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Speaker 1: We're back here with episode number thirty one, the Piazza

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Speaker 1: episode of the metsub podcast. I'm your coast Diraffneckmark Mark

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Speaker 1: Luiso here with James Sheiano Jeeter had no range. We're

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Speaker 1: going to talk about the Pittsburgh Pirates series, which was

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Speaker 1: I mean, like just not very good. That's about the

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Speaker 1: best way to explain it. We're playing the Pirates and

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Speaker 1: we split so there's not a whole lot of great

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Speaker 1: to take from there, but of course we're the positive

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Speaker 1: guys over here, so we'll figure out something also to

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Speaker 1: talk about that we got Kamar Rocker gifted to us

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Speaker 1: at the number ten spot. And normally you don't get

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Speaker 1: too hyped for draft picks. This is something that's been

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna talk about him, give him a brief

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Speaker 1: preview a little bit of the All Star break, what

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Speaker 1: happened with Francisco Alvarez yesterday in the Futures Game, and

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Speaker 1: I guess talk about the Pirates series it's upcoming two again.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's not a whole lot to talk about there.

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Speaker 2: I think we could do another short episode before the

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Speaker 1: That's honestly a very good point. That series is happening

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Speaker 1: Two really does help us out. Now to get James Ciano,

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Speaker 1: the co host, a little bit of his two cents, James,

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Speaker 1: how you doing, How you feeling doing great?

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Speaker 2: Nice Monday morning All Star Break. Get to kind of

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Speaker 2: ready for a big second half, just like the Mets,

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Speaker 2: who I feel like did something that we feared that

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Speaker 2: And we did find against those teams like we battled,

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Speaker 2: And the irony is that this is the first time

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Speaker 2: like fuck, we got Ridolfo Castro at this game. Ridolpho

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Speaker 1: We've been saying it. Loop there it is all year long.

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Speaker 1: Sucks tough loss, for sure, not how you want to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this was upsetting. I think this laws would have

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Speaker 1: Game one, we absolutely smacked the Pirates and that was

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Speaker 2: Them, smacked them, jumped all over them. Nimo had two

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Speaker 2: we started talking about trades, how many Mets fans want

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Speaker 1: He doesn't hit the ball hard. His defense is good,

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Speaker 2: It's the Adam Fraser takes go into like old baseball,

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Speaker 2: he sprays the ball, he be timely hitting, he knows

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Speaker 2: I was with the game on Saturday. One of my

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Speaker 2: friends who's not a Mets fan, he's like ah, pointed

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Speaker 2: out in Frasier that guys can be trolling the grounds

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Speaker 2: of City Field in a couple weeks.

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Speaker 1: You shut up, You shut your mouth. Don't you put

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Speaker 1: that on me.

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Speaker 2: Before we wrap up Game one, just quick Taiwan breakdown

438
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Speaker 2: because he definitely did not have it on Friday night.

439
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Speaker 2: From the jump, it was really bad. It seemed like

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Speaker 2: this was actually going to be the game where the

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Speaker 2: Mets needed a ten run inning to even just stick

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Speaker 2: with the Pirates because at the first inning I believe

443
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Speaker 2: was clean. I got to the ballpark late. I had

444
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Speaker 2: an issue with tickpck. Wow, the tickpick almost failed me.

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Speaker 2: It took an hour for the ticket to go for

446
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Speaker 2: my ticpicck to my ballpark app.

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Speaker 1: What the hell's tickpic.

448
00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:37,080
Speaker 2: It's a different ticket purchasing app. And I liked that

449
00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:39,440
Speaker 2: they bake all your fees in so there's no surprise costs.

450
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Speaker 2: I like that, but I have a really stupid brain

451
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Speaker 2: because I will take that over actual convenience and I

452
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Speaker 2: don't even know deliverance of my ticket. I was on

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Speaker 2: hold with them for like a half hour. I was

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Speaker 2: talking to the Mets, and the woman from the Mets goes, oh, yeah,

455
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Speaker 2: they're one of the worst services. We can't help me

456
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Speaker 2: if you purchase from them. I was like, all right,

457
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Speaker 2: thanks so much. So I was just sitting there refreshing

458
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Speaker 2: my ballpark gap and at like seven eighteen it finally went.

459
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Speaker 2: I was like, thank you. We walked in, missed the first,

460
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Speaker 2: sat down for the second. By the time I got

461
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Speaker 2: in there, it was second and third. Nobody out pirates

462
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Speaker 2: bombing the other coming up. And it was a marvel

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Speaker 2: that Taiwan got out of that jam in the second inning,

464
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Speaker 2: only giving up one run. It was a pleasure that JT.

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Speaker 2: Brubaker could just grind into a nice double play to

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Speaker 2: end a rally, but as a whole, Taiwan did not

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Speaker 2: look great. He didn't get one whiff on any of

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Speaker 2: his off speed pitches. None. None. His spin is still

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Speaker 2: down a little bit, but it's not an exorbitant amount.

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Speaker 2: And I went back and I checked his start by

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Speaker 2: start spin rate on those off speed pitches and it

472
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Speaker 2: really hasn't gone down a lot since the sticky stuff breakdown.

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Speaker 2: But he's not been able to miss bats with his

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Speaker 2: slither like he was before the season the sticky stuff breakdown.

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Speaker 2: That could be an arbitrary date. It could just be

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Speaker 2: a time in the season where he got cold, or

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Speaker 2: a time the season with the league may have caught

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Speaker 2: up to Taiwan because how hot he started and how

479
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Speaker 2: different he is as a pitcher right now. But now

480
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Speaker 2: where three of his last four starts a slider has

481
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Speaker 2: not had twenty percent with rate. Before this stretch, he

482
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Speaker 2: only had two starts like that all season.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so I mean, like, so something has happened. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And we've always talked about like Taiwan regressing back to

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Speaker 1: the mean of what he's gonna be as a pitcher.

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Speaker 1: First off, before we continue to Taiwan talking he's an

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Speaker 1: All Star. We got him to Denver, we got him

488
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Speaker 1: to Colorado, which is great. So congratulations to Taiwan Walker

489
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Speaker 1: very much deserves it. But we also know it's probably

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Speaker 1: unrealistic again for him to keep this up for a

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Speaker 1: full year. We know he's gonna come back to that

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Speaker 1: middle point at some point. That's what the numbers tell us.

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Speaker 1: Just like Lindora is starting to hit and McNeil is

494
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Speaker 1: starting to hit, Taiwan's gonna start to pitch a little

495
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Speaker 1: bit worse, as we've seen with Stroman recently, but he's

496
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Speaker 1: still so good for us, Like even at his worst,

497
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Speaker 1: this is a dude I want on the mound every

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Speaker 1: five days, absolutely, And.

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Speaker 2: He worked so hard on Friday night just to battle

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Speaker 2: through five innings without any ospeat stuff whatsoever. He was

501
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Speaker 2: just working the four seemer in the two seamer. He

502
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Speaker 2: was getting called strikes like he does. He was keeping

503
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Speaker 2: the ball on the ground, keeping the ball in the yard.

504
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Speaker 2: If this wasn't the Pirates, it could have been a

505
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Speaker 2: very different story. But Taiwan did what he had to do.

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Speaker 2: Like bulldog, like you always say, battle for us.

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Speaker 1: He battles. He is a bulldog. When he doesn't have it,

508
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Speaker 1: he still gets it done, and that's what he did

509
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Speaker 1: in Game one, which was a very very nice win.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe they even played that game after the

511
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Speaker 1: eighth inning, after the rain that we got, Like, I

512
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Speaker 1: don't know why Major League Baseball has this like weird

513
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Speaker 1: like prudence to calling games early in the rain when

514
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Speaker 1: there's literally a rule that protects games like this. It

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Speaker 1: made no sense to go out there and finish an inning.

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Speaker 2: You know what's even stupider about that, looking back, is

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Speaker 2: that we had to burn Nick Tropiano for those three

518
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Speaker 2: innings for no reason. If you didn't burn him, you

519
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Speaker 2: wouldn't have optioned him, and he could have pitched the

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Speaker 2: Jarediakoff innings on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Which I think was their plan originally. I think they

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Speaker 1: wanted Jared Iykoff or Nick Tropiano to pitch those innings

523
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Speaker 1: because from what it looks like, at least he's gives

524
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Speaker 1: us a better chance than Jared Ikoff.

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Speaker 2: The Pirates were hitting the ball over the ard against

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Speaker 2: Nick Tropiano like that did happen, but there were other

527
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Speaker 2: circumstances at play. I do think he's better than Jaredykoff garad.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to see Gerard and Queens anymore. But

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Speaker 1: you know what, that's game four problems. We're talking about.

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Speaker 1: Game one one we won. We hit big, Brandon Imo

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Speaker 1: a couple hits, Lindor the Grand Slam, Alonzo hit a

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Speaker 1: home run VR with a couple home runs. That was

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Speaker 1: the offense finally clicking together as a whole, from top

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Speaker 1: to bottom, with all the big guys doing what we

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Speaker 1: need them to. And we got our first Grand Slam

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Speaker 1: of the year two, which was nice, which leads us

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Speaker 1: to Game two now, which it started off hot. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Brandon Nemo, not known for his glove, what a frigging

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Speaker 1: play in center field.

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Speaker 2: Dude, that was the best catch I've ever seen in

541
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Speaker 2: the ballpark literally in my whole life. So if he

542
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Speaker 2: was pretty packed Saturday afternoon, like it was a gorgeous day,

543
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Speaker 2: double Heather against the Pirates. People are getting nice four

544
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Speaker 2: o'clock game in the city in before going out to

545
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Speaker 2: watch Connor McGregor, and the place jumped in the air

546
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Speaker 2: when brand Nemo caught that ball. It was pandemonium. It

547
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Speaker 2: was freaking nuts. And then he stayed hot immediately and

548
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Speaker 2: jumped on Tyler Anderson for a base hit in the

549
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Speaker 2: bottom of the inning, and Brandon Neimo has been hitting

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Speaker 2: very well, and I've wanted to do a breakdown of

551
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Speaker 2: brand Nemo to try and see what he was doing.

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Speaker 2: At first, I thought he was more aggressive, and then

553
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Speaker 2: I was like, maybe he's hitting the ball harder. Then

554
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Speaker 2: I was like, maybe he's being more selective. And I

555
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Speaker 2: looked through all of the statistics of Brandimo I possibly could.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what's happening differently with him. He's actually

557
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Speaker 2: hitting the ball less hard He's hitting more ground balls

558
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Speaker 2: this year, he has less barrels than he has had

559
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Speaker 2: in years past. He's not being particularly more selective. He's

560
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Speaker 2: not being more aggressive. He's hitting the ball harder when

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Speaker 2: he's in the middle of the plate. He's hitting the

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Speaker 2: ball harder when he's ahead in the count. But those

563
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Speaker 2: are the only discernible changes I can find brandonma I

564
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Speaker 2: think he's just good now.

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Speaker 1: But that could also be a huge difference maker. Like

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Speaker 1: we've talked about how like some guys have had troubles

567
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Speaker 1: hitting the ball down the middle, and specifically me, I say,

568
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Speaker 1: we never hit a hanging pitch or a picture's mistake.

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Speaker 1: Brandon Nemo seemingly hits all the mistakes and hits him

570
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Speaker 1: very hard. And when you are behind in the count,

571
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Speaker 1: you obviously are in the or ahead in the count,

572
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Speaker 1: you're in the driver's seat there you have the ability

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Speaker 1: to swing at your pitch. So I think it tells

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Speaker 1: you like a guy who we've known has an elite

575
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Speaker 1: pitch selection to begin with anyway, really seems to be

576
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Speaker 1: comfortable at the plate. Because when you're more aggressive ahead

577
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Speaker 1: in the count, that means you're getting your pitcher seeing

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Speaker 1: it and you're doing something with it.

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Speaker 2: But I'm saying he's not more agressive ahead of the coount.

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Speaker 2: I figured that he would have higher swing rates ahead

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Speaker 2: in the account. It's the same as he's had every

582
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Speaker 2: year of his career. Basically, it's like a negligible difference,

583
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Speaker 2: which is shocking because watching him, I feel like he's

584
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Speaker 2: swinging more and simply not true. And the one thing

585
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Speaker 2: is he's actually whiffing more. He's more willing to swing

586
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Speaker 2: and miss on a pitch. Is k raid has gone

587
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Speaker 2: back up to where it was in twenty nineteen compared

588
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Speaker 2: to how it droppedhim twenty twenty. His whiff rate is

589
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Speaker 2: higher than it's been a couple of years past. He

590
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Speaker 2: might just be more okay with whiffing now, less less

591
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Speaker 2: scared of the whiff, more comfortable hitting in all counts

592
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Speaker 2: because he's taken some hacks and he's really hitting well.

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Speaker 1: I mean, like he's a dude who gets on bas

594
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Speaker 1: so like the strikeout like specifically for him really doesn't

595
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Speaker 1: matter if he keeps getting on base like he does.

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Speaker 1: I'm so happy with him still, so like selling out

597
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Speaker 1: to get more out of his hits rather than trying

598
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Speaker 1: to just put the ball in play. Because he gets

599
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Speaker 1: on base, that's like, that's what he's there to do.

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Speaker 1: Anything else is extra, and he seems to be doing

601
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Speaker 1: that extra, especially this series.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, And this was all cool, But again, the

603
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Speaker 2: Mets offense jumped out, got a quick run the first

604
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Speaker 2: hitting off Tyler Anderson, and felt like and then we

605
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Speaker 2: just died for multiple winnings. Nothing happened at all.

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Speaker 1: Did you like Tyler Anderson? Is he one of the

607
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Speaker 1: Anderson's that you're okay with?

608
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Speaker 2: Yeah? I do like Tyler Anson. Tyler Ensen has something.

609
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Speaker 2: Him and Brubaker specifically have redeemable qualities on this Pirates'

610
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:48,919
Speaker 2: pitching staff, like they if they're not going to be

611
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Speaker 2: part of the next great Pirates rotation. They could definitely

612
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Speaker 2: fetch something decent in a trade, and.

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Speaker 1: He was a guy who in San Francisco last year

614
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Speaker 1: also had a like a little bit of a boost

615
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Speaker 1: to his career by going to save just go and

616
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Speaker 1: clearly they figured something out there, like they have with

617
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Speaker 1: Gosman and all their other pitchers. It still doesn't make

618
00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:08,280
Speaker 1: it okay. So we didn't hit him, and that that

619
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Speaker 1: was also a little bit more concerning that Stroman had

620
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 1: another not particularly great to start.

621
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Speaker 2: No it wasn't, but this was definitely a step in

622
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Speaker 2: the right direction compared to his last handful of starts.

623
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Speaker 2: Marcus Stroman has, similar to Tywan Walker, has struggled with

624
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Speaker 2: his breaking balls for a couple of weeks now and

625
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Speaker 2: you could connect any dots you want there that I'm

626
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Speaker 2: not going to. But this was the second highest wiff

627
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Speaker 2: rate and any started all year, forty one percent. He

628
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Speaker 2: had his slider and color both working for we felt

629
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Speaker 2: like the first time in a very long time. But

630
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Speaker 2: again for the game forty one percent with second most

631
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Speaker 2: is any start all year. He threw way less split

632
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Speaker 2: changes and way less sinkers in his last few times out,

633
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Speaker 2: which again shows me that there was a comfortability with

634
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Speaker 2: those those breakers that he hasn't had recently. He had

635
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Speaker 2: a good mix of ground balls too, rather around fifty percent.

636
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Speaker 2: He just gave up a lot of timely hits, Like

637
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Speaker 2: there were just a lot of balls that found holes

638
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Speaker 2: and the top of it all, off gave up a fucking

639
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 2: go ahead home run to Tyler God Damn Anderson, are

640
00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:05,679
Speaker 2: you kidding me?

641
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 1: Who maybe is one of the better hitters in this

642
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,120
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Pirates lineup outside of you know, like Brian Reynolds

643
00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:10,600
Speaker 1: and stuff.

644
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:12,280
Speaker 2: But he did hit. He did hit a nuke that

645
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:14,639
Speaker 2: was crushed. His home run was annihilated. Yeah, it was

646
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:16,040
Speaker 2: one hundred miles an hour off the bat, Like, it

647
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:17,639
Speaker 2: was not a cheap bo It went out to the

648
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:19,880
Speaker 2: Chick fil A sign in right center if anyone knows

649
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:23,360
Speaker 2: where that sign is. Like, that was a serious shot. Yeah,

650
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:24,760
Speaker 2: it was a poke. It was a little poke.

651
00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,320
Speaker 1: It's still stunk because it was, like, man like, coming

652
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 1: off that big, huge game in Game one, you really

653
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 1: thought that the Mets were gonna be able to stick

654
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:33,080
Speaker 1: it to the Pirates.

655
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 2: Especially off Nemo's catch to start the game, Like, damn,

656
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 2: I thought everyone's gonna ride after that, we score the

657
00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:42,000
Speaker 2: run immediately after that, like fuck oh, Brian Reynolds did

658
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:43,520
Speaker 2: get us back in the home run. That kind of

659
00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 2: put the nail on our coffin. After the Pirates bulp

660
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:47,640
Speaker 2: and held us down for a few winnings, mister Bednar

661
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 2: came in to split there. That made Pete Lonzo look

662
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 2: like a school child, Like that was unbelievable. I was

663
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,000
Speaker 2: sitting in the uh Pirates friends of family section for

664
00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:56,880
Speaker 2: this game, and I was hanging out with my friend

665
00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:00,439
Speaker 2: Ross who Bennar's his cousin, and Dave's girlfriend h Casey,

666
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,640
Speaker 2: lovely young woman. They were over the moon freaking out

667
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:06,880
Speaker 2: to watch like Dave Bennar in New York City strike

668
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:07,640
Speaker 2: out the Alonzo.

669
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:09,960
Speaker 1: Well, you also saw someone else at that game too

670
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:12,600
Speaker 1: that you were I mean like I've never seen you.

671
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:14,640
Speaker 1: I don't want to say visibly shaken because I didn't

672
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:18,119
Speaker 1: actually see you, but you were glowing after seeing a

673
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,639
Speaker 1: certain high school musical actress.

674
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 2: Yes I did. Being in the Pirates friends and family section,

675
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:27,199
Speaker 2: I figured that I was possibly going to see Vanessa

676
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 2: Hudgens and at some point this weekend. And if anyone

677
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 2: listeners don't know she's dating Cole Tucker, Cougar.

678
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 1: Good and Cole Tucker shout out to him. He like

679
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:36,919
Speaker 1: tweeted out like in high schools, like I will go

680
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 1: on a date with Vanessa Hudgens, and the dude made

681
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:41,880
Speaker 1: it happen. He's like six years younger than her. Two

682
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:42,440
Speaker 1: What a beast.

683
00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 2: Oh, I think he's probably more. I think she's in

684
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:46,359
Speaker 2: her thirties and he can't be old than twenty four

685
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 2: at this point.

686
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:48,159
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe I don't know.

687
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 2: But I was looking around just like second or third inning,

688
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,560
Speaker 2: and I peered right my friend Ross, same person I mentioned.

689
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 2: He was sitting two rows ahead of me, and he

690
00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:58,000
Speaker 2: was like I look and you pointed, which is hilarious.

691
00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:00,480
Speaker 2: It's just he's such like an idiot. He was drunk.

692
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:02,399
Speaker 2: He just points to Vanessa Hudges and she's just sitting

693
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 2: right there in like a white tank top and overall

694
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 2: big bougie sunglasses, having a mixer. And I was like,

695
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,080
Speaker 2: oh my god, it's Vanessa Hudgens. I couldn't even.

696
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: You tweeted about it at like two thirty in the

697
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: morning hours that did happened, and I looked at him like, damn,

698
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 1: James is like really like wow, he's starstruck.

699
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 2: I was. This was this was the first news I've

700
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,200
Speaker 2: ever seen in my life. For the first public news

701
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,160
Speaker 2: of my adolescence high school musical one and two. Watched

702
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 2: those movies to death because I had a little sister

703
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 2: who just put those movies on whenever there was free

704
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 2: time in our home. And I couldn't. I couldn't. I

705
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 2: couldn't even believe it. I didn't want to talk to

706
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:38,440
Speaker 2: her because I felt were doing that. My friend Ross said,

707
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 2: kid tried to talk to her like three times, and

708
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:41,880
Speaker 2: she just looked dead ahead every single time he tried

709
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 2: to make a joke. He kept walking in there at

710
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 2: her route, which is such a such a bad move.

711
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:47,440
Speaker 1: That's crazy.

712
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:50,439
Speaker 2: And since this was a double heather there and she

713
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:52,639
Speaker 2: was sitting pretty close to the aisle in section one

714
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 2: twenty one, there was a period of this game where

715
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 2: a lot of people were going up and down the

716
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,200
Speaker 2: aisles and there was like a group of like also

717
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,119
Speaker 2: seemingly Adelaie since probably like guys and girls, ages like

718
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 2: fourteen to sixteen, and they walked past Vanessa and one

719
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:07,399
Speaker 2: dude like when he got to the step above her

720
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,160
Speaker 2: was like, oh my god, and he like keeled over

721
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 2: and he like put his hand on his heart and

722
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:13,200
Speaker 2: like put two hands on his head, and she didn't

723
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 2: see He'd be like right behind her. He's look at

724
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:17,119
Speaker 2: his friends, and he was just kept mouthing, oh my god,

725
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,399
Speaker 2: oh my god. That was like, dude, I know it's crazy.

726
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,920
Speaker 2: Just right there. Ten attendant person too, beautiful, beautiful woman.

727
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:25,119
Speaker 2: Good for Cole, glad to hear.

728
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 1: Good for Cole Tucker. Not much of a player, but

729
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:27,880
Speaker 1: he seems like a good guy.

730
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 2: No if I could hit one fifty and Vanessa's Dave

731
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 2: Vanessa hutchins like wow. He also actually had that bat

732
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 2: in this game where he could have put it away

733
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:37,920
Speaker 2: before the Brian Reynolds home run. It was two on

734
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 2: two out in the fourth, fifth or sixth. Vanessa was

735
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 2: nowhere to be found. She was getting a drink.

736
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 1: She's got her priority straight. She's like, ah, cool, I'm

737
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 1: not gonna get a hit. What am I wasting my

738
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 1: time here for?

739
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 2: And Cole also made the bad play in the field

740
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 2: when Dave Bednar was on the mounds and it was

741
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 2: clear error. They get hometown scoring and they gave I

742
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,560
Speaker 2: think it was McNeil, it might have been Lindora at

743
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 2: base hit and she just shrugged.

744
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 1: She was like, whatever, I'm the breadwinner in this family. Anyway.

745
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 1: Lead just to game three here, which we won it.

746
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 1: There was a good one there. Finally, we love to

747
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 1: split double headers. It was just the opposite way of

748
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 1: how we've done it all year. And you knew for

749
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 1: sure once you lost the first game to double headed,

750
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 1: we're going to win the second. I had no doubt

751
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 1: in my mind, especially even just sitting there a couple

752
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 1: of beers. I was like, well, win this game, no

753
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 1: worries about it. This was the first time McGill looked

754
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 1: more thal in his quick stretch this season, which is

755
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 1: something I told everyone to be.

756
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 2: Aware of last podcast. It might have two episodes ago.

757
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 2: I remember the last time we go pitch when we

758
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 2: talked about but for the first time, it's to do

759
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 2: that fourteen fastball just was not fooling anybody know it

760
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 2: at all. Through it forty nine times, it counted for

761
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 2: fifty eight percent of his total pitches. The Pirates swung

762
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 2: twenty eight times. They had three whiffs, two hard hit

763
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 2: balls in play, and twenty foul balls.

764
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 1: Now, to pull something positive from that, I think that

765
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 1: twenty foul balls were hit is okay, because that means

766
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 1: that they still really couldn't figure it out. They would

767
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 1: have put the ball in play if they were figuring

768
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 1: out a little bit more. And you also have to

769
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: keep in mind that this Pirate's lineup is filled with

770
00:29:57,680 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 1: guys who still played baseball it gets the nineteen twenty,

771
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 1: So if they see a fastball, they're gonna fail it back.

772
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: The Pirates love a good like two and fault back

773
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 1: and then like hit a week ground ball to second base.

774
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 1: They live for that kind of baseball. So you have

775
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 1: to remember with the lineup that has Kevin Newman, Adam Fraser,

776
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:16,120
Speaker 1: Brian Reunds is good now but still same similar round, yes,

777
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 1: but like similar kind of player, and that like he

778
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 1: is still a contact first guy. Really, at the end

779
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 1: of the day, you can go through this lineup. It's

780
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 1: guys who are trying to just foul off pitches and

781
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 1: keep at bats alive. They love to go deep into

782
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 1: a at bat.

783
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 2: I want to hear this, Brian Reynds Land. They're sitting

784
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 2: at the ballpark for three games this weekend, actually sitting

785
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 2: pretty close to the field for three consecutive games. The

786
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 2: ball sounds different off Brian rounds bad.

787
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 1: Well, that's really good to hear, because I mean, like,

788
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:38,720
Speaker 1: obviously his numbers play for it this year, that he's

789
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:40,240
Speaker 1: having a really good year, which I'm happy about. I

790
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:42,479
Speaker 1: loved him in twenty nineteen, but we didn't know how

791
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 1: good it was gonna stick. Terrible twenty twenty. And I

792
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 1: saw him take VP in twenty twenty, right before the

793
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 1: pandemic happened and Pit at their spring trading place in Pittsburgh,

794
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 1: and I went, Wow, that's possibly the worst round of

795
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 1: BP I've ever seen. I was like, this guy can't

796
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:57,960
Speaker 1: hit the ball at all for any power. But something changed, as.

797
00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 2: You just noted, Yeah, I remember you telling me that

798
00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 2: he looks thicker, like he looks bigger in his like

799
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 2: lower body, like the guy guy's different legs, and he

800
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 2: had in twenty nineteen. I'm aware of that. But again,

801
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 2: this was a moment where you would have wished McGill

802
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 2: would have varied his pitch selection a little bit more

803
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 2: because he was chasing the fourth inning of this game,

804
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 2: and he was visibly upset. He really didn't want to

805
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 2: leave the mound. He knew the Mets needed length, because

806
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 2: it turns out we very much did because Seth Lugo

807
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 2: ended up coming in for two winnings shut the door perform. Yeah,

808
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 2: he was great, but him being unavailable did her this

809
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 2: on Sunday. The offense at least was decent in this game.

810
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,719
Speaker 2: I Vin four though, had three walks in his three

811
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 2: at bats, which is pretty confour though. Jeff McNeil two hits.

812
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 2: He's starting to really come around. I think he's hitting

813
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 2: over three hundred now since his return off the IL,

814
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 2: which is crazy because I think he started off over twelve. Yeah,

815
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 2: but he's looking good. Alonzo hit another home run. He's

816
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 2: doing the new guitar celebration, which is gonna We're gonna

817
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 2: see a lot tonight Monday night. If you guys listening

818
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 2: to it. This afternoon home run Derby his title.

819
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: Let's go, polar Bear. What do we think we think

820
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 1: Pete's gonna win it? What's your shot? Let's just go

821
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:56,720
Speaker 1: with the home run Derby prediction real quick.

822
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna win. There's no reason not, especially

823
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 2: in this like dumb little brack. Now he's got Salvador

824
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 2: Perez in the first round cupcake matchup, walking right through that.

825
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 2: It's funny that he won the last home run derby

826
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 2: because I feel like so much life has happened for

827
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 2: like everyone in the world since me, especially because I

828
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 2: was living Columbus still at the time, and I went

829
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 2: to this home run derby in Cleveland and watch Pete

830
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 2: take it on live. It was a joyous occasion. I

831
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 2: met Charlie Manuel that day, I met Rob Manfred that day.

832
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 2: But I think Pete's gonna take it.

833
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 1: The thing that I think is gonna make it tough

834
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 1: for Pete is that in twenty nineteen he was playing

835
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:26,600
Speaker 1: like ahead, so he didn't have to hit as many

836
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 1: home runs as possible. Right now, like his path, like,

837
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 1: he has to as many as home runs possible against

838
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 1: Salvador Perez, which is a shame because he's probably gonna

839
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 1: hit like twenty five and Salvador Perez is gonna hit

840
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 1: like ten, so it's gonna be an absolute waste of

841
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 1: home runs. And then in the next round, unless so

842
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 1: Tony loses to Juan Soto, he has to do the

843
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 1: same thing again. So he's playing from behind technically in

844
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 1: that like, he doesn't get to save any energy, which

845
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: I think could hurt in cores. But as we know,

846
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 1: Pete Alonzo, this dude's got a second gear in home

847
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 1: run derby's and they'll hit the ball or right field

848
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: for a home run if he needs it, which is

849
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: a big reason why he beat Flat Junior that year.

850
00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: So I want Pete to win it. I think he

851
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 1: has a very good shot. I'm still picking O'tani because

852
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 1: that dude's also just another animal, Like he's the best

853
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 1: athlete in this home run derby by far. I don't

854
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 1: know if he ever gets tired.

855
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe, I mean, it was funny that he's wasting

856
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:12,840
Speaker 2: so much effort in this home run derby when he's

857
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 2: been hitting and pitching for an entire season, plans to

858
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 2: do it for another half while the Angels are playing

859
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 2: better baseball. I'm taking Pete. I'm a homer.

860
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 1: Listen, Listen. I hope I'm wrong. Let's go Pete, Let's

861
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 1: go Polar Bear win the home run derby again.

862
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and that I think we're pretty much done. Game three.

863
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 2: DS has best ending of the year, which sounds much

864
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 2: worse to say after he blew the save on Sunday,

865
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 2: But he looked unbelievable. He was gassing one hundred. He

866
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 2: really gassed key Brian Hayes in that bad and Brian rerowns.

867
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 2: I think he faced either one two three and this

868
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 2: ord there were two three four. I think it was

869
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 2: one two three because Kevin Newman played that game instead

870
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 2: of Adda Frasier, and he struck out the sign in

871
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 2: ten pitches. I was really hoping for an Amaca Lenning,

872
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 2: but I think stupid key Kevin Newman got one foul ball.

873
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, because that's that's the only thing he's

874
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: there for. Kevin Newman hits some foul balls because boy

875
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 1: is he not a good hitter, except for that double

876
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 1: in Game four, which again was like the softest double

877
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: of all time.

878
00:33:57,800 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 2: Literally, then he makes the wall and he had annihilated

879
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 2: then I think it was a hundred on our fastball.

880
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 2: But before we close out, I want to get a

881
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 2: draft take from the Mets Toff podcast resident draft expert

882
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 2: our scout about mister Kamar Rocker, because Wow, did the

883
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 2: Mets have a coup?

884
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 1: Wowt at ten Kamar Rocker is probably the best pick

885
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:17,920
Speaker 1: of the draft. Honestly, I don't even think that's like

886
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 1: really me being a Homer or Mets bias. I think

887
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:23,879
Speaker 1: if you get a guy who is a consensus number

888
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 1: one overall pick before the season started. And while Kamar

889
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 1: had his troubles and trials and tribulations throughout the year.

890
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 1: You know that's expected for a pitcher as who you know,

891
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 1: throws like he does and such a big guy. But

892
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,359
Speaker 1: we got a dude who people thought for a year

893
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 1: plus was going to be the number one overall pick.

894
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:42,360
Speaker 1: He fell to ten because teams in Major League Baseball.

895
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: We got lucky the Mets. You tweeted it out that

896
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 1: how great is it that the Mets lost though meaningless

897
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:48,919
Speaker 1: series to the Nationals, which put us at the number

898
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 1: ten spot, which then allowed us to get Kamar Rocker,

899
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:54,320
Speaker 1: who people thought was going to be a generational talent

900
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 1: at the pitching spot. We got him at ten because

901
00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:00,320
Speaker 1: teams ahead of us were like legitimately bad teams, small

902
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: markets besides the Red Sox, who didn't want to pay

903
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 1: Kamar Rocker. Because we got him at ten, we're paying

904
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: him like he's a top five pick. But that don't

905
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: matter because Uncle Steve's got the money. So we'll unlock

906
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 1: the brinks truck for him right now. And even then,

907
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:13,840
Speaker 1: it's like a couple extra million dollars. I mean, the

908
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:15,920
Speaker 1: Pirates took Henry Davis at number one, who's a very

909
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 1: good player, by the way, but they took them because

910
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 1: they were trying to save money on their picks, which

911
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: is so ridiculously wrong.

912
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:23,840
Speaker 2: Same thing with the Orioles for the second year in

913
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 2: a row. We're taking an underslot player in the.

914
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 1: Top five, like Colton Kowser I talked about in the

915
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:31,760
Speaker 1: last episode. He's like a Christian Yelich like comparable player.

916
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 1: But they did it with Heston Kurstad the year before,

917
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,440
Speaker 1: which I did not like that pick one bit. Colton

918
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:38,879
Speaker 1: Kowser I'm okay with. But at five, like there were

919
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: Khalil Watson was there, Brady House was there. The Orioles

920
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,799
Speaker 1: need some they need some generational talent. I know they

921
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 1: got Adlie.

922
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:46,839
Speaker 2: I think Lawler was there as well.

923
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:49,959
Speaker 1: Yeah, Lawler was there too. Like they had a chance

924
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 1: to get some like big, big names, and they kind

925
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 1: of went I don't want to say safe, but they

926
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,319
Speaker 1: went a little underwhelming with Colton Kowser at five. But

927
00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:59,399
Speaker 1: that's kind of what happens in the MW draft. If

928
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 1: you have your guy, you only get one pick in

929
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 1: the first round to get him, and you don't want

930
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 1: to miss him, so I think that's what happened with

931
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:07,319
Speaker 1: Colton Kowser and the Orioles weird pick. But the Mets

932
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,840
Speaker 1: got Kamar Rocker. I mean, dude has a good fastball.

933
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 1: I think it needs some adjustments here. It does get

934
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: hit a little bit, but the slider of the curve

935
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:16,839
Speaker 1: ball change up. Like four really really good pitches coming

936
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 1: out of college. Cec Sabathia was on MLB Network talking

937
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,239
Speaker 1: about him. He loves Kamara Rocker. He thinks he's gonna

938
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: be a great pitcher. The Mets got a steal. Everyone

939
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 1: around baseball seemingly went, damn, this might be one you

940
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 1: look back on and go Met's got him at ten

941
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,320
Speaker 1: because teams didn't want to pay this guy an extra

942
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 1: one to two million dollars to sign him. Like it's nuts,

943
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 1: it's nuts that he fell this far. I really didn't think.

944
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:40,319
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was a legitimate chance. I thought

945
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 1: that there was maybe, but I thought someone was going

946
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 1: to jump on him, Like the Royals took this dude,

947
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 1: Frank Mazakato, who was like, yeah, a top fifty player again.

948
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 1: You go after the guys you want. But same thing,

949
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: like underslot value. That was the thing of the top

950
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 1: ten picks besides Jack Lider, and.

951
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 2: I feel like Kamar Rockers Shine has like warned just

952
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 2: because of his last two months for the worst of

953
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 2: his entire collegiate career, which I think fatigue could have

954
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 2: played into that, just possible game plans against him could

955
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 2: have played into that. But this is a guy who

956
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:12,400
Speaker 2: has won a college World Series championship. He was the

957
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 2: most outstanding player in that World Series. He's thrown a

958
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:16,879
Speaker 2: no hither, which with Masakado, I think was picked because

959
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 2: he had like this back to back with three consecutive

960
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 2: no hitters whatever it was and whatever division he played in.

961
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 2: Kamar Rockers Struck got three hundred and twenty one players

962
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 2: and two hundred and thirty innings in college. Like this

963
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 2: guy really has it all going on. He was perceived

964
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:30,759
Speaker 2: as generational just a short year ago like this. No

965
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 2: one thought this was even remotely possible that he would

966
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:34,839
Speaker 2: not only drop the Mets, but just dropped the tenth

967
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 2: overall pick. I tweeted this about a month and a

968
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 2: half ago, and people jumped down my throat for saying

969
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 2: I taught Kamara Rocker is gonna be there at ten.

970
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,399
Speaker 2: It just felt like he was the momentum was taking

971
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:45,439
Speaker 2: him way way down. And the second the Royals picked

972
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 2: Masakado because he was where that was where Rocker was

973
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 2: mocked over and over again, very consistent. That was a

974
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 2: spot two. Yeah, that was a spot where everyone put

975
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 2: in Rocker. Once that happened, it was smooth sale. And

976
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 2: we even had a shot to get Britdy House, one

977
00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 2: of your favorite players in this draft. Yeah.

978
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 1: But I once once Kamar was available attend, he was

979
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 1: my number one pick by far. Like he's there, you

980
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: gotta take him. What the Mets have been able to

981
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 1: do with pitching and now having Jeremy Hefner there and

982
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:09,839
Speaker 1: like just all the information that we have, I feel

983
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 1: like this guy's the limit for Kamar. I think we

984
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:13,759
Speaker 1: have an ace in the making and armed farm system. Now,

985
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: this this is huge. I mean he if it wasn't

986
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,800
Speaker 1: for Francisco Alvarez, he probably is the number one prospect

987
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 1: in the system.

988
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:20,839
Speaker 2: I was going to ask you right now to put

989
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 2: you on the on the spot for a second as

990
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:24,760
Speaker 2: we close out this episode that's longer than we expected

991
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 2: as usual, Where would you rank Kamar Rocker in the

992
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 2: Mets prospects too? Too?

993
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: I put him at two I think he's better than

994
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:34,400
Speaker 1: Matt Baby, and he's better than Baby.

995
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 2: I'm pretty close with Baty. I don't know, I kind

996
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 2: of like Baby too.

997
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 1: It's not even like a detriment to Brett Batty's game,

998
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 1: because Brett Batty, I think has surprised all of us,

999
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 1: like seemingly granted, you always talk about him bebing like

1000
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 1: thirty five years old, being the minor, so he should hit.

1001
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 1: But I think, at least for me, when I do

1002
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:50,920
Speaker 1: like my prospect rankings or rank prospects, I like to

1003
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 1: go off ceilings rather than what they currently are even

1004
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 1: and like MLB pipeline a lot of the times likes

1005
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:58,359
Speaker 1: to do like MLB readiness, which I hate. I think

1006
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:02,720
Speaker 1: that's so stupid, but I think ceiling is pop probably

1007
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:05,919
Speaker 1: the highest in the organization. Like Francisco Alvarez is sick,

1008
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 1: but again, he is still a catcher, so you know that,

1009
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 1: like at some point that might catch up and if

1010
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:11,840
Speaker 1: he is that good, they're gonna move him out of

1011
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 1: that position, which then like hurts his offensive value a

1012
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:16,440
Speaker 1: little bit, but he's still sick. Kamar Rocker has the

1013
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 1: chance to be an ace, absolute ace, like no doubt,

1014
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 1: and the Mets got him at ten. Once you get

1015
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 1: to like those like ten to fifteen picks and you're

1016
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 1: drafting pitchers, those aren't ACE spots anymore. That's where you

1017
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 1: saw a guy like Mike Pelfery get picked David Peterson.

1018
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 1: Those are guys that you think could be like middle

1019
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,399
Speaker 1: of your rotation, guys that you hope maybe you could

1020
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,839
Speaker 1: sculpt into a top end starter. But it's really hard

1021
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:40,239
Speaker 1: to get an ACE, a guaranteed ACE at that For

1022
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 1: the Mets we've talked about don't have a lot of

1023
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 1: next level pitchers. We have a lot of young guys.

1024
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:46,879
Speaker 1: We don't have those guys who are ready to crack

1025
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,279
Speaker 1: the majors in the next few years. It's amazing to

1026
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 1: get Kamar Rocker. It is.

1027
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 2: It probably gonna change the I think does change the

1028
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 2: complexion of our time minor league system.

1029
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 1: Percent.

1030
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's not that many MLB draft picks, especially from

1031
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 2: the tenth bought that like get an entire organization excited,

1032
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 2: maybe the people in the organization, but there was so

1033
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 2: much buzz last night around this Mets pick. It kind

1034
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 2: of made the loss wear away a little bit.

1035
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:11,320
Speaker 1: Oh one thousand percent people forgot about this, Yes.

1036
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 2: One hundred percent because we've got a guy who could

1037
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:15,319
Speaker 2: be an ace, a guy who just a year ago

1038
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:16,880
Speaker 2: was considered generational.

1039
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 1: I was literally out to dinner. I was giddy. I

1040
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:21,799
Speaker 1: couldn't stop looking at my phone. I was like, we

1041
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:23,600
Speaker 1: got Kamar Rocker. Like I was looking at my dad

1042
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 1: shaking my head. I'm like, we got him, we got

1043
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:29,280
Speaker 1: Kamara Rocker, Like Lighter's still ahead of him in my eyes.

1044
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 1: But that's one, A, one B. That's really what it

1045
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 1: came down to. There was legitimate conversation of who was better,

1046
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:36,520
Speaker 1: and we got one of those guys at ten at

1047
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 1: ten absolute steel. And then I think we also just

1048
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 1: a brief, little little talk about Francisco Alvarez. Bred Baty

1049
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:44,840
Speaker 1: played in the Futures Game and Francisco Alvarez hit a

1050
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:47,880
Speaker 1: home run, which is great because the last Mets guy

1051
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 1: to hit a home run in the Futures Game was

1052
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:51,839
Speaker 1: Pete Alonzo and what did he do. It turned out

1053
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 1: to be a pretty good player. So Francisco Alvarez, happy

1054
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 1: for him. He's a beast, he's so sick and as

1055
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:58,799
Speaker 1: you've been saying, oh you're long, keep an eye out

1056
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,280
Speaker 1: for him. He is going to fly through the prospect

1057
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:02,800
Speaker 1: rankings and this next like update.

1058
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:05,600
Speaker 2: I mean, Prospectives put out their new prospect ranking last week,

1059
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 2: but there's a paywall, so no, there's no buzz because

1060
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:09,920
Speaker 2: no one read it. Fanagrafts is gonna have their mid

1061
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:11,919
Speaker 2: season report come out soon, their new top one hundred,

1062
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:14,800
Speaker 2: probably new top two hundred. His floor is fifteen.

1063
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 1: Wow, that's that's how I was gonna say floor top

1064
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 1: twenty five. But that's that's high.

1065
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 2: Alvarez was eleven in Prospectus.

1066
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:20,839
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, that's really good.

1067
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think that there's a good chance Alvarez

1068
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 2: is somewhere between fifteen and seven, which is.

1069
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:27,240
Speaker 1: So sick for like a guy that has like really

1070
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 1: flown the last few years. He was, I believe, like

1071
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 1: not even top one hundred going into last year. So

1072
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool to see him fly.

1073
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 2: He was like on the board there. Keith Law actually

1074
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 2: all this shit that I give him because I don't

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00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 2: think he's very good at job. I think since he

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00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 2: writes for the Athletic and they don't have a ton

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00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 2: of people who go there for prospect information, they kind

1078
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 2: of request him to be click baby. He had Alvarez

1079
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 2: in the top thirty even going back a full year,

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00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 2: so he was the first one on Francisco Alvarez. And

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00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:51,719
Speaker 2: if you look at Alvarez, like he kind of looks

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00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 2: different than the other twenty year olds who are even

1083
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 2: the Futures givens. He is like a jaw, It's like

1084
00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:56,839
Speaker 2: he's a man.

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00:41:57,239 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, strong, strong, and I can't wait to see what

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00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:01,279
Speaker 1: he does the rest this year. Brett Betty also got

1087
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 1: the promotion to double a play in the Futures Game.

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00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 1: Don't know how he did. I don't think he did

1089
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 1: great if we didn't hear about it.

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00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, so definitely wasn't the home run.

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00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 1: But those are guys we're gonna keep an eye out for.

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00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 1: Kamara Rocker, Brett Batty, Francisco Alvarez, Mark Vientos, the Mets.

1093
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,840
Speaker 1: I'm forgetting the other Oh, Ronnie Mauricio, Hello, Ronnie Mauricio.

1094
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 1: Matt Allen's gonna come back at some point. This farm

1095
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 1: system has really turned a corner from going from terrible

1096
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:27,359
Speaker 1: to pretty good now.

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00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 2: Actually we didn't know how Brett Baty did. I just

1098
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:31,879
Speaker 2: found out he did. In his that bat, he put

1099
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:33,480
Speaker 2: the ball one hundred and six miles an hour the

1100
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:35,720
Speaker 2: other way, which was a harder hit ball on Francisco

1101
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:36,920
Speaker 2: while for his one hundred and four mile and now

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00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,280
Speaker 2: we're home run and its gonna be interesting to watch

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00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 2: Baby and Viento's at the same level try and find

1104
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:45,320
Speaker 2: places to play because they're both kind of slow for

1105
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 2: the third baseman who it's politely, so it's can be

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00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 2: interesting to see how the Mets changed their roles up

1107
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 2: to see what kind of players we're gonna have eventually.

1108
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 2: And also we're gonna do a full prospect report on

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00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:57,240
Speaker 2: our second half preview episode that's gonna drop this Thursday

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Speaker 2: or Friday of this week. Jacy Jen has best start

1111
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 2: of the year for St. Lucie Mets, which that's a

1112
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:02,759
Speaker 2: little teaser.

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Speaker 1: And also the last thing here before we close out

1114
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:08,360
Speaker 1: the episode. Cubs have been scouting JT Gin and Jalen

1115
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:11,160
Speaker 1: Palmer heavily in the Mets organization. And then I've also

1116
00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 1: heard that the Rays and the Giants have been scout

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00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:16,759
Speaker 1: scouting Jalen Palmer. That's an inside source from my agent

1118
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 1: who's also Jalen Palmer's agent, so literally straight from the source.

1119
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:23,359
Speaker 1: Got that one there. Some people didn't believe me. That's

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Speaker 1: on you. I'm just telling you what I know. Is

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00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 1: actual factual information. Lots of trades to be coming for

1122
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:29,600
Speaker 1: the Mets too here, but we'll all talk about that

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Speaker 1: all in the next episode. Here as we wrap up

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Speaker 1: episode number thirty one of the Mets Sub podcast, of course,

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Speaker 1: of course, i'm your co host Diraftneck Mark Mark Luino

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Speaker 1: here with James Shechiano. Jeter had no range, always talking

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00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:42,919
Speaker 1: about Mets baseball after every single series. Like James said,

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Speaker 1: expect Thursday Friday, we're gonna have a second half preview episode.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the second half of course, what

1130
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 1: to expect from this New York Mets team, along with

1131
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 1: some prospect previews and trade deadline talk. So if you're

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Speaker 1: interested in that, make sure you're following the podcast on Spotify,

1133
00:43:57,120 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 1: Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, whatever you gotta do so you

1134
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:01,799
Speaker 1: don't miss out on any episodes. Follow us on Twitter

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Speaker 1: and Instagram at Mets Up, as well as YouTube channel

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Speaker 1: Mets the Podcast. That's what we're gonna wrap up episode

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Speaker 1: number thirty one. Guys, thank you so much for listening,

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Speaker 1: and we'll see you next time.

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Speaker 2: Peace out ever,