Hence why I said he's not managing for tonight solely. He is trying to build up guys in the pen for the long haul. The season isn't even a quarter completed yet. Storen is coming, but we need other guys to step up.
Good getting out of that by Slaten. I complete agree with that, I actually think Clip needs a few days off he hasn't looked as sharp lately. My concern with using so many pitchers is that you take pitchers out when they are pitching well due to matchup reasons, and then you deplete the number of pitchers you have later in the game. So say bruney comes in for the 8th inning to give Clippard a break, but struggles, you are forced with bringing Clippard in anyway because there are now no other options to get out of the mess, so Clippard ends up pitching anyway since anyone else decent has already pitched and been taken out. I've seen it happen a few times