Welcome to the Boc Talk podcast on NBC Sports Bay Area.com.

Introducing your host, NBC Sports Bay Area's Jessica Kleinschmidt.

Welcome back to another episode of Bok Talk presented by Wendy's new pretzel bacon

cheeseburger at participating Wendy's

for limited time only.

I know I say every week that I'm excited for a show, but every time I get to talk to Dallas

Braden, it's an amazing experience, not only because I really respect him as an analyst, but

I love him as a human being, too.

He's a dear friend of mine, and I'm so lucky that I get to work with him every day, but I love him as a human being, too. He's a dear friend of mine, and I'm so lucky

that I get to work with him every day, but I love talking to him about the A's and just being

able to witness what this team has done in a 60 game unprecedented time has been a treat,

and to see him having fun with it and liking this team and trying to show

the world that this team means business. And there's plenty to like. We talked about playoffs,

of course, because the A's have big eyes on the playoffs. I know it's going to be a little bit

funky with the expanded version, but we're

pretty stoked to see what happens. We talk about how the pitching rotation could look toward those

postseason months and how great that bullpen is. We, of course, refer to the A's bullpen as

daddy because they own everybody that they go up against. And we were really excited to see J.B.

When Delkin kind of bloom into this really great guy coming out of the bullpen,

we of course talk about are the A is going to be okay without Chapman,

who is done for the season?

And Pinder, who is supposed to be his backup, he's going to be out for a little bit.

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