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Speaker 1: What a weekend it has been.
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Speaker 5: I thought yesterday was a massive success from Ourtelgate, which
Speaker 5: had a great showing there even despite the doubleheader as
Speaker 5: a result of Friday's cancelation or postponement. And then they
Speaker 5: win two games against the Brewers, who have fifty nine
Speaker 5: at the top of the division. I think these this
Speaker 5: is a great way to go into the Al.
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Speaker 1: So Scott, we're here at Brave Bean Coffee again.
Speaker 4: We're hitting out gift cards yesterday, so if you got one,
Speaker 4: make sure you use it today. But what a roller
Speaker 4: coaster of a week. The beginning of the week, you
Speaker 4: get a ten RBI game.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 4: The rest of the series doesn't go well. You're down
Speaker 4: in the dumps. Everything looks like it's falling apart. Obviously
Speaker 4: doesn't need to be said, but Connor Griffin goes to
Speaker 4: the Il O'Neil Cruz still there, Spencer Horowitz there, Evan
Speaker 4: sisk Is on the io.
Speaker 1: Andy Rodriguez goes to the IL.
Speaker 5: On top of that too, Adam, and we haven't talked
Speaker 5: about this on air yet, but the Pirates made a
Speaker 5: big trade. There was long rumored that they were going
Speaker 5: to trade that number thirty four pick. They had a
Speaker 5: deep pull this year. And we'll get into the draft
Speaker 5: picks in a second, because yesterday was day one of
Speaker 5: the draft, rounds one through four.
Speaker 1: But they had to trade.
Speaker 5: They had to trade a pick think I think two
Speaker 5: hours before the draft started, so we knew it was coming,
Speaker 5: probably Friday night, and then it was rumored that Jacob
Speaker 5: Gonzalez was taken out of the game in Triple A
Speaker 5: Charlotte for the White Sox, a guy who was once
Speaker 5: a first round pick by the White Sox in twenty
Speaker 5: three out of Ole miss a decorated SEC shortstop, has
Speaker 5: struggled to start his career, but has broke out this
Speaker 5: year in a big way. They acquired him from the
Speaker 5: White Sox. And Brandon Eisert, a soft tossing lefty that
Speaker 5: Ben has always loved to acquire, and he's I think
Speaker 5: he also drafted him in a previous stop, so there's
Speaker 5: some familiarity there too. But number thirty four pick in
Speaker 5: Jaden Wood's front of the show, sad to see him gone.
Speaker 5: He goes to the White Sox, hope he gets an
Speaker 5: opportunity there. But how do you feel about this trade?
Speaker 5: Because I think it's growing on me.
Speaker 4: I'm good with it, and I know the internet was
Speaker 4: not okay with it. There was a lot of talk
Speaker 4: out there one I think by product of just where
Speaker 4: we're at right now, people overvalued that pick significantly. One
Speaker 4: draft picks while rarely traded in baseball. Just so you know,
Speaker 4: you can only trade a competitive balance pick. You cannot
Speaker 4: trade regular picks. It's unlike any other league. Okay, so
Speaker 4: there's one thing I saw people saying, like, oh, trade
Speaker 4: number five pick or whatever.
Speaker 1: Google it.
Speaker 4: You can't do it. Trade yeah, trade back, can't do it.
Speaker 4: You trade that pick for a source up which you needed. Okay,
Speaker 4: let's not forget about it. I know the bullpen was
Speaker 4: an issue, but you're not going anywhere without a consistent
Speaker 4: player over at that position, right. You need He's not
Speaker 4: gonna be a cornerstone obviously, but a guy with control,
Speaker 4: a guy who has some pedigree, who's had some success. Recently,
Speaker 4: we talked to some people in the White Sox organization
Speaker 4: who said they pretty much broke his swing down in
Speaker 4: the offseason going into Arizona Fall League and then moving
Speaker 4: forward this year, how he was relying a little bit
Speaker 4: too much on his back side. They got it solved
Speaker 4: and he's seen the success. So that shows he's able
Speaker 4: to make some type of adjustments. Good Glove can be
Speaker 4: a utility guy. Obviously, He's not taking Connor Griffin's position.
Speaker 1: No, but I think you might have your feature there
Speaker 1: basement here.
Speaker 5: I think that's the type of upside and that's the
Speaker 5: position that we've been lacking, and that's a conversation for
Speaker 5: next year. Like if Brandon Lao goes and gets a
Speaker 5: bag and free agency, which he will outside of Pittsburgh,
Speaker 5: you move Nikki g back to second.
Speaker 1: Base, and you got your third basement of Jack of Pitzels.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and a lefty bat and a lefty bat. So listen,
Speaker 4: I get people wanting more at this time, or a
Speaker 4: controllable reliever or somebody of a good quality.
Speaker 1: But maybe he just wasn't there right.
Speaker 4: And here here's what I say, FM picks like actually,
Speaker 4: like you you never know what that guy is going
Speaker 4: to be. I think what Jim Toby Sun was taken
Speaker 4: with that pick. Okay, good for him, Like you never
Speaker 4: know what these guys are going to be. And I
Speaker 4: think a lot of times, even us, we romanticize a
Speaker 4: lot of these picks and a lot of these guys
Speaker 4: that get drafted, and a lot of guys that have
Speaker 4: good weeks in minor league baseball and they ended up
Speaker 4: being nothing and they end up being trade pieces. I
Speaker 4: want people that are going to help out right now.
Speaker 4: I don't care who it is, as long as they're
Speaker 4: going to be on the major league ross. As long
Speaker 4: as they're one of the twenty six twenty seven guys
Speaker 4: that are here right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's all that matters.
Speaker 5: I think a lot of people overvalued what that pick
Speaker 5: would bring back, right, do I see? Do I have
Speaker 5: my concerns about Brandon Eiser? Yeah he he, I guess
Speaker 5: generates elite extension. But he still tops at eighty nine.
Speaker 5: So what is that eighty nine look like ninety two?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 5: And it makes you think is something really wrong with
Speaker 5: Evan Sisk?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 5: Is he gone? Is he out for the long term?
Speaker 5: That's what it looks like, because he seems to be
Speaker 5: the replacement for Evan Sisk.
Speaker 1: By the way, Iert made his debut with the Pirates yesterday.
Speaker 5: He came in through a third of an inning, two walks,
Speaker 5: but he got out.
Speaker 1: Got out of it, yeah, got out of it. No runs,
Speaker 1: It's all the trade already. We might have won the.
Speaker 5: Trade, all right. Good dolls here, no Murdoch here, Taxi squad.
Speaker 5: I think they get an extra roster spot on them.
Speaker 5: He was he was a twenty seventh man.
Speaker 4: Twenty seventh yeah, yeah, so he was activated jaking the
Speaker 4: dolls was activated.
Speaker 1: We didn't see him.
Speaker 4: No, He's gotten a lot of today either way, So listen,
Speaker 4: if you're asking me my initial thoughts, it's fine. Like again,
Speaker 4: somebody that's going to be here and help this team
Speaker 4: right now, I'm all for it. You could have told
Speaker 4: me anything that pick might not be in the major
Speaker 4: leagues or might never ever be in the major leagues.
Speaker 1: So I'm cool with it.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: Obviously a lot more needs to happen.
Speaker 5: Hey, Brandon Nice has already gotten out of an inning,
Speaker 5: has Landon Tolly had a plate appearance for the White Sox.
Speaker 4: And Tomy hasn't put on a jersey yet. So you
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. It's it's stuff like this. As
Speaker 4: long as we're doing stuff that moves this team forward
Speaker 4: and puts W's in the column, I'm all for it. Again,
Speaker 4: Like I just said, more stuff needs to happen sooner
Speaker 4: rather than later. We're at what July twelfth right now?
Speaker 4: August third is coming up around the corner. You cannot wait. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's a lot of I mean, obviously, you have my birthday.
Speaker 4: I know it's your birthday, and the trade deadline. We
Speaker 4: got five days here for the All Star break. You
Speaker 4: got Monday through Thursday. Yeah, and then you head to Cleveland.
Speaker 1: We'll be there by the way. Yeah, if you're in Cleveland,
Speaker 1: let us know.
Speaker 5: But yeah, it's today at noon, actually in a less
Speaker 5: than an hour a futures game. Go watch Edward Florentino
Speaker 5: and Seth Hernandez our guy Gus who's been helping us
Speaker 5: out on the video. So I got some cool footage
Speaker 5: of him. He's credentialed down in Philly, really really cool.
Speaker 5: But Adam, do you mind if I run through the
Speaker 5: draft picks real quick that we did. Yeah, absolutely, let's
Speaker 5: talk about it. Shout out where you could find all
Speaker 5: that breakdown stuff too. Yeah, the breakdown on banterboard. Jay
Speaker 5: and I have been doing some mock drafts this past week.
Speaker 5: We've broken down some prospects over the last two months
Speaker 5: that the Pirates could potentially draft. And with the fifth
Speaker 5: overall pick yesterday, it was rumored that Jackson Flora would
Speaker 5: be the pick.
Speaker 1: If he was there.
Speaker 5: He got taken forth, of course, by the Giants, so
Speaker 5: they went College Bat and that was rumored too that
Speaker 5: they'd go College Bat.
Speaker 1: I thought they would go Drew Burris, but.
Speaker 5: They went with Derek Curiole, who has really grown on
Speaker 5: me as a prospect.
Speaker 1: Because this is think of like a six to three
Speaker 1: Stephen Quan.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's exactly the comp that elite bat the ball skills,
Speaker 5: can stick up the middle, play good center field. I
Speaker 5: think he's a guy that's going to move quickly, and
Speaker 5: I think, you know, probably going to be slightly underslot
Speaker 5: there at five, able to save some money for some
Speaker 5: picks later. But I think it's a guy that's going
Speaker 5: to contribute at the big league level and quickly. He
Speaker 5: can play centerfield, he can play centerfield and that.
Speaker 4: And he plays with his hair on fire. This is
Speaker 4: a guy that goes really really hard. I think people
Speaker 4: are going to like him just from the character in
Speaker 4: the person that he is as well.
Speaker 5: And he's a relationship with Connor Griffin already. They were
Speaker 5: both recruited together to go to LSU and played on
Speaker 5: team MS together and stuff like that, so Connor had
Speaker 5: nothing but good things to say about him. Pick two
Speaker 5: was one that me and Jake talked about a lot
Speaker 5: as a pick that seemed like a pirate's pick. Aiden
Speaker 5: Ruiz is a high school shortstop out of New York
Speaker 5: Long Island. I believe he's committed to Vandy and probably
Speaker 5: the best glove in the class elite clove. I think
Speaker 5: he's young for the class metric, darling by every means
Speaker 5: of the word, but like he is a guy that
Speaker 5: has also got a lot of untapped potential with the bat.
Speaker 1: Kind of reminds me a wide sandfer. Yeah. His pedigree
Speaker 1: coming out of.
Speaker 5: High school is like this club for a short stuff,
Speaker 5: but look what he's done with the bat.
Speaker 1: Is this an overslought pick?
Speaker 4: I think so slightly okay, because a lot of people
Speaker 4: were surprised by Curial, not that he wasn't going to
Speaker 4: be taken maybe top ten, yeah, but they were surprised
Speaker 4: to him number five. What do you feel like was
Speaker 4: that more of a reach there? I mean, obviously you
Speaker 4: take the guys that you want.
Speaker 1: But no, you take the guys you want. I don't
Speaker 1: think so.
Speaker 5: I thought he would have gone like six through ten somewhere,
Speaker 5: but Burist that go till eight. I think so. The
Speaker 5: the rural reach was the Royals at six. I think
Speaker 5: took Zion Rose, who was like really mocked like in
Speaker 5: the late teens, early place out of Louisville. So I'm
Speaker 5: shocked that they passed on Burris for him. I think
Speaker 5: it was going to be between Curial and Burris, and
Speaker 5: it clearly like, uh, just the high floor that I
Speaker 5: think Derek brings.
Speaker 1: Okay, what else do we get? Second?
Speaker 5: Another second round pick, Chris Rembert second basement from Auburn.
Speaker 1: His dad's actually an area of Scotord Pirates. Okay, well
Speaker 1: there might be slightly underslot too, we'll see.
Speaker 5: But this is a guy that I think is your
Speaker 5: classic prototypical second base, but I think he could play
Speaker 5: left field and to pinch average arm strength. But another
Speaker 5: guy that has elite bat the ball get puts the
Speaker 5: ball on the ground a lot right now, So I
Speaker 5: think they're going to really focus on elevating the ball
Speaker 5: with him more. But I think another you know, sec
Speaker 5: high floor performer that will probably move quickly.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you to stay around nineteen million, nineteen.
Speaker 5: Point one million, so trading that thirty fourth pick, they
Speaker 5: could spread that out a.
Speaker 1: Little bit more.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it seems like the goals here to sign as
Speaker 4: many as possible, and being able to do that with
Speaker 4: that nineteen point one I tell.
Speaker 5: You what, they went more college heavy than they have
Speaker 5: in the past, and this is didn't know how Kevin
Speaker 5: Graves would attack that. He's now in charge of the draft.
Speaker 5: We saw Justin Horwitz past few years before he went
Speaker 5: to the Nationals. Didn't know how Graves would attack this draft,
Speaker 5: but college heavy guys that maybe will move quickly, and
Speaker 5: some high upside high school guys. The next pick, I
Speaker 5: really like a lot. Third round under right handed picture
Speaker 5: out of un see Jason DeCaro is only twenty years old.
Speaker 5: He reclass out of high school to go to U
Speaker 5: and see early and a New York arm six'. FIVE
Speaker 5: a lot of traits that scream this guy's going to
Speaker 5: succeed in The pirates.
Speaker 1: Organization good. Good any other picks we got? Here one
Speaker 1: more Pick Andrew.
Speaker 5: Giles Andrew giles not related To Brian, giles high school
Speaker 5: kid out outfielder From. Nevada this is a guy that's
Speaker 5: going that has some of the best raw power in
Speaker 5: the in the prep, scene especially for the prep. Outfielder
Speaker 5: so really excited about him, too BECAUSE i think he's
Speaker 5: a guy that's going to. Sign he seems excited and
Speaker 5: that might be slightly slightly overslought, Too so we'll.
Speaker 1: See love, That love, that and you Got day two.
Speaker 5: Today day, two rounds five through. Twenty i'm actually not
Speaker 5: going to the game Today i'll be heading.
Speaker 1: Back i'll be.
Speaker 5: Covering some stuff With jay for The bucko banner page
Speaker 5: on the, draft who will really dive into? It expecting
Speaker 5: to go overslot again today with the heights, guy maybe
Speaker 5: some high upside guy and then maybe get your your
Speaker 5: high performer college guys later on Like browns eight to,
Speaker 5: ten like where they what they did With Ducee corse
Speaker 5: And Jared jones last year and. Stuff so excited to
Speaker 5: see who they can get today and how they can
Speaker 5: round out the. Draft but OVERALL i would give it a. Beat,
Speaker 5: Okay i'll take you. One, Yeah i'll take a.
Speaker 1: B that's, Fine.
Speaker 4: Scott let's get into the weekend because it didn't get
Speaker 4: off to a great startle weird start On friday Night
Speaker 4: Country weekend here AT Pnc.
Speaker 1: Park game got.
Speaker 4: Delayed they said it's gonna get pushed back ten, minutes
Speaker 4: ends up getting pushed, back push, back and then.
Speaker 1: Postpone the rain was on and.
Speaker 4: Off it ended up not raining the rest of the,
Speaker 4: night but it was a little bit weird to begin.
Speaker 1: With you had fireworks days.
Speaker 5: Days, yeah fireworks in the broad, daylight which was pretty. Cool, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah it.
Speaker 4: Happened it happened for, Sure so, hey people got the,
Speaker 4: fireworks that's. Cool but, listen you go Into saturday, Doubleheader
Speaker 4: Bucko Banter, tailgate a big day for the. SEASON i,
Speaker 4: mean talk about a lot of pressure going into a
Speaker 4: weekend where we just talked about The Brave series not
Speaker 4: going your way when you could have definitely taken a.
Speaker 4: Series you put yourself in a position to do, it
Speaker 4: and you just couldn't come. Through and all the normal
Speaker 4: problems are still very very. Present and then you have
Speaker 4: a division, rival the first, Place Milwaukee brewers comes to,
Speaker 4: town and you handle, business yeah like you do it
Speaker 4: in a fashion that you usually. Don't the offense obviously
Speaker 4: shows Up game two not as, much but the pitching
Speaker 4: takes care Of it's got three to two. Victory and
Speaker 4: then In game one As Maryland, valdez this kid just
Speaker 4: continues to impress.
Speaker 5: Me ten home runs in twenty seven. GAMES i don't
Speaker 5: know many projects that have done.
Speaker 1: THAT i think eight RBIs in.
Speaker 4: DOUBLEHEADER i think the last one Was Jason Bay yeah
Speaker 4: to do that as. Well AND i don't know if
Speaker 4: the book's just not out on him. Yet he's got
Speaker 4: one hundred plus at bats now right around there around
Speaker 4: there eighty, maybe But i'm all for people not figuring
Speaker 4: it out at least for this.
Speaker 1: Season in maybe he's gonna have to make some.
Speaker 4: Adjustments, obviously there was a little bit of a stretch
Speaker 4: there where he's maybe getting a little bit of ahead
Speaker 4: of himself or not really picking up on the spin
Speaker 4: a little.
Speaker 1: Bit but this kid has, legit legit. Power.
Speaker 5: Scott, yeah LIKE i said, before outside of One Al,
Speaker 5: cruz probably the best raw power in this whole organization right.
Speaker 1: NOW i, mean you.
Speaker 5: Could look at a guy like A Tony blanco down In,
Speaker 5: greensborough but like as marilin DoD, as some of the
Speaker 5: best slug in this. Organization and it's been awesome to
Speaker 5: see what he's done over the past week or. So
Speaker 5: and he's really forcing the conversation Around Marcelo.
Speaker 1: Zuna we got a question.
Speaker 6: Here they're just one hundred plate, appearances ninety, abs ten
Speaker 6: hom er twenty SIX.
Speaker 1: Harv guys love.
Speaker 4: THAT i, mean this is just a godsend for what
Speaker 4: they need right. Now because you lose slug WITH Oneo,
Speaker 4: cruz you lose some slug With Connor. Griffin, Obviously Spencer
Speaker 4: horowitz is an on base. Machine you needed somebody to produce.
Speaker 4: Runs and like you, Mentioned Marcelo. Zuna, yeah missing poster
Speaker 4: right where he played the other day didn't go. Well
Speaker 4: it's just it's been an, overall really really bad trip
Speaker 4: here In pittsburgh for Marcel i'm interested to see how
Speaker 4: it goes in the next couple of. Weeks maybe he's
Speaker 4: saved just by product of. Injury, yeah but, again even with,
Speaker 4: injury he's still not.
Speaker 1: Playing.
Speaker 5: Yeah it makes you wonder what this roster looks like
Speaker 5: when fully, healthy because you definitely can't waste a roster
Speaker 5: spot with. Him and then you got The Tyler callahan
Speaker 5: conversation with acquiring another left handed utility bat And Jake.
Speaker 5: Gonzales it could look a lot, different, man it could
Speaker 5: look a lot. Different SO i will say the positive
Speaker 5: for me over the last two games, yesterday the bullpen
Speaker 5: holding that's been key run, games especially against The. Brewers
Speaker 5: haven't won many of, Those SO i think that's the
Speaker 5: positive to takeaway this weekend and something to you, know
Speaker 5: a positive to take into The All star break to
Speaker 5: get ready for the second.
Speaker 1: Half Braxet, Ashcraft Bubba.
Speaker 4: Chandler YESTERDAY i talked To Pat, murphy had an interesting
Speaker 4: story With Pat.
Speaker 1: Murphy it's a story for another.
Speaker 4: Day BUT i was able to sit in on the
Speaker 4: manager's meeting prior To friday's postponement, game AND i asked
Speaker 4: him about just you, know what's your impression Of Braxton
Speaker 4: ashcraft this year and then going into the. Series he,
Speaker 4: Said i'm sad that he's. Good it's what he. Said he,
Speaker 4: Said i'm sad that he's pitching so. Well this, kid he,
Speaker 4: said you could see it coming from last, Year like
Speaker 4: you knew he was going to be a, guy and
Speaker 4: it's nice to see him. Well once he got The
Speaker 4: All star GO i don't think he's going to pitch
Speaker 4: anymore because of the post bonement already going to be, replaced,
Speaker 4: Right so that, Sucks but at the same, time like
Speaker 4: it's nice to see that the league knows That Braxton
Speaker 4: ashcraft is a.
Speaker 5: Stud he's a front line. Guy, yeah five earned, yesterday
Speaker 5: BUT i thought he looked. Well just a couple of
Speaker 5: mistake pitches that's been the story for him when he's
Speaker 5: given up, runs, obviously but a guy that's probably one
Speaker 5: of the better stories for this team in the first.
Speaker 1: Half what About bubba what did you see from him?
Speaker 1: YESTERDAY i Thought bubba looked. Good THEN i thought he
Speaker 1: looked a lot better.
Speaker 5: Competitive you, know had some really good competitions against That
Speaker 5: brewers lineup that's pretty, solid and you, know he. BATTLED
Speaker 5: i JUST i think that's the main thing with, him
Speaker 5: that when the fastball command is, there the other stuff
Speaker 5: is going to work and and that's they gonna be
Speaker 5: the focus for him going into the second.
Speaker 1: Half it's always the same.
Speaker 4: Story you always feel confident When bubba's out there because
Speaker 4: stuff is so good and the fastball is so, good
Speaker 4: and as long as he's not gonna fall behind in,
Speaker 4: counts you're always going to feel pretty good about the
Speaker 4: product that you're getting out. There and interesting QUESTION i had,
Speaker 4: YESTERDAY i can't remember who asked, it but who's your
Speaker 4: number three guy right?
Speaker 1: Now? Scott if you like in a playoff? Rotation, yeah oh.
Speaker 4: MAN i mean obviously it's it's seems An.
Speaker 1: Ashcraft.
Speaker 4: Yeah and then you get a mix Of Bubba, Jones
Speaker 4: mitch is probably out of the.
Speaker 5: CONVERSATION i think it's a Ego jones and piggyback in
Speaker 5: probably OR i don't, know just see how he starts,
Speaker 5: off but it's Probably Jones, Majinski, Jones, Chandler, Yeah, Jones.
Speaker 5: YEAH i mean that's a difficult, question AND i thought
Speaker 5: that would be a lot easier one at the beginning
Speaker 5: of the. Season BUT i would probably Lean jones right. Now,
Speaker 5: Okay jones looked great the other.
Speaker 4: DAY i Think jones might be the GUY i might
Speaker 4: need to see a little bit more out of.
Speaker 1: HIM i, mean his last two starts has been.
Speaker 4: Solid, YEAH i think it's more so just let's see
Speaker 4: some consistency over a period of, time, RIGHT i, mean
Speaker 4: there's obviously going to be the limit throughout the, year
Speaker 4: and we'll see how that gets tinkered with as this
Speaker 4: team progresses and if they stay in the.
Speaker 1: Race but it's going to be an interesting, Month.
Speaker 4: SCOTT i think we're going to see some fresh faces
Speaker 4: here In, pittsburgh but the moves that they make are
Speaker 4: just going to be very, important very very very important
Speaker 4: to stay afloat. Here The marlins finally lost the, game,
Speaker 4: finally and and they're in a weird position, too where
Speaker 4: you know they're not going to sell the farm by any.
Speaker 4: Means they're going to make strategic, moves whether it's it's
Speaker 4: buying and selling a little bit in order to and
Speaker 4: maintain for the. Future but how could you not be
Speaker 4: somewhat in if you're The marlins right now and playing like.
Speaker 5: That i'll tell you, what, MAN i, mean it's NOT
Speaker 5: i know The brewers are ten and a half games
Speaker 5: above us right, now but besides, that like it's it's
Speaker 5: between two to four games between us and The cardinals And,
Speaker 5: Cubs and you, KNOW i JUST i can't it would
Speaker 5: Be i'd be shocked if The cardinals finish above us
Speaker 5: in the standing says, here we are a better. Team
Speaker 5: they've had a lot of first half, luck BUT i
Speaker 5: am shocked that they're six games above five hundred right.
Speaker 5: Now there's a lot of Good this wild card race
Speaker 5: is going to be, tight, man between The east and The,
Speaker 5: central and there are a lot of TEAMS i think
Speaker 5: over you, know overachieving right.
Speaker 1: Now where are we at right?
Speaker 5: Now we are fourth in The central wild? Card we, Are,
Speaker 5: yeah we're three games. Out The marlins And cardinals are
Speaker 5: ahead of. US i think we're a better team than
Speaker 5: both those.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 5: Now The cubs and The phillies are the two wild
Speaker 5: card teams as of right, now and we you, know
Speaker 5: we played well against The cubs for the most, part
Speaker 5: but The phillies we have not so just split with.
Speaker 4: THEM i, mean he did lose a series to The,
Speaker 4: marlins which isn't. Great you're going to see The cardinals
Speaker 4: a couple more times this, year so every game moving
Speaker 4: forward is, very very. Important there's no days off right,
Speaker 4: now which is awesome being A pirates fan going into
Speaker 4: What july, twelfth saying like this game matters a. Lot
Speaker 4: last year we were just thinking about this. Year, yeah
Speaker 4: what are we going to do with the?
Speaker 1: Deadline you? Know, yeah that was the big.
Speaker 5: Focus and obviously it's a focus of, this you, know midway,
Speaker 5: point but it's a different focus because we want to.
Speaker 5: Buy we want to add to this team now rather
Speaker 5: than for the, future so different. Focus it would be
Speaker 5: nice to go into the second half with fifty. Wins
Speaker 5: let's let's go get a sweep. Today we've Got Paul
Speaker 5: schemes on the, mound mix his last start of the second.
Speaker 5: HALF i think a break is going to be much
Speaker 5: needed for. Him he's going to go up Against Robert. Gasser, Mizerowski, yeah,
Speaker 5: no MIZ i actually Saw Robert gasser in the club
Speaker 5: yesterday AND i was. SURPRISED i didn't think he was
Speaker 5: in the big looks right, now SO i think that
Speaker 5: was a prettymeditated spot start there for him to give
Speaker 5: me some extra.
Speaker 1: BREAK i can't believe they're Ducking. Skins.
Speaker 4: Man, YEAH i now scares. Skeins he might. Be he might,
Speaker 4: be by the, way great, Guy, yeah great. Guy he's absolutely. Man,
Speaker 4: also it's so cool just seeing a guy like that
Speaker 4: so good and being able to be, Himself like we
Speaker 4: saw him on the field the other day On friday
Speaker 4: when there was no. Game he's out, there. Bro people
Speaker 4: are giving Him pokemon, Cards he's signing for. Everybody he very,
Speaker 4: personable talked about his glove with us that will have
Speaker 4: a video on pretty soon That i'm pumped. About just
Speaker 4: like a class act kind of. Guy and he throws
Speaker 4: one hundred and eighty five miles per.
Speaker 5: HOUR i don't want to glaze The brewers so much too,
Speaker 5: much but it's just incredible the way they've drafted and.
Speaker 5: Developed they are The cardinals of like a decade, ago
Speaker 5: The cardinals used to develop like. This you're in and you're,
Speaker 5: out AND i just it's like next man up with The,
Speaker 5: brewers AND i think there's no reason. Why And i've
Speaker 5: set it over and over. Again hirates can't be The.
Speaker 5: Brewers there's no reason they can't draft like. That this
Speaker 5: Was misrowski was a second round pick out Of Crowder Junior. College,
Speaker 5: yeah second round. PICK i mean he was a highly toubted,
Speaker 5: prospect a big arm in THE juco. World but like
Speaker 5: this wasn't number one, overall one one, pick, Right so you,
Speaker 5: know it is crazy to see all these guys that
Speaker 5: keep debuting from Like Louise laura is going to be
Speaker 5: probably when multiple Gold gloves just debuted with, THEM i mean.
Speaker 1: It's like a.
Speaker 5: Child, yeah it's an embarrassment of riches. Man they've got
Speaker 5: so much talent in that organization at every, level.
Speaker 4: At every single. Level that's why The central is always
Speaker 4: going to be tough for The pirates if you don't
Speaker 4: continue to make. Moves i've had a lot of people
Speaker 4: express frustration for the future this weekend because of just
Speaker 4: the product of the circumstances of where The pirates are
Speaker 4: at and the injuries and the question of buying or.
Speaker 4: Selling i'm telling you, This they're going to buy, right
Speaker 4: but a lot of people are concerned that they're seeing
Speaker 4: the best offense that they'll see in their lifetime with
Speaker 4: the pirates and then it might be a one year.
Speaker 1: Thing and what do you do with?
Speaker 4: That in, like how do you how do you stay
Speaker 4: around five hundred and convince people you got to go all. In,
Speaker 4: still it's it's a weird place to be. In you
Speaker 4: you might lose low next. Year you probably.
Speaker 5: Will you probably, will Probably Bill hearn coming back With
Speaker 5: Connor griffin one.
Speaker 4: Year you got one year one year o'neo. Cruz you
Speaker 4: know you have control. There it's just so it's a weird.
Speaker 4: Place obviously the slugger And Jared triolo is still going
Speaker 4: to be. There so you, know this team still they
Speaker 4: have some guys in the minor. Leagues now they've done
Speaker 4: a better job of collecting more offense instead of just
Speaker 4: being an arm, factory which by the, way they still.
Speaker 4: Are they still have a lot of good. Arms, again
Speaker 4: you just mentioned Seth ornandez at the top of the
Speaker 4: hour is.
Speaker 1: Going to be a top one hundred prospect in a year.
Speaker 4: Exactly Edward, florentino while not the best start to the,
Speaker 4: year is still a top one hundred guy as. Well
Speaker 4: So i'm interested to. See, yeah and that's that's good
Speaker 4: for The. BUCKOS i think a lot of these guys
Speaker 4: are probably gon to finish it Out tuna this, year
Speaker 4: and they're gonna have a lot of interesting conversations With rule.
Speaker 1: Five guys as.
Speaker 4: Well but you look all the way from top to,
Speaker 4: bottom and they have they have, Guys AND i know
Speaker 4: pirates fans are sick of hearing that in terms of like, prospects, prospects,
Speaker 4: prospects And i'm personally sick of hearing it as, well
Speaker 4: Because i'm at the point WHERE i don't care what
Speaker 4: people do three four years from now as long as
Speaker 4: it helps.
Speaker 5: Now so you developed those you developed those, guys you
Speaker 5: build that deep system to be able to cash in
Speaker 5: at the big league.
Speaker 1: Levels and we talked exactly exactly, coaches. Coaches, yeah we've
Speaker 1: talked about that with.
Speaker 5: Coaches it's awesome to see the catching grows, Going, yeah every.
Speaker 5: Level Like Easton carmichael's a guy they took in a
Speaker 5: third round last year To Oklahoma national, Champion Cullege World series, Champion,
Speaker 5: oklahoma and look at, him man, like he's one of
Speaker 5: the best catching prospects in baseball right. Now and this
Speaker 5: is a guy like even if you see him as
Speaker 5: a part of your, FUTURE i don't know who the
Speaker 5: future catcher is of this, organization if It's, endy if
Speaker 5: it's if It's, easton or if it's one of the other,
Speaker 5: guys but, like that's a guy that you could use
Speaker 5: to get a really interesting piece for the big big.
Speaker 5: Team not saying that they're going to trade Easy. Carmack
Speaker 5: i'm just using that as an, example and that's from
Speaker 5: their draft class last, year which was really.
Speaker 4: Solid you finally have the depth to do, It you
Speaker 4: have moves to, make AND i think there needs to
Speaker 4: be a little bit of a philosophy, switch not totally
Speaker 4: because again you're still a small market, team but there
Speaker 4: needs to be a little bit of a switch Of,
Speaker 4: okay we know we can develop and we can. Draft
Speaker 4: now now it's time to use that, ability that strength
Speaker 4: to our advantage in order to help the big league.
Speaker 4: Club everything matters just for the big league. Club everything
Speaker 4: that you do matters for the big league. Club it's
Speaker 4: not about building the best, single a, double a high
Speaker 4: a whatever team that you want to. Build it's about
Speaker 4: what you could do here In, pittsburgh down on The North,
Speaker 4: shore and you finally put yourself in a position where
Speaker 4: you have the assets to help contribute to a good.
Speaker 5: Run it's the now that you need to focus. On
Speaker 5: that's WHY i really was bothered By donnie's comments the
Speaker 5: other day about why, he you, know didn't bring In
Speaker 5: montgomery in that certain situation with and Pitch Dennis santana
Speaker 5: against the lefty heavy top of the. Line it's just, like,
Speaker 5: well that would have Taken monty out for the weekend
Speaker 5: or like part of the. Weekend i'm, like that's, brother
Speaker 5: that's that's tomorrow's, problem.
Speaker 1: RIGHT i want to know you got to win.
Speaker 5: Today and you, KNOW i think that's that's should be
Speaker 5: the mantra in all facets of running a baseball, organization,
Speaker 5: Right like when we're talking about the draft and we're
Speaker 5: talking about you just talked, about you, know improving the
Speaker 5: big league, team you gotta you gotta worry about the now,
Speaker 5: man and uh not like what the team is going
Speaker 5: to look like in twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: Nine side, note going back to The Pat murphy. CONVERSATION
Speaker 4: i don't THINK i told you about. This somebody randomly
Speaker 4: asked them, like, hey how do you go about your?
Speaker 4: Lineups WHICH i thought was like an interesting question for, like,
Speaker 4: yeah we're almost at The All star, break and it's
Speaker 4: Like brewers reporters and, like how do you make your?
Speaker 1: Lineups?
Speaker 4: Back, interesting he, GOES i usually make them the night
Speaker 4: before AND i send them out to the guys the night.
Speaker 4: BEFORE i usually don't release it to the, public but he's,
Speaker 4: LIKE i like to know where guys are in the
Speaker 4: lineup and they have a good understanding, Before, LIKE i
Speaker 4: think it's. IMPORTANT i just thought that was an interesting
Speaker 4: take again on like how they run over, there and
Speaker 4: and the trust that they have in, guys and and how.
Speaker 1: They just go about their business on a day to day.
Speaker 4: Basis, again just just a little bit of a side
Speaker 4: not that popped up Into.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, Absolutely AND i also want to just clarify
Speaker 5: WHEN i say you don't want to worry about your
Speaker 5: roster in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Nine you can do.
Speaker 5: Both, yeah but the main focus should be winning at
Speaker 5: the big league.
Speaker 1: Level so, see but you got something for, Us.
Speaker 6: Yeah we got a we got a comment here going
Speaker 6: back to adding to the team kind of focusing on
Speaker 6: trying to win.
Speaker 1: Games, now what about adding a lefty. STARTER i don't hate, That,
Speaker 1: NO i think there's a need for.
Speaker 4: It, Obviously Mitch keller is not good right. Now, yeah
Speaker 4: and that that might need a. Spot they that that's
Speaker 4: probably a spot you need to address in the rotation left,
Speaker 4: hand give yourself a little bit of diversity in that.
Speaker 5: Rotation isn't it crazy that at this point you you
Speaker 5: just asked a question to me earlier about the, uh
Speaker 5: what would be the top three in the? Postseason Mitch
Speaker 5: keller is the very loust. Option, yeah, well didn't see that,
Speaker 5: COMING i guess at the beginning of the. Season and
Speaker 5: just it's interesting Conversation i've heard with people around the,
Speaker 5: league like people in other front, offices other.
Speaker 1: Teams don't really Value Mitch keller that.
Speaker 5: High he's been very consistent for a lot of his,
Speaker 5: career especially the past two. Seasons is a guy that
Speaker 5: can go out there and get you quality. Starts maybe
Speaker 5: not going to miss the most, bats but the guy
Speaker 5: that could be a solid rotation.
Speaker 1: Starter it's just crazy To i've not heard.
Speaker 5: A positive note On Mitch keller from another person in another.
Speaker 4: Organization, yeah it's really interesting to think about because, here
Speaker 4: like you, mentioned innings mean a, lot especially in this,
Speaker 4: rotation and going into this, season we thought one of
Speaker 4: the biggest acquisitions or the biggest keeps Was Mitch keller
Speaker 4: that you were able to do what you did this
Speaker 4: offseason without offloading that contract because, Again Baba, chandler, young,
Speaker 4: Inexperienced Jared jones on an any Limit Rax snashcraft throwing
Speaker 4: the most innings he's ever, Had, right you Got Paul
Speaker 4: skiins who definitely needs a bit of a break. Here
Speaker 4: you need a guy like that to throw six or
Speaker 4: seven innings and go into game and be able to
Speaker 4: give the bullpen a day. Off and we Seen mitch
Speaker 4: do that on occasion this, year but it really hasn't
Speaker 4: been The Mitch keller that we've been used. To AND i,
Speaker 4: know second Half Mitch keller is much different and there's
Speaker 4: been that, issue but first Half Mitch keller has just
Speaker 4: not been that guy that you want to be your.
Speaker 1: Workhorse, NO i, know and it's.
Speaker 5: CRAZY a friend of mine at The Red sox literally
Speaker 5: told me that they Valued oviedo more Than Mitch. Keller
Speaker 5: he's not, thrown who's not. Thrown that's working out well for.
Speaker 5: Them but, yeah just interesting conversations Around Mitch. Keller and
Speaker 5: obviously we hope that This All star break is much
Speaker 5: needed rest for him and he can bounce back because
Speaker 5: this is a guy you? Need is this a guy
Speaker 5: that you've been your, workhorse the guy that gives you,
Speaker 5: innings and you need someone like that in your, rotation
Speaker 5: especially amongst all these young.
Speaker 4: Starters this could also be a statement game For Paul schemes,
Speaker 4: too going into the second. Half go out on a positive.
Speaker 4: Note not that he hasn't been pitching. WELL i think
Speaker 4: people are just so used to him dominating. Him he's been.
Speaker 4: Fine go out with a really good performance, today get
Speaker 4: that much needed break that you, need, recoup and then
Speaker 4: get ready to go to work in the second.
Speaker 5: HALF i, mean if we're gonna look at the positives
Speaker 5: from his last, start the average spin rate was up
Speaker 5: on the, fastball the numbers seem to be back to
Speaker 5: normal a little. Bit SO i do think fatigue is
Speaker 5: the main factor, here and it would be nice for
Speaker 5: him to go into the also break on a positive,
Speaker 5: note securing a sweep of The brewers and get that
Speaker 5: much needed rest THAT i think a lot of these guys.
Speaker 4: Need we're gonna have a show later tonight recapping the.
Speaker 4: Series you And jay will be nothing, though yeah nothing the.
Speaker 4: Preview maybe we just do kind of a first, HALF i,
Speaker 4: know first half is technically over with, now but first
Speaker 4: half of the season going into The Midsummer.
Speaker 5: Classic, Yeah state of The. Union state of The, union for.
Speaker 5: SURE i was just THINKING i didn't put together the
Speaker 5: pictures notes for next. Series BUT i don't have to
Speaker 5: worry about. That so that's one last THING i.
Speaker 1: Had, no you got a, Week you got a.
Speaker 4: Week and then we'll be In, cleveland right like you mentioned,
Speaker 4: Earlier so we'll be there for This Saturday sunday game
Speaker 4: and then we're back In pittsburgh and then myself and
Speaker 4: Mister deebo will be In cincinnati For Friday. Saturday we'll
Speaker 4: come Back. Sunday so really excited about. That who's your
Speaker 4: home run derby pick before we?
Speaker 5: Go oh, Geez Kylee, Schwarber i'm Going Jackie, taggs baby
Speaker 5: The italian Saw Italian, Stallion Jack?
Speaker 1: Calanette? Here do you got? Teams anybody you know who's
Speaker 1: Gonna he was the last one To he was, hurt wasn't?
Speaker 5: He he said he was IN i think yesterday he
Speaker 5: was the last one to.
Speaker 6: Join, yeah so wouldn't that be something everyone's, like who
Speaker 6: knows if this guy's power signs?
Speaker 1: Hitting absolutely just make it signed for a lot less
Speaker 1: than he.
Speaker 5: Was when's the home Run? Derby what a? Storyline would it?
Speaker 5: Be even a better? Storyline Jackie, KAGGS i don't get
Speaker 5: out of.
Speaker 4: Here, No, no there's gonna be SOME i don't know
Speaker 4: how you do home cooking in the home Run, derby
Speaker 4: but it's gonna Be Wyne.
Speaker 5: HARPERSBER i feel like this is like The Gary Sanchez
Speaker 5: Aaron judge home Run derby In miami in.
Speaker 1: Seventeen you, know the two teammates and the home Run
Speaker 1: derby going back and forth.
Speaker 4: Battling they're going to be Serving shber meat, balls, DUDE
Speaker 4: i mean everybody can get meat balls in this, Thing.
Speaker 4: Jackie jackie. CAGs we'll get there before and. After there's
Speaker 4: some sauce on. That, hey we're gonna wrap it up here.
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Speaker 4: Here any closing remarks going into the final game before
Speaker 4: they all start.
Speaker 1: Breaking, NO i think let's go get a sweep of The.
Speaker 5: BREWERS i think it would what has been a frustrating
Speaker 5: couple of weeks as A pirates. FAN i think this
Speaker 5: would in the first half on a positive. Note As
Speaker 5: i've said many times, already this live and would get,
Speaker 5: us you, know hype for the second. Half these are meaningful, games,
Speaker 5: obviously they all are at this point of, season especially
Speaker 5: against a division.
Speaker 1: Rival so let's go get.
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