WEBVTT - 1140 | Jordan Walker Wins the Home Run Derby, All-Star Game Preview, Ryan Howard Interview 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:23.000 Goel Cracker. We will see. 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:33.880 To the gunner. 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:41.800 Welcome on out a lot of you people, Oh Jordan Walker, 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:47.800 a humongous, massive, gargante ginormous apology, including you, Peter Apple, 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:49.839 How many times you stupid? 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:52.360 How many times do that stupid algorithm? And it's three 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:54.920 hundred million simulations? Spit out, George Walker. 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:58.200 Last I checked, you said there were four real contenders, 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:00.600 that Jordan Walker's name was not one of them, so 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:01.480 you could blame me. 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:05.080 But I didn't make a model. You made a model. 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:07.360 Can we talk about the bottle for a second, actually, 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:09.040 can we trail the show. We're gonna talk about the 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:09.479 bottle list. 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:13.520 We'll get into that. We'll get into that. Yeah, it's 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:14.080 just baseball. 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:15.840 So we're gonna do a home run derby recap, We're 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:18.120 gonna do an All Star Game preview, and then you 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:20.119 guys had a great opportunity to hang out with Ryan 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:23.120 Howard and Lids. So we're gonna hear that conversation with 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:25.600 Ryan Howard at the very head Just Baseball Show, Jack 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:31.280 Peter and his model Peyton, before you tell us about MGM, 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:35.120 and before you break down the four hundred thousand additional simulations, 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:36.959 I asked you to run on the heels of the 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:40.120 two hundred thousand. I do have an important thing that 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:42.960 I want to tell you right now about tonight. If 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:45.240 you are in Philly and you're listening to this or 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:49.080 you're watching it right now, we do have a venue change. 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.000 So tonight's just Baseball watch party in Philadelphia for the 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.440 All Star Game. It's got a new home. It's still happening, 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:57.360 just a new place. 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Let me text you 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:22.320 made fun of me? 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.080 No, No, I'm now I'm gonna save it real quick. 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:27.240 I'm gonna I'm gonna amend to the bridge and then 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:29.359 I'm gonna let you continue to go. I will say, 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:31.679 I clicked on the model. You texted me the model. 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:33.960 I looked at the model. It's a really good model. 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:37.200 I was really impressed, so thank you. 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:37.839 You can't it going. 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:39.040 I was super impressed. 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.440 I gotta be honest too, it was so fun to 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:43.720 make like people are making fun of me. It's like 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:46.359 you spent all that time just to lose your bets. 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:49.480 I was like, I'll be completely honest with you. Making 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.320 that model was almost as fun as watching the whole 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.719 run derby. For me, that's I'm a nerd. I like 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.599 the numbers. I like modeling things out. So I bet 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.839 Kyle Schwarmer at plus three forty he closed on bat MGM, 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.320 which means the closing price. It was basically the betable 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:06.240 price five minutes before the derby started at plus two 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.880 eighty My line was plus two eighty nine, so I 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:10.599 saw an edge there. I bet him to make the 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:12.760 semi finals. I bet him to make the finals. Both 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.520 of those hit and then it took one of the 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:20.360 most unbelievable finishes that I have seen in a home 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:21.120 run derby. 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:21.839 Ever. 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:26.640 We're talking a twenty four year old Jordan Walker on 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.720 the road, and I know, on the road in a 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:33.000 home run derby. That's probably the dumbest sentence anybody could say. 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.600 But if you were in the building, which I was, 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:38.680 there was true home field advantage. 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:40.120 I even tweeted it out. 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:42.680 I said, this felt like Game seven for Phillies fans, 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:46.840 the booze that were raining down on Wilson Contreras, on 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:50.719 Jordan Walker, on the entire field. If your name wasn't 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:56.159 Bryce Harper or Ale Schwarber, you were getting booed like 0:05:56.279 --> 0:06:00.560 you were Spencer Strider pitching in Game four of the 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:05.360 NLDS against the Phillies at the Bank. They hated you, right. 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:07.520 Jordan Walker has never been at a Major League home 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:12.680 run derby. He is down three swings with the magenta 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:17.719 ball that nobody has hit all night. He went bang, bang, bang, 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:21.479 and then he hit it out. And I'm sitting next 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:22.880 to a couple of people and they knew that I 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:26.760 had bet Kyle Schwarber, and I'm jumping up and down 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:30.000 when Jeorde Walker hit that home run because the excitement 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:33.200 is just bursting out of me, and they're like, why 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:35.480 are you excited? Did you bet Schwarbur? And I was like, 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.479 oh shit, yeah I did. But I was just so 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:42.159 into the derby that I completely forgot about it because 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:46.320 that was pure cinema, that was theater, and I know 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:48.240 we're gonna go through round one and you know, the 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:49.560 semi finals, in the finals. 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:52.400 But what a derby, What a derby. 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.839 It was a ton of fun. And Buster Only put 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:59.279 this out. I mean we were talking about, you know 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:01.520 how like the sh a sheer number of total homers 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:04.120 could be going down. Yeah, big time clouds on the 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:12.360 hot see. So Buster Only he tweeted the exact numbers, 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:14.160 and I'll see if I can pull this up right now. 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:16.400 But we're talking about about one hundred few or less 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.960 total home runs this year as opposed to the Derby 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:24.000 with the timer, And honestly, I thought that was fine, 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:25.840 So we might as well like open the discussion to 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:29.440 the format as well, where it was a swing based format. Yeah, 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:31.400 Buster put this out. Over the last five years, the 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:34.200 home run Derby average with the clock was two hundred 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:37.080 and seventy five home runs per event. Last night, over 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.800 the same amount of time, one hundred and thirty one 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.600 home runs. So two seventy five was the average compared 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:45.640 to one thirty one. We are cutting the sheer number 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.680 of home runs in more than half. But I found 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.520 it as enjoyable, to be totally honest with you, because 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:55.440 we got to watch ballflight. I didn't like the idea 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:58.840 of only the magentle ball giving you the extra swings, 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:03.800 And I tweeted out last night like my preferred power 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:09.040 ranking of method for the home run Derby, I think 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.880 ten outs still reigned supreme, like the ten outs that 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:15.320 we grew up with, where you know, ten non homers 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.000 and you're done, and then I probably go to the 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:21.080 twenty slash fifteen swings and then I probably go to 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:22.920 the timer. The timer was just too much for me, 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.000 and it was so endurance based, like it's nice to 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:26.720 see a thirty two, thirty three year old cop to 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.320 over witness thing or uh be the runner up, to 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:32.679 be honest with you, but I just thought like it 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:37.720 was executed very well and the walker drama there finally 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:41.440 hitting the magenta ball. To your point, I understand that 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:43.840 the structure was not perfect, but I thought the structure 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:45.480 was better than the timer of years past. 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:50.080 Yeah, and I'm curious of your perspective to watching it 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:53.000 on TV. I was, you know, at the ballpark at 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:57.240 Citizens Bank Park watching it, and I have been in 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.800 the ballpark for the last four home run Derbies, this 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:03.880 is my fifth in a row, and the timer it 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:07.720 was exciting because you were seeing home runs hit every 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.800 five seconds, and it just felt like a merry go 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:16.600 round of dingers. But this you could actually enjoy each 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:21.440 individual home run, Watch the ballflight, watch them travel into 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:24.640 the third deck, then look over at the screen and 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.280 see the eggs of velocity at one hundred and sixteen 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:30.520 miles an hour, or the distance by Junior Cameronaro at 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:34.160 four ninety two, or the distance from Jack Caglione at 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:37.560 four ninety or Wilson Contreras starting it off with a 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:42.600 four hundred and ninety foot home run. Like that was 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:47.800 a more enjoyable experience at the ballpark for someone who 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:51.520 likes home runs. Now, if your only goal is just 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:54.960 for this to go as quickly as possible, you're probably 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:58.440 not going to enjoy this iteration of the derby. But 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:00.680 I am not one of those who wan to just 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:04.960 go as quick as possible and push in as many 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:08.560 home runs as possible. I want to enjoy the homers, 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:12.000 and that's what this new format gave us. 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:15.120 Yeah, and honestly, I think the outs gave us that 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:15.800 as well. 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:17.320 Yeah, in five. 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.480 Years or I guess pre you know, pre timing method 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:22.760 for five years, so I guess pre covid go back 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.840 to the pre Covid derby, but yeah, like I think 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:29.000 the pre Covid Derby was my favorite derby, but this 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:32.400 got trace amounts of that, and it seemed like the 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:37.319 swing number being capped was probably the way that they 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.920 snuck this thing in under three hours. Like I was 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:44.720 in bed by eleven after watching this, and that was 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:50.280 probably really important to the broadcasters, to the like I 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:54.320 guess ballpark operations folks, like there are a lot of 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:57.520 people in Major League Baseball and of course the the 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:00.640 outlets broadcasting this home run derby that like rely on 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.679 this thing being around three hours instead of three hours 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.720 and forty five minutes or four hours, Like that's a 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:08.679 long Yeah. 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:09.760 They could have gone six hours. 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:12.280 Yeah, like it could be a long time. And like 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:15.800 the Derby of yesteryear, like that went a long freaking time. 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:19.000 So obviously timing matters, and there's this finite amount of 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:22.120 swings which certainly helps. And I did like the idea 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.960 of trying to play the math game in real time, like, Okay, 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.640 Walker's got to hit four homers and he's got six 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:30.560 swings to do it. Like that was kind of a 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:34.400 fun game to play. So no, man, it was exciting. 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.520 I enjoyed this structure more than the timer, and that's 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:41.000 that's where I sit on that, and from watching on television, 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:43.920 I'm with you. I just wanted to watch the ballfly, 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:45.840 and I got to watch the ball fly. It was great. 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.360 So yeah, I mean you got to watch it in ballpark. 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:50.880 I got to watch it on TV and it was 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.200 just fun to see those things sail and like you 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:55.680 can actually appreciate a junior four hundred and eighty seven 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.280 foot home run. So we'll go round by round real quick, 0:11:58.320 --> 0:11:59.840 and then we'll give you our All Star Game preview 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:02.800 and you'll hear from Ryan Howard as well. Great appearance 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:06.920 with Liz. Let's start with round one here, because it 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:11.000 was interesting round one and there were some disappointments for sure, 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:15.240 but Wilson Contrera set the tone as the first to go, 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:19.920 man and shout out Peyton for grabbing these highlights. And 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.600 I know he was up there phone out pretty much 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:24.319 at all times. And he grabbed the four hundred and 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.080 ninety foot bomb. You could see the ball flight and 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.439 then he immediately had eyes on the stat cast metrics 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:31.480 as well. One fifteen on the bat and four hundred 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.720 and ninety feet out to left center for Wilson to 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:38.080 me in the first round, Wilson put up an insane 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:42.640 round and then I thought Walker was as impressive, to 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:44.559 be honest with you, but Wilson Gaturuz was the one 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.040 that was like, holy smokes, I was unfamiliar with your game. 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.920 Wilson gatures felt more impressive because it was less likely 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.080 for him to put on a performance like that. Like 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:55.719 we can't forget he was at the bottom of the 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:59.199 betting odds. Nobody really gave him a chance. Right, Citizens 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:03.480 Bank Park generally favors left handed power bats. You got 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:06.360 an older guy who haven't really seen in the derby, 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:08.360 and he's not like he's one of the league leaders 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.160 in homers, but what he is one of the league 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:14.280 leaders in is home runs over four hundred feet per 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:18.960 ballpark pal so clearly coming in it almost looked like 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:20.560 he was swinging with a little bit of a chip 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.240 on his shoulder. He was like, nobody's picking me, nobody 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:25.439 cares about me. And then the booze start coming down, 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.640 and you know, Wilson cantraz right, how many quote unquote 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:32.040 brawls And I'm using quotations because we don't actually ever 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:35.120 get real brawls in Major League Baseball anymore. But he's 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:38.319 I think he's had six skirmishes. The guy gets fired up. 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:43.520 So we should have forecasted that Wilson catreros with the booze. 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.120 It would have fed him a little bit more energy. 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:47.559 Playing the villain. 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:49.360 Yeah, really good at playing the villain. 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:52.560 And it was more entertaining because it was less likely 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.120 to happen than Jordan Walker. Like, going into it, we 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:58.800 knew that Jordan Walker was an absolute behemoth, So it 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:03.120 didn't surprise me that Jordan Walker hit thirteen homers in 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:06.079 the first round and put on a show. But wilsonetart 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.920 doing that and then hitting the ball four ninety and 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:12.200 doing it first made it more impressive in the moment. 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.240 But then you're watching Jordan Walker hit these one hundred 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:19.000 and seventeen mile hour pismissiles that barely get off the 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:23.240 ground but just flying into the stands. 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:24.520 They were both incredible. 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:28.200 There were a couple of laser being performances in that 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:30.720 first round, and really the entire night Walker was one. 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.080 Schwarber was another. I mean Schwarber was hitting some balls 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:34.840 and I was like, that's gonna be a wallbanger, and 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.160 he did hit a couple of wallbangers, but some just 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:40.320 kept on sailing and it was insane. With Wilson, I 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.000 also think it's funny. You know, a lot of people 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:44.400 want to call him a potstir because of what he 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.960 does on field, absolutely, but the thing that trump's all 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.600 of it to me is transactionally. What he did, like 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:54.240 coming up with the Cubs, having a ring with the Cubs, 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.480 playing out his pre Arbn Arbiers with the Cubs, and 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:01.640 then signing with Saint Louis have been everything you need 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.520 to know about Wilson. Gaturis wanted to be a potstar 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.080 and it's fun, man Like, it's fun having that drama 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.840 in the game, no doubt about it. In terms of 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:14.280 underwhelming performances, Rice jumps out. It was unfortunately kind of 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.160 a dud from Ben Rice and then Kaglione. Man, he 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:19.560 had a tape measure shot. But I was just expecting 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.240 a little bit more from CAGs, murriak Kami. I guess 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.640 I was expecting more from but to be honest, it 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:28.360 was Rice and CAGs that I, you know, jumped out 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.560 to me. It's like I kind of wish there was 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:31.680 more meat on the bone here. 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:33.160 One hundred percent. 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.120 Rice was the most disappointing, and it marks two home 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:38.840 run Derbys in a row that a player on the 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:44.359 Yankees just curled up and did do much. You hadjeeshis 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.160 them with three home runs, and then the following year 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.120 you got bed Rice with five home runs, which was 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.120 the lowest in the first round of any player, so 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.840 not exactly ideal for the Yankees. I was actually more 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:58.520 disappointed with Murk Commie than Jack Haglion, I think because 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:03.000 Jack Haglion at least gave us a four hundred and 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:06.680 ninety foot homer. Yeah, Kaglione hit some of the hardest 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:09.480 base balls in the derby. Not all of them left 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:16.280 the park, but laser beams. Murk Kami didn't. And again, 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:18.880 from my vantage point, you were watching on TV. You 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:21.560 tell me if I was wrong, it didn't look like 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:23.440 he was swinging as heart as he should have been. 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:28.600 Like especially watching Wilson and then watching Jordan Walker, and 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.400 then watching Tags and then watching Murakami. I just felt 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:34.320 like he wasn't as aggressive. Maybe it was due to 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:38.640 the injury. Maybe I overlooked that when I thought potentially 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:41.360 he'd be fresher he also like rolled over some. He 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:45.360 also hit some like pop up foul balls like his 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:50.160 outs were terrible, right like Tags at least was nailing 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.760 balls off the wall or like two hopping the wall. 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:56.960 At one point fifteen, it felt like mura Kami fouled 0:16:57.000 --> 0:17:00.440 one off. So yeah, even though Murakami I think totaled 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:04.439 one more homer than CAGs, I thought CAGs performance was 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:07.600 a little bit better from my vantage point. Maybe I 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:09.719 was wrong about him swinging hard. That's just how it 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:10.359 looked for me. 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:13.080 Yeah, I mean, Murray COMMI is also not a guy 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:15.119 that's gonna look like he swings as hard as the 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:18.520 other guys. I think. I think it's an effortless swing. 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:22.240 And you know he he likes stroking it clear clearly. 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:24.399 But but I've seen him. 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:26.480 Ordering games like I've seen him swing heart when he 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:28.080 crushes homers, it looks. 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:29.400 Like but it's a lot of like, it's a lot 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:32.040 of wrist long drive like it looks like he's pulling 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:33.400 out the driver and letting it eat. 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:37.200 And and that's watching him on TV versus now I'm 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:39.480 in the ballpark. That's why I'm curious your thoughts, Like, 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:41.600 if you don't think he wasn't swinging hard then. 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:43.560 It looked it looked pretty normal to me. I think 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:45.520 it was just like kind of an underwhelming round. To 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:47.280 be honest, like I left that, I was like, I 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:49.439 was kind of wishing for more, and obviously I was 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:51.920 wishing for more. Kevin Arrow put on enough of a 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:55.240 show in the first round. Junior swinging to baseball batman, 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:57.879 There's there's nothing like Junior swinging a bat. And Peyton 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.840 has this video here at JUNI you're going for eighty seven, right, 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:02.840 it was forty seven and it was one hundred and 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:06.040 ten off the bat. He is so much fun man. 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:08.520 And I was chatting with actually one of the trainers 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:11.359 with the Dominican Republic side, Jose Alvarez, who's one of 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:13.480 the trainers with the Marlins, and I asked him about 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.160 geting to work with Junior during the World Baseball Classic. 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:20.760 He said, Dude, no one has as effortless batspeed as 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:24.359 him on every single swing in Major League Baseball. It 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:27.240 is a joy to watch this guy swing a baseball bat. 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:29.600 And the fact that it always looks like this man 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.040 like that's his batting practice. To be honest with you, 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:35.639 it's not like that was up to notch. He does that. 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.000 If you ever have the opportunity to see the Rays 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.639 on the road or at the Trump get there early, 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:43.280 watch this guy take batting practice, because it is an 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:47.040 unforgettable experience. People that were there two hours before the 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:49.560 World Baseball Classic for a dr game, they know what 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:51.639 I'm talking about. People that have seen him swing in 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:53.919 batting practice, they know what I'm talking about. That was 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:56.959 par for the course from Junior, and he's gonna put 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:58.919 it together at some point. I think he wins it 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:00.800 next year or the year after or the year after. 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:04.000 He should have an open invitation to participate whenever he wants, 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:06.240 because he's going to put up one of those like 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:08.720 Josh Hamilton a Jason performances some points him. 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:11.280 I agree, he's awesome. Kind of reminds me of Mena 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:16.119 Ramirez of this swing, effortless bat speed and he's just 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:20.040 getting that launch like it's just a perfectly tailored swing 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:23.240 to hit dingers. And his ability to backsman baseballs is 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:25.800 a sentence I've said on the show fifty thousand times 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:28.359 and I'll continue to say it because it's different and 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:30.000 I want to bring up things that are different, and 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:31.280 Junior Camvanaro was different. 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:34.120 Yeah, Harper was a little too little, too late. 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:38.160 Yeah, I can appreciate he got close. 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:40.560 He did get close. He said he's retiring from the derby. 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:41.239 I don't blame him. 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:42.600 Yeah a lot. 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:45.679 Remember he won the derby back of twenty eighteen, Like 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:49.120 we're almost a decade removed from him winning a derby. 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:53.880 Yeah, so that's why I appreciate the effort and appreciate 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:55.840 him trying to show out for the fine folks of Philly. 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:56.960 Shout out. 0:19:56.960 --> 0:19:59.639 The model told me to bet him to get bouts 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:02.000 to the first But there you go. I have now 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:05.080 officially gone over all of my winners. I lost on Caags, 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:08.119 I lost on Murakami, ended up in the red, but 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:11.520 if Schwarber did win, I would have been in the green. 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:16.080