Rob Bradford

It's weird to say that you have to be careful with a guy you just gave $130 million for.

But if he was with the Dodgers...

You'd be like, all right, I get it.

Because the Dodgers, they understand it's all about October.

They can protect their starters.

They can give them 25 starters.

No problem.

Because we do know Ranger Suarez, when he gets to the big stage, he's not going to shy away from it.

That's a good thing.

We do know that Ranger Suarez is a good pitcher.

But we also know the last two Septembers, Ranger Suarez has not been good.

And so you have to manage that situation.

I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say, like, oh, my, what a terrible signing, and you paid too much, because he's a good pitcher.

You're a better team because you have Ranger Suarez, undeniably.

And now maybe you can deal from your starting rotation even more than you could.

But, you know, still, we have to go in with our eyes wide open, that this team right now, you have to compete with some pretty big boys in the American League East,

And until you get that bat, it sure seems like you might be swimming upstream a little bit.

Well, you know, I think that, you know, the Blue Jays obviously are really, really good.

The Blue Jays, we all came into this, or as we went through the offseason, they're sort of like the Dodgers of the American League.

People don't understand how much money they have to throw around, and they're trying to throw the money around, and they had done a pretty good job up until Tucker.