The Christian Arcand Show: What do the Patriots do with the backend of the rotation?

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00:00What do you do with the back end of this rotation?

00:02Is it Connelly early? Is it Kyle Harrison?

00:04Is it some combination of the two of them?

00:06Is it a bullpen game?

00:08You know, what do you do?

00:09I have no idea what Alex Cora's going to do.

00:11I'm going to be honest with you here.

00:13I have no clue. I really don't.

00:15All I know is that Crochet's going the first game,

00:17Baio's going the second game, and if there's a third game,

00:19I have no idea what they're going to do.

00:21I just, I do not know.

00:23And I would imagine that at this point,

00:24Alex Cora has an idea of who he wants to put out there.

00:27And I think that if you asked Alex Cora right now,

00:30Alex, who's going to be your starter number three?

00:32He'd say Connelly early is going to be out there for number three.

00:34Because I don't think he likes Kyle Harrison for some reason.

00:36He really didn't want Kyle Harrison called up.

00:38They exhausted every single possible option before Kyle Harrison.

00:42And I know that he sort of waved that.

00:44That's not what happened, but that is what happened.

00:45We all saw it. We all watched.

00:47And we all saw as Kyle Harrison got passed over time and time again

00:50until you literally ran out of arms and had to pitch somebody down the stretch.

00:54And you know what? Harrison pitched well.

00:56Harrison pitched well. Early's pitched well.

00:58They're not perfect.

00:59They're very unproven, very raw new players to Major League Baseball

01:03that are just getting thrown into this baptism by fire here.

01:06But they have so far not been overwhelmed by the moment.

01:09But you know what? I said that about Peyton Tolley too.

01:12I thought Peyton Tolley looked like a guy who was just ready for the moment,

01:15ready for everything.

01:16And then after that first start, he just got tattooed.

01:19I mean, really, like he was, you know, for Red Sox relievers,

01:22he just gave up five home runs.

01:24That's second only to Greg Weisert for everybody, like on the whole year.

01:27So, you know, like not great.

01:29That's in the bullpen.

01:30Obviously, the starters gave up more than that.