Been waiting for this... I've been worried about this kid the past several weeks. More so mentally than physically, though, I am concerned about his physical health as well. But mentally, he's never experienced such sustained, night after night, highly leveraged outings as he has the past month or so. Typically, with young guns like this, it's their mental/emotional stamina that goes well before the physical...
The only viable option would be to try Puk in the closer role and insert Monty in place of J-Mart, while giving J-Mart an extended breather. But Puk has never been a closer and we have no idea how Monty will perform out of the pen.
As we all have known for a while now, the closer situation has been the biggest risk this team has been facing, virtually all season long. They had hoped that when Sewald came back from the IR, he would resume where he left off last year. He actually showed glimpses but then as we all saw, he collapsed and can no longer be counted on.
This will be nail-biting stuff the rest of the season for sure...