WEBVTT - You Asked, We Answered 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:13.280 Hi, everybody. 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:16.560 Welcome to The Philly Show with Ruben Tomorrow, Junior, Jim Salidberry. 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:20.640 I am Todd so lucky. It's Friday, May seventeenth, twenty 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:23.000 twenty four. The Phillies won three of four in a 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:25.640 rare home and home series against the Mets. They lost 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:28.600 Thursday night in eleven innings. They still have the best 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:31.800 record in baseball. Before we get going, guys, I wanted 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:35.800 to announce that The Phillies Nation TV Show debuts on Saturday, 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:39.120 May twenty fifth on NBC Sports Philadelphia, and we will 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:43.040 be making weekly appearances on it. They'll be using some 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:46.720 of the podcast. We'll be making appearances with Greg Murphy 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:50.960 and Sam Stafford. 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We're not going 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:17.440 to get to them all, but we got some good ones. 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:20.839 So Taiwan Walker takes a line drive or he takes 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:23.600 a ball off his left big toe X rays our negative. 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:25.760 It's his landing foot. 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:30.120 Explain how concerning this might be, you know, you know, 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:31.919 if he can't if he can't go. 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:35.200 Well, he had to come out of the game, so 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.959 that's concern right there. But afterwards both he and Rob 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:42.040 Thompson kind of downplayed it a little bit. I'm sure, 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:46.600 excuse me, I'm sure Taiwan Walker will be champing at 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:48.680 the bit to get back out there because there's a 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:53.360 guy kind of nipping at his heels in Spencer Turnbull, 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:57.440 who you know. I think they've succeeded in keeping him 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:04.320 mostly stretched innings the other night on what Wednesday night, 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:11.440 So if Taiwan Walker can't go, his next turn Turnbook 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:13.880 will slide in there. But with an off day on Monday, 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.680 they could also skip that spot, giving Walker a little 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:21.480 bit more time, so they have options on how to 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:27.320 handle this depending on the severity. I don't think it's severe. 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:31.560 But as we've talked about Rubin and Todd, I mean something, 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:34.000 you know that we were talking about six pictures for 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.320 five spots and how it was a good problem and 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:40.600 something will manifest itself, something will present itself where that 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:47.079 extra guy will indeed find himself getting plenty of work. 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:52.040 And you know, this could be that situation coming about 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:53.040 right before our eyes. 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:57.760 And we had the most durable five man rotation through 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:02.560 like seven through through twenty eleven. I mean, these guys 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.960 posted all the time, and we still had depth problems. 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:09.799 I mean, you can absolutely never have enough starting pitching. 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.240 You're gonna have to have eight or ten guys at 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:14.720 some point who are going to take the baseball to 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:18.600 start a baseball game. So, you know, I think time 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:20.360 wa Walker is a pretty tough guy. When he first 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.120 got hit, I thought maybe it was just a glancing, 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:27.760 glancing blow. But but you know, it's one of those 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:29.760 things where when you first get hit, it sort of 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:32.399 gets numb real fast. And then he started walking off 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.400 and then then the shortness came in and it was 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.440 pretty obvious that that he got poked pretty pretty uh 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.200 pretty badly. Otherwise he would not have come out of 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:43.400 this game. This guy's a competitor, man. I like. I 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:45.160 like the way he goes about his business. I mean, 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.680 you could say what you want about Taiwan Walker that 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.720 you know, he's he's you know, he's the IRA's high 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:52.880 and this, that and the other. Well, uh, he wants 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:55.000 to compete, he wants to be out there first teammates, 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:58.160 great teammate and uh and you're right, Jim, this guy 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:01.160 is not gonna want to miss any starts. He's gonna 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.960 want to pitch, and for for a variety of reasons. 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:07.400 One pride, too, because he's a good teammate, and three 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:09.680 because he wants he wants to win. I mean, it's 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:11.920 the guy who wants to I love guys who want 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:14.560 the baseball. And you know there's an issue about him, 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.760 you know, him getting upset about not pitching in the 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.920 playoffs last year. Well guess what I like that. I 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:22.800 like the fact that he felt like he was dis 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:26.400 because he wants to pitch. And that's and that's and 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:29.280 that's exactly what you want in uh, in your starters 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:31.719 and anybody on the field. You want people to compete. 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:35.240 One of the most important parts of being a champion 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:36.719 is how well you compete. 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.440 So you guys, show me. I'm just gonna say, show 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.320 me a guy who's happy to be sidelines, and I 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:42.680 will show you a loser. 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:46.400 That's right, that's right, great point. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:47.320 Uh. 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.360 Are you guys surprised that Trey Turner is already out 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:55.400 jogging taking ground balls. I've never blown out a hammy, Jimmy, 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:56.400 You've blown out of hammy? 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:00.680 I did, I did. I thought I was dead. Were 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:02.760 you there that you were there that day? Right? No? 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:04.679 No, this is before I started covering the games. 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:07.880 God. So I'll tell you this quick story. It was 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:11.520 the last year of Veterans Stadium and they put in 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:13.880 remember the ruben, you guys put in a new turf 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:15.280 and it had some depth to it. 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:17.880 Yes, I had a lot to do with that putting 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:19.880 in that turf. I was like on the committee. 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:23.560 So the old stuff was this matted down concrete astro 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.359 turf right correct, And then they put in so the 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:27.440 Eagles were moving on call. 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:29.960 It was called next Turf, I believe, Next turf. 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:31.120 And it had a little give to it, and it 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:34.320 had a little length so you could actually bunt. But anyway, 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:38.600 I wanted to do a story on it. So they 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:40.960 also put it in at the half field in clear 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:44.479 Water behind Jack Russell Stadium. So I wanted to do 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:49.520 a story on how it played. So John Bukovich offered 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:52.240 to hit me some ground balls and hit me a 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.000 few at third base and you know, flip them over. 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:57.039 He was pretty And let me just say this, I 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.000 watched him witnesses. Jimmie's a pretty good damn good athlete. 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:02.680 He is well, I mean, Neil, we could talk about 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:05.159 him catching Billy Wagner and all that stuff, but the 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:07.479 fact that the fact that he I mean, his his 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:09.600 movements and all of his actions and that kind of 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.400 stuff pretty damn good. I mean, I was like, whoa, 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:14.000 look at this little dude. 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:18.280 Well that was before I put on fifty pounds and 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.880 I'm kidding. But anyway, so anyway, it takes him at 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:24.960 third base. Bukevich says, go over to the shortstop, and 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.600 now he starts moving me around, and he hits one 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.719 sort of up the middle, and I range over and 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:36.839 I plant my left leg hard on the turf and 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.039 I reached to grab the ground ball and I just 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.599 went down. It was like when they shoot the elephant 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:45.919 with the tranquilizer guns and boom, I go down. My 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:50.239 nose is flat in the turf, and the only thought 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:53.360 I had in my head was you stupid son of 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:55.880 a bitch. You just blew out your knee or something, 0:06:55.920 --> 0:07:00.160 you know, And honestly, my whole leg went numb and 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:04.040 I barely could get up. And it turned out I 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:12.520 had my hamstring had blown apart or something, and just really, 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.480 you know, it stayed for a long time. And I 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:20.320 remember later that spring, I was kind of walking around 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.480 on a pair of shorts and I had a big 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:26.400 mass of blood behind my knee. And Jeff Cooper says, 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:29.040 what the hell happened to you? The old trainer? And 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.920 I said, I think I pulled my hamstring. He goes, 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:35.640 you did more than pull it. You tore that thing, 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:39.000 so they hurt. But anyway, this is about Trey Turner. 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:42.440 He seems to be he seems to be coming along quick. 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:46.360 No, no question. And listen, I pulled hamstrings not often, 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.920 but I recently pulled a hamstring as I've gotten older. Now, obviously, 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:54.640 when you're younger yourselves, you know, replicate quicker, you get 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:58.960 back quicker. Your your body recovers much better. And clearly 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:02.800 he's recovering much better than than than we would. But 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.120 it just I just pulled my hamstring playing pick a 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:09.080 ball with Paul Holmgren. Like last year, it took me 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.600 almost eight or nine months to feel like I could 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:15.560 actually do something. I mean, it was really weird. I 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:17.960 felt like I actually felt it, like I pulled it 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:21.160 off the bone. And it was like a almost a 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.560 year before I actually could get on the pickle ball 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.080 court again. Kind of sad, but we saw one. 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:28.760 We saw one get pulled off the bone. Todd in Milwaukee, 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:32.080 remember with Charlie Morton. Oh yeah, oh my gosh, I 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:35.440 mean you talk about going down. Yeah, and he he 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:37.280 pulled the ham. He missed the whole season. He had 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.959 to have it surgically and reattached. Yeah, and he's come 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.800 back to pitches pretty well, but tough injury, Thank goodness, 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:48.599 Trey Turner's because he's so important. Thank goodness, wasn't uh, 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:51.120 you know, serious, because he's out, like you said, taking 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:54.680 ground balls, he's running, he's throwing, and you know, he 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.679 kind of is wearing the body language to me of 0:08:57.760 --> 0:08:59.880 a guy who thinks he's going to be back sooner 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.360 then later. Now, I know they've built up a cushion, 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.880 a lot of padding with the victories and the quick start, 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:07.960 so they can afford to be conservative with an important player, 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:09.960 but I still get the feeling he might be ahead 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:10.760 of time schedule. 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.240 You got an MVP player sitting on the bench. Man. 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.240 I picked this guy to be the MVP, and he 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.840 has MVP type talent, and so when you're missing a 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:21.959 guy like that, that's huge and you don't want to 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.000 miss him for so long. And the fact that it's 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.960 my concern is that speed is so much of a 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:31.280 part of his game and his ability to range and 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:34.880 do other things that hopefully doesn't take away from all 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:36.240 those abilities of the adds. 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:39.880 So let's hear. So we got some reader questions. 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.080 This one, this first one isn't a reader question, but 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.840 I stumbled upon it last night. I was going through 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.920 my Facebook and I found this on a Facebook message 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:49.840 I sent some time over the last week. 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:50.920 Give people an. 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:54.280 Idea of some of the messages I get. This is This 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:54.679 is the. 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:57.800 Parsing some of it down here. 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:02.440 Dude, you're writing is getting awful again. Why don't you 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:07.400 really analyze, really analyze castianos in Schwarber's numbers. This is 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:10.280 from a guy named Lee, And the only thing I 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:13.400 can say to this guy Lee is you know the 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:16.560 Phillies are thirty one and fourteen, Bro, they're six eighty nine. Oh, 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.320 winning percentage is on pace for one hundred and twelve games. 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.960 Kyle Schwarber's hitting the ball, okay, the last seventeen games. 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.120 Nick Castianis has picked it up a little bit. 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:25.680 I think now. 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:28.160 I started actually, in all seriousness, I tried to think 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.719 what this guy was referring to. And the only thing 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:35.400 I can think I can think of is Wednesday's Phillies 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.559 Beat newsletter. I wrote a little bit about Kyle Schwarber's 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.160 bat speed, and now he's got the third fastest bat 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.199 speed in baseball, which I thought doesn't mean anybody is 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.480 a great hitter or a bad hitter. I just thought 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:48.920 it was interesting because I always said to myself, man, 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:51.040 I bet you this guy. I can't think of too 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:53.680 many players in baseball that actually swing the bat faster 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:55.840 than him as consistently as him. 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:56.959 And I just thought it was. 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:58.880 Kind of cool that this new metrics showed that the 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:00.679 eye test matched the actual data. 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:06.120 So well, imagine that. Imagine that, imagine the eye test 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:09.280 actually matching the data. I mean, listen, I think it's 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.559 great that they have all this information and all this 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:14.320 you know, now they can track bat speed and and 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:16.560 that kind of stuff. But let me just tell you something. 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.200 As a scout, I know whether guy's quick with his bat, 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:22.000 and that's bat speed because I can see it with 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:25.000 my eyes. Okay, I don't need to see it. I 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:26.640 don't need and I can see the way the ball 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:29.680 comes off the bat. That's how you measure bat speed. 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:33.199 And and and it's great for the lay person now 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.000 to be able to see what it is because you 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:38.040 have you know, stat cast stuff on it or whatever 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:43.520 or whatever it is. But that said, you know, that's 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:45.280 that's the job of the scout, and it's been the 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:47.959 job of the scout for a thousand years. And I'm 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:50.160 not surprised that Kyles war is one of the fastest 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:52.040 one so it gets through the zone. 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:58.240 Two quick things. One Todd Selek is my first read 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:05.720 every morning, probably three hundred days a year, and enjoyable 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:12.400 and informative. And two dovetailing off what you said, Reuben. Yesterday, 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:15.800 in the dugout before the game at Citizens Bank Park, 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:19.400 Rob Thompson was asked about Johann Rojas and he dropped 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.679 two balls on Wednesday night in center field and somebody 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.719 offered that, you know his defensive metrics, some of his 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:31.880 advanced defensive defensive metrics are down, and Thompson extinguished that 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:35.640 talk in a hurry, saying he does not believe in 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.720 defensive metrics. I was actually surprised to hear it, because 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:43.240 he does embrace a lot of that modern you know, 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:46.120 a lot of modern analytics. He's what I would call 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:50.200 analytically literate. And I do think this stuff he believes in, 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.319 and I do think there are stuff, there is stuff 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:55.280 that should be believed in this. It just has to 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.520 be kind of a balance. But he said he does 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:01.120 not believe in defensive metrics. When it comes to defense, 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:05.480 his number one metric is his eyes. And you know 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:09.360 he looks at Johann Rojas's getting to more balls than others, 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:12.880 and yes he dropped a couple over ran him, maybe whatever, 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:15.319 but he will get better. But it was quite interesting 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:18.640 to hear Rob Thompson say he doesn't believe in defensive metrics. 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:20.360 He trusts his eyes. And that kind of picks up 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:22.920 on what Rubin was saying. And I'm sure what you 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:24.679 were kind of writing that day, Todd. 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:27.439 Hey, let me tell you something about the defensive metrics. 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.760 I had Jackie Bradley and Mookie Betts in the outfield 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:35.000 in Boston and they had terrible and not Mookie and 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:36.920 right because he had a lot of space out there. 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:41.959 But the metrics on Jackie Bradley Junior were like awful 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.760 that he was one of the worst center fielders in baseball, 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:46.800 and you want to know why because he had a 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:48.800 short fence and he couldn't get to the balls that 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:54.120 hit off off that freaking green monster and so balls 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.480 that everybody else would catch in every other stadium, and 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.120 they didn't have factor those things in And I'm like, guys, 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:03.200 this is the best center fielder in baseball. I mean 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:06.400 no disrespect to to other guys in it, but but 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.880 instinctively one of the best I've ever seen. I mean 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:11.880 the guy in Toronto now who used to be in 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:16.640 Tampa Bay and brain locking on his name, Uh no, no, no, Kevin, 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:20.800 Kevin Kiermyer, yep. I mean obviously one of the better 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:22.880 ones as well, and they always sort of battle each other. 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:27.840 But defensive metrics, as far as I'm can start, eyeballs, man. 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:29.600 I think I think, I think that might be the 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:31.720 first on the Phillies show. 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:32.440 That's it. 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:34.680 That's the first one, and then the second one. 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:38.640 Is a is a right handed This is somebody a 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:42.160 decap twenty on Instagram. Is a right handed, high leverage 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:46.160 reliever the Phillies' biggest potential need at the trade deadline. 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:49.760 I mean to me, probably yes. Probably as I sit 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:52.840 here right now, I would say maybe yes, because you 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.080 know they do come at you with some left handed 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.160 thunder down there would be nice to balance it off. Now, 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:59.520 I do think if Sir Anthony gets it together, it 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:01.520 couldmit get that. Yeah. 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:03.880 I think I think Sir Anthony's that's that. 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:07.800 That's the key right now is you know, Hoffman's pitched 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:12.520 mostly great, Kirkering's showed very well. Sir Anthony's struggled a 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.800 little bit. You know, Slider hasn't been as great this year. 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:17.760 He's I think he's given up three home runs off 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:18.280 his slider. 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:19.200 He don't think. 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:20.960 I think he gave up like four in his entire 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.600 career office slider going into this season. So he's got 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:25.880 to clean that up a little bit. But yeah, I mean, 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:28.360 I think when you look at this team, you don't 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:30.160 really see a lot of huge needs other than you 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.120 can always add a bullpen piece, right Ruby. I mean, 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.120 that seems to be the thing to go to if 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:37.000 you don't have something major on your you know, your 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:38.920 everyday lineup that you're trying to fill. You don't have 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:40.720 a gaping hole, and I don't think this team does. 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.560 The rotation is obviously solid. You're not gonna go out 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.360 and get a start unless there's a major injury. So 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:48.000 I think you go, let's throw in another high quality arm. 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:52.120 Now, I think that's absolutely right. Right now, Dave Dombrowski 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:56.120 has the the cushion he had. He's in a situation 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:58.920 that's almost ideal as a GM because now you can 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:02.200 sit back and wait and see what happens up until 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:05.520 the deadline, and then now it's a very firm deadline, 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:08.080 so you have to pick and choose your spots well. 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.200 But right now they're not in a situation where they 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:15.040 have any pressing needs. I would always, you know, err 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:18.520 on the side of pitching every single time, whether it's 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:20.960 a starter or reliever, whatever kind of depth you can 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.320 you can add. The one thing I will say about 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.560 this is is this, at some point they're going to 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:29.480 have a need and hopefully, you know, another hamstring or 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:31.880 a knee or whatever the case may be, doesn't happen. 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:36.680 That said, I love the fact that Kirker Ing struck 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:43.520 out three guys yesterday with his fastball. Yes, because he's 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:46.640 a slider, slider, slider guy, and I think he's starting 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.040 to understand that he's got to utilize it. Those a 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:51.720 ninety eight mile hour fastball with some hop to it, 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:56.360 and so he's starting to command that pitch better. And 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:58.280 the fact that he struck out three guys with with 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:01.000 those with that fastball's great for his confidence. And I 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.320 think it's going to take him to another level because 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:08.520 now he's got real, two real weapons that he can 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:10.920 rely on and uh, and I think he's gonna take 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:14.440 that step forward. I do think that Sir Anthony needs 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.120 to find his confidence. I saw some better sliders out 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.040 of him. He's starting to get a little bit more 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:21.800 depth out of him. Uh. In his last outing, it 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:23.520 was a it was a solid one and that's a 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:26.800 that's a good sign. It wasn't a high leverage situation. 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:30.000 But that said, I mean he got the he got 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:34.080 the baseball and and pitched pretty well. So if they 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.800 can get those three guys going, because Hoffmin has done 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:39.919 a nice job, not notwithstanding what would happened last night, 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:42.440 because I think he was wasn't very sharp handed, pitched 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:45.280 for like three or four days. I think they're I 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:47.280 think they're gonna be just fine as far as your 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:49.800 bullpen is concerned. I think it's it's actually been really 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:51.280 good since May first, real good. 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:52.399 Yeah, they've been pitching. 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.320 They have been pitching a lot better than their overall 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:59.200 Like a would indicate, oh yeah, uh, a quarter of 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:02.679 the way through the sea. What individual or team stat 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:04.399 jumps out at you so far? This is from our 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:07.719 buddy Pat Kritz, who designed the logo you see on 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:10.720 the screen there. So and you guys don't have the 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:13.320 benefit of looking up at some stats right in front 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:16.400 of you, So what performance? 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:17.040 What overall? 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:19.000 And you kind of know the gist of who's having 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.640 a good season who's not. What would you guys say, 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.520 what jumps out at you the most? And let's say this, 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:27.520 don't mention starting rotation. Let's take the starting rotation out 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:30.040 of the equation. The rotation has been amazing. We all 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:33.879 know it. They're fantastic. Other than the rotation, what individual 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.600 stat or team stat really kind of sticks out to you, guys? 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:40.800 You know, I might again, I don't have access to 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:43.760 a lot of stuff on my computer right now, but 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:46.600 one thing that's jumped out to me really since he 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:49.040 arrived in Philadelphia is the way Alec Baum hits with 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:51.880 men on base, and another hit with men on base 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:55.560 last night as they kind of monted a comeback. It's 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:58.200 kind of uncanny. It's really a great skill to have. 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:00.760 They were two for fifteen with run as scoring position 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:02.800 last night. They could have used a lot more from 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:05.520 other people. But you know, I just every time I 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:07.840 lift my head up, he's getting another big hit with 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:09.840 men on base. And I'm sorry, I don't have the 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:11.439 numbers in front of me to quantify it, but it 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:14.439 just seems like he's really good at that. There was 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:18.560 one number I looked at this morning. Do you know currently, 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:21.320 as we sit here at four am on a Friday morning, 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:26.800 we like to we like to tape really early. They 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:30.400 have just been this narrative. They haven't beaten anybody, and 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:34.560 you know, I understand it. It's a weak National League. 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:38.679 As we sit here right now, they have only played 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:41.400 three games against teams who have a better than five 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:44.440 hundred record. Right currently, only three of the teams they've 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:47.400 played have a better than five hundred record. That's that's 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:48.200 something as well. 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:52.320 No that is something. It is something that said, and 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:55.840 there's some bad baseball out there. There's some really mediocre 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:58.199 baseball out there. Just in general. You just watch the 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:01.320 teams that are playing. I mean, Washington Nationals, we saw 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:04.119 him earlier, We're going to see him this weekend. You know, 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:07.320 they're what one or two or three games under five hundred. Yeah, 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:09.399 I mean that's a team that I don't know in 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:12.520 a typical season. I know that they're rebuilding and they're 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:15.159 they're young players are getting better. That's a team that 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:17.800 typically would be like eight or ten games under five hundred. 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:20.160 I think at this stage, just looking at their talent, 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:22.000 I'm not trying to miss them. I just don't feel 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:24.760