00:00And I think you hit on it perfectly yesterday where they want to stress this run prevention, run prevention, run
00:06prevention.
00:07And the idea with the Alonzo thing was run prevention, and it was an excuse.
00:12I mean, it clearly was an excuse.
00:13They didn't want him back for whatever reason.
00:17And they're not 2-10, so there's no reason to panic.
00:21They're not burying themselves in the first few weeks of the season.
00:24But I didn't like this team.
00:26I know there are people gushing about what David Stearns did, and maybe they'll go on to win 95 games.
00:32And you know what?
00:32I really hope they do because it's enough.
00:34I don't like the makeup of the team.
00:36I don't like the way the team's put together.
00:37I don't like having all these guys out of position.
00:40And it's a different conversation.
00:42I'm not going there.
00:43But just in terms of this conversation, and for whatever reason they have, fine.
00:47You got rid of a guy that played one position 160 games every season.
00:52And while not the best, he wasn't horrible at first base.
00:56And now we're rotating different guys every other day.
00:58There's no consistency there.
01:00The guy at third base is a shortstop.
01:02And a shortstop wasn't a good shortstop by Major League Baseball standards.
01:05You've got the outfield.
01:06Soto, who never gets hurt, is now hurt.
01:08Polanco, who does get hurt.
01:09Guess what?
01:10He's hurt.
01:11You bring him in.
01:12What is he exactly?
01:13He was supposed to be the first base one.
01:14Now he's a DH.
01:15Well, now he's injured.
01:16You've got Benj.
01:17I love it.
01:17I love giving the kid an opportunity.
01:19No question about it.
01:20And I said yesterday, you've got to give him 30, 40 games before you make any decisions on him.
01:24But he's kind of learning at the Major League level.
01:26And let's strip it back down to last season for a second.
01:29We can blame it on whoever we want.
01:31The season went in the tank when the starting pitchers couldn't get out of the damn fourth inning.
01:36And they were taxing the bullpen.
01:38And the pitching sucked.
01:40And if it wasn't for Nolan McClain in September, they wouldn't even have been around for that final weekend to
01:45even have an opportunity.
01:47So, they haven't exactly rebuilt.
01:49I don't want to say that.
01:50But they have reshuffled this lineup.
01:51And, oh, by the way, Francisco Lindor can't hit his way out of a paper bag worse than ever in
01:56April right now.
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