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I think there's something we're overlooking here, gentlemen.
That being the waste of 2017 in pennant terms. Dipoto did churn ideas during 2017, and several of them worked. He pulled face cards off the top of the deck with Leake, with Erasmo, and with a couple of relievers.
It COULD be that he panned enough shiny yellow to make things work for 2018. Sometimes sports work like that.
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What was it? 40 pitchers they mowed through? IFF you assume intelligence with that kind of processing opportunity, you have got something. It's possible that occurred.