Bruce Bochy on Jack Leiter expectations for the rest of 2024, Jacob deGrom & more

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Rangers manager Bruce Bochy joined the K&C Masterpiece to discuss today's doubleheader, what he's expecting from Jack Leiter tonight and for the rest of the season, Jacob deGrom's rehab and where he'll go next, and more.

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00:00With the double header, I'm curious, how does that affect availability or pitching plans

00:22for you guys having to go with the double header as opposed to what the schedule was

00:27going to be?

00:29We're all set to go.

00:31We've got two days off, so guys are fresh in bullpen.

00:35We've got long guys down there, so we have coverage.

00:39With Leiter, we will have to keep an eye on him and his workload, but Andrew, we're hoping

00:46to get five or six.

00:47If we get that, then we're good the first game.

00:52First game always can dictate what we have left in the second game.

00:57We don't think about tomorrow until we get to that point.

01:01We have to make a move.

01:02We'll do that, but I think we're fine there now.

01:06Our job is to go out and get some runs.

01:09When you talk about monitoring Leiter, outside of just what you regularly do to monitor a

01:14pitcher, is there anything special for him because he's young, because he has kind of

01:17bounced up and down from the minors?

01:20What do you look for when you're monitoring him?

01:23More than anything, just how their innings are going, how stressful they are.

01:30You're always looking at the number of pitches, but he's had some time off two weeks ago,

01:39so he's good.

01:40He's healthy.

01:41He's been stretched out.

01:42We can take him up to 90 pitches in there, but just a case of how he gets there.

01:49Mike Maddox and I will keep a watchful eye on how it's going for him, check on him.

01:57He wouldn't be starting the second game, but if we didn't think he was stretched out, he

02:02was healthy, he was good to go.

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