WEBVTT - Is Reid Detmers The Perfect Trade Target for the D-backs? 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:12.799 Hello, and welcome to another episode of Snake's Territory, part 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:15.560 of the Foul Territory Network. Be sure to light this video, 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:18.720 subscribe to our YouTube channel, maybe leave us a five 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:22.560 star review wherever you get your podcasts. Later in the show, 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:26.840 we are going to get into some potential trade targets, 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:30.120 really one specific trade target that we're going to focus on. 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:32.640 But first we are going to talk about this weekend 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:36.640 series between the Diamondbacks and the Milwaukee Brewers. I am 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:41.400 Jesse Friedman alongside Jack Summers and Jack The narrative continues 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:45.280 the Diamondbacks holding their own against the lesser teams in 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:47.240 the league. Of course, they took two out of three 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:50.200 from the San Francisco Giants, and then they come right 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:53.519 back and they lose a series to the Milwaukee Brewers. 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:57.640 They are now fourteen and thirty three this season against 0:00:57.640 --> 0:00:59.840 teams that are five hundred or better. 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:03.400 Yeah, there's no moral victories. I mean, you know, you 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:05.479 can say they hung with them. The games were close. 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.080 They very well could have won the series. Some might 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:11.880 even say they could have swept the series. But the 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:14.959 fact is that they lost two out of three and 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:18.440 it just looked and felt like the Brewers were much 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:23.679 better equipped to handle close games, and that clearly was 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:24.120 the case. 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:29.440 The finale was a close one, as all of these 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:33.720 games were. At Wardo Rodriguez was excellent. Newly minted All 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:37.720 Star at Vardo Rodriguez was very good once again. He 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:41.559 was through six scoreless innings and then Tory Lavello believe 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:44.600 he was at ninety three pitches. Tory decides to send 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:47.760 him back out there for the seventh and unfortunately that 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:50.280 did not work out. Andrew Vaughan let off that inning 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:53.560 with a single, and then e rod just dropped a 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:58.160 curveball middle middle and Jake Bowers hit a pretty impressive 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:01.520 left on left to run. Homer turned what was a 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:05.040 one to nothing Diamondbacks lead into a two to one deficit. 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:10.359 But ultimately, Jack, I mean, this loss falls on the offense. 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.800 You cannot blame this on Eduardo Rodriguez. It was still 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:17.240 six plus innings of two run ball from him. The 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:22.760 Diamondbacks just weren't able to do enough and offensively, and man, 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:25.120 they had a whole lot of chances throughout this game. 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:28.240 Yeah, I mean early in the game they weren't having 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:31.079 great at bats. They were I think one for eight 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.720 in runners and scoring position through the first three innings. 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:37.000 They ended up, you know, two for thirteen in this game, 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:40.200 I believe. As the game wore on, of course, there 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:44.120 were a ton of hard hit balls. The six hardest 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:46.799 balls that the Diamondbacks hit in the game all went 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:49.840 for outs. That included one hundred and seventeen mile an 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:53.920 hour line drive by ktel Marte and of course one 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:56.639 hundred and seven mile an hour line out double play 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:01.399 off the bat of Peven Smith, who did a two 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:05.200 handed chuck of the bat. He was as disgusted as 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.960 many of you have been with the results that he's 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:09.880 been giving, but in that case he had a little 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:11.720 bit of bad luck. He did have a base hit 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:17.160 earlier in the game, but very disappointing game overall. When 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:20.119 it comes to the results of some of the hard 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.360 hit balls. There were a couple of deep fly balls 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.720 to the outfield that went almost three hundred ninety feet 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.760 just you know, warning track fly balls. A couple of 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:30.240 hard hit ground balls as well, so you know, when 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:32.440 you hit the ball six times over one hundred miles 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.200 an hour, you kind of expect at least a couple 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:37.440 of those to fall for hits. So for none of 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:39.480 them too. That was a little bit of bad luck. 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:43.000 Definitely some bad luck, to be sure. 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:47.040 Diamondbacks expected batting average in the game was two ninety two. 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:50.240 That ended with seven hits, could easily have had eight 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:52.720 or nine or ten if some of those hard hit 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.920 balls land land in as you would expect them to. 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:58.720 At the same time, Jacket still felt like the d 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:01.880 Backs could have done more with runners in scoring position 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:02.440 in this game. 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:04.120 It felt like they. 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:07.120 Were making the hard contact oftentimes nobody on base, and 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:10.200 then when there were guys on base, that's when the 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.120 bat quality was a little bit less. In the bottom 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:15.200 of the first inning, the d Backs scored a run, 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:19.080 but then they were unable to get anything else across 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.679 with a runner at second one out. There were several 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:26.120 other situations like that throughout the game. The bottom of 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:29.640 the third also stands out there. Heraldo Perdomo led off 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.320 that ending with a single and stole second, and then 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:36.120 you've got the middle of the lineup do up. After that, 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:39.960 Corbyn Carroll struck out, Gabby Mourno struck out, Lords Guriel 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.719 then drew a walk, and then Ildemar of Vargas just 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:47.400 an immediate first pitch ground out. To get the Brewers 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:50.640 out of that jam. So even though there was some 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.200 bad luck in this game, Jack, there also was a 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:56.760 continuation of a recent trend, which was the Diamondbacks just 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.960 not putting good at bats together when they really needed to. 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:02.880 Yeah, I mean, and the seventh inning, you know, they 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:06.920 did get a run across, but Gabriel Marino came up 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.680 and very nearly hit into another double play. We'll get 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:12.839 to the first one in a little bit, but he 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:15.920 almost hit into another double play in this series, you know. 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:19.160 And then that at bat, I mean, he took two 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:22.000 pitches in the heart of the zone for cold strikes, 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:24.520 and then he got another sinker, and now he's you know, 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:26.640 with two strikes on him. He's got a swing and 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:28.320 it was a strike. It would have been a strike 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:30.760 cold strike three, but it was a pitch you know, 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.600 a little down in the zone. Uh. And of course 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:36.719 he ended up, you know, hitting it too shortstop. So 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:41.119 I don't know why they're not pulling the trigger early 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:44.960 in counts when the balls dead center. That's the biggest 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:48.080 problem really is, you know, there's just too many center 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:52.440 cut pitches that they're not swinging at, and that puts 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:55.159 them down in the count because they're easy cold strikes, 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.640 and then they're forced to protect and now they're swinging 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.240 at pitches and the shadows one and contact isn't as good. 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:05.200 You know, I've said this before and I'll say it again. 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:07.640 I mean, they got to go back to old school 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:12.520 philosophy here, Like Mark Grace used to always say, with 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:15.760 zero strikes on you, your strike zone should be the 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:21.279 size of a shoe box. Okay, after you get a 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:23.560 strike on you, then you can start to expand that. 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.320 But if you're if you have zero strikes against you, 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:32.120 oh oh one, O, two oh three, to oho your 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:35.240 shoe Your shoebox size strike zone is the way to go. 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:38.000 And if it's in that heart of the zone, go 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:43.400 ahead and take your cut. For some reason, they remain 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:47.120 the lowest swinging team on pitches in the heart of 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:48.640 the zone. I do not know why. 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:53.280 Yeah, I think that is a very fair point. And 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:57.880 throughout this series, another narrative for the offense was struggling 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:01.680 against the bullpen. In particular, the Diamondbacks did get into 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:05.200 the Brewers bullpen very early in all three games of 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:08.839 these series. Granted, the second game was really just because 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:13.080 of an unfortunate injury on Brandon Woodruff's part, exact same 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:16.520 story is what happened the last time he faced the Diamondbacks. Sad, 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.160 sad to see him go on the il again. But 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:22.680 the Diamondbacks, you know, they made Brandon sprote throw ninety 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.640 two pitches in those front four innings. 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:26.840 In this game. 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:30.920 They had back quality was pretty good against Brandon's broke. Granted, 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.680 he also was spraying the ball around, and I think 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:37.040 some of those pitches were pretty easy takes. But you know, 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:40.400 the moment the Brewers bullpen enters the game, it just 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:44.440 feels like the Diamondbacks are are losing that approach. And 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:47.240 you know, you see Grant Anderson come out and get 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:50.640 five outs on sixteen pitches. And that was sort of 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.960 a trend throughout this series, Jack, where the Brewers bullpen 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:58.000 covered seventeen and two thirds innings in this series altogether, 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:01.920 almost six innings per game on average, And the Diamondbacks 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.920 only saw two hundred and twenty one pitches in those 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:07.720 seventeen and two thirds innings. And I know that is 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:10.160 maybe hard to make sense of in your mind, but 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:12.400 if you do the math, that's an average of twelve 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:15.880 point five pitches per inning, and it was actually quite 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.240 a bit higher on Sunday than it was in the 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:21.040 first two games. That number went up in the finale 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.880 of this series. So it's not just a matter of, 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.600 you know, the Diamondbacks needing to have better at bats overall, 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:31.640 which is certainly true. But yeah, I mean, you you 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.199 just have to like when you know that the opposing 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.280 team is getting into their bullpen early and might run 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.360 out of arms, that just means all the more that 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.640 you want to be patient and really work counts. 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:47.960 I think maybe part of it is they're thinking, Okay, 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.160 we got the starter out of the game, I'm not 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:54.040 too worried about the relievers workload. You know, now's the 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:57.280 time to be more aggressive, right because you're not generally 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.400 worried about that particular issue of how long you're going 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.360 to extend it. But in this case, you know, they 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:05.600 should have been a little bit more cognitive. I mean, Patrick, 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:07.120 would do you go three in the thirds or three 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:10.000 and two thirds? Only use thirty something pitches? 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:11.880 Something like that? 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.120 You know, in his out in the first game and 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:17.240 then yoho, who I always want to call you who? 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.480 I think he got you know, eight outs on twenty 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:25.760 seven pitches. Something like that. So, yeah, that's that's pretty 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:29.320 much what you're talking about there, I mean, essentially, you 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:33.240 know the Brewers' bullpen thromatos there. 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:39.319 Yeah, yeah, that was the Friday game the Brewers bullpen. 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:42.480 That game, of course, went to extra innings, and the 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:46.000 Brewers bullpen needed just ninety pitches to get through eight 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.160 and the third innings in that game, of course, they 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.120 did not allow and earned run the entire way. And 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:55.120 that is a good segue into the first couple games 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:56.080 of this series. 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:56.720 We're not going to. 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.440 Dwell on them too much. We've got some other stuff 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:01.680 to get into in the show. 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We really really appreciate it. 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:48.079 Jack. 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:51.520 I guess we'll start with, well, we'll turn back the clock. 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.560 We'll go back to the Friday game, which does feel 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:58.520 like a distant memory. And you know, to the audience 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.880 member who maybe doesn't want to relive this game, I 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:05.280 hear you. I understand. We won't spend two too much 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:09.320 time here. But there were some interesting moments along the way. 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.040 This was quite a baseball game on Friday night on 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:18.000 Apple TV plus. Diamondbacks fall behind three nothing early. Jose 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:21.040 Cabrera was just spraying the ball all over the place 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:21.920 in that game. 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:22.880 Did not look good. 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:27.280 Diamondbacks come back to I guess before they scored any runs. 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:31.600 Lordis Gurriel Junior prevented that game from getting completely out 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:34.520 of hand and robbed a three run home run, one 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:37.680 of the best catches we've seen by a Diamondbacks player 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.240 this season. If he doesn't catch that, it's six nothing 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:43.040 Brewers and maybe the game isn't very interesting the. 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:43.640 Rest of the way. 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.679 But Guriel makes that catch, the d Backs are able 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.760 to get on the board and put three runs up, 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:53.080 and then the thing happens we were talking about earlier, 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:57.200 where Kyle Harrison is no longer in the game, the Brewers' 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:00.600 bullpen is out there doing their thing, and there just 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:04.480 seeing like no pitches whatsoever, and the game is flying by, 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:08.440 and eventually we go to extra innings in a three 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:12.200 to three tie, and the big decision that everyone's been 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:15.000 talking about in the aftermath came in the bottom of 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:19.480 the tenth. Heraldo Perdomo is the ghost runner on second base. This, 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.000 of course is after Taylor Clark has already put up 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.000 a zero in the top of the tenth, given the 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:27.160 Dbacks a good chance to win this game. So Perdomo's 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:31.480 at second, Corbyn Carrol is intentionally walked, and then Gabrielle 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:34.920 Moreno is at the plate. So you've got first and 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:40.400 second and nobody out. And Jack, I know you feel 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:44.240 pretty passionately about what the Diamondbacks should have done. Next. 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:48.199 Well, I don't know if it's what they should have done, 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:50.839 but it's what they should have been able to do. 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.640 If that's the Brewers, we know exactly what they're going 0:13:55.679 --> 0:14:00.120 to do. They're going to bunt. There's no question that 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:06.360 they're going to bun. Christian Yelich bunted today. Gabriel Marino 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:09.280 does not have a regular season but in his major 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:12.520 league career. I didn't realize it at the time when 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.240 I posted on Twitter. He did have one in the 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:18.679 World Series of All Places in twenty twenty three, but 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:22.240 he's never had a sacrifice bunt in his major league 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:26.400 regular season career. So my first question is, like, why not, 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:32.440 Like why does he not possess that skill? The way 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:34.720 Gabby hits the ball, he hits a lot of ground balls, 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:37.360 you know, and he has hit into a lot of 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:41.360 double plays in his career. He's got a high DP percentage, 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:44.960 which is the percentage of opportunities to hit into a 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.360 double play. A little it was a little lower than 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:50.880 MLB average this year, but for his career it's well 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:54.360 above average. And he's a DP risk clearly, and he's 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:56.960 been hitting into a number of them lately, even amongst 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:00.400 his hot streak. So I didn't feel comfortable with it. 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:02.520 I thought they should have bunted. All you need is 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:05.400 one run you get you know, you get second and 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:08.320 third with one out, first base open. Now you've got 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:10.960 lordis up. Everyone says, well, you know, Lord has popped 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:15.280 out anyway, after Gabby hit into the double play. But 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:20.800 it's a diffinite bat if it's second and third. First 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:22.960 of all, now the pitcher's got to run on third 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.400 base and he can't afford to spike one, and so 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:28.640 the you know, oh well you just got to hit 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:31.240 Lords down. And the way he's going to swing, well, 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:33.600 I don't know if all you need to do is 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:35.680 get the ball in the air. I think, you know, 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.200 Lord has probably take a picture too there. I mean, 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:39.920 you know, he's going to have a little bit different 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:44.200 approach and he's probably not going to be so prone 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:47.040 to swing out of the zone in that situation, knowing 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:48.840 that all he needs to do is wait for a 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:52.040 ball up and hit it in the air, you know, 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:54.600 And if he doesn't get one, he takes his base, 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:58.320 goes to first base and bases loaded with one out, 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:00.760 and you move it on to the next h So 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.800 the flip side of that is Gaby hasn't bunted. He's 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:07.680 probably not a good bunter. Maybe he hits into a 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:10.440 double play when he bunts. He had been hot of late, 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.000 and he had good numbers with running scoring position overall, 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.520 So you know, there's two sides of this. Coin. I 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.480 know you can go either way, but I go back 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:21.560 to what I said earlier in the show about the 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:23.960 Diamondbacks not being well equipped to win this kind of 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:26.760 game in this kind of series while the Brewers are, 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.840 And that's what really kind of stuck in my crawl. 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:33.840 Just felt like they're not equipped to win this game. 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:39.840 So you feel that Gabby Moreno and any Diamondbacks hitter 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:42.640 effectively should be capable of putting a bunt down there, 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:45.840 like that should be a button that Tory Lavello is 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:46.600 able to press. 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:49.840 Christian Yelich can bunt. Why can't Gabby Moreno. 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:53.520 I mean, Yelich is not the hittery Like, he's basically 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:55.480 been around the league average hitter this year and it 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:59.040 was a left on left matchup today. But I you know, 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:01.400 I see where you're coming from. Certainly, this is something 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.359 the Brewers are known for. And if Gabby Moreno played 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:06.359 for the Brewers, it wouldn't shock me. If you know 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:10.240 he's he's getting more reps bunting and getting used to 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:11.199 that thing. 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:15.240 I'm sorry, if Gaby Mourno played for Pat Murphy yeah, 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:17.920 and didn't put a bunt down there could be yanked 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:18.600 out of the lineup. 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:25.679 Yeah, I mean that that very well may be true. 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:29.760 I think the and granted, like Gabby Moreno did ground 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.720 into a double play, and so I understand I'm sort 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:35.800 of on the inherently losing side of the argument because 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:39.280 hindsight is twenty twenty and obviously Gabby Moreno should have bunted. 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:42.080 From that standpoint, it didn't work out the way that 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:46.040 they went. But I had a hard time criticizing Tory 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:50.440 Leavello for that decision. I think that, you know, yes, 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:54.280 the Brewers maybe would be more equipped to win that game, 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:58.240 But I also think the guy hitting fifth for the 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:03.119 Brewers is a much better hitter than lordus Curyle Junior is. 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:04.960 Right now, I just don't. 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:08.800 I just don't think that anything Lordis has shown this season, 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:13.040 you know, means that he's a guy who is someone 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:15.600 you can count on with a with a runner at 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:17.960 third and less than two outs to get the job done. 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:21.320 Lordis is not hitting. His hard hit rate is low, 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:25.160 his pop up rate is much higher than it's been 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:25.600 in the past. 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:28.320 Time a medium fly ball wins the game, he's just 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:29.240 got to get the ball in the. 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:30.919 Air, That's true. 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:35.399 It's just the back quality from Lordis Curyle Junior of 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:39.120 late is such that even hitting a medium quality fly 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:44.000 ball doesn't feel like a given to me. So I hear, 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:48.680 I hear your perspective. I think you know, I think 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:49.359 it's valid. 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:49.840 I don't. 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:53.000 I don't feel super passionately either way, but at least 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:56.440 for me, it was hard to criticize the decision, and 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:59.760 unfortunately it didn't wind up working for the Dbacks. 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.720 I'm not criticizing Toy so much because of the fact 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:05.920 that Gabby's never bunted for sack sack, doesn't have a 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:08.600 sack butt in his career, so he's got to be 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:13.480 thinking about that, like he's never bunted. Look, there's a 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:16.920 there's a bunt club, you know that we jokingly call 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:18.920 it in the press box and every you know, the 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:21.399 six or eight players that are out there on the 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:25.800 field with Jeff Banister before every game, and it's the 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:29.359 same eight guys, and it's like nobody else is allowed 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:33.080 to bunt. Yeah, And I just don't think that's right. 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:35.080 I think that that should be whoe of a rotation. 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.359 I think they all should be taking that practice, and 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:40.080 I think they all should have the ability to get 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:43.879 a bunt down when it's needed, and so Tory not 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:47.679 calling on Gabby to bunt there I understand simply on 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:52.040 the basis of Gabby never bunts he probably wouldn't execute. 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:55.000 So I go back to what I said at the beginning, 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:59.680 It's like, why aren't they built this way? This isn't 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:02.320 a team that's going to slug their way into the 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:05.679 playoffs and back to the World Series. They've got to 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:08.280 play like the Brewers, they got to play like the 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:10.720 Rays or not. 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:16.920 Yeah, I see where you're coming from. For sure. 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:20.480 I just think that Gabrielle Moreno has a you know 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:25.200 for something on base percentage the past twenty or thirty games. 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:28.160 He's been the team's best hitter for a while now, 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:31.160 and I think he deserves a shot in that moment. 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:33.960 I just think taking the bat out of his hands 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:37.280 and giving it to Lords Gurriel Junior, who by all 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:39.439 accounts this season is graded out as one of the 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:42.640 worst hitters in baseball. Yes, he doesn't need he doesn't 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:44.760 need to base it. You know, a fly ball gets 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:47.800 the job done. But it feels like a lot to 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:51.679 ask from him, as unfortunate as that is. So let 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:53.840 us know what you think in the comments. It is 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:56.760 sort of a moot point now because the Dbacks lost 0:20:56.760 --> 0:21:01.280 the game anyway. Ryan Thompson had some ventures on the mound, 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:05.000 shall we say, in the next inning. D Backs ultimately 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:08.680 lose that one, seven to four. But it was quite 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:11.080 a baseball game to watch. That is something we can 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:14.359 say for sure. Game two of the series, Jack was 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:17.320 the of course, the one game the Diamondbacks won. And 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:21.640 I'll just throw this on the screen to start off 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:26.760 this conversation. This is from at MLB underscore simulator on 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:31.080 Twitter and about this Saturday game. 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