Aaron Boone is Excited for Aaron Judge's Return | 1409

Today is September 8th and we are talking Yanks. Is Judge making his return? I hope. Hello and welcome to Talking Yanks. Thank you very much for joining us today. My name is Jimmy. His name is Jake BBD. In the corner, Fanatic Sports and Casino presenting and manager of the Yankees. Aaron Boone will be joining us shortly. Jake. How are you doing? James Davis. Everyone tuning in. I'm good. Happy Judgment Day to those that celebrate. I'm doing well. Couple couple off days and Labor Day and kind of a goodbye to summer for a lot of people. Goodbye that yeah, I'm it. It should be a big week. It should be a big one tonight. Hopefully it should be. I mean a big one this weekend. Whether you Subway series or September 11th or all of that and as we're trying to pursue the Rays and I don't the Red Sox kind of like rejoin the party over the weekend again because they're just sicko. So I'm excited to do all of it. I am too, you know, sad seasonal affliction disease or whatever. It's called seasonal depression. Yeah, but there's I don't know what the a stands for seasonal applied depression. I seasonal affective disorder. I want to say. I don't know why that's sad. I think the abbreviation is sad, which again, that's what I said. Yeah, whatever sad. Why it might not be a real one. I don't know if that's a real one or that's what like colloquially it's called. But anyway, I have a version of seasonal affliction disease disorder where seasonal affective disorder is all over sad when the humidity burns off and we get these nice crisp mornings. I'm just as happy as I could be. Yeah, my happiest time of year and I'm also pumped about the Yankees going down this stretch and maybe big number 99 returning which obviously is the first question we ask manager Aaron buckle up. This episode is sponsored by lids. 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Who's your right fielder tonight? We'll see. Wow. If you had you in there if we guess it was it could be DH and that could be the trick. Well, you guys can just send it to me. Very nice. Actually, I was trying to figure out what it would be and you don't need to tell us right now. We'll find out later today, but I know your rhythms with three righties and where you like them, you know, like the two five seven or or the two five eight or with or the three six eight, you know stuff like that. Well with only two we were trying to do it. If it was just judge and Lombard in there. I was good. I was very curious how you would navigate that if it would be like the two and the eight and then put one of your lefties that you might feel comfortable platooning in the middle stretch because you've talked to us about that before like a guy that might come out to put a righty in there later in the game. You'd want to still handle that. Yeah. Well, we'll see. I'll wait to get it from you guys and then I'll release it is that are you having the same thoughts or does it come like, you know, or is it easier because you always talk about, you know, the balance of it. It's been more challenging because we've had obviously days where we've had seven lefties eight lefties even in the lineup. So, you know, and we are a righty on the mound tonight. So it's been a little more challenging because I do kind of crave that little balance, but I like I like that. We're getting a lot of people back in the mix. So it will judge be playing today. I mean per the Yankees and yes, now we're social media. It sure seems like he's making his return. Yeah, I mean, he's making his return. We'll see. I got to make sure you get got through yesterday. Fine, and we'll see where we're at. Who were the pitchers? He was facing yesterday in the live at bats. We we deducted one was Pico cone. Is that correct? Yes, and so we have a few guys in that, you know that helped us out and it was big time to you know, get us a lot of it bats and so that was nice. Do you tell them like hey groove some we want everyone to think he's you know, just know I think they're they're competing but you know, they did a good job for the most part of strike throwing and mixing and yeah, I think it's you know valuable for them to compete on the outer half of the plate. Yeah, you had mentioned to someone or in a postgame or pregame about judge returning that you might be building up on the fly without the mind any minor league stint and that fan should expect maybe some games where he only goes six seven definitely some off days mixed in. Yeah, I just wanted to ask that again. Like should fans be expecting if he is starting today that not even reliant on the game score. He might only be penciled in for six seven innings, correct? Yes. Okay. Yeah, I don't want to you know, I know he'll want to play play all nine ready to go and and he's done a great job of building himself up but want to be smart about it too. Is that part of the reason you guys send down Elmer Rodriguez? So technically you could say you have an extra hitter on the roster is part of help manage that. Not really. No. I mean it it just that's kind of where we are. We feel like, you know coming out of the off day. We're in a pretty good spot with a couple long guys. It lines up to where how we want to build up Elmer moving forward and so not know not as much having the extra guy for judge necessarily. It's the the off days help as well with the series book ended by off days. One more on judge and DH has been Rice has been in the DH spot a lot. You have Garcia and Goldie that can platoon at first. Are you going to try it is the goal to have judge play mostly right field to keep that available or because it's very hard to navigate if he's taking. Yeah. I mean obviously with with Rice Garcia and Goldie, you know, it makes the DH spot tough. So he we've been preparing him to play right field and you know, I know he's looking forward to getting out there. What is John Schreiber's nickname? What do you guys call him? tribes. Okay, that's yeah. We're kind of the same boat. What's that? I kind of say Schreiber Schreiber. Okay, he looks like the San Diego State head football coach. Okay. Yeah, we can build off down. Okay. I was looking for a nickname before I ask about Schreiber. There's other guys that you had a whole bunch of pitchers rowing again to see if they're going to make a comeback or where they're at. We Clark Schmidt. Obviously he threw to scoreless innings and he's on his way. You did say maybe two more outings or so down in the minors. Yes. Okay. And are you looking for anything there? Or is it just to build up more innings? Not even build up more innings. Just just to compete again. Just, you know, it's been obviously a year out, you know, so want to get them somewhat of a spring training as far as games go. So just getting that game action. So they'll have a couple more and then be in play. And with Weathers, he threw again. Yes, the plan is he's playing catch now. So I don't know what his build up will look like or, you know, when, when he would be an option, but I know he's throwing again. And then with Cruz, obviously, he's in a, you know, a heartbreaking predicament. And my point of view, maybe he doesn't feel that way, but he's trying to throw again, even though he's, yeah, it does have a tour. He probably won't be throwing for a few more days. Okay, but he did play catcher. He did throw recently. No, he's just was clear to. So he's building up to that now with, you know, he's got plyos and things to do. So probably look at it potentially this weekend. All right. Appreciate it. What about we see Will Warren come out of the bullpen? That was an interesting one because Freed was so economical in a delightful way. And there you are. What is it a 1-1 ball game? And it's I guess walk me through the thought process in still going to Warren there and then what you saw from Will that you liked. Yeah. So obviously had Blackburn up with them. And, you know, if there's if there was going to be a situation with some traffic, I would have gone, you know, Paul or someone else to, you know, in that kind of scenario. But once it got to two outs, nobody on, I felt like that was a good time to bring in Will. Like the pocket for Will, certainly want to see him in those situations and thought he came in and he walked the first guy on four pitches. But then was, you know, pretty economical. I think in giving us a couple innings there, which was big and so I thought it looked good. It was I thought it was encouraging and good for him to get into a game like that a tight game where it's different. It's new. You're, you know, different adrenaline and you know, it could be a valuable thing for us. He didn't throw the sinker as much. All the Velo was up on all his pitches and there was a couple other changes in his pitch mix. When a guy's doing that, how much of that is the game plan from the catcher who's been in that game facing these hitters or how much does that come from, you know, Will Wells and and Matt Blake? I think in that case, Will was a lot more reliant on Austin. Like, hey, I'm coming in, you know, not as much game prep that you would do as a starter getting ready, you know, that you kind of all week are leaning into and that you're a part of so a real good idea. I think I think even Will said like, you know, I just really leaned on on Austin there to kind of guide him through. I was always curious about, you know, when a guy usually ditches some pitches going to the pen and if that is, you know, like really communicated like if Matt Blake is like, hey, you're not going to throw this. We're going to lean on these two or if it's just more feel and rhythm of the game, but he did look crisp like he was throwing harder. It was like one point one and a half miles per hour is the timeout before as a starter to okay. Every you guys have faced a lot of pitchers this year who like break theirs. Yeah, they break their speed. They're like top pitches of the year and I was wondering maybe you guys are just juicing the guns for the opposing team to get in their head a little bit. No, I don't think we control that. Okay. Here's your here's your comparison. It's pretty good. Yeah, right. Oh interesting. Sean Lewis send the interstate now. I don't know what stripes has under the hat. If he's bald, it's going to be really Yankee head on that guy. Yes, we got AI. Yeah. Bubba Chuck in the outfield. You mentioned Aaron judge is going to start tonight. Maybe and then Trent gets hurt. Jones has been fascinating. I mean now the the verse lefty numbers are pretty wild. We've seen Ramos with his slow start and we haven't seen a ton of lefties which is supposed to be kind of his whole deal every day when bellies out there is a good day. So what's I guess what does that juggle look like with you going forward with Spencer Ramos and whoever else? Yeah, we'll see. You know, I it is important like Ramos has looked really good against lefties the whole I thought the whole series against the Red Sox where we saw a bunch and we went to Anaheim. He had a couple of really good at bats off of Detmers, you know, so I like where he's at where we're finally seeing some lefties where he can be a factor like that. 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What's not working making changes based on that. It's very helpful the tools they provide. So if you want to build something that's truly yours start your free trial at Shopify.com slash Yanks. I had a question about a Cole. He is is he's averaging like 84 pitches and outing in his last eight or so and I was wondering if that's an overarching kind of choice because he's recovering from Tommy John and hasn't had a full season since 2023 under him or if that the game situations are just kind of leading you to changing him at a lower pitch count. Yeah, I mean a little bit of both. I mean certainly the first several weeks. I was very conscious of you know, having a lower account for him and you know, not a lot but you know, definitely lower there was an outing here there were out, you know, we're going to pull back a little bit. So yeah, I mean probably a little bit of caught being conscientious of that. You know and knowing that he was coming back and when he was coming back in June and you know that he was going to be up over a hundred innings. So kind of trying to be smart about managing that as well. There is how big of a head tilt do you do when he in the first three batters at home runs off your starting pitcher? Yeah, I mean, I mean man some good swings. They put on on some balls, you know, obviously the breaking ball hung up enough that but he rides it out the other way. You don't expect Cronenworth to go backside on you where he puts a good swing on a heater away and and then Manny just put a great swing on a middle down one that he I think wanted to get to the edge more. But yeah, I mean, it's one of those fluky things that you know, in some ways you're not perfect with your with your execution, but three guys make kind of really great swings. So, you know, the good part about that is like he doesn't even really flinch, you know, or you just kind of adjust on the fly doesn't get too emotional and ends up going seven strong innings for us and give us a chance. So, you know, not a great way to start but love the reaction. We some early trivia for you. How many times in Major League Baseball do you think that's happened that the first three batters of the game hit a home run? I was a part of one on the use me nine. You were a part of one on on on when you were a player. Yeah, Atlanta. That means that means you've been part of five. Oh, that's crazy. It's happened 12 times calls the first pitcher. It happened twice to which is just a bizarre thing for you know, a future Hall of Famer. And you guys did it twice to Nestor and to Gibby in 2025. That's right. Yeah. So the Yankees have done it have been part of four of the last six times. It's happened. The Yankees have been part of it. Wow. Yeah, it happened to us in 2001. I believe one or two with when I was was in Cincinnati. The Braves did it first three for a call to Rosa. Jeff Austin was the pitcher. Yes, that was the second time it ever happened in history. The first time was 1987. Yeah. Happen to Scherzer. Wow. Well, the the Nestor one doesn't really count because that's when you guys were cheating with the torpedo bats. So yeah, okay. That was a funny one. What a weird sport, huh? You guys use them the whole year before nobody cared. Hey, there seem to be we you mentioned these off days and then lining up the rotation. I guess how much a lot of Yankee fans have been eyeing that four-game set with Tampa, which it seems if things continue that the Yankees top four in the rotation would or could be lined up for that was is that part of the mentality or what were you guys aiming for? Yeah, I think that's part of it. Yes. Okay. Have you have you looked at postseason rotation at all? Okay, because I'm trying to I was trying to play through and if it stays like this, they would be this and yeah, I haven't gone there yet. We got to get there first. Okay. All right. I was doing some math and trying to figure out if Cole could get the second game and it was like, I'm sure you guys have an easier answer for this because you do it all the time, but I was like, I don't know how I navigate get a big break in starts for him at some point. There's really only three starts left for each pitcher three or four. Sounds about right. Yeah. I can I ask you about two in-game things? Sure. I know that. I know that you're your favorite one is the challenge when Spencer steals Spencer. It's a it's the same at bat both of them Ramos is up Spencer Jones. It's a double of Mason Miller. You get the one run and now you have the runner on second. We've talked on this, you know, bantering is boom segment a lot about how that second run is way more is is important you and you want to sell out if you're the away team usually they don't play small ball for the first run, but if you get it, it's Mason Miller. So this is where my head stopped and I was like, well, it's a pretty hard task to ask him in a bunt against Mason Miller and it's Ramos who is here to slug but any thought to trying to lay down a bunt there and move? Well, no, not with Ramos hasn't done that in his career really ever and it's Mason Miller. So no. Yeah, that was the my initial thought was like, oh, let's punt them over. And then I had all those thoughts and I was like, I don't think that's the right. I don't think that would be a great call there. And then when Spencer steals third thrown out no challenge on that play. Can you walk us through kind of what you guys saw and then if after the fact if you saw and we're like, I wish I would have no, I mean typically in that scenario, I'll almost instinctively just throw them up just because because of where we are in the game and that's fair, but it came back really quick and like, oh, he's out. So we kind of knew right away. And yeah, so so I mean, I still could have done it obviously, but and probably maybe even you could say should have done it because it's the 10th and you know, but it's I always say it's not a lottery ticket either. It's not like we're pulling out one and 50. It's like we knew he was out. Yeah, they saw that came back quick. So I held it up and it was, you know, with seven seconds to go. He just said he's out. Okay. Last year. The talk was all about how bad base running and you said no, we don't get out on the bases enough. We need to try more that's happened this year. But also you've been the better made the best base running team. I know when Caballero and jazz were both doing the thing consistently you guys rated out as the best at grabbing the extra base, but it has come with more people throwing out getting thrown out. Personally, I like the exchange. I like seeing the action that game three base runners get get thrown out. Yeah, is that just tip your hat to the catcher? Does anything out anything more go into that? No, I mean, I liked all running situations that we, you know, look campus on at a great series against us throwing like and he's more probably in the average bucket. We had decent matchups to run and and I thought running scenarios like it wasn't, you know, two outs to house runner at first trying to get a scoring position. I'm good with the aggressive Spencer going to third with with Miller on the mound. We're trying to steal an extra run there and he's going to be tough to string hits. So I was good. I was good with all of our I mean and and I put some of them on too. So I was good with the timing of it and you always want to be safe. I you know, obviously but I didn't have an issue with with any of the the attempts we just got had. Yeah, and a lot of them are close a lot of them are and one of them was, you know, over sliding the bag, which you guys also benefited with Machado. Yeah, I think actually Machado stayed on the back. Yeah, he kind of gave himself up. So I don't know if they review. We had that as he stayed on. I was surprised the ump called that in lifetime. I also really want them to change that rule and come up with at least start testing in the minor league some variations of if you beat him to the bag, but you come up by an inch above it or you don't over slide it because it's there's a lot now. It's just so ticky. Yeah, the catchers interference to some of them likes the one we benefited from Spencer had the one thing like that feels like it shouldn't be catchers interference feel like to take a swing. Yeah, that's one of those ones where I understand it's hard to make like rules want to be grounded in if this happens, it's this because it's easier to umpire and like legislate. But yeah, sometimes it's like, well, the ball first feels like there's going to be some d3 team with a crazy coach. That's like, let's get hit my born pitches and let's swing at the catchers glove. Can you play with like a fake hand? Like if Jim Abbott threw on like a metal hand inside of a glove is he eligible to play because then you could just throw that thing way out. You're not going to get injured. That's some that's a baseball movie of cheating. That's like when they hired the little person from the circus to get a walk. Yeah, start hiring amputees to catch is they won't get hurt by catchers interference. Send that up to the brass. They're always inventing new stuff. You let you let this guy write the lineup. That's crazy. That's insane. Speaking of do we play a little GTL? Do you have anything else? Well, it's not I don't know if we're going to be able to guess the lineup. It sounds like we're well, I don't know positive leading off Ben Rice playing playing DH. I want to I don't want to wait to finalize the lineups. So no guessing. Okay. Mac is a bit of platoon player for last month or so and starts against righties, but not against lefties. But is that now a new another new wrinkle? You've started Caballero a couple times when it's a lefty pitcher at third. You've started Rosario more but you have more options now and what would go into the decision-making of who you choose to be your third baseman versus a lefty pitcher. Who we're facing who's pitching for us. Also, so if it's a ground a guy that induced like Max Freed who induces a lot of ground balls, you might play the defensive element of Caballero over. Yeah, maybe okay. Were you what did you get ejected because you were double upset because the check swing in the second inning ruined the potential perfect game for camp. I wasn't thinking in terms of perfect game, but it was two on Vaughn. The first one was close first one. I felt like maybe you went but could have gone either way. No, I was I just jumped out of the dugout. I could couldn't believe you missed it. Are you excited for that new rule? And then I was upset at the home plate on two because I'm like you didn't even need to check that one. Yeah. So are you are you excited for that rule? They're testing out and eventually probably going to bring up with the check swing and you can it's a strict line. There's no I don't know. Maybe it's going to help batters out a lot probably more in line with how the game was in like the 70s and 80s. You watch a game from that and they'll take like a almost a full swing and there's not even an appeal. It is it is so interesting the development of how that has been armed without the rule changing at all. Yeah, and they are very egregiously. I think in favor of the pitcher because it has to be did he attempt to hit it and sometimes I'm like, no, that's not an attempt to hit it. He just kind of turned his body. I think in our minds. We all have a like I think I know exactly what is one and what isn't one and yeah, but it's it's a gray line. So there you know, I'm sure Major League Baseball would want a black and white like this is this isn't because that's one of those, you know, ones that's that's very gray. Yeah from a full standpoint. Yeah, I think we talked to some people at MLB rules committee a while ago just trying to get a fan's perspective. I was like, I think the younger fan just wants black and white and this is the rule and this is the call whereas, you know, my dad's generation. They didn't have replay. That was really could tell the story and they didn't have challenges and they just had to live with results more and eat it and then and then tell the other person don't get upset. What are you going to do? And like my age and younger is like, well, we can do something. This is easier to cover now back in the day to like, you know, there's that whole thing of like, oh, you thought that was a ball. Huh? Watch this one. Like, yeah, we're umpires that did that kind of stuff. What about umpires band-aiding straight hats back in the day? Do you think that this Doug Edding story wouldn't have been a thing back in the day? Yeah, that's pretty okay. The bizarre one. Yes. Yeah. I don't know. I got a mini trivia. All right. Hit him. We already did three homers in a row. Trivia is awesome. People loved it. That was awesome because we have any Subway series is this weekend weekend. Mets made a lot of trades at the deadline. There are still two players on the Mets who you've managed. Can you name them? Oh, wow, Devin Devin Williams is one Juan Soto Juan Soto is the other guy. There was a there's a there's a bonus point for someone you've managed in spring training Luis. Yeah, Luis Terence Luis Terence. He got a nice little contract for them. Good for them. Yeah, like that. And did you say the right fielder tonight has the same first name as you mostly mostly stay tuned. Your camera had a nice little zoom there. It looked like a 90s comedy for a second. All right. Well, we're all rooting for that. And he's the poetry, you know, it it's been 99 days since we've saw number 99. That's really good stuff. Yeah. So that's magic, you know, social media is really running with this Poonie. There's going to be some sad pups in the sand tonight. 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And there you have it manager Aaron Boone talking all things would not give us the confirmation on judge, which I don't know. I think he's going to play. I understand why he doesn't want to speak at a turn, but would have been more fun to be like he's in there. He's playing where I feel is going to hit two homers would have more fun to have that happen. Yeah, if it's felt like the whole judge return has been hyper calculated between like Yankee social media posting stuff. I mean they activated him from the I like it's not like we're waiting for that update. They did that yesterday. He's on the active roster. So why would you do that? If he's not going to play today? Well, I think he's going to play. I think he doesn't know if he's going to DH or he's going to play right field or maybe he needs a day to recover and then they said he's not going to DH. I know I don't do they're doing a whole dance and it went too far in the 99 days is kind of weird to me. If I'm being honest. Oh, you don't like that stuff. No, you don't like that Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln and Lincoln secretary is named Kennedy. I don't mind that because that was natural. Yeah. Well, this is I think natural I think is natural. Is there any chance like the funny business is like sort of like when he came back in 18? It's like we'll sub him in later. I know that was different because he wasn't ready to hit yet, but oh, yeah, they put him in like defensively, right? Like if that's how they limit his innings is like, wow, remember that dude and we were against it, but then the crowd went crazy was like a gladiator entering the ring and we're like, all right, I was kind of cool do it again. I think really he just doesn't want to tell the public before he talks to the players. I think it's more so it's the respect of the players thing of if he hasn't sent like because I think he texted the lineup to the guys before coming on the show a lot the players themselves and if he doesn't do that, he doesn't want them to hear it from this and I think that's what it is, which I you know, that's I don't not upset about a lot of other days. We've played guests the lineup. Yeah, and it's been ready to go, you know, why I yeah, I I believe him that it's not ready to go yet because he wants to confirm with judge how he's feeling after swinging all day and getting a night's rest. Yeah, just text. I don't know. I don't know what else did a Schreiber doesn't have a nickname Schreiber. He said no, we got a doppelganger does he also that look is also the look of the Dan Zlotnick who sings the Talking Yankees theme song. I've been seeing Dan has the bald head and the beard and and similar not in that picture, but the other one. Yeah, the other one where he had his bald head and what Schreiber's hair situation. He's a bald. He is. Yeah. Okay. So then we're trying to tell you. Yeah. Yeah, really excited when you when you asked. Oh, he was. Yeah, missed it. He is. Oh, okay. I was doing the magic of when the Yankee had on his head at that point. He was wishy-washy about a lot today, huh? It was a wishy-washy day last week. He gave us a good amount. This was a wishy-washy one. I would tell you one of the things you were more excited about going in that I think was his only non wishy-washy answer was lining up the rotation for Tampa. Yeah, like that one that one was one of the easier ones to dance around. Yeah, and he was like, yep. That was part of it. And that should be part of it. You need those big picture in all those games. Now Boone might not be looking at the rotation moving ahead to the wild card, but someone is someone's job is yeah, they haven't made the playoffs yet. Yes, but someone's got him making plans. Yeah. He also gave us how it's interesting because I replay didn't show Spencer was out automatically, but we didn't get to see all the angles because they didn't do it on that one point and then Ramos punting. I mean got the answer there. Mason Miller and Ramos doesn't bunt a lot. I kind of regret not asking a follow-up like if the personnel was different you're open to that and I think he would say yes. Yeah, that was just more the personnel. Now. I did look into it Jake how many times Ramos has attempted to bunt in his career. Sure, any guesses? I'll give you two buckets zero in between 7 and 15 or over a hundred. I would go zero with those options seven times. Okay. Yeah, nice seven times. He's attempted NL baseball. Yeah, all in 2023. Okay, who is managing the Giants in 2023 Oppenheimer? I don't know that Bob 2023 San Francisco Giants manager Melvin's first year. Is that still gay? I think it says it says Gabe. He was dismissed September 29th, 2023. Well, all of these buns happen in April. So for one month of his career a rookie. Hey Rook. Yeah, all of his bunt attempts having from April 9th to April 22nd. And what happened was the very first one. He got down. I sent you all these files memes. If you want to put him in the post at it, you don't need to show him now, but the very first one he got down but it was an 80 mile per hour pitch from Chris Bublik a change-up then he bunted foul. He missed he tried to bunt and ended up taking a strike. That's not and then he reached on an error. He's using Lizardo 97 mile per hour and Lizardo just like lobbed it away. Then he tried two more times. He missed and foul. So I do it. I did come to that conclusion when we were talking about it myself. I like yeah, that's not a bunting situation. I wish pinch hitting for the bunt. We've seen pinch hitting for the walk. We've seen pinch hitting for the swinging bunt. Yeah, I thought about doing that because that's a good baseball conversation of just like how much does Velo scare you from the bunt because that's the it's kind of the biggest thing and Miller's the biggest Velo guy. Yeah, it is. Yeah, I agree. I would agree with it's a good that would have been a better follow-up. Like does personnel of the pitcher coming to play as much as personnel of the batter? I think so and then yeah, I guess for me because we asked there's a roster question. I do think the Yankees are taking this Rockies series lightly a la that Tiger series from a few years back, but it was very different time of year and we still have Schlittler and Fried and Warren's the middle game that they they fully punted those games but with the one less pitcher and like Yarborough's fresh the Yankees are banking on one if not two of these games to be like blow out take care of judge have Yarborough pitch. I understand what you're saying. I would disagree with the 2021 series against the Tigers because they really yes, they really like punted those they have a full fresh bullpen. I don't think you're going to see any bullpen decisions that don't make sense, especially with the off days. I'll be interested to see I could see not like that was another another one of the things he said confidently was like did he say Yarborough's name or is he mentioned like we got long guys fresh now that I could see one or two that Tiger series famously they called up Davey to make a start and then followed him with Alberta Bray you just a designed to pitcher piggyback game of guys that were both minor league pitchers. They send them down and do it like again. Yeah, I think so and then King who was not a starter at the time, right? He wasn't my King yet pitched the third game another like a bulk him and Nestor were like the bolt guys with Nick Nelson finishing it out power change up and there's there's an elements here of like you like I appreciate making sure the good pitchers are ready. That was in May. So then we were like, let's get our wins this. I understand with the off days. I do think they'll be a little more cautious, but I you know, you have everyone available to go for the win. Most nights if they're up five, they might try to sneak you some former in your home. Former's a lockdown six-inning guy. So Yarby might be in there. Yeah, and I guess the off day run is over, right? Like we don't have another off day. I think till Thursday the 17th and they have the double header, but there's an off day before that, right? That's two off days. Yeah, what nine in a row? So nine in a row, which I don't know. We've seen how quickly this bullpen the way it's currently constructed can get tight that I I personally think they'd love to burn Yarborough for a day this series. I think by the Mets series, you probably see Dominguez sent down for a reliever. Yes. I agree. The Dominguez probably going to once they get the clear on judge. He's in there. He plays a couple games. Who do they have? What do they got in Scranton is with the injuries. I've been that's been pitching like so should be back and throwing or is he still hurt? That's because Yari's down there. And so is Bradley Hanna to be still still hurt to my understanding Justin Topa's back down there. Elmer can he come back up without injury? I think he can because he was signed to a new minor league deal, right? Yes. Yeah, who's this keen character? Who's this keen guy? I don't know. Risky. It should be pitching. He was good when he was there. I know. Brendan Beck can come back up at some point. He's on the 40. Gary Bradley Hanna on how to be he if to be is pitching and available. That's the only thing I'd be interested in because he's been he was good. They sent him down to like make space. And then he got a bone bone spur on his elbow after. Yeah, the update was that rehabs going well, and he could be an option by the end, but I don't think he's been active. Doesn't look like it. Go up big. Give me some heel. Give me some Yarby. Has Eli Morgan been pitching? Oh, yeah. So literally glove win big win big. All right. Thanks. Appreciate you guys. Go Yanks. Tell him grams. Go Yankees. Da-da-da-da-da.