Is Emilio Pagán the difference for the Reds?

great to see you um it's been a long time yeah i'm just happy to be here man i love your hat you

are here it makes me feel good

Thank you.

Thank you.

So one of the things I want to talk about, and we're going into Friday, this is with the Reds starting a series against the Milwaukee Brewers.

You know, you kind of go into the season thinking, oh, man, this is going to be a huge series.

It's less so because the Reds have underperformed.

And there are many reasons the Reds team has underperformed, primarily the offense.

But, you know, one of the things I've noticed over this last couple of weeks, and I talked to a couple of people about this yesterday and the other day, the last couple of days, what a difference it makes to have that ninth inning guy.

Would you, for a manager, for a, you know, anybody else on the team, for starters, for everybody, when you know, they talk about shortening a game and we've seen all this.

But, like, you know, if you know Mason Miller's coming in, you know you're done.

You know, like, remember even the feeling.

Sometimes it's even different.

Like, all due respect to the Reds all-time saves leader, there is a difference feeling when Aroldis Chapman came out of the bullpen at Great American Ballpark than Danny Graves.

All due respect.

And you know I have utmost respect, and I know you will not take offense at that because...

Right.

Aroldis Chapman coming in feels different than anybody else in the history of the game, maybe.

Yeah.

100%.

Well... nasty boys coming in was a lot

more

comfortable than Danny graves coming in.

So,

but, but even like, you know, you hear people talk about Francisco Cordero.