00:00And Andy Pajas of the Los Angeles Dodgers, the question is, has it come to an end now with a
00:04fracture in his left hand?
00:06Dave Roberts says he'll be out a while, but it's not considered to be season ending.
00:10As far as I know, hand fractures from every timeline I saw was four to six weeks.
00:16So you look at that timeline, Tom, that looks to me like he'd be very fortunate to come back maybe
00:22the final week of the season and get back to the postseason.
00:25I think the Dodgers, at least for the time being, have to operate with him potentially not being there for
00:29the postseason.
00:30Now, I will say this, if they get a bye, I mean, that certainly would help the situation.
00:34Pajas has been a great player for them all season long, but to think that he's coming back in two,
00:38three weeks from a fractured hand, I don't see that.
00:42And it also, just organizationally and how the team is laid out, they can't ease him back because it's not
00:49like, oh, Pajas, you're back.
00:50How about you just start off DH-ing, and then once you're able to get back into the field, then
00:55we can ramp you back up.
00:56It's like, no, Otani's the DH.
00:58So if he's not ready to go, then it's the decision of, like, can he actually be on the postseason
01:03roster for the first round?
01:04And maybe, you know, they can get past the first round, and they can obviously change the roster once, you
01:09know, the second round rolls around.
01:10But, like, they're going to have to make some tough decisions because they just don't have the lineup flexibility because
01:15of how the roster is built.
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