Jordan Romano's Rocky Start with the Philadelphia Phillies

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00:00Let's start off with Philadelphia, where they signed Jordan Romano a couple of years ago,

00:04was arguably one of the very best closers in fantasy baseball.

00:08He's now on the Phillies.

00:09He's already blown one, given up two runs.

00:11And, yeah, like, I mean, the options are, it seems like the same options for Philadelphia

00:17are there every year, right?

00:19Like, Jose Alvarado, he's back again.

00:23Strom, back there again, too.

00:26So, and this kid, Kerkering, I don't know, does he even have a second pitch?

00:29I guess that's, I think eventually they would love to hand it over to him.

00:33He throws so hard.

00:34But, you know, Romano's got some good pitch here.

00:37I'm not really particularly worried about it.

00:39But, yeah, you have to wonder when a player misses so much time if he can come back and

00:43be the same guy.

00:44I guess that's the concern for Romano.

00:47Yeah, he only threw about half his pitches for strikes as well, so he had no goal control

00:50in the zone there.

00:52It was the eighth inning he came in, not the ninth, so it wasn't even a safe situation.

00:56And as you sort of went over there, they really don't have a closer.

00:58Romano may be, I guess, the leader, if you want to put it that way.

01:02But for a team that's as good as the Phillies are, for them not to have that lockdown ace,

01:07number one closer, is a little surprising here.

01:10Romano sort of lost a job last year with Toronto.

01:12Had injuries, struggles as well, so not a surprise here.

01:15But this is looking like a situation where, fine, if I had to pick one, it probably would

01:20be Romano, but I don't see him keeping the job all year.

01:23I don't see him keeping the job all month, you know, that sort of thing, where I can't

01:26rely on him at all.

01:28With my tiering system, he would have been probably the bottom of the second tier, and

01:31now he might be going close to the third tier, where it's just mud against the wall, see

01:35what happens here.

01:37I don't mind you still rostering him, and I would still roster him if I had him, but

01:41I don't think he's keeping his job all year long.

01:42I just don't see it.