JotCast | Yankees vs. Twins Division Series Game 1 Chat

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Josh Herzenberg

11:55

I'm happy for him and all the players I scouted/coached that are experiencing the postseason

Seeing Lux hit the HR yesterday was super cool

Dystopian Future

11:56

I wonder if the 3-batter limit means that lefty specialists and low-leverage one-inning bullpen guys get replaced by longer, innings-eater types to try and save the high-leverage one-inning relievers.

Josh Herzenberg

11:57

Solid assumption, I would imagine

weezy

11:58

Does Kolarek face anyone not named Juan Soto this series? And does he show up in every game?

Josh Herzenberg

11:58

Probably not? Maybe?

*** Saturday, October 5 ***

weezy

12:02

so Lux, May... What about Buehler, Beaty, Will Smith? Are all those instructional guys?

Josh Herzenberg

12:02

I never worked directly with Beaty. I was in Ogden in 2016 and Rancho Cucamonga in 2017, and then instructional league in the fall

Sean

12:03

have the nats announced their pitching yet for 3/4? I assume scherzer for 4.

Belli Flop

12:04

Scherzer has been announced for 3

Josh Herzenberg

12:05

Good AB here from Soto

Dystopian Future

12:07

Well, it's Dustin May vs Howie Kendrick. Here we go.

Meg Rowley

12:07

May!!! Cool cool.

(ok, going back to editing now)

Josh Herzenberg

12:08

I assume you popped back in because my slack notifications are on mute

weezy

12:08

Now that you are no longer working in MLB/Dodgers, are you able to be a fan? Or does it make it harder (like other writers have talked about)?

Josh Herzenberg

12:09

Yeah, definitely. I grew up a Yankee fan in the NYC area, but now I have a lot of friends in the game. I mostly just hope they all do well

12:11

I coached both the guys in the battery here and I signed the pitcher

To be clear, he was not this good in high school. If he was, we would have drafted him much earlier than the 3rd round

12:15

This was at his debut in August (a few hours after the call up piece went up)

weezy

12:16

Really cool to have this kind of perspective at fg, Josh. Reading some of your work as I watch - particularly dug the May piece and the Nogowski piece

Josh Herzenberg

12:16

Thanks!

Strasburg was fantastic tonight

Scherzer warming

Nats Bullpen Observer

12:17

has a team ever used its top two starters as relievers AND starters like this before

Dystopian Future

12:18

I mean the Red Sox did a lot of having starters in relief last year with a shaky bullpen.

Josh Herzenberg

12:20

Muncy. That was a bomb.

103.5 mph, 29 degree LA, 413 feet

weezy

12:23

so thinking about what the Nationals are thinking... 2 innings from Scherzer and get out of LA tied 1-1?

lee

12:23

The Johnson/Schilling Dbacks, as I recall, did a lot of that

weezy

12:25

or was that like Kershaw a few years ago, that the warmup doubles as his "side day", and he's likely not pitching the 8th

Sam

12:26

Do you think they'd still go with Scherzer game 3 then if that were the case?

Josh Herzenberg

12:28

Depends on the pitch count. Today is likely a throw day for him, so possibly

12:28

I’d guess Scherzer has a pitch limit of ~30 and if they need another arm they go with Hudson?

Mick

12:28

I imagine it doesn't particularly matter whether Scherzer starts game 3 or game 4 if you win this game, so I guess you might as well use him to even the series up ehre

Josh

12:30

You can use 3-days rest Corbin in game 4, might mean they'd prefer to use Scherzer in game 3

Josh Herzenberg

12:32

Might be time to consider Jansen warming

Sam

12:32

It seems unlikely that kind of system could last too long, right?

weezy

12:33

that was a great at-bat from Suzuki

Josh Herzenberg

12:33

Seems like Robles might have tweaked something there

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