WEBVTT - Mariners rising, Skenes pitching profile, Reds have a chance? 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:06.480 Oh, this is good. It's Trevor may Day with Scottie Braun. 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:07.040 That's it. 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:10.080 You get two of us on a Friday. Let Trevor 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:13.360 cook all Friday long, which he does on his own 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:14.880 show may Day quite often. 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:16.400 Trevor, good to see you. 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:19.360 And just in case you needed a little more confidence, 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:21.640 which I don't think you do, but just in case 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:23.800 you wanted a little pump me up on a Friday. 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:29.480 You are the most valuable position in the ft FAM 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:31.120 and in Major League Baseball. 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:34.240 Why do I say that. How many relievers were dealt 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:36.760 for at the trade deadline versus every other position? 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:38.879 I don't know, like a hundred. 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:43.120 We tried to count the number of transactions that have 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:46.040 in today, just in general, players that were in one 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:48.720 place and then went to another place. It was legitimately 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:54.040 over one hundred, which is incredible. What a blast though. 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:55.760 It was a lot of fun being on this side 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:58.560 of things and covering it and just having stuff happen 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:02.240 in real time. I was fortunate to be doing being 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:04.960 on a show with Hunter Pence and so he understood 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:08.360 the assignment too. We were excited, We were excited, a 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:09.600 lot of yelling. It was a good time. 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:10.840 That's good energy. 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:15.520 But you realize sometimes in the off season a few 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:19.880 relievers get paid and then many don't. And also many 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:23.479 relievers unfortunately don't make it to free agency. Good ones even, 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:27.880 but then come trade deadline time, jams go Wait, if 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:30.880 we're gonna make the playoffs, we use relievers in October 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:33.360 more than we use starters. Last year, I believe was 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:37.040 fifty two percent relievers in October versus forty eight percent 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:40.840 for starters. And I will say, I think they are 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:45.040 doing something right. Because of the volatility and you want 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.760 to catch a hot hand, it does make sense to 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:50.720 do the trade deadline thing, not to go too crazy 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:52.320 because we got a lot to cover for the day. 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:54.800 But I remember Andrew Friedman saying I want to get 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.200 all my work done in the off season. So even 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:00.320 loading up on relievers like kurbya, it's Tanner, Scottik, et cetera. 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:03.800 The problem is pitchers get hurt a lot. And then 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:06.840 the problem on top of that is relievers are vollatiles. 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:09.160 So you still might get to the trade deadline and 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:11.000 be like, damn, I could use a high leverage guy. 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:16.760 It is crazy that relievers are so valuable in a 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:20.960 very specific situation, namely making a playoff run, going deep 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:22.960 into the playoffs, and then winning a World Series. They're 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:26.400 like arguably one of the most if not the most 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:29.120 important positions to have at least covered. I mean, you 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:32.400 need several guys, but you can really really get a 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:35.600 lot of value out of that. And this is a 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:40.040 great example of how this is This plays out is interesting. 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:43.840 We was doing Sunday Night Baseball last week and graphic 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:47.560 came up about Jan Durant and Harris and Harrison Bader 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:50.920 joining the Phillies and it showed their wars and guess 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:53.040 which were those two of those guys? Which one of 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:56.080 those two guys had a higher war this year? Harrison Bader. 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:59.960 But if you asked anybody who would who would you 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.640 who might be playing a much much bigger role in 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:05.480 the playoff, they would say the opposite. So it just 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:08.280 goes to show you, like how relievers are valued. You 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.600 kind of have to get into the weeds figure out 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:14.160 if you want to do it with statistics, but there's 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:17.040 one consensus, and that is the best teams have the 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:20.400 best reliever cours going into the playoffs. The guys throwing 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.160 the best back there tend to get the farthest. 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:29.160 Yeah, if you're in the playoffs, war might not be 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:32.200 the right answer. I don't know if they're factoring in 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:34.320 relievers the way that they should regular season. 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:35.880 Okay, you can make your cases. 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:39.880 I mean, war is going to reward position players at 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:43.600 premium positions playing every day, cool, get it. But the 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.800 playoffs are built differently. Things tighten up, including your pitching staff. 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:48.840 So it's a good point. You might have to tell 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:51.160 some of your buddies to work on something there if 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:54.360 they don't have it already, because really it would benefit 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:57.080 your brethren. So anyway, let's get to a team actually 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:00.360 that's got a pretty good bullpen. Let's charge them out, 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:08.520 charging about Mariners, sweep Mariners, walk off Domken's own with 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:12.160 the walkoff knock. For the Ems, they've been pretty damn 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:15.080 good since the trade deadline. I think five or six 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.920 and one since the trade deadline. I will point out 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:21.680 that Josh Naylor left that game last night early. Looked 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:24.120 like he was wincing a little bit. Shoulder soreness is 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.760 the word. It's the other shoulder, because I think the 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.600 other shoulder was bothering him, and then you know, this 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:31.920 one pops up for him. So here it is pulled 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:34.800 today due to a sore shoulder that was on Thursday. 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:37.880 And then Mary Brown, who covers the Sports that this 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:39.880 is something to watch out where he had issues with 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.560 his shoulder on and office recently as mid June with 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:45.719 the Diamondbacks. So you want to weigh it looks like 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.800 a hard swing there, you want away playing him making 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.479 the playoffs and also making sure that Josh Naylor would 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:52.960 be ready for an October stretch. 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:56.800 I you know, it looks like a little bit of 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:00.279 a tweak. I think there's certain different swings you can see, 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:06.359 then you can assume a certain level of maybe how bad. 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:06.680 It might be. 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:09.720 But one thing about Josh Naylor is he swings hard, 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:11.880 and he always swings hard. He's swinging off his helmet 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.279 pretty much every time he swings, and that's just the 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:17.159 way he plays the game. So you know for him 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.040 to he needs to be able to do that to 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.240 be as effective as he can. And it looks like 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:24.640 he just something felt a little bit weird there, But 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.400 even the subsequent swings after it, it didn't seem like 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:29.919 he like couldn't swing anymore, just like he just was 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.760 tentative about it, which gives me, you know, a little 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.080 bit of hope, and I'll be honest, we can talk 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:37.000 about his bad and his glove and what he's meant 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:38.800 and how they have corner pop for the first time 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:43.000 in recent history, the Mariners, that is. But I mean, 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:45.919 the guy's got eleven bags since he's joined the team, 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:50.160 which is crazy considering he's in the top bottom I think, 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:52.760 bottom ten or twenty percent in the league in sprint speed. 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.840 So I mean he's taken bags left, right, and center. 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:57.880 That might be the biggest loss to have if he's 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:00.880 not playing. So to give them a little bit rest, 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:02.560 we're talking. We're in the dog bays here, right, We're 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:04.760 in Houdust. This is the best time to get a 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:06.640 few days off here and there. They're coming off a 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:10.440 really good series. They're gaining gaining some games on that 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:15.200 division lead Astros. 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Yeah. 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.080 We've talked about the stolen based prowess of Naylor a 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:30.040 lot this week, and I was thinking how coaches across 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:34.400 the country, youth, high school, even college, are probably pointing 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:36.320 to him as the post boy for why you can 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:38.480 steal bags and not be that fast and just a 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:42.240 whole baseball IQ and the fuel for the game is important. 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:43.880 But yeah, I want to double click on what you're 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:46.920 talking about with DMS within the AL West. So, first off, 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:51.280 you're out in the Pacific Northwest. How much are the 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:55.080 fans buying into this team. There's been frustration over the 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.400 years because they've built a really nice core, especially on 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:59.720 the starting pitching staff side of things, and bullpen's been 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.800 pretty good and here comes some offense for them reinforcements 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.560 in twenty twenty five. So as of right now, after 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.400 that Seattle dub you've got Houston one and a half 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:10.560 games clear of Seattle in the ALE West, and then 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:12.640 the Texas Rangers are four and a half games back 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.600 of first place Houston. But the Rangers in a fight 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.560 for a wildcard spot, that last wildcard spot right now. 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:21.880 It's like a Texas Yankees even Cleveland involved kind of battle. Obviously, 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:23.960 you know, Boston is still close enough where they can 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:24.640 get caught. 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:26.520 What do you think about the Ale West and the 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:27.360 ale wild Card? 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.040 I mean, the first of all, the sentiment up here 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:34.839 is they are they jump on the bandwagon quick, they 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:37.640 get back on the horse quick, and they love their 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:40.160 sports and they're they're really enjoying what they're seeing. 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:42.760 They think, like for the first. 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:46.480 Time in a long time, really excited about moves done 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:48.880 in the deadline. I think that even if they ended 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:50.640 up not working out, that most fans will be like, 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:52.440 you know, what, we did the things we need to do. 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:54.000 It just you just got to go out and do 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:55.840 the win at that point. 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:59.959 And so Jerry Depoto is getting a lot of credit 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:02.679 amongst the van base that was towering a little bit 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.079 on some of the moves recently. So that's all great, 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:09.240 and it's the division is very competitive like you thought 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.000 it would go in especially with the top three teams 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:11.280 up there. 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.679 I think they're all playoff caliber teams, you know. 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.480 I think the Mariners have a great opportunity with that 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:19.959 starting pitching and they're scoring more runs and they've created 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:24.040 more of a dynamic lineup that is kind of scary 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:27.280 top to bottom, Like you can't really there's not like 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:30.199 a streak of four or five guys that you didn't 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:31.640 have to worry about as much as you had in 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:34.040 the past, and that has been closed up a little bit. 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:38.240 So it's big thumbs up here I got producer Henry 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:40.160 in here working with me in the office, and he 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.080 does a thing every day with his whiteboard in his 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:45.080 office where he writes down his sentiment score for the Mariners. 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:47.640 And he's been up in the eight to nines since 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.000 for the last couple of weeks, since they got nailor so, 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:53.400 and that continues. If we're going to go by the 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.600 Henry barometer, things are good up here and so. 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:59.120 Yet Okay, well it could have been even better. 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:03.960 Why because they might have added another reliever for the 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:07.760 stretch run. They were close, apparently, according to a fans 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.280 Heided insider Robert Murray, who was a guest host on 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:14.000 Fair Territory yesterday. So I don't want to upset your boy, 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:16.439 because things are looking really good up in Seattle, and 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:17.439 you can't have it all right. 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:19.560 You can't go to the candy shop and pick out everything. 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.520 Jerry Depoto did an awesome job addressing the top need, 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:24.160 which was corner infield spots. 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.720 But did you hear about this? Let's roll the clip. 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.040 On the hype train this morning. But I'm also thinking 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:36.439 they're legit. They added Josh Naylor, Ihanel Suarez and they 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:40.079 almost got Joean Duran, and there was at one point 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:41.840 that morning that he was traded that I thought he 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:43.920 was going to be in Seattle, but they ended up 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.800 getting the two sluggers and both of them have been 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:48.960 very good since coming to Seattle. 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:56.000 Isn't Durand's entrance with like a magenta ish kind of thing, 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.040 So that would have worked well up in that ballpark 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.160 two in Seattle. I mean, it's working for the FI 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:04.360 it's close enough, red whatever, but that still would have 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:06.319 worked up in the Pacific Northwest being at It's t 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:09.840 Mobile Park. But anyway, what could that have looked like 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:12.680 for the Mariners. It's a good bullpen, but some teams 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:15.360 loaded up super bullpens. I wouldn't say it's like. 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:20.600 That, no, I mean, statistically the park helps a lot. Statistically, 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.400 they're still one of the top three bullpens even this 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:28.800 year with Gabe Speier throwing from really great innings from 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:32.640 the left side, the young Vargas kid, they kind of 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:35.000 mix and match it and figure out the best way 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.680 to get to the back end to Andris Munos, who 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.319 is one of the best lockdown closers out there. It 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.800 would have been interesting to see, is did Duran then 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:46.080 become the eighth inning guy that conwak Kelsley is in 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:46.880 New York right now. 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.880 Probably usually rock with the guy you've had. 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:51.720 And you don't want to mess that up because that's 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.560 usually if that doesn't work out, it doesn't look good. 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:56.640 So it would have been great to have him. I'm 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:58.800 sure they would have loved it. He would have thrived 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:02.319 in this ballpark, probably here. But you know, you can't 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:06.400 get everybody, no matter how not even the San Diego 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:11.080 Padres got everybody, and boy did they try so. But 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.960 that's it's it's cool to think about. And by the way, 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:18.080 his walkout probably would work anywhere. And the story behind 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:21.200 that with Dustin Morris and the and the media team 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:24.480 over there in Minnesota passing it on unprompted to saying, hey, 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:25.400 we worked really hard on this. 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:26.559 Everyone here loves it. 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:28.480 You guys will love it too, And then of course 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:31.200 Philly fans being like this was a thing we could have, 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:35.040 like that, this is something that like this is electric here, 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:38.600 and of course it just took off as surprising absolutely 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:39.719 nobody especially. 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.160 Yeah, I think you're going to see more and more 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.040 of that in the league. I mean, we are seeing 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:46.559 a lot of that over the last few years. I 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.000 think you're going to see even more of that because 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.600 you have a spot like Philly that hadn't experienced it before. 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:55.079 It creates another viral moment, another city that is loving 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.840 and honestly, I mean that can be your top memory 0:12:57.880 --> 0:12:58.439 at a game. 0:12:58.679 --> 0:12:59.440 I mean, they were. 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:02.920 Booming who were they booing the other day because Duran 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:06.760 had to sit down he was warming up? Oh well, Kepler, Yeah, 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:10.600 but the Phillies fans were booing someone the other day 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:15.400 because Duran was warming up. And then I think they had, 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:17.959 you know, a five run lead or something that turned into. 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:18.840 A non same situation. 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:20.960 So he goes back down and so whoever came into 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.520 the game instead, they were booing that reliever as if 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:27.079 you know, he was deciding the fate of the Duran entrance. 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.760 But it just shows you how much it's capturing a city. Anyway, 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:32.000 to stay on topic for one more minute here with 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:35.640 the Mariners, very good team, a lot of personality too, 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:37.960 a lot of guys that are really fun to watch 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:38.680 on the field. 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.200 Naylor is definitely one of them. Gino Suarez is beloved 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:45.160 in Seattle. Who else Randy Rose Arena kind of fun 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:48.360 to watch career. I twenty third home run yesterday, So 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.679 this seems good. This seems very good. Last one here, 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:55.200 pop quiz at the finish line, Astros, Mariners, Rangers. 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:56.280 Do they all make the playoffs? 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.800 That's an I think it's entirely possible. 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.360 Someone's got to win the division for the West to 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:08.920 have two of the three spots. It really is dependent, 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:12.120 I think on what happens with the Red Sox and Yankees, 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:15.600 right because in order for that to happen, probably the 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.080 Yankees would have to fall out. And I'll be honest, 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:20.720 it's really hard to bet against the Yankees no matter 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.080 what's happening and not making the playoffs because they do 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.240 it every single year. But it's been dark days there so. 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:29.800 But can't count of Cleveland out either, So I think 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:34.560 it's it's possible, but inevitably kind of unlikely, especially with 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:36.560 how close the other two teams are. 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:40.800 Hey, Ale standings in the central are worth the look. 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:44.320 According to Mike che in the YouTube chat today, he said, 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:47.360 look where the Guardians are six games back of the Tigers. 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:52.800 I get you might that's still a tall task. And Trevor, 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:56.720 it's not unfathomable. It's happened before this time of year 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.120 where teams are even close to nine or ten back, 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.640 there's been those crazy stories. So six is not like 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:05.240 off the charts wild. But Cleveland didn't add they're good. 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.800 I don't think they're great. Tigers are really solid. I 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:10.040 know they've gone through more downtimes lately, but it's not 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:11.760 like they've lost half their team. You know, if like 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.520 there were some massive injuries like schoobl or somebody's down 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:16.080 for the rest of the season, okay, we can make 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:18.000 a case, but I don't see it. 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:20.280 Could it get close, maybe, but I don't see it. 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:20.520 Do you. 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:25.240 Yeah, there would have to be a combination of collapse 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:27.880 and a team kind of just getting hot in a 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:31.600 way that I think that the Guardians are especially, They're 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:34.520 a very grindy team. They always are, even in the 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:38.320 not the highest years they have. But I just don't 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.280 think like there we're gonna look at a team who's 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.760 gonna rattle off like, you know, fourteen or fifteen games 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:47.440 or something. Just they're still young, they don't quite have 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:51.280 the star power. And I think that Detroit is playing 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:53.480 about as poorly as they played all year, and that 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:57.440 they could very easily turn a couple of things around 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.080 and get right back to their winning ways and make 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:01.680 it even harder. So it would take a lot, I think, 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:05.360 for in either direction, for these two teams for that 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:08.120 to happen. But six games isn't insurmountable by any means. 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:10.240 You know, it's a sweep or two away. 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Schemes was 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:35.200 money as usual. He's got like a ridiculous home scoreless 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:37.400 streak going on. So if you're in Pittsburgh and you're 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:40.800 depressed because the team always stinks, you do get Skeen's 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:44.440 Day and it is very fun. So it's twenty seven 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.760 and two thirds consecutive home scoreless innings. The youngest pitcher 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:49.600 in live ball are to have five home starts without 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:53.000 allowing an earned run. I think he's fourteen to zero 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:55.919 this year with three runs of support. Three runs is 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:58.239 not a lot. That's less than the average you get 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.240 from a team in a big league game, So he's 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:02.240 used to these type moments. He actually did get a 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:05.240 little extra support in this one, but overall, just wanted 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:07.800 to get a check with mister pitcher here on what 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.600 you're seeing from Paul. He's not the same pitcher this year, 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:13.520 but he's just as good, if not better, with what 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:16.600 he's finding in terms of his arsenal little less case. 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:18.479 I haven't looked as much lately, but I know when 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:20.399 I looked about a month or so ago, it was 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:22.960 still way below the number that he was pumping last 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:25.080 year in terms of K per nine and K percentage. 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:29.400 Yeah, I mean, one thing that's crazy about how good 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:31.480 he's been. I mean, I think that we all thought 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:35.000 this was entirely within the realman possibility to just repeat 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:38.520 the results he had last year. But he came into 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:41.720 spring training and I remember there was kind of a 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:45.480 big stink, but people were excited about hearing him adding 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:48.119 two pitches after the season he just had. And then 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:52.840 he said pretty explicitly, I want to have enough pitches 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:55.280 to stay off of barrels and get early contact, and 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:57.880 then also if I'm going to get a strikeout, get 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:02.400 it quickly and assume as possible. So he's taking his three, 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:05.159 four or five pitch strikeouts, but beyond that, he's like 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.520 hit it to somebody like, I want to go deeper 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:11.119 into games. I don't want this like ramp up of 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:13.080 innings because I'm young and I don't have a lot 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:16.560 of experience from college, which you simply can't throw enough 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:19.040 innings in college to get yourself up to the ability 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:21.040 to throw one hundred and eighty to two hundred in 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:23.240 a season. He wanted to do that as quickly as possible, 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:24.560 and the best way to do it was use the 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.640 least amount of pitches as possible. And here we are 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:30.480 four and a half months in and he has done 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:34.040 exactly that, and he's still striking out a good percentage 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:36.159