WEBVTT - Giants Trade Deadline Recap: What the New Prospects Mean for the Future 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:04.880 Now back to murphin markets on the Sports Leader, streaming 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:08.039 live on the sports Leader dot com at k nb 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:10.800 R the Sports Leader. 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:27.120 App what something's gonna get int. 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:32.320 Spanning the globe. 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:34.800 We're gonna get drunk before the game, We're gonna get 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:37.040 drunk during the game, and then we're gonna get drunk 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:37.680 after the game. 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:44.720 The thrill of victory woooo, the agony of defeat. 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.240 I'll be in Ireland like looking around, going damn, I lost. 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:53.280 This is the Wide World of Walt Ah. It's time 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:58.320 for the segment that's sweeping the nation, The Wide World 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.760 of wall where Walter grills us with some of the 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:06.480 toughest questions in the sports world, then awards one point 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:09.800 per question. I think those are the rules, but I 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:11.759 don't even know, Walter, because I'm looking at your guests 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.920 this right now and it says world Wide of walt 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.400 Which one is it? Is it worldwide? Is it the 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:19.680 wide world? What are we talking about this morning? 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:23.720 That's you shouting out Curly's inability to type it out correctly. 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:29.120 I should have known a misspelling or a mislabeling of 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:32.240 a segment is all due to my guy John Joe 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:35.600 Curly Well let's not get the rules backwards, lay it 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:37.120 out for us. What can we expect, Walter? 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.640 All right, it's the wide world of Waltz. Welcome in JD. 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:43.240 What I'm going to do is I'm gonna read you 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:46.760 a question. You guys will both have a chance to answer, 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:48.720 and I award a point at the end, who ever 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:51.080 has the most points. All right, but we are going 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:52.920 to do it. Let's go ahead and do the first one. 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:56.240 Trade deadline just happened, Derek Scoogle to the Dodgers school. 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.960 Need I say anymore? Is this good or bad for baseball? 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:03.480 Is it good or bad for baseball? The answers gotta 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:05.720 be bad for baseball. Now, I don't know if I'm 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:08.400 going as far to say it's ruined the game of 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.880 baseball because this was a trade, not just a blanket 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:14.440 overpaid by the LA Dodgers. 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:17.960 But guess what that's coming soon. I'm guessing they're gonna 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:21.960 work out a contract extension before the next potential CBA. 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.919 Schooble's gonna get paid by the Dodgers, which could lead 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.959 to a potential lockout. So this is all bad for baseball? 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:32.400 How could this possibly be good for baseball? Walter, We're 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:34.960 looking at the Dodgers trying to run off a three 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.280 p This is absolutely bad for baseball and bad for 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:37.880 Giants fans. 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:38.200 JD. 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:39.520 It's bad for. 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:43.560 Baseball if twenty nine other teams are ticked off about it, 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.359 and twenty nine other fan bases are ticked off about it, 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:50.320 If you have that much negative energy, it's bad for 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:54.200 the game. Now it's completely and fully legal within the game, 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.040 and the Dodgers are very much within their right to 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:58.640 be like, you know what, everybody. 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:02.000 Else suck it right, you just did deal with it. 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:05.359 Yeah, I'd say this last thoughts bad for baseball, good 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:07.400 for the owners because they're not going to use this 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:09.760 as a reason for a potential lockout and a salary. 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:12.280 Again, you went, you went in an attempt to steal 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.639 my point. Yes, I did to steal my thunder on 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:18.600 the next point was going to be, which is, yes, 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:22.079 the owners probably view it as good for baseball because 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:26.720 it's going to give them exactly what they need to 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:30.680 stop the game and and change the financials to essentially 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:34.680 prevent them from themselves moving forward. 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:36.839 Look at markets trying to steal the point, and JD 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:38.360 caught on and defended it. 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:43.400 JD gets the first point, kwa Z is able to 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:45.840 swat it down. Well, hey, I'll end it on a 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:49.080 positive note. Scooble, hold that L first start as a 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:50.280 Dodger lost last night. 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:52.800 You can't spell scooble without an L. See if you 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:54.119 would have led with that, you would have got the point. 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:57.720 Dodgers would have got a point to anybody. Want to 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:01.480 throw that out, Doctor Fodgers. Careful lost the license? 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:04.000 Careful, careful with that one. JD. 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:04.960 No, but I think I. 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:09.360 Have played this game at a different a different I think, yeah, yeah. 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:11.400 Yeah, yeah yeah. A lot of moving parts here can 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:16.280 be all right, Walter, what's next? All right, let's keep 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.680 it moving and talk more trades. But from the Giants perspective, 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:23.359 what grade would you give busher Posey on this year's 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:24.640 trade deadline? You first, JD. 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:28.960 I'll give him an A minus. I give my an 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:29.480 a minus. 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:33.239 I mean, by all accounts, he got a legitimate haul 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:37.440 of of top end prospects in just about every one 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:40.640 of these deals and flipped a reliever that I don't 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:42.760 think the Giants wound up being all that high on 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.120 in terms of the future. And Eric Miller, for somebody 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.320 that was the fourth overall pick in twenty twenty one, 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:49.120 it hasn't played a lot at the big league level 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:54.040 that still could have the potential to be unlocked in 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:58.120 mayor so I I think I think he did a 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:01.880 really nice job considering this circumstances. I'm not going to 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:04.640 give him a full blown A because I think he 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:08.039 could have leaned in even harder on looking to move 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:09.960 Logan Web, and I don't think it would have hurt 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:14.239 as much as the perception of trading Logan Web would 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:16.840 have hurt, right, because then then it's, oh my god, 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:18.719 it's a full blown tear down to the studs. I 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:22.719 think the Jung Huley opt out potential after twenty twenty 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.599 seven is another reason. In hindsight, maybe I would have 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:30.480 looked at moving him, But you can't necessarily trade everybody 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.080 because you do need players to fool out the roster 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.240 for next year and future years. So I'm not given 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:39.560 the full blown A because of the unknown. And I'm 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:41.320 not giving him the full blown A because I think 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.400 he could have gone further. But I do think he 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.799 gets at a minus because by all accounts on paper, 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:51.120 he did as good as he could in terms of 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:53.160 the prospects in the Hall that the Giants got back. 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:56.320 You know, my gut reaction was also in a minus. 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:58.760 But after I heard your answer and the fact that 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:00.680 I want to steal the point, I'm gonna bump it 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.640 up to an A because he didn't trade Logan Webb. 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.240 But I'm glad that Webby is here to stay now. 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.080 I do love the Hall of Prospects that he was 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.920 able to get back. The one complaint I'm hearing on 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.120 the streets of San Francisco Giants social media is that 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.799 he could not unload the contracts of a Matt Chapman, 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:21.040 of Willie Domins or maybe even possibly a Raphael Devers. 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.280 But it takes two to tango. I think for the 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:26.039 dance partners that they found, they got a great return. 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.800 They got three legit pitching prospects, Romo Marquez from the 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:33.120 Philadelphia Phillies, Henry Laloni from the New York Yankees, Miguel 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:36.479 Mendez from San Diego. Then you throw in the seventeen 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:38.960 year old shortstop that they got from San Diego. Also, 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:42.160 Jeff Kent's kid is in down Kate and Kent, and 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:45.560 you throw in Marcelo Meyer, who has a chance to 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:47.880 maybe be the steal of this year's trade deadline for 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:49.360 a bullpen arm going out. 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:52.159 I'm giving him an A on my report card. Walter, 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:54.960 the future is orange. I'm gonna go with I'm gonna 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:56.560 go with Marcus. I think I think Busher did a 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.679 really good job. So Marcus gets the point ty breaker 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.320 here to end the segment. Makes you go ahead, Walter, 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:04.600 make a quick get it in before before we gotta 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.440 talk to Kruk. So let's go ahead. JD is trying 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:12.960 to read or JD kady. JD might be trying to 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:17.680 rewrite history. It's the point Katie is trying to rewrite history. 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:21.320 So let's do some rewriting of ourselves. Which great Bay 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:24.800 Area team should have won a title that you'd give 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:25.000 it to? 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:28.040 Ooh, I'll make this quick because we gotta go. It's 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:29.920 got to be the forty nine ers recently. I know 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:33.080 they've won five Super Bowl immersed lifetime. They haven't won 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:36.120 Jack Squad in my lifetime. If I'm changing one thing, 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:40.360 I'm changing Kyle Shanahan's decision with the coin toss in overtime. 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:42.960 Maybe that's the butterfly effect, and that gets the forty 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:43.800 nine ers of super Bowl. 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:46.160 So we need to change a play, or we just 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.920 need to change an outcome. Just what what team? Yeah, 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.160 change the outcome that should have won a title. I'm 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:53.480 losing the point here, it's I'm fumbling the bag. 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.080 Yeah, it sounds like you're losing the segment two. 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:59.280 This is good for me. It's the Niners. It's the Niners. 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.680 Whether it's the harpball era, that team could have won 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.280 three Super Bowls in eleven, twelve, and thirteen. 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.000 The forty nine ers could have won in nineteen. 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:11.760 Twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, twenty five, even keep going, 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.280 all right, maybe not twenty five. Yeah, the Niners should 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:17.840 have the sixth title. They probably should have seven or eight, 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.240 but they should at least have six. I'm sick of 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:21.680 quest for six. 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.120 To break the tie, give me a specific year, specific 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:26.720 year of the team. 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:30.080 I'm gonna go with the last Super Bowl trip when 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:32.599 we're all in Vegas. I forget the year because I 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:33.559 forget most of that week. 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.120 Twenty three there it was. If you remember the year, 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:39.239 you should get the point. JD takes the campaign. 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:40.760 Maybe you don't get the point. I don't. 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:42.960 JD gets the point. Jada gets the point. 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:43.880 You remember the year. 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.240 JD gets the point gets a segment? 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:47.400 Do ja do you remember the team? 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:47.720 Yeah? 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:49.480 One day? Was it on? I'm gonna say a Sunday. 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:51.280 Give me a point for that one. 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:52.840 Come on, it was a Sunday. It had to be 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:53.680 Super Bowl Sunday. 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:54.360 JAD wins. 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:54.640 Well. 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.280 By the way, you guys know what the Super Bowl 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:01.680 this year is. It's to do about yea Valentine's Day. 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:06.840 Ooh hi, controversial, controversial Valentine's Day super Bowl. Oh, that's busy. 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.760 We get the President's Day holiday. I like that because 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:13.440 it's the it's the third Monday is the fifteenth? 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:17.760 I like that? Yeah, true, that is to be determined. 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:18.200 I don't know. 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:19.760 Can I call an audible and say I want to 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.280 rewrite this segment so that I can change the history. 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.320 I can finally get aways time. Yeah, exactly. We got 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:28.160 to go. Mike Cruco next on the Trade Deadline and 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:31.760 Blade didwell last night. It's Murph and Marcus with JD 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:33.559 in this morning on the Sports Leader. 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.439 There's no question we got the best in the group. 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:41.000 That's why Murph and Marcus catch up with Kruk right now, 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:44.240 right now on K and D R one oh four 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:48.920 five and six am. 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:53.920 All right, you know the routine. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:57.160 Right around seven thirty, we sit down for a baseball 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:00.319 conversation with Mike Kruco. Mike, welcome back to the Murphy 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.440 Marcus Show. Murph is on vacation once again, so it's 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:06.200 John Dickinson filling in this morning. And I know we 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.760 talked to you Monday morning right before the trade deadline. 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:12.320 But a lot to catch up on with everything that's 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.480 happened since then. But also what a game last night. 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:19.319 Mike as Basabe and Bryce Eldridge tried to wield the 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:22.720 Giants way back into that game last night. Unfortunately it 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:27.120 ends with a young who Lee misread on the warning track. Mike, 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:29.920 your reaction to last night's game and good morning. 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:35.199 Yeah, Good morning, John, Welcome to the show. Yeah. I 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.760 like last night's game for a lot of reasons. I mean, 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:43.240 number one and the Oki well, I mean I've always 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:45.240 been intrigued by this guy because he's a bull and 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:47.600 he's got some attack to him. I like attack. I 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:53.760 don't like nibble, and I think people really climb the 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.680 in the eyes of the organization, in the eyes of 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:01.199 the fan base. In regard to credibility when they when 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:05.040 they attack, nobody wants to see somebody go out there, 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:09.679 ball on ball to nibble nibble, nibble nibble. And and 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:11.760 I love the fact that he got after it. The 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:13.520 other thing too, I thought it was really significant about 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:16.480 his outing is he got down to nothing in the 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:19.920 first inning, and you can understand, you know, he was 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.760 probably you know, far away from the comfort zone. A 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:26.120 lot of a drillinge going and uh and that's when 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:27.680 you get a lot of a drilling going, it's really 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:32.319 hard at times to handle your concentration. It can go 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.040 out the door because you're thinking about all the people 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.280 you represent, You're thinking about the people you don't want 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:39.560 to screw up in front of, You're thinking about so 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.240 many things that are kind of productive to you. But 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:44.520 to be able to find your focus like he did 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:48.520 and put up four zeros and go through five innings 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:50.280 and allows just those two runs in the first inning, 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:52.840 I thought that was that was really good. I thought that, 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:57.800 you know this, that's that's an outing that he can 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.320 be proud of and can build on. The Other about 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.880 the game that I really liked was well, you know, 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:06.080 and you know they're down and they got Lutch the 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:07.880 hard you know, the left who's got one of the 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:11.080 best sliders in the game. And who they threw up there. 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:14.120 They threw three left handers up there. Gilbert down on 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.440 O two County goes the Apps away base. It lead 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.280 off and get a man on and then Grant mccraig 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:23.319 comes in and he gets a a walk. What a 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:26.040 grated bat. And then there's a you know, a wild 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:28.880 pitch and they get over the second third and then 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:33.720 they here comes here comes Bryce Eldridge and he knocks 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:35.520 him in, and now we got a tie ball game. 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.040 I thought that was really cool because of the fact 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:41.079 that Lutz just eats left handers for breakfast, and here's 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:45.120 three young left handed hitters and they had grinding, productive 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.560 at bats, and the Giants got back in that game, 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:49.040 and at that point time I thought they were going 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:50.800 to win the ball game. Didn't happen that way. But 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:53.480 there were a lot of significant things happening for young 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:56.199 players in yesterday's game that I thought were fantastic. 0:12:56.880 --> 0:13:00.720 How much can the infusion of whether it's young players 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.520 are just players that maybe have bounced around and haven't 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:06.600 had opportunities at the big league level, how much can 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:11.160 that just infuse a team with with energy at at 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:14.560 what's obviously a difficult part of the season, considering the 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:16.080 way everything went down on Monday. 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.440 Well, I mean it changes the dynamic certainly, But you 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.079 do have the three anchors. I mean, I mean, you've 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:25.840 got guys in the in that lineup that are you 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:29.439 know there are you know, Jung Huli and Raphaeldevers and 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:33.320 William Donalds are there pros. So that's those that's your base, 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.959 that's your foundation right there. And everybody else comes in 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:39.720 and they're a bit disoriented with all that has happened 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.320 the wind tour, and now of a sudden, you see 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:45.120 you guys come walking in and it changes the whole 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:49.199 dynamic of the room. Everybody. I know, there's that period 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.760 where you're looking around this guy, good guy? You know? 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:55.120 Is he not a good guy? Is he does he work? 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:57.640 I mean what? So you're learning the team and here 0:13:57.679 --> 0:13:59.320 we are with two months left in the season. So 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.360 I mean, that's always one of the major distractions of 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.559 the trade deadline. But you know, I thought that their 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.320 first game when they came together on the first game 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:13.360 of the series, behind a spirited out and from Logan Web, 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.839 I thought that was a tremendous game given the amount 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.320 of distraction that they had to overcome. But I thought 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.920 that they played well. It came back twice and last 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:25.200 night's game, and I think that that has everything to 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:28.920 do with finding a little calm uh and it may 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:31.320 have been found during the course of the ball game itself, 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:36.080 But I like, what what what what happened when you 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:38.080 know the fact that they were able to come back 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:42.040 twice with new guys, Usabi coming up with a two 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:44.840 on Homer time. I mean, those are big deals. So 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:48.000 the more that those young guys have success, the more 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:51.160 that the new guys have success, the easier it's going 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:52.760 to be to go to work and you know, kind 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.160 of nestle in and feel like you belong and that 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:59.000 there's a harmony within the clubhouse. So that's what's at 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.000 stake right now. But I think so far they passed 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:01.920 tests in a big way. 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.560 Mike Blade saidwell, was one of the players that the 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:07.360 Giants got in returned last year at the trade deadline 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.440 in the Tyler Rogers trade to the New York Mets. So, 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:13.000 circling back to this year's trade deadline, were there any 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:15.360 big prospects that maybe stood out to you in any 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.520 of these packages with the Giants trading six active players 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.960 off the major league roster, but if not, just your 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.400 thoughts on the overall direction and the messaging of Buster 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:25.960 Posey bringing in some of these prospects and trading away 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:26.680 major league talent. 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:31.960 I can't remember a time in since I've been with 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:34.440 the Giants, and that goes back to nineteen eighty two 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:40.480 where there has been this many prospects that have reputation 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:44.640 come into the organization after a trade deadline. This was 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:48.840 a hall and you know, I haven't seen all these guys. 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.480 I've just I've just heard a lot about these guys, 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:55.080 and until I actually see them on video, you know, 0:15:55.120 --> 0:16:00.680 I'm not going to formulate any any creditible opinion. I mean, 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:04.080 I just don't pass something on unless I see it. 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.360 But I I from what I hear and from what uh. 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:10.480 You know, you're looking at the rankings and the rankings 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:13.600 now with the way that that the minor leagues are 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.320 ranked and prospects are ranked, I mean that that's I 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:19.640 think it's incredible help to organizations as they go evaluate. 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:24.360 Uh and during the weeks in a certain day of 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.920 the trade deadline, I mean, they it's become a whole 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:31.920 lot easier just because of that. There's so much information 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:37.080 regarding prospects throughout every every organization. Based on all that, 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:41.600 I think they did extremely well. They brought back some 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:45.760 some just raw talent. There's there's other guys who are 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:49.840 strike throwers with great stuff. There's uh other guys who 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.440 are funky that you know, are six seven and they 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:54.280 throw left handed with a low th recorder and they 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:57.360 you know, they can hit high nineties. I mean everything 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.880 I hear about these guys is so intriguing that in 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:03.280 you know, in the next week's I really am looking 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:06.119 forward to being able to go back into YouTube and 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.840 bringing up some of these little little blips of what 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:14.600 they can do. But I think they did extremely well. 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:19.480 When you look at Tidwell, going back to him, what 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.320 you know, the opportunity that he has in front of 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:25.840 him and others Carson wizen Hunt today. 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:27.960 To earn spots on this team. 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:29.840 Like, what do you think of the way that he's 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:33.680 transitioned from you know, somebody that now is projected as 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.119 a starter. We saw him as a reliever earlier in 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:38.360 the year and sort of doing that in season. 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:42.160 Well, let's talk about Tidwell first when I first saw him, 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:44.920 you know, I talked about the attack right. One thing 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.240 he learned when he first got here was Okay, the 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:49.840 attack part is really good. I've got stuff that can 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:53.000 play here. I need to improve on my location, and 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:54.520 I think that was one of the big things that 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:56.720 he did in last night's ball game that I thought 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:59.400 was different than the previous times that I saw him. 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:01.639 Before I saw him, he had good stuff and he 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:03.919 wasn't afraid to throw it up there. But you know, 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:07.320 location is essential up here. Mean, these are big league hitters. 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.440 You have to be able to locate. So I thought 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:14.120 that he really made a nice forward taking the ball 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:17.959 yesterday and locating better. In regards to Wizard Hunt, Uh, 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.960 your Wizard Hunt is still learning. And you know he 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:25.280 showed up with three pitches. He's got one grip on 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:27.880 the fastball. He's got to change up and to break 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:32.000 the ball, go get him. What he has to learn 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:34.560 and where his growth is going to come quickly is 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:37.400 new grips. Now they that's the one thing you learn 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.439 up here at the big league level. You learn what 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:42.439 other guys on your staff are doing. How do they 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:44.520 grip the ball? How do they hold the sinker? You 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.240 can hold a sinker to fourteen different ways. You can 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:50.200 hold a change of fourteen different ways. Well, which grip 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:53.320 is best suited for you? What? What? What grip is 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:56.879 best suited for your your arm squat and and the 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.119 way that you pronate through the ball. How do you 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:01.560 turn the ball over? How the maximized movement that runs 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:02.920 away from a right handed hit or if you're with 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:05.120 ing not well, you've got to throw a two seamed 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.359 fastball right now, he's throwing a course seamer. Now he 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:09.560 throws it well, and he can pitch inside the ridings. 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:12.399 I love that. But there's there's an area of growth 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:14.600 here that you know he needs to catch hold of 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:18.440 and learn how to apply, because you know that's how 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:20.720 he's going to grow and get better. So I like this. 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:22.840 I like the foundation on both guys. 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:23.560 I do. 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:27.000 I do believe that you know, given enough innings and 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:29.440 and enough instruction, that they'll be able to go out 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:31.560 there and uh and get better. And I think they 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:33.840 get better in a hurry. I like the athleticism of 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:36.320 those guys. That's the other thing you look at. Look 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:38.199 at a guy's feet, How does he move? How does 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:40.560 he feel as a position, how does he hold runners 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:42.960 on like going on out there. You've got to be 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:44.840 able to control the rhythm of the runner. You've got 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:47.439 to be able to control the rhythm of the of 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:50.159 the hitter. You have to control your own rhythm. And 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.120 I would never forget the Hermit Franks, who my first 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:55.280 manager said, if you're going to be a pitcher in 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:58.240