yankees and the Phillies.

They made it to the playoffs.

We saw Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Blake Snell do what they're doing.

I mean, this idea that aces don't play or that you can kind of like.