Richard Griffin

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OverDrive · OverDrive - August 24, 2026 - Hour 2 - Dave Naylor/Richard Griffin · 24 Aug 2026 podcast

Managing the Niagara Ironbacks in the collegiate league this summer, I realized that you can lay out the best plan for your pitching staff for any given game and as soon as the weakest link

comes apart on that chain, then you're in trouble.

And I I see that with John Schneider all the time.

He's he knows that his staff is overworked, his relievers are overworked, but what can he do about it?

I had a guy in a a game that we needed to reach the playoffs

His car broke down in North Tanawanda, New York and he didn't get to the start.

So uh you know, these are behind the scenes problems.

I'm sure John doesn't have that problem.

But uh but y there are so many issues in terms of pitching and trying to get it to work, trying to get through a hundred and sixty two games and knowing that there's thirty more to come.

And and to me the thirty against teams under five hundred doesn't mean a thing because they're all competitive with the Blue Jays for that spot.

There's eighty one more games intramural among those seven teams.

So there's gonna be winners every night that there's losers.

It's gonna be a very difficult task for the Blue Jays moving forward and I don't like their chances.

Well, I think first of all that's it's like when you're playing poker there's that old expression that if you look around the table and you can't see the easy mark, then it's probably you.

And and

The Jays are in that situation because they don't have that World Series mystique.

People talk about it on TV.

They say, well, you know, people fear the Blue Jays because it they were in the World Series a year ago.

But they only have 670 innings by pitchers that are currently on the roster.

They got Max Scherzer needing ten innings, and every ten innings after that he gets a million dollars.

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