Shai Davidi

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1,253 appearances 17 recordings 4 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 16 Sep

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Blair & Barker · Reinforcements on the Way + Jays Take on Judge-Less Yankees · 12 Jun 2026 podcast

I think they like to get to a situation where against lefties, it gives you an option.

And maybe that's a day where, you know, you're DH-ing Kirk and you've got Valenzuela behind the plate and you want to still get as many right-handed bats as you can in there.

And that would be a spot for George to do that.

Now, as we know, and the numbers showed this pretty clearly last year, I think it was in the neighborhood of a...

150-ish, maybe a bit more than that, OPS points of difference in games when he was DH-ing versus games when he was in the outfield.

The Blue Jays are going to be very conscious of that.

He's obviously another year older.

He's had to play part of this year on a broken toe.

So he's certainly been a lot or been through a lot.

So it's not so easy to just throw him back in the outfield and say go.

I think there would probably be very judicious usage of it.

But I think that type of scenario is why you would want to have that at least available as an option to you.

Yeah, for sure.

And look, let's start this with Barger.

He is going to progress to some batting practice off the machine tomorrow.

He's throwing up to 120 feet.

And John Schneider said it is possible that he's in rehab games by the middle to the end of next week.

So that's felt like there's nothing happening or it's just sort of plateaued.

But that is an indicator that there is some progress being made with Barger.

But to your other point,

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