It was obviously difficult, president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said of leaving Rojas off the NLCS roster. We are a much better team with Miguel Rojas a part of what we're doing. Obviously he impacts the game in a lot of different ways. But just the re-aggravation of it, diving on defense and just how compromised the range would be, and the importance to get him right.
We felt like, all we would do is set it back even more and have him not necessarily help us in this round and then also not be available. So it wasn't easy. It's unfortunate, but we've seen it a lot this year with the next-man-up mentality. And we saw it in the last round. We've had a lot of different things go on and guys have elevated their game and stepped up.
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