Kyle Hart

Teams still insist on it because it's strategically sound, but because they're so risk-averse, it directly hurts their chances to win.

And so that's where it feels like a lot of the moves were scripted, and maybe Craig, who we saw... what was maybe the bugaboo early in the season? I remember an instance, I want to say with Kyle Hart and some other pitchers where he gave them one out one inning too many.

And then I think Craig learned from that, those mistakes.

And maybe he learned it too well and got a little gun shy.

So I have no idea what's going on there.

Is he hurt? And they're just not – they didn't put Kyle Hart on the roster or they didn't put someone else on the roster for him? They're just using him as a decoy? Like what is going on there? Because clearly he was not going to pitch today and he was taking up a roster spot.

So I don't know.

Mason Miller, no Mason today obviously, paternity list.

Pitching chaos, having to rely on these guys.

Now, to your point, they don't have Wani Peralta or Randy Vasquez, not Randy Vasquez, I'm sorry, Kyle Hart on this postseason roster, but they have guys who are able to go ahead and give you a couple short innings, one or two.

So I think it's a huge advantage for the Padres.

Their single biggest strength this entire season has been that bullpen.

Randy Vasquez left off.

Kyle Hart kept Griffin canning, had some very tough choices to make Vasquez.

I thought could have been a starter in the rotation in the playoffs.

And now game three, You know, you don't really have game three.

And, um, Man, everything he's doing is looking like a genius move lately.

He takes Kyle Hart off the postseason roster.

And don't be whining about Kyle Hart.

Anybody who's complaining about that.

And Vasquez, you feel bad.

I think that comment was just there.

And Kyle Hart was optioned, so it can't be him.

But like the Padres made the decision to throw Randy Vasquez for six innings.

They made the decision to option Kyle Hart.

So they were making this Joe Musgrove decision presumably they

knew they knew that's why Randy Vasquez was allowed to go ahead and do that that's why Kyle Hart who I thought was going to have a role in the postseason Darren and I had that conversation earlier that's why um that he was available and it's interesting because the last time that I think we spoke to to Joe Musgrove in the dugout like he was just as down as I've seen him saying that you know he cannot he does he does not want to take a spot on the on the playoff roster if he knows he cannot help them out like in back-to-back games he if he cannot recover Did not see him in Los Angeles when the Padres clinched versus the Dodgers.

So I'm guessing that he was tucked away.

He was on the down low just making sure, getting his work and making sure that he could recover and help this team.