WEBVTT - Braves Come Up Short At Baffling Trade Deadline 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:24.360 Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Hammer Territory podcast. 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:28.320 This is episode four two six. It's a post deadline 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:30.960 edition of the podcast, and I'll warn you right now 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:33.400 it won't be a positive one. My name is Brad Rowland. 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:36.680 I'm joined by Scott Coleman. Scott, it's Monday, it is 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.800 after six pm Eastern time, and the Atlanta Braves did 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:45.120 not add a frontline starting picture. How are you my friend? Hello, Brad. 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:47.800 You know, we've done a lot of podcasts over the years, 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:51.800 and I think the most frustrated I have ever been 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:55.880 recording a podcast was probably after the NLDS a few 0:00:55.960 --> 0:01:00.319 years ago in Philadelphia. You may may remember they sent 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:03.200 Bryce Elder out to the Wolves. They left Bryce Elder 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:05.679 out to the Wolves. They lost Game three, the season 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:08.720 was over about twenty four hours later. I cannot recall 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:12.360 a moment of frustration at that level as where I'm 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:16.919 at right now, to not add an impact starting pitcher 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:20.240 when you have known it is a massive hole in 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:23.840 your roster. For this isn't a new problem. This didn't 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.120 it wasn't like the Braves lost two starters over the 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:28.880 weekend and they've had to scramble and try to fill it. 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.720 They have known about this four months, going back to 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.199 the offseason. They knew this was a problem with the roster. 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:37.680 They did not get it done. This is an unquestionable 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:43.119 failure for alex Entthopolis in the front office. Just incredibly 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:44.319 frustrated right now. 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:49.040 Yeah, and look, we've teased this a few times on 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:51.120 the show. We might have new listeners today, if it's 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:53.720 your first time joining us, will probably be a little 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:56.120 bit more ranty than usual, So just know that going in. 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:59.440 But also we've been saying this for weeks, and in 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:03.240 our case, I mean, it was more divisive over the winter. 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:05.400 I would say there were more people on the side 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:08.360 of probably telling us that we were being overly precious 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:10.960 about wanting more starting pitching. We heard that a lot 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:15.359 from fans. That's okay. It was more more controversial anyway, 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.880 at least more up in the air back in the winter. 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.720 Now it's not I think everyone. I've talked to people 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:23.240 that I agree with on a lot of things, people 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:26.040 that I agree with on very little things about baseball. 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.600 Everyone that I would deem to be somewhat credible on 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:33.720 the Braves has talked about the need for a starting 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.400 pitcher who could pitch a playoff game, at least in 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:40.200 the last couple of months. Like once the issues happened 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:44.000 with Schwellenbach and Schreider. Down the line, it went from hey, 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:46.160 we always wanted another starter, we thought it was a 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.520 big need this winter. We said that over and over again. 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:51.200 It went from we were on that side already to 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:54.000 not everyone was on that side apparently except for alex 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:58.680 and toopless and this is not a show that fires 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:00.520 people like, We're not going to go I'm not going 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:02.639 to say fire Alexan Pop will say, maybe you will, Scott, 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.040 but no. It's one of those things where I'm kind 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:08.359 of in awe. To be honest, I think you may 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:10.440 have a little bit of that too, Like there's some surprise. 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.040 I know there's the contingent of people that just expected 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.640 nothing to happen because they're maybe doomerism, and I get it. 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:18.960 And when that I would put this and I talk 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:21.440 to you about this before we started recording. The Braves 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:27.080 made five trades this week. Five trades this week. I 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:30.160 literally would have done all five of them. They're not 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.919 home run trades, but they're all deals that made total 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:37.200 sense to me. Five trades all that makes sense, and 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:39.480 I still would just absolutely say this is a deadline 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:41.760 failure and like that. That's kind of insane when you 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:43.640 think about it, to make five trades that are like 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.960 reasonable and still like clearly fall short of what you 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:49.040 had to do with the deadline. And it was because 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:52.640 the Bravees had other needs. We've talked about Lane Thomas 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:54.600 already on the podcast. We'll probably do more of that today. 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.240 They added other guys. We'll break those trades down later 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:00.000 on in this episode. But there was one need above all, 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:05.320 one need above all, and they plugged the secondary hole 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:09.040 of that need. They needed to get a playoff starter 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:13.440 and an innings filler. But the playoff starter was number 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.200 one on the agenda by a lot. They had the 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:20.360 money to spend as well. Jerson profile got suspended. Alex 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:22.719 always saves money to spend. They had the money to spend, 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:25.200 they held all that, they did not address the need. 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:28.159 And when you went by the way we'll talk about this, 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:32.800 there were a dozen starting pitchers that could at least 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.040 credibly be called like top three guys. Not all of 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:37.880 them are the same, not everybody's tick, Schoogle, I get that, 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.000 But there's probably a dozen guys who moved in the 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.360 last few days that Brad's got none of them. And 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:44.640 that's just it's really hard to swallow, no matter where 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:46.840 you come from, no matter how like fire you are 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:48.520 as a fan, or how doomer you are, how much 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:50.839 you like Alex, how much you don't like Alex. I 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.160 feel like everybody kind of agrees, except for the team 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.640 that like, this is a major failure. Like this, you 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.240 couldn't you can't sell this. This is the one thing 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:00.880 you couldn't sell to me, to you, like, you could 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.960 not go into Monday, August third at six o'clock and 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:05.880 not acquire a starting pitcher that moved the needle, and 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:06.480 they didn't do it. 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:12.080 Quite literally, everybody other than Alex Andthopolis agreed the Braves 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.280 had to go add an impact starter. I was just 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:18.000 looking through Twitter to see what other reactions were. I mean, 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:21.000 there were Yankee fans poking fun at the Braves. They're like, 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:24.640 does do the Braves realize what their rotation currently is? 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:28.960 Like this is not some like niche weakness where it's like, yeah, 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:30.680 you know, we'd really like to add this because the 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:34.720 Braves struggle against left handed pitchers with whose names begin 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:35.800 with Elle. 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:37.840 Like, no, this is a massive hole. 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:42.080 This is the kind of problem that ends seasons way 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:45.640 prematurely from where they should end in short of a 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:49.320 World Series. I have no way of defending Alex, not 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:52.040 only for his decisions this weekend, but it's been pretty 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.520 bad for Alex and Thopolis for a while now. Like, 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:56.839 go look at all of the moves Alex has made 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.640 since the end of the twenty twenty three season. The 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:02.360 Chris the Sale trade was amazing ten out of ten 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:05.760 no notes, but there have been a ton of bad 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:10.080 decisions and land mines from Alex since then. In sure, 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:13.200 he has a great core. Alex inherited a once in 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.760 a generation corps when he took over this team before 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:19.640 twenty eighteen. Freddy Freeman, Dansby Swanson, Max Freed, Austin Riley, 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:23.599 Ronald Acunye Junior, Ozzie Alby's, Mike Soroka, you had all 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.920 the AMMO in the world. Insure Alex does get credit 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.360 for winning divisions and winning the World Series. But the 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:31.599 last twenty four months of Alex and Thoppolis have been 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:35.159 flat out bad. And I know this team is twenty 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.239 two games above five hundred, and that's great. 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:37.839 Awesome. 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.599 They should win the division, but this deadline was not 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.600 about winning the division. It was about winning a playoff 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:47.240 series for the first time since twenty twenty one. They 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:51.040 have won two playoff games since they won the World Series. 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:53.839 And their answers when they have the third best record 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:57.600 in baseball today was to get Lane Thomas, who's a 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:59.880 fine right handed bat. He'll do some things well for 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:04.680 this team, but he's not star Tyler Mallee, who might 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:06.520 be able to unlock a few things and be a 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.520 serviceable middle of the rotation guy for this team. And 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:12.200 then Brent Suter, who is a thirty seven year old 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:15.960 reliever who throws slower than like genuinely some kids in 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.200 high school throws. 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:19.440 That's his answer. 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:24.120 That was al Alexonthopolis, who had eighteen million dollars freed 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:27.119 up from jerks and profar getting suspended, and a farm 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:29.200 system that is the healthiest it has been in a 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:33.360 long time. That's his answer to this. Lane Thomas, Tyler Mallee, 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.320 Brent Suitor, and nothing else. On a day when a 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.600 dozen starting pitchers moved and there were others who were 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:43.640 really good who didn't move, That's that's what Alex is doing. 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:49.040 There's no way to spend this. There's truthfully no excusing 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:51.800 what Alex has done to this team. 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:55.760 Yeah, I think I'm probably higher on him than you, 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:58.480 and then the consensus and even I can't do it. 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:00.480 I just said this, but I can't. There's no defense 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:02.920 for this. This is indefensible. There are a lot of 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:04.800 things that I've done this for a long time. I've 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:06.800 covered I've covered different teeth for a long time. I 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:10.560 could spin something up I wanted to. Usually, even if 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.160 I don't agree with something, I can give you the 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:14.320 I can give you the argument for it, right, and 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:16.120 I'm a big fan of giving the people the whole picture. 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.760 There is no argument for this. I don't have one, 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.400 Like you can't do it, and I look, we don't. 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:25.000 Alex is talking as we are talking, and he's I'm 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:26.560 sure gonna say what he always says is when he 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:28.200 doesn't do things, and then that they try to get close. 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:30.160 There was already a question I'm seeing on Twitter now 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:32.160 about he got asked if there was a no trade 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:33.680 clause that came into play, and he kind of sigh 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:36.640 stepped that. Everyone is wondering if Jacob de gram was 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.040 was a target and Apparently the Rangers were approached about 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:41.000 Jacob de Gram, and de Gram said, I'd like to 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:43.720 stay with Texas. Maybe that's the brace, maybe he's not. 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.599 They probably will never say that. We'll find out regardless, 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.280 it doesn't matter. Like here are the names, just there's 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.640 this is a selection of names. But Terra Scoogle on 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:55.800 the high side. Obviously Casey Mais got moved today. Clay Holmes, 0:08:56.040 --> 0:09:00.000 Dustin May, Kevin Gosman, Freddy Peralta, Ode Soriano Post Griff 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.319 and Robbie Ray, all those guys moved. The Braves could 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.560 have won a beating war for any of them. And 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:09.160 we're not saying they go crazy, Like at no point 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:11.560 where we're saying you have to trade Hartman and Cammanity 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:13.560 and everything for you don't have to do that. But 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.199 you're telling me they couldn't put a package together to 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:19.760 win a bidding war for any of those any dozen names, 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:22.439 any or Trevor Rodgers who didn't get moved. I know 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.640 that Readever's didn't get moved. The Gram I get it, 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.040 but like I just there's no way of selling that 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:31.000 they couldn't have done something to outbid someone for someone. 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:34.520 They're just and it's funny. Tyler Maley was a guy 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:38.880 that I argued for in November on this podcast or December, 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:41.240 whatever whatever time it was, but not as the number 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.640 two starter on a playoff team. It was like, Hey, 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:46.120 the Brads need some need some depth, go get him 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.520 and look, if you want to be as charitable as 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:50.080 humanly possible, which I know we're not in the move 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:51.480 to be, and I'm not even in the mood to be. 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:53.560 I know you're even less than I am. You could 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:57.240 say that the Braves have had worse than average pitching 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:01.720 luck this year, given Schwellenbach, even Strider, given a Waldrop, 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:04.040 you could argue that I would probably agree with you. 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:08.200 But that argument goes out the window when there were 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.559 a lot of people, including us, saying in November and 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:13.080 December and October and January that they had to ad 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:16.520 starting pitching, and the one way to explain around that 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:19.720 would have been to Okay, Alex loves to say and 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:22.360 has done it before to his credit, but loves to 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:24.400 say that they want to have wiggle room around the 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:28.480 deadline to add to the roster financially. They didn't. They 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:30.000 used a little bit of it. I mean they took 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:32.600 on some money with Bailey Falter, but like, come on, guys, 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:35.120 like they they also didn't spend the money like they 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.120 they literally I think they're gonna end the season with 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:40.120 a lower payroll in miss Art with yes guaranteed, given 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.520 the prof given the profile suspension, Like I haven't done 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:44.640 the numbers, but like it's got to be so No, 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.680 it's it's wild. I mean, we can talk more about this. 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:50.840 We will, uh in a second. I just I guess 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:52.320 we agree here, Scott. You can tell me if we're wrong. 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.480 It's more I'm more baffled. You might be on the 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:57.600 angrier side. I'm on the baffled side, but we come 0:10:57.600 --> 0:10:59.760 down in the same place. It's like this, there's no 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.199 diff this. This is indefensible to not come away with 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:05.280 the starry picture this week. And maybe it wouldn't have worked, 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:07.560 Like maybe would ever guy that they traded for wouldn't 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.440 have worked. It's never fool proof. It never is. But 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:12.960 have you seen the rotation? 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:13.840 Yeah? 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:16.520 I mean, has anybody seen the rotation of this team 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:20.160 right now? And yeah, maybe there's a world cross your crush, 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.280 your fingers and your toes. The Spencer swallow Bach is 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:24.960 like prime Schwallen bach in a month, I doubt it, 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:28.040 man like, And once that happens, they don't have anybody. 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:30.760 He's the only living, breathing chance at a guy who 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:32.400 could pitch the game two of a playoff series on 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:34.880 this roster right now, right, And that's not that's really 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:35.800 a thing, like. 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:38.320 Come on, that's the problem, man Like, Okay, And first 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:42.400 of all, if Chris Sale gets hurt, the season's over, Like, well, 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:45.160 I mean legit, Well, I want to say this for 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:46.880 a second, is I want to talk about this exact 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:48.880 thing in a moment, like what the team actually looks 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:50.840 like we're gonna do that? But you're right, I mean 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:55.640 that's Chris Sale is already indispensable. It's beyond indispensable now, 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:58.040 like there is no alternative, Like, if Chris Sale is 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.400 not able to throw two and a half times in 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:02.559 every playoff series, you're not gonna win. 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:05.520 That's just what it is. Well, you can win games 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:08.200 without Chris Sale because it's it's baseball. There's noise in 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:10.640 guy's not good games. But like, I have a hard 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.440 time seeing the Braves winning the World Series this season 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:15.920 without Chris Sale being like the super human version of 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:18.240 himself for a full month like, it's hard to see. 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.600 That, and then okay, great Chris Sale. Game one, Game two, 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:25.680 a J. Smith shover rehabbing off of Tommy John. Is 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:29.520 it maybe Spencer Schwellenbach, who hasn't fired a competitive pitch 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:33.120 in a game by fifteen months at this point? Is 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:37.520 it Bryce Elder? Is it thirty five year old Martine Perez? 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:41.079 Is it currently injured Rinaldo Lopez? Is it can't get 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:44.080 through a lineup more than one time? Grant Holmes? Is 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:45.160 it a rookie? And Jr? 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:48.120 Ritchie or Owen Murphy? Like what are we doing? 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:53.760 This is non sensical and you're right, Brad, there's no guarantee. 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.760 The Braves could have traded for Jose Soriano and he 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:58.520 could have blown up or he could have gotten hurt. 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:00.840 Or they could have traded for Robbie and his you know, 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:03.079 regression could have hit hard, or they could have traded 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.280 for Dustin May or whoever. But to not even try 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.400 when it was kind of a buyer's market for starting 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:16.560 pitching is inexcusable. Just it is inexcusable malpractice, Just another 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:20.400 bad decision from a baseball executive who has had quite 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.560 a few bad decisions and no, no GM is going. 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:24.240 To bat one thousand. 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:27.640 Alex is not gonna be perfect. Nobody is perfect, even 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:31.200 the Dodgers who have unlimited budget and unlimited payroll and 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.040 unlimited everything. They miss all the time. Right, They have 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.719 guys injured, they have guys been performed. Kyle Tucker is 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:39.760 making like ninety million dollars this year and he sucks, right, 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:43.920 But to not even try, to not try with Casey 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:45.960 Mize who went to the Padres, who have like the 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.839 worst farm system in baseball. I fully get that Casey 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.600 Mis's velocity was down a little bit, but to not 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:55.320 even try, Like, I am at a loss of words, 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:57.640 So we will move on from my ranting. I could 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:00.600 probably rant for another hour, but it's yeah, we could 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:02.400 do the whole show like this, and it'd be bad radio. 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:05.560 Probably we could do that, and it's not about one pitcher. 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:07.960 Like you can go one by one and I'm sure 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:11.360 I should say, I'm sure I suspect at some point 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:13.200 Alex might even he won't do it with an aims, 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:15.800 but like that's probably how they do explain away. They 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.680 go one by one and say, Casey miss velocity was down, 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:20.720 the price was too high for so and so Clay 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:22.760 Holmes was with with the Mets, it's hard to make 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:26.320 trades of the division, like you can do it, but again, 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:29.640 you can't do it when there's twelve of them. Like 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:31.960 at some point you got to be the team that 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:34.280 does the thing. And that's always But even when Alex 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:37.760 is riding high, which he has they won the World Series, 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:41.680 even when he was riding high, his unwillingness to go 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:44.320 the extra five percent to get a trade done has 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:48.760 always been a questionable thing with him, Like maybe maybe 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.360 the number one thing that he's been criticized for. Either 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.560 that or bullpen spending has been the two things that 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:55.760 Alex gets criticized the most for. And he did he 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.240 clearly didn't do it here well, And is Alex the 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:01.680 worst negotiator in the world, like clearly other. 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:05.080 Teams had no mean he does things. It's just made 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:06.720 I think he just draws the lines in the sand 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:08.560 and he's just like, I'm not crossing this line. It's 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:09.760 like okay, man, but at some point you have to 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:10.680 cross the line. 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:11.640 Right then, don't draw the line. 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:14.200 Don't draw the line in the sand. It's easy, you know, 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:16.440 Like I don't know, man. 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:21.000 It's it's just it's infuriating. And look, it is this. 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:22.840 At the end of the day, it's baseball. The sun 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:24.960 will come up tomorrow, we'll all go to work, we'll 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.040 eat all eat breakfast, we'll all go to school, whatever 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:30.920 it is you do. Are the Braves still a good team? Yes, unquestionably, 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.440 Yes this is a good team. But when the calendar 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:37.360 flips to October and the games change and the strategy changes, 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:38.280 and everything kind. 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:39.160 Of goes out the window. 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:42.360 I just don't see a world where they have the 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.600 starting pitching to go head to head with the Dodgers 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:49.760 or the Brewers, or the Cubs or the Phillies. And sure, 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:52.000 maybe they'll surprises, maybe they'll win a couple of games, 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:54.440 maybe they'll advance a couple of rounds. But to not 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:58.080 even try to add one of these guys is just 0:15:58.320 --> 0:15:59.240 mind numbing to me. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:01.800 Leave it there for now. We'll come back in a 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:04.720 second and talk much more about what actually happened as 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:06.760 well as what you just referred to. It's a good 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:08.760 kind of teaser for a second. It's like what the 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:12.040 other contenders did, because spoiler alert, the top three or 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.400 four teams the nationally not in the Braves all did 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.720 stuff and got better in a splashier way than Atlanta, 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.440 which is bad news. First of those, Scott's gonna work 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:22.240 more partners on it today's show. 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:26.200 It's the summertime, aj and this is a time to 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:31.440 feel free wild make some phone calls that you're overdue for, 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:35.200 and also get some deals that you should be getting 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:36.160 that you deserve. 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.400 Yeah, it couldn't be any easier though. It's just one 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:42.640 price for unlimited talk, text and data. 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That's number one. 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:54.680 Number two is according to Why, a sophomore bowman who's 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:57.160 on the coal with Alex, the plan is that Jim 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:01.040 Jarvis will be the shortstop still moving forward, Not Dubon, 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:05.080 not Kim, Jim Jarvis. So they are still writing the 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:09.840 I almost at hot hand, the slightly warmer than lukewarm 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:13.440 hand of Jim Jarvis. Any reaction to that before we 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:15.840 dive in back to traded line stuff. That's what's going 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:16.360 on right now. 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:20.520 Only shortstop thing I really care about is if has 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:23.800 On Kim gets to play. Does Kim show you anything 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:26.280 at all, and kind of based on these comments today 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:28.080 and some of the moves they made, you know they 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:30.359 have cleared some room on the roster, but they are 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:33.119 apparently committed to Jarvis and then Dubon is also in 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:33.480 the mix. 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:34.639 So doesn't make a. 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:36.359 Whole lot of sense to me if they're gonna just 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:38.800 sit Kim on the bench and not at least try 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.360 to see if there's anything there. But at the same time, 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:43.000 this team hasn't done much that's made a lot of 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:47.040 sense lately, so well, I guess we'll see that is 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:49.080 right as a transition. 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:53.840 Danzeborski, who has long been a comment or at Battery Power, 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:56.240 when he was talking Chop Dan's a great job. He 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:59.479 created Zips works at fangrabs one of the smart baseball 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:02.840 minds in all of baseball, in my opinion. He wrote today, 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:05.960 before the Braves didn't do anything that basically, if anything 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:08.679 happened to Chris Sale, his projections will have the Braves 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:12.560 as the worst rotation of any playoff caliber baseball team 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:16.320 in the majors. Does that sound right to you? It's 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:18.760 all right to me. What the Braves have so we 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:22.000 alluded that a second ago. Now we'll talk about the 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:25.480 one pitcher they did add. His name is Tyler Matley, 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:27.800 but first let's mix it up engineered by our friends 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:36.879