WEBVTT - 1143 | MLB Weekend Roundup (July 17-19) 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:17.560 Times at League Records. 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:23.840 Bring we will sue you to. 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:40.680 The gunner. Welcome, flaming hang out, Welcome to the Just 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:45.239 Baseball Show. It is Sunday, July nineteenth. That's ARM late Night. 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:48.840 I am Peter Rapple and today Arm, get those damn 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:54.080 fingers ready because it's time for the weekendround of where 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:58.279 we recap every game that was over the past weekend 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.680 with plenty of ways, and it is all brought to 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:06.560 you by bet MGM. 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But then he homered twice the next day, 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:48.120 and we're gonna do all these series. But I had 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:49.880 to bring up my boy Cody Clemens because he is 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:52.080 ding homers' just not exactly what I wanted him to. 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:54.240 That's literally always how it goes right. You make the 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:55.920 pick and then the next day I'll hit two. But 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:58.200 that's why where the no sweat is great. You gonna 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:00.000 just put it right back into it right and hope 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.400 to you the next day. So yeah, it seemed like 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:03.920 a good matchup for Colemens, and I think it was 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.600 his was it is? I saw Roger quotes week it 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:08.680 was his fiftieth career or one hundredth career home run. 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:10.240 I'd be fiftieth. One hundred would be a lot for 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:10.880 Cody Clemens. 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:12.880 Got to be fiftieth. But I know he has what 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.360 seventeen or eighteen so far this season? Not too that. 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:18.960 But I feel like we already we've already spent enough time, 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:20.680 I think on Cody Clements. Do you want to talk 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.239 about that riveting World Cup game that went one to 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:26.000 zero or should we just recap every baseball game? 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:27.799 I will say it was a good, really really good 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:32.280 World Cup Final. Yeah it was. I've never seen it 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:34.480 go to overtime without a shot on goal by the 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:36.640 other team, so or a shot period, excuse me. So 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:38.839 that was interesting. But I did really enjoy this World Cup. 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:40.400 I will say as a guy that was kind of 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.359 like whatever about it. I had a great time, and 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:43.519 I want to just put that out there. 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:45.480 I'm glad you had a great time. That's the Spain. 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:48.160 Congrats to Spain. Goat to go. 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.960 Also, just just putting this out there, I might we 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:54.960 I'll personally, I might be a caveman today with like 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.160 just not knowing what to do because we don't have 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:00.079 podcast p. So hopefully I pressed the right buttons and 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.880 it's my turn and let's see what happens. I'm lost 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:05.160 without our compass, that is podcast peak. 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:08.079 Compass is a perfect way to describe them. No podcast 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.440 P produced it. It's just arm and eye on the sticks. 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:12.800 We'll see how it goes. What we do though, is 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:14.440 that we watched a lot of baseball and we're going 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:16.760 to tell you about it the visuals. We'll see how 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:17.000 we do. 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.959 Yeah, well, let's jump right into it then, and we'll 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:25.920 start with a six series here for Red Sox fans 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:30.320 in particular Red Sox raise Game one doubleheader, and Game 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:34.600 one was a blowout ten zero. Red Sox Jake Bennett 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.920 was stellar, tossing six scoreless, allowing just one hit. Masataki 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.280 Yoshidah homerd on his way to a three hit game, 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.400 as did Carlos and Arvaiyaz Socks extend their win streak 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:46.560 to ten in that blowout ten zero win. Go to 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.640 Game two, Will Your Bread You homer twice, the second 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:52.560 being a go ahead homer in the third inning, where 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.640 the Red Sox would hold on to a five to 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.240 three win. Junior Camenaro did hit his twenty ninth in 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:59.840 a losing effort, but the Red Sox win. They're eleventh 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:04.320 right on a bullpin day. Then he go to Game three, 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:07.760 back and forth game as both teams traded homers. Jami 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:09.560 Jones left the yard for the first time since being 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:12.160 acquired by the Red Sox. Victor Mason Junior and Johnny 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:14.520 DeLuca homer for the Rays, sending them into the home 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:16.160 half of the seventh with the six to three lead, 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.599 but the Red Sox pushed two across to make it 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:20.880 six to five, sending will Your a Bred You to 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:24.200 the plate, and of course this guy just had a 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:27.839 series man one man on and having already homered earlier 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:31.360 in that game, he launched another go ahead to run 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:33.680 homer and the Red Sox would hold on to win 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:37.040 seven to six. You go to Game four, Victor Mason 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.640 Junior pushed one across on an inside the park homer, 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.000 but it was all Red Sox from there. They scored 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:45.000 six unanswered, two of which coming on a Wilson Contrere's homer, 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:46.960 and the Red Sox shut the door six to one 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.799 to complete the four games sweep of the first place Rays. 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:55.599 Thirteen consecutive wins for the Boston Red Sox. What a 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:57.400 series for? Will you are a bre you? What a 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:00.120 series for the Red Sox who just I mean and 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:02.920 was pitching, but they swung it in this series. That's 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:03.480 the big thing. 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:07.279 All of a sudden, the Boston Red Sox are fifty 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:11.599 and forty eight. They're six games back the Tampa Bay Rays. 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.479 They are locked into well I shouldn't say locked, but 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:17.839 currently right now they hold the third wild card spot 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:21.159 with a plus forty five run differential, which is thirty 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:26.320 one runs clear of Tampa Bay in first it's been 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:28.680 a combination of a lot of great things. Number One, 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:30.520 the pitching has done a really good job. I know, 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:32.960 the offense kind of took center stage, especially Willi or 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:36.520 brayw and deservedly so. Wilson Contrez continues to hit Willi 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:38.960 or Bray who is hitting. A whole lineup is hitting, 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.720 but these pitchers continue to lock it down. Like I 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:47.120 posted Cy Young odds between Cese and Schlitzler after Schuitzler 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:50.360 had one of his worst starts of the season, even 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:52.760 though he only give up three earned runs. And I 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:57.000 have Red Sox fans in the comments of said tweets saying, 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.440 Sonny Gray deserves some love to be in there, and 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:01.760 I go, oh, all right, hold the phones. But at 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.600 the same time, he's putting in an era below three. 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:06.960 He's been dominant. Of course, you have the whole slew 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:10.479 of lefties, and it just shows that anything could happen 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:12.680 in baseball and is why it's the best sport in 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:16.960 the world. Not long ago, the Red Sox were in 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:21.680 a tail spin. They were what fourteen fifteen games under 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:25.160 five hundred. We saw a Breslo hit piece every day. 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:28.520 We have ikf basically being like, we don't want to 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:31.560 play at Fenway Park. We have Trevor story coming out, 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:34.120 we have other players on the Red Sox basically saying, yeah, 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:37.119 this team kind of sucks. You'll get Boston media they've 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:42.760 given up. And then thirteen straight baseball's the best. It's 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:43.280 the best. 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.040 And that's why, like I always joke about, like our 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:51.520 job in particular, it's just impossible to not eventually sound 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:53.640 dumb in respect that, like we always have to react 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:55.720 to what's happening in real time, and these seasons are 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:59.119 so long that it can literally look like everything is dead. 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:03.919 I mean Red so on the field optically, top to bottom. 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.400 It was a nightmare and it has been a nightmare. 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:08.320 It's been really a year from hell. I've even seen 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:10.000 I know Bill Simmons is in a big baseball guy, 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:13.600 but he's a big New York or New England sports guy, 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:16.840 and he's like, this is the most from hell Red 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:19.960 Sox season I can ever remember. Right, Like that seems 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:24.080 to be the sentiment all year long. And because Major 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:27.000 League baseball is such a marathon in the regular season, 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:29.920 even when it's like rock bottom. I've seen it with 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:31.360 the Mets a million times too, where they hit rock 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:33.360 bottom three times in one year. It ain't getting better 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:35.400 this year. I can promise it's too late in this year. 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:37.440 But in other years we've seen them hit rock bottom 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:39.040 and then make it make it through on to the 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.800 other side. So that's what's amazing about the marathon that 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:44.240 is this Major League Baseball season. Is even for us 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:45.840 when we're doing the show and we're checking in week 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:47.680 after week and we're on our eighth consecutive week of 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.800 being like, jeezus, Red Sox seems a disaster. It's such 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.320 a long season that if you have the pitching in place, 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:55.680 you can make this thing happen and you can turn 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:57.920 things around. And the Red Sox have a two point 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:02.200 four to four e as a staff since July first. 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:05.080 That's second in Major League Baseball, behind only the Tigers, 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:08.160 which is an interesting wrinkle there. But it's been amazing 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:09.880 to just see the way that the Red Sox have 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.320 pitched the ball. And I think that's also kind of 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:14.760 given a little bit of life to the offense too, 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:17.960 that all of a sudden is starting to swing it 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:18.680 a little bit better. 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:20.640 I also want to shout out one hitter on the 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:22.960 Red Sox, and his name is Caleb Durban. I know, 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:25.160 if you look at the full season numbers, right, they're 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:28.240 not great. He's got an eighty nine WRC plus. But 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.440 if you were watching Caleb Durban earlier, early in the season, 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.120 you could make a sound argument he was the worst 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:36.960 player in Major League Baseball. It was a negative war. 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:41.760 He couldn't get anything going offensively. And he's seeing the 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.679 guy that he was traded for in Kyle Harrison, completely 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:49.240 dominate in Milwaukee. So he's hearing the chirps day in 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:51.880 and day out in the Boston market, a new market. 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.280 It cannot be easy. Yeah, a lot of players who 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:59.200 aren't mentally tough, they might fold, might just have a 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:03.320 horrible season. But lately Caleb Durbin has been swinging it 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:08.320 the defense. He is just ironclad over there at third base. 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:10.959 And I think those season long numbers are going to 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:14.560 only continue to tick up. Like I think it's one 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:18.080 of the great mental battles, one of the twenty twenty 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:19.360 sixth season. Yeah. 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:21.880 Well, also because it was mental ending. He went out 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:25.840 and made a real adjustment. Making a mechanical adjustment in season, yeah, 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.960 is a significant one. Is so hard to do. I mean, 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.319 Durbin's a D three guy grinded his way all the 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.720 way to the show, and you know, if anyone's able 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:35.199 to kind of make that adjustment and make it work, 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.000 it's a guy like him. But I agree, and I 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:38.719 don't think it's a coincidence. Of course, there's a lot 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.800 out other factors, but I think a key piece in 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.160 pushing this thing forward here for the Red Sox has 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:46.400 been Durbin going from one of the worst hitters in 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.360 Major League Baseball to a net positive and a guy 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:51.960 that's making impact in a lot of different ways. What 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.679 you're seeing from Willyer who hasn't been bad by any stretch, 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.280 but like he hasn't been Willyer first all out of 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.440 this year. Now just kicking it into gear as well. 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:02.040 That's I go back to the burning questions and it's like, 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:05.000 you know they're going to pitch, they can potentially make 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:08.160 some trades. Now Connolly early, he seems like you avoid 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:10.080 anything major there. Got to come back and see him 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:11.360 on the mound, but he's already getting ready to get 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.480 on a throwing program. Stuff like that. Where does he 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.160 fit in when we're seeing guys like Patrick Sandoval throw 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.600 the ball well and different arms that I've barely ever 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:21.200 even ever heard of coming up here and getting out. 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:23.360 It's like, it's gonna be fun to see how the 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:26.320 Red Sox navigate the deadline because they don't have to 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:28.680 trade from the farm necessarily, a lot of teams are 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:32.000 gonna want pitching, and they can bolster their team by 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:35.000 trading away from just the ridiculous pitching that they have. 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.240 Shout out Jake Bennett, great again. I was so wrong 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:40.719 about that trade. I thought it was crazy for them 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:41.920 to go get a guy that I thought was more 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:44.360 of a five starter for Louis Paraus. Paraos has really 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:46.800 struggled since coming back from TJ. Bennett is a guy 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.439 that they've made tweaks to the arsenal and he's immediately 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:53.280 looked much stronger than he did last year, as a 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.160 guy that could be a really strong four starter and 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.200 even flashing middle rotation type of stuff. 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:00.400 And speaking about that trade, remember were when we were 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:04.160 trashing the Kyle Harrison move, and you know, with new 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:08.160 information will change her mind now. Of course I still 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:11.360 would rather about that Harrison. But the reason I brought 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:13.760 it up is I want to shout out a couple 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:15.200 of the guys that they got over in the trade, 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:19.520 like Andrew Monasterio has been putting together fantastic abs, Anthony 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.320 Siegler has been a spark plug. I'm just saying at 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:24.760 this point the trade isn't nearly as bad as what 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:29.000 we thought. It was still advantage Milwaukee, but the gap 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:31.000 I think got a little bit closer. 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:33.200 It's been fun to watch Seguer do his thing, too, 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:35.760 I think to your point, I mean, they've been batting 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.880 this guy in the leadoff spot and he's been great 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:42.079 switch hitter. All of a sudden, Ken just pesky at 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.480 bats and doesn't punch out and can play a lot 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:46.160 of different positions if you need him to. But they 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:48.760 really don't just need him to play second base. But 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:50.960 I think Seguer, to your point, it seemed like they 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.640 kind of grabbed a bunch of bench bats and kind 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:55.400 of glad they have him now. And Seaguar has been 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:57.360 more than that, you know, since he's come back and 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.640 up there and again, I think it has been as 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:04.520 solid option for them when you beat the Rays. Four 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:08.160 games sweep is really tough. There's still fourteen games over 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:13.240 five hundred. But man, I mean, you hope that this 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:15.680 isn't the start of a skid for them, because I 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:19.640 mean four games in a row to one team sometimes 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:21.240 could signify the start of a skid. But I think 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:23.720 they are just running into baseball's hottest team right now. 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:26.800 They are. But at the same time, like the Rays 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:31.280 have dominated at the trop they're like a anaconda that 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.040 just gets you in their grip and they squeeze the 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.160 life out of you. You know, their pitching is still 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:39.680 really solid in the rotation, right. McClanahan did not have 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.080 a great start on Sunday, but you can kind of 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:44.320 throw that to the wayside because ultimately he has been 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:47.040 very solid. You know, Nick Martinez has been great. He 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:49.080 was named an All Star and Drew Rasmussen. So it's 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:53.000 like and then their bullpen is still solid. But it's finicky, right, 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:55.880 They're not the most talented team in the American League. 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.520 If you just looked at rosters, they probably wouldn't even 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:02.040 rank inside the top five. Yeah, I don't think they would, right, 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.760 So they got out to a hot start. They're a 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.720 good team, not a great team. So to me, I'm 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:12.640 not surprised that they couldn't salvage one against the Red Sox. 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:14.640 That they might go on a little bit of a skid. 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.120 When you look at all the Fangrafts projections, like a 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.400 lot of them still have the Yankees winning the division. 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:25.280 I think the Yankees stink too. Yeah, nobody's that good. 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:28.080 So for me, the Rays are quote unquote the best 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.160 team in the American League. But to me, that's not 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:32.880 saying much. They just happen to have the best record 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.000 at this point. So again, I just wouldn't be surprised 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:36.480 if they went on a little bit of a skid. 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.040 I still think they're a playoff team. I still personally 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:41.080 think they're gonna win the division. I don't think the 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:44.160 Yankees catch them, but could they get bounced in the 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:48.800 first round, of course, I just I don't have no 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.520 I don't think anybody's really afraid of the Rays unless 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:55.320 you're facing them at the track, the trap where plan 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.800 Ahead and Martinez are lined up, right, it's kind of. 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:00.320 Where And I'm with you in the first saying the 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:01.920 first place my mind goes when you say all that 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.200 is you need to This is a team that just 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.320 needs to add, you know, they need to aggressively add, 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:08.559 and you can get excited. One last note from the 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.840 comment section for Arcle twelve. Great shout on Tearan Guerrero 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:14.480 came over from NPB. He's like thirty five years old. 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:16.720 I watched him come up with the Marlins a while back, 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.200 and always through a fuel, but I mean throwing fuel 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:21.160 with command. Now and twenty to the thirds innings, he's 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.400 walking less than one per nine and he's struck out 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:25.160 more than ten and a half per nine. That's been 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:28.400 huge for them as well. And again more reinforcements coming. 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.440 You look at what they could potentially get even having 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.320 like an IKF in the folder. Right now, they're starting 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:35.280 sunk che Chang. I know he's been all right, but 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:37.720 he can only survive that for so long. 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:39.720 At least over the last week. He's been good. He's 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:40.960 been good. He's been good. 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:45.960 Yeah, but I mean Sheda swinging it. They're surviving without 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:48.160 durand because they get Jamia Jones and he's hitting and left. 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:49.840 He's in the first couple of games. So yeah, I'm 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.720 really interested to see how it continues here. And yeah, 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:54.680 I think I guys like in Wardo Rivera throwing the 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:58.480 ball well I wasn't even really familiar with before. So again, 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:00.280 a lot of reasons to be excited if you're Red 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:04.160 Sox fan, right now, no doubt. We go to Rangers Braves. 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:07.280 Game one, Braves blow the Rangers out of the water 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:12.760 while Chris Sale shoves Baldwin, Baldwin, Olsen and Riley Homer. 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.440 The Braves piled up nineteen hits and Chris Sale tossed 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:20.080 seven innings of two hit scoreless fifteen to one Braves. 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.640 Game two, Braves got off to a four to one 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:25.600 lead with the Rangers kept hanging in before an Evan 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:28.240 Carter two run shot tied it in the sixth. They 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:30.720 pushed across two more in the same frame and held 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.960 on to a seven to six win to even the series. 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:37.600 The Rangers did. Then you go to Game three and 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:42.680 Game three I kept watching this feeling like the Rangers 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:46.080 were just actively going out of their way to hurt themselves, 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:49.080 but at the same time, it also was just a 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:53.560 ridiculous offensive onslot from Drake Baldwin and Austin Riley. Drake 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.280 Baldwin went five for five with two homers. Austin Riley 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:58.680 was three for four with two homers and drove in four. 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:04.080 This was a ridiculous offensive performance between the two. A 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:06.160 why a Langford homer late made it a little bit 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:09.880 more interesting, but ultimately eight five win for the Braves 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.120 and they take the series. I don't have any major 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:16.400 takeaways other than the Braves bats are waking up I 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:18.960 think big time, and that's really interesting. Austin Riley having 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.600 the series that he had, I think is huge. Drake 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:23.840 Baldwin having the series that he had after the roll 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.680 off of the IL that was clearly just residual effects 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.920 from the IL. My main thing with this team is 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:33.120 just like, Okay, Baldwin, you expected him to get going again, 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:37.040 but getting him going like this Riley getting him going 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:39.280 is even bigger if this could be the beginning of 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:41.840 a positive stretch for him. And then the next is, 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.440 you know, Ronald Coune Junior's homering and rehab assignment, so 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:46.200 he might just join this team while they've got momentum 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:47.160 build him back up again. 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:50.840 Yeah. The Braves are an interesting team because when a 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:55.680 team starts so hot and they're so talented, we cover 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:58.760 it and then they might not be playing that well, 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:02.320 but they're not playing horribly where it's a massive crash 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:04.680 where we cover that as well. And when we talk 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:06.840 about the Braves on the roundup, it's kind of one 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.200 of those conversations. Yeah, they lost two out of three. 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:12.119 Not the greatest performances, but what are you going to do, 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:15.480 bravesand just kind of throw it behind you for a 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:20.160 good bit. Now, the Braves have not been playing great baseball. 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:23.399 They started as baseball's best team, and now they've kind 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:26.000 of fluttered in, right, The Phillies caught up to them, 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:29.200 the Marlins caught up to them. You look at even 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.800 some teams in the American League, or excuse me, the 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.680 National League Central, like the Brewers overtook them when we're 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:36.880 looking at record, right, the Cubs are competing with them 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.760 as well. So for Braves fans, I'm sure they're watching 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:43.840 and they're not overly complaining because it hasn't crashed down, 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:47.520 But they've been playing kind of mediocre baseball here for 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:49.800 a while, and I think it's in large part because 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:53.960 the bats have just been kind of lame for lack 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.800 of a better word, Right, Drake Baldwin when he came back, 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:00.000 he wasn't good at all. It was his biggest slump. 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.520 I think you sent out a tweet earlier today where 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:05.480 you said that slump post injury is probably the worst 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:07.800 stretch of Drake Baldwin we're going to see in a 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.240 long time, right, they didn't have a Kunya. Matt Olsen 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.639 was playing good, not great, Michael Harris good not great, 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.639 like there was a lot of guys right. Dom Smith 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:20.800 wasn't having this unbelievable rue like he was earlier. Mauricio 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.199 Dubon was playing well, but he wasn't playing as well 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.040 as he was earlier. So it's got to be tough 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:28.720 to watch it as a Braves fan. But then they 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:32.159 have a series like this where they beat the shit 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:36.040 out of some good pictures. I mean, they took Nathany 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:39.720 Evaldi to Church, right, they beat the crap Outam Mackenzie Gore, 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:42.159 who's just having a tough season at this point. But 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:45.000 it's not like they just kicked the shit out of 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:48.320 the Rockies and Coors or the Angels or something like that. 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:51.320 They beat some good pictures and beat them bad. So 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:53.679 as a Braves fan, this must have just been a 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:55.920 fun series to watch. I know you only won two 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:59.119 out of three, but I feel this felt like a 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:02.760 better series than we've seen from the Braves kind of 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:05.479 been a while. Of course they've had better showings than this, 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:07.720 but this felt towards the upper echelon. 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:10.680 Yeah, and even the lost right back and forth game, 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:14.680 a couple of big swings by and you got a 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:17.359 dud from Owen Murphy. He's still kind of finding his footing. 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:19.200 And so think Murphy's gonna be a good Major League 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:21.919 baseball like starter at for a long time. But your 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:23.960 rookie goes out and gives you a dud. Bullpen has 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:26.560 to pick up seven innings, like, and you lose by 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:28.960 one run and your back still gave you a shot. 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:30.679 You put up six, right, So I think when you 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:32.119 will get a series where you put up as a 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:35.119 team twenty twenty nine runs, I think it was like, 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:37.960 there's a lot to be excited about here, I think, 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:39.600 and this might be a spark for the Braves, and 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:42.600 I just circle Austin Riley. Yeah, I know, Matt Olson's 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:44.639 going to swing it like you know what what Ozzie 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:47.679 Alby's is at this point. And just again, now seeing 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:50.040 Baldwin get going again is great, but he kind of 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:53.399 figured he was going to eventually get going. Jim Jarvis 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:56.080 has been awesome since they brought him up, but at 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:58.400 the end of the day, they need Austin Riley driving 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:02.080 in runs and and in this series he did plenty of. 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:05.720 That and real quick. On the Rangers, if you get 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:08.600 into a slugfest, you're probably just not gonna win. Yeah, 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:14.120 the Rangers MO this year has been solid, starting pitching performances, 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:16.919 the bullpen really coming in and shutting the door, and 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:19.880 the Rangers scoring enough to win ball games. Yeah, that's 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:23.240 been an average Rangers win this season. So if you 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:27.199 have the Braves firing on all cylinders offensively, they're just 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:30.520 not good enough to overcome that. Sorry, And I'm invested 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:33.199 in the Rangers. I have them pented, I got them everything. 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:36.800 I believe in them. But in that case, there's just 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:39.400 a tier above of an MLB team, and the Braves 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:42.359 played to what we think the Braves can, which means 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:44.040 the Braves are gonna win two out of three. I 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:46.439 was honestly kind of proud of the Rangers that they 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:49.320 even took one. With how the Braves were swinging. 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:52.280 And I think big series in Langford overall, he swung 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:55.520 it really well throughout the series. That's gonna be big 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:57.359 spark for them if he just can stay on the 0:20:57.359 --> 0:20:59.320 field and then continue to do what he's been doing. 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:03.000 No doubt we go to Pirates Guardians. 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:03.920 Game one, one. 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:06.560 We were so excited for, was postponed due to air quality, 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:08.720 so we played the doubleheader on Saturday. We still get 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:11.040 the pitching matchup that we wanted between Jerry Jones and 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:13.719 Gavin Williams, I would say delivered in a lot of ways. 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:16.639 Jones was stellar. He struck out nine over five innings 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:19.520 of one run ball, while Williams did allow five earned 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:22.159 in six innings, but he struck out eleven. The Pirates 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:24.280 hit three homers with two run shots by a newly 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:27.760 acquired Jacob Gonzales and esmer Lean Valdez, who we'll talk 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:29.639 about more on him in a second, along with a 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:33.200 solo shot by Nick Gonzales. Pirates win seven to one. 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:36.280 Game two. Pirates led three zero going into the eighth, 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:38.399 but that's when the Guardians tied it up, sending it 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:40.520 into the bottom of the ninth, knotted up at three, 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:43.960 where Travis Bizana launched a two run walk off home 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:47.879 run to seal the victory. Fun note, Christian Curtis was 0:21:47.960 --> 0:21:50.720 awesome in his MLB debut, tossing five shutout in a 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:53.960 piggy and piggyback duty for the Pirates, but the Guardian's 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:56.760 bullpen did not allow run after picking up for Logan 0:21:57.080 --> 0:21:59.480 Allen in the fourth, and the Guards end up winning 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:01.720 that game five the three. But Christian Curtis, he was 0:22:01.720 --> 0:22:03.240 a guy that wasn't even sure if he was going 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:06.040 to pitch again at a certain point, dealt with nervous 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:08.520 who's in his elbow after a botch Tommy John surgery 0:22:08.760 --> 0:22:12.240 had his stitches pushing against the nerve. He had to 0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:15.960 get another like emergency surgery to kind of fix that. 0:22:16.920 --> 0:22:19.680 And at the time of getting that surgery, doctors weren't 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:21.000 sure if Curtis was gonna be able to throw a 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:23.320 baseball again. So not only is he thrown a baseball, 0:22:23.400 --> 0:22:25.320 he's a guy that actually really likes a prospect towards 0:22:25.359 --> 0:22:26.840 the back end of the top ten and the Pirate 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:28.880 system for us, And it was really impressive to watch 0:22:28.960 --> 0:22:31.879 him in his big league debut. Looking forward to I 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:34.000 know the option him back down. He was the extra 0:22:34.080 --> 0:22:35.800 man for the double header, But I think Curtis is 0:22:35.800 --> 0:22:37.760 going to have a long big league career. Great fastball. 0:22:38.560 --> 0:22:41.680 We go to Game three, Paul Skeen snaps back into 0:22:41.720 --> 0:22:43.760 it and turns in seven innings of one run ball 0:22:44.040 --> 0:22:46.520 and the Pirates scored seven runs, so you're gonna win 0:22:46.560 --> 0:22:50.159 that game most often, as Meerlyien Valdez homerd again his 0:22:50.280 --> 0:22:54.920 twelfth homer in his first thirty one MLB games seven 0:22:54.920 --> 0:22:59.479 to one, Pirates that they take the series. As Marleen Valdez, Dude, 0:22:59.520 --> 0:23:02.800 this has been a crazy start to his big league career. 0:23:03.320 --> 0:23:06.080 It seems like all of his swings are geared for 0:23:06.160 --> 0:23:09.399 hitting the ball, like like Josh Donaldson was the Bringer 0:23:09.440 --> 0:23:12.720 of Rain. Feels like as Merlene Valdez is like next 0:23:12.800 --> 0:23:14.720 up right now with the way that he literally he's 0:23:14.720 --> 0:23:17.200 trying to hit the ball straight up into the air 0:23:17.480 --> 0:23:21.280 as far as he can, and I mean their moonshots. 0:23:21.600 --> 0:23:24.520 I watched him kind of really follow up what was 0:23:24.560 --> 0:23:26.840 a breakout campaign in the minor leagues last year in 0:23:26.880 --> 0:23:30.159 the Arizona Fall League, and he puts some stupid swings 0:23:30.200 --> 0:23:32.440 on balls. Now there's some questions if he's gonna chase 0:23:32.480 --> 0:23:34.760 too much and with too much, and I think there's 0:23:34.760 --> 0:23:37.919 gonna be a correction period where he's gonna struggle. But 0:23:38.040 --> 0:23:40.960 right now, because he's aggressive and he hits the ball 0:23:41.000 --> 0:23:45.960 hard and he's just swinging for damage. Any mistake right now, 0:23:46.359 --> 0:23:50.400 even non mistakes. Valdez is punishing them, and he's playing 0:23:50.440 --> 0:23:52.600 a huge part. This hot streak is a huge part 0:23:52.600 --> 0:23:54.280 of keeping the Pirates afloat right now. 0:23:54.480 --> 0:23:58.400 No doubt about it, and I think the Pirates deserve 0:23:58.960 --> 0:24:02.880 a lot of credit, notably for this offense. Right We've 0:24:02.920 --> 0:24:05.639 talked about the rotation and how it's been a little 0:24:05.640 --> 0:24:09.760 bit disappointing. Right Paul Skins turned it around and tossed 0:24:09.800 --> 0:24:13.399 an awesome game against the Guardians, but it's been a 0:24:13.480 --> 0:24:18.359 disappointing season for his standards. Jared Jones just started to 0:24:18.400 --> 0:24:21.359 click over his last three starts, and those three starts 0:24:21.400 --> 0:24:24.479 have been amazing, but before that when he returned from injury, 0:24:24.880 --> 0:24:28.119 wasn't great. Bubba Chandler has not taken that next step. 0:24:28.480 --> 0:24:31.199 Mitch Keller's normal second half where he pitches to a 0:24:31.240 --> 0:24:34.520 five era has basically happened in the first half. But 0:24:34.560 --> 0:24:36.920 then you have Braxton Ashcraft who has stepped up. But 0:24:37.000 --> 0:24:40.160 I think going into the season, even as someone who 0:24:40.200 --> 0:24:42.560 took Pirates over seventy six and a half wins, it 0:24:42.600 --> 0:24:45.240 was in large part because of the starting pitching, and 0:24:45.280 --> 0:24:47.959 you thought, all right, we're excited about Connor Griffin. I 0:24:48.040 --> 0:24:51.159 personally remember, you know, slamming the table for O'Neal Cruz. 0:24:51.720 --> 0:24:56.280 Both of them have been injured on at right Spencer 0:24:56.359 --> 0:25:01.760 Horowitz looked great, got injured again arm This is the 0:25:01.880 --> 0:25:05.280 number one offense in Major League Baseball against right handed pitching, 0:25:06.040 --> 0:25:09.200 Number one, Dodgers, number two with a one to sixteen 0:25:09.280 --> 0:25:13.919 WRC plus, Pirates with a one seventeen WRC plus. I 0:25:13.920 --> 0:25:17.639 think Brian Reynolds has really really done well this season. 0:25:18.080 --> 0:25:19.880 You know, even acquiring Jacob Gonzalez. 0:25:19.920 --> 0:25:22.440 He I was gonna say that move. Yeah, I love 0:25:22.480 --> 0:25:25.480 the urgency of that move, leveraging the draft saying I 0:25:25.520 --> 0:25:28.400 know that team out there, specifically the White Sox are 0:25:28.440 --> 0:25:30.560 going to really you know, want to add to their 0:25:30.680 --> 0:25:32.800 to their draft pool here to pull some of these 0:25:32.840 --> 0:25:35.480 deals off. Let's jump start the trade market here and 0:25:35.560 --> 0:25:37.159 let's get someone that's gonna help us hold it down 0:25:37.200 --> 0:25:39.119 at short and so Connor Griffin's back. Like, that was 0:25:39.240 --> 0:25:41.400 urgency that I think was great from the Pirates. 0:25:41.640 --> 0:25:46.560 How about your two favorite prospects, Endie Rodriguez and Nick 0:25:46.640 --> 0:25:50.000 Gonzalez when you covered them like these guys are finally 0:25:50.000 --> 0:25:52.040 starting to kick it in gear. This is the classic 0:25:52.160 --> 0:25:54.520 not wrong, just yeah, not. 0:25:54.480 --> 0:25:58.000 Wrong just early. I loved Endy Man. I was very surprised, 0:25:58.000 --> 0:26:00.320 and I really think injuries played a large part in 0:26:00.320 --> 0:26:02.600 his struggles, and unfortunately he's hurt again, but it's like 0:26:02.600 --> 0:26:04.720 a strained glute. I don't think they'll be too much here, 0:26:04.920 --> 0:26:07.919 but we've been watching him be a huge part of 0:26:08.000 --> 0:26:10.000 this team both as a catcher and I think can 0:26:10.040 --> 0:26:12.600 also just provide just steady offense for them. Like I 0:26:12.640 --> 0:26:15.560 loved him as just a switch hitting, exciting bat. So 0:26:15.920 --> 0:26:18.399 one thirty eight WRC plus from him in thirty eight 0:26:18.440 --> 0:26:20.360 games with five or thirty five games with five homers, 0:26:20.400 --> 0:26:23.640 Like that's a great piece for them as a switch hitter. 0:26:23.800 --> 0:26:25.840 And then yeah, I mean Nick and Zalez. There was 0:26:25.880 --> 0:26:28.960 definitely bias, probably laiden into that because of just watching 0:26:29.040 --> 0:26:31.560 him go through you know, the college route as well, 0:26:31.720 --> 0:26:33.280 and just seeing him be the best player on the 0:26:33.320 --> 0:26:35.359 kate by a mile. But seeing the way that he 0:26:35.400 --> 0:26:38.159 has developed now, I mean, this is one of the 0:26:38.200 --> 0:26:41.680 better batting average guys in the game, and he's mixing 0:26:41.720 --> 0:26:43.880 in a ton of doubles, sneaking out homers here and there, 0:26:43.960 --> 0:26:46.159 you know, when needed. And I think another guy that 0:26:46.280 --> 0:26:49.840 was very much decimated by injury and with a couple 0:26:49.880 --> 0:26:52.639 of doubles today, he's got his WRC plus up to 0:26:52.680 --> 0:26:54.119 one to seventeen. On the season, he's hitt in three 0:26:54.160 --> 0:26:56.199 to eleven. So both these guys I think have been 0:26:56.280 --> 0:26:59.720 huge and not only just helping the Pirates just stay 0:26:59.760 --> 0:27:02.480 a far, but I think with the injuries that they've had, 0:27:02.840 --> 0:27:04.679 if you didn't have Gonzalez swinging it the way that 0:27:04.720 --> 0:27:06.760 he has been swinging it, if you didn't have Rodriguez 0:27:06.760 --> 0:27:09.120 swinging it the way he's been swinging it, I think 0:27:09.119 --> 0:27:11.760 this offense would look a little bit different because it's 0:27:11.800 --> 0:27:13.639 just really balanced from top to bottom, even with some 0:27:13.640 --> 0:27:14.840 of their key guys missing. 0:27:15.119 --> 0:27:17.240 One hundred percent. And then on the Guardian side, you 0:27:17.280 --> 0:27:18.280 got anything. 0:27:21.000 --> 0:27:25.560 I mean nothing, nothing major. Really, he ran into Paul Skins, 0:27:26.160 --> 0:27:29.320 you still piled up hits, just just couldn't really push 0:27:29.359 --> 0:27:30.000 him across. 0:27:30.320 --> 0:27:32.240 That's the power thing that I was talking about on 0:27:32.280 --> 0:27:34.960 the one burning question, right, Bazanna gave him the power 0:27:34.960 --> 0:27:36.480 and then they ended up winning that game, but that 0:27:36.640 --> 0:27:39.520 was it. It's like you can get some singles here and there, 0:27:39.560 --> 0:27:42.600 but if guardballing guardballing and you don't have your magic, 0:27:43.720 --> 0:27:47.320 it's it gets real slow, real fast. They need someone 0:27:47.320 --> 0:27:49.480 who's going to hit for some power. And again, it's 0:27:49.560 --> 0:27:53.920 just kind of another series of you want Kyle Manzardo 0:27:53.960 --> 0:27:56.840 to hit those homers, but he's not. Like they need 0:27:56.880 --> 0:27:59.960 somebody to step up because Jose Ramirez is not going 0:28:00.080 --> 0:28:02.600 to provide the thirty nine homers that he did last season. 0:28:03.040 --> 0:28:05.800 Yeah, yeah, And it's just that's the biggest thing for me. 0:28:05.840 --> 0:28:10.439 So he just can't come back soon enough. And even 0:28:10.520 --> 0:28:12.600 just just to bolster this offense, even if he isn't 0:28:12.600 --> 0:28:14.640 playing at the peak of his powers, I think will 0:28:14.640 --> 0:28:16.439 be super helpful because you just get to the bottom 0:28:16.440 --> 0:28:18.359 of this lineup sometimes and you know, I know they 0:28:18.440 --> 0:28:20.120 play the matchups and it looks different, but I'm looking 0:28:20.160 --> 0:28:23.119 at like the Sunday lineup. Man, it's it's yeah, I 0:28:23.160 --> 0:28:25.920 think Khlia Watson could ultimately be a solid book platoon guy. 0:28:27.440 --> 0:28:29.960 But you go Watson, even though Minzarto has been swinging that. 0:28:30.040 --> 0:28:32.800 You go Manzardo to Watson, to Gabriel Arius who strikes 0:28:32.840 --> 0:28:35.280 out forty percent of the time, to Patrick Bailey to 0:28:35.359 --> 0:28:39.840 Pete Haupin and you and Stephen Kwan's leading off and 0:28:39.960 --> 0:28:42.600 he had two hits today, but like he's been terrible 0:28:42.720 --> 0:28:44.560 so you have a couple guys in the middle of 0:28:44.600 --> 0:28:47.040 your order that you're hoping are gonna produce. How How 0:28:47.040 --> 0:28:49.120 are the Guardians gonna string hits together? We know they're 0:28:49.120 --> 0:28:51.000 not gonna slug, so are they gonna string hits together 0:28:51.240 --> 0:28:53.480 with that current offense? It's gonna be hard. I still 0:28:53.480 --> 0:28:55.400 love this team. I think they can find ways to 0:28:55.440 --> 0:28:57.800 make it work and match up their way to success. 0:28:58.280 --> 0:29:00.840 But they need to go out get a bat as well. 0:29:00.880 --> 0:29:04.240 On top of you returning one of their key guys here, 0:29:04.400 --> 0:29:08.080 and I do wonder ralphie Velaskaz really enjoyed talking to him. 0:29:08.240 --> 0:29:10.120 We just put out that interview on the call up 0:29:10.320 --> 0:29:13.880 their top prospect right now, big power bat in first 0:29:13.960 --> 0:29:17.560 base really settling in up there in TRIPAA. Is that 0:29:17.600 --> 0:29:19.120 a guy that they try to bring up to give 0:29:19.160 --> 0:29:20.840 them a spark. He's ahead of his years, is twenty 0:29:20.840 --> 0:29:22.800 one year old. Maybe he can't rule it out. 0:29:23.160 --> 0:29:25.560 I'm also looking at Gavin Williams. He needs to be better. 0:29:25.880 --> 0:29:27.360 I mean, this is the guy at the top of 0:29:27.360 --> 0:29:30.360 the rotation and he has frontline stuff. We see it. 0:29:30.720 --> 0:29:33.360 We see all the punch outs, but after that five 0:29:33.480 --> 0:29:36.520 and run performances there is above four can happen. He's 0:29:36.520 --> 0:29:39.120 got to be better, right. We're gonna hold Gavin Williams 0:29:39.120 --> 0:29:42.080 to a high standard deservedly, so we know that he 0:29:42.160 --> 0:29:44.720 can be a dominant arm. We saw it early on 0:29:44.800 --> 0:29:48.480 in the season, but lately, like when Gavin Williams towse 0:29:48.520 --> 0:29:52.160 the Rubber Guardians better win most of those games, and 0:29:52.560 --> 0:29:54.440 he's not been putting them in a position to win. 0:29:56.800 --> 0:30:00.760 We'll go to Marlins Brewers Game one. They were scoreless 0:30:00.760 --> 0:30:03.960 in going into the fifth inning when Griffin Conine launched 0:30:04.000 --> 0:30:07.000 a solo shot, then in the home half of the fifth, 0:30:07.360 --> 0:30:10.600 Joey Ortiz matched him with one of his own. It 0:30:10.720 --> 0:30:14.280 stayed tied at one until the tenth, when Garrett Mitchell 0:30:14.600 --> 0:30:18.400 walked it off with an RBI single, two to one. Brewers. 0:30:18.600 --> 0:30:21.480 You go to Game two. More offense in this one 0:30:21.520 --> 0:30:24.240 is The Marlins got off to a three zero lead, 0:30:24.480 --> 0:30:29.360 but the Brewers scored eight unanswered on a slew of doubles. Jelich, Chorio, 0:30:29.520 --> 0:30:33.280 and Mitchell all had two RBI days and Garrett Mitchell 0:30:33.320 --> 0:30:36.880 put on a defensive clinic out there in the outfield. 0:30:37.600 --> 0:30:39.760 You go into the ninth inning with a pretty big 0:30:39.840 --> 0:30:42.120 lead and a con nine three run shot in the 0:30:42.240 --> 0:30:45.840 ninth made things interesting, but ultimately McGill shut the door 0:30:46.160 --> 0:30:50.200 eight six Brewers. You go to Game three, Marlin's trying 0:30:50.200 --> 0:30:52.360 to get one back here and snap a five game 0:30:52.360 --> 0:30:56.760 losing streak. Juri Perez continued his dominance since returning from injury, 0:30:56.920 --> 0:30:59.400 tossing six innings of a one hit, scoreless ball with 0:30:59.520 --> 0:31:02.360 nine straight outs, but Robert Gasser was sharp in five 0:31:02.400 --> 0:31:05.400 innings opposite of Perez, allowing just one run and whiffing 0:31:05.440 --> 0:31:07.880 five and the story Ruiz solo shot in the third 0:31:08.240 --> 0:31:12.600 was the only run until the ninth inning, when you 0:31:12.680 --> 0:31:16.240 got Pete Fairbanks versus William Contreras with two men on 0:31:16.600 --> 0:31:19.720 and one out, and Contreras launched a three run walk 0:31:19.760 --> 0:31:23.160 off home run to complete the sweep three to one. Brewers. 0:31:23.360 --> 0:31:26.320 Marlins dropped their sixth straight. After being one of the 0:31:26.360 --> 0:31:29.000 best teams in baseball and the hottest teams in baseball, 0:31:29.000 --> 0:31:32.560 there now the coldest team in baseball, and Peter, they've 0:31:32.600 --> 0:31:38.120 got a closer problem. 0:31:36.040 --> 0:31:39.440 Yes they do. Pete Fairbanks cannot have the ninth inning anymore, 0:31:39.880 --> 0:31:43.960 and that's putting it as nicely as humanly possible. How 0:31:44.040 --> 0:31:47.080 many right, they're fifty two and forty eight. Now, how 0:31:47.080 --> 0:31:49.680 many of those losses are because of Pete Fairbanks? And 0:31:49.720 --> 0:31:53.000 I know that's a meaning question, but it does feel 0:31:53.000 --> 0:31:55.120 like it's more than it should be. 0:31:55.680 --> 0:31:58.120 That's the crazy part is because like he's only which 0:31:58.200 --> 0:32:00.120 I felt like it was like almost like an and 0:32:00.160 --> 0:32:03.720 Della affecting. He's only blown three saves this year, but 0:32:03.800 --> 0:32:05.400 the amount of times that he has come in and 0:32:05.440 --> 0:32:10.720 tied games and just keeping it up, yeah, I can't 0:32:10.760 --> 0:32:14.400 even I can't even fathom. I think by by b 0:32:14.680 --> 0:32:17.760 War he might be a full negative win. I need 0:32:17.800 --> 0:32:20.560 to double check that, uh, because he's been He's come 0:32:20.600 --> 0:32:23.240 in plenty of times and leverage and it's just been brutal, 0:32:23.880 --> 0:32:26.000 even the saves. Dude, And I think I mentioned it. 0:32:26.200 --> 0:32:28.200 He was my one burning question for the Marlins was 0:32:28.320 --> 0:32:30.600 can this guy actually close games? And yeah, going into 0:32:30.640 --> 0:32:34.200 today's game negative one point zero b War, which I 0:32:34.280 --> 0:32:35.360 it's just just crazy. 0:32:35.560 --> 0:32:38.560 Can I rid Can I read you a quick stat? Yeah, 0:32:38.600 --> 0:32:42.360 he's got a six six ERA, thirty two appearances this 0:32:42.440 --> 0:32:47.600 year and thirteen saves as the closer. So right, he's 0:32:47.600 --> 0:32:55.280 not maybe blowing saves, but he's not converting saves either, even. 0:32:55.080 --> 0:32:59.840 When he gets them. Like it's it's a line drive 0:33:00.040 --> 0:33:02.160 out and then two warning track fly outs, and you're like, 0:33:02.160 --> 0:33:04.640 oh my gosh, how do we get out of that? 0:33:04.680 --> 0:33:08.000 And I really feel for for Fairbanks, like all by 0:33:08.000 --> 0:33:12.480 all accounts, good dude clearly wants to succeed. But the 0:33:12.520 --> 0:33:15.840 thing with me is like the body language is bad, 0:33:15.880 --> 0:33:18.760 Like he just seems like he's lost out there. He's 0:33:18.760 --> 0:33:22.960 missing badly with breaking balls or the heater, and it 0:33:23.000 --> 0:33:25.200 looks like he's almost frustrated with the lack of feel 0:33:25.200 --> 0:33:27.320 that he has, like he can't find it. And it 0:33:27.360 --> 0:33:30.160 feels like he determines that quite quickly into his outing, 0:33:30.440 --> 0:33:32.560 and you just you see the body language which is 0:33:32.640 --> 0:33:35.760 just like it's it causes the hitters a foam with 0:33:35.840 --> 0:33:38.640 the mouth. You start to see it within two batters, 0:33:38.720 --> 0:33:41.640 you know, the closer get frustrated and wear it and 0:33:41.680 --> 0:33:45.120 you're like, okay, you know, here we go and contres 0:33:45.160 --> 0:33:46.800 knew he's gonna hang one there and he hung a 0:33:46.800 --> 0:33:49.000 breaking ball and that was that. I mean, when you 0:33:49.040 --> 0:33:51.360 when you pay thirteen forty million dollars for a closer, 0:33:51.440 --> 0:33:54.840 especially if you the Marlins guy better be good and 0:33:54.880 --> 0:33:57.440 when he's not, like, it's really tough because these are 0:33:57.480 --> 0:34:00.160 one of those stretches where Martins are gonna have to 0:34:00.200 --> 0:34:02.280 win a lot of close games to get into the 0:34:02.280 --> 0:34:04.719 playoffs here, and if you've got a five game skid 0:34:04.760 --> 0:34:06.400 and you have a chance to steal a one zero 0:34:06.480 --> 0:34:09.759 game to end that skid, that's where you need your 0:34:09.800 --> 0:34:13.399 expensive closer. And he's been the opposite, right, so Big 0:34:13.440 --> 0:34:17.960 Mike Peterson went and ending in a third of perfect ball. Again, 0:34:18.880 --> 0:34:21.840 that's my candidate for the closer role. The problem is 0:34:22.040 --> 0:34:23.680 they have a couple other guys hurt, so I don't 0:34:23.719 --> 0:34:26.320 know what they're gonna do. Because you have Bender hurt, 0:34:26.440 --> 0:34:29.040 you have King hurt. So if you make Peterson the closer, 0:34:29.320 --> 0:34:33.200 Peterson's been in this extremely valuable like fireman role where 0:34:33.200 --> 0:34:35.800 it's because hey, you need to punch out, Big MIC's 0:34:35.800 --> 0:34:38.080 gonna go throw you in one hundred with twenty two 0:34:38.200 --> 0:34:40.840 vert and get that punch out. So then who's the 0:34:40.880 --> 0:34:43.600 fireman guy? I think it should probably be Tyler Phillips. 0:34:43.640 --> 0:34:45.800 So you put in the bullpen, bring up Braxton Garrett 0:34:45.800 --> 0:34:48.200 so he can start, and then Phillips can get back 0:34:48.200 --> 0:34:50.440 into more of a leverage role. I don't know. They 0:34:50.520 --> 0:34:52.200 have a lot of things to figure out there, because 0:34:53.719 --> 0:34:56.680 in July, where every game matters and you're trying to 0:34:56.719 --> 0:34:58.799 figure out where you're out at the deadline. You can't 0:34:58.840 --> 0:35:01.160 give away any more games with your closer. 0:35:01.760 --> 0:35:04.680 But at the same time, too, been a lot of 0:35:04.680 --> 0:35:07.719 low scoring games because the offense hasn't necessarily showed up 0:35:07.719 --> 0:35:11.799 and Griff and Co nine leads the team in ops yep, 0:35:12.080 --> 0:35:15.399 but a couple other guys have not jumped out after 0:35:15.440 --> 0:35:18.239 the break and we're kind of slowing down during this 0:35:18.840 --> 0:35:21.320 six game losing streak. I want to talk about Milwaukee, 0:35:21.400 --> 0:35:23.640 but I do want to ask you about this current offense. 0:35:24.040 --> 0:35:26.799 Yeah, I mean it was. It was interesting too because 0:35:26.840 --> 0:35:29.799 Griff had a three game homer streak and I think 0:35:29.840 --> 0:35:32.920 he started one of those games, and and I think 0:35:32.920 --> 0:35:35.040 the game he started he got pinched at four in 0:35:35.080 --> 0:35:38.320 this in the seventh, so it was it was encouraging 0:35:38.320 --> 0:35:40.120 to see him get the start in the third game 0:35:40.120 --> 0:35:41.920 of the series against a left tam you know, and 0:35:42.520 --> 0:35:43.919 you know, kind of try to ride the hot hand 0:35:43.960 --> 0:35:46.520 there and play the guys that are swinging it. Not 0:35:46.680 --> 0:35:49.920 over platoon it, but Otto Lopez goes down and they 0:35:49.960 --> 0:35:52.719 think it's minor, but like that, that's tough. If he's 0:35:52.719 --> 0:35:55.759 missing some time, And yeah, I mean it's it's a 0:35:55.760 --> 0:35:58.960 really good Brewer staff, So you know that that's gonna 0:35:58.960 --> 0:36:01.040 and it start when you go from Guardians to Brewers 0:36:01.040 --> 0:36:02.760 and you already were kind of swow as an offense. 0:36:02.760 --> 0:36:05.080 That's where you can really feel suffocated. And I think 0:36:05.080 --> 0:36:07.919 that's been a big part of it. But yeah, even 0:36:07.960 --> 0:36:11.240 with Griffin homering in three straight games, it just seems 0:36:11.239 --> 0:36:13.880 like the runs were quite hard to come by for 0:36:14.239 --> 0:36:16.040 the Marlins and something that they're going to need to 0:36:16.040 --> 0:36:17.600 figure out and kind of get going here, which is 0:36:17.640 --> 0:36:20.080 going to be difficult when Otto Lopez, who's been the 0:36:20.080 --> 0:36:22.960 most consistent hitter in Major League Baseball arguably, you know, 0:36:23.080 --> 0:36:25.399 is that going to be out maybe for the next 0:36:25.440 --> 0:36:26.319 few games. 0:36:26.400 --> 0:36:28.880 No doubt. And on the Brewers side, Garrett Mitchell put 0:36:29.040 --> 0:36:30.919 is just putting the team on his back right now 0:36:31.239 --> 0:36:33.080 because you look at the Brewers offense and there's not 0:36:33.120 --> 0:36:35.680 a lot of like explosive guys right now, Like Bryce 0:36:35.760 --> 0:36:39.640 Terrang is playing well right Cooper Pratt has even hit 0:36:39.640 --> 0:36:44.160 the ball pretty well since the calendar turned over to July. 0:36:44.440 --> 0:36:47.920 Early returns overall are like okay, but lately he's been 0:36:47.960 --> 0:36:48.759 hitting They don't need. 0:36:48.719 --> 0:36:51.680 Him to be much either, like, just defend and steal 0:36:51.719 --> 0:36:53.400 bases and give you good abs in the eight or 0:36:53.440 --> 0:36:54.680 nine hole and you're thrilled. 0:36:55.040 --> 0:37:00.480 Contreros has had his moments, but it's not a team 0:37:00.560 --> 0:37:02.719 firing on all cylinders. But they still find ways to 0:37:02.719 --> 0:37:04.760 win games. And I think that's what makes the Brewers 0:37:04.840 --> 0:37:07.879 so good. Right when Kyle Harrison goes down, who's gonna 0:37:08.120 --> 0:37:11.080 step up? Is it Shane Rowan, because yeah, he was 0:37:11.160 --> 0:37:14.359 great winnings. He's been like you know, in the past 0:37:14.680 --> 0:37:17.920 four or five starts, he's looked awesome. Logan Henderson has 0:37:17.960 --> 0:37:21.160 looked great, right, So it's just next guy in line 0:37:21.920 --> 0:37:24.200 and again, they're not playing great, but they're winning. And 0:37:24.200 --> 0:37:26.920 that's what great teams do, is even when it's not 0:37:27.160 --> 0:37:30.040 all going right. You're not like the Red Sox where 0:37:30.040 --> 0:37:32.440 it feels like nine guys in their lineup have a 0:37:32.520 --> 0:37:35.680 one forty WRC plus or better. You look at Milwaukee's 0:37:35.800 --> 0:37:39.160 past two weeks, it's like four of them, and yet 0:37:39.719 --> 0:37:42.680 they're still the second best team in all of baseball, 0:37:42.760 --> 0:37:44.960 right behind the Dodgers. And another series win for him. 0:37:45.280 --> 0:37:47.480 Well, and you mentioned the pitching, like Logan Henderson gave 0:37:47.520 --> 0:37:49.759 you five innings of three hit, one run ball. The 0:37:49.800 --> 0:37:52.239 only run was that solo shot to Griffin. And then 0:37:52.600 --> 0:37:54.960 you have the game two, which ended up being a 0:37:54.960 --> 0:37:57.080 little bit more of a slugfest. But Shane Roman gave 0:37:57.120 --> 0:37:59.680 you six innings, a three run ball and struck out nine. 0:38:00.120 --> 0:38:02.000 You're gonna win a lot of those games, especially when 0:38:02.000 --> 0:38:04.239 Max Meyer, you know, an extra rest kind of gives 0:38:04.280 --> 0:38:06.520 the Marlins a dut on the other side. And then yeah, 0:38:06.640 --> 0:38:09.160 in this last game, I think Robert Gaser's a good 0:38:09.160 --> 0:38:11.520 back into the rotation arm and and I think I 0:38:11.520 --> 0:38:14.680 feel a role pretty nicey for them, and I just 0:38:14.719 --> 0:38:16.760 I think Gasher's gonna end up being a decent piece 0:38:16.760 --> 0:38:18.879 for them as they continue to just kind of push 0:38:18.880 --> 0:38:22.040 forward here and wait on when they can potentially get Harrison. 0:38:21.680 --> 0:38:22.680 Back, no doubt. 0:38:22.719 --> 0:38:26.960 Let's talk Cardinals, Dbacks, Cardinals d Becks. This was a 0:38:27.000 --> 0:38:30.439 really interesting series because I want to preface with two 0:38:30.480 --> 0:38:32.160 teams that were kind of up in the air, right, 0:38:32.160 --> 0:38:33.680 what are they going to do with the deadline? I think, 0:38:33.719 --> 0:38:35.480 you know, you lean it being a little bit more 0:38:35.480 --> 0:38:38.520 aggressive for the Diamondbacks given where they're at. But this 0:38:38.600 --> 0:38:42.239 is a series we're going into it. How the Diamondbacks 0:38:42.280 --> 0:38:44.279 performer is really going to help them gauge that, and 0:38:44.320 --> 0:38:47.440 Mike Casan all but said that to his team before 0:38:47.520 --> 0:38:50.920 the series, like not just the series, that it's pretty 0:38:51.000 --> 0:38:54.440 much on you guys, like I want to buy, but 0:38:54.680 --> 0:38:57.120 you guys need to make make it so that I 0:38:57.160 --> 0:38:59.439 can buy with how you play for the next couple 0:38:59.440 --> 0:39:01.960 of weeks, and like it's on you guys, which I 0:39:02.000 --> 0:39:06.040 think more GM should do. It's just transpennerent treat this 0:39:06.120 --> 0:39:09.239 like the playoffs because it's it's important right now so 0:39:09.280 --> 0:39:11.440 that we can make the playoffs. And I bring that 0:39:11.560 --> 0:39:14.080 up because I saw that level of fight from the 0:39:14.120 --> 0:39:15.760 Diamondbacks in this series. 0:39:16.560 --> 0:39:19.680 Going to be one except the Catel Marte not challenging. 0:39:20.000 --> 0:39:22.000 That would be the one thing. But if there's an 0:39:22.000 --> 0:39:25.840 exception anything, it'll probably usually be something like that with 0:39:26.000 --> 0:39:31.320 Ketel Martine. Unfortunately, Game one, Mary Kelly and Michael McGreevy 0:39:31.320 --> 0:39:34.399 were sharp, allowing one earned run in five innings and 0:39:34.600 --> 0:39:38.080 six in the thirds innings, respectively, So Mary Kelly went 0:39:38.280 --> 0:39:40.400 make should I say that cleaner? Mary Kelly allowed one 0:39:40.400 --> 0:39:43.239 earned in five innings and Michael McGreevy allowed one earned 0:39:43.239 --> 0:39:45.680 in six and a third. JJ Weather homeward in his 0:39:46.400 --> 0:39:48.799 in the fifth, his fourteenth of the year, and then 0:39:48.840 --> 0:39:51.160 Corbyn Carroll had a two run game time homer in 0:39:51.160 --> 0:39:54.040 the eighth, also his fourteenth of the year. Von Herrera 0:39:54.080 --> 0:39:56.319 pushed to go ahead run across on a sack flying 0:39:56.360 --> 0:39:59.239 the ninth before Riley O'Brien escaped some traffic to nail 0:39:59.239 --> 0:40:01.800 down the save, But as Peter alluded to, there was 0:40:01.840 --> 0:40:03.920 a call third strike out of the zone for the 0:40:03.920 --> 0:40:06.640 final out of the game that kadtel Marte did not 0:40:06.960 --> 0:40:13.600 challenge despite having both challenges available. I do we have 0:40:13.640 --> 0:40:15.640 it playing on YouTube. If you're watching, you literally have 0:40:15.680 --> 0:40:19.600 fans patting themselves on the head saying, challenge it. If 0:40:19.600 --> 0:40:22.279 it's right down the middle, you think you challenge you. 0:40:22.280 --> 0:40:24.480 I have two challenges. The game's over. Challenge it. Maybe 0:40:24.520 --> 0:40:27.920 maybe your eyes deceive you. You have to use it. I 0:40:27.960 --> 0:40:30.359 don't know if Katella didn't know the situation. I don't 0:40:30.360 --> 0:40:32.600 know if you like if the argument is he thought 0:40:32.600 --> 0:40:35.399 it was a strike. Your eyes deceive you all the time, 0:40:35.520 --> 0:40:38.000 especially with Riley O'Brien on the mount and everything that 0:40:38.120 --> 0:40:42.759 his pitches move like crazy. Challenge it. I don't know 0:40:43.400 --> 0:40:47.000 how how that happens. And if I was a Diamondbacks 0:40:47.080 --> 0:40:49.000 and Caudel ends up breaking in these other games. But like, 0:40:49.160 --> 0:40:50.680 those are the things that would drive me crazy. 0:40:50.760 --> 0:40:53.560 No, yeah, one hundred percent. I mean, like we were 0:40:53.560 --> 0:40:55.799 all talking about it in the discord after, like, what 0:40:55.840 --> 0:40:58.360 the what the hell? Oh, what's going on? Right? You 0:40:58.560 --> 0:41:00.560 just had that talk from my ks, then you have 0:41:00.680 --> 0:41:03.200 the two challenges left. He must have just had a 0:41:03.239 --> 0:41:06.120 total brain fart and not thought that they had any 0:41:06.200 --> 0:41:09.200 challenges left. Yeah, or he thought it was a strike, 0:41:10.600 --> 0:41:11.400 which again. 0:41:11.239 --> 0:41:13.120 Like if you thought it was a strike, who cares, 0:41:13.280 --> 0:41:15.640 the game's over? Tap your head, you extend the game 0:41:15.640 --> 0:41:16.920 by at least ten more seconds. 0:41:17.040 --> 0:41:20.319 I wish we learned in a postgame presser what his 0:41:20.440 --> 0:41:22.920 thoughts were, but we didn't hear anything after. So it 0:41:22.960 --> 0:41:24.839 was just kind of one of those things where it's like, 0:41:25.160 --> 0:41:28.840 so it goes almost no words is a lot of words, 0:41:29.160 --> 0:41:29.919 if you know what I mean. 0:41:30.239 --> 0:41:33.839 Yeah. Yeah, So that was a frustrating one, but team 0:41:33.920 --> 0:41:37.040 bounces back and in game two, Brandon Fott continues to 0:41:37.040 --> 0:41:39.840 be effective since returning from triple A, allowing two earned 0:41:39.840 --> 0:41:43.080 in five and a thirds innings. Marte Gabriel Moreno and 0:41:43.120 --> 0:41:46.600 Nolan Arnado each had two hit days and the Diamondbacks 0:41:46.600 --> 0:41:50.200 bullpen continues to be effective despite all odds, five to 0:41:50.200 --> 0:41:53.440 three Diamondbacks win. Then Game three was the one that 0:41:53.480 --> 0:41:55.279 really kind of told me, hey, this Dbacks team, you 0:41:55.280 --> 0:41:57.800 know that they're not going to lay down seven zero 0:41:57.960 --> 0:42:01.320 lead in the fifth for the card They get up big, 0:42:01.680 --> 0:42:05.360 but the d Backs, especially at home, never go away. 0:42:05.920 --> 0:42:08.280 Could tell Marte drove in a run in the sixth, 0:42:08.360 --> 0:42:10.680 you had a couple more runs driven in on what 0:42:10.719 --> 0:42:13.480 shouldn't say driven in, walked in, Gabriel Moreno walked to 0:42:13.520 --> 0:42:14.920 the basis out of town and walk we were walk 0:42:14.960 --> 0:42:16.439 to the basis water. That made it seven to three, 0:42:16.680 --> 0:42:18.600 but then you still had Ryan Sanak get out of 0:42:18.640 --> 0:42:20.799 the jam. Then you go into the seventh inning and 0:42:20.960 --> 0:42:24.319 a two run shot from Herodo Perdomo or two run 0:42:24.360 --> 0:42:26.359 shot was inside the parker made it seven to five, 0:42:26.640 --> 0:42:29.719 and then Noan Aronado tied it up with a two 0:42:29.760 --> 0:42:32.359 run shot of his own at seven to seven going 0:42:32.360 --> 0:42:34.840 to the bottom of the tenth, and Max Kepler walked 0:42:34.840 --> 0:42:38.799 it off with a double eight unanswered to erase a 0:42:39.040 --> 0:42:42.680 seven zero deficit for the Diamondbacks to take the series. 0:42:43.400 --> 0:42:47.239 Baseball is a funny sport because both the Diamondbacks and 0:42:47.280 --> 0:42:49.520 the Red Sox are fifty and forty eight as we 0:42:49.560 --> 0:42:52.680 sit here currently, and I feel like if you ask 0:42:52.920 --> 0:42:56.160 people what their opinions are on both teams at this 0:42:56.320 --> 0:42:59.840 current moment, they'd be completely different. People would say, well, 0:42:59.880 --> 0:43:03.719 the Red Sox are definitely buying what a run. This 0:43:03.800 --> 0:43:06.440 team is really coming together. Watch out for them in 0:43:06.480 --> 0:43:09.920 the playoffs. And then you look at the Diamondbacks and 0:43:09.960 --> 0:43:14.080 you say, thank god they won this series at home 0:43:14.400 --> 0:43:17.279 after their GM said if you win, you gotta buy 0:43:17.840 --> 0:43:22.000 right And the lineup is still it's missing the juice 0:43:22.080 --> 0:43:24.600 that it's had in previous seasons where they just hang 0:43:24.640 --> 0:43:27.760 a crooked number on you like that where it's speed 0:43:27.800 --> 0:43:31.839 and it's defense and it's such a dynamic offense with 0:43:31.960 --> 0:43:34.279 three guys at the top of Perdomo's taking a little 0:43:34.280 --> 0:43:35.560 bit of a step back, but then he played a 0:43:35.560 --> 0:43:38.279 little bit better. Like the Diamondbacks are just a very 0:43:38.320 --> 0:43:41.879 confusing team for me and have really been all season long, 0:43:42.480 --> 0:43:44.759 because when I watch the Diamondbacks, I feel like I'm 0:43:44.840 --> 0:43:49.279 just missing something, like there just isn't that thing that 0:43:49.440 --> 0:43:51.600 makes me want to say, all right, maybe you're not 0:43:51.640 --> 0:43:55.520 playing that well right now, but I see something and 0:43:55.560 --> 0:43:58.399 I'm gonna stick with you. But at the same time, 0:43:58.440 --> 0:44:00.680 then they come back and win again like they did 0:44:00.680 --> 0:44:04.600 on Sunday, kind of gets me going again. They are 0:44:05.160 --> 0:44:09.000 probably out of all thirty, maybe the most confusing to 0:44:09.080 --> 0:44:12.040 me because I also again, Brandon Fought is another good example. 0:44:12.120 --> 0:44:14.640 Four straight starts pitching into the six inning or more 0:44:14.920 --> 0:44:17.759 to earn runs or less. But I've seen a lot 0:44:17.800 --> 0:44:20.920 of bad Brandon Fought. Is this the start of something 0:44:21.000 --> 0:44:24.440 great or is this just a good stretch? You know, 0:44:24.560 --> 0:44:27.520 Merril Kelly, Gallon's on the shelf. They've lost Soroka, they've 0:44:27.520 --> 0:44:30.400 lost Ryan Nelson, Cormyn Burns still hasn't come back yet. 0:44:30.880 --> 0:44:33.399 I don't know. I don't know. I thought I didn't 0:44:33.440 --> 0:44:35.200 like the bullpen, Now I do. I don't know. 0:44:35.480 --> 0:44:38.399 I don't bullpen is crazy. I don't know how they're 0:44:38.400 --> 0:44:42.080 doing this, but they are, and they've deployed guys in 0:44:42.120 --> 0:44:45.399 the right spots and made it happen. And there's what's 0:44:45.400 --> 0:44:47.640 interesting about this team is the amount of pieces that 0:44:47.640 --> 0:44:49.600 they can add from within. We've talked about, you know, 0:44:49.840 --> 0:44:52.480 the pitchers and Burns is going to be really late, 0:44:52.560 --> 0:44:55.120 but being able to get maybe Justin Martinez back and 0:44:55.200 --> 0:44:57.600 aj Pucket sounds like he still we'll probably come back 0:44:57.640 --> 0:44:59.680 at some point this season, and then Soroka should be 0:44:59.680 --> 0:45:02.279 back soon rather than later. Jordan Lawler is a big 0:45:02.320 --> 0:45:03.920 one for me. I think he really figured something out 0:45:03.920 --> 0:45:05.160 this year. He's been so he was swinging it a 0:45:05.200 --> 0:45:08.040 lot better in very limited example, but even in spring 0:45:08.120 --> 0:45:09.839 training the swing mechanics look better. 0:45:10.160 --> 0:45:11.840 Uh, and he just hasn't been able to stay on 0:45:11.840 --> 0:45:12.200 the field. 0:45:12.280 --> 0:45:14.120 So I mean, what that guy would do, even if 0:45:14.120 --> 0:45:16.080 he's a league average hitter or close to it, with 0:45:16.120 --> 0:45:18.279 the speed and defense that he brings, you know, to 0:45:18.360 --> 0:45:20.799 just lengthen this lineup a little bit, what would help 0:45:20.840 --> 0:45:24.560 a ton. So yeah, I'm interested to see, but tough 0:45:24.600 --> 0:45:26.920 team to figure out one hundred percent. I like the 0:45:26.960 --> 0:45:28.799 fire that you know is kind of lit under them 0:45:28.840 --> 0:45:30.759 and see, you know, if they kind of do what 0:45:30.760 --> 0:45:32.640 they've done the last few years in the second half, 0:45:32.680 --> 0:45:35.279 which is just kind of make a push. And on 0:45:35.320 --> 0:45:39.280 the other side, it's really hard to win a series 0:45:39.560 --> 0:45:42.040 and put put the dumonbacks away in Arizona. 0:45:42.440 --> 0:45:43.359 It just is. 0:45:43.960 --> 0:45:48.799 And I think like with the bullpen that the Cardinals have, 0:45:48.960 --> 0:45:51.759 like it's not bad, but some of those arms, like 0:45:52.080 --> 0:45:53.759 this is a place for them to struggle, and I 0:45:53.920 --> 0:45:55.759 just think that's kind of what happened in the final game. 0:45:56.120 --> 0:45:57.920 Yeah, it's one of those where it just shit happens. 0:45:57.920 --> 0:45:59.919 He throw it over your shoulder and just go all right, 0:46:00.040 --> 0:46:03.560 let's move on to the next. Jeordan Walker twenty one 0:46:03.640 --> 0:46:07.640 straight games on base, carrying over from before the break, 0:46:07.760 --> 0:46:10.120 won the home run derby. He's hitting close to three hundred. 0:46:10.160 --> 0:46:13.120 He's pacing the National League and RBIs I think he's 0:46:13.160 --> 0:46:16.000 still the leader. But every single time I turn on 0:46:16.040 --> 0:46:18.799 the Astros game, Jordon's up driving somebody in. So like 0:46:18.920 --> 0:46:21.440 maybe maybe jordont overtook it, but what I do know 0:46:21.480 --> 0:46:23.480 is that he's pacing the National League. Like what a 0:46:23.520 --> 0:46:26.920 season from him. JJ Weatherholt has been great. But again, 0:46:27.160 --> 0:46:28.520 I still think the Cardinals are going to be a 0:46:28.520 --> 0:46:31.239 playoff team. I've been pretty consistent about that for the 0:46:31.360 --> 0:46:35.120 last like two or three months. This doesn't change any 0:46:35.120 --> 0:46:36.600 of that bad series. You move on. 0:46:37.080 --> 0:46:40.600 Shout out Michael McGreevy, the goat he's up to. You know, 0:46:40.640 --> 0:46:43.680 everyone talking about the underlying metrics regression whatever, the sample 0:46:43.760 --> 0:46:46.400 keeps getting bigger. Yeah, we're at one hundred eight innings 0:46:46.440 --> 0:46:49.319 now of a sub three E and he went out. 0:46:49.680 --> 0:46:52.239 This would be the game where the regression hits right 0:46:52.600 --> 0:46:55.840 from a gravy out in Arizona. Nope, Nope, one earned 0:46:56.000 --> 0:46:58.440 and six and a third and two nine to two 0:46:58.680 --> 0:47:02.280 ERA for Michael Grievy. Guy's a walking quality start. 0:47:02.600 --> 0:47:07.439 This is the guy who if your dad or mom 0:47:07.560 --> 0:47:10.239 or anyone older in your family is constantly yelling at 0:47:10.239 --> 0:47:13.719 the TV about analytics, yeah, tell them to go watch 0:47:13.760 --> 0:47:17.840 Michael McGreevy. You're watching a nineteen fifties pitcher. 0:47:18.040 --> 0:47:20.520 Nobody pitches anymore, no one holds runners on. 0:47:20.960 --> 0:47:23.760 He does it all. Go watch Michael McGreevy. Then show 0:47:23.800 --> 0:47:27.480 your parents Michael McGreevy at see the old form of baseball. 0:47:27.560 --> 0:47:29.319 It's still alive in today's game. 0:47:29.560 --> 0:47:32.439 I love it. He's the perfect example. We're gonna get 0:47:32.440 --> 0:47:35.080 into Peter's ten series, but before that, we got a 0:47:35.080 --> 0:47:38.360 pretty fun release coming up here. One of my favorite 0:47:38.360 --> 0:47:40.440 of the year. I think anyone who collects baseball cards, 0:47:40.719 --> 0:47:44.480 it's Tops Chrome, and Top's Chrome comes out on July 0:47:44.719 --> 0:47:47.360 twenty second, and if you go to your local lids, 0:47:47.600 --> 0:47:51.080 let's have something awesome going for Rip to rep from 0:47:51.120 --> 0:47:54.640 July twenty second to twenty six. 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Moved to Game two, Blue Jays win 0:50:46.120 --> 0:50:48.439 one to zero. Arm I remember we were talking about 0:50:48.440 --> 0:50:51.160 this game on the weekend preview, and it was Davis 0:50:51.160 --> 0:50:54.120 Martin taking on Shane Bieber, two pitchers that I think 0:50:54.120 --> 0:50:56.240 both of us were aligned where we had no idea 0:50:56.280 --> 0:50:58.480 what they were going to get us. Could have been dominant, 0:50:58.560 --> 0:51:02.040 could have been bad, both dominant. Bieber delivered his best 0:51:02.080 --> 0:51:08.120 outing of the season, tossing six shutty three hits, six strikeouts, 0:51:08.120 --> 0:51:11.200 and Davis Martin certainly competed. He allowed just one run 0:51:11.239 --> 0:51:13.960 over five and two thirds, but the offense was shut out, 0:51:14.040 --> 0:51:15.680 so of course he took the loss, and the loan 0:51:15.800 --> 0:51:18.320 run in this game came on a George Springer RBI single. 0:51:18.680 --> 0:51:21.160 In Game three, White Sox win three to zero. They 0:51:21.200 --> 0:51:25.400 blank him. Sean Burke take a bow six and two thirds, 0:51:25.440 --> 0:51:29.640 two hit ball, no runs, five strikeouts. His era's down 0:51:29.640 --> 0:51:31.919 a three to two zero. He's turning into the White 0:51:31.920 --> 0:51:34.880 Sox best pitcher, even with Davis Martin having an awesome 0:51:34.960 --> 0:51:37.719 year and Treya Savage was great in this game through 0:51:37.760 --> 0:51:40.560 five innings, but in the sixth Coulson Montgomery hit a 0:51:40.560 --> 0:51:44.320 homer and Brada Montgomery had an RBI single. White Sox 0:51:44.360 --> 0:51:47.280 win the series and they are still in first place 0:51:47.480 --> 0:51:51.640 with the Guardians tumbling against the Pits Berg pirates. What 0:51:51.680 --> 0:51:53.160 was your biggest takeaway from this one? 0:51:53.880 --> 0:51:56.680 Bieber? Honestly, just because I also just have a bias 0:51:56.719 --> 0:51:59.120 towards that guy. I just want to see that guy succeed. 0:51:59.160 --> 0:52:01.760 He just seems like a rose pro. I've always enjoyed 0:52:01.760 --> 0:52:04.279 watching him throw. He's overcome a lot of injuries and 0:52:04.360 --> 0:52:07.040 just coming back again here and looking as rough as 0:52:07.040 --> 0:52:10.080 he has looked. I just really, I really want to 0:52:10.080 --> 0:52:10.920 see that guy succeed. 0:52:10.960 --> 0:52:11.040 Oh. 0:52:11.080 --> 0:52:13.200 He's also just a very fun pitcher to watch because 0:52:13.239 --> 0:52:15.759 he executes the command. It's generally so good. And for 0:52:15.800 --> 0:52:18.160 the Blue Jays, like I know, it feels like it's 0:52:18.160 --> 0:52:20.719 slipping away and you drop another series and you just 0:52:20.760 --> 0:52:24.120 can't hit. But man, if it does slip away, then 0:52:24.120 --> 0:52:27.000 Shane Bieber's a decent trade chip. So it just benefits 0:52:27.040 --> 0:52:29.799 them for Meeber to throw the ball. Well, I can't 0:52:29.920 --> 0:52:32.680 escape the obvious elephant in the room. The Blue Jays 0:52:32.960 --> 0:52:38.920 cannot hit, They cannot hit, Nope, And it's gonna be 0:52:39.000 --> 0:52:42.359 what does them in because the odds of these this 0:52:42.480 --> 0:52:43.919 and this is the funny thing we're just talking about, 0:52:43.920 --> 0:52:45.960 like the marathon that is Major League Baseball season. But 0:52:46.239 --> 0:52:49.000 it ain't a marathon to the to the trade deadline. 0:52:49.080 --> 0:52:52.799 That's just about a sprint now, right, And I just 0:52:52.880 --> 0:52:56.880 don't know how these bats can get going enough in 0:52:56.960 --> 0:52:59.000 this short period of time. And the thing is, too 0:52:59.120 --> 0:53:02.319 is like your picture did their job. The White Sox 0:53:02.360 --> 0:53:04.880 are a great offense, and in the final two games, 0:53:05.000 --> 0:53:07.680 your pitchers limited the White Sox to three runs combined 0:53:07.719 --> 0:53:09.879 in the final two and you could only win one 0:53:09.880 --> 0:53:12.120 of them, and you're lucky that you won one of them. 0:53:12.600 --> 0:53:14.719 That's been the thing with the Blue Jays hall season long, 0:53:14.840 --> 0:53:18.480 is they can't sink both at the same time. They'll 0:53:18.480 --> 0:53:21.719 get stretches where their offense looks okay, and that's when 0:53:21.760 --> 0:53:25.320 the pitchers just give up a trillion runs in this series. 0:53:25.560 --> 0:53:29.640 Their pitching look great against a good offense, and nobody 0:53:29.719 --> 0:53:34.800 shows up offensively. A Springer, I guess, I guess, But Vladdie, 0:53:35.280 --> 0:53:38.600 I mean, among the stars in Major League Baseball, he's 0:53:38.640 --> 0:53:42.680 having one of the most disappointing seasons in the game. Right. 0:53:42.719 --> 0:53:45.480 It's bad abs he's put and then when he hits 0:53:45.520 --> 0:53:47.399 the ball hard, it's on the ground. I've been saying 0:53:47.400 --> 0:53:49.200 it all year because it's the same thing I keep 0:53:49.239 --> 0:53:51.640 watching over and over again. It's like the definition of 0:53:51.640 --> 0:53:54.080 insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting 0:53:54.080 --> 0:53:57.680 a different result. That's what I'm seeing right now from Vladdie. 0:53:58.120 --> 0:54:01.759 It's insanity how bad his abs are. But I want 0:54:01.760 --> 0:54:05.799 to talk about the White Sox, and notably Sean Burke, 0:54:06.880 --> 0:54:11.319 because I wasn't lying when I said that Sean Burke 0:54:11.440 --> 0:54:14.000 might be a better pitcher than Davis Martin in our 0:54:14.040 --> 0:54:16.160 discord Shout out the discord. You can join through the 0:54:16.160 --> 0:54:20.719 link of the episode description. Someone asked Peter, or they 0:54:20.800 --> 0:54:22.359 might have just asked the group, and I chimed in 0:54:22.400 --> 0:54:25.279 because I was watching Sean Burke at the moment, and 0:54:25.320 --> 0:54:28.359 they said, who's better, Davis Martin or Sean Burke? And 0:54:28.400 --> 0:54:31.400 I said, well, you can't argue with Davis Martin's production, 0:54:32.560 --> 0:54:38.680 but who's better? From watching Sean Burke looks dominant. In 0:54:38.680 --> 0:54:42.800 his last six starts, He's allowed to earned runs once, 0:54:44.080 --> 0:54:47.840 all other times one earned run, and then of course 0:54:48.480 --> 0:54:52.680 in his last start on Sunday, no earn runs. And 0:54:52.719 --> 0:54:54.880 now it is against the Blue Jays offense. I get it, 0:54:55.520 --> 0:54:58.560 but at the same time, this isn't new for him. 0:54:58.760 --> 0:55:01.640 He's lowered a Zra into the threes. I think low 0:55:01.680 --> 0:55:06.000 threes now low three two three two yeah, exactly, to 0:55:06.040 --> 0:55:08.719 be exact, So, I mean this guy is a real 0:55:08.840 --> 0:55:12.040 arm because I think the White Sox right now, you've 0:55:12.120 --> 0:55:15.600 got you get your offense right. Yeah, Kyle Teel is 0:55:15.600 --> 0:55:18.960 still struggling, but like you fine, exactly, Like I think 0:55:18.960 --> 0:55:21.319 he's going to be fine, but you are looking for 0:55:21.360 --> 0:55:24.160 starters for the long term. Dave has proven that he's 0:55:24.200 --> 0:55:26.800 that guy, but who else? Right, it's probably not Anthony 0:55:26.880 --> 0:55:30.120 k You know, Hagen Smith hasn't come up and helped. 0:55:30.120 --> 0:55:33.080 Noah Schultz has been too inconsistent to really stamp him 0:55:33.080 --> 0:55:35.760 as part of the core. You hope. So he's super talented, 0:55:36.000 --> 0:55:38.840 but you don't have any proof yet. Sean Burke is 0:55:38.920 --> 0:55:41.719 providing proof and ex cudding for them. 0:55:42.080 --> 0:55:43.680 Well, and those two guys at the top. Like the 0:55:43.680 --> 0:55:45.560 fact that you're having a conversation of which of these 0:55:45.560 --> 0:55:49.360 guys is better? Like a year ago, that question may 0:55:49.400 --> 0:55:50.719 have been like which of them is better to be 0:55:50.760 --> 0:55:53.359 a five starter for your four starter for you a bet? 0:55:53.400 --> 0:55:54.879 So like the fact that it's which of these guys 0:55:54.920 --> 0:55:56.359 that are at the top of a rotation are better? 0:55:56.360 --> 0:55:58.160 I think is really exciting. I do agree. I think 0:55:58.160 --> 0:56:00.480 the Burke like the Burke fastball shape, and I think 0:56:00.520 --> 0:56:02.640 the way that that sets the tone. So so six 0:56:02.719 --> 0:56:06.200 six to forty, I think there's a little bit more 0:56:06.719 --> 0:56:08.440 going for him there. And I just think when you 0:56:08.440 --> 0:56:10.440 have the fastball shape that Burke has, it's going to 0:56:10.480 --> 0:56:13.000 help him a little bit more. He extends down the 0:56:13.040 --> 0:56:15.279 mound well also, like I think he is a little 0:56:15.280 --> 0:56:17.560 bit of a higher floor, as interesting as that is. 0:56:17.600 --> 0:56:22.279 And yeah, two development successes for the White Sox guys 0:56:22.280 --> 0:56:24.120 that again we'll take there trending more like depth arms 0:56:24.120 --> 0:56:28.080 at certain points now are solid, solid rotation pieces for you. 0:56:28.120 --> 0:56:30.759 And even more reason I think for the White Sox 0:56:30.800 --> 0:56:32.560 to say, like, hey, we we should go out and 0:56:32.560 --> 0:56:34.800 be a little bit more aggressive at the deadline because 0:56:34.920 --> 0:56:37.880 we've got two solid rotation pieces. We've got other irons 0:56:37.880 --> 0:56:40.000 in the fire that like maybe Schultz makes that lead, 0:56:40.160 --> 0:56:42.040 you know, maybe maybe we can bring somebody up and 0:56:42.040 --> 0:56:43.960 they make an impact. But we've got a couple of 0:56:43.960 --> 0:56:46.920 strong guys. Let's go get a third and I hope 0:56:46.960 --> 0:56:47.399 they do it. 0:56:47.880 --> 0:56:50.640 Johnny Cash, I agree with you. Sean Burke is that dude, 0:56:50.719 --> 0:56:53.160 and he is a dog. For all those listening, the 0:56:53.160 --> 0:56:56.080 best way to support this YouTube live stream. Make sure 0:56:56.080 --> 0:56:59.560 you just smash the like button and subscribe Button's totally free. 0:56:59.560 --> 0:57:01.759 And of course if you're listening to us after the 0:57:01.800 --> 0:57:04.600 fact on audio. Best way to support the Just Baseball 0:57:04.600 --> 0:57:09.840 Show a five star review and certainly tell your friends 0:57:09.960 --> 0:57:13.960 let's go over to Mets taking on the Phillies Game one, 0:57:14.000 --> 0:57:17.040 which was on Thursday, which I thought was so mean 0:57:17.080 --> 0:57:20.080 of Major League Baseball. I know, of course it's probably 0:57:20.120 --> 0:57:22.320 a TV thing where they're trying to get another game 0:57:22.360 --> 0:57:24.800 in primetime, but they didn't even give the Mets and 0:57:24.840 --> 0:57:26.720 Phillies like a real All Star break and then they 0:57:26.720 --> 0:57:28.680 were like, oh, well you could take a day off tomorrow. 0:57:29.600 --> 0:57:32.800 Mean, I saw Tray Turner. I saw Trey Turner in 0:57:32.840 --> 0:57:34.920 the airport when I when I flew into Palm Beach 0:57:35.200 --> 0:57:37.040 and I'm walking out and I'm like, why is Trey 0:57:37.080 --> 0:57:38.920 already flying back? And I was like, oh, yeah, he's 0:57:38.920 --> 0:57:41.080 got to go back now, kind of like he's holding 0:57:41.120 --> 0:57:43.920 his kids, like instead of having an extra day at 0:57:43.920 --> 0:57:45.080 home with the family. 0:57:45.200 --> 0:57:47.120 Yeah. I again, they didn't really get a real All 0:57:47.160 --> 0:57:49.760 Star break. Game one, Mets went four to one. Again. 0:57:49.800 --> 0:57:52.720 This was on Thursday. This was Homer party, but most 0:57:52.720 --> 0:57:55.720 of them came from the Mets Alvarez homer twice. Baty homered, 0:57:55.920 --> 0:57:57.760 but the loan run from Philly was on a Trey 0:57:57.800 --> 0:58:01.400 Turner homer. Christian Scott dominant over five and two thirds, 0:58:01.400 --> 0:58:04.160 allowing three hits, no runs, seven shrikeouts to lower his 0:58:04.200 --> 0:58:08.040 ERA to two eight seven. Aaron Nola quality start six innings, 0:58:08.040 --> 0:58:10.600 three runs, six k's, but he did allow those three 0:58:10.600 --> 0:58:13.680 homers because that's what Aeronola does. His era's at five 0:58:13.960 --> 0:58:16.760 six eight moved to Game two. Phillies win six to one. Again, 0:58:16.800 --> 0:58:19.200 this was on Saturday. Schwarber started the game with a 0:58:19.200 --> 0:58:22.240 two run shot and Tyrone Taylor answered with a solo 0:58:22.280 --> 0:58:24.680 shot in the second, but from there it was all Phillies. 0:58:25.000 --> 0:58:27.560 That was the lone run has us Zardo allowed, going 0:58:27.640 --> 0:58:31.360 five innings with seven strikeouts, lowering his ERA to three 0:58:31.520 --> 0:58:34.120 four to three. Hearing a lot of people in our 0:58:34.280 --> 0:58:37.800 Discord Shout Out podcast p calling him the if man, 0:58:38.200 --> 0:58:41.439 talking about his underlying metrics. He'll never be those. Hey, 0:58:41.880 --> 0:58:44.000 Hay Suzardo is one of the league leaders in shrikeouts 0:58:44.040 --> 0:58:45.720 and he's got a three four to three ARA. Let's 0:58:45.720 --> 0:58:48.840 put some respect on his name. Trey Turner homerd Boehm 0:58:48.960 --> 0:58:52.240 and Harper had RBI singles cruise to a win Game three. 0:58:52.880 --> 0:58:55.520 Mets win six to one. Five runs from the Mets 0:58:55.520 --> 0:58:57.920 in the first two innings ended this one as McLean 0:58:58.080 --> 0:59:02.360 was downright filthy, shrinking out ten. He threw some curveballs 0:59:02.480 --> 0:59:06.800 arm where I was like, holy shit, he's gross pitching 0:59:06.800 --> 0:59:09.840 in jappost at one of his curveballs thirty six hundred RPMs. 0:59:10.040 --> 0:59:12.400 I mean, it's just stupid. He threw one to Harper. 0:59:12.880 --> 0:59:15.280 I actually felt bad for Harper. It was so nasty. 0:59:15.440 --> 0:59:20.000 I was like, that's just that's unfair. So again, six shutout, 0:59:20.000 --> 0:59:23.160 two hits, allowed ten punchies. Lindor went three for three 0:59:23.200 --> 0:59:26.400 with three RBIs, including a homer the first four bats, 0:59:26.400 --> 0:59:29.560 and the Mets lineup aj Ewing won Soto Bashaddon. Of course, 0:59:29.600 --> 0:59:33.720 Lindor had multiple hits. Hey, Mets win the series. Yeah, 0:59:33.960 --> 0:59:36.040 so that more of a like a Mets thing, or 0:59:36.120 --> 0:59:39.400 is it like Philly's what the hell? Come on, that's 0:59:39.600 --> 0:59:42.120 the whole brod derby. Sanchez gives up all three runs 0:59:42.120 --> 0:59:43.720 at the altar, gave it the right out the break, 0:59:43.760 --> 0:59:45.160 you lose to the Mets. Come on. 0:59:45.560 --> 0:59:47.680 Yeah, the vibes are a little a little low right now. 0:59:47.720 --> 0:59:49.520 I was gonna point out too real quick when we're 0:59:49.560 --> 0:59:52.400 talking about tops Chroman cards like that. I've known a 0:59:52.400 --> 0:59:54.760 few no on mcclaim cards. My favorite thing about it, 0:59:54.800 --> 0:59:57.320 for those that are watching on YouTube is he's hitting 0:59:57.360 --> 1:00:00.400 in his boat first. So I think that's gonna sick 1:00:00.400 --> 1:00:03.320 in like ten years, when Nolan McLain's just this established 1:00:03.400 --> 1:00:05.840 stud pitcher, people are gonna forget that he came up 1:00:05.880 --> 1:00:07.920 doing both a little bit and you will get his 1:00:07.960 --> 1:00:10.480 first card. It's Nolan McLain with an elbow guard, you know, 1:00:10.960 --> 1:00:13.560 getting ready to take it, take a swing. But no, 1:00:13.720 --> 1:00:18.320 I think, look, it's at the moral victory part of 1:00:18.760 --> 1:00:21.280 the Mets season. There's two things. Hope that the rentals 1:00:21.280 --> 1:00:23.400 that you're going to trade away start balling a little 1:00:23.400 --> 1:00:25.600 bit so you can improve their trade value, and two 1:00:25.960 --> 1:00:29.200 find the moral victories for next year. Christian Scott's given 1:00:29.280 --> 1:00:31.360 you that, and Nolan McLain. I don't think anyone was 1:00:31.360 --> 1:00:33.600 concerned about him long term, but you want to see 1:00:33.600 --> 1:00:36.160 this guy have a great second half and go into 1:00:36.200 --> 1:00:38.000 next year and say, all right, we've got our number 1:00:38.000 --> 1:00:40.720 one with Christians or number one with Nolan mclan. We've 1:00:40.720 --> 1:00:43.360 got a number three yearsh potential type of guy like 1:00:43.440 --> 1:00:45.800 Christian Scott. We got to fill in now from there, 1:00:46.000 --> 1:00:48.840 but at least we've got two really good young arms. 1:00:49.480 --> 1:00:53.400 I think this start for mcclan was spectacular, the two 1:00:53.480 --> 1:00:56.760 hits only only walking to and we talk about putting 1:00:56.800 --> 1:00:59.280 guys away because sometimes he doesn't get the chase that 1:00:59.360 --> 1:01:01.360 you would that you would get sometimes I think the 1:01:01.360 --> 1:01:03.240 pitches are just too big. You got the chase, he 1:01:03.280 --> 1:01:05.920 got the whift ten punch outs. That's my big takeaways, Like, 1:01:07.120 --> 1:01:09.080 you can't even be mad about the Phillies. This was 1:01:09.200 --> 1:01:11.200 a guy that has the stuff to be a frontline starter, 1:01:11.440 --> 1:01:12.360 showing us that. 1:01:13.400 --> 1:01:16.600 No doubt about it with the Phillies. A couple interesting 1:01:16.640 --> 1:01:21.200 comments from postgame pressers. Trey Turner was asked kind of 1:01:21.200 --> 1:01:24.640 about about his down season. Yeah, and he made a 1:01:24.680 --> 1:01:26.720 comment about his batting average on balls and play and 1:01:26.720 --> 1:01:28.960 how it kind of doesn't make any sense and based 1:01:29.000 --> 1:01:31.720 on the quality of contact like in previous years he's 1:01:31.760 --> 1:01:33.720 always been he's got a ton of speed. He knows 1:01:33.760 --> 1:01:36.200 he still has it. Sprint speed would agree with him, 1:01:36.440 --> 1:01:38.360 but I saw like his batting average on balls and 1:01:38.400 --> 1:01:40.960 play is like two sixty two seventy. That's just not 1:01:41.240 --> 1:01:44.120 what we're used to from Trey Turner. So it does 1:01:44.200 --> 1:01:46.680 tell me like, all right, you know he's aware of this, 1:01:48.080 --> 1:01:50.880 He's not in his own head. It does seem like 1:01:50.880 --> 1:01:54.160 like he feels like he's hitting the ball okay, he's 1:01:54.200 --> 1:01:58.040 just not getting the results, which actually I like that 1:01:58.600 --> 1:02:02.080 from a hitter rather than just sulking like he knows 1:02:02.200 --> 1:02:04.840 it's sometimes with baseball, it's a long season. Guys to 1:02:04.880 --> 1:02:07.760 go through spells. If he feels good about the process, 1:02:08.240 --> 1:02:11.240 Trey Turner has done enough to earn our respect where 1:02:11.280 --> 1:02:13.080 it's like, all right, I trust you to get out 1:02:13.120 --> 1:02:14.640 of it now. At the same time, he's got to 1:02:14.640 --> 1:02:16.400 get out of it, and this was a good series 1:02:16.440 --> 1:02:18.800 from him. Yeah, he's got to get out of it right, 1:02:18.840 --> 1:02:22.240 and I think he eventually will. Alec Bohm also had 1:02:22.280 --> 1:02:25.480 some comments when he was asked what's going on with 1:02:25.520 --> 1:02:28.120 the Phillies offense right now? And he made a comment 1:02:28.160 --> 1:02:29.840 that like I agree with and I don't agree with. 1:02:30.520 --> 1:02:33.919 He said, the pitching is just really good. In Major 1:02:34.000 --> 1:02:37.000 League Baseball. You run into some bullpens that just have 1:02:37.280 --> 1:02:41.080 high octane stuff. These starters are excellent and some guys. 1:02:41.120 --> 1:02:45.280 Guys just go through lulls, and I agree with the premise. However, 1:02:45.320 --> 1:02:49.600 the Phillies have had a tough stretch in July, and 1:02:49.720 --> 1:02:53.600 it's been against the Pirates, the Royals, the Reds, the Tigers, 1:02:53.640 --> 1:02:56.960 and now the Mets, so they're not exactly going through 1:02:57.000 --> 1:03:03.400 regauntlet of pitching. I think there are bigger problems afoot. Yeah, 1:03:03.440 --> 1:03:07.200 I think the problems sit with we're kind of waiting 1:03:07.200 --> 1:03:10.080 on Schwarburne Harper to come back through the lineup. Obviously 1:03:10.120 --> 1:03:12.920 he can't say that, and Boom has actually had a 1:03:12.960 --> 1:03:16.240 better few months, so he's not the problem. But the 1:03:16.240 --> 1:03:18.000 guy at the top of the lineup has been the problem, 1:03:18.040 --> 1:03:20.360 and the guys after Alec Bohm have been a major 1:03:20.360 --> 1:03:23.400 problem that he's not gonna say the truth. I will 1:03:24.440 --> 1:03:27.000 problem with the Phillies offense. It's not just because pitching 1:03:27.080 --> 1:03:29.560 is great, even though I do agree it's really hard 1:03:29.600 --> 1:03:31.480 to hit a baseball. These guys are disgusting. 1:03:31.960 --> 1:03:34.840 Yeah, well, it's not gonna get any easier. So that's 1:03:34.840 --> 1:03:37.080 why I don't really get that explanation, like, yes, it's hard, 1:03:37.160 --> 1:03:41.120 but like you're gonna still be facing big league bullpens 1:03:41.160 --> 1:03:44.560 with high octane stuff after this too, So yes, it's 1:03:44.600 --> 1:03:46.840 really hard. Yeah, there's gonna be stretches where it's not 1:03:46.920 --> 1:03:50.040 going right, but the whole point is to figure out 1:03:50.040 --> 1:03:51.720 why it's not going right. And maybe it's just the 1:03:51.720 --> 1:03:53.480 ebbs and flows of it. But I agree with what 1:03:53.520 --> 1:03:56.360 you're saying. It's not like they were facing like even 1:03:56.400 --> 1:03:58.040 just talking about with the Marlins. They could say, hey, 1:03:58.080 --> 1:04:00.320 we ran into the Guardians and the Brewer. If we 1:04:00.320 --> 1:04:02.439 don't pick it up in the next series, then there's 1:04:02.480 --> 1:04:04.240 something going on with us. But maybe that's just a 1:04:04.240 --> 1:04:07.439 six game stretch where ran into some tough, tough bullpen arms. 1:04:07.840 --> 1:04:10.680 You run into the Dodgers and the Padres bullpens and 1:04:10.680 --> 1:04:12.840 it's just like, ah, gosh, it's just we can't get 1:04:12.840 --> 1:04:14.760 it going. If you don't get at the starter, you're cooked. 1:04:15.480 --> 1:04:18.480 I think there's obviously merit to it. But I agree 1:04:18.480 --> 1:04:20.840 with you, like the whole premise I think with this 1:04:20.880 --> 1:04:23.200 Phillies offense right now, and like the frustration is that, like, 1:04:24.480 --> 1:04:26.640 who who is the guy that you're looking forward to 1:04:26.680 --> 1:04:30.560 coming up in the order outside of the obvious, And 1:04:30.600 --> 1:04:32.760 I just I just don't know who that is. And 1:04:32.760 --> 1:04:34.480 you're very much hoping that it gets around to the top. 1:04:34.520 --> 1:04:37.040 I think it was big that, you know, Turner had 1:04:37.040 --> 1:04:39.120 the series that he had in Boma, as you mentioned, 1:04:39.160 --> 1:04:41.960 has continued to be better since he was really not good. 1:04:43.120 --> 1:04:46.360 But I still look at this team, they're gonna need to, 1:04:46.840 --> 1:04:49.560 you know, address the back of this lineup. Quick shout. 1:04:49.560 --> 1:04:51.720 Gabriel Winknis did one of the craziest things I've ever 1:04:51.760 --> 1:04:56.080 seen on a baseball field. There's a fly ball. He 1:04:56.480 --> 1:04:59.360 seemingly lost it in the sun. His glasses were on. 1:04:59.320 --> 1:05:01.680 The top of his Oh yeah, I saw that. 1:05:01.800 --> 1:05:04.520 He took the glasses off the top of his hat, 1:05:04.800 --> 1:05:07.800 put them on his eyes, found the ball again and 1:05:07.880 --> 1:05:11.120 caught it. I've never in my life seen that, and 1:05:11.160 --> 1:05:13.160 I would go blind staring at the sun before I 1:05:13.200 --> 1:05:13.560 do that. 1:05:13.640 --> 1:05:15.360 He was in a bad position and he couldn't make 1:05:15.360 --> 1:05:17.480 the throw in and the runners advance because of that. 1:05:17.600 --> 1:05:20.120 Put your damn glasses on. But I agree, it was like, wait, 1:05:20.240 --> 1:05:21.919 did I just kind of say, see what I thought? 1:05:21.960 --> 1:05:24.280 I saw. The fact that he was able to put 1:05:24.320 --> 1:05:26.880 the glasses on while the ball was in the air, 1:05:27.000 --> 1:05:28.480 find the ball and make the catch some one of 1:05:28.520 --> 1:05:29.600 the craziest things I've ever seen. 1:05:29.920 --> 1:05:33.520 I agree that was cool. Let's talk about the second 1:05:33.560 --> 1:05:36.400 hottest team in baseball behind the Boston Red Sox, and 1:05:36.440 --> 1:05:38.320 that is the Baltimore Orioles, as they took on the 1:05:38.360 --> 1:05:41.080 Astros this weekend and swept them out of their own building. 1:05:41.440 --> 1:05:44.040 Game one, Orioles win, three to two. Houston had a 1:05:44.080 --> 1:05:46.000 two to one lead going into the eighth as Peter 1:05:46.080 --> 1:05:50.520 Lambert was fantastic the best arm this year six innings 1:05:50.520 --> 1:05:53.440 of one run ball with ten punchies, but then Taylor 1:05:53.480 --> 1:05:55.720 Ward took the game into his own hands, rocking a 1:05:55.760 --> 1:05:58.200 two run shot to give Baltimore the lead and the 1:05:58.280 --> 1:06:00.760 win moved the game two Orioles four to two, and 1:06:00.800 --> 1:06:02.640 eleven innings, it was a one to one tie going 1:06:02.680 --> 1:06:05.720 into extras as Arraghetti allowed just one hit and one 1:06:05.800 --> 1:06:09.120 run over five innings and Trevor Rodgers pitched into the seventh, 1:06:09.240 --> 1:06:12.880 only allowing one run and striking out eight. Both teams 1:06:12.880 --> 1:06:15.400 trade runs in the tenth, but an eleventh inning rally 1:06:15.440 --> 1:06:19.320 started by Tyler O'Neill sealed the Orioles sixth straight win 1:06:19.480 --> 1:06:23.360 moved the game three. Orioles win, five to two. Brandon 1:06:23.440 --> 1:06:26.919 Young spun a gem, tossing seven innings a one run 1:06:26.960 --> 1:06:30.280 ball with seven strikeouts. What a season he's had, rocking 1:06:30.280 --> 1:06:33.280 a three to two five el Hunter Brown did not 1:06:33.360 --> 1:06:35.640 make it out of the fifth after allowing four runs 1:06:35.640 --> 1:06:38.960 as Leo di Taveres and Gunner Henderson had RBI hits, 1:06:39.240 --> 1:06:43.960 Kobe Mayo and Josel Tuove traded homers. Late Orioles sweep 1:06:44.520 --> 1:06:48.200 seven straight wins. Are them. They sit forty nine and 1:06:48.280 --> 1:06:50.840 fifty one. They're two games out of the final wild 1:06:50.880 --> 1:06:53.760 card spot. But as of course, as soon as they 1:06:53.800 --> 1:06:56.240 win seven in a row, the Red Sox win thirteen 1:06:56.320 --> 1:06:58.720 in a row and they're just, you know, what is it, 1:06:58.760 --> 1:07:01.040 two games above them in the standings. Before we talk 1:07:01.080 --> 1:07:03.000 about the Orioles this past weekend, I do want to 1:07:03.000 --> 1:07:06.360 ask you about the Kyle Bradish extension. They bypassed two 1:07:06.400 --> 1:07:09.520 years of arbitration and they gave him five years ninety 1:07:09.680 --> 1:07:13.520 million dollars. When that initially came in, I felt that's 1:07:13.520 --> 1:07:15.720 a good deal. I don't think it's like a steal 1:07:16.200 --> 1:07:18.640 for the Orioles, where you know, I thought they would 1:07:18.640 --> 1:07:20.840 give him one to ten by the game ninety. I 1:07:20.880 --> 1:07:24.280 think for Bradish at twenty nine years old, flashed great 1:07:24.360 --> 1:07:27.800 stuff in the middle of his career. Tommy John's surgery 1:07:28.080 --> 1:07:30.160 hasn't thrown a ton of innings, but this year he's 1:07:30.200 --> 1:07:33.720 been available, he's been really solid. He's shown flashes a 1:07:33.760 --> 1:07:35.960 few years ago, pitched to a two to eight three era, 1:07:36.400 --> 1:07:40.320 but of course those there are those injury concerns. Peyton 1:07:40.440 --> 1:07:42.760 also mentioned in the discord in zone wif is a 1:07:42.760 --> 1:07:45.360 little bit down right. He's not quite as nasty, but 1:07:45.680 --> 1:07:50.640 lately he has been so to me just seemed fair. 1:07:51.200 --> 1:07:53.280 It's almost I thought in my mind, what would an 1:07:53.320 --> 1:07:56.240 extension me five years? Ninety million? Like, I think they 1:07:56.280 --> 1:07:57.160 both got it right. 1:07:58.120 --> 1:08:01.520 And I think if that's the case, great because the 1:08:01.640 --> 1:08:03.840 I thing you look at the free agent market and 1:08:03.960 --> 1:08:05.840 you say, well, what are we gonna add? You know 1:08:05.960 --> 1:08:08.840 coming up soon? We might as well just take the 1:08:08.880 --> 1:08:11.400 time now to lock up our pitching a little bit 1:08:11.400 --> 1:08:14.200 longer now, Like look, a lot of the question has 1:08:14.240 --> 1:08:17.800 been around, you know, the pitching staff long term for 1:08:18.120 --> 1:08:20.639 the Orioles. But now you look at you got Bradish 1:08:20.680 --> 1:08:23.280 locked up, You've got bas locked up. And I think 1:08:23.320 --> 1:08:25.519 both you still hope can give you a little bit 1:08:25.520 --> 1:08:27.040 more and Bratis we've started to see that. I think 1:08:27.080 --> 1:08:29.240 Bradish can be really, really good, and we've seen that, 1:08:29.439 --> 1:08:30.920 but at worst, both these guys are going to be 1:08:31.000 --> 1:08:33.720 solid aning xeting type of arms. I think that from 1:08:33.720 --> 1:08:37.519 what we've seen, they can give you high threes at 1:08:37.520 --> 1:08:39.760 worst like a low fours and and I don't think 1:08:39.760 --> 1:08:42.200 you're ever going to be like regretting that deal. And 1:08:42.240 --> 1:08:43.559 I think both are going to be better than that. 1:08:43.600 --> 1:08:46.160 I think both these guys are mid threes guys. I 1:08:46.160 --> 1:08:48.960 think Bradish in particular can be a low threes guy, 1:08:49.160 --> 1:08:51.120 and we've seen that, you know, I think of late 1:08:51.160 --> 1:08:53.080 as he started to settle in more and more so 1:08:53.479 --> 1:08:56.960 I like it just anytime you're you're locking up more 1:08:56.960 --> 1:09:00.640 pitching for yourself, especially with where the are kind of 1:09:00.680 --> 1:09:02.599 at organizationally, I think it's a great move. 1:09:03.160 --> 1:09:05.559 And I really like how this Oriols rotation is rounding 1:09:05.560 --> 1:09:08.320 into form. Right. You already talked about Bradish and Boz, 1:09:08.439 --> 1:09:14.000 but Trevor Rodgers continues to dominate our guy. Schroeder in discord, 1:09:14.040 --> 1:09:15.880 I think brought up a good point where it's like 1:09:15.920 --> 1:09:19.000 that early blip, like people were like, oh now he's regressing. 1:09:19.520 --> 1:09:21.000 That could have just been a blip for him, and 1:09:21.040 --> 1:09:23.960 he's actually a dog because lately, I mean, this guy's 1:09:24.000 --> 1:09:26.160 been phenomenal. I know he scattered eight hits, but he 1:09:26.240 --> 1:09:28.960 just has an innate ability to get out of trouble. 1:09:29.439 --> 1:09:32.479 I think he's going to turn and have a similar 1:09:32.600 --> 1:09:36.120 kind of stretch that Andrew Abbott has with the Cincinnati Reds, 1:09:36.120 --> 1:09:39.200 except Trevor Rodgers gets to pitch in a slightly better 1:09:40.040 --> 1:09:43.679 environment for pitching than pitching in Great American Ballpark. When 1:09:43.720 --> 1:09:46.840 you make a mistake as a Cincinnati Red pitching there, 1:09:47.520 --> 1:09:49.160 it's going to hurt you a lot more than where 1:09:49.160 --> 1:09:52.479 Trevor Rodgers is pitching. But especially you know as a lefty, 1:09:52.479 --> 1:09:54.439 you're going to face a lot of righties. Those righties 1:09:54.479 --> 1:09:56.960 want to pull the baseball, and it's really hard to 1:09:57.000 --> 1:10:00.240 hit his alriety at Camden Yards. But then you keep 1:10:00.280 --> 1:10:02.479 going down the line like Dean Kramer. Again, he didn't 1:10:02.520 --> 1:10:04.599 have his best start, but he's still got good stuff, 1:10:04.680 --> 1:10:08.719 Like he's a perfectly fine back of the rotation type 1:10:08.840 --> 1:10:11.080 arm at times, like he looks like a really solid 1:10:11.120 --> 1:10:15.040 number three. And then Brandon Young is god send. I mean, 1:10:15.720 --> 1:10:18.200 the bullpen is still not great, even though Jenny your 1:10:18.240 --> 1:10:21.280 Cano is awesome, Rico Garcia is awesome, but without Ryan Helsley, 1:10:21.320 --> 1:10:24.120 it's been tough like it's not a great bullpen. The offense, 1:10:24.160 --> 1:10:26.960 they've gotten contributions from guys that they haven't really gotten 1:10:27.240 --> 1:10:30.439 from all season long. But my biggest takeaway from the 1:10:30.439 --> 1:10:34.840 Orioles during this hot stretch is this rotation is good. 1:10:35.080 --> 1:10:39.599 Like it is. They are pitching like a top ten rotation, 1:10:40.120 --> 1:10:42.320 like every single one of their arms keeps them in 1:10:42.360 --> 1:10:42.760 ball games. 1:10:42.760 --> 1:10:44.400 I would say it's a high floor. It's a high 1:10:44.439 --> 1:10:46.639 floor rotation all of a sudden, I very much agree. 1:10:46.680 --> 1:10:48.960 And then you still have the pops like if Ooz shoves, 1:10:48.960 --> 1:10:51.000 You're not gonna be shocked if Kramer shot, or excuse me, 1:10:51.000 --> 1:10:52.960 if I mean Kramer will be a little bit surprised, 1:10:52.960 --> 1:10:55.160 but not shocked of bratish shoves. I won't be surprised. 1:10:55.800 --> 1:10:58.200 One other shout a little bit concerned about hundred brown 1:10:58.280 --> 1:11:00.760 six walks. He's gonna need to figure that out. And 1:11:00.800 --> 1:11:04.320 I was like, again, the burning question for this rotation 1:11:04.439 --> 1:11:06.720 was just the volatility Peter Lambert, as you mentioned the 1:11:06.720 --> 1:11:10.559 ten case, he has been fantastic. What a pickup by them. 1:11:10.840 --> 1:11:15.720 My last question is is this the best player that 1:11:15.880 --> 1:11:18.800 we have ever at Just Baseball broke a signing of yes, 1:11:19.320 --> 1:11:24.160 we broke it. On November three, Peter Lambert agrees to 1:11:24.200 --> 1:11:29.120 a minor LEIG deal with the Astros. Reports arm weight 1:11:29.160 --> 1:11:31.200 and of Just Baseball. Twenty eight year old return state 1:11:31.240 --> 1:11:33.799 side after a season in Japan with the Occult Swallows. 1:11:34.840 --> 1:11:36.840 I don't know if I don't know if I've me 1:11:36.960 --> 1:11:40.479 or anyone who just Baseball's broken signing where a player 1:11:40.520 --> 1:11:42.280 has been better than this. This might be the highest 1:11:42.320 --> 1:11:45.559 war Just Baseball broken signing that we've ever had. 1:11:46.040 --> 1:11:49.080 I think we're battling currently on sources, like people forget 1:11:49.200 --> 1:11:52.800 my name is PD sources because I broke the bonuses 1:11:52.840 --> 1:11:56.200 that JJ Blede got in his contract. People forget I 1:11:56.280 --> 1:11:57.840 was the first one to say he got two million 1:11:57.880 --> 1:12:01.920 dollars or two million dollars incentive. So who's having a 1:12:01.920 --> 1:12:05.360 better year? JJ Blade or Peter Lambert? Because I am 1:12:05.439 --> 1:12:07.679 going to take credit for the entire thing with Yeah, 1:12:07.800 --> 1:12:12.800 to say, freak the incentives, that's good. 1:12:12.880 --> 1:12:14.560 I mean, he's gonna hit those incentives. 1:12:14.760 --> 1:12:15.320 I think he is. 1:12:15.360 --> 1:12:17.559 He's got to hit thoseives. He's been great. 1:12:17.960 --> 1:12:19.559 I think you would that one though. 1:12:20.400 --> 1:12:23.840 You actually seriously what a signing by Lamb by the 1:12:23.880 --> 1:12:27.800 Astros on Lambert and like keeping them afloat. But if 1:12:27.800 --> 1:12:30.519 they really skid there, that's gonna be another good trade piece. 1:12:31.160 --> 1:12:33.240 Here's the problem though, The Astros still kind of stink 1:12:33.600 --> 1:12:42.000 and Christian Walker left Saturday's game, Jeremy Pania returned from 1:12:42.000 --> 1:12:44.519 the IL and then now it looks like he might 1:12:44.600 --> 1:12:48.040 get back on the I l I understand the Astros 1:12:48.040 --> 1:12:51.120 have basically said, no matter what we're buying, Like, sure, 1:12:51.400 --> 1:12:53.760 I guess I understand. Last year of a contract for 1:12:53.800 --> 1:12:57.000 your GM owners want to buy. I feel like it's 1:12:57.000 --> 1:13:00.519 one last run. The Astros are forty seven and fiftyfty four, 1:13:00.680 --> 1:13:03.600 in what world should they buy? Like? I think I 1:13:03.640 --> 1:13:08.240 think their pride is going to end up being their downfall. Yeah, 1:13:08.560 --> 1:13:13.800 like them selling these premium pieces and reloading their farm 1:13:14.080 --> 1:13:17.080 instead of what what are you going to do? W 1:13:17.080 --> 1:13:19.320 How do you turn this round? This offense is yord 1:13:19.360 --> 1:13:24.840 on end friends, and the rotation is wildly inconsistent, and 1:13:24.880 --> 1:13:27.760 you're just waiting for Josh Hater in the bullpen. It's 1:13:27.800 --> 1:13:30.800 not a good team there. And it's not like, oh, 1:13:30.800 --> 1:13:34.320 well they've gone unlucky this year. They're expected win losses 1:13:34.360 --> 1:13:37.599 forty five and fifty six. It's even worse. They got 1:13:37.640 --> 1:13:42.040 a negative fifty three run differential. That's nine runs better 1:13:42.080 --> 1:13:47.000 than the Angels. I think it's a bad decision if 1:13:47.040 --> 1:13:49.400 they buy, Like, am I crazy? 1:13:50.360 --> 1:13:53.120 I don't disagree at all. Like I said, the only 1:13:53.160 --> 1:13:55.759 way that I could really buy into this team fully, 1:13:55.760 --> 1:13:58.840 fully buying, is if the starters started stacking good outings 1:13:58.880 --> 1:14:00.960 going into the not like you say, oh, one hundred 1:14:00.960 --> 1:14:03.360 Browns back Lambert keeps doing what he's doing, AMAI is 1:14:03.439 --> 1:14:06.880 only sucking every third start, and you just kind of 1:14:06.880 --> 1:14:09.360 go from there. Ronel Blanco is gonna come back and 1:14:09.439 --> 1:14:12.040 make a start this week? 1:14:12.880 --> 1:14:14.400 What? Yeah? 1:14:14.479 --> 1:14:16.920 I agree. I think if this team does not get 1:14:16.960 --> 1:14:18.559 hot in the next which I just don't think it's 1:14:18.560 --> 1:14:20.519 gonna be the carousel of injuries and things like that, 1:14:21.520 --> 1:14:23.120 I think it's going to be hard to justify. 1:14:24.040 --> 1:14:28.120 I agree. All right, Let's go over to the Padres 1:14:28.280 --> 1:14:32.200 taking on the Royals Game one. Royals win seven to 1:14:32.240 --> 1:14:34.560 six and ten innings. Lane Thomas homered early and a 1:14:34.600 --> 1:14:37.200 Michael Massey RBI single in the eighth gave Casey the lead, 1:14:37.240 --> 1:14:39.360 but the Padres wouldn't go down without a fight. With 1:14:39.479 --> 1:14:41.760 two outs, ty Franz homer to tie the game and 1:14:41.800 --> 1:14:44.680 we head to extras. San Diego put up three in 1:14:44.720 --> 1:14:46.839 the tenth, so the Royals had a mountain to climb, 1:14:47.760 --> 1:14:50.000 and they did it, highlighted by a two run single 1:14:50.040 --> 1:14:53.840 by Carter Jensen to walk it off. Lugo and King 1:14:53.920 --> 1:14:57.320 allowed just one earn run each. Royals win. Game two, 1:14:57.400 --> 1:15:00.519 Royals win six to one, no extras here. Two Royals 1:15:00.600 --> 1:15:02.800 runs in the first basically sealed to win thanks to 1:15:02.840 --> 1:15:06.400 another Lane Thomas home run. He's been on fire. Tatis's 1:15:06.400 --> 1:15:09.400 homer was the Padres loan run. CAGs and Collins had 1:15:09.520 --> 1:15:12.280 RBI hits and Salvey hit a two run shot. Moved 1:15:12.280 --> 1:15:15.599 to Game three, Padres beat the breaks off from nineteen 1:15:15.640 --> 1:15:17.720 to two. They took out their aggression from losing the 1:15:17.760 --> 1:15:21.320 first two early and often putting up seven in the 1:15:21.360 --> 1:15:24.559 first four innings. Welcome to the twenty twenty six season, 1:15:24.680 --> 1:15:27.799 Jackson Merrill. He went four for six with two homers. 1:15:28.120 --> 1:15:32.519 Ty Frantz continues his great season as the Padres best hitter. 1:15:32.920 --> 1:15:36.320 Low Key two for six with two homers and five RBIs. 1:15:36.600 --> 1:15:39.000 Tatis added a homer as well, ending the game with 1:15:39.080 --> 1:15:41.720 four RBIs. It was the first time this season he's 1:15:41.720 --> 1:15:44.760 homered in back to back games, which when I saw 1:15:44.800 --> 1:15:47.720 that I was like, damn, it's July nineteenth. Luis ren 1:15:47.800 --> 1:15:50.600 Heifo had three hits pure domination from the Padres in 1:15:50.760 --> 1:15:54.880 order to avoid the sweep with the Royals. Like I 1:15:54.920 --> 1:15:58.639 feel like you're just looking for solid contributions from guys 1:15:58.760 --> 1:16:02.200 like CAGs, guys like Collins. Right, you're trying to build 1:16:02.200 --> 1:16:05.080 a young core. You're looking for the Robbins to Bobby 1:16:05.080 --> 1:16:08.200 Wood Junior's batman. But then, of course Bobby Wood Junior 1:16:08.200 --> 1:16:10.519 didn't play on Sunday because he's dealing with a little 1:16:10.520 --> 1:16:15.280 bit of backtightness. And on the Padres side, like, I'm 1:16:15.280 --> 1:16:17.880 starting to see Padres fans like really revolt. I think 1:16:17.920 --> 1:16:19.519 losing two out of three out of the break to 1:16:19.560 --> 1:16:21.719 the Royals was a lot of these fans breaking points. 1:16:21.720 --> 1:16:23.680 But then they win nineteen to two on Sunday, Like 1:16:23.880 --> 1:16:26.640 now they're putting Padres fans in a blender. And now 1:16:26.640 --> 1:16:29.759 we're hearing potentially Mason Miller could be dealt that Preller 1:16:29.800 --> 1:16:32.960 wants to buy and sell. Similarly to the Astros, this 1:16:33.000 --> 1:16:35.920 is another conversation of why in the hell would you buy? 1:16:36.280 --> 1:16:39.200 What have you shown all season that tells us you 1:16:39.200 --> 1:16:41.160 should buy? Do you know who ranks dead last and 1:16:41.240 --> 1:16:42.200 runs per game this year. 1:16:42.280 --> 1:16:44.679 Arm I'm a good guess. 1:16:45.040 --> 1:16:48.559 The San Diego Padres Hembo came on and dropped that 1:16:48.800 --> 1:16:52.000 insane stat that still sits with me, that they're run 1:16:52.040 --> 1:16:55.479 differential from the first inning on until like the seventh 1:16:55.560 --> 1:16:58.040 of the eighth is like negative eighty and in the 1:16:58.160 --> 1:17:00.920 ninth inning. They're this unbelievable team. I think they've been 1:17:01.080 --> 1:17:04.719 arguably the luckiest team in baseball. Yeah, and they're forty 1:17:04.880 --> 1:17:09.160 nine and fifty fifty. They're fourteen games back. I get it, 1:17:09.240 --> 1:17:11.360 your three games back to the wild card. But I 1:17:11.520 --> 1:17:16.200 just again, I don't know how who you're gonna buy. 1:17:16.240 --> 1:17:20.200 You're gonna buy three bats, You're gonna tell Manny Machado 1:17:20.200 --> 1:17:23.640 to hit. I don't know what fixes this team. I 1:17:23.680 --> 1:17:25.799 wouldn't buy, But then again, I'm not aj Brower. 1:17:26.600 --> 1:17:28.920 No, I don't know. And I think the thing that 1:17:28.960 --> 1:17:32.360 may fire him up though, is if I mean, well, 1:17:32.760 --> 1:17:34.840 first and foremost, for Nando Tatis is gonna end up 1:17:34.840 --> 1:17:37.120 turning in like a four war season and end up 1:17:37.120 --> 1:17:41.120 having a pretty nice year, which is great Jackson Merrill. 1:17:41.520 --> 1:17:43.320 Hopefully this is the start of him picking it up. 1:17:43.560 --> 1:17:45.720 If he sees Merrill getting it going too. I think 1:17:45.720 --> 1:17:48.160 that could and I know the second homer came off 1:17:48.160 --> 1:17:50.120 at Tober, but the first one was left on left 1:17:50.120 --> 1:17:52.880 off and Noah Cameron, he had a four hit day 1:17:53.120 --> 1:17:56.320 to wrap up the series. If I think Tatis is 1:17:56.400 --> 1:17:59.160 already going, but if Merrill gets going a little bit 1:17:59.200 --> 1:18:01.840 more here Atcha, it's just like you thought he would 1:18:01.840 --> 1:18:04.040 get going, and he's kind of cooled off a little 1:18:04.040 --> 1:18:06.479 bit now too. I just don't know what the seam is. 1:18:06.479 --> 1:18:08.160 And even before that game, I guess Merri was over 1:18:08.240 --> 1:18:10.760 nine in the series. So I just every time I 1:18:10.760 --> 1:18:12.439 feel like, oh, maybe they're breaking out of it, these 1:18:12.439 --> 1:18:15.400 guys slow down, like Machado back under the Mendoza line 1:18:15.680 --> 1:18:18.240 going into the Sunday game. I don't see how you 1:18:18.280 --> 1:18:20.920 can aggressively buy. I could get like the buy and 1:18:21.040 --> 1:18:24.200 sell controllable pieces approach to set yourself up for next 1:18:24.280 --> 1:18:26.559 year and still kind of give it the college try 1:18:26.600 --> 1:18:28.960 this year. But yeah, I don't get it. And I 1:18:29.000 --> 1:18:31.439 think this series, no matter how many runs you scored, 1:18:31.680 --> 1:18:35.000 with seven of which coming against Tyler Tolbert, like, I 1:18:35.000 --> 1:18:36.720 don't think it's enough to offset what is still a 1:18:36.720 --> 1:18:39.599 disappointing series. You know, you drop two out of three 1:18:39.840 --> 1:18:41.360 to the Royals, which is one of the worst teams 1:18:41.400 --> 1:18:42.599 in baseball, no. 1:18:42.520 --> 1:18:45.840 Doubt about it. Let's go over two. Next series up, 1:18:45.840 --> 1:18:48.920 we got the Twins taking on the Cubs. My Twins 1:18:49.080 --> 1:18:52.479 got back to five hundred by winning Game one five 1:18:52.520 --> 1:18:55.080 to two. A four run third inning from Minnesota put 1:18:55.080 --> 1:18:56.920 this one out of reach, highlighted by a three run 1:18:56.960 --> 1:18:59.920 homer from Ryan Jeffers and Bailey Ober improves the seven 1:19:00.000 --> 1:19:02.080 and three on the season after pitching into the six 1:19:02.120 --> 1:19:05.040 and only allowing to earned while striking out seven. However, 1:19:05.040 --> 1:19:07.679 they fall back below five hundred. Is the Cubs take 1:19:07.760 --> 1:19:10.840 care of business in games two and three. Game two 1:19:10.880 --> 1:19:13.799 Cubs win six to two. Michael Bush and Cody Clemens 1:19:13.800 --> 1:19:16.280 traded homers in the first two innings, but RBI hits 1:19:16.600 --> 1:19:20.320 from Miguelmayah, Nico Horner, and Ramirez put this one out 1:19:20.360 --> 1:19:24.360 of reach. Then Clemens homered again, but another Pedro Martinez 1:19:24.479 --> 1:19:28.600 RBI singles sealed it. Paedro Ramirez, excuse me, wains I 1:19:28.640 --> 1:19:33.519 wrote on Pedro Martinez paydrove Ramirez. Matthew Boyd was excellent 1:19:33.600 --> 1:19:36.320 six innings, one earned four k's. His heires at four 1:19:36.320 --> 1:19:38.439 to one, five and Tod Bradley on the other side 1:19:38.560 --> 1:19:41.360 five earn runs. Not great, and then Game three certainly 1:19:41.439 --> 1:19:43.280 not great for the Twins, great for the Cubs though 1:19:43.280 --> 1:19:46.480 they win ten to one, and Zebbie Matthews got demolished, 1:19:46.960 --> 1:19:51.760 exiting the game after three innings with eight earned ten runs. Technically, 1:19:52.120 --> 1:19:55.280 Bregman homer, Nico Horner had a bass clearing triple, Michael 1:19:55.280 --> 1:19:58.519 Busch had three hits, and on the pitching side, Shota 1:19:58.560 --> 1:20:01.240 was awesome. It was one of those starts on where 1:20:01.240 --> 1:20:02.920 you're just watching showed and it's like, all right, he's 1:20:02.920 --> 1:20:05.240 got location of the fastball and splutter which means he's 1:20:05.240 --> 1:20:07.479 gonna shove and we just haven't seen it a ton. 1:20:07.560 --> 1:20:10.639 But when he's got it, he still got it. Tos 1:20:10.680 --> 1:20:14.800 seven shutty to bring his era below four at three 1:20:14.840 --> 1:20:17.559 to nine one. He's actually turning in an okay season. 1:20:18.040 --> 1:20:20.439 This is another one of those series where it's like, 1:20:20.520 --> 1:20:23.559 I don't have a ton to take away, especially when 1:20:23.840 --> 1:20:28.640 better team wins two out of three at home as expected. 1:20:29.280 --> 1:20:31.760 Yeah, I got one big one for you. Though you 1:20:31.800 --> 1:20:35.120 ask for Nico Horner, you got Nico Horner this series. 1:20:35.479 --> 1:20:36.360 Love it. 1:20:36.400 --> 1:20:39.360 Eight hits, went four for four and one of them 1:20:39.800 --> 1:20:44.559 drove in four runs in the finale. This was hopefully 1:20:44.560 --> 1:20:46.920 the coming out party for Nico, but said Nico had 1:20:46.960 --> 1:20:48.479 to be better. This is the best series he's had 1:20:48.520 --> 1:20:48.880 all year. 1:20:49.520 --> 1:20:57.200 I agree, pca Uh, I'm not worried. I'm not worried, 1:20:58.120 --> 1:21:02.280 but I do remember in an unbelievable first half and 1:21:02.320 --> 1:21:03.880 a really poor second half. 1:21:04.000 --> 1:21:07.639 Yeah, it's worth following, but you think that the floor 1:21:07.680 --> 1:21:10.440 has been raised, improved peripherals. 1:21:10.560 --> 1:21:13.479 That's why I'm not sounding any alarms. It's been a 1:21:13.479 --> 1:21:17.639 few games since it was one series. Wasn't a good 1:21:17.680 --> 1:21:20.240 one series? Yeah, it wasn't good, That's all I'm saying. 1:21:21.080 --> 1:21:23.200 But I still think you should be second in MVP 1:21:23.400 --> 1:21:25.880 odds right now behind him Tawny and he is on 1:21:25.960 --> 1:21:31.200 bet MGM. Unbelievable season, close to a nine hundreds. But 1:21:31.320 --> 1:21:35.840 we just be on the lookout because we remember last 1:21:35.920 --> 1:21:39.679 year and I just hope we don't have a repeat 1:21:39.680 --> 1:21:42.200 of last year, right, That's all I'm saying. 1:21:42.920 --> 1:21:45.600 Bregman had a pretty nice series. I think Ifman and 1:21:45.640 --> 1:21:49.519 Nico Horner are swinging it the way that they're capable of, 1:21:49.560 --> 1:21:52.439 and it was obviously a much better series for Nico. 1:21:52.479 --> 1:21:54.400 I was more of a better final game, I should 1:21:54.400 --> 1:21:57.880 say for Bregmant, but the AB's look better if Bregman 1:21:57.960 --> 1:21:59.559 can get going a little bit more Horner, get going 1:21:59.600 --> 1:22:02.960 a little bit, or this offense starts to get a 1:22:02.960 --> 1:22:06.160 lot more potent and exciting. I love their like bench 1:22:06.240 --> 1:22:08.919 pieces like me too. Andrew Ramirez is a boer. 1:22:09.360 --> 1:22:10.639 Offense is just sick. 1:22:11.160 --> 1:22:13.360 He's Ramirez is gonna be a really good player. And 1:22:13.360 --> 1:22:14.960 I don't know if they dangle him as trade bait 1:22:15.320 --> 1:22:17.599 or Shaw's to trade bait if he's back and healthy, 1:22:17.920 --> 1:22:19.800 but they got like shot they can play all over 1:22:19.800 --> 1:22:23.160 the diamond. Ramirez is just this really fun and somewhat 1:22:23.240 --> 1:22:26.600 versatile piece, that great back to ball, sneaky pop. I 1:22:26.720 --> 1:22:28.800 just and then they've got like James Triantos, who plays 1:22:28.800 --> 1:22:30.880 a couple of different spots, contact oriented that's having a 1:22:30.880 --> 1:22:33.040 really nice year. Triple A gubs are gonna make some 1:22:33.080 --> 1:22:34.920 moves and I'm excited to see what they do. But 1:22:34.920 --> 1:22:39.120 they've got a lot of position players throughout this Org Twins. 1:22:39.439 --> 1:22:41.960 We got to start winning ball games, because if we 1:22:42.000 --> 1:22:46.519 start losing ball games, Joe Ryan's gone, Ryan Jeffers is gone, 1:22:47.240 --> 1:22:48.559 Barron Buckston's probably not going. 1:22:48.840 --> 1:22:49.680 No no matter why. 1:22:49.720 --> 1:22:53.599 I'm so clear, but Joe, Ryan and Ryan Jeffers might 1:22:53.600 --> 1:22:55.439 be on the move. We got to start stringing together 1:22:55.479 --> 1:22:58.240 wins or else those guys are gone, and those guys 1:22:58.280 --> 1:22:59.960 are gone, well it's gonna be tough. 1:23:00.360 --> 1:23:03.360 So yeah, not a good matchup for Zebbie with the 1:23:03.360 --> 1:23:07.360 wind blowing out there. Oh same with Taj. But Ober solid. 1:23:07.840 --> 1:23:10.800 This team's pesky, but yeah, they got to get a. 1:23:10.760 --> 1:23:13.559 Going respect the four point three percenters. I got five 1:23:13.640 --> 1:23:18.720 more series left, but first Reds versus Rockies Game one, 1:23:18.760 --> 1:23:20.479 Reds wins seven to two. There was a one to 1:23:20.520 --> 1:23:22.719 one tie going into the fifth, but in the sixth 1:23:22.760 --> 1:23:25.920 the Reds took control on homer's from Spencer Steer and 1:23:25.960 --> 1:23:28.639 Gino Suarez now Willie Castro homer to bring the score 1:23:28.680 --> 1:23:32.240 to five to two. But an inside the Parker, inside 1:23:32.240 --> 1:23:36.439 the parker homer from Spencer Steer and a homer from 1:23:36.439 --> 1:23:39.240 Elie de la Cruz wide in the lead. Shout out 1:23:39.240 --> 1:23:41.840 Gabriel Hughes Right, he's a first round pick from the 1:23:41.880 --> 1:23:45.960 Colorado Rockies. He pitched well, pitching into the six allowed 1:23:46.000 --> 1:23:48.439 just two earned runs and his ERA sits at three 1:23:48.520 --> 1:23:52.240 one four Sneaky good young pitcher. Brady Singer, though, was 1:23:52.240 --> 1:23:55.000 simply just better, toss seven innings at two run ball 1:23:55.120 --> 1:23:57.880 and he got the win. Game two, Rockies win ten 1:23:57.920 --> 1:24:00.559 to three. Eight runs in the first three put this 1:24:00.600 --> 1:24:03.400 one out of reach for the Reds as TJ. Rumfield 1:24:03.479 --> 1:24:07.040 led the charge with multiple RBI singles. He ended the 1:24:07.120 --> 1:24:09.920 day with four hits and four RBIs, one of those 1:24:10.000 --> 1:24:13.320 hits being a home run. Jose Ravigno homer twice for 1:24:13.360 --> 1:24:17.519 the Reds, but that was it. Louder got blasted for 1:24:17.640 --> 1:24:20.719 eight earned over two and a third, raising his zerate 1:24:20.800 --> 1:24:23.880 to five seven to five, while tomy Yuki Shigano pitched 1:24:23.880 --> 1:24:26.639 into the seventh, allowing three runs, and in Game three, 1:24:26.680 --> 1:24:29.840 the rubber match, Reds win nine to six. Hunter Goodman 1:24:29.920 --> 1:24:33.280 had three homers, though sitting with thirty now on the season, 1:24:33.840 --> 1:24:36.320 trying to be the eighth catcher ever to hit forty 1:24:36.439 --> 1:24:39.960 in a single season, but the Reds said nope, this 1:24:40.000 --> 1:24:44.080 is our game. Last laugh Low Stevenson, and Stewart they 1:24:44.080 --> 1:24:46.240 all homered. It was nine to one after the fifth 1:24:46.280 --> 1:24:49.840 as Ryan Feldner just got crushed. Hunter Green toss the 1:24:49.920 --> 1:24:52.840 quality start while striking out seven and went home with 1:24:52.880 --> 1:25:01.000 the win. Reds win the series. Something I was thinking about. 1:25:02.560 --> 1:25:04.200 I mean the Reds. The report was that they're going 1:25:04.240 --> 1:25:07.520 to trade like, you know, some of the expiring guys. Yeah, 1:25:08.040 --> 1:25:11.559 odds are Geno Suarez won't be a very helpful piece 1:25:11.600 --> 1:25:13.880 with the way that he's playing this year. However, the 1:25:13.920 --> 1:25:15.560 first thing I thought about was like, he costs a 1:25:15.560 --> 1:25:16.720 lot of money, so the Reds are gonna have to 1:25:16.720 --> 1:25:19.160 pay him down. Anyways, whatever acquires you know, Suarrez is 1:25:19.160 --> 1:25:20.280 going to acquire him for nothing. 1:25:20.400 --> 1:25:20.679 Nothing. 1:25:20.760 --> 1:25:22.680 I just feel like a lot of teams should be 1:25:22.800 --> 1:25:24.920 lined up to acquire Gino Suarez for nothing and see 1:25:24.960 --> 1:25:25.519 what could happen. 1:25:25.600 --> 1:25:27.840 Because you know how baseball works. Remember when he was 1:25:27.920 --> 1:25:29.840 acquired by the Mariners and he did nothing. 1:25:30.200 --> 1:25:32.839 Yes, now this year will be the best deadline acquisition 1:25:32.840 --> 1:25:33.400 he's gonna rake. 1:25:33.439 --> 1:25:35.920 I agree, That's how baseball works, right, It's like you 1:25:35.960 --> 1:25:40.280 could get I could see fifteen hobers for Gindo swars 1:25:40.439 --> 1:25:42.920 like a month and a half for no reason. He 1:25:42.960 --> 1:25:44.280 gets away from ballpark. 1:25:44.560 --> 1:25:47.519 Yeah, so he gets away from Great American and becomes better, 1:25:47.520 --> 1:25:49.320 But when you put him in Great American he was worse. 1:25:49.360 --> 1:25:51.200 Like it would just be the most baseball thing ever. 1:25:51.280 --> 1:25:53.960 But I was thinking about them like I would happily 1:25:54.000 --> 1:25:56.960 take a shot on him for what I eaned two 1:25:57.000 --> 1:25:59.160 million dollars and I give you a nobody prospect and 1:25:59.439 --> 1:26:03.599 I can know just do to Deep three and hope 1:26:03.600 --> 1:26:06.200 it lands with with Gino Like that was an interesting 1:26:06.200 --> 1:26:09.280 wrinkle to me. JJ Biday is gonna be an underrated 1:26:09.600 --> 1:26:12.640 deadline piece. I don't know, maybe the Reds have to 1:26:12.680 --> 1:26:14.960 cover some of the incentives. I don't know what the 1:26:14.960 --> 1:26:17.559 incentives are, but yeah, I don't think he'll be very 1:26:17.600 --> 1:26:19.599 expensive financially, so I think a lot of teams will 1:26:19.600 --> 1:26:22.479 be interested in him. And then yeah, I mean the 1:26:22.520 --> 1:26:24.519 other side has been the Hunter Goodman rumors. I just 1:26:24.720 --> 1:26:26.800 we talked about it. I just don't see why they 1:26:26.840 --> 1:26:30.040 would trade him. I can understand just listening, but with 1:26:30.120 --> 1:26:32.560 the years of control that he still has, I'm just 1:26:32.600 --> 1:26:35.760 surprised to keep seeing the Hunter Goodman rumors. I will say. 1:26:35.760 --> 1:26:38.080 And I'm not a big, like big media conspiracy guy. 1:26:38.840 --> 1:26:41.439 I do feel like when the Yankees want somebody they 1:26:41.760 --> 1:26:45.519 and they're not even fully available, certain media members all 1:26:45.560 --> 1:26:48.360 of a sudden like make them sound more available than 1:26:48.400 --> 1:26:48.760 they are. 1:26:50.640 --> 1:26:55.720 Yes, yes, that is accurate. Speaking about the Yankees. They 1:26:55.760 --> 1:26:59.680 got fleeced in a trade with the Rockies. TJ. Rumfield 1:27:00.320 --> 1:27:03.080 one of the best rookies in Major League Baseball, and 1:27:03.120 --> 1:27:07.080 we got on hell shavehi. I mean, he's okay in 1:27:07.080 --> 1:27:10.880 the bullpen, but TJ. Rumfield won twenty eight WRC plus, 1:27:10.920 --> 1:27:14.240 which again is park adjusted for cors Field, his OPS 1:27:14.320 --> 1:27:17.879 is near nine hundred. He had another great series this weekend. 1:27:18.240 --> 1:27:20.920 What a pickup for Colorado. This was a guy who 1:27:21.000 --> 1:27:22.840 was blocked by the Yankees and he was one of 1:27:22.880 --> 1:27:26.559 these older first base prospects where it's like he's got 1:27:26.600 --> 1:27:30.599 a hit to be valuable at all. News flash, he's hitting. Yes, 1:27:30.720 --> 1:27:31.559 we got fleeced. 1:27:32.040 --> 1:27:34.559 Great. That was a great pickup by this Rockies front 1:27:34.560 --> 1:27:37.000 office that it's made some some savvy moves and yeah, 1:27:37.000 --> 1:27:39.400 I mean you're seeing just certain guys swing it pretty 1:27:39.400 --> 1:27:42.080 well in that lineup. But yeah, at the end of 1:27:42.080 --> 1:27:43.960 the day, the Rockies are gonna lose most of the 1:27:44.000 --> 1:27:47.960 series they play, even against a not very good Reds team, 1:27:48.040 --> 1:27:50.480 So it's hard to have any other major major takeaways 1:27:50.680 --> 1:27:53.479 other than that South Short with his twentieth homer. He's 1:27:53.479 --> 1:27:55.920 a guy. It's just such an exciting building block and 1:27:55.960 --> 1:27:59.680 we're seeing extensions around the league, and we're seeing the 1:27:59.720 --> 1:28:02.800 Reds just hand one out to Hunter Green. Sal is 1:28:03.120 --> 1:28:04.920 quite a good candidate to extend. 1:28:05.000 --> 1:28:07.479 I think if you're the Reds, no doubt about it. 1:28:07.600 --> 1:28:12.519 Let's go over two Nationals versus A's. Game one, NAT's 1:28:12.560 --> 1:28:15.920 win twenty three to four. This was an ass kicking 1:28:15.920 --> 1:28:18.920 from the third inning on Chaparo homer twice ended with 1:28:18.960 --> 1:28:21.720 four hits. Harry Ford ever since he got called up, 1:28:21.720 --> 1:28:23.960 he's the best hitter alive. It's been like but it 1:28:24.040 --> 1:28:27.760 still counts, as did Dalan Lyle. Curtis Mead had four hits, 1:28:27.880 --> 1:28:31.000 Nunya has had three. Every starter for Washington had a hit. 1:28:31.040 --> 1:28:33.519 Even Jose Tania, who pinched hit he got a hit. 1:28:33.920 --> 1:28:36.960 Six of the nine starters had multiple hits. Underneath all 1:28:37.000 --> 1:28:39.599 of it was a very solid Kate Cavali start, as 1:28:39.640 --> 1:28:42.240 he tossed six innings a two run ball with nine strikeouts, 1:28:42.479 --> 1:28:44.760 lowering a zi Are to three seven eight. Move on 1:28:44.800 --> 1:28:48.200 to Game two, A's kick ass fifteen to one. This time, 1:28:48.600 --> 1:28:51.920 all A's started early with a five run first started 1:28:51.960 --> 1:28:54.200 by a Jake Wilson homer who finished the game with 1:28:54.240 --> 1:28:58.920 three hits. Tyler Soderstrom, Carlos Cortes both homered, McNeil had 1:28:58.960 --> 1:29:02.479 three hits, every order had at least one RBI, and JT. 1:29:02.640 --> 1:29:05.040 Ginn was almost better than the offense. He allowed just 1:29:05.080 --> 1:29:07.439 one hit over six and a third without a run, 1:29:07.760 --> 1:29:10.439 seven shrikeouts, lowering his area to three, four to six, 1:29:10.760 --> 1:29:13.360 and zach Lettel did zach Lytel shit. He gave them 1:29:13.400 --> 1:29:15.800 six innings, but he gave up eight earned. Moved to 1:29:15.840 --> 1:29:17.840 Game three, where the Nats win five to two in 1:29:17.840 --> 1:29:20.160 the rubber match, and this was a much more civilized 1:29:20.200 --> 1:29:23.559 game because Foster Griffin was involved. He just continues his 1:29:23.720 --> 1:29:27.320 amazing season. Can't forget this guy was kicked out of 1:29:27.320 --> 1:29:30.840 Major League Baseball, goes abroad, goes to the MPB, comes back, 1:29:30.920 --> 1:29:33.439 signs a one year, eight million dollar deals. Kind of 1:29:33.439 --> 1:29:35.639 approve it. Let's see if you can pitch now. He's 1:29:35.640 --> 1:29:38.599 got a two six eight ERA. After it's going seven 1:29:38.640 --> 1:29:44.120 innings against this A's team at the sut Drums and 1:29:44.240 --> 1:29:48.120 Cruiz homered, Harry Ford rocked an RBI double, and the 1:29:48.280 --> 1:29:53.280 A's losing ways continue. Arm I mean, the A's forty 1:29:53.439 --> 1:29:58.519 two and fifty seven gauge jump even in that game 1:29:58.560 --> 1:30:01.600 where the Nats got crushed like he pitched okay, but 1:30:01.640 --> 1:30:04.679 then these A's bullpen arms just got to rattled. 1:30:05.880 --> 1:30:07.840 This is the worst bullpen I think in the game. 1:30:08.120 --> 1:30:09.800 Paired with the ballpark award. 1:30:10.000 --> 1:30:13.320 Yeah, at the same time, I don't know. I mean 1:30:13.360 --> 1:30:16.639 that's how you get twins. Bullpen is egregiously paid. 1:30:17.720 --> 1:30:20.080 I just think with this staff, like, it's just it 1:30:20.120 --> 1:30:23.040 gets so ugly. Sometimes the ballpark doesn't help, but it 1:30:23.160 --> 1:30:28.240 just gets so ugly, Like the the Athletics clearly have 1:30:28.280 --> 1:30:30.920 pieces of takatch just kind of this last year, but 1:30:30.960 --> 1:30:32.240 there's still a lot of things that think they need 1:30:32.280 --> 1:30:35.720 to sort out going back into next year. Sounds like 1:30:35.760 --> 1:30:37.799 they're going to be open to some sorts of trades. 1:30:38.960 --> 1:30:42.120 They've even they could potentially move langal Ears. It sounds 1:30:42.120 --> 1:30:43.479 like I think that would be kind of crazy. But 1:30:43.520 --> 1:30:45.599 they're only two years of control and this year is dead, 1:30:46.240 --> 1:30:49.040 and so how good can you be next year? I 1:30:49.080 --> 1:30:50.920 think you try to extend that guy, but it sounds 1:30:50.960 --> 1:30:53.439 like they have tried. He's so close to free agency 1:30:53.439 --> 1:30:54.680 at this point. Why would you not just kind of 1:30:54.680 --> 1:30:56.800 wait it out. If you're Shay, You've been better every year. 1:30:57.200 --> 1:31:01.599 So it's an interesting situation there. Yeah, I think it's 1:31:01.600 --> 1:31:03.400 gonna get ugly for I mean, it already is, but 1:31:03.400 --> 1:31:04.880 I think it's gonna continue to be ugly here for 1:31:04.920 --> 1:31:06.080 the athletics the rest of the way. 1:31:06.880 --> 1:31:10.640 I don't really have anything else, do you now? 1:31:10.880 --> 1:31:14.160 Cool to see Harry Ford up there, hopefully gets some opportunity. 1:31:14.160 --> 1:31:15.639 He's really bad at the start of the erent tryple 1:31:15.680 --> 1:31:17.240 a and as hit his stride and still think can 1:31:17.280 --> 1:31:19.439 be a solid big league catcher and as a unique athlete. 1:31:19.439 --> 1:31:22.720 Back there, Dylan Cruz continues to kind of struggle. It's 1:31:22.760 --> 1:31:24.479 been frustrating there and then it's just been nice to 1:31:24.479 --> 1:31:26.160 see Jacob Wilson pick it up kind of with the 1:31:26.280 --> 1:31:29.120 with the injury behind him, and obviously he's a big 1:31:29.160 --> 1:31:32.880 part of when they're going right. There's just his success and. 1:31:32.920 --> 1:31:36.200 JKG who's Jacob Wilson's filling, But they're finding other roles 1:31:36.200 --> 1:31:38.320 for him because he just keeps hitting. That's a that's 1:31:38.360 --> 1:31:40.840 a really cool story. All right. Let's move over to 1:31:40.840 --> 1:31:44.000 Tigers versus Angels Game one. Tigers win two to one. 1:31:44.080 --> 1:31:47.519 Troy Melton and Kadamontero combined for nine innings of five hits, 1:31:47.520 --> 1:31:51.400 a lot and fourteen strikeouts, but Detroit found themselves down 1:31:51.479 --> 1:31:53.559 one zero going into the top of the ninth, and 1:31:53.640 --> 1:31:56.120 in the ninth how You Lee ripped a two run 1:31:56.160 --> 1:31:59.280 double that ended up being the difference on the Angel side. 1:31:59.520 --> 1:32:02.960 Shout Outdevers. He was awesome. He saw six shutout innings 1:32:02.960 --> 1:32:05.880 with seven strikeouts, but his team just couldn't come through 1:32:05.920 --> 1:32:09.120 for him, and in Game two, Tigers win seven to zero. 1:32:09.439 --> 1:32:11.800 Scooball looked like Scooble, which means was an auto win 1:32:11.840 --> 1:32:14.800 for the Tigers, as he threw seven shutout innings with 1:32:14.960 --> 1:32:18.320 nine strikeouts. Six runs over the first two innings put 1:32:18.320 --> 1:32:21.240 this game out of reach entirely. Colt Keith went four 1:32:21.320 --> 1:32:25.759 for four with two RBIs and Spencer Torkelsen hit two dingers. 1:32:25.760 --> 1:32:27.880 But we moved to Game three, the Angels salvage. They 1:32:27.920 --> 1:32:30.920 win three to two. McGonagall Homer delete off the game. 1:32:31.200 --> 1:32:33.960 Riley greenomered in the ninth. But in between all of 1:32:33.960 --> 1:32:36.760 that is where this game was won. Perraza and Netto 1:32:36.840 --> 1:32:39.800 had RBI singles, so Layer had an RBI ground out, 1:32:39.920 --> 1:32:43.080 which was all the Angels needed. Is Ryan Johnson pitched well, 1:32:43.360 --> 1:32:45.760 two hits, one run over five innings, and then the 1:32:45.800 --> 1:32:50.120 Angels bullpen shut the door. Scary moment Casey Mize exited 1:32:50.160 --> 1:32:53.840 in the fourth after taking a comebacker off the left wrist. 1:32:53.960 --> 1:32:55.960 One nine nine. 1:32:56.400 --> 1:32:59.640 I still haven't seen an update from the Tigers on 1:33:00.160 --> 1:33:03.920 his like X rays negative X. I don't know, so 1:33:04.040 --> 1:33:07.400 I just wrote down TBD. Maybe they gave it update 1:33:07.439 --> 1:33:11.000 while we've been recording. I haven't seen anything on the 1:33:11.040 --> 1:33:14.559 wrist at all. But it's just so unfortunate because when 1:33:14.600 --> 1:33:16.840 mis has been on the mound, he's been dynamite. 1:33:16.880 --> 1:33:17.120 Again. 1:33:17.160 --> 1:33:19.120 In this start, right, he only had given up one run. 1:33:19.320 --> 1:33:21.840 Wasn't his best start, but it was one run through 1:33:22.080 --> 1:33:24.920 three and third, like a normal Casey my start where 1:33:24.920 --> 1:33:26.599 he was probably gonna end up with five or six 1:33:26.640 --> 1:33:29.719 innings of two run ball like he's done all season long. Now, 1:33:29.760 --> 1:33:32.679 some injuries have been you know, soft tissue stuff or whatever, 1:33:33.080 --> 1:33:35.840 and some have been stuff like this. It's just an 1:33:35.960 --> 1:33:38.519 unfortunate injury to a guy like this. 1:33:38.600 --> 1:33:40.400 Well, here's the weird place. It sounds like the wrist 1:33:40.479 --> 1:33:42.920 is okay. I know he wasn't complaining a ton about it. 1:33:43.120 --> 1:33:46.080 We'll get the groin checked out as well and see 1:33:46.080 --> 1:33:48.479 how he feels tomorrow. It's hot. A lot of things 1:33:48.479 --> 1:33:51.320 were going to make that decision, so I guess Miss 1:33:51.360 --> 1:33:54.400 Groin's bothering him too, so hopefully he's okay, because yeah, 1:33:54.640 --> 1:33:57.479 this team's gonna have a chance. They need mis every 1:33:57.479 --> 1:33:58.120 fifth day too. 1:33:59.720 --> 1:34:01.960 So the Tigers currently sit, what are they in the 1:34:02.000 --> 1:34:05.960 standings right now? They're forty six and fifty three. It's 1:34:05.960 --> 1:34:08.480 funny they're expected win loss based on the run differential 1:34:08.560 --> 1:34:11.479 is fifty three and forty six. Again, we were talking 1:34:11.520 --> 1:34:13.680 in our discord and we were talking about whether or 1:34:13.720 --> 1:34:15.599 not School should get traded, and I was like, I 1:34:15.600 --> 1:34:18.800 think they should. I don't think they will, And someone 1:34:18.840 --> 1:34:20.679 brought up a good point where it's like, Scott Harris 1:34:20.760 --> 1:34:23.880 is such a model driven guy. I feel like when 1:34:23.920 --> 1:34:27.639 push comes to shove, he's going to see that they 1:34:27.680 --> 1:34:31.400 probably have a thirty to twenty five percent hits, especially 1:34:31.400 --> 1:34:33.320 with the Orioles stepping up like the way that they 1:34:33.360 --> 1:34:37.680 have right that, it just seems like the playoffs are 1:34:37.680 --> 1:34:40.640 out of reach, where the best thing for this franchise 1:34:40.720 --> 1:34:44.720 is trading schoobl Like, I think a complete disaster. And 1:34:44.800 --> 1:34:46.439 to be honest with you, I'm kind of worried that 1:34:46.479 --> 1:34:49.439 this is more probable than not, as in, this is 1:34:49.479 --> 1:34:52.479 the most likely scenario for the Tigers is that they 1:34:52.560 --> 1:34:56.719 stand pat They don't trade schooble, they don't trade miise, 1:34:56.760 --> 1:35:00.320 they don't trade really any of these expiring contracts unless 1:35:00.320 --> 1:35:02.360 it's like a guy. They don't need it all that. 1:35:02.400 --> 1:35:06.080 They trade for nothing, and they don't really add either. 1:35:06.400 --> 1:35:09.440 They add like cool nerdy pieces. 1:35:09.520 --> 1:35:10.439 I think they're going to. 1:35:12.080 --> 1:35:15.040 See like stuff models for a reliever and we're like, ooh, 1:35:15.080 --> 1:35:17.200 that's like a cool pickup and we announced it. It's 1:35:17.240 --> 1:35:19.240 like a sneaky under the radar move on one of 1:35:19.240 --> 1:35:21.880 our podcasts. And he throws like twelve innings for them 1:35:21.920 --> 1:35:24.040 and does well but doesn't end up mattering. 1:35:24.680 --> 1:35:26.120 I mean, that's what I said. I think it happened. 1:35:26.479 --> 1:35:28.280 I think they're they're they're gonna trade. I think it's 1:35:28.280 --> 1:35:29.760 in the last episode, like they'll trade a couple of 1:35:29.800 --> 1:35:32.559 bad prospects for a couple of bad relievers and probably 1:35:32.560 --> 1:35:38.120 say they bought. But the thing is three games at Chicago, 1:35:38.360 --> 1:35:42.720 so that's gonna be tough. Four against Kansas City, and 1:35:42.760 --> 1:35:46.040 if you want a good temperature test, three against Baltimore 1:35:46.120 --> 1:35:49.360 right after that, yep. And if you survive that temperature test, 1:35:49.760 --> 1:35:56.000 temperature test, how about going into the deadline with three 1:35:56.680 --> 1:36:00.280 at the sun so you have seven games against two 1:36:00.320 --> 1:36:02.800 of the worst teams in the American League, and then 1:36:02.800 --> 1:36:04.400 you have three against a team that you will have 1:36:04.479 --> 1:36:08.000 to separate yourself from. The worst case scenario is you 1:36:08.040 --> 1:36:10.120 take three out of four from Kansas City, you drop 1:36:10.160 --> 1:36:12.599 two out of three from Baltimore, and then you take 1:36:12.600 --> 1:36:14.080 two out of three from the Athletics. You have no 1:36:14.120 --> 1:36:15.040 idea what the hell you are. 1:36:15.200 --> 1:36:17.439 You just do what you're supposed to do instead of 1:36:17.600 --> 1:36:20.519 giving Scott Harris any indication of which way you're headed. 1:36:21.120 --> 1:36:22.680 And that's where I would look at that. And I 1:36:22.680 --> 1:36:25.160 think Scott Harris, as you mentioned, is a very like 1:36:25.240 --> 1:36:28.040 he's just very not only just analytical, but he's a realist. 1:36:28.120 --> 1:36:29.360 He's gonna look at the numbers and he's make a 1:36:29.400 --> 1:36:33.960 decision based on that. If they don't handle that, I 1:36:34.000 --> 1:36:37.080 think it'll be a really interesting decision. But there's a 1:36:37.120 --> 1:36:39.240 real world where with the way that this is set up, 1:36:39.760 --> 1:36:41.760 we'll see how it goes in Chicago. That's going to 1:36:41.800 --> 1:36:43.400 be a tough start to this. But even if if 1:36:43.400 --> 1:36:45.760 you drop two out of three, if you go out 1:36:45.800 --> 1:36:48.920 and take three out of four or sweep Kansas City, 1:36:50.080 --> 1:36:52.760 win that Baltimore series, and then win that Athletics series 1:36:52.800 --> 1:36:54.200 and you go into the deadline. I don't see how 1:36:54.240 --> 1:36:55.680 you can move to derek'schooble. And I think that's a 1:36:55.760 --> 1:37:00.280 very real scenario. And I think that's good because they're 1:37:00.280 --> 1:37:02.560 gonna be what game two games out? 1:37:03.040 --> 1:37:06.720 Yeah, you can't, can't, And I don't know. 1:37:07.080 --> 1:37:09.719 I don't don't envy Scott Harris's position. I'll tell you that. 1:37:09.800 --> 1:37:11.599 I was just about to say that I don't envy 1:37:11.640 --> 1:37:16.000 it at all. Let's go over to the Giants taking 1:37:16.040 --> 1:37:19.800 on the Mariners. Game one, Giants win seven to zero. 1:37:19.960 --> 1:37:24.320 Landon Roupe out dueled Bryce Miller, tossing seven shutout innings 1:37:24.360 --> 1:37:27.280 with only two hits allowed, lowering a Zeria to three 1:37:27.320 --> 1:37:30.559 to nine to eight. Bryce Eldridge homers and A Dames 1:37:30.600 --> 1:37:33.560 hit a grand slam. But Game two Mariners get revenge 1:37:33.600 --> 1:37:36.639 win four to three and ten innings. But the Giants 1:37:36.680 --> 1:37:39.040 got out to a three tozer lead, highlighted by homers 1:37:39.040 --> 1:37:41.920 from Rafael Devers and Willia Damez. But the Mariners just 1:37:41.920 --> 1:37:45.559 wouldn't go quietly. Web cruised through six innings scoreless before 1:37:45.600 --> 1:37:48.519 Cole Young timed him up for a three run homer, 1:37:48.600 --> 1:37:51.120 tying the game, and then in the tenth, a sackfly 1:37:51.200 --> 1:37:54.639 from Julio sealed the comeback win moved a game three 1:37:54.840 --> 1:37:57.240 Mariners win six to three. The Giants again got out 1:37:57.280 --> 1:37:59.839 to a two zero lead, highlighted by another Bryce Eldridge 1:37:59.840 --> 1:38:02.519 hall run, but from there it was all Seattle. Luke 1:38:02.600 --> 1:38:04.439 Rayley stepped up as a pinch hitter in a three 1:38:04.479 --> 1:38:06.800 to three ball game in the six and rocked one 1:38:06.840 --> 1:38:09.080 to right center to take the lead, and then Cole 1:38:09.160 --> 1:38:10.880 Young hit a two run shot to give them some 1:38:11.000 --> 1:38:14.439 breathing room. Gilbert tossed the quality start with ten K's 1:38:14.760 --> 1:38:16.880 his sits at three to three to eight, and then 1:38:16.920 --> 1:38:20.640 he handed it off to Bizarto, Spire and Munnos to 1:38:20.760 --> 1:38:24.040 close it out. I thought Sunday was pretty important for 1:38:24.120 --> 1:38:26.800 the Mariners because once I saw the Giants get out 1:38:26.840 --> 1:38:28.599 to that two to zero lead, I was ready to 1:38:28.640 --> 1:38:32.840 just eviscerate the Mariners because they're at bats. I mean, 1:38:32.880 --> 1:38:37.519 this offense just looked awful, Like one swing from Cole 1:38:37.600 --> 1:38:41.200 Young to tie that game up was the only offense 1:38:41.200 --> 1:38:44.160 that they showed in the first two games, like at all. 1:38:44.200 --> 1:38:46.439 And then they managed to win that game. But then 1:38:46.479 --> 1:38:50.439 they got out to that that deficit early. But then 1:38:50.479 --> 1:38:53.960 the offense came to play like shout out, but I 1:38:54.000 --> 1:38:56.840 have another rant that I want to go on. I 1:38:57.040 --> 1:39:02.479 tweeted out cal Rawley has one of the biggest drop 1:39:02.600 --> 1:39:06.280 offs from season to season since I started covering baseball, 1:39:07.280 --> 1:39:09.320 and the tweet went viral, right, I think it's near 1:39:09.320 --> 1:39:12.400 two million views, And it was the single dumbest comments 1:39:12.439 --> 1:39:14.280 section that I have seen on one of my own 1:39:14.360 --> 1:39:17.160 posts in the history of me being on social media, 1:39:17.200 --> 1:39:19.880 and it's been now for five plus years, almost six. Now. 1:39:21.520 --> 1:39:25.320 Number one, you have the people who called it. 1:39:26.920 --> 1:39:29.000 You had called he was going to hit sixty again. 1:39:29.280 --> 1:39:33.600 I knew that he was going to struggle. Really, Einstein, 1:39:33.720 --> 1:39:36.320 no sher Damas. You thought he was going to go 1:39:36.400 --> 1:39:39.879 from a nine win player to hitting a buck sixty 1:39:39.920 --> 1:39:43.479 with a five to seventy five ops, and you're victory 1:39:43.560 --> 1:39:46.800 lapping it is if you are just some genius. We 1:39:46.960 --> 1:39:49.880 all thought he would regress a little bit when you 1:39:49.960 --> 1:39:51.720 jump from a four to five win catcher to a 1:39:51.800 --> 1:39:55.840 nine win catcher. We all said that nobody in their 1:39:56.040 --> 1:40:00.879 right mind predicted one sixty with a five seventy ops. 1:40:00.880 --> 1:40:03.719 That's number one. Number two. A lot of those same 1:40:03.760 --> 1:40:08.599 people were pretending he's a one year wonder. Have you 1:40:08.800 --> 1:40:13.040 ever watched outside of last season? From twenty twenty two 1:40:13.120 --> 1:40:15.720 to twenty twenty four, this guy was nineteenth in all 1:40:15.760 --> 1:40:18.200 of baseball and f four. He started his career in 1:40:18.200 --> 1:40:20.120 twenty twenty one with a cup of coffee. I don't 1:40:20.120 --> 1:40:22.880 even count that. Twenty twenty two to twenty twenty four 1:40:23.080 --> 1:40:26.519 is was his career before the sixty home run season. 1:40:26.960 --> 1:40:29.519 Four win player, four win player, five win player one 1:40:29.640 --> 1:40:32.639 fifteen one to twenty WRC plus thirty home runs a year, 1:40:33.000 --> 1:40:36.599 great catcher, perpetual top five guy, and then he sets 1:40:36.640 --> 1:40:38.720 the world on fire with sixty homers in a nine 1:40:38.760 --> 1:40:41.400 win season, So to say he's a one hit wonder 1:40:41.520 --> 1:40:44.960 is just playing wrong. And then you have the quote 1:40:45.040 --> 1:40:47.960 unquote old heads chirping me because of my age that 1:40:48.000 --> 1:40:50.840 I haven't been around to see some saying, well did 1:40:50.880 --> 1:40:55.760 you forget about Cody Bellinger? I thought you covered the game. Hey, newsflash. 1:40:55.840 --> 1:40:59.680 Cody Bellinger after that twenty nineteen epic run, dropped to 1:40:59.720 --> 1:41:02.240 a set an eighty eight ops in the COVID season, 1:41:02.880 --> 1:41:06.599 not a there's a two hundred ops gap between him 1:41:07.040 --> 1:41:09.720 and what cal Rawley is doing right now. And it 1:41:09.760 --> 1:41:12.639 was such a short sample that does it even matter? 1:41:13.080 --> 1:41:13.200 Now? 1:41:13.240 --> 1:41:15.200 I realized the next season was bad, but that's not. 1:41:15.200 --> 1:41:18.360 What I was also hurt, you know, shoulder age. 1:41:18.760 --> 1:41:23.320 Right, so that's wrong, not even close. And then even 1:41:23.400 --> 1:41:26.880 older people than that are saying, I guess we're just 1:41:26.920 --> 1:41:31.080 gonna forget about Brady Anderson. I get back Brady Anderson 1:41:31.120 --> 1:41:33.240 at fifty jacks, you're right. And then he fell off 1:41:34.400 --> 1:41:37.840 to be an eight sixty ops guy with twenty four 1:41:37.920 --> 1:41:40.439 home runs and then back to back to back to 1:41:40.479 --> 1:41:43.799 back seasons with an OPS over OPS plus over one hundred, 1:41:44.520 --> 1:41:49.479 not even in the same ballpark. Yeah, there was, and 1:41:50.000 --> 1:41:53.240 the visceral reaction. I swear I wish I didn't tweet 1:41:53.280 --> 1:41:59.479 it out because people like celebrating. That's the weird part 1:41:59.520 --> 1:42:02.839 season when it's clear he's been working with an oblique injury. 1:42:03.120 --> 1:42:06.120 This guy is not healthy, but he's playing through injuries 1:42:06.120 --> 1:42:10.760 because he's a bulldog. I like, when I woke up 1:42:10.840 --> 1:42:16.519 the next morning, I I hated that comment Sectually. There 1:42:16.600 --> 1:42:20.639 was not a smart comment out of the seven hundred comments. 1:42:20.720 --> 1:42:26.320 It was just visceral hate, propaganda, misinformation, and people just 1:42:26.360 --> 1:42:29.200 straight up lying. The worst comment section I've seen on 1:42:29.200 --> 1:42:30.240 one of my I don't know ever. 1:42:30.680 --> 1:42:33.120 I've noticed it with Cal weirdly too. It's just like 1:42:34.560 --> 1:42:38.519 there's been this kind of level of dancing on the gravel. 1:42:38.600 --> 1:42:40.640 But I don't know why. Yeah, I thought he was 1:42:40.640 --> 1:42:41.840 so much fun last year and. 1:42:42.000 --> 1:42:45.200 Awesome, good dude, like great for the game one. The 1:42:45.240 --> 1:42:47.040 derby is so electric. 1:42:47.360 --> 1:42:49.080 But that's frecking social media. 1:42:49.240 --> 1:42:51.560 It's just it's just as cuctual level where I was like, 1:42:51.600 --> 1:42:54.800 I'm even yeah, two million views, I want to delete it. 1:42:54.840 --> 1:42:56.080 I was like, I hate that. 1:42:56.120 --> 1:42:57.880 I even know you need that? You need that twelve 1:42:57.960 --> 1:43:00.839 dollars and forty six cents from h from Elon. 1:43:01.479 --> 1:43:02.640 Actually you know what, I looked it up. Do you 1:43:02.680 --> 1:43:03.759 don't have a billion viewspace? 1:43:04.120 --> 1:43:05.240 I think like five bucks? 1:43:05.280 --> 1:43:10.080 Right, eighteen dollars? Oh nice, thanks you that's a coffee 1:43:10.120 --> 1:43:14.360 and a half trillion dollars. But Twitter, Yeah, but now 1:43:14.479 --> 1:43:15.200 I agree. 1:43:14.960 --> 1:43:16.680 With you, and I it's part of the reason why 1:43:16.680 --> 1:43:19.360 I think he's only gonna settle back, and eventually it 1:43:19.479 --> 1:43:20.479 might not be this season. 1:43:20.600 --> 1:43:22.559 But I mean, this was a bad series again. 1:43:22.640 --> 1:43:25.120 I'll take the over on three war next year and 1:43:25.200 --> 1:43:28.320 Bellinger like it was a major shoulder issue. Bad year. 1:43:28.360 --> 1:43:30.439 The next year and the year after that was still bad. 1:43:30.479 --> 1:43:32.800 He had to really find it again physically, and then 1:43:32.840 --> 1:43:36.439 he did so we'll see. But yeah, that whole discourse 1:43:36.479 --> 1:43:40.640 drives me insaying one other shout, Bryce Eldridge, He's not slowing. 1:43:40.320 --> 1:43:40.840 Down really either. 1:43:40.920 --> 1:43:42.840 Hit another homer today on Sunday. He's up to a 1:43:42.840 --> 1:43:45.280 one thirty eight WRC plus. Him striking out twenty five 1:43:45.280 --> 1:43:46.840 percent of the time is incredible because in the minor 1:43:46.880 --> 1:43:48.720 league he struck out roughly thirty percent of the time. 1:43:48.920 --> 1:43:50.360 So to be doing that at the big league level 1:43:50.400 --> 1:43:52.000 now and a two hundred and thirty one plait appear 1:43:52.040 --> 1:43:53.960 in sample as a testament to a guy that is 1:43:54.080 --> 1:43:56.760 much much better in the box. Talk about moral victories, 1:43:57.080 --> 1:43:59.280 that's a big one if you're a Giants fan and 1:43:59.320 --> 1:44:02.000 you're you're the Giants front office looking forward to next year. 1:44:02.240 --> 1:44:05.040 As is Land and Route Mariners did what they're supposed 1:44:05.040 --> 1:44:07.680 to do, they take the two of three, and you know, 1:44:07.680 --> 1:44:11.120 hopefully they can just keep building on these series and 1:44:11.200 --> 1:44:14.000 just even in this series, I was fine, if not 1:44:14.080 --> 1:44:16.640 for Cole Young just being a dog and leaving the 1:44:16.720 --> 1:44:19.080 yard twice, series might look a little bit different. So 1:44:19.240 --> 1:44:20.920 I'm interested to see how they follow this one up. 1:44:21.280 --> 1:44:23.120 And the Mariners have kind of done this all year. Well, 1:44:23.120 --> 1:44:25.000 they'll win two out of three and then lose the 1:44:25.040 --> 1:44:28.559 next series. So I'll be watching with a close, full eye. 1:44:28.680 --> 1:44:32.240 Can they buck that trend and start putting together series wins? 1:44:32.600 --> 1:44:35.680 Because we see the talent like clearly they you know, 1:44:35.720 --> 1:44:38.400 they're second in American League Penados right now on Ben 1:44:38.479 --> 1:44:42.800 and Jmr. My gosh, it's because the roster is still great, right, 1:44:43.560 --> 1:44:46.160 It's just about putting it together consistently, which the Mariners 1:44:46.200 --> 1:44:48.639 have not done. But prove us wrong. You'll do it. 1:44:48.800 --> 1:44:51.200 Go put it together consistently, and I will be the 1:44:51.280 --> 1:44:53.760 first to change my tune because when the Mariners are 1:44:53.800 --> 1:44:56.760 playing well, they are electric, and I'm rooting for them 1:44:56.840 --> 1:44:59.960 to play well. All Right, we got the last series last, 1:45:00.040 --> 1:45:03.080 but certainly not least unless you're a Yankee fan. Uh 1:45:03.360 --> 1:45:06.519 Dodgers Yankees Game one Daughters went two to one. Garrickle 1:45:06.560 --> 1:45:09.960 was cruising six shudy before he went out for the seventh. 1:45:10.120 --> 1:45:12.479 He walked Mookie and then Boone came out to get him, 1:45:12.600 --> 1:45:15.080 but he convinced him to stay in months. He made 1:45:15.120 --> 1:45:17.799 him pay, hitting a two run homer that ultimately decided 1:45:17.840 --> 1:45:22.280 the game. Susaki on the other side. I think a 1:45:22.280 --> 1:45:25.479 couple of roundups ago. I told Jack, I'm pretty sure. 1:45:25.520 --> 1:45:27.920 I was like, I just don't believe in Roki in 1:45:27.920 --> 1:45:33.679 the rotation. He hit one hundred miles an hour seventeen times. Yeah? 1:45:33.720 --> 1:45:33.920 What? 1:45:35.080 --> 1:45:37.360 He hit one hundred and one multiple times earlier on 1:45:37.400 --> 1:45:39.519 in the season. He's only hit over one hundred miles 1:45:39.520 --> 1:45:43.879 an hour fifteen times. This season he hit seventeen freaking times. Yeah, 1:45:43.920 --> 1:45:46.920 a Yankee stadium. He looked awesome. He had that in 1:45:46.960 --> 1:45:49.960 the NP too. It just hasn't been there since he 1:45:50.000 --> 1:45:52.759 came here. He must be feeling good. I felt great, 1:45:52.920 --> 1:45:54.760 of course, it was that Yankee Stadium just put them 1:45:54.800 --> 1:45:57.839 in his back pocket. Five and two thirds, no earned runs. 1:45:58.040 --> 1:45:59.519 He did give up one run, but it was on 1:45:59.520 --> 1:46:02.439 a passball, didn't even count and didn't matter anyway. Todgers 1:46:02.439 --> 1:46:05.240 win Game two. Dodgers went eight to two. The Dodgers 1:46:05.280 --> 1:46:10.080 man first inning, Cam Schlitzler strikes out the side. Second inning, 1:46:10.240 --> 1:46:13.200 Max Schuman loses one in the sun, but that was 1:46:13.240 --> 1:46:15.439 the only runner to get on base, and then the 1:46:15.520 --> 1:46:19.840 Dodters timed up Cam Schlitzler's fastball combo and they fouled 1:46:19.880 --> 1:46:22.160 off a ton of pitches and drove up his pitch count. 1:46:23.000 --> 1:46:26.560 He exited after his four and a thirty allowed three runs. Otani, 1:46:26.680 --> 1:46:28.680 Freddy and Pie has all at RBI hits. It just 1:46:28.680 --> 1:46:31.040 speaks to the greatness of the Dodgers. I thought Cam 1:46:31.120 --> 1:46:34.200 Slitler stuff looked good, but the Dodgers once they got you, 1:46:35.520 --> 1:46:38.240 good luck. Five run eighth inning from the Dodgers put 1:46:38.240 --> 1:46:40.479 this one just completely out of reach as a Grisham 1:46:40.520 --> 1:46:44.080 homer and a Vold Prbi single where the lone Yankees runs. 1:46:44.439 --> 1:46:46.639 Yamamoto told the bullpen to take the day off. 1:46:47.000 --> 1:46:47.599 I got you. 1:46:47.840 --> 1:46:51.160 He went the entire game, cg nine innings, four hits, 1:46:51.200 --> 1:46:55.200 two runs, and struck out seven. And we were recording 1:46:55.479 --> 1:47:00.599 during Sunday Night Baseball. The Yankees are actually winning going on, 1:47:00.760 --> 1:47:06.120 Ryan Yarborough, Paul Blackburn, Bred Headrick. How about the boys, 1:47:06.360 --> 1:47:09.080 I mean, shut up. Paul Blackburn two eight e ra 1:47:09.080 --> 1:47:11.760 A and Brett Headrick's been I think the Yankees best 1:47:11.800 --> 1:47:14.160 reliever this year. He's got a one four eight. Will 1:47:14.240 --> 1:47:16.280 kleinb give up a run early and then the rest 1:47:16.280 --> 1:47:19.280 of the Daughter's bullpen how they even score it? Gold 1:47:19.320 --> 1:47:23.760 Schmidt RB I double No Gold is a double. Cody 1:47:23.760 --> 1:47:27.400 Bellinger is an RBI. He's two for two. That's kind 1:47:27.400 --> 1:47:29.479 of it. O. Tony's one for three. I mean it's 1:47:29.479 --> 1:47:31.160 one zero on the seventh. Kind of want to end 1:47:31.160 --> 1:47:33.439 the show to go watch the Element. Yeah, he's probably blowing. 1:47:34.320 --> 1:47:37.000 Yeah, I mean that's That's basically the biggest thing here 1:47:37.040 --> 1:47:39.160 is if the Yankees can salvage the series feel a 1:47:39.160 --> 1:47:42.479 little bit better, they get swept. It's just continues to 1:47:42.520 --> 1:47:45.280 be a brutal stretch and you're just counting the days 1:47:45.320 --> 1:47:49.280 until you can get Aaron Judge back. Talk about everything 1:47:49.280 --> 1:47:53.000 we said about McGreevy that the modern, even nastier version 1:47:53.040 --> 1:47:57.200 of that is mmoto or you're anybody if you're pitching 1:47:57.320 --> 1:48:00.200 Ninja Highlight Sky that doesn't even watch the game and 1:48:00.240 --> 1:48:01.960 just likes to see the clips, or you're an old 1:48:01.960 --> 1:48:04.000 school guy that likes to see a pitch or pitch 1:48:04.200 --> 1:48:06.080 your my Moto appeals to everybody. And I thought that 1:48:06.120 --> 1:48:08.759 was a perfect example in that in that complete game, 1:48:09.280 --> 1:48:11.639 and then you mentioned the game plan knowing that, hey, 1:48:11.640 --> 1:48:13.519 you're probably not gonna stack a ton of hits against 1:48:13.560 --> 1:48:15.240 Cam Schlitzler, so let's just get him out of the 1:48:15.240 --> 1:48:17.240 game early. That was quickly their plan, and the Dodgers 1:48:17.280 --> 1:48:20.360 did an unbelievable job of that spoiling and just working 1:48:20.439 --> 1:48:23.800 up that pitch count. This is just an example of 1:48:23.800 --> 1:48:25.320 why they're such a good team. I don't even think 1:48:25.360 --> 1:48:27.360 you think the Yankees have had that bad of a series. 1:48:27.560 --> 1:48:29.799 They're struggling, but I think the Dodgers are just flexing 1:48:29.800 --> 1:48:30.360 their muscles. 1:48:31.640 --> 1:48:36.040 Austin Wells, Grugo te and his ops starts with a four. 1:48:38.200 --> 1:48:41.559 Yeah, it's gonna be hard if he's struggling like that. 1:48:42.160 --> 1:48:52.840 This block of Dominguez Jazz, Volpi, Wells, Caballero stinks. There's 1:48:52.840 --> 1:48:56.160 no other way to put it. Like, Tamiga is nice, 1:48:56.160 --> 1:48:58.679 got a hit today. You know, Volpi's actually been pretty 1:48:58.680 --> 1:49:01.200 good defensively. He's not the problem. It's just they got 1:49:01.400 --> 1:49:05.880 nothing from those guys. Yeah, Ellinger has been struggling. I mean, 1:49:05.920 --> 1:49:08.439 Paul Goldschmid is hitting, you know, third in this lineup. 1:49:08.439 --> 1:49:10.040 That's where they're at right now. The Yankees are a 1:49:10.040 --> 1:49:12.479 blow five hundred team when Aaron Judge is not in 1:49:12.479 --> 1:49:15.400 the lineup. Yeah, that's who they are right until Aaron 1:49:15.479 --> 1:49:19.720 Judge returns, which again we got an update I think 1:49:19.760 --> 1:49:22.519 a few days ago it's like better but not good enough, 1:49:22.760 --> 1:49:26.920 not even starting baseball activities yet. Yeah, so like if 1:49:27.000 --> 1:49:29.320 I don't have another GM, I don't envy the position. 1:49:29.800 --> 1:49:32.439 Brian Cashman, are you going all in at this deadline 1:49:32.479 --> 1:49:35.800 with this team? Like you shouldn't. Yankee fans are going 1:49:35.880 --> 1:49:38.280 to demand it though, and then they're gonna get real 1:49:38.280 --> 1:49:41.280 pissed when they don't make that many moves, and I'm 1:49:41.280 --> 1:49:43.240 gonna be like, I get it. Yeah, I would add 1:49:43.280 --> 1:49:47.200 to this team. They stink. They stink Without Aaron Judge, 1:49:47.240 --> 1:49:47.679 they stink. 1:49:48.200 --> 1:49:51.000 Yeah, it's fair fair, They've definitely it's been rough and 1:49:51.040 --> 1:49:52.880 some guys could get it going, like Bellinger is better 1:49:52.880 --> 1:49:55.439 than this Ben Rice like stinging like he did, you know, 1:49:55.479 --> 1:49:56.880 through the first few months of the season. A little 1:49:56.880 --> 1:49:58.519 bit more, you can start to get excited. Jazz just 1:49:58.560 --> 1:50:00.200 needs to be better. Those guys are doing that. This 1:50:00.240 --> 1:50:02.240 team is not bad, it's just none of them are 1:50:02.240 --> 1:50:05.759 doing that, especially without Judge in there. The last note 1:50:05.840 --> 1:50:08.960 I had on the Dodgers, I'm just I'm seated for 1:50:09.040 --> 1:50:12.640 Roki Sasaki's next start. Oh if it looks like that, yeah, 1:50:12.680 --> 1:50:14.519 holy crap, because like I said with it with my 1:50:14.560 --> 1:50:17.760 report when he came into the league was fastball because 1:50:17.800 --> 1:50:19.760 of the shape, it's got to be ninety nine to 1:50:19.800 --> 1:50:22.519 one hundred and then everything else is going to really play. 1:50:22.560 --> 1:50:25.280 And it's when it's ninety six ninety seven it's too 1:50:25.640 --> 1:50:28.679 flat and hitters get to it. But with that splitter 1:50:28.800 --> 1:50:31.960 and you're you're exceeding one hundred. That will be the 1:50:32.080 --> 1:50:35.360 NPB version of Sasaki, which we haven't really seen, especially 1:50:35.400 --> 1:50:36.200 as a starter. 1:50:36.800 --> 1:50:38.600 So that I'll do it for this episode of The 1:50:38.720 --> 1:50:41.599 Just Baseball Show. Ar we went almost two hours again, 1:50:41.680 --> 1:50:44.120 but hey, we had to talk about a lot of baseball. 1:50:44.160 --> 1:50:47.639 Hopefully everybody enjoyed this episode of The Just Baseball Show. 1:50:47.960 --> 1:50:50.639 Before you leave, if you just smash the like button 1:50:50.720 --> 1:50:53.120 and subscribe button if you haven't already, And for all 1:50:53.120 --> 1:50:55.960 those listening to us live or listening to us on 1:50:56.080 --> 1:50:58.360 audio after the fact, if you made it all the 1:50:58.400 --> 1:51:01.080 way here, we really really appreciate you. 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