 Now get back into this Yankee twin series tonight. It's gonna be Severino against Oderizzi And what Rocco Baldele did was set himself up for criticism because you started a guy an absolute novice Who might end up being a very good pitcher Randy Dobnack in a game that you had to win You don't want to go back to Minnesota Down two games nothing and that's exactly what happened. Dobnack didn't have it Then his bullpen choices in game one also a little odd game to a little bit better But they didn't perform. I think what we're seeing from Rocco Baldele is what we saw from Aaron Boone last year when you're young and The playoffs happen the game moves a little bit faster than it does during the regular season and you might make moves that Might be good for game 94, but not good for game 163 or game 164 So now you have Oderizzi who could have started Game two, but I think they might have overthought things because Oderizzi is a fly ball pitcher So they started to think well, we don't want to have a fly ball pitcher Yankee Stadium where the ball flies out But their analytics didn't dig deep enough Yankee Stadium despite its reputation as a home run haven is below average in home runs allowed below Not above Yankees have more home runs on the road than they do at Yankee Stadium So wouldn't you whatever the guy does wouldn't you pitch your best pitcher? Wouldn't you think that Jake Oderizzi is better than Radney Dobnack? So now Oderizzi pitches in a game That's a must win a literal must win Now another thought that the Yankees have to have they're starting Severino tonight if you watch the first two games in the first game Paxton Did not throw him any fastballs and when he did didn't get one swing and miss on him in Game two Tanaka was great Didn't throw many fastballs through everything else and the reason for that is The twins hunt fastballs. That's what they do. They destroy fastballs So if you're Louis Severino, what do you do your best pitch is your fastball? Do you abandon your best pitch and go to your secondary pitch the slider the changeup? That's an age-old question. I always tell the story that John Sterling told me was at the Braves Joe Tory came out and said the Steve Bedrosian Are you got to watch this guy? He's a good fastball hitter and Bedrosian looked at Torian said yeah, but is he a great fastball hitter? So that's the age-old question. What does Severino do? I don't think the leash is going to be very long For Severino if he's starting to get hit and he has not pitched well in the playoffs Remember that he got crushed by the twins didn't even get three outs in the first inning and was bailed out in that wild card game by DD's home run and Then last year against the Red Sox also pitched poorly So the Yankees are gonna keep a close eye on him and and how effective he is I think will go a long way toward telling us whether or not the Yankees can win the World Series I think it looks like they're gonna win the series, but you never say never they've lost They've come you know teams have come back from O2 the Yankees did against the Indians two years ago So don't count the twins out just yet, but the Yankees are in a good position