Mark Feinsand

with another injury, and they lost their shortstop to a broken finger, they lost their young outfielder Jason Dominguez early in the season, who was having not a great year, but he was at least providing some value.

Um, but you look at what Ben Rice has been able to do.

Um, and this is a guy who people mostly looked at as a platoon type player, uh, including his own manager who was platooning him quite often.

Well, he's leading the league in OPS.

He's, uh,

You know, one home run behind Murakami for the league lead, tied with another guy on the Yankee there, and Judge, you might have heard of him.

Rice and Judge have been an unbelievable one-two punch for them this year, and they've gotten enough out of the other guys to score enough runs.

The Max Fried injury certainly hurt them, but...

but they get Garrett Cole back this Friday.

So, you know, if you had added Cole to the rotation, that would have been a better situation for them, but at least he can come back, take freed spot until free comes back.

And when free comes back, they'll have freed, they'll have Cole and they'll be the number two and three starters behind cam Schlitler, who we saw his breakout last year in the playoffs with his huge playoff performance.

But this year he has been probably the best pitcher in the American league and

You know, 135 ERA, a ton of strikeouts.

He's really, really good.

He's 25, and the Yankees haven't had a homegrown kid like this in a while, pitching-wise.

And so for him to be doing what he's doing, very exciting development for the Yankees.

Thank you, Mark.

And thank you for the constant Rick Devins updates because I've been a huge Survivor fan forever.

And I connected with Devins once I found out he was a fan of the show.

And I've been able to pick his brain during the course of this season, even though he's not allowed to tell me anything real.