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Good morning, junkies.

How are you?

We are doing well.

So last night the bats went quiet for the Natslose 4-0 to the pods DJ hers pitched pretty well five

innings only give him five hits only allowed to earn how do you think he's performed as

he's kind of going back and forth between AAA and the Nats and not to

trigger you Mike but how much better is it now that you don't have to call up guys

from Fresno I remember a few years ago like you got to call up dudes from Fresno and they were traffle snafoos and complications with that

Now you got all the the minor league teams close by you don't have to worry about that nonsense anymore what's that like

taking off your plate that was a mess in Fresno they were there were good

people there geography didn't work but yeah that was kind of messy for a couple of years.

So yeah, it took us two days to make a roster move from Fresno.

So, but yeah, hers pitched, you know, fairly well yesterday, got two breaking balls up in the zone and he paid for it.

But I really like the way he's come on this year and we gave him a little time out, sent him to the minor leagues and just really to give him a break during the season because we hopefully that he'll finish the season out strong with us and you know he's never he's never gonna he's never been at

a any limit where he's gonna be at this year so we wanted to be careful with him

and several of the other guys too.

So we're going to have some pitching management issues, you know, when we come down to the end of the season.

But he, like a lot of our young pitchers have been they've been really good this year

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