WEBVTT - Episode 389 - Yankees Recap, Trade Deadline Proposals 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:02.120 I feel one on one. You see a couple of 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:04.640 me in my taste with me and my lemonade, because 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:07.440 I let the way it taste. Best seat at the Pirates. 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:08.840 Can he let me run the base? 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:09.160 Yeah? 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:11.440 My time is like my money because I can't afford 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:14.040 to waste. Oh why see is alloyer? Take my date 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:16.760 to my dates or the stick by the plate syndic 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:19.319 case keep the case from my race at my pace. 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:20.439 Cleared Brass and a. 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:24.880 Snake Episode three eighty nine of Bucco Banter presented by 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:28.600 Brave Bean Coffee Company. Boys, we have a trade with 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:32.440 the San Diego Padres. It's exactly who you thought it 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:32.800 would be. 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:36.920 Jim. Let the fans know who the newest. 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:40.360 Relief pitcher coming out of the bullpen for your Pittsburgh 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:41.600 Pirates is gonna be. 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:46.600 Well, I'm gonna give you the Yenzer pronunciation of it, 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:51.160 and it's not Mason Miller. So here we go. Guys, 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:53.519 do you hear about these buckets? They got this? Uh 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:57.080 Ronnie Maranaccia from the Padres up there? 0:00:57.640 --> 0:00:59.640 Not not bad? 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:00.920 I love that. 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:04.440 No, I mean, guys, listen, I think at this point 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:08.080 of the season, in all seriousness, but there was a 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:11.400 lot that's better than Dennis Santana. And I was telling him, sure, 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:13.280 I think we even might have mentioned this on our 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:15.800 weekend show, Like just make a move now. 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:17.160 It doesn't have to be your big splash move. 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:18.880 I know there's like eleven days to the trade deadline, 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:20.800 but like, go make that claim. 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:22.959 That's how you got Dennis Santana in the first place. 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:23.160 Go. 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:25.640 I wanted them to take a gamble on Nate Pearson. 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:27.640 He it wasn't gonna be your long term fix, but 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:29.760 get him in the door and get Tennessee Tanna out 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:30.199 the door. 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.360 Just do that. Now, we can't afford to keep punting games. 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:36.000 I feel like every week we're leaving a game out 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:38.440 there and it's they're just starting to stack up boys, 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:40.960 they're starting to stack up and I rod Marnachi or 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.399 the number of sexy No. But I mean this is 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:45.280 a guy just two years ago, that was when he 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.880 was with the Yankees. I was like potential, high leverage, 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:51.200 upside and just inconsistency in his career and the command 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:53.760 has just not been there. He recently added a cutter 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:55.720 to the mix. He's mostly a foreseen change guy, but 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:58.360 if nothing else, it's a low risk. 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:02.600 Interesting move risk indeed, and I think there's no reason 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.880 to be upset about this move unless it is the move. 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:07.480 You get what I'm saying here. 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:11.320 If eleven days goes by and then that's your guy, 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:15.440 then yeah, you have every right to be absolutely pissed off. 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:17.800 But right now, like Scott said, you just need to 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:21.400 make moves to switch something up because eleven days is 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:24.160 a long time. Eleven games is a long time. That's 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.720 a lot of games that you can win that could 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:30.440 put you ahead in the wild card standings, and you've 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:34.160 already sacrificed enough because of poor performances out of the bullpen. 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.760 You could have made moves like this probably earlier. If 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.560 this is the type of compensation that you're giving up 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:43.080 international pools money, sure you could probably could have done 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:45.560 that a little bit earlier. But maybe he helps out 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:47.880 for eleven days. Maybe he doesn't. But there needs to 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:51.080 be more right now, Like you mentioned, low risk move. 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:56.440 It's it's it's addition by subtraction. At this point, guys, 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:59.960 Dennis Santana cannot pitch another inning for the Pittsburgh Party 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:04.160 this year. I mean, you know, even if he clears 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:06.560 waivers and goes down there and does well. I just 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:11.359 I will say. The odd thing about this is there 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:14.880 was about a year stretch in there where Dennis Santana 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:18.360 was one of the better relievers in baseball. I don't 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:22.680 know what happened. I you know, obviously baseball is a 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:27.560 funny game. Is there another sport where guys can just 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.480 bottom out as quickly as they do in baseball? I 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:33.760 don't think there is, because, like I said, for a 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:37.440 good year there, man Dennis Santana, thirty teams would have 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.240 taken Dennis Santana at one point. 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:41.240 Yeah, you could have. 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:45.280 Convinced me last year that he signed a three year 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:47.800 contract with like the Dodgers, and I'd be like, yeh, 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:50.760 that makes sense given a twenty plus million dollars like 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.800 that would have made sense. But as Zach mentions here, 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.560 that's just the life of a reliever squat. I mean, 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:00.480 you know, it's pitching so hard, and it's so ball town. 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.240 These guys are failed starters, and like they'll tell you 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.240 that it's because something didn't work, but you found a 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:09.240 way to make it work, and that doesn't always last. 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:13.000 Yeah, I mean hindsight, but like this is the guy 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:15.480 that you claimed off waivers and and most of his 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.200 career has just been that of a journeyman, right. He 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.480 hasn't been able to stick anywhere, and he hasn't pitched well. 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:25.840 His success in Pittsburgh was a huge outlier. And you know, 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:28.400 he could have probably gotten something for him at last 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.480 year's deadline, and they chose to flip the other guy, David Bednard. 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:33.120 That's all hindsight. I'm not saying they should have, but 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:35.840 they could have, right, and you know. 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:37.360 It just he ended up. 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:39.840 It was just after that Cardinals game, They're up to nothing, 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:41.240 he blew that save. I feel like Adam and I 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:42.919 were getting ready to go down to do postgame and 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.520 then it was like, oh they lost. Oh this is 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.920 a totally different figure. And it's just like it just 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:51.400 fell from there, guys, it fell from there. And you know, 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:53.200 I wish him the best because he he brought a 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:55.680 really good attitude to the ballpark every day and you 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:58.200 would never know that he was going through what he 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.960 was going through. U. But at the same time, it 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.840 was necessary move, probably way overdue. 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:09.080 Yeah, at least at least he gave us the Cavaliero moment, 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:15.000 you know, on his way out the door. So you know, 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:20.200 good luck God bless. But you can't do it here anymore, buddy. 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:23.159 Yeah, there, there's got to be more moves. We're eleven 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:23.760 days away. 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:26.440 Like we mentioned, we're going to go through a lot 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.200 of trades in this episode. If you have any trade ideas, 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:31.279 drop them in the chat. We'll try and get to them. 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.720 We have a lot that we're submitted through social media. 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:38.080 Let's recap the Yankee series really quick. Game one gets 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.960 off to a rough start. The Magician puts them ahead 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:44.719 Jared Triollo, the bat's still going. I know Scott's absolutely 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:48.240 hyped on that because he's the biggest Jared Triolo supporter. 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:50.680 We're still putting together those apology for him, so just 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:51.920 you know, be on the lookout for those. 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:53.279 We'll be distributing. Right. 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:58.040 So, Game one, they lose, you get game Game two's postponed, 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:02.400 you get another double header. This team cannot catch a break. 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:05.520 What is that three in three weeks? Boys, that you 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:07.800 have to play two in one day. I mean, the 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:11.760 occasional doubleheader is fun, but this just has such a 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.560 task on your guys, or pay such a toll on 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:19.360 your guys. And then Game two positives. Mitch Keller looked 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:23.560 really good, right, they gave up the lead. Carmen macginski, 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:28.520 they fight back, good stuff. Game three, Bubba Chandler looks 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:32.160 the best he ever has been, and this is where 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:34.640 things get a little. 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.000 Sticky with the fan base. 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.160 Bubba goes six and a third, He only gives up 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:40.480 two hits, what one walk? 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:44.000 He was on fire. He looked great. 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:48.719 They pull him for Brandon Eisert and it immediately goes downhill. 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:50.480 And a lot of people were in our comments saying, well, 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:52.480 you can't blame the bullpen for this one. They didn't 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:54.920 score any runs. I could still blame the bullpen for 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:56.800 this one because it was a zero zero game. 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.040 Theoretically you could do whatever you want. 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:03.760 But exactly a free it's a free world. Guys, how 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.240 do you feel about that situation? Because I feel like 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:08.039 it's pretty split right now. 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:11.280 Right I think you run him out there at the start. 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:13.160 I mean, I think you continue going out. 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.560 There with yeah, but you pull him in that situation. 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.520 Right with one out, and you know, I think what 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:21.360 would be huge and this is obviously not important to 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:24.200 Yester's game, but obviously I think it would be huge 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:27.040 to see him have a big second half, a big 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:30.000 second half, And I think that's the name I'm circling 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.520 as a guy that could take that next sleep after 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.920 the All Star break. But that being said, yeah, Donnie 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.840 Kelly's reasoning in the postgame, just be honest, wasn't the 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:42.200 best for taking him out. And at some point you 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:45.120 got to ask yourself, am I doing everything I can 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:45.640 to win? 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:47.760 And I'm not saying that he's not. 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:51.520 But you know, we're getting too we're getting too cute 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:53.680 with guys like Brandon Eiser should not be pitching in 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.000 any meaningful outings. It should be like nine to one 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:57.880 and he's coming in against one left handed batter and 0:07:57.920 --> 0:07:58.200 that's it. 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:01.840 Like it's you can't throw this guy out there anymore. 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:09.280 Yeah, it's it's tough because I you know, I think 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:13.480 there's there they're so concerned about, like protecting the pictures, right, 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:18.600 whether it's Chandler because he's younger and you want to 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.680 protect arms, or Mitch Keller and you want to protect 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:24.880 his psyche. You know, it's like, at some point, I 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:29.960 do think, you know, you need to let these guys 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:35.320 go a little deeper, especially if your mantra seems to 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:40.000 be organizationally, we're going to pull pictures early to get 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:43.520 to our bullpen, which, by the way, the bullpen sucks. 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.559 So it's like, that's that's a hard Those things don't 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:52.720 really jive together. Yeah, I think too, Like Adam you mentioned, 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:55.280 you know, like people are like this one's on the offense. 0:08:57.160 --> 0:09:01.400 Oh okay, this is a top five offense in baseball. 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:05.600 They're not going to score five six runs every night. 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:09.320 Like every once in a while, your team has to 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:13.440 pitch and throw up zeros until your offense can do 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:18.240 something like it's it's not on the offense in my opinion, 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:21.360 like they're not going to do that every night, and 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.920 sometimes your your staff has to keep you in a 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:28.000 ball game and has to pitch well until you get 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:29.120 it going offensively. 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:31.079 And I'll tell you, I'll tell you what. 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:33.839 Max Freed and Garrett Cole both looked phenomenal yesterday for 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:38.319 the Yankees. I know we tagged Garrett Cole two times 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.680 to take a lead and get on the scoreboard, but 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.600 I mean both were generating a ton of whiffs at 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.480 the plate and we weren't able to get it going 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:49.839 in Game two against Max Freed. 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:52.199 So yeah, I don't know. 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:54.319 I much would I would have much rather have seen 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:56.760 like Noah Murdoch in place of Brandon Eisert there. 0:09:57.400 --> 0:09:58.439 I tell you what I think. 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.079 That's why I didn't hear much of what you guys said, 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.120 because I know you're talking about the bullpen. But I 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:07.240 looked to my right and my dog just pooped all 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:12.520 over the ground, just diarrhead all over, which I guess 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:14.080 is kind of just like what's going on with the 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.880 brat's bullpen right now. Anytime you throw it out there, 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.360 she had the timing perfectly, but right in front of 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:23.559 my face. So album for later, Adam, I might get 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:25.160 a whiff of it here pretty soon. 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.240 That's what it's gonna get. 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:28.640 It's gonna get stuffy in there. 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:30.640 It's gonna get. I don't think Farrel, Weaver and Oakin 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:31.240 can help with that. 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:34.880 No, no, no, this was a crime committed against me though, 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:36.280 this really was. 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:40.440 And god the dog might be Gentley, Oh my god. 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:44.400 All right, well, hey, listen, you split a road trip, right, 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.959 But the problem is you should have won all three 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.760 in Cleveland, and you really left a lot of stuff 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:55.760 out there in New York. That being said, not all 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:59.120 is in the dump slot. They're still in a good 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:02.280 position right now, but you really really have to take 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:04.920 advantage at least of these next eleven days until you 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:09.120 make that move, right, because you have the Cubs really 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:10.880 big series, and you have the Diamondbacks. 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:15.199 That's another Yeah, that one's coming up big, isn't it. 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:16.000 Yeah. 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.679 So you got all these teams that are right there 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:24.959 with you, and you're still finding ways to lose ball games, right, 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.560 You're finding ways not to do. Other teams aren't beating 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:30.480 you out right, You're finding ways to lose ball games. 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:34.480 And that's really been the entire story of the twenty 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:38.559 twenty six season is this is a potentially really good team, 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:40.600 but you always have to put the qualifier there that 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:44.839 potentially a really good team until they totally put it together. 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:46.400 And we're just kind of waiting for that moment. 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:47.160 Yeah. 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.760 I mean, I like the pitching that we have going 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:53.199 this weekend with Jared Paul and Braxton, but I also 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:55.599 hate to see the pitchers that are coming in for 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:59.439 the Cubs. Matthew Boyd is a difficult lefty that can 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:01.480 be to see if it's not going to overpower you. 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.720 But I think we've always really struggled with him and 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.640 then showed at Minaga, who I know we struggled with 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:09.920 on Saturday Versis Skeins. That'll be a really good matchup. 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:13.199 So maybe got Jamison tie on, but I would love 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:17.760 to take one of or ideally both first two games. 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:22.760 Yeah, I think too, Like as Zach mentions here, anything 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:28.800 specific you're seeing in regard to Laalan O'Hearn's offensive woes, Yeah, 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.400 I think this is just baseball. It happens. They faced 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:37.800 some lefties recently, a little maybe uptick there, and now 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:41.520 they're going to face two more. I think they'll be fine. 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:44.080 But yeah, like when they're not swinging the bats, and 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.400 Reynolds has looked a little bit off. You know, you 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:50.599 get three guys not really swinging the bat well in 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:55.000 the lineup, and even the Pirates they're only so so deep, 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:55.280 you know. 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:58.840 So it's the dog days of summer, which you know, 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:00.560 it's a great time to have the Wolf game. 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:03.080 That's what people are telling me, at least, you know, 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:03.800 I think. 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:06.839 It's needed to reinvigorate the fan base and the team. 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:10.360 So possibly the league, possibly the league. 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:13.120 Yeah, they're gonna be on notice very soon, as soon 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:14.800 as Monday, so stay tuned. 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.760 I think when we're talking about what they're really struggling with, 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.040 I think at least, what I've seen with O'Hearn is 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:24.280 just getting behind in counts. I don't think anything there 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:26.480 is wrong with the swing. I've seen him fell off 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:28.840 a couple of pitches where it's like, man, he just misset. 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:30.000 He's right on it. 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:34.800 But both of them are getting behind in counts pretty quickly. 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:38.480 And I know O'Hearn's taken a couple of pitches that, 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:41.880 you know, it just doesn't seem like he's really comfortable 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.320 with the zone right now. I think the swing is fine, 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:47.400 but it seems like once you're getting behind in counts 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:49.959 and you're forced to swing at pitches that maybe you 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.880 would lay off or that that are not ideal to. 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:53.600 Do damage on. 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.240 And that's what you brought in a Brandon Law for. 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:58.319 That's what you brought in a Rhyan o'h hearn for, 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:01.400 is to do damage and hitters counts, and they just 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:03.640 haven't been putting themselves in those positions right now. 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.520 And then Brandon Lowe is getting attacked with fastbles up 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:08.520 in the zone, which he struggles with when he's down early, 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:10.800 and I think that's the rest of his history there. 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.000 Yeah, yeah, we'll get him back home and the friendly 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.120 confines and see if that helps a little too. 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:18.960 I will say this about this question, Mitch Keller. The 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:20.520 first thing I went to go look at was his 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:22.920 cutter usage, and it was up yesterday, so I'm just 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:25.800 throwing my hands up. I don't know that the cutter 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.160 does get hit hard. I didn't look at the hard 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:31.120 hit rates or anything like that, but I was a 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:33.280 little bit nervous about him going into the Yankee stadium 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:34.760 against some of those lefties. 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.160 Throwing that pitch, leaving it over the plate. 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:38.840 I'll have to take a deep look at it. But 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:40.520 that was the one thing I looked at first. 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:44.000 I mean, he's spotting up right, He's putting himself in 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.960 good situations early on in counts, and he got some 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.200 nice ground balls. He was able to work a lot 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:53.320 of hitters. You know, that Yankees lineup is just not 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:55.440 impressive without Aaron Judge in there. 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:57.000 It really is. 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.720 And that, like no point did I really feel threatened 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:03.120 Ben Rice. I mean, he's been unbelievable this year. But 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:06.880 other than that, I felt like it was really underwhelming. 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.080 That being said, the Pirates lost a series, but the 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:11.920 starting pitching from Keller and Bubba looked really good, and 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:14.560 I think it's really just getting ahead in counts. And 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:17.880 you had that moment early on in the second game 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:20.800 of the doubleheader where Bubba walked with the first guy 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:22.960 and then he threw another one. Then Bill Murphy comes out, 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.560 by the way the slow walk gone. Did they say 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:26.400 anything about that? 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.160 I did see him jogg the last time he went 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:30.560 out there. 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:33.560 So maybe we're trying to throw some people off a 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:36.600 little bit, but just putting yourself in better situations, right, 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:40.680 executing getting ahead and count and then allowing your arsenal 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:42.800 to work for you. And if I was to put 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:46.440 pinpoint anything with Keller and or Bubba, I'd say just 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:51.240 really honing in early on and figuring out like, hey, 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:54.720 how can I get oh one here? How can I 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:56.480 get up I if I threw a ball, how can 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:58.840 I work off of that ball in order to get 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:01.800 back into discount? Not just throwing but pitching. I think 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:03.440 that's what they used to their advantage. 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.640 And Keller. Keller's fastball had some more zip on it too. 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:11.160 I believe like he was throwing harder where he looked 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:13.480 like he was in the sense of I think that 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:16.040 break did him some good to kind of just gonna 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:21.120 say that, Yeah, reassess maybe what's working what's not. Fastball 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:27.120 velocity was up, so I mean, yeah, I mean who 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:29.720 put it in there. The other zact that's in the 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:31.960 chat with us said, Keller being a four e er 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:35.040 a pitcher would be massive for them the second half. Yeah, 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:38.840 I would submit. Just getting Keller back to quality startment, Mitch, 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.480 whether that's five or six innings. 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:42.320 Yeah, absolutely. 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.240 I'll tell you what the Yankees don't have anymore either, 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:47.320 is a quality arm in the pen like Ron Maranaccio. 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:51.200 So we now have him in Pittsburgh. He's gonna be something. 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:52.800 I'm interested to see what kind of role they're going 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:56.800 to put him in. Obviously you don't have many options 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:59.280 in the back end, but I'm sure we'll see him 0:16:59.320 --> 0:16:59.960 this weekend. 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:01.560 Guys, let's get into some traits. 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:04.000 Yeah, let me pull up the first one. This comes 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.480 from Instagram. We've got a couple on the screen here. 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:08.920 Cruise for Miller is just not gonna get it done. 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:10.280 Mason. 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:13.320 Miller might get moved, but it's not gonna be just 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:17.600 for ONEO Cruz. We've talked about this, how there's maybe 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:20.160 a couple of situations where it makes sense for the pirates, 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.040 but trading off of this major league roster right now 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.879 really doesn't add up if you're trying to sustain and 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:30.560 keep this offense going. I don't know about what you 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:33.280 guys think will stick on this one. First, I just 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:34.359 this just doesn't work. 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:36.919 I don't think the Podjas would do it. I think 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:38.920 they'd hang up. I think they'd love to include a 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.480 cruise in that deal, but I think they want some 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:44.880 young talent coming back to and yeah, it would take 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:47.000 a lot. You get Mason Miller till twenty thirty, and 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:50.720 Sky brought the A's back Leo Davrees. 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:54.080 Plus more last year. So just something to think about there. 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:58.200 I would take this as more sarcasm than a real offer. 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:02.560 That's the that's the problem though right now, Guys like 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:05.280 you know, I'll be the first to admit I'm not 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:08.360 really good at the trade proposal stuff and the value, 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:13.280 but I at least acknowledge that and let other people 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:17.200 kind of lead. Social media is wild because man, everybody 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:20.280 is throwing out trades and you can't tell if they're 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:23.400 serious or not because some of them are absolutely hideous, 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:24.679 absolutely hideous. 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:27.880 Yeah, there's real no winning in these situations. You could 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.400 say a trade and someone's gonna call you a stupid idiot. 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:32.200 That's just a nature of the game. 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:37.760 And then we got Justinton for Justinton, Embarco for Adlei, 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:41.280 Rutchman a little bit more interesting. You think it's that 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.720 the price for Adlei it seems a little a little much. 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.480 I don't know if it takes Justinton and Barco, maybe 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:51.199 one of them and then a lower level guy. I 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:53.440 feel like that the Orioles are in a weird situation. 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:57.080 Yeah, that's a tough one because those are two very 0:18:57.119 --> 0:19:00.080 interesting pieces, and we know historically they've been struggling on 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:04.320 on the on the pitching side. But just looking here 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:06.240 real quick, it looks like Adlete's kind of turned it 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:09.320 around this year compared the last year. Still would like 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:10.840 to see a little bit more powerfu. I'll take two 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:15.640 fifty behind the plate, three thirty OHBP seven sixty four 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:18.160 ops the savant page. 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:19.360 A lot of red there. 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:22.160 Guys, very hitter, great teammate. 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.760 Yeah, I mean, I could even see them asking for 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:31.119 substituting something bigger than just Stinson in terms of an 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:35.560