Speaker 1: It has to be a critical part of this success.
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right that, when right, this is arguably the
Speaker 1: best bullpen in baseball.
Speaker 2: Kyle Glazer, big information here. We're talking about laser and
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Speaker 2: does a tremendous job covering all of baseball. But he's
Speaker 2: also one of the co hosts of Friar Territory. Check
Speaker 2: out their new episode that just dropped yesterday. They discussed
Speaker 2: a lot of things. Let's talk about the comeback kids
Speaker 2: for a second. The Padre is right there. Of course,
Speaker 2: in the division, they've had four comeback wins in their
Speaker 2: last five games, kind of the cardiac kids. What do
Speaker 2: you make of it?
Speaker 1: The Potters have shown the ability to come back throughout
Speaker 1: this year. You mentioned four comeback wins in a five
Speaker 1: game stretch. They have fourteen come from behind wins this
Speaker 1: year already.
Speaker 3: When the Potters are right.
Speaker 1: Their formula is simple. The starting pitching and the bullpen
Speaker 1: hold the fort down, make sure the deficit never gets
Speaker 1: too large, and the offense over the course of the game,
Speaker 1: just consistently puts that pressure on defense, is consistently puts
Speaker 1: balls in play, steals bases, goes first to third, makes
Speaker 1: aggressive reads in the dirt, and normally, over the course
Speaker 1: of time, the defense will falter, the pressure will get
Speaker 1: to them, and the Padres kick the door down and
Speaker 1: bust through. Now that's what's been their formula for success
Speaker 1: when they're right. They've also had some stretches recently where
Speaker 1: they haven't been right, where they've gotten more passive. They've
Speaker 1: been waiting for something to happen as opposed to making
Speaker 1: something happen, and more often than not, when that's been
Speaker 1: the case, they're only scoring one running games zero runs
Speaker 1: a game. We saw them get shut out back to
Speaker 1: back games by the Blue Jays. So they're starting to
Speaker 1: get back to their best selves recently with these most
Speaker 1: recent series wins against the Marlins and the Braves, and
Speaker 1: now they've got to keep it up. They have a big,
Speaker 1: big stretch coming up here with twenty six games in
Speaker 1: twenty seven days, including fourteen games against the Giants, Dodgers,
Speaker 1: and Diamondbacks, and what we know is a very very
Speaker 1: very competitive lay race.
Speaker 3: Is there a reason for the passiveness. Is there a
Speaker 3: reason for like, hey, if they're playing all these games, Hey,
Speaker 3: I want to save my legs, it might be the
Speaker 3: time to bet against the bet against the Padres. Because
Speaker 3: has there been like any correlation, Because the beginning of
Speaker 3: the year, it was like Fernando Tatists was running like
Speaker 3: his cleats were on fire, and then all of a
Speaker 3: sudden it was like I'm good, Like I'm totally chill.
Speaker 1: We definitely saw a little bit. So in Tatisa's case,
Speaker 1: he tweaked his shoulder stealing a base against the Sacramento
Speaker 1: A's and after that he has really really slowed down.
Speaker 1: He has not been stealing bases like he was before.
Speaker 1: We know Fernando Tatists Junior has had a tough time
Speaker 1: staying healthy over the course of his career. The only
Speaker 1: full season he has played in his career was the
Speaker 1: COVID shortened twenty twenty season, mostly due to injuries and
Speaker 1: of course his one PD suspension. So he has slowed
Speaker 1: it down a lot. The Potters in a lot of ways,
Speaker 1: they just kind of got away from it. We started
Speaker 1: seeing that passivity from other guys too. Some of it
Speaker 1: was injury related. Again, Jackson Merrill getting hurt, Luisa Riots
Speaker 1: getting hurt, Jay Cronworth getting hurt. They really didn't want
Speaker 1: to risk anything. Now those guys are all back. It
Speaker 1: took them a little while to get back to that
Speaker 1: aggressive style of baseball they were playing again. We saw
Speaker 1: it in spurts, but not consistently. It's really since the
Speaker 1: start of their last series against the Braves that they've
Speaker 1: started doing the same things they were doing earlier in
Speaker 1: the year, and we're seeing success because of it. They've
Speaker 1: won their last two series, which again doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: a whole lot, but given how much they were struggling
Speaker 1: prior to that, it's a win.
Speaker 4: Kyle, what about the bullpen? I mean the bullpen? Is
Speaker 4: it coming back into form when they struggle? The bullpen
Speaker 4: was struggling also from the back end all the way
Speaker 4: Jason Adam and some of the other guys are really
Speaker 4: having some rough goes. But now they've kind of got
Speaker 4: it back together. Is that what has to lead this
Speaker 4: Padres team pitching wise?
Speaker 1: It has to be a critical part of their success.
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right that. When right, this is arguably the
Speaker 1: best bullpen in baseball. The Padreys relinquished to lead just
Speaker 1: one in their first thirty four games, and then they
Speaker 1: hit a wall. They blew leads in four of their
Speaker 1: next seven games, and since then it's been a little uneven.
Speaker 1: You mentioned it looked like they were getting back to form.
Speaker 1: We saw that was the case Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday.
Speaker 1: This bullpen through twelve and a third consecutive scoreless innings,
Speaker 1: all close games where the Patters needed the bullpen to
Speaker 1: throw up those zeros in order to win. And then
Speaker 1: yesterday against the Marlins, the bullpen completely imploded. The Patterys
Speaker 1: had leads of six to one and eight seven that
Speaker 1: they were not able to hold. Jason Adam had a
Speaker 1: rough outing yesterday, Wandy Peralta gave up the go ahead hit.
Speaker 1: So we've seen this bullpen be better recently and look
Speaker 1: a little more like what they were early in the season.
Speaker 1: But again it's a little bit two steps forward, one
Speaker 1: step back, as we saw yesterday in the afternoon matinee
Speaker 1: against the Marlins.
Speaker 3: Okay, is this a direct correlation to the fact that
Speaker 3: they have Randy Vasquez making starts, Michael King might be
Speaker 3: on the shelf, and Dylan Cees and Nick Pavetta, essentially
Speaker 3: your two starters that are supposed to hold this team down.
Speaker 3: Needing innings is going to wear out your bullpen.
Speaker 1: Very very much so right now, Michael King is on
Speaker 1: the injured list with shoulder inflammation. You Darvish was supposed
Speaker 1: to be back by now. He made a rehab start
Speaker 1: two weeks ago, reported feeling some elbow tightness and elbow sortiness.
Speaker 1: After that rehab start, came back to San Diego, played
Speaker 1: catch on Monday, but still has no timetable to return.
Speaker 1: And look, Randy Vasquez has done an admirable job. He's
Speaker 1: been pitching into the sixth fairly consistently. But at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, there's no question the Pottery has
Speaker 1: really really rode their core four of Jeremiah Strada, Audre
Speaker 1: and Morihane, Robert Swarez and Jason Adam Hard. At one
Speaker 1: point they were all on pace for eighty appearances this season.
Speaker 1: They stepped it back a little bit have been giving
Speaker 1: more opportunities to some other guys Alec Jacob Yuki, matsuiy
Speaker 1: Wandi Peralta, but those guys just aren't as effective, So
Speaker 1: the Potters are still trying to find the right mix
Speaker 1: of bridge guys. So they don't wear down their big
Speaker 1: four relievers. Brian Hoeing should come off the al soon.
Speaker 1: We saw Sean Reynolds pitch well the other day. So
Speaker 1: they're still trying to find those other guys because Wandy
Speaker 1: Peralta keeps blowing leads and Alec Jacob gave up fifteen
Speaker 1: runs and eight in the third innings. Had to send
Speaker 1: him down. So that's a very very big concern and
Speaker 1: something the Potters are aware of. They just haven't been
Speaker 1: able to find the solution for it yet.
Speaker 2: Luis sur Rise, Kyle game tying and go ahead RBI
Speaker 2: singles to lift the Potters over his former club, the Marlins.
Speaker 2: He's killing the Marlins. I don't know. They should have
Speaker 2: probably never traded him. I mean he's batten three sixty
Speaker 2: four against them since they traded him to the Friars.
Speaker 2: I mean he's been as good as advertiser. Obviously, he
Speaker 2: has batting titles in both of the leagues. Not a
Speaker 2: massive home run hitter, but man he gets on base.
Speaker 2: Where do you think the Patres would be without him?
Speaker 4: This year a.
Speaker 1: Much much mussworts team, and I would say the same
Speaker 1: thing for last year. He has been a critical component
Speaker 1: of this Potterys lineup since arriving in San Diego. Just
Speaker 1: that ability to consistently put the ball in play, spray
Speaker 1: singles all over the field. He frustrates opposing pitchers, and
Speaker 1: he also makes sure that Fernando tatties Junie He's better
Speaker 1: pitches in front of him. When a Luisa Rise is
Speaker 1: in this lineup, it completely changes the dynamic we saw
Speaker 1: after that scary collision in Houston when he got hurt.
Speaker 1: The Potteris didn't really have a great hitter in the
Speaker 1: number two spot and their entire offense suffered because of it.
Speaker 1: Machado and Tatis started something a little bit. When Luis
Speaker 1: a Rise is in this lineup, it completely transforms how
Speaker 1: pitchers have to game plan, how pitchers have to approach
Speaker 1: this team in a lot of ways. Luis a Riaz,
Speaker 1: that trade has been the heist of the last year
Speaker 1: when you consider the Potter's got him for No. Top
Speaker 1: one hundred prospects and got the Marlins to pay his
Speaker 1: entire salary last year and take on Wusuck Goh's salary,
Speaker 1: and Wusuck go was quickly defaded. This really was a
Speaker 1: master stroke by aj Preller and Luis A Riaz keeps
Speaker 1: reminding the Marlins every time he plays them that they
Speaker 1: really did not fully appreciate him. I should say, at
Speaker 1: least the new front office led by Peter Bendix did
Speaker 1: not fully appreciate his skill set.
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Speaker 4: By the way, they don't appreciate anything, So I mean
Speaker 4: saying that that's funny, Kyle, but like they really didn't
Speaker 4: appreciate much. I mean except for getting rid of everybody
Speaker 4: and starting over and trying to reinvent the wheel. But
Speaker 4: other than that, are you worried about their schedule coming up? Though?
Speaker 4: Are you worried about the Padres schedule coming because it
Speaker 4: gets it's starting. It's about to get real for about
Speaker 4: the next twenty five games or so. It's a real schedule.
Speaker 3: No question.
Speaker 1: Twenty six games in twenty seven days, as I mentioned,
Speaker 1: fourteen games against the Giants, Dodgers, and Diamondbacks. They have
Speaker 1: not played the Dodgers yet this season, so that'll be
Speaker 1: a fun, fun, fun matchup against them. But there's no
Speaker 1: question they're going into that stretch down, Michael King down,
Speaker 1: you darvish with the bullpen. Maybe a little shakier, more
Speaker 1: inconsistent than you would like it to be. But what
Speaker 1: we have seen from this Padres team historically and to
Speaker 1: a degree this year, this is a team that tends
Speaker 1: to play up to their level of competition and sometimes
Speaker 1: they play down for the level of competition, so especially
Speaker 1: if against the Dodgers, they always seem to get up
Speaker 1: for that series. They swept the Giants when they face
Speaker 1: them earlier this year in a two game set at
Speaker 1: Peco Park, So we'll see which version of the Padres
Speaker 1: show up. But look, we know this team when they're right,
Speaker 1: when healthy, they can play with anyone, and they love, love,
Speaker 1: love these primetime big game matchups. They get up for them.
Speaker 1: So I think they'll certainly be competitive, but there's no
Speaker 1: question they're not going into it at full strength. They
Speaker 1: really really could use Michael King and new Darvish coming
Speaker 1: back sooner rather than later.
Speaker 2: Kyle, before we let you go. Aj Priller is not
Speaker 2: afraid of making moves. He and I think Mary to
Speaker 2: Poto have like a wild wild West thing where they
Speaker 2: meet each other to see who can do the most.
Speaker 2: What are the biggest needs if the trade deadline was tomorrow,
Speaker 2: what are the biggest needs that you see for the
Speaker 2: Friars left field?
Speaker 1: The Potters right now have gotten some of the worst
Speaker 1: production from left field in all of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1: They signed Jason Hayward and Connor Joe with the idea
Speaker 1: that they would be platooning. They've already traded Connor Joe.
Speaker 1: Jason Hayward really struggled, was recently placed on the il.
Speaker 1: Gavin Sheets, who has been one of the surprises of
Speaker 1: the season, has eleven home runs, a lot of them
Speaker 1: in big, big, big spots. He has moved out to
Speaker 1: left field from DH and that's made things a little
Speaker 1: bit better offensively. Defensive, he's a little shakey out there,
Speaker 1: So the Potterys would really really like to shore up
Speaker 1: left field. And look, they could use another starter as
Speaker 1: much as when everyone is healthy you can go Darvish
Speaker 1: King sees Paveta, you feel really good about that front
Speaker 1: four you. Darvis has struggled to stay healthy and again
Speaker 1: this most recent setback is a little bit of a concern.
Speaker 1: He has no time table to return. When you talk
Speaker 1: about Michael King and starting pitchers with shoulder injuries, shoulders,
Speaker 1: we are always a little bit scaries. So they would
Speaker 1: certainly like to fortify the rotation a little bit. But
Speaker 1: left field is their number one need and they would
Speaker 1: certainly do well to shore that up sooner rather than later.
Speaker 2: All right, guys, Royals are picking things up. The Kansas
Speaker 2: City Rails confirmed on Wednesday that an affiliate purchased the
Speaker 2: mortgage on the Aspiria Campus in over a Land Park.
Speaker 2: So not picking up packing up, I meant to say,
Speaker 2: do you legitimately think that the Kansas City Royals will
Speaker 2: be leaving Kaufman Stadium AJ Piersinski a place that you've
Speaker 2: played a lot at, obviously being in that division. Are
Speaker 2: they moving Do you think?
Speaker 4: Not anytime soon? But they will eventually. They need to.
Speaker 4: They need to move. It's it's old. It's still great though.
Speaker 4: I still love going there. I still love the coffin.
Speaker 4: Problem is there's nothing around it right, There's absolutely nothing.
Speaker 4: There's one hotel in the middle of nowhere, and everyone
Speaker 4: stays in the city. So they want to move it
Speaker 4: in the city and do a thing like a battery,
Speaker 4: like a braves like all that. So I have no
Speaker 4: problem with this. They eventually everyone's gonna have to move.
Speaker 4: The Chiefs won a new stadium too, so I mean, listen,
Speaker 4: figure it out, Kansas City.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs are winning. Though the Chiefs have won multiple
Speaker 2: Super Bowls, the.
Speaker 4: Royals won not long ago. The Royals were in the
Speaker 4: playoffs last year. The Royals have Bobby Wood Junior, so
Speaker 4: I mean, listen, I don't know. I think I think
Speaker 4: if you can move it somewhere downtown by the power
Speaker 4: and light, by the plaza, there's some really nice areas
Speaker 4: in downtown Kansas.
Speaker 2: I just don't know if they could. I don't know
Speaker 2: if they could fit it down there. I mean, I
Speaker 2: don't know where Overland Park, Kansas is, but.
Speaker 4: It's over the order because Kansas not not Missouri.
Speaker 3: Park, and it is a more more of like a community,
Speaker 3: like obviously it's to me, it's it's what would be
Speaker 3: what I would consider a Midwest city, like not a
Speaker 3: lot of high rises. There's a lot of communities that
Speaker 3: were popping up ten years ago when I was there.
Speaker 3: We went back and visited in I think nineteen, we
Speaker 3: visited out there, like it's it's a cool area. It's bustling,
Speaker 3: but it's more like suburbs. But they have all the
Speaker 3: festivities of a city without the crampedness of downtown. The
Speaker 3: power and light is is awesome, but I don't think
Speaker 3: that's obviously I don't know, but lawmakers are really don't
Speaker 3: want them in certain areas. And one of the one
Speaker 3: of the mayors maybe was an ex player, was one
Speaker 3: of the guys from the original you know, original World
Speaker 3: Series Champion Royals and he vetoed the bill to go
Speaker 3: somewhere else. So there's a lot going on, as any stadium,
Speaker 3: you know, there's a lot going on, but you can't
Speaker 3: rebuild in the same area because there's just no residual
Speaker 3: income to make a small market team a large market team,
Speaker 3: like a team that you know has a battery or
Speaker 3: has all the stuff around it, and Overland Park would
Speaker 3: be sick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Overland Park insider Eric Kratz reporting live, I have
Speaker 2: to ask you this though, Aj, it seems like the
Speaker 2: Royals ownership group perhaps is listening to the fans. It
Speaker 2: seems like fans would be pretty psyched if they got
Speaker 2: off of you know I seventy and move someplace where
Speaker 2: there is some services around. I mean, unlike some other
Speaker 2: ownership groups. Maybe they're actually paying attention.
Speaker 4: They are listen.
Speaker 3: This is this.
Speaker 4: Wasn't this one of the reasons why they signed Bobby
Speaker 4: Wood Junior. Isn't this one of the reasons why when
Speaker 4: they signed them, They're like, because they want a new stadium.
Speaker 4: Remember we all thought they had a stadium deal done
Speaker 4: when they when they did this, Remember there was all
Speaker 4: the drawings and all the renderings, which is more than
Speaker 4: we can say for some other teams that are supposed
Speaker 4: to be moving a lot sooner. So I want I
Speaker 4: want the Royals to move. I think the Royals fan
Speaker 4: base is one of the best, and when they win, man,
Speaker 4: even when they don't win, there's a lot of people
Speaker 4: at those games in Kansas City in the middle of
Speaker 4: summer when it's four hundred and seventy two degrees and
Speaker 4: I'm watching dudes, I play with shrink up because it's
Speaker 4: so dang hot, Like, I want this for the fans.
Speaker 2: Do you, guys know what the nickname for Kansas City.
Speaker 4: Is the city of hottest placed on Earth.
Speaker 2: Nope, Nope, it's the City of Fountains. There are more
Speaker 2: fountains in Kansas City than there are in any other
Speaker 2: part of the country.
Speaker 4: Just so you know, go to the plaza There's there's
Speaker 4: literally a fountain on every corner.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's it's the city. It's the city of fountains.
Speaker 2: So Kansas City might be moving parks. The Twins are
Speaker 2: still looking for a new ownership group. Apparently they're making progress,
Speaker 2: guys on the sale of the cub of the club.
Speaker 2: The pole adds, sticking to one point seven billion dollars.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Back in twenty fourteen, I think it was the Dodgers
Speaker 2: sold for two billion, the Twins making progress one point
Speaker 2: seven billion in terms of sources. A reboot of the
Speaker 2: sales process moved on finally as yielding potential buyers for
Speaker 2: the Twins. While there's been progress, those potential candidates have
Speaker 2: several concerns about the one point seven billion dollar price tag.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of money for the Twins, so much
Speaker 2: for mid market team.
Speaker 3: Yeah there, but why would they not like they're worth
Speaker 3: one point supposedly they're worth one point five to one
Speaker 3: point seven. Yeah, I forget that's two hundred million dollars, Like,
Speaker 3: don't don't, don't demean the point two that they'd like
Speaker 3: to get. It's like anything you go to sell something,
Speaker 3: you're not like, I'm going to price it at the lowest.
Speaker 3: They're looking on they're looking on car Gurus and they're going, yeah,
Speaker 3: you know what, my my car is worth this much.
Speaker 3: It's like, well, i'd take a little bit less. Of course,
Speaker 3: they would keep your price, and all the owner all
Speaker 3: the other owners are like, yeah, get your high end price.
Speaker 3: Because with the way you've run that this team. We
Speaker 3: know our team is gonna be worth way more.
Speaker 2: Isn't that crazy? They were purchased in nineteen eighty four
Speaker 2: from Calvin Griffith, that's who sold the club to Carl
Speaker 2: Pohlad in forty four million. You guys in nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 2: Let's just say they split the difference and get one
Speaker 2: point six billion. Don't tell me these owners don't have
Speaker 2: money to spend on their teams. I'm not saying that
Speaker 2: that that the twins aren't spending. What I'm saying is
Speaker 2: you have the money.
Speaker 4: By the way, the Griffith family is I know with
Speaker 4: the family. They some of their family members live in Orlando,
Speaker 4: their friends of mine that I grew up with. And yeah,
Speaker 4: they made a bad decision to sell, and they did
Speaker 4: because let's not forget they also won World Series right
Speaker 4: after they sold, So yeah, they have family. The poor
Speaker 4: Griffith family. No, I don't know if they have two
Speaker 4: hundred million, but they're not poor. But it's just kind
Speaker 4: of funny. I don't know. I mean, yeah, it's what
Speaker 4: krat said though. If you can get Listen price it
Speaker 4: at two billion, maybe someone's dumb enough to come in
Speaker 4: and get you a two billion. I don't know why not.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think teams are worth It's like I
Speaker 4: always say with houses, like your house is worth what
Speaker 4: someone offers you is a free agent, You're worth what
Speaker 4: a team offers. You send your market at seven hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty million, you might get it if you're want so,
Speaker 4: you might get seven ard and sixty five. Who knows,
Speaker 4: just some team might be out there that I'll do
Speaker 4: it for it