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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, The Pirates have a new bullpen.
Speaker 3: Let's go.
Speaker 1: The summary arts continues. I felt like an absolute crackhead
Speaker 1: all day, just itching for more, just scratching my neck.
Speaker 4: Where's more bullpen help? Where's more bullpen help?
Speaker 1: And then six o'clock rolls around and you get Kirbyates
Speaker 1: in lake Boker. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the show
Speaker 1: as always, Adam Shore, Scott Moore and Jay Staff Episode
Speaker 1: three ninety eight of Bucko Banter presented by Brave Bean
Speaker 1: Coffee Company.
Speaker 4: Boy Are, We're gonna have a lot.
Speaker 1: To talk about this week because you added the best
Speaker 1: reliever on the market. Mason Miller was noted out as expected.
Speaker 1: Luke Weaver is an absolute dog. We've been talking about
Speaker 1: Lake Balker on the show for a while now. You
Speaker 1: had him at the buzzer. Kirby Yates certified veteran. Okay,
Speaker 1: what's the strikeout rate this year?
Speaker 5: Like thirty percent something like that.
Speaker 1: Boys, it's a whole new game. It's a reason to
Speaker 1: be excited. Scott, Happy birthday, buddy.
Speaker 3: Thank you. I mean I think I was getting a
Speaker 3: little bit disappointed there at midday. I'm like, all right, Ben,
Speaker 3: you're not caring about my birthday whatsoever. You don't you
Speaker 3: only turn thirty two once in your life. And then
Speaker 3: he comes in at the buzzer and adds three arms
Speaker 3: to this bullpen. Guys, And when we were talking to
Speaker 3: the Marlins guys when they came into town, Lake Balker
Speaker 3: was a name that everyone mentioned, big vibes guy. I
Speaker 3: think he's gonna be a great addition to that bullpen
Speaker 3: with Johan Ramirez, another vibes guy. The bullpen got better.
Speaker 3: I think that's you know, it goes without saying. I
Speaker 3: would have loved to see them add another bat, but
Speaker 3: let's stick to the positives real quick. The bullpen got better.
Speaker 1: That was what you needed to do if you were
Speaker 1: gonna do anything. Obviously, people were talking about a right
Speaker 1: handed bat. We thought maybe Taylor Ward Tremmel didn't happen.
Speaker 1: That's okay, you're getting Spencer Horwitz back. You're hopefully getting
Speaker 1: Oneo Cruiz back. I know that doesn't necessarily solve the
Speaker 1: right handed hitter, lefty pitcher problem, but you're still adding
Speaker 1: weapons to the offense.
Speaker 4: You kept everybody on the major league roster, and.
Speaker 1: You just absolutely loaded up the back end of that
Speaker 1: bullpen with certainty stability. This is a this is a
Speaker 1: new ballgame. You're talking about how many games this team
Speaker 1: has blown this entire year, how many times we have
Speaker 1: been in the driver's seat, and then just the uncertainty
Speaker 1: of inning seven through nine have come to bite you
Speaker 1: in the ass, and now you just totally revamp it.
Speaker 1: I am just glad that they pinpointed the issue. They
Speaker 1: didn't give us the whole Hey, we like our internal options.
Speaker 1: We think guys could play better type of spiel that
Speaker 1: we usually get, and you went out and you did
Speaker 1: something about it. Let's start with Luke Weaver. Scott, this
Speaker 1: is a dude, this is an absolute guy. Talk about vibes, guys.
Speaker 1: One of the best personalities in baseball, also has pitched
Speaker 1: in some of the biggest moments in baseball. So not
Speaker 1: only are you getting a seasoned vet, somebody who reinvented
Speaker 1: their career after being a starter and John.
Speaker 3: Brown first round guy out of Florida State and didn't
Speaker 3: work out as starters. Now just a three pitch guy,
Speaker 3: mostly a two pitch guy. He goes forcing change and
Speaker 3: I'll mix in a cutter there, We'll get the fastball
Speaker 3: mid to high nineties. Just gets a ton of whiff
Speaker 3: on all these pitches and also limits walks and hard contact,
Speaker 3: like everything you need to get out at the end
Speaker 3: of the game. And you know, he's been one of
Speaker 3: the best closers in baseball this year. If you're talking
Speaker 3: about the best name outside of Mason Miller that was
Speaker 3: quote unquote available at the deadline, it was Luke Weaver,
Speaker 3: without a doubt, and they were able to get him
Speaker 3: for a package that I'm questioning, What does Ben have
Speaker 3: on David Stearns, because no disrespect for Sammy Sefira. Slam
Speaker 3: is Samy Sefior. He goes home and plays for his home,
Speaker 3: his childhood team, the New York Mets, which is pretty
Speaker 3: cool story. But we thought that the package was going
Speaker 3: to be a lot bigger, like Sammy would be a
Speaker 3: piece of that, but not the headline piece and the
Speaker 3: only piece. And on top of that, the Mets are
Speaker 3: paying most of his contract this year and next year.
Speaker 3: You get him for next year too, So interesting trade.
Speaker 3: I don't if they know something that we don't. I'd
Speaker 3: love to hear this because he's had a great year.
Speaker 3: One eight four ERA in forty four innings, pitch point
Speaker 3: eight two. Whip a guy. Look look at that whip. Guys.
Speaker 3: A big p for our bullpen has been walks and
Speaker 3: giving up free passes and and uh, you know, not
Speaker 3: being able to hold games. And I think this is
Speaker 3: a guy that definitely helps with that matter.
Speaker 5: Speaking of holding games late, by the way, I just
Speaker 5: want to point this out. Luke Weaver's been nails in
Speaker 5: leverage situations this ye. Opponents are slashing just one sixty three,
Speaker 5: two eighty eight, two seventy nine in leverage. Guess what, guys,
Speaker 5: only one home run given up in those situations as well.
Speaker 5: I feel like that's something we talked about on the
Speaker 5: Sunday episodes of the podcast. A lot is that when
Speaker 5: we get to these leverage situations or give it up
Speaker 5: long balls every once in a while with then of
Speaker 5: Santana and some of those people. So to be able
Speaker 5: to have a guy that's gonna like lock this down,
Speaker 5: limit the hard contact and then also keep just anything
Speaker 5: to a minimum at this point in the game is
Speaker 5: so huge for us guys.
Speaker 1: It looks like the return or who they're sending away
Speaker 1: for Boker is Brian Sanchez.
Speaker 3: Our trade last year.
Speaker 1: You ready for this one, You're not gonna like it.
Speaker 1: And this is a really good guy. Shout out to
Speaker 1: him for coming on the show Malt couple of times.
Speaker 1: Our guy Brandon Bedoir is going to the Marlins with
Speaker 1: Brian Sanchez.
Speaker 4: Looks like Hunkstung Lee as well. So a three man.
Speaker 3: Guy that did pretty Chase, a guy that did pretty
Speaker 3: well at the h you know, in in the Complex,
Speaker 3: and you got some time in Brainton this year. A
Speaker 3: name that was kind of under the radar coming out
Speaker 3: of the Pacific Rim who didn't sign for big money
Speaker 3: but perform nonetheless over three hundred batting average. That's a
Speaker 3: pretty good return for Lake Balker. But he's under control
Speaker 3: till twenty thirty guys, so.
Speaker 5: Gonna be honest, guys, I don't love giving up Brandon
Speaker 5: or giving up on Brandon Midoa that fast, but it
Speaker 5: is what it is. It's a guy that can help
Speaker 5: you now, and that's the bigger picture here. I think
Speaker 5: that that was gonna be the bigger picture regardless of
Speaker 5: who they gave up for anybody, to be honest, unless
Speaker 5: it was absolutely egregious, which we didn't see that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's uh wait, did Kyle Robinson get traded too?
Speaker 3: Oh? Did he guy we acquired for?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: Did we have Williams? What is the Kirby Yates return? Guys?
Speaker 3: Do does anyone have that intel? Because I'd love to
Speaker 3: talk about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, word on that as well.
Speaker 5: If you want to break some news to us, and
Speaker 5: then in the chat, go ahead, we'll pull your comments
Speaker 5: up on the up on the screen if you've got it.
Speaker 4: But is this the biggest overhaul we've seen in our lifetime?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean it has to be.
Speaker 3: I mean unless you're going back to the days of
Speaker 3: no audio when you brought in like guys like Ludwig,
Speaker 3: Marlon Byrd, Derek Lee.
Speaker 1: Different type of different type of overhaul. Right, But in
Speaker 1: terms of addressing a very very specific issue, and just
Speaker 1: changing over the sheets to something brand new. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is not even a recognizable bullpen anymore.
Speaker 3: No, it's a completely different bullpen for the better.
Speaker 1: What do you do with Carmen? What's Carmen's role here?
Speaker 1: I mean in the chat, let us know, what do
Speaker 1: you think? What does Carmen do? Because we just heard
Speaker 1: from Carmen when we were in Cincinnati how he wants
Speaker 1: to contribute more and throw more innings and play in
Speaker 1: more meaningful games. Now you just added some back end guys.
Speaker 1: You'd hope Carmen could be that guy as well. Does
Speaker 1: he get more spot start situations in order to relieve
Speaker 1: guys like Braxton Ashcraft, Bubba Chandler, Jared Jones who are
Speaker 1: going to be on innings limits, who are approaching career highs.
Speaker 1: It's an interesting situation here.
Speaker 5: Sure, I think he gets back to a piggyback spot. Honestly,
Speaker 5: maybe it's not fully spot starts, but just like a
Speaker 5: guy going what two three innings and Carmen follows him
Speaker 5: up after that, I think we're gonna see a lot
Speaker 5: more of that down the stretch here.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, I mean, you could you now
Speaker 3: have the flexibility to maybe go about a six man rotation,
Speaker 3: something that will help these young arms that are reaching
Speaker 3: their career highs and innings be crucial. So Brian Stanchez,
Speaker 3: by the way, too, has also had a decent year
Speaker 3: seven to seventy one ops three forty OBP.
Speaker 4: Part of the Bednard deal, part of the yeah, part
Speaker 4: of the bed and Arb deal.
Speaker 3: So that Lake Boker package is nothing to sneeze at,
Speaker 3: but a guy that we get under control that could
Speaker 3: be a part of this bullpen and a vibes guy
Speaker 3: in this clubhouse for the next couple of years.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty pumped. I'm excited because all we've talked about
Speaker 1: is just playing meaningful baseball down the stretch, and we
Speaker 1: know that this offense can carry this team, and you're hoping.
Speaker 4: That they get off the snide a little bit.
Speaker 1: They start to put up a little bit more runs,
Speaker 1: you get more production from Spencer Horwitz once he comes back. Obviously,
Speaker 1: losing Ryan O'Hearn sucks, but now you're looking at a
Speaker 1: closer and Luke Weaver, Mason Montgomery, Gregorrisoto, Karma, Maccinski, Lake Boker,
Speaker 1: kurb b eight, Milo Devall, Johann Ramiers plus Evan sisk
Speaker 1: every day. Evan is coming back to the mix, and
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be activated as soon as tomorrow.
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Speaker 4: Hey.
Speaker 5: By the way, guys, we're talking about the offense now.
Speaker 5: It's going to bring this up before we went into
Speaker 5: Luke Weaver. I think that even though maybe we didn't
Speaker 5: get the righty bats a calendar of the lefties we got,
Speaker 5: we're going to get a lefty bat back that's going
Speaker 5: to count the lefties. Because Oenilkruz was crushing lefties before
Speaker 5: you got hurt. That was kind of the one storyline
Speaker 5: with his game this year. I put up the numbers
Speaker 5: in the meantime one thirty five WRC plus against lefties
Speaker 5: this year and a one nineteen against righty's. So honestly,
Speaker 5: there alone could be a huge help on your lefties struggles.
Speaker 5: I honestly think that he's going to be easy to
Speaker 5: be massive for helping solve that problem.
Speaker 3: Uh, guys, some news here. Carmen is going to go
Speaker 3: to the bullpen because Mitch kell was just placed on
Speaker 3: the sixty day il with what just got the Pirates
Speaker 3: media email straight popped up on them. I was like,
Speaker 3: does I say Mitch Keller sixty day I l So.
Speaker 1: If you're tuning in, Mitch Keller is now going to
Speaker 1: the sixty day il per the Pirates directly in our
Speaker 1: inbox here as like they send out their everyday media updates.
Speaker 3: Is this a phantomstent?
Speaker 5: I was just wondering at myself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, gotta think so.
Speaker 4: Right, So Carmen's in the rotation.
Speaker 3: Carmen's back in the rotation. Congrats, buddy, You're back where
Speaker 3: you want to be, your home. Welcome home, Carmen.
Speaker 1: Let's break that down real quick, because you obviously knew
Speaker 1: that going into today. Yeah, do you think there? I'm
Speaker 1: interested to see what deals didn't work out first.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna speculate here real quick. I'm gonna go completely.
Speaker 3: They tried to move Mitch Keller today knowing that they
Speaker 3: were not going to continue with him in the rotation
Speaker 3: for the rest of and they weren't able to, so
Speaker 3: they're like going phantomil done he may be hurt, right,
Speaker 3: This is just me speculating.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Villo is down even more, the.
Speaker 3: Velo is down even more. He may be hurt, right.
Speaker 3: There are just signs that point towards him not being right.
Speaker 3: But if this team is serious, as they indicated by
Speaker 3: going out and getting a top arm in Luke Weaver,
Speaker 3: you can't run out Mitch Keller every five days because
Speaker 3: it's almost a knal. You just went up against the
Speaker 3: last place Reds and they were just teaming off on him.
Speaker 5: Since twenty twenty two, Keller's fastball vilo went from ninety
Speaker 5: five point six to ninety five point two, ninety four
Speaker 5: point five, ninety four point one, and this year ninety
Speaker 5: three point three. So there might be something there. But
Speaker 5: I don't know if that's just him getting innings on
Speaker 5: his arm too, because this is a guy that, like
Speaker 5: the one thing he does is just post right, So
Speaker 5: it could always just be fatigue, you never know, but
Speaker 5: something to keep an eye on there for sure.
Speaker 1: By the way, I mean, I know it's way past
Speaker 1: six o'clock now, but the Saint Louis Cardinals acquired left
Speaker 1: handed reliever Caleb Ferguson.
Speaker 3: A lot of Indivision trading. I don't know how I
Speaker 3: feel about that.
Speaker 1: But so, I mean, stuff can still happen. I'm interested
Speaker 1: to see they the arm. The starting rotation now becomes
Speaker 1: a little bit of an issue. I know Mitch hasn't
Speaker 1: been really contributing all that much that you'd like. There
Speaker 1: was a couple of starts that made you think maybe
Speaker 1: it was going in a different direction. But we're back
Speaker 1: to what we just were talking about earlier in the
Speaker 1: concern of covering innings for some of these young guys.
Speaker 1: I mean, people were talking about sending Braxton too the
Speaker 1: bullpen this year in order to save him from a
Speaker 1: career high. What do we do a wacrift season?
Speaker 3: It could be I would love that. I think Connor's
Speaker 3: earned it. But at the same time, I think you've
Speaker 3: you've given yourself more FLEI, which is what this team
Speaker 3: hasn't had through the first half of the season, and
Speaker 3: more they haven't had the flexibility to who's the next
Speaker 3: man up in terms of starters, right like it's Toner Barco,
Speaker 3: but they've been using them in a bullpen roll. And
Speaker 3: I think part of that is hurt him rather than
Speaker 3: helped him. Because I don't think he's suited for that
Speaker 3: type of role. Thomas Harrington isn't cutting it intriplayed as
Speaker 3: a guy that you would expect to take a step forward.
Speaker 3: Antoine Kelly is like maybe a guy that who started
Speaker 3: off slow and I thought looked really good in Cincinnati
Speaker 3: is a guy that maybe could take on that Ashcraft
Speaker 3: role of this year or pitch high leverage innings. But
Speaker 3: you don't want to expect that from a guy who's
Speaker 3: a rookie going into a playoff run here or a
Speaker 3: playoff push. So yeah, I think they've got more flexibility guys,
Speaker 3: I really do, And maybe like Lake Boker can give
Speaker 3: us more than one inning at a time, and Carmen
Speaker 3: could I think be more of a piggyback guy with
Speaker 3: like an Ashcraft or some of our young arms that
Speaker 3: are looking to preserve their innings for the last two months.
Speaker 3: So I think there's the general theme here is there's
Speaker 3: more flexibility. I'll leave it at that.
Speaker 5: Not sure what the injury still is for Christian Curtis,
Speaker 5: but is there any possibility that he's the next starter
Speaker 5: to when he comes back?
Speaker 3: Could be?
Speaker 1: I mean Christian was a killer man. Yeah he was awesome,
Speaker 1: but we still don't really know the status on that.
Speaker 1: Mitch Keller goes to the sixty day IL if you're
Speaker 1: just tuning in with a right arm Haaris major muscle
Speaker 1: injury and left handed pitcher Brandon Aiser, the iceman is
Speaker 1: back from Triple A.
Speaker 4: He was put on the taxi squad today.
Speaker 1: That move was going to be made. Is there somebody
Speaker 1: that you guys would have liked to see in terms
Speaker 1: of the offensive side get added to this roster? Because
Speaker 1: you still have the issue again, we'll go back to it.
Speaker 1: I don't want to stress too much because I'd like
Speaker 1: to try and keep it positive here and say, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: we're going into the House of Horrors what in thirty
Speaker 1: minutes to play the Brewers, And it's a huge series
Speaker 1: and his team needs some type of spark, But is
Speaker 1: there anybody that you would have liked to see them
Speaker 1: get at the deadline to maybe add a little bit
Speaker 1: more offensive firepower to this lineup? Jay, We'll start with you.
Speaker 5: So first off, man, before we made the lou Weaver trade,
Speaker 5: the first thing I did was text you that I
Speaker 5: was starting to panic a little bit just because all
Speaker 5: of the names were going off the board and the
Speaker 5: guy that I texted you that after he got traded
Speaker 5: was Taylor Ward, just because this is somebody that I
Speaker 5: feel like the parts have had interest in for like
Speaker 5: the last three to four seasons and just haven't pulled
Speaker 5: the trigger. Somebody that we've routinely floated around to. Somebody
Speaker 5: that can you know, slot in this lineup and at
Speaker 5: the time before ad slug but now just be a
Speaker 5: lefty killer that can get on base for you. So
Speaker 5: he was the one guy that stuck out to me.
Speaker 5: And then obviously if you got if you got luxurious
Speaker 5: there at the end getting get a catcher too. But
Speaker 5: obviously that seemed like a long shot because the catching
Speaker 5: market was pretty crazy and not a lot of people
Speaker 5: on the move. I mean, you saw Nick four test
Speaker 5: himself like what two first round picks himself, right, So
Speaker 5: it was going to be a tall ask if you
Speaker 5: went for a guy like Goodman or Rushman like Scott
Speaker 5: and I pitched on Banner cast on the Patreon.
Speaker 3: So I mean, I think Goodman was the dream pick,
Speaker 3: right sure. But I'm also I'm disappointed that we're going forward.
Speaker 3: You know, I want to mince my words a little bit,
Speaker 3: but I'm disappointed that we're going forward with more solo.
Speaker 3: Zoon is still on the roster. I do think it's
Speaker 3: a little bit of a whole one. I'd like some
Speaker 3: flexibility in terms of moving guys around Defensively, I'd like
Speaker 3: to spell Brandon Loud second base, have him d H
Speaker 3: and have Nikki g play second base where he's more comfortable,
Speaker 3: and and maybe put Jacob Gonzales and Trillo on the
Speaker 3: left side. Like it's there's still an issue there when
Speaker 3: it comes to right handed bats producing against left handed pitchers.
Speaker 3: We're facing one this week at least so far that's
Speaker 3: been scheduled. Change row and who who we've hit pretty
Speaker 3: well I think, or.
Speaker 1: Well enough, like one of the one guys that we have.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, that's still an issue. Guys, that's still
Speaker 3: an issue. And you know, you're kind of hoping that
Speaker 3: someone emerges, but who's that going to be? From Triple A.
Speaker 3: There's not really anyone knocking on the door right now
Speaker 3: in terms of offensive impact. By the way, Kyle Robinson
Speaker 3: is the only return for Kirbyates.
Speaker 1: Just Kyle Robinson, the right hand pitcher.
Speaker 3: He Jay correct me, you've seen him in Double A.
Speaker 3: He's had some decent outings. He's looked all right from
Speaker 3: Texas Tech.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I just saw him for the first
Speaker 5: time this last week and he looked pretty solid. But
Speaker 5: not really somebody going to lose sleepover losing, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this. I mean, I would have been
Speaker 1: okay with them dipping into the prospect pool maybe a
Speaker 1: little bit more in order to do maybe a riskier move.
Speaker 1: But I'm okay with this because you know, you already
Speaker 1: know the rhetoric that you're gonna get, right.
Speaker 4: They pinpointed an issue.
Speaker 1: They added what five arms in the past week in
Speaker 1: Doval Maranaccio, who is going to be a casualty most likely,
Speaker 1: But they also didn't leverage their future.
Speaker 4: That's the language that you're gonna get and that's fair.
Speaker 1: Like you didn't have to get rid of Edward Florentino
Speaker 1: obviously seth name and was untouchable. Murph Gray was one
Speaker 1: who everybody speculated could be moved as well. Sammy Stafford, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean shout out Sammy Sefford for having the best
Speaker 1: month and a half of any minor leaguer out there,
Speaker 1: because without that, this deal does not happen. I'm telling
Speaker 1: you that right now. There's absolutely no shot, no shot.
Speaker 1: The kids dealt with injuries. He really hasn't had any
Speaker 1: type of breakout until recently. I mean, there has to
Speaker 1: be some type of recency bias with the Mets here.
Speaker 1: I've talked to some people in the Mets organization or
Speaker 1: and some people that watch the Mets as.
Speaker 4: Well, and they're dumbfounded.
Speaker 1: At this boys. So it's very rare that you see
Speaker 1: a move where not only are the Pirates winning, but
Speaker 1: just in every aspect of the trade that they made
Speaker 1: the right thing by flipping key Brian Hayes into one
Speaker 1: of the best relievers in the game. Jackson Wolf is
Speaker 1: in the Casey Maiz trade. So hey, I mean, now
Speaker 1: we go right now, we don't give up. That's all
Speaker 1: we were asking for. We're talking about playing meaningful baseball
Speaker 1: and not wanting to give up, and wanting to be
Speaker 1: able to show up to the park and actually have
Speaker 1: something to root for. And it was starting to get
Speaker 1: a little bit more difficult, guys, it was starting to
Speaker 1: get a little bit more testy showing up to the
Speaker 1: park every single day and watching them lose games. This
Speaker 1: team has rarely been beat this year. They've lost a
Speaker 1: lot of games, they've rarely been beat and hopefully this
Speaker 1: is some type of exclamation point on what they've done
Speaker 1: so far and trying to capitalize on some type of
Speaker 1: build up going down the stretch. Here we have some
Speaker 1: people saying in the comments, Mitch hit the sixty day il.
Speaker 4: Yep, just touch on that.
Speaker 1: That's I mean, that's probably why they added Boker at
Speaker 1: the last minute, it right, So yeah, Hunter Goodman would
Speaker 1: have been cool.
Speaker 4: Taylor Ward would have been cool.
Speaker 1: I mean, these are not Goodman, but Ward would have
Speaker 1: been more of a platoon option. But like Jay mentioned,
Speaker 1: O'Neil Cruz, if you get him back healthy was hidden left,
Speaker 1: he's pretty well it's a big if. But you also
Speaker 1: got Horwitz back as well too, So Scott, anything else
Speaker 1: you'd like to add here, I mean, there was other guys.
Speaker 1: Some people had some really good deadlines. The Guardians had
Speaker 1: a really good deadline, dude.
Speaker 3: The Cubs had a really good deadline. Cubs basically re
Speaker 3: I just just reconstructed their roster and kudeos to them
Speaker 3: because they've they've needed it in terms of the pitching
Speaker 3: side especially. But yeah, that's that's definitely something to look
Speaker 3: out and I thought The Brewers had a good deadline too,
Speaker 3: getting Senzateela. They added Dustin made Jojo Romero, so they
Speaker 3: definitely bulked up the back end of that bullpen. And yeah,
Speaker 3: then All Central is gonna be tough. Guys, It's gonna
Speaker 3: be tight, and it starts tonight in Milwaukee, because you know,
Speaker 3: we're going up against the first place Brewers, and you
Speaker 3: gotta start off hot. I s I was hoping that
Speaker 3: they would have made that Taylor Ward trip. We got
Speaker 3: some some maybe some rumors that pushed our way that
Speaker 3: that Taylor War trade might be happening last night and didn't.
Speaker 3: I don't know what the offer was or if the
Speaker 3: parts even made an offer, but would have been nice
Speaker 3: to have him joined us in Milwaukee for today. But hey,
Speaker 3: we move forward. Reinforcements are coming back, Spencer Horwitz is here,
Speaker 3: O'Neill Cruz is coming back. Connor Griffin is coming back eventually.
Speaker 3: So there's some some things to look forward. You gotta
Speaker 3: keep our head above water and even more over the
Speaker 3: next month.
Speaker 5: I will say, guys, I textas Scott this right after
Speaker 5: the the right after it came out that it was
Speaker 5: just stuffer. I said, hear me out they're getting Goodman
Speaker 5: or some other big back slash arm if it's just
Speaker 5: to for they absolutely have the prospects to do it.
Speaker 5: And I was talking about how like with the with
Speaker 5: the nature of the market, I really if Sammy stefer
Speaker 5: And nets you the best closer on the market, I was,
Speaker 5: I just couldn't help. But wonder what why Sandford would
Speaker 5: have got you, right, because at least in our in
Speaker 5: our shoes, I'm Rivera maybe honestly, but I thought that
Speaker 5: Wyatt Sanford was a much better prospect than Sammy Stefera,
Speaker 5: And so I was just wondering, like what somebody like
Speaker 5: that could have got them if they tried to go
Speaker 5: all in, Like could that have got you more? Hone
Speaker 5: if he wasn't a Padre's guy, And they didn't they
Speaker 5: don't want the world for all of their people. But
Speaker 5: I don't know, just just some food for thought, I
Speaker 5: will if you wanted to go out there and you know,
Speaker 5: sell off a couple more pieces, what could you have gotten?
Speaker 3: I will say this too. Sorry guys, I've been posting
Speaker 3: the trade graphics here as we're as we're going here live,
Speaker 3: But my mood would have been a lot differently if
Speaker 3: we didn't make those two trades at the end of
Speaker 3: the day here because I feel like year seven, they
Speaker 3: owe this this fan base a little bit more, and
Speaker 3: I think they've they've kicked the can down the road,
Speaker 3: and there's been some self inflicted wounds here this year
Speaker 3: in terms of you know, slowing down and you know,
Speaker 3: maybe not being able to go on a run. Right.
Speaker 3: I think a lot of that stuff is self inflct
Speaker 3: did beating yourself and running the same people out there
Speaker 3: every day and expecting something different. So I am glad
Speaker 3: that they took the bullpen really seriously. I you know what,
Speaker 3: we can talk about it in the weeks ahead. I'm
Speaker 3: sure that this stuff will pop up. I do think
Speaker 3: they could have done more, but I am satisfied with
Speaker 3: adding three bullpen arms that I think are going to
Speaker 3: improve this the back end here moving forward.
Speaker 1: I want to add this because we talked about this
Speaker 1: on the Flagship Show on Sunday that released this morning,
Speaker 1: about happy and sad I see lights and whether or
Speaker 1: not on this Deadline show I'd be drinking a sad
Speaker 1: icyy light, which I did last year. I probably down
Speaker 1: three of them just in the course of twenty minutes.
Speaker 3: Little did you know we'd get talent Moss out.
Speaker 1: Of that, right, So, dude, I went quick, real quick.
Speaker 5: I went back and listened to the episode this morning
Speaker 5: whenever I was working out. Dude, it was so funny
Speaker 5: to look back in retrospect. We were talking about Billy
Speaker 5: Falter as though he was like the end of the world,
Speaker 5: and it was. It was so funny to just listen
Speaker 5: in on that. It was the best thing ever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a classic, And I can go back and
Speaker 1: eat my words. And Callen's become a good friend now
Speaker 1: and we really like him and and he's been an
Speaker 1: absolute dog And that's the beauty of the trade deadline.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: So, whether or not you're drinking a sad Icee lighter,
Speaker 1: a happy icy light, I think, you know, sometimes you
Speaker 1: have to let these things matriculate a little bit and
Speaker 1: let it play out. But right now, as we're looking
Speaker 1: at this team, it's not hey, we added to the
Speaker 1: Mighty League system for the future. It's we're doing something
Speaker 1: right now, and I think that warrants a happy icy
Speaker 1: light for today. Boys. So cheers to the bullpen, Cheers
Speaker 1: to the front office, Cheers to the Pittsburgh Pirates for
Speaker 1: at least allowing us to show up to the park
Speaker 1: every day in order to watch meaningful baseball. So I'm
Speaker 1: going to drink to that, and then we're going to
Speaker 1: work our absolute tails off for the rest of the
Speaker 1: season to keep bringing you content and hopefully meaningful content,
Speaker 1: because it's been a long time since we've being since
Speaker 1: we've been able to say that, since we can watch
Speaker 1: a game and even if they're down in the six
Speaker 1: or seventh inning, be confident that this team's going to
Speaker 1: score runs. Now it's time to put it all together.
Speaker 1: Now it's time to click right, the starting rotation, the bullpen,
Speaker 1: this high powered offense. It's time to get everything working
Speaker 1: on the same rotation. And we haven't had that yet.
Speaker 1: We haven't had everything click into place. But now's the time.
Speaker 3: So cheers, boys, cheers, cheers to that listen. We haddd
Speaker 3: some interesting arms today, as we've talked about throughout this
Speaker 3: Live Kirby Eate's fastball splitter Guy. That splitter misses a
Speaker 3: ton of bats although he sits in the low nineties
Speaker 3: fastball below. Wise, that splitter misses a ton of bats
Speaker 3: even at age thirty nine. And then you've got Lake Boker,
Speaker 3: who's fastball slider guy, and that slider's like four mile
Speaker 3: an hour difference from his fastball. Right fastball sittingety slider
Speaker 3: will sit in ninety ninety one. And then you got
Speaker 3: Luke Weaver. We already talked about the fastball change up combo,
Speaker 3: So a lot of interesting pitch mixes here. Guys are
Speaker 3: gonna come at you with two signature pitches and hopefully
Speaker 3: lock that up in the back end because you know
Speaker 3: these are guys this is where we've struggled, right, Gregory Soto,
Speaker 3: I think is better shooted as the sixth seventh inning
Speaker 3: a guy to get you to those guys rather than
Speaker 3: being the the head man at the back end. I
Speaker 3: will say this, we're talking about who's going to replace
Speaker 3: Mitch Keller. Could it be a mixture of Wilburd Hotel
Speaker 3: and Carlon Machinski. Just last last minute thought here as
Speaker 3: we close up, I really like Wilburd Hotel as a
Speaker 3: guy that could get some spot starts here at the
Speaker 3: end of the season, I think so.
Speaker 1: I think Christian Curtis could also play that rule if
Speaker 1: he's able to get back healthy. Yep, right, I need hope,
Speaker 1: so I hate to see him be a one done
Speaker 1: for this year.
Speaker 4: After that showing that we had in Cleveland.
Speaker 1: Going back to Barker quick expected batting average of two
Speaker 1: oh seven, which is awesome. The the wifth percentage, which
Speaker 1: you just hinted at eighty six percentile, and you know
Speaker 1: the hard hit rate is right around the middle, so
Speaker 1: really look, and then the breaking run value, the breaking
Speaker 1: ball run value is in the ninety fifth percentile. I'm excited.
Speaker 1: I'm excited, guys. I it was a nerve wracking day
Speaker 1: of me doom scrolling and just trying to get updates
Speaker 1: and I'm really really excited to see how this works out.
Speaker 1: If it doesn't work out, fine, at least we can
Speaker 1: say they did something to try and revamp it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it didn't mortgag Ine feuture to do it either,
Speaker 5: like they kind of were able to keep their guys.
Speaker 5: So if it doesn't work out, you can always look forward.
Speaker 5: And I mean some of those guys have control, right
Speaker 5: like Balker you said, has what three years attached to
Speaker 5: him too, So if it doesn't work out this year,
Speaker 5: you can always just you know, push it towards next
Speaker 5: year and use some of the guys that you didn't
Speaker 5: end up using today either in the lineup in Pittsburgh,
Speaker 5: in the rotation of Pittsburgh and the bullpen in Pittsburgh Pittsburgh,
Speaker 5: or use him as trade pieces in the future in
Speaker 5: the off season or something like that. To go go
Speaker 5: get some moart. Guys are gonna help you.
Speaker 1: Who are the I don't know if we talked about
Speaker 1: it on air yet, the the guys who are unfortunately
Speaker 1: not gonna be on the roster. I think Maranaccio is
Speaker 1: probably one of the first ones to go. Noah Murdoch,
Speaker 1: who is there right now, is likely to go. Carmen
Speaker 1: Macdjinski goes to the starting rotation.
Speaker 3: They've already been added to the fangrass shout out Jason Martinez,
Speaker 3: thro Ruster resource man. He's got some a late night
Speaker 3: ahead of him. But uh yeah, I would say, uh well,
Speaker 3: I shouts there on a taxi Squn, Murdoch and Marinaccio
Speaker 3: are the obvious ones. I think, I don't think, I
Speaker 3: don't we're not playing the option game here. I know
Speaker 3: Ron doesn't have options, but like I think you're keeping
Speaker 3: what broke hotel up there.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, he's also able to eat multiple winnings for you
Speaker 1: as well, so you get that, especially if you're gonna
Speaker 1: lose Karmen. Yeah, you still need a guy. I think
Speaker 1: Boker can be that guy as well, so that that
Speaker 1: definitely plays into it.
Speaker 4: But an interesting deadline, I think.
Speaker 1: Any before we close it out here, was there a
Speaker 1: rumor that really baffled you?
Speaker 4: I think for me it was the Henry Davis rumors.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just can't like they wanted to improve their
Speaker 3: offense behind the plate and also get a right handed bat,
Speaker 3: So Henry Davis the right hand bat, but like you
Speaker 3: already have a sub two hundred hitting catcher, Like, why
Speaker 3: do you want another one? I just it just didn't
Speaker 3: make a ton of sense to me. I know they're
Speaker 3: backup right now as Ali Sanchez, I believe because they
Speaker 3: have some injuries. But I didn't. I mean I would
Speaker 3: have done it as a Pirates fan, I would have
Speaker 3: done it, but I don't really understand that. And then
Speaker 3: Hunter Goodman too, Like it just seemed like I know,
Speaker 3: they asked for Franklin Arius for the Red Sox and
Speaker 3: they were asking for everyone's top prospects. I just like
Speaker 3: I heard there was discussions between the Pirates and Rockies,
Speaker 3: and I wasn't getting my hopes up because I just
Speaker 3: didn't think that Pirates would pull the trigger on that.
Speaker 3: I would have loved to see it, but I just
Speaker 3: didn't see it as being realistic.
Speaker 5: I don't have anything too crazy on top of that,
Speaker 5: just I guess just Taylor Ward again. Honestly, I was
Speaker 5: really getting hopes up that was going to be their
Speaker 5: one bat acquisition at the deadline. Obviously Catcher would have
Speaker 5: been a pipe dream, but it was always a pipe dream,
Speaker 5: I think for sure.
Speaker 1: All Right, So to recap it for everybody either tuning
Speaker 1: an houror that has been kind enough to stick with
Speaker 1: us for the past thirty minutes, the Pirates add at
Speaker 1: the deadline forgetting about Camilla Deval a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1: You add Luke Weaver, the best reliever in baseball this
Speaker 1: year outside of Mason Miller, who was not dealt. You
Speaker 1: had Kirby Yates, a veteran with a good strikeout rate,
Speaker 1: and you add Lake Boker. Am I missing anyone?
Speaker 3: That's it? Oh?
Speaker 1: Jacob Gonzales, Jacob Gonzalez and Ron Maranaccia, Brandon Eiser, Dice,
Speaker 1: Brandon Ier. Okay, you've done good. You've done good. Ben
Speaker 1: did it? Take a long time for us to get
Speaker 1: those results. Of course it did, but there is hope.
Speaker 1: So we asked you guys to stick with it, man,
Speaker 1: keep up the faith, because giving up at this point
Speaker 1: does nothing for this team, right, So show up to
Speaker 1: the park. You got meaningful baseball in Pittsburgh now, and
Speaker 1: this team has shown you that they're trying to go
Speaker 1: for it. They're trying to win some ballgames here and
Speaker 1: sometimes it takes a little bit with the deadline to
Speaker 1: try and make some moves. And I'm excited, boys, I'm
Speaker 1: really really excited.
Speaker 3: It starts tonight.
Speaker 1: Bellows starts tonight. We got a really big four game
Speaker 1: stretch in Milwaukee and then the Mets come to town.
Speaker 1: So talk about really facing your team right away. Luke
Speaker 1: Weaver burst the New York Mets. Every game means something,
Speaker 1: so really pumped just to get start. We're gonna watch
Speaker 1: the game tonight. We'll have you covered there. If you're
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Speaker 1: We're good. Hell yeah, Hey, here's the buckos. We got happy,
Speaker 1: icy lights flowing and until next time, hoist.
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Speaker 2: Best seats at the Pirates and they let me run
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: My time is like my money because I can't afford
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