What is happening? Welcome to another episode of The Craft. My name is Nick Pollock.

And joining me today to talk about pitching of everybody in the first week is the lovely.

Enos, I can't believe I got him. Eno, thanks for picking up my phone call. I would never pick up a phone call from you. I don't know what you're talking about. about. I had to let out my lovely cat cash you there. So if you saw me just dip away,

because I'm like, I don't want to hear you know his answer. That's not the reason. And we have pictures to talk about. Guys, the first week of the season is here. We have had every turn of the rotation except for like today and stuff. And I'm really excited because I am a McClana fan. And today's the day. I'm a giant, giant water cup for it. Is that like custom made or did you find that? That's a picturesque mug. We sell that. I have a shirt too. Go to the picturesque shop, guys, shop the pictureslist.com. Anyway, we have to talk about a lot of these guys who have already gone. and I want to really obviously focus on the ones who are, we're more of the unknowns, the ones that we were thinking,

hey, maybe this guy will be that thing. You know, obviously, I don't want to talk much about like Matthew Boyd and Nick Povetta, they'll be fine. Schemes, duh, we'll be fine, that kind of stuff. But there were some very, very interesting starts. I want to hear your take on them, you know, and I'm going to start right away. I'm going to go from Thursday through on, because come on, weapon, freer fine. And Kate Kivali went opening day, 3.2 innings, 2-10-2 innings, 2-runs against the Cubs. How did you feel about this one? Because I know you were, you had some interest in Cavalian during the year.

Yeah, I mean, the new breaking ball, I guess it's a sweeper.

You know, so he's got multiple breaking balls now.

I think that is part of the future for him.

The problem for me was that the stuff has never really been the question. It's really been the command that has been the question.

And so I didn't see what I needed to see there.

It looked good for a couple innings. The location number for his outing is good, but he also walked guys and walked too many of them.

And that's really where he needs to go.

So I am just cautiously optimistic that, you know,

this two breaking ball and a good four seamer with the additional sinker,

he has the stuff that he needs, but I need him just to really dial in the command.

So he gets the Phillies on Wednesday, and then it would be the Cardinals and then at Pittsburgh

after, if you have Keivoli right now, are you holding for that?

Philly start going to, going with them for the Cardinals and the

pirates after? I would try and hold him through that. Yes. If I could hold him through this week,

then Cardinals pirates are good options for me. Maybe he'll surprise against the Phillies.

If he, even if he just does what he did last time and is a short outing but with some strikeouts then

i will hold him for those next two because i think that he can do some damage against those

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