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Speaker 1: What's up? Everybody? Welcome in another edition of Crush City Territory.

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Speaker 1: I'm Chandler Rome, joined by Tyler Stafford. After the Astros

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Speaker 1: have secured a series win against the Rangers, who may

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Speaker 1: be cooked. But as is appropriate and as is synonymous

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Speaker 1: with this entire season, no one is talking about the

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Speaker 1: two results. No one is talking about the two wins

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Speaker 1: that the Astros have gotten on Monday and Tuesday against

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Speaker 1: the Rangers. What they're talking about is what occurred in

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Speaker 1: the first inning on Monday when it was it should

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Speaker 1: have been a scene of jubilation, should have been a celebration.

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Speaker 1: The Astros starting off their biggest homestand in years a

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Speaker 1: homestand that will define their season and their trajectory where

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Speaker 1: they're going to go this season. They started off by

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Speaker 1: scoring two runs in the first inning off Jack Lder.

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Speaker 1: The second run crossed home plate, and Tyler, you were

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Speaker 1: the ground. He got embraced and held up before he

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Speaker 1: could hit the ground. But I think everyone that was watching,

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Speaker 1: whether in the ballpark on TV, listening to Robert Ford

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Speaker 1: of knew by the tone, by the scene on the field,

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Speaker 1: this was not good. And on Tuesday we got confirmation

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Speaker 1: that it is not good. Jordon Alvarez has a severely

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Speaker 1: sprained left ankle. He will be out quote for a while,

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Speaker 1: according to manager Joe Aespotta, who did not want to

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Speaker 1: say much more other than that he will be out

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Speaker 1: for a while. Jord On Alvarez remains on the Astros

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Speaker 1: active roster for reasons I cannot fathom, but it's a

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Speaker 1: I mean, in a season full of just body blows,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure this one's the knockout punch, but it's

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Speaker 1: pretty close.

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Speaker 2: Yes. So this was a rare occasion where I was

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Speaker 2: even closer than you. My family and I were at

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Speaker 2: the game. It was really special. It was my son's

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Speaker 2: first game to go to. Brought him and before the

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Speaker 2: game we got to meet Jake Berger from the Rangers,

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Speaker 2: who also has a daughter with Down syndrome, as do we,

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Speaker 2: and it was awesome. Chandler helped set that up. It

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Speaker 2: great foundation. We'll link it in the show notes and

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Speaker 2: comments down here. Definitely go and support them. So started

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Speaker 2: off great. We had two hours of running around DIYK

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Speaker 2: Camden in a little you know, kangaroo pouch that I

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Speaker 2: wear him in. So I was ready for the game

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Speaker 2: to start. Started off well, you know, the throw goes

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Speaker 2: over first basement's head, Jake Berger and Jordon rounds the bases.

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Speaker 2: There's a wave at first from Tony Parischka, then a

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Speaker 2: wheeler in the Colorado Mountains. It's hard to slow that

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Speaker 2: man down. And literally the second he touched home plate,

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Speaker 2: I like had my hands on my head and was

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Speaker 2: and so of course Alicia was like what's wrong, Like

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Speaker 2: what happened? And I'm like, no, no, it's like that's what's happening.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean his leg just buckled. He barely

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Speaker 2: I have not seen ankles broken like that in Houston

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Speaker 2: since Tracy McGrady was here. Uh, it was, it was bad.

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Speaker 2: Vibes all around. It just it keeps happening, man, Just

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, you you could convince you,

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Speaker 2: you could squint and convince yourself that if the Astros

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Speaker 2: a couple of pictures you can rely on. Anytime Yourdon

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Speaker 2: And he comes back, he's what has like a five

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Speaker 2: You know, you can dream on that, and one inning

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Speaker 2: in it's like, well that that's gone now. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's it's not good. Yeah. The him being on the

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Speaker 2: assume that is Chas McCormick related, because I think he

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Speaker 2: They're they're not just like keeping him on in the

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Speaker 2: hopes that tomorrow that ankle will be fine. Not going

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Speaker 1: Yeah, something's up with McCormick. I need to look into that,

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Speaker 2: I got boots on the ground reporting that that he

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Speaker 2: is hurt. Okay, from a secret source, from a source.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, this is a two sol podcast, so you

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Speaker 1: need two sources to run on this podcast, So get

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Speaker 1: working on another one that doesn't pass the smell testimony

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Speaker 1: that it's just McCormick related. Because if you're putting Alvarez

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but if you call a different guy up than McCormick,

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Speaker 1: No, just call up, saysar Salas. Are call up Jacob

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Speaker 1: Melton call up someone that is available to you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, if they call Jacob Melton up, like he's

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Speaker 1: a consequential homestand the Astros have been prone to play

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Speaker 1: we've all watched how Joe a spot of manages in

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Speaker 1: counterintuitive to play down down a player, especially when like

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Speaker 1: last night, you had both of your catchers in the

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Speaker 1: I asked the question, and everyone knows.

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Speaker 2: What the answer was, so I sure did ask.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're not gonna get into that anymore of that,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, it's odd that he's not on the IL.

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Speaker 1: But it suffice to say, listen, he's not playing on

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Speaker 1: The way everyone is talking about this though, like that

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Speaker 1: mean he wasn't around, But I mean, he's in a

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Speaker 1: something that he's going to magically wake up next week.

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Speaker 1: In California and it's going to be ready to go.

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Speaker 1: And even if he is, if the Astros have their

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Speaker 1: why would you risk playing him and meaningless regular season

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Speaker 2: Not playing in the next several weeks. I mean, he

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Speaker 2: no chance.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, none of this passes the smell test, but again,

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Speaker 1: Since you mentioned, I was going to bring it up later,

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Speaker 1: but you guys did get to meet Jake Berger on Monday.

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Speaker 2: Very very special, super nice guy. He came over and

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Speaker 2: you know, Olivia and Alicia were wearing his shirts from

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Speaker 2: their foundation. The Rangers sent us a bunch of merch.

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Speaker 2: I got rid of all of it except for Jake

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Speaker 2: Berger's twenty one hat. Berger changes number to twenty one

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Speaker 2: He signed that for me. But uh, that was really cool.

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Speaker 2: He was a It was very very nice. Honestly, it

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Speaker 2: I mean chatted with us for five ten minutes. Super

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Speaker 2: for and following. It was very special. I I truly

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Speaker 2: appreciate you helping get that set up and uh, yeah

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Speaker 2: it was. It was really cool for our family.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't do much. Shout out to the Texas

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Speaker 1: Shout out to the Texas Rangers rich Rice, they're one

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Speaker 1: of their directors and media relations and Jake Berger too,

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Speaker 1: apparently when they go on the road or like if

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Speaker 1: someone reaches out like he is the first person.

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Speaker 2: Yes he was. He was the keynote speaker at a

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Speaker 2: and the Rangers had you know, a group event for that,

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Speaker 2: and they had seventeen hundred people come to a game

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Speaker 1: I think, while while jord and Alvarez missed the first

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Speaker 1: I mean it's looked better, it has. He's looked better

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Speaker 1: Do you know what grounding is?

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Speaker 2: Well, we haven't gotten there yet with our kids, it's

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Speaker 2: more of a timeout situation. And then of course with

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Speaker 2: my guitar stuff, there's a lot of grounding involved there.

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Speaker 2: But what are you talking about in a baseball sense?

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Speaker 1: So if you get to the ballpark relatively early and

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Speaker 1: AJ blue Ball is starting that day, or if it's

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Speaker 1: the first day of a series, you will see AJ

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Speaker 1: blue Ball go to right field at whatever ballpark the

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Speaker 1: Astros are in. He's going to take his shoes off,

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Speaker 1: and he wants to just walk around, wants to walk

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Speaker 1: around barefoot on the warning track on the grass, feel

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Speaker 1: feel the earth under his feet. It is something called

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Speaker 1: grounding that I only recently learned is a thing. Apparently

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Speaker 1: some major leaguers have done it before. Adam Ottavino is

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Speaker 1: a long time, longtime reliever. Adam Ounavino, like he is

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Speaker 1: a proponent of it. Nick Ahmed was with the was

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Speaker 1: with the Diamondbacks for a while. He introduced it to

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Speaker 1: a couple of his teammates when he was in Arizona.

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Speaker 1: One of them is Christian Walker, who actually told me

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Speaker 1: last night that he's been doing it since twenty fifteen

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Speaker 1: when a strength coach in Baltimore kind of recommended it

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Speaker 1: to him. And the way Christian Walker explained it was

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Speaker 1: the Earth puts out a certain energy. I think we

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Speaker 1: can pick that up and also dump our energy back

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Speaker 1: into it. Okay, but suffice to say, like you know,

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Speaker 1: this is something that helps to center and calm you down.

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Speaker 1: It's something that destresses you. According to people that do it.

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Speaker 1: It allows you to have a calm frame of mind,

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Speaker 1: things like that. And I think it was a perfect

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Speaker 1: encapsulation of kind of aj Blueball's entire you know, Tuesday

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Speaker 1: night and just maybe his whole season. I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: been thrust into a position that I'm not sure any

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Speaker 1: of us thought he would be in, especially in the

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Speaker 1: bullpen at this point. You know, he kind of profiled

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Speaker 1: his starter depth was was pitching well in Triple A

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Speaker 1: in their rotation and has been forced into a role

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Speaker 1: that he hasn't done since he was in college. He

488
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Speaker 1: was a closer at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and

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Speaker 1: converted to being a traditional starter in pro ball. Now

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Speaker 1: is back in the bullpen. But you know, he got

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Speaker 1: to start yesterday against the Rangers, and it was going

492
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Speaker 1: to be a truncated start for a couple of reasons.

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Speaker 1: They want him available as a reliever when the Mariners

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Speaker 1: come to town in a couple of days. Also, they're

495
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Speaker 1: not sure how much his stuff is going to play

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Speaker 1: a second and third time through an order. They don't

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Speaker 1: know that he has enough weapons are sequencing to get

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Speaker 1: through an order two or three times. But Tyler, as

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Speaker 1: you saw last night, get through an order once pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Struck out seven guys in three innings, face twelve Rangers.

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Speaker 1: I believe only four of them put a ball in

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Speaker 1: play against him, had ten whiffs on twenty two swings.

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Speaker 1: He has put himself on the map as a guy

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Speaker 1: that is going to help the Astros for however long

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Speaker 1: this season lasts, but also is going to be pretty

506
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Speaker 1: firmly in their plans within the next couple of years

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Speaker 1: as well.

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Speaker 2: Do you remember the Sports Illustrated fake baseball player, Yes,

509
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Speaker 2: Sid Finch on the cover. You know they made up

510
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Speaker 2: this fake prospect. He's pitching barefoot on that cover. So

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Speaker 2: I have a nickname pitch for you. Maybe we can

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Speaker 2: get this on Baseball Reference and this will be our legacy.

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Speaker 2: My pitch is that we call blue ball Kid Finch. Uh.

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Speaker 2: So let's let's let's get that going cool. I mean,

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Speaker 2: do whatever you need to, h I. I have done

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Speaker 2: all kinds of things that There's a there's an app

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Speaker 2: called the call Map that I've used before that does

518
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Speaker 2: like guided meditation stuff. You know that just kind of

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Speaker 2: helps you relax and focus, and there are certainly benefits

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Speaker 2: of that. I do want you to ask about a

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Speaker 2: week ago they replaced the entire outfield grass.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 2: My, my dad as a tour guide at the Astro

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Speaker 2: Stadium and does that. Uh. And he sent me a

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Speaker 2: picture like a week ago of they've replaced they tore

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Speaker 2: up all of the grass. You can't tell, but all

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Speaker 2: that was torn up. So I need you to ask

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Speaker 2: if he could feel a difference, if he could tell

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Speaker 2: that was different grass, if the energy was was different.

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Speaker 2: But cool. I mean, yeah, do do whatever you need to.

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Speaker 2: Pictures are weird.

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Speaker 1: So baseball player, a pitcher, baseball players in general are

533
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Speaker 1: very weird.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean that's where I shoot. At this point,

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Speaker 2: they need to do, like a team walk barefoot out

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Speaker 2: of I don't I don't care. I mean, we know

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Speaker 2: Jose al Tuvi is comfortable being out there with his

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Speaker 2: bare feet, So you know, just just get the whole

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Speaker 2: team out there.

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Speaker 1: We'll see what what has impressed you the most about

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Speaker 1: blue ball and the and the opportunities that he's gotten. Maybe,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you can separate from his his debut obviously,

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Speaker 1: like everyone's first big league start is. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to say you can throw it out, but I mean

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Speaker 1: he's a different guy since that start. You know, he's

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Speaker 1: more he's much more calm, he's much more kind of

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Speaker 1: within himself. His nerves aren't going, his heart isn't going

548
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Speaker 1: a million miles an hour every time he goes out

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Speaker 1: because he's getting outings under his belt. But it's been

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Speaker 1: impressive to watch him throw as many strikes as he throws.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he threw thirty three of his fifty pitches

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Speaker 1: for strike last night and worked very quickly, like got

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Speaker 1: the ball and just went was pounding the zone. They

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Speaker 1: in talking with you know, team officials and people that

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Speaker 1: would know, you know, they are very intrigued with how

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Speaker 1: much the stuff plays up out of the bullpen. He's

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Speaker 1: been up to ninety eight when they told him like basically,

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Speaker 1: you're going you know, on a one inning you know,

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Speaker 1: one inning spurt. It is worth noting last like aj

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Speaker 1: Blueblos said after the game that no one told him

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Speaker 1: what the plan was, which that's not like a bad thing.

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Speaker 1: I imagine they didn't want to cloud his head with

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Speaker 1: like any They didn't want to you know, muddle his

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Speaker 1: mind anymore. So they were just basically, just go pitch

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Speaker 1: and we'll we'll come get you when we're ready. So

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Speaker 1: he didn't go into last night like knowing he was

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Speaker 1: probably only going to get through three innings or get

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Speaker 1: through the order once. So that's probably why the fastball

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Speaker 1: velocity was down a tick. He was, he hit ninety

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Speaker 1: six point six but still only averaged ninety four, which

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Speaker 1: is down a little bit for him. But when he

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Speaker 1: goes in there know and knows like I'm only in

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Speaker 1: here for one or two innings he lets it go.

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Speaker 1: That stuff really plays up and it is it's it's

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Speaker 1: a difficult at that And even with the stuff being

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Speaker 1: a tick down last night, we just mentioned ten whiffs

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Speaker 1: on twenty two swings, seven punchouts, four balls in play like,

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Speaker 1: he looks like a guy that really can embrace being

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Speaker 1: a reliever, being a traditional reliever at the major que level.

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Speaker 2: Can you pull up his SAVAN page real quick? I

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Speaker 2: just put it in the chat. I want to talk

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Speaker 2: a little bit about pitch tunneling, so if you'll share

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Speaker 2: your screen for those of you on YouTube, If not,

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Speaker 2: I'll chat it or I'll talk about it here. But

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Speaker 2: pitch tunneling is where you know, where you try to

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Speaker 2: throw a pitch that kind of starts in the same

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Speaker 2: location every time, but they move differently. So scroll down

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Speaker 2: to his like heat maps there a little bit. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: all right, So take a look at his four seamer

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Speaker 2: and you'll notice the heat map there is just kind

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Speaker 2: of dead center a little bit in on rities. And

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Speaker 2: then if you look at his sweeper, they're all just

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Speaker 2: right on that outside corner to rieties. But that pitch.

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Speaker 2: Both of those pitches look identical for the first forty

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Speaker 2: five feet coming in from the mound right, So he's

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Speaker 2: tunneling his pitches really well, which which means batters just

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Speaker 2: look silly on that sweeper because he's able to locate

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Speaker 2: so well and repeat it to where batters just don't

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Speaker 2: have the ability to tell, Oh, is this a fastball

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Speaker 2: down the middle at ninety five or is this you know,

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Speaker 2: an eighty two mile an hour sweeper darting away from

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Speaker 2: me and by the time you recognize it, it's too late.

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Speaker 2: So I've been really really impressed with the way that

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Speaker 2: he's able to repeat location and repeat you know, that

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Speaker 2: tunneling that has made him very difficult to hit against.

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Speaker 2: And I mean, yeah, right now, he's essentially I mean,

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Speaker 2: he throws the change up about twenty percent of the time, but.

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Speaker 1: He threw a couple of good ones last night, I

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Speaker 1: mean against the lefties at the top of their order

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Speaker 1: with Smith and Peterson, Like.

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Speaker 2: He hasn't given up a hit on the change up

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Speaker 2: this year.

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Speaker 1: He threw some nasty ones last night to the left

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Speaker 1: handers and Texas dis order.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and yeah, I mean he's he's just looked really,

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Speaker 2: really good and it doesn't seem like a Fluke. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's not babbit, but it's not like he's just getting

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Speaker 2: a bunch of flyouts and getting lucky or whatever. Like

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Speaker 2: he's looked very good. Yeah, certainly could see him being

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Speaker 2: a reliever. But he's got three pitches and he's locating

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Speaker 2: them and he's getting out. It's like, I starting pitchers

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Speaker 2: are are valuable, as we have seen this year with

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Speaker 2: the number that the Astros have run through. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 2: I want to see him get as much of a

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Speaker 2: shot at being a starter as he can, because man,

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Speaker 2: he's look great.

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Speaker 1: And look, they may do that. They may, I mean

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Speaker 1: for this season. He is relegated to the bullpen just

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Speaker 1: because like they are where they are at this point,

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Speaker 1: like he's not going He's Probably the other reason that

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Speaker 1: they couldn't do a longer outing with him last night

632
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Speaker 1: is because he has been used as a traditional reliever

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Speaker 1: the last like two or three weeks and he's just

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Speaker 1: not as stretched out. Like they didn't want to put

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Speaker 1: him in jeopardy by sending him out there to throw

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Speaker 1: ninety pitches when he hasn't done that in a while.

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Speaker 1: So they also wanted him available for the Mariners, so

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Speaker 1: they captured both of those things. But this season, the

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Speaker 1: bullpen is his destination. It'll be interest to see what

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Speaker 1: they're doing spring training with him, because I mean, we

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Speaker 1: don't want to start talking about the twenty twenty six

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Speaker 1: Astros yet, but I mean they've got they're going to

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Speaker 1: need starting pitching. They're going to need starting pitching depth.

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Speaker 1: You probably understand that frombervel does is not going to

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Speaker 1: come back. You probably aren't gonna have Luis Garcia. Who

646
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 1: knows what Spencer Arraghetti's off season looks like. You know

647
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,279
Speaker 1: he is, he will avoid surgery and he's going to

648
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 1: just rest and rehab. But you know, there's always that

649
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 1: kind of what if they're Renel Blanco and Hayden was

650
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 1: Nesky aren't going to be ready for the start of

651
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:19,840
Speaker 1: the season, Like they're going to need depth, and he

652
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 1: certainly could be someone that they bring the spring training.

653
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 1: And it's easy to stretch a guy out and then

654
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: like mid season like all right, now you're gonna go

655
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 1: to the bullpen. It's a lot harder to start them

656
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 1: in the bullpen and then like all right, you're gonna

657
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:35,800
Speaker 1: we're gonna stretch you out like in season. That's a

658
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:39,240
Speaker 1: that's a harder process to do. So it may behoove

659
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:43,719
Speaker 1: them to bring them to bring him to spring training

660
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,240
Speaker 1: as a starter, but again that's twenty twenty six problems.

661
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:50,240
Speaker 1: The twenty twenty five Astros need to finish the next

662
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 1: ten games the way that they have well, not even

663
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:55,840
Speaker 1: the way that they have played these last two games.

664
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:58,879
Speaker 1: These have been two awful days balls last two nights.

665
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:01,360
Speaker 1: Like you're watching both of these games and you're.

666
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 2: Like, God, like, we take those, you know what I mean,

667
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 2: they take them.

668
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 1: They don't ask at the end of the season. They

669
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 1: don't ask you how, They just ask you how many.

670
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:14,280
Speaker 1: And neither of the last two games were aesthetically pleasing.

671
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:18,439
Speaker 1: The Astros have not played clean. They did not play

672
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,920
Speaker 1: clean baseball on Monday yesterday. I know they scored six runs,

673
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: but they also went three for fourteen with runners in

674
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:28,279
Speaker 1: scoring position. Brian Abrady came in and that was a

675
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:33,719
Speaker 1: that was a wild time. Zach Cole's first experience in

676
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 1: left field at Dyke and Park did not go well,

677
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 1: though I don't like the reason. Joe a spot up

678
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,319
Speaker 1: and I thought it was actually like it bore out

679
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 1: in the Monday game because he sus Sanchez threw out

680
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: Jonah him from left field trying to score the go

681
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:51,799
Speaker 1: ahead run, but Joe Setti put because remember your Dan

682
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: was playing left field, and Zach Cole replaced him in

683
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:57,280
Speaker 1: the lineup. But Cole went to right field and Sanchez

684
00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 1: went to left field. Joe said he did that because

685
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:03,239
Speaker 1: Zach Zach Cole had never played the outfield. The left

686
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 1: field at Dyke and Park didn't really know much about

687
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:08,320
Speaker 1: the Crawford boxers, or the crevices or the weird bounces

688
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: and stuff. So he wanted someone in Sanchez that had

689
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 1: played there before and that some familiarity. Joe tried last

690
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 1: night to get Zach Cole some familiarity in the eighth

691
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 1: inning of a five run game. I don't really think

692
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 1: the ball he misplayed was due to the dimensions. I

693
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: just think he took a really bad first step. He

694
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 1: came in instead of going back, just didn't read the

695
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 1: ball well off the bat and went over his head.

696
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 1: But all's well, that ends well. I guess they faced

697
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:36,799
Speaker 1: Jacob to ground tonight. That probably won't be very fun.

698
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 1: Christian Xavier's on the mound for the Astros, and it

699
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 1: feels like every Christian Xavier start, Tyler we say like, oh,

700
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 1: this is a big start, Like we need to see

701
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 1: like the next step taken in the recovery from in

702
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:53,799
Speaker 1: his you know, comeback, he hasn't he hasn't been bad,

703
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 1: Like he has not been like bad since he came back.

704
00:38:57,040 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 1: But also like you're kind of wondering, like is the

705
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:03,840
Speaker 1: next step in there? Is is the is the ability

706
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 1: for him to get back to full efficacy? Like is

707
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 1: it in there? And will that step be taken?

708
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 2: Yeah? Can I quickly do a Brian Abray youw wrap up?

709
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: Sure?

710
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:22,479
Speaker 2: So prior to the injury to Josh Hater, I'm gonna

711
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 2: give you Brian A. Brady's stats that was fifty two

712
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 2: innings a one seventy two RA. In the fifteen games

713
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 2: that he has pitched in since then, over sixteen innings,

714
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 2: he has a four fifty ERA. But what I want

715
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:46,359
Speaker 2: to point out is his FIP. So we talked about

716
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 2: FIP before fielding independent pitching, that is the things that

717
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 2: are within the pitchers control strikeouts, walks, home runs, those

718
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 2: types of things. And we've also talked about that for

719
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 2: relievers that tens to be a little more instructive because

720
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:06,920
Speaker 2: your ERA can just balloon so much in few innings.

721
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,880
Speaker 2: So his FIP at the beginning of the season until

722
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 2: he's kind of assumed the closer role was two sixteen

723
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 2: and he had a two sixty seven babbit batting average

724
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 2: on balls and play, So you know how often somebody

725
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 2: hits something, Uh, is it actually a hit as opposed

726
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 2: to an out? Since then, his FIP is two thirty four,

727
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 2: so almost identical. His babbit is four thirty nine. That's

728
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 2: not real, you know, like, yes it is. The results

729
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:44,600
Speaker 2: have been bad, I agree. I mean, he threw another

730
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 2: thirty pitch outing last night. He's definitely not going to

731
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 2: be available today, maybe not even uh you know, well

732
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:55,760
Speaker 2: they're off Thursday, so he'll be fine for the Mariners series.

733
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 2: But I say all that to say he has been

734
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 2: the exact same pitcher he has. Numbers wise, the things

735
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:08,240
Speaker 2: that he can control has been the same. Like he's

736
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 2: striking out the same number of guys, he's walking the

737
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 2: same number of guys.

738
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,319
Speaker 1: I was about to ask, what's his walk rate? Walk rate?

739
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 1: It is?

740
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:19,280
Speaker 2: It is identical. It is, It is literally the exactly

741
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 2: so on this for whatever reason, they instead of walks

742
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:26,320
Speaker 2: per nine, they have it per game. So he's walking

743
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 2: half a batter per game, so half a batter per

744
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:34,360
Speaker 2: nine and since the injury, he is walking half a

745
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:40,440
Speaker 2: batter uh and strikeouts have been again exactly the same,

746
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 2: actually a little up. He's actually striking out a little

747
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 2: higher rate than he was previous to that. Again, he's

748
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:53,799
Speaker 2: he's giving up the same contact, the same amount of

749
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 2: balls in play. It's just he's giving up twice as

750
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 2: many hits on balls in play. And that's just that's

751
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 2: really not something that you can control, both as a

752
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:08,879
Speaker 2: hitter and a pitcher, like you just got to make

753
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:11,319
Speaker 2: contact and see what happens. I mean, we talk about

754
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 2: that with al Tuva all the time, where he goes

755
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 2: on these hot and cold streaks and sometimes it's just

756
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:19,840
Speaker 2: a run of luck. Sometimes you rip one hundred and

757
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:23,280
Speaker 2: ten mile an hour liner directly to the third baseman

758
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 2: and sometimes you accidentally bloop it over the third basement's

759
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:29,440
Speaker 2: head and you look like a genius. And that's really

760
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 2: not in your control. You just got to do what

761
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:36,799
Speaker 2: you can to make contact. It's just been the you know,

762
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 2: the Babbitt like, he's just he has had some unlucky

763
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:47,759
Speaker 2: contact given up. Again, results speak for themselves, but as

764
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 2: far as the things behind the results. I'm not worried

765
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:54,280
Speaker 2: about Brian abray you in that sense.

766
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 1: You know, he's pitched the last two nights. Part of

767
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 1: the reason could do that, and this all kind of

768
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:03,839
Speaker 1: dovetails in the one, like he didn't pitch it all

769
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 1: in the Brave series because those were three games, you know,

770
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 1: the Astros had separation, they scored runs, and they didn't

771
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 1: need to use him obviously the third game they lost,

772
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 1: which you don't want, but like allowing him to get

773
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:22,000
Speaker 1: a blow is massive and it's why no, Look, they're

774
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:23,839
Speaker 1: not gonna I mean, who knows they gonna go score

775
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 1: twelve runs off Jacob de grond tonight and they could

776
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 1: do it against the Mariners, who knows. But like, what

777
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 1: has killed them or what has hindered them a lot

778
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 1: this year is that they've had to rely on their

779
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 1: leverage guys so much because none of these games they

780
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 1: don't blow teams out and they don't get blown out.

781
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:45,279
Speaker 2: So you're seeing now they just have leverage guy, right,

782
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:48,960
Speaker 2: and Brian King has been very good, but it's essentially

783
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:51,560
Speaker 2: Brian and Braid you like, that's that's your leverage guy.

784
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 1: And look, I think anyone that's watched Joe a spot

785
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:58,800
Speaker 1: of manage for the last two years. You know, he's

786
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 1: developed a he's certainly developed a trend that he there's

787
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 1: about four or five guys, not less than that, there's

788
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:08,800
Speaker 1: about three guys down there he trusts in a normal,

789
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:12,719
Speaker 1: like healthy scenario, like and he's gonna ride him. Like

790
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 1: he's like, there's not much you know, he has to

791
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:22,720
Speaker 1: be forced into using other relievers. And that's the way

792
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 1: that it's forced is Brian and Brady was pitched two

793
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 1: days in a row and is literally physically unavailable to pitch,

794
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 1: or like they're up seven, eight runs, and like, it

795
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:35,480
Speaker 1: makes no sense to use your leverage guys. And in

796
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:38,000
Speaker 1: some of those situations if they get a couple runners

797
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:41,560
Speaker 1: on base. The Astros have been prone and look, this

798
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 1: is this could be collective decision making, but they've been

799
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 1: prone to get guys up in the bullpen, you know,

800
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:50,480
Speaker 1: pretty frequently. You know, you looked last night. They had

801
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:53,440
Speaker 1: double barrel action in the bullpen last night in a

802
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:56,399
Speaker 1: six run game, and like you kind of wonder how

803
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 1: that happens. But you know, you also don't want to

804
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 1: be caught flat footed. You don't want to be caught

805
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:06,360
Speaker 1: unless you're blue ball. Blue ball wants to be barefooted,

806
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 1: not flat footed. But yeah, you don't want to get

807
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 1: caught in a situation where the game speeds up on

808
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 1: you and you got to relieve or dying out there

809
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:14,239
Speaker 1: and you don't have anybody ready to come in. So

810
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:18,800
Speaker 1: it's been an interesting kind of referendum on bullpen management,

811
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 1: I think, given look, the thing about bullpens is a

812
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 1: good bullpen means you have it means you're a good manager.

813
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:32,920
Speaker 1: A bad bullpen makes any manager look bad. Like if

814
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:35,719
Speaker 1: the relievers do the job, the manager's a genius because

815
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 1: he played all the right matchups, he got exactly the

816
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:40,040
Speaker 1: guy in that needed to get in. And then when

817
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:42,200
Speaker 1: the closer blows to save, the manager's bad at his

818
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:44,400
Speaker 1: job because you know, he shouldn't have gone at the

819
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:46,319
Speaker 1: closer there, he should have gone to somebody else. Like

820
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 1: it's a player driven game, like they've got to the

821
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 1: players have to execute. But it's always funny how bullpen

822
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:55,400
Speaker 1: management becomes a referendum on just management in general. But

823
00:45:56,239 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 1: the as they're doing the best they can, man like

824
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 1: they don't have much down there, they're piecing it together.

825
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 2: Do you know how many people are on the injured

826
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:11,320
Speaker 2: list right now fourteen fourteen, not including Jordan, but believe it.

827
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:14,400
Speaker 2: I know that it does include pedro Leone, who is

828
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 2: not a real person, So essentially fourteen. Do you know

829
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 2: how many of them are pictures?

830
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:23,400
Speaker 1: I'm trying to count off the top of my head.

831
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 1: At least eight.

832
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 2: Ten. Oh, that's not ten pictures on the injured list.

833
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 2: Can you give a quick I mean, I know we've

834
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 2: done some injury updates. Give us a Josh Hater and

835
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:40,840
Speaker 2: an Estesac Parades update.

836
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 1: I don't really have one an Essac Paradis other than

837
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:48,279
Speaker 1: he's still working in Florida. They seem very confident about it.

838
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 1: I don't know when he's coming back to Houston. Maybe

839
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: he flies back to Houston on Thursday and he's in

840
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:56,359
Speaker 1: the lineup on Friday. I don't know. They're running out

841
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:58,640
Speaker 1: of minor league games for him to like maybe get

842
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 1: some rehab start or rehab appearances if they wanted to

843
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:03,920
Speaker 1: do that, But the calendar is also working against him, Like.

844
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:07,239
Speaker 2: I trust him to be okay. If he seems like

845
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:10,839
Speaker 2: the type of hitter that he's probably okay to not

846
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:12,840
Speaker 2: have too many minor league games.

847
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:15,719
Speaker 1: Yes, I don't have a Ton on Eastick Paraders. Josh

848
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 1: Hater spoke yesterday he's still not throwing. He's got an

849
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:25,360
Speaker 1: appointment next week that they believe if that goes well,

850
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 1: he could start throwing. Then he said that there's he again.

851
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 1: He there's a lot of caveats, there's a lot of

852
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:37,279
Speaker 1: you know, not theres nothing is set in stone. But

853
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 1: if everything goes well, there's a possibility, according to Josh Hater,

854
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:43,799
Speaker 1: that he could be back for this. I think his

855
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:46,880
Speaker 1: direct quote was the second, third or fourth round of

856
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 1: the playoffs, so that would eliminate all potential wildcard series.

857
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:54,799
Speaker 1: And then if you get to the Alds, like how

858
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:57,400
Speaker 1: does he look at that point? How does he feel? Like?

859
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Speaker 1: So much can change between now and then, but the

860
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:02,640
Speaker 1: fact that he's still not throwing and he's been a

861
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:06,680
Speaker 1: no throw now for almost six weeks. He's a reliever,

862
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 1: so he's not gonna need like the traditional starter that

863
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Speaker 1: needs to build up and build his pitch count, Like

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Speaker 1: he can inherently be quicker coming back, but this is

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Speaker 1: still going to be like he's not going to get

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Speaker 1: off the mound like the minute they clear him a throw,

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Speaker 1: Like it's not gonna be bullpens like he's going to

868
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:24,720
Speaker 1: be playing catch, and then he's gonna be throwing flat grounds,

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Speaker 1: and then he's gonna get off the mound and throw

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Speaker 1: a bullpen session. Then he wants to face live hitters

871
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 1: like it's still a process. So yeah, there's an outside

872
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:35,440
Speaker 1: chance the Ashers would have to advance to the second, third,

873
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Speaker 1: and fourth round for him to be a candidate. But

874
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:42,400
Speaker 1: I guess there's always a chance. But he all but

875
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:45,480
Speaker 1: ruled himself out of a potential wildcard series yesterday.

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Speaker 2: So one last one that I have a question about

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Speaker 2: that I'm sure you've gotten mentioned about. We've talked about

878
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:57,640
Speaker 2: the hot hand. There is a gentleman named Miguel Luola.

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Speaker 2: I get that wrong every time. Actice in my head

880
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:06,000
Speaker 2: like four times before saying it. What what are the

881
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:10,840
Speaker 2: ramifications of if the astros wanted to call it He

882
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:14,880
Speaker 2: pitched last pitch on the thirteenth. Obviously he is a starter.

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Speaker 2: But let's say, just for fun, they said, we need,

884
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Speaker 2: you know, a hot hand, a guy in the bullpen.

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Speaker 2: If they wanted to call him up and roster thinks

886
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Speaker 2: at him, and obviously they don't have to clear space

887
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Speaker 2: for him. Whatever is he even eligible to pitch in

888
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:36,000
Speaker 2: the postseason or have we missed that cutout?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's let's clear that up too. If you are

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Speaker 1: in the organization on September first, you are eligible to

891
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:46,040
Speaker 1: be on the You're eligible to play in the playoffs.

892
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:48,960
Speaker 1: Z that Cole. They didn't call that coal up until

893
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:51,440
Speaker 1: like the middle of September, but he is playoff eligible.

894
00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:53,759
Speaker 1: All you have to do is be in the organization,

895
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 1: and if you're not on the flight, they could And

896
00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:00,120
Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to do this. Please if

897
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Speaker 1: you're still listening to this fifty minutes, and please don't

898
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Speaker 1: take this as me reporting that they're going to do this.

899
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Speaker 1: But the rules are such that they could put Miguel

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Speaker 1: Yoa on a playoff roster without him ever pitching in

901
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:14,319
Speaker 1: a big league game. Like, they could do that if

902
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:16,560
Speaker 1: they wanted to. I do not think they're going to

903
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:19,759
Speaker 1: do that. He walks too many guys, He doesn't throw,

904
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:23,480
Speaker 1: he doesn't throw enough strikes. The stuff is incredible, Like,

905
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:26,160
Speaker 1: I mean, the stuff would play up really well out

906
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:29,960
Speaker 1: of the bullpen. But in one hundred and eleven innings

907
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:32,960
Speaker 1: in Triple A this year, he's walked seventy seven guys.

908
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:35,839
Speaker 1: He's walked, he's walking almost six and a half guys

909
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:39,360
Speaker 1: per nine innings. Sure, if they put him in a

910
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:41,439
Speaker 1: one inning spurt and said just go let it eat,

911
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:46,120
Speaker 1: throw two pitches and throw a hundred, like right, But

912
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:48,840
Speaker 1: I think they are. They are very wary that he

913
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 1: walks too many guys, that he doesn't throw enough strikes.

914
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:53,359
Speaker 1: We talked about it with the Blue Ball earlier. That's

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00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:55,239
Speaker 1: the one thing that's been very impressive with him is

916
00:50:55,239 --> 00:50:58,000
Speaker 1: that he throws strikes. He is around the strike zone,

917
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:01,279
Speaker 1: out Jason Alexander, the same thing, like they just they

918
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 1: don't walk guys. And I think Miguel Yoa is much

919
00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:08,799
Speaker 1: more of a next year thing, like he'll come to

920
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:12,440
Speaker 1: spring training with a real shot to you know, impact

921
00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 1: the major league team on opening day or on the

922
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:17,440
Speaker 1: opening day roster. He'll come with a real shot to

923
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:20,439
Speaker 1: do that. But yeah, I don't think it's realistic this year.

924
00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:22,520
Speaker 1: Now we say that, and we could get to the

925
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 1: ballpark today and three more guys could have elbow discomfort.

926
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Speaker 1: They're forced to do it, But I don't at this point,

927
00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:31,840
Speaker 1: I don't think that's something that they're thinking about.

928
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just curious. I mean, you certainly can

929
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:40,879
Speaker 2: envision a scenario where the last two series of the year,

930
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:44,359
Speaker 2: you know, you could just give it a trial run

931
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:47,839
Speaker 2: like there for an inning for two or three days

932
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:50,279
Speaker 2: and see what happens. And yeah, if he if he

933
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:55,000
Speaker 2: can let it eat and you know, we'll see what I.

934
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:57,839
Speaker 1: Do, what I do think could happen. And you saw.

935
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Speaker 1: I mean he was a all due respect to Ryan Gusto,

936
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 1: but he was a much less touted prospect, but like

937
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:05,680
Speaker 1: the Astros had sewn up everything last year on the

938
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Speaker 1: last road trip, and Ryan Gusto was gonna start Game

939
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:11,320
Speaker 1: one sixty two, that was gonna be his major league debut.

940
00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:13,200
Speaker 1: They were going to give him a shot sue he

941
00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:15,440
Speaker 1: had kind of as a reward for his season. Obviously,

942
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:18,600
Speaker 1: the game got rained out, but I could see that happening,

943
00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 1: Like if they if things go to where they they're

944
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:25,240
Speaker 1: in California on the last road trip and they've got

945
00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:27,600
Speaker 1: things sewn up and they don't want to mess with

946
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:30,359
Speaker 1: Hunter Brown or from Erveldez or Christian Hobber. I could

947
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 1: see him calling up Miguelioha to make a spot start,

948
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:35,160
Speaker 1: like why not, Like see what you got, Like you're

949
00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:37,440
Speaker 1: gonna have to put him on the forty anyway, I

950
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:39,719
Speaker 1: think he's Rule five eligible this year. I need to look,

951
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:41,839
Speaker 1: but you're gonna have to put him on the forty anyway, Like,

952
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:44,880
Speaker 1: I could definitely see that happening. Call him up, let

953
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:47,200
Speaker 1: him start, let him go pitch against the Angels who

954
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:50,720
Speaker 1: strike out like one hundred times a game, like yeah,

955
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 1: that that to me is more realistic than him figuring

956
00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:57,320
Speaker 1: in like a postseason roster, putting him in the bullpen,

957
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:00,160
Speaker 1: like I could see him getting a spot star are

958
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 1: you know, the last week of the season, But only

959
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:05,960
Speaker 1: if the Astros are playing for nothing, if they've got

960
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:09,080
Speaker 1: their playoffs seating sewn up, they know, they know where

961
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:10,919
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962
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 1: to gain and they want to protect the guys in

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00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:16,320
Speaker 1: their roster, that that would certainly become a pretty viable

964
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