WEBVTT - D-backs Tune Out Ketel Marte Drama with Huge Win vs Red Sox 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.600 Hello, and welcome to another episode of Snake's Territory, part 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:15.480 of the Fouls Territory Network. Be sure to like this video, 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:18.680 subscribe to our YouTube channel, maybe leave us a five 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:21.880 star review wherever you get your podcast. I am Jesse 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:26.200 Friedman alongside Jack Summers and Jack I know the Diamondbacks 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:30.840 were only on the road for six days, but it 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:34.840 felt like a whole lot longer than that. Diamondbacks take 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:37.560 two out of three in Atlanta to start things out. 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:41.400 This series against the Boston Red Sox was eventful to 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:44.479 say the least, but that just made it all the 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:47.000 more important Jack that the Diamondbacks come up with a 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:50.080 win in the finale of the series, and they were 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:51.640 able to do exactly that. 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:55.560 Heading into the road trip, I said that I would 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:57.720 be more than happy with a three and three road 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:01.080 trip in those two cities when is Alreays lose the series, 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:05.000 and that's exactly what happened, and so I'll stick with 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:08.760 satisfaction that that was the end result, even though the 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.320 last few days were a little bit complicated. 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:14.840 I think we can call it a successful road trip, 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.280 right Jack, We can just it was a success. We 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:24.080 can just move on as if nothing else happened, right, maybe, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:29.200 nothing nothing else to discuss, Dbacs. They get a win 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.640 in this game on Wednesday, and people after the game 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:36.520 were very open and honest about just how big of 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:40.000 a game this was for the team. Brandon Fott mentioned 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:44.440 that in his Postgume interview, talked about how it was 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:47.120 very clear to everyone in the room that this was 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:50.240 really really important for the Diamondbacks to win, not only 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:53.240 because you never want to get swept in any series, 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:56.760 but because of the circumstances of the last couple of days, 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:59.720 how flat the Diamondbacks looked in the first couple of 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:03.600 games of this series, and this was an all hands 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:07.280 on deck sort of ordeal for the Diamondbacks. Tory Leavello 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.360 emptied his bench in what was ultimately a. 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:11.040 Ten inning game. 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:15.560 Jordan Lawler originally hit seventh in this game and played 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:18.359 center field, and his spot in the lineup was replaced 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.839 three times over the course of this game, so Tory 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:25.440 Leavello was truly using every player that he had at 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:28.800 his disposal, and it was a close one jack. This 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:32.800 was not exactly a free and easy downhill baseball sort 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:37.640 of win. Diamondbacks trailed early on a couple of early 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:40.480 Homers against Brandon fought, they were down to nothing. They 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:42.440 took a three to two lead, which grew to a 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:46.320 five to two lead, and then Mickey Gasper did what 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:50.000 Mickey Gasper does against the Diamondbacks tied the game. D 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:53.040 Backs ultimately come away with a seven to six win. 0:02:54.480 --> 0:03:00.000 Yeah, a lot of fantastic individual performances, people stepping up 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:04.400 up into you know, the situation and helping get things done, 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.640 which was really impressive. I mean, look, this was a 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:12.880 gritty win. This is not the formula for long term 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:15.720 success to have to win a game in this manner, 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.000 in this fashion, but you know, you look at some 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:20.320 of the things that happen. Of course, is Gabrielle Marino 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:24.440 once again just you know, delivering. I mean, he's just 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.440 become a monster this year. To run double off the wall. 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:29.680 You know he's going to put them in the game. 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:33.440 Yesterday with the Grand Slam, and then you had an 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:36.560 rb I double from Ryan Waldschmidt, so you know that 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:40.320 that guy gave them a lead. And then of course, 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.120 you know, you come back and you score a couple 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:45.280 more runs the games five to two. You think you've 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:50.040 got this, you know, and then unfortunately Brandon fock got 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.880 nicked up, and he just had a really strange line, right, 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.840 I mean, eight strikeouts, no walks. He looked like you 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.680 had a really good sweeper. You know. He gave up 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:02.640 a couple of early solo home runs and then he 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:04.520 kind of looked like, Okay, you know, this is it 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:06.360 and he's not going to really give up anything else. 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:08.800 And then he got he got nailed in the in 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:10.720 the sixth inning there and gave up the three run 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.840 homer that gave up the tie. But you know, they 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:16.120 hung in there and they came through and they won 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:19.120 this game. And you know, Jose Fernandez, I mean, like 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:23.800 for me, that's what stood out the most in long 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:27.400 term thinking. Right, in the short term, there were other things. 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:29.960 You know, Nolan Ronado had the go ahead base. 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:33.120 Hit, which I believe was fifty one miles per hour 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:34.040 off the bat if. 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.880 Oh he blasted it. It's a little blooperd oh. 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:41.880 Yeah, Gonzo was in the boot after all. 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:43.799 It was only it was only fitting right. 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:48.480 Right, But you know, I mean, look, Jose Jose Fernandez, 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:50.560 I mean, you know, you hit a gapper and hustled 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.680 in the second base for a hustle double. Then he banged, 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.719 went off that wall deep and high off that green 0:04:56.760 --> 0:05:00.359 monster over in left center field, and then, you know, 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.880 most impressive to me, as I tweeted out, I would 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:06.120 have loved to have seen, just like anybody else, another 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:08.480 double off the wall, you know, and score at least 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:12.920 two runs there. But thinking about his improvement and development 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:16.040 as a player, fell and off a couple of tough pitches, 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.560 taking a couple of tough pitches, and working a basis 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:22.680 loaded walk to give them an insurance run, which ultimately 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:27.560 they truly needed. It was the most impressive thing to me, 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:32.680 I guess, developmental wise, long term wise, because I have 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:34.320 a feeling that we're going to see a lot of 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:37.360 Jose Fernandez over the final six weeks of the season. 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:41.880 You and I had had some discussions offline about the 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:46.400 decision to bring Fernandez to the majors, and we were 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:48.920 looking at his numbers down in Triple A, and frankly, 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:52.159 I kind of made the point like we don't see 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.000 the Diamondbacks call up guys from Triple A very often 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.840 who have an eighty five WRC plus You're talking about 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:02.200 a guy who's been a fairly far below average hitter 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:07.120 at Triple A. And yet Jose Fernandez, I mean we 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:10.000 saw glimpses of it early in the season. The tools 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:13.120 are absolutely there. He has a great arm, he has 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:18.120 elite level bat speed, he has elite level sprint speed. 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:22.160 There's a lot to like about his game, and there 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.359 are things that he is capable of doing that a 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:26.800 lot of players on this team are not, And we 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.080 were able to see the best part of him in 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.120 this game. As you said, couple of hard hit balls 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:35.160 that key at bad in the tenth inning was enormous 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:38.240 as well. So he's one of the guys who absolutely 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.080 could step in and maybe play a big role as 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:45.159 things continue to be in flux with Cautel Marte. Another 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:49.560 player that probably deserves some shine offensively is Lars Neutbar. 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.839 You mentioned earlier the Dbacks tacking on a couple of 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:56.600 important runs. That was because Lars Neutbar hit a pinch hit, 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.040 two run home run. It was not a cheap shot, 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.039 it was one hundred and ten miles per hour off 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:05.200 the bat and man, especially if katel Marte is not 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:07.640 going to be in the equation, or even if he is, 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:10.640 the d Bacs really need large new Bar to get 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:14.120 going offensively. His ops for the team, I think still 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.520 starts with a five. There's a ways to go there, 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:20.360 but it was really good to see that swing from him. 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:23.040 Yeah, I mean at this point, look, the team has 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:27.200 to the players and the coaches have to proceed as 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:29.240 if this is it. They're going to have to find 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:33.520 their way on their own without katel Marte. Now, if 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:36.520 he comes back and you know, of offenses are mended 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:40.680 and he plays well and all those you know, I 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:46.080 guess fairy tale thoughts, then great. But I think already 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:49.320 there's a sense of reality that is set in that 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.160 they have to just put tune it out. They need 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:56.320 to completely tune out all the noise and just proceed 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:59.680 as if you know, he had a season ending injury 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.120 or something thing which happens all the time in baseball, 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:05.080 you know, and they have to believe in themselves that 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:08.120 they can go forward and do this and still make 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:13.320 the postseason even without caatel Marte. And so from that standpoint, 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.760 you know, getting the bad taste of the previous two beatdowns, 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:19.680 no the way to put that, and then also being 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:21.760 able to get on a plane fly back to Phoenix, 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:26.320 and you know, they have to guard themselves up. I mean, 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.160 they know that everyone's going to be crawling all over 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.000 Chase Field. The media is going to be crawling all 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:36.280 over the clubhouse and the press conferences, and there's going 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.560 to be a lot of questions asked, and you know, 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:40.400 they've got to find a way to just tune all 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.320 that out and go in and do their jobs. 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:49.280 Tory Lavello was asked after the game about. 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:52.880 Just how big of a win this was for the team, 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:55.439 and I thought his comments there were telling. He said, 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:57.679 the Congo line at the end of this game was 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.760 a special moment for me that I'll never for get. 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:05.119 He talked about how given the venue, given the opponent, 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:09.839 and the circumstances of the last couple of days, I mean, 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.640 those are big words from Tory Levello, moment he'll never 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:16.920 forget in a managerial career that spans about a decade 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:20.040 at this point, a coaching career that goes well beyond that, 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:23.080 I mean, this win seemed to have a lot of 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:26.960 significance for this team. And Toy was also asked about like, 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:31.840 can you guys win without Katel Marte? You did today, 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:34.480 but like what is this going to look like moving forward? 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.400 And Tory gave the answer you'd probably expect. He said, 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:39.920 We're going to be fine no matter who's in the lineup. 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:44.000 We've got twenty six engaged dogs out there that want 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.320 to win a baseball game. And that's all I care about. 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.280 And one thing that I will say about Tory Leavello, 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.000 even though I know there's all sorts of you know, 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:59.160 he's a polarizing subject to say the least right now, 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:04.400 but I think that Tory Leavello has the ability to 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:08.080 help the Diamondbacks focus on the things that really matter 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:11.240 right now. I think that that is one of his strengths. 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:14.040 It's something that we've learned about him as a manager 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:18.880 over the years, is that I think he helps players 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:22.160 to be the best versions of themselves and to put 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:26.560 those sorts of distractions aside, particularly a really messy situation 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:27.320 like this one. 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:29.120 So I mean, we'll. 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:33.080 See, I'm not going to say that, you know, with certainly, 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:35.160 the Diamondbacks have a lot to prove here over the 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.080 next five or six weeks of how they respond to 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.200 this and what this is going to look like. Maybe 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:42.880 coateell Marte does return at this at some point here, 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:48.480 but I think Tory Leavello is probably going to help 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:52.120 these guys stay on track and focus on what really 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:53.000 matters right now. 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:58.920 Well, as we often say, you know, momentum is the 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:02.320 next day starter. Yeah right, and you know that's all 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:06.160 all it'll take is a good start, you know, by 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.480 the red starter on Friday night, if it shuts down 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.360 the offense and they're quiet, Oh, they're flat, they're you know, 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:13.440 they're out of it. And you know, a couple if 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:15.200 they press a little bit and make a couple of 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:17.560 defensive eras you know, oh, their heads are not in 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.440 the game. And you know all of that. So I 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:24.240 think that clearly, you know, they were impacted mentally and 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:28.040 emotionally by everything that was going on around them the 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:30.840 first two games of this series. They were also impacted 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.160 by the fact that their starting pitchers got blown out 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.800 of the water right out, you know, very early in 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:40.400 their starts, you know. But they went down early today too, 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:42.079 you know. I mean the first pitch of the game 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.000 was a home solo home run, and then there was 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:48.000 another home run and they were down to nothing. But 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.959 they fought back today and I think they just showed 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:52.800 themselves like, Okay, you know, this is what we're going 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:55.640 to have to do here. So how far they can 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:59.720 go without catel Marte without twenty one homers and sixty 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.480 seven is in a seven to sixty ops in the 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.080 middle of their lineup is a good question. I mean, 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:07.360 you know, they're gonna need a lot of different people 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.280 to step up, and they got that today. They're gonna 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:11.040 need a lot more of it. 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:14.360 A couple of final notes from this game for me. 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:18.600 Jonathan Lewisiga was big out of the Diamondbacks bullpen tonight. 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:21.880 He got six outs on sixteen pitches in the ninth 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.760 and tenth innings. He did technically give up a run, 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.040 but it was unearned. It was just the ghost runner 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.400 there and the tenth inning that didn't wind up being meaningful. 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.720 Good day for the Diamondbacks bullpen on the whole. And 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:35.960 then Ildomar Vargas also made a really nice defensive play 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:39.200 to start out that tenth inning and just kind of 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:41.040 set the tone there. It felt like the Red Sox 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:44.800 just kind of rolled over. I guess literally they rolled 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:48.880 over the next couple of bitches from Jonathan Mawiseiga and 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:50.560 that was that was the end of the game. So 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:54.440 just a really nice complete win for the Diamondbacks, something 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:58.200 that was very sorely needed. Brandon fought a weird game 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:01.480 from him. He also had seventy whiffs, though for the 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:04.840 first time since twenty twenty four, his stuff looked really 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.840 sharp for I felt like most of the game, and 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:11.559 yet he also threw a few pitches that got hit 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:14.080 kind of hard, very bizarre. He had not allowed a 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:17.439 single home run since returning from Triple A, and then 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.480 he gives up three home runs in one game in Boston. 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:24.040 I guess that's baseball jack, That's just the way it 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:24.800 goes sometimes. 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:29.120 Yeah, I mean, you know, x FIP will eventually win 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:34.960 out right. I think that for anybody that doesn't know 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:38.280 what that joke was. X FIP is fielding independent pitching 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:44.120 the expected fielding independent pitching, where home runs are basically 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:48.040 adjusted to the average home run per flyball rate. So 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.800 if you give up a lot of flyball outs, your 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:53.680 x FIP is maybe going to be higher than your FIP. 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:55.920 If you know, you haven't been giving up that many 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.520 home runs a lot of fly a lot of deep flyballs, 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:01.400 your fit might look good. Are all getting caught, But 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:04.040 x FIP says, yeah, well you might be getting a 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.960 little lucky here on some of those homers, And you know, 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.120 so maybe a couple of them should be getting over 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:11.320 the wall. So that's what that joke was about for 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.640 anyone not familiar with But you can always go to 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.080 fangrafts and go to their glossary and look up their 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:19.480 pitching stats and look up FIP and x FIP always 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:20.120 suggests that. 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:25.520 Well. On that note, Brandon Fopp, Brandon fots x FIP 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:29.600 for today's start was two point sixty seven. So as 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.720 they're saying x FIP, you used this start very favorably. 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:34.640 Some of the other metrics not quite so much. But 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.880 Brandon Fox gave the Diamondbacks at least enough to get 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:40.240 out of this game with a win, and considering how 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:43.640 good he's been since coming back from trimple A, it 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:46.440 felt like it was time for the team to kind 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:50.200 of pick him up after all of the times that 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:52.880 he's picked them up here over the past few weeks. 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.400 You're making me look it up now because I need 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:56.920 to see what it is here to date. 0:14:57.800 --> 0:14:58.720 It's four to five. 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.160 His x FIP is f two five, his ERA is 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.640 three three nine, his FIP is three point nine to nine, 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:08.600 so his ex FIP is actually still it's higher than 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:12.000 all of the other r estimators, so you could argue 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:15.120 the fought has still been on the luckier side when 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:18.760 it comes to preventing home runs. But you know, pretty 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:20.160 close to what you'd expect. 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:24.120 Yeah, I mean it's more or less normalized, neutralized regress 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:24.600 to the meat. 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:25.880 There you go. 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:28.480 We have a whole lot more to get to in 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.680 this episode. We're going to check on the standings. We 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:34.240 of course are going to dive into they could tell 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:38.520 Marte situation and the updates we've gotten since our last episode. 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.320 So don't go anywhere. We'll be back on Snake's territory 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:42.480 right after this. 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:46.680 Hey, for those of you that are on your phones 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:48.720 very often, or even if you don't use it much, 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:51.480 you should check out your wireless bill and make sure 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:55.200 that it is treating you well. 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The Katel Marte situation continues to develop. 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:34.040 I guess we'll start with this note from not this note, 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:38.560 this note from John Morosi over on Twitter. Morosi tweeted 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:42.760 out earlier on Wednesday. This was Wednesday morning, a note 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:47.240 from Katel Marte's agent, and it reads as follows. He 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:50.600 is currently managing a personal matter and it will and 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:53.920 will be undergoing an MRI on his knee tomorrow. Kotel 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:58.639 appreciates the unwavering support from fans, teammates, the Diamondbacks organization, 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:02.120 and Tory LEVELO during this time. He remains optimistic about 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:05.199 his recovery and looks forward to returning to the field 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:08.840 to contribute to the team as soon as possible. My 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:11.879 guess is most of you watching or listening have probably 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:19.400 already seen or heard this note from Marte's agent. But yeah, 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:22.600 we'll start our conversation there, Jack, What was your reaction 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:23.320 to seeing this? 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:27.200 Well, I mean it very much looked like agents speak, right, 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:31.159 It looked like damage control. It also looked to me 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:34.840 like maybe somebody kind of finally got through to him 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:38.080 and got him to kind of step back from the 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:42.000 ledge a little bit with all of this. Look, that 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:47.080 statement doesn't tell us anything, right, And Mike Kaysen was 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:49.960 on the radio today and we didn't really learn very 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:53.320 much new, and so all we're left to do is 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:58.840 either speculate and wait or keep our mouths shut and wait. 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:02.639 But you know, I have thoughts, just like everybody else. 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:05.680 I have been trying to gather information and do as 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:08.639 much due diligence as I can. We've had friend of 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:11.119 the show, El Gallo, kind of nudge me in a 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:13.880 direction of, you know, looking a little closer into what's 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:17.000 been coming out of the Dominican Republic and the reports there. 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:22.360 And you know, they are credible journalists that have reported that, 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:25.639 you know, Marte wanted to be released or wanted to 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:29.520 be DFAD. But you know it's hard to say like 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:33.639 that something get lost in translation there, and that's not 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:35.679 going to happen. I mean, the Diamondbacks aren't going to 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.320 do that, so it doesn't just didn't seem like a 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:42.240 very realistic report from that perspective. But then there's some 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:45.639 other radio reports where there's you know, people claiming to 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:49.959 have inside sources with his family, you know, saying that 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:52.000 he doesn't want to play for the Diamondbacks anymore, and 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:54.560 the falling out between him and Tory is you know, 0:19:56.000 --> 0:20:00.359 not navigable and so forth. Who knows, right, I like, 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:02.360 I can't say that any of that's true, but I'm 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:04.960 acknowledging it because it's out there, and I'm sure that 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:07.639 at least half our listeners have heard some of this 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:11.000 kind of you know, trickling around if you're active in 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:16.440 social media. What I will say, and I'm going to 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:19.680 ask Jesse to put that on the screen, is Tory 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:24.600 Lavello's willingness to work very closely with kateel Marte on 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:27.440 days off and being in tune with his body was 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:30.600 a key reason why he agreed to the extension that 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:34.800 he did so. On April second of twenty twenty five, 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:38.520 ktel Marte signed over one hundred million dollar contract extension 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:41.280 that takes him up to twenty thirty one if he 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:45.480 exercises the player option. A big chunk of that forty 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:49.520 six million is deferred, So you know why did Katel 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:53.560 signed that contract. It's considered team friendly at the time 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:58.760 when asked, this is from the report that Steve Gilbert 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:02.919 filed on that day of the signing. When asked what 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:06.440 he liked so much about Arizona, Marte sided the coaching staff, 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:10.720 the medical staff, and the organization in general. He also 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:15.119 talked about his close relationship with manager Tory Leavello, whose 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:19.000 first year managing the DBAs was twenty seventeen. Now Here 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:21.800 comes the exact quote from Catel and let you know 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:25.720 exactly what his priorities were. This was the main answer 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:29.159 that he gave when he was asked, why did you 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:33.440 sign this extension? We came to the organization around the 0:21:33.440 --> 0:21:36.240 same time, said Marte. I feel like at this point 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:40.520 that Tory understands me really well physically. If I need 0:21:40.560 --> 0:21:43.200 a day off, I don't have to talk much. Tory 0:21:43.320 --> 0:21:45.879 does a good job of feeling that and giving me 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:49.359 a day I don't want to lose what I've earned 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:54.639