00:00You want to tell me that you don't think it's Breslow, fine, I'll get to that in a minute.
00:03Don't tell me it's the manager.
00:05What's the biggest difference in this team from a year ago?
00:10They made the playoffs.
00:12Garrett Crochet.
00:14Garrett Crochet.
00:15Fair, fair point.
00:16They were 14 games over .500 when he started in the regular season.
00:21The rest of the time they were two games over.
00:23Can you refresh my memory too, who closed for you last year and how were they?
00:27I don't even remember who closed last year, Mike.
00:30Was it Janssen?
00:32Janssen.
00:32Kenley Janssen.
00:33Kenley Janssen.
00:34I can't imagine he was better than Chapman.
00:36No, not even close.
00:37Yeah, but Chapman was not supposed to be the closer.
00:39I mean, that worked out great.
00:41Chapman was supposed to be a high-leverage late-inning reliever.
00:43Their plan was Slayton as the closer.
00:45I mean, that's one of those ones they kind of – I mean, great signing, but they kind of fell into him.
00:49Let's not do revisionist history where they signed Chapman.
00:51They did not sign Chapman to be the closer.
00:53Okay, fine.
00:54Whatever.
00:55What about Crochet?
00:56What are they without –
00:58That was a no-brainer deal.
00:59That's my answer to that.
01:00Okay, fine.
01:00And what did he really have to give up?
01:01Did they make it?
01:04Yeah, he made it.
01:05No, no.
01:06When you say it's a no-brainer trade, in other years, I don't think they would have made it.
01:10So, did they make the trade?
01:12Absolutely, they did.
01:13Great trade.
01:14I'm just trying to gauge them on what actually happened.
01:16And without the biggest difference – without Garrett Crochet, Chris, they're the same team.
01:22Cora's the same guy.
01:23That's fair.
01:24Yeah.
01:24No, that's a good point.
01:25He's still bitching at the deadline about not getting help.
01:28He's still bitching in the first half about not having the roster.
01:32Crochet changed everything.
01:35And it's not a coincidence that they won the one game in the playoffs that he pitched.
01:41They lost the other two.
01:42But if it had been just Crochet, they don't make the playoffs.
01:46I mean, you're right.
01:46He was the biggest factor.
01:48But he's pitching once every five days, Maz.
01:51They don't make the playoffs just on Crochet.
01:54It comes close.
01:55Cora had to get something out of those other guys.
01:59In huge holes in the lineup, he had to get something out of Bayo.
02:04You know, Giolito ended up pitching well.
02:05So, give credit to Andrew Bailey, Justin Willard, their pitching apparatus.
02:09They did good credit to Breslow there.
02:11Let me ask you this question.
02:13All I know is they were a 500 team when Crochet didn't pitch.
