Speaker 1: He wanted to cook as ald. All right, Welcome back, everybody,
Speaker 1: Welcome back Game one hundred and twenty five. In the books,
Speaker 1: Yankees take this one three to one. Here to talk
Speaker 1: about it with me is Ryan Garcia of Fireside. Yankees
Speaker 1: were also gonna take a deep dive into the injury
Speaker 1: to Max Freed, and we're gonna talk about Carlos Rodon
Speaker 1: coming back tonight he was pretty good. And we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about the two rookies, both of whom had pretty
Speaker 1: good games tonight, Spencer Jones and George Lombard. So Ryan,
Speaker 1: another offensive explosion tonight.
Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like whenever they get a hit
Speaker 2: with Frances scoring position at that point, it's like you
Speaker 2: just think, whatever, a higher being allowed it to happen,
Speaker 2: like it's a miracle.
Speaker 3: It really is at this point, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But I mean, hey, Trent grisham redeeming himself. I mean,
Speaker 1: the guy got off to a tough start, he got hot,
Speaker 1: he got hurt, he got cold, and now it looks
Speaker 1: like he's getting hot again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I will say yet bad he had in
Speaker 2: the seventh was really good at bat. I thought he
Speaker 2: was tracking pitch as well. He looked like he was
Speaker 2: up there to hit. It wasn't this very passive, weirdly
Speaker 2: taking everything in zone approach that we've seen a lot
Speaker 2: of Yankee hitters fall into. I think he is a
Speaker 2: big part of this team because he is one of
Speaker 2: the lower strikeout rate guys in the squad right now.
Speaker 2: And Derek, I think you and I we've watched enough
Speaker 2: games over the last few months where it's like it's
Speaker 2: just strikeout after strikeout after strikeout. So if he can
Speaker 2: be productive and keep putting the ball in play, you're
Speaker 2: gonna have a different profile on your offense.
Speaker 1: All things considered, you'll take the win. But the offense, man,
Speaker 1: I mean, this has been the most boring summer maybe
Speaker 1: of my lifetime. I mean the early nineties. I don't
Speaker 1: really remember being bored by baseball because I was so
Speaker 1: into baseball when I was, you know, ten years old,
Speaker 1: eight years old. But as an adult, this might be
Speaker 1: the most boring offense that I've seen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna pull up a stat for you that
Speaker 2: is going to just blow your mind.
Speaker 3: Mind dude. This is before today's game.
Speaker 2: I know they haven't they had a hit with runs
Speaker 2: score position, but I think they finished a day, I
Speaker 2: think it was one for five, so they're batting averages
Speaker 2: two hundred on the day, they're hitting one ninety.
Speaker 3: Six with runs in scoring position.
Speaker 2: Since Aaron Judge went down, they have the worst average
Speaker 2: WRC plus OPS, on base percentage slugging percentage with runners
Speaker 2: in scoring position since June first. It's kind of an accomplishment.
Speaker 2: I feel like at that point, right like, you're kind
Speaker 2: of impressed that you can be thirtieth in all of.
Speaker 3: This triple slash lines. So yeah, it's been rough, man,
Speaker 3: it is, it is.
Speaker 1: We'll take a look at the scorebug here yarydl Lil
Speaker 1: Sentos got the win tonight. David Bednar with the sage
Speaker 1: got nuts. Trent Grisham with a good night two for
Speaker 1: four with home run number seventeen, three RBIs and a
Speaker 1: run score. George Lombard had a multi hit game and
Speaker 1: he shined on defense, So a good night for the
Speaker 1: Yankees overall. Let's zoom in a little bit. This is
Speaker 1: a segment Ryan, if you're new to the show, for watching,
Speaker 1: this is called good, Bad, and Ugly. Hermie, take a
Speaker 1: look at every result and we great everybody with emoji.
Speaker 1: So Tran Grisham gets the gold Star. Tonight, Luis Garcia
Speaker 1: Junior gets the Do Do Jazz oh for four and
Speaker 1: a tough error. I mean, uh, at some point, Ryan,
Speaker 1: you gotta consider possibly swapping out Jazz with cab i Ara.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts?
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean, I fully agree. Right, it's not just
Speaker 2: the not good baseball. It's like the lack of focus.
Speaker 2: I mean, you make that error. I kind of need
Speaker 2: you to get that ball right. Let's say a runner
Speaker 2: on third in this scenario is a little more attentive
Speaker 2: and is sprinting to the plate. They're gonna score. He's
Speaker 2: gonna pick up the ball and have to rush the
Speaker 2: throat to the plate. Not an easy throw, mind you,
Speaker 2: that throw could go offline. There's a lot of problems
Speaker 2: that could go there. It's not the bad play only again,
Speaker 2: it's the lack of focus. He is so off right now,
Speaker 2: you gotta consider it. Honestly, you have to do it.
Speaker 2: You just have to start playing copy Era more and
Speaker 2: let them fight out the play appearances, what happened to.
Speaker 1: Gunner Henderson man Dude's in two twenty just he has
Speaker 1: fallen off a cliff bro.
Speaker 2: It feels like he kind of mirrors the Orioles in
Speaker 2: the second half and twenty four he fell off. He
Speaker 2: was right in the mix of that al MVP race.
Speaker 2: And then ever since that point in time where it
Speaker 2: was like, Oh, this is the next star offense, defense,
Speaker 2: whole nine yard shortstop, He's just not that guy anymore.
Speaker 2: He's not as strong as a defender. He doesn't hit
Speaker 2: for as good of an average. He hit two eighty
Speaker 2: one in twenty twenty four, it's down in two twenty two.
Speaker 2: So the hit tools completely collapse, the quality of contacts
Speaker 2: completely collapsed.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's just injuries, but man, it's this.
Speaker 2: I've I've never seen a shortstop go for being that
Speaker 2: good in their early twenties this bad by twenty five.
Speaker 3: I just I don't see it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, baseball has been so weird the last few years.
Speaker 1: With the offense and the pitching becoming so good. It
Speaker 1: really has separated the men from the boys in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways. Max Freed's got a package. Let's talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about Max Freed, who I have not
Speaker 1: been live since he went back on the end Your
Speaker 1: List last time he was out two months. A reporter
Speaker 1: asked him that tonight. I asked Aaron Boon that tonight
Speaker 1: he said, hey, he's been out. He was out two
Speaker 1: months last time with this elbow injury. Do you really
Speaker 1: expect him back this year? And he said, well, maybe
Speaker 1: fifteen days. It's not as bad. My question to you is,
Speaker 1: do you believe it?
Speaker 2: I think this was an Iel placement because he was
Speaker 2: not like he probably felt discomforting the elbow, painting the elbow,
Speaker 2: and he's like, yeah, we're just not there's no reason
Speaker 2: to push this. I don't think it's a fan of
Speaker 2: Miel to clarify. You don't fantom al your second or
Speaker 2: third best starter when you're trailing in the division. You
Speaker 2: just don't do that. But I do think the fact
Speaker 2: that he's still throwing is encouraging. Usually this is a
Speaker 2: shutdown from throwing and then we get the bad news.
Speaker 2: There's still time for us to get bad news, so
Speaker 2: I don't want to completely tell everybody everything's fine and
Speaker 2: he's one hundred percent going to come back this year.
Speaker 2: But I think for now we avoided the dreaded three
Speaker 2: letter phrase that I think everyone thought of when we
Speaker 2: saw elbow injury again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm hoping he'll be back. If it's two weeks,
Speaker 1: if it's fifteen days. You'll sign up for it. But
Speaker 1: you know, I just worry that he's gonna come back.
Speaker 1: He's gonna throw a couple starts and we're gonna lose him.
Speaker 1: But I guess there's no point worrying about if we
Speaker 1: can't control it right now, it's out of our hands.
Speaker 1: Just wish him the best. But five and five with
Speaker 1: a two point eight to one ERA, and hopefully he'll
Speaker 1: be back soon, get well, soon to Max free. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get to the game. So another low scoring game
Speaker 1: for six innings and then a late rally. It's been
Speaker 1: kind of the Yankees modus operandi recently. We had some
Speaker 1: nice things from the young guys, who will talk about
Speaker 1: in just a little bit. We had a good start
Speaker 1: from Carlos Rodin, didn't go deep but four innings and
Speaker 1: basically what was a rehab start in one run. You'll
Speaker 1: absolutely sign up for that. I thought the slider was wicked.
Speaker 1: Trent Grisham with an absolute tank.
Speaker 3: We used the building up little.
Speaker 1: But my question for you, Ryan is, how do you
Speaker 1: explain this bullpen? Brent Hedge, Paul Blackburn, how do you
Speaker 1: explain what the Yankees have unlocked with these guys.
Speaker 2: I mean, so we'll start with Hedrick here, because last
Speaker 2: year I thought there were a lot of exciting traits
Speaker 2: from a swing and miss standpoint. He was near top
Speaker 2: of the league in swinging mis rates, and that was
Speaker 2: something that I thought would pop in twenty six. Blackburner
Speaker 2: was not high on at all. I didn't really see
Speaker 2: this coming. But credit to the Yankees. They've made the change.
Speaker 1: It better.
Speaker 3: The kurpball and sweeper are swinging miss pitches for him.
Speaker 2: He's using his fast balls, which have increased in velocity
Speaker 2: to keep the ball on the ground. We're talking around
Speaker 2: a sixty percent ground ball rate. And it's a credit
Speaker 2: to Blackburn as well. Who I mean, this is a
Speaker 2: guy who was not like Luke Weaver was a heralded prospect.
Speaker 2: He was traded for Paul Golchman. I think a lot
Speaker 2: of people forget. People thought Luke Weaver was going to
Speaker 2: be a good starter. Paul Blackburn was a guy who
Speaker 2: was thirty two years old, had spinal fluid surgery or
Speaker 2: something of that regard. In twenty five and a year later,
Speaker 2: he's the eighth inning guy for the Yankees, and he's
Speaker 2: doing a pretty darn good job.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's looking great. He's looking great. I think the
Speaker 1: uh player of the game is not much of a
Speaker 1: mystery tonight. I think we got to go with the
Speaker 1: mustachioed one.
Speaker 2: What do you say, Yeah, it's got to be Grisham. Right,
Speaker 2: you have three RBI, you pick up a two out hit.
Speaker 1: Absolutely Trent Gresham with the go ahead three RBIs he
Speaker 1: had a home run and a go ahead two run
Speaker 1: single and that is seven belts for him now this
Speaker 1: year on the unofficial list. I don't know how many
Speaker 1: he has in the actual clubhouse, but he's on our list.
Speaker 1: He's right there behind Cody Bellinger, who hasn't played in
Speaker 1: a while. That tells you what kind of year Cody
Speaker 1: Bellinger was having before he went down. And that's with
Speaker 1: a hot with a cold month built in. I can't
Speaker 1: wait for him to get back. But anyway, good night
Speaker 1: for Trent Grisham. We got a chat here that I
Speaker 1: want to read DFA Jazz cab I arrow at second,
Speaker 1: Trent with the belt, iron balls bed and close it again.
Speaker 1: Bring Domingos back up and bench Ramos. I have a
Speaker 1: question so to actually, I have two questions for you.
Speaker 1: What do you see in Ramos? I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: see much out of this guy. And two, what are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on Domingez from what we saw this year?
Speaker 2: Okay, so for Ramos, the glove is is a real problem, right,
Speaker 2: Like it's visually, man, it's visually bad.
Speaker 3: And that's not even getting into the offense.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: But I think the big, the highlight issue for me
Speaker 2: is it's possible he's in a slump and you know,
Speaker 2: you put him against lefties and it's better, but he like,
Speaker 2: I can't trust him to catch a ball in the outfield,
Speaker 2: can you.
Speaker 3: I genuinely I.
Speaker 2: Feel my heart start squeezing when the ball hits a
Speaker 2: left field, even the routine plays. It was blued on
Speaker 2: Sunday against Toronto, and then for Domingez, I thought the
Speaker 2: defense actually did start to look better. I think the
Speaker 2: throwing decisions are rough, but from like just a route standpoint.
Speaker 2: And then offensively, I just think he's trying too hard
Speaker 2: to pull the ball.
Speaker 1: I really do.
Speaker 3: He's chasing a ton.
Speaker 2: I think he doesn't have the bat speed he had
Speaker 2: pre Tommy John surgery and he's just still trying to
Speaker 2: chase it. And hey, man, I don't need you to
Speaker 2: hit twenty five thirty home runs. You get on base,
Speaker 2: you're gonna play in this league. How many guys can
Speaker 2: get on base in the league nowadays? Right, so hard
Speaker 2: against good pitching. Again, I think it's an approach change
Speaker 2: for him that he needs to get back.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I miss the pre Tommy John Jason Dominguez. I
Speaker 1: mean that seven day stretch. I was like a pig
Speaker 1: and shit man because I was the biggest Dominguez supporter
Speaker 1: as he was coming up and then he goes berserk,
Speaker 1: and yeah, you're right. Ever since the Tommy John, he
Speaker 1: just has not been the same. Somebody said that his
Speaker 1: extension quite hasn't been quite as good. Maybe he's a
Speaker 1: little bit more muscle bound. He looks a little bit
Speaker 1: more muscle bound as he's gotten older. But I hope
Speaker 1: that he turns around. I still like Jason Dominguez. All right,
Speaker 1: let's before we get to the young guys. Let's cover
Speaker 1: Carlos Rodan real quick. I'm gonna bring Ryan back here.
Speaker 1: So four innings, two hits, one run, two walks, four
Speaker 1: strikeouts solid. I mean, he had what nine whiffs tonight,
Speaker 1: that's pretty good for four innings. The six whiffs on
Speaker 1: eleven swings on the slider was really good. When you
Speaker 1: look at the pitch data, and I know you looked
Speaker 1: at the pitch data. Did you see the same old Rodan? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean the slider had two more inches of lateral
Speaker 2: movement and had three more inches of drop today, so
Speaker 2: it was really working for him.
Speaker 3: He didn't have.
Speaker 2: The deep mix as usual, wasn't as many sinkers, change
Speaker 2: ups and curveballs. But I thought that was more of
Speaker 2: a fuel thing, which is the thing that takes longer
Speaker 2: to come back. Velocity usually shows up pretty early, actually
Speaker 2: after injury. So I was happy to see ninety four
Speaker 2: point six in the fastball v.
Speaker 1: Low.
Speaker 3: I again, like, I'm.
Speaker 2: Really I think his stuff looks better than it did
Speaker 2: in twenty five. The question is can we get the
Speaker 2: command to somewhere where it was last year, where we're
Speaker 2: at least having closer misses out of zone. And I
Speaker 2: think once that happens, man, this rotation is filthy, filthy man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you. If we could get the
Speaker 1: top four guys all healthy going into the playoffs with
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge back, hey, I'll take it. I'll sign up
Speaker 1: for that right now. I don't care if you got
Speaker 1: to play a wildcard series. You can win a wildcard
Speaker 1: series with that pitching. Okay, let's talk about the young guys.
Speaker 1: You want to start with Spencer Jones or George Lombard.
Speaker 1: Who you got on your mind?
Speaker 3: Man, I want to start with George Lovar Junior.
Speaker 2: I think he's it's just come on, man, it's it's
Speaker 2: it's incredible what he does.
Speaker 1: Huh yeah, I mean two hits tonight. But the thing
Speaker 1: that gets me excited is the defense. Man, I Free.
Speaker 1: It's weird how when you watch baseball every day you
Speaker 1: get used to stuff, right, and we got used to
Speaker 1: having a subpar shortstop. No offense to Anthony Volpi, no
Speaker 1: offense to Cabiro. You know, they both I think put
Speaker 1: in all the effort that they should have put in.
Speaker 1: I think that they did everything they could do. It
Speaker 1: is clear that Lombard is just better. He's just a
Speaker 1: better short stop defensively, much better arm. He looks loose
Speaker 1: and athletic and nimble out there, and he's always got
Speaker 1: his head in the game. You talk about the baseball
Speaker 1: lineage that goes further than people think when it comes
Speaker 1: to baseball IQ because he's been around the game. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you don't have you know, a brother that's a professional
Speaker 1: baseball player, first round pick and a dad who is
Speaker 1: a major leaguer and as a current coach, without being
Speaker 1: consumed by baby. And if you're smart at all, by osmosis,
Speaker 1: you're just going to develop that baseball IQ, which is
Speaker 1: what we're seeing from him. I like that he's not
Speaker 1: committed to home run or nothing. He hits I get
Speaker 1: groundball single through this shift tonight. You know, they shifted
Speaker 1: him up the middle. He said, you know what, Tay,
Speaker 1: I'll you know what here you I'll take it right
Speaker 1: through the right side. And I mean, I just love
Speaker 1: the kid. I love the kid.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean he's just way more physical than Vulpi and Cabierro.
Speaker 2: Like that's the first thing you see where again, he
Speaker 2: can It's not that Vulpi can't attempt to play in
Speaker 2: the hole. It's not that Cabiro can't, you know, occasionally
Speaker 2: get around on the slider. It's just that it's easier
Speaker 2: for Lombard. It's easier when you're six foot two, one
Speaker 2: hundred and ninety pounds with some of the bat speed
Speaker 2: and arms stringthly we've seen so far. I mean, think
Speaker 2: about what he's going to be when he's got a
Speaker 2: full off season after being a major leaguer.
Speaker 3: He's twenty one years old.
Speaker 2: You know, average exit velocity, you tend to pick up
Speaker 2: another tick or two before you turn twenty four. If
Speaker 2: this guy adds another, you know, another great in raw power.
Speaker 2: I don't don't think we're gonna see a degradation the
Speaker 2: hit tool. I don't think we're gonna see him try
Speaker 2: and chase the home run ball necessarily. I think we're
Speaker 2: just gonna see a very well rounded hitter who has
Speaker 2: ninety eight percentile sprint speed and a really good arm
Speaker 2: and incredible mechanics.
Speaker 3: And it's just like you check all the boxes. I
Speaker 3: think he should.
Speaker 2: I think he should have been a top ten prospect
Speaker 2: universally when he graduated. And I'm seeing it. I'm seeing
Speaker 2: it like this is I'm so excited, Derek, I really am.
Speaker 1: I can see it in your face. It makes me
Speaker 1: excited to see you excited. So okay, I just want
Speaker 1: to throw this out there. And this is just a
Speaker 1: baseball tradition as you compare players to other players, right,
Speaker 1: everyone's saying, oh, Jeter this year, he's not Jeter. Who
Speaker 1: does he remind you of because to me, he looks
Speaker 1: a little bit like a young Korea.
Speaker 2: You know, I think physically you see Korea because of
Speaker 2: the again, the size, and I also want to just
Speaker 2: point out with these big body shortstops, I think the
Speaker 2: most talented shortstops of the last twenty five years are
Speaker 2: tall guys or tall for the position. The most talented
Speaker 2: short stop I think is a Rod Right, He's the
Speaker 2: most talented player to play the position.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 3: Then you look at the guys after him.
Speaker 2: To Lwitzky who without the injuries, surefire Hall of Famer
Speaker 2: Correa who tortured the Yankees in the postseason, big time player,
Speaker 2: Seeger who I think is one of the best hitting
Speaker 2: shortstop short stops I've ever seen, if you can. I'm
Speaker 2: not saying he's going to be those those three players, obviously,
Speaker 2: I think an outcome where you can get you know,
Speaker 2: you get a one ten ops plus you get great
Speaker 2: defense is a really strong outcome.
Speaker 3: I want to throw out the Auto Lopez comp.
Speaker 2: It's a weird one because he's not like the body
Speaker 2: types aren't the same, but in just stylistically, the Auto
Speaker 2: Lopez is a three forty three on base one sixteen
Speaker 2: ops plus guy with really good defense. I think that's
Speaker 2: the kind of player you hope that Lombard can become.
Speaker 2: If if he provides you those markers right there, you've
Speaker 2: got a franchise guy you just do. And I think
Speaker 2: there's even more power upside here. All the Lopez I
Speaker 2: think doesn't hit it in the air as much because
Speaker 2: that's just the park he plays, and there's not a
Speaker 2: lot of there's not a right field to hit the
Speaker 2: ball out too. So it's a weird but it's one
Speaker 2: that I think is way more enticing than I think
Speaker 2: people would give it credit for.
Speaker 1: Lumb Sorry, Lopez was at the very top of my
Speaker 1: trade wish list. I mean, if this guy was actually available,
Speaker 1: I would have done anything in the world to get
Speaker 1: this guy. But twelve point nine percent strikeout rate will
Speaker 1: take that. So okay, let's move on to Spencer Jones.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I'm seeing from Spencer Jones. I
Speaker 1: see a guy who is a freak athlete, not a
Speaker 1: good athlete, a freak athlete. I see speed, power, size, agility.
Speaker 1: Tonight he started the rally and he's got this thing
Speaker 1: that I think is an actual tool that you might
Speaker 1: debate me on I think he's a guy who drives
Speaker 1: in runs. I think there is a actual skill to
Speaker 1: driving in runs to guys who pick up a lot
Speaker 1: of RBIs because RBIs, I mean, I get it. It's
Speaker 1: an It's a stat that is relant on people getting
Speaker 1: on base, for you, but over the years you see
Speaker 1: guys that are just naturally better at that. Right, Juan
Speaker 1: Gonzalez is the guy who comes to mind for me.
Speaker 1: He was a guy who just drove in a ton
Speaker 1: of runs, right. Luke Grrick drove in an insane amount
Speaker 1: of runs. Obviously he had a good lineup around him.
Speaker 1: But I think Spencer Jones is gonna be a guy
Speaker 1: that if you give him five hundred bats, he's gonna
Speaker 1: drive in minimum eighty five runs and maybe up to
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty runs if he learns how to
Speaker 1: make a little bit more contact.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't. I don't disagree with you at all.
Speaker 2: I actually think you're spot on. And the reason I
Speaker 2: say that he is very aggressive in zone, but not
Speaker 2: like not in a way that's I would say unpolished.
Speaker 2: So there's a stat out there that measures swing decision
Speaker 2: quality by weighing how often you swing in zone at
Speaker 2: and at pitches to hit versus how often you chase.
Speaker 2: He's in a ninety third percent on that stat right
Speaker 2: now in the big leagues. And the reason for that
Speaker 2: is ninety seventh percentile in terms of taking hitable pitches.
Speaker 2: He never lets a pitch to hit go by. And
Speaker 2: that is a trade of a guy who does put
Speaker 2: up a lot of RBIs because Derek, think about it.
Speaker 2: How many times you see a run around second and
Speaker 2: a guy walks and it's okay on paper, yes, it's
Speaker 2: a good outcome, but you want the run to score.
Speaker 3: You want to base hit there.
Speaker 2: The value of a base hit is higher with a
Speaker 2: runner on second than it is with nobody on base.
Speaker 2: That's that's I mean, that's just simple math, right, Jones.
Speaker 2: The guy who's looking to do damage. If you throw
Speaker 2: a two zero fastball with a runer on second and
Speaker 2: two out, he's going to look to drive that baseball.
Speaker 2: And that does separate him, I think in terms of
Speaker 2: his run producing abilities from most players, and I think
Speaker 2: that is a skill that could allow him to become
Speaker 2: a very productive big leaguer and another guy where hey man,
Speaker 2: this is ninety third percentile sprint speed with eighty grade power.
Speaker 3: How many guys can do that? How many guys are that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So okay, next year is he You're starting centerfielder? If
Speaker 1: there is a next year.
Speaker 3: I think so.
Speaker 2: I would take the risk because I think it allows
Speaker 2: you to splurge more in other positions. Indeed, look, I
Speaker 2: think the Yankees. You look at this offense, they need
Speaker 2: another how do I put this? They need another guy
Speaker 2: who can threaten a pitcher right and more runs? Yeah,
Speaker 2: they do, They do need that, But I do think
Speaker 2: they need like another threat in there, another guy who
Speaker 2: is a like Brian cashmws the terminal.
Speaker 3: They need an eight.
Speaker 2: They need a guy who is like best hitter and
Speaker 2: a lineup quality guy. You hope Ben Rice can be that,
Speaker 2: but we haven't seen that during this stretch. You need
Speaker 2: a guy who can be that number two, number three
Speaker 2: hitter for you, and you should splurge on that rather
Speaker 2: than trying to bring in every day regular You don't,
Speaker 2: you haven't. Spencer Jones can do every day regular stuff.
Speaker 2: Lombard is I think a plus regular at shortstop. You
Speaker 2: need a star. So you should go and hunt for
Speaker 2: that this winter and just let Spencer Jones play centerfield.
Speaker 2: I don't think Trent Grisham is gonna hang in center
Speaker 2: field next year. I like the bat, I just I
Speaker 2: don't think he has anymore defensively, so just let Jones
Speaker 2: take the position.
Speaker 1: Good night for Grisham. But I think, yeah, you're right,
Speaker 1: this future is Spencer Jones, and I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: his development. I hope that he learns to make more
Speaker 1: con If he gets his strikeout rate into the twenties,
Speaker 1: if the first digit is to anything, he's gonna hit
Speaker 1: forty home runs one hundred percent. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I mean if you get thirty plus home runs
Speaker 2: in thirty and he's a good base runner, he's he's
Speaker 2: a very good base runner. He's not only quick, but
Speaker 2: I think he's a smart base runner. If you get
Speaker 2: thirty home runs and thirty steels at the center field,
Speaker 2: I think everything else is gonna fall into place. Like
Speaker 2: you're gonna get enough runs driven in, you're going to
Speaker 2: get a high enough OPS.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 2: I think that if you just set the Brahmin terra
Speaker 2: at we just need to find a way to get
Speaker 2: those eye popping stats where they need to be. Everything
Speaker 2: else is gonna fall in place. He's not gonna get
Speaker 2: thirty home runs, striking out forty percent of the time.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna happen if you hit thirty home runs
Speaker 2: because he cut it down to a point where he's
Speaker 2: a competitive hitter.
Speaker 1: Nice. All right, Well we have some good news. The
Speaker 1: Rays lost. The Rays lost ten to five. They got
Speaker 1: beat ten to five by the Blue Jays. Tonight. The
Speaker 1: Red Sox are winning against the d Backs. But the
Speaker 1: Yankees have gained a game in the American League. He's
Speaker 1: five games back. Every game counts. It's a long hill
Speaker 1: to climb, but I think we can do it if
Speaker 1: we get judged back healthy and if the pitching continues
Speaker 1: to do its thing. There is a four game set
Speaker 1: with the Rays coming up next month. I want to
Speaker 1: go quickly, Ryan to a word from our sponsor, and
Speaker 1: then we're going to test your knowledge with some quick
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Speaker 1: But okay, so we're gonna we're gonna test your baseball
Speaker 1: knowledge now. Because we had some technical difficulties, I didn't
Speaker 1: get a chance to walk Ryan through the show. Typically,
Speaker 1: you know, when I have a guest on, we'll connect
Speaker 1: for a couple of minutes, but the link was messed up.
Speaker 1: I had to take my computer apart today and apparently
Speaker 1: a few things got messed up along with my mic volume,
Speaker 1: et cetera. But Ryan, we're gonna play some baseball trivia.
Speaker 1: I have this new website. It's called Baseball dash Therapy
Speaker 1: dot com. It's got a trivia game on here, so
Speaker 1: we can basically have a little little fun, little fun
Speaker 1: time here. So we're gonna set this to hard because
Speaker 1: I know that you are a smart guy. And then
Speaker 1: we're gonna do how about do we want to do
Speaker 1: twenty twenties? We want to do modern? You want to
Speaker 1: do historic. I'll let you pick your your era.
Speaker 3: You know what, Surprise me, surprise me.
Speaker 1: You know what, Let's go with, Uh, let's go with
Speaker 1: Let's go with twenty you know what, let's go with modern. Actually,
Speaker 1: you know, let's go with let's go with mixed. We're
Speaker 1: gonna go with mixed, and we're gonna play the ball. Okay,
Speaker 1: you get first question? What was Tony Quinn Tony Gwyn's
Speaker 1: career batting average three forty five, three thirty eight, three
Speaker 1: forty two or three.
Speaker 3: Thirty I'm feeling three forty two, three forty.
Speaker 1: Two, and not cry three thirty eight. By the way,
Speaker 1: you get seven out of ten. You got ten questions,
Speaker 1: you get seven out of ten. I'm sending you a
Speaker 1: hoodie with the Baseball Therapy logo on it. In what
Speaker 1: year did Barry Bonds make his major league debut? A
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven, B nineteen eighty three, C nineteen eighty eight,
Speaker 1: or D nineteen eighty six. I should make this bigger.
Speaker 2: I can read them, but I last time I went
Speaker 2: with the middle total. I'm gonna go within what one
Speaker 2: last time, I'm going to nineteen eighty six. I think
Speaker 2: it's nineteen eighty.
Speaker 1: Six, nineteen eighty six, survey says correct, alright, alright, Etro,
Speaker 1: the wonderful Petro one two thousand and one, wasting no time. Eatro,
Speaker 1: and I believe this is correct, Yes, correct, And he
Speaker 1: was MVP and Rookie of the Year. I believe that year.
Speaker 1: Who won the nineteen eighty two World Series? Orioles, Cardinals,
Speaker 1: Braids or Brewers.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with the Cardinals.
Speaker 6: Survey says correct. Alright, you got four more to go
Speaker 6: to get that, To get that hoodie.
Speaker 1: Mariano Rivera what year was he inducted into the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame?
Speaker 2: Well, these always get me, but I think it's twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: I think it's twenty twenty, like the year it was, oh, twenty.
Speaker 3: Nineteen, twenty nineteen. I'm always burned me.
Speaker 1: Okay, Hey, World Series MVP in two thousand and five,
Speaker 1: Who was it? Aj Prasinski, Jermaine Die, Paul Konerko or
Speaker 1: Joe Creedy.
Speaker 2: This is one of those World Series that, for some
Speaker 2: reason always blank Meknerko is the best player or like
Speaker 2: the most memorable player from those teams.
Speaker 3: So I'm just gonna go with Conerko.
Speaker 1: I know he put him in the World Series, but
Speaker 1: not quite four more left. You gotta go four for four,
Speaker 1: you gotta pick up four knocks. How many home runs
Speaker 1: a Judge hit in twenty twenty two, I think sixty two.
Speaker 1: I think that that's a gimmy. That's a gimmey.
Speaker 3: That's I needed. I needed a little softball there, and.
Speaker 1: We need to get your back in the race. Okay.
Speaker 1: Nineteen seventy five World Series? Who read won it? Cincinnati
Speaker 1: Reds is the final answer? And oh my god, he's
Speaker 1: got a little Jordan Walker come back. Here can he
Speaker 1: walk it off for the hoodie? What percentage of the
Speaker 1: vote did Ken Griffy Junior receive in his Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame election ninety six point four, ninety five point eight,
Speaker 1: ninety nine point three or ninety seven point two.
Speaker 2: I think it's ninety seven point two. But now this
Speaker 2: one's gonna get me. This one's gonna get me. I
Speaker 2: think it's ninety seven point two though.
Speaker 1: And doctor Stitch says, oh, and your final one consolation prize,
Speaker 1: who led the major leagues and home runs in twenty
Speaker 1: fifteen with forty seven?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Okay, was Chris Davis? That was twenty fourteens. I think
Speaker 3: was Chris Davis, Nelson Cruz. I think twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1: I think I think that's too. I think that's who
Speaker 1: it is. Let's see.
Speaker 6: No Christ had to ride off my year, damn oh man.
Speaker 1: All right, well, good effort, right, everybody, get right? Hey,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. And you can go to Baseball dash
Speaker 1: Therapy dot com. That's my new website. We got games,
Speaker 1: we got all sorts of fun stuff, stats, all that shit. Okay,
Speaker 1: Ryan'll take a couple of voicemails here and get on
Speaker 1: with our lives. Call about Jazz.
Speaker 4: I really hate to leave these voicemails like this, but
Speaker 4: I just can't anymore. Get Jazz out of the starry one,
Speaker 4: put cavierro in, get Ramos out of the third spot,
Speaker 4: and option himTo triple a. Him challenging that ball right
Speaker 4: there was just so incredibly selfish third batter of the game.
Speaker 4: I just can't with these guys. I don't know where
Speaker 4: the accountability is. I know Bloon made a face at
Speaker 4: that guy. He even thought it was an appropriate time
Speaker 4: to challenge that pitch was egregious. Another great cashman acquisition
Speaker 4: at the deadline.
Speaker 1: Well, tell tell us how you really feel. I did
Speaker 1: have a problem with the challenge. I have problems with
Speaker 1: first inning challenges in general. Unless it's like bases loaded
Speaker 1: and it's like a strikeout, that's borderline. That's the only
Speaker 1: situ situation for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2: You have to You have to know you have only
Speaker 2: two it's you have a finite number of challenges.
Speaker 3: You just can't. I'm sorry, you can't.
Speaker 2: With nobody on into out, there's the values is minimal
Speaker 2: at best.
Speaker 1: Frankie says. Baseball therapy is what Derek goes through after
Speaker 1: recording a Frankie Baseball episode. He is not wrong, by
Speaker 1: the way, you're actually on here, so I added one
Speaker 1: of the things. I'm just gonna share this real quick.
Speaker 1: So one of the things that we have on this
Speaker 1: site is we have podcasts. So if you go to
Speaker 1: Baseball Therapy, we got this doctor Stitch, he's kind of
Speaker 1: the subject of all of the different stuff. If you
Speaker 1: go to Baseball Podcast, it's got every baseball podcast in
Speaker 1: one place. Wow, all of that is incredible, So you
Speaker 1: can it's it'll sort by the newest so when Fireside
Speaker 1: Yankees pops up there, you'll be at the top. I'll
Speaker 1: be at the top after tonight's episode, and you can
Speaker 1: just listen to baseball all day long. It's totally fun.
Speaker 1: You can go check out the Baseball Relaxation, play some
Speaker 1: rain ASMR videos. You can also, you know, listen to
Speaker 1: baseball stories. We have all sorts of fun stories about players.
Speaker 1: You can click on it and read it or just
Speaker 1: listen to it. It has all sorts of fun audio. So
Speaker 1: everybody go check that out. All right, here's is Brian
Speaker 1: last voicemail of the night.
Speaker 7: What's going on? Derek Rodin looked good in his return.
Speaker 7: Griff big game out of the guy. I know he's
Speaker 7: had a crapp year everybody who's been hating on him,
Speaker 7: but man, if he can start to turn it on
Speaker 7: now down the stretch and you know, just work at
Speaker 7: bats like he can, man, it's a he's a weapon
Speaker 7: for sure. Also Spencer Jones man coming through with a
Speaker 7: nice knock earlier and a great defensive play out in
Speaker 7: the right field. Dude looks good. Man, He's easily one
Speaker 7: of the better outfielders on the team already, and hopefully
Speaker 7: that back and just keep him proving.
Speaker 1: All right? Yeah, I agree. I mean, he's a weapon
Speaker 1: when he's on. I feel as confident in him right
Speaker 1: now as I felt in him before he got hurt
Speaker 1: with the hamstring injury earlier this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Again, it's it's a it's a profile they need, they
Speaker 2: need more contact and zone they need in zone. And
Speaker 2: I think it shines when Grisham's hot. It's a it's
Speaker 2: a big weapon.
Speaker 1: Half cool all right, guys, Well one more time from
Speaker 1: mister John Sterling. Oh name over Yankees whims yik Ryan,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining everybody. Go check out Fireside
Speaker 1: Yankees your YouTube channel. He's also all over social media.
Speaker 1: I watched your your video about the guy from the
Speaker 1: Mets who throws really good. For his name, what's his name?
Speaker 3: The bench?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Garson's bench. Jesus Christ. That's a hose. Uh but yeah,
Speaker 1: something about a great arm. I just love a great
Speaker 1: arm in baseball. I've been watching a lot of Bo
Speaker 1: Jackson highlights. Go watch him throw out Mike Diego flat
Speaker 1: footed from right field. Unbelievable. All right, guys, go check
Speaker 1: out Ryan stuff. Ryan, thanks for joining. We'll see you
Speaker 1: next time.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it.
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