WEBVTT - Jones and O'Hearn shine, but struggles continue 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:10.680 What's up, everybody. 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:13.920 Welcome back to another episode of Bucco Territory, presented to 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:16.520 you by the Foul Territory Network. I'm Noahile's joining me 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:19.759 as always is my good palent co host Platinum Ke 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:22.720 aka Mark. Josh will join the show later for his 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:25.680 weekly segment, Jay Hey, Now, he's doing a little traveling 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:29.840 for his birthday, so we already wish them happy birthday, 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:33.279 Happy related birthday. Again, mister Harrison, we. 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:34.720 Got a good show for you today. We're gonna talk 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:37.599 about Jared Jones. Should they have pulled him? Should they 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:39.879 not have pulled him? Who knows? We're gonna talk about it. 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:42.520 We're gonna talk about Carmen Machinski as well. He's good. 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:45.199 Some guys in the starting rotation aren't good. Should they 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:47.560 flip spots or should they maybe just use him like 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:50.120 a really good relief picture should be used. And then 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:52.040 we will round out the show, as I said, with 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:54.920 Josh Harrison's weekly segment, Jay Hey Now, but. 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:58.920 Mark, I'll we got to start off with probably. 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:01.880 I mean, there was a lot of interesting stuff that 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:06.080 took place, so much a historic effort by Ryan O'Hearn, 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:07.240 which we'll talk about later. 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:11.040 In the show, Paul Skeen snapped a losing streak. That 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:11.679 was big. 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:17.360 Mitch Keller continues to struggle Carmen Macginski probably not being 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:18.200 used correctly. 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.720 Jake Meyham hit a home run. I mean, everything was 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:26.160 going on, but yeah, yeah, probably the most interesting thing 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.880 that happened, aside from maybe O'Hearn. That was pretty crazy. 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:32.520 Jared Jones became the first pitcher in Major League Baseball 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:36.000 to throw six perfect innings, leave a game and not 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:37.040 be the winning pitcher. 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:38.720 Uh what? 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:42.880 Eighteen up eighteen ninety, struck out eight batters. His velocity was, 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:44.880 as he likes to say, fn electric. 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:47.000 He tried his best. 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:49.680 To avoid Don Kelly to get that you know that 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:54.520 that yank from the game, but it happened. Mark, you're 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.400 a fan, you know you're you're you're watching this with 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:00.600 your heart on your sleeve. What were you thinking when 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:01.600 that decision was made? 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.840 Yeah, initial reaction was, what the hell are we doing? 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.080 Why are we pulling this guy with a perfect game. 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:10.960 It's like we just said, the only twenty sometimes that 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:14.840 perfect games have been thrown. You gotta give the guy 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:18.480 a shot, right, And then I took a minute, you know, 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:21.919 cooled down a little bit and realized that, oh, yeah, 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:24.280 this is a guy who is just coming back from 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:29.520 elbow surgery not been stretched out to the length that 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:32.000 it would have required to finish that game. He was 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:34.800 at seventy seven pitches through six, which, yeah, that's really 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:39.680 really good. But for Jared Jones Sanders, that's right at 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.919 the upper limit. I could see the argument, maybe send 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:46.160 him back out for one more inning, But at the 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:49.480 same time, is it worth the risk if you know 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:53.280 already that he's not going to go nine? I think 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:55.520 it would have been interesting to see if this was 0:02:55.840 --> 0:03:01.359 someone else in the rotation that was perfect through six, 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:03.880 to see how like obviously I think that wouldn't have Yeah, 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.959 they would have pulled him, right, So yeah, yeah, it's 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.840 just because it's scared. You don't want to hurt him. 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.560 I didn't have any issue with it, but it was frustrating, 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:16.560 especially when the very next batter comes up to the 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:19.400 plate and picks up a hit off of Mason Montgomery. 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:23.680 Just the icing on the cake there for that. What 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:25.440 do you think was that the right call there? 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:30.440 By? Don Kelly, it's the boring call. Yeah, it's not 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:33.080 the fun call. But sometimes when you're in charge, you 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:37.040 have to make tough decisions. I think the big takeaway 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:40.320 I have on this decision was was he going to 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:41.920 be going nine innings? 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:42.400 Like? 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:48.280 And he just wasn't. So what they did was getting 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:48.800 ahead of something. 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:50.200 Because if you let him go back out for the 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:54.640 seventh and he throws fifteen more pitches but still has 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:57.880 a perfect game, then it becomes an even bigger thing. 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:03.440 And and if you just knew, like and no scenario 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:07.280 is Jared Jones gonna throw a hundred pitches like he 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:09.440 just he was going to hit one hundred pitches if 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:13.120 you let him throw three more innings. So if that's 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:15.200 the plan, you stick to the plan. You live and 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:18.240 die by the plan. And I hate it. I hate it, 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.680 like it's boring. I want to see a perfect game. 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:24.359 Jared Jones deserves that opportunity. But that's the type of 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:28.359 baseball that's being played today, and especially with Jones. 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:29.880 Two things can be true. 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:31.920 It can be the right decision, and it also can 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:37.080 be the frustrating and boring and you know, not old school, 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.479 and like, I get why everyone's frustrated by it. And 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:42.440 it's even more frustrating that their bullpen lost than that game, right, 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.839 They also didn't score a run, so it couldn't matter, 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:50.720 you know, And it is what it is, like Jared 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:53.280 Jones knows going into pretty much every game how far 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:56.120 of a leash he has, and he probably exceeded that leash. 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:56.520 Yeah. 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.640 He mentioned post game he was only supposed to go 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.159 five and they let him go sick, so they'd already 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:04.800 let him go one inning more than expected. And I 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.240 really liked what Don Kelly said in the post game 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:11.400 after about talking about justifying the decision. He said, our 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:16.920 priority is health, winning and player accomplishments like personal accomplishments, 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.960 in that order. And I think that's the right way 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:23.400 to do it, especially because, I mean, we just saw 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.240 Andy Rodriguez get hurt. We've seen Connor Griffin get hurt, 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:28.520 we have Spencer Horwitz out, we have on Neil Cruz out. 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:32.839 Injuries are very, very frustrating, a lot more frustrating than 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:36.520 a missed opportunity at a perfect game. I would be 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:41.320 livid if Jerry went out there and then his shoulder, yeah, yeah, something, 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:45.039 I mean, way more so. And you just can't risk 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:48.240 that with how valuable Jared Jones is to this team 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:50.240 right now, especially with as we're going to get into 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:55.680 here soon Mitch Keller's struggles continuing, So I go ahead. 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.640 No, I was just gonna say, like again, it sucks. 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.479 It sucks that it happened to Jared. It sucks that 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:06.320 the way the game ended. I get it, but that's 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:09.440 just the way it goes. Like yeah, and you know, 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:13.360 odds are I mean odds are he wasn't a gonna 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:17.200 finish the perfect game because just he deserves an opportunity, right, 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.240 but there's only been like twenty seven of them ever, 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.800 so who knows. But he deserved the opportunity. But at 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:29.600 the end of the day, that extra workload could come 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:32.000 back to bite him, like and everyone will say, oh, 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:35.279 one another twenty pitches who knows? 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.280 Who knows? And it could have been fine, It could have. 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:42.239 But I'm a fan of when you have a plan, 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:45.839 especially when you're dealing with an asset like Jared Jones, 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:47.240 which could be so valuable. 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.960 He's already dealt with injuries. Just stick to the plan. 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:51.920 Stick to the plan. 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.120 If you deviate from this plan, what other plans are 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:56.680 you going to deviate from? And again, I don't expect 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:58.479 a lot of the people listening to this to agree 0:06:58.520 --> 0:06:58.760 with me. 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:01.239 It's not it's not fun. 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.919 It's not fun, and it resulted in a loss. But 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.720 the longer that went on and less and less, there 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:12.040 was something in that plan that said, if he's under 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:16.120 this amount of pitches, he can go the whole game. 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:18.800 If that was a part of the plan, then scratch 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:19.640 everything I've said. 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.560 But I don't. I mean, they said he was only 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:24.680 supposed to go five. They let him go further what 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:25.720 he was supposed. 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:28.560 To And so unless you're gonna let him keep going 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:30.720 all the way through, regardless of pitch count or if 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:34.960 it stays under one hundred, whatever, then none of this matters. 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:38.120 You're just you're just pushing it back and making the 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.840 moment more frustrating or awkward. And I guess, you know, 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:43.440 maybe if he if he goes out there in the 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:45.640 seventh and allows a single and then you go pull him, 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:48.680 I think a lot of people would have understand or understood. 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:51.880 But it is what it is. It's not why they lost. 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:55.800 And I mean it's at the end of the day, 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:57.480 it's the best Jared Jones. 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:02.000 I was just about to say it. Yeah, it completely 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:06.000 eclipsed how good Jared Jones looked, how efficient he was 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.400 pitching the contact when he wanted to, but also getting 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:12.760 a ton of whiffs to get those strikeouts. It just 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:16.320 it looks like early twenty twenty four Jery Jones all 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:20.840 over again. That dominance. That just he felt so in 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:23.560 control of every battery that stepped in the plate. It 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:25.760 felt like he had an advantage before even threw a pitch. 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.200 So I love that. I want to see more of it, 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.080 and I believe we will, so looking forward to that. 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:33.800 All right, we're gonna take a quick break when we 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:34.280 come back. 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:37.920 Talking to Carmen Maginski and Mitch Keller here on Bucko 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:43.080 Territory Cap. 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:45.120 I've been looking for the best deals for the All 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.319 Star Game tickets in Philly. Where are you going to 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:48.240 get some tickets from? 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.560 I'm going straight out to Rife Field. 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Issue number two is they have a better 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.920 starting pitcher right now than Mitch Keller. He's also their 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:06.760 best reliever and then really not using him in either 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:10.360 of those roles. A lot of people are frustrated with 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:14.400 how Krmen Macjinski's season is gone, despite his numbers being 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:16.920 pretty good. He's been one of the more effective relievers 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.320 in baseball since they moved him to the bullpen. He 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:21.440 was one of their better starting pitchers while he was 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:24.480 in the starting rotation, but he's not being used in 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:27.000 high leverage. 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:28.200 Let's start there. 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:31.559 Yep. What are your thoughts on how they've used him? 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:34.000 I mean, do you get what they're doing? Do you 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.160 have a problem with it? Let me hear what you 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:36.600 have to say. 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:41.120 Yeah, I was perplexed, to put it lightly or nicely, 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.240 by bringing Keller in when you're up ten to two. 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.800 I didn't understand that, because, yeah, you want to eat 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.760 some innings up there, But we have other relievers in 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:55.040 the bullpen that you can burn there that start for 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:57.920 them and go to them instead. And we saw it 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:01.720 like if we could have gone to Karmen Maginsky maybe 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:06.680 instead of Mason Montgomery or something, would Wednesday's game have 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.360 gone any differently. And but the fact that Karmen's just 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:14.160 not available for those kind of appearances as like your 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:17.120 normal reliever, it's just it feels like it's hamstringing this 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:21.080 bullpen even more, where you have a guy who's great, 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.760 but you can only use him in certain spots or something. 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:27.360 I don't. It's just very very confusing. I didn't agree 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:32.440 with bringing him in on for the skiing start, but yeah, 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:37.760 I mean it's bullpen management's tough. But that was a 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:39.120 weird one for me. What do you think? 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:42.559 I mean, it makes me wonder if they're like intentionally 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.560 doing this so he stays stretched out, like they're not 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.080 pitching them on back to back days like they don't, 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.600 like if there's just an agreement, like hey, and I'm 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:55.040 not insinuating that this is the case. I'm not reporting anything. 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.320 It's just more like, you know, we all know he 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.880 wants to be a starter. It seems like they're doing 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.520 everything they can to keep him in starter shape, either 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:08.040 for when they need a rotation spot to be filled 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:11.120 or if you know, maybe they said they were gonna 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:14.640 move him again, not reporting that, not suggesting that's reality, 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:17.079 just kind of floating that out there, like maybe maybe 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:19.040 that's how this got resolved and they got him to 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:21.640 do his job. Was like it will trade you. It's 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.280 just we got to get it done, and so they're 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:26.560 trying to stretch him out, like but other than that, 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:28.760 I don't I don't know the logic behind how they're 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:32.080 using him. Especially like the Skis thing that if you 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:33.959 wanted to get him out there just to get some 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:37.280 run for him, like have him throw one inning, that's fine, 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:41.920 but there's there's just no reason why you're not using 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:44.040 him as a high leverage arm. He's your best right 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:47.160 hander in the bullpen and it's not particularly close. 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:50.080 So and if. 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:53.120 You don't want to use him as a high leverage arm, 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:55.880 then he should be in the bullpen, or he should 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.440 be in the rotation, and Mitch Keller should be moved 0:12:58.440 --> 0:12:59.160 back to the bullpen. 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.760 We're at that point where Carmon Majinsky is just. 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:06.360 Too valuable, valuable of a player to be used in 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:08.160 the way they're using him right now. 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:09.679 It doesn't make a lot of sense. 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:11.840 And maybe they're just waiting till the All Star break 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:13.760 to kind of reshuffle the pieces here. 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:15.400 I would hope that that's. 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:19.240 The case, because again, he's one of the more valuable 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:21.960 pitchers on this staff and this reduced role. 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.720 I mean, sometimes when you pitch him in Balk it makes. 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.880 Sense like if he would have had him follow Jones, 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.040 maybe they could have just thrown a hole exactly. 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:31.600 Yeah, we've seen that before. 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:36.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, But I don't know, it just feels 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:41.480 like they have not really maximized what he can provide 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.599 in the bullpen, and so if you're not going to 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:48.520 use him the right way, just make him a starter 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:53.000 because he's better than some of the guys in their rotation. 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:56.600 Yeah. Look at Mitch Keller's last seven starts. He has 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.280 a six point six y nine ear a, a one 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:02.520 point sixty three whip and that's in thirty five innings pitch. 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:06.040 He's allowed forty two hits in that stretch along with 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:11.360 fifteen walks. It's just been tough to watch. And I 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.000 think I had the exact same thought, where it's like 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.280 the All Star break is coming at the perfect time, 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.720 not just to get Mitch Keller right, maybe to switch 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:23.920 up these roles and flip flop him and Carmen. I 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.520 think it would benefit the team quite a bit. And 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:29.080 I think Mitch is the kind of person and leader 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:32.360 that he'll do whatever is best for this team willingly. 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:37.440 I don't anticipate that being an issue. Keller just puts 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:40.000 his head down and goes to work, So I don't 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.280 think that he's gonna have a drama with like going 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:44.880 to the B word or anything that we've seen in 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:48.080 the past, So I mean, maybe he is. That would 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:48.880 be quite digressing. 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:51.920 You just got to tell someone to do it. Yeah, 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:53.440 you know, no one wants. 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:56.080 To be in the bullpen, but at some point you 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:59.160 just got to do it. So I hear everything else 0:14:59.160 --> 0:14:59.560 you're saying. 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:01.040 Yeah, I didn't mean interrupt. 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:04.240 No, no, no, No one wants to go to the bullpen. 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:07.160 We get it. Someone's got to do it, yep, because 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:11.440 right now you just you don't have your best people in. 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:14.760 And Mitch Keller has a contract. He's not, you know, 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:19.080 in arbitration. He's not having that whole concern hanging over 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.200 as cloud where it's like are you a stargut pitcher 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:23.520 or your a leief pitcher. That's probably I think money 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:28.280 is probably the biggest reason why Carmen's so apprehensive about it. Yeah, 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:31.160 so that's not a concern for Keller. But we'll see 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:32.960 after the All Star Game. I don't think anything's going 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:34.440 to really change before then. 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:35.840 Yeah. 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:38.600 So all right, we're gonna take another quick break when 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:42.120 we come back. 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This 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:12.600 y this week's segment is gonna actually highlight two players, 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:17.240 and more specifically Ryan O'Hearn and Paul Skeins. 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:17.840 Uh. 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:22.119 First things first, Ryan O'Hearn, big ups to you. Record 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.920 for RBIs in the game that was big time, three homers. 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:28.359 One was a grand slam. Kind of hard to not 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:30.960 highlight him with the hay Now segment. And all of 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:34.119 that also came on Paul Skeen's start day, which the 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:36.560 other day Noah said was important to win his two 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:39.400 stars before the All Star break. So that first win 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.520 is notched under the belt behind you know, a nice 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:46.680 effort behind, but between Paul and uh Ryan O'Hearn himself. 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.840 So uh, my weekly Jay hay Now segment highlights those 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:54.880 two guys. And to finish that off last thing would 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:57.680 be Sunday, Paul wanning a second start against the Brewers. 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:00.680 You got a good chance of finishing home stand three 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.200 and three according to know if we go when his 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:05.560 two starts. So we got one under the belt thanks 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:08.960 to Ron o'dhearn, thanks to Paul Skeins. So this week's 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:11.960 Jay hay Now segment, big ups to Paul Skins and 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:14.480 big ups to Ryan O'Hearn and the rest of the 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:17.640 offense that also chipped in throughout this series and this weekend. 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:21.520 Yeah, I agree with what he said. 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:25.160 Just to build off of two things though, hearn thing, 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:26.320 I just want to make a quick point that we 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:27.440 could talk more about skins. 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.000 O'Hearn's been such a slam dun signing. 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:34.560 And while yes, the value there is obviously what Ryan 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:39.360 O'Hearn's providing at the plate, you know, overall in the clubhouse, 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:43.320 I think another big win for the Pirates is that 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:47.360 Ryan O'Hearn's success in Pittsburgh shows other free agents, hey, 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:50.879 you can come here and play well, because we hadn't 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:53.040 seen that from a lot of free agents. 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:55.120 Most of the people who came here, they signed here 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:56.360 and they got. 0:18:56.160 --> 0:19:00.760 Worse starting picture. That's like a veteran Yeah, yes. 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.120 So that could be a big win. 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:06.480 I mean, they still have to pay quality talent. They 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:08.679 have to They made obviously a really big effort to 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:09.439 get O'Hearn, But. 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:13.400 That's such a win. And even in. 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:15.320 The fact that he's going to be in the fact 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:17.160 that he's going to be on this roster as well 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:20.840 next year, I mean that's further encouragement to free agents saying, hey, 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:24.160 you have protection in this lineup. Now you can succeed here. 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:26.840 Yeah, and you know they're still not going to be 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:28.919 able to go out and get the one Soto's and 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:34.800 the Choo Tawny's. But players of Ryan O'Hearn's caliber are 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:38.439 proven now to be a in the Pirates price range, 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:42.320 and b makes sense to come here now. So that 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:45.760 should be the the ale of the grocery shore or 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:48.720 store where the Pirates are shopping from here on out. 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:53.840 The last thing that he mentioned though, with schemes, solid 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:56.560 effort from him, got to see it again Sunday. 0:19:57.359 --> 0:19:58.960 Like I said the last time, biggest start of. 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:01.679 The year, he'd going keep going go to and oh 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:04.280 head into the All Star Break with so momentum be 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:05.800 eight and eight on the season, have. 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:11.440 An ERA a little lower. Just just beat the Brewers, man, Yeah. 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:14.399 Even if that's the only game they win in this 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:18.119 weekend series. If you end the first half with a 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:21.960 Paul Skeins gem against the Milwaukee Brewers heading into the 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:24.480 All Star Break, people are still gonna believe in this. 0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:25.159 Oh yeah. 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:28.800 If people see Paul Skens looking like Paul Skins again, 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:31.760 trending to beat Paul Skins again, even if they're a 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:34.800