Speaker 1: Welcome to Boss the territory, ladies and gentlemen. Red Sox
Speaker 1: lose here eight to four, record falls to sixty five
Speaker 1: and fifty seven. Story of the game here at tonight
Speaker 1: for me, Jake Bennett, You know, I feel like you're
Speaker 1: maybe getting to a point here where he's gonna have
Speaker 1: to start making some adjustments.
Speaker 2: Right. This guy was cruising along.
Speaker 1: You're thinking, man, oh man, this guy could actually get
Speaker 1: you know, maybe quite a few Rookie of the Year votes.
Speaker 1: The last couple of outings, though, have not been as
Speaker 1: crisp first time, not making it at least five innings.
Speaker 1: It just goes to show how good this guy's been,
Speaker 1: you know, being a rookie. I mean, the fact that
Speaker 1: this is first start, not making it five innings, that
Speaker 1: says something right there. But a bad fourth inning did
Speaker 1: him in. Looked like he lost a feel for his
Speaker 1: change up.
Speaker 2: Later on, he was leaving.
Speaker 1: Too many pitches over the zone, a lot of hard
Speaker 1: contact ninety two miles an hour average exit from the
Speaker 1: Pirates off him tonight. They kept driving up the pitch
Speaker 1: count on him, and then eventually Geovanni Moran gave up
Speaker 1: a three run shot to an old rival in Brandon
Speaker 1: laus So pretty much at that point the game was
Speaker 1: put away.
Speaker 2: But with Jake Bennett, I'm.
Speaker 1: Starting to think, here, he's gonna have to work in
Speaker 1: the sweeper a little bit more. He's gonna have to
Speaker 1: work in some breaking pitches.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Listen, the four seamer sinker change up. It's been a
Speaker 1: really good combination for him this year. But he's only
Speaker 1: got seven percent sweepers on the year. I mean, you
Speaker 1: can only go so far with three pitches, right, you
Speaker 1: know for a rookie. Yeah, you know, maybe you can
Speaker 1: get away with that a little bit. Once those scattering reports,
Speaker 1: you know, start getting updated, and then once other teams
Speaker 1: out there start seeing what you're doing, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to start switching it up a little bit. They're starting
Speaker 1: to pick up on him, and I've gotten that sense
Speaker 1: over the last couple of outings. And when you don't
Speaker 1: have full command in your favor, like with him tonight,
Speaker 1: leaving a couple of pitches over the zone, that's when batters,
Speaker 1: especially at the major league level, are going to take advantage.
Speaker 1: And I'm you know, I'm starting to think especially against
Speaker 1: righty's right against lefties, he's had a ton of success
Speaker 1: against lefties normally hitting one to eighty one against him,
Speaker 1: with a four to thirty four ops against right He's
Speaker 1: still not like amazing numbers, hitting two forty five six
Speaker 1: forty four ops. But I think he's gotta have to
Speaker 1: start mixing in a little bit more, especially against the righties.
Speaker 1: So again needs to be I think a little less predictable.
Speaker 1: What he's been doing has worked up to this point.
Speaker 1: Works up great with the four seamer up in the zone,
Speaker 1: does great with a change up below the zone. He
Speaker 1: works in the sinkers in zone to get those ground balls.
Speaker 1: But again I think just incorporating more of a breaking
Speaker 1: pitch is going to help him a lot over the
Speaker 1: final six or seven weeks or so of the season.
Speaker 1: But the offense, I mean, it wasn't a bad night
Speaker 1: for the offense. You end up scoring four here, but
Speaker 1: once again, like we've seen over the last week or so,
Speaker 1: not really able to come up with runners in scoring position.
Speaker 1: Over the last seven games. They rank thirtieth in Fangraft's clutch,
Speaker 1: which is basically how well you're doing in those high
Speaker 1: leverage spots. They ranked twenty seventh in batting average with
Speaker 1: runners in scoring position and twenty eighth in ops with
Speaker 1: runners in scoring positions. So you know, they're getting the
Speaker 1: guys on, they're getting the hits, they're getting the walks,
Speaker 1: but they're having a hard time coming up with these
Speaker 1: timely hits. You just saw today against Bubback Chandler, they.
Speaker 2: Just couldn't really get anything going.
Speaker 1: Like you, had opportunities that you know, we saw over
Speaker 1: the full month of July where man, they're able to
Speaker 1: just just rally off just a whole ton of stuff,
Speaker 1: and you're not seeing that. You know, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: you need to be exactly like that, but you know,
Speaker 1: time and time again here over the last week or so,
Speaker 1: you get opportunities that start, but you're just not able
Speaker 1: to finish.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: You're able to get the plane off the ground, but
Speaker 1: you can't fully land it. I also wasn't not a
Speaker 1: big fan of this lineup here tonight. I've said it
Speaker 1: the last few days or so. I'm not a fan
Speaker 1: of Masa at the top of the order. I know,
Speaker 1: SETI wasn't in the line up here tonight. You know, SETI,
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to give him some days off, Like
Speaker 1: the guy plays every day. This is why you bring
Speaker 1: in someone like Eli White, right, but not a fan
Speaker 1: of Masa batting second. I know he came up with
Speaker 1: an RBI bas hit in the ninth inning there. But
Speaker 1: to me, I don't know, I've said it before, I
Speaker 1: think he's better more so after the meat of the order.
Speaker 1: To me, Masa is a perfect guy to have in
Speaker 1: the five or six spot of the lineup right. He's
Speaker 1: not the guy that you want to count on for
Speaker 1: that production. He's more of the guy where I want
Speaker 1: him backing up the heavy hitters in the lineup right,
Speaker 1: giving them protection. That's what I think Masa does well.
Speaker 1: He works the counts, He's able to foul off pitches,
Speaker 1: and you know we've seen him, you know, come through
Speaker 1: in spots, right. But I don't want him on the
Speaker 1: number two spot.
Speaker 2: I just don't.
Speaker 1: I know, Rushman has been pretty quiet since making his
Speaker 1: Red Sox debut, But to me, you know, with the
Speaker 1: track record that Rutshman has, I'd much rather him in
Speaker 1: the number two spot. Would that have made much of
Speaker 1: a difference tonight, Probably not, But you know, just wanted
Speaker 1: to get that that thought across. Other than that, you know,
Speaker 1: not really much here tonight. So GARB with a couple
Speaker 1: of RBIs will You're with a double. You put together
Speaker 1: a little something in the ninth inning against Yates, but
Speaker 1: again not able to get the rallies together. You felt
Speaker 1: like the momentum the air came out of the building
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier in the game. You get a
Speaker 1: will your double, Wilson before that got on base, and
Speaker 1: then William gets a double into the gap and Eperson's
Speaker 1: sending Wilson home from third base, and I'm thinking, why,
Speaker 1: I get it. You got a couple of outs. You're
Speaker 1: trying to make things happen. You're trying to force the
Speaker 1: defense to make a good play. But it's Wilson Contreras.
Speaker 1: And I'm not even talking about the injuries here, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know he's been dealing with some stuff, dealing with
Speaker 1: a hamstring lately, but he's not you know, Yeah, the
Speaker 1: guy's gonna dog it out there, but he's not gonna
Speaker 1: give you a whole ton of sprint speed.
Speaker 2: So I didn't agree with the send there.
Speaker 1: I can understand the point of view where you want
Speaker 1: to force the defense to make a good play, but
Speaker 1: in that situation it gets back to what I've said.
Speaker 1: I like aggressive base running, but you gotta have the
Speaker 1: good awareness with it. Wilson. You know, yeah, he'll put
Speaker 1: it one hundred and ten percent. But I'm I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna be counting on that guy, especially coming from first home.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Just was a little iffy about that, especially when you
Speaker 1: got Durbin coming up next, who just had a good
Speaker 1: game yesterday. I get it, you got two out, so
Speaker 1: you want to try and you know, force the issue.
Speaker 1: But Durban's been hitting great and he just had a
Speaker 1: Grand Slam yesterday. Why not give him the shot right there?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: And that's a guy that obviously makes a lot of contact.
Speaker 2: You know, the Red Sox.
Speaker 1: What have they done well over the last month and
Speaker 1: a half or so putting the ball in play? When
Speaker 1: you put the ball in play, who knows what can happen.
Speaker 1: So I would have rather Wilson held up there and
Speaker 1: then give Durban a shot.
Speaker 2: That's just me. What do I know.
Speaker 1: I'm just a dufus that sits at my desk. But again,
Speaker 1: final score here tonight, Pirates win eight to four. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be pretty quick with this one here tonight, ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, I goodness, this was a frustrating watch here
Speaker 1: tonight you had someone in the stands in Pittsburgh yelling
Speaker 1: swing every single batter. It was driving me nuts. I
Speaker 1: can't stand people that do that. It's such a pet peeve,
Speaker 1: such a pet peeve of mine.
Speaker 2: I can't stand that. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: Anyway, whatever, I worked out for the Pirates, but I
Speaker 1: was just over this one here. Now. Luckily we did
Speaker 1: have some good news. We did have some good news.
Speaker 1: Roman Anthony a little bit more of an update. Nothing
Speaker 1: really crazy new, but Shag Tracy did speak about Roman here,
Speaker 1: said he doesn't think a rehabit signment is going to
Speaker 1: be this weekend, but they are getting closer. Also said
Speaker 1: it's not necessary for him to come back to Boston
Speaker 1: before the rehabit signment. Says he has a good setup,
Speaker 1: has a good thing going in Fort Myers right now.
Speaker 1: I say, don't even mess with that right now. Even
Speaker 1: if he's got a fly out of Florida to you know,
Speaker 1: get with Triple A or whoever, to get some AB's.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 1: Come back to Boston when you're ready to play major
Speaker 1: league games. Roman also Trevor story ikf at Worcester currently
Speaker 1: getting in on some workouts there. I would imagine so
Speaker 1: a rehab assignment for story is imminent at this point.
Speaker 1: I imagine it's probably going to be early next week.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the wuss, Christian Campbell staying hot. His twentieth
Speaker 1: double of the year here tonight. Five doubles in his
Speaker 1: last five games. The guy's red hot. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: it's funny because I was saying when we got Adly
Speaker 1: back in the lineup, I'm thinking, all right, cool, there's
Speaker 1: a bit of a spark right well, still looking for
Speaker 1: a bit of a spark here. You gotta wonder, man,
Speaker 1: do the Red Sox at some point, I know, you
Speaker 1: got to kind of figure out like where he would play,
Speaker 1: where he gets in, Like how does he fit? But man,
Speaker 1: if he keeps hitting like this, you wonder could Campbell
Speaker 1: get the call at some point? My gut tells me
Speaker 1: he's more of like a September call up at this point,
Speaker 1: because really you do have to figure out where he
Speaker 1: works in because you know, obviously with Roman coming back,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a lot of guys in the mix.
Speaker 1: You've already got a couple of right handed bats and
Speaker 1: Eli White, Jami Jones. Could he take the place of
Speaker 1: possibly Jami Jones? I don't know, and Eli White is
Speaker 1: more of the defense. Speed can play all three outfield positions,
Speaker 1: so I don't know. Like it's the guys just red hot.
Speaker 1: Keep paying attention to Christian campbell Man, he's been doing great. Also,
Speaker 1: Red Sox Royals Field of Dreams game in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 1: Very excited about that. I see a lot of people,
Speaker 1: a lot of the trolls out there saying, oh, there's
Speaker 1: not even gonna be a twenty twenty seven season. I'm
Speaker 1: not buying that, not buying that at all at all.
Speaker 1: You got to remember, look at how contentious it got
Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2: I mean, goodness gracious. I mean, and then you didn't
Speaker 2: lose games. Then.
Speaker 1: I know it's a little different this time. You got
Speaker 1: the salary cap, you get all that talk coming right now.
Speaker 1: But I think in the end they're gonna figure something out.
Speaker 1: You got too much to lose at this point. Anyway,
Speaker 1: different conversation for a different time. I'm excited for the
Speaker 1: Red Sox to be playing in the Field of Dreams
Speaker 1: game next year. That's awesome. Field of Dreams one of
Speaker 1: my favorite movies of all time. Very excited about that.
Speaker 1: I actually would love to go to that, even if
Speaker 1: I'm just a fan. I mean, I would love to
Speaker 1: go to that. To be able to get coverage, to
Speaker 1: have media coverage of that, that would be amazing if
Speaker 1: I could get that opportunity. We'll see whatever. No matter how,
Speaker 1: I end up watching that game, very excited for it.
Speaker 1: Really cool. They had a good presentation on Netflix last night.
Speaker 1: I think they did a pretty good job. Let's get
Speaker 1: to it, ladies and gentlemen, let's get to it.
Speaker 2: I did see a.
Speaker 1: Super chat in here. We are going to get to
Speaker 1: that by the end of the show. Let me get
Speaker 1: through this very quickly. Let's get to Jake Bennett. I mean,
Speaker 1: I pretty much said what I need to say about Bennett.
Speaker 1: You saw the usual mix here tonight for seemers, sinkers
Speaker 1: change ups. First inning, he had a one two three
Speaker 1: also shout out Eli White made a great running grab
Speaker 1: out in left center. Guy was on a full sprint,
Speaker 1: ran into the wall a little bit, very good catch
Speaker 1: from Eli White in the outfield, and he strikes out
Speaker 1: Reynolds on a sinker inside. But then the second inning,
Speaker 1: Rafael Flores Junior with a home run fourth of the year,
Speaker 1: made it one nothing remember he was a Yankee top
Speaker 1: thirty prospect a little while ago. He went back to
Speaker 1: the Pirates in the David Bednar trade. That's a guy
Speaker 1: who I think is going to be pretty solid guy
Speaker 1: that gets on base well and he can do a
Speaker 1: little bit of damage with the bat as well. You
Speaker 1: see it firsthand here tonight. But then after that, even
Speaker 1: after the home run, he still struck out three as
Speaker 1: Merlin Baldez on a good change up, LAO want to
Speaker 1: change up inside, Mangum on a sinker inside. So Bennett,
Speaker 1: despite the home run there was still fine, had a
Speaker 1: one two three third inning. But then you get second
Speaker 1: time through the order here and the Pirates just had him.
Speaker 1: Picked up Simon with a bass hit. Reynolds Valdez back
Speaker 1: to back, back to back doubles made it three nothing.
Speaker 1: He left a change up middle of the zone to
Speaker 1: both these guys. So again, it's kind of like when
Speaker 1: you're really only working off tonight two pitches basically. I mean,
Speaker 1: he went with the sinker nine times, but you know,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that he had a heavy usage on that.
Speaker 1: So when you're coming fastball change up and you're leaving
Speaker 1: change ups over the zone, I mean, when when they're
Speaker 1: when you got basically two pitches to guess off of,
Speaker 1: and yeah, when you leave one middle of the zone,
Speaker 1: good chance they're gonna do damage on that. So again,
Speaker 1: getting back to my point, you gotta start switching it
Speaker 1: up a little bit more, you know again, you know
Speaker 1: it is a good change up, right, It's very good lao.
Speaker 1: He ends up striking out change up, down and away.
Speaker 1: But then Rafael Flores Junior doing some more damage base
Speaker 1: hit made it four nothing. He threw him four straight fastballs,
Speaker 1: like you know, again, back to my point, just looking predictable.
Speaker 1: Triola with a walk after that, did strike out Henry Davis,
Speaker 1: but that was it for Jake Bennett. Four innings, five hits,
Speaker 1: four earns, six strikeouts, one walk. So hopefully they can
Speaker 1: get into the lab here, well not hopefully when they
Speaker 1: get into the lab here, hopefully they can maybe switch
Speaker 1: some stuff up a little bit, right, go with a
Speaker 1: bit of a different game plan next time out for
Speaker 1: the bullpen.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know you already we weren't completely out.
Speaker 1: Of it at this point, right, I mean, but Giovanni
Speaker 1: Moran came in for the fifth inning, he just had
Speaker 1: the command was not there with him, Nick and Zaliz.
Speaker 1: He gets hit in the helmet. Scary moment. Don't like
Speaker 1: to see that. Ronnie Simon, he did strike him out,
Speaker 1: gives up a base hit to Reynolds. He bounces back
Speaker 1: with a strikeout to Valdez. But then Brandon Law an
Speaker 1: old friend, an old rival of the Red Sox with
Speaker 1: it during his days with the Rays, home run, makes
Speaker 1: a seven to two hung a change up right over
Speaker 1: the middle of his own and that was pretty much it.
Speaker 1: At that point, Ali Gamba shout out to him. He
Speaker 1: did save the bullpen here tonight went three innings. He
Speaker 1: gave up another run in the seventh inning. A couple
Speaker 1: of base runners got on Durban with a bad throat
Speaker 1: at first base. He got charged with an error. Runners
Speaker 1: scored made it eight to three. But with the offense,
Speaker 1: I mean, I've pretty much already said my peace on that.
Speaker 1: Bubba Chandler. You know, you saw a glimpse of what
Speaker 1: this guy can be. There's a reason he's one of
Speaker 1: the top pitching prospects in the game, one of the
Speaker 1: top prospects coming in to the year. You see, the
Speaker 1: guy's got electric stuff, he's got good v low man,
Speaker 1: he's got good secondaries. It's just a matter of putting
Speaker 1: it all together with him. He sat down nine of
Speaker 1: the first ten batters. The fourth inning, Massa with a strikeout,
Speaker 1: Rutsman with a ground out, but then Wilson bad exploded
Speaker 1: infield base hit and then will You're twenty fifth double.
Speaker 1: But like I said at the start of the show,
Speaker 1: wilsonton freers. He's on first. Wilson with a double into
Speaker 1: the gap, Eperson decides to send him instead of holding him.
Speaker 1: I like aggressive base running, but you gotta be a
Speaker 1: bit more aware. In my opinion, that's just me. I'd
Speaker 1: rather have Wilson stay at third base with Durbin coming up.
Speaker 2: That's just me.
Speaker 1: But he was thrown out at home and that was
Speaker 1: it for that rally. But you did have a rally.
Speaker 1: In the fifth inning, Durbin and duran with walks. Monastery
Speaker 1: with a base hit made it four to one, so
Speaker 1: Guard with a sack fly made a four to two
Speaker 1: bad pickoff attempt from Chandler. Ball goes into the outfield.
Speaker 1: Monasterio moves over to third base, but then Massa flying out.
Speaker 1: Seventh inningk Duram of the Bass hit Monasteria with a
Speaker 1: walk Eli, White beats out a double play. You got
Speaker 1: runners on the corners, so Guard with the base hit again.
Speaker 1: Not a bad night at all for so Guard. That
Speaker 1: makes it seven to three. But then Massa striking out.
Speaker 1: Adlee actually got into one a little bit. That was
Speaker 1: nice to see because Adlee has not really done too
Speaker 1: much for the bat, but he got into one.
Speaker 2: Looked like he just missed it, and you could.
Speaker 1: Tell he dipped his head as soon as he hit
Speaker 1: it out to deep center. Maybe just a like one
Speaker 1: little centimeter of a difference with his swing that it
Speaker 1: could have changed things a lot. But he flies out again.
Speaker 1: You added on another run. Massa with an RBI base
Speaker 1: hit in the ninth and made it eight to four.
Speaker 1: But Montgomery comes in closes it down. Pirates win eight
Speaker 1: to four. Taking a look, ladies and gentlemen at the standings,
Speaker 1: so again the Red Sox sixty five and fifty seven.
Speaker 1: You're now ten back in the East. You know, man,
Speaker 1: we were getting revved up. Man, you were five out
Speaker 1: at one point. Now you've dropped five games in the East.
Speaker 1: So it looks like Tampa is gonna run away with
Speaker 1: this thing. They've won nine in a row.
Speaker 2: But looking at the wild card.
Speaker 1: You know again, luckily, this American League is just no bueno,
Speaker 1: and you're still holding on to the second wildcard spot
Speaker 1: very firmly. You're five games ahead of the third wildcard spot.
Speaker 1: You got the Tigers, the Rangers at sixty and sixty two,
Speaker 1: tied to the third wildcard spot, Twins at sixty and
Speaker 1: sixty three, half game back, Blue Jays right there, one
Speaker 1: game back, Guardians a game and a half back, Orioles
Speaker 1: a game and.
Speaker 2: A half back.
Speaker 1: I mean, you got the Mariners three games back. They're
Speaker 1: historically like a second half team over the last few
Speaker 1: years or so. This American League wildcard brace. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be very interesting over the next six or seven weeks. Man,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be uh, it's gonna be interesting to see
Speaker 1: how that all turns out. But let's get to our
Speaker 1: Game two preview, brought to you today by Fox One. Alrighty,
Speaker 1: Sonny Gray going up against Jared Jones here tomorrow, another
Speaker 1: young gun for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Jared Jones, remember he
Speaker 1: just came back this year after getting arm surgery. Sonny Gray,
Speaker 1: not a bad adding last time out, not a baud
Speaker 1: outing at all, even though you ended up not getting
Speaker 1: to win. He didn't have run support there. He went
Speaker 1: six innings, six hits to earn four strikeouts.
Speaker 2: I don't think he.
Speaker 1: Pitched bad whatsoever. All Right, blue Jay's team that's been
Speaker 1: playing a lot better as of late. Tough team to
Speaker 1: work against. What No matter what picture you are, I
Speaker 1: think he did pretty well. Looks like he's got himself
Speaker 1: fully back on track over the last couple of starts.
Speaker 1: He ran into a couple of bumps there. But Jared
Speaker 1: Jones the story with Jared Jones, we talked about this
Speaker 1: the other night. You're gonna see the good stuff, right,
Speaker 1: He's gonna give you a lot of v LO. He's
Speaker 1: gonna sit in the upper nineties. He's got good expected numbers.
Speaker 1: He's getting a lot of swing and miss. He's not
Speaker 1: walking a ton of guys. He has a good strikeouts
Speaker 1: Walkery Shiel.
Speaker 2: The problem has.
Speaker 1: Been the home run ball, giving up a lot of
Speaker 1: hard contact thirty first percentile with his average eggxit V
Speaker 1: low forty third percentile, with the barrel percentage forty fourth
Speaker 1: percentile with the hard hit percentage. Combine that with a
Speaker 1: thirtieth percentile ground ball rate. Yeah, that's sounds like a
Speaker 1: recipe for some damage there he has on the year,
Speaker 1: he's giving up one and a half home runs per nine.
Speaker 1: That ranks thirty six out of one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: six qualified or not qualified sorry, one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: six pitchers with at least fifty innings pitched, or one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty six starters with with fifty innings pitch.
Speaker 1: Goodness gracious part time getting that one out, but obviously
Speaker 1: giving up a lot of home runs. So the four
Speaker 1: seam fastball with Jared Jones, he's giving up six home runs.
Speaker 1: He's basically just leaving this fastball over the zone too much,
Speaker 1: very high in the zone, middle of the zone. It
Speaker 1: has not been an effective pitch for him this year.
Speaker 1: You know, sliders he tends to.
Speaker 2: Leave in the zone.
Speaker 1: Change up has been pretty good for the most part.
Speaker 1: He goes down to the zone. Curveball who throwed a
Speaker 1: few times. Yeah, you're looking to do some damage off
Speaker 1: the four seamer. Maybe he can hang a slider. You're
Speaker 1: looking to do something tomorrow against Jared Jones. So hopefully
Speaker 1: Sonny continues the good pitching as of late. And then
Speaker 1: don't forget you still got Paul Skeins coming up next.
Speaker 1: Don't forget about Paul Skeins. He'll be pitching or actually,
Speaker 1: hold on a second, have they okay, no, no, it is.
Speaker 2: Paul Skeens schedule for Game three.
Speaker 1: Uh. We did talk about him a little bit in
Speaker 1: the last episode. He has been struggling as of late
Speaker 1: that the Velo has been down. People have been speculating
Speaker 1: if it's like an arm injury.
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I think if he was hurt, the last thing the
Speaker 1: Pirates are gonna do is keep him on the mound.
Speaker 2: I I mean.
Speaker 1: With how much control he has left, and obviously how
Speaker 1: good the guy is, I highly doubt they would be
Speaker 1: keeping him on the mound. And even if he would
Speaker 1: say to the training staff, no, I'm good, you know
Speaker 1: they're gonna They're gonna check him out no matter what.
Speaker 1: So I think it's more of a mechanical issue. I'm
Speaker 1: not exact actually sure what that could be. I have
Speaker 1: seen a couple of things out there that he might
Speaker 1: be throwing across his body. A little bit more, we
Speaker 1: can actually take a look here. Let's look at this together,
Speaker 1: shall we. Now when it comes to the arm slot,
Speaker 1: let's see now, his arm slot is Actually it's higher
Speaker 1: this year. The last two years it was at twenty
Speaker 1: three degrees. This year it's at twenty six, So I
Speaker 1: wonder if that could be contributing a little bit. So
Speaker 1: that tells me something mechanically is going on with the Skeins.
Speaker 1: He's not feeling quite his usual self and obviously the
Speaker 1: results have not been great. He has been getting hit
Speaker 1: or not been great lately, has been getting hit harder
Speaker 1: over the last few starts. So Paul Skans at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, he's still Paul Skins. The guy
Speaker 1: is still really good. Hopefully the Red Sox can figure
Speaker 1: something out against Jared Jones tomorrow. With that said, I'll
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Speaker 1: sixteen games with the Wu Socks, Franklin, Aarius has hit
Speaker 1: three zero eight with a nine thirty two.
Speaker 2: Ops.
Speaker 1: Do you bring Arius up at shortstop and move modistereo
Speaker 1: to second once Robin is activated and takes over left field,
Speaker 1: There'll be no holes in this line, you know, you
Speaker 1: do dream if Arius keeps up that production and then
Speaker 1: Roman comes back and he's healthy and he's fine, and
Speaker 1: he's back to the Roman that we were all hoping
Speaker 1: and waiting for this year. I mean, you got a
Speaker 1: lot to dream about right there. I think, listen, at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, I am a believer that
Speaker 1: whoever is producing, that's the guy you gotta lean on.
Speaker 1: I will say, though, Trevor Story, they are clearly going
Speaker 1: to give him every opportunity in the world to hang
Speaker 1: on to the shortstop position for the rest of the year.
Speaker 1: You just can't help but wonder is there going to
Speaker 1: be an opening for Arius at some point, because obviously
Speaker 1: the guy just looks ready, He just looks at least
Speaker 1: worthy of a look, I mean at least, So it's
Speaker 1: gonna come down to what is Story looking like over
Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks. And I have talked about this.
Speaker 1: I have said, because you also have to think of
Speaker 1: postseason eligibility, and you haven't til the end of the month.
Speaker 1: I have said this. I think I said this like
Speaker 1: over the last week or so. I said, like, listen,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if they call, they get story back,
Speaker 1: they see how he's doing for the next couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: and then you kind of go from there. Right. I think, regardless,
Speaker 1: you still give Arius, uh, definitely a you would least
Speaker 1: talk about calling him up before then, because that's a
Speaker 1: guy that could maybe help you in the postseason, regardless.
Speaker 2: Of whatever the role is.
Speaker 1: Even if a story comes back and he's hitting well
Speaker 1: and he's fine, and you know, he's looking like the
Speaker 1: story from twenty twenty five, I think you could still
Speaker 1: even have the conversation of Arius coming up and you know,
Speaker 1: being another infielder for you. So I wouldn't completely shut
Speaker 1: the door on Arius even if story.
Speaker 2: Is playing well.
Speaker 1: But obviously if story is not playing well, then yeah,
Speaker 1: why would you not give Arius a look? So I
Speaker 1: think that's where I get back to the point. I
Speaker 1: think there's a good shot I'm not gonna say it's
Speaker 1: a slam dunk, but I think there's a good shot
Speaker 1: that Arius he'll get an opportunity of some kind, whether
Speaker 1: that's as a backup or whatever, just at second base.
Speaker 1: Well whatever with Monasterio. Obviously he's been hitting great over
Speaker 1: the last month, but you know, with Mona, do you
Speaker 1: kind of save him more against the lefties? Right, which
Speaker 1: was what his original role was. So regardless, I think
Speaker 1: Arius is going to be in the conversation no matter
Speaker 1: who's performing, who's not performing, because the guy is hitting great.
Speaker 1: He can't deny it, you know. And it's not like
Speaker 1: he's only just showing a couple of good things, right,
Speaker 1: He's doing well against different types of pictures. He's making
Speaker 1: good contact, he's hitting home runs. Like what else are
Speaker 1: you to see? And Phoenix of the chat, you say,
Speaker 1: put Mona at second it's been a black hole. I know,
Speaker 1: it feels like second base. They just they cannot seem
Speaker 1: to figure out second base. It's always this revolving door.
Speaker 1: I like when Soguard gets in because I like so guard.
Speaker 1: That's a guy I just like to have on my team.
Speaker 1: But could that be a spot for Arius?
Speaker 2: You know? And then so.
Speaker 1: Guard Mona, they maybe become guys, you know, off the bench.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, it's gonna be interesting to see
Speaker 1: how they do it. But yeah, I am definitely dreaming
Speaker 1: of the possibility of how this lineup could be with
Speaker 1: Roman back healthy, with an Ari call up. You know
Speaker 1: you can't help but think of Bogarts in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: Nothing is ever exactly the same, but you kind of
Speaker 1: just wonder, right, Bogart's eventually taking over in the postseason,
Speaker 1: came up big for the Red Sox that postseason, and
Speaker 1: you know the rest was history. Right, So again, no
Speaker 1: matter how it unfolds, I think Arius is going to
Speaker 1: be in the conversation regardless. So everybody, I'm out of here.
Speaker 1: That's all I got for tonight. I'm gonna wrap it
Speaker 1: up right there, quick and easy show for tonight. We'll
Speaker 1: be back here again tomorrow. Obviously, let me check the
Speaker 1: game time for tomorrow. We'll be here around the same time,
Speaker 1: seven to fifteen start time, so we'll be here around
Speaker 1: ten o'clock Eastern time tomorrow, Ladies and gentlemen, we'll see
Speaker 1: you then. DA