The Max-Free decision, Tiki and I just sparred on, happens to be one area where I agree with this manager.

There are plenty of other things that happened last night that stupefied me.

That did not make a lot of sense.

But you said before we went to break that, especially after Jazz Chisholm in postgame, was clearly upset by not being in the starting lineup. That kind of changed your view on the original starting lineup and the quote-unquote dogs that weren't in there. Yes, you're right. Look, when you have a team that played as well as the Yankees did down the stretch, and it points throughout the season, you look at the guys that got you there. It was Stanton, it was Judge, it was Jazz Chisholm, it was Ben Rice.

It was these guys who are just the energy of this team, right?

The stars are Aaron Judge and anyone else, Goldie and obviously Bellinger.

But there's like the glue dudes that are there.

And I know the matchups suck because of Garrett Crochet. But did that matter? I think in certain cases it did. Did it? Who needed to play? Let's go. Let's go by names. Jazz Chisholm needed to play. And again, I thought he was injured dealing with an injury. I think we all did based on the way Boone answered a question the other day about, hey, how's Jazz doing? And it was like, okay. It was one of those things that makes me say, yeah, I guess so, but I'll trust the manager on this. He's hurt. He knows better than I do. But when you see Jazz's reaction, clearly he was pissed off. Right. He wanted to be out there, and in the fact that he wasn't, it just takes something away

when you don't play the team that got you to where you were. Do you think Ahmed Rosario,

who crushes left-handed pitching and is one of the rare guys with good numbers against crochet?

Should he have started yesterday?

I mean, almost as he played this year. He's six for nine in his career against Crochet. Should he have started yesterday? I mean, almost as he played this year.

He's six for nine in his career against Crochet,

and he matches left-handed pitching, and the reason they got him was to hit lefties. Should he have played yesterday? No. Come on. No. I disagree with that. Why? Where I was going to meet you in the middle was, it doesn't have to be at the expense of jazz chisholm.

Like I could find that common ground.

Right. Put it third then.

Now the negative to that is, which is a possibility instead of Caballero, is you lose a little bit defensively. That in defense matters when you're going to play a low-scoring pitcher's duel. So I think if you want Rosario's bat in the lineup, the best places to put him are second base or right

field with potentially judge and left, Bellinger in center, kind of reconfiguring your

outfield. But Ahmed Rosario is here to face lefties and it gets dismissed like, well, the

analytics. It's the same analytics Tony LaRouca looked at 30 years ago, where John McGraw looked at 100 years ago. He hits lefties. It's kind of simple. Why would you not play that guy? Because it also takes one of your better players out of the lineup. That's why I understand Tique, the Jazz Chisholm discussion. Yes. I think it gets complicated on where to put him, but I think he has to play. Like, I just start with that. Like, the guy hits crochet. The guy hits lefties. You're desperate for offense. Of course he should play. And here's the – this is my biggest issue with Aaron Boone, because I got some issues from last night, a few of them. By the way, he didn't. Excuse me?

By the way, he didn't.

I'm Ed Rosario? He did. He went old for three with three groundouts. What's that six for nine look like now? Right. That's six for twelve. Yeah. I mean, it's still 500. And it's, just because something doesn't work, doesn't mean. Like Luke Weaver. It's the wrong decision.

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