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Speaker 1: Wanted to pull a cat's all.

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Speaker 2: Well, look who we got here. We got mister Frankie

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Speaker 2: Game Spectacular. Actually, that's a lie there. This channel has

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Speaker 2: Yes, anyway, we're just gonna kind of grade what the

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Speaker 2: Hopefully it'll go better than this most recent series did.

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Speaker 2: So what I want to do and I want to

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Speaker 2: Austin Wells hitting two twenty one with ten home runs,

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Speaker 4: can we give him a G? But no for Wells,

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Speaker 4: I decided to go with a B minus for him.

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Speaker 3: And he's been good. He's had his moments.

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Speaker 2: So PAULI Goldschmidt here having a great year three twelve

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Speaker 2: Eight thirty three ops for Goldie, three sixty nine on

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Speaker 4: That was one of the highlights of the year defensively

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Speaker 2: really really good year so far for Goldie, much better

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Speaker 4: it would have definitely been an F. But you know what,

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about jazz. You like jazz? Two fourteen average,

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Speaker 4: Before I get to the grade. This had nothing to

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Speaker 2: Jage somebody or mic somebody on the bench, right, I mean,

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Speaker 4: It's just insufferable, all right. Anyway, jazz U would have

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Speaker 3: So he's had his SHAREFF moments too.

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Speaker 4: Again, maybe I'm being too generous just looking at it

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Speaker 3: So I'm gonna go B.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna go C plus for Jazz. You know,

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Speaker 2: You know, the power has been good, the power has

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Speaker 4: Yeah, my grades are terrible. I just want to apologize

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Speaker 4: in advance. Your comments are gonna be nothing, but wow,

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Speaker 4: this guy knows nothing about grades.

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Speaker 3: My apology.

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Speaker 2: No, I just think you're a very tough grader. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you have highest standards, Frankie, high standards, high standard, Frankie.

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Speaker 2: That's your new name, Anthony Volpi. This one's gonna be

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Speaker 2: interesting because I can see a lot of people in

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Speaker 2: They've been tough on Volpi, I know. But to me,

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Speaker 2: he's better than he was last year, you know, and

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Speaker 2: He's out there pretty much every day. He's got eight

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Speaker 2: close to ninety runs from shortstop while playing positive defense.

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Speaker 4: I'll go be minus again. It's just based off expectations.

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Speaker 4: I have a question for you for Derek Sure, And

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Speaker 4: do you think maybe he'd be Do you think he

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Speaker 2: Yes, I do. I think he probably needed a little

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Speaker 2: I mean, we had Oswald Parrazer. We've seen he can't hit.

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Speaker 2: We think he would have hit better. I mean it

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Speaker 2: about the Martian. I think Jason de Minguez very much human, right,

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Speaker 2: I mean he's two thirty six six home runs, twenty

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Speaker 2: I think he's going to develop into a good defender.

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Speaker 2: it gets better. I was expecting more. I mean, if

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Speaker 2: June ninth from Domingus, I would have said two sixty two,

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Speaker 2: seventy nine home runs, thirty RBIs, maybe fifteen stolen bases.

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Speaker 2: the right side. My grade for Dominguez right now is

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Speaker 4: I'm thinking about the same I'll say, see, but I'm

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Speaker 4: But you're right, you just can not hit right He

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Speaker 2: No, I think he'll switch hit. I think he'll I

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Speaker 2: think he'll get better at it. I mean, you do

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Speaker 2: this year. Make the adjustments on your swing path in

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Speaker 2: the offseason. But overall. I mean, I'm pleased with a

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Speaker 2: you just remember it from that year. Well, you know

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Speaker 2: You know, we had the Judge home run against Emmanuel

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Speaker 2: I saw it would start, but much room for improvement.

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Speaker 2: Just like a few other guys on this list, let's

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Speaker 4: I will say there are some years where I don't

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Speaker 4: Oh yes, say is mine the a Rod Grand slam

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Speaker 2: Oh man, I still remember where I was that that

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Speaker 2: He's just been slumping lately. Thirteen home runs, twenty seven Ribbies,

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Speaker 2: This is much better than I expected from him. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna say B plus only because I'm no A.

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Speaker 4: Because he's can kind of drop it off as of wit.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, you can't take away I mean, you said

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Speaker 3: That insane run that he went on.

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Speaker 4: And he's had his share of great moments too at

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Speaker 4: But hopefully he'll be able to figure something out. But

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Speaker 2: I think there's another hot streaker two in there this

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Speaker 2: still pretty decent. I mean, seven ninety ops is nothing

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Speaker 2: to sneeze at. He's got nine home runs, thirty five Ribbies,

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Speaker 2: one point six war. I mean, it's it's actually higher

430
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Speaker 2: than Grisham. You wouldn't think it just based on some

431
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Speaker 2: of the memories we have, the highlights that Grisham has

432
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Speaker 2: but you know Bellinger, he just plays a really really

433
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Speaker 2: solid defense. He runs the base as well. He's just

434
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Speaker 2: a good all round player. I'm giving him a bee.

435
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Speaker 4: I'll say the same B for him nine home This

436
00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:47,240
Speaker 4: is another one that when when this was first announced,

437
00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:50,520
Speaker 4: I'm like, all right, here we go. I've never been

438
00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:52,479
Speaker 4: in love with the Yankees idea of just coming with

439
00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:54,360
Speaker 4: these old time players.

440
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Speaker 3: Not old time, but you know players.

441
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Speaker 2: Who he's twenty nine, but it feels like even than that, BP, Derek,

442
00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:02,040
Speaker 2: come on.

443
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Speaker 4: But he has certainly been way better than I thought

444
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Speaker 4: he was going to be. I'm trying to look at

445
00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:10,240
Speaker 4: his big moments here the Grand Slam against the Mets

446
00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,239
Speaker 4: last week when he homeered against the Guardians nine home run,

447
00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:16,280
Speaker 4: thirty five RBIs yeah, being points out he's good Juneowa

448
00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:17,400
Speaker 4: from me and a but be for now.

449
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's gonna have stuck out to me too. That's

450
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Speaker 2: a great comment. I feel like that's that is about

451
00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:24,000
Speaker 2: the most on the money comment that I've seen. You know,

452
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Speaker 2: if he hits three hundred in June with a few

453
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Speaker 2: more home runs, I mean, all of a sudden, he's

454
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Speaker 2: hitting what two eighty with you know, fifteen homers, going

455
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Speaker 2: into the All Star break. That's a pretty damn solid year.

456
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Speaker 3: Yes, definitely, so Plan B.

457
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Speaker 4: I think the best comment we've I've heard about this

458
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Speaker 4: Yankee this Plan B, has been from you.

459
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Speaker 3: Plan B gets an A plus.

460
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Speaker 4: I keep thinking about that because it's it's dead on

461
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Speaker 4: and never would have imagined that we've got. And this

462
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Speaker 4: is why whenever I see I've seen some Yankee fans

463
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Speaker 4: complain over the last few days about the Red Sox loss.

464
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Speaker 3: And and I get it, there's there's some difficulties right now.

465
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Speaker 4: But you know what, folks, if the night of the

466
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Speaker 4: Soto announcement, or even the night of the cole Is

467
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Speaker 4: announced that Cole was gonna be out for the year,

468
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Speaker 4: if that was.

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Speaker 2: A whole point, Frankie, oh, I know, it was terrible.

470
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Speaker 4: I mean I just was locked in my room crying

471
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Speaker 4: for hours. If you had told any of us that

472
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Speaker 4: we'd be four and a half up here in the

473
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Speaker 4: Al East, we would have taken it all day, every day.

474
00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:19,800
Speaker 4: So yes, I get there's there's problems right now, there's issues,

475
00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:21,840
Speaker 4: but right now we should be thankful and appreciative for

476
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Speaker 4: what this team has done so far.

477
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Speaker 2: Ben Rice, I mean, this is a guy who to

478
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Speaker 2: me is a clear a. Even though the batting average

479
00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:32,439
Speaker 2: is low, he's been insanely unlucky. I mean, just this

480
00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:34,920
Speaker 2: last series, how many line drives did he smoke right

481
00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:38,760
Speaker 2: at somebody? The guy is snake bit, But twelve home runs,

482
00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:41,679
Speaker 2: twenty five ribbies, eight to twenty five ops. He I

483
00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:45,680
Speaker 2: believe has better numbers than one Soda pretty much across

484
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Speaker 2: the board except for on base percentage, probably not war

485
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Speaker 2: because well, I don't know why. I mean he to me,

486
00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:54,359
Speaker 2: he's he's put up better offensive numbers than Soda. But

487
00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:57,399
Speaker 2: I mean for the for the cost, he's been everything

488
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Speaker 2: that we could have dreamed of. And if you had

489
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Speaker 2: said that the man he's filling in for, John Carlos

490
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Speaker 2: Stanton was having this kind of year on June ninth,

491
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Speaker 2: hitting two forty twelve home runs, you'd have been like, Okay, yeah,

492
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Speaker 2: that's kind of what I expect from John Carlo to

493
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Speaker 2: this point. So he has filled up much like Luis

494
00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:16,320
Speaker 2: Heel filled in for Garrett Cole last year and went

495
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Speaker 2: like ten and one while Garrett Cole was injured. Ben

496
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Speaker 2: Rice stepping up while John Carlo has been injured has

497
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Speaker 2: been huge, And for that I'm giving him an A.

498
00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:28,400
Speaker 2: I'm giving him an A.

499
00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:30,920
Speaker 4: Well, then if you had told me that John Carlo

500
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Speaker 4: had put up those stats, my response would have been,

501
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Speaker 4: like John Carlo played the whole season, No way. I

502
00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,399
Speaker 4: would have just been shot that he is body just

503
00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:42,919
Speaker 4: completely explode at playing that many games. And hopefully Stanton

504
00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:45,119
Speaker 4: will come back here, although that will create some issues

505
00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:47,280
Speaker 4: as we've talked about here for the Yankees.

506
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna give him an A minus.

507
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Speaker 4: And the only reason why I cannot give him an

508
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Speaker 4: A or an A plus is because he has not

509
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,000
Speaker 4: made Derek shave his head yet, and I.

510
00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:56,600
Speaker 3: Just feel like last year was the top.

511
00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:59,560
Speaker 4: Last year, nothing will top Derek getting his head shaved

512
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Speaker 4: and then get called out about it in the New

513
00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:02,640
Speaker 4: York Post and on the S broadcast.

514
00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:05,159
Speaker 2: So I just thought that would have been nice if

515
00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:07,120
Speaker 2: they said my name or the name of the podcast

516
00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:10,919
Speaker 2: on the S broadcast rather than Yankee influencer. Come on,

517
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,399
Speaker 2: all right, well, I think that brings us to the

518
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 2: captain before we get to the pictures here. I mean,

519
00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:19,000
Speaker 2: there's no question that Aaron Judge is an A plus

520
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,880
Speaker 2: for me. I'd imagine he's an A plus from you, Frankie.

521
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:23,200
Speaker 2: I just wanted to take it a minute to look

522
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,920
Speaker 2: at his numbers on the screen, three ninety six average.

523
00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:28,880
Speaker 2: I was watching one of those Yankee classics not too

524
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:32,120
Speaker 2: long ago, and it was like a nineteen ninety nine

525
00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:34,600
Speaker 2: game and it was July or you know me, I

526
00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:36,640
Speaker 2: think might have been David Cohn's perfect game or something

527
00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:39,520
Speaker 2: like that. So it was July and Derek Jeter was

528
00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:43,560
Speaker 2: hitting three seventy six, and I was thinking, like, you know,

529
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:48,200
Speaker 2: Judge is hitting twenty points higher than that, with infinitely

530
00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:51,400
Speaker 2: more power. I mean, what we're seeing from this guy.

531
00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:55,000
Speaker 2: Everybody says, oh, we've never seen this. We really haven't.

532
00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:57,960
Speaker 2: We have not seen this guy is Tony Gwynn mixed

533
00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:02,240
Speaker 2: with Barry Bonds. Okay, it's insanity.

534
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 4: I was actually gonna give him a bee. I'm actually

535
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:06,720
Speaker 4: kind of disappointed. But no, I'm kidding.

536
00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 2: Frank h.

537
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:16,399
Speaker 4: No, that's fair, that's fair. I'll just leave you with

538
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 4: this tweet from Bob Night and Yale. This really says

539
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:20,959
Speaker 4: everything I want to say. Aaron Judge, with twenty three

540
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,960
Speaker 4: home runs and a three ninety six batting average, is

541
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Speaker 4: the only player in modern era baseball history to produce

542
00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,440
Speaker 4: this many home runs with this high of a batting

543
00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:31,520
Speaker 4: average his team's first sixty four games of an MLB season.

544
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Speaker 3: That is just remarkable. We went out of the fig five.

545
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:42,560
Speaker 2: He is, he's the best. He's gonna win his third

546
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:45,359
Speaker 2: m VP and it's a plus.

547
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Speaker 4: Also, have we ever you've been following baseball a lot

548
00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:49,600
Speaker 4: longer than I have, Derek, and there were you know,

549
00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:50,960
Speaker 4: I've been falling for a long time. There were a

550
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:52,760
Speaker 4: couple years where I was out of it, though. Have

551
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,919
Speaker 4: we ever seen an MVP race over at this It's June,

552
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:57,720
Speaker 4: and to be fair, it was over the first weekend

553
00:24:57,760 --> 00:24:59,400
Speaker 4: of the season when he had we had that four

554
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:00,760
Speaker 4: home runs in games.

555
00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:01,440
Speaker 3: That's when it was over.

556
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:03,280
Speaker 2: I've been watching long enough.

557
00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:05,520
Speaker 3: Where that's happened.

558
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:07,920
Speaker 2: I've been watching long enough to know nothing's over till

559
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,600
Speaker 2: it's over. I mean, in June at this point we

560
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:12,160
Speaker 2: would have said it was over. And then he had

561
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 2: the or of twenty twenty three, I guess, and then

562
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 2: he had the toe injury, right, I mean, nothing's over

563
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:22,680
Speaker 2: till it's over. But you know, cal Raley twenty six

564
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:24,560
Speaker 2: home I mean it was cal Raley's war. Anybody for

565
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 2: somebody in the in the chat, find me cal Raley's

566
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,720
Speaker 2: war on Baseball Reference. I'd be surprised if it's higher

567
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 2: than five point two, but it's got to be pretty high.

568
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:33,840
Speaker 2: And if the Mariners make the playoffs, I mean, he

569
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:37,320
Speaker 2: might steal some some votes, but I think Judge is

570
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 2: for sure were gonna get it. I'm gonna look up

571
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:40,960
Speaker 2: cal Raley real quick because he's putting.

572
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Speaker 4: I feel bad for cal Raley, and I feel bad.

573
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:44,840
Speaker 4: I do feel bad for guys like cal Raleigh and

574
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,399
Speaker 4: Bobby Witt, who are exceptional players. And we'll get like

575
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:49,680
Speaker 4: zero eleven the MVP race because of what this guy

576
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:50,400
Speaker 4: in New York is doing.

577
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:52,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty six home runs, three point nine war for

578
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Speaker 2: cal Raley. All right, we're gonna get to pictures in

579
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Speaker 2: just a minute, but first, a quick word from the

580
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581
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584
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585
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586
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587
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588
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589
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592
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593
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594
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Speaker 2: All right, So next up we're gonna say, Carlos Rodn

610
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 2: who got shelled? I guess it was Friday? No, what

611
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:15,399
Speaker 2: was it Saturday? What what did he get shelled? He

612
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,200
Speaker 2: got shelled. It wasn't yesterday, wasn't.

613
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I don't remember. I should know this.

614
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 2: Game. All the games are running together for me. So yesterday, yeah,

615
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:31,159
Speaker 2: maybe it was yesterday. It was yesterday, Yeah, yesterday, he

616
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:34,080
Speaker 2: got hit hard. I know, man, all the games at

617
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 2: this time of year go together. Five runs in five

618
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Speaker 2: innings two point eight seven e r A on the

619
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Speaker 2: season eight and four record, got more than a strikeout

620
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Speaker 2: per inning by a lot. He's got eighty four to

621
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Speaker 2: two thirds innings, hundred and three strikeouts. I mean, you

622
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 2: take out yesterday and a couple of the early flubs.

623
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Speaker 2: He's been awesome, but you can't take those out completely.

624
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 2: I'm going I'm going I'm going B plus. I'm going

625
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 2: to be it would have been an A minus before yesterday.

626
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 2: I'm going B plus.

627
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:07,440
Speaker 4: You know what, maybe I'm again, this might be two jumps.

628
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,399
Speaker 4: I'm going a minus. I'm going a minus. I have

629
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 4: loved what he has done, and again it's an expectation.

630
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 4: I never thought that he could turn it around like this.

631
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,640
Speaker 4: If you had told me before the year that in

632
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,920
Speaker 4: your belt leader board that Rodan would have a half

633
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,680
Speaker 4: belt more than Judge. I would have said, how bad

634
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 4: is Judge? Like, what kind of awful season is Judge?

635
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 4: Had no way, but he's had so many excellent starts.

636
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:30,760
Speaker 4: He looks so much more confident out on the mound. Yeah,

637
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 4: he'll have games like yesterday where it's you know, he'll

638
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 4: just give up the meat balls. But for now, I

639
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 4: can't complain at what he's done, especially again considering what

640
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 4: we all expected. I think we all kind of figured

641
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 4: what rodn As the Yankee was going to be, but

642
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 4: he's turned it on to another level. So I'm just

643
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 4: very impressed with them. And I'm gonna say AM minus.

644
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well we'll take it. In the comments. It's been

645
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 2: mostly a's a lot of A minuses. We've got a

646
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 2: couple of bs. I'm probably grading a little bit too hard,

647
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 2: you know. I mean I agree with the people were saying, well,

648
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 2: if it wasn't you know, for yesterday, it's an A anyway,

649
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 2: all right, So let's move on to Max Freed. Max

650
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 2: Freed for me is an A to me. Max Freed

651
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 2: is in a plus eight and one record, eighty one

652
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 2: and if eighty one innings, one point seven eight ERA

653
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 2: seventy seven strikeouts to me, is money well spent? I

654
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 2: mean in terms of the main portion of the plan

655
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 2: B money. I mean, you can't do much better than

656
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 2: what he's given us. So what are your thoughts on

657
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 2: Max Freed?

658
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 4: I actually, just like how you gave one game affected

659
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 4: your rating on rodin one game will affect my rating

660
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 4: on Freed, and that is the Dodger game. The fact

661
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 4: that he he started off well, but the fact that

662
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 4: he wasn't able to finish off against the best team

663
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 4: in baseball, I think we all still agree. Talent wise,

664
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 4: they're still not the standings say that, but just based

665
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 4: on talent that they're probably going to be, they're probably

666
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 4: still the best team in baseball. The fact that he

667
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 4: wasn't able to finish it off went from a plus

668
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 4: to a so. But again, I can't complain about this.

669
00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 4: He has stepped up in a big way for us

670
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 4: one point an adra and had so many outstanding outings.

671
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 4: Just shocked that it has worked out this well.

672
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 2: Will Warren. Will Warren uh three and ten last year

673
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 2: with a horrible you know know what, it wasn't the record.

674
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 2: He had it like a ten era. I think he

675
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 2: was owing three with a ten era last year. I

676
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 2: get my numbers mixed up. So he's improving, yeah, yeah,

677
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 2: four and three five point three four. He's had some

678
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 2: stretches this year where he's been really good. He's got

679
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 2: more than a strikeout for any seventy five strikeouts and

680
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 2: fifty seven and a third. This is one that I

681
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 2: struggled with, Frankie, I want to get your your grade first.

682
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 3: I went with a C man. I thought about C plus.

683
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go see, just too inconsistent for my taste,

684
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 4: and if we're going to have that third starter, it's

685
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 4: if if he wants to be that for us in

686
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 4: the postseason, it's got to be better than that. You

687
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 4: can't have just some of the terrible outings that he's

688
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:52,480
Speaker 4: had out there. So I'm gonna go see.

689
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 2: I landed on C plus. And the reason I did

690
00:30:55,920 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 2: that is because, well, one, like we've talked about xtations,

691
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 2: I expected it to be much worse. Right, I expected

692
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 2: a D level performance and F level performance, and to me,

693
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 2: he's been better than that. Uh, but he also hasn't

694
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 2: quite been consistent enough, like you said, for like an

695
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 2: upper echelon grade in the b's or a's obviously, So

696
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 2: I'm going C plus for Will Warren, and again I

697
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 2: would not shut shock me at all if in the

698
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 2: second half he has like a B plus performance. He's

699
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 2: been that type of guy at times, but yeah, I

700
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 2: think there's room for improvement. Next, we've got Clark Schmidt.

701
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 2: Clark Schmidt two and three with a four point zero

702
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 2: four ERA, forty nine innings, fifty strikeouts, another guy who's

703
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 2: been mostly inconsistent. He started off the year kind of

704
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 2: hurts in a little bit behind and Frankie, we need

705
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 2: to get you a little zip tie for that thing,

706
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 2: for that that webcam there right up there. Yeah, So

707
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 2: what are we doing with Clark Schmidt in terms of

708
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 2: a grade.

709
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 3: B minus?

710
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 4: I think maybe maybe that's too high, but four point

711
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 4: four ERA just again would have wanted a little bit

712
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 4: more from him, but not not not terrible from him,

713
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 4: I guess. Judging my note, I do want to ask, here,

714
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 4: are we gonna trade for another story? Because if this

715
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 4: is our rest of our rotation right now, I'm not

716
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 4: feeling it.

717
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 3: Are we gonna trade for somebody here? Is is that gonna be?

718
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 2: We're getting Louis Sill back, So I mean, well, let's

719
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 2: see how that shakes out. First. I me if he

720
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 2: comes back and he's lights out, then maybe we don't

721
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 2: need to spend big on a starter, right, I mean,

722
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 2: I can I can live with Clark Schmidt or Will

723
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 2: Warren as your number four guy in the playoffs against

724
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 2: certain teams. Be nice to have somebody better, But again,

725
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 2: I don't want to empty the farm for something mediocre. Right.

726
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 2: I'd almost rather just let Clark put it together because

727
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 2: we've seen him be great at stretches. But as of

728
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 2: right now, I'm going to see minus. To me, he

729
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 2: has not been as effective as he was last year.

730
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 2: The curve ball has still been good, but I mean

731
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 2: he's two and three with a four ERA. That's just

732
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 2: not a B level performance. You know. I think there's

733
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 2: a room for improvement there. But again, he's a guy

734
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 2: that has shown it to me in the past, and

735
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 2: if he can get back to where he was pre

736
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 2: injury last year, I think he can have a much

737
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 2: better second half. So you know, C minus for Clark Schmidt,

738
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 2: Ryan Yarbro, here's a guy. To me, I mean, he's

739
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 2: pitched much better than the inflated era of four point

740
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 2: one seven because of that last start. To me, I

741
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 2: gotta go, I gotta go a I gotta. I mean,

742
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 2: I didn't expect anything from him other than to be

743
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 2: like a left handed reliever, maybe swingman. Maybe he's an

744
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 2: opener once in a while, but he's been a valuable

745
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 2: part of the rotation. Last time out got shelled, but

746
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 2: before that he outpitched Yamamoto. So I mean, you take

747
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 2: the good with the bad. But I mean, in terms

748
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 2: of expectations, he's far exceeded what I had in mind

749
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 2: for him. So I'm giving him an a.

750
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, out outdueling Yamamoto, that's got to count

751
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 4: for something, especially with how dominant he's been. And if

752
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,959
Speaker 4: I feel like if we'd had him against Uh, if

753
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 4: we had Yarborough against Yamamoto for Game two last year,

754
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 4: maybe things are a little different.

755
00:33:58,600 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go B plus.

756
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 4: Sorry, I'll always be thinking about last year until my

757
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 4: dying day, and we're thinking about twenty twenty four World

758
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 4: Series there, I'm gonna give him A.

759
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 2: Win will make you forget it? A win will A

760
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 2: win will erase that memory?

761
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:13,320
Speaker 4: Please? Please just gotta get there. I'm gonna go B

762
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:15,359
Speaker 4: plus on him. The last outing that did kind of

763
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 4: sell on my rating a little bit. But he's definitely

764
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 4: been solid and a huge surprise for our rotation there.

765
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 4: But yeah, the four point one seven R. I couldn't

766
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 4: given a to someone with that high of an era.

767
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 4: So I'll go I'll go beplus.

768
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 2: I hear you, I hear you. Yeah, maybe maybe I

769
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 2: was a little bit too generous there. I'm not gonna

770
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 2: be generous on this one. Marcus Strowman owned one eleven

771
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 2: point five seven e RA. Yeah, we're just gonna We're

772
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 2: just gonna give him an F and move right on

773
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 2: to the bullpen, or do you concur uh?

774
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 4: Just go if you want more in depth thought, just

775
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 4: go back to what was it, April whatever the game

776
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 4: was against the Giants and just listen to rant.

777
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,319
Speaker 1: I'm gonnat you really tell you everything you need to

778
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,239
Speaker 1: know about this guy. All right, So we're gonna talk

779
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 1: about the bullpen real quick. We're gonna kind of go

780
00:34:56,120 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 1: through one at a time here, Luke Weaver, I mean,

781
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,400
Speaker 1: I'm giving him an A. Devin Williams, I gotta give

782
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 1: him an F honestly, I mean I can't see a

783
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: passing grade for him.

784
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 2: I mean, he's just he's been atrocious. We got him

785
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 2: to be a lights out reliever as far as expectations,

786
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:13,840
Speaker 2: he has not lived up to them. Mark lighter Junior,

787
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 2: I mean he's been mostly effective, but has not been dominating.

788
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 2: I'll give him a B plus. I think he's been okay.

789
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 2: Fernando Cruz again dominating at times, fun to watch, but

790
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 2: but a little bit inconsistent. I'm giving him a B plus.

791
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,759
Speaker 2: Ian Hamilton, I'm giving a D minus. I mean he's

792
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 2: just I mean, actually I might even flunk him. I mean,

793
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,759
Speaker 2: I'll let you make the call on that. And Yery

794
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 2: Dane Los Santos, who I spelled wrong, is to me

795
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:43,759
Speaker 2: he's been impressive. Like I like his stuff quite a bit.

796
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 2: I'm saying B minus for him. I mean he's had

797
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 2: a nice little year. Lolizaga, I'm given so far a D.

798
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 2: He has not been good since coming back. The stuff

799
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:01,280
Speaker 2: is still like a plus, but so far the location

800
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 2: has not been good. Too many home runs. And Tim Hill,

801
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 2: I'm giving him a D minus like he's close to

802
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 2: and if he has not been as effective as last year.

803
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 2: Your thoughts, I'm more or less with you there.

804
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:16,239
Speaker 4: I didn't really grade all the individual guys. I mostly

805
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:18,360
Speaker 4: gave just greade to the bullpen in general, and I

806
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 4: gave it a C. It's not our strength. I mean

807
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 4: there were some guys, Weaver especially, I miss him out there.

808
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 4: It means, you know, not only is he such a

809
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 4: great picture, but it means not himing out there means

810
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 4: we have to see more.

811
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:32,360
Speaker 3: Devin Williams.

812
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,279
Speaker 4: Devin Williams gets a Z for me, not even an F.

813
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 4: I'm giving giving on the lowest letter remoginable. Just please

814
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 4: get this guy off my television, get him away from

815
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 4: New York, and then it's just terrible. And yeah, the

816
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:47,319
Speaker 4: guys like Hamilton and Elizaca Hill, they all get I

817
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:49,440
Speaker 4: guess Hamilton f and then Elizaca and Hill with you

818
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 4: on the d's. But this bullpen, it does not the

819
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:54,400
Speaker 4: last few years, the bullpen has been a real strength

820
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 4: for this team. And now now I'm not feeling anything.

821
00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:01,360
Speaker 4: I'm not feeling any just just joy in this. Just

822
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:03,600
Speaker 4: too many question marks and too many guys that are

823
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 4: just gonna make you worried come October time. But if

824
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 4: we have Weaver back, maybe maybe it will be okay.

825
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 4: But for now, especially he gets to see and you

826
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:13,839
Speaker 4: know what, without Weaver, it might get a date.

827
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 2: But for now, yeah, I'm giving a C minus to

828
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:18,839
Speaker 2: the bullpen. Just just too unreliable to me so far.

829
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 2: I hope we get an arm and as far as

830
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 2: the bench goes, I mean Oswald Perrazza, he's done it

831
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 2: with the glove, has not hit at all. To me,

832
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 2: I'm giving him a C minus Oswald and Cabrera. We

833
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 2: got to give him an A for sacrificing his body.

834
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 2: We're giving him an A just a performance boost, just

835
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 2: we're passing. He's you know, uh j c Escara. I

836
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 2: think he's had a fine rookie year. Uh you know,

837
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 2: he hasn't had a ton of playing time. I give

838
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 2: him a B. You know, go be there. Orbant Vivas

839
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 2: and Pablo Reyes, we're going incomplete. Neither one of them

840
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 2: has played that much. Reyes he did pitch a couple

841
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 2: of innings for us, so we gotta but otherwise he's

842
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 2: been pretty much useless. How do you grade the bench

843
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:01,719
Speaker 2: as a whole?

844
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 4: I was actually I was also gonna get bry s Z,

845
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 4: but you mentioned the innings things. I'm like, you know what,

846
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 4: now we'll get well, we'll bump them up to F.

847
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:13,480
Speaker 4: Bench gets a D for me, just no depth there.

848
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,280
Speaker 4: It's much like the Nicks there's zero death on this bench,

849
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:20,839
Speaker 4: and yeah, just thank god we have our lineup.

850
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 3: Being as good as it is.

851
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:25,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's where we're at, folks, that's our grades.

852
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 2: Let us know yours in the comments. Frankie, thanks again

853
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 2: for joining us here on a Monday night. We do

854
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:33,320
Speaker 2: have a night off from baseball, so I don't know

855
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,720
Speaker 2: what you're gonna do. I'm gonna go watch the first

856
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:39,400
Speaker 2: Mission Impossible movie by the fire and just kind of unwind.

857
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 2: I'm starting to rewatch them all over because I just

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Speaker 2: saw the new one and it was fabulous, by the way,

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Speaker 2: But Frankie, what are you getting into this evening?

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna be watching the Stanley Cup Finals. It has

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Speaker 4: been an excellent series so far, in the first two

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Speaker 4: games both going overtime, and I'm very excited to watch

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Speaker 4: game three here and I'm ritten Bradmonton because I want

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Speaker 4: to see mc david get a Stanley Cup. I'm not

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Speaker 4: a huge hockey fan, but i do watching Conor McDavid there,

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Speaker 4: so I'll be rooting fremonton and hopefully, speaking of other sports,

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Speaker 4: hopefully the NBA Finals can really pick it up. I've

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Speaker 4: not really been too impressed with the first two games.

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Speaker 4: Game ones finish was amazing, Game two not so much.

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Speaker 4: But I'm hoping it's one one heading back to Indiana,

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Speaker 4: So hopefully the series can pick up there and we

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Speaker 4: can get an excellent series out of that. And let's

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Speaker 4: just up the Yankees as well, can turn it around

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Speaker 4: here and it's been a rough couple series for them.

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Speaker 4: Hopefully here against Kansas City, they'll be able to bounce back.

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Speaker 2: I'll confess I had no idea that the Stanley Cup

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Speaker 2: Finals were on tonight. I just yeah, you're a bad hockey, I.

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Speaker 3: Know, a bad sports man. You gotta you gotta get

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Speaker 3: more involved. There's more than just baseball, Derek.

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