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Speaker 1: What's Up? Everybody Welcome in another edition of Crush City,

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Speaker 1: Territory and Chandeler Room, joined by Tyler Stafford. After the

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Speaker 1: Astros were shut out by the Los Angeles Angels of

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Speaker 1: Anaheim on Sunday at dyke In Park, the Angels had

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Speaker 1: shut out six. They had thrown six shutouts all year.

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Speaker 1: They have statistically one of the worst pitching staffs, not

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Speaker 1: only in the American League, but in all of Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball. No pitching staff walks more batters than the Angels.

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Speaker 1: No American League pitching staff has a higher whip than

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Speaker 1: the Angels. Not to be outdone, the Colorado Rockies, who

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Speaker 1: the Astros saw before the Angels came to town. They

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Speaker 1: had the highest ERA, FIP and whip of any pitching

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Speaker 1: staff in baseball. Opponents are hitting two ninety nine against

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Speaker 1: the Rockies, which is an unfathomable number. Not included in

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Speaker 1: that number is the Astros because in six games against

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Speaker 1: the Angels and the Rockies, two of the worst pitching

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Speaker 1: twelve runs. They are in an offensive funk that is

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Speaker 1: very deep and that stretches beyond just these six games. Tyler.

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Speaker 1: They finished August today. They played their twenty eighth game

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Speaker 1: in August today. They went thirteen and fifteen in August,

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Speaker 1: and they averaged three and a half runs per game

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Speaker 1: in those twenty eight games. The Major league average is

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Speaker 1: four point four to six runs per game. And this

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Speaker 1: was the month, Tyler, when it was supposed to all

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Speaker 1: come together. Yard and Alvarez is back. They acquired hay

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Speaker 1: in the middle of that. This is as close to

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Speaker 1: full strength as this lineup can be. And manned, does

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Speaker 1: it look Does it look anemic right now?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Tell us how you really feel, Chandler. Geez, it's a

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Speaker 3: Labor Day weekend. I'm trying to enjoy myself and you're

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Speaker 3: ruining my night.

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Speaker 2: Uh. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: They looked terrible. I mean, whether whether they have eleven

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Speaker 3: run like they just as we've said for a while,

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Speaker 3: they keep getting guys on, but they just cannot get

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Speaker 3: the beginning of the game, like, oh good, the astros

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Speaker 3: rest of the game. And I mean, outside of jord On,

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Speaker 3: nobody's even really taking competitive at bats. Like I watched

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Speaker 3: getting pretty tired of that, getting tired of first pitch

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Speaker 3: I mean, it just they look awful. But it's it's

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Speaker 3: strange because yes, they're they're striking out, but it's not

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Speaker 3: like you watch them and teams are putting up seventeen

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Speaker 3: strikeout games. It's just they just keep grounding out to

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Speaker 3: just seems like it is written in stone that as

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Speaker 3: is coming next. And you're wasting starts, You're you're wasting

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Speaker 3: good pitching. I believe maybe you can pull this up,

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Speaker 3: But I want to say, Hunter Brown is what like

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Speaker 3: He has like a two seven eight era in his

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Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on that the team is better,

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Speaker 3: like they have better players than the offense should be better.

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Speaker 3: It just isn't, and it is it's tough to watch

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Speaker 1: We're not using pitcher wins as a stat in the.

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Speaker 3: Year, but they it is. I mean, it is noticeable

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Speaker 3: Hang on, we're going to do this.

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Speaker 1: I've got I've got it pulled up.

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Speaker 3: Okay, their record, Okay, they're ten and six and those

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Speaker 1: The Astros and Hunter Brown's last what is this one, two, three, four, five,

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Speaker 1: And part of me just wants to think that this

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Speaker 1: trying their best. I mean, the Ashers give up three

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Speaker 1: couldn't get it done. It was interesting. After the game,

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Speaker 1: not fans of the hitting coaches, that are not fans

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Speaker 1: can determine what the Astros overall approach is by watching them,

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Speaker 1: feel free to tell me, because I don't really know.

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Speaker 1: But after the game today, well, first, before the game,

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, and as Dana is prone to do, he

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Speaker 1: he's really good. Jose Soriano is one of those pictures

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Speaker 1: getting it shoved to you by Jose Soriano, like he's

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Speaker 1: like you game plan for each pitcher, You game plan

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Speaker 1: like that, But uniformly, there should be something that is constant,

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Speaker 1: But anyway, asked Carlos Korea today, do you think it

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Speaker 1: To me, it's not an approach. It's not a coaching problem.

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Speaker 1: It's not an approach problem. It's a roster like this

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Speaker 1: They're not like Joseel Tuve is not gonna wake up

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Speaker 1: So I think it's a weird middle ground for them

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like we said, it's just been incredibly frustrating to watch,

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Speaker 1: Before we go any further thoughts, prayers and healing to

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Speaker 1: Taylor Ward, that was that was as gruesome of something

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Speaker 3: really like to see him get an off season to

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Speaker 3: come in thinking, Okay, I'm a one inning reliever and

431
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Speaker 3: I can you know, dial it up a little bit more,

432
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Speaker 3: because again, he still was sitting ninety one ninety two

433
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Speaker 3: on his sinker. I think he has a little bit

434
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Speaker 3: more in there, but he was clearly still trying to

435
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,959
Speaker 3: hold it back because he wanted to finish the game.

436
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:31,439
Speaker 3: You know, he wanted to pitch three innings. The sinker

437
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:35,440
Speaker 3: was located a little bit better today. The only real,

438
00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:41,879
Speaker 3: like scary contact was the Mike Trout double that was

439
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,320
Speaker 3: a couple feet away from being a home run. But

440
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Speaker 3: it's the same thing that he's had trouble with all year,

441
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Speaker 3: and it's that he just he cannot consistently throw stuff

442
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Speaker 3: in the strike zone. And hitters know that, and they

443
00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:57,120
Speaker 3: just sit on a pitch and they wait for it

444
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Speaker 3: in a certain spot and they just assume that pitch

445
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:02,960
Speaker 3: is either gonna come and they can make a good

446
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,920
Speaker 3: swing on it, or by the time that pitch comes,

447
00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:09,119
Speaker 3: there will already have been four balls thrown. He just

448
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,000
Speaker 3: has not been able to locate. The slider was really

449
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:14,399
Speaker 3: all over the place today. If you look at his

450
00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:18,480
Speaker 3: heat map, the ones that were strikes were almost down

451
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Speaker 3: the middle, and everything else was, you know, down in

452
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Speaker 3: a way to Rioty's. He wasn't really able to command that.

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Speaker 3: I do not believe. I mean, I'm looking at his

454
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Speaker 3: pitch chart right now. I don't think that he threw

455
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Speaker 3: a curveball in the strike zone, not even I'm not

456
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Speaker 3: saying for a strike because he got a couple of

457
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Speaker 3: swinging strikes on them, but he did not throw one

458
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Speaker 3: in the strike zone.

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Speaker 2: And you just can't.

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Speaker 3: You can't live like that, like you're gonna have to

461
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Speaker 3: throw pitches in the strike zone and he has not

462
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Speaker 3: been able to do that. Tough to watch, and yeah,

463
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Speaker 3: it led to a very interesting ninth inning where you

464
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Speaker 3: just use mccullors as your long relief guy. I mean,

465
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Speaker 3: he's not going to pitch for three or four days probably,

466
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Speaker 3: and then you are bringing up Luis Garcia tomorrow, which great,

467
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Speaker 3: I'm excited to see that. I don't think they're expecting

468
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Speaker 3: him to go seven innings, so you would hope that

469
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Speaker 3: you would have another long relief guy out there, someone

470
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Speaker 3: like aj blue Ball, who could be available in case

471
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Speaker 3: things go, hey, why are in the second inning tomorrow?

472
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Speaker 3: And for some reason he pitched the ninth inning today.

473
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Speaker 3: I know the bullpen was depleted, but what did What

474
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Speaker 3: did you think of that? Why did Why did mccullor's

475
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Speaker 3: and blue Ball throw today?

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Speaker 1: Mccullor's and Blueball I think their intention. Again I didn't

477
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Speaker 1: ask about it after the game, but going on precedent

478
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Speaker 1: and going how Joe has managed the bullpen in his tenure,

479
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Speaker 1: my thinking is that Their intention was for McCullers to

480
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Speaker 1: finish that game sure that he was going to take

481
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Speaker 1: down the final three innings, and they would use two

482
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Speaker 1: pitchers and they'd be in decent shape for tomorrow. Instead,

483
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:03,920
Speaker 1: Lance mccullors through fifty one pitches and got six outs. Yep,

484
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Speaker 1: And they couldn't keep throwing him more because you're now

485
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Speaker 1: getting to a point of are you risking his health?

486
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Speaker 1: Because he threw twenty two pitches in the first inning,

487
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Speaker 1: in his first inning of work, I believe that would

488
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Speaker 1: mean he threw my lsu maths not good. I believe.

489
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Speaker 1: I mean he threw twenty nine pitches in his second

490
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Speaker 1: inning of work. They couldn't. They could have sent him

491
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Speaker 1: out there again and said.

492
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Speaker 3: If it were seven and nothing, they would have sent

493
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Speaker 3: him back out there. I think it was still close

494
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Speaker 3: enough that they were like, we're not Yeah.

495
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they didn't want to punt the game completely because.

496
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Speaker 3: It's not like he hasn't thrown fifty bit like he's

497
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Speaker 3: been starting. He certainly could have thrown more pitches, but yeah,

498
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:51,119
Speaker 3: it was still a close game and he just he

499
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Speaker 3: didn't have it again. He looked fine in the first inning.

500
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Speaker 3: Pitches were kind of over the place. I did like

501
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:02,159
Speaker 3: that he threw from the stretch exclusively. I thought that

502
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:11,159
Speaker 3: was smart. But yeah, man, it's uh. Look, I'm not

503
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,560
Speaker 3: trying to write an obituary for Lance Peckellers. He's still

504
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:18,159
Speaker 3: on the team, he's still out there. He's got a

505
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 3: he's got a spot in Houston for the rest of

506
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Speaker 3: his life, like he has earned that. He might just

507
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 3: not have a spot on the baseball team for much longer.

508
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 3: Like he's just he's not able to get out at

509
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 3: a consistent enough rate that you can trust that you

510
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 3: can get him out there. Uh and and keep throwing

511
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:41,160
Speaker 3: him again. I I would really like to see him

512
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 3: have a chance to to really be a one inning reliever.

513
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:49,280
Speaker 3: Now that would also mean that he would agree to

514
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 3: that or want to do that, and I don't I

515
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:57,200
Speaker 3: don't know about that. But I don't know. I mean,

516
00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 3: the velo is not coming back, Like he's not gonna

517
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 3: throw again. And if he's going to be like this

518
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,119
Speaker 3: junk ball pitcher, the junk has to be in the

519
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 3: strike zone and it just hasn't been, and it hasn't

520
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 3: been the whole year. He's he's obviously shown flashes. I mean,

521
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:16,160
Speaker 3: you can look at that Dodgers start and dream on that.

522
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:21,160
Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't know. I don't know how much

523
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,920
Speaker 3: longer they can keep putting him out there.

524
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:29,120
Speaker 1: And it's games like today's that make that a more

525
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 1: growing possibility because they had to burn aj blue ball

526
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 1: today because Lance mccullors couldn't get them nine outs and

527
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 1: in the game, much like in Baltimore last week. I

528
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,720
Speaker 1: don't want to be this drastic, but do the Astros

529
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 1: dfa Sean Duban if Lance mccullors can get them more

530
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 1: than four innings in a game that they led by

531
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 1: four runs and Sean Dubin got claimed off of waivers

532
00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 1: by coincidentally the Orioles. So I'm not saying that one

533
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 1: person caused that series of stuff, but like could have

534
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 1: gone a little bit differently if he gets you deeper

535
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: into the game. It's getting to a point where the

536
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,240
Speaker 1: opportunities that they have to use him are so few

537
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 1: and far between. And because he is on the roster

538
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 1: and because he is in a bullpen, that is a

539
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: man down, because they're deploying a six man rotation, like

540
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 1: they have to use him in some capacity, Like they

541
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 1: can't just ignore him. This is not a Robel Garcia

542
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 1: or a Sasar Salazar situation, where like they can just

543
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 1: be on the team and you forget they're on the

544
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:36,959
Speaker 1: team because you never use them like he's a pitcher,

545
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 1: like they have to use him at some point. As

546
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 1: far as why they picked aj Bluebaugh to pitch the

547
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 1: ninth inning, because Brian and Brady had gone three of

548
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 1: the past four days, as had Brian King and Yelle Della.

549
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 1: Santos had gone three days in a row. Albeit he

550
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 1: threw three pitches on Thursday and four pitches on Saturday,

551
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 1: but still he had pitched three days in a row.

552
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 1: Craig Kemberrell had gone to two days in a row.

553
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 1: Caleb Ort if he would have pitched today, would have

554
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 1: gone three out of four days. They were up against it.

555
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:09,479
Speaker 1: They needed that. They could not afford to use those guys.

556
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: And the one thing it did, do you know, even

557
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 1: if Luis Garcia can only give you four or five

558
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 1: innings tomorrow, you will have all those guys I just

559
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 1: mentioned ostensibly available and you'll be able to piece it

560
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 1: together a little bit. But it's it's just not a

561
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:28,560
Speaker 1: sustainable way to go through things. And I think it's

562
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 1: going to force some interesting conversations. I think it's going

563
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: to force, you know, some interesting decisions, to be honest

564
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: with you, but I will say, like I watched him

565
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 1: in the first inning, and in the first inning he

566
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 1: threw and like everything that Lance talked about after his

567
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 1: start in Baltimore just kind of manifested, like the sinker

568
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 1: was there and he looked great, Like he looked really good.

569
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 1: And that was what you kind of hope if they

570
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 1: could bottle that up and get a little bit more

571
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 1: of that. It's a different conversation that we're having, but

572
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 1: that's not how it's gone. The one thing I'll and

573
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 1: I've told you this via text, but the one thing,

574
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 1: like I'll disagree with you, like they can tell him

575
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 1: he's a one inning reliever and everything, but like he's

576
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 1: not gonna all of a sudden start throwing ninety five.

577
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 3: Like no, I don't think he's gonna get to ninety five,

578
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 3: but I think he could sit at ninety three in one.

579
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 1: He came in today knowing he wasn't gonna He came

580
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 1: in today knowing he had to take some innings down,

581
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 1: but also like he wasn't coming in conserving energy if you,

582
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 1: like he knew he was gonna pitch two three innings,

583
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: and like, even if they took the lead, maybe they

584
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 1: would have used a leverage guy at the end of

585
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 1: the game to close the game out. He probably wouldn't

586
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 1: have even had to throw all three innings. But I mean,

587
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 1: he came out to him, the villa was the exact same, Like,

588
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 1: I'm not sure it's in there right now. Can it

589
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 1: get there for a full off season, a normal off

590
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 1: season for him where he knows he's coming into camp

591
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 1: and he's gonna be treated like a normal pitcher, he

592
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 1: doesn't have a delayed build up things like that. Maybe

593
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: it can, but I just right now, I don't see it,

594
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 1: and it's it's going to create some some difficult conversations

595
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: I think going forward. But we'll talk about some more

596
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: positive pitching news because Christian Hobvier through the through the

597
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: ball very well this weekend. As it's Spencer Araghetti. We'll

598
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: talk about that right after. Another message from our friends

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601
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602
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607
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Speaker 1: The tone of a lot of this discussion, the first

624
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Speaker 1: thirty five minutes of it, has not been overly glowing

625
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 1: or positive. I know everyone shocked about that coming from me,

626
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: but it has not been a positive discussion. But I'm

627
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: here to tell you that what happened on Friday and

628
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 1: Saturday is perhaps the biggest development that has happened in

629
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 1: maybe the last month for the Astros and that is

630
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 1: Christian Javier and Spencer Araghetti looking like the guys that

631
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 1: they were before their injury. Javier, especially on Friday, six

632
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:58,239
Speaker 1: no hit innings against the Angels team that again, we

633
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 1: need to temper some stuff a little bit here. Angels

634
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 1: have I believe, the lowest batting or the second or

635
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 1: third lowest batting average in baseball. They are not a

636
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:08,960
Speaker 1: great offensive team. They hit a bunch of homers, but

637
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:12,839
Speaker 1: they don't do much else. But Javier just toyed with

638
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 1: them for six innings. The fastball had the IVB, the

639
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: induced vertical break, it had the explosion in the life.

640
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 1: It was up to ninety five at times, but sat,

641
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:25,840
Speaker 1: you know, ninety three ninety four through. I know the

642
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 1: Astros want Jabvier's breaking stuff to get a little bit better.

643
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 1: They wanted to get a little more chase on the

644
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 1: breaking balls. But the thing I was most impressed with

645
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,360
Speaker 1: is he was using the breaking balls early accounts to

646
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 1: get ahead. He was landing the sweeper a lot in

647
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:41,840
Speaker 1: zone early accounts and oo counts one zero counts. He

648
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,800
Speaker 1: was able to use the secondary early accounts to get ahead,

649
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:48,239
Speaker 1: and then the fastball just had its It had it

650
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:52,360
Speaker 1: to it, it had the invisible ride. It looked like

651
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:55,760
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Christian Xavier when he started to combine

652
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 1: no hitters for the Astros had a combined no hitter

653
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:02,279
Speaker 1: going on Friday until Enial de la Santos gave up

654
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:06,240
Speaker 1: a double on Mancata. But that's beside the point. Xavier

655
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:10,799
Speaker 1: looked exactly the way the Astros need him to look. Said,

656
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 1: I've written it. I don't know if I've said it,

657
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:14,879
Speaker 1: but if I haven't, I'll say it now. I think

658
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 1: he is the most important player on this team for

659
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 1: the next month and a half, just what they get

660
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:24,920
Speaker 1: out of him and whether he can harness this form

661
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 1: and if he can do this, and they've got a

662
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 1: pretty formidable top three of a rotation that I know.

663
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 1: We've talked about the offense and how much it's struggled.

664
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 1: I don't know who's going to get the last, you know,

665
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 1: nine outs of the game. But you go into a

666
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:41,720
Speaker 1: playoff series with Valdez Brown and that version of Javier,

667
00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 1: like you got to feel pretty good about your chances.

668
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,800
Speaker 1: I thought that was the biggest development of this weekend.

669
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 1: Tyler's Christian Xavier and Spencer Arigedti pitching the way they did.

670
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jabber just looked vintage hobby I mean, he didn't

671
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 3: didn't give up a hit, which he is wont to do.

672
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 3: That's one of the things that he is best at

673
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 3: is not giving up to people. And you're right, he looked.

674
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:07,320
Speaker 3: He looked really good. He's averaging ninety three on his fastball,

675
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,880
Speaker 3: which is actually a tick up from last year before

676
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 3: you know, he left with an injury, and it's even

677
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:15,959
Speaker 3: a little bit higher than it was in twenty twenty three.

678
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 3: So his his b low is like more than back

679
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:25,920
Speaker 3: to you know, his his levels there, which was a

680
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 3: concern obviously coming off Tommy John. But he's looked, He's

681
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 3: looked great. I mean in that start. I know he

682
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 3: had a bad start and a tummy start, but he

683
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 3: looked really good in that start and it was, like

684
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 3: you said, just classic Hobbier where it's like he's gonna

685
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 3: throw a fastball down the middle. And for whatever reason,

686
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 3: these big leaguers act like they've never seen a ninety

687
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 3: three mile an hour fastball down the middle before because

688
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 3: they haven't seen his like his his just does something.

689
00:36:56,080 --> 00:37:00,160
Speaker 3: Could could you explain the IVB real quick for everybody,

690
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 3: or at least what it feels like in the batter's box.

691
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 1: You know, I wish I could give like the technical

692
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 1: explanation for it. I'm just not that smart. I don't.

693
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 1: I can't tell you specifically how IVB works.

694
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 3: At can I can help you?

695
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:15,719
Speaker 1: All right?

696
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 3: So when you throw a when you throw a four

697
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 3: steam fastball, the seems spin. So you'll hear sometimes from

698
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:26,320
Speaker 3: people that a fastball will rise that's physically impossible, that

699
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 3: that's not how it works. Like when you throw a

700
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 3: fastball on a plane, it is going to go down some.

701
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 3: But when you can spin a fastball really really fast,

702
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:38,880
Speaker 3: it's spinning so fast that there's not enough air resistance

703
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:41,879
Speaker 3: to have it go down as much. And so major

704
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 3: league hitters know what a fastball down the middle is

705
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 3: typically going to break at, and their minds just automatically

706
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 3: adjust to where to put the barrel of the bat,

707
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 3: Like you know, the balls are all going to kind

708
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 3: of dip at the same rate. For the most part,

709
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 3: hobby aers is different. It does not dip as much

710
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 3: as everybody else, which is why you see people swing

711
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:08,240
Speaker 3: through fastballs that you're like, how how is this happening?

712
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:12,400
Speaker 3: Or you see him get so many pop ups on fastballs,

713
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 3: and then it's able to play off his other stuff

714
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,880
Speaker 3: so much because when you're a hitter too, normally you

715
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 3: can at least say, well, I'm gonna sit on a fastball.

716
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 3: But with Hoavier, sitting on a fastball is not going

717
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 3: to help you because it looks different, Like until you

718
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 3: have seen that fastball enough and you know how to

719
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 3: adjust your bat to that, it's really difficult to sit

720
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 3: on that pitch, which then makes his secondary stuff even

721
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 3: better because just nobody is comfortable in the box. I mean,

722
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:46,400
Speaker 3: what's Trout like over thirteen over fourteen with like nine

723
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 3: strikeouts against Hobvier in his career. Does Mike Trout Like

724
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:52,320
Speaker 3: Mike Trout knows how to hit a fastball down the

725
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 3: middle and he struggles against Christian Hoavier because that ball

726
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,759
Speaker 3: is spinning so fast that it's just not at the

727
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:02,359
Speaker 3: same rate that you would expect it to.

728
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,359
Speaker 1: The most common thing you'll hear from hitters that face,

729
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 1: Christian Javier is that they'll say something to the effect

730
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:11,240
Speaker 1: of it got on me quicker than I thought it would,

731
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 1: because it's it's just one of these things, like it

732
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:17,879
Speaker 1: doesn't look like it's ninety three. It gets on them

733
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: as if it's ninety eight, and they can't, like you

734
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 1: what you just eloquently described. They know what ninety three

735
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:30,319
Speaker 1: looks like from a normal slot, from a normal with

736
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 1: normal IVB like they don't. They haven't prepared for this,

737
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: so it truly isn't invisible. They have called Christian Hoavier's

738
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 1: fastball the invisible and it's because it just disappears. There's

739
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:45,280
Speaker 1: just so much hop and it rides and it's really

740
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: difficult for hitters to square up. And you saw it

741
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 1: on you saw it on Friday, a ton of pop ups,

742
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:55,879
Speaker 1: a ton of weak contact. I think he he may

743
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:58,839
Speaker 1: He only gave up three balls in play that were

744
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 1: hit ninety five or hard. They were all hit within

745
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 1: the ninety five mile an hour range, and all by

746
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 1: Taylor war So there was one guy that could catch

747
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 1: up to him, and even when he caught up to him,

748
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 1: they were not hit hard. He gave up no hard

749
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:15,879
Speaker 1: contact was really able to keep guys off balance. I'm

750
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:17,799
Speaker 1: gonna be completely honest, Tyler. I don't know if you

751
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,799
Speaker 1: watched the game on Saturday. I was a little preoccupied

752
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 1: with another game, so I did not see much of

753
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:29,840
Speaker 1: Spencer Arighetti's start, But the line looked good. And he

754
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:35,920
Speaker 1: threw nineteen sweepers, ten of which were swung upon, seven whiffs,

755
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 1: two foul balls, and then he got three more called

756
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:42,400
Speaker 1: strikes on the sweepers. So the sweeper must have been working.

757
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 1: And then when he's got if he's got one of

758
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 1: those spin pitches working, he can work so many of

759
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:49,480
Speaker 1: both his fastballs off of that and really seem to

760
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:50,280
Speaker 1: keep him off balance.

761
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, hitters are hitting seventy one on his sweeper this year,

762
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:59,800
Speaker 3: which is pretty good. That's that's what you want. And

763
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 3: his fastball too has been really good. The batters are

764
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:07,319
Speaker 3: hitting one forty three on his fastball, so when he's

765
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:09,240
Speaker 3: able to locate those. Now, he did have some walks.

766
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 3: I think he had five walks in the game, and

767
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:16,319
Speaker 3: then he left with runners on uh and then you know,

768
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:19,880
Speaker 3: got not bailed out, but you know, those easily it

769
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 3: could have been easily three runs against him, but the

770
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,279
Speaker 3: bullpen did his job. But yeah, he looked good. I

771
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:30,360
Speaker 3: mean we've said all along, like Spencer Agetty has the stuff,

772
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 3: he strikes out people, he looks really good. But you're right,

773
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:38,919
Speaker 3: I mean having Hovier, if he can be anything like that,

774
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 3: as your Game three starter, and then having you know,

775
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 3: Arraghetty be a scary bullpen guy in a five game series,

776
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 3: and then your Game four guy in a longer series

777
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:57,839
Speaker 3: or I guess Jason Alexander probably, but regardless, like that

778
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:02,360
Speaker 3: is that is huge. The astro's desperately needed one or

779
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 3: both of those guys to get back to the level

780
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 3: that you would expect, and those those two starts were

781
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 3: huge signs of encouragement.

782
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, you talk about guys that stuff would play up

783
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 1: out of the bullpen like Spencer Orgatty to melin At

784
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 1: that screams like you get him like and I'm not,

785
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:21,960
Speaker 1: this is not his future. I'm saying, like in a

786
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:25,040
Speaker 1: playoff situation where they have three stars, like you get.

787
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 3: Him in the bullpen like that extension too, like.

788
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, he he is. He profiles as the ideal playoff

789
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 1: swing man. Like if you don't trust any of your

790
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 1: setup guys, if you don't trust in your middle relief,

791
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 1: like give him the ball in the sixth and say

792
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:42,440
Speaker 1: get me to a Brady in the ninth, and that

793
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:45,360
Speaker 1: he seems perfectly capable of that if he keeps pitching

794
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 1: like this. So there were positives. There were things too

795
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 1: that for the long term of the season. There were

796
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:57,800
Speaker 1: things that were encouraging from these six games. But the

797
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:00,680
Speaker 1: Ashle's got a hit, like I mean, it's for example,

798
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:03,319
Speaker 1: like you, you can't win if you don't score, and

799
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 1: they pitched well enough in these six games to win.

800
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 1: I did not. Again, I did not watch Saturday's game,

801
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 1: So I don't know how Brian Abray you looked in

802
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 1: that rocky uh ninth inning. From what I understand, it

803
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 1: wasn't a ton of like he wasn't getting lasers hit

804
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 1: around the yard on him. Still, he was giving up

805
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:23,359
Speaker 1: some contact, and that's gonna happen. I mean, he's been

806
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 1: he's been there. He's been one of the best relievers

807
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 1: in baseball all year, like they're allowed to have hiccups.

808
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 3: For most of his career, he's been one of the

809
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 3: best relievers. Like you, you get a game every once

810
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:33,279
Speaker 3: in a while where you give up some runs.

811
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 1: That happens, which at that point, it would have been

812
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:40,080
Speaker 1: nice for the offense to give them more than one run.

813
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 1: That would have that would have probably helped, would have

814
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:44,439
Speaker 1: given a run.

815
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 3: Apparently that's too much to ask. So who was pitching tomorrow?

816
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 2: Is it?

817
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 3: I guess it doesn't matter. It could be Sandy Kofax

818
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:55,799
Speaker 3: or a no name and I would expect the same

819
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:58,399
Speaker 3: results from the last week.

820
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 1: It's a fellow you may know. His name is I

821
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 1: knew that, you say, will pitch on Monday, opposite Luis Garcia.

822
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:09,479
Speaker 1: Good for Luis Garcia? Who is I tried to write

823
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:11,440
Speaker 1: about and I wrote about this, and I know a

824
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:15,759
Speaker 1: lot of other people have to Genuinely, one of the nicest,

825
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 1: most positive people around in the clubhouse, like just has

826
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 1: handled all of has handled a situation that would stagger

827
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,839
Speaker 1: a lot of people, you know, twenty eight month recovery

828
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:30,719
Speaker 1: with so many setbacks, hasn't pitched in two years, has

829
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: handled it with such grace and a smile on his face.

830
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 1: Like from a human standpoint, it's going to be nice

831
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 1: to see him back out there, just so he can

832
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:40,319
Speaker 1: get out there. As far as what he can give them,

833
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:43,799
Speaker 1: I don't know. Like he threw as many as six

834
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 1: innings in his rehab start. In one of his nine

835
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 1: rehab starts, he threw as many as six innings. I

836
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 1: think if he got them through five, they would be ecstatic.

837
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:58,440
Speaker 1: He's experimented with his arm motion. He shortened his arm

838
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 1: motion in his sense, kind of gradually gone back to

839
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 1: just having a longer one what feels normal for him.

840
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 1: The vello has not been there, and the rehab starts

841
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 1: it's been very inconsistent. So they are hoping cautiously that

842
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:14,959
Speaker 1: he can't that, you know, pitching in a major league

843
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 1: game with that adrenaline, that the villa will just naturally

844
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:20,839
Speaker 1: tick up. But you may not see the velo you're

845
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 1: a customed to seeing from Louis Garcia. It may be

846
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 1: as we talked about with Hobber and Arraghetti when they

847
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 1: came back, like there's gonna be some growing pains. It

848
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 1: may not be excellent right off, but nonetheless it's gonna

849
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 1: be a nice sight to see Louis Garcia back on

850
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 1: the mountain.

851
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:39,440
Speaker 3: More you want to guess who was hitting clean up

852
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 3: the last time Louis Garcia pitched for the Astros.

853
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 1: I actually looked at the lineup the other day because

854
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 1: I was writing about it. I know Josea Bray, you

855
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 1: and Corey jumps at RBI's in that game our team Aldonado,

856
00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 1: Josea Bray hitting cleanup, Braid.

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Speaker 3: He was hitting clean up. Yeah, and he had two

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Speaker 3: RBI's way to go and I'm sure it worked out

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Speaker 3: well from there.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Jeff Bagwell said it when they signed him

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Speaker 1: that he was an RBI machine and that's what they

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Speaker 1: liked about him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this guys machine, he just knows how to.

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Speaker 1: In the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty three, they

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Speaker 1: legend Ross stripling started for the Giants? So congrats on that.

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Speaker 1: How did they do yesterday?

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Speaker 3: Want to know, baby, you and me both.

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Speaker 1: Who Mike Elko get on the schedule for the opener?

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Speaker 1: He really tested?

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Speaker 2: We don't.

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Speaker 3: We don't make the schedule. I think you actually do.

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Speaker 3: But I'm gonna say, you know, we're gonna we play

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Speaker 3: who we play? Okay, you know what, That's all I

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Speaker 3: can say. UTSA is gonna win whatever they're in. Uh,

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Speaker 3: want to know, back.

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Speaker 1: Off, they played a team you may have heard of.

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Speaker 3: They Yeah, that was a good game. I watched that

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Speaker 3: one once. The Aggie game was over. Uh, Notre Dame

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Speaker 3: next week, that's gonna be a good one.

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Speaker 1: What's the score?

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Speaker 3: What's the score right now? I don't even know.

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Speaker 1: Is it it's in Notre Dame because it was in college.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's Miami's up twenty one to seven. At the

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Speaker 3: end of the third I was kind of hoping Notre

886
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Speaker 3: Dame would win so we wouldn't get a bounced back game.

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Speaker 1: Next week, you're gonna get some angry Catholics. You're gonna

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Speaker 3: Gang of youth Well, you don't get it.

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Speaker 1: And we'll be back at the middle of the next

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Speaker 1: week to talk about the Ashers and the Yankees. They're

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Speaker 1: going to play three games next week, and I'm sure

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Speaker 1: people will be very tempered and react very rationally to

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Speaker 1: whatever happens in the three games between the Ashers and

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Speaker 1: the Yankees at Dyke and Park next week. We'll be

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Speaker 1: back to talk about all of that next week, and

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Speaker 1: until then, we'll talk to you soon.

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Speaker 2: Bye.

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