00:01The correct answer is starting pitching. I think everyone can agree with that.
00:04Newcomb and Fetty help that, though, because those are guys that can give you some bulk in the...
00:09Not in October.
00:10Not in October.
00:11Not in October.
00:12I think what you're saying, right, and I think you're right to a certain degree when it comes to playoff
00:16pitching,
00:16is that it can be a hodgepodge of realities in terms of what happens.
00:20It's not what you want if you want to make a deep playoff run, though, right?
00:23You want at least your ace and your number two for sure locked in.
00:28And then your third game, you can kind of make it happen.
00:31But I think Luis Castillo, he was brought in to be someone that can pitch a ton of innings.
00:39Like Bruce Devine had an opportunity to speak with him.
00:41He was talking about quality starts, right?
00:43Three earned runs, six innings pitched.
00:45Something along those lines is what you would have hoped for for a guy like Luis Castillo.
00:49But even Sean Burke.
00:51I love Sean Burke.
00:52I love the fact that he's ascended to the point that he's pitching as well as he is right now.
00:57But you still need your Davis Martin.
00:59You still need Luis Castillo to be a serviceable pitcher.
01:03But the fact that you cannot pinpoint on a first-place team who are your dominant pitchers,
01:10you can go to even just the wild-card teams in the NL.
01:14If you're looking at the Diamondbacks, who the Cubs are going to play, Eduardo Rodriguez, Brandon Fatley,
01:18you can point to pitchers that can get the job done.
01:21And I don't know if you can do the same for the Chicago White Sox.
01:23Even Sean Burke, you know you're pitching well, but is there complete confidence in a guy like that
01:28to go out in game one against the opposing team starting pitcher, their ace, and really get the job done?
01:34So, I mean, the hitting, obviously, you can be concerned about it.
01:38Coastal Montgomery striking out seven times over the weekend against the Mets.
01:42But, you know, they're still leading the American League in runs, third in homers.
01:45So, the runs and the productivity can be there, but especially in the playoffs,
01:51you're not going to go far at all if you don't have that starting pitching.
01:53So, hopefully, they can turn that thing around.
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