00:00He was partying, but he didn't sound like, yeah, I'm going to be playing.
00:02He didn't get that undertone that, yes, I'm playing, and I'm healthy,
00:06and I'm ready to go.
00:07It sounds like he's still fighting through something.
00:09So my guess is no.
00:11Do I think he'll be on the divisional roster?
00:13Yes.
00:13But I don't know how much he's going to play.
00:16I think they're very worried about him playing on the outfield turf at Trop,
00:21and that'll be three of the five games there.
00:22So if he's on the roster, I think it is a pinch hitting like we expected
00:26Stanton scenario, and we'll see at the games at Yankee Stadium.
00:30So I'm going to lean yes, but as a result, I think Giancarlo won't be on the roster.
00:36What I was very surprised about was Giancarlo, and they can be related,
00:40especially if you're right.
00:41If both of you are right, that Judge would be on the roster
00:43but not in the traditional role we expect, does it make him and Stanton redundant
00:47as two guys that can basically only pinch hit?
00:50Yeah.
00:51I am very surprised.
00:52And or DH.
00:53Right, right.
00:54Well, with Stanton, we wouldn't even see that.
00:57Like, it's literally just pinch hit.
00:59With Judge, you're right.
01:00It could be he could play right field.
01:02He could DH.
01:02We don't know.
01:04I am surprised and almost stunned that Stanton didn't get an app out in the wild card series.
01:09And you can't tell me whether there was no opportunity.
01:11Yesterday, there were opportunities.
01:14They decided in the seventh inning to pinch hit for Ryan McMahon.
01:17Totally makes sense.
01:18There was a left-hander Gamboa on the mound.
01:19Fine.
01:20Okay.
01:21Why are you using Paul Goldschmidt and not Giancarlo Stanton?
01:24And at that point in the game, aren't you trying to figure out, like, what you have?
01:28The game's over by that point.
01:29Remember, you had already broken the game open with the three-run home run by Cody Bellinger.
01:33So at this point in the game, when you decide to make that move of Paul Goldschmidt for Ryan McMahon,
01:38it's 9-2.
01:40Yeah.
01:41Isn't that the moment to at least get him an at-bat, maybe see what he looks like?
01:45And the fact that Boone didn't use him makes me question if he would even be on the roster in
01:50a few days.
01:51I'm the same.
01:51And I really thought, and everybody in our section was thinking, when Grisham bunted and it all worked out,
01:56that also felt like the lane to bring up Giancarlo.
02:00You had runners on.
02:01Now, he does get the bunt out.
02:01It works great, obviously.
02:03He beats it out.
02:03But in that spot, that felt like a typical Grisham hadn't played.
02:06Not like he's playing defense well, come up.
02:08So I thought there were multiple spots less than he didn't go to him.
02:10And again, yeah, if you're not going to go to him and get him alive at-bat,
02:12especially in a 9-2 game with Goldie like you brought up, what are we doing here?
02:16And the judge thing just adds to it.
02:18If you can't roster two guys in a best-of-five that you don't have a lot of confidence in
02:23can either A, start, or B, play the field.
02:26So I do think one hand washes the other.
02:27And I wonder if part of that was they got good news off of Judge and Somerset,
02:31and they're going to weigh that.
02:32And they said, you know, what are we really even throwing Stanton out there for an at-bat?
02:34We're not going to use him in the next series.
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