Sho Alli

if you go Hoffman Rogers, Varlin in games, you need to close in, in higher leverage situations.

I think most would be very happy with that, but I do wonder, I mean, I think Varlin being put into this role, I think it raised the question of the fireman role as I call it, right.

Quote unquote fireman role.

And I think that was why, at least for a little while, people were reticent to have Varlin just locked into the closer role because he is, in theory, more valuable to come in and put out that fire in the eighth inning.

Let's just say, right, if Buxton and Josh Bell and whoever else, Jeffers, are coming up to the plate in the eighth and not the ninth, in theory, you could use Varlin in that situation.

So I think that's how people describe the fireman role for at least a couple of years now.

And...

kind of Brayden Fisher got that job tonight, right?

He came in in, I guess it was in the sixth inning with runners on first and second with one out and he gets Luke Kieschel to fly out and he strikes out Royce Lewis.

Now I do think he should just, he missed that.

He missed that pitch.

He just got it off the end of the bat.

It looked like, cause it was a deep fly out, but Brayden Fisher, I gotta say, I mean, I've, I know he's had some, some trouble here and there, but I like his stuff for that role.

If that makes sense.

Fisher, if I recall correctly, Caitlin, was the guy the Blue Jays acquired a couple years ago now for Kevin Biggio.

He was the DFA Biggio and then got Fisher in the post-DFA trade in that week that you get after your DFA guy.

I mean, I do not have the list of trades made for guys who have been DFA'd.

Handy, I would say.

But I do think...

That in terms of production, what you've gotten from Braden Fisher, that's got to be one of the better trades that Ross Atkins has pulled off, I would imagine.