Russ (Caller)

He's hitting 300 with runners in scoring position, but the power is in there.

And, you know, the American League, I don't want to say 40 games into the season, and I know you'll go back last year, but the Yankees are three or four games better than last year, and the Blue Jays are two games worse than they were.

They were 20 and 20 at the mark.

So that's number one.

With Lauer, I want to say like this.

You know, you guys say, well, the manager fills up the lineup card and, you know, you got it, you got it, you got it.

You know, the player has to listen, which is all true.

But the point is if the guy is not comfortable or the guy's upset,

It's just not going to work.

So I'm not telling you you've got to cater to Lauer.

But if he's upset, you can expect that he's not going to be the pitcher that he could be.

And like you guys said, he has to have pinpoint control.

He voiced his displeasure, right or wrong.

But you can't have that guy going out there if he's mad.

And he feels he should be a starter.

If the Blue Jays obviously don't think so, then you can't start him at all.

It's not going to work when you have a guy who's upset at the position he's been put in.

And I think he's still deep down upset.

Like I said, it doesn't mean he's right.

But what kind of performance are we going to get out of a guy like that?