Jones & Keefe: Rob Bradford on the decision to pull Brayan Bello in Game 2

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00:00Two of the big decisions Cora had to make last night,

00:03when to take out Brian Baio, he went quick hook on Baio,

00:06and then how long to stick with Whitlock.

00:08He seemed to give him a long hook, as it were.

00:11So what were your thoughts on those two decisions?

00:15Yeah, the Baio one, you know, we should have saw it coming.

00:18You know, Baio hasn't stopped, hasn't been great the last few outings.

00:23And, you know, I think we all, or at least I was seduced with the idea of like,

00:27okay, we're going to do the John Lester, Josh Brackett, Curt Schilling,

00:31Jordan Montgomery, Zach Allen, you know, Nathan Evaldi thing,

00:34where you're just going to ride all these starters to the promised land.

00:38And, yeah, because we saw Crochet.

00:40But, no, that's not how these postseasons work,

00:42and we were reminded that with Baio.

00:44His stuff hadn't been good, and I think they knew that.

00:47They saw that, and they're like, we're not taking any chances.

00:50We're going to rope-a-dope the Yankees.

00:52We're going to get all your lefties in there,

00:54and then we're going to come with all these left-handed pitching.

00:57And for a while, it looked like an unbelievably great move.

01:00But, you know, I think that ultimately, if you go on any run,

01:04I mean, I just, you have to have two good starters, man.

01:07Like, you have to find them.

01:08You can't just keep, because what happens is what happened last year

01:11in the postseason.

01:12Teams ultimately run out of relief pitchers.

01:15And I think that that's the predicament the Red Sox are in right now.

01:18And you go to Whitlock, well, yeah, you know,

01:20Whitlock is like you got to the point of no return with them.

01:23Now you aren't using them.

01:25Like, there's no way that you can possibly use them.

01:27You burnt them.

01:28Nothing tonight?

01:29And what's unfortunate?

01:30I mean, what do you throw, like 48 pitches or something like that?

01:33Yeah, 47.

01:3347 season high, yeah.

01:35Yeah, yeah.

01:36No, I mean, I can't.

01:37I mean, maybe they'll say all hands on deck and everything else,

01:41but that's really hard for me to see.

01:44I mean, I should never say he's not pitching,

01:47because it is all hands on deck.

01:49Like, I mean, Aroldis Chapman, I think,

01:51would have come in the ninth inning last night,

01:54you know, even after getting four outs the night before.

01:56So, yeah, but still, like, what's this stuff going to look like?

02:00And this is, I mean, make no mistake about it.

02:03Like, we can talk about all the maneuvering that Cora has had to do

02:07and will do, but one of the foundations,

02:10one of the things that they felt like they could count on

02:12was Whitlock and Chapman.

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