Exactly. If he has success it will only be the first time through the order. We will **** him up the next time through as we saw many times when he was here.
Trey gets the chance to thwart the debut of Potential #1 overall pick in the draft, James Hagens from Boston College this weekend in East Lansing. They are super loaded beyond him and this will be a great early season test.
I think most front offices see parity in a big way and nobody is really out of anything at the moment. I think there will be multiple 8-8 teams fighting for playoff spots in the last week of the season.
This is a weird season as the game appears to be morphing from a high octane passing league into something more balanced.
The bats may have been very different had Skubal pitched. He gives the entire team extra confidence when he’s out there. We’ve seen that all season.
They were going to need to win games without him either way so I can’t fault the team for valuing his health. I hope that we don’t find ourselves facing elimination in game 4. That would be really tough to not have him.