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Speaker 2: Peydon should be up for a local Emmy breaking down
Speaker 2: last night's Red Sox White Sox game. That was one
Speaker 2: of the best game breakdowns that I've seen from Peyden
Speaker 2: in a long time. And Peyton constantly pumps out quality work.
Speaker 2: But Peyton Genis, that was one of your finest works.
Speaker 2: So tip of the cap to you man. We're going
Speaker 2: to talk about the hottest team in baseball, the team
Speaker 2: of the summer, winning the Game of the Year. Mickey
Speaker 2: Moniac got paid to a certain extent. It's a two
Speaker 2: year extension, but I just want to highlight what Moniac
Speaker 2: has done with the Rockies, because I think he has
Speaker 2: been one of the more underappreciated bats in baseball over
Speaker 2: the last couple of years, especially this year, and the
Speaker 2: Rockies seem to have a quasi quote unquote building block
Speaker 2: for the next couple of years. In Moniac we also
Speaker 2: have a minor league report, including a notable major league
Speaker 2: call up for the first time, Nick Pivetta. It was
Speaker 2: a bizarre sequence where he walked off the mound right
Speaker 2: after throwing a pitch. Nobody knew why they paused his rehab,
Speaker 2: and there's a weird contractual quirk in there that we
Speaker 2: want to discuss and tie it back to a couple
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Speaker 2: Layton a lot to get to, but I think we
Speaker 2: should absolutely be starting with the team of the summer.
Speaker 2: The Boston Red Sox are twenty six and three in
Speaker 2: their last twenty nine if I'm not mistaken, They're thirty
Speaker 2: one and five in their last thirty six games, and
Speaker 2: they win the Game of the Year last night. And
Speaker 2: we have annoyed to several games of the year, but
Speaker 2: Caleb Durban walking it off in the bottom of the
Speaker 2: thirteenth for twelve eleven win, I think that qualifies this
Speaker 2: Game of the Year.
Speaker 3: No, it has to be, And I hate to admit
Speaker 3: I got to rely on Peyton's recap. I was deep
Speaker 3: in the top one hundred update like lab last night
Speaker 3: and was not as dialed into that game as I
Speaker 3: should have been, because it just really was an all
Speaker 3: timer there. And it just even though like every time
Speaker 3: I would check in and it would seem like, oh,
Speaker 3: this one might be well, of course out of the gate,
Speaker 3: seem like oh they're out of this thing, and then
Speaker 3: this one's definitely slipping away again or out no way
Speaker 3: they can get back into it again. You still always
Speaker 3: just kind of that initial thought was just usurped by.
Speaker 3: Of course they're going to come back and win it.
Speaker 3: Nothing can go wrong for them right now. And it
Speaker 3: just feels like, no matter what the circumstance is, the
Speaker 3: Red Sox are going to find a way to come
Speaker 3: out on top. And this game was a perfect example
Speaker 3: of that. I think it wasn't even like the White Sox,
Speaker 3: like I'm sure you could pinpoint it in a game
Speaker 3: that's you can pinpoint specific moments. Sure, it wasn't like
Speaker 3: they gave this thing away from everything that I saw
Speaker 3: and followed, and with the recap as well, like, it
Speaker 3: wasn't like the White Sox just just completely fell apart
Speaker 3: or had terrible moments. It's just that the Red Sox
Speaker 3: will not go away right now. And if you were them,
Speaker 3: how would you you feel like you can come back
Speaker 3: in any circumstance.
Speaker 2: Again, there are nuances to this, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: I watched the condensed game this morning, and I watched
Speaker 2: Peyton's recap as well, and it just seemed like every
Speaker 2: single time the White Sox through a jab, the Red
Speaker 2: Sox through a jab again, and then when the White
Speaker 2: Sox finally broke and Peyton called it breaking and I
Speaker 2: get it in the top of the thirteenth inning, not
Speaker 2: plating that placed runner. Some people call it a ghost runner.
Speaker 2: He's a real human being. He's a real human I
Speaker 2: never understood that.
Speaker 3: I mean, was the ghost runner When you're playing one
Speaker 3: v one against your friend and you've got the runner
Speaker 3: on second base, it's a real human.
Speaker 2: I go, placed runner. That's what I call him. So
Speaker 2: I like.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's debatable. I actually it's it's so obvious.
Speaker 2: The other one that I don't like is automatic runner.
Speaker 2: People call it the automatic runner, and I can kind
Speaker 2: of get that. It's like out halfway in between. But
Speaker 2: I just view the umpiring crew as placing the guy
Speaker 2: at second base. So placed runner for me, and that
Speaker 2: is my rent on minushe for today. But they don't
Speaker 2: play the placed runner. In the top of the thirteenth
Speaker 2: and the Red Sox and Caleb Durban they throw the
Speaker 2: finishing punch and Caleb Durban had himself a walk off single.
Speaker 2: Durbin is I think one of the poster boys of
Speaker 2: this Red Sox run. There are stars that are playing
Speaker 2: like stars right now, like Wilson Contrere is playing like
Speaker 2: a star right They've got guys that are pitching like stars.
Speaker 2: Will Yarbreu is playing like a star. Rafaela is playing
Speaker 2: like a star. But I think Caleb Durban is the
Speaker 2: perfect mascot for the Red Sox season to this point.
Speaker 2: Not only is he five foot six, but he also
Speaker 2: was one of the worst players in baseball for the
Speaker 2: first two months of the year and the Red Sox
Speaker 2: were one of the worst teams in baseball. And since then,
Speaker 2: while the Red Sox have been the best team in baseball,
Speaker 2: Durbin has been one of the best players in baseball.
Speaker 2: There is a direct correlation between Durban going from really
Speaker 2: bad to really good and the Boston Red Sox going
Speaker 2: from really bad to really good. So very fitting that
Speaker 2: the Game of the Year ends in favor of the
Speaker 2: team of the summer and maybe the dude of the
Speaker 2: summer here in Caleb Durban walking it off. A couple
Speaker 2: of notes here, Sam Block, the Red Sox were down
Speaker 2: two nothing, four nothing, four two five to two five
Speaker 2: three seven, five, seven, six, nine, seven, nine, eight, ten,
Speaker 2: nine eleven, ten, and they won the game and then
Speaker 2: Buster only game of the year, without a doubt, one
Speaker 2: of the greatest regular season games ever. Buster says the
Speaker 2: Chicago White Sox held a lead within every inning from
Speaker 2: the third inning through the twelfth on Thursday night. That's
Speaker 2: ten straight innings of leads and they lost in the thirteenth.
Speaker 2: Less an indictment on the White Sox, more a testament
Speaker 2: to the Red Sox, and they can do absolutely zero
Speaker 2: wrong right now.
Speaker 3: Maybe if they held on to Sir Anthony Dominga as
Speaker 3: they closed that one out.
Speaker 2: I don't know, you think so pretty well.
Speaker 3: I thought Luis Castillo actually looked better than the line
Speaker 3: suggested too, because I did, like in the front end
Speaker 3: watching him throw, he looked a little bit more rejuvenated.
Speaker 3: I think, I think we're gonna see a little bit
Speaker 3: of a better Castillo. That's my prediction down the stretch
Speaker 3: here with the White Sox. But you know, the biggest
Speaker 3: thing here is just it seems like everybody is stepping up, right.
Speaker 3: You mentioned it, Sidan Rafaela. And there was a couple
Speaker 3: at bats I number one where I locked back in
Speaker 3: and I was watching it was like terrible swing decisions,
Speaker 3: like expanding in two zero in a spot where you
Speaker 3: definitely should and then expanding again in three one. Interesting,
Speaker 3: You're like, what are you doing, but he still ends
Speaker 3: up hitting a double most of the time in these
Speaker 3: at batch where you and maybe that catches up to you.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but the last thirty games for him
Speaker 3: is eight homers a one forty four WRC plus. You
Speaker 3: mentioned Caleb Darbin. His last thirty games since July first,
Speaker 3: he has a one thirty nine WRC plus and he
Speaker 3: compared that to how bad he was before. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: He's walking as much as he's struck out wilsingon Treras
Speaker 3: in that same span, one ninety four WRC plus. And
Speaker 3: maybe the most surprising of them all, Andrew Monasterio is
Speaker 3: now stepped in and in twenty four games for him
Speaker 3: ninety seven played appearances since July first, he's in three
Speaker 3: forty five with a one to seventy five WRC plus.
Speaker 3: Now that is where you look at and say that's
Speaker 3: probably not sustainable, but the Mastaki Yoshida has been consistently
Speaker 3: solid for them. Jarendran is at least putting together better
Speaker 3: at bats, and I think that is just just huge
Speaker 3: to get him out of his own head and to
Speaker 3: not be an automatic out. I think there's just a
Speaker 3: lot of interesting wrinkles the one other thing that's fascinating
Speaker 3: with this team too. From that span July first onward,
Speaker 3: they're number one in the league in ELRA at two
Speaker 3: point eighty five, and they are number four at WRC plus,
Speaker 3: tied with the Cubs at one seventeen. It's just ridiculous
Speaker 3: stuff from this Red Sox team that has just been
Speaker 3: red hot in every facet of the game.
Speaker 2: So I know Peyton's got some thoughts here. I just
Speaker 2: want to cut Durban seat he's in a half real quick,
Speaker 2: because Durbin, before this run like this, the bad Red
Speaker 2: Sox were put to rest on June twenty fourth, and
Speaker 2: this Red Sox was born on June twenty fifth. So
Speaker 2: Durbin from opening day until June twenty fourth hit to
Speaker 2: eighteen with a six thirty six ops to eighteen six
Speaker 2: thirty six. From June twenty fifth onward, he's hitting three
Speaker 2: to ten with an eight to ninety one OPS. Again,
Speaker 2: direct correlation between bad and good. Peyton, I'm sure you
Speaker 2: have a billion different nuggets on this game in this
Speaker 2: team right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, the first thing I kind of want
Speaker 4: to say is even zooming out of this game alone.
Speaker 4: Looking at this series, I think this series shows how
Speaker 4: dangerous this Red Sox team actually is. I know it's
Speaker 4: kind of an understatement based on how they're playing right now,
Speaker 4: but think about like this Game one, boat race fourteen
Speaker 4: to two, Red Sox win, Game two, shut out, four nothing,
Speaker 4: Red Sox win, Game three, absolute chaos, Red Sox win.
Speaker 4: They can beat you in every single way, and I
Speaker 4: mean it's and I don't know if anyone deserves more
Speaker 4: of an apology than Craig Breslo for building a team
Speaker 4: that like just feels kind of Brewerish right now in
Speaker 4: the way that they're able to just beat you in
Speaker 4: all these different ways, and you know, pull out these
Speaker 4: crazy wins and pull out devil magic, and I don't know,
Speaker 4: it's just really crazy watching them right now.
Speaker 3: Do you think they found the English to English translator
Speaker 3: on July first around that time.
Speaker 2: And his name is Chad freaking Tracy Mike.
Speaker 3: I will say, I do, I do apologize on the
Speaker 3: baseball side of things, but I do think too A
Speaker 3: big part of the criticisms were largely communication and optics based,
Speaker 3: so I do I did criticize some traits and look
Speaker 3: is another overpay quote unquote, but now even some of
Speaker 3: the early reports, John Hayman was saying Red Sox team
Speaker 3: comp that they can extend there's a good shot to
Speaker 3: extend Adli, which maybe was the delay. You remember when
Speaker 3: the deal came was reported I think first by Jared Carrabas,
Speaker 3: who obviously is very plugged into the Red Sox organization.
Speaker 3: Then we had this like multi hour weight. I wonder
Speaker 3: how much of that was maybe caring out some of
Speaker 3: the medical stuff, but then also like, all right, we'll
Speaker 3: give this package up, but like, can we at least
Speaker 3: get like a verbal that you're gonna negotiate with us
Speaker 3: and faith on an extension. Yeah, And I wonder if
Speaker 3: that was part of it as well. But it's just
Speaker 3: the vibes are so high right now because they're doing
Speaker 3: this with there're two deadline acquisitions and like one before,
Speaker 3: but they're two big acquisitions aren't even available. Curtis Meat
Speaker 3: immediately gets hurt and it fits this team like a glove,
Speaker 3: and Adwie Richmond is exactly what they needed and he's
Speaker 3: not available yet and Wilson's been out for a week.
Speaker 3: So it's like there's so much more. And that's not
Speaker 3: to mention Roman Anthony coming back and you know, it
Speaker 3: seems like all of the reports you talk about optics, like,
Speaker 3: it just seems like anything negative around the Red Sox
Speaker 3: org would get out, and the reports about Marcelo Mayer,
Speaker 3: you know, maybe just not being the best vibe curator
Speaker 3: in there. I think them shipping him out for a
Speaker 3: and you know, a back end top thirty prospect probably
Speaker 3: backs that up. So, I mean, it just seems like
Speaker 3: things just continue to head and you know, in a
Speaker 3: more positive direction for this Red Sox team.
Speaker 2: Peyton, do you have the buster tweet about Chad Tracy
Speaker 2: because I think that opens up a decent conversation here.
Speaker 2: There are some I think four gone conclusions when it
Speaker 2: comes to the manager carousel this offseason when we hit
Speaker 2: it in Major League Baseball, Like I think New York
Speaker 2: is kind of the Carlos Beltron Invitational at this point.
Speaker 2: I think Philly, if they don't go with Mattingly moving forward,
Speaker 2: that it's kind of the Alex Cora Invitational at this point.
Speaker 2: But Peyton, if we have that buster tweet, we'd love
Speaker 2: to flash that real quick. One second, all right, I
Speaker 2: think that Boston was in a weird position where you know,
Speaker 2: they they could have opened it up and gone to
Speaker 2: a big search and got a flashy name. But Buster
Speaker 2: is right. Is there any chance Chad Tracy will be
Speaker 2: replaced this season? No? So what's the point of maintaining
Speaker 2: the interim tech? And I saw comments on this tweet
Speaker 2: like you can't mess up a good thing. You can't
Speaker 2: remove the tag when when they're on this hot stretch
Speaker 2: you gotta wait for like a three game shut up,
Speaker 2: shut up. Chad Tracy's the manager of the Boston Red
Speaker 2: Sox next year. There's no ifs ands or butts about it.
Speaker 2: Chad Tracy has earned this freaking job again. If Cora
Speaker 2: was on the table, I understand, but they fired Cora.
Speaker 2: They're the team that fired him. The Mets are gonna
Speaker 2: go with Beltron in all likelihood. It seems so like
Speaker 2: we're sitting here saying, okay with the Red Sox, like
Speaker 2: try to entertain a David Ross or something like that. Ud,
Speaker 2: just stick with the guy that's doing this. Chad Tracy's
Speaker 2: the freaking man and.
Speaker 3: He speaks preslo. So just just don't don't get cute
Speaker 3: with it it, just just stick with it. It works.
Speaker 3: My other thing is, when is the last time I
Speaker 3: think the last time we had a manager interim manager
Speaker 3: win Manager of the Year is Jim Tracy in two
Speaker 3: thousand and nine. And then one of my goats, Jack
Speaker 3: McKeon with the two thousand and three Marlins with the
Speaker 3: cigar in mouth. I'm sure the whole time. That's amazing.
Speaker 3: So this would be an unbelievable feat and I feel
Speaker 3: like he's got to win it, right.
Speaker 2: You would think so, right, who else would win it
Speaker 2: in the American League? Kevin Cash maybe, But I think
Speaker 2: it's Chad Tracy And I think it's a foregone conclusion.
Speaker 4: Isn't that?
Speaker 2: Is that not his dad, Jim Tracy. I don't think
Speaker 2: they're related.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, that's.
Speaker 2: They're related. Then ninety pure.
Speaker 3: That's a funny coincidence.
Speaker 4: Then one more thing I want to hit on because
Speaker 4: I sent this to you, Chase Mydroff had two homers
Speaker 4: last night against the team that traded him, and I
Speaker 4: think that would have been a really fun story if
Speaker 4: the Red Sox obviously didn't. You know, the player to
Speaker 4: be named later in the Durbin trade was Bruis Double
Speaker 4: Magic once summer hit, but yesterday with his homer off
Speaker 4: Rhodist Chapman, Chase Midrov is the only hitter to ever
Speaker 4: homer off Chapman and Miserowski. How long would that last?
Speaker 4: I don't know, but it could last for a really
Speaker 4: long time based on how good Jacob Mazerowski is.
Speaker 2: Appreciate the comments.
Speaker 3: It is his dad, They are definitely related.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. It is Chad Tracy's dad, Jim Tracy.
Speaker 2: That's crazy. My confusion there is Chad Tracy was not
Speaker 2: related to the other Chad Tracy, Chad Tracy that was
Speaker 2: a big league player, so he was what a diamondback
Speaker 2: for a second. But yeah, Jim Tracy is Chad Tracy's dad,
Speaker 2: So that would be really cool, and that would be
Speaker 2: perfectly baseball for that to happen. But again, the Boston
Speaker 2: Red Sox are the hottest team in baseball, the best
Speaker 2: team in baseball at this point right now, and it
Speaker 2: is incredible. And how about this from Ercle twelve watching
Speaker 2: on YouTube. Chad Tracy now nineteen games over five hundred
Speaker 2: as manager of the Boston Red Sox this year. So
Speaker 2: the Red Sox, Man of the vibes are absolutely aclate.
Speaker 2: Let's pivot to Mickey Moniac here. Mickey Moniac got himself
Speaker 2: a nice two year extension. Moniac is a Colorado Rocky
Speaker 2: for the next handful of years. And Moniac was a
Speaker 2: guy that was often talked about leading up to the
Speaker 2: trade deadline. Does somebody need you know a lefty bat
Speaker 2: that is mashing in Colorado? They up to give Moniac
Speaker 2: a two year extension worth about sixteen million dollars, and
Speaker 2: I just thought it was worth like spending eightish minutes
Speaker 2: on Mickey Moniac here because he has totally revitalized his
Speaker 2: career in Colorado. Yes, he had a good year in
Speaker 2: Anaheim in twenty three, but it was only eighty five games.
Speaker 2: In two years in Colorado, Mickey Moniac is sporting an
Speaker 2: eight point fifty ops hitting two seventy three with forty
Speaker 2: three homers and one hundred and twenty three driven in
Speaker 2: two hundred and twelve games. I understand it's the most
Speaker 2: hitter friendly environment in Major League Baseball, But at the
Speaker 2: end of the day, Moniac has been very, very productive,
Speaker 2: and they kind of fell ass backwards into Mickey Mooniac here.
Speaker 2: He was damage goods to a certain extent, and I'm
Speaker 2: just really happy for Mickey Moniac that his career has
Speaker 2: resulted in a two year extension, and I'm really happy
Speaker 2: for Colorado finding a guy that they can again quote
Speaker 2: unquote build around. It's a two year, sixteen million dollar
Speaker 2: contract extension, but at the end of the day, this
Speaker 2: is an impact bat in the middle of their lineup,
Speaker 2: and he's going to give other teams headaches when they
Speaker 2: come to Corsfield and when they go to them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean this is just a good move in general.
Speaker 3: I think it gives you a little bit of a
Speaker 3: window here to just kind of see what you could
Speaker 3: piece together for next season. In the year after that,
Speaker 3: I mean, why can't this Rockies team, you know, start
Speaker 3: to progress towards being more competitive. And it's not like
Speaker 3: this contract is going to hamper you from being able
Speaker 3: to move him a year or a year and a
Speaker 3: half from now as well. And I think that's the
Speaker 3: biggest part. It's not like he's that much more expensive,
Speaker 3: you know. And I think what's exciting is there's just
Speaker 3: at least some sort of a signal to Rockies fans. So, yeah,
Speaker 3: we cash it on some guys, but the guys that
Speaker 3: are producing, like we have a young core here all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, and we want to hold on to
Speaker 3: some guys I thought they they'd move them. I thought
Speaker 3: it could make some sense. But I think in assessing
Speaker 3: what they've got, like zac Veen just said, his twentieth Holmer,
Speaker 3: but I think there's still clearly some doubts that he
Speaker 3: would ever be able to come up and do what
Speaker 3: Moniac is doing. And you have a pretty large sample
Speaker 3: of him having success here now and I think being
Speaker 3: even better this year than he was the year before.
Speaker 3: So I like it. I think it's it's just encouraging
Speaker 3: overall for a Rockies orgue that again just just kind
Speaker 3: of showing them those fans some some sort of good
Speaker 3: faith and showing that things are are trending a little
Speaker 3: bit differently than they have in the past. And also
Speaker 3: I think the Moniac just just wrinkle for himself. Is
Speaker 3: really interesting because you go from like, you know, being
Speaker 3: talked about as an all time bust and you know,
Speaker 3: the number one pick what hangs over your head as
Speaker 3: being one of those guys is just so tough, and
Speaker 3: you know, now I think was he the Is he
Speaker 3: what we expected and what the Phillies expected when they
Speaker 3: took them number one? Overall? Maybe not, but I think
Speaker 3: now you're looking and the guy that's gonna end up
Speaker 3: looking back at his career and you're gonna say he
Speaker 3: had a really nice, you know, overall career and put
Speaker 3: up some good numbers. And I think that part is
Speaker 3: really nice. And what out of the gate looked like,
Speaker 3: you know, it could be a really frustrating and disappointing
Speaker 3: story with another number one overall pick. So happy for Maniac,
Speaker 3: happy for the Rockies. And again, there's a lot of
Speaker 3: talent all of a sudden trying to kind of make
Speaker 3: its way up. We're gonna see Charlie Condon before the
Speaker 3: end of the year. You know, we'll see how he
Speaker 3: fits in. Obviously, Chase Dolander has been out, but that's
Speaker 3: a guy that's still a big part of their future.
Speaker 3: Cole Kerrigg has been fantastic. They held on to Goodman,
Speaker 3: they held on to McCarthy, like, there's some decent big
Speaker 3: league pieces that have proven well this year, and it's
Speaker 3: I think Kyle Carros has been good. There's finally some
Speaker 3: things to look.
Speaker 2: Forward to in Colorado three or one more. I think
Speaker 2: Rumfield's really good too.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: CJ. Rumfield is a guy that you can, you know,
Speaker 2: again sort of kind of build around and We're not
Speaker 2: sitting here saying they're the White Sox in two years
Speaker 2: where they're going from you know, one hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: losses last year to possibly winning the National League West
Speaker 2: next year. Like that's just not gonna happen then, But
Speaker 2: why can't they be a seventy five win team in
Speaker 2: a year or two? You know, why can't they be
Speaker 2: a seventy win team next year? And they're not pacing
Speaker 2: for seventy right now. I think they're pacing for what
Speaker 2: sixty five right now? But like, the incremental improvements are
Speaker 2: really important in a place like Colorado, and Moniac can
Speaker 2: be you know, one of the poster boys of that.
Speaker 2: And last thing on Moniac real quick, you mentioned he's
Speaker 2: a different player than who the Phillies drafted number one
Speaker 2: over on sixteen. Like the profile has changed entirely. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: if I remember correctly, he was supposed to be that
Speaker 2: really good defenders, speed back to ball guy when he
Speaker 2: was drafted, And now he's like, let's hit the ball
Speaker 2: to the ballpark and let's slug a little bit and
Speaker 2: let's play not great defense at a corner rock field spot.
Speaker 3: Well, when it's like a hit first guy that the
Speaker 3: hit tool doesn't end up being what you believe it
Speaker 3: was it was going to be. Usually those guys don't
Speaker 3: have the power to kind of offset that. So I
Speaker 3: think it's really hard to say, all right, let me
Speaker 3: be a better hitter now. It just didn't quite come
Speaker 3: together that way. So it's like, all right, well, if
Speaker 3: I'm going to be more of a fringy bat to
Speaker 3: ball guy or even below average, I better slug. And
Speaker 3: he added strength and he found a way to slug more,
Speaker 3: and that's allowed him to again being above average. Bigley
Speaker 3: here now, yep, I love it.
Speaker 2: All right. Let's keep on pushing here. Before we get
Speaker 2: to a minor league report, which is fun and includes
Speaker 2: a major league debut coming up in a matter of moments,
Speaker 2: we will take a quick break. Again, no peanuts for now,
Speaker 2: but we do have whoosh back in the fold. Let's
Speaker 2: talk about Kaylan Culpepper, who gets up. He is going
Speaker 2: to make his major league debut for the Minnesota Twins.
Speaker 2: Culpepper he officially got the call first round pick from
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago out of Kansas State. Culpeper
Speaker 2: with an eight to fifty ops, fourteen homers, seventeen bags
Speaker 2: and seventy four games for Triple A Saint Paul First
Speaker 2: broken by J. D. Cameron. Excited to see Colepeper get
Speaker 2: involved in a team that is in the wild card
Speaker 2: mix right now and in the division mix in the
Speaker 2: American League Central. What can Twins fans and baseball fans
Speaker 2: expect from a four first round pick in Kaitlyn Culpepper.
Speaker 3: A really well rounded, good ball player. And I think
Speaker 3: that's the exciting thing with Colepepper and and in some
Speaker 3: of the questions that I think were there when he
Speaker 3: was drafted twenty first overall, I think he's just continued
Speaker 3: to answer, like, you knew this was a guy that
Speaker 3: was going to be able to hit, and you knew
Speaker 3: he'd be a solid defender on the left side of
Speaker 3: the enfield. But some people thought maybe he'll move off
Speaker 3: off off of shortstop, maybe he'll even be a project
Speaker 3: vested second. I always thought he'd be at least an
Speaker 3: average shortstop, but now we're looking at a guy that
Speaker 3: looks like he could be an above average shortstop. He's
Speaker 3: so sound fundamentally is his footwork has gotten better, so
Speaker 3: now you've got some pretty good range here. The other
Speaker 3: question was how much power is this guy going to
Speaker 3: hit for? Because you know, Colepepper is not a huge dude.
Speaker 3: It's it's been more hit over power, but he's added
Speaker 3: impact in that regard to average ex velocity and north
Speaker 3: of ninety miles per hour and still has the good
Speaker 3: feel to hit that he's always had. The other aspect
Speaker 3: has been the hammers fastballs. How can he hit you know,
Speaker 3: against secondaries? And it's still something to be a work progress,
Speaker 3: but it's a lot better. He's just below a seven
Speaker 3: hundred ohops against non fastballs, which is fine when you're
Speaker 3: ops nearly a thousand against fastballs, and that's a lot
Speaker 3: better than he was the year before that. So there's
Speaker 3: so many things I think to be really encouraged by
Speaker 3: with Colepepper. And he's the classic player where the sum
Speaker 3: of his parts is just such a solid baseball player
Speaker 3: with good hit, you know, at least average power, now
Speaker 3: above average speed, and you know at least average defense
Speaker 3: at shortstop. Then that looks like it can be above
Speaker 3: average as well. Those are the type of players that
Speaker 3: when you're sputtering a little bit for a team that's
Speaker 3: clearly trying to win, now they've made some additions to
Speaker 3: Twins did at the deadline to try to bolster this team.
Speaker 3: They haven't won sense unfortunately. Colepepper is the type of
Speaker 3: guy that can come up there and give you quality
Speaker 3: at bats, you know, pretty quickly, and hopefully try to
Speaker 3: jolt this offense a little bit.
Speaker 2: And if you're asking where's he going to play? The
Speaker 2: answer shortstop. I know Byron Buxton's hurt right now, but
Speaker 2: brooks Lee's playing third for them, Royce Lewis has played
Speaker 2: a heck of a lot of first base for them
Speaker 2: as of late, and Ryan Kreidler has been there near
Speaker 2: everyday shortstop. So he's just going to spell Ryan Kreidler here.
Speaker 2: Kreidler probably better served as a bench bat and Kaylen
Speaker 2: Kulpepper are going to play shortstop nearly every day for
Speaker 2: the Minnesota Twins. He is up. Let's keep on talking
Speaker 2: about the best performers in Minor league baseball to this point.
Speaker 2: We went post All Star break, so starting about July,
Speaker 2: what was that the eighteenth ish, the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth,
Speaker 2: I think right around that area, and we've got five
Speaker 2: bats for you, and we got four arms for you.
Speaker 2: The first bat that we want to highlight here is
Speaker 2: Blake Burke with the Biloxi Shuckers. He is a brewer prospect.
Speaker 2: He's a gargantuane human being that almost has thirty bags
Speaker 2: this year. But if you want to see a guy
Speaker 2: that hits tanks, this is your dude. He's lirting with
Speaker 2: thirty homers. Blake Burke in eighteen games since the All
Speaker 2: Star break three sixty eight with sixteen extra base hits,
Speaker 2: including ten homers, twenty three driven in, eight for nine
Speaker 2: in the stolen based department, and a thirteen hundred ops
Speaker 2: for Blake burn I.
Speaker 3: Love watching this guy hit, and there's some hit tool question,
Speaker 3: and I think he's continued to just shore that up
Speaker 3: and we've seen them just get better and better. But
Speaker 3: when when he is impacting the baseball, it is with
Speaker 3: so much violence and it's to all fields. He's got
Speaker 3: the pole side pop. But as he saw in the
Speaker 3: videos here for those watching on YouTube, he can get
Speaker 3: you the ball deep and just flick it the other
Speaker 3: way and it'll sail over you know, the left field wall.
Speaker 3: If you hang one, you could see a one fourteen
Speaker 3: one fifteen mile per hoor ev poll side and you
Speaker 3: know the Brewers were really encouraged by I think how
Speaker 3: Burke showed up to camp this year too, where he
Speaker 3: was his athletic, you know, and it was best shape
Speaker 3: of his life season. But like actually real with Burke,
Speaker 3: and I think you're seeing that translate into the athleticism too.
Speaker 3: Where is he a burner, No, he's always going to
Speaker 3: be more of an opportunistic based dealer, but now that
Speaker 3: opportunity is more abundant when you can move more quickly.
Speaker 3: Because he's gotten into better shape, he didn't that that
Speaker 3: didn't compromise any of the pop. He's an averagegxavosity of
Speaker 3: ninety three miles per hour. I watching this guy hit
Speaker 3: because it's violent, but it's controlled and it's in the
Speaker 3: air consistently, and he just fits the bill of what
Speaker 3: the Brewers have done a great job of identifying and developing,
Speaker 3: and I think this is going to be a fun
Speaker 3: power back for them for a long time. Max ev
Speaker 3: this year, by the way, Homer one hundred and sixteen
Speaker 3: miles per hour at twenty degrees. That's an absolute rocket jas.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, the Brewers did trade one of the hottest performers
Speaker 2: post All Star Break to the Saint Louis Cardinals and
Speaker 2: that Dustin May Jojo Romero deal. Josiah Ragsdale has been
Speaker 2: absolutely awesome. In seventeen games since the break. He's hitting
Speaker 2: three fifteen with eleven homers, fifteen driven in, He's five
Speaker 2: for six in the stolen based department, and he's got
Speaker 2: an OPS over twelve hundred. Josiah Ragsdale also homered in
Speaker 2: his first game as a Cardinal farm hand with Double
Speaker 2: A Springfield in San Antonio, And we were just running
Speaker 2: through this on the call of the guys with twenty
Speaker 2: homers and thirty bags this year, Josiah Ragsdale, Theo Gill
Speaker 2: one of the Rays, who is a top ten prospect
Speaker 2: in baseball, and Eric Hartman of the Atlanta Braves, who
Speaker 2: is probably at this point the Minor League player of
Speaker 2: the year. Yeah, for the Atlanta Braves and in minor
Speaker 2: league baseball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's great company. And that's what happens when you
Speaker 3: take a speedy, flashy, defensive, slash and dash kind of
Speaker 3: guy and you find a way to get him to
Speaker 3: tap into impact. And that's just been this story with Ragsdale.
Speaker 3: Super deep contact point. When you're looking at his brief
Speaker 3: pro debut last year, and that comes with the territory
Speaker 3: of the more slash and dashy type of guys. Now
Speaker 3: using the ground so much better and catching the ball
Speaker 3: further out front is allowed him to elevate much more consistently,
Speaker 3: and in that it was a small sample, but it
Speaker 3: was north of a fifty percent groundball rate as a
Speaker 3: pro last year and this year he's cut that down
Speaker 3: by twenty percent. The bat speed was always there, but
Speaker 3: now he's really allowing it to eat by catching the
Speaker 3: ball in the right spot and at the right angles.
Speaker 3: And now you have this this exciting power speed defense combination.
Speaker 3: And with Ragsdale like this, this is just a scouting
Speaker 3: and development success for the Brewers and part of the
Speaker 3: reason why they were probably willing to trade him. But
Speaker 3: at the same time, this is a fun player to
Speaker 3: add to the system for the Cardinals, and I know
Speaker 3: we talked about them in the call when we broke
Speaker 3: down the deal, but it's just such a unique skill
Speaker 3: set where Okay, if the hit tool stalls out because
Speaker 3: there is some swing and miss when you look get
Speaker 3: like his first year at Iona he struck out twenty
Speaker 3: eight percent of the time, was much better the second
Speaker 3: year there struck out eighteen percent of the time. Makes
Speaker 3: the transfer over to Boston College struck out about twenty
Speaker 3: one percent of the time, which is fairly high for
Speaker 3: a college bat. Right, he had a total of fourteen
Speaker 3: homers Ragsdale did in one hundred and forty six collegiate games,
Speaker 3: and he has twenty homers this year already, So just
Speaker 3: shows you how much more impact this kid's getting into
Speaker 3: really patient approach. That's part of why he's striking out more.
Speaker 3: So he's got to find the balance of patient and passivity.
Speaker 3: But the contact rate is seventy four percents. Fine. If
Speaker 3: he's a fringy bat to ball guy with plus play
Speaker 3: discipline or even above average with now above average power,
Speaker 3: speed and defense, he's going to have a long career
Speaker 3: in the big league. So I think there's a fun
Speaker 3: get and a guy that I don't think is going
Speaker 3: off anytime soon.
Speaker 2: Mentioned Josiah Ragsdale, now of the Cardinals, one of three
Speaker 2: guys in minor league baseball this year with twenty or
Speaker 2: more home runs and thirty or more stolen bases. Eric
Speaker 2: Hartman of the Braves is another one, and Theo Gillan
Speaker 2: of the Rays is another one. And Theo Gillen, a
Speaker 2: top ten prospect in baseball, also makes the heat sheet
Speaker 2: because post All Star Break, Gillan has been absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Theo Gillen in sixteen games after the break, hitting over
Speaker 2: four hundred and four h three. He's twenty five for
Speaker 2: sixty two with four doubles, a triple, eight homers. That's
Speaker 2: thirteen extra base hits, nineteen driven in. He's walked fourteen
Speaker 2: times to nine punchouts. He's five to seven in the
Speaker 2: stolen base department. He's slugging nearly nine hundred, getting on
Speaker 2: base at a five to twenty clip, and it's a
Speaker 2: fourteen hundred ohps since the break.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a top ten prospect in baseball, you know,
Speaker 3: without a doubt, and you kid, just the excitement around
Speaker 3: the skill set still room for more pop, which is
Speaker 3: the scary part. It's such an advanced approach for his
Speaker 3: age and what he's done at Double A for Gillin
Speaker 3: to just immediately be as good as he has been
Speaker 3: at Double A making that leap. It's the guy that
Speaker 3: missed out on some reps last year, right, it was
Speaker 3: only about seventy three games at low A. He's dealt
Speaker 3: with a little bit of a calf thing and starts
Speaker 3: the season at high A decimates that gets up to
Speaker 3: double A and really hasn't slowed a bit. He's lowered
Speaker 3: his strikeout right marginalie, increased the walk rate, and he's
Speaker 3: eight homers in thirty one contest there. It's remarkable. And
Speaker 3: even last night last night, the Marlins Double A affiliate
Speaker 3: had a no hitter with two outs in the ninth
Speaker 3: and Fio Gillen broke it up with a backside solo shot.
Speaker 3: He's just different right now. And when you look at
Speaker 3: the ability to hammer fastballs, it's in velocity in general
Speaker 3: three fifty seven bating average for his fastballs eleven thirty five.
Speaker 3: Oh psright, oh well, then what's the catch? What's he
Speaker 3: doing against spin? THREEA batting average nights three ops. Now,
Speaker 3: he could get a little bit rigid at times, so
Speaker 3: like I want to see a little bit more adjustability
Speaker 3: on the spin. What a nitpick on a twenty year
Speaker 3: old that's just absolutely destroying Baseball's with well above average
Speaker 3: really plus evs, solid contact traits, plus play, discipline, good speed,
Speaker 3: and the defense has come along in center. Remember this
Speaker 3: is a guy that was on the dirt as a prepster,
Speaker 3: has learned the outfield and continues to come along as
Speaker 3: a centerfielder.
Speaker 2: Uh, it's fun to nitpick a twenty year old. That
Speaker 2: means the twenty year old is pretty damn good. We've
Speaker 2: got a couple other hitters that we want to go
Speaker 2: over before four pitchers, and one of them was actually
Speaker 2: in that deal sending Adley Rutchman from Baltimore to Boston
Speaker 2: alongside Anthony Iinson. Iinsen was obviously the big ticket guy
Speaker 2: in that trade, and this guy might have been piece
Speaker 2: three or four. But India Zocar has been absolutely insane
Speaker 2: and a Zocar is one of the newest members of
Speaker 2: the Orioles Farm system. India z Ocar in fifteen games
Speaker 2: since the All Star Break, hitting four to twenty three
Speaker 2: with nine doubles, two triples, five homers. He's driven in
Speaker 2: twenty one in fifteen games since the break, and he's
Speaker 2: got a twelve sixty four ops.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is the guy that I think could make
Speaker 3: the trade really hurt. Like you knew you were going
Speaker 3: to have to part with an e incin and you know,
Speaker 3: like a headliner and pitching prospect for adli Andan. You
Speaker 3: knew you'd probably have to have a decent secondary piece
Speaker 3: in there too, And I think Witherspoon's going to iron
Speaker 3: some things out and be a solid, solid arm. But
Speaker 3: I think he's limited to a degree even ionsin I
Speaker 3: think I'm a little bit lower on relative to what
Speaker 3: you know some people have on him in terms of
Speaker 3: the ceiling. I think he's a high probability a number
Speaker 3: four starter maybe you know, can execute his way to
Speaker 3: being a middle rotation guy. A zo Car is the
Speaker 3: wild card where it's like, this guy could be anything
Speaker 3: from yeah, obviously could stall out and struggle with swing
Speaker 3: and miss and the upper levels, or he could be
Speaker 3: an all star. And you know, I think that's where
Speaker 3: as a I think he's a second piece in this deal,
Speaker 3: but as one of three pieces in the main pieces,
Speaker 3: in the prospect pieces in the deal, it's really exciting.
Speaker 3: A Zo Cars young, nineteen years old, Jerry's still out
Speaker 3: on center field. If he can stick there, then I
Speaker 3: mean that only elevates the profile. He's a good athlete,
Speaker 3: so he's gonna have every opportunity to and he's been challenged.
Speaker 3: You mentioned like he's doing this. He's going crazy in
Speaker 3: getting to hi a at such a young age, and
Speaker 3: when you're seeing some of the exit velocities that he's
Speaker 3: putting up when it's not this like out of control
Speaker 3: crazy swing, he's already exceeded one hundred and thirteen miles
Speaker 3: per hour EVS. I think this is a guy that
Speaker 3: you can have a really fun power speed, just just
Speaker 3: huge ceiling kind of projection for him, as long as
Speaker 3: the swing and myss doesn't creep into much as the
Speaker 3: seventy percent contact right, not bad with how much he's
Speaker 3: been pushed, but just something to monitor. Crazy bat speed,
Speaker 3: Really fun guy to watch, and I already love the
Speaker 3: field to hit in terms in terms of pulling the
Speaker 3: ball in the air and getting into that power.
Speaker 2: Last hitter we want to talk about here real quick
Speaker 2: is a Dodger. Sorry, Charles Daviland of the La Dodgers
Speaker 2: in Daveland. I mean, this guy is it's he seems like,
Speaker 2: I don't want to say the next Sirota, but he
Speaker 2: is breaking out in an absolutely humongous way. Charles Davalan
Speaker 2: in fifteen games since the break for Hi a great Lakes,
Speaker 2: hitting four point fifty with eight doubles, a triple, six homers,
Speaker 2: sixteen driven in he's walked seven times, he's caid seven times,
Speaker 2: and he's got a fourteen fifty two OPS in his
Speaker 2: last fifteen games. Charles Davlan has played ninety nine minor
Speaker 2: league baseball games. He played eight with low A Rancho
Speaker 2: Cucamonga last year. In eight games, he was seventeen for
Speaker 2: thirty four. That's a five hundred batting average, and in
Speaker 2: ninety one games so far this year, in his first
Speaker 2: full pro season with hi A Great Lakes, he's hitting
Speaker 2: two ninety eight with twenty six doubles eighteen bombs. He's
Speaker 2: sixteen for eighteen in the stolen based department. He's walked
Speaker 2: more than he's punched out. He's got a nine to
Speaker 2: fifty two OPS and in ninety nine minor league games
Speaker 2: ninety nine hitting three point fifteen with a nine eighty
Speaker 2: OPS at a four to twe OBP. He's got twenty
Speaker 2: nine doubles, nineteen homers, nineteen bags, fifty seven walks and
Speaker 2: fifty one strikeouts. This is a top blank prospect in
Speaker 2: baseball at the update.
Speaker 3: I think he's got to be top fifty. I just
Speaker 3: want to see him in Double A, like please, I
Speaker 3: want to see him challenging double, but I don't have
Speaker 3: any reason to believe that it's not going to be
Speaker 3: more of the same for this guy. It is, and
Speaker 3: I think the most underrated part of Dablon is that
Speaker 3: he gives you more power than you'd expect for a
Speaker 3: player of his archetype. Right, this is a plus back
Speaker 3: to ball, smaller guy at like five to nine, but
Speaker 3: he's got an average exabastev eighty nine miles an hour.
Speaker 3: It's a hard hit rate north of forty percent, and
Speaker 3: he's been hammering all pitch types. So what's the hole
Speaker 3: to poke if he's slugging? The other would just be defense,
Speaker 3: and I think he's actually looked fine. He probably ends
Speaker 3: up in a corner, but I think he's gonna be
Speaker 3: a solid defender in a corner, and they're giving him
Speaker 3: still some run and center, and who knows, maybe he
Speaker 3: can progress into being serviceable out there. But he is
Speaker 3: so pure at the plate. Ninety one percent is on contact, right,
Speaker 3: He's not going to chase, and he hits the ball
Speaker 3: harder than you'd expect. This is such a safe offensive profile.
Speaker 3: It's going to be a big leaguer and probably a
Speaker 3: pretty down good one.
Speaker 2: Dude, he is absolutely insane offensively. Those are our five hitters. Now,
Speaker 2: let's pivot to the four pitchers that we want to
Speaker 2: go over here, and one of them was acquired by
Speaker 2: the Washington Nationals via trade a couple of days ago.
Speaker 2: He was one of four players that came back for
Speaker 2: Foster Griffin and Josh Hartle has been outstanding since the break.
Speaker 2: In four starts, Hardle twenty two innings of work, eight
Speaker 2: hits in twenty two innings, two runs, twenty six punch
Speaker 2: outs to five walks. Hitters were hitting one sixteen against
Speaker 2: him over his last four turns.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we talked about on the call up. I just
Speaker 3: think this is a pitch ability lefty who's really starting
Speaker 3: to settle into, you know, what works for him. It
Speaker 3: also helps that he's throwing the ball harder, and I
Speaker 3: think that's not a coincidence either. He was a guy
Speaker 3: that is always been low nineties and he still is.
Speaker 3: But when you're averaging ninety one versus averaging ninety two
Speaker 3: as he has over the last thirty days, I think
Speaker 3: being able to just get up and out touching a
Speaker 3: four or five here and there when he needs to,
Speaker 3: I think that makes a big difference. It's a really
Speaker 3: unique fastball where I would I don't have spin efficiency
Speaker 3: readily available. I'd venture to guess that the spin efficiency
Speaker 3: is really low, and so it creates this unique look
Speaker 3: where it's like only nine inches of vert negative eight
Speaker 3: horizontal but twenty five hundred RPMs. It's this really weird fastball.
Speaker 3: I think the harder he throws it, the more deceptive
Speaker 3: and strange it can be. But I think he's just
Speaker 3: wondering how to execute because it's it's a very weird
Speaker 3: kind of I would say spin orientation on even some
Speaker 3: of his pitches, and I think he's leveraging that more
Speaker 3: and more, which pitches or hitters not reacting to as well,
Speaker 3: you know, which work better against lefties versus rieties. And
Speaker 3: this is the guy that I think, as he fully
Speaker 3: figures out everything that's going to work for him as
Speaker 3: a six to six southpaw that can fill up the zone,
Speaker 3: seems like a high probability back into the rotation starter
Speaker 3: and I think he's really showing that now this isn't
Speaker 3: clicking for him as a college arm in Hia, this
Speaker 3: clicking for him as a college arm at Double A.
Speaker 2: Did Mike Elias Cook in the sixth round last year
Speaker 2: with Caden Hunter. Caden Hunter has been unbelievable post All
Speaker 2: Star break Caden Hunter in the Oriole system Hunters. So
Speaker 2: far in four appearances, three of which starts, twenty and
Speaker 2: two thirds innings, two earned runs, he's cade thirty two
Speaker 2: and walk four. Opponents are hitting a buck thirty against him.
Speaker 2: But the big thing that jumps out, Yeah, he's on
Speaker 2: a hot stretch right now. It's kind of par for
Speaker 2: the course this year. This guy through twenty three innings
Speaker 2: in low A, forty five innings in high A, now
Speaker 2: thirteen in double A, and in eighty one innings of work,
Speaker 2: he's got a one to four ERA. He's kate one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty two guys in eighty one innings. Sixth
Speaker 2: round pick out a usc last year by Baltimore.
Speaker 3: They we talked about this too, like you could say
Speaker 3: what you want about Olaia in some of the shortcomings
Speaker 3: in recent years. But this front office man middle to
Speaker 3: late round arms, they snipe them. And here's another one.
Speaker 3: This is a plus heater, easy plus heater lefty that's
Speaker 3: throwing the ball at ninety five miles an hour with
Speaker 3: nineteen inches avert from a standard release height that's going
Speaker 3: to play slightly above average extension, and he's just overwhelming
Speaker 3: hitters with that fastball. It's so much fun. It's just
Speaker 3: kind of slight crossfire too that I think only helps
Speaker 3: it play up, and then it's a pretty well rounded
Speaker 3: mix off of that. The changeup has great vertical separation
Speaker 3: and really stays similar on the horizontal side, so I
Speaker 3: think really is tough for hitters to separate from, and
Speaker 3: it started to generate a lot of whiff. As he's
Speaker 3: found a more consistent feel for it, he's going to
Speaker 3: need to just be in the zone with it a
Speaker 3: little bit more. He's got the gyro slider and the curveball.
Speaker 3: But really I think the big reason why Hunter is
Speaker 3: dominating is you have a lefty with an overwhelming fastball,
Speaker 3: so the secondaries are going to need to come along
Speaker 3: a little bit more. But when you can overwhelm with
Speaker 3: the heater like that, it gives you such a strong foundation,
Speaker 3: especially from the left side, and with the way that
Speaker 3: he can kind of get lower in terms of this
Speaker 3: crossfire slightly horizontal release, this guy's gonna be I think
Speaker 3: a monster at least against lefties and Hunter's a top
Speaker 3: one hundred candidate as well, because anytime you have that
Speaker 3: fastball foundation, I'm excited to see how the secondaries continue
Speaker 3: to come along. But the shapes are already kind of there.
Speaker 2: A couple of guys breaking out in the Brave Farm
Speaker 2: system this year, and that could make the deadline or
Speaker 2: lack there of equality deadline even more frustrating for Braves fans.
Speaker 2: But Ethan Bagwell is one of those breakout arms this year.
Speaker 2: Ethan Bagwell is twenty years old. He was a sixth
Speaker 2: round pick in twenty four out of high school in Illinois.
Speaker 2: No relation to Jeff Bagwell, but Ethan Bagwell. In four
Speaker 2: starts since the All Star Break twenty four and a
Speaker 2: third innings of four run baseball, He's punched out twenty
Speaker 2: four and walked three. Opponents are hitting a buck seventy
Speaker 2: against him. And Bagwell, as a twenty year old in
Speaker 2: Loway and High, has already thrown over one hundred innings,
Speaker 2: punched down one hundred and two to twenty eight walks
Speaker 2: this year. Bagwell just another good arm in that Brave system.
Speaker 3: Really difficult Matt like East West, It's a tough look.
Speaker 3: He's basically low low three quarters. It's a four point
Speaker 3: eight foot release height. Remind you that's a foot more
Speaker 3: than a foot lower than the average MLB release hight.
Speaker 3: And from that, I mean you figure the lower you get,
Speaker 3: the more horizontal your stuff's typically going to go, because
Speaker 3: you're going on the side of the ball than behind
Speaker 3: the ball. Right, but he's still able to kind of
Speaker 3: flash enough of a little bit of a four seemer
Speaker 3: at the top, which I think really gets hitter's uncomfortable
Speaker 3: because everything horizontally is crazy. He throws a sweeper, and
Speaker 3: there's like variations of it. I think it's like a
Speaker 3: sweeping curveball and then kind of a sweeper with more ride,
Speaker 3: and that is two different looks. I think the sweeping
Speaker 3: curveball can back leg left, he's more The sweeper with
Speaker 3: more ride is just a nightmare. I think right on
Speaker 3: right he's got the cutter to bridge. It's a really
Speaker 3: fun mix from a week you're at angle that I
Speaker 3: think is going to be very fascinating. It's not like
Speaker 3: he's throwing it at eighty nine miles an hour, which
Speaker 3: a lot of guys end up doing with that well,
Speaker 3: he's averaging ninety three and he succeeded ninety five. So
Speaker 3: this is an interesting arm to watch and at six
Speaker 3: four to two thirty sturdy Bill two, this could be
Speaker 3: another emergent arm in the Brave system. And to your point,
Speaker 3: bigeras dy've emergent bats, they've emergent arms, and they kept
Speaker 3: all of them. Then we'll see what happens later on.
Speaker 3: But just seems like a bit of a surprise with
Speaker 3: how many emergent players they have.
Speaker 2: They got seventy wins, though they've won nine in a
Speaker 2: row or eight in a row. I mean, at the
Speaker 2: end of the day, they could just be a battering
Speaker 2: ram with a really good system and they're trying to
Speaker 2: do their Dodger impression. Last arm that we want to
Speaker 2: talk about here is a guy that I had never
Speaker 2: heard of before, Bryce Mayor, who is an astro prospect
Speaker 2: sixteenth round in twenty twenty four out of the University
Speaker 2: of Missouri. He's twenty four years old. Mayor last year
Speaker 2: was in low a HIA and double A and he
Speaker 2: threw to an ERA over four. But Mayor was a
Speaker 2: strikeout artist last year and this year in sixty nine
Speaker 2: innings he's got a two six ERA and double A
Speaker 2: and in sixty nine innings of work, He's punched out
Speaker 2: one hundred and in three starts. Since the All Star break,
Speaker 2: Bryce Mayor has worked seventeen scoreless innings with twenty six
Speaker 2: k's and four walks. What's this guy's deal.
Speaker 3: It's amazing seeing him lock in the command because I
Speaker 3: would have said that's the one area where he really
Speaker 3: just needed to shore it up a little bit. It's
Speaker 3: just been a theme between the two episodes of what
Speaker 3: we've talked about today. A lot of low release guys
Speaker 3: haven't success, and it's just such a unique look. When
Speaker 3: you can combine the low release with plus extension, that's
Speaker 3: where it's like, oh man, good luck. Obviously Miz does
Speaker 3: that the best with the highest velocity, but when you're
Speaker 3: getting low and you can get out there, it's unique
Speaker 3: and rushing hitters. And that's what you get from Meyer.
Speaker 3: It's seven feet of extension, and then you're also getting
Speaker 3: a five point two foot release height and from that
Speaker 3: release hight tons of run and rye. Remember the lower
Speaker 3: that your release sit, the harder it is to induce
Speaker 3: vertical break, and he's getting seventeen inches of induced vertical
Speaker 3: break from a five two release site. I would guess
Speaker 3: that the standard you know, average IVB is probably two
Speaker 3: inches to three inches less than that, and of course
Speaker 3: the average extension is going to be half a foot
Speaker 3: less than that or more so. Already unique on the fastball,
Speaker 3: and then he's got that riding sweeper as well, a
Speaker 3: nasty two plane curveball, and then the cutter and change up,
Speaker 3: so you have the fastball set in the tone and
Speaker 3: then all these pitches that he can mix in afterwards.
Speaker 3: And it just seems like of late he's found a
Speaker 3: much more consistent feel for it, especially just leaning into
Speaker 3: the fastball slider combo more and has resulted in less walks.
Speaker 3: We'll see, like if the Astros are are desperate for
Speaker 3: some help pitching wise, no reason. Maybe I've admired, you
Speaker 3: know in the PCL if he keeps throwing strikes at
Speaker 3: the clip that he's throwing right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was your minor league report on five hitters
Speaker 2: and four pitchers Pavena in preview. When we come back,
Speaker 2: But one more quick woosh. One of the more bizarre
Speaker 2: happenings in baseball came with the Lake elsinor Storm? Are
Speaker 2: they still called the Lake elsinor Storm? There's a lot
Speaker 2: of changes. Yeah, they should still be like the Rancho
Speaker 2: Cucamonga Quakes are now the Ontario Tower buzzers, like, there's
Speaker 2: just a lot changing in Inland California.
Speaker 3: I just don't Is that what private equity's doing to us?
Speaker 2: I guess yeah, Big minor league baseball right, never thought
Speaker 2: big minor league baseball would be a thing. But Nick
Speaker 2: Pavetta on rehab the other day had one of the
Speaker 2: more bizarre happenings. This is from Marty Caswell on Twitter.
Speaker 2: Paveta throws a pitch and he's walking off like he
Speaker 2: just struck out the side, but no, it was I
Speaker 2: think a two to two that missed low and Nick
Speaker 2: Pavetta immediately started walking towards the first base dugout after
Speaker 2: throwing a pitch on a rehab assignment for San Diego,
Speaker 2: and he walked all the way down the dugout steps,
Speaker 2: into the tunnel and into the clubhouse. Here Pavetta took
Speaker 2: himself out of the game. He clearly felt something snag
Speaker 2: on his rehab. Apparently nothing structural came of that, but
Speaker 2: they are pausing his rehab here and this could have
Speaker 2: some serious financial implications on Nick Pavetta, do you have
Speaker 2: the language in front of you here, because yeah, his
Speaker 2: contract it's pretty funky.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: And also the interesting thing is he threw a bullpen
Speaker 3: the next day, threw a twenty to thirty pitch bullpen
Speaker 3: the next day, And I mean, I don't I don't
Speaker 3: want to guess too too much, but I do wonder
Speaker 3: if that's part of him trying to kind of push
Speaker 3: through it and get back because you know of the
Speaker 3: implications on the contract, so I want to make sure
Speaker 3: I have this right. And it's unfortunate. Paveta has just
Speaker 3: been you know, riddled with injury, and it sucks because
Speaker 3: when he's been on the mound, he's been really, really
Speaker 3: darn good. But if you remember, it was that fifty
Speaker 3: five million dollar deal over forty years and kind of
Speaker 3: in a classic AJ Preller fashion, multiple player options and
Speaker 3: you're just like leveraging yourself so hard, but Preller doesn't care.
Speaker 3: But there was some unique conditions to this because of
Speaker 3: the injury history with Paveta that if he is on
Speaker 3: the IL for one hundred and thirty days, that player
Speaker 3: option converts into a club option. And this is where
Speaker 3: it gets tight because if Paveta is not off the
Speaker 3: il by the twenty second that would be the one
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty day mark. So this by you know,
Speaker 3: MLB Trade Rumors, is a fantastic job of laying all
Speaker 3: of this out. And this was Anthony Franco, who I've
Speaker 3: been reading this stuff there for long before we've been
Speaker 3: doing anything on the media side publicly. So this is
Speaker 3: this is fascinating to me because it's a unique contract structure.
Speaker 3: It puts Paveta on a spot there. It's just like,
Speaker 3: you know, I just want to see the guy healthy.
Speaker 3: He's so good when he's on the mountain. You don't
Speaker 3: want to see him push through something and create another issue,
Speaker 3: right Like, sometimes you have an elbow issue and then
Speaker 3: the shoulder compensates. You could you could give yourself a
Speaker 3: shoulder issue, so like, and I don't know if it
Speaker 3: felt just more they said it was more tightness. But
Speaker 3: the padres are shutting it down right now. I know
Speaker 3: some people and I know there's been some instances in
Speaker 3: the past where people have questioned, you know, Proer's motives
Speaker 3: on some of these types of things. I think it
Speaker 3: makes a lot of sense to shut a guy down
Speaker 3: who walked off the mound in a way that you
Speaker 3: thought maybe it was like very, very bad. But I'm
Speaker 3: just operating under the assumption that you know, he's out
Speaker 3: till the twenty second and it flips into a club option.
Speaker 3: It becomes really fastic because I still think you pick
Speaker 3: it up at fourteen and see what happens. But it
Speaker 3: does make things a lot different for Nick Povetics Souse.
Speaker 3: I also think if he's not feeling good and he
Speaker 3: thinks he might get surgery in the offseason, he of
Speaker 3: course would be opting into.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it certainly does make things really really weird and
Speaker 2: curious to see which way they go. Obviously, you walk
Speaker 2: the tightrope of trying to do right by the guy,
Speaker 2: but also, you know, trying to financially optimize your team,
Speaker 2: especially when they're going to try to resign Morohane and
Speaker 2: they've got guys that you know are getting deeper into
Speaker 2: arbitration and deeper into control and all that stuff. So
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's bizarre, but this kind of sent
Speaker 2: us down the rabbit hole of other weird contract structures
Speaker 2: that I think are kind of unknown or underreported, Like
Speaker 2: the one that comes up all the time is the
Speaker 2: Julio Rodriguez one, and that's more award based. But Luis Castillo,
Speaker 2: who obviously just got traded from the Mariners to the
Speaker 2: White Sox, that's another really interesting contract, and that was
Speaker 2: injury based, So Paveta, it was injury laden based on
Speaker 2: incentives and not really incentives. Just dropped the mic overall
Speaker 2: control here. But Luis Castillo, this is the weird part
Speaker 2: of this. There's a twenty twenty eight vesting option at
Speaker 2: twenty five million dollars for Luis Castillo. He makes twenty
Speaker 2: four million dollars next year, and the White Sox are
Speaker 2: on the hook for that. If Castillo misses one hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty days from twenty twenty five to twenty twenty
Speaker 2: seven due to ucl injury, the twenty five million dollar
Speaker 2: player option becomes a five million dollar club options. So
Speaker 2: this thing for Paveta is not entirely unique. It's just
Speaker 2: like there are some drastic examples of this weird contract
Speaker 2: structure existing in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's funny because the Castillo one, it's it's
Speaker 3: awesome to see him, you know. Ultimately now end up
Speaker 3: just becoming one of the more durable and consistent arms
Speaker 3: that we've seen in baseball over the last handful of years,
Speaker 3: because it seemed to be there was some concern about
Speaker 3: availability for that to be baked into the contract there.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's one where I'm interested to see too,
Speaker 3: because if Luis Castillo throws pretty well, let's say pretty well,
Speaker 3: and you go into next year where he's going pretty well,
Speaker 3: one if we lose games, how does that work with
Speaker 3: the vesting option? Does that become like pro rated? You
Speaker 3: know like that do you is it like proportioned?
Speaker 2: And you wonder?
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, And then the other question is operating under
Speaker 3: the sumption that we have a full season, Let's say
Speaker 3: he is incredibly mid do you start to taper the
Speaker 3: innings down so you don't have a vesting at twenty five?
Speaker 2: Like? But the thing five era, the weird thing is
Speaker 2: the contract stipulation that that nests like it requires it
Speaker 2: being a UCL injury. He's got to miss days with
Speaker 2: a UCL injury. It's not like any other innings thing. Like,
Speaker 2: it's not an innings criteria, it's a UCL injury criteria.
Speaker 2: So yeah, if this guy is just like sitting because
Speaker 2: he's not very good, he still has a twenty five
Speaker 2: million dollar player option.
Speaker 3: So that okay, So it's twenty twenty eight vesting option
Speaker 3: vests with one hundred and eighty innings in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 3: Then if Castillo misses one hundred and thirty plus days
Speaker 3: and twenty twenty five to or between twenty twenty five
Speaker 3: and twenty twenty seven due to UCL injury, this becomes
Speaker 3: a five million dollar team option. So one of those
Speaker 3: things who things are separate or to get tether together.
Speaker 3: But the other crazy part about that is, and guy,
Speaker 3: I feel horrible talking about this, but like he could
Speaker 3: tear his ac, yeah, or he could have a shoulder
Speaker 3: injury and it wouldn't matter in the contract. He would
Speaker 3: still be fine. It's only if it's a UCL injury,
Speaker 3: which is very specific. I don't know if we've ever
Speaker 3: seen that, Like Pavetta's was just IL, Luis Castillo's specifically UCL,
Speaker 3: which is nuts.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It makes no sense to me why
Speaker 2: they would do that, Like, wouldn't you just make it
Speaker 2: IL as a whole? But oh, well, Man and the Mariners,
Speaker 2: like it's not unique to Seattle, who obviously handed that out.
Speaker 2: But Julio Rodriguez, like his contract gets really really weird
Speaker 2: over the course of the next handful of years, Like
Speaker 2: he's got a club option at eighteen million and twenty thirty.
Speaker 2: It was a seven year, one hundred and nineteen million
Speaker 2: dollar deal that he signed like base, and there was
Speaker 2: two hundred and nine million dollars in terms of base guarantee,
Speaker 2: but the total max out for Julio Rodriguez could have
Speaker 2: been four hundred and seventy million dollars if you want
Speaker 2: to look at spot track like a spot Track obviously
Speaker 2: does an amazing job of working through this. There's a
Speaker 2: twenty thirty club option that must be decided on after
Speaker 2: twenty eight and it's based on MVP votes. So if
Speaker 2: he got four top ten MVP votes, like at top
Speaker 2: ten MVP votes across four years, it's an eight year,
Speaker 2: two hundred and sixty million dollar contract that it would
Speaker 2: morph into. And then you've got like these weird team
Speaker 2: options here, and then there are player options off of
Speaker 2: the club option. Have you been able to properly wrap
Speaker 2: your brain around Julio Rodriguez a contractor. No.
Speaker 3: I try to digest it like piece by piece, because
Speaker 3: it is the most I don't even know how how
Speaker 3: long do you think it took them to hash this
Speaker 3: all out.
Speaker 2: I think at at some point someone just said, you
Speaker 2: know what, screw it, let's do it.
Speaker 3: Let's just do it. The sliding scale of how many
Speaker 3: top ten votes and how much that will change the option,
Speaker 3: you know, to whether it's like zero top ten votes
Speaker 3: is eight years two hundred million, two top ten votes,
Speaker 3: it's eight years two hundred forty million, four top ten votes,
Speaker 3: it's eight years two hundred and sixty million. One win
Speaker 3: plus one top five vote or three top five votes
Speaker 3: is eight years two hundred eighty million. Two wins or
Speaker 3: four top five votes is ten years, three hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty million, Like, holy crap. But I honestly think that
Speaker 3: structure is actually fantastic because it either way the team
Speaker 3: has protection, where like the if it is a disaster, right,
Speaker 3: Julio's a disappointment, you're not paying as much as you
Speaker 3: would have thought. But also Julio has the safety net
Speaker 3: of he's guaranteed, you know, still a nine figure salary
Speaker 3: if catastrophe happens. But then you also have the other
Speaker 3: side where it's like, oh, you know, the Mariner's got
Speaker 3: a steal, he's won an MVP, he won two well,
Speaker 3: they're gonna have to fork up still enough for that,
Speaker 3: which they'd be happy to if Julio's winning MVPs or
Speaker 3: is like placing in the top five on a handful
Speaker 3: of vacation. So I think teams mostly just don't go
Speaker 3: down this this Rabba hole. Like I think it's a
Speaker 3: good structure that is the most fair if they would
Speaker 3: be willing to do it.
Speaker 2: So since he signed this deal, he's got a top
Speaker 2: five MVP finish and a top ten MVP finished. He
Speaker 2: finished fourth in AL MVP voting in twenty three and
Speaker 2: sixth in all and ALM voting last year. We'll see
Speaker 2: if Julio gets any down ballot MVP votes this year.
Speaker 2: It doesn't look like he's trending that way with his
Speaker 2: seven forty oh ps, but if he flirts with thirty
Speaker 2: thirty and really turns it on in the final two months,
Speaker 2: then we shall see. But yeah, fascinating with Paveto, with
Speaker 2: Castillo and with Julio. We're gonna wrap with the weekend preview.
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Speaker 2: Excited to walk through these handful of games as we
Speaker 2: look forward to the weekend. Here, let's start tonight here
Speaker 2: at six forty pm Eastern Time, It'll be Blue Jays
Speaker 2: and Phillies in Philly, and that starting pitching matchup tonight
Speaker 2: in Philadelphia, it's gonna be Jose Soriano making his Blue
Speaker 2: Jay debut against ten and two Zach Wheeler at the Bank.
Speaker 3: What say you, yeah, I'm gonna always go at the
Speaker 3: side of Zach Wheeler at the Bank. I'm excited for
Speaker 3: like Soriano and in a Blue Jay's uniform. I think
Speaker 3: they're going to adjust some usage then and maybe there
Speaker 3: could be a bit of an adjustment period for him
Speaker 3: in doing that, or Hole just immediately shove with it.
Speaker 3: But wheel Are at the Bank. You gotta always roll
Speaker 3: with that, especially against this Jay's offense right now, you.
Speaker 2: Would think so, no doubt about that. The other one
Speaker 2: that we want to go over here is raise Mariners
Speaker 2: in Seattle. Drew Rasmus, who's been throwing like an Alcy
Speaker 2: Young contender against Logan Gilbert, who has been hot and
Speaker 2: cold at points for the Mariners this year.
Speaker 3: Rasmussen has just been unbelievable. Unbelievable. Another one where it's
Speaker 3: like you got Rasmussen against this lineup, hit or miss
Speaker 3: I'm going to take a really good arm against an
Speaker 3: offense I don't trust. And Rasmussen right now is thirteen
Speaker 3: consecutive scoreless between his last two starts, nineteen strikeouts, two walks,
Speaker 3: and now those against Cleveland and Chicago.
Speaker 2: If Seattle doesn't start winning this weekend, when are they
Speaker 2: going to.
Speaker 3: That's that's the big question. Man. The wonderful thing for
Speaker 3: them is that they still have time. But I mean
Speaker 3: it's but all of a sudden, it's three games, turns
Speaker 3: it once once you get outside of three games, once
Speaker 3: it starts to get to four and then five. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's where it's like it's like slipped away. Three is
Speaker 3: still in that like reach. Once it gets outside of three,
Speaker 3: I start to get a little uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about that. And you've got to get
Speaker 2: really hot very quickly. And we're under fifty games to
Speaker 2: go at this point of the MLB season. Let's push
Speaker 2: to Saturday. Here. What an ace off we've got in
Speaker 2: the Bronx. That'll be Chris Sale who was pushed back
Speaker 2: a handful of days to take on Garrett Cole and Braves. Yankees.
Speaker 2: Braves are the hottest team in baseball right now. Not
Speaker 2: named the bust In Red Sox.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Cole has been throwing the ball well of late,
Speaker 3: and it just seems like the more he's getting further
Speaker 3: away from that Tommy John surgery, as typically is for anybody,
Speaker 3: that the more he's starting to feel like himself. Last
Speaker 3: two starts, he's only allowed one earned run and eleven
Speaker 3: and two thirds innings. But I still think the Yankees
Speaker 3: are gonna have some issues against leftist last Garcia. Your
Speaker 3: new edition can help you on this one. I think
Speaker 3: Chris Hale shoves and pushed back and things can feel
Speaker 3: a little b arrested. I think he's going to absolutely
Speaker 3: shove in this one.
Speaker 2: I'll go Braves three h five first pitch in the
Speaker 2: Bronx four to ten, first pitch in Miami. I'm not
Speaker 2: going to ask you for a winner. I'm going to
Speaker 2: ask you for average fastball velocity between the two. Walbert
Speaker 2: Urania gets the ball for the Angels against Sandy al Contra,
Speaker 2: who hunts a franchise record two and a third innings,
Speaker 2: and he passes Ricky in Alasko for the most innings
Speaker 2: in the history of the Marlins franchise.
Speaker 3: It's crazy. I knew I knew the Alasko was there
Speaker 3: for a while. Like, I trust me, I watched plenty
Speaker 3: of Ricky in Alaska growing up. But it's just it's
Speaker 3: crazy that he I forget how long he was there.
Speaker 2: He's got all these records, man, Like Sandy just broke
Speaker 2: his punch out record. He broke his quality start record.
Speaker 2: I think in Alasko had eight years in like four
Speaker 2: years in a Marlin's uniform, in.
Speaker 3: A couple that were really good, and then a couple
Speaker 3: that were not as good, but then a couple and
Speaker 3: then most in between that were really just solid uh Urania.
Speaker 3: It's funny because like that you look at the way
Speaker 3: he throws and everything, and it's like he eat it's
Speaker 3: such high octane velo. And I think you also think
Speaker 3: that the sinker and he's more sinker change up too,
Speaker 3: Like he doesn't mix in the slider as much as
Speaker 3: I think Sandy has now gotten comfortable doing. But like,
Speaker 3: if I'm labert Urania, I'm looking at Sandy out contra
Speaker 3: and it's like I'm looking up to that guy, and
Speaker 3: like that's what I want to continue to grow and be.
Speaker 3: So I wonder if there's gonna be a little bit
Speaker 3: of that there. I wouldn't be surprised at all if
Speaker 3: Urania has like a looking up to Sandy type of
Speaker 3: thing going for me. And I think they go toe
Speaker 3: to toe really well here. I think average Vlow's ninety
Speaker 3: seven point eight, and I think both have really nice starts.
Speaker 2: I dig that all right. Seventy ten Eastern Time in
Speaker 2: Texas seven to fifteen. Pardon Kyle Bradish and the Baltimore
Speaker 2: Orioles against Jake de Gram and the Rangers.
Speaker 3: The de Gram trade stuff is wild. I wonder how
Speaker 3: I want to see how he just bounces back off
Speaker 3: that having to invoke the veto. But Bradish has started
Speaker 3: to settle in as well. These two teams, man, I
Speaker 3: don't know who's going to show up ever. Ever, every
Speaker 3: single time that I go to watch, I don't know
Speaker 3: what team I'm gonna see. Bradish was fantastic for about
Speaker 3: a month and then last two starts have been duds.
Speaker 3: But the Rangers can't get out of their own way either. Really, overall,
Speaker 3: they've been a little bit better over the last couple
Speaker 3: of days. I'll go to grom at home, I'll go Rangers.
Speaker 2: All three you one more that we don't have a
Speaker 2: screenshot for Brandon fought at home against Yoshinoba Yamamoto and
Speaker 2: the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: So on the surface, it's just like, okay, you go
Speaker 3: with Yamamoto and.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers, But thought's been gross.
Speaker 3: Fought has been fantastic since coming back up, and the
Speaker 3: d bex just they rise to the occasion with the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: They don't really blink with them, especially at home. It's
Speaker 3: going to be a big crowd. Yes, good amount of
Speaker 3: Dodger fans, but big crowd.
Speaker 2: And Peyton just mentioned. Peyton just messaged big game. Brandon fought,
Speaker 2: no doubt, Yeah, big.
Speaker 3: Game, Brando and fought. I'm gonna there's gonna be a
Speaker 3: couple games where I think they make it close and
Speaker 3: really fight. I think this is the one where the
Speaker 3: the d back surprise you. I think they pull one
Speaker 3: out here.
Speaker 2: Two more for you on Sunday two ten on the
Speaker 2: South side of Chicago, Guardians in White Sox Joey Cantillo
Speaker 2: against Davis Martin.
Speaker 3: Hmmm, this is a fun one. This is this is
Speaker 3: a good matchup too. This is a big series. It's
Speaker 3: a really big series. I can't tell a little bit
Speaker 3: shaky last time out. If I remember correctly, I'll go
Speaker 3: I'll go Davis Martin and the White Sox, assuming the
Speaker 3: bullpen's recovered by then.
Speaker 2: Okay, And then at four o five pm Eastern time,
Speaker 2: Tigers Giants in San Francisco. It doesn't seem interesting from
Speaker 2: the jump, but Troy Melton's been unbelievable and Mean Webb
Speaker 2: throws it home.
Speaker 3: The Tigers are quietly playing. I think overall, when you
Speaker 3: look at the the over the last month and at
Speaker 3: in change, their offense has been pretty good and pitching
Speaker 3: pretty well, and Melton's been a big reason why. I mean,
Speaker 3: he has been fantastic. I think that some of the
Speaker 3: names that there's some of the guys that, like you
Speaker 3: remember from your minor league broadcasting days. It's like, oh,
Speaker 3: I haven't heard that name in a while. Yeah, they're
Speaker 3: in there for the Giants right now. I just I
Speaker 3: don't I don't have tough matchup for some of those guys.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go Tigers in that one.
Speaker 2: Cool. Also another fun matchup on Sunday and Dodgers Diamondbacks.
Speaker 2: Erod gets the ball against Justin Robleski, so that's really fun.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna ask you to pick that one.
Speaker 3: But just in a battle to regress his first Yeah,
Speaker 3: but it's like I neither kind of good neither. I
Speaker 3: think Robleski is going to pitch better though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's what we got. Anything else from you?
Speaker 2: Hell of a show.
Speaker 3: That was awesome. It was a lot of fun. Felt
Speaker 3: like we got on a lot of topics. That's it.
Speaker 3: We got some fun stuff going next week and uh yeah,
Speaker 3: well I'll let you guys know. I'm trying to figure
Speaker 3: out if I'm gonna be able to get to the future,
Speaker 3: the Futures game, jeez, the the Field of Dreams game,
Speaker 3: minor league game and then a big league game. But
Speaker 3: now they just took Culpepper away from one of the
Speaker 3: minor league teams that'd be playing there, So now it
Speaker 3: would be really fun to get out there. We'll see.
Speaker 3: But regardless, fun week ahead on the JV Show.
Speaker 2: Huge thanking to Peyton Genus, big thank you to arm Leyton,
Speaker 2: and I'm Jack McMullen saying so long, have a good weekend.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to you on Sunday night with The Just
Speaker 2: Baseball Show.