00:00Let's start with Luke Jackson.
00:19Yesterday in relief of Tyler Mallee, Luke Jackson had a leadoff walk.
00:24Not ideal.
00:25And then he struck out three straight Cincinnati Reds with his slider.
00:31Bruce Bochy.
00:32Again, this is his quote, not him actually speaking.
00:36It's just getting better and better with him and what I'm seeing.
00:39The stuff is good.
00:40Good inning for him, for sure.
00:42I think the Rangers are hoping that Luke Jackson is going to be the next kind of like Kirby
00:46Yates post-surgery success.
00:48I'm not necessarily to say like he'll always be in the ninth inning or anything like that,
00:52but he was rough before he had surgery 5.09 ERA in 52 games with two teams last season.
01:02Bochy said there's probably three to four spots available or like competition in the
01:07bullpen.
01:08And Luke Jackson has performed really well.
01:11And perhaps he will take one of those spots and get some high leverage looks for you.
01:14All right.
01:15So how many spots would there be in the bullpen total?
01:20Is it eight?
01:21I believe that is correct.
01:23Or is it not?
01:24Seven?
01:25Seven.
01:26Yeah.
01:27Well, it kind of depends on how you're working some things.
01:28I really want to use the Matt Hicks quote right here, but yeah, there's a good chance
01:31you'll have eight.
01:32So he's already got a couple in mind or a few in mind that are like Matt Hicks quote
01:36is fantastic.
01:37There's already a few in mind that are taken, but there are plenty.
01:41It's certainly four is a lot of places to be open because you're already saying, I really
01:46hope those three that we've already decided on are locked, locked it up.
01:51These other four, that's a lot of places.
01:53So Luke Jackson is an interesting character because we know he can throw like we knew
01:58that the sliders got to work and if that sliders work and that could be really nice, but having,
02:03you know, older arms in the bullpen that know how to pitch very important for this.
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