WEBVTT - Bubba improves, Bart gets hot 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:10.639 What's up, everybody? 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:13.520 Welcome back to another episode of Bucko Territory, presented to 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:16.360 you by the Foul Territory Network. I'm Noah, Hile's joining 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:19.240 me as always our Josh Harrison and Platinum. 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:20.639 Key aka Mark. 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:23.520 The Pirates drop two of three over the weekend on 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:28.280 the road in San Francisco, frustrating series loss capped off 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:31.720 by an x tratings lost Sunday evening against the Giants. 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:34.280 We've got a good show today. We're gonna talk about 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.920 Bubba Chandler, Joey Bart and as always on Monday shows, 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:41.800 we are going to round off with Platinum Keys Key 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:45.320 of the week. So fellas, let's start off with Bubba Chandler. 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:49.360 He goes five innings on Sunday, allows two earth runs, 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:54.560 similar line in that regard to his last outing, but 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:58.720 this outing a much better showing for one reason, and 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:01.160 that's a lack of law. I think he walked what 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:04.120 do you watched six in his second to last start. Yeah, 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:05.840 sounds about right, something like that. 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:11.120 Yeah, way too many. He had one hit, one walk today. 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:15.600 So that's that's a big win for Bubba Chandler, and honestly, 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:18.600 that's that's gonna be something that you need to see 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:21.360 from him more often, as Era now is down to 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:25.080 four sixty two, still struggling to go deeper into ball games, 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:26.720 which I want to hit on a little bit later, 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:28.880 but I'll start with Mark here. Mark, I mean, what 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:35.600 were your takeaways from Bubba after really after a kind 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:37.840 of a bad outing, I guess, even though the stat 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:39.360 line's the same, do you think you look better this 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:39.919 time around? 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.320 Yeah, I absolutely do. I mean, besides not pitching past 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:46.520 five innings, which he only threw seventy seven pitches, so 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.240 not exactly on him. He probably could have thrown a 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:52.600 few more if needed, not his choice to make so. 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:55.280 But overall, I mean, he just stayed in the strike 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:58.360 zone a lot more. It wasn't just like a lack 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:01.440 of walks. It was a lot mores as well. I 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.400 think he may have thrown more strikes despite throwing less 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:07.559 pitches in this outing than his previous one, So big 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:11.440 growth there. He didn't let himself get you know, lose 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:15.359 his composure. You know, he stayed locked in. We saw 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:17.640 like that tumble he made, he made his first err 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:20.680 of the year when he tried to like slide in 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.280 and got caught up in the grass. Maybe that played 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:25.560 a factor into them pulling them just a little early 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:29.160 because that happened right before the fifth inion uh, with 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:31.120 like one out left in the fourth, so he was 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:34.359 able to finish it out. Doesn't seem like it's gonna 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:36.680 be a long term injury or anything, just the Pirates 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:40.440 being a little precautious. So overall encouraging stuff. I mean, 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:44.640 this is still a rookie pitcher, right, so you're gonna 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:46.360 have some good alltings, You're gonna have some bad alltings, 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.040 but overall pretty encouraging stuff. Topped out one hundred and 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:53.360 five today, so uh yeah, just just casual, you know, 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:57.880 just a casual starting pitcher. Yeah, what were your takeaways? 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:02.560 No, overall I kind of agree with what you had 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:05.760 to say on just you know, finding the zone a 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:09.480 lot more in the composure element of it too. I 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:11.560 was curious to see how you would respond after getting 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.720 taken yard and it didn't really bother him at all. 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.359 So that's a good sign on the composure note. 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.200 Big picture, and I'm gonna give my spiel here and 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.639 then let Joshua in because I was thinking the other day, 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.280 like what does a successful season look like for Bubba Chandler. 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:29.880 Is it a sub four era? Is it one hundred 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:31.720 and seventy strikeouts? 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:31.800 Like? 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:32.320 What is it? 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:34.880 And to me, when I look at the construction of 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:37.600 this team, and this might be a different definition for 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.200 Bubba Chandler personally, like it might not align with his 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:42.720 personal goals or all of his personal goals. But if 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.800 I'm the Pittsburgh Pirates, the number one thing I'm asking 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:48.400 Bubba Chandler to do this year is get me one 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:49.400 hundred and fifty innings. 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:51.240 That's that's what I need you to do. 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.280 If your number five starter can get you one hundred 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.960 and fifty innings, especially for a guy who threw one 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.280 hundred and thirty and a third innings last year between 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:02.200 Triple A and the major leagues, that twenty to thirty 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.800 inning rangees is like the desired bump of what you want. 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.040 But for a team that's looking to get to the postseason, 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:11.880 if he's at one fifty at the end of the 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:14.640 regular season, that's a really good sign for him. So 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:19.000 my goal And you look Paul Skeens his first professional season, 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:21.719 he threw one hundred and sixty and a third I 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:24.440 believe between Triple A and the Major League So that's 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:27.080 a good mark, that one fifty to one sixty range. 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.599 It's a perfect build up for what he's already done. 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:33.599 And it means that he's healthy. And if he's throwing 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:35.600 that many innings, it means that he's. 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:37.039 Still in the starting rotations. 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.640 He's good enough to stay one of their five and unlike, 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:43.040 and we mentioned this on the show before, there are 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:46.280 other guys in this rotation on this staff, they're going 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:49.440 to have workload restrictions. If he's throwing one hundred fifty 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.279 hundred and sixty, there shouldn't be a lot of limitations 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:55.080 placed on him because it just means he's getting you 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:58.560 five to six pretty much every time he's pitching. So 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.240 that's how I've Bubba Chandler's rookie season and what it 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.920 needs to be. Just get get one hundred and fifty 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.800 plus innings under your belt this year, keep that e 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:11.400 er under you know, the lower side of four point five, 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:13.839 and you've done your job. 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:15.400 Josh, Is that a fair assessment? 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:20.200 Uh? Yeah, obviously after listening to both of your spills, 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:23.440 progress for him, as you said, is going to be 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:26.120 continuing to go five or six and today you said 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:30.400 he won seventy seven pitches could argue that he possibly 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.000 could have gone more, but for his progress to continue 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.960 to trend upward, he has to have days like today 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:39.839 where you mentioned one walk. Yes, what good does it 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.400 do you to have this electric stuff if you can't 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:44.719 you know, pitch in the zone or even be around 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.640 the zone, because with stuff that good, you don't necessarily 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.719 have to you know, be perfect. And maybe it's a 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:52.320 case of him thinking that he's got to make the 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:55.600 perfect pitch. And sometimes you see that with younger guys, 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.600 especially with powerful arms. You know, oh, let me let 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:00.160 me throw you said, he throw one on five. Let 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.520 me let me throw this one O five, you know, dotted, 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:05.359 and it's like, you know what, learn learn how to 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.280 control you know, the strike zone. You know, you don't 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:10.760 have to be perfect with that stuff. And sometimes it 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:12.800 could be a case of, you know, even after some 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:16.320 of his you know, outings, his interviews, you know, you 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:18.800 can listen to the way he speaks, he owns up 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:20.919 to you know, I gotta be better. I have to 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:24.040 do this. But you know it's more than just saying it, 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:26.480 and sometimes just a matter of you know, having days 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:30.680 like today five any seventy seven pitches one walk. I mean, 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:32.480 as I said, we could build off of that. You 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:35.480 can you can throw more pictures than that. So I 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.760 think his progress is going to continue to trend upward 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:41.919 the more that he finds the zone, because as you said, 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:44.920 he showed composure after giving up a home run. That's 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.680 gonna happen, it's big league hitters. But what it's going 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:49.480 to teach him is that, man, the more than I'm 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:51.159 in his zone now I can really you know, be 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:53.800 aggressive with my stuff as opposed to when you're in 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:56.360 one o, two oh counts. You know, now it's like, oh, 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:58.320 I have to throw a strike, and sometimes that's the 0:06:58.320 --> 0:06:59.960 hardest time to throw a strike because you don't want 0:06:59.960 --> 0:07:01.760 to prove one and then you miss. Now you're three 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:06.320 to zero. So his progress, as you said, I'm gonna 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:08.960 agree with that because one hundred and thirty innings last year, 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:11.720 if he's up to one hundred and fifty, one hundred 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.920 and sixty, he's going five to six. He's not walking 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:18.560 that many guys, And that to me is what we 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.480 came into this season, you know, talking about Bubba is 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:24.200 being able to you know, control the strike zone, and 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:27.120 ultimately today is a step in the right direction. 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:30.240 All right, we're gonna take a quick break. When we 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.120 come back, we're going to talk about the guy Bubba 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.960 Chandler was throwing to, not in this start, but the 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:36.480 last one, Joey Bart. 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.400 Big dog. You know how it is, man, We're always hungry, 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:42.800 and how do we get our food? We don't want 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:44.920 the stuff that makes our bellies hurt. We go to 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:48.680 Hello Fresh. We find out specifically what we love to eat. 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:50.880 And guess what, Kratzy, I know it helps you out 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.240 the household wife. He is happy and the kids are 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:54.080 extra happy. 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:57.400 I'm good at two things. 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But another weakness throughout the season has been catching. 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:02.040 I mean, they're getting decent defensive play from behind the plate, 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:05.920 but for I mean all of last year and a 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.720 large part of this season so far, offense has been 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:13.160 a problem among the Pirates catching staff, but it hasn't 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:16.320 been as of late thanks to Joey. Joey Bart in 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.960 his last fifteen games is slashing three h two, three 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:23.200 eleven for sixty five and that includes a pair of 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.440 home runs. Believe five or six RBIs. 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:27.000 I'm not sure. 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:30.520 I don't have those six rbi in that's slight. And 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:34.760 Mark has the Baseball Savant chart here. His defense has 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:38.880 also been fine. I wouldn't say it's amazing, and it's 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.040 ironic that we're touting his batting stats because you see 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:42.840 a lot of blue there. But if you go to 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:47.240 the defensive metrics, I mean, seventy fourth percentile and pop 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:53.040 time forty second percentile. On framing cs above average is 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:56.880 league average, and then blocks above average is I believe 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:58.079 that it says sixty one percent. 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.000 Don't have my glasses on, So. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:03.920 I mean pretty much when you look at overall he 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.880 is he is an above average defensive catcher based off 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:10.520 of those metrics, and I mean the offensive stats. Yeah, 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.240 the percentiles don't look pretty there, but I mean in 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:17.400 his last fifteen games, he's hitting the ball well, and even. 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:21.600 Without that, he's a better hitter than Henry Davis. 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.800 Yeah, I mean yes, after this hot streak, now he's 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.880 up to six sixty nine almost like that seven. 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:29.160 Yeah. 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.679 So right, so when you're. 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:38.920 Yeah, yes, so when you're considering what you have here, 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.559 Henry Davis is always going to catch Paul Schemes. I 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.480 think Henry Davis should always catch Bubba Chandler as well. 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:50.800 Yeah, but for those other three guys, is Joey Bart 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:51.920 is Joey Bart. 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:56.040 Has Joey Bart done enough to get sixty percent of 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.680 the starts where Henry Davis gets the forty. 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:03.920 I'll start with Josh. 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.800 Well, my first question to you is, right now, has 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.160 Henry gotten sixty percent of starts or eighty? 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.920 Henry's probably had more, I would say, yeah, just not 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:12.040 even knowing that off. 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:15.360 The top of my head. Henry. Yeah, Henry's the guy 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:16.400 they want out there. 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:19.280 I'll just say that they desperately want Henry to be 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:21.280 the number one, but he just can't hit. 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:27.040 Yeah. I mean, as I said in multiple episodes with 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:31.480 other guys, you ride the hot hand, and obviously there's 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.960 gonna come a threshold with that when you're weighing what 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:39.120 you're gonna do in certain spots. And you've just said 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.600 that he's not hurting you defensively, he's actually been rated 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:44.680 above average, So right there, the one thing you want 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:46.680 away is like, Okay, a lot of times we're gonna 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:50.600 trade defense for offensive vice versa. And not like he's 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:52.800 sitting here tearing the cover off the ball. You know, 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:56.160 but as you said, he's trending upward, and if his 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:59.480 defense is also above average, I don't see anything wrong 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:01.520 with giving it guy, you know, sixty percent of the 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.120 bulk of the playing time, because at the end of 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:06.160 the day we talked. He's doing the split in time 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.200 and that's no different than anybody that's platooning or whatever. 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:13.080 But I'm a firm believer that you don't really know 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.720 until you give a guy that that opportunity, and not 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.120 to say that he hasn't had the opportunity before, but 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:22.440 you know, sometimes opportunities presents themselves again. And I'm a 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:25.760 firm believer. And as you said, you know, he's he's 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.840 been rated above average defensively, he's not hurting you. If 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:32.400 he's trending upward with the bat, why not give that 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:35.840 a shot? Because you know, any added offense of production 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:39.120 is going to be, you know, just more fuel to 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:41.480 the fire, especially you know, on a team that is 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:45.760 struggling defensively. If it's not hurting you defensively, I think 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:46.640 you give a shot. 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.040 Yeah, And I just looked up while Josh was talking there, 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:53.200 Harry Davis has eighty at bats this year. Joey Bart 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:56.360 has fifty eight at bats this year. So yeah, a 0:12:56.360 --> 0:13:00.560 little slight bumped towards Hillary. But the way Joey Bart's 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:02.520 been playing, I think you gotta keep going with him 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:06.520 and use that as extra motivation, you know, some healthy competition. 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:10.680 Maybe light a fire under Henry's Davis's button, say you know, 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:13.240 this is your job and you're it's slipping through your 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:15.720 fingers right now to Joey Bart, a guy that we 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:19.680 were saying, you know, wasn't looking that great for most 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:23.920 of the season until these last fifteen games. So you know, 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:27.000 maybe Henry Davis has been, you know, working really hard, 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.200 as we alluded to it. Maybe he needed some days 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:31.840 off just to work on things, get right, fix things 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.840 behind the scenes. Maybe that's been part of it. But 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:37.440 it seems like this is Joey Bart's job to lose 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:38.000 as of now. 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:41.480 I want to be real clear here before we wrap 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:42.240 this segment up. 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:44.920 I'm not advocating for Joey Bart to be like the 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:48.400 primary number one guy, like he just hasn't done enough. 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:52.200 Oh I understand, Yeah, yeh. 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:58.680 Henry Davis is a much better defensive catcher than Joey Bart. 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:00.640 And one thing that you don't really have a metric 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:05.000 for is like game calling. Henry Davis calls a far 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:07.400 better game than Joey Bart. Like, I guess the way 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:09.440 you measure that metric is you look at the pitching 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:11.960 staffs e RA. When Joey Bart's behind the plate and 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.200 look at it when Henry Davis is behind the plate 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:16.160 and pretty obvious. 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:19.480 Yeah, I mean there's a lot that goes into it too, 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:23.880 you know, catcher relationship. Catcher also been on the same page, 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.960 Like sometimes guys are just on different pages. And it's like, 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.480 I think that's what he wants to throw, and you know, 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.240 guys like I guess I'll throw it where you know, 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:35.360 certain guys they know and it's just as you said, 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:37.440 go ahead. 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:40.280 And that's the thing with Henry is Henry has been 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:43.440 a minor league catcher while Paul Skeins was in Triple A. 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:47.400 He's been a minor league catcher for Bubba Chandler's development, 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:52.120 especially in Triple A. Braxton Ashcraft, him and he have 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.160 played together in the minor leagues, and same for Karvin Machinski. 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.240 So four of their starting five. 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:02.600 Pitchers familiar thrown to this guy before they tasted the 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:08.720 major leagues. So there is a benefit to that. Now again, 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.400 you gotta play Bart somehow, but like that's why I 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:18.200 say keep him with schemes because you don't mess. Yeah, 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:20.560 And then I think, I I mean, I think you 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.880 look at what Bubba did Sunday one walk. 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:28.000 Henry Davis was a starting catcher Sunday. So I look 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:28.320 at that. 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:31.840 I think, keep Bubba and Henry together, keep Paul and 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:35.720 Henry together, and then you can use Braxton as kind 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.960 of like your buffer, or maybe the Carmen start as 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:43.240 your buffer, because it's a bullpen game sometimes. But yeah, 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.720 Joey Bart should catch Mitch Keller and the other two 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:50.600 starts right now, just because he's given you offense. 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:53.040 And this isn't necessarily a team that needs to trade 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:55.600 more defense for offense. They kind of done that way 0:15:55.640 --> 0:16:00.720 too much already. But I mean, you can't. 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:03.200 You can't start a guy three times a week who's 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:05.200 hitting under one sixty. 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:07.880 It's just that's just not acceptable. 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:10.960 Unless if you're like Austin Hedges level good defensively, which 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:15.360 Henry's just not there right now. So any final thoughts 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:17.760 here before we take a little break for another ad. 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:20.560 Nope, all right, well let's do it then. 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.680 Cratzy, real simple man. 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In 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:57.480 the offseason when the Pirates acquired and we're like, this 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:00.399 guy has nasty stuff if he can keep it in 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.280 the zone, and he has kept it in the zone 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:05.879 and done that wall striking out batters as well. He 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:08.760 has twenty three strikeouts compared to those eight walks. That's 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:13.720 a ninety seventh percentile strikeout rate in MLB, So just 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:17.800 striking guys out more than anyone, getting a lot of 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:21.080 whiffs as well, missing the bat constantly ninety first percentile 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:24.360 whiff rate, and doing it while just throwing absolute gas 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:29.719 as a lefty, ninety seventh percentile in fastball velocity there 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:34.080 as well. So he's got five holds. Just really been 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:36.920 a bright spot in a Pirates bullpen that's gotten beat 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:39.760 up in the last few games when he's come in, 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:42.879 he's really stepped up. He pitched one point two innings 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:47.960 in Sunday's game, came in and really was that stopper 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:50.520 that the pirates needed when I think he came in 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:53.840 with the bases loaded, possibly after mats and loaded them 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:58.280 head runners on either way. So just really impressive stuff 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:01.720 from Mason Montgomery this year. No, what's that light bulb 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:02.919 that just went off above your head? 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:05.520 There, we've got some breaking news. Seth Hernandez promoted to 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:06.400 Hya Greensboro. 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:15.200 No way, relaxed. Hey, you know we're just talking last time. Yeah, 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:20.879 hold on, let me run breaking news. Yeah, I knocked 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:25.119 my Yeah, I love it that. 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:28.120 I was just getting I was getting some texts about it. 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:30.760 I did not break that for the record, I mean 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:33.560 I had someone text me about it. But Chase Ford 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:35.720 with the scoop, so shout out to him. He actually 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:37.760 breaks a lot of minly call ups. A good young reporter. 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:45.119 But yeah, yes, congrats, uh, Seth Hernandez. But back to 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:48.800 what you were saying, Sorry about that. I was listening, 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:53.720 but I was seeing if anyone else had that. But yeah, 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:58.680 so Mason, I'll just say this, he picked the right 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:02.040 time for it to click, because is Yeah, most of 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:03.920 his bullpen's really going through it right now. 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:06.920 I mean Johan Man, Johan is like. 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:11.080 Riding a roll toaster without ament's it's gonna be an 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:17.920 awesome ride, but it's you might die. Matt Mattson is 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:23.800 struggling right now. I mean, justin Lawrence is hasn't looked 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:27.840 good all year. Dennis Antanas kind of getting his groove back. 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:33.920 I mean, Soto's a beast, but yeah, Montgomery is, He's 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:35.720 clicking right when they need him to click. 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:36.560 He's been excellent. 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:41.760 I mean, just to add to that, I mean, definitely 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:45.639 with the bullpen been a sore spot obviously. You know 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:48.840