00:00Yeah, I understand not having any regrets. They were extremely careful. I don't believe that necessarily not babying him would
00:11have led to no injury. I think that these days, what they're asking arms to do is outrageous.
00:17It's just like maximum, maximum, maximum. Instead of letting somebody throw 93-94 and find a way to get guys
00:29out and then have that extra velo at times, what you're asking them to do is just outrageous.
00:35It leads me to a big strategy, big picture strategy question, though, Lawrence, is should you draft guys like that?
00:43That's where I start thinking that you should really be spending your prime number one draft picks on position players
00:52whenever you can, and that the risk of taking a pitcher in the first round, man, is, whew, it's hard.
00:59It's hard.
01:00Because you need more and more and more and more, like what he's talking about. So, I mean, we know
01:05these guys are talking about, you need incredible depth, you need as many as possible, and I wonder whether it
01:12makes more sense to go position players, which of course is what Theo and Jed did back at the beginning
01:17of their Cubs tenure.
01:18It was a big thing that Theo was like, I'll go and pay for the pitching when we need it.
01:24You go find the guys that have built up an MLB resume and then bring them in, or you experiment
01:32and you try stuff and you look at it, you say, hey, there's a guy that's being used inefficiently, like
01:38Jake Arrieta.
01:39You go, hey, what happens when we get him into our pitching lab and work through some stuff?
01:46There's no good answers.
01:47Like, I wish that I could be here and say, well, here's the way that you're supposed to do it.
01:52But if you polled 10 different people around baseball, you would probably get three or four different ideas on how
02:03this is supposed to work.
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