Bruce Bochy on Jack Leiter's development, updates on pitching injuries

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Rangers manager Bruce Bochy joined the K&C Masterpiece to discuss his team's current series against the Royals, how he looks at Jack Leiter after a tough start last night, where players like Jon Gray, Nathan Eovaldi and more stand in their injury recovery, and more!

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00:00you get the sense or do you have a feel at all for the potential availability of

00:20valdy the next time through the lineup after or through the pitching rotation after corbin

00:25yeah um nate's gonna we're gonna take some hitters here this weekend and we'll see how that goes

00:33all goes well there you know possibility you know he could he could uh start a game uh now i don't

00:42want to set those expectations so high where he thinks he's got to make them because we have to

00:48do what's right with him and when he's uh in this live batting practice session he's gonna have two

00:54ups if that goes well then possibly he could start and maybe go three innings um but again these are

01:02things we'll we talk about after every outing they have yeah so it should go up in session the live

01:08bp session and then decide what's best for nate what's best for us what's the what's the feeling

01:13on the timeline then for bradford gray and spores how you feeling about those guys yeah uh bradford's

01:22he's doing he's doing well he threw live bp and it was it was really impressive so it looks like uh

01:28this weekend he caught some kind of bug bug and uh had a pretty good temperature yesterday but

01:35he could start his rehab uh as early as uh saturday or sunday you know if all goes well i haven't seen

01:43him today um sporesy uh he's gonna throw live bp uh at least another time if that goes well he could

01:53be starting his rehab very shortly uh gray's got uh three i think three more bullpens before he'll

01:59throw live and then it really comes down to all right we're going to stretch stretch these guys

02:06up to start or use them in the bullpen again things we're talking about now

02:11you

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