Jhony Brito

For me, the all-in conversation that we touched on briefly, because I think that was the day that they maybe published that letter, it has to start with Michael King.

Because when you look at what's available on paper to them, if King and Pavetta aren't, I mean, Musgrove and Vasquez, like J.P. Sears, Johnny Brito, you have to put your foot down.

You have to have some type of anchor.

in this rotation, and can you do it other ways other than King? Sure, if he walks and he gets the moon from some other team and you can't get there, but it just, to me, feels like that's my starting point.

Brian Hoeng is also on this list.

J.P. Sears, Jeremiah Estrada, Johnny Brito.

Okay.

The whole three catcher thing is really interesting.

The Padres need starting pitching.

The Padres like the Yankees pipeline, Johnny Brito, Randy Vasquez, et cetera, Michael King.

That feels like, uh, the best of both worlds.

So read yanksgoyard.com for that later in the week.

And then we got a bullpen that ends up, I think, looking incredibly different than all of this.

now i have advocated for let's go young let's dip into the minor leagues there is really only a couple of guys in the minors that even come close to being in the conversation tucker musgrove is leading that charge of like guys that throw really hard and could be good fifth sixth inning guys um But yeah, so the bullpen is in this kind of weird position of, does Johnny Brito wind up...

He's another one that's on contract for a couple more years.

And does he wind up in a position to... you know, he really didn't make his major league comeback this year.

They got Michael King, which is the big part there, and then a lot of other kind of Major League role players.

Johnny Brito, Kyle Higashioka, Drew Thorp, Brandy Vásquez, whatever.

[lip smack] Uh, the Kyle Tucker deal, right? They got Cam Smith, who stepped into a starting role in right field for them.

The problem you have with trying to trade Ronald now is it just creates another hole.

The two deadline pickups that you got, Robbie Ray and, and, and Casey Mize, even though they didn't throw well, they're free agents.

Um, they, if you look at their like projected rotation depth chart, like I'm on, I have roster resource up right now, and it's like the top four guys in their rotation are Joe Musgrove, Randy Vasquez, JP Sears, and Johnny Brito.

And it's like, that's not, uh, that, that is not getting it, you know?

Yeah.

I have liked his stuff since the trade that brought him and Michael King over.

Johnny Brito had a bigger name because he had kind of an explode on the scene beginning to his career.

But looking at the stuff, I was like, Vasquez is going to be better than Brito is.

And it's turned out that way.

And Johnny Brito, of course, can be still on the club.

He's had some injury issues.

He had to have the internal brace procedure.