Speaker 1: Him to pull a cat soul.
Speaker 2: How's it going to everybody? Welcome back. Apparently the Giants
Speaker 2: general manager called Brian Cashman about Louise Rise this morning
Speaker 2: and said, Hey, I heard you guys are interested. I
Speaker 2: heard you need some contact hitting. I heard your second
Speaker 2: basement sucks. And Cashman was like, you know, I don't know, man,
Speaker 2: do you have any fat, slow outfielders who strike out
Speaker 2: a lot and don't hit for power? Welcome back, everybody,
Speaker 2: Welcome back. Another dud of a deadline for Brian Cashman
Speaker 2: and the New York Yankees. The trade deadline always reminds
Speaker 2: me of that scene in Apollo thirteen where they're all
Speaker 2: waiting for the spaceship to come back to Earth, to
Speaker 2: come through the atmosphere, and they're waiting for a signal,
Speaker 2: and you have to wait a certain amount of time
Speaker 2: and then they're gonna either hear for him, hear from them,
Speaker 2: or see the parachute open. Only this time there was
Speaker 2: no pair. The Yankees trade hopes burned up in the atmosphere.
Speaker 2: I think you have to call this a massive enormous
Speaker 2: loss in l as the kids say. For Brian Cashman,
Speaker 2: and if passed, this prologue Cashman is going to have
Speaker 2: a press conference here pretty soon in a little while
Speaker 2: where he'll say, look, we're getting back Aaron Judge, we're
Speaker 2: getting back Cody Bellinger, We're getting John Carlos Stanton back.
Speaker 2: And that's like winning the trade deadline. It's just like
Speaker 2: winning the deadline. The only problem is that Cody Bellinger
Speaker 2: was having a bad year and in a horrible slump.
Speaker 2: John Carlo Stanton is only visible to that kid from
Speaker 2: the sixth sense, and Aaron Judge hasn't swung a bat
Speaker 2: since fucking Memorial Day. As Shooter McGavin would say, yeah,
Speaker 2: good deadline, though, the Red Sox picked up Adley Rushman.
Speaker 2: And if you want to talk about consequences of getting
Speaker 2: swept a couple of weeks ago, if that doesn't happen,
Speaker 2: maybe the Yankees went out in those negotiations and actually
Speaker 2: land a catcher, and we'll talk about that. But let's
Speaker 2: talk about who the Yankees did get. We already talked
Speaker 2: about Luis Garcia Junior, Helliot Ramos, good hitter versus lefties
Speaker 2: under control through twenty twenty nine, a little fat, little slow,
Speaker 2: not much of a good defender. He's hitting two sixty
Speaker 2: four with nine home runs and a three zero four
Speaker 2: on base percentage, which if you're new to baseball, that's
Speaker 2: not very good. That is not very good. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: pull up his splits. Maybe there's something better in the numbers,
Speaker 2: but I've been looking and I don't see it. I mean,
Speaker 2: maybe they like his underlying metrics, and we can take
Speaker 2: a look at the stat cast numbers two, but I
Speaker 2: am not convinced that he is any kind of a savior.
Speaker 2: I am not that impressed by what I've seen. Let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and start with his splits. So you see
Speaker 2: the total numbers there in seventy four games, twenty six
Speaker 2: point eight percent strikeout rate, So another guy who strikes
Speaker 2: out a lot five eleven, two hundred and thirty five pounds.
Speaker 2: So he's not exactly what you would call a sleek
Speaker 2: nine overs, thirty four RBIs. With runners on, he's doing okay,
Speaker 2: hitting two eighty three with a seven to fifty nine
Speaker 2: OPS in UH with runners in scoring position, hitting two
Speaker 2: to fifty with three home runs and twenty six RBIs,
Speaker 2: and A's seven to twenty two OPS close and late
Speaker 2: situation is actually hitting pretty decent three forty eight. But
Speaker 2: that's just twenty three at bats versus lefties. This is
Speaker 2: where he shines. Two ninety two average, three forty three
Speaker 2: on base percentage, eight thirty five ops, two homers, five doubles,
Speaker 2: one triple, five walks, eighteen k's and still strikes out
Speaker 2: a quarter of the time versus lefties. And that's his
Speaker 2: strong side. Versus right he's hitting two fifty six with
Speaker 2: seven home runs and a seven or sorry, six ninety
Speaker 2: six ops and a twenty seven point one percent strikeout.
Speaker 2: Right now, let's pull up his uh baseball savant here
Speaker 2: and take a look. So, I mean, he's got some
Speaker 2: decent metrics. The base running value is a little bit
Speaker 2: above average, the expected batting average is decent, expected slugging
Speaker 2: is okay, average exit vello surprise, surprise, got somebody who
Speaker 2: has some decent exit v loo and barrel percentage. Hard hit,
Speaker 2: but he doesn't hit it on the sweet spot. He's
Speaker 2: got average bat speed, he doesn't square it up. He
Speaker 2: chases everything, he doesn't walk. He's got no range in
Speaker 2: the outfield, he's got no arm. What the fuck am
Speaker 2: I missing?
Speaker 1: Here?
Speaker 2: And the guys they traded for him, quite frankly, the
Speaker 2: return for Elliot Ramos is astonishing to me. It is
Speaker 2: astonishing how much they overpaid for him. So Henry Lan
Speaker 2: was just beginning to put it together. He's a big,
Speaker 2: tall lefty who for a while has been a top
Speaker 2: Yankees prospect two point eighty seven ERA this year only
Speaker 2: throwing fifteen two thirds innings at high A. Just got promoted.
Speaker 2: But this is a guy who has electric stuff. He
Speaker 2: was compared to like Randy Johnson and some of these tall,
Speaker 2: lanky guys. It takes a while for you to put
Speaker 2: it all together. He's had some injuries, but this is
Speaker 2: a guy who I think is going to be an
Speaker 2: absolute stut. I was chatting with Terrence, who's one of
Speaker 2: the occasional co hosts on this show, the other day
Speaker 2: and he was like, low key, who wouldn't you trade?
Speaker 1: Who would you.
Speaker 2: Hold back as a prospect? And I was like, I
Speaker 2: think Lelane is gonna be awesome. And they gave him
Speaker 2: up in this package. And not only that, they traded
Speaker 2: Cayden the Kent. Cayden Kent, who was a third round
Speaker 2: pick last year, hitting three to two with six home
Speaker 2: runs and a's seven to ninety two ohps. A shortstop
Speaker 2: forty three RBIs so far this season in the minor leagues.
Speaker 2: He was just drafted last year, and now he is
Speaker 2: going to get a chance to go and make the
Speaker 2: big leagues in the same ballpark where his father Hall
Speaker 2: of Famer Jeff Kent played his career played most of
Speaker 2: his career. We got a couple of super chats here.
Speaker 2: Frank says, I can't even begin to articulate my disgust
Speaker 2: at Cashman you. Matt Meyers says, I live in Texas,
Speaker 2: but whoever's going to the game tonight, please get some
Speaker 2: fire Cashman chance. The deadline was absolutely atrocious. One hundred
Speaker 2: percent agree.
Speaker 3: With you, son of a.
Speaker 2: And Luis Arrez went to the Philadelphia Phillies. He was
Speaker 2: somebody that we were looking at as a potential perfect
Speaker 2: fit contact hitter, leadoff guy. Now he's gonna go play
Speaker 2: second base for the Phillies, who are shifting around their
Speaker 2: roster a little bit to accommodate him. He's gonna play
Speaker 2: under the tutelage of Don Mattingly, who I'm sure will
Speaker 2: have some thoughts on being a left handed contact hitter
Speaker 2: hitting three fifteen versus lefties three twenty eight versus righty's.
Speaker 2: I think regardless of his handedness, he would have been
Speaker 2: an upgrade at second base from Jazz Chisholm, who's having
Speaker 2: just an abomination of a year. Jazz Chislm right now
Speaker 2: is hitting in the two twenties. He's nay, hitting two
Speaker 2: twenty even with sixteen home runs in forty five RBIs
Speaker 2: a ninety three WRC plus so seven percent below league average,
Speaker 2: and a thirty one percent strikeout rate. And the swings
Speaker 2: he had the other day, guys were unbelievably bad against lefties,
Speaker 2: against righty's, this guy has been awful this year. The
Speaker 2: move was to go out and get our eyes, and
Speaker 2: the Yankees decided not to do it. But one thing
Speaker 2: they did do is they went out and they traded
Speaker 2: for Luis Garcia Junior, who will be in the lineup
Speaker 2: tonight batting third and playing I believe he's playing first base.
Speaker 2: He might be daching tonight. Let's double check the lineup
Speaker 2: real quick and find out for sure. He is playing
Speaker 2: first base tonight, and he's got the highest average on
Speaker 2: the team two eighty three with eight seventy three ops
Speaker 2: so yes against right handed pitchers. The Yankees made their
Speaker 2: offense a little bit better, but Brian Cashman neglected to
Speaker 2: fix the one area of the team that was a clear,
Speaker 2: clear need, a clear need catcher. He absolutely had to
Speaker 2: address the catcher position, and he didn't. And you can
Speaker 2: make the argument that maybe Lombard gets called up and
Speaker 2: fix his shortstop. Okay, you can live in the make
Speaker 2: believe world where John Carlo Stanton stays healthy for the
Speaker 2: final two months and somehow makes it through October without
Speaker 2: ending up in a fucking wheelchair. But there is no
Speaker 2: reality in which Austin Wells and Ali Sanchez is an
Speaker 2: adequate catching combination for a team with championship expirations, expirations, aspirations.
Speaker 2: There is no reality in which that is the case.
Speaker 2: And quite frankly, this is the type of tandem you're
Speaker 2: rolling out when you're just playing out the schedule and
Speaker 2: you're not really trying to win. The offensive catcher has
Speaker 2: been abysmo abysmo. Former first round draft pick Austin Wells
Speaker 2: is hitting one sixty one with a fifty four WRC
Speaker 2: plus forty six percent below league average. He's got fourteen RBIs.
Speaker 2: It's fucking august. I don't know what you do. I
Speaker 2: don't know what is Cashman's job. Everyone knew the Yankees
Speaker 2: needed a catcher. This like if you have a shitty
Speaker 2: toilet and you call up a janitor. Okay, I got
Speaker 2: a shitty toilet. Don fix my toilet. The janitor shows
Speaker 2: up and instead of fixing your toilet, he trades for
Speaker 2: a fucking left handed hitting DH and first basement and
Speaker 2: then leads, and you still have a shitty toilet. That's
Speaker 2: what this deadline was. The Yankees had an obvious, glaring issue,
Speaker 2: and not only did you not fix it, both of
Speaker 2: your big competitors and the division got upgrades at the
Speaker 2: catching position. Liam Hicks went to the Rays, and I
Speaker 2: think that this is an underrated move. This guy can
Speaker 2: really hit. He's hitting two eighty two with a three
Speaker 2: to sixty three on base percentage. Yes he's lefty, but
Speaker 2: I don't care. Fourteen home runs this year and a
Speaker 2: good catcher. I mean, he's more of a bat first catcher,
Speaker 2: but he would be an upgrade over what you have
Speaker 2: now as a whole package. Doesn't hit lefties very well,
Speaker 2: hitting three oh seven versus righties, two hundred versus lefties,
Speaker 2: so kind of a big contrast there. But Adley Rushman
Speaker 2: was available and the Orioles were willing to trade him
Speaker 2: in division, and in fact they did to the Boston
Speaker 2: Red Sox. Now he's hurt right now, and he's been
Speaker 2: on the ail a lot, but this was a complete
Speaker 2: and total abdication of his duties by Brian Cashman. Chara
Speaker 2: Soon says, Cashman clutches onto his prospects that he won't
Speaker 2: play or trade.
Speaker 1: They just sit.
Speaker 2: But then you look at the Lalane move and it
Speaker 2: makes even less sense. One hundred percent agree. Cashman totally
Speaker 2: abuses prospects. I don't know what to tell you guys.
Speaker 2: All right, let's take some voicemails. Here's Pat from Trenton.
Speaker 1: Hey, Derek, it's Pat from trent I hope you had
Speaker 1: a good day of work man, because if you all
Speaker 1: you did was sit on the toilet and take a
Speaker 1: ship and scroll your phone, you did more than Brian
Speaker 1: Cashman did today. He trades for two bats of first
Speaker 1: basement and now fielder, which we barely need. Meanwhile, we
Speaker 1: do not have a third baseman that is playoff caliber,
Speaker 1: a shortstop that is a Major League playoff caliber shortstop,
Speaker 1: a second baseman, or a catcher. The ligneup has four
Speaker 1: spots in the lineup every single day that are automatic
Speaker 1: out Fulpy Caballero, McMahon, Wells stink, get rid of him.
Speaker 1: And the only reason our DH somewhat manages because we
Speaker 1: have rice in there. But we're running out Father time.
Speaker 1: Paul Goldsmith out there. This is ridiculous. Brian Cashman needs
Speaker 1: to go. George Steinbrenner just rolled over in his grave
Speaker 1: watching no moves get made, No upgradeed catcher, no upgrade
Speaker 1: in the infield. Pathetic, you appreciate it.
Speaker 2: So tonight's lineup has a two to eleven leadoff hitter
Speaker 2: in tran Gresham. Our cleanup hitter got called up a
Speaker 2: week ago. Our number five hitter has a six fifty
Speaker 2: four ops. Our number six hitters hitting two twenty. Our
Speaker 2: number seven hitters hitting two oh seven with a six
Speaker 2: twenty nine ops. Our number eight hitter has already matched
Speaker 2: his career high at home runs with eleven and has
Speaker 2: a six eighty two ops. And Austin Wells is a
Speaker 2: black hole with a one sixty one average. Guys, this
Speaker 2: is bullshit. This is absolute bullshit. Stephen Fremain, Yes, ye,
Speaker 2: Derek Steve calling from Maine.
Speaker 4: Hugely disappointed, but not unexpectedly. I'm gonna blame I'm not.
Speaker 1: Gonna blame this psye Cashman.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna blame this disappointment on John Hayman and Joel
Speaker 4: Sherman because the last month.
Speaker 1: All we've been hearing the Hanks.
Speaker 4: They're gonna be the most active by the Yankees.
Speaker 1: They've got all these thumbs in every.
Speaker 4: Pie and they're calling him. They're not out on anybody.
Speaker 4: They should Bologney. We know better. We're not idiots. Ashman,
Speaker 4: he's the idiot. He's disappointed us. Once again.
Speaker 1: Appreciate the call.
Speaker 3: That is Chase and Derek is chased from North Carolina.
Speaker 5: I love the show man. Just wanted to talk on
Speaker 5: Cashman in this deadline real quick. So let's just put
Speaker 5: this into perspective. And I know it's a little bit
Speaker 5: different because you know, more prospects were involved on the
Speaker 5: Dodger's side. But the Dodgers use their number five prospect
Speaker 5: to get Tarik Schoogle.
Speaker 1: We use their number.
Speaker 5: Five prospect to get Elliott Ramos.
Speaker 1: That's the difference.
Speaker 2: Thanks man, that's a great call. That is a fantastic call.
Speaker 2: I heard Trek Scoogle wanted to go to La a
Speaker 2: lot of times with these stars. They'll ask him where
Speaker 2: they want to go play, and they'll give him a choice,
Speaker 2: and apparently he chose La, which hurts the team's leverage.
Speaker 2: But it is what it is.
Speaker 3: Here's another call, Derek, another deadline, another Yankees done. All
Speaker 3: these prospects that the Yankees want to hold on to,
Speaker 3: I better fucking see them up in the majors byte
Speaker 3: in the next week. I don't want to hear shit anymore.
Speaker 3: If you're not going to trade them, bring them up now,
Speaker 3: sick a cash.
Speaker 2: Yeah, George lomb Our Junior will probably be called up soon.
Speaker 2: This this seems like the type of thing that Cashman
Speaker 2: likes to do. You know, we didn't get anybody. Sorry,
Speaker 2: let's make you feel better by throwing you a triple
Speaker 2: A prospect. And then when he starts off slow, you know,
Speaker 2: two bad weeks, everybody boos him and then he's ruined.
Speaker 2: And then he sits or he plays once every three
Speaker 2: days or you know, or there, or he'll trade time
Speaker 2: with Volpi or whatever. They'll only play him against guys
Speaker 2: who doesn't match up well with I don't know, I
Speaker 2: don't know. Hey, tough deadline for the Yankees, obviously, Luis
Speaker 2: Garcia Junior is a solid hitter against righty's. He's gonna
Speaker 2: give some pop. He might very well hit a home
Speaker 2: run tonight. He might hit two home runs. Who knows,
Speaker 2: he might go on a nice long streak. But the
Speaker 2: Yankees appear to be counting on John Carlos Stanton, which
Speaker 2: is an absolute.
Speaker 3: Joke for you ain't got no legs, Luton Day.
Speaker 2: And counting on Aaron Judge who hasn't even started baseball
Speaker 2: activities yet, And counting on Cody Bellinger, who was not
Speaker 2: exactly tearing the cover off the ball when he went down,
Speaker 2: and he was maybe just heating up a little bit.
Speaker 2: But he had a bad month or so and was
Speaker 2: hitting two fifty nine, So maybe they're counting on him
Speaker 2: feeling better and getting back into the lineup soon helping
Speaker 2: things out. John Carlos Stanton, I mean, I I don't
Speaker 2: even know how you can count on this guy being
Speaker 2: a player in rehab coming back from a calf injury.
Speaker 2: He suffered another calf injury. He has been out since
Speaker 2: April twenty fourth with a calf strain, and he wasn't
Speaker 2: exactly killing the ball when he went on the il.
Speaker 2: He had a one h three ops and he didn't
Speaker 2: exactly tear it off or tear the cover off the
Speaker 2: ball in the postseason last year. Like everybody likes to say, yeah,
Speaker 2: he had a good postseason in twenty twenty. He had
Speaker 2: a good postseason in twenty twenty four. But to be honest,
Speaker 2: I don't know if we can count on him right now.
Speaker 2: The lineup is pray they throw a right handed pitcher
Speaker 2: at us and then you got Ben Rice and Garcia
Speaker 2: and maybe Spencer Jones. Spencer Jones I think is coming
Speaker 2: around a little bit. I'm actually kind of happy they
Speaker 2: didn't trade Spencer Jones because he's shown some real improvement
Speaker 2: the last few days. I know, he went over for
Speaker 2: four in his last game, but he's got five homers now,
Speaker 2: he's got a one thirteen OPS plus or sorry WRC
Speaker 2: plus since getting called up. He's shown some real potential.
Speaker 2: He's got a good arm. If you look at his
Speaker 2: stat cast numbers, they're pretty impressive too. I'm gonna pull
Speaker 2: up Spencer Jones and it's clear. I mean, without even
Speaker 2: looking at his metrics, I can tell you right now
Speaker 2: he ranks near the bottom of the league in helmet fit.
Speaker 2: But let's just zoom in a little bit on mister
Speaker 2: Spencer Jones here. His average exit v low, his hard
Speaker 2: hit percentage, his bat speed all elite, his barrel percentage
Speaker 2: is really really good. But again, another guy who whiffs
Speaker 2: chases does draw some walks. His arm strength is great,
Speaker 2: his sprint speed is fantastic, and when he hits him,
Speaker 2: they stay hit. So all right, guys, I'll see you
Speaker 2: after the game tonight, second show of the day and
Speaker 2: unfortunately a quiet deadline for Brian Cashman.
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