Sam McDowell

It wears on him and that doesn't mean he's lost confidence, doesn't mean he thinks he sucks.

It just means that.

It bothers him when he does not come through with the team.

He's a team-oriented person.

He feels like he's coming up short.

I think taking him out of...

the most important position in the lineup, which is hitting after Bobby Wood Jr., could relieve maybe some of that pressure, and then you move him back.

Yeah, I mean, too, I think that whoever hits after Bobby Wood Jr.

is the most important because he gets on base.

I mean, he's atop the American League in hits.

Like, that's who's going to hit them.

And as of last week, I mean, Vinny Pasquantino and Salvador Perez were leading the American League with plate appearances.

And they would both fail.

The third thing is I think when you get so consistent with your process, which is great, and it's not producing the results, and the results are like yesterday, Lucas Erceg should be content with his individual results.

Not the fact they lost the game, not the fact he blew the save.

Your goal is to get a guy to hit the ball 36 miles an hour or 35 miles an hour and break his bat.

Those are the results he should look at.

But when even the advanced metrics aren't great about your lineup, I just think that at some point the consistency and the preference for consistency can also border on just stubbornness and not changing things that aren't working.

I mean, if they're ahead tonight, someone else is going to have to close the game tonight.

Because, I mean, I would be stunned if after throwing 31 –