Alex Bregman on the gut punch that is the potential for Roman Anthony oblique injury and some time missed by Roman Anthony.

And he's, I mean, he's having an MRI today, but the way Alex Bregman is talking about it,

it's almost as if it is a foregone conclusion that they are.

It's not like a tweak.

It's like he's talking about the injury as if it is something that they know is going to cost him some time for a while.

I mean, the way listening to Roman Anthony himself speak about it, he was basically saying,

like, yeah, it's worse than anything else that he's felt this year or faced this year.

So, I mean, I would not expect to see him for a bit.

Yeah.

And this is where, once again, we can talk to Bres about it tomorrow, but at 9, this is the depth you needed

when you're relying on young players who haven't played a 162 game season.

You have now Crochet for the first time since May, consecutively pitching on four days' rest

with last night's clunker against the Guardians, and you're going to need him

more now down the stretch into the playoffs, and I'm not sure you can rely on it.

Would you skip a start?

Yes.

If you don't have crochet as best as he can possibly be in October, then it doesn't matter

what your record is.

Right.

So I would give up the division and play in the wild card if it meant that crochet was healthy,

as opposed to grinding him down the stretch, and then you don't know what you're getting when he goes in game one.

You brought a dude up for tonight.

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