I know youre smart enough to know Lauer's role has been shrunk down to a short outings now. He isnt stretched out anymore and has proven he can be used in high leverage situations. Let Scherzer take the mop up role since Nance is last on the depth charts with Bruhil anyways.
He was very much in the running and even if you want to say he wasn't, he was definitely being thought of as a Game 2 starter. You kinda missed the point of the overall comment lol.