The first half of the episode, more or less, talks about the Red Sox bullpen and how it reflects and refracts the Sox's long-term building strategies. Was the Barnes extension a good idea? Should Whitlock be the closer? These questions are more are answered definitively, period, end of story. Also we/they talk the first base logjam, Nick Yorke/Blaze Jordan, and why Matt doesn't think the Sox brass should be "put to death." He's a teddy bear, this guy.
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