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Speaker 3: Let's do it and Game one in Marlin's Reds was
Speaker 3: the pitchers duel that we all wanted, Case Burns versus
Speaker 3: Sandy al contra It delivered. Burns tossed seven shutout innings
Speaker 3: while Sandy offered seven of one run ball himself, but
Speaker 3: that one run actually ended his consecutive innings scoreless streak
Speaker 3: at twenty five and two thirds innings, the best of
Speaker 3: Sandy's career. The lone run came on a Gino Suarez
Speaker 3: RBI single. Who's actually been swinging the mat pretty well
Speaker 3: all of a sudden. Reds win one zero, Chase Burns
Speaker 3: approofs of fourteen to two. It's gonna be one of
Speaker 3: those times where I care about the record and we'll
Speaker 3: shout it out. Game two plenty of scoring this time
Speaker 3: around with the game, except not for the early part
Speaker 3: of the game. It went into the eighth with the
Speaker 3: Reds up four to three, but the Marlins would go
Speaker 3: on to put up five unanswered to lockdown an eight
Speaker 3: four victory, four for four day for Jacob Marcy. Of course,
Speaker 3: Marlins fans love to see that. Joe mack homerd in
Speaker 3: a three hit performance and again the Marlins even up
Speaker 3: the series in Game two. Then you go to Game three,
Speaker 3: another fun pitching matchup Uri Peres versus Nickelodola. Adola hasn't
Speaker 3: been as good this year, but still very talented. Of course,
Speaker 3: Ury has been on a heater and has really seen things.
Speaker 3: Clay our Guy podcast, he put out a sick video
Speaker 3: also just breaking down what has changed with Yury and
Speaker 3: how good he has been. And that was before this outing,
Speaker 3: I think, and we still ends up seeing another fantastic
Speaker 3: outing here from Yuri. It was scoreless until the eighth,
Speaker 3: but that's when the Marlins bats woke up. Erberto Hernandez
Speaker 3: launched a solo shot, Griffin Conan came off the bench
Speaker 3: and drew a basis loaded walk to bring in another run,
Speaker 3: and then the floodgates really opened in the ninth inning,
Speaker 3: where the Marlins put up five more runs for good measure,
Speaker 3: seven to one, fish they take the series. They improved
Speaker 3: to three games over five hundred. The Reds kind of
Speaker 3: look lifeless the Marlins just didn't look great, but they
Speaker 3: keep just kind of grinding it out here and they
Speaker 3: do what they needed to do to kind of stay
Speaker 3: in the hunt. With the way some of these other
Speaker 3: teams in the top of the wild card are playing.
Speaker 3: By taking two out of three in a series, they
Speaker 3: should win.
Speaker 2: And I want to ask you about the Marlins too,
Speaker 2: because you said to yourself they're kind of grinding out
Speaker 2: wins right now, and I understand, but looking at the
Speaker 2: totality of the season, the Marlins have a plus twenty
Speaker 2: run differential. They're two and a half games out, They're
Speaker 2: sixty f four and sixty one. If the Marlins were
Speaker 2: in the American League, they would be what two and
Speaker 2: a half games above the Orioles for that last wild
Speaker 2: card spot. So, yes, the Marlins on the outside looking
Speaker 2: in on the playoffs. But at the same time, they're
Speaker 2: having a really strong season. They're just on the outside
Speaker 2: looking in because they're in a league that is full
Speaker 2: of juggernauts. So I just wanted to get your more
Speaker 2: overarching thoughts on the Marlins this season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they've been really solid, man, Like you
Speaker 3: saw that. I think this stretch and over the next
Speaker 3: week to week and a half, especially the series they
Speaker 3: have coming up. They play the Phillies this week. The Phillies,
Speaker 3: we'll talk about they've been really solid of late. Tough
Speaker 3: pitching matchup, tough draw off for them too, Like they
Speaker 3: don't get Sandy or yurigoing so and they get some
Speaker 3: of the top arms for the Phillies. Like that's going
Speaker 3: to be a defining series, I think. But I think
Speaker 3: for this season overall, it could have really fell apart
Speaker 3: for them after that losing streak, like it could have
Speaker 3: the wheels could have completely fallen off. They snapped that
Speaker 3: twelve game losing stream and they end up coming back
Speaker 3: now and playing really solid ball of weight. So I
Speaker 3: feel like this has been a defining characteristic of this
Speaker 3: team is that they won't really go away. Are they perfect?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Are there times where the offense kind of disappears, Yeah,
Speaker 3: But they find ways to win games. Different guys in
Speaker 3: the rotation step up, Like Max Meyer was that guy
Speaker 3: when Uri was working through things. Sandy's always kind of
Speaker 3: been that solid arm. But since Meyer hit the IL,
Speaker 3: Yuri has kicked things into another gear. And Sanuel Contra
Speaker 3: has been spectacular, So he has really played his way
Speaker 3: into like you're not gonna win the Cy Young, but
Speaker 3: like he's gonna get some down ballot votes and finish
Speaker 3: in a respectable spot.
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna lead major League Baseball and innings
Speaker 2: this year, if I'm not mistaken. I think the last
Speaker 2: time I checked, he was pacing major League Baseball in
Speaker 2: innings pitched, being that classic innings eater that Sandy is,
Speaker 2: and he's still getting pretty good results. It's been a
Speaker 2: little bit of an up and down season for him,
Speaker 2: but at the end of the day, it's still Sandy
Speaker 2: Is and he's been awesome over the last few months.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think that's what they needed him to
Speaker 3: be with how many short starts they've had and kind
Speaker 3: of bullpen games or whatever it may be. But I
Speaker 3: mean to answer the question, I think it's been a
Speaker 3: good season overall for the minds, and as long as
Speaker 3: the wheels don't fall off again here, like if they're
Speaker 3: playing meaningful games through September, I think it's it's a
Speaker 3: pretty exciting, you know, season for them. That said, I
Speaker 3: think starting next year, I do think for the sake
Speaker 3: of Marlins fans, the goal needs to no longer be
Speaker 3: better than we expected and needs to be like, hey,
Speaker 3: let's try to sign some players and you know, and
Speaker 3: make the playoffs for good or actually, you know, make
Speaker 3: it out of a wild card round.
Speaker 2: Makes total sense. I just think it's important to refer
Speaker 2: back to the opening win totals that bet MGM puts
Speaker 2: out to kind of contextualize what were the preseason expectations,
Speaker 2: because you know, we're in the middle of August, we
Speaker 2: kind of pretend what these teams were quote unquote projected
Speaker 2: to be. And the Marlins, with a month and a
Speaker 2: half left of the season are only eight wins away
Speaker 2: from their preseason win total, which they're gonna fly by.
Speaker 2: So in terms of what Vegas and the smartest people
Speaker 2: in the world thought the Marlins would be, they have
Speaker 2: far exceeded those expectations. So it's a again to your point,
Speaker 2: it's great to do that, but let's start spending some
Speaker 2: money and then let's start competing. But to be fair
Speaker 2: to them, like I said, pointing back to my earlier point,
Speaker 2: they'd be well within the playoffs if they were just
Speaker 2: in the American.
Speaker 3: League, and then maybe they would have approached the deadline
Speaker 3: differently if they were in the American League. As well,
Speaker 3: So that's the interesting wrinkle. And then the Reds Jack
Speaker 3: on the radio call referred to them as lifeless, and
Speaker 3: so he never does that. Even he said I never
Speaker 3: called teams lifeless. He said a lifeless they feel lifeless.
Speaker 3: And I just I love Tito like he's a legend.
Speaker 3: I've made fun of him a few times, like hitting
Speaker 3: find behind runners and all that stuff with south Stewart,
Speaker 3: but I just let him finish the year. Obviously, I
Speaker 3: just don't know if he's the guy for the scene,
Speaker 3: and it's not all on him. But until Crawl gets fired,
Speaker 3: I don't know they're gonna need to sha shake something,
Speaker 3: shake some things up. Excuse me, geez. I think managerially
Speaker 3: they're gonna need to shake the roster up too. But
Speaker 3: I do think there's just a little bit of a
Speaker 3: disconnect there. It doesn't feel like the teams that bought
Speaker 3: in at this stage. And and I just don't think
Speaker 3: Tito can be the guy going in the next year.
Speaker 2: I understand that I think that Tito, when managers are discussed,
Speaker 2: kind of gets the benefit of the doubt just because
Speaker 2: he kind of is that legend. But if you ask
Speaker 2: a Reds fan how Tito has done, you know, in
Speaker 2: a Reds uniform, I don't think there would be a
Speaker 2: lot of positivity. But I still think the number one
Speaker 2: problem is that front office. Yeah Crawls on that rant,
Speaker 2: Nick Krawl is the biggest problem. I don't think addressing
Speaker 2: Tito is really going to change. Yeah, organizational structure, and
Speaker 2: that's what they need changed, and it starts with the
Speaker 2: front office.
Speaker 3: Yeah. The only other thing I'll add is, you know
Speaker 3: Gino swinging in a little bit. Yeah, they're around.
Speaker 2: They're hanging around. Like I understand why Jack said they
Speaker 2: were lifeless, but it's not like they've created like some
Speaker 2: other teams that we're here to talk about in this
Speaker 2: roundup of completely created. The Reds are still competing. But
Speaker 2: I agree on a day to day basis, it just
Speaker 2: feels like there's no juice there. And I think that's
Speaker 2: what Jack noticed on the call.
Speaker 3: Yeah, which is which is it's just been tough to watch.
Speaker 3: But we'll go to Phillies Versus Twins and game one
Speaker 3: I was at. It was the Field of Dreams game
Speaker 3: technically speaking here, and it was a lot of fun,
Speaker 3: but it was all Phillies. Kyle Schwarber Homer twice Brandon
Speaker 3: Marsh left the yard on the way to a seven
Speaker 3: to one route. Aaron Nola struck out nine and five
Speaker 3: innings of one run ball and it was a really
Speaker 3: fun experience. Game was so much fun. Shchwarber leaving the
Speaker 3: yard twice. With the way the wind was bowling in there,
Speaker 3: I thought nobody was getting out. Schweber was even drink.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you were about to say it. I was,
Speaker 2: like Schwarber said pregame that nothing was flying out to
Speaker 2: right field. And then first ab he crushes one out
Speaker 2: to right field.
Speaker 3: It was good. I watched him in batting practice, like
Speaker 3: literally hitting balls and then looking at his like his
Speaker 3: teammates and shaking his head and going, oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: this is going to be a nightmare because everything was dying.
Speaker 3: And sure enough he sneaks those two out, one with
Speaker 3: no help one the other the second one maybe with
Speaker 3: a little bit of help. And then Nola's been really
Speaker 3: solid of late. And even if if he could just
Speaker 3: be a four y r A the rest of the way,
Speaker 3: I mean, the Phillies are in good shape. You go
Speaker 3: to Game two, all Phillies again. They tagged Connor Prilip
Speaker 3: for eight runs while Jesus Wizardo toss six and two
Speaker 3: thirds innings of one run ball with nine punch outs
Speaker 3: nine to one final. There then Game three, the Twins
Speaker 3: got off to a five zear o lead, brooks Lee
Speaker 3: launched a grand slam, Cody Clemons also hit a solo shot,
Speaker 3: but then the Phillies scored seven unanswered. Alex Bowm hit
Speaker 3: a three run shot in the fourth, sorry in a
Speaker 3: four run sixth, and then the Phillies tacked on three
Speaker 3: more in the eighth to take the lead and hold
Speaker 3: on seven to five Phillies victory. They sweep. It's one
Speaker 3: thing to get swept, but this third game being the
Speaker 3: one that like you get swept with is the one
Speaker 3: that really hurts. Because if that was game one, then
Speaker 3: you loast the next two. It's like all right, clean slate.
Speaker 3: This one really really hurts because you already had a
Speaker 3: frustrating series. You've got boat race in the first two
Speaker 3: and then you're in the lead. You should at least
Speaker 3: salvage the series here at home, and you have this
Speaker 3: back breaking loss baseball, so like they could just bounce
Speaker 3: back tomorrow or the next game and you know, be great.
Speaker 3: But this is one where I am really interested to
Speaker 3: see if it carries over into the next series.
Speaker 2: So as a four point three percenter, as a Twins
Speaker 2: Nation believer, as a Minnesotian sort of, I live in Chicago,
Speaker 2: it's like kind of close to Minnesota. I have rallied
Speaker 2: around this Twins team all year. I'm not waving the
Speaker 2: white flag. Don't ask if I am, because I'm not.
Speaker 2: But do I have my normal animunition, No, I do not.
Speaker 2: It's getting tough. The pitching just isn't there, and it
Speaker 2: sucks because this team is still a top ten offense
Speaker 2: in baseball by WRC plus. I still believe in the
Speaker 2: offense that hasn't left. But you saw the final scores
Speaker 2: of the series, Like when they don't hit, they lose
Speaker 2: seven to one, and when they do hit, they lose
Speaker 2: seven to five. It's just kind of where we're at
Speaker 2: with them. I want to focus on the Phillies though,
Speaker 2: because on this podcast, I think we've been given the
Speaker 2: Phillies some flack.
Speaker 3: We have.
Speaker 2: We've been talking a lot about this offense, nothing about
Speaker 2: the rotation. All we do is praise the rotation with
Speaker 2: a three headed monster. We still love Duran in the
Speaker 2: back end, and we still think they have a solid bullpen.
Speaker 2: It's just how do we get the Phillies over the top.
Speaker 2: And I think Phillies fans have been asking the same thing,
Speaker 2: and it starts with finding bats outside of the Schwarber
Speaker 2: and the Harper, because I think banking on a trade
Speaker 2: turner resurgence at this point is just wishing and hoping
Speaker 2: that the trade turner of old returns. But if Bryson,
Speaker 2: Stott and Alec Bohm are going to hit the way
Speaker 2: they are started August really really well. On Sunday, Bryson
Speaker 2: stock goes one for five with an RBI and a run,
Speaker 2: Alec Bohm two big hits right going just in the
Speaker 2: month of August, Bryson stopped before that one for five
Speaker 2: showing had a two hundred WRC, plus Alec Bohm one
Speaker 2: forty hitting three sixty seven and then has a two
Speaker 2: for four day. If those guys can be solid, we're
Speaker 2: not asking for you to automatically turn into Harbour and Schwarber.
Speaker 2: We're just asking for solid hitters. And those two are massive.
Speaker 2: And you see what the Phillies look like when those
Speaker 2: two are hitting, because they don't need a lot, they
Speaker 2: just need somebody and now they got two somebodies and
Speaker 2: I'm watching and I'm like, it's interesting.
Speaker 3: And then you at with a Rise to add to that.
Speaker 3: It's just it's it's it's compounded. And it was funny
Speaker 3: after the game, the Field of Dreams game, you know,
Speaker 3: in the presser, Don Mattingly was kind of ask like, well,
Speaker 3: you know, outside the obvious, what is what is Ariase
Speaker 3: brought to the table? And one of the other things
Speaker 3: that he mentioned, aside from just how good the at
Speaker 3: Bats are is is the energy and the spark that
Speaker 3: that Ariaz brings because he's like a lot of our
Speaker 3: guys there. They go about their business, but it's very
Speaker 3: not even in a negative way, but very like even keeled,
Speaker 3: sometimes just just kind of flat. And it's a good
Speaker 3: thing in a lot of ways, but sometimes we need
Speaker 3: that guy that's gonna, you know, spark us be a
Speaker 3: little bit of a life u a life creator and
Speaker 3: just I would say, just an energy creator, I should say,
Speaker 3: in the clubhouse and check things up a little bit.
Speaker 3: And I think that's what a Rise has kind of
Speaker 3: been for them, and I think he's been a spark
Speaker 3: on the field and in the clubhouse as well. So
Speaker 3: you see that paired with the fact that, yes, since
Speaker 3: the All Star Break, prison Stott's been as good as anybody.
Speaker 3: It's been really impressive to see, I mean pretty much
Speaker 3: since the break. It's a one seventy one WRC plus
Speaker 3: from Scott. You know he's going to defend. He's walking
Speaker 3: as much as he's struck out. And Bom has been,
Speaker 3: you know, really good as well, as you mentioned. If
Speaker 3: they've got that, like all of a sudden, there's a
Speaker 3: little bit more length to this lineup, and you don't
Speaker 3: you feel like you can get back around to the
Speaker 3: top guys even more easily, Like they don't even have
Speaker 3: to slug.
Speaker 2: It's on.
Speaker 3: But if they pick up a base hit or draw
Speaker 3: a walk and they're not going down in order, you're
Speaker 3: sending it back around to the top more more quickly
Speaker 3: and more consistently too, to get more at bats to
Speaker 3: your top dogs.
Speaker 2: It's crazy. It's like the three best teams in baseball
Speaker 2: right now are all in the National League Wild card
Speaker 2: race right if we're talking about I know the Cubs
Speaker 2: didn't certainly didn't have the best series against the Cardinals,
Speaker 2: but they've given themselves a little bit of a lead.
Speaker 2: But then you got the Phillies sweeping the Twins, and
Speaker 2: you got the Padres taking a series against the Guardians,
Speaker 2: and you got the Diamondbacks taking a series all the
Speaker 2: road against Atlanta. Like, all four of those teams are
Speaker 2: gunning for it. It's going to be an incredible racetown
Speaker 2: the stretch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, which leads me right into that Cub's Cardinals series,
Speaker 3: which was a lot of fun, a lot of fireworks.
Speaker 3: Game one, though not as much of a fireworks show.
Speaker 3: It was a good Old Pictures duel, mostly because of
Speaker 3: Clay Holmes, and his home debut for the Cubs was stellar.
Speaker 3: Six and two thirds, shutout, just one hit. Sales Auzuki
Speaker 3: lauched a three run homer and that was the difference
Speaker 3: three zero Cubs in Game one, But the Cardinals, they
Speaker 3: really took control of the rest of the series. Game
Speaker 3: two will forever be known as the Matthew McGreevy game,
Speaker 3: as he tossed six innings without allowing an earned run
Speaker 3: on his way to his fifth victory. There Now, it
Speaker 3: was the Joshua Bias, and it will forever be the
Speaker 3: Joshua Game, the greatest debut we have ever seen in
Speaker 3: Major League Baseball. Three homers. Homers in each of his
Speaker 3: first three at bats to all fields too, like pull
Speaker 3: side nuke, dead center, backside bomb. That's the best part
Speaker 3: about baseball. Any day you show up to the yard
Speaker 3: as a fan, you have a chance to see something
Speaker 3: that's never happened before. And we get that in Joshua
Speaker 3: Bias is Taye. Look at Matthew Boyds was watching on YouTube.
Speaker 3: You couldn't believe it. And of course if you get
Speaker 3: a three homer performance from from one of your guys,
Speaker 3: you're probably gonna win that game. Cardinals win eight to four.
Speaker 3: But we'll circle back on Bias when we recap the
Speaker 3: series because Game three, Hunter Dobbins continues to look solid
Speaker 3: since he's returned from an ACL injury with the Cardinals,
Speaker 3: and now Edward Cabrera made his return from the IL
Speaker 3: for the Cups. He did not look very solid. Jordan
Speaker 3: Walker and Alec Burlson both homered and drove in four.
Speaker 3: Dobbinsaws five innings a two run ball with seven k's,
Speaker 3: and the Cardinals won eleven to four. They take the
Speaker 3: series in Wrigly. But I mean, the story has to
Speaker 3: be Joshua Bias and his incredible you know, incredible MLB debut.
Speaker 2: I'm really glad that you mentioned where the homers were
Speaker 2: because I think that was the most impressive part of
Speaker 2: an already incredibly impressive debut. Right first pitch, he sees
Speaker 2: four fifty dead central off Matthew Boyd. Second ab pismissal
Speaker 2: to left, just unloads pull side on a liner and
Speaker 2: then does this same thing opposite field. I want to
Speaker 2: ask you though about him long term, right, Yeah, some
Speaker 2: guys have great debuts. His was incredible, but moving forward
Speaker 2: even this season and beyond, Like what should Cardinals fans
Speaker 2: expect from Joshua Bias?
Speaker 3: Really tough player to assess in the respect like I
Speaker 3: am skeptical as a prospect. I just was have been
Speaker 3: skeptical about if he's going to hit enough, Like I
Speaker 3: think the swing gets long and as a result, he
Speaker 3: has to cheat a little bit, and when he has
Speaker 3: to cheat a little bit starts to result in like
Speaker 3: some chase. I think you can tie him up inside
Speaker 3: a little bit. But what's become abundantly clear is that
Speaker 3: if you make a mistake, he's going to vaporize it.
Speaker 3: And so I think he's going to be a good
Speaker 3: mistake hitter. We've seen it through this year where how
Speaker 3: good he has been sit thirty four homers in Triple
Speaker 3: A this season. Like the power is ridiculous, it's elite batspeed,
Speaker 3: but I do have some concern. It's kind of one
Speaker 3: swing for you know, the center of the zone mostly
Speaker 3: and there's not that much adjustability. I think the worst,
Speaker 3: he's going to crush lefties. But I do skw o ver.
Speaker 3: There's people out there that think this guy can be,
Speaker 3: you know, an elite power threat and make it all happen.
Speaker 3: He's a sneaky athlete, but I just think in the
Speaker 3: box he's a little bit of a stiff mover. I
Speaker 3: think it's going to result in a little bit more
Speaker 3: whift and chase, and he's going to be a volatile profile.
Speaker 3: But he's one of those guys that when he's hot,
Speaker 3: you know what we saw with as Marie Valdez, like
Speaker 3: you could have this home run barrage. And he's a
Speaker 3: better athlete than Valdez, and I think he's more accomplished
Speaker 3: even you know, offensively, but you'll see those home run
Speaker 3: barrages and then he'll be one of those guys though too,
Speaker 3: where when he's a little bit out of whack and
Speaker 3: pitchers are executing, and I think inside, I think stuff
Speaker 3: inside is gonna be the really important thing. Hard sinkers
Speaker 3: in and sliders away. That's where he could start to
Speaker 3: get into some tough stretches. But what a start to
Speaker 3: his career. I think he's gonna kill lefties, which he
Speaker 3: showed by what he did to Matthew Boyd. And regardless,
Speaker 3: this is going to be a spark for their team,
Speaker 3: whether it's in mostly a lefty killer role or riding
Speaker 3: the hot hand or whatever it may be. And he's
Speaker 3: a fun young piece. Still to add to the fold
Speaker 3: for the Cardinals.
Speaker 2: Is Gino Swarez a decent comp.
Speaker 3: It's similar and I think if it works out, you know,
Speaker 3: that's what you're hoping like the top can look like.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I would say that's kind of a reasonable
Speaker 3: like push and pull of what you deal with, and
Speaker 3: if it works out, it could look like that. But
Speaker 3: forevery Gino Suarez. There's you know, some guys that just
Speaker 3: don't hit it off. Unfortunately it's just.
Speaker 2: The way that you know, you broke it down. Where
Speaker 2: I'm thinking about a Gino Suarez, right, he could have
Speaker 2: a fifty homer year and then he could have years
Speaker 2: where he hits below two one hundred and doesn't even
Speaker 2: get it. I think it comes and strikes out a
Speaker 2: lot and just kind of goes through ups and downs.
Speaker 2: But when he's hot, like he could be a guy
Speaker 2: moved at the deadline, let's say, for a big package,
Speaker 2: even as a rental, because you're like, we need all
Speaker 2: of those homers because this guy's hot right now. Now.
Speaker 2: He did go over to Seattle and barely did anything,
Speaker 2: but you understand the premise of a player like that,
Speaker 2: where he's going to go through ups and downs, and
Speaker 2: the ups are outrageously awesome and the downs are really tough.
Speaker 2: So I'm just thinking back now, I tweeted out after
Speaker 2: he hit those three home runs, I just got so
Speaker 2: freaking excited, because how can you not basically get ready
Speaker 2: for Jordan Walker to Joshua Biaz over the next half decade.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm got a little bit excited.
Speaker 3: It's possible. I'm skeptical. I think the hit tool and
Speaker 3: approach is limiting, but there's been guys with way more
Speaker 3: hurdles to clear that have cleared them and with the
Speaker 3: kind of upside that he has and made it happen
Speaker 3: so like it's gonna be fun to watch, though, and
Speaker 3: he earned himself the opportunity. This is a guy at
Speaker 3: points in the minor leagues was striking out thirty five
Speaker 3: plus percent of the time at the lower levels. Swing
Speaker 3: was was terrible. He really improved it drastically. I'd us
Speaker 3: a guy that was struggling at the lower levels until
Speaker 3: last year where he really broke out, changed his swing,
Speaker 3: made all of these big improvements and is so much
Speaker 3: better than he once was and obviously now showing that
Speaker 3: to have that ability shine through, I think he's game plannable,
Speaker 3: but at the same time, you can make a career
Speaker 3: crushing mistake. So I'm excited to see how it all
Speaker 3: shakes out.
Speaker 2: How much time do you want to spend on Royals
Speaker 2: Angels twenty minutes an hour?
Speaker 3: Yeah, put see how quick we can go through it.
Speaker 3: Game one, back and forth game Michael Massey and Jack
Speaker 3: Caglion Homer has ended up propelling the Royals to a
Speaker 3: seven to six victory.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 3: CAGs continues to swing a hot bat, but Michael Massey
Speaker 3: has had a pretty nice series as well. Game two,
Speaker 3: though nobody at the plate was was very comfortable because
Speaker 3: Reed Detmer's was ridiculous, eight innings of two hit, shutout
Speaker 3: ball with no walks and eleven strike outs on just
Speaker 3: ninety two pitches. But shout out Randy Dobnak as well.
Speaker 3: He won five and two thirds scoreless, with the Nolan
Speaker 3: shan Well RBI single being the only scoring in the
Speaker 3: eighth inning. But man, when Demers is on like this,
Speaker 3: you start to look at him and say, like, man,
Speaker 3: how good could this guy be if he pieces it
Speaker 3: all together? And this year has been a big step
Speaker 3: in doing that. This outing maybe the best example of that.
Speaker 3: But Game three, Noah Cameron said it here, it's my turn,
Speaker 3: and he answered back with a gem of his own,
Speaker 3: a complete game one hitter, striking out eight. Michael Massey
Speaker 3: did it again. He homered, as did Bobby Witt Junior,
Speaker 3: and the Royals win three zero, but one hundred and
Speaker 3: fifteen pitches for Cameron, who just was working all four quadrants,
Speaker 3: really getting guys to chase at the bottom, filling up
Speaker 3: the zone.
Speaker 2: Only the one walk.
Speaker 3: What a performance there, And I love seeing a guy go,
Speaker 3: you know, letting them, letting him go the one fifteen
Speaker 3: to complete the game. Royals take the series, and you
Speaker 3: know for a series that not a lot of people
Speaker 3: probably in the baseball what we're paying attention to, and
Speaker 3: a no. Two offenses that you know, don't do themselves
Speaker 3: too many favors. I thought it was more about attestament
Speaker 3: to two talented left handed pitchers that when they're on
Speaker 3: it's really fun to watch. It looks completely different, but
Speaker 3: it was really fun to watch.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was watching No. Cameron's start, and you know
Speaker 2: the game whack a mole or it's like a ball, yeah,
Speaker 2: and you try and whack it. Obviously, it felt like
Speaker 2: he was doing that with his fastball and change up,
Speaker 2: where it's like you would expect heater, but then here
Speaker 2: comes the changeup, but guys are swinging over the top.
Speaker 2: And then he looked like he was blowing by fastballs
Speaker 2: you know in the load to mid nineties. Nothing crazy
Speaker 2: at all, but guys were just getting blown back because
Speaker 2: they kept guessing, and they kept guessing wrong. And then
Speaker 2: all of a sudden you realize, wait a minute, Noah
Speaker 2: Cameron has a no hitter through five. Then he's got
Speaker 2: a no hitter through six, and now we're through seven,
Speaker 2: and then he finally gave up a hit. I think
Speaker 2: it was in the eighth if I'm not mistaken, but
Speaker 2: just a really really good outing, a pitcher that is
Speaker 2: now strung together a couple of good outings in the row.
Speaker 2: And I'm really looking for the Royals to just have
Speaker 2: any pieces to build on because we know about Bobby
Speaker 2: Wood Junior, Carter Jensen I think will be a good
Speaker 2: catcher in this league, but lately it just hasn't really
Speaker 2: been there. And then Michael Garcia has not taken that
Speaker 2: step forward, He's taken a large step back. He's been hurt.
Speaker 2: You got CAGs, So it's like CAGs and Bobby who
Speaker 2: in the rotation. Maybe Noah Cameron. Right, it's not been
Speaker 2: his white season. He's pitching to a low four ZRA,
Speaker 2: but you see what he looks like when he's on.
Speaker 2: And last season he was solid for them too. So again,
Speaker 2: at this point in the season with the Royals were
Speaker 2: looking for building blocks and Noah Cameron is proving it
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and at WURS, you know you've got just a
Speaker 3: solid inning, zeting type of guy that can go out
Speaker 3: and compete for you. But yeah, I mean to take
Speaker 3: it into the seventh. I think it was on the
Speaker 3: no No and then the other side though, is you
Speaker 3: look at the the offense for the Angels. I mean, oh,
Speaker 3: it's been tough to watch Netto of late.
Speaker 2: I don't think, I gotta be honest, like watching him.
Speaker 2: I don't like watching him at all. It's just I
Speaker 2: don't know if he cares. I think he's just selling
Speaker 2: out to hit bombs like it does kind of seem
Speaker 2: like it, and I mean, it's gonna Missen so much.
Speaker 3: It's it's crazy how much he's because he's a guy
Speaker 3: that when he came up, the hitting ability and we've
Speaker 3: seen that even the early going of his big league career,
Speaker 3: the hitting ability was was such a big strength of his.
Speaker 3: Jose Siri hit clean up in this game, like von
Speaker 3: Grisson broke up the no hitter, he hit third and played.
Speaker 2: He's actually been okay.
Speaker 3: He's been pretty good.
Speaker 2: He's been okay, and he's proven it gonna.
Speaker 3: Be a decent big leader. Trout's been scuffling a little bit,
Speaker 3: and I mean, yeah, Meckler, Guzman, Perraza, Darnaut, Josh Lowe,
Speaker 3: it's it's it's not it's not a fun watch right now.
Speaker 3: I like, I do like real quick. Blake Wyman kind
Speaker 3: of a funky lefty. He's been pretty good for the
Speaker 3: Angels and several outings to start his uh you know,
Speaker 3: big league career. I believe it is. I don't even
Speaker 3: know if he's been up before. Every time I tune
Speaker 3: and he looked decent. That's all I.
Speaker 2: Got on There we go the rough? Did you think
Speaker 2: on the Just Baseball Show we get a diamond in
Speaker 2: the rough guy at Royals Angels.
Speaker 3: Blake Wyman, funky might get left. He's out for a
Speaker 3: handful more years. Note from podcast P. Noah Cameron is
Speaker 3: a sub one five over thirty seven innings since he
Speaker 3: started calling his own pitches. That's why we got podcast P.
Speaker 2: I know he's the best, and that's why I feel
Speaker 2: like what I was watching was him almost deciding what
Speaker 2: are you sitting?
Speaker 3: I was, Yeah, it was chess. I thought, well, that's
Speaker 3: even that. He makes them performance even more insane to
Speaker 3: your point, like he knew exactly what to go to
Speaker 3: and when he must read swings really well, which that'll
Speaker 3: be a fun story. Thanks for that note, podcast, But
Speaker 3: if I ever seen no Cameron, I got ask him
Speaker 3: about that.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: Actually I might. I'm gonna be I think going to
Speaker 3: Kansas City in September to potentially check off the final
Speaker 3: of my stadiums. But we get the final series here
Speaker 3: and it's a banger. Brewers versus Dodgers. Game one, Shane
Speaker 3: Johan versus Rokie Szaki was scoreless into the fourth when
Speaker 3: the Brewers scored twice before scoring two more runs in
Speaker 3: were two runs in the fifth and two runs in
Speaker 3: the sixth. Uh made it four to two Dodgers on
Speaker 3: their side as well, though a two run shot by
Speaker 3: Max Muntsey gave them the lead. The Brewers got to
Speaker 3: Edwin Diaz though, because when it was four to two
Speaker 3: going into the ninth, they got to dz for three
Speaker 3: runs in the ninth. As the struggles continue, brew crew
Speaker 3: hold on for a five to four comeback win. I'm
Speaker 3: sure we're going to talk a little bit about Edwin
Speaker 3: at the end of this series, and I know you've
Speaker 3: already talked about him a little bit. Game two, Yoshnibu,
Speaker 3: we have a Mooto takes things into his own hands
Speaker 3: with six innings of one run ball with nine strikeouts,
Speaker 3: while Andy Pyes and Tommy Edmond both homer three to
Speaker 3: one win for the Dodgers. Go to Game three, Jacob
Speaker 3: Mizerowski was stellar again opposite of Justin Robleski. The mizz
Speaker 3: allowed one run in six innings with one walk and
Speaker 3: six strikeouts, while Joey Ortiz and William Contres both Homeward.
Speaker 3: Brewers win four to one, and then Game four, Logan
Speaker 3: Henderson out duels Trek Scouble, going seven frames of one
Speaker 3: run ball allowing just three hits. Now you really see
Speaker 3: why the Brewers wanted to hold onto this guy.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: He just continues to get better. He executes so well,
Speaker 3: the command is just so damn good, and he had
Speaker 3: these Dodgers' bats just off balance the entire game. Scooble
Speaker 3: was solid. He gave up just one run in six
Speaker 3: innings of his own work, but he did scatter seven
Speaker 3: hits and the Brewers kept the pressure on the Dodgers' bullpen.
Speaker 3: Jake Bowers had four hits and drove in two. Jackson
Speaker 3: Troo had three hits with a pair of doubles, and
Speaker 3: the Brewers win six to two, taking three of four
Speaker 3: in LA. The Dodgers continue to struggle a little bit.
Speaker 2: And I think this was incredibly impressive from the Brewers.
Speaker 2: It's one thing to just take three out of four
Speaker 2: from the Dodgers in LA. That's already fantastic, but what
Speaker 2: is this game? Thirteen straight, fourteen to fifteen. They've been
Speaker 2: on this West coast road trip. It feels like since
Speaker 2: the All Star break started, they'd never get an off day.
Speaker 2: They're running through their bullpen arms and they were struggling
Speaker 2: a little bit and the Cubs were gaining ground on
Speaker 2: them in the division. And what do they do. In
Speaker 2: Brewers fashion, they say, nope, that's over dominate a team
Speaker 2: like the Dodgers. And in the Henderson versus schoobl game,
Speaker 2: Henderson wins, and on top of it, Logan Henderson since
Speaker 2: the trade deadline, has a better era than Trek Schoobel does.
Speaker 2: And so I know I put out that take originally,
Speaker 2: I think it was on the show and then we
Speaker 2: made a clip or whatever. I made the take that
Speaker 2: I was upset with the Brewers that they didn't trade
Speaker 2: Logan Henderson. And really it wasn't even about Logan Henderson.
Speaker 2: It was just frustration in the moment for a Brewer's
Speaker 2: team to make that big splash and to trade from
Speaker 2: their glut of a farm system. But then after watching
Speaker 2: one more Henderson start, I said immediately. I have to
Speaker 2: get this take back like I was wrong all of it.
Speaker 2: I'll stand in front of it. I'm not gonna let
Speaker 2: him go one more start without me admitting that that
Speaker 2: was a bad take because Henderson was too good, simply put,
Speaker 2: to be included in a Terrek Schooble trade, especially for
Speaker 2: a rental like.
Speaker 3: Five years of control.
Speaker 2: It's just too good. I don't even care if you
Speaker 2: had Louiset paying you to the package. Just Logan Henderson
Speaker 2: is too much. That's how good of a pitcher that
Speaker 2: he is. And now you're laughing. Maybe maybe I'm going
Speaker 2: out too far. Middle ground, Yeah, maybe find a middle ground.
Speaker 2: All I know is I'm a big fan of Logan
Speaker 2: Henderson and he turned in just another good start. But
Speaker 2: I think outside of Milwaukee, which I really wanted to
Speaker 2: highlight and praise them, how is the main focus not
Speaker 2: what's been going on with Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, yeah, Milwaukee, great ball and they played
Speaker 3: a good series. But Kyle Tucker, it seems like it's
Speaker 3: kind of becoming a mental thing too. And it's why
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts said, you know, he was out of the
Speaker 3: lineup in one of the games because of the frustrations
Speaker 3: of playing at home giving a day off to work,
Speaker 3: and I thought that was interesting too. That kind of
Speaker 3: only added fuel to the fire in the conversations around that.
Speaker 3: What's interesting Peyton sent me this note as well, like
Speaker 3: the hard hit percentage in the evs are basically the
Speaker 3: same home versus road for Kyle Tucker, but the surface
Speaker 3: level stats are are crazy different. On the road, Kyle
Speaker 3: Tucker's been pretty much Kyle Tucker eight forty ohps at
Speaker 3: home to five sixty six ops. You got almost one
Speaker 3: hundred point different batting average one ninety two versus two
Speaker 3: seventy five, and an ops plus of sixty one at
Speaker 3: home versus one thirty eight on the road. So the
Speaker 3: other note is that twenty five percent of his batted balls, Like,
Speaker 3: first of all, he's swinging at the first pitch nearly
Speaker 3: half the time, and he's doing that ten percent less
Speaker 3: frequently in the road, which Peyton pointed out to me,
Speaker 3: which I think is interesting. It's almost like he's pressing
Speaker 3: at Dodger Stadium, like he feels like he has to
Speaker 3: do something more there. And it's one of those things
Speaker 3: where it might have started off as a weird coincidence,
Speaker 3: but as it starts to mount on you, all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. And I
Speaker 3: think that's kind of where we're at. I just feel
Speaker 3: like he already had some weird bad batted Wallock, and
Speaker 3: then now at Dodger Stadium with him also still not
Speaker 3: generally performing to the way that Dodgers fans wanted. He's pressing,
Speaker 3: he feels the booze a little bit, and it's become
Speaker 3: just a really difficult place for him to play.
Speaker 2: But we're just talking about offense, and I actually just
Speaker 2: texted in our private chat to podcast p I was like,
Speaker 2: is it possible to look up Home Road splits on defense?
Speaker 2: And Peyton goes, I don't know if those are trackable,
Speaker 2: but I'm going to tell you what I see with
Speaker 2: my eyes, and it feels like a lot of the
Speaker 2: bad defensive plays that Kyle Tucker has a lot of
Speaker 2: them are at Dodger Stadium right arm we were just
Speaker 2: talking in the discord, I know you saw the same
Speaker 2: exact play in Sunday's game where he's tracking back to
Speaker 2: the warning track. Not an easy play. You're Kyle Tucker,
Speaker 2: you make that play I think they even said it
Speaker 2: on the broadcast nine and ninety nine times out of
Speaker 2: a thousand, and it wasn't just that he dropped the
Speaker 2: fly ball. It was clear frustration afterwards and then a
Speaker 2: light jog to the ball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the weird part, And that's the part
Speaker 3: that Cubs fans because when I asked, it's like, why
Speaker 3: do you guys hate him so much? Because he's always
Speaker 3: been one of my favorite players to watch. It was
Speaker 3: when he struggled. It was the way that he's struggling,
Speaker 3: and I know he's kind of a nonchalant guy, so
Speaker 3: I think some of it, maybe in the early going
Speaker 3: was a little bit maybe unfair because just kind of
Speaker 3: the way he plays almost looks like he's trying less
Speaker 3: hard than he is. I think sometimes he is trying hard,
Speaker 3: just kind of the way he moves. But I think
Speaker 3: there was a point in which it just was like, hey,
Speaker 3: there should be a little bit more urgency here and
Speaker 3: we're not seeing it. And I think the same thing's
Speaker 3: happening now in LA. And the other point that that
Speaker 3: podcast P did bring up, though offensively, that I think
Speaker 3: is interesting, twenty five percent of his batted balls in
Speaker 3: LA are pulled ground balls, and his barrel percentage against
Speaker 3: fastballs doubles on the road. It's just feels like he's cheating.
Speaker 3: He's over aggressive, he's pressing too much in LA. But
Speaker 3: it's funny combining that with the fact that the effort
Speaker 3: isn't always there as weird. At least last year I
Speaker 3: gave him the benefit of the doubt. I'm like, he's
Speaker 3: dealing with the calf thing. Maybe he was banged up
Speaker 3: contract year. He's playing through it, but he just doesn't
Speaker 3: want to really really get hurt. So maybe not busting
Speaker 3: it down the line could be justifiable when you're dealing
Speaker 3: with it with a calf thing and you know you're
Speaker 3: still a star potential bat, like you're there to hit
Speaker 3: this year. I don't. There's no way to defend it,
Speaker 3: and it's been a tough watch. He looks like he
Speaker 3: doesn't want to be out there.
Speaker 2: And what stinks about Kyle Tucker too, is that Kyle
Speaker 2: Tucker is not good because he's a good hitter. Kyle
Speaker 2: Tucker is a great player because he's phenomenal on all
Speaker 2: sides of the ball. I mean, Kyle Tucker at one
Speaker 2: point was one of the best defensive right fielders in
Speaker 2: all of baseball. Kyle Tucker is a guy who can
Speaker 2: steal thirty bases and is a borderline elite base runner.
Speaker 2: But the problem is, it's almost like he now thinks
Speaker 2: all he can contribute is with the bat, and he
Speaker 2: lets it bleed into the defense, he lets it lead
Speaker 2: in to the base running. He's not as aggressive on
Speaker 2: the bases anymore, he's not making those defensive plays, and
Speaker 2: he's almost reduced himself. And again, this is all speculation.
Speaker 2: This is just what it feels like from watching Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 2: And that's the worst part about it. And that's why
Speaker 2: I wanted to bring up the defense and the base running,
Speaker 2: because those are qualities of Kyle Tucker that made him
Speaker 2: the sixty million dollars.
Speaker 3: It was to some of his parts, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. It was because he was a five to
Speaker 2: a player. He's incredibly well rounded. But now it's like
Speaker 2: he's not a good defender and he's not running the
Speaker 2: base as well, and at home he simply can't hit.
Speaker 2: It just looks like a completely different player. And for
Speaker 2: him to get a rest. I don't know if that
Speaker 2: was from Dave Roberts like he said it or the
Speaker 2: front office or Kyle Tucker. I know what they could
Speaker 2: say publicly, but who knows what it really was like
Speaker 2: in that locker room, that conversation. It's just not good.
Speaker 3: And they need him right now, Like.
Speaker 2: Seven games up the division. Though I win a third
Speaker 2: straight World Series, they need him.
Speaker 3: They need him. You know, Max Munsey's been been great,
Speaker 3: I mean, and you're still getting an overall productive Otani,
Speaker 3: but you know, with the struggles of Mookie and some
Speaker 3: other guys being a little bit hot and cold, like
Speaker 3: having a good Kyle Tucker would really change things. I
Speaker 3: think the most obvious and pressing aspect though, is Edwin Diaz.
Speaker 3: You've talked about this on the show though, and like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I still think he's gonna be fine. Like I think
Speaker 3: he has to throw through it, and that's what they're
Speaker 3: expected like doing is the loose bodies thing. It's different
Speaker 3: for everybody and how they come back and how they feel.
Speaker 3: And he's just gonna have to keep throwing through it
Speaker 3: because you're gonna need Edwin Diaz too if you're gonna threepeat,
Speaker 3: so that it's gonna be fascinating to see how those
Speaker 3: things continue. But I think for for the Brewers. They
Speaker 3: went in there four game set to take three. I
Speaker 3: don't care what form of the Dodgers they currently have,
Speaker 3: the Brewers reminding everybody that you know, this is a
Speaker 3: team that can match up with anybody, and just everyone
Speaker 3: kind of did their job in this series. And Chorio
Speaker 3: is doing that thing in the second half where he
Speaker 3: really heats up, and when he does that, look out.
Speaker 3: Also last thing is Jake Bauer has been an awesome story.
Speaker 3: Four hits in that last game. He has opportunistically taken
Speaker 3: advantage of i think a larger role than he was
Speaker 3: expecting and has really been a huge piece for them
Speaker 3: in one of the breakout bats we talked about him
Speaker 3: in Surprises, one of the breakout bats of the year.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it. And that's what the best team
Speaker 2: in baseball does. Backs against the wall. You go take
Speaker 2: three out of four from the Dodgers. Seventy seven wins
Speaker 2: now for Milwaukee best in baseball and three wins above
Speaker 2: teams like the Dodgers and the Braves and the Rays.
Speaker 2: Incredibly impressive season, and it's probably just gonna keep continuing
Speaker 2: because the Brows are awesome.
Speaker 3: Before we hit the break, I'd be remiss one thing
Speaker 3: I do need to mention about the Angels Ben Joyce.
Speaker 3: Ben Joyce, he had laboram surgery and he's throwing one
Speaker 3: of five. Labram surgery and throwing one O five is unbelievable.
Speaker 3: That guy must have one. He's a freak. Two he
Speaker 3: must have worked his ass off post top to come
Speaker 3: back from that. Just really cool. He's worth watching. You
Speaker 3: can turn on in the nine if they're in a
Speaker 3: safe situation.
Speaker 2: Is fun, no doubt about it. Before we hit the break,
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Speaker 2: is the Orioles taken on the Tampa Bay Rays Game one.
Speaker 2: Orioles win six to five. We get a two to
Speaker 2: two tie going into the seventh, highlighted by a Colton
Speaker 2: Cowser homer, and in the seventh Dylan Beaver's ripped a
Speaker 2: single to score two, and then Gunner Henderson followed that
Speaker 2: up in the eighth with his twentieth homer of the season.
Speaker 2: Has been red hot since the moment I dove into
Speaker 2: his struggles late rally. In the ninth of the Rays
Speaker 2: fell just short and the Orioles win six to five.
Speaker 2: Chris Bassett slid in his return five and a third
Speaker 2: two earned runs, moved to Game two, Orioles win four
Speaker 2: to three and ten innings. It was a sixth inning
Speaker 2: battle between Ian Seymour and Kyle Bradish as the Orioles
Speaker 2: got two off homers from Pete Alonzo and Christian and
Speaker 2: carnassion Strand, while the Rays got a big time triple
Speaker 2: from Cedric Mullins that brought in a run. But in
Speaker 2: the bottom of the ninth, the Rays were down three
Speaker 2: to two and Cammonaro dribbled one to third and beat
Speaker 2: the throw to tie it. And he was hyped and
Speaker 2: we had the extras, but he wasn't hype for very long.
Speaker 2: In the tenth, Tyler O'Neal singled to center to score
Speaker 2: Kowser and that was enough to win it. Moved to
Speaker 2: Game three. Can the Rays avoid the sweep? Nope? Orioles
Speaker 2: boat race them ten to two. Ryan Valaid homerd in
Speaker 2: the fourth to open this scoring and Freddy Peralta was
Speaker 2: cruising through four, but it was all Oriols from there.
Speaker 2: Cowser homer it again. Alonso and Cees had RBI doubles,
Speaker 2: Jackson Holliday had multiple RBI hits, and Trevor Rodgers went
Speaker 2: six strong with two runs allowed. Orioles sweep and sit
Speaker 2: in the last wild card spot in the American League.
Speaker 2: I want to talk about Pete Alonso because I feel
Speaker 2: like he's having an underrated season Offensively. Mets didn't want him,
Speaker 2: nobody values first base hitting anymore Orioles did, and he's
Speaker 2: been just an awesome hitter all season long. But how
Speaker 2: about the pickup of Christian and Carnassi o Strand I
Speaker 2: was surprised that the Reds just kind of dropped him.
Speaker 2: It must have been a forty man crunch or something.
Speaker 2: It's just a guy who's been hurt that never really
Speaker 2: got a shot. But when he was up in Spurts,
Speaker 2: he displayed the power and is a true power threat.
Speaker 2: I'm just surprised that they dropped him off for nothing,
Speaker 2: but good for the Orioles for picking him up and
Speaker 2: inserting him into the lineup. And he's been a power
Speaker 2: threat as soon as we're on that uniform.
Speaker 3: He's one of those guys that I mean, you can
Speaker 3: plug him in, ride the wave and when he's hot,
Speaker 3: like absolutely can give you a bit of a jolt,
Speaker 3: and you know, just to be able to plug in
Speaker 3: the meantime, I think has been big for them. Samuel
Speaker 3: Osio is already close to returning too. He just was
Speaker 3: playing Triple A put some great swings on balls from
Speaker 3: what I saw, So you're gonna be bringing him back
Speaker 3: into the lineup soon as well. And yeah, you mentioned
Speaker 3: Pete Alonzo. Peter Alonzo. Since the All Star break, and
Speaker 3: this is not including Sunday's game, he's sitting three oh
Speaker 3: seven with a one to sixty one WRC plus he
Speaker 3: and it's not just like he's launching homers every day.
Speaker 3: He's and this is always the underrated part about Pete
Speaker 3: is he's a good freaking hitter. He's just a good hitter.
Speaker 3: So when he heats up it's not just the homers.
Speaker 3: He's giving you doubles. He's getting you big bass hits.
Speaker 3: He's not striking out much like he has been one
Speaker 3: of the better hitters since the break. You pair that
Speaker 3: with like every time I think Gunner's breaking out of it,
Speaker 3: he like slows down a little bit. But Gunner's been
Speaker 3: putting good swings on balls late. We got robbed a
Speaker 3: couple of times on Sunday, but I've been liking what
Speaker 3: I've seen from his abs, and obviously anything from where
Speaker 3: he was before will be an improvement. I thought this
Speaker 3: team was dead, I really did, and no one's fully
Speaker 3: dead in the American League. But Shane By has snapped
Speaker 3: in and given them quality start after quality start. Bradish
Speaker 3: has settled in, Trevor Rodgers is settled, and all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, you're like, well, and with bro what Brandon
Speaker 3: Young's doing, You're like, you got a pretty good shot.
Speaker 3: Four days out of the week. Bassett came back, as
Speaker 3: you mentioned, and it's it's interesting, all of a sudden
Speaker 3: they're doing that with Blaize Alexander getting hurt, who's been
Speaker 3: one of their bigger pieces this year, that they go,
Speaker 3: you know, just to be able to plug in different areas.
Speaker 3: As I mentioned, they're gonna get Pisillo back. It feels
Speaker 3: like we can change the narrative around the American League
Speaker 3: in which team's gonna sneak in pretty much every given
Speaker 3: week in roundup. But the Orioles are playing their way
Speaker 3: now into the fact that they're gonna be playing meaningful games,
Speaker 3: you know, through the rest of this season probably. And
Speaker 3: then one other underrated thing was Dylan Beaver's was banked
Speaker 3: up a lot of this year. He's healthy and he's
Speaker 3: starting to come alive a little bit. I think a
Speaker 3: lot of their players that even like if they're not
Speaker 3: fully breaking out, they were really struggling, they're at least
Speaker 3: not like superch like super struggling anymore, and they're giving
Speaker 3: them competitive at bats. You combine that all together with
Speaker 3: a hot Pete Alonso and you're seeing a really good
Speaker 3: team all of a sudden, with the way that they've
Speaker 3: been playing.
Speaker 2: Been impressed with Tyler O'Neal as well. Since the calendar
Speaker 2: turned to August, he's put up a one sixty three
Speaker 2: WRC plus, hitting close to three hundred, slugging over five hundred,
Speaker 2: and he's got three home runs, so that's obviously a
Speaker 2: big addition. And somebody who they signed which hasn't really
Speaker 2: given them anything, but if he can help them get
Speaker 2: into the playoffs, I'm sure Orioles fans will be like,
Speaker 2: you know what, water under the bridge, money well spent.
Speaker 2: If you can keep hitting like this and we get
Speaker 2: to October. And it's really just on the offense if
Speaker 2: the Orioles want to make it, because the pitching is
Speaker 2: doing their job. The bullpen has been solid, the starting rotation, right,
Speaker 2: you already mentioned Shane Bosse. You know, we had a
Speaker 2: tough start in his last turn, but at the same time,
Speaker 2: like that's like his first bad start in what two months,
Speaker 2: So your total point is absolutely true. Kyle Bradish is
Speaker 2: still the dog. Brandon Young, like you said, Trevor Rodgers
Speaker 2: just is automatic. Six innings, two runs at this point,
Speaker 2: you know, they got they have a decent staff. They
Speaker 2: just have to hit. And right now they're hitting and
Speaker 2: their winning. It's really that simple for them. It's just
Speaker 2: about them consistently stringing those together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think for the Rays, like they also
Speaker 3: to beat them at the trop sweep them at the
Speaker 3: trap pretty pretty crazy. I'm never gonna sign the Alarms
Speaker 3: on a series from the Race the Oreos, who played
Speaker 3: the Race tough all year long. So just one of
Speaker 3: those series if you're the Rais and just see how
Speaker 3: you bounce back.
Speaker 2: It's almost with the Rays. It's like you were due
Speaker 2: for this. You came into the you came into this
Speaker 2: series forty one and eighteen at home? What are you
Speaker 2: the nineteen twenty seven Yankees, Like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Like it's an unsustainable win loss record. So it doesn't
Speaker 2: surprise me that a hot Orioles team who's played well
Speaker 2: against the Rays and knows the trop well came in
Speaker 2: and won a series and those baths just got hot.
Speaker 2: Like if I'm the Rays whatever, like I wouldn't give
Speaker 2: a shit, really if I'm the Race. It's more the
Speaker 2: only reason I would is just because it's a division
Speaker 2: rival and you want to beat. But in terms of
Speaker 2: you're in first place, it's not like the Yankees are
Speaker 2: playing well, the Red Sox are on a slide. You're
Speaker 2: five and a half games up, you know, in the division,
Speaker 2: like you could afford.
Speaker 3: This, and Freddie had one of the better starts we've
Speaker 3: seen them in this year was short leash. But you know.
Speaker 3: I thought it was actually too short of a lesion.
Speaker 3: That's why part of the reason why the Rais ended
Speaker 3: up blowing it. I think they should have let you know,
Speaker 3: Freddie finish out the fifth inning there. They didn't, but
Speaker 3: he was solid for four and two thirds.
Speaker 2: And speaking about another team in this division, the Red
Speaker 2: Sox lost series to the Pirates this weekend. Game one,
Speaker 2: Pirates went eight to four. Rafael Flora has got the
Speaker 2: scoring started for Pittsburgh with a homer, and then they
Speaker 2: just piled on in the fourth and fifth as Million
Speaker 2: Valdez had an RBI double. Flores came up big again
Speaker 2: with an RBI single, and Brandon Loo hit a three
Speaker 2: run homer his twenty sixth of the season to put
Speaker 2: the game out of reach. And Bubba Chandler tossed five
Speaker 2: innings to two run ball the Lower Zira to four
Speaker 2: to two three. He's been fun to watch. But in
Speaker 2: Game two, Red Sox win four to zero because Sonny
Speaker 2: Gray said, nope, I ain't losing shit. Take a bow,
Speaker 2: Sonny Gray. Seven innings, no runs, seven k's is the
Speaker 2: area's down to two sixty five. He's hunting for that
Speaker 2: cy Young. I know he's got two horses in front
Speaker 2: of him, but incredible season from him and William Bray
Speaker 2: You Homer Monasterio and Jami Jones said RBI hits and
Speaker 2: Joe Jones on the other side for Pittsburgh did pitch well.
Speaker 2: He just allowed one run in five innings with seven punches,
Speaker 2: but obviously they got shut out. Game three, the rubber match,
Speaker 2: Pirates win eight to three, and they mounted a seven
Speaker 2: zero lead early as Brian Reynolds and Brandon lou had
Speaker 2: multiple RBI hits. Connor Wong with Homer in the fifth
Speaker 2: a three run shot to narrow the gap, but then
Speaker 2: we had a long rain delay. Game ended quietly as
Speaker 2: Nick York ripping an RBI single was the lone run
Speaker 2: after that delay, and that was it. Pirates win. They
Speaker 2: win the series. Red Sox drop a couple another Red
Speaker 2: Sox said, it's sixty six and fifty eight. There's still
Speaker 2: five games up in the Wild Card. Like overall, they're fine,
Speaker 2: but ever since that crazy run, they've started to fall
Speaker 2: flat on their face a little bit. On the other side,
Speaker 2: the Pirates are trending up sort of. They're still keeping
Speaker 2: things moderately interesting. It's just with the Pirates, their numbers
Speaker 2: are better than they are. They're a top ten offense
Speaker 2: this year by WRC plus. Like, they have good names
Speaker 2: in the rotation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're liable to do this at any time.
Speaker 2: They added Luke Weaver to the bullpen like. It's a
Speaker 2: good team that has been ravaged by injuries this year
Speaker 2: and Paul Skeens had to skip his start on Sunday.
Speaker 2: It's been a weird year. It's been a weird year
Speaker 2: for the Pirates, and I got to be honest, I
Speaker 2: expected better. But this is an example of a series
Speaker 2: that shows Pirates fans like they are good. It's having
Speaker 2: kind of a wacky season.
Speaker 3: I do agree. I think it's it's a team that
Speaker 3: was I think put together and to be better than
Speaker 3: it has been. And yeah, things have happened, and even
Speaker 3: you could just say Skiens, if he was Skiens, that
Speaker 3: they expected this year. They're probably right at five hundred
Speaker 3: and and probably right in the in at least much
Speaker 3: closer to the wild card conversation. I mean, they win
Speaker 3: this game, uh, the final of the series too. In
Speaker 3: it where you scratch the scratch, Skens have Lake Baker
Speaker 3: starting and going three innings. He's been mostly a reliever.
Speaker 3: You know, he's been a reliever all year, sometimes going
Speaker 3: multi inning but not three. And then Hunter Barco on
Speaker 3: the piggyback and you win that ballgame. As you mentioned,
Speaker 3: the bats came alive and uh and in a series
Speaker 3: where do they see all of the top i'ms no,
Speaker 3: but they still saw Sunny Gray. Jake Bennett's been efficient
Speaker 3: and effective this year. Big thing for me is Sonny
Speaker 3: Gray Man, like this guy at his age to just
Speaker 3: not even be fading at all, like at the end
Speaker 3: of this year, to go seven shutty, get that era
Speaker 3: down to two six five. He has just been so
Speaker 3: much fun to watch this year and just you're seeing
Speaker 3: I think a form of a picture that this stuff
Speaker 3: is still really good. But you're seeing him like just
Speaker 3: just develop into this way of being able to know
Speaker 3: how to maximize his arsenal execute well and he just
Speaker 3: looks like that's surgical polished arm at thirty six years old,
Speaker 3: and he's just a really fun arm to watch.
Speaker 2: So it's interesting this comes to us from Blue JAYSM.
Speaker 2: Two three seven. Ever since Red Sox acquired Adley, they've
Speaker 2: been struggling. Are we on in division? Curse watch?
Speaker 3: You know, I think coming back from injury is always
Speaker 3: tough with a new team. But I already have friends
Speaker 3: that are Red Sox fans who are rarely rational telling
Speaker 3: me that they don't like Adlie. I go, I already know,
Speaker 3: like you heard it here first, I congrats, you're first
Speaker 3: on the take that your your new catcher stinks. I
Speaker 3: think Adwy's going to be a good asset for them,
Speaker 3: But this is part of the risk when you acquired him.
Speaker 3: He gets hurt. He's been hurt a good bit, and
Speaker 3: that's usually contributed to sometimes some sporadic play. He's gonna
Speaker 3: need some time to get his feet under him. And
Speaker 3: obviously what he brings to the table value wise is
Speaker 3: beyond just what he does with the bat. But he
Speaker 3: hasn't done anything with the bat so far yet. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, I think that's part of it. But I
Speaker 3: also think it's just a little bit of a a
Speaker 3: little bit of a slide. After the team was, you know,
Speaker 3: the high on the planet, there was always gonna be
Speaker 3: a little bit of a normalization period. Still a really
Speaker 3: good team, and again the Pirates got hot at the
Speaker 3: right time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Connor Wong hit a homer on Sunday, But going
Speaker 2: into Sunday's game. Connor Wong in six games since the
Speaker 2: deadline is hitting one forty three, one eighty two, three
Speaker 2: thirty three and Atlee Rutchman seventy one, two, seventy eight,
Speaker 2: oh seventy one. Yeah, great idea. All right, you ready
Speaker 2: to move on to the next series. We got the
Speaker 2: d Backs taking on the Atlanta Braves. Game one, d
Speaker 2: Backs win two to zero. Brandon Thought is a changed man.
Speaker 2: Seven shutty, two hits, no walks, seven strikeouts. We were
Speaker 2: talking about him in our Discord podcast. P was chiming
Speaker 2: in two and I forget who said it, but immediately
Speaker 2: I was like, that's a great take. He said, he
Speaker 2: almost looks like prime Michael King right now. Chris Sale
Speaker 2: on the other side, was also awesome. Toss six innings
Speaker 2: a one run ball with nine ks to lower his
Speaker 2: he rated two to one six. He's aging like fine wine.
Speaker 2: Just the Braves didn't score, so they didn't win. I
Speaker 2: did the d Back score Moreno had an RBI ground out,
Speaker 2: Tim Tawa had a homer. Just great pitching from this
Speaker 2: one from Arizona, holding Atlanta to just three hits all game.
Speaker 2: Moved to Game two. D Backs offense showed up in
Speaker 2: this one, ten to three win. The Braves put up
Speaker 2: two in the first inning, highlighted by Ronald Acuney junior
Speaker 2: home run, but from there it was all snakes. It
Speaker 2: was six to two after the fourth, highlighted by a
Speaker 2: Nolan Arenado homer, and then in the seventh Aeron od
Speaker 2: ohomer it again, his twentieth Aeronautos got twenty homer and
Speaker 2: then Iil tomorrow. Vargas added the exclamation point with a
Speaker 2: three round home run and the greatest pitcher alive, Edward
Speaker 2: and Rodriguez just keeps shoving ever since the World Baseball Classic.
Speaker 2: This guy, this guy's hair is on fire. Six innings,
Speaker 2: five hits, two earned, five punches, his eras down to two,
Speaker 2: seven to one. What a season. But in Game three,
Speaker 2: Brave salvage they win five to three. It was one
Speaker 2: one tie going into the fifth, highlighted by Gabby Moreno homer,
Speaker 2: but Acuna broke that tie with an RBI double, But
Speaker 2: two innings late, Vargas tied it back up with his
Speaker 2: second homer in as many games, but then Maddio matt
Speaker 2: Olson rock to three run homer to center, his thirty
Speaker 2: sixth of the season and the Braves close it out.
Speaker 2: Bryce Elder pitched really well, toss six innings, one run
Speaker 2: ball with five strike ups. But I want to ask
Speaker 2: you about that take in our discord about Brandon Fott
Speaker 2: looking like prime Michael King. What do you think about
Speaker 2: the changes that Brandon Fott has made.
Speaker 3: I think that's fun because it is interesting, like with
Speaker 3: King when he's executing and it's it's like execution dependent,
Speaker 3: but he got really good at executing consistently. I think
Speaker 3: with thought, you know, do a little bit of a
Speaker 3: tweak where a little bit less of the slider, more
Speaker 3: more change up, a little bit more for steamer, so
Speaker 3: he's more four seam change up, and then I think
Speaker 3: it's still setting up the breaking balls will work morizontally.
Speaker 3: It's helped him keep left. He's at Bay a lot more.
Speaker 3: I mean podcast he has it up here since returning
Speaker 3: from Triple A. You see that four seam usage up,
Speaker 3: which of course is going to cut into the sinker
Speaker 3: usage a good bit. The four seam changer kind of
Speaker 3: change up tunnel that he creates works really well. That
Speaker 3: sweeper was still really good right on right, but now
Speaker 3: you're not throwing that to lefties, as much, and then
Speaker 3: he still has the cutter to bridge and the curve ball,
Speaker 3: So I just think you've got to respect all the
Speaker 3: offerings more. I think it's changing the way that you
Speaker 3: can try to prepare for Brandon Fought and the arm
Speaker 3: angle and just the funkiness. Like this is a guy
Speaker 3: that we've seen have a lot of success at the
Speaker 3: big league level and have a lot of success in
Speaker 3: the playoffs and you know, and really high leverage contexts,
Speaker 3: and just to come back and make that a little
Speaker 3: bit of adjustment and have the success immediately, I think
Speaker 3: is really encouraging and huge, big reason why this Diamondbacks
Speaker 3: team is where they are right now.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it. Anything else on this series, because
Speaker 2: you know, we could talk about the Atlanta Braves, but
Speaker 2: it's kind of like the Rays, like whatever. He dropped
Speaker 2: a series to a hot Diamondbacks team who you know
Speaker 2: is really in the hunt, while you guys have a
Speaker 2: solid division lead offense didn't really show up this weekend.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, you kind of got pieced
Speaker 2: by a starter that is just on fire right now
Speaker 2: and you haven't seen you know, his new pitch mix,
Speaker 2: and you know how he you know, sequences everything, so
Speaker 2: and then they got the big homer for metalson and
Speaker 2: they salvaged this series. Like I didn't really have anything
Speaker 2: on Atlanta and on the d back side, I really
Speaker 2: just wanted to focus on Brandon Fox, Yeah, because I
Speaker 2: feel like he is the story from the series.
Speaker 3: Since he's returned, opponents are hitting one eighty four against
Speaker 3: that change up that he's throwing again twice as much.
Speaker 3: But the other crazy part is that the fastballs, whether
Speaker 3: it's a four seamer or the sinker, were getting crushed before.
Speaker 3: I at least hit pretty hard before. Since he's returned
Speaker 3: foughts holding opponents to a one forty one batting average
Speaker 3: on the fastball, but a one seventy two slug on
Speaker 3: that four seamer as well, compared to in that span
Speaker 3: the sinker is about a four to thirty six slug
Speaker 3: three zero eight batting average. So to be able to
Speaker 3: go to that four seamer have the success that he's
Speaker 3: having generate some more whifts and weak five balls, which
Speaker 3: also sets up the change up. It's been huge for him.
Speaker 3: And again that sweeper still doing its thing, he just
Speaker 3: doesn't have to lean on it as much because it's
Speaker 3: not pitch that you want to be, you know, spamming
Speaker 3: too much, because again, Righty's can start a game plan
Speaker 3: for it a little bit more, and of course left
Speaker 3: eas are going to see it a lot better.
Speaker 2: Do we have any update on Corbyn Burns because I'm
Speaker 2: just thinking, if you get a healthy Corbyn Burns by October,
Speaker 2: Let's say the Dbacks make the playoffs, you go Burns
Speaker 2: five E, rod Soroca. Yeah, we're talking. That's like the
Speaker 2: best rotation they've had since the twenty twenty three World
Speaker 2: Series run.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the hope is that Burns could be back by
Speaker 3: early September and can make a hand like several starts
Speaker 3: before the playoffs. And I mean, if you get that,
Speaker 3: that's really exciting. I think just anything from Burns, and
Speaker 3: then also, you know, Justin Martinez is getting I think
Speaker 3: pretty close, pretty close. And then also the Dbacks just
Speaker 3: activated to Jordan Lawler, who hit five homers in four
Speaker 3: games on rehab, and like, that's a guy that can
Speaker 3: plug into a lot of different places to you know,
Speaker 3: help this offense. So but I think I think you
Speaker 3: could see Martinez back really really soon, and what that
Speaker 3: would do for a bullpen that's already been playing great.
Speaker 2: Is exciting, extremely exciting. Let's go over to the Yankees
Speaker 2: against the Blue Jays. Game one, Blue Jays went three
Speaker 2: to one. Shout out Shane Bieber. I thought he looked
Speaker 2: so good. Six innings, four hits, one earned five strikeouts
Speaker 2: in a huge game against Garrett Cole. And speaking about Cole,
Speaker 2: he was great too. Six innings and two run ball
Speaker 2: of five hits allowed five k's zerra is down a
Speaker 2: three to two to two, but the Jays did just
Speaker 2: enough to win. It was scoreless until the sixth. Most
Speaker 2: pitchers were dealing, but then Trent Grisham went yard, but
Speaker 2: the Jays would answer, and then some as George Springer
Speaker 2: and Alejandro Kirk both had RBIs and then in the eighth,
Speaker 2: Alejandro Kirk supplied the Dagger with a home run. Game two,
Speaker 2: Blue Jays went four to one. Cam Schlitzler did his
Speaker 2: best to keep the Yankees in this one, pitching into
Speaker 2: the six while only allowing one run and striking out seven.
Speaker 2: But the j staff highlighted by Ricky Tiedeman's debut. Even
Speaker 2: though Ricky Tiedeman did allow the only run in this game,
Speaker 2: but it was cool seeing him making his debut. You
Speaker 2: know is I think he only got what five outs,
Speaker 2: but I don't know. I thought it was cool. It's
Speaker 2: one of the Blue Jay's top prospects. The whole blue
Speaker 2: Jay staff shut it down and Charles McAdoo led the
Speaker 2: offense two RBI hits just enough to get the win.
Speaker 2: And then in Game three Yankee salvage. They went four
Speaker 2: to three in ten innings. Dylan se saw what Schlitler
Speaker 2: did and said, I'm gonna one up you kind of.
Speaker 2: He pitched it into the seventh, and he allowed just
Speaker 2: two hits in two runs with ten k's, but the
Speaker 2: Yankees ground grinded it out in order to avoid the sweep.
Speaker 2: And how about Ryan weathers Arm on the other side,
Speaker 2: He was even better than Cease and better than Schlitler.
Speaker 2: Pitched into the eighth while allowing just one run with
Speaker 2: four punches, lowering his aire to three, five, six, and
Speaker 2: Jose cabiiro broke the one to one tie with an
Speaker 2: RBI single, but Ernie tied it up in the ninth
Speaker 2: on a sack fly and we sent it to extras,
Speaker 2: and then Ben Rice's two run shot, his thirty third
Speaker 2: of the season in the tenth ended up being the
Speaker 2: difference and another conversation that we were having in the discord,
Speaker 2: and I'm so glad Podcast p broke this down again
Speaker 2: in Our Distant If you want to join the best
Speaker 2: baseball group chat in the world, we're having conversations like
Speaker 2: this all the time. You can find the link to
Speaker 2: join in the episode description. But he was talking about
Speaker 2: pitch usage tweak, not as drastic as a Brandon fought,
Speaker 2: but it's definitely a different pitcher podcast Beef. You could
Speaker 2: throw it up first half four one five ERA ninety
Speaker 2: seven innings as you can see a forcing dominant guy.
Speaker 2: He's got five pitches all above ten percent, so he
Speaker 2: mixes and matches, but the for seane led the way.
Speaker 2: Now that for seam usage went from twenty seven percent
Speaker 2: in the first half to just ten percent in the
Speaker 2: second half. Throwing his sinker more. His change up is
Speaker 2: now his most used pitch with the sweeper and the slider,
Speaker 2: and he's posted a one to nine to eight ERA.
Speaker 2: He only trails Troy Melton among qualified pitchers in ERA.
Speaker 2: In the second half. Aram I said the Yankees were
Speaker 2: getting a left handed missile this off season. They handed missile,
Speaker 2: don't they well?
Speaker 3: And this stuff with him is so fun because honestly,
Speaker 3: I've seen each of his offerings be above average or
Speaker 3: better at certain points. Like really you see the fastball
Speaker 3: perform when he's feeling good. I mean it's it's lively,
Speaker 3: But I've seen that slider be disgusting. I've seen that
Speaker 3: change up looked like a plus pitch, which was a
Speaker 3: new layer for him as well, to really improve over
Speaker 3: the last couple of seasons, you know, before the trade,
Speaker 3: even you know in Miami, Like he has the ability
Speaker 3: to kind of ride what's working for him, but also
Speaker 3: just to tweak and adjust and see what works against
Speaker 3: certain lineups, and it's it's truly a disgusting four pitch
Speaker 3: mix that that really works. So seeing him just being
Speaker 3: able to like you know, adjust and maybe push the levers,
Speaker 3: pull back on certain offerings, use the other ones more.
Speaker 3: He's somebody that can absolutely do that because of how
Speaker 3: good they each are, and sometimes it's just a matter
Speaker 3: of what he's got to feel for in that time
Speaker 3: as well. I love that you shout it out tied
Speaker 3: him into, by the way, because there was a point
Speaker 3: where this was arguably the best left in of pitching
Speaker 3: prospect in baseball. Unfortunately, he's just never been available. Injuries
Speaker 3: have really ravaged him. He burst onto the scene in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two tetament uh seventy eight and two thirds
Speaker 3: innings at a two to one seven ERA across low A,
Speaker 3: High A and Double A, and then everyone's lined up
Speaker 3: really excited to see him. Only throws forty four innings
Speaker 3: the year after that, and then twenty four only through
Speaker 3: seventeen and a third, missed all of twenty twenty five
Speaker 3: with Tommy John and then in twenty twenty six he's
Speaker 3: just been hurt even to start the year, dealing with
Speaker 3: the neck issue some other different things, and so he
Speaker 3: has barely thrown this year. As he came back recently,
Speaker 3: that was enough that the budget said, let's just get you.
Speaker 3: Let's just get you on the big league roster and
Speaker 3: get your thrown at the big league level and see
Speaker 3: if we can work you back into you know, more
Speaker 3: lengthened roles from there. But it's a nasty, nasty angle
Speaker 3: that he creates. It's a lively fastball from that angle.
Speaker 3: He's got great secondaries. The slider is a really good
Speaker 3: pitch for him, and the change up has flashed as well,
Speaker 3: so he can be a really good lefty reliever at
Speaker 3: work and is probably where he lands now because of
Speaker 3: the injuries, but still a very talented twenty three year
Speaker 3: old arm that the blue Jays, you know, I have
Speaker 3: been hoping, you know, and dreaming on huge upside for
Speaker 3: for a long time.
Speaker 2: And the pitching for the Blue Jays has been the
Speaker 2: biggest reason that they've clawed back in this hunt. Even
Speaker 2: though they lost on Sunday to the Yankees, they're now
Speaker 2: just being sorry.
Speaker 3: To take two a three though, So it's it's deck building.
Speaker 2: Take two a three year a game back. You had
Speaker 2: one seven of your last nine. But the thing is,
Speaker 2: the lineup is kind of Alejandro Kirkin friends now the
Speaker 2: friends like Charles McAdoo and Bateman Like this comment says,
Speaker 2: it's the Bateman mcadow era in Toronto right now. Like
Speaker 2: they're filling a role nicely. But at the end of
Speaker 2: the day, it's been on the backs of this pitching staff,
Speaker 2: and notably in the bullpen. I mean, Mason Flew Hardy
Speaker 2: I think has a great Tyler Rodgers has just put
Speaker 2: together a phenomenal season the bullpen, right like that has
Speaker 2: been the best part about this team, and they're getting
Speaker 2: really solid pitching performances from guys like Dylan Ce's, from
Speaker 2: guys like their new edition Jose Soriano, and then you
Speaker 2: get timely enough hitting with a shut down bullpen and
Speaker 2: starting rotation. That's how you can string together wins. But
Speaker 2: if you truly want to get back into this race
Speaker 2: and you want to be a playoff team, the offense
Speaker 2: has to pick it up. Simple as that. Glad he
Speaker 2: just got put on the IL, the seven DAYIL with
Speaker 2: a concussion. Hopefully he comes back, you know when he performs.
Speaker 2: But the Jays need to string together offense because, as
Speaker 2: you can see right a good example, Brandon Fisher hadn't
Speaker 2: allowed to run in August. He's been a really good
Speaker 2: reliever for the Blue Jays. One mistake, blue Jays lose
Speaker 2: the game. Right, That was the first mistake he's made
Speaker 2: all month. And the other guys really didn't make mistakes either,
Speaker 2: But all it took was that because they only put
Speaker 2: up three. The offense needs to figure it out. So
Speaker 2: I get they're playing better, but it's just hard for
Speaker 2: me to really buy in until I see that offense
Speaker 2: turn it around. And even though they took two out
Speaker 2: of three from the Yankees. The Yankees offense is just awful, awful, awful.
Speaker 2: So again I'm giving them credit because you take a
Speaker 2: series from the Yankees, it's always good. But to really
Speaker 2: believe in the Blue Jays, I gotta see the offense
Speaker 2: do more.
Speaker 3: Fair enough, I think that's fair, it's fair enough, but
Speaker 3: the pitching always is keeping their season alive, suresers even
Speaker 3: video this last three starts right, which I'm always gonna
Speaker 3: enjoy seeing him just pile up numbers. But yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: with you there.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go over to the Gnats and the Mets.
Speaker 2: Game one. Mets win four to one. Lindor and Jared Young,
Speaker 2: Homard and Robert Stock pitched it into the fifth without
Speaker 2: allowing an earned run, and Code I Sanga.
Speaker 3: Earned his closer.
Speaker 2: He's in fun development there. Andrew Alvarez, who I think
Speaker 2: it's just had a really underrated season, pitched into the
Speaker 2: six for the Gnats while allowing just two runs. But
Speaker 2: that's offense we'll shut down, so what can you do?
Speaker 2: Then the Mets win five to four. Again, two early
Speaker 2: runs off the bat of Jared Young put the Mets
Speaker 2: in the driver's seat. But then that's what fight back
Speaker 2: and eventually take the lead in the sixth, highlighted by
Speaker 2: home runs from Andre Schaparro and Brady House. But then
Speaker 2: Carson Bench, who is He's making the National League Rookie
Speaker 2: of the eear race kind of interesting? He homered in
Speaker 2: the bottom half of the six and then Alvarez Francisco
Speaker 2: Alvarez came up clutch in the bottom of the ninth
Speaker 2: to tiet and then Lindor walked it off with a
Speaker 2: single game three. Can the Nats avoid the sweep? Nope,
Speaker 2: Mets win four to three. Now, the Nationals did get
Speaker 2: out to a too a lead, highlighted by an abbamelch
Speaker 2: Ortez home run, but from there was all Mets. Torrens
Speaker 2: hit his fourth home run his last seven games to
Speaker 2: give the Mets the lead, and Jared Young, what a series,
Speaker 2: supplied the Dagger with an RBI double. Now this kind
Speaker 2: of felt like, I want to focus on the Mets.
Speaker 2: They just sweat. But it almost felt like, all right,
Speaker 2: NAT season is over six sixty six now, Like it
Speaker 2: just felt like, if you're gonna claw your way back
Speaker 2: into this, anything can happen. The Nationals at the end
Speaker 2: of the day have the exact same WRC plus, as
Speaker 2: the Dodgers do this season second best in baseball Cubs
Speaker 2: at one to eleven knots and Dodgers at one ten.
Speaker 2: But you can't be dropping all three to this Mets team. However,
Speaker 2: the Mets have been playing better. They with no pressure
Speaker 2: on them right now. The Mets have played all season.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, so I think you're really seeing how much
Speaker 3: James Wood anchored this lineup. And James would, I mean,
Speaker 3: he's young as he is and still feels like he's
Speaker 3: still reaching his potential. I mean, he was one of
Speaker 3: the best sluggers in the sport for much of this season,
Speaker 3: and you know, for an offense, I was cooking on
Speaker 3: all cylinders. It was I think there's even an effect
Speaker 3: on Abrams when you don't have Wood behind you. So
Speaker 3: just just that impact I think is being felt here.
Speaker 3: And when we talked about how the Nationals can maybe
Speaker 3: hang around, it's okay, well, they made the bullpen better
Speaker 3: and they have this offense, but when you lose the
Speaker 3: nucleus of that offense, they're pitching all right, It's not
Speaker 3: like they got you know, the doors blown off. For anything.
Speaker 3: They lost it was four runs, five runs, four runs.
Speaker 3: They just didn't hit. And we haven't really seen a
Speaker 3: Nationals team this year that hasn't hit. So I think
Speaker 3: a big part of that is has just been not
Speaker 3: having James Wood and probably you know, Avamla Cortiz has
Speaker 3: been good, but and it's been really really solid. Honestly,
Speaker 3: he's been a great start to his career. But when
Speaker 3: you lose, when you lose Wood to injury and subtract
Speaker 3: Tolis Garcia, like I think you feel it probably a
Speaker 3: little bit more. And that's just been I think what's
Speaker 3: happened here with this offense. But I still like where
Speaker 3: the Nationals are headed. Yeah. For the Mets, I think
Speaker 3: you're seeing them just play. Yeah, as you mentioned, with
Speaker 3: nothing to lose. Francisco Indor I think is just healthy
Speaker 3: and I think that's been the biggest thing for him
Speaker 3: in the second half for Londor. Seven homers in twenty
Speaker 3: seven games, a one fifty seven WRC plus. This is
Speaker 3: one of the best catchers six, one of the best
Speaker 3: short stops in the game, and we're seeing that he's
Speaker 3: just been hurt simply so I think he's healthy and
Speaker 3: looking comfortable again and playing well. But you know, I
Speaker 3: think for the Mets, you're just hoping to build some momentum.
Speaker 3: The young players are playing well. Ben just making impacts
Speaker 3: on all fronts, right, great defender in a corner, swinging
Speaker 3: the bat well and you know, at least that's pretty
Speaker 3: much all Mets fans can ask for here is just
Speaker 3: playing some good ball and seeing your young pieces like
Speaker 3: Christian Scott made another had another good start. You know,
Speaker 3: really build some momentum going in the next Season's.
Speaker 2: Built some momentum going in the next year, right, Mets fans,
Speaker 2: how bad it? You know? The young guys are playing well?
Speaker 2: Good stuff? All right? We got five series left, podcast
Speaker 2: p would you hit us with our last? Whoah? Okay?
Speaker 2: We got the Padres and the Guardians Game one, Padres
Speaker 2: win seven to five. Cleveland got out to a three
Speaker 2: to zero lead early on homers from Nate Low and
Speaker 2: Brian Rochio, but then the Padres got to Gavin Williams,
Speaker 2: Bogarts and Tatis homerd Tatis's homer by the way, I
Speaker 2: don't know if podcast he has it once fifteen off
Speaker 2: the Batch just absolute rocket geeze and then Campusano had
Speaker 2: a two run double and all of a sudden it
Speaker 2: was five to three. Padres camp Pisano added another RBI
Speaker 2: double late and Bogart's had another RBI as the Padres
Speaker 2: stay red hot. Game two, Guardians win six to one.
Speaker 2: Joey Cantillo dominated in this one, tossing six innings of
Speaker 2: one run ball with seven k's. Joe Adell, Patrick Bailey,
Speaker 2: and Stephen Kwan all had RBI doubles and Cleveland cruise
Speaker 2: to an easy win. Moved the game three Padres blank
Speaker 2: him or at least I think so. That was the
Speaker 2: last time I checked. It was the top of the ninth.
Speaker 2: I think they won five to zero. Yeah, five zero
Speaker 2: five zero. Casey Maiz made his return to the American
Speaker 2: League Central and dominated, throwing six shutout, which is three
Speaker 2: hits alowed, and Luis Renifo, Gavin Sheets, Jace Bowen, and
Speaker 2: Jay Cronoworth all homerd Padre's cruise to a series win.
Speaker 2: Are I just think I don't know how to cover
Speaker 2: the Padres? I really just don't think I do. And
Speaker 2: I'll tell you why. The last three years before this one,
Speaker 2: I have bet Padres season futures and they have fallen
Speaker 2: flat every time, and I say, Nope, this is the year.
Speaker 2: The bullpen's too good. This team has built for October
Speaker 2: and they just haven't done it. And this was the
Speaker 2: first year I took a position against them, and a
Speaker 2: big one under eighty five and a half wins Padres
Speaker 2: to miss the playoffs, and I think I'm gonna lose both,
Speaker 2: and I think it's gonna be the only win total
Speaker 2: I lose. I think I just shouldn't talk about them anymore.
Speaker 2: I just don't know what the fuck I'm talking about
Speaker 2: when it comes to the Pawdrace. I I'm wrong no
Speaker 2: matter what I say, So you talk about them, I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, dude, it's a really tough team to assess.
Speaker 2: I think I never know what Preller's doing at the deadline.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know anything.
Speaker 3: This this is I mean here, I think you should
Speaker 3: sum it up to this. The Padres have since the
Speaker 3: All Star break, and that's gonna be theme of just
Speaker 3: what I'm referencing throughout this episode, because I think it's
Speaker 3: important context. Now, roughly thirty game sample, they have three
Speaker 3: of the top ten players offensively since then. It's ty
Speaker 3: France who's been doing it all year, really, but at
Speaker 3: a one seventy six WRC plus for Fernando Tatis Junior
Speaker 3: to one seventy four and Jackson Merril to won sixty eight.
Speaker 3: Your pair of that with the pitching reinforcements that you
Speaker 3: added and then the bullpen that they have gradually. Rodriguez
Speaker 3: is a weapon and a half. One of my favorite
Speaker 3: relief prospects in a long time, and seeing him put
Speaker 3: it together has been awesome.
Speaker 2: What the other guys slept on? Another guy slept on,
Speaker 2: Like I'm watching him and I'm like, he's a good reliever,
Speaker 2: but he just keeps doing it over and over again,
Speaker 2: and I got I guess he's elite. Now I don't know.
Speaker 3: He don't know what they've got, guys, man, And all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, now there they've got that final wildcard
Speaker 3: spot with the with the DBACS losing, they're holding on
Speaker 3: to the third wild card spot in the game up there.
Speaker 3: The other one that's nuts is like Luis when Hepho
Speaker 3: was released, right and then they pick him up in
Speaker 3: twenty five games. In the last twenty five games, Louis
Speaker 3: when hepos hit in three, twenty two, four, sixteen, fourty
Speaker 3: eight with a one forty nine WRC plus, that's a
Speaker 3: huge jolt. We were there was a point where like
Speaker 3: who is gonna hit in this lineup? And now you
Speaker 3: have your guys, your main guys hitting, and then you've
Speaker 3: got even Louise Renhifo hitting too, so it's it's it's
Speaker 3: really amazing to see that. And then yeah, like the
Speaker 3: bullpen has just been fantastic. And then he paired that
Speaker 3: with the starting pitching reinforcements to get a start like
Speaker 3: that from myz after the slow you know, beginning with
Speaker 3: the Padres. This team's scary. Now I do think they're scary.
Speaker 3: I think the Padres are forced to be reckoned.
Speaker 2: With on the Cleveland side. I just don't really know
Speaker 2: how to evaluate them because my eyes see a mediocre team.
Speaker 2: If I'm being completely honest, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: I was wrong about them.
Speaker 2: I think they're one and a half games out of
Speaker 2: wild cards. You might have, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 2: I don't know who don't America. They're all just a
Speaker 2: bunch of teams. It's going to be on someone to
Speaker 2: go on a run. I'm not impressed with any of them,
Speaker 2: so your guess is as good as mine. I mean,
Speaker 2: the Orioles have the final wildcard spot at sixty one
Speaker 2: and sixty three. The Guardians are the fifth team on
Speaker 2: the outside looking in of that last wild card spot,
Speaker 2: and they were a game and a half out at
Speaker 2: sixty and sixty five. I don't know, the Mariners are
Speaker 2: still technically in it, and like I think right now
Speaker 2: on Sunday Night Baseball, they're winning. Right now, they'll be
Speaker 2: like two and a half games out of the Like
Speaker 2: I don't know who else.
Speaker 3: Chase the latter hit the eil. That one hurts for
Speaker 3: the guards for sure, yep. But you know they add
Speaker 3: jo adell On Helen asmen great since they brought him up.
Speaker 3: They add Nathaniel Well, like this team should be playing better.
Speaker 3: They actually added decent pieces. But I think it really
Speaker 3: comes down to, like can jay Ram get his feet
Speaker 3: back under him and be, you know, top five player
Speaker 3: in the game jay Ram, because I think this team
Speaker 3: only you know goes as far as you know what,
Speaker 3: He's able to take them.
Speaker 2: Real quick from groovy T two, six, three, four Padres
Speaker 2: winning the World Series. I think in order for them
Speaker 2: to break through, I won't bet on their futures like
Speaker 2: I won't bet Padres playoffs, World Series stuff like I've
Speaker 2: done over the last three years and I'll just kind
Speaker 2: of let him go so they can win the World Series,
Speaker 2: because clearly I just have no idea what I'm talking
Speaker 2: about when it comes to the San Diego.
Speaker 3: Padres quick correction. I don't know if he hit the
Speaker 3: il yet doatter as we're recording this, but he did
Speaker 3: leave with.
Speaker 2: A hamstring thing, and usually that you know what follows. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there you go. All right, let's go over to the
Speaker 2: White Sox versus the Tigers. Game one, White Sox win
Speaker 2: nine to five. Ben Malgieri gave the Tigers a two
Speaker 2: to one lead early with a home run. I feel
Speaker 2: like I butchered that last name. But a five run
Speaker 2: fourth inning for the White Sox put this one out
Speaker 2: of reach as Tristan Peters and munatuckam Era Coammie Homeward.
Speaker 2: Brandon Montgomery had a two run triple. Miguel Vargas also
Speaker 2: homered an inning later. But shout out Malgieri, let's see
Speaker 2: if that's right, freaking over, go ahead, I think it is.
Speaker 3: I think you got it.
Speaker 2: There we go. That's what I thought I heard on
Speaker 2: the broadcast, but then reading it, I just feel like
Speaker 2: I'm saying it wrong. But you know, it is what
Speaker 2: it is Baul Noer, not a wordsmith homer for Detroit,
Speaker 2: he homered again, but it just wasn't quite enough, and
Speaker 2: micgil Vargus homeward again the twenty seven this year Game two,
Speaker 2: White Sox win four to three. Colsi Montgomery broke the
Speaker 2: one one tie in the third with a two run double,
Speaker 2: and Wardo Valencia would answer for Detroit, he's been great
Speaker 2: for them, and then Glabird tied it up with an
Speaker 2: RBI double, but in the seventh, Andrew Bennattendi ripped an
Speaker 2: RBI single which ended up being the winning run. Moved
Speaker 2: to Game three. Can the Tiger salvage Nope, White Sox
Speaker 2: take control seven to five. Detroit got out to a
Speaker 2: three to zero lead in the second and then made
Speaker 2: it four to one in the third on a Cole
Speaker 2: Keith homer, but the Socks came roaring back Drew Romo homer,
Speaker 2: Coles Montgomery tied it up with an RBI single, and
Speaker 2: Muna Tako Murakami rocked a two run shot for the
Speaker 2: lead his twenty eighth, and then Vargas hit his twenty
Speaker 2: eighth home run the same for some breathing room, and
Speaker 2: the Socks sweep you know what the series said to me,
Speaker 2: arm the White Sox said, this is our division. Yep,
Speaker 2: this is our division. That had to be peak for
Speaker 2: White Sox fans. I mean, you got the Tigers on
Speaker 2: their tail, you got the Twins, and you got you know,
Speaker 2: a couple other teams at least playing decent ball kind
Speaker 2: of on their tails. And this was a huge series.
Speaker 2: They improved his sixty five and fifty eight. Now when
Speaker 2: we look at the American League Central and just look
Speaker 2: at the division, five and a half games up, massive series,
Speaker 2: probably the biggest series of the weekend for any team.
Speaker 3: I thought, statement, statement statement. I think if you gave
Speaker 3: Chris Getz a crystal ball and said that this is
Speaker 3: how it would go after the deadline and this would
Speaker 3: be the series that you have against the Tigers, I
Speaker 3: wonder if you would have bought more aggressively. You're five
Speaker 3: and a half up in the division. I know you
Speaker 3: got to look at the big picture, but now you're
Speaker 3: most likely barring a crazy collapse, like you're in a
Speaker 3: really good position to win this division and put yourself
Speaker 3: in the driver's seat in the playoffs. And look, I
Speaker 3: think they made some sneaky pickups and you know, we'll
Speaker 3: see what happens, but man, like five and a half,
Speaker 3: this series was pivotal. I think just just set up
Speaker 3: the final little couple of months here where you've got
Speaker 3: a month and a half, I should say, you've got
Speaker 3: a chance here if you're the Tigers, if you have
Speaker 3: a good series, you could be a game and a
Speaker 3: half out of the division. And instead you're five and
Speaker 3: a half out and your only hope feels like is
Speaker 3: the wild card barring a White Sox collapse, and the
Speaker 3: White Sox have just been holding strong, and so I
Speaker 3: just think to have this series where the team that
Speaker 3: seemed like they were heating up, we're talking about like, hey,
Speaker 3: could the Tigers kind of make this little run without
Speaker 3: Schooble and blah blah blah. Maybe they still can, but
Speaker 3: the White Sox pretty much just stiff armed them and
Speaker 3: created a ton of space and it sets them up
Speaker 3: really really nicely here. It's I think the White Sox
Speaker 3: kind of saying there's levels to this shit, and they're
Speaker 3: just a better team right now than everybody else in
Speaker 3: that division. Comfortably, it did.
Speaker 2: Feel like a Derrick Henry stiff arm just like, get
Speaker 2: the hell out of my way, this is my division.
Speaker 2: I want to shout out Chase my draft again. It's
Speaker 2: been great in August. But how about Randall? I mean
Speaker 2: the Yankees dea fade him. He's picked up for nothing,
Speaker 2: and ever since he's gone over to the White Sox,
Speaker 2: he has an ops over eight hundred. Like he's been
Speaker 2: an incredible pick up for them, and it's just been
Speaker 2: guys filling a role like Munataka Murakami in the month
Speaker 2: of August has a one away WRC plus he's been good.
Speaker 2: But it's the my drafts, it's the gritschuks, it's the
Speaker 2: Tristan Peters. Edgar Carrow has been great in five games
Speaker 2: in August. Ever since Preira has come up and you know,
Speaker 2: hit a home run. I know he's only played a
Speaker 2: handful of games, but he's done well. Like it's just
Speaker 2: a team feeding off each other right now, and not
Speaker 2: a team that anyone wants to get in front of
Speaker 2: at the moment.
Speaker 3: No, not at all, not at all. And then the
Speaker 3: only other thing I'll say is, like the obvious gaping
Speaker 3: hole for them is catch a position and you're gonna
Speaker 3: get Kyletzeal presumably back in the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: I think the biggest thing you're looking at is can
Speaker 3: we get Kyle Zeel comfortable with his feet under him
Speaker 3: for the playoffs? And if you have a healthy Kyletzteal,
Speaker 3: he doesn't even need to be what he was last year.
Speaker 3: If he's given you league average off and some decent
Speaker 3: defense compared to what they're getting from the catcher position
Speaker 3: right now, that would be a huge, huge plus for
Speaker 3: them too. So it's fun to watch. And then, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm excited to see what they get from you know,
Speaker 3: some of these younger arms, like Hagen Smith, he's been
Speaker 3: walking some guys, but they're swinging miss stuff there. If
Speaker 3: he hits his stride, it's another weapon out of the
Speaker 3: pen on the left side. Obviously, some of the starters
Speaker 3: have settled in decently well. So yeah, I'm interested to
Speaker 3: see how things go.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Also a correction on my end, I didn't actually
Speaker 2: say every sin Peyer is still a White Sock, but
Speaker 2: I didn't mention the two games that every sin Per
Speaker 2: played with the White Sox in August hit four hundred
Speaker 2: with a three forty two WRC plus. But he is
Speaker 2: now currently a Saint Louis Cardinal. Thank you to podcast
Speaker 2: p All right, let's move over to Rockies Versus Giants
Speaker 2: riveting series. Everyone watched this weekend appointment television. Game one,
Speaker 2: Rockies win five to two. Kyle Frielan was brilliant eight innings,
Speaker 2: four hits, one run, lowering r to six to two.
Speaker 3: Seven.
Speaker 2: Both teams trade runs in the fourth, highlighted by Bryce
Speaker 2: Eldridge home run, but then in the fifth Moniac brought
Speaker 2: home a run and then Zach Vin sent one into
Speaker 2: McCovey Cove. Game two, Giants win seven to one. This
Speaker 2: time it was all Logan Webb as he topped six
Speaker 2: innings one run ball with seven strikeouts and no walks.
Speaker 2: Drew Gilbert led the way he's been hot, hitting a homer,
Speaker 2: driving in two on a single, and Devors and Eldridge
Speaker 2: had RBI hits as well. And then in Game three,
Speaker 2: the rubber match, Rockies Stampa win thirteen to seven. Arm
Speaker 2: The Rockies put up thirteen runs on just nine hits
Speaker 2: because the Giants pitching staff walked ten guys and hit
Speaker 2: another batter at a Lamador and Sullivan both homer and
Speaker 2: then three RBIs. Maniac had three RBIs. Eight starters on
Speaker 2: the Rockies had a hit Devor's homer for San Francisco,
Speaker 2: but overall it was an ugly game. My buddy Tray
Speaker 2: was visiting from Colorado, and again he's from Colorado, so
Speaker 2: we were watching the Rockies game because I'm also we
Speaker 2: had the Rockies over fifty two and a half. It's
Speaker 2: the largest future I put out this season and they
Speaker 2: just keep winning, which is awesome, but it was ugly, ugly,
Speaker 2: ugly Giants, Like what do you got?
Speaker 3: I mean, Blake Tidwell had had a nice little stretch
Speaker 3: before that and just just a dud from him. It's
Speaker 3: just tough to get excited about this Giants team right now.
Speaker 3: Like because you have Chapman on the I l Casey
Speaker 3: Schmid out for season, which stinks. You know, Devers is
Speaker 3: putting some good swings on balls here and there, and
Speaker 3: but it's it's a lot of guys that are probably
Speaker 3: not going to be there next year, so that usually
Speaker 3: doesn't bode well for for watchability and and just win
Speaker 3: ability as well. On the Rocky side, Like great to
Speaker 3: see hout Al, I'm Gonnor back up there. I do
Speaker 3: think this is a guy that could still end up
Speaker 3: filling a role for them. Zach Fien. Great to see
Speaker 3: him getting an opportunity. You're seeing some of that power
Speaker 3: that he's really added there to tap into more. And
Speaker 3: I think just seeing those two guys up for the
Speaker 3: rest of the year just to see what you get
Speaker 3: is exciting. So yeah, we talked about the Rockies. At
Speaker 3: least there's young projectable pieces here and I do, I
Speaker 3: really do still believe and I'm a dorm We got
Speaker 3: the hashtag on the screen for him. I just I
Speaker 3: love the Batman I always have and it's some weird
Speaker 3: turbulence for him, but still think it could be a
Speaker 3: nice piece for them.
Speaker 2: I got a feeling that's going to be a not wrong,
Speaker 2: just early guy. Also pop quiz, where are the Rockies
Speaker 2: rank and ops this season?
Speaker 3: Oh? Man, I mean at least they have of course,
Speaker 3: so I'll go eight f five now.
Speaker 2: At the same time, they're like twenty ninth at WRC
Speaker 2: plus because it's Park of Justice. But hey, how about
Speaker 2: those Rocky Yeah, however numbers, Yeah, it's dar to ball,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. All right, let's go over
Speaker 2: to the Rangers and the A's Game one. A's win
Speaker 2: eight to three. Carlos Cortes got the game going with
Speaker 2: a bass clearing double in the first and Gage jump
Speaker 2: through five shutout in a but then he went out
Speaker 2: for the sixth and Jake Berger made him pay with
Speaker 2: the three run homer, but the A's would immediately answer
Speaker 2: with homers from McNeil and Butler in the A's take.
Speaker 2: Game one moved to Game two, Rangers win five to three.
Speaker 2: Henry Bolty ripped a three run homer for the A's
Speaker 2: in the second, but that was it as the Rangers
Speaker 2: stormed back. Nicky Lopez and Corey Seger had RBI singles,
Speaker 2: and then Wyatt Langford gave Texas the lead on a
Speaker 2: two run shot, and then Jared Kellenick, New Ranger, drove
Speaker 2: home the rangers fifth run on a single rubber match
Speaker 2: A's win five to two. Jake Berger opened the scoring
Speaker 2: with a homer, but Lawrence Butler would answer right back
Speaker 2: with a two run shot to give the A's the lead,
Speaker 2: and Berger would tie back up with an RBI ground
Speaker 2: out in the third, and we went scoreless until the seventh,
Speaker 2: where Geloff and Tommy White homered, which was enough to
Speaker 2: give the A's the series win. Jacob Lopez looked good,
Speaker 2: going six innings a two run ball with six K's
Speaker 2: nice series win with the A's. I want to praise him,
Speaker 2: but at the same time, I couldn't be more frustrated
Speaker 2: watching the Rangers right now. Here's your lane. Yeah, the
Speaker 2: Angels and you have the A's go beat them, pretty
Speaker 2: easy schedule, and they're not just splitting, they're losing. I mean,
Speaker 2: you're just letting the division fall from your grasp. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean the Astros are not playing excellent baseball right now.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying they're playing bad baseball, but they left
Speaker 2: an opening if you were to go dominate those bad teams,
Speaker 2: and instead they just lose two out of three to
Speaker 2: those teams. Like if I was a Rangers fan and
Speaker 2: I'm a Rangers futures better, I know I'm frustrated. I
Speaker 2: can't imagine just watching this team being like, it's right
Speaker 2: there in front of you, take it, and they just can't.
Speaker 3: And I think this, if you tell me I gotta
Speaker 3: win a series, I don't know. If there's a lot
Speaker 3: of teams I'm wanting to schedule first before the Athletics
Speaker 3: right now, and just to not be able to take
Speaker 3: that series is tough. It definitely is. And I mean
Speaker 3: the athletics. They lost Soldiers from two. I mean, this
Speaker 3: team is incredibly short ended and just just a really
Speaker 3: tough series for the Rangers. It's frustrating there. I want
Speaker 3: to shout out Henry Boltsey, like I think this is
Speaker 3: a super freak talent. I've talked about him a guy
Speaker 3: that was top fifty because of the things that he
Speaker 3: put together in our top one hundred list before graduating.
Speaker 3: Because it's eighty wheels and you've seen the Reds get
Speaker 3: better in the outfield. It's elite batspeed, but it's usually
Speaker 3: been on the ground. He's shored some of these things up.
Speaker 3: He's improved the approach. I still think this is gonna
Speaker 3: be a guy that you look at maybe next year
Speaker 3: and the year after that. Just the way he keeps building.
Speaker 3: He could put it together and become a really dynamic
Speaker 3: center fielder for them. But other than that, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 3: there's just not a ton to get excited about right now. Offensively,
Speaker 3: Like this is already team that was falling off a cliff,
Speaker 3: that is playing without Nick Kurtz, without Shane lang Lears,
Speaker 3: now without Tower Soderstrom, no Rooker, of course, and you
Speaker 3: lose two out of three it's a really tough series
Speaker 3: for the Rangers, really.
Speaker 2: Tough, and podcast Peace said he has a good Jacob
Speaker 2: Latts note. So this comes to us from podcast peas
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Speaker 2: go follow him. Jacob Lats has twelve four plus out
Speaker 2: saves this season. He is the only pitcher to have
Speaker 2: at least ten such saves in a season in the
Speaker 2: twenty twenties. All Star those numbers. He's form, But the
Speaker 2: Rangers just think.
Speaker 3: That they should put him in the rotation. I know
Speaker 3: he should have stretch him out like he's nasty.
Speaker 2: He really is. All right, Let's go over to the
Speaker 2: Mariners versus the Astros. Game one. Astros win ten to
Speaker 2: seven and ten innings. I said the White Sox probably
Speaker 2: the best series for a team. I think this might
Speaker 2: have been the best game of the weekend. It was
Speaker 2: a wild game. Seattle score two in the first before
Speaker 2: Jordon answered with a homer and then Cam Smith ripped
Speaker 2: an RBI troubled to tie it. Then Pena and Parade's
Speaker 2: made it five to two with our singles. But then
Speaker 2: Seattle battles all the way back. As brock Roden had
Speaker 2: a clutch double to tie it up at the eighth,
Speaker 2: and then we just head to extras and the Mariners
Speaker 2: put up two in the top of the tenth, but
Speaker 2: Parade's and varshow would tie it up at RBI singles
Speaker 2: and then Christian Walker thumped one to left walked it
Speaker 2: off three run homer. Game two, Mariners took out their
Speaker 2: anger from last night with four runs early off the
Speaker 2: bat from Cole Young, Victor Roebliss, and Brandon Donovan, but
Speaker 2: then Vasquez homered for Houston, but Seattle just kept the
Speaker 2: ball rolling. Donovan ended with three hits and three RBIs.
Speaker 2: Cole Young had three hits, one of them being a homer,
Speaker 2: and four RBIs can Zone, j Rod and Naylor and
Speaker 2: Robliss all had multiple hits, and Emerson Hancock on the
Speaker 2: mound went seven strong innings with only two runs allowed.
Speaker 2: And as we sit here right now, cal Rawlely just homer.
Speaker 2: The Mariners lead three to one. So there's the potential
Speaker 2: for the Mariners winning this series. But I see one.
Speaker 2: But I see a one next to the Astros, which
Speaker 2: means Brian wu has gone back to back starts throwing
Speaker 2: well on the road. How about it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, which is huge. It's it's huge. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's one of the bigger variables. I just think they
Speaker 3: can help this team piece together down the stretch, though
Speaker 3: too obviously most of the variables that are gonna be offensive.
Speaker 3: It's hard with this year is because like the Mariners,
Speaker 3: they need it. They really need to hold on in
Speaker 3: this third game. So we'll see what happens. But like
Speaker 3: I it's I know it's only one series and there's
Speaker 3: still some time left, but you drop two out of three, uh,
Speaker 3: just with the way things have been going already, Like
Speaker 3: I think it would be really galvanizing. You'd hope so
Speaker 3: to go to Houston, take two out of three and
Speaker 3: hope that it can be like the start of something positive,
Speaker 3: like you're searching for anything if you're the Mariners, because
Speaker 3: you're still alive because of how bad you know, the
Speaker 3: American League is. It's that you don't need much to
Speaker 3: have that kind of galvanizing like, hey, we can do this,
Speaker 3: and I think taking two out of three in Houston
Speaker 3: would do that for them.
Speaker 2: Are the Astros gonna win the division at eighty two
Speaker 2: and eighty.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be like the Seahawks that one year and
Speaker 3: then went like seven to nine and made the playoffs
Speaker 3: and then won the first round.
Speaker 2: Look at the NFC South last year, Panthers won the
Speaker 2: division eight to nine on a tiebreaker.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be like that. And then that's a
Speaker 3: team that like ends up surprising in the playoffs with
Speaker 3: the World Series because it works. It's gonna be I think,
Speaker 3: one of the worst records to win a division I
Speaker 3: think in a long time. But yeah, like the Mariners are,
Speaker 3: even if they win this, they're kind of they're kind
Speaker 3: of out of it, right, Like, do you do you
Speaker 3: really feel like they can get back into this thing.
Speaker 2: No, I mean I've been out on the Mariners for
Speaker 2: like two months now. Yeah, kind of said that, so
Speaker 2: my just opinion hasn't changed. So I didn't think they'd
Speaker 2: be good two months ago when everyone was saying they
Speaker 2: were gonna bounce back, and I was like, they can't hit,
Speaker 2: and their pitchers all have problems on the road, and
Speaker 2: they're a bullpen arm short of a really solid bullpen.
Speaker 2: Like this team is not as good as everyone is saying.
Speaker 3: And then they're gonna be two and a half out
Speaker 3: if they hold on, And now.
Speaker 2: They're two and a half out there probably gonna make
Speaker 2: the playoffs. No, I stand by what I said. I
Speaker 2: think the Mariners are on the outside looking into the playoffs.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're two and a half games out,
Speaker 2: like the Guardians are one and a half games out
Speaker 2: at sixty and sixty five.
Speaker 3: That's the biggest thing too, is like, it's not just
Speaker 3: about how many games you are out. And I think
Speaker 3: this is the part that kind of gets lost for
Speaker 3: some for people and even us in the conversation, it's
Speaker 3: how many teams you have to leap frog, right, It's
Speaker 3: not just the games. You have to be better than
Speaker 3: one the Guardians, the Twins, the Tigers, the Blue Jays,
Speaker 3: the Rangers, and then you need to be better than
Speaker 3: the Orioles, so even better than all of those teams
Speaker 3: to get in.
Speaker 2: I think it's a really good point because we can say, oh,
Speaker 2: they're only this much out, but that means every other
Speaker 2: team is going to have to go on a slide
Speaker 2: for you to jump them. And on top of it,
Speaker 2: it's not like the Mariners have been unlucky this year
Speaker 2: where it's like they're one of these teams with the
Speaker 2: positive run differential and if they just start getting things clicking.
Speaker 2: I mean the Mariners negative twenty four run differential, They're
Speaker 2: expected win losses fifty nine and sixty five. This is
Speaker 2: what they are. They're a team that is very inconsistent.
Speaker 2: They can't win on the road, and when they go
Speaker 2: up against teams that are five hundred above their twenty
Speaker 2: four and twenty eight that's who they are. They're below
Speaker 2: average team. It's shocking. I didn't project it at the
Speaker 2: beginning of the season, that's for sure. But how much
Speaker 2: more dotage we need?
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, they're they're really technically one team away from
Speaker 3: the worst record in the league because the Athletics and
Speaker 3: the Angels are tied, so they're closer to the basement
Speaker 3: than they are in the playoffs. But you know, technically
Speaker 3: they could get hot and do it and at least
Speaker 3: they have the puncher's chance there and they if they
Speaker 3: hold on here, they did what they needed to to
Speaker 3: at least win this series. But if I'm you know,
Speaker 3: an Astros fan, I don't think I'm losing much sleep hundred.
Speaker 3: The only thing is Hunter Brown, like five walks again tonight,
Speaker 3: and also the Astros just scored, so yeah, but Brown's
Speaker 3: got it, Like if this Astros team is going to
Speaker 3: make a run and be, you know, kind of a sneaky,
Speaker 3: scary team. Like Brown's got to snap in here, and
Speaker 3: I know he's been putting together some better starts. I
Speaker 3: thought he really snapped in when it was seven shutty,
Speaker 3: but then the last few it's like five and two thirds,
Speaker 3: two runs, six innings, three runs, five innings, three runs,
Speaker 3: like multiple walks in each of those addings. If he
Speaker 3: can snap into something close to what we've seen him
Speaker 3: be in the last couple of years, I feel totally
Speaker 3: different about this team because that could be a guy
Speaker 3: that game one matches anybody.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it. Nick Allen, by the way, hit
Speaker 2: the homer off Bride wil That's baseball for you. So
Speaker 2: that'll do it for this episode of the Round Up.
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