Kris Bubic

If Edwin Diaz comes back good, that would be huge.

Uh, Chris Bubic has been great in his rehab stint.

Yeah

Uh, which, you know, he's overlooked.

Rookie in the pen.

I am excited about Bubic, yeah, putting Roki in the pen.

You know, Roki last year was really good as a reliever after being a terrible starter.

Yeah.

They had to deal with that with Riggins.

They had to deal with that with Bubic.

And the only guys that seem to be durable in their rotation are the older guys.

Michael Waka and Seth Lugo.

I went through, I found 12 in their team, and this does not even count Ben Kasperius, who started last year some, but has been only a reliever this year.

But, you know, you got your Yamamoto, Sasaki, and if Otani's back, you got Glasnow, Snell, Hrableski, Sheehan, Gavin Stone, Bobby Miller, Eric Lauer, Chris Bubich, and all that school bowl guy.

That's a hell of a collection.

Yeah, like to me, I think automatically, Laurel could end up spot starting, and he will probably end up with somehow they'll end up with bullpen days, it just happens.

Two appearances, two clean innings.

I don't know if they're clean, but two scoreless innings and two appearances for Bubich so far with the Oklahoma City Comets.

When he is ready, when he is healthy, maybe you probably want to see him get a mate.

I don't even know if they're going to get him back-to-back in there.

So maybe you go that route.

I think you've brought up Chris Bubich before, the former Royal now on the Dodgers.

You know, I think there's a couple of those guys that they may look at.

Jack Gallin is one you've brought up a lot.

I get how if you're the Cardinals, you would say, we just went through it.

These other guys don't have the same upside, so let's go ahead and bet on Zach Allen potentially regaining form for us.

But if you were in their shoes, which one, and we'll have all offseason to talk about this, but just out of curiosity, out of Bubich, Singer, Gallin, or Malley, if those are your four options for the Cardinals and they had to bet on one profile to unlock their potential this offseason, which one would you guys be betting on? Gallin all day.

Yeah, that's me.

I mean, I think next year Noah Cameron's the ace of your staff, or Michael Walker is, and then After that, yeah, there are question marks, obviously, with the rotation of what will be.

Because, obviously, Bubic is gone.

Reagans won't be back until post-All-Star game.

Or maybe beginning of the

Uh, but also I just want the offense to score a bunch of runs so that it doesn't matter who the closer is.

[laughs] Uh, NPC Baby asking what about, uh, Bubic.

He is somebody that, uh, I don't know, with, uh, Katie Wu had suggested that he is somebody you could see in kind of a hybrid role, multi-inning role, uh, now with this, um, Roki Sasaki issue.

I don't think we will, personally, but, um, I, like, I think, I think this is a golden opportunity, uh, for Gavin Stone to come back and make a few appearances, uh, in a starting capacity before the end of the season, and they had already said, like, when they acquired Bubic, the goal, the, the expectation was that he could be somebody who pitches in relief and maybe gets them two or three innings, um, in a, in a bullpen role.

But he's more so, like, he's a lottery ticket.

That's, that's all he is.

Like, he, he, in 27 games, 30.1 innings, 11.6 strikeouts per nine, a whip just barely over one, a 195 FIP.

Uh, he, he was just dominant.