Tristan Gray

Like, what is the idea here? And there's just so much of that in terms of, oh, they kept this guy, and the, the downstream effect of that was blocking this guy.

Or they chose Tristan Gray, and then they went back to Tris.

And why did they do that? And why did they invest here but not here? Why don't they have any right-handed hitters? They have a ...

I mean, there's just a million of them, right? Why d- the bullpen stuff early on, everything.

We don't have room for a speedy guy off the bench, uh, because we just don't have, we just don't have those resources." And I think we've kind of seen that, that increase to the point where you get to the point where you've got a two-month period where basically you're just, you're, you're basically throwing up your hands as an organization and saying, "We really don't have anybody who's particularly valuable enough to fill out the 13th man on this roster here."

Yeah, I mean, it's, they've, they've g- they've come a long way unfort- in the negative from the days of Michael A. Taylor and Kyle Farmer and Willie Castro and that type of bench, where it was like these are borderline starting caliber players who are now in part-time roles, and in at least one or two seasons each, they became really important.

And then this season it was like, well, what was their bench? Their bench was Victor Caratini, who for some reason they gave a two-year deal to, Tristan Gray, who was unplayably bad defensively, James Outman, who was just unplayably bad.

And then you get into a situation where you're punting a spot on Jackson, and there's a couple other-

I also will say that I want to continue to get some looks at Ross, and I'm glad to see him getting a few more plate appearances in recent days.

To ensure that we're not accused of being lacking in thoroughness, I also assume we're on the same page that Tristan Gray is not part of the mix.

Someone who was part of the mix earlier in the year probably stuck around on... 25 man a little bit longer than people thought, but I assume we're all on the same page that it is unlikely that he would be back with the big league team in 2027.

I would put him as out the door.

So that leaves second base.

So I think the infield defense is better than it was three months ago when you had Tristan Gray and Ryan Crowley trying to play.

And in the outfield, Rodriguez could play center.

Jacobs could play center.

Troy Johnston had homered.

Tristan Gray, David Fry, Cody Clemens, Alec Boehm, Blaze Alexander, and on and on and on.

And finally, Shea Langeliers had three in like the first trip in the first week of the season.

So Vlad still has some work to do, but man, oh man, he finally did it.

Jacob Berry has it.

He chases Tristan Gray back to first.

Alfaro applies the tag.

How about that? A double play.

In and over.

Gavin Kraus guns down Tristan Gray at the plate for the final out of the top of the second.

Why oh why would you run on Gavin Kraus? Bases empty.

Two outs.

It's going to happen.

But I'd rather see him make that mistake at shortstop than Tristan Gray.

And Walker Jenkins now, if Buxton can't play, let's get him in center.

That's your future.