Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon in Baltimore, the Oriols ended a ten game
Speaker 1: stretch of games against the two best teams not just
Speaker 1: in their division, but in the American League. The Rays,
Speaker 1: the Yankees, and the Rays. They played for the last
Speaker 1: ten games. They lose Sunday against the Rays three to one,
Speaker 1: taping the show after that game five and five stretch
Speaker 1: in that ten game run, and now sixty three and
Speaker 1: sixty eight for the season ed Welcome into Berdland territory
Speaker 1: with Steve Maluski, Brad Brock, Tim Barbelace. This is how
Speaker 1: mediocre the American League is.
Speaker 2: Everybody.
Speaker 1: At the start of this ten game stretch, the Oriols
Speaker 1: were two out for the third wild card, trailing five teams,
Speaker 1: and so as of this morning, before this loss, they
Speaker 1: were one game out trailing three teams in going five
Speaker 1: and four. So you don't have to win a lot
Speaker 1: of games to gain ground in this media or race,
Speaker 1: but they did lose ten games off the calendar. How
Speaker 1: do you guys size up the whole stretch of the
Speaker 1: last ten games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think kind of going into it, you were
Speaker 3: hoping for six and four, and especially when they win
Speaker 3: the first three games of the ten, you're thinking, man,
Speaker 3: maybe if they go seven and three or something like that.
Speaker 3: But the five and five, I think you're still above water.
Speaker 3: You're still in the race, and you didn't go three
Speaker 3: and seven, you didn't go two and eight, So I
Speaker 3: think you kind of take the five and five. Yes,
Speaker 3: I think it's a little disappointing when you look at
Speaker 3: the winning the first three and then you finish kind
Speaker 3: of two and five in the last seven. But you
Speaker 3: know what, against the best teams in the American League
Speaker 3: five hundred, you're probably taken.
Speaker 4: You got to get your wins against everybody else.
Speaker 3: So that's kind of the way I look at it.
Speaker 5: It's sort of just been like the season, right, this
Speaker 5: roller coaster ride, and I think heading into this ten
Speaker 5: game stretch, I think you would take five and five
Speaker 5: going against two of the better teams in the American League.
Speaker 6: In the American League.
Speaker 5: But Brad, like you said, you know, expectations kind of
Speaker 5: changed and they ebb and flow throughout the season. So
Speaker 5: when you take the first three of the ten, yeah,
Speaker 5: you're getting greety and you're thinking, oh, it's got to
Speaker 5: be six wins at a minimum. Maybe you can go
Speaker 5: seven and three and really shock everybody. But it's just
Speaker 5: a lot of inconsistencies. And right now, you know, the
Speaker 5: O's kind of owned the Rays and the Yankees have
Speaker 5: kind of owned the Orioles, and it's just it ends
Speaker 5: up being a wash.
Speaker 6: It ends up being a five and five stretch.
Speaker 1: So today the storyline was familiar. Unfortunately for Shane Boz
Speaker 1: who has luck this year, it's just all bad. And
Speaker 1: today he's pitching a gem nothing, nothing to the six
Speaker 1: two outs, nobody on. He's rolling through six scoreless. When
Speaker 1: that ground balls hit to the left of Jackson Holiday
Speaker 1: was hit one hundred and eight, so yeah, that's some
Speaker 1: pace on it.
Speaker 2: It looked at a boll. Jackson didn't get it.
Speaker 1: That led to three runs being scored, and the Orioles
Speaker 1: on a day they get two hitch loose three to one.
Speaker 1: I say that was not routine. It was a little
Speaker 1: north of routine. But what did not take an exceptional play.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to score an air obviously,
Speaker 1: then Jackson's gonna probably tell us he should have had
Speaker 1: that ball.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's kind of what it comes down to.
Speaker 3: It wasn't the easiest play, but you think a normal
Speaker 3: major or I would say, like above average major league infielders,
Speaker 3: they make that play, and I think Jackson would say
Speaker 3: he probably should have had it.
Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, when you're.
Speaker 3: Pitching, you're on the mound, it's one hit, you know,
Speaker 3: and then you just got to get out of the inning.
Speaker 3: It's a single into right field and not a huge deal.
Speaker 3: Shane would probably say, he's just got to get out
Speaker 3: of that inning, but unfortunately he just he's running into
Speaker 3: bad luck. Like you said, Steve, It's just blows my mind.
Speaker 3: It's one of those weird baseball anomalies where certain pitchers
Speaker 3: just do not get run support. And today he pitched
Speaker 3: well enough to get a win and they didn't score
Speaker 3: a run for him. And it's just kind of been
Speaker 3: the stretch he's had all year. The fact that he's
Speaker 3: four and fourteen on the season with how well he's
Speaker 3: been pitching just doesn't make any sense to me. And
Speaker 3: it's just kind of one of those weird baseball stats
Speaker 3: that I feel like happens to at least somebody on
Speaker 3: a team every single year, and Shane Boz it just
Speaker 3: happens to be him this year.
Speaker 5: It's like such an extreme guys, you know next year
Speaker 5: he's due for so much run support, right, people has
Speaker 5: to swing so bad in the right direction in twenty
Speaker 5: twenty seven for Shane Boz, but Madison, they kept flashing
Speaker 5: so many different graphics today when it comes to Shane
Speaker 5: Boz and his outings, and I was shocked by.
Speaker 6: All of them.
Speaker 5: In his last twelve starts, the Orioles have given them
Speaker 5: fifteen runs of support and the one that really jumped
Speaker 5: out to me, guys, they're two and nine when Shane
Speaker 5: Boz has a quality start two and nine, there's thirty
Speaker 5: one and nine when anyone else has a quality start
Speaker 5: on this staff.
Speaker 6: So it's bizarre.
Speaker 5: You know, he's given up the most unearned runs on
Speaker 5: the team, but he's been a bulldog and he's really
Speaker 5: I don't think he's really had it affect him in
Speaker 5: a negative way because he still goes out there every fifth,
Speaker 5: sixth day and you know what you're getting out of him.
Speaker 5: He's a bulldog and he gets gets you deep in games.
Speaker 1: No, I think he's a real pro. He had that
Speaker 1: one jam look bad for him. He gets a double play,
Speaker 1: rolls that and just has never said one discouraging word
Speaker 1: about the clubhouse the offense, and it wouldn't get him anywhere.
Speaker 1: It's a team game there there sometime along the wayne
Speaker 1: in his career, maybe not this year, he's gonna give
Speaker 1: up six and they're gonna score eight. You know, that's
Speaker 1: that's gonna happen too. But Brad, what is what do
Speaker 1: you think is the mindset of Boz when this lack
Speaker 1: of offense keeps happening.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I think it's a it's a start
Speaker 3: to start thing. But I think in the back of
Speaker 3: his mind he probably is thinking, I got to go
Speaker 3: out there and give up no runs.
Speaker 4: You know, that's the best way.
Speaker 3: To possibly get a win is give up none and
Speaker 3: hopefully we score one and I'll have a shot at
Speaker 3: a win. But I really like to comment Jim Palmer
Speaker 3: me today. He just said, you know, it's not really
Speaker 3: working out for Shane this year, but pitching in these
Speaker 3: tight games like he has all year long is going
Speaker 3: to really help him further on down his career road.
Speaker 4: And I think pitching in these types of games really
Speaker 4: helps you win.
Speaker 3: You need to have a big start in a close game,
Speaker 3: two to one game, three to two game. He's made
Speaker 3: pitches like this all season long, where the offense hasn't
Speaker 3: been scoring, he's had to keep the other teams offense down,
Speaker 3: so unfortunately, I mean, who knows, maybe the next month
Speaker 3: get he gets on a roll here and the offense
Speaker 3: scores some runs. His overall record is not going to
Speaker 3: look great, but I think moving forward into next year
Speaker 3: and the seasons after that, he's going to look back
Speaker 3: at this season and really think about all the big
Speaker 3: time pitches he's had to make throughout the year, and
Speaker 3: I think it's only going to help him be a
Speaker 3: better pitcher further on down the road.
Speaker 5: No, I completely agree where it's just every single inning
Speaker 5: he's in, it's high leverage because the game is just
Speaker 5: up for perhaps because he's not given up much, especially
Speaker 5: over this last seventeen eighteen start stretch, and obviously the
Speaker 5: Orioles just haven't been scoring in many runs. It's a
Speaker 5: great point by Jim Palmer, you know, just he will
Speaker 5: be better having gone through this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this guy was back today. We'll touch on it
Speaker 1: a little later in the show, The Return of the Mountain.
Speaker 1: Felix Bautista pitched at double A today. We'll tell you
Speaker 1: more about that. It didn't go great, but he was
Speaker 1: back in the game. That was the most important thing,
Speaker 1: and he was healthy and throwing for double a chesapeak.
Speaker 1: Today we'll touch on that, and we got some offensive
Speaker 1: stats to give you in a minute.
Speaker 2: And also I want.
Speaker 1: To tell you about the fact that the Orioles did
Speaker 1: something for one hundred and twenty one straight games that
Speaker 1: they did not do on Sunday against Tampa. Will note
Speaker 1: that in a minute on Birdland Territory.
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Speaker 1: So the Oriols lose Sunday to Tampa Bay three to one,
Speaker 1: they go two and four. On the home stand, they
Speaker 1: are sixty three and sixty eight for the season, thirty
Speaker 1: one game to go. They would need to win nineteen
Speaker 1: to have a winning season nineteen and twelve or better.
Speaker 1: The caveat here is they might not need that many
Speaker 1: to get in the playoffs. That crazy it is in
Speaker 1: American league where you may not have to have a
Speaker 1: winning season to get in this year. But I teased
Speaker 1: that stat guys. The Oriols going going into today had
Speaker 1: gone one hundred and twenty one straight games, drawing at
Speaker 1: least one walk since April sixth, and they did not
Speaker 1: have a walk today. In this three to one loss.
Speaker 1: You only had two hits, which, by the way, Colton
Speaker 1: Towser was two for three. Everybody else was over for
Speaker 1: twenty seven in that strange including Pete Alonzo, who's fourteen
Speaker 1: game hitting streak ended. But look at this that this
Speaker 1: one is disappointing to me. Go back to that Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay series at the trop they scored twenty six runs
Speaker 1: in four games, eleven for thirty three runners in scoring position.
Speaker 1: Last six games Yankees and Rays, they scored fourteen runs
Speaker 1: and they went two for twenty nine. Describes the Oriole
Speaker 1: season in a nutshell. Ten games against good teams, great
Speaker 1: for some of them and miserable for the rest, and
Speaker 1: almost never a middle ground for these guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's I think the most the most shocking
Speaker 3: thing is that there isn't the middle ground ever. I
Speaker 3: feel it's been extremes almost all year. It's been really
Speaker 3: really good or really really poor, and it's just just
Speaker 3: odd that they can't seem to like just keep the momentum,
Speaker 3: like we've talked about at nauseam on this show is
Speaker 3: just keeping the momentum going. It's just been really hard
Speaker 3: for them to keep positive, you know, gameplay going throughout
Speaker 3: the season, whether it was the pitching, whether it was
Speaker 3: a hitting, they can't seem to line them up. And
Speaker 3: then you look at this, I mean, twenty six runs
Speaker 3: in those four games in Tampa and then eleven for
Speaker 3: thirty three and then the two for twenty nine at home,
Speaker 3: runners in scoring position. I mean, that's that's really tough
Speaker 3: to win games when you're not getting runners in when
Speaker 3: they're at second base, and that's I mean, why you
Speaker 3: go to four or two and six or sorry, two
Speaker 3: and four at home in this homestand and kind of
Speaker 3: why they got that five and five record the last
Speaker 3: ten games.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it just perfectly illustrates why it's been
Speaker 5: so difficult for this team to go on sustained runs
Speaker 5: because they're just not able to have any type of consistency.
Speaker 5: You know that they only have one win streak over
Speaker 5: four games, and that was the seven game winning streak,
Speaker 5: So they're gonna have to go on a run here
Speaker 5: at some point to get into this final wildcard spot.
Speaker 5: But it's just disappointing because I remember doing the show
Speaker 5: last Sunday where the Orioles took the first three against
Speaker 5: the Rays, and you're buying into this offense, and even
Speaker 5: losing last Monday against the Rays, that the offense still
Speaker 5: scored and you know, Cano gave it up late. But
Speaker 5: I was buying the turnaround because it just seemed like,
Speaker 5: for the first time in a while, there were multiple
Speaker 5: guys going at the same time.
Speaker 6: It wasn't just Pete, for example.
Speaker 5: But it's just kind of reverted over the past handful
Speaker 5: of games since that point. You know, it's been good
Speaker 5: seeing Beavers swing it well. He had three straight games
Speaker 5: with a home run, having that walk off. I mean,
Speaker 5: he's mister walkoff guys, four walk offs already in his
Speaker 5: young career. Sam had a big moment yesterday. But there's
Speaker 5: gotta be more to the party. It can't just be
Speaker 5: Pete Alonzo.
Speaker 1: It was interesting Saturday night interviewing Abernas after the game,
Speaker 1: and of course he batted with a man on what
Speaker 1: this man on second for Dylan and no oubts.
Speaker 6: Right, he was a leadoff hitter, yes, tent okay, yep.
Speaker 1: So he says to him, you can bun him over,
Speaker 1: but I trust you to hit away like he's you know,
Speaker 1: you're you do what you want to do. I think
Speaker 1: that's a lot of trust in the young player who
Speaker 1: still is technically a rookie, and he's certainly swinging it
Speaker 1: maybe by the way, which the Birdman territory bump for Dylan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, coming about delay since we have on the show.
Speaker 1: Guy now can't get him out, especially in the clutch,
Speaker 1: and I think that really bodes well for his future, don't.
Speaker 2: You, guys.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not predicting starting the eight hundred ops
Speaker 1: all Star appearances, but I think he can be a
Speaker 1: solid hitter. And if you're coming through in those spots,
Speaker 1: I think eventually you're gonna start coming through in a
Speaker 1: lot of spots throughout nine innings.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3: I think it's it can only builde well for his
Speaker 3: future and for his career when he's got all the
Speaker 3: tools and if you can throw the clutch tool and
Speaker 3: they're also I mean, you have a player that's like
Speaker 3: he may, like you said, maybe not a superstar or
Speaker 3: maybe not an All Star, but a very very consistent
Speaker 3: major league player when you're getting runners in when they're
Speaker 3: on second base, and I think he does a really
Speaker 3: good job with that. And like we said, we've talked
Speaker 3: about his defense, we've talked about his base running. Obviously
Speaker 3: has the power, He's got it all there. And I
Speaker 3: think you know that when you have the managers kind
Speaker 3: of blessing, like he said, still in his rookie season,
Speaker 3: that shows a lot. And I think that letting him
Speaker 3: swing away there against one of the better relievers in
Speaker 3: all the American League in the tenth inning on Saturday
Speaker 3: shows a lot. And I think it shows that his
Speaker 3: future is going to be right here in Birdland.
Speaker 2: Such a smart hitter.
Speaker 6: And see we've said that this is someone that's still
Speaker 6: a rookie. He hasn't played that many games.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he hasn't played many games yet, and and to
Speaker 5: have this many walk offs, and and look, he has
Speaker 5: all the tools. He's a really athletic player, and when
Speaker 5: he's going well, he's going to give you a professional
Speaker 5: at bat. But you know, Craig albern has clearly has
Speaker 5: the trust of him. And I think he even said
Speaker 5: during one of his walkoffs, slow heartbeat is what he
Speaker 5: called Dylan Beavers.
Speaker 6: And look, this.
Speaker 5: Is kind of the land of opportunity in terms of
Speaker 5: next year for this outfield, because there's probably not a
Speaker 5: position group on this team that's more in flux. So
Speaker 5: if you're Dylan Beavers, if you're anyone in that outfield,
Speaker 5: you have a nice thirty game runway here where you
Speaker 5: can make an impression on Michael ISAs in this front
Speaker 5: office and say, hey, you know I deserve to be
Speaker 5: in the opening day starting lineup in this outfield in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Beavers is such a smart player he's talking about
Speaker 1: you know, I wanted him to bring the ball up,
Speaker 1: but I knew I had to react to the change up,
Speaker 1: so I was gonna make sure he didn't get a
Speaker 1: high fastball by me, and I could also adjust to
Speaker 1: the change up, which he did get a change up.
Speaker 1: I believe that bitch he drilled off the wall to
Speaker 1: win the game. So he's such a cerebral player. I
Speaker 1: saw that on the farm man deep thinker. Somehow he's
Speaker 1: able to take all that deep thinking and turn it
Speaker 1: into a play where he can hit ninety six. You know,
Speaker 1: he don't have a lot of time to think there
Speaker 1: when that's happening. And I like what Dustin Lynn said
Speaker 1: about today the Oriols hitting coach.
Speaker 2: He said he's got a high floor.
Speaker 1: By that, he said, this a really good contact hitter,
Speaker 1: really good strike zone. In other words, the bottom he
Speaker 1: could be is here, but the top could be up here.
Speaker 1: And you know, we know he's going to be certain
Speaker 1: level good. We're just waiting to see what level that
Speaker 1: finds itself at.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think that's a great way to describe him.
Speaker 3: I think he, like you said, his cerebral hitter, but
Speaker 3: he's got the tools to back up his approach. And
Speaker 3: I think that's when you know, very good players come
Speaker 3: out or guys that have the thinking but can I mean,
Speaker 3: like you said, you're trying to react to ninety seven
Speaker 3: at the top of the zone, but you're able to
Speaker 3: drop the head on the change up.
Speaker 4: But there's only.
Speaker 3: Certain players that have the tools that are able to
Speaker 3: do that. He's one of those players, and I think
Speaker 3: the thinking side of things can help take him to
Speaker 3: that next level.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I really like that quote from Dustin Lynn because I
Speaker 5: think when you look at Beaver's and again this is
Speaker 5: still a small sample size for his MLB career, he
Speaker 5: definitely has the makings of a player that can last
Speaker 5: in this league. Now is he going to be a superstar.
Speaker 5: We shall see. I don't think we know Dylan Beaver's
Speaker 5: ceiling at this point, and you know he's continuing to
Speaker 5: grow as a major league player. But I am with
Speaker 5: Dustin Lynn. I think he does have a high floor
Speaker 5: in this in MLB.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for me, Dylan defense could use some improvement.
Speaker 2: He might agree with us.
Speaker 1: Even on the farm, the reports I got and what
Speaker 1: little I saw was better than what we've seen in
Speaker 1: the major league. So I'm not sure what drills or
Speaker 1: work or facility he can go to the winner. We
Speaker 1: hear oftentimes about hitting and bat speed and all that,
Speaker 1: But what helps you get better on d better jumps,
Speaker 1: better read so forth. That's something I think Dylan, and
Speaker 1: he being such a driven kid, no doubt we'll look
Speaker 1: at that too and say, maybe that is something I
Speaker 1: got to spend some time on this winner. So there's
Speaker 1: more to come in his scheme, I think, is what
Speaker 1: we're all saying. Yeah, and that's kind of exciting for
Speaker 1: him and the Orioles. So there are sixty three and
Speaker 1: sixty eight after the loss today, when we come back,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Samuel Basil. A couple of guns to
Speaker 1: second base, today man that hose was good. And Felix Bautista,
Speaker 1: he's got a pretty good arm on his own, and
Speaker 1: he pitched.
Speaker 2: Today a little bit in DOUBLEA.
Speaker 1: We'll check in on those two young Orioles next.
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Speaker 1: Well, I was in really Friday to do some interviews.
Speaker 1: I wasn't there today, but the big man was. Felix
Speaker 1: Bautista got to start in the SpongeBob jersey in the
Speaker 1: miners today for the double A Chesapeake Bay Sox as
Speaker 1: they played a really good Richmond Flying Squirrels team. His
Speaker 1: final line, You're not gonna like it birdland the third
Speaker 1: of an inning, one hit, three runs, three walks, no strikeouts.
Speaker 1: He gave up two steals as well when he was
Speaker 1: on the mound. Twenty two pitches, just ten strikes and so, guys,
Speaker 1: the results weren't great. The fact he was pitching for
Speaker 1: the first time since July twentieth, twenty twenty five was
Speaker 1: And I just got to believe the Orioles after two
Speaker 1: major surgeries Tommy John and then last August. Thing now
Speaker 1: was Labram. This is gonna be ultra conservative.
Speaker 2: They can't.
Speaker 1: They just can't rush this guy. He means too much
Speaker 1: in their future. After all this work to get to
Speaker 1: this point. You don't just bliss him through the final
Speaker 1: five or ten yards.
Speaker 3: No, definitely not. And I think the biggest thing is
Speaker 3: just he's healthy. As long as he's out there, he's pitching,
Speaker 3: results mean absolutely nothing, and it's it's tough when you're
Speaker 3: trying to come back to the major leagues. You're rehabbing,
Speaker 3: and you're in the minor leagues and they know the guy.
Speaker 3: He's on the major league roster and he's just rehabbing,
Speaker 3: and things are just different when you're out there. I've
Speaker 3: always seen guys go out and just that it just
Speaker 3: doesn't look right, and then they get called up and
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, they're back to the guy you
Speaker 3: see on TV. So it's a weird thing. But my
Speaker 3: biggest thing is just how he feels tomorrow. And I
Speaker 3: think that's all the ools are worried about it. Obviously,
Speaker 3: you want to see him throw a little bit more strikes,
Speaker 3: but he's back out on a mound pitching and throwing.
Speaker 3: Steve said ninety five ninety seven, that's to me, that's
Speaker 3: what you want to see. And just see how he
Speaker 3: feels the day after he pitches. That's the biggest thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just think expectations need to be tempered when
Speaker 5: it comes to Felix Batista. I don't think it's fair
Speaker 5: to him, you know, to expect Peak Mountain coming off
Speaker 5: those type of third uries. And I think I said
Speaker 5: this last episode guys, when he went that torn labram
Speaker 5: and rotator cuff surgery, I thought he was done. I
Speaker 5: did not expect to see Felix Baaltist to pitch again.
Speaker 6: So I think he deserves so much credit.
Speaker 5: I think the Orioles medical staff, everyone involved with his
Speaker 5: rehab deserves a ton of credit. The fact that he
Speaker 5: is even pitching blows me away. And I know that.
Speaker 5: I think he told the beat guys, Steve, you know
Speaker 5: he's gonna move to Norfolk, I believe, on Tuesday.
Speaker 6: But this is gonna be a progression.
Speaker 5: You know, this isn't gonna be a situation where Felix
Speaker 5: is getting called up next week. You know, it's it's
Speaker 5: gonna be a process to get him back right.
Speaker 1: Norfolk is playing at Durham starting Tuesday night, so he'll
Speaker 1: make that trip a little south at Durham Athletic Park
Speaker 1: and pitch there. Speaking of my minor leaguers, I love
Speaker 1: I gotta give you this stat. Look at this. Since
Speaker 1: June nineteenth, w A Chesapeake has the best team ERA
Speaker 1: all of Minor league baseball, and dating to the end
Speaker 1: of July, their starters have a double A best two
Speaker 1: fifty nine ERA more strikeouts than innings, and Friday, I
Speaker 1: interviewed their three top one hundred pitchers.
Speaker 2: That was really cool.
Speaker 1: I talked to Anthony Ions and Joseph Jerwan and Caden Hunter.
Speaker 1: These are three aces they've got down Bowie, They've got guy.
Speaker 1: They got guy named Sebastian Gongora pitch well today who
Speaker 1: no one ever talks about, is not in the top thirty.
Speaker 1: A lefty they got, so they they got a stud rotation.
Speaker 1: It's fun to watch. They're probably gonna come up a
Speaker 1: little bit short of the playoffs, but those guys are
Speaker 1: pushing each.
Speaker 2: Other, Brad.
Speaker 1: When I talk to them, they're they're really a team
Speaker 1: within a team and growing and developing together.
Speaker 3: No, I think it's great having those three guys, like
Speaker 3: you said, and then having the other guys trying to
Speaker 3: compete with them. It's it creates healthy competition between guys
Speaker 3: on the team, and when you're in the minor leagues,
Speaker 3: it's it's kind of hard to understand that when you
Speaker 3: get to the big leagues, you're you're not your own entity.
Speaker 3: You're still with but you still have your career that
Speaker 3: gets kind of brought to the forefront once you're in
Speaker 3: the major leagues. But it's great having guys that you
Speaker 3: play with that are major league quality players and you
Speaker 3: get to see on a daily basis and you're pushing
Speaker 3: each other to put up good results, and I think
Speaker 3: that can only help these guys get better. When I
Speaker 3: was coming up in the minor leagues, I think we
Speaker 3: had I want to say it was twenty or twenty
Speaker 3: one guys from my low A team made it to
Speaker 3: the major leagues at some point. And when you're playing
Speaker 3: around that much talent on an everyday basis, it really
Speaker 3: pushes you to want to be considered one of those guys.
Speaker 3: And I think when you have three guys in a
Speaker 3: rotation like that, it's kind of like, Okay, you did
Speaker 3: this yesterday, I'm going to go out there tomorrow and
Speaker 3: do better, and that's healthy. I think it's great to
Speaker 3: have that, and I think those guys can only push
Speaker 3: each other to get better.
Speaker 6: It's exciting.
Speaker 5: You know, we've been talking about just how this farm
Speaker 5: system is really jumped up, you know, Baseball America had
Speaker 5: them fifteenth and now they're fifth in the span of
Speaker 5: a month, you know, just the influx of talent through
Speaker 5: the draft obviously at the trade deadline, and Steve had
Speaker 5: a chance to talk to Anthony Iinson immediately the day
Speaker 5: after his last.
Speaker 6: Start where he went seven innings.
Speaker 5: It was the first time in his professional career up
Speaker 5: until this point that he completed six innings. He completed seven,
Speaker 5: and just what a great kid, like, what a great guy.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: We asked him about what is it like having that
Speaker 5: type of start, and he was saying, look, we didn't
Speaker 5: win the game, so really I don't even view it
Speaker 5: that way.
Speaker 6: It just gave all the right answers.
Speaker 5: And I'm sure the others Steve really any of the
Speaker 5: times that were at Chesapeake, can we interview these guys.
Speaker 5: They're all just really, really good dudes. But it's a
Speaker 5: very talented system right now, particularly with the arms.
Speaker 1: They pitched three knights in a row, these three aces,
Speaker 1: if you will, I'm kind of nominating him. Is that
Speaker 1: Joe wat Tuesday night gives up one run, Hunter, Wednesday
Speaker 1: night gives up one run, Ions and Thursday night gives
Speaker 1: up one run.
Speaker 2: They were really good.
Speaker 1: Three knights in a row, and that's I guess they're
Speaker 1: lined up to pitch back to back to back. Here
Speaker 1: final few weeks for the Bassics, Let's talk about Samuel
Speaker 1: Basio gunning out runners at second Next.
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Speaker 1: Give somemorial credit here player development. That was telling me
Speaker 1: for years, guys, not days or months, but years, Samuel
Speaker 1: Basio will catch in the big leagues, while I had
Speaker 1: scouts from around baseball telling me he would not. He's
Speaker 1: too big. It's not gonna work out for him catching
Speaker 1: in the big leagues. Pop time per stat gass Pasio's
Speaker 1: at one point nine to two, Rutchman's at one point
Speaker 1: nine to five, Nirvaia's is one point nine seven. And
Speaker 1: we saw that on display today.
Speaker 2: It looked good.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's got an absolute cannon back there,
Speaker 3: and I think that there's nothing you love more as
Speaker 3: a pitcher and basically not having a worry about the
Speaker 3: guy at first base because you know you have a
Speaker 3: catcher that could throw him out at second, so you
Speaker 3: don't have to be as we know Shane boz Is,
Speaker 3: he's a little deliberate to the plate, so he's not
Speaker 3: the quickest. And having Pasada back there, knowing he's got
Speaker 3: a canon, gives you a little bit of you know,
Speaker 3: in the back of your mind. Okay, I don't have
Speaker 3: to be super quick to the plate. I can really
Speaker 3: stay in my mechanics and worry about the pitch I'm
Speaker 3: trying to make.
Speaker 4: And Sammy just does a great job.
Speaker 3: I feel like we've talked about this before, but I
Speaker 3: just feel like he is he does.
Speaker 4: Not look like a rookie anymore behind the plate.
Speaker 3: He really controls the game. He's got the pitcher's emotions
Speaker 3: under control. He calls a great game. And then when
Speaker 3: you throw guys out like he did today, your pitchers
Speaker 3: absolutely love throwing to you. So it's a great, great
Speaker 3: thing to see and great to see him back healthy
Speaker 3: throwing guys out behind the plate.
Speaker 5: And the second one was to strike him out, throw
Speaker 5: him out, so to get a double play there, that's massive,
Speaker 5: you know, helping to keep you in the game.
Speaker 6: And I always.
Speaker 5: Back to Trevor Rodgers guys like he just opes about
Speaker 5: talking pitching two Stamwell Bisio and his era pitching sam
Speaker 5: compared to everyone else is night and day. And also
Speaker 5: we got to give him a hat tip. This is
Speaker 5: someone that does not shrink in big time moments. And
Speaker 5: obviously he was inserted as a pinch hitter on Saturday,
Speaker 5: hit that huge two run homer to tie the ballgame.
Speaker 5: Guys in high leverage spots this year, Samuel Basillo is
Speaker 5: hitting three seventeen. He's got a nine to thirty six
Speaker 5: OPS in high leverage situations. So the bigger the moment,
Speaker 5: the brighter he shined.
Speaker 1: And Matson put up a stat today well over nine
Speaker 1: hundred OPS in the Ale East. Yeah, a lot of
Speaker 1: those pitchers.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: And the other thing I'll say today about the caught stealing,
Speaker 1: the pitcher's got to give him.
Speaker 2: A chance and they and they did. Yeah, Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: Is first in the American League in steals. This is
Speaker 1: a team that's good at it knows how to do
Speaker 1: it succeeds a lot, and he got him twice today.
Speaker 1: It goes back to what Adlee told me earlier in
Speaker 1: the year. And I'm not sure if there's apply to
Speaker 1: sand probably does. Adley was really working hard at throwing
Speaker 1: right to the bag because he skipped a lot of throws,
Speaker 1: remember early And I asked him, are.
Speaker 2: You doing that on purposes?
Speaker 1: There's some analytics, it says, balance it maybe, and he
Speaker 1: goes no, He goes, I'm trying to if I air
Speaker 1: or want to air low rather than high, we got
Speaker 1: a better chance than way up here.
Speaker 2: Bring the tag down and sometimes you come up short.
Speaker 2: But sometimes you throw right to the bag like he
Speaker 2: did today.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think a lot of times too, when
Speaker 3: if you're going for accuracy more than arm strength, I
Speaker 3: feel like aker throws throw runners out more than the
Speaker 3: strong throw. You know, you obviously can have both together
Speaker 3: and the guys out by a mile. But a lot
Speaker 3: of times if you're accurate and you give a nice
Speaker 3: throw right to the bag, I feel like you give
Speaker 3: a better chance there than rocketing in.
Speaker 4: And like you said, see being high to the left
Speaker 4: to the right. But if you're on the bag, I.
Speaker 3: Just feel like your chances go up of getting a
Speaker 3: good getting the base on round. I know that sounds
Speaker 3: pretty simple, but it's a lot harder, especially behind the
Speaker 3: play when you're trying to do everything so quick to
Speaker 3: throw it to a perfect spot. But Sam, he's been
Speaker 3: doing a great job. I feel like a lot of
Speaker 3: his throws this year have been right on the money,
Speaker 3: right on the back.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's captain obvious, but you can have you
Speaker 5: can have a gun, but if you're throwing it into
Speaker 5: the outfield, what does it do?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you definitely want the accurate throw for sure. I mean,
Speaker 5: whether it's on a hop or ideally right in him,
Speaker 5: it goes right into the tag. But Sam Stam's got
Speaker 5: a gun and it's accurate.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So here we are again, Berdland five games under, still
Speaker 1: within two games of the wild card.
Speaker 6: At the end of the night.
Speaker 1: Might be one and a half too, We're not sure,
Speaker 1: pending the other results. We know the Oriels have lost.
Speaker 1: It's crazy this road trip coming up certain Tuesday night
Speaker 1: Saint Louis. They're at wildcard contender in the National League,
Speaker 1: but Enancy Athletics in Colorado they're at the bottom of
Speaker 1: baseball in their respective leagues. So there is a chance
Speaker 1: to make some hay in nine games coming up.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I just wanted to give a shout out to Tyler O'Neill.
Speaker 3: He's going back to play the team he came up
Speaker 3: with the Cardinals. But his game last night was incredible.
Speaker 3: That diving catch, save the running the ninth and he
Speaker 3: threw out a base running a third base there for
Speaker 3: the first out.
Speaker 4: So you know, who knows.
Speaker 3: Maybe going back sometimes when you go back to face
Speaker 3: your former team, you can have a big series. But
Speaker 3: he's been he's been doing a great job in the outfield,
Speaker 3: and I feel like it's been overlooked a little bit
Speaker 3: this year. But that game on Saturday, he almost single
Speaker 3: handedly won with those couple of plays, and he's just
Speaker 3: been regardless of how he's been hitting, I feel like
Speaker 3: he's really put it all out there on the line
Speaker 3: in the outfield and it's been I think a great,
Speaker 3: you know, example to the younger players too that if
Speaker 3: your best not there, you still have to play the
Speaker 3: field and give your all and make these plays. And
Speaker 3: he's had a lot of diving, really nice plays this season.
Speaker 3: I just had to say that before the show.
Speaker 6: Was no, absolutely, no, he I'm with you, Brad.
Speaker 5: I mean that that catch in the ninth inning where
Speaker 5: it looks like a bloop and that would have scored
Speaker 5: a run, the Rays would have went ahead.
Speaker 6: Absolutely he was massive for him. But guys, I feel
Speaker 6: like we said this so many times this year.
Speaker 2: They gotta go.
Speaker 5: Six and three, like they gotta like a six and three,
Speaker 5: a seven and two. This is all out in front
Speaker 5: of them. The A's and the Rockies are two of
Speaker 5: the worst teams in the majors. The Cardinals, they just
Speaker 5: flew a four to one lead, I think, to the
Speaker 5: Phillies in today's game. Yes, I understand they're fighting for
Speaker 5: a wild card themselves, but it's not like they're a
Speaker 5: team of world beaters that you gotta find a way
Speaker 5: to at a minimum go six and three in this stretch.
Speaker 4: Absolutely you do.
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