Dave Roberts' Strategic Choices Amid Playoff Pressures
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00:00Listen, Dave Roberts is feels like he's been on the hot seat forever, but I don't envy that what he's got to do to navigate this step.
00:08I think if this was a best of five series, we'd be having a different conversation about who came in that game yesterday.
00:15And I none of those high leverage guys would have been in the bullpen.
00:18They would have had to have come in.
00:20But if being a set of best of seven, what else what choice does he have?
00:24I mean, how does he navigate as this series moves on with these arms and the lack of lefties?
00:30I mean, it's enviable.
00:33It really is.
00:33I mean, I wish him all the best.
00:35I don't know that he can pull it off.
00:37Who's on a more perpetual hot seat?
00:39Real quick question for you guys.
00:40Dave Roberts or Ryan Day at Ohio State?
00:43Like both those guys.
00:45Like, oh, if you lose one, you might be done.
00:48Yeah, I think it's national championship or World Series or bust.
00:56And if you fall short of that expectation, whether it's Dave Roberts or Ryan Day this year, that pressure cooker gets heated up even more.
01:05It's the same exact thing.
01:07So, like, that's the thing that I really wanted to highlight here.
01:10But, but, Joe, I'm entirely with you.
01:13Like, you know, what is Dave Roberts really going to do here in a bullpen game?
01:18Like, is he going to start Copac?
01:19No, I don't think so.
01:21It would be nice to kind of have a tone setter right away.
01:23I was of the thinking that they should probably just start knack.
01:26And if he gives you a shutout first, you run him out there for the second.
01:30And if he gives you a shutout second, you run him out there for the third.
01:32Because you can effectively use that as a starting pitcher.
01:35Now, Mac was the first guy out of the bullpen.
01:37It didn't work very well.
01:39I mentioned this on the just baseball show for today.
01:42I think Alex Vessia not being in there is going to really hurt the Dodgers at some point.
01:47That's a lefty reliever that has been one of the best in all of baseball.
01:51The fact that they cannot turn to him might be detrimental.
01:54But, yeah, like, it was, it was a tough situation that Dave Roberts found himself in.
02:00I do like that they went with the bullpen day that day,
02:03as opposed to the Bueller start on normal rest.
02:06They give Bueller two more days rest.
02:08And the bullpen day makes a lot of sense.
02:10Because, A, you didn't use any of those little lever or the high leverage arms in game one.
02:14And B, you have the off day following that.
02:16So that was the right day to do the bullpen thing.
02:19I do think that it was correct in theory, maybe poor in execution from Dave Roberts yesterday.