Though right-handed pitcher Brent Honeywell is not with the Los Angeles Dodgers, he’s nonetheless defending the staff this spring.
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Former New York Yankees left-hander Nestor Cortes sparked controversy when he claimed the Bronx Bombers had been really the higher staff within the basic World Sequence matchup. Like Oakland Athletics reliever Dennis Eckersley for his position in Kirk Gibson’s house run, Cortes has ceaselessly cemented himself in Dodgers lore by giving up a walk-off grand slam to Freddie Freeman in Sport 1.
“We had executed sufficient to win that recreation,” Cortes stated. “They will discuss no matter they wish to discuss, however we win Sport 1 — which we must always have — we misplaced 2 and three, we win Sport 4 and we must always have received Sport 5. Then we return to LA up 3 to 2.
“So folks can say it slipped away from us, folks can say we made lots of errors, which we did. However on the finish of the day, we had been the higher staff. I see it that manner, and I’m positive everyone in that clubhouse sees it that manner. The truth (may have been) going again to LA main 3-2. It didn’t occur that manner they usually deserve all of the credit score on the earth, they received the World Sequence. In the meanwhile, they confirmed they had been the higher staff.”
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Cortes’ daring assertion was evidently laughable to Honeywell when he spoke on the Baseball Isn’t Boring podcast.
“I’ll inform you this, they weren’t the perfect staff,” Honeywell stated. “On paper, they weren’t the perfect staff. Can’t say it with a straight face. They weren’t the perfect staff. We had been the perfect staff. We had been the higher staff.
“I stated it the entire time, ‘Dodgers in 4’. I used to be cranking that out within the clubhouse, ‘Dodgers in 4, Dodgers in 4, Dodgers in 4.’ Possibly if I don’t quit 12 (runs), possibly there’s an opportunity (we sweep). However they weren’t the perfect staff.”
Honeywell was an innings-eater for the Dodgers in October, and was deployed on a number of events to save lots of the remainder of the bullpen for a future recreation within the sequence. Honeywell was used within the second-to-last recreation of each the Nationwide League Championship Sequence and the World Sequence with a view to protect different relievers for the next video games.
Honeywell was non-tendered by the Dodgers in November, however he’ll all the time be remembered within the 2024 postseason run.
For now, he stays a free agent, however is in search of his subsequent house in 2025.
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