Max Scherzer Struggles with Fatigue: Recovery and Bullpen Role
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00:00I do feel fatigue in my, um, you know, my, you know, I was feeling my forearm arm kind
00:09of fatigue. Uh, I just don't know how I'm going to recover from this. Um, that's been
00:12the issue at hand here. So, you know, after the fifth inning, uh, you know, he felt like
00:18we got enough work in, uh, felt like we're in a good spot. Um, and you know, that was
00:23kind of my line, you know, that was as far as I want, you know, we could go today. Um,
00:26I remember really trying to maximize what I can do five days out. Like there's not
00:30an off day. There's no, um, I have to make the next start on five days. So, um, you know,
00:37was able to get out, uh, and hopefully my arm responds. Uh, hopefully, you know, I don't
00:41go backwards. Hopefully I'm able to take this and continue to ramp up and continue to go
00:46forward. Uh, but yeah, this is still an issue at hand.
00:49I mean, that is disastrous. He's finished. That's all there is to it. Now, what do you
00:54think of them, you know, using him in, uh, the bullpen? I know he'd never want to go
01:01there. I know he'd never want to be, uh, a guy to close it, but he could go out. Can
01:06he go out and throw an inning and just like that? Use them every day. When you, when you
01:13listen to him say something like that, I think it's something that you have to consider.
01:19I think it's something that you have to think about. Like Max, can we, instead of like trying
01:24to pitch every fifth day, what if we did two every third or so? I don't know if that's
01:29more ramp up or less. I don't know if that's more aware. I'm not sure. You know, him being
01:33a starting pitcher for as long, I'm sure he's got some routine that he's so strict with,
01:38uh, that he wants to stay on, but he feels like his arm's going to fall off at any day.
01:45Like that's how he sounded after one start this year.