Speaker 1: Now the beautiful summer evening in Ohio the Giants and Guardians,
Speaker 1: Game two of the series. I'm John with James Manage
Speaker 1: to Tony Vicello and Tony the we're kind of eagerly
Speaker 1: awaiting the arrival of tug bowt Wilkinson and he's in
Speaker 1: and he's gonna start tonight. So what's the plan for
Speaker 1: him in this one.
Speaker 2: We'll see as the game goes on.
Speaker 3: Obviously Step one has just calmed the nerves a little bit.
Speaker 3: He's a guy who was really amped up to pitching
Speaker 3: triple A and you know, Brundy and the guys kind
Speaker 3: of had to settle him down a little bit. Will
Speaker 3: you add in the fact this is a big league outing,
Speaker 3: it's his debut, and it's also where he lived for
Speaker 3: a couple of years, said.
Speaker 2: He lived about ten miles from the park here.
Speaker 3: So I think just calming his nerves and getting him
Speaker 3: out there will be great.
Speaker 2: Regardless of how the outing goes. But how the outing
Speaker 2: goes and what we want to do with some.
Speaker 3: Other guys will dictate kind of how we do innings
Speaker 3: two through nine.
Speaker 1: And as I understand it, he's been starting his pitch
Speaker 1: down has built up what one hundred already.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's his pitch count and triple A was one
Speaker 3: oh one was his max. And so he's done a
Speaker 3: little bit of everything in his career. And really my
Speaker 3: experience from from knowing him as he's pretty flexible. He's
Speaker 3: pretty much agreeable to whatever you want to ask him
Speaker 3: to do.
Speaker 2: He just likes to compete. Baseball is kind of.
Speaker 3: His little outlet in life, and and he pitches like that.
Speaker 3: So again step one will be getting him his first
Speaker 3: big league action, and then we'll kind of see how
Speaker 3: we want to manage what he's going to do with
Speaker 3: us with the roster being the way that it is now.
Speaker 3: He and Sam of course are only two lefties. Of course,
Speaker 3: wizen Hunt being a lefties starter too.
Speaker 1: All right, now, how would you describe him in terms
Speaker 1: of his delivery and the kind of stuff that he throws.
Speaker 2: He's more athletic than you think.
Speaker 3: He's not gonna win any He does not look like
Speaker 3: Arnold Schwarzenegger in his uniform, but he is pretty athletic.
Speaker 3: And then the thing about him that's curious tonight is
Speaker 3: he's making his debut against their starter Messick and they're
Speaker 3: both kind of the same they like.
Speaker 2: To use their fastball.
Speaker 3: He doesn't quite have the velo that Messick does, but
Speaker 3: they both attack with their fastball.
Speaker 2: And by the word attack, I mean they attack.
Speaker 3: They let it go and they throw with conviction, and
Speaker 3: it's a little bit of it here. It is hit
Speaker 3: it approach. So it'll be interesting to see how similar
Speaker 3: those two guys look, and in the first inning particular,
Speaker 3: how effective is that fastball?
Speaker 1: Are there any peculiarities? Is there some deception in whose delivery?
Speaker 1: Is there a good carry on whose fastball?
Speaker 3: That kind of thing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got a little bit of carry. I mean again,
Speaker 2: I would compare both guys.
Speaker 3: I know we haven't got to Messic yet. You know
Speaker 3: people talk about a ride fastball or an invisible fastball.
Speaker 3: Well it's not invisible, but certain fastballs move different than
Speaker 3: others and they're tough to square up. So we'll see
Speaker 3: how the first big league get outing goes. But we're
Speaker 3: certainly hoping the fastball is tough to square up. He's
Speaker 3: actually pretty good at holding on runners and he's got
Speaker 3: a good off speed mix. But again, I think the
Speaker 3: heart and soul this game is gonna be, especially in
Speaker 3: the first inning. Who handles fastballs better on offense and
Speaker 3: who locates it or attacks the way they want to
Speaker 3: with it on defense?
Speaker 1: All right, So the major League debut of chug Boat,
Speaker 1: and the story I heard was that when he was
Speaker 1: in Little League running the bases, so I don't know,
Speaker 1: his uncle or somebody nicknamed him the chug boat because
Speaker 1: of the way he was moving not that quickly around
Speaker 1: the bases.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it probably caused him to move on from the
Speaker 3: position play and just into pitching only. But it's a
Speaker 3: nickname that's stuck, and like I joke with you yesterday,
Speaker 3: it happened again today someone brought up his name and
Speaker 3: I did know who it was this time, but it
Speaker 3: took me a second because they didn't refer to him
Speaker 3: as Tugboat. But yeah, he's got a good personality to him,
Speaker 3: and he's all on board with the nickname, and he's
Speaker 3: very well known no matter where he's gone. He trained
Speaker 3: with a guy coached, you know, out of a junior
Speaker 3: college and played at a junior college where Ian Kinsler
Speaker 3: played and many other really talented players down there in Arizona.
Speaker 2: So he's got a good background.
Speaker 1: All right. The Giants and the Guardians, Chug Bolt Wilkinson
Speaker 1: his major league debut. More with Tony Bicello after this,
Speaker 1: not more with Giants. Back to Tony by Cello and
Speaker 1: Parker Meshik going for the Guardians. You talked about him
Speaker 1: a little.
Speaker 2: Bit, but his numbers are great.
Speaker 1: He's been a premier starting pitcher in the American League this.
Speaker 3: Year, yeah, he has. And Griffin's a good compliment to him.
Speaker 3: You know, a lefty that might have as many wins
Speaker 3: as any lefty in the league, or at least close
Speaker 3: to it. But Messick does it a little bit differently.
Speaker 3: Griffin kind of stands out there and pitches a little bit.
Speaker 2: I don't you know. He's not exactly like Tom.
Speaker 3: Glavin, but a little bit more in that mold, whereas
Speaker 3: Messick is maybe in the mold a little bit more
Speaker 3: of Scooble And hopefully he doesn't pitch as well as
Speaker 3: Scooble tonight, but again, he kind of grabs that thing
Speaker 3: and wings it right at you. And it's really what
Speaker 3: you want your pitchers to do is challenge the hitter.
Speaker 3: I feel like our hitters have a good plan in
Speaker 3: place and they have a good understanding of what's coming
Speaker 3: at him.
Speaker 2: But between the lines, is where it's got to get.
Speaker 3: Done and it'll be a tough challenge against a lefty that's, like.
Speaker 2: You said, stacked up some pretty good numbers.
Speaker 1: So here we go, the Giants chug WoT Wilkinson against
Speaker 1: the premier young lefty of the Guardians Messic and that's
Speaker 1: the Tony Vitello Show for today.