So what's the strategy for starters if we lose tonight?

Depends on what the Twins do. If they lose, wont matter. Can save Lugo and Ragans for Tuesday and Wednesday.

But if we lose and Twins win? Use your best guys ASAP. If you don’t make the playoffs, it doesn’t really matter if you saved them for the playoffs.

Lugo on Saturday would be next.

It's already set up as Lugo on Saturday and Ragans on Sunday, and it's on their normal rest.

Now if the Royals win tonight, then I imagine that may change and they may get a light work load.

I bet they would just push their starts back to Tues/Wednesday and not give them any work

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Vinnie Pasquantino is taking BP again today with the team. Scheduled to face Will Smith in a live tomorrow. There are still boxes Pasquantino has to check before being game-ready, plus assessing how he feels after each one. But he’s “well ahead of schedule,” Matt Quatraro said.</p>&mdash; Anne Rogers (@anne__rogers) <a href="https://twitter.com/anne__rogers/status/1839785622032265542?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

That is also a possibility. I just hope they make sure that they get ample rest, but not enough to throw off their routine in a way, hence a light work in a game environment or a bullpen session in between would make sense.

But this comes down to Singer tonight or if Baltimore does us a solid.

Couldn't he just DH?

We probably win 2014 game 7 if we yank Guthrie after the 3rd and pitch Herrera for 2, Davis for 2 and Holland for 2.

I think it's more of how his hand will respond to the next day after taking some reps would be one of those check boxes. If he wakes up with his hand sore, they may not risk it.

Plus it'll do him good to get acclimated being in the batters box and taking some live pitches.

One inside pitch or on the hands and it’s a wrap

That too.

But if Vinnie can at least be productive as a PH, it definitely helps out than nothing at all.

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There is no chance they start before the playoffs if we get in tonight. Or if we need to pitch Lugo tomorrow and we get in, Ragans won’t go Sunday. This team’s slim but only shot to win a playoff series is for Lugo/Ragans to dominate.