To add to this, the players are not objective opinions of their effectiveness if they stretch more innings, or weighing the impact of inherited runners to the bullpen.
I don’t blame Gray for being a competitor and wanting to go deeper in games, but his opinion is just his opinion. He pitched great his last outing, but letting him go for the 7th was very fortunate that Thielbar was hell of a fireman. That probably would have have gone crooked 7 out of 10 times and changed the game entirely.