WEBVTT - 1148 | MLB Weekend Roundup: Recapping Every MLB Game + Red Sox & Nationals Trade! 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:19.400 It's time the Stela Crackers bring. 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:33.880 We will see you to's the Gunner. 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:41.400 Welcome one, hang Out, Welcome to the Just Baseball Show. 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:45.240 It is Sunday, July twenty six. That's Jackie Fallon. I'm 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:48.120 Peter apple Jack. Get those damn fingers ready because it's 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:53.880 time for the weekend round up, where we recapped every 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:58.400 game that was over the past weekend with plenty of takeaways. 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:02.280 But first we're gonna start with a big time trade. 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:06.720 Connolly Early is headed over to the Washington Nationals, Curtis 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:08.959 Mead is a Boston Red Sox, and it's all brought 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:11.560 to you by bet MGM. 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Yeah, a lot of baseball to cover. 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:43.959 I want to start with the trade, and I want 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:47.760 to start with your first reaction to the Curtis Mead 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:53.680 for Connolly early trade? Was it the last time Curtis 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:56.320 Mead was traded for a lefty? Was Christopher Sanchez? Was 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:57.520 that your first reaction? 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:00.800 No? My first reaction was, wasn't this guy in like 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:05.400 March and the answers yes, and the White Sox what 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:08.560 dfa'd him? And then Washington picked him up, and I 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.359 thought Mead was gonna be one of those guys that 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:12.160 was just gonna bounce a round, bounce around, and then 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:15.080 all of a sudden, somebody's gonna outright him. But Mead 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:18.280 blossomed into one of the better short platoon bats in baseball, 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:21.040 and he pushed the point where Brady House was sent 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:24.200 to Rochester and House credit to him in his first 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:27.320 game back from Triple A after the Mead trade, doubles twice. 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:30.440 He was two for four. So House was a guy that, 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:34.200 like Washington, could have absolutely taken their lumps and run 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.160 him out at third base every day. But Mead, with 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.559 the way he swung the bat early earned the opportunity 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:40.280 to play every. 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:41.040 Day at third base. 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:43.920 He has not been a good defensive third baseman, but 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:48.959 he was someone that thrusted himself into this newfound riches 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:50.919 approach to the Washington National. 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:51.359 Season this year. 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.440 I think Paul Tiboni is doing backflips right now because 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:58.359 while Wood is a possible future MVP playing like a 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:02.680 possible future MVP, Abrams has gone beyond, honestly anything that 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:04.040 I had forecasted for him. 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:04.680 I knew CJ. 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:06.480 Abrams was a good player, I didn't know he was 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.480 this and especially doing this after the break is great. 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.000 Foster Griffin felt like that could have been a good 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.600 signing this offseason. I didn't know he'd be like this. 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:17.720 Cavally I figure fully healthy Kvali for a year, it 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:19.799 could be solid. I didn't know it could look like this. 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:25.880 There are a lot of, I guess like unredeeming qualities 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.440 of the Nationals, their bullpen being first and foremost and 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.760 then sixty percent of their rotation. But the end of 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:35.160 the day, like they have found so many newfound riches 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:38.400 this year, and Mead was probably the most house money 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:41.200 of them. All so, for a guy that's been designated 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:44.720 for assignment this year and was picked up this year, 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:46.760 the fact that you can turn him into one of 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:49.640 the brighter young left handed pitchers in Major League Baseball 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:52.400 is amazing. And I don't think I'm being hyperbolic, but 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.000 I call Connolly Early that when he's been on the 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:58.520 mound in his major league career, this guy's been really good. 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.760 Connie Early threw his ass off in the Wildcard Series. 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.200 We've talked about that. Schlitler was just better in the 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:07.400 wild Card Series last year. Early coming back from elbow 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.000 inflammation like he'll be back, he'll be ready to make 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.080 some starts for Washington, it seems like in mid to 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.440 late August, and then push in September. With them, this 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.360 felt like a mutually beneficial deal because they were both 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:20.000 trading from. 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:20.920 A place of surplus. 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:23.559 And that was immediately like my stream of consciousness thought 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.400 at midnight last night when I was sitting there, and 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.080 then I had fun with the Christopher Sanchez thing. 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.320 So I want to throw another question to you, but 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:33.200 real quick, I want to read this comment from our 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:36.520 YouTube comment section. It comes to us from Joe Davis 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:39.039 three to one two started watching you guys a few 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:41.000 years ago when I was trying to get into baseball. 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:42.960 You guys have turned me into a huge fan of 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.400 the game and your passion is so great to listen to. 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.800 Keep it up. Really appreciated, Joe, and thank you to 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.719 everybody joining us here live on YouTube. The best way 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.560 to support this show just by smashing like button and 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.480 subscribe button, and if you're listening to us on audio 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:59.120 after the fact, same thing, leaving a five star review 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.159 would be very, very helpful. So you did say that 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.200 it was you thought it was mutual, both teams trading 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:07.880 from a surplus, that overall you like it for both sides, 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:11.280 but you did focus primarily on the Connolly Early side, 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:13.000 because I know you're a big fan of Connolly Early, 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:14.839 and who isn't He's pitched to a three four four 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.320 ERA this season. I think he's one of five pictures 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:19.279 podcast Peak. Can you pull it up from our brilliant 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:22.960 Twitter team, they put out that Connolly Early since he debuted, 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.440 is one of five left handed starters who has a 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.920 strikeout per nine over nine meaning one batter per nine 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:32.320 inning and an ERA below three five zero. So really 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:37.120 really start solid start to Connolly Early's career. But it 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:40.400 seems like you like it more for the Nationals. Would 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:41.600 that be fair to say. 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:46.080 I am buying what Paul Tiboni is selling right now. 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:48.680 Yes, I like it more for Washington. Yeah. I think 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:50.720 it's really good process too, Like the fact that they 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.599 picked up Curtis Meade for basically nothing and we're able 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.760 to then flip him to the Red Sox for a 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:58.840 picture of Connolly Early's caliber. 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:01.280 And a guy that Tiboni tried. Guys that to BONI 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.039 know as well. Obviously he came from the Boston Red 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:04.919 Sox organization. 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:06.799 You know what was really cool too. I was listening 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.960 to a clip where Paul Deboni was being interviewed about 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:14.080 the trade, and they asked, because you know Early so much, 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:17.240 did it make this trade any easier? And he actually 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:21.320 said no, it made it harder. Because I didn't want 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:25.000 to influence the rest of the room into how much 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:27.920 I liked this guy, so I just basically shut up 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:30.559 and let the rest of them come to their own 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:33.640 conclusions about Connolly Early. I thought that was some really 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.920 cool insight. You never really hear that so real quick. 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:38.640 If you are a Nationals fan, like you've got to 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:40.280 be over the moon at the job that this guy 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:43.479 has done so far. The coolest thing that I've heard 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.520 Peter Bendix say, the Marlins president of baseball operations, is 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:48.880 I'm aware of what I don't know and what I 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:52.320 may not be best at, and he surrounds himself. And 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:54.200 here's the note from our Twitter team, kind of the 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.279 early made his major league debut on September ninth of 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.520 last year, one of only five left handed starters since 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.360 that day with me below three five and more than 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.360 a punch out per inning. So yeah, Washington certainly got 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:05.800 a good one. 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.200 But one of the favorite things that I've heard Peter 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.840 Bendix say for the last year and a half of 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:14.720 just getting to work for the Marlins is he is 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:18.680 very acutely aware of what he doesn't know and how 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:21.440 he can surround himself with people who do know it. 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:25.600 And I think Paul Timony stems from a similar line 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:28.120 of thinking, where he's going to defer to the group 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:31.120 and he trusts the people that he hires. Like at 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:33.440 the end of the day, that's kind of leadership one 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.200 oh one. Make sure that weaknesses are covered by the 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:39.000 people that you hire, so you are the best organization 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:41.200 is humanly possible. I think the Marlins are doing a 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:43.080 really good job of that. I think Paul Timoney and 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.280 Washington is doing a really good job of that. Tampa 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:48.000 has been doing that forever, Milwaukee, Cleveland, there are a 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:52.360 whole bunch of examples. Dodgers can't leave them out. Washington 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.400 looks like a well oiled machine. 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.320 In the early goings, no doubt about it. I think 0:07:57.360 --> 0:07:59.000 the Nationals did well. I want to get that out 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:00.520 of the way. But what I will say say is 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:04.440 I put out a video today saying that I think 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:06.040 the Red Sox are going to get the better end 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:09.680 of this deal. Now, what I will say is the 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:13.120 Nationals got the higher floor. I think Connolly early at 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:16.040 the worst, is going to be a four starter. Remember 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.280 when he had when we had him on the show, 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:21.960 and the biggest thing that jumped out to me was 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:25.080 how mature he was. Right, he's twenty four. Now, this 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:27.480 was back in November when he was twenty three years old. 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:31.080 How fearless he was not surprising that he was unfazed 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:34.480 at Yankee Stadium. Has this military background. It's like you 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:38.760 just couldn't get this guy to get out of his 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:42.199 own zone, which I think is excellent makeup for a 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.280 starter long term. Right, He's not going to get too 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:46.439 high and he's not going to get too low. And 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.400 the Nats absolutely need young, controllable pitching. And I think 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.880 his floor is really really high. I don't know what 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.200 the high end Connolly early looks like. Right. Do you 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:57.480 even look at the three four four era? Right now? 0:08:57.880 --> 0:08:59.959 You look at his sierra, it's like four oh three 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:04.200 and a couple other underlying metrics and probably the next fips, Yeah, exactly, 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.960 like a four to two. I think that's probably where 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:09.240 he ends up as a pitcher. But he's still a 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.720 really damn good pitcher. Moving over to the Curtis Mead side, 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:17.600 this feels like a tangible change that is going to 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:21.319 continue now. Craig Breslo is making the bet that it will, 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:23.880 but I think i'd make the bet with him for 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:28.640 a couple of reasons. Number one, completely different play discipline 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.360 from year over year. Curtis Mead used to be a 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:34.080 guy who was swing happy, chase outside of the zone 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:37.199 a lot rock a strike rate in the mid twenty percents, 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:41.000 lower than average walk rate of just five percent. But 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.040 you see the jump up and walk rate to eleven 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.560 point nine percent. You see the decrease in strike out 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:48.960 rate to nineteen percent. This guy is just swinging a 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.160 lot less. I've heard a lot about the Brewers, and 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:54.199 there's some great YouTube videos online about the Brewers approach 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.280 and how they swing less than a lot of teams 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.640 and the routinely at the top of the league in 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.440 walk rate. And it's easy. Don't swing at bad pitches 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:03.880 outside of the zone, wait for your pitch inside the 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:06.360 zone and crush it. And that's exactly what Meat has 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.720 done this season. So he's even seen an uptick in 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:11.440 batted ball quality. But another reason I like the fit 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:14.880 in Fenway is his batted ball profile. It's a lot 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:18.679 of line drives to left field, and line drives to 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:21.280 left field when you're playing at Fenway with the Green 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:24.280 Monster is going to lead to a lot of doubles. 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.400 And so he's posted a one thirty five WRC plus 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.360 this season, which is thirty five percent better than league average. 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:33.440 But he's also rocking a babbep batting average on balls 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.000 and play less than two seventy. So I think there's 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.600 reason to believe that he could even have a better 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.240 end of the season than what he's done so far 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:45.080 with Washington. And you said earlier that he was a 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:48.000 strong or short side of the platoon guy, and I 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.240 think he was in the past. He was in the beginning, Yeah, exactly. 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:53.320 Give him a lot of credit. He's got an ops 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:56.520 over eight hundred against both righty's and lefties, so of 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:58.600 course he's going to crush lefties for the Red Sox. 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:01.360 But he is an e three day bat that can 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:04.640 perpetually be an eight hundred ohps guy, and I wouldn't 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:07.760 be surprised again to see twenty homers and thirty doubles 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.400 a season. Now. I think the defense is the big 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.000 question mark. You go to his savant profile and you 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:17.240 see like negative nine outs above average. I think he's 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:20.319 playing out of position right. Some of that's at first base, 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:22.959 some of that is at third base. He's actually graded 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.360 out above average when it comes to defensive run saved 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:28.440 when he was playing for Tampa at plus two. I 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:32.360 think ultimately he's going to be a passable defender where 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.360 you can kind of put him wherever, and he's going 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:38.079 to give you average, maybe slightly blow, maybe slightly above 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:41.600 in some spurts. But I just really believe in the bat. 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:45.000 I believe in the plate discipline changes, and I believe 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:48.200 in what's resulted in excellent quality of contact, and I 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:52.240 love the fit and Fenway. So it's riskier, which is 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:54.439 not surprising. I like the Red Sox side, you like 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:57.720 the National side, the way we think about baseball away, Yeah, 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:01.960 but I'm willing to take this rate. I think Breslo 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.520 is gonna get this one right ultimately, and I think 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:06.720 i'd rather have need long term. 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:10.959 We'll see it. Sounds like I'm saying this facetiously. I 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:15.240 promise I'm not What does this mean for Christian Campbell? 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:20.640 I'm being totally serious, and I'll take it a step 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.280 from what does this mean for Meyer? Like I'm I'll 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:25.559 take it as far as you want to take it. 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.280 But I think that the writing's on the wall for 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:32.480 Christian Campbell and he turns into one of those Miles Straw. Oh, 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.280 he's making this amount of money playing Triple A baseball. 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:38.840 It's really hard for me to figure out a way 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:43.840 with Mead and his four more years of control making 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.720 way for Christian Campbell again on big money and listen, 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:48.480 You're gonna find a way to get Campbell's bat in 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.560 the lineup if his bat is deemed major league quality. 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:55.120 But I mean, come on, man, Like, I'm looking at 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.160 the future of the Red Sox infield, and when we 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:01.679 were trying to paint the picture of Meyer and Campbell 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.360 holding down the infield while Roman's in the outfield, it 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:06.720 just doesn't really look like that anymore. It looks like 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:08.360 it's going to be Durbin at third. It looks like 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.640 it's going to be Meat at second, and you'll figure 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:13.760 the rest of it out, and Sadan's going to play center, 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:15.600 and Roman's going to be in a corner outfield spot. 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:17.120 Maybe a Bray is going to be in a corner 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:17.880 outfield spot. 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:18.960 It is. 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:23.280 It's really incredible the way the conversation around the Red 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:26.960 Sox infield has changed. Meat is an answer for them 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:28.840 long term. And I thought it was cool from the 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:31.480 Red Sox perspective, going to identify a guy instead of 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:34.000 like a rental that has an eight hundred ops, going 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.640 to identify a guy and paying for me because you 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.160 know you already have totally and you already have Jake Bennett. 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:41.320 I think the emergence of Jake Bennett made this thing 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:43.079 pretty easy for Breslo to stomach. 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.600 And say, yeah, you know what, let's do it. 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.640 Washington would probably tell you they would like Jake Bennett back, 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:51.679 but Paul Tivoni probably has a lot of faith in 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.840 the Luis Parles as well, and Tivone gets to reunite 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:57.120 with Connie Early. I do want to dissect this real 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:00.600 quick from the Washington side, and we'll go quick through 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:04.280 this series, I'm sure, but real quick from the Washington side. 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:07.320 They just can't pitch, like again, point blank period. They 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.680 can't pitch. Foster Griffin can pitch Kavali Ken. They're over 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:12.880 five hundred and they can't pitch. And I'm saying that 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:16.440 about twelve of the fourteen arms or eleven of the 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:21.320 thirteen arms that they have contractually obligated themselves too. And 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:23.320 now you get to add connollye Early with the fold. 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:25.800 If you give them a chance to win three out 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:27.880 of five days based on who the starting pitcher is 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:31.240 and they don't move Foster Griffin, this team can totally 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:32.400 be a wild card contender. 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:35.640 They're alive. They've won three straight series after the Ulstar 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:40.320 break again, still sit above five hundred. Real quick, though, 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:43.520 going back to Christian Campbell for a second, think he's 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:47.800 closer to the majors or double A. He's slugging three 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:48.720 twenty five check. 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:52.080 I think he's firmly planted at Polar Park in woostep. 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:55.160 I think he could be making ten million dollars a 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:59.000 year at Hya. No, that's me. It's me, But it's 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.600 just yes. With Campbell, it's just such a fall from grace. 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:05.360 But it was also the grace was so short. It 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:08.960 was like he had this unbelievable season in the minor leagues, 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:14.760 comes up, gets paid immediately, and then just falls kind 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:16.560 of goes to show a hard baseball is. It's like 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:20.520 you never really know. And again, going back to the trade, 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.320 the Red Sox are taking a risk with Meat, right, 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:27.920 he hadn't done anything until now. We'll see, so I 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:31.800 understand certainly why the Nationals did it. But I gotta 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.720 tell you, I think Brezlo is gonna get the right 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:36.880 one here. And I like Curtis Meat a lot. But 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:39.920 I think it's time to talk series, and we got 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:44.520 a banger series up. First, you're up Dodgers versus Mets. 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:48.400 Yes, sir, all right, So breaking this first one down. 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:50.680 The Dodgers did take two or three, Mets took the 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.680 series finale on Sunday, Game one went to the Dodgers 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:57.280 for to two, the only game in baseball where these 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:00.400 two teams did not wear the Hall of Fame weekend hats. 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:05.080 By the way, humongous congratulations to Carlos Beltron, to Andrew Jones, 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:08.360 to Jeff Kent and as well Joe Buck winning the 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:11.720 Ford Sea Frick Awards. So really cool to see all 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.160 the festivities in Cooperstown on Saturday and Sunday. 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:17.200 But real quick, quick, Joe Buck is my gout is 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.040 my gut? Just putting that out there. He's gut. He's awesome. 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:21.200 I think they're all great. 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:23.760 Only game in baseball again where they didn't wear the 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:26.520 Hall of Fame weekend hats because Emma Stone needed to 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:30.000 fill a film a rom com at the ballpark. The 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:33.200 rom com, apparently, is called The Catch and Google Gemini 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:34.760 the Ai thing on Google now. 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:35.920 Thanks Son Darpa. 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:39.320 Chai tells me that Hollywood insiders describe it as a mix. 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.440 Of Bull Durham and Nodding Hill. That's exciting. 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.800 Luis Robert open scoring with a solo shot. Francisco Albarez 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:47.480 also homered, but a paarasack Flies paved the way. For 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.160 a Kyle Tucker two run shot in the eighth inning. 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:53.240 Roki Sasaki really good start, seven innings a one run ball. 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:56.600 Roki Sasaki ended up punching out nine. It's one of 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:59.080 his better starts this year. Of course, he does it 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:01.200 against the Met offense. So we were talking about Rokie's 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:05.120 breakout after he shoved against the LA Angels. Game two 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:07.359 also went to the Dodgers, four to three. Back to 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.199 the Hall of Fame Caps, I guess Emmastona filmed her 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.360 scene that she needed a film. Kyle Tucker opened scoring 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:15.119 homering in his second game in a row for the 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:18.080 first time as an LA Dodger. RBI Ground Out Pass 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.360 Ball Title Bowl one a three run third inning for LA. 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.720 The Mets made it tight late, but Brock Stewart got 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:27.240 his first save since twenty twenty three and Yoshinobo Yamamodo 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:30.280 got win number eleven on his year. He fired six 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:33.040 innings of one run ball. Yama Moodo on the heels 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:36.680 of that complete game right against the Yankees, he throws. 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:40.119 He throws a seven innings at one run ball against 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:40.560 the Mets. 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:46.120 Game three went to the Mets eight to three. 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:48.160 The final score the Dodgers jumped out to a three 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:51.240 run lead, but Tyrone Taylor he blasted a three run 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.680 shot in the sixth Marcus Semion also a three run 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:57.199 home run in the seventh EMMT. Shechan his name's been 0:17:57.200 --> 0:17:59.359 thrown out a lot. He might have made his last 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.400 impression with the Dodgers. He threw five innings of one 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:05.600 run ball. So again, that is the series. Dodgers take 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:06.040 it to one. 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.520 Not a lot of takeaways from the series, just because 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:14.000 we know what the Dodgers are and unfortunately for the Mets, 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:15.960 we know who they are and they're out of it 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:18.480 and they're selling. It's been fun to see a couple 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:20.520 of other young bats. I really like aj Ewing at the 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:22.720 top of the lineup. It's nice to see Lindor, you 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:26.440 know hitting sucks. About the Sodo injury, what really can 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:29.000 you do? And we'll of course talk about the Mets 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:30.879 later this week when it comes to the trades. We 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:33.359 already talked about him last week. All that, but just 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:37.399 focusing on this series, I really have one takeaway. I 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:41.359 almost just want to workshop some thoughts because you know me, 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:45.680 I'm very opinionated. I don't know what to say about 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:49.840 Roki Sasaki. I don't know what to say because every 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.840 single time I watch a start where he dominates. Right, 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:55.040 if we're looking at that start, what was it against 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:58.360 the Angels? Again? I know it's the Angels, But that 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:01.080 day when he was throwing one hundred miles an hour 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:03.360 and that splitter was working, I said, it doesn't matter 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:05.159 if it was the Angels, nobody was gonna hit him. 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:08.520 That day, seven innings, two hits, a ton of k's 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:11.520 looked awesome. And then he has these starts where I 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:14.399 think you should be a bullpen arm. Why are you 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:17.720 in the rotation? What are the Dodgers doing? And then 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:19.359 he turns in a start like this against the Mets, 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:22.800 and I say, I think he's the third best pitcher 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:26.680 in this Dodgers rotation. But Yamamoto and Otai, I don't 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:31.199 know what to do with him because when he's great, 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:33.919 I want all I want to do is watch him. 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:36.840 And when he's bad, he is bad, and I get it. 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:40.240 He's still young, still maturing. The Dodgers are in a 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:43.200 position where they can handle some of his bad starts. 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:45.919 They'd take a loss whatever. I think. The Diamondbacks are 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:48.359 ten and a half games back then, so they could. 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:50.920 He's still on a minor league type deal. He's still 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:53.840 really young. They can afford to just let him run. 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:57.760