WEBVTT - Former O’s manager (current Rays Senior Advisor) Brandon Hyde joins 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:12.360 Here he is Brandon. Oh, he's on his phone. Sorry, 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:14.680 he's you know what he's doing right now, Kratzy Brandon. 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:15.440 Hide screen ager. 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:19.280 Besides being a screenager, he's trying to figure out his 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:21.439 title because they had an argument in our pre production 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:22.080 show today. 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:24.680 What is your exact title with the Rays? 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:30.520 Your player personnel development, mental coach of Bunting? 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:32.240 What is your can you please? 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:37.640 Well? Yeah, I'm still trying to figure it out myself. No. 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:43.479 The bistal title is Senior Advisor Baseball Operations, which is 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:48.360 just a title. It's pretty much just being a resource 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:51.120 for the major league club and the minor league managers, 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:53.640 being around the big league club quite a bit, trying 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:55.320 to help out as much as I can with cash 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:58.040 in the front office there, and then just being a 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:01.400 resource for the minor league managers in the minor league staff. 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:03.360 So I really enjoyed doing a little bit of everything. 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:06.160 They've included me and everything, and I've enjoyed, really enjoyed 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:07.640 being this organization. 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:09.480 All right, Because I just want to know, have you 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:11.920 ever seen office? I think it's office space? What exactly 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:13.120 do you do around here? 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:13.600 Right? 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:15.679 Like? That's kind of one of my favorite movies. 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:18.160 Yeah, so what is what is it exactly you do 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:20.280 around here? Is that what they come in? Is that? 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:31.200 What? Uh? Yeah, No, you know, I'm at the club 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:33.080 quite a bit. And at the club that definitely when 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.880 they're home with the coaches in the coaches room, I 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.640 watched their game from from the suite with the with 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:42.600 the front office people or sometimes with with with our analysts, 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.160 which is a lot of fun. But then also when 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:46.919 they go on the road if I don't travel, I'm 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:51.000 I see affiliates and I'm kind of evaluate our organization, 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:54.720 coaches and players, the trade deadlines coming up hopefully you know, 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.840 would be involved in that a little bit. So they've 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:01.559 included me and everything. So I I don't have anything specific, 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.800 but I'm just really happy to be here being with 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:05.760 the Raised organization. 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.080 I know one thing that they do is they do 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:11.720 value input from everybody. You were across the dugout from 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.280 the Rays for a long time. Do you feel like 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:18.360 their ability to value input would have been something that 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:21.280 you could have used when you were the manager of 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:23.960 the Orioles or in any other organization that you were in. 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.480 Yeah, I mean every organization is different. I mean Eric 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:31.560 and Anderson just an incredible person. He is surrounded by 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:34.800 unbelievable people also, So that's the first thing you notice. 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:36.280 The first thing you notice here is the people that 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:39.839 they've brought in, the people in the organization, how they communicate, 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:45.280 how they go about making decisions. You know, Eric's so 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:48.000 transparent and he asked a ton of questions and everybody 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:50.800 else is very very curious on how we get better 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:54.480 and everybody gets along so well, that's the first thing 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:58.440 you notice is that everybody enjoys being working together and 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:01.560 is really with the people, and it starts with Eric 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:03.840 and that's that's a huge you know, that's a that's 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.519 a huge thing for me is uh is the culture 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.120 that they build and then cashed them with his with 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:12.280 his coaching staff. You know, it's guys that have been 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:14.680 together for a while, and it's guys that get along 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.760 really well. And uh, you know, it's a it's a 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:21.200 great blend between the major league coaching staff, the front 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:23.720 office and then the player development Staff's fantastic. 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:26.919 Brandon, do you have a company phone or do you 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:28.000 have a personal cell phone? 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:32.600 They use, Uh, it's a personal cell phone. 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.200 Because I didn't know maybe if the rays have ever 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:36.600 come to you and said you know you used to 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:39.040 work for the Orioles. Are you giving them information under 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:40.640 the table and they're paying you want to you know 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:42.400 what I'm saying, Like because you're kind of were in 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:44.400 the same division. He tried to beat them there for 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:46.880 a while, and now you're trying to learn from Everyone 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:48.360 wants to be like the race. So I didn't know 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:50.480 if if the Orioles maybe had sent you in as 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:52.680 a mole and then you're sending secret information back to. 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:55.040 Oh no, no, I'm I'm I'm pro raised right now. 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:58.160 You're doing it. You're doing it the rainway. Now. 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:00.240 I'm more light blue right now, you can meet I'm 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.400 not worn blacking home right now. I'm more light blue 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.880 ever since May eighteenth of last year, seventeenth, whatever day 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:09.400 that was. I'm I'm I'm pro ray right now. 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:11.920 Plus, here's the biggest thing that people don't know. You 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:15.960 live in the Saint Pete Clearwater area, so you're home, dude. 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:17.960 This is like, this is like you don't have to 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:19.680 go on the road. You can just go to the 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:22.320 home games. You can post up in the sweet life 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:23.279 like we showed. 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:24.719 And then you get to go home and watch your kids. 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:25.840 It's like the perfect thing. 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:28.800 Yeah, I got to watch my kids play a little 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:31.000 bit this year. Like you said, I'm not that far 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.920 from the trop springing. The spring training site's just kind 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:37.040 of the other direction, not that far away. So it's 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:40.400 worked out great. Yeah, Cashi, you know, called me at 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:42.360 the end of the year last year and we talked 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:45.560 and some other people on their front office. John Daniels 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.560 is over here. He's an incredible, credible person and learning 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.440 a lot from him. So I'm just so happy to 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.560 be here. I think that I'm learning every single day. 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:58.800 I hope that I can contribute and you know, it's 0:04:58.839 --> 0:04:59.960 been a really fun experience so far. 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:04.159 All Right, the field or the front office, you only 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:06.839 have you have less than a year under your belt here, 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:08.400 field or front office. 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:16.360 Well, I was a farm director one year, long time 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:20.440 ago for Theois Group in two thousand. That was a 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:26.479 rebuild too, two thousand and thirteen to over thirteen. So yeah, 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.720 I mean, the dugouts. It's hard to beat the adrenaline 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:33.080 and the dugout. And I've been fortunate to be you know, 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.880 I've managed for a while, I've been on major league 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:39.800 coaching staffs now for for quite a while. The adrenaline 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:41.560 of the big leagues, the adrenaline of trying to win 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.920 every single night, the chaos of it, that's hard to replicate. 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:49.840 So you know, I'm whatever the job is in front 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:51.800 of me, I'm gonna do the best I can. But 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:56.080 but ultimately I've always been on the field, guy hider. 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.760 Everyone Matina told us that the ninth inning is like 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:02.120 an addiction. So you've lived that life, You've you've lived 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:03.680 ups and downs of the night thing. That's kind of 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.320 what you're hitting at, right, the the addiction of man, 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:07.480 how am I going to figure out how to get 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:09.720 a pitching staff through when we're a guy or too short, right? 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:11.200 Or how am I going to get this guy through 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:13.679 five innings? So we save our bullpend for not today 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:16.120 but tomorrow. Right, So that that's kind of what the 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:18.039 what you're trying you're saying. 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:22.560 Yeah, just you know, you play in front of pack, 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.360 you know, packed houses with with a lot on the 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:32.200 line on a nightly basis. It's pretty addicting. And you 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:35.080 know there's uh, even when I was you know, most 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:36.800 of the Cubs as the first base coach and bench 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:40.120 coach there, you know, not a better place to beat 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:41.920 a lot of times than Wrigley Field on a Friday 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:44.720 afternoon against the Cardinals or whoever it is. And then 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:47.520 you get into the postseason and you're you can't even 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:49.760 feel your feet because it's just your You're nervous, and 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:53.160 you're anxious, and you're and you're excited. The same thing 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.240 as a managers, just with a lot less, a lot 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:57.680 more pressure, a lot more things going on around you. 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.200 To make decisions in real time, with decisions that matter. 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:06.360 That's you know, I really enjoyed that a lot. And 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:09.120 I enjoyed the collaboration part with the front office, with 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:12.520 the coaching staff on try on how we're gonna how 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:14.680 we're gonna beat the Yankees tonight with a seventy million 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.720 dollars payroll. That was that that drove me. And so 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:19.120 we did a pretty good job of that after the 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:20.560 first few years. But for a few years we did 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:22.200 a good job of that twenty two to twenty four. 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.760 But you know, those type of those type of moments 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:29.440 you've never forget. You You always remember the tough ones, honestly, 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:34.360 But yeah, that feeling is that feelings addictive. 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.600 When my puppy Bella has something wrong, I'm not going 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:41.680 to go around googling what to do. 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.320 Yeah, Kratz, let's have a better plan. Today's episode is 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:48.440 sponsored by the ASPCA Pet Health Insurance Program. It offers 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:51.360 customizable accident and illness plans that can fit your budget, 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:54.520 your lifestyle, and even your pets particular quirks, because let's 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.720 be honest, that bills can add up fast. ASPCA Pet 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:00.360 Health Insurance has been around for almost thirty years and 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.000 has covered over one million pets. And when it's time 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:05.160 to submit a claim, it's easy. 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What have you learned in this 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.520 year off that you would take to your next job, 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.360 especially from the Rays, who everyone says has the best 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:04.560 organization in baseball. 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:08.679 Yeah, you know, I've had a year to reflect on 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:12.440 kind of the six plus years of being in Baltimore 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.960 really special time in my life. Got to experience a 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.440 lot of things. And when you're when you're especially a 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:21.160 first year manager or first time manager, you're going to 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:24.400 go through experiences that that you nothing's preparing you for that. 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.720 I mean, I was the bench coach for four different managers, 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:30.040 but until you're in the seat, nothing is actually preparing 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:33.720 you for real time decisions, especially in the Al East, 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:37.600 or dealing with media or the front office communication. All 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:41.080 those type of things are things that you you're going 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:44.360 through for the first time. And so you know, for 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.920 those six plus years, I'm proud of, proud of what 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.000 we built there. I'm proud of how we handled everything. 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:52.079 You know, there was a lot of good times. There 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.520 was a few really really tough years. The last year 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:56.199 I was there was a really really tough year also, 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:59.679 so you're dealing with I was dealing with a rebuild too, 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:03.400 then kind of coming out of nowhere and exceeding expectations 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:04.880 for a few years to all of a sudden there 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:08.320 is expectations and how you handle that, all those types 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:10.840 of things you're going through for the first time, and 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:12.959 I want to believe that through the if there was 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:15.880 a second or third time, you know, I would have 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:17.720 I would be able to lean back on on the 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:22.199 experiences that I had. Being with this organization, I'm seeing 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:24.240 how they run things a little bit differently, being around 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:28.080 different people I've kind of thrown myself into. I watched 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:29.800 a lot of gigs, like I said, with with an 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:32.960 analyst and to kind of get his his thoughts on 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:36.160 on on the decision making. I talked to Cashi quite 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:38.280 a bit. I talked to I'm in the coach's room 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:42.000 every single day and get you know, just discussing discussing 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.280 game game situations, how to deal with players, how to 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:49.240 how to make players better, and so I think that 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:54.160 all my experiences are gonna are gonna benefit me if 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:55.560 there is the next time around. 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.280 All Right, you said you've you said it twice now 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:00.200 that you watch the games with the analysts and you 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.800 kind of smile both times. How many times have you disagreed? 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:08.199 Because I say that because I know the Rays want 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:12.200 disagreements because they feel like I forget exactly what Neander 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.480 told me, like out of disagreements comes the right answer, 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.320 because there's two sides to the disagreement. When you watch 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.319 these games, how often do you disagree? 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:25.560 So I'm gonna give Hi a shout out. His name 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:30.079 is Kyle Young, and he's uh so it's not money, 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:33.120 it's not money. He's not with his room together at times, 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:35.400 so I watch. I'll watch with the suite with Eric 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:39.600 and Kevin ibaking those guys up there. But but sometimes 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:44.480 I'll watch from from the coach's room with Kyle, and 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.640 it's just interesting to get his perspective on real time 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:52.520 decisions and if there's a decision to be made, Like 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:55.760 he'll ask me a lot of times about bullpen usage, 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.599 pinch hitting for a guy in the sixth having to 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:02.680 come back back around all those type of things, uh, 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:04.800 and filled in and fill back, attentional walk, all the 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:10.280 you know, math decisions at times that you make and 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:14.680 to get his his perspective from the computer. But also 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:16.679 I'll tell him a lot of times I'll ask him 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:18.480 questions and I'll say, hey, you're too late. You have 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:20.520 five seconds you had you had three seconds to figure 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:22.760 that out, and you didn't touch it in fast enough. 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:27.160 So the speed of the game is obviously different. But yeah, 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:31.800 just getting different perspectives I think is really really important 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:35.199 and understand and for me looking at the game from 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:39.080 a little different lens. Uh, it's going to be helpful. 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:40.520 All right. 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:42.720 So I got to ask, then, do you get to 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:45.520 ask the pictures? Are you okay today? Are you good today? 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:47.599 Because then when you're sitting in that room with what 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:50.560 is Kyle? You said his name was Kyle, Kyle. When 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:52.320 you're sitting there with Kyle, does Kyle know that so 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.319 and so had a stomach bug, or so and so 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:57.280 or so and so's wife is mad at him, or 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:58.880 so and so's child was sick and they were up 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:01.760 all that, right, So does Kyle have that information? 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:04.440 So when he says, hey, you should have brought in X, 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:04.839 Y or Z. 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:06.840 You're like, man, you don't know that he threw up 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.680 all night because his kid was sick with him last night, Right? 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.160 Those things are those things discussed? 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:18.320 Oh yeah, well we just we play around during the 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.120 game with those type of things. But absolutely yeah. I 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:24.920 mean when I was managing, we would have a meeting 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.400 every single day, me and are my pitching coach and 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:31.240 bench coach and pitching about not just about if the 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:35.120 guy's available, that maybe somebody's got something different going on 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:39.520 that he is unavailable, or maybe the guy threw thirty 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:42.800 four pitches last night, but somehow he feels great today. 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.360 All those type of things are with the medical staff, 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:47.760 et cetera. Are discussed on a daily basis, and the 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:48.560 same thing in Tampa. 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:53.160 All right, so let's talk about this team. Is this 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:56.880 team the way that they're scoring the Rays team are 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:00.520 the way that they're able to win ball game? Is 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:03.960 it sustainable? When when Chandler Simpson was hitting four hundred, 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.120 people thought he was going to win a batting title. 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.839 Now I think he's hit two sixty with no pop 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:12.360 for the last month. Like, is there is this sustainable? 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.880 Or because the game's played in a different way, like 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:19.440 not home runs and strikeouts, Like we're gonna see different 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.320 types of ups and downs of a season. 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.120 Well, I love you know, when they were playing well early, 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:27.320 I mean the style of play was so fun to watch. 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:30.640 You know, you got three guys in the middle of 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.160 the order that are all stars and Chandler. I know 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:36.040 he stre Chandler's been struggling lady lately, but he's gonna 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.200 come around and he's a game changer because it's because 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:42.480 of the speed and the on base ability and the 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:44.320 way that they can move the baseball, the way that 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:47.720 they can run the bases. Obviously the safety and the 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.000 bunt game is a big part of their game because 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:53.960 they are they do manufacture, so it's fun to watch. 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:56.200 It's like eighty when I called it like a month ago. 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:59.880 It's like eighties National League Baseball, where they're not just 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:01.920 for the three run homer, but they aren't having to 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:04.120 generate some offense and trying to pass the baton and 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:05.760 trying to get into the big boys in the middle. 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:08.920 So that was that was fun. I think it. I 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.880 think they're your whether you're a home run hitting team 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.280 or a team that needs to manufacture, as you guys know, 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:16.280 for a six month season, you're going to go through 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.360 peaks and valleys. You're going to go through times where 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:21.480 you might have a tough couple of weeks, and that's 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:23.840 just that's just part of that's just part of Major 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:27.720 League Baseball, right, you know, right now they're they're they're 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:29.680 not at their best, but I think that they're gonna 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:31.480 They're gonna come out of it. It's still a really 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:34.320 good club. They can really pitch. They have really good 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:36.320 starting pitching, and that's going to keep you in games. 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.400 And when you have when you have all star type 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:40.080 players in the middle, and you have guys that can 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:42.480 generate some offense around you, and they play really good 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:46.000 defense on most nights. Defense is important and be able 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.600 to catch the ball. Uh. I think that I think 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:50.120 that they can get back to what they were doing 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:51.040 the first couple of months. 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:55.800 Is this is this sustainable hyder though, because fifty eight 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.600 homers isn't a lot, right and and I get that 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:02.040 you know National League style well, but so many teams 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:05.680 low average high homers homers play in the postseason. As 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:08.560 we know, the Brewers have kind of done this style 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:09.520 for the last couple of years. 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:11.880 They get to the postseason. They can't really make get 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:13.120 it to the finish line? 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:14.200 Is this style? 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:16.720 Does this style work? And can you win a World 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:17.280 Series with it? 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.400 Well, I think they're always gonna be looking to add right, 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:24.640 So there's gonna be you know, I think with the 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:27.480 deadline coming up, you know, it's gonna be interesting to 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:30.000 see you know what Eric and the group do and 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:32.440 what and what we do about it. You know, you're 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:36.840 always they put themselves in position two to make a 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:39.160 run and then to add up the deadline. So that's 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.920 gonna that's gonna be exciting. They have, you know, it's 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:44.080 a good farm system, there's good players, So we'll see 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:46.640 what happens. I can't tell you for sure if it's 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:49.160 gonna be this is gonna be the lineup that's gonna 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:52.120 be in September and and and end of the postseason. 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.720 I do know that they catch the ball, and I 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:59.280 do know that they have really good starting pitching. And 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:01.120 the three guys in the middle of the order are 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:05.000 super underrated. For me, Cammy Aronda and Yonni Diez are 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:08.000 three of the most underrated players in the game. They 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:11.000 are all star type hitters. So if you can surround 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:12.960 those guys with maybe a little bit more punch. 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I had him 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:29.000 for three or four years in Baltimore. 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:31.520 Okay, so you saw him in Baltimore and you didn't 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:33.000 make him the closer, so you must have been a 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:38.320 terrible manager. But you also had the mountain you had Cano. 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:42.320 I want to know, does Kyle, your analytic friend, think 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:44.800 Brian Baker is the closer or he is just a 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.920 guy that gets three outs? 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:54.520 That's a good question. Stratsy uh. Cashi's used him in 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:56.639 the big part of the oder in the eighth also 0:18:56.760 --> 0:19:00.439 quite a few times, so yes, if flat coming up 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.240 in the eighth and that's and that it's that pocket 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:07.920 I've seen cash you use use bacon and uh and 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:12.840 in that fashion also so probably the eighth inning, big spot, 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:17.920 ninth inning, that's that's how Bake's being used. Is that just. 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:20.880 But is that discussed before the game? 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:23.080 Is that discussed before the game or does that just 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:25.080 happen because you said you got three seconds right? 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:25.879 Five seconds? 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:28.960 Yeah? No, I think you're discussing it through. I think 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.480 you're discussing before the game end, during the game. So 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:33.080 you're seeing how the you're seeing how the game is 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:35.680