Dylan Dodd

And then I've also brought up Cloacy, who is a young outfielder that I think makes a lot of sense as a defensive speed guy as your fifth outfielder.

The bullpen, I'm moving Holmes to the bullpen with Dylan Lee, Dylan Dodd, Ray Kerr, Medeiros, Lopez, Ronaldo Lopez to the bullpen as well, and then Suarez.

In this scenario, my bullpen, I think, is a tick weaker than it has been.

And this is all about Suarez's health.

His splits are basically the same.

Kind of like Dylan Dodd.

Dylan Dodd's like that.

I don't think folks realize.

Dylan Dodd against lefties and righties, both sub 200.

But why don't you get another one? No problem with that.

Alex Vessia would be on my list absolutely 100%.

One, what happens behind him? And two, what happens if he's not available? Let's take him in turn.

Because I think the internal depth as of right now, before you assume any sort of signings, trades, whatever, behind Robert Suarez, you have Dylan Lee, you have Dylan Dodd.

So you have the Dylans.

You also have Ray Kerr.

I think the big takeaway here, this is not a player, Raizel Iglesias is not a player I want the Braves to chase and make an emotional decision about.

I do think with Fuentes being tabbed for the rotation, I do think you're at a loss of options to replace him internally.

Again, I'm high on Dylan Dodd and Ray Kerr.

I don't think either one of them is ready to step into a save situation were Robert Suarez to go down.

And so Dylan Lee is your setup man.

And sure, you can count on additional contributions and a higher role from a guy like a Dylan Dodd or a Ray Kerr.

Both of them showed that they have a lot of ability and that they can handle leverage moments.

They showed that down the stretch and in the postseason.

And full disclosure, the sinker is not a typical sinker.

I just want to kind of make that clear.

It is more into the Dylan Dodd type of sinker, right? It has a lot of force seam-like movement.

And so he's a sinker slider guy, but it's more of a Dylan Dodd type than it is, you know, a Bryce Elder sinker slider guy, right? It's an interesting profile.

then I'm good bringing Iglesias back.

But if I have to pick between either bringing back Iglesias or having money to sign a couple of those starters we talked about or to sign one of the good hitters who are on the market that we're going to talk about in about five minutes, then I'm moving that money towards the rotation and the lineup and then writing Robert Suarez and Dylan Lee and maybe Didier Fuentes and Dylan Dodd and those types.

We agree 100% on that.

The... ricel factor is that also i think he would probably be willing to sign another one-year deal that's very alexi there's the risk avoidance factor of that and i i to be fair i like these i like one-year deals too in a vacuum because they they you can avoid the commitments to the downside risks and that's all fine but if it doesn't that's that's the pivot point if it limits you otherwise Thank you, Rysel, for your service.

He did it twice this postseason.

[laughs] Bryan Abreu, Dylan Dodd, and Mason Miller, uh, and Grant Taylor, so it's actually six.

So, uh, you know, what you see when you group these guys is something very similar.

Let's look at the regular season.

I do want to make a point on Iglesias.

The Braves need to stop, and th- and this is where I have disagreed with Alex for years, we've talked about a lot on this show, the Braves need to stop spending so much money on their bullpen because, you know, you look at the postseason and who were getting the most outs You know, the Braves spent like 60 million, 55, $60 million on their bullpen, and most of the guys getting outs were guys making like less than a million bucks, like Rakel and Dylan Dodd and Didier Fuentes.

You know, there was no Aaron Bummer out there.

There was no, you know, Joe Jimenez out there.

They're hosting the Atlanta Braves.

The starting pitching matchup is Dylan Dodd-

How about that?

... former SEMO Redhawk versus Tarik Skubal.

Dodd matching Skubal pitch for pitch.

Dodd ended up being an opener in the game.

Dylan Dodd, three innings, two hits, no runs, four Ks, matching Skubal pitch for pitch.

They got 47 pitches from Dylan Dodd, 30 of which were strikes.