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Zach Eflin 2024


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The usual good work.

Managing the pitchers, I guess now the club has a choice whether to accelerate him to Tuesday on 4 days rest.

That could goose one more game of the remaining 9 out of "Burnes/Eflin" relative to "Others", but you probably only burn a top pitcher on the Game 162 Sunday if your berth is at stake, and we probably won't be that bad off.

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Just read two interesting tidbits - Juan Soto has battered him something like 18/35 which seemed like a lot but I guess PHI and WSN saw each other a bunch in the NL East.

Also that he passed 1000 career innings.   It caught me a little by surprise he has been around that long.    Fingers crossed Bradish and Grayson in their careers can get there.    Eflin is 3rd among pitchers at age 30 and down this season.

Hopping to Active Leaders to see how few pitchers attain that in this Driveline/Arm Barn era, tonight he became the 57th active pitcher to get there.     He gives us the ~162 IP we hope for in 2025, it'd go up about 20 spots.

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Eflin is a horse. He’s about as good as we could’ve done to go out and get a game #2 SP. Depending if Grayson comes back, Eflin is probably our Burnes replacement. Eflin also covers up some of the failure of the Rogers trade. 

We aight. I’ll ride with Burnes, Eflin, Suarez, and Kremer for the playoffs. It’s who we are. 

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