Speaker 1: What's up, Friends of welcome into leading off right here
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Speaker 1: I am Chris Welsh. That is Joe Rico, and the
Speaker 1: trade deadline is hours away. We're gonna be breaking down
Speaker 1: what happened over the weekend. We've actually caught a couple
Speaker 1: deep dives Paul's schemes, if you will. I think we've
Speaker 1: had some conversations around this, but things are getting worse worse.
Speaker 1: We've got some injuries, We've got a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: other stuff. We've got some bets, some home run calls,
Speaker 1: but heavily dedicated to the trade deadline and it is
Speaker 1: going down to trade happened like minutes before we got on.
Speaker 1: There might be a trade live in here and if
Speaker 1: you would like more, the rumor on the streets is
Speaker 1: there's going to be a live stream today right at
Speaker 1: the trade deadline with these two fine gentlemen that we
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Speaker 1: the trade deadline. Nothing crazy about thirty minutes or so
Speaker 1: to talk about all the trades that happened between the
Speaker 1: end of the show and the trade deadline. Some Fantasy
Speaker 1: impact take some questions going to be rapid fires we
Speaker 1: go through, So make sure you come and hang out
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Speaker 1: hang out with us live. That's what you want to
Speaker 1: do for some trade deadlining. Mister Joel Rico, it has
Speaker 1: been a very very exciting weekend the big trade happen.
Speaker 1: You want to know a funny story I did. I know.
Speaker 1: I say this a lot, so apologies for anyone that
Speaker 1: gets annoyed by it. But CBS Sports HQ is quite
Speaker 1: fond of me, and they had me on this weekend
Speaker 1: and it's all set, you know, because I'm a West
Speaker 1: Coast guy, so it's easier for them. So I can
Speaker 1: do stuff that's like eleven or midnight or whatever. I've
Speaker 1: got my whole outline set up. We're in a segment
Speaker 1: really got nice guy, This guy Coli is doing it.
Speaker 1: We're two segments in. We talked about a couple of
Speaker 1: players and we're in our third one and I honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm forgetting what we were talking about. Me. We're talking
Speaker 1: about Luis Castillo trade. And then as I'm talking and
Speaker 1: we're recording this, the producer comes in my ear and
Speaker 1: he goes Turk Schoogle got traded. Just stop to stop,
Speaker 1: and then I'm kind of going, and then Coolie keeps
Speaker 1: going and he's like, just stop everything. We're gonna cut live,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what's happening? And then everything i'd prep
Speaker 1: for and done, what cut And we went live thirty
Speaker 1: seconds later with absolutely zero prep to be the first
Speaker 1: to break down because, like you know, ninety seconds prior,
Speaker 1: Trek Scooble had been traded to the Dodgers. And we
Speaker 1: cut live for about fifteen minutes. And I am pretty
Speaker 1: proud of myself for cutting through. But that was a
Speaker 1: brand new experience of being a part of especially television
Speaker 1: and having the breaking news, and obviously that's going to
Speaker 1: dominate the top of the show. Trek Scooble traded to
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Dodgers for as Iyer, Hope, River, Ryan
Speaker 1: and Brady Smith. I am proud of myself. I actually
Speaker 1: also straight up called this trade on in this league,
Speaker 1: literally down to Brady Smith. I believe you also your
Speaker 1: boy Peter Apple or April, who was on with you
Speaker 1: this weekend, was actually the guy that broke the news.
Speaker 1: So tons of stuff here, Joe, I haven't even let
Speaker 1: you speak yet, but your initial thoughts on Trek Scooble
Speaker 1: as a Dodger and obviously if you have on the
Speaker 1: prospect side.
Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty cool for both of us, Like you nailed
Speaker 2: the exact package and the day that our show goes live.
Speaker 2: Peter Apple, who, by the way, if you guys missed it,
Speaker 2: go check out that show. He truly is one of
Speaker 2: the best baseball analysts going right now and apparently a
Speaker 2: locked in source because he beat Peter Jason, he beat Rosenthal.
Speaker 2: There was a lot of like, oh no, it's actually
Speaker 2: Emmitt Shean, but shout out to Peter who nailed that
Speaker 2: trade package.
Speaker 1: It sucks.
Speaker 2: I'll say that it sucks. We knew, we knew was
Speaker 2: gonna happen. And Peter said on that show and I
Speaker 2: asked him where where Trek sco will be pitching a
Speaker 2: week from today, and he was pretty sure it was
Speaker 2: gonna be the Dodgers. We all kind of saw the
Speaker 2: writing on the wall. Doesn't make us feel any better
Speaker 2: about seeing this graphic in front of us, So Tawny
Speaker 2: Glass now Snell, you know, Moto Scooble, Justin Robleski has
Speaker 2: been unbelievably good for them, and he's not even anywhere
Speaker 2: to be seen, nor should he beat with the other
Speaker 2: names present, and we can we can break this stuff
Speaker 2: from a lot of different angles. And I've kind of
Speaker 2: changed my own personal tune on this. I'm not mad
Speaker 2: at the Dodgers anymore. There was a long time where
Speaker 2: I was like, screw the how can they do this?
Speaker 2: The other teams just sit by and let them do it.
Speaker 2: The Brewers could have made this trade, the Rays could
Speaker 2: have made this trade. A lot of teams could have
Speaker 2: gone out and done this. And yes, the money that
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have does influence this. They only have to hear,
Speaker 2: hope why because they traded Michael Bush. Why they trade
Speaker 2: Michael Bush? Because they signed Freddy Freeman and show Heyo
Speaker 2: Tani and had nowhere to play him. So the money
Speaker 2: always has an influencing factor here. But I'm not mad
Speaker 2: at the Dodgers. I'm mad at the Brewers, and I'm
Speaker 2: mad at the other teams for not going out and
Speaker 2: ponying up because this was a very doable deal.
Speaker 1: I think this is fair. This is a fair statement
Speaker 1: because I think there's a couple things. I think this
Speaker 1: trade is something that will be highlighted in the discussions
Speaker 1: of why things could because this isn't a financial This
Speaker 1: is not a financial thing, like anybody could have afforded
Speaker 1: school with the rest of the season. This is a
Speaker 1: fair act, fair play type of conversation that'll be had
Speaker 1: after the season of like you know, like the balance
Speaker 1: of fosters and stuff like that looks ridiculous. But to
Speaker 1: your point, all those things, I think I agree, you're true,
Speaker 1: like any team could have done it. The problem is
Speaker 1: is they would have had to pay more, and nobody
Speaker 1: wanted to do it. The Dodgers set themselves up where
Speaker 1: their scouting is clearly superior. They were able to get
Speaker 1: guys like Zayer Hope for Michael Bush. They built up
Speaker 1: a robust minor league system. They were willing to be aggressive.
Speaker 1: And you know the goofy thing that happened in this
Speaker 1: trade because I put a tweet out about it and
Speaker 1: I got so much hate about it because everyone's like
Speaker 1: this trade sucks and blah blah blah. It's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is a rental player, like he is elite Church
Speaker 1: Google is an elite of elite player. Let's not get
Speaker 1: that wrong. And I'm not trying to say anything against that,
Speaker 1: but he's a two month rental player. So how much
Speaker 1: does any team want to commit when you're buying in
Speaker 1: two months. Well, the Dodgers gave up. I mean in
Speaker 1: fantasy at least, he's a top twenty five prospect, probably
Speaker 1: a top thirty five or forty in real baseball for
Speaker 1: most people inside your hope. He's a super, super talented player.
Speaker 1: I'm going to do a video on him later in
Speaker 1: this week. But two ninety three, twenty three homers, eighteen
Speaker 1: stolen basis by the way, eighty seven RBIs, and ninety
Speaker 1: four games in the minors. This is an elite hitting prospect.
Speaker 1: And they got River Ryan, who is you know, a
Speaker 1: little removed from Tommy John. He's currently on the injured list.
Speaker 1: He hasn't done a ton this season, but we'll say
Speaker 1: he's like a mid rotation guy. I was looking up
Speaker 1: his stuff plus numbers from two thousand and twenty four,
Speaker 1: one on one overall stuff, plus one twelve on his sinker,
Speaker 1: one O eight on his slider, one O nine curveball,
Speaker 1: like this is a mouldable piece. And then they got
Speaker 1: Brady Smith, which is kind of a bluff factor. The
Speaker 1: point is is This is a this is a solid return.
Speaker 1: It could have been a great return, but guess what,
Speaker 1: nobody else wanted to pay for it. Like you said,
Speaker 1: the Brews didn't want to pay Logan Henderson, I be
Speaker 1: honest with the Philly rumor of Justin Crawford and gage
Speaker 1: Wood was actually pretty strong. But any team could have
Speaker 1: made this. So this trade specifically was not a Dodgers
Speaker 1: in what they spend situation. It was I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: like they don't care if they go over, but this
Speaker 1: was every other team not willing to do it. And
Speaker 1: he now goes into a rotation, which this was a
Speaker 1: wild stat that was floating out there loess Era since
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. This is in baseball. Are you ready
Speaker 1: for it? This is minimum fifty starts. Lowest eres number one,
Speaker 1: Trek Skuble, number two. We're gonna have a little bit
Speaker 1: of a jolt and a guy we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: later in Paul Skeens. But the next three Blake, Snell,
Speaker 1: Shoho Tani, and Yamamoto, four of the five lowest eras
Speaker 1: since twenty twenty two are now in the same rotation.
Speaker 1: And that makes us sick. This is going to be
Speaker 1: a ridiculously crazy, good rotation. I think it was a
Speaker 1: solid trade. Let me throw one other little piece at you, though,
Speaker 1: And this is what I speculated on when I was
Speaker 1: on TV. Do you think at all, because I know
Speaker 1: it's a service level, it's not, but do you think,
Speaker 1: like they lost that game, that trade happened ten minutes
Speaker 1: after that game on Saturday night it was it was
Speaker 1: locked in. Do you think at all this speaks to
Speaker 1: maybe the potential health of a guy like Otani. We're
Speaker 1: putting Otani in this rotation thing hasn't been able to pitch.
Speaker 1: They want to really play it slow. Obviously, I know this.
Speaker 1: It's like a little dramatic in how I'm saying that,
Speaker 1: but like getting a guy like schooble more provides the depth,
Speaker 1: the help, And if they wanted to shut Otani down
Speaker 1: from pitching all the way to the playoffs, you can
Speaker 1: do that when you make a move like this. So
Speaker 1: I wondered at all if it spoke a little bit
Speaker 1: to the health of him through the regular season the
Speaker 1: rest of the regular season.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Peter also mentioned that on our show on Saturday
Speaker 2: that the Dodgers this is not just oh, They're just
Speaker 2: gonna get another superstar for the hell of it. They
Speaker 2: kind of needed a starting pitcher. Now, did they need
Speaker 2: the two time defending Cy Young winner. We can all
Speaker 2: debate that. But Otani's health is uncertain Glass now and
Speaker 2: Snell's health is always uncertain. Emmett Shean is awful. You
Speaker 2: cannot rely on Roki Sazaka playoffs. So it's Yamamoto starting
Speaker 2: game one for them before this trade, and then game
Speaker 2: two would it have been maybe Robleski depending like health
Speaker 2: as of today.
Speaker 1: You're talking in a playoff run.
Speaker 2: Like you're assuming that Blake Snell and Tellerglass now are healthy.
Speaker 2: But the Dodgers don't want to assume that. They want
Speaker 2: to go out there and just yeah, ensure that they
Speaker 2: have of aces for the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So and what did it cost them, by the way,
Speaker 1: cost them there? They've got two other outfielders that are better,
Speaker 1: They've got a absolutely bonker system. Still, they're already paying
Speaker 1: a gajillion dollars. Their luxury tax is like Alan That
Speaker 1: bill is more than like half the league's salary. So
Speaker 1: they're already positioned in that Baseball put them in a
Speaker 1: position to get all this extra money. That's what diamondback
Speaker 1: fans are freaking out about like, oh, guess what, you
Speaker 1: know the Dodgers and their TV deal. So it's like
Speaker 1: this was nothing for them. This is nothing. They gave
Speaker 1: up a couple of prospects, there's no real big financial
Speaker 1: burden that's more than anything. Now they're going to sell
Speaker 1: tons of jerseys and he wants to be here, So
Speaker 1: it's like you paid the price to let this guy
Speaker 1: have a trial run with the team. Now, if anything
Speaker 1: less than winning the World Series is a massive disappointment.
Speaker 1: But I don't think it's going to change anything with Scooble.
Speaker 2: So really he's gonna sign there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's going to resign one hundred percent and maybe
Speaker 1: they can offload. The only problem they're gonna have is
Speaker 1: once it is leading into the CBA, what's going to happen?
Speaker 1: What are things going to look like next season? They've
Speaker 1: already got because I went and looked at that. They've
Speaker 1: got difficult commitments to Blake Snell and Tyler Glassnell. Still
Speaker 1: that make things a little bit tricky, and we don't
Speaker 1: know what the repercussions of this labor striker is. And
Speaker 1: to be Bob Knight and Gill immediately jumped in after
Speaker 1: this trade happened, saying quote, nearly impossible to find an
Speaker 1: owner who now doesn't believe twenty twenty seven will be
Speaker 1: shortened due to a prolonged workstoppage. Several owners believe an
Speaker 1: entire season could be wiped out. People being a little
Speaker 1: bit dramatic about like this trade having to do with it,
Speaker 1: But this will be cited. This will be as cited
Speaker 1: in all of these conversations of fair play and blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. But I don't know how the Dodgers will
Speaker 1: do that signing with Scooble if there's some type of
Speaker 1: hardcap with the commitments they have to other players. But
Speaker 1: you know what, they can move off to some of
Speaker 1: those dudes because they've got incredible guys in their system,
Speaker 1: Yosuete La Paula, James Tibbs. I mean, they have an
Speaker 1: outfield that could play in them right now in Mike Seroda, Depaula,
Speaker 1: and Tibbs, and they could be pretty successful. So it's
Speaker 1: it's great to be a Dodger. Sucks for us, It.
Speaker 2: Sucks for everybody fans of every other team. You know,
Speaker 2: I understand why people are upset about this, but this
Speaker 2: is also perfectly exactly what the owners want. Players have
Speaker 2: lost the PR battle. They have lost the PR battle,
Speaker 2: and they are seen as the villains here. Scooble is
Speaker 2: another villain here for going to the Dodgers, and maybe
Speaker 2: he is. But the Dodgers have a super team which
Speaker 2: has helped to massively increase league revenues, and the stats
Speaker 2: speak for themselves. The viewership numbers, everything have been really
Speaker 2: good the last couple of years, and the league can
Speaker 2: now scapegoat the Dodgers. The owners can into getting a
Speaker 2: salary cap. This is this is exactly what the owners
Speaker 2: want and what the Dodgers should do because of a
Speaker 2: salary cap will be coming. We all know this. At
Speaker 2: some point, sign Scooble now, and then you'll have, you know,
Speaker 2: for the few couple of years after the salary cap
Speaker 2: is implemented, there'll probably be some kind of grandfathering in
Speaker 2: for teams that yeah, I agree with that, So sign
Speaker 2: him now, because if the salary cap goes in and
Speaker 2: then you try and sign him afterwards, it'll probably be
Speaker 2: a lot more difficult for them. Not that I want
Speaker 2: to help the Dodgers out anymore, but that's what they
Speaker 2: probably should be doing.
Speaker 1: I think they're probably thinking about that. And you know
Speaker 1: what I would say pen this, if you do see
Speaker 1: a deal, get struck in the next I know a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, that's probably it. Like they wanted even
Speaker 1: more so to get this player in so they could
Speaker 1: sign him. So whatever type of you know, deferral or
Speaker 1: whatever that Baseball gives these players to get right or
Speaker 1: gives these teams to get right, it'll be there. But
Speaker 1: Terrek Scougal is going to dominate with the Dodgers, have
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. He's been on a nice, little
Speaker 1: unreal run since he returned from the injury. Quick last note,
Speaker 1: and now I'm going to get to these other trades.
Speaker 1: Do you think we'll see shoheo tiny pitch again in
Speaker 1: the regular season.
Speaker 2: I could see a couple of tune ups, you know,
Speaker 2: last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: Like significant let's say a significant outing where he is like,
Speaker 1: you know, he's pitches six innings.
Speaker 2: I could see it. Yeah, I could see them because
Speaker 2: they're going to shut him down. And I don't think
Speaker 2: they're going to want him to go into playoff matchups
Speaker 2: totally cold from pitching. I think they're gonna want him
Speaker 2: built up at least a little bit, so I could
Speaker 2: see like three starts at the end of the year
Speaker 2: where they go from like four to five to six innings,
Speaker 2: is to try and work him back up a little
Speaker 2: bit or three to four to five innings, something like that.
Speaker 1: Okay, we've got two trades that have happened since we've
Speaker 1: been talking about Trek's scougle. This is the craziness. I'll
Speaker 1: be honest with you. If if everything gets shot out
Speaker 1: the cannon here, maybe we won't be live later. But
Speaker 1: if this is any early indications, it might be exciting.
Speaker 1: So here are the two trades that I'm seeing.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't see passing having these, so take these with
Speaker 1: a grain of salt, I suppose. But I've seen Jared
Speaker 1: Carabas has reported this multiple other outlets, now just Baseball's
Speaker 1: I guess they're using Jared Crabas's line, So maybe we'll
Speaker 1: be careful about this one. But saying that the Red
Speaker 1: Sox are acquiring Adley Rutchman, so that wh Yeah, that
Speaker 1: Adley Riutchman looks like he's like, again, I'm not seeing
Speaker 1: anybody out there. This other one is locked in though,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna we're gonna focus on that, but just
Speaker 1: pointing out, we'll see if anything becomes bigger. John Hammond
Speaker 1: about twenty minutes ago reported that the Red Sox are
Speaker 1: getting close to a deal for Adley Retchman. I believe
Speaker 1: he's got one more deal or one more arbitrational year
Speaker 1: after this, so that makes him super interesting. I thought
Speaker 1: they would go after Goodman, so we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: see what the return looks like there. So it's really close.
Speaker 1: But this deal did go down just now. The Guardians
Speaker 1: are acquiring Joe Adele from the Angels and that's a
Speaker 1: pretty big get. It looks like all they're getting back.
Speaker 1: Maybe there's more. But Jacob Cosart, who was a higher
Speaker 1: pick a couple of years ago, he's a catcher in
Speaker 1: the Guardian system. That is not a big return if
Speaker 1: that's all that is. Is a deli full on a
Speaker 1: free agent after this year, or is an arbitration you know.
Speaker 2: Let me try and find it there. I'm still just
Speaker 2: gobsmacked by Adley Richman getting traded in division, Like are
Speaker 2: you kidding me? The Orioles are you?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well again, take it with a grain of salt, like
Speaker 1: it like it is being reported out there. It doesn't
Speaker 1: look like it's like an official official so it looks
Speaker 1: be careful about that. Looks pretty cool. He does look fine.
Speaker 2: Sand is saying it, John Hayman saying it. US Baseball
Speaker 2: is saying that it's just down to the medical reviews,
Speaker 2: which the medicals with Adlie. Who knows what that'll come
Speaker 2: back as. But it looks like ninety five percent of
Speaker 2: the way there, which is hard to believe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, really hard on Joey Dell. By the way, he
Speaker 1: has one more year. It's arbitration this year, and then
Speaker 1: he's a free agent, so they're going to get a
Speaker 1: whole nother gobsmack of a year on Joe Adell, which
Speaker 1: is pretty crazy. So Joe Adell is a Guardian yay
Speaker 1: or nay? I mean, this is this totally different like
Speaker 1: type of player that they usually get. They're always getting
Speaker 1: these like contacty guys without power, and then finally they're
Speaker 1: going to get just a big power bat, so you know,
Speaker 1: left side of the field, maybe a little bit less
Speaker 1: from a hitting perspective, I think this is good. I
Speaker 1: think this is like solid for the Guardians to make
Speaker 1: her run. I'm not sure this is a positive or
Speaker 1: a negative from a fantasy perspective, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think it's probably about a wash lineup, pled lineup,
Speaker 2: just trying to think. So he'll play right field there,
Speaker 2: so who's been angel Martinez will probably take a little
Speaker 2: bit of a hit there on the Cleveland side. I
Speaker 2: think that's he's well.
Speaker 1: I mean, Delatter will go to what center? I guess
Speaker 1: he could play center, left and Kwan and then yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess on how Martinez does take a little bit
Speaker 1: of a smack as like a fourth outfielder. Maybe I know,
Speaker 1: maybe he could even come back into the infield. So
Speaker 1: that's the only guy that's really affected. But Delatter in
Speaker 1: Adele is kind of a nice one two punch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't really know much about this guy they
Speaker 2: have in center field right now. P D Halpin twenty
Speaker 2: oh PD Halpin, Yeah, yeah, forty six games of a
Speaker 2: fifty five WRC plus this year. But I think he
Speaker 2: plays a pretty decent defense. So maybe I don't know,
Speaker 2: can Delotter play center field or probably more of a
Speaker 2: you can play punch center, So maybe they get Martinez
Speaker 2: back in that way. But I think it's a pretty
Speaker 2: solid move from what you're leading me to believe. With
Speaker 2: the prospect return it doesn't sound like it's anything that special.
Speaker 1: No, it's really not like he might be a future
Speaker 1: like you know, Second Catcher or something like that. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's kind of a that's kind of a wild one
Speaker 1: to me. Sometimes he's returns. Just trip me out here
Speaker 1: and then we'll come back to the Honestly, the Adley
Speaker 1: Richmond one might be when we talk about on the
Speaker 1: live stream later today, that one is floating around. It
Speaker 1: has some pretty interesting implications of what they would have
Speaker 1: to give up, and you can see the angels are
Speaker 1: all out. We're going to talk about the picture that
Speaker 1: they traded and the Red Sox. This could be the
Speaker 1: beginning of just the first move, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: This could be like the first of first moves with
Speaker 1: Adley Richman because there's a lot of Franklin Aria stuff
Speaker 1: that's floating out there. So we need to know what
Speaker 1: word was on word for the toy. I don't know
Speaker 1: why I said, God, that's like did I say it
Speaker 1: twice too?
Speaker 2: I do that sometimes, but I say if I say
Speaker 2: a word once in a podcast, there's a high problem.
Speaker 2: I'm ruined that I'm going to go back to that
Speaker 2: word later on in the podcast, it's.
Speaker 1: I really hate it about myself. So like you guys
Speaker 1: can point it out to me as like a fun thing,
Speaker 1: but it is something that like I hate myself when
Speaker 1: I when I go off of my vernacular, it's a
Speaker 1: little bit different. I know I'm going to go back
Speaker 1: to it like two more times because it's in my brain.
Speaker 1: And then I know that you guys know, because I
Speaker 1: know that you guys know that I'm saying it, and
Speaker 1: it's like an absolute nightmare. So all right, let's go
Speaker 1: down this trade list here of the ones we do have,
Speaker 1: Luis gar I know we're gonna go. Yeah, Luis Castillo,
Speaker 1: we got a couple of Louis's. Luis Castillo that was
Speaker 1: one of the big ones that happened, was traded to
Speaker 1: the Chicago White Sox for pretty much nothing, to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, nothing long term. Sir Anthony Dominguez has
Speaker 1: fallen out of favor. Nolan Jones is a journeyman. I
Speaker 1: gotta be honestly, I forgot he was on the White
Speaker 1: Sox in Boston. Smith this put Luis Castillo's got another year.
Speaker 1: I might even be two. I know there's another year,
Speaker 1: and it's kind of like there's a decent amount of
Speaker 1: money attached to it. The White Sox have said that
Speaker 1: they're going to they're paying all of it, and he's
Speaker 1: going to be a piece of this rotation. I think
Speaker 1: there's some hopefulness that last start was really good. He's
Speaker 1: just been he's been kind of wonky on this season,
Speaker 1: but this is a rotation piece. I think they needed it.
Speaker 1: They gave up nothing. I thought this piece made a
Speaker 1: ton of sense. There's a secondary part we'll talk about
Speaker 1: with the Mariners here, But what do you think about
Speaker 1: Luis Castillo as a White Sox.
Speaker 2: I mean, I've been on the of the opinion for
Speaker 2: the last few seasons that he's been kind of declining
Speaker 2: the strikeouts or not what they used to be. He
Speaker 2: has greatly benefited from pitching in Seattle. Most home pitchers do,
Speaker 2: most Mariners pitchers do. But his splits are quite drastic
Speaker 2: over the last several seasons. If you look back from
Speaker 2: when he was acquired by Seattle back in I believe
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two to now, like he really has made
Speaker 2: his money at home, so that worries me a little bit.
Speaker 2: And also fastball velocity over the last couple of years
Speaker 2: has gone down from ninety seven to ninety five. Stuff
Speaker 2: plus ratings have declined every single year, going back to
Speaker 2: our first year having stuff ratings. In twenty twenty, he's
Speaker 2: gone from one ten to ninety seven. At his age.
Speaker 2: It's an alright depth arm, but I mean they're paying
Speaker 2: off the entirety of the rest of this. I don't
Speaker 2: love it like I think the White Sox probably should
Speaker 2: have aimed a little bit higher. Here they are at
Speaker 2: the top of the division. It's a very winnable division.
Speaker 2: I would have thought that they would maybe go for
Speaker 2: a debt Merz, a Freddy Perol to somebody that maybe
Speaker 2: is a little bit better.
Speaker 1: It might not be done, though it might. They didn't
Speaker 1: give up anything. They gave up like journey stuff. They
Speaker 1: give up nothing. I actually think this is a fine
Speaker 1: trade for a guy that can go deep. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure he's gonna thrive or anything like that, but I
Speaker 1: think this is a good, like real life trade. The
Speaker 1: other end of this is this clearly is starting the
Speaker 1: opening up of Kate Anderson. That's where people are asking,
Speaker 1: you know, Cad, will he come up. He's definitely gonna
Speaker 1: come up. I think it's a little bit contingent on
Speaker 1: hand because like they still have their rotation. I believe right,
Speaker 1: because it's Gilbert, Kirby Miller, Hancock, and I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm forgetting some am I not forgetting somebody. Oh in
Speaker 1: Wu and Wu. Yeah, so there's your five. So if
Speaker 1: Hancock gets traded, I think the minute that happens, Kate
Speaker 1: Anderson's coming up. But you shouldn't otherwise. I think you
Speaker 1: might be looking to something more like mid August so
Speaker 1: they have control next year and stuff like that. But
Speaker 1: I think you should go pick up Kate Anderson. I
Speaker 1: have him in that second half league. I think it's
Speaker 1: any time now, so you should be proactive in trying
Speaker 1: to go and get him. Luis Garcia Junior was traded
Speaker 1: to the Yankees from the Nationals for Yovannie Cruz, Siebert,
Speaker 1: Ben Grabiel, and Jake Bird. Not a super exciting haul.
Speaker 1: They got a couple. It's like Siebert might be back
Speaker 1: in rotation. Guy Grable was drafted I believe last year solid.
Speaker 1: But Luis Garcia is going to go to the Yankees,
Speaker 1: where unfortunately it looks like he might be in some
Speaker 1: version of a platoon. They said, I think he's going
Speaker 1: to go against righty's Goldie's going to go against lefties
Speaker 1: at first. Maybe they move him around so he's never
Speaker 1: actually truly out of the lineup, which you hope. He
Speaker 1: had been kind of dominant. I love the idea of
Speaker 1: him hitting there. It's just the Nationals were such a
Speaker 1: big offensive boost. I think, if anything, maybe this is
Speaker 1: a little bit of a negative. If he's going to
Speaker 1: be put in some version of a platoon, then, by
Speaker 1: the way, if you go and throw in Stanton coming back.
Speaker 1: They also Bowden incorrectly put this out here, but he
Speaker 1: said that the ben Rice is gonna start catching.
Speaker 2: I heard that too.
Speaker 1: All reports is ben Rice is not going to catch.
Speaker 1: That's what I've seen, so I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1: So ben Rice doesn't catch. That also makes it really tricky.
Speaker 1: So this actually might be a little bit negative if
Speaker 1: Luis Carci is gonna lose time. But when he's out there,
Speaker 1: I mean, I love it. I think this is a
Speaker 1: great ballpark for him to hit in with tons of
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't argue that there's like way more
Speaker 1: better offensive pieces. When he was just in one of
Speaker 1: the best offenses with James Wood and c. J Abrams
Speaker 1: in front, of him.
Speaker 2: So looking at this, I initially thought it was kind
Speaker 2: of a positive. But Washington has scored one hundred more
Speaker 2: runs than the Yankees have this year, and that's a
Speaker 2: shout out to Rob Silver for that one. Yankee Stadium
Speaker 2: is better Homer Park for lefties one seventeen to one
Speaker 2: oh three, but it's a worse environment overall for lefties.
Speaker 2: So I don't think I see this as much of
Speaker 2: an upgrade, especially if he's going to start to lose
Speaker 2: playing time. It's almost like the reversal of getting out
Speaker 2: of a bad situation fresh news start. It's like when
Speaker 2: everything is going super well and then the mojo gets
Speaker 2: changed up. You hope that he can maintain it as
Speaker 2: a Yankee, but you never know. There's a lot more
Speaker 2: pressure in New York than there is for a rebuilding,
Speaker 2: retooling whatever Nationals team, So I don't know how it's
Speaker 2: gonna play. I'm kind of disappointed in the Nationals. This
Speaker 2: is a twenty six year old who had shown previous
Speaker 2: signs of really good production, who seemed like he really
Speaker 2: found something this year. This is a new front office
Speaker 2: in Washington. I would have hoped that they would have
Speaker 2: extended this guy I don't really see the argument for
Speaker 2: doing this unless the Hall is just too good to
Speaker 2: pass up. But it doesn't really seem like it was.
Speaker 2: It wasn't, so I'm kind kind of confused from the
Speaker 2: Nationals point of view on this one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, same, probably going to burn through a little bit
Speaker 1: more of this so we can get to the rest
Speaker 1: of the show and just a reminder again live stream
Speaker 1: six pm Eastern. I think I don't think we've quite
Speaker 1: settled on if we're going to go like right as
Speaker 1: the minute the trade deadline ends or a couple minutes before.
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be right at the deadline ends.
Speaker 1: But we can talk a lot more about these and
Speaker 1: breakdown some more. But Luis Arise, so all the Luisa's
Speaker 1: were traded that that was the mandate for baseball. Luis
Speaker 1: Arise was traded to the Phillies with Caleb Killian from
Speaker 1: the Giants. Remo Marquez is a pretty interesting get. The
Speaker 1: most interesting part about this is Luisa Rise is going
Speaker 1: to play second. They're planning to move Stott to third,
Speaker 1: Boone to first, and Bryce Harper goes back to the outfield,
Speaker 1: So get that outfield eligibility for next season. Very intrigued
Speaker 1: by this. I mean, Luisa Rise in general's kind of
Speaker 1: unless you're in points leagues, but you know you're gonna
Speaker 1: hit it, you know, nearer top of a lineup between
Speaker 1: guys like Sharba and Harper. I don't hate this. So
Speaker 1: I think this and getting out of that ballpark in
Speaker 1: general in San Francisco, I think this is like a
Speaker 1: general semi plus up for Luisa Rise and not like
Speaker 1: anything crazy. He's still like pretty median to me. And
Speaker 1: I like this for Harper getting the outfield eligibility.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just kind of bizarre that the Phillies would
Speaker 2: reconfigure the entire defense for Luisa Rise. It's a little
Speaker 2: bit strange to me, But I don't think it's a
Speaker 2: huge fantasy talking point. Really. Yeah, he's having a great year.
Speaker 2: It seemed like the Giants have kind of unlocked something,
Speaker 2: especially defensively. Ron Washington never fails to help out with
Speaker 2: the defensive stuff. But I don't think it's a huge
Speaker 2: difference for fantasy really.
Speaker 1: Uh, your Toronto Blue Jays. I don't know what was
Speaker 1: going on here that I thought this was really weird,
Speaker 1: especially with the move they made today. Yesterday they traded
Speaker 1: Kevin Gossman to the Chicago Cubs. Toronto got Ty south
Speaker 1: Estein the lesser of the brothers unfortunately, and Breton Bateman,
Speaker 1: which makes sense. The Cubs get their guy, you know,
Speaker 1: they get a good fastball, splitter, combo guy. But then
Speaker 1: this morning they traded four Jose Soriano and they gave
Speaker 1: up argin Namala a couple other prospects. Arginnamala is a
Speaker 1: pretty big name, and I mean I get it from
Speaker 1: a surface level standpoint, like you traded a guy who
Speaker 1: doesn't have longevities getting older, You got some prospects, and
Speaker 1: then you traded four Jose Soriano, who you definitely fell
Speaker 1: off but up and coming. I just thought it was
Speaker 1: strange of all the destinations for Soriano to go. But
Speaker 1: any just quick thoughts on what your Toronto Blue Jays did,
Speaker 1: which is probably one of many, and throwing this out,
Speaker 1: this is a really interesting take. I just wanted to
Speaker 1: quickly do beat saying Argin maybe was a little impetus
Speaker 1: to the Angels knowing they're gonna move netto having some
Speaker 1: more future shortstops in their system. That's an interesting take.
Speaker 1: But what do you think about your Blue Jay trades.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm not terribly happy. I haven't been most
Speaker 2: of the year with the Blue Jays. Kevin Gosman, if
Speaker 2: you're gonna trade him, I would have hoped for a
Speaker 2: bit of a better return. These are two guys who
Speaker 2: don't really profile as regular everyday major leaguers. Maybe Bateman
Speaker 2: does as like a maybe a third fourth outfielder type.
Speaker 2: Maybe he's the Dalton Varshow replacement in center field, but
Speaker 2: it's pretty underwhelming. The other guy has never hit a
Speaker 2: professional home run and like seven hundred plus played appearances.
Speaker 2: It's a Blue Jays archetype, the contact hitters, the guys
Speaker 2: who get on base and don't strike out. They like
Speaker 2: those types. But for Kevin Gosman, I don't know if
Speaker 2: it really is enough for me to be happy. And
Speaker 2: now getting Soriano, I understand there's a couple of years
Speaker 2: of control and hopefully that Pete Walker can have success
Speaker 2: here with a profile that he's had success within the
Speaker 2: past and just as recently as this year, Dylan Cees
Speaker 2: and Robbie Ray in the past, and a couple of others,
Speaker 2: the guys who you know, big stuff, big strikeout upside,
Speaker 2: but bad command. So maybe there's something there. But Jose Soriano,
Speaker 2: outside of those first few weeks of the season, has
Speaker 2: been really bad this year. He's generally been a fairly
Speaker 2: disappointing arm. His fastball velocity and stuff have both the
Speaker 2: client for each of the last four seasons and the
Speaker 2: kicker here. JJ Cooper, who is the editor in chief
Speaker 2: of Baseball America, said that he is their thirty ninth prospect.
Speaker 2: He has him ranked higher than the year Hope so Argentamala,
Speaker 2: according to Baseball America, is the highest ranked prospect to
Speaker 2: be traded at the deadline so far. According to from
Speaker 2: JJ Cooper's perspective, this is real life, not fantasy. But
Speaker 2: Nemal is a year younger at the same level above
Speaker 2: average shortstop well Hope is a corner outfielder. Namala has
Speaker 2: similar contact rates to Hope. Nmala chases out of the
Speaker 2: zone much less, and he hits the ball harder. So
Speaker 2: editor in chief of Baseball America saying Blue Jays have
Speaker 2: given up the best prospect of the deadline for Jose Soriano,
Speaker 2: and that does not make me think, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't really I don't agree with that, But that's
Speaker 1: a very like real Baseball World. Like if you're a shortstop,
Speaker 1: a centerfield or a catcher, your ability to play there
Speaker 1: profiles you so much more. I'll take Zayer Hope's bat
Speaker 1: over Argentamala. But regardless of the point, those are the
Speaker 1: two prospects that had been are two bigger prospects that
Speaker 1: are traded. Moving to the rest of these the Rays
Speaker 1: they got, Freddy Peralta is kind of surprised about that.
Speaker 1: Maybe they'll be able to fix it. I think I
Speaker 1: saw god. I want to say, is it Lance Prostowski
Speaker 1: that was talking about that. You know, they might go
Speaker 1: more heavy changeups on right handed hitters. I think the
Speaker 1: point of that is they got a plan to fix him.
Speaker 1: Aiden Smith, Petrie and Gary Hill Gary Gill Hill were
Speaker 1: traded going to the New York Mets. It was actually
Speaker 1: pretty good haul to return back for Freddie Peralta, so
Speaker 1: I think that makes it interesting. Brett Souter went to
Speaker 1: Atlanta and the Angels brought back Nacho Alvarez. That was
Speaker 1: a decent return for kind of the type of player
Speaker 1: they would get. Taylor Ward was traded to the Seattle Mariners,
Speaker 1: and then not just the Adley Ritchman one is floating
Speaker 1: out they want to also tell you guys that apparently
Speaker 1: there's a report that Breton Doyle is close to being
Speaker 1: traded to the Chicago White Sox. If it hasn't already happened,
Speaker 1: I'm looking. I don't see the official report in here.
Speaker 1: Well no, yeah, MLB. Actually five minutes ago White Sox
Speaker 1: reportedly acquire Britton Doyle from the Rocky, So they're going
Speaker 1: to get some more out field help for whatever you know.
Speaker 1: That does Briton. I mean that frees up and opens
Speaker 1: up Cole Carrick. I think there's probably a plus for
Speaker 1: Cole Kerrigan in general. Yeah, that trade is official, so
Speaker 1: Brenton Doyle going in is probably going to hit higher
Speaker 1: in that lineup. I think that's a solid I haven't
Speaker 1: looked at his splits, but that is a plus for
Speaker 1: the Colorado loggym. I'm assuming someone like McCarthy yourmoniacs are
Speaker 1: gonna get traded and then we're going to feel good.
Speaker 1: But plus up on Cole carrig if he is sitting
Speaker 1: out there. We will talk more trades later today in
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Speaker 1: All right, A couple other notes, and we've got a dive.
Speaker 1: I'm actually gonna have to cut some of our deep
Speaker 1: dive stuff. We're gonna talk Schien though, we're gonna get
Speaker 1: out the other guy. But in weird trade things, the
Speaker 1: Red Sox not only swept the Dodgers, which was absolutely beautiful,
Speaker 1: insane and ridiculous, but there was a report that the
Speaker 1: Red Sox and Reds we're talking Ellie da La Cruz.
Speaker 1: I do not believe it. That was actually part of
Speaker 1: that TV segment that we were on that I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't think that happened. I think that was the
Speaker 1: Red And I know there's more reports. Oh they like
Speaker 1: gone on the phone and could I don't believe it.
Speaker 1: I think it was someone doing a favor. They were
Speaker 1: calling to talk about what wines you pair with and
Speaker 1: they're just like, Ellie, to the cruise available and they
Speaker 1: go nope. And that's part of it. I just don't
Speaker 1: believe that the Reds would even entertain any type of trade.
Speaker 1: So I don't care what report is out there. Because
Speaker 1: I was being asked, like, what would this mean for
Speaker 1: the Red Sox, And it's like it would be the
Speaker 1: biggest trade we've seen and god knows how long. But
Speaker 1: they're not going to trade it. They're just not going
Speaker 1: to trade there like a franchise altering type of player.
Speaker 1: So I thought this was a really stupid Uh. Maybe
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, maybe I'm totally wrong, but I thought this
Speaker 1: was a stupid report.
Speaker 2: No, he's not getting traded like it would He is
Speaker 2: one of the top five or seven most untouchable players
Speaker 2: in the whole league. It would take like Arius and
Speaker 2: Roman Anthony or something like. I don't even know what
Speaker 2: it would take. I'm not a great with returns, but
Speaker 2: would that even do it? Arius and Roman Anthony? Probably not,
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: No, oh Romanantha, Oh no, no, okay, Actually I just
Speaker 1: didn't think you said Roman Anthon. Yeah, I think it
Speaker 1: would take like I think they'd have to get like
Speaker 1: totally Anthony, Arius and something else. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But why would they trade Ellie de la Cruz. It
Speaker 1: doesn't even make sense. It's just the trade deadline stuff
Speaker 1: and they're probably talking about something. They're probably about Hunter Green.
Speaker 1: And someone said Ellie and then they reported it's really
Speaker 1: dumb some good performances from this week, and just wanted
Speaker 1: to highlight Gavin Williams five and two thirds, one hit,
Speaker 1: one walk, ten strikeouts. We were going to do a
Speaker 1: deep dive on him. I might save it for a
Speaker 1: little bit later, but that is five straight I don't
Speaker 1: know if we have the graphic for this we put
Speaker 1: on here. If we don't, it's okay. But that is
Speaker 1: five straight outings of ten plus strikeouts. And this tweet
Speaker 1: from Yahoo Sports this is not only the fifth but
Speaker 1: it is five straight games of ten strikeouts and one
Speaker 1: or fewer walks. Only Kershaw and Chris Sale have done
Speaker 1: this in baseball history. So that's crazy to have five
Speaker 1: straight ten strikeout performances. Then you add the walks and
Speaker 1: then realize there's only three pitchers now that have done
Speaker 1: in history, and Gavin Williams is one.
Speaker 2: Oh what did like Greg Maddox or Hadro or Randy Johnson,
Speaker 2: Like that's incredible, hard to believe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good point. Randy kind of stood out
Speaker 1: to me, like if you were asking me that question,
Speaker 1: I'd have been like, oh, that's something Randy would do.
Speaker 2: But he didn't Flemmons too, like, you know.
Speaker 1: The walks. Maybe I don't know. Yeah, I've been so
Speaker 1: like that's one of those guys where it's like I
Speaker 1: got I had to write the ship with my ranks
Speaker 1: I did this week. Like Gavin Williams has just been
Speaker 1: so ridiculously good. I mean, is Era still floats up
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, but he's really finding rhythm on
Speaker 1: the back half of the year. I want to do
Speaker 1: a deep dive, but we'll do it at a different time.
Speaker 1: Jacob Mizerwski seven innings tour and runs, ten strikeouts. Did
Speaker 1: want to point out this was on eighty three pitches,
Speaker 1: so that's now three straight outings where he is not
Speaker 1: topped I believe eighty five pitches, So I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's going to change at some point this season.
Speaker 1: But he's also proving doesn't matter. He's just ridiculous. And
Speaker 1: then I just thought this one was funny. Kyle freelan
Speaker 1: first career complete game nine innings, obviously, five hits, win
Speaker 1: and run, eight strikeouts. It is the fewest runs he's
Speaker 1: allowed in a start since April seventh, and this was
Speaker 1: the first Colorado complete game since twenty and twenty two.
Speaker 1: So that's like just wild. It's tough to get the
Speaker 1: pitchers out there deep dive. I do want to I
Speaker 1: don't want to skip this one because we tease this
Speaker 1: and we talked about this, We got to talk about
Speaker 1: Paul Skins, and this was one I did have a
Speaker 1: conversation this weekend. Paul Skeins now has an era up
Speaker 1: to three nine. He is a whip that is over one.
Speaker 1: It's one point one one. And maybe most concerning, as
Speaker 1: kind of viewed in these tweets from Codify and they're
Speaker 1: telling two different stories, is that his fastball velo is
Speaker 1: at a career low. Last year it was ninety eight
Speaker 1: point two miles per hour on average. It is sitting
Speaker 1: ninety six point nine this year. The if you're looking
Speaker 1: on the visuals, what you can see from Kodify into
Speaker 1: the left, it's showing the ninety eight plus mile prower
Speaker 1: pitches thrown by Paul Skins in every single of his
Speaker 1: seventy eight career games. And if you look towards the end,
Speaker 1: what you start seeing is this season you see zeros.
Speaker 1: You see ones by the way, the fifth in his
Speaker 1: career forty six, then forty two, so when he started
Speaker 1: his career. It's bam, bam, bam. The last I mean,
Speaker 1: what is that if I do them at like fourteen
Speaker 1: or something, it's like the whole year, no more than eight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it just it looks ridiculously low. The secondary graphic. What
Speaker 1: is telling you, And this is something I talked about
Speaker 1: I talked about this weekend, was that the lowering fastball
Speaker 1: is also looking to make the secondaries worse. Specifically that
Speaker 1: change up and as you can see Paul Skean's offspeed
Speaker 1: pitches in twenty twenty four one sixty six average with
Speaker 1: a two to eleven slug. This year it's up to
Speaker 1: two eighty six with the three ninety seven slug. That's
Speaker 1: change ups and splinkers together. So I had put out
Speaker 1: there Arico, that the lessening of the power fastball is
Speaker 1: letting guys cheat more and making the secondaries worse. And
Speaker 1: there is something that you know, take it for whatever
Speaker 1: you want. That when I did this on HQ is
Speaker 1: that I noticed his arm angle has changed, and it's changed.
Speaker 1: I think this is significant. Twenty three degree two first
Speaker 1: two years, so consistent same our angle. It's not a
Speaker 1: big number, but it's up to twenty six this year,
Speaker 1: so his arm has come up a little bit. That
Speaker 1: is either in my mind, a a mechanical issue they
Speaker 1: haven't worked out, or unfortunately this is the Joe Rico
Speaker 1: and Scott Bagman playbook, it might be masking an injury,
Speaker 1: because why else do you raise your arm like that
Speaker 1: in that comfortable level you have. Velo decreases your arm.
Speaker 1: Angle's gone up. I know three degrees doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: a lot, but you don't see those type of changes
Speaker 1: year over year. You usually see those over time. Could
Speaker 1: it be masking an injury? I will pass it to
Speaker 1: you here for a minute before we plow through the
Speaker 1: rest of the episode. But the fastballs down, it's made
Speaker 1: the secondary's work. Maybe there's an injury and it hasn't
Speaker 1: been fixed. So yeah, I do think the justification of
Speaker 1: being worried on him is real.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we're there at this point now. The velocity,
Speaker 2: I think is the biggest thing for me. Where he's
Speaker 2: gone from his first season where he was sitting ninety
Speaker 2: eight point eight miles an hour to now this year
Speaker 2: where he's sitting ninety six point nine. And if you
Speaker 2: look over his recent starts ninety six six ninety six,
Speaker 2: three ninety six, one ninety seven to one. It's not
Speaker 2: what it once was. And he's only twenty four and
Speaker 2: it's only been two years. So that's where I think
Speaker 2: there's got to be some kind of injury. If you
Speaker 2: look back over his last what is it, fifteen fourteen starts,
Speaker 2: we're looking at a five eighteen ERA and we're looking
Speaker 2: at a one forty three whip. Now there is some
Speaker 2: bad luck in there, I think as well. He still
Speaker 2: has a thirty percent strikeout rate and he has a
Speaker 2: three eighty eight babbot been a sixty four percent left
Speaker 2: on base rate, so part of it is some bad luck.
Speaker 2: He has a three nineteen FIP in that time frame.
Speaker 2: He has a three eighteen SIERRA. I don't think he's
Speaker 2: bad or anything, but I think he might be trying
Speaker 2: to mask some kind of injury. The walks are higher
Speaker 2: than we've seen this year, or though we'd seen previously.
Speaker 2: I don't know what to make of this altogether, but
Speaker 2: he's not a guy that as of today, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: want anything to do with next season. This feels like
Speaker 2: a ticking time bomb where four starts in a next year,
Speaker 2: we're gonna hear the Tommy John surgeries in coming and
Speaker 2: he's gonna miss the whole season, and I maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: I'd like to hear something. I'd like to hear something.
Speaker 1: I do wonder if the season is gonna end and
Speaker 1: we're gonna be and he's gonna be like, oh, I
Speaker 1: have this like thing in my shoulder the whole year.
Speaker 1: If I don't hear anything, it is gonna make me
Speaker 1: want to put him down quite a bit further on
Speaker 1: my rest of season, I think I put him like
Speaker 1: at ten or maybe even close to outside the top
Speaker 1: ten in pitchers. So theyre look like there's some serious
Speaker 1: issues out there, and it's across the board. The fastball
Speaker 1: is down, it's affecting secondaries. The arm angles change, which
Speaker 1: maybe is the early sign the early warning signs. Why
Speaker 1: would his arm angle be coming up? Maybe that would
Speaker 1: be an altering pitches, But the arm angle coming up
Speaker 1: is just is like correlating with the fastball going down.
Speaker 1: So that just seems odd. So Paul Skin's scary. Are
Speaker 1: you scared about Paul Skeins? You can trap the comments
Speaker 1: and blow or is this a nothing burger and you're
Speaker 1: gonna be buying him in the second half. Rookie lookie
Speaker 1: kind of getting through these quickly. Max Clark had a
Speaker 1: freaking weekend and I feel pretty good about that, Max Clark.
Speaker 1: This graphic was one of I'm gonna read this here.
Speaker 1: Over three thousand players of debut in the majors at
Speaker 1: twenty one or younger in the modern era, only one
Speaker 1: of them had five plus total bases in each of
Speaker 1: their first two games. That is Max Clark, who went single, double, double, homer, single,
Speaker 1: And then the other stat that I have here. The
Speaker 1: other thing that I had picked out about Max Clark
Speaker 1: was this weekend. It was six hits in a series sweep,
Speaker 1: going six for twelve, a homer, three RBI, four runs.
Speaker 1: Absolutely ridiculous debut for Max Clark. It's a big payoff.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we all cash that. Quinn Matthews solid debut. We
Speaker 1: talked about him. Five innings tour and run, two runs,
Speaker 1: three walks, three strikeouts. Couple drafted players. Von Lackey made
Speaker 1: his debut, multi hit performances two for five, had a
Speaker 1: couple singles, four runs and walks, and Rock Chalowski I
Speaker 1: was out this weekend for his final complex game. I
Speaker 1: said that on this show on Friday that he was
Speaker 1: going to a ball next week, and then it got
Speaker 1: reported on Saturday He's going to High A. The minute
Speaker 1: the report came out, I'm not even joking you, Bubba
Speaker 1: text me and Bubba was like, hey, good thing. You
Speaker 1: know you got to see Rock and I said, I'm
Speaker 1: standing ten feet from him. Five minutes later, he hit
Speaker 1: a homer and I didn't get it on video and
Speaker 1: I hated myself for it. He hit a homer, But
Speaker 1: he'll be debuting at HIA tomorrow and then A J.
Speaker 1: Grassia underwent season ending surgery laboram surgery after being drafted,
Speaker 1: so we just won't see him this year. A Rico
Speaker 1: a quick thought on this, but I loved this as
Speaker 1: I mentioned a ton about Munataka Murakami in the offseason. Murakami.
Speaker 1: This stat came out from Just Baseball. I am killing
Speaker 1: this because Anthony K told me don't worry about the
Speaker 1: high velos with Murakami. I believed it. Look at this
Speaker 1: this graphic highest ops this season versus ninety seven plus
Speaker 1: mile per hour pitches. No player is better than Murakami.
Speaker 1: And by the way, mcconagall is two, Alvarez three, and
Speaker 1: Soto four Murakami and Velo ain't the issue that everybody
Speaker 1: was cracking it up to be.
Speaker 2: Everybody was wrong for the most part about Marcaumi. I
Speaker 2: was wrong about him. Most people thought he would really struggle.
Speaker 2: I thought that he would hit a lot of homers,
Speaker 2: but I thought that it would come with like one
Speaker 2: ninety six. I thought it was a Joey Gallo tribute
Speaker 2: season coming here. But he is quite a bit better
Speaker 2: as of today that I think Joey Gallo, like, as
Speaker 2: he peaked higher than Gallo did. Maybe not, but he's
Speaker 2: a better hitter overall than Joey Gallo was. I think
Speaker 2: those pumps might have been a little bit off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he doesn't chase and stuff like that. I just
Speaker 1: thought this was so fascinating because this was everything against
Speaker 1: all Right, let's keep moving through here. Three up and
Speaker 1: three down. On the up, Cole Young four for five
Speaker 1: with a run in an RBI yesterday, Everson Pereira had
Speaker 1: a homer with four RBIs, and Max Scherzer actually pitched
Speaker 1: is probably the up six innings, allowed just one run
Speaker 1: five strikeouts. On the down, Mitch Keller allowed seven earned
Speaker 1: runs over two innings against the Reds, whoof Gage jump
Speaker 1: got destroyed. This is by the Tigers. He walks six batters,
Speaker 1: struck out five, alled sixer and runs and Vladi Guerrero
Speaker 1: zero for four with three strikeouts. No good. In the
Speaker 1: injury department, Bobby Woo Junior completed a full workout session.
Speaker 1: He is expected to be activated before Tuesday's game. That's
Speaker 1: really good. Kyle Harrison's going to come off the ail
Speaker 1: and start Wednesday. Josh Nale left early on Sunday. Keep
Speaker 1: an eye on that. Otani is going to be playing
Speaker 1: catch this week in Chicago with still no crazy timetable.
Speaker 1: Matt Chapman is going to be getting an MRI today,
Speaker 1: so you know, be locked into that if we're going
Speaker 1: to be seeing him. Nick Kurtz is going to be
Speaker 1: seeing a hand specialist. That one could be scary. Andean
Speaker 1: Carlos Stanton is going to be taking live VP on Monday.
Speaker 1: So those are some of the injury things that are
Speaker 1: floating around. Let's talk about some of those home runs
Speaker 1: that are looking to fly and look at the home
Speaker 1: run board where high Cubby picked up a couple this weekend,
Speaker 1: forty eight to league goal to forty two. Maybe the
Speaker 1: most insane thing is we are still just sitting at
Speaker 1: two people with forty. I cannot believe that. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I got any this weekend, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: really matter. Mister Joe Rico, what are you doing with
Speaker 1: your home run call all? For today?
Speaker 2: I'm going to go with your boy. I'm gonna take
Speaker 2: Ezmerlin Valdez today. It's a bit of a short slate,
Speaker 2: so we don't have a full assortment of players to
Speaker 2: choose from. But he's going up against Brandon Sprote, who
Speaker 2: has kind of come back down to earth a little
Speaker 2: bit recently, not necessarily with the homers, I mean, just
Speaker 2: one each allowed in each of his last three games.
Speaker 2: But I'm going to go with your boy as Merlin today.
Speaker 1: Well that's going to come in handy here in a second,
Speaker 1: I'm going to go with Junior Cameronaro. Junior Cameraro in
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Speaker 1: Weather's probably not going to be one here because I
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Speaker 1: just jump into mind for a second. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: d Bax and Padre's first five total runs under. I
Speaker 1: know it's crazy, but we got Brandon Fodd who's been ridiculous.
Speaker 1: He's been ridiculous in the early sets of games. He
Speaker 1: doesn't get strikeouts. I actually wanted to play the under
Speaker 1: on K's but it's just too juiced up. But he's
Speaker 1: been good. And you know what, Michael King has been
Speaker 1: good against the Diamondbacks. The last two outings against the Diamondbacks,
Speaker 1: I think he's given up three total earned runs. So
Speaker 1: if Fought continues this role he's been Michael King does
Speaker 1: the same. Also, the trade deadline, you never know, could
Speaker 1: swing some players out of lineups. There's some taxi squad
Speaker 1: players of the Diamondbacks. I just really like this. So
Speaker 1: this is taking under four and a half runs through
Speaker 1: the first five innings and it's plus money. That is
Speaker 1: my best bet. What do you have for your best bet?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm taking an over here. Going the other way.
Speaker 2: It's the Giants and the Rangers, and a lot of
Speaker 2: this comes down to cal Quantrill. I think cal Quantrell
Speaker 2: has been very lucky to have a three eighty four
Speaker 2: ERA this season. He's nowhere near that good and we've
Speaker 2: started to see it recently and Logan Web on the
Speaker 2: other side of that, it just hasn't been a great
Speaker 2: year for him. His era is pushing for It feels
Speaker 2: like a fairly low number to take here. Eight and
Speaker 2: a half at plus money, Giants and Rangers take the over.
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