WEBVTT - Fan mailbag, your questions answered, on today's show! 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:10.880 Welcome in latest edition Berdland Territory with Steve, Tim and 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:14.920 Brad and it's a mail bag edition. We're taping this 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:17.560 the morning after the other's lost at Minnesota. So this 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:20.439 road trip is not going the way they want. They're 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:23.960 falling out of this race a little bit. And we'll 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:26.079 be getting more into that in some future shows. But 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:29.560 we want to hear from our viewers today. Two guys 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:32.839 sent in a bunch of questions, and if I can 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:35.040 scroll through this or find the order, I want, good 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:38.360 luck with me on that pop a few out here, 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:43.240 and the first one comes from Steven. I think it's 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:47.920 this here we go. What are the chances Elias actually 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:51.159 hires a GM this offseason? He needs someone that is 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:54.760 opposite of his tendencies to always look to the future. 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:58.240 Now this is interesting because when Elias was promoted and 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:02.160 we eventually found out about it to President of Baseball Operations, 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:05.399 there was talk he could hire beneath them and the 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:08.200 food chain a general manager. A lot of teams have 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:14.119 that President Baseball Ops GM. What are your guys' thoughts 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:14.640 on this one? 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:17.600 A really good question. First of all, I don't know 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:19.920 if we have the answer. We could kind of speculate 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:22.319 and take guesses at it, But my guess is that 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:24.800 he's not gonna That would just be my guess if 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:27.840 I had to take a shot at it. But he's 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:31.320 the head. He's been running this organization now for seven 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:33.520 eight years, and I think he kind of knows the 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:35.920 direction they're going. I think hiring a GM maybe at 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.960 this point, maybe to give them a different perspective, would 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:40.560 be the only way I'd see him hiring one. But 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:42.880 you guys have a little bit better understanding of the 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.840 dynamic and everything that he's got there in Baltimore. But 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.520 my guess is that he's probably gonna stick it as 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:49.360 is right now. 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:54.240 I don't want to say that it's sort of a 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:58.680 non story, but it kind of is to me, just 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:03.200 because even if Mike did hire a GM, Mike's pulling 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:05.720 all the strings. He's the president of Baseball Ops, So 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:09.280 I just wonder how much juice a GM would have 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:12.919 even coming in now. The flip side of this, guys, 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:16.120 if the Orioles end up not making the playoffs and 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:19.960 ownership does give Mike another crack at this, I wonder 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:23.080 if they are going to set any guard roll guardrails 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.920 or parameters on Mike, like, Okay, it's been eight years 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:28.079 without a playoff win at this point, like we need 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:32.560 to do something different. But barring that, I just don't 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:36.680 know how much a general manager would really affect the 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:40.240 operations of this in the front office for Mike. 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:44.000 So I don't see that happening either. But let's say 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:48.520 that this scenario play nowt Rubinstein goes to Mike after 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:50.679 the season, says, we still believe in you. You're still 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:52.720 our guy, but we do want you to bring in 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:55.480 a GM who does have some different thoughts than you, 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:58.280 who's not just your friend, who's not just going to 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:00.800 sign off on everything you say, who's going to disagree 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.400 with you, and Mike we want to hear from him too. 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:07.880 And the trade deadline, it's Rubes, his ownership group, Mike 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:10.480 and this new person. And if the new person has 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:14.000 an idea that ownership likes better than Mike, maybe they say, Mike, 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.560 we think we got to Jim. Jim over here had 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:19.679 the call. So I mean, I doubt we see that 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:24.400 had happen, But there might be some organizations in baseball 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:29.760 where that is similar, and sometimes dissenting opinions are welcome, 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:33.520 and maybe the ools are reaching that time. B Man 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:35.680 has a question here, who's going to lead the next 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:40.400 wave of pitching With the likes of Faret de Leone, Herman, Wells, Gibson, 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:44.640 Wats Brown, I Ands and Jurwa Riley, Quinn, Bragg, Witherspoon, 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:48.800 that's the great list of pitching prospects. And I'll say this, 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:51.760 I'm not sure who's going to lead it, but I'm 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.520 just glad they have it because some of those guys 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:57.920 are going to break through. Some might be parts of 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:01.200 trades that bring other pieces that help them win. And 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:04.040 this load of pitchers, and we haven't even named them 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:08.080 all here will be good long term for the Orioles, 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:12.080 whether it's for them for trades that help them. You know, 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.320 some are not going to work out. Andy McPhail used 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:16.680 to tell me, Steve, if you have twelve pitching prospects, 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.800 you probably have four. That's just the way it goes. 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:23.159 But it's a good list right here. Yeah. 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.080 And I was even gonna before we even say that, Steve, 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:26.279 I was going to say, if you get two or 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.240 three out of that list, you'd be thrilled. If you 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:30.800 have three pieces in your starting rotation or one of 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.080 these guys is the high end leverage guy like you 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.279 would take that in a heartbeat. So the fact that 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.039 you have this many names on this list here is 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:39.840 a great starting point to me. And we're not talking 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:41.880 about guys that are at the lowest level. We're talking 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:45.080 about some guys knocking on double AAA big league level here. 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.200 So that's where I feel like the biggest difference is 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:49.359 it's not a lot of low level prospects that we 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:51.000 have on this list. There's a lot of guys that 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.160 have a shot to maybe even be in Baltimore by 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:54.560 the end of the season. And I think that's an 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:56.719 awesome thing to have, and it's something I feel like 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.359 Baltimore hasn't had a very long time. So, like you 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:00.680 were saying, I don't know if I can take one 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:02.960 of these, you would hope iinsin after that trade is 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:05.240 a guy that can really be maybe a number one, 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.600 number two starter. But if you can get two, three, 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.359 four guys out of this, you'd be completely thrilled to 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:12.440 have that many pitchers that go up to Baltimore and 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:14.280 contribute to the big league team. 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:16.839 And I think it's really important to point out that 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.960 you already have Kyle Bradish and Shane Bobs locked up 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:23.200 long term. They're both on five year deals, which is 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:26.360 really really exciting. And we know that this organization hasn't 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:30.240 typically paid for starting pitching, but you got two guys 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.680 locked up long term. Brandon Young's under club control for 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:37.360 the next four years. But sure, you know you'd immediately 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:40.680 think of Ianson just because he's the hot, sexy name 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.960 coming over from the Adlee Rutchman trade. But jerwas getting 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:45.680 a lot of play. Heck, even J. T. 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:46.159 Quinn. 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:48.279 I remember Keith low was on my show on the 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:52.680 Fan probably a couple months ago, really talking up JG. 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.920 Quinn and his potential as a nice one two punch 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:59.480 with Jerwah. At that point, obviously Ianson wasn't in the organization. 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:03.280 But this is a big development for this org. 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:05.960 And Steve you said it where not all of these 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:09.840 guys are going to pan out, but pitching and pitching 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:14.480 prospects carry a lot of value, and if you end 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:18.279 up packaging one or multiple of these guys, you could 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:21.000 end up getting a proven major leaguer in return. 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.440 How did the Red Sox get Rutchmen. They traded two 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.240 of the best pitching prospects, So I mean I'm not 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.279 Sayings are going to go back and reacquire Rutchman, but 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:34.320 maybe a player of that talent level they would trade 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.600 four in a year or two by trading some of 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:40.120 this list. Not mentioned here is the pitcher who leads 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:44.560 the oil organization and strikeout percentage. Left hander Caden Hunter 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.320 might be having the best year of all of them. 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:50.599 Has moved three levels. He's now at double A, is 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:54.400 striking everybody out, sixth round left out of USC who's 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:57.680 had a phenomenal year, Who's getting swing and miss on 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:02.000 his fastball in the strikes. That's when it's telling scouts 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:05.760 he's beating good hitters and not chasing. He's throwing a 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.000 pitch they should be able to hit. They can't hit it. 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.120 So this kid's been pretty amazing. It's just a long 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:14.200 list which has been good for Birdland, I think, and 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:17.760 fun to follow, especially from Major league club is having 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:21.400 a tough year. Let's hear from Old Bay Sports. I 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:23.440 love that he says. Do you think Hyde was the 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.480 fall guy for Elias last season? Personally he was a 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:29.320 huge fan. I feel awful he was let go and 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:31.920 thanks and Brad was one of my all time favorite os. 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:35.240 There you go, well, that's very nice. 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:36.320 That's nice of you to say. 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:36.800 Yes. 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:42.000 I think, yeah, I mean, I just I think when 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.840 teams struggle, someone's going to pay the price, and a 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.720 lot of times it's not necessarily the GM, it's going 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.200 to be the manager's I feel like he's next in line, 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.880 and I think Brandon Hyde did an unbelievable job taking 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:56.680 this team to the next level and out of the rebuild, 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:58.640 and he deserves a lot of that credit. I think 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.760 also to just kind of navigate through losing one hundred 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:03.760 plus games, was it two or three years in a 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:07.000 row getting them back to winning one hundred plus games. Yeah, 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:09.600 I think from there it's you know, things just kind 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:11.640 of happened and it just didn't develop the way they 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:13.800 Like we've talked about in the show multiple times, it 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:16.560 just the development at the big league level just didn't continue. 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:19.280 The guys got up there, they had success, weren't able 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.320 to sustain it, or they weren't able to get to 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.600 the next level of their success. And I think a 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:25.320 lot of times that just ends up falling on the 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:28.520 manager and the coaches on the coaching staff. But yeah, 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.640 it's it's an unfortunate situation when you have to get 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:32.839 rid of the manager like that. But at the time 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.680 that's what Elias thought. And when he's running, you know, 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:38.280 kind of the way the rosters put together and everything, 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:40.120 I just think Kid's going to be the guy. And 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:42.600 unfortunate the managers usually are when it comes to that point. 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:45.600 You can't fire the players, so it's usually the manager 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.320 guys on the coaching staff that kind of take the 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:50.760 take the loss when it happens. 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.960 I think Brandon Hyde was the perfect hire that the 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:58.040 O's could have made at that point in twenty nineteen, 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:00.880 when you know, you gouted everything and he built it 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:04.080 up from the ground up. And I'm also glad that 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:08.640 they gave Brandon Hyde the opportunity to lead this team 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:11.880 when they were done losing and a big reason why 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:14.200 this team was at a schedule in twenty twenty two, 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:16.240 they had a winning record when they thought that they 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.080 were going to lose one hundred games, a lot of 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:20.880 people thought that again, and then twenty three winning one 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.520 hundred games. He was manager of the Year in twenty 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:27.800 twenty three, and he barely lasted a full season plus 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:31.280 after winning Manager of the Year. So a lot of 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:34.120 these things in sports, it's not for long, and it's 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.200 what have you done for me lately? And I don't 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:39.600 think it was Brandon Hyde's fault in twenty twenty five, 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.240 and heck, and I want to just say this is 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:46.680 pure speculation on my part, but I can distinctly remember 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:51.040 Michaelias going around to several different platforms, whether it's one 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:55.560 of five seven or Ryan Ripkin MLB network emphasizing in 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.720 the midst of that spiral, this is not Brandon Heide's fault. 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:00.880 You know, I didn't have the best off season. He 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.360 was owning some of it, and then within a couple 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:06.400 of weeks he was fired. So I do wonder how 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:10.520 much of it was possibly ownership as opposed to just Mike, but. 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:14.320 Sure, you know that's kind of first order of operation. 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:18.560 Unfortunately, the manager goes and then the GM is under 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:21.720 the microscope, and make no mistake about it, Michael Oas 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:24.480 has been under the microscope since that point. 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:30.320 Yeah, Brandon is very very well regarded and has a 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:34.120 heavy role with the Rays. He is with their major 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:37.839 League team every day when they're home, almost like a coach. 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:41.120 He's not officially on a coaching staff and works with 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.240 their team and when the major League team is on 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:46.240 the road. He works with the minor league guys, and 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:49.040 Kevin Cash and Brandon Hyde are very close. They respect 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:52.120 each other greatly. Wouldn't shock me if there's an opening 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.920 on that staff next year that he becomes a major 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.840 league coach. That could be the next move for Brandon 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:00.880 unless somebody wants to give him a job as a manager. 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:03.160 And as you said to him, a team that's where 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:07.280 the Oriols were losing the hundred games, he might be 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:10.280 the perfect guys player development background. He did it once. 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.199 We forget people say the Oriols, we all that losing 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:15.920 and we barely won. They won for three years. Oh 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.960 by the way, twenty twenty two they gained how many wins, 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.960 forty or fifty wins and they had a winning record, 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:24.360 but they didn't make a playoffs. But that was a 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:27.720 dramatic turnaround year. Then they won the East. Then they 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.360 fell off finally, but they've made the playoffs again, so 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.200 it was a pretty good three year run. I don't 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:36.960 think we should forget that. It is Berdland Territory a 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:40.160 mail bag edition. Thanks to our viewers for first of all, 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:43.080 we're on the cusp of a thousand subscribers can you 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.439 believe that man as a slog boy. We didn't think 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:47.520 we'd ever get there, but we're just like twenty away. 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:51.120 So tell your friends put us over the top. It's free, 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:55.440 no obligation to be subscriber to YouTube. 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We see great discussion in there. 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:18.520 Sometimes we jump in and respond to your questions, but 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.280 we just like to hear from the people watching the show, 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.240 and so many of tolds they like the show. When 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.040 I go to the ballpark, I hear it in person, 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.360 when I go out somewhere, I hear it. So thanks 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:31.640 for that, and let's roll on with this mail bag edition. 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:35.360 Here's a question from BAM. This is a good one, 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.120 and this is one a lot of things speaks for 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.640 a lot of fans here. How much longer can the 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:42.439 Oils rely on waiting for the major league talent to click? 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.920 Is there a point where you can't keep waiting? 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:50.960 Yeah, that's I don't know. I don't know the answers 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:54.840 to that. It's kind of I feel like the bulk 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.600 of this roster right now is the guys that are 0:13:57.600 --> 0:13:59.360 going to be there, and it's kind of the guys 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.520 to have success in order for this team to be successful. 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:06.000 So it's really I don't know how much longer you 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.280 can wait if you're a fan. It's kind of one 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:10.599 of those things that's got to be frustrating disappointing, just 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:13.240 kind of all the things, especially with all the emotions 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.960 of the last week, just going from what you might 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.000 think is going to be a buying team to clearly 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:21.440 a selling team, and now it's just kind of seeing 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:24.800 what's left after everybody, you know, the trades were done. 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:27.560 So I don't know, it's a very good question. It's 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:29.720 kind of you just got to hope that they're able 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:32.000 to turn it around. And I think even if they 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:33.680 don't make the playoffs this year, you just want to 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.720 see a trending in an upward progression come September, and 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.080 I think a lot of teams can springboard off of 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.360 that moving into the next season. I can think of 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:43.680 the Oils back in twenty eleven. I remember the guys 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.600 talking about how they finish that season doing well. Same thing. 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.040 It sounds like in twenty two they finished the season 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:50.920 really well, with a lot of momentum heading into the 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:54.080 next year, and it's springboard them into division championship the 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:56.000 first time being in the playoffs in a long time. 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:57.640 So I think those are the kind of things you 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.200 want to look at this team moving forward. Yes, not 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.040 that far out of the wild card, but I think 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:04.080 it's just you want to see this major league talent 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:07.200 kind of find an identity because I feel like we 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.400 haven't seen that yet this year, and it's I want 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:12.160 to see that identity come in September when these teams 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.040 are in the playoff race and maybe they're the team 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.360 that plays spoiler. They're not the ones getting in the playoffs, 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.040 but they have a chance to knock teams out. And 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:19.840 that's that's really what you want to see from this 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:21.600 roster for the rest of the year in my opinion. 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.760 Yeah, that's the billion dollar question. And Steve, you kind 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:29.560 of made the great point. It kind of already said 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.560 that they're not going to keep waiting right in trading 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:36.160 Adley Rutchman. I think that was kind of an acknowledgment that, 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.240 all right, we need to tinker with this core and 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.320 that this hasn't worked this past couple of years, But 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.200 looking at the immediacy and looking at the guys on 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.000 the twenty six man roster, I think this is why 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:50.920 I've been advocating ever since the trade deadline. 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:51.240 Guys. 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:54.360 I need to find out And this isn't me waving 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:57.840 the white flag. This isn't me, you know, quitting on 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:01.560 the season. I want to see Colden Cowser play every day. 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:03.480 I want to see Dylan Beavers play every day. I 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:05.440 want to see Kobe Mayo play every day. I want 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.240 to see Jackson Holiday play every day. Heck, I would 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:11.160 like to see Heston Kerstak get an opportunity before the 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:14.520 year is over, because he's out of options next year. 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:16.560 What are you going to do with him? This might 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:20.320 be his last opportunity here guys. So I think all 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:22.600 of these young guys and I know now are coming 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:25.960 down to what forty some games remaining, So it's not 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:29.840 a huge sample size, but I need to gain inventory 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.240 on these young guys who is going to help me 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:36.240 in twenty twenty seven and beyond. But it's also really 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:40.920 complicated because of this upcoming workstopage. I you know, is 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.040 it going to be Michael Oyas? Are they going to 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:46.160 make a move there. If it's Mike, how is he 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:52.680 going to operate differently? This upcoming offseason is really fascinating 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:55.080 because it's something that we've been saying for weeks now. 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.600 This is not a twenty eighteen situation. This is not 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:02.240 a tear down. This is kind of a reboot, a retool, 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.760 if you will. But I need to gain as much 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:09.560 intel as I can on this young core down the 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:12.560 stretch so that I can make the right decision. 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:16.960 It's the biggest question I think facing the Orioles because 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:19.480 when fans tell me the rebuild failed, I say, no, 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.200 it didn't fail. They went to first place in the 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.680 America League East, they gained fifty games in the standings. 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.720 If that's failure, give me more of it. But what 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:32.720 did fail is they failed to build on that. And 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:35.480 the players who were having a yet eight hundred OPS 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:38.719 now have a six hundred OPS. We all know their names. 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:43.560 So this question that this viewer is asking is very pertinent, 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:47.199 and the Orioles have to try to pinpoint is is 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:50.199 it ten different guys have ten different answers to this question. 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.320 Is it about our player development? Is it about work 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.960 ethic of individuals? Is it about Major League coaching. This 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:00.320 could be a blurred line of ten different things. It's 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:02.200 not going to be a one size fits all here 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.240 that if the Ools fix this, all their young hitters 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.680 will hit. Nope, there's not going to be that one 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:10.919 answer that's solves it. But I'll tell you this and 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:14.080 I'll get off my soapbox. Mike Shilt and I met 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.080 sat with him for an hour in Frederick about a 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:19.160 week or two ago. Is a manager of the Padres 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.639 the last two years. Loves the Orioles and is working 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:24.760 in the minor leagues behind the scenes. And he was 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:26.920 written and cow Are written about a lot a couple 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:31.440 of weeks ago, but al of the limelight. He's at 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:34.400 minor league parks three out of four weeks a year, 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:37.760 three different higher level teams. He's been in Norfolk, he's 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:41.520 been in Chesapeake, he's been a Frederick, and he's really 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:46.800 teaching those young kids minutia of things that win games 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:51.280 that are important, not just how you improve your launch angle, 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:55.720 how you work on little things that add up to 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:58.679 big things. And he managed with ninety wins in the 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:02.119 major leagues. He knows what it takes. So if I 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:04.720 were one of those young kids, every time he opened 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:07.600 his mouth, I would be at attention. I want to 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:10.320 hear what Mike Schill has to offer, and he loves 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:12.960 offering it. I can't wait to write. It's gonna be 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.280 on my substack in a week or two, and it's 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:17.600 going to be a huge couple of articles on Mike 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:22.960 Schill and what's happening on the farm. Let's go to 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:25.879 a break. Why don't we Seeve calm down a little bit. 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:28.800 You get passionate about this stuff. I do, man, I 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:30.960 love baseball. Can you tell I think I'm in the 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.679 right industry? Guys, it's our mail Bag edition. We're having 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:37.240 a lot of fun taking some great viewer questions we 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:41.240 got today, like this one. And uh bam, I gotta 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:44.840 before I mess up our ad here, I gotta take 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:46.639 you off the screen for a second. 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