🎧BJHH: 177 - Erik's Swan Song
On the many moving parts—like Swanson, Francis, Scherzer, Santander, Manoah, and more—that are shaping the Jays' roster as the season progresses! (Plus relitigating the Teo trade, naturally!)
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The Blue Jays have continued to roll over the last week, finally managing to reel in the New York Yankees a little bit, and have kept on doing so with contributions from unexpected places. And they’ve made it so they’ll need to keep on relying on those for a while yet, thanks to a number of transactions made in recent days, the most notable of which saw a pair of expected contributors—Bowden Francis and Erik Swanson— banished to the injured list and designated for assignment respectively.
That the Jaysy decided Francis keeping his spot had become untenable was hardly a shocker, but the presumed end of the Swanson Era—after just 30 batters faced—was at the very least a mild one. And it gave us a chance to talk about all things bullpen construction, to relitigate the Teoscar Hernández trade, and to look into the future at how the staff as a whole will function with a bullpen in transition and a rotation desperate to get Max Scherzer back—and, eventually, Alek Manoah—and could still probably use reinforcements beyond them as well.
Plus a whole lot more!
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AND! If you’re a paid subscriber to the site here, and you’re not so into listening to podcasts, you can check out a transcript of the episode at the bottom of this post.*
*(An unedited transcript that is, which… if you check it out I think you’ll immediately see exactly why I’m choosing not to deal with cleaning up that mess. But I think it’s legible enough that you’ll get the gist, should for some reason you want it.)
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