Guardians Experiments

Good, except I'm going to start off, Mike, with...

I need you to counsel me for a minute here.

Okay.

Obviously, the Guardians right now, they're losing 5-2 to the White Sox.

Frustrating, but Frustrating, and of course there's been a couple frustrating things in this game.

But anyway, Slade Ciccone gives up three runs in an inning.

That's going to happen to Slade Ciccone.

Please explain to me how Stephen Vogt brings him back out for the sixth.

Generally speaking, I understand all Stephen Vogt pitching decisions.

I feel like they all make sense to me for the most part.

It's 5,000 degrees out there, and he was just getting hit all over the ballpark.

Why did he bring him back out?

Please.

I don't have any explanation for you.

I've got to be honest.

I thought for sure he was going to be out when he got to, what, 93 pitches when he struck out Colson Montgomery.

I thought, well, okay, that's probably it.

And it's not that the double to braid Montgomery was a rope or anything, but I mean – it hits a hit and yeah, you let him go face the next batter after that.

I'm not sure.

I understand.

Even if it's my draft, who's not exactly a power threat.

You can't, no, no. It's a Coney is like the, the equalizer when he's giving up part contact that goes a long way.

Although he's been very good.

And I understand wanting to trust the rotation to some extent, but I think in this situation, knowing what, you know, with the facts on the ground, there's no reason to come out for the sixth.

And I know that he's trying to get him through the bottom of the order, but it's just greedy on a night when, again, it is 2,000 degrees outside.