Speaker 1: Welcome to mouse the territory, Ladies and gentlemen. The Red
Speaker 1: Sox lost a series here today. I don't even know
Speaker 1: how to process that. It's been a long time since
Speaker 1: they've lost this series. You got to go back all
Speaker 1: the way to the beginning of July when they dropped
Speaker 1: two out of three to the Nationals. You lose two
Speaker 1: in a row for the first time since then, as well,
Speaker 1: it feels a little weird, feels a little out of place.
Speaker 1: There's been a lot of winning as of late, and
Speaker 1: here we are. You know, obviously, you go back over
Speaker 1: this just this incredible time with the Red Sox fifteen
Speaker 1: game winning streak, you put together another nine game winning streak.
Speaker 1: I mean, just so many great moments along the way.
Speaker 1: At some point that energy is gonna come back down.
Speaker 1: You feel like this past weekend they looked a little
Speaker 1: tired here, and when you're going up against a pitching
Speaker 1: staff that ranks twenty ninth at the ERA and dead
Speaker 1: last in FIP and you're not able to get much
Speaker 1: going against those guys. Now, granted, I love Gage Jump JT.
Speaker 1: Ginn looked very solid here today, but the numbers of
Speaker 1: the numbers, and you know when you look at the
Speaker 1: bullpen for the A's, it has not been a good
Speaker 1: bullpen this year. Maybe you know, one or two guys
Speaker 1: have been pretty good. But that really shows to me
Speaker 1: it's starting to maybe catch up to him a little bit.
Speaker 1: This is where you feel like you could use a
Speaker 1: little bit of a jolt. You could use a couple
Speaker 1: of reinforcements Adley Rushman, perhaps Rom and Anthony where you at,
Speaker 1: maybe a couple couple of little energy boosters could help.
Speaker 1: At some point. We actually just got some pretty I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say like a big news, right, you know,
Speaker 1: we got some news. Chad Tracy said, Adley is going
Speaker 1: to be traveling to Toronto, gonna have a workout with
Speaker 1: the team tomorrow and they'll reassess after that. He went
Speaker 1: over three today adding or only batting here today. He
Speaker 1: was the d H for the WU Socks here today.
Speaker 1: He did have a drive out to right field. But
Speaker 1: you know, just getting some AB's, right, So we'll see,
Speaker 1: maybe we end up seeing Adlee at some point in
Speaker 1: the next week or so. We'll have to wait and see.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we get some keep getting some more good news
Speaker 1: on Roman. But like I said, you feel like the
Speaker 1: it's starting to catch up to him a little bit. Right.
Speaker 1: It felt like, you know, minus that rally yesterday in
Speaker 1: the ninth inning, and you know minus you know, a
Speaker 1: couple of things here today. You felt like they were
Speaker 1: really lacking some energy. Eli White, you know, he had
Speaker 1: a solid day first the Red Sox RBI had a
Speaker 1: few hits here today. You know, he saw a little
Speaker 1: bit of small ball, he saw some manufacturing of the runs.
Speaker 1: But JT. Ginn was just really solid here today. Had
Speaker 1: a good sinker, good change up, good slider. But listen,
Speaker 1: when your top of the order is pretty much O
Speaker 1: for my you know, will You're driving in a run
Speaker 1: here today with a sack fly when you got your
Speaker 1: leadoff Guy Setti in the one to two spots going
Speaker 1: oh for ten, Monasterio in the five spot going over four.
Speaker 1: You know, Wilson Willier not providing the damage that we've
Speaker 1: been seeing. Uh yeah, you're gonna have a tough day,
Speaker 1: I would think, right, especially one to two in the
Speaker 1: lineup going over ten. It is what it is again.
Speaker 1: We saw a couple of you know, all right things
Speaker 1: here today, but just not that same usual offense we've
Speaker 1: been seeing over the last month. Again tip of the
Speaker 1: Captain Jtgin you look really solid bullpen here today. There
Speaker 1: were some good things, but then a couple of bumps
Speaker 1: as well. Eric Miller once again, we cannot seem to
Speaker 1: find the magic. Anytime they use an opener, they get it.
Speaker 1: They just can't seem to figure this out. I don't
Speaker 1: know what it is. But Eric Miller a bit of
Speaker 1: a bumpy start. You know, he was all right. He
Speaker 1: did strike out a couple, but give up a run there.
Speaker 1: But Brian Baal once again fantastic out of the bullpen,
Speaker 1: did give him a run here today. But over four
Speaker 1: innings he was solid. Tyron Guerrero, Giovanni Moran won two
Speaker 1: three innings, but then garrettood Lockeroldas Chapmin in the end.
Speaker 1: There was one spot with Whitlock I'm thinking, what are
Speaker 1: you doing? What? What? Why? I'll get to that in
Speaker 1: just a little bit. But Earldas Chapman once again non
Speaker 1: save situation. I don't know, he's just not He's not
Speaker 1: the same in these situations. And then you combine the
Speaker 1: fact that he's had issues with command this year. He's
Speaker 1: not He's still really good, but he's not the same
Speaker 1: Chatman that we saw last year. We're gonna go over
Speaker 1: the numbers in just a little bit. But yeah, a
Speaker 1: couple of a couple of things with Whitlock Chapman today
Speaker 1: that did not go very well. We'll get to that,
Speaker 1: but let's go over this today, ladies and gentlemen. Let's
Speaker 1: go over the game really quick. We've got four games
Speaker 1: with Toronto coming up. We'll go over the pitching matchups,
Speaker 1: So go over what's going on with the Blue Jays
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Speaker 1: has had a good weekend, minus the Red Sox losing
Speaker 1: a couple of games. Howbe Everyone's having a good weekend
Speaker 1: for the most part. And if you are listening to
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Speaker 1: Let's start off. I guess I mean I get we'll
Speaker 1: start off, you know, we'll go over the picture. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to do the usual picture graphic because
Speaker 1: today was a bullpen game. So Eric Miller he went
Speaker 1: for the first inning, Boltay Wilson with bass hits. He
Speaker 1: strikes out high and he gets Soda Strong on the
Speaker 1: ground out, but that ends up scoring a run. And
Speaker 1: then he ends up strike striking out Tommy White on
Speaker 1: a nasty slider. So, you know, minus the couple of
Speaker 1: bass hits there, you know, Eric Miller looking solid. I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is. They just can't figure out
Speaker 1: these openers, man. But then here comes Brian Bao for
Speaker 1: the next four innings. You know, minus giving up a run.
Speaker 1: I thought Bao looked really solid here today. Lots of sinkers,
Speaker 1: change ups, plenty of ground balls here today. He got
Speaker 1: guys to chase out of the zone quite a bit
Speaker 1: as well. Forty one percent chase rate today compared to
Speaker 1: a thirty two percent season average, so almost a ten
Speaker 1: percent increase. He threw a lot of first pitch strikes
Speaker 1: eighty percent today compared to sixty five percent on the year.
Speaker 1: He sat down the first four batters, but then Boltay
Speaker 1: had a double in the third, but then he got
Speaker 1: a couple of groundouts to follow that up. Tyler soda
Speaker 1: Strom with a triple in the fourth. He did score
Speaker 1: eventually on the ground out, but he got a couple
Speaker 1: more groundouts to work around it. Fifth inning, McNeil Wilson,
Speaker 1: they grounded out and then he struck out Boltay on
Speaker 1: a sinker. Anthony so Brian Bao, I thought looked really
Speaker 1: solid here today. He just continues to excel in this role.
Speaker 1: Six and the seventh inning, Tyrone Guerrero Giovanni Moran won
Speaker 1: two three innings, they look really solid. Also, some good
Speaker 1: defense here, Anthony Siegler making a nice play to his
Speaker 1: right at second base, thrown against his body over the
Speaker 1: first to get the out. So you know, overall, you
Speaker 1: know things up to this point, you were feeling pretty good.
Speaker 1: So let's we'll go back here to Garrett Wit locking Chapman.
Speaker 1: But let's talk about the offense now. Second inning, your
Speaker 1: down one nothing at this point, Wilson gets hit by
Speaker 1: a pitch Siegler with a base hit Duran. He ends
Speaker 1: up popping it out. I put this in my notes
Speaker 1: because that almost could have led to something. Wilson and McNeil.
Speaker 1: They ended up bumping into each other, so good for
Speaker 1: Wilson to hang on to that. But then Eli White
Speaker 1: following it up here with a base hit. So Eli
Speaker 1: White coming through for the first time as a Boston
Speaker 1: Red Sox, but anything passed the Red Sox, even if
Speaker 1: they're down four in the ninth had hit the other
Speaker 1: way for a base hit. Wilson coming around, Butler Will
Speaker 1: Crawley the second base is the one scores and the
Speaker 1: Red Sox have tied it. So that was a game
Speaker 1: tying base hit from Eli White there. Again, he had
Speaker 1: himself a pretty solid day. He went three for four
Speaker 1: on the day here today. After that, couldn't come up
Speaker 1: with anymore. In the fourth inning, Siegler dig it on
Speaker 1: with a walk, but then Jared Duran, who also did
Speaker 1: not have a good day here today, he grounds into
Speaker 1: a double play. So momentum right off the bat and
Speaker 1: just taking away Jaron Duran. Man. Again, we keep doing
Speaker 1: this thing where he looks really good a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks and then you start to notice the numbers. You're like,
Speaker 1: oh wow, look at this stretch. You know, he's looking
Speaker 1: really good over the last couple of weeks, and just
Speaker 1: the last couple of games here right struck out four
Speaker 1: times yesterday, double play here today. We'll even get to
Speaker 1: some defense later on with him. But yeah, Jaron Duran
Speaker 1: Man Man oh Man gets hot and then he just
Speaker 1: goes ice cold. Fifth ink, you're able to get a
Speaker 1: couple of here across Eli White laying down a bunt,
Speaker 1: beats out the throw from him over to first base.
Speaker 1: Eli White has sneaky speed. He's a little lank, a
Speaker 1: little more lanky, you know, Eli White. How tall is he?
Speaker 1: He's six foot two, so he's got but he's got
Speaker 1: this speed. He just kind of I don't know what's
Speaker 1: sneaky is not the right way to say it, but yeah,
Speaker 1: beats out the throw to first Jake Rogers of the
Speaker 1: base hit up the middle, and then so guard laying
Speaker 1: down a sack bunt, bad throw from JT. Gin The
Speaker 1: Red Sox taking advantage a little bit here. Let's take
Speaker 1: a listen, good funner too, showing a butt got it down.
Speaker 1: Play at the play thrown away and the run stars
Speaker 1: White dives in chaos on the basis, safe at second
Speaker 1: and third hand of two. Two times. That's it you've
Speaker 1: been begging for with this team. This is what they've
Speaker 1: been doing. It's what they do well, right, what did
Speaker 1: they do? And then WILLI or Bray who shortly after Yeah,
Speaker 1: not just lefties here recently Sway get a shot why
Speaker 1: the right? Phil Butler back it up and he makes
Speaker 1: the play, tagging up Rogers. He is in show guard
Speaker 1: down the third and the Red Sox and the league
Speaker 1: credits to Lawrence Butler out there making a pretty athletic
Speaker 1: play making the grab. Willier hit that one hundred three
Speaker 1: miles an hour. It looked like he had himself some
Speaker 1: extra bases, but Butler making a really solid play, but
Speaker 1: go ahead run scores makes it three to two. After
Speaker 1: that nothing in the next few innings again he locks
Speaker 1: it down to the six, so he ends up having
Speaker 1: a quality start. Brady Basso, Elvis Alvarado one, two, three
Speaker 1: eatings in the seventh, in the eighth, and then back
Speaker 1: to the bullpen here with the Red Sox Garrett Wedlock
Speaker 1: in the eighth. You know, listen, Wodlock, I think looked
Speaker 1: really good. He ended up striking out three guys in
Speaker 1: the inning, but unfortunately just a couple of mishaps. Here McNeil,
Speaker 1: he leads it off of the blue bass hit one
Speaker 1: thousandth hit of his career. By the way, he strikes
Speaker 1: out Boltay and Wilson nasty sliders down in a way,
Speaker 1: and then Jonah him he comes up a double over
Speaker 1: Duran's head. Now, they they shifted a little bit out there,
Speaker 1: so Duran was trying to make up some ground, ends
Speaker 1: up going over his head. It falls to the ground
Speaker 1: at one point during the play. So Duran, I know,
Speaker 1: he looked like he was a little out of position.
Speaker 1: I don't say out a position, but it looks like
Speaker 1: he was just shifted over a little bit. But in
Speaker 1: the end didn't work out. He made a jumping attempt
Speaker 1: went over his head. But the problem that I had
Speaker 1: here was he had him on an O two count.
Speaker 1: You had just struck out Bolta and Wilson with a
Speaker 1: good looking slider for both, why not go back to
Speaker 1: the slider? Here he went with a sinker up and away.
Speaker 1: It's like, why you just threw him three sinkers? Go
Speaker 1: with the slider again. He didn't even show him a slider.
Speaker 1: Didn't understand that. And I went to go check the
Speaker 1: numbers two and I'm thinking, Okay, maybe maybe he's had
Speaker 1: success against sliders not really hitting under two hundred against them,
Speaker 1: So I really didn't understand that. I did not like
Speaker 1: the pick sequence. It is what it is. But after
Speaker 1: that he strikes out Soda Strom on a slider, so
Speaker 1: again I didn't understand, didn't understand that that led that
Speaker 1: led to the game getting tied there at three. And
Speaker 1: then here comes Chapman in a non safe situation, gets
Speaker 1: a couple of flyouts, but then Alika Williams of the
Speaker 1: base hit chapman pickoff attempt. They had a leak of
Speaker 1: cot but Wilson bad throw into the outfield. Wilson, there's
Speaker 1: a there's I think a bug going through the clubhouse
Speaker 1: right now. He missed a couple of days Masa. He's
Speaker 1: also out, he's dealing with this, so I think there's
Speaker 1: something going around in the clubhouse right now. But Wilson
Speaker 1: still feels like he's getting himself fully together, right He
Speaker 1: said yesterday when he went back into the lineup that
Speaker 1: you know, still didn't feel fully there. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know, just today bad throw there, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Wilson not looking like that same old Wilson we've seen
Speaker 1: over the last month or so. But after that, so
Speaker 1: he's on second max months. He with a double off
Speaker 1: the monster, four to three game Chabin, It's just it's
Speaker 1: the command. This year, last year, this guy just as
Speaker 1: locked down as I've seen him for a while in
Speaker 1: his career. Right, you go back to the early earlier parts,
Speaker 1: going back to his days with the Reds. Obviously helped
Speaker 1: win the when the World Series with the Cubs, look
Speaker 1: really good with the Rangers too, had some bumps with
Speaker 1: the Yankees, of course, but last year, man, this guy
Speaker 1: was just on another level. This year, he still looks
Speaker 1: really good, but that command has definitely taken a hit.
Speaker 1: You saw it here, right, twenty three pitches, only twelve
Speaker 1: strikes coming into today, he had a three point nine
Speaker 1: walk per nine rate. Last year it was two point
Speaker 1: two per nine and even first pick strikes. This year
Speaker 1: he's had a sixty five percent for first pitch strikes.
Speaker 1: Last year is seventy percent. So I don't know whatever
Speaker 1: was working with him and Connor Wong last year, Hey,
Speaker 1: throw it, throw it right here, throw it right here.
Speaker 1: I don't know. They gotta get back to the lab.
Speaker 1: They gotta figure something out. Jabin has again he's looked
Speaker 1: really good. Obviously, the metrics still look very strong, but
Speaker 1: he's just not fully the same as what we saw
Speaker 1: he's felt, especially going back to when he got hurt,
Speaker 1: when he had the hamstring injury in Cleveland, right, you
Speaker 1: go back to the Rocky series. Yeah, he's still looked
Speaker 1: again very good since then, but there's definitely been some
Speaker 1: more bumps and you see it once again. And then
Speaker 1: you also consider the fact two a non saved situation
Speaker 1: here today. You know, pap Obama was even talking about
Speaker 1: it in the postgame show saying, it's just a different feel,
Speaker 1: you know for closers, especially guys that closers that have
Speaker 1: been doing it for a long time. It's a different mentality, right,
Speaker 1: It's don't have that same kind of adrenaline like you
Speaker 1: do when you got a one run lead, two run lead,
Speaker 1: you know. And I don't know, it's interesting. It's always
Speaker 1: been interesting to me. But the Red Sox they ended
Speaker 1: up coming back for trying to come back in the
Speaker 1: bottom of the ninth, Hogan Harrison Jones pinch hit comes
Speaker 1: in for Duran to pinch hit. Great move. He ends
Speaker 1: up getting a base hit. Eli White does strike out,
Speaker 1: but then Durbin he pinch hits for Rogers. He gets
Speaker 1: on with the walk, and then so garb with the
Speaker 1: ground ball to third base. Months he stumbled a little bit,
Speaker 1: but then he stepped on third for the fourth out,
Speaker 1: and then Seeddi lined out to left field to end
Speaker 1: the game. If there's a if there's a silver lining
Speaker 1: with that one. He did hit it really hard, one
Speaker 1: hundred two miles an hour off the bats, so Seti again,
Speaker 1: really rough day. Hopefully that's something that he can take
Speaker 1: into Toronto for tomorrow. Again, he hit it on the screws,
Speaker 1: look good, just hit it right at him. So hopefully
Speaker 1: that's something that can make him feel a little better
Speaker 1: going into Toronto. But final score here today Athletics win
Speaker 1: four to three. Record falls to sixty four and fifty three.
Speaker 1: Taking a look at the current standings, The Yankees did
Speaker 1: lose here today. The Yankees did lose, Thank goodness. The
Speaker 1: Braves picked it up here today. Chris Sale, he got
Speaker 1: ejected before the start of the game. He was very
Speaker 1: grumpy over a bock call yesterday. I think he still
Speaker 1: felt a certain type of way about that. He was
Speaker 1: probably saying something to that umpire. So he ended up
Speaker 1: getting ejected. But the Brays found a way to win
Speaker 1: it here today. But taking a look at the wildcard again,
Speaker 1: you know, it's really obviously the Red Sox have just
Speaker 1: been amazing, of course obviously over the last month or so,
Speaker 1: so they're still very comfortably in the second spot. But
Speaker 1: we're shooting big here. We're going for that first wildcard,
Speaker 1: perhaps even the division. Actually, speaking of the division, what's
Speaker 1: going on with the Rays? I mean the Rays, they're
Speaker 1: putting together a bit of a win streak. E've won
Speaker 1: five in a row up to this point. So but hey,
Speaker 1: you still you could absolutely still keep your eyes on
Speaker 1: that division. You're six and a half out, but hey,
Speaker 1: right now, you know you're a game and a half
Speaker 1: behind the Yankees. So the first spot, first wildcard spot,
Speaker 1: that's big, right. You went to Yankee Stadium last year
Speaker 1: for three you'd love to get that first wildcard spot
Speaker 1: at least and then have a three game series in Boston.
Speaker 1: So but yeah, alrighty, let's get to the upcoming series here,
Speaker 1: shall we. All right, taking a look, so here are
Speaker 1: the pitching max shups. You got Sunny Gray going up
Speaker 1: against Jamison ty Own. He got recently picked up by
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays after he got defaed by the Cubs.
Speaker 1: Patrick Sandoval going Game two against Dylan Ce Dylan c
Speaker 1: Span He's picked great against the Red Sox this year,
Speaker 1: Ranger Suarez against the newest blue Jay, another new blue Jay,
Speaker 1: Jose Soriano, and then Peyton Totley going up against Max Schurzer.
Speaker 1: Felt like we were about to go up against Shrezer,
Speaker 1: like a couple of times this year that he got scratched.
Speaker 1: Was it one or two times? Can't fully remember, but
Speaker 1: let's see. Hey, you know Max Scherzer, one of the
Speaker 1: greatest pictures of all time going up against totally coming
Speaker 1: off a historic performance, striking out fourteen batters, third ever
Speaker 1: Red Sox rookie to strike out at least fourteen batters
Speaker 1: in a start. But uh Rainger Suarez, You're hoping for
Speaker 1: a little bit more out of him. He's just been
Speaker 1: kind of off since coming off the il, so hopefully
Speaker 1: he gets in do a bit of a groove. Patrick Sandoval,
Speaker 1: I felt looked solid for the most part. You're hoping
Speaker 1: he can find a way to go a little deeper.
Speaker 1: And then Suddy Gray, obviously he's looked like he's got
Speaker 1: himself back on track here over the last couple of starts.
Speaker 1: Taking a look at the chat. What have we got
Speaker 1: going on the chat ladies and gentlemen, what we got
Speaker 1: going on already? Yeah, Joe and the chat cease. He's
Speaker 1: been He's been very good. He is absolutely gonna get
Speaker 1: cy Young votes for sure. He's looked really good at
Speaker 1: you know, looking at how he's done. Just pulling up
Speaker 1: the numbers in the couple of starts he's had against
Speaker 1: the Red Sox. I mean, it was just a little
Speaker 1: bit ago. July twenty fifth, struck out twelve in Boston,
Speaker 1: had the complete game, one hitter, looked incredible. June sixteenth,
Speaker 1: five innings, four hits, he walked four, but no, aren't
Speaker 1: zero earned go? I mean yeah, he did have a
Speaker 1: bumpy start back in April against him five and two
Speaker 1: thirds seven hits, four earned. But the last two, I mean,
Speaker 1: especially last time in Boston, he looked incredible. Let's see
Speaker 1: if the Red Sox can figure out a way now.
Speaker 1: Jose Soriano, he's again. He was one of the big
Speaker 1: moves at the deadline looking at his last start. So
Speaker 1: this is his second start with the Blue Jays. He
Speaker 1: did okay. He went into the fifth inning against the Phillies,
Speaker 1: he went four and two thirds, four hits, one earned,
Speaker 1: struck out three, walked three. I like that move for
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays. That was a guy that's under control
Speaker 1: they're going to have for the next couple of years.
Speaker 1: He traded away Gosman, but you're bringing a cost control
Speaker 1: guy like that. I thought that was a really solid move.
Speaker 1: And then taking a look here going back to Sonny Gray,
Speaker 1: he looked very good in his last start, so he's
Speaker 1: going to be getting the nod for tomorrow. And uh yeah,
Speaker 1: you go back again to the last Toronto series. They
Speaker 1: knocked him around quite a bit. Ten hits, five earned,
Speaker 1: five innings, So let's see if you can come up
Speaker 1: with a different game plan. The breaking ball has looked
Speaker 1: a lot better over the last couple of outings. He
Speaker 1: went six innings last time against the White Sox, only
Speaker 1: lot three hits, eight strikeouts. But yeah, you look at
Speaker 1: that Toronto start and uh yeah, he got knocked around.
Speaker 1: So hey, let's see how this goes. And really quick
Speaker 1: looking at the Blue Jays lineup here, I mean, as
Speaker 1: of late, you know, Alejandro Kirk has been looking pretty
Speaker 1: good Andres Jimenez has been looking pretty good lately. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you got a lot of guys just having
Speaker 1: down years in this lineup, but I mean, hey, they
Speaker 1: showed up last time, right, especially against Gray, So let's
Speaker 1: see Swahara, Robbie, do you see a demotion in Duran's future?
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, listen, you know, how do I
Speaker 1: word this? Because I want to be I want to
Speaker 1: make sure I say this carefully. We were all wondering,
Speaker 1: right Brian Bao when he got sent down, like what
Speaker 1: that would do? Holy cal Like Jaron Duran, I don't
Speaker 1: even know how he would take that, you know, I
Speaker 1: feel like that would oh man, that would be a
Speaker 1: lot for him. The guy. Again, we have said this
Speaker 1: like a million times. He's had just a terrible overall year,
Speaker 1: but they have still found a way to keep him productive,
Speaker 1: if that makes sense. Again, like from an overall wins
Speaker 1: above replacement standpoint, he's breaking even basically he's at a zero,
Speaker 1: but you know he's still finding ways to drive in runs,
Speaker 1: still using his speed. But you know, you kind of
Speaker 1: just think at some point, especially if Roman comes back,
Speaker 1: if that playing time is going to get reduced. I
Speaker 1: feel like you're gonna see if Again, I don't want
Speaker 1: to sit here and say Roman's coming back. He probably
Speaker 1: probably is coming back, but I'm just proceeding with caution
Speaker 1: because he's just miss mixed so much time. So that's
Speaker 1: my mentality with Roman right now. But for me, I
Speaker 1: feel like, even when he comes back, Duran is probably
Speaker 1: just gonna be probably more off the bench right, coming
Speaker 1: off in pink shit appearances. You know, use him on
Speaker 1: the base pass or pink running spots like, and then
Speaker 1: he'll get it like a couple of starts, right. You know,
Speaker 1: they'll do the rotation. But you know, you look at
Speaker 1: how Mass has been hitting. Mass has been hitting great
Speaker 1: over the last I mean, I mean, geez, it's like
Speaker 1: over the last month, he's been just so good. And
Speaker 1: that just goes to show for a guy like him,
Speaker 1: what consistent playing time does for a guy. You know,
Speaker 1: Masa hitting two seventy three, he's got a seven forty
Speaker 1: seven OPS. But you go back over the last thirty days,
Speaker 1: he's hitting three thirteen ops, right near nine hundred. He's
Speaker 1: had an eight seventy four ops over that time. I
Speaker 1: don't see how you can play Duran over Roman or Maasa.
Speaker 1: I can't see it, especially because Duran he's also struggling
Speaker 1: very heavily against lefties too, So it's like, that's what
Speaker 1: I feel like is probably gonna end up happening. We'll see, though,
Speaker 1: you gotta let things shake out. How's first off, when
Speaker 1: is Roman coming back? Is he gonna come back? I
Speaker 1: don't know, looks like it could be heading that way,
Speaker 1: but again perceived with caution. But how's he gonna look
Speaker 1: when he comes back? Well, what's you know, what are
Speaker 1: we gonna be looking at? So I feel like to
Speaker 1: just answer the question, to make it short and sweet.
Speaker 1: I feel like you're probably Duran's playing time get slashed
Speaker 1: instead of him just getting straight up demoted and uh,
Speaker 1: because he still brings a lot of tools to the table.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Emily and the chat, Masa, he's incredible again,
Speaker 1: you know, Masa, you got to think about it from
Speaker 1: his point of view, just just you know, all the
Speaker 1: injuries that he's had a lot of inconsistencies, you know,
Speaker 1: and when he finally is healthy and he's able to
Speaker 1: play more often, that's a guy he just gets into
Speaker 1: a groove and you know, it's kind of it's almost
Speaker 1: like ranger, right, Ranger, a pros pro veteran of the game.
Speaker 1: If he ends up missing a couple of starts. It
Speaker 1: feels like it takes him a little bit to get
Speaker 1: himself right. Massa is the same way. You know, you
Speaker 1: saw it last year too, when he got what was
Speaker 1: it like fifty AB or fifty games or whatever it was,
Speaker 1: or fifty AB's what I can't remember, fifty AB's or
Speaker 1: hungred abs, something like that, where he started kind of
Speaker 1: getting himself right. He looked really good in September, and
Speaker 1: then same thing once he started being able to play
Speaker 1: more this year, he got himself going. It's so big man,
Speaker 1: just being able to see pitches, you know, having abs,
Speaker 1: it just means so much. We're always looking at the stats, right,
Speaker 1: you got to think about the human perspective too, Joe
Speaker 1: in the chat, one of our members, this team will
Speaker 1: be fine. A lot of the comments I've seen only
Speaker 1: focus on the today's game and not October. You know
Speaker 1: you're always gonna have the reactive comments. In a way,
Speaker 1: I'm almost like this, Please don't take me out of
Speaker 1: context with this. Please don't do it. But like in
Speaker 1: a way, it's like, I'm kinda could you turn this
Speaker 1: series loss into a positive here? Don't take me out
Speaker 1: of context. Obviously, I don't like losing games, but you know,
Speaker 1: they've just been winning so much. It's like, all right,
Speaker 1: let's like kind of get perspective here. You know, you
Speaker 1: feel like you're losing a little bit of energy, kind
Speaker 1: of get into a get a bit of a reset here,
Speaker 1: you know, and you're obviously going on the road now,
Speaker 1: so you know, it's like, I don't want to say
Speaker 1: it's like a wake up call, but you know, we'll
Speaker 1: be like, all right, okay, all right, we're seeing a
Speaker 1: couple of bumps here. Let's try and smooth some things
Speaker 1: out and then hopefully Addle comes back here soon and
Speaker 1: then hopefully Roman two. So yeah, you're gonna see the
Speaker 1: reactive comments everywhere. But also, Joe, you said here, we've
Speaker 1: made decent headroom, but taking care of injuries and resting
Speaker 1: is really important. Now, Yeah, you got to find a
Speaker 1: good balance, right because obviously you are shooting well, you're
Speaker 1: shooting for the division, but you are right there for
Speaker 1: the first wildcard spot. That's big. Got to go for that,
Speaker 1: especially with you know, the Yankees that last month or
Speaker 1: so have not been playing right. Obviously, take a look
Speaker 1: at how much how much we caught up to them,
Speaker 1: making up fifteen games, you gotta go get that first
Speaker 1: wildcard spot. You are right there. You have put yourself
Speaker 1: right back into that position. But yeah, that's gonna be
Speaker 1: big balancing injuries, playing time, not just for position players,
Speaker 1: but on the inning side of things too. Jake Bennett totally.
Speaker 1: You gotta worry about their innings. So there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot of things that come into play for the
Speaker 1: rest of this month and for September. So that's where
Speaker 1: you know, depending on how things are looking standings wise,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be opposed to seeing Arius getting a chance.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be opposed to even seeing Christian Campbell getting
Speaker 1: a chance. Christian Campbell, hitting like an absolute mad man
Speaker 1: over the last month or so, had another good game
Speaker 1: here today, So you know of that, whatever they gotta
Speaker 1: do to keep guys fresh, but to also keep as
Speaker 1: good of production as you can in the line of
Speaker 1: so there's gonna be a lot of balancing. I feel
Speaker 1: like over these next you know, six or seven weeks op,
Speaker 1: what's crazy, the Red Sox still have a losing record
Speaker 1: at home. I forgot about this. I forgot about this.
Speaker 1: You were so close. There is still that one blip
Speaker 1: on the radar. Yeah, you have thrusted yourself back into
Speaker 1: this postseason race. You're right there. Heck, you could even
Speaker 1: go for the division, but one blip, it's that freaking
Speaker 1: home record. Man, you gotta get that over five hundred, absolutely, Phoenix.
Speaker 1: As I've said, the bullpen needs a rotating door of
Speaker 1: triple A guys to help give some rest. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know that could also be it too. You know, you
Speaker 1: gotta think with Chatman, he never went on the il
Speaker 1: for the hamstring. That's a guy that basically was working
Speaker 1: through it. So I mean, man, even if, like even
Speaker 1: if there's some other opera, I don't know, if you
Speaker 1: got a three run game, and you know, could that
Speaker 1: be a time maybe someone else gets to save opportunity?
Speaker 1: If it it helps them kind of you know, give
Speaker 1: them another day of rest. You know, could you have
Speaker 1: a certain moment or two like that over the next
Speaker 1: six weeks or so? Right, Yeah, Matt in the chat too,
Speaker 1: you know Thursday night, I mean I even still feel that, right,
Speaker 1: I think we all still feel that. How just emotional
Speaker 1: of a game that was. I mean we're we were
Speaker 1: exhausted watching it. Could you imagine playing it? I mean,
Speaker 1: you don't realize because obviously they're all running on adrenaline
Speaker 1: that game and then and then obviously they take that
Speaker 1: momentum into the first game against the A's just completely
Speaker 1: blow them out. And then you just saw the last
Speaker 1: couple of days here, I feel like you just see
Speaker 1: some fatigue, you know. Op, trust me, you do not
Speaker 1: want me batting for Zaron Durant. I promise you. That,
Speaker 1: promise you that justin in the chat, I'm not worried
Speaker 1: about the series loss. Would have been nice to get
Speaker 1: ten series wins, but onto the next Yeah, that's kind
Speaker 1: of like in a way, like I'll take it like
Speaker 1: as a positive because it's like, all right, we can
Speaker 1: finally Like I love to win obviously, but you just
Speaker 1: felt like, man, you're going for like ten straight series
Speaker 1: wins here, It's like, all right, let's just get that
Speaker 1: out of our heads now, let's focus on what we
Speaker 1: got in front of us, right, if that makes sense. Again,
Speaker 1: I don't want to sound like a like, yay, we lost,
Speaker 1: Like that's not what I'm saying. So more so just
Speaker 1: you know, figure out what you guys got to do
Speaker 1: to kind of get yourself, you know a little bit
Speaker 1: more back on track, Like you say in the chat, Matt,
Speaker 1: you can't win them all. You can't win them all.
Speaker 1: What else we got here in the chat? What else
Speaker 1: we got? I want to thank everyone for coming out
Speaker 1: here today Sunday afternoon. Phoenix, better roadstats compared to Home. Uh,
Speaker 1: who are you talking about? I don't know who you're
Speaker 1: talking about. Smoke Dog playing a team seven times in
Speaker 1: fourteen games with two different streaks. It was a bad recipe.
Speaker 1: And that was another thing too. Right. We just saw
Speaker 1: the A's a little bit ago, you know, so I
Speaker 1: felt like they had a bit of a game plan
Speaker 1: obviously with the Red Sox, maybe a little bit of
Speaker 1: fatigue there. The A's were like, all right, you know what,
Speaker 1: let's go with this game. Playing here today compared to Sacramento, right, so, yay,
Speaker 1: it is what it is. Can't with them all, can't
Speaker 1: with them all? Everybody. I'm gonna get out of here.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep this short and sweet for the replay
Speaker 1: viewers and listen. I'm gonna go try and decompress a
Speaker 1: little bit. It has just been madness over the last week,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean just felt like yesterday was the
Speaker 1: trade deadline, right, obviously it was this past Monday. But
Speaker 1: it's been a really emotional week. You had the trade
Speaker 1: deadline Monday. That was crazy. All day. I was working
Speaker 1: all day, I was streaming for basically like ten eleven
Speaker 1: hours or whatever it was. I was exhausted. And then
Speaker 1: I recorded one more video after that doing the post games.
Speaker 1: After that we had that just the one of the
Speaker 1: best games I've ever seen against the White Sox. Like,
Speaker 1: it's just been a lot. So like it is a
Speaker 1: five o'clock on a Sunday evening, I'm gonna go decompress
Speaker 1: a little bit. I'm gonna man, I'm gonna go eat something.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go just relax for a little bit. Then
Speaker 1: we got Toronto. Got Toronto also game time for that
Speaker 1: that is seven oh seven Eastern time tomorrow, So we'll
Speaker 1: be here right around ten o'clock for tomorrow. But everybody,
Speaker 1: I'm out of here. Go enjoy the rest of your
Speaker 1: Sunday and we'll see tomorrow down the dout BA