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baseball. Good afternoon, Joe. How are you? I'm good, Mark and Ed. How are you?

Doing great, Joe, doing great. I just wondered whether you can, you know, after a one-game

playoff, whether you can exhale a little bit as you went to what seems like an eternity,

a five-game playoff?

Yeah, we were able to.

You know, the interesting thing was, you know, you win that game, and then you've got to go to

work on your next roster and try to line up what your rotation is and make some tough decisions.

But you're able to exhale a little bit.

It was nice to get here in Cleveland and have a workout and just kind of get on the field and run around a little bit.

Joe, with that being said, let's talk about how you set up your starting rotation.

Take us between the little bit behind the thought process of setting it up the way that you did

with Gray tonight, Sabathia, game two, Tanaka, game three, and with Severino game 4. Yeah, well, we looked at, you know, a lot of pure numbers that you look at as a group,

and Sonny probably has the best matchups against this club.

His pitch pretty well, two out of the three starts that he's, you know,

he has been here in Cleveland.

He had a rough one early on, but he struggled early on in the season. And then we

decided C-C-C-Game 2, and then you have them both available for game 5. Tanaka's pitch really well

at home. We'll have him for game 3, and then Sevi after that. Yeah, Joe, I was wondering the other

nights when playing the twins and you fell behind early there. I'm sure you had plans for, you know,

two times through the lineup with Sevi and three times, et cetera. And you probably, I was wondering

how many plans you had to throw away, you know, six batters into the game and go to your bullpen

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