Speaker 1: Well, good by boss, the territory ladies and done. But
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm a little bit late. But Paly tow man, man,
Speaker 1: I can't breathe. I don't know what's going on. Fourteen
Speaker 1: straight wins for the Red Sox. What the heck is
Speaker 1: in the air right now? What is happening right now?
Speaker 1: I can't even get my thoughts together. This is one
Speaker 1: of the most insane things I've seen as a Red
Speaker 1: Sox fan. Pretty much, I think most of us have.
Speaker 1: I thought two thousand and four would be the most
Speaker 1: insane thing I ever see, and here we are in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six seeing something like this, where one win
Speaker 1: away from tying the franchise record for most consecutive wins
Speaker 1: fifteen back in nineteen forty six. I mean, you had
Speaker 1: some of the greatest players in Red Sox history on
Speaker 1: that team, guys like Ted Williams, Bobby Dower. Unfortunately, that
Speaker 1: team lost to the Cardinals in seven games in the
Speaker 1: World Series. But you know what, Let's try and reverse that.
Speaker 1: Let's go break that streak. Let's go win a World
Speaker 1: Series this year. I can't breathe. I don't know, I
Speaker 1: can't feel my face, I don't know what's going on
Speaker 1: right now. This is unbelievable. The longest win streak recently,
Speaker 1: the three most the three longest win streaks the Cardinals
Speaker 1: with seventeen back in twenty twenty one. I don't know
Speaker 1: why that one slipped my mind. We got the Indians
Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty, or with twenty two back in
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, the A's with twenty back in two thousand
Speaker 1: and two. This is incredible, ladies and gentlemen. And if
Speaker 1: you obviously didn't realize already, Red Sox win final score
Speaker 1: six to five, record improves to fifty one and forty eight.
Speaker 1: They've won nineteen of twenty one and obviously fourteen straight.
Speaker 1: This is incredible, ladies and gentlemen. Just when you think
Speaker 1: that it might be done, just when you think you're like,
Speaker 1: all right, this is one of the greatest rides I've
Speaker 1: been on. But this might be it that happened a
Speaker 1: couple of times. Here tonight happened. Look because you had
Speaker 1: also another red hot team coming to Fenway Park. The
Speaker 1: Oriol has been doing damage against some other teams out there,
Speaker 1: and they came in and uh. In the end, the
Speaker 1: Red Sox took advantage of a ton of sloppiness from
Speaker 1: the Orioles here they made a whole bunch of errors
Speaker 1: left him right here tonight they took advantage. They battled
Speaker 1: back all game and Caleb Durban. What a moment man
Speaker 1: for Caleb Durban. Man, it almost like it all It
Speaker 1: almost gets me like a little emotional, you know, like
Speaker 1: it what a moment for the guy. You know, like that,
Speaker 1: that's really cool to see a guy that he got
Speaker 1: off to sucks a bad start, and everyone including myself,
Speaker 1: were like, man, we should have kept Bregman. You know,
Speaker 1: this guy did nothing wrong coming to Boston, a guy
Speaker 1: that was just a scrappy player, over looked coming up
Speaker 1: as a baseball player. You know, a guy that's a
Speaker 1: little undersized, but just a scrappy player, a hard working player.
Speaker 1: And the way this guy has been playing over the
Speaker 1: last couple of months and then he gets a moment
Speaker 1: like that, you know it. I don't know, that makes
Speaker 1: me a little emotional, to be honest. What a great
Speaker 1: moment for the guy. You know, he's been working hard,
Speaker 1: he did everything he could and he got a moment
Speaker 1: like that and he had a packed Famway Park on
Speaker 1: their feet. I mean chanting the guy's name, you know,
Speaker 1: just erupting for the guy. That's actually, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: I think one of the As long as I've been
Speaker 1: a Red Sox fan, There's been a lot of great moments,
Speaker 1: but man, that one. And yeah, maybe recency bias is
Speaker 1: coming in, but that, to me was really cool. He
Speaker 1: deserved that, he deserved that. Wilson and Willier, big nights
Speaker 1: for them coming up a clutch hits Wilson just holy cow,
Speaker 1: this guy was full of energy here tonight. Set he
Speaker 1: coming up cluction. How about Sung, Chick Sang? I mean,
Speaker 1: this is what I've been talking about. This is what
Speaker 1: I've been talking about here. It's guys like Shang who
Speaker 1: are stepping up and doing the little things. You know,
Speaker 1: I could really, you know, go deep into this, but
Speaker 1: this is why depth matters within an organization. You know, Chang,
Speaker 1: you know you're wondering, Okay, you know, maybe this is
Speaker 1: a guy that can help out at some point, but
Speaker 1: you don't have to be a guy that is batting
Speaker 1: three hunger with an ops over one thousand. You could
Speaker 1: do even little things like Chang did here tonight, aggressive
Speaker 1: base running, scoring a run and making the grab at
Speaker 1: the end of the game. What a what a play?
Speaker 1: I mean, holy cow. I mean, we're all so excited
Speaker 1: about the the wins streak, the fourteen straight wins, but
Speaker 1: it felt like what an incredible play that was to
Speaker 1: end the game. And it almost because we're all thinking
Speaker 1: about this streak and the turnaround this year. It's like,
Speaker 1: in a way, it gets like overshadowed, but like, what
Speaker 1: a play to end the game, sung Shake shechng Man.
Speaker 1: The pitching. The pitching was not great here tonight. Obviously,
Speaker 1: this is a battle here tonight. It was a scrappy game.
Speaker 1: It was an ugly game, more so from the Orioles
Speaker 1: side defensively. But Peyton Totley did not have the breaking
Speaker 1: stuff here tonight. He did not really he had I
Speaker 1: think one change up here tonight. I think he threw
Speaker 1: five curve balls on the night. He was mostly leaning
Speaker 1: into the hard stuff. And yeah, he was racking up
Speaker 1: strikeouts here tonight. He had nine over five and two thirds.
Speaker 1: But listen, when you don't have when you're not able
Speaker 1: to expand the repertoire deeper into the game, these guys
Speaker 1: are gonna get hits off you, especially a hot Orioles team.
Speaker 1: Like this, who have good bats. He gave up a
Speaker 1: lot of hits here tonight. He was pretty predict for
Speaker 1: the most part. He had a tough third, tough sixth inning.
Speaker 1: You know, Tyron Guerrero ran into a couple of bumps there, Chatman,
Speaker 1: running into a couple of bumps in the ninth inning
Speaker 1: there he got saved by Chang. This was not great
Speaker 1: pitching here tonight. But the grittiness of this team. The man,
Speaker 1: it's unbelievable. But in a way, it's kind of believable
Speaker 1: when you just see the kind of guys that they
Speaker 1: have on this team. You know, obviously, you know it's
Speaker 1: it is unbelievable to win this many games in a row,
Speaker 1: especially with how bad you were. But like, in a way,
Speaker 1: it's like you have the perfect blended guys that are
Speaker 1: gritty players that do the little things like just play
Speaker 1: the game of baseball. You know, Man, just gotta love
Speaker 1: what you're seeing here. You gotta love it. Man. This
Speaker 1: is uh, what a ride? What a ride? Sir? In
Speaker 1: the chat six away, we're six away from my proclamation
Speaker 1: of getting twenty straight wins after the nightmare flight. Listen,
Speaker 1: it feels like every game is getting the last couple especially,
Speaker 1: I mean they're getting tougher into the last few, They're
Speaker 1: getting tougher and tougher. It feels like you're really having
Speaker 1: to grind these out. So I'm wondering how long this
Speaker 1: is gonna go. But if they could give me twenty, man,
Speaker 1: I'll be I'll be the luckiest guy on the planet.
Speaker 1: I need that tweet. I need that tweet to come true. Man,
Speaker 1: I need six more, man oh man. Welcome to the chat, everybody.
Speaker 1: Once again, another magical night at Famway Park. Just a
Speaker 1: Monday night here. It's July twentieth, and we got another
Speaker 1: another night of amazing baseball. Welcome to the chat, everybody.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go over this. We're gonna go over the scoring.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go over the pitching. We'll go over Game
Speaker 1: two for tomorrow. We'll even talk about a couple little
Speaker 1: reports that we've had over the last couple of days
Speaker 1: or so. Getting closer and closer to the trade deadline
Speaker 1: two weeks from today. Well, actually we're under two weeks
Speaker 1: now by what about four hours, I think it's six
Speaker 1: pm Eastern time on August third, So we're within that
Speaker 1: two week window. We're getting closer and closer. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about one guy that could maybe be a possible option
Speaker 1: for the Red Sox. I'll get into that in just
Speaker 1: a little bit. Let's get to it here, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: We have a lot to talk about here. If you can,
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Speaker 1: We got to start off with Peyton totally again. I mean, listen, hey,
Speaker 1: the fastball as usual looking great. He looked good out there.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, he looked very good out there. Everything was
Speaker 1: looking you know, the fastballs were looking crisp. But that
Speaker 1: was pretty much shit again. He threw six curve balls,
Speaker 1: one change up on the night, and you know it
Speaker 1: was he had a few, a couple of good innings,
Speaker 1: but he was pretty hittable for the most part. And
Speaker 1: it started off in the first inning. A couple of
Speaker 1: doubles Gunner Henderson, Tyler, O'Neill, a couple of doubles there
Speaker 1: made it one nothing. But then he strikes out Alonzo
Speaker 1: and Mail, so you know, wiggled out of that a
Speaker 1: little bit. He did settle down for the most part.
Speaker 1: Over the next few innings, he struck out a few,
Speaker 1: gave up another double to Gunner, Holy cow Gunner. Henderson
Speaker 1: was a doubles machine here tonight. It ended up giving
Speaker 1: up a home run to Christian and Canarci owned Strand.
Speaker 1: I completely forgot he went to the Orioles recently. He
Speaker 1: hit Alonso, but then Alonzo gets thrown out at second base,
Speaker 1: so you know, he was able to kind of work
Speaker 1: around a couple of things. Within the sixth inning, Tyler
Speaker 1: O'Neil with another base hit. He strikes out Mail, but
Speaker 1: then he gives up three straight bass hits to Varis Jackson,
Speaker 1: Chris can On, Canarcio, Strand again. That ended up making
Speaker 1: it a six ar sorry a four to three game
Speaker 1: at the time in the sixth inning, and that was
Speaker 1: it for Peyton totally five and two thirds, eight hits,
Speaker 1: four earned nine strikeouts. That is a good strikeout number
Speaker 1: right there, and only walked one of the nights. So
Speaker 1: they were some positives, but it was a bumpy knight
Speaker 1: for totally. Tyrone Guerrero ends up coming in. He strikes
Speaker 1: out Huff to end the six Guarreo went back out
Speaker 1: for the seventh inning ward with a double, Alonzo with
Speaker 1: a base hit, Gunner with a strikeout, but then Tyler
Speaker 1: O'Neil on the ground out Anthony Siegler had a chance
Speaker 1: at a double play there to get yourself out of
Speaker 1: the inning, but ended up dropping it, trying to transfer it,
Speaker 1: ends up making the play at first base. But you
Speaker 1: know what, even though you'd like for Siegler to be
Speaker 1: able to, you know, turn that double play there, I
Speaker 1: love I love the awareness of Siegler right there, right
Speaker 1: right away. He I can't believe I'm even this is
Speaker 1: how happy we are. I am somehow some way praising
Speaker 1: that he goofed up on a double play. But listen,
Speaker 1: hear me. I just to me, that really shows the
Speaker 1: kind of ballplayer that he is. Just strong awareness, just
Speaker 1: thought so quickly on his feet. Oh crap, don't got
Speaker 1: the double play? All right? Quick throw the first right?
Speaker 1: That I think really showed you what kind of a
Speaker 1: player he is. And obviously he's come up with some
Speaker 1: you know, pretty big moments here. But I'm glad he
Speaker 1: was able to at least get the out there. I mean,
Speaker 1: how many times have we seen over the years right where, hey,
Speaker 1: you don't turn a double play and then it turns
Speaker 1: into something mess here. So hey, at least he got that.
Speaker 1: But it did give the Orioles the lead back. He
Speaker 1: ends up striking out Beavers to end the inning. Winlock
Speaker 1: ends up shutting it down for the eighth inning. He
Speaker 1: looked good. We'll get back to the ninth inning in
Speaker 1: just a second. But we got we got some offense
Speaker 1: to talk about, ladies and gentlemen. Now, like I said,
Speaker 1: the Orioles did score first here tonight, and that's another
Speaker 1: thing I forgot to mention. You once again fell down early.
Speaker 1: You've been doing that as of late. You've been falling
Speaker 1: down early. The pitching has not been amazing in the
Speaker 1: early going as of late. So Orioles once again, or
Speaker 1: Orioles getting the one nothing lead in the first inning.
Speaker 1: But then the second inning, you are able to battle
Speaker 1: back a little bit. Wilson Masa with a couple of
Speaker 1: base hits. Durban with a flyout that moves Wilson over
Speaker 1: to third base. Gotta love the aggressiveness there. And then Duran,
Speaker 1: even though he has not been able to do much
Speaker 1: as of late, comes up with the sack fly that
Speaker 1: does tie the game up. At one third inning, you
Speaker 1: had a couple of outs, SETI gramb all the second base,
Speaker 1: Jackson over at second, ends up making a bad throw SETI.
Speaker 1: He gets the first and then here comes will Your.
Speaker 2: Break retired one to one. He shoots that one toward
Speaker 2: the alley. Tavares will not get it. It's out of
Speaker 2: the track, up against the monster. Peck comes sit on.
Speaker 1: Rounding on his way.
Speaker 2: The throw, will not get it, and it's fire to
Speaker 2: the back.
Speaker 1: That was such a bad throw. My god, my goodness,
Speaker 1: that throw home on the Williard double. The Orioles were
Speaker 1: what the heck was going on with their defense here tonight.
Speaker 1: We have all experienced that kind of defense over the
Speaker 1: last few years with the Red Sox, but this Red
Speaker 1: Sox defense is different this year. We haven't really seen
Speaker 1: a whole lot of this Orioles defense here in Boston.
Speaker 1: Gotta love that, Thank you, Craig Bresla. Third inning, so
Speaker 1: you end up taking a two to one lead there,
Speaker 1: and then here comes Wilson liner and knocked down by Henderson.
Speaker 2: He can't make the play, They don't make a play,
Speaker 2: and another run is in.
Speaker 1: So this was one of the I think few examples
Speaker 1: of Wilson not really hitting a ball hard but still
Speaker 1: finding a way to do some damage. Well. Gunnar Henderson
Speaker 1: ended up causing most of the damage there. It deflects
Speaker 1: off of his glove and then Willier was able to score. So,
Speaker 1: once again taking advantage of a bad Orioles defense, ends
Speaker 1: up being a little quiet the next couple of innings.
Speaker 1: Within the sixth inning, you end up waking up a
Speaker 1: little bit again. The Orioles did have a four to
Speaker 1: three lead. They came from behind there, but Willier leads
Speaker 1: off the six with the base hit. Well, actually, let
Speaker 1: me take that back. It was a groundball back to Boz,
Speaker 1: but a bad throw from Boz another error from the Orioles.
Speaker 1: Willier ends up getting the second base there, and then
Speaker 1: here comes Wilson.
Speaker 2: Swinging a high ride left field back toward the wall.
Speaker 2: That ball is off the green, Brady, is it contris
Speaker 2: ticket for two dives in safe?
Speaker 1: Man? That base running there from Wilson. Man, Oh, love
Speaker 1: that Love that Holy cow Wilson. Man, that is that
Speaker 1: is the kind of player you want in Boston. H
Speaker 1: that gritty base running right there. Love that he gets up.
Speaker 1: That guy's pounding his chest. Man, Ah, you love to
Speaker 1: see that. I thought that was actually a home run
Speaker 1: off the bat, the way he kind of just golfed it.
Speaker 1: I thought maybe that was going to get into the seats.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately fell short. But it was the seventeenth double on
Speaker 1: the year. I'm actually a little surprised about that. I
Speaker 1: thought he had more doubles than this. I thought he
Speaker 1: was at least in the twenties. But he ends up
Speaker 1: coming up big. That ties the game at four to four.
Speaker 1: But then the seventh inning, then the seventh inning again
Speaker 1: the Orioles taking lead again. This was not an easy
Speaker 1: one here tonight, ladies and gentlemen. They take a five
Speaker 1: to four lead, but then the seventh inning you're down
Speaker 1: five to four. Wong with the base hit, Chang groundball
Speaker 1: to short Long ends up being out at second base.
Speaker 1: Siegler ground out, moves Chang over to second base, and
Speaker 1: then here comes Setti breaking ball base into the left
Speaker 1: Chang rounds war Trouss to run.
Speaker 2: Star said, I taking off for a second. The Red
Speaker 2: Sox just keep on relentlessly bouncing back and it's a
Speaker 2: five five.
Speaker 1: Game once again. Just another bad throw from Ward there said,
Speaker 1: He ends up getting to second base. Unfortunately you weren't
Speaker 1: able to capitalize on that. Williard did fly out, but
Speaker 1: that's okay. Here comes Whitlocks, shutting it down. To the
Speaker 1: eighth inning. And the eighth inning didn't start off great
Speaker 1: for the Red Sox. Wilson with a strikeout, Massa with
Speaker 1: the strikeout. But Caleb Durban What a moment so.
Speaker 2: Far, quiet night for Caleb's flying out twice the right
Speaker 2: and ground to the short swinging a high fly ball
Speaker 2: left field.
Speaker 1: This is deep.
Speaker 2: Packet goes yes, sir, that's on of hair. Holme run.
Speaker 2: The Durbordator touches it all. The Red Sox on top again.
Speaker 1: Listen, I I love the Dave O'Brien call. And I
Speaker 1: know Caleb Durbin has been called the Durbinator going back
Speaker 1: to last year, but listen, I'm still gonna stick with
Speaker 1: my nickname of dirt Dog Durbin because the guy is
Speaker 1: a dirt dog. He's a scrappy guy. This guy became
Speaker 1: a fan favorite here tonight. People have been obviously his
Speaker 1: turnaround this year. People have really seen that he's worked hard,
Speaker 1: he's gotten himself right. But go back to when that
Speaker 1: trade happened. We sat right here when that trade happened, right,
Speaker 1: we're all feeling still feeling the sting of Alex Bregman
Speaker 1: going to the Chicago Cubs. He did pivot ranger Suarez,
Speaker 1: but you were still wondering who was the bat going
Speaker 1: to be? Who were they gonna get at third base?
Speaker 1: And then came across our screens Caleb Durban going to
Speaker 1: the Red Sox. And I sat here and I said,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna paraphrase this, but I said, listen, this isn't
Speaker 1: the sexiest, the sexiest of moves. This is not the
Speaker 1: big blockbuster signing, right But I said, right here, Durban
Speaker 1: is a guy that's a scrappy guy, a bit undersized,
Speaker 1: but he's a hardworking player. He's a gritty player. He's
Speaker 1: a hard worker. And I said, right here, that's a
Speaker 1: guy I could see being a fan favorite in Boston.
Speaker 1: And I think that might have just happened here tonight.
Speaker 1: I think that really cemented this entire turnaround for him.
Speaker 1: And you think back to why the Red Sox brought
Speaker 1: him into the first place, right obviously, well they needed
Speaker 1: someone for third base, of course, But you look at
Speaker 1: the profile with him, a guy that's you know, he's
Speaker 1: not a mashermind. He means, he's not that star player
Speaker 1: like Alex Bregman. But the one thing that jumped off
Speaker 1: of the screen when you looked at the stat cast
Speaker 1: page the pull air percentage, and I'm sorry. I know
Speaker 1: a lot of you out there you like the traditional stats.
Speaker 1: I do too. I like me a good looking batting average.
Speaker 1: I still am a batting average kind of a guy.
Speaker 1: But I also like the metrics, like the eggs of
Speaker 1: v Low. I like how much a guy can pull
Speaker 1: the ball, you know. I like all the nerd numbers too.
Speaker 1: I like a little bit of both. But I did
Speaker 1: take notice of the pull air percentage with Durban And
Speaker 1: you think Famway Park, right, and yeah, he had to
Speaker 1: work on a couple of things working with gradam g
Speaker 1: swing right. That got a lot of attention in itself.
Speaker 1: But a guy that he is has that ability to
Speaker 1: hit to all fields. He has just that great hit tool.
Speaker 1: But a guy that really showed last year with the
Speaker 1: Brewers that he could pull the ball. And that was
Speaker 1: a huge, huge thing coming to Feenway Park. That was
Speaker 1: something you envisioned, a guy that could hit the ball
Speaker 1: into the monster seats. And it happened here tonight. Happened
Speaker 1: here tonight in one of the biggest ways possible. What
Speaker 1: a call from Dave O'Brien, What a moment for Caleb Durban.
Speaker 1: What a moment for the Femway crowd. What a moment
Speaker 1: just for a baseball fan. I don't care what team
Speaker 1: you like. That's just incredible, especially in a streak like this,
Speaker 1: in a back and forth game like it was here tonight.
Speaker 1: Man oh Man Shaman comes in for the ninth, and
Speaker 1: again this did not end easily. Cows Are with a walk,
Speaker 1: he strikes out Alonzo and Ward, but then here comes
Speaker 1: Gunnar Henderson with another freaking double. Here tonight, Gunner Henderson.
Speaker 1: He's had a bit of a down year offensively, I
Speaker 1: think going back to last year too, But man, that
Speaker 1: is a guy that I've been going back to when
Speaker 1: he you know what, was it twenty twenty three or
Speaker 1: twenty four, I can't remember. Every think it was twenty
Speaker 1: three when he came up. Whatever year that was, I mean,
Speaker 1: the guy was just mashing. I think it was a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. He had just an amazing year.
Speaker 1: That's a guy.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: He is gonna wreck Havoc anytime you go up against
Speaker 1: the anytime you go up against the Orioles. But he
Speaker 1: had another double, but also great job from Jared to
Speaker 1: ran out and left I read quick throw back into
Speaker 1: the infield to hold the runners Ward or cows a
Speaker 1: sorry staying at third and Gunner at second. So that
Speaker 1: was really good defense from Duran out there to be
Speaker 1: able to get the ball back in taller O'Neil. This
Speaker 1: guy mashed one to Shang over a shortstop ninety four
Speaker 1: miles an hour off the bat. Actually, I thought it
Speaker 1: was like in the hundreds at least, but Shang with
Speaker 1: just an amazing play. Let's take a listen the o
Speaker 1: twod O'Neal line drive.
Speaker 2: Cott Chack catches at how that's fourteen in a row. Baby,
Speaker 2: the Red Sox cheap on, rolling six to five fourteen
Speaker 2: straights for just a second time in franchise history.
Speaker 1: I'd have to go back to nineteen forty six.
Speaker 2: Ted Williams was a young superstar the Red Sox last
Speaker 2: fourteen in the road. That team would win fifteen straight,
Speaker 2: which the Red Sox will try and equal tomorrow night
Speaker 2: here at Fenway Park.
Speaker 1: You see Creg, You see Craig, he's smiling up there
Speaker 1: in that in those box seats in the the in
Speaker 1: his sweet If you want to if you want to
Speaker 1: ask who the happiest guy is, if you want to
Speaker 1: know who the happiest guy on the planet is. It's
Speaker 1: not me, It's not you, It's Craig fricking maybe not
Speaker 1: even Caleb derban I think it's Craig fricking Breslo right now.
Speaker 1: Holy cow, that guy. I mean, listen, you want to
Speaker 1: talk about Durban, you know, with the huge turnaround he's had,
Speaker 1: But holy cow, people were coming after Craig everywhere Boston,
Speaker 1: the national media. I mean, shoot, like you thought that
Speaker 1: guy was gonna get fired, Like you thought it was
Speaker 1: just a matter of time. I mean, listen, in the end,
Speaker 1: right the players play, you know, they have made this happen.
Speaker 1: But you know what, you know, here's the thing with
Speaker 1: me when it comes to Craig. I was always one
Speaker 1: of the guys out here that said, listen, he's made
Speaker 1: a lot of good moves. And yeah, like when it came,
Speaker 1: when it was getting to that time, I think, you
Speaker 1: know you're fourteen under and yeah, I've said I do
Speaker 1: still think, you know, you could have made a couple
Speaker 1: of more moves in the offseason. I still think that.
Speaker 1: But you know what, everything's coming to play. Everything has
Speaker 1: come to fruition here, did he did you expect it
Speaker 1: to happen this way. Well, no, but I think it's
Speaker 1: safe to say Craig is is very safe at this point.
Speaker 1: And the radio Heads can't believe it. They are what
Speaker 1: radio station was I listening to here today? Holy cow?
Speaker 1: I shut it off in like twenty seconds. They were
Speaker 1: still finding a way to somehow get some negativity in
Speaker 1: still like, what in the world He said something. I
Speaker 1: don't even remember what they said. I'm like, what are
Speaker 1: we doing? Holy cow? The radio heads out there, they
Speaker 1: can't believe it. I really want to remember what I
Speaker 1: was listening to. It was something like, oh man, they've
Speaker 1: been on this incredible streak and walk she's gonna end
Speaker 1: up holding at the deadline. They're not gonna do anything.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I can't believe it. They still somehow find
Speaker 1: you know, I'll give him some credit because that is
Speaker 1: they still find a way to bring the negativity into Boston.
Speaker 1: But they're not gonna bring us down, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: the Radioheads, they're not gonna win this one. It's a
Speaker 1: positive show here tonight. It's a positive time. But everybody,
Speaker 1: we are gonna take a quick break. Holy cal I
Speaker 1: need to breathe for a second. I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: my head's about to explode. Let's take a quick break.
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Speaker 1: Well, as exciting as that was, ladies and gentlemen, we
Speaker 1: have another game tomorrow. You feel like you might have
Speaker 1: just won the World Series for crying out loud. Holy cow.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's quite at the level of the
Speaker 1: Shane Victorino home run into the Monster Seats against the
Speaker 1: Tigers back in twenty thirty or the Grand Slam. Definitely
Speaker 1: not to the level of that, but like, gosh, when
Speaker 1: I see the ball going in the air, like that
Speaker 1: high fly ball going into the Monster seats, I couldn't
Speaker 1: help but think of that Victorino home run just a
Speaker 1: little bit. If you ever want to ask me, like
Speaker 1: if anyone ever asked me, Robbie, when was the time,
Speaker 1: like what was your biggest freak out moment? Like what
Speaker 1: was the time where you just went insane watching the
Speaker 1: red side in like a good way right where I
Speaker 1: just like freaked out. I'm screaming all over the place
Speaker 1: that one when Victor Reino hit that Grand Slam, I
Speaker 1: came on glued like I couldn't believe it. I had
Speaker 1: my neighbors I was in an apartment like they were
Speaker 1: banging on my wall, like the Holy Cow. I was
Speaker 1: making people mad. But I went nuts during that. I
Speaker 1: still remember JD. Drew's Grand Slam against the Indians back
Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven. I went ballistic over that.
Speaker 1: I couldn't. I was at a friend's house that night.
Speaker 1: I was still in high school at the time, right,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't even remember if I had a car.
Speaker 1: I think I had a car. Yeah, I had a car.
Speaker 1: I was seventeen. I went over there and we put
Speaker 1: the game on, and all my Holy cow like, I
Speaker 1: was running around his house just screaming. I think I
Speaker 1: just kept repeating. I kept screaming Jad Drew Man. Now,
Speaker 1: obviously those are postseason huge moments, but listen Caleb Durbin's
Speaker 1: home run here tonight. That was awesome, awesome. Where was I.
Speaker 1: Let's go to game two. Let's go to game two.
Speaker 1: What do we got going on for game two here? Tomorrow?
Speaker 1: Let me pull this up really quick, picturing matchup for tomorrow. Well,
Speaker 1: actually it is. Did they announce it is Ranger Suarez
Speaker 1: for tomorrow? Okay, so he is the listed starter for tomorrow.
Speaker 1: So it looks like he's gonna be coming off the
Speaker 1: il even more great news. Even more great news, Ranger
Speaker 1: Suarez is back. He looked like it was in a
Speaker 1: good mood here today. They shot the camera to him
Speaker 1: a couple of times in the dugout. He had a
Speaker 1: smile on his face. I think I heard them saying
Speaker 1: before the game that he was like messing with the
Speaker 1: reporter a little bit. He was messing with the media,
Speaker 1: like I guess he was like grabbing his leg or something.
Speaker 1: He's like, I'm just kidding. So he's good to go.
Speaker 1: And remember we talked about this with Ranger when that
Speaker 1: signing happened. You're he has always had these kind of injuries, right, So, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is gonna happen, but good to see him back.
Speaker 1: So the one thing you got to think about with Ranger,
Speaker 1: as good as he's been, could there be a little
Speaker 1: bit of rust here tomorrow with Ranger. We'll wait and see.
Speaker 1: But overall, I mean, there's a reason this guy went
Speaker 1: to the All Star Game. He has been one of
Speaker 1: the best pictures in baseball. Seventeen starts. E. L. Ray
Speaker 1: at a three point one point five the FIP is
Speaker 1: a half a run lower at a two point six
Speaker 1: y one a three point zero f war On the year,
Speaker 1: he's been great, so we'll see what he looks like
Speaker 1: here tomorrow. It'd be great to see him get into
Speaker 1: a groove, but you got to proceed with caution there,
Speaker 1: because again, it's been a little bit since he's picked.
Speaker 1: When was that last start that was against the Angels
Speaker 1: back on June fifth, I mean it's it's been a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, be a little over a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks when he takes the mounds, so eh, not really
Speaker 1: too worried about it, not really too worried about it.
Speaker 1: We'll see, but uh, going up against mister Ranger here tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We got the man that just got paid recently in
Speaker 1: Kyle Bradish. Just got himself a nice extension. Nineteen starts
Speaker 1: on the year el Ray at a three point six
Speaker 1: y one fifth is a little bit higher at a
Speaker 1: four point zero zero. The one thing that jumps off
Speaker 1: the page with Kyle Bradish is he walks a lot
Speaker 1: of guys he's gonna have, he's not gonna have the
Speaker 1: best command. Let me pull up the stackast page here.
Speaker 1: Let's take a Lookxie, what have we got cooking here?
Speaker 1: With Bradish? Taking a look? I mean, listen, he's gonna
Speaker 1: get a lot of ground balls. So hey, you know,
Speaker 1: for the Red Sox that have been making a ton
Speaker 1: of contact, Hey, let's see if you can turn some
Speaker 1: ground balls into some productive outs here tomorrow. All right,
Speaker 1: move some runners over, do what you gotta do, get
Speaker 1: the job done. But you know you're gonna get a
Speaker 1: lot of ground balls. He does a good job at
Speaker 1: keeping the ball out of the air. However, he's not
Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of swing and miss. He's not
Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of guys to chase out of
Speaker 1: the zone. He's gonna walk guys. He's in the twenty
Speaker 1: first percentile with his walk rate. He does a pretty
Speaker 1: decent job at limiting the hard contact. So again, he's
Speaker 1: really gonna be leaning into the sinkers thirty four percent
Speaker 1: of the time this year. He's gonna give you some
Speaker 1: breaking balls, sliders and curves. He'll come at you with
Speaker 1: some four seamers. But he's more of like, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of a crafty guy that's gonna try and get
Speaker 1: some weak contact. If we're taking a look at the
Speaker 1: pitches within this year, now, if you can find some
Speaker 1: four seamers to get into, that could be your best bet. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll get to the other pitching just a second. But
Speaker 1: against four seemers this year, batters are hitting two to
Speaker 1: eighty against it, with an expected slugging of four sixty seven. However,
Speaker 1: when it comes to his sinker, it's a very good
Speaker 1: pitch this year. Not really a whole lot of not
Speaker 1: a whole lot of luck against the sinker this year,
Speaker 1: batters are only hitting two thirty eight against it. Expected
Speaker 1: batting average of a two seventeen, expected slugging of a
Speaker 1: three forty one. So he's gonna be good with the sinker,
Speaker 1: but the slider five point twenty one slugging off the
Speaker 1: slider seven home runs. So when it comes to the command,
Speaker 1: it's been iffy. I'm looking for some sliders hanging over
Speaker 1: the zone. I'm looking for some four seamers that aren't
Speaker 1: well located. We'll see what the Red Sox can do.
Speaker 1: And uh, he had to start a little while back
Speaker 1: against the Red Sox. Let me actually pull that up
Speaker 1: really quick now. The last start against the Red Sox
Speaker 1: that he had was on April twenty six. It was
Speaker 1: kind of a whatever star five innings, four hits, three
Speaker 1: runs for walks. So we'll see I mean, hey, they've
Speaker 1: seen him once. He's seen the Red Sox once, but
Speaker 1: this is a pretty different team. The last time he
Speaker 1: saw the Red Sox, I remember that was still Alex
Speaker 1: Korra running the show. That was Alex Cora's last series
Speaker 1: with the Red Sox when Kyle Bradish pitched. There's a
Speaker 1: different team now though, So we'll see what happens. We'll
Speaker 1: see what happens. But I'm excited for it. I'm excited
Speaker 1: for it. We are going to go over a couple
Speaker 1: of trade one report and one Mott trade out there
Speaker 1: that was floating around here today. That kind of drove
Speaker 1: me insane. I'm gonna get into that, but we do
Speaker 1: have one more break. We'll be right back.
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Speaker 1: Alrighty, So, like I said, we got the trade headline
Speaker 1: in under two weeks, and we got a report. We've
Speaker 1: actually been getting this report over the last few days
Speaker 1: or so, but we had a third report about it
Speaker 1: yesterday regarding Luis Garcia Junior on the Nationals. Now. The
Speaker 1: first report was from The Athletic, from Will Salmon and
Speaker 1: Spencer Nusbaum. I'm sorry if I'm mispronouncing that, but let's
Speaker 1: just say from the Athletic, they said that Luis Garcia
Speaker 1: Junior was getting some trade interest and they mentioned the
Speaker 1: Red Sox in that article. Yeah. Kind of time went
Speaker 1: by a little bit and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: Sean McCadam he mentioned Luis Garcia in his Sunday article,
Speaker 1: didn't say that he was hearing anything, but he said, Hey,
Speaker 1: Luis Garcia Junior could be a fit. So I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: and then we got one from Hector Gomez yesterday. I
Speaker 1: believe Hector Gomez has been kind of hit and miss.
Speaker 1: I feel like he's gotten some stuff right, but then
Speaker 1: there's some other stuff. He'll put it out there and
Speaker 1: then it just never happens. I don't know. I'm not
Speaker 1: very familiar with the reporting of Hector Gomez. However, it
Speaker 1: was the third report and he put out there yesterday
Speaker 1: that the Red Sox are showing a lot of interest
Speaker 1: in acquiring Luis Garcia Junior at the Nationals first basement
Speaker 1: at the deadline. Now, when it comes to Louis Garcia,
Speaker 1: let's pull up the good old Fangrafts page and he's
Speaker 1: having a pretty good year. And remember we just saw
Speaker 1: him a little bit ago. He was at Fenway Park
Speaker 1: the last time the Red Sox lost a series. That's
Speaker 1: when we saw Louis Garcia, and he had a pretty
Speaker 1: good series. He went three for ten in that he
Speaker 1: had a couple of balls off the Monster. He had
Speaker 1: a double and a base hit drove it a couple
Speaker 1: of runs. He looked pretty good. Now with Louis Garcia Junior,
Speaker 1: he's having a good year at the Nationals, hitting two
Speaker 1: seven on base at a three to twelve. But the
Speaker 1: slugging is what really sticks out. A five forty five slugging,
Speaker 1: a one point thirty WRC plus twenty homers. Now with
Speaker 1: Luis Garcia, he's mostly a first baseman and a DH. Now.
Speaker 1: He was a second basement not too long ago, but
Speaker 1: the defense was just atrocious. They moved him over to
Speaker 1: first and he's actually been pretty good there. Now you
Speaker 1: might be wondering why would the Red Sox be interested
Speaker 1: in a first basement when you have Wilson Contreras, And
Speaker 1: I still have some questions with this. I do wonder
Speaker 1: about the fit because obviously you got Wilson at first
Speaker 1: and he's not a good defender at second base. So
Speaker 1: really the only way this in my opinion, and what
Speaker 1: do I know the Red Sox have been proving us
Speaker 1: wrong all year is I could see him mostly dhing
Speaker 1: and then playing a little bit of first when Wilson
Speaker 1: maybe needs a day off off his feet to DH
Speaker 1: or whatever. You know, Wilson's gonna playing every day. He's
Speaker 1: he's he'll go crazy if you take him out of
Speaker 1: the lineup. So that's the only way I could see
Speaker 1: Garcia playing first if they bring him in. Maybe they
Speaker 1: could work him in at second base a couple of times.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like, do they feel like if there
Speaker 1: is strong interest there, do they feel like they could
Speaker 1: improve his defense? I don't know. Maybe Flores can get
Speaker 1: with him. Not so sure, but I feel like the
Speaker 1: most realistic scenario would be like some bit of a
Speaker 1: rotation but mostly Dhing. But then you ask the question
Speaker 1: what happens with Masa? Massa has been very good as
Speaker 1: of late, So how do you make that work? I
Speaker 1: don't know. Then I started thinking even more, like could
Speaker 1: there be a scenario where you move Duran and then
Speaker 1: Masa cand in a playing left? Like could you do that?
Speaker 1: I'm not sure? I'm not I feel like the fit
Speaker 1: right now is the biggest question mark comes to the
Speaker 1: acquisition of this player. However, he would bring a pretty
Speaker 1: nice bat to this lineup, and we've all been even
Speaker 1: though this has been an amazing ride. You still have
Speaker 1: been thinking, hey, we probably need one more bat here
Speaker 1: to really solidify this. His offense would be really good.
Speaker 1: And I actually wonder if maybe they took notice of
Speaker 1: him at Femway Park when they were here hitting a
Speaker 1: couple of balls off the monster. Now with him, he's
Speaker 1: going to be more of a pull hitter. Taking a
Speaker 1: look at the statcast, So when you think of poll
Speaker 1: hitters that are lefties at Femway Park, obviously you think
Speaker 1: of one of the best of all time and David Ortiz, right,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously Ted Williams. But when you think of
Speaker 1: Luis Garcia Junior, the metrics look really good. The expected
Speaker 1: numbers are good. He's hitting the ball hard, he chases
Speaker 1: quite a bit out of the zone, doesn't walk a
Speaker 1: whole lot, but he's not gonna strike out a lot.
Speaker 1: He's gonna make a lot of contact hardcome intact. Then
Speaker 1: you wonder about he's pulling the ball more this year?
Speaker 1: Does he have the power for Femway Park. Well, when
Speaker 1: you look at the expected home runs for him at
Speaker 1: Fenway Park, he's got twenty on the year. It goes
Speaker 1: down to eleven at Fenway, So that's where I get
Speaker 1: a little iffy, But I can understand why they like
Speaker 1: the profile because he is an aggressive guy up there.
Speaker 1: He is going to make a lot of contact and
Speaker 1: he has had a good offensive year and maybe I
Speaker 1: don't know, do they feel like they could have him
Speaker 1: try to go opo a little bit more play with
Speaker 1: that monster because he did show that ability. So that's
Speaker 1: kind of where I'm thinking with this. Also, we got
Speaker 1: a super chat coming in. I'm going to save super
Speaker 1: chats for the end of the show, so if anyone
Speaker 1: wants to drop one in end of the show, we're
Speaker 1: going to take a look at it. But you know,
Speaker 1: again with this possible trade. Also speaking of a trade,
Speaker 1: he has one more year of control, and combined with
Speaker 1: the fact that he is having a good year, he
Speaker 1: is gonna cost you something. He's gonna have a decent
Speaker 1: amount of surplus. It's not gonna be through the roof
Speaker 1: because he doesn't have the strongest track record and the
Speaker 1: defense is pretty much limited with him. He's at first base,
Speaker 1: so one year of control, kind of a so so
Speaker 1: track record, not much defense there. That's gonna throttle his
Speaker 1: his overall ceiling when it comes to trade value. But
Speaker 1: that could also work into the Red Sox favor right
Speaker 1: where they may not have to give up a whole
Speaker 1: lot for him. You're definitely not giving up no, obviously,
Speaker 1: you're no way you'd be giving up Arius in this
Speaker 1: kind of a deal. You wouldn't be giving up I
Speaker 1: and Sin in this deal early in this deal. No,
Speaker 1: those guys have way more value this point. But could
Speaker 1: you possibly match up with something with the Nationals with
Speaker 1: Paul Taboni who knows the system very well? You know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, could you send back, say Kyson Witherspoon,
Speaker 1: who is having a down year at his first year
Speaker 1: in the pros, But you look at someone like that
Speaker 1: and they need pitching over there in that organization, Could
Speaker 1: someone like Kyson Witherspoon, maybe Marcus Phillips possibly could you
Speaker 1: send back, say, if they wanted a position player, maybe
Speaker 1: Henry Godbout, you know, who is having a good year
Speaker 1: in the minor league. So, I don't know. I feel
Speaker 1: like there are ways to be able to get a
Speaker 1: deal done here and you wouldn't have to give up
Speaker 1: any of your highest value prospects, all right, So I
Speaker 1: say keep your eye off for this. I'm more so
Speaker 1: wondering about the fit. I'm wondering if there could be
Speaker 1: some other moves that could follow that if they did it,
Speaker 1: Like I said, like, I don't know, because where do
Speaker 1: you fit Masa? But he's been hitting so well, I
Speaker 1: don't know like that, Like that's an interesting part to
Speaker 1: me is he has been hitting great lately, and I
Speaker 1: don't know, is there a world where you could move
Speaker 1: Dran and then Masa ends up playing left right and
Speaker 1: then hopefully Roman comes back, and then Masa kind of
Speaker 1: just goes back to the bench, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Even then it's still like, man, you'd have Masa and
Speaker 1: Luis Garcia Junior like pretty much sharing a lot of
Speaker 1: DH time. Like I don't know. It's a little bit
Speaker 1: of an effie fit, but it would be an offensive
Speaker 1: upgrade nonetheless. Now, Holy Cal, I gotta talk about this
Speaker 1: article here today, Holy Cal, I about lost my mind.
Speaker 1: You see that guy on the screen right here, his
Speaker 1: name's Hunter Goodman. You see that title, Hunter Goodman to Boston.
Speaker 1: Five moves I'd like to see by the MLB trade deadline.
Speaker 1: You start scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, and there is Jimmy Jim Jim.
Speaker 1: Let me zoom in on mister Jimmy, Jim Jim. There
Speaker 1: he is in the flesh. Ladies and gentlemen. Jim Bowden,
Speaker 1: also with the Foul Territory Network obviously was a former
Speaker 1: GM in the game of baseball. He's put out some
Speaker 1: interesting proposals over the years. This one, though, I could
Speaker 1: not get behind it. I will say, even though he
Speaker 1: has gotten ragged on for a lot of iffy proposals
Speaker 1: in the past, I've there's been a couple where I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know what, that's actually not bad, So I will
Speaker 1: give him a little bit of credit. But this one
Speaker 1: absolutely not. Do not fall for this. Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: do not do it. And this is why, this is
Speaker 1: why I don't like stuff like this, right, because in
Speaker 1: today's world, you see something like this. You got a nice,
Speaker 1: you know looking website, you got the Athletic, it's the
Speaker 1: New York Times. You're thinking, oh, man, oh look at
Speaker 1: this trade. Oh wow, that's what it would take to
Speaker 1: get Hunter Goodman. Okay, well that must be right, that
Speaker 1: has to be true. It's Jim Bowden. He was a
Speaker 1: former GM and in the game of baseball. Wow, I
Speaker 1: can't believe that's what it would take. Okay, but I
Speaker 1: believe it. It's the Athletic, It's the New York Times,
Speaker 1: it's Jim Bowden. This has to be true. No it
Speaker 1: is not. Don't even buy this. Don't do it. Don't
Speaker 1: do it. This is not. No no, no, no, no no,
Speaker 1: do not buy this. Could I see the Rockies asking
Speaker 1: for this, Yes, I could, absolutely, But you are not
Speaker 1: giving up that much for Hunter Goodman. I really like
Speaker 1: the profile of Hunter Goodman. I think that guy could
Speaker 1: be an awesome right handed bat at Famway Park. He's
Speaker 1: a power bat. It would be great. But ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: we got to take a look at the deeper metrics.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna turn into a bit of a nerd. Excuse
Speaker 1: the nerd, But as you can see here, ladies and gentlemen, yes,
Speaker 1: he hits the crap out of the ball. But this
Speaker 1: guy has a lot of strikeouts. You're gonna get a
Speaker 1: lot of chasing out of the zone, a lot of
Speaker 1: swing and missing. You're gonna see a lot of strikeouts.
Speaker 1: That is going at least as of right now. Things
Speaker 1: can change. You could always work on things in the offseason.
Speaker 1: Right as of right now, though, that is going to
Speaker 1: limit his ceiling in the future. And yeah, he's got
Speaker 1: a good amount of control left. And yes he's a ketcher.
Speaker 1: But speaking of keccher, he's not gonna give you amazing defense.
Speaker 1: The framing's not great. You know, he's kind of the
Speaker 1: middle of the road when it comes to the blocks
Speaker 1: the pop time. But you know, there's not really much
Speaker 1: there at least as of right now, unless he really
Speaker 1: showed some improvement. Again, you know, the game of baseball,
Speaker 1: it is dynamic, right Guys can they can get into
Speaker 1: the lab, they can work on some things, but you're
Speaker 1: looking at what you have right now, and goodman, right now,
Speaker 1: while he does have good trade value, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: like this guy's not worth anything. He is. He is
Speaker 1: going to have some decent surplus value twenty eight and
Speaker 1: a half million as of right now. How are you
Speaker 1: coming up with that value where you're taking a look
Speaker 1: at the projections moving forward, he's let's actually see really
Speaker 1: quick public projections as of right now when it comes
Speaker 1: to his zips over the next few years, they're giving
Speaker 1: him around a two winds above replacement. That's around you know,
Speaker 1: if you're looking at the value of one wins above replacement,
Speaker 1: you're looking at around nine and a half million per
Speaker 1: so let's just say that's about twenty million dollars. He's
Speaker 1: got three more years of control, so that's about sixty million.
Speaker 1: But then you factor in that he's going to be
Speaker 1: going into arbitration next year. His salary is going to
Speaker 1: start bumping up. He's not going to be, you know,
Speaker 1: in the pre arb salary anymore. And right now they're
Speaker 1: projecting that he's going to end up making forty million
Speaker 1: dollars over the next three in a third years because
Speaker 1: of this year two's but mostly the next three years,
Speaker 1: you are going to start seeing a good bump in
Speaker 1: pay and that and he he absolutely is going to
Speaker 1: have decent projections moving forward, pretty good, but the money
Speaker 1: that he's going to make is going to compress that.
Speaker 1: So you always have to remember trade value. Yes, the
Speaker 1: guy hits dingers, he can hit the ball far and
Speaker 1: he has better road splits, So don't even use the
Speaker 1: chorus thing. He's a good guy, he's a good power bat.
Speaker 1: But you have the front office is are always going
Speaker 1: to factor in how much money is this guy projected
Speaker 1: to make. We may not like it, but that's the truth. Now,
Speaker 1: when you consider the market. Now, let's get to this
Speaker 1: part the market. Yes, that will absolutely bump up that price,
Speaker 1: especially for how much it would take for the Rockies
Speaker 1: to move on from him, to actually be willing to
Speaker 1: give him up. Yeah, it's gonna take a lot. But
Speaker 1: you are not doing this. You're not doing that. I
Speaker 1: if that actually happened, I guarantee most front offices out
Speaker 1: there would be like, what you gave up a top fifteen?
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: I know people are gonna say, oh, Marcelo Meyer, he's
Speaker 1: really dropped off this year. Yes, obviously, and that has
Speaker 1: hurt his value, but he is a top fifteen. He
Speaker 1: was a top fifteen prospect in the game of baseball
Speaker 1: not too long ago. Sure, he has definitely not lived
Speaker 1: up to expectations this year, but that doesn't remove the
Speaker 1: fact that he has five more years of control still
Speaker 1: in his pre ARB years. Top fifteen prospect not too
Speaker 1: long ago, So there's gonna be good projections based off
Speaker 1: of the scouting right, and he plays a high value
Speaker 1: position at shortstop teams they look to build around shortstops,
Speaker 1: and when you have a guy that has had scouting
Speaker 1: reports that show a lot of upside, potential, upside both
Speaker 1: offensively and defensively. Marcella Meyer is going to have a
Speaker 1: lot of value, especially now because he has a lot
Speaker 1: more control left five more years after the season. So
Speaker 1: when you take all of that, he's gonna have a
Speaker 1: lot of surplus value. Now. It's definitely come down, right, Absolutely,
Speaker 1: it's come down because of the bad year that he's having,
Speaker 1: but it's still at a decent level. Taking a look
Speaker 1: here and again, baseball trade values. It's not it's not
Speaker 1: the end all be all, it's not gospel by any means.
Speaker 1: But what they do well is they really show you
Speaker 1: the fundamentals of how a trade should work. Now, you
Speaker 1: can disagree with certain values and maybe money earned, but
Speaker 1: they at least get paint a pretty solid idea of
Speaker 1: how a trade should work. So Marcella Meyer, as of
Speaker 1: right now, because it's also dynamic, they are constantly updating
Speaker 1: because it's always changing, right, you know, they go off
Speaker 1: of public data, so you know, scouts they're going to
Speaker 1: change up things, right, They're gonna you know, and obviously
Speaker 1: performance is going to change his projections, right, and what
Speaker 1: front offices think with Marcella Meyer one more time before
Speaker 1: I kind of move on to the rest of the trade.
Speaker 1: He hits the ball hard, he plays a good feel,
Speaker 1: he plays a good shortstop. We've seen it. He's been
Speaker 1: hurt this year. That's another thing too, It's like how
Speaker 1: much has that injury really affected his performance? So you
Speaker 1: don't fully know as of right now until you actually
Speaker 1: see him play a big sample not hurt, so we
Speaker 1: don't fully know. But anyway, as of right now Meyer,
Speaker 1: his value has come down, but it's still going to
Speaker 1: be very good at around thirty million dollars as of
Speaker 1: right now when you factor in the projections and the
Speaker 1: money expected to be earned over the next five years
Speaker 1: for him, and so be honest, this is actually a
Speaker 1: pretty low value for a shortstop prospect that was just
Speaker 1: inside of the top twenty last year. That's that's really
Speaker 1: not high when you consider where he was. He was
Speaker 1: in the sixties seventies at one point. So it's really
Speaker 1: come down. And again with Goodman, we've already talked about
Speaker 1: how the value can get limited there, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: stop there. It doesn't stop there. Now let's throw in
Speaker 1: Connolly early and I mean i've pretty much already said,
Speaker 1: you know, the year years of control and yeah, he's
Speaker 1: been hurt, but connily Early has shown time and time
Speaker 1: again that he can be a very dependable starter in
Speaker 1: a major league rotation. He has moved on from the
Speaker 1: prospect status. He has already proven that he can handle
Speaker 1: major league innings. Starting pitching is scarce. Good starting pitching
Speaker 1: that can consistently throw give you major league innings. That's
Speaker 1: hard to do. Connily Early. When you combine that, yes,
Speaker 1: is hurt right now. But when you combine with what
Speaker 1: he's been able to do with five more years of
Speaker 1: control still in his pre RB years, yeah, he's gonna
Speaker 1: have a good amount of value as well, but that's
Speaker 1: come down recently because of the injury. If he comes
Speaker 1: back and he's pitching, well, that's gonna go back up, right,
Speaker 1: because again it's it's dynamic when it comes to trade values.
Speaker 1: It's not a set thing and that's that's it. This
Speaker 1: could definitely change. So those two are ready their values.
Speaker 1: When you consider the five years of control along with
Speaker 1: top prospect statuses, Connolly Early was a top fifty prospect
Speaker 1: not too long ago. So when you combine the control,
Speaker 1: the status not too long ago, Connolly Early, more so
Speaker 1: the track record that he has been able to show
Speaker 1: you myy er, it's more ceiling at this point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is going to when you consider the whole package
Speaker 1: of every the attributes that I just mentioned, it's going
Speaker 1: to far far outweigh Hunter Goodman. That could definitely change
Speaker 1: next year. Both those guys could completely fall off the map,
Speaker 1: and then that could be different next year. So but
Speaker 1: right now, that's gonna be way higher than Goodman. But
Speaker 1: it doesn't stop there. Then you got Carlos Dervas. Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: Carlos Nervas has had his struggles this year, but with Narvas,
Speaker 1: he's got four more years of control. Is one of
Speaker 1: the best defensive catchers out there, so he already has
Speaker 1: a good floor. I mean, how many times have we
Speaker 1: seen catchers in the major leagues over the last several
Speaker 1: years you wonder, how are they in this lineup? Like
Speaker 1: Austin Hedges, for example. The guy couldn't hit the side
Speaker 1: of a barn, but he was a great defender and
Speaker 1: that's why he'd be in the lineup every day working
Speaker 1: with the pitching staff. Novas has been a great defender,
Speaker 1: so he's gonna have a high floor at a high
Speaker 1: value position. And then you consider the fact that he's
Speaker 1: got four more years of control. Yeah, he's gonna have
Speaker 1: a pretty good surplus there. It doesn't stop there. Then
Speaker 1: you know Kaysen Witherspoon. Okay, sure, he's having a down
Speaker 1: year in his first year. He's got a little bit
Speaker 1: of surplus because he was a first round pick not
Speaker 1: too long ago. There is still some ceiling with him.
Speaker 1: But when you combine the package here compared to Goodman. Again,
Speaker 1: this is not a knock on good Goodman. But and
Speaker 1: I'm and again I want to stress I'm not just
Speaker 1: focusing on the player. I'm focusing on the whole thing,
Speaker 1: the performance, but also the projections, the money. That's what
Speaker 1: front offices do when they're weighing trade value. And yeah,
Speaker 1: market value is gonna come into play too, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to up your bidding. I would be shocked if
Speaker 1: you saw a deal like that. That would be irresponsible.
Speaker 1: You should not do that. Don't do that. And I've
Speaker 1: already and I had a lot of people coming at
Speaker 1: me here today saying Robbie's a he's like a forty
Speaker 1: home run guy. You'd fit perfectly at Femway Park. I
Speaker 1: get that, Yeah, he'd be awesome at Famway Park. But
Speaker 1: he strikes out a lot, So that's gonna that's a
Speaker 1: bit of a red flag moving forward. And then the
Speaker 1: defense is kind of so so, so the ceiling is
Speaker 1: a bit of a mystery. With Hunter Goodman, he's definitely
Speaker 1: giving you some dingers. I love me, I love me
Speaker 1: a good long ball. We all do. But again, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at it from a surplus value point of view.
Speaker 1: I'm not looking at it from a player only a
Speaker 1: player performance point of view. This is not a good trade.
Speaker 1: This is not good and now, and I'll say one
Speaker 1: more time, I understand the market coming into play, and listen.
Speaker 1: If you want to go trade Marcelo Meyer Connolly Early
Speaker 1: in a package to go land a big piece out there,
Speaker 1: Hunter Goodman should not be the piece. You should use
Speaker 1: those guys value to try and get yourself someone like
Speaker 1: Zach Netto or you, I mean Shae Langliers. Because he
Speaker 1: only has a couple more years of control left, he's
Speaker 1: not going to have the highest surplus because he's getting
Speaker 1: closer to free agency. But at least in that aspect
Speaker 1: with Langliers, he gives you good production on both sides
Speaker 1: of the ball. The guy's got a cannon of an arm.
Speaker 1: He's got good power. That would still be pretty far apart,
Speaker 1: but at least in that case, Langliers gives you more
Speaker 1: upside again, Hunter Goodman is I would not be mad
Speaker 1: about getting Hunter Goodman. I don't and I get the
Speaker 1: trade deadline. You gotta get uncomfortable, but not like this.
Speaker 1: This is not uncomfortable. This is irresponsible. Do not do that.
Speaker 1: Use meyron early to go get someone like zach netto
Speaker 1: go see if you can pull off something for Shay Langliers. Shoot,
Speaker 1: go pull go pull off something for Hunter Goodman. But
Speaker 1: not at this price. No way. That's like going to
Speaker 1: go get like a PS five You know what does
Speaker 1: it cost? Six hundred dollars these days? And like yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, okay, it's a little limited out there, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: I might have to pay a little extra to go
Speaker 1: get that PS five, right, okay, you know, yeah, six
Speaker 1: hundred dollars normal? All right, there's like I can't find
Speaker 1: one anywhere, Uh, all right, I'll go eight hundred. That's
Speaker 1: as far as like that's you know, eight hundred, right,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna you don't go and pay fifteen hundred
Speaker 1: dollars for it, right, Like that's ridiculous. You don't do that,
Speaker 1: no way, no, especially if you can if one store
Speaker 1: has it, you know, has a PS five there, you
Speaker 1: find another store where you can go buy it for
Speaker 1: the eight hundred dollars instead of the fifteen hundred, you know, like,
Speaker 1: don't do that. No, please, like listen, no disrespect to
Speaker 1: mister Jim, mister Jim Bowden. But and yeah, I could
Speaker 1: see the Rockies asking for this. Of course you got
Speaker 1: to start high. But that's not what it should be,
Speaker 1: all right, if you're asking me what something realistic? I
Speaker 1: could see Carlos nervas, right, you know, could you do
Speaker 1: Connolly early Carlos nervas, you know, like this would still
Speaker 1: be considered a major overpay, but it's still in the
Speaker 1: parameters of getting a deal done, right, it would be uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: This is uncomfortable right here. So like maybe if you
Speaker 1: throw in like one or two like lower level prospects
Speaker 1: here with earlier nervas, then yeah, like maybe that could
Speaker 1: That's where you're at, right, that's where you can get
Speaker 1: a deal done. But no, you're not doing marcel And
Speaker 1: also that's another thing I want to say too. The
Speaker 1: Rockies don't need Marcelo Meyer. They got Ezekiel Tavar already,
Speaker 1: but then you got Ethan Holliday. Sure he getded up
Speaker 1: moving to third base at some point, But then they
Speaker 1: just drafted Tyler Bell, so like they already have a
Speaker 1: lot of these guys, so like Meyer doesn't really fit
Speaker 1: them from an organizational point of view in the first place. Yeah,
Speaker 1: could they use some picturing. Sure, Carlostnrvius replace Hunter Goodman,
Speaker 1: gives them a catcher. Sure, that's as far as I
Speaker 1: would go for Hunter Goodman, Connoley early, Carlos Nervas. That's
Speaker 1: already uncomfortable for me. But you could convince me to
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't do this, to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: but you could at least possibly tempt me. Right anyway,
Speaker 1: That's all I got for this one, Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: I got a little heated in that about that. Nope,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do that anyway. We're gonna wrap
Speaker 1: it up here, Ladies and gentlemen, Holy cow, were having
Speaker 1: the most positive night, and then we got into that
Speaker 1: and I started getting grumpy. We're gonna end this on
Speaker 1: a positive note. What a run for the Red Sox.
Speaker 1: Man oh Man Holy cow, this is uh, what a
Speaker 1: time to be alive. Want to run something we have
Speaker 1: never seen here before. Let's go for some history tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Let's go to tie that record fifteen straight. You got
Speaker 1: the Orioles here tomorrow. Oh yeah, we got super chats.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry, I'm okay, super chats. Here we go,
Speaker 1: super Chats. Let's go to the first one. Marcus fourteen baby,
Speaker 1: Let's go Red Sox. Love this show, Marcus. I love you,
Speaker 1: my friend, I love you. It's just it's all the
Speaker 1: love here tonight. Marcus. Thank you so much for coming
Speaker 1: on by. Thank you for supporting the show. Appreciate you man.
Speaker 1: Carl Thomas, Oh no, or Carl Thomin. Sorry I thought
Speaker 1: I saw Thomas. Don't do this to me, Carl, don't
Speaker 1: you do this to me. Don't you don't. Ah, you've
Speaker 1: done it, You've done on it. Carl Shaman reminds me
Speaker 1: the past few in the past few addings of Craig
Speaker 1: Kimberl in twenty eighteen putting runners on and then getting
Speaker 1: out of it, making for a various stressful night and
Speaker 1: Craig Kimberl, I think I think I almost lost my
Speaker 1: life back in twenty eighteen when Craig Kimberrell would take
Speaker 1: the mound that you know. I know you got all
Speaker 1: the health trackers these days, the Apple Watches, the Whoops,
Speaker 1: they track your your heart rates. I'm glad I didn't
Speaker 1: have an Apple Watch or a Whoop back then. It
Speaker 1: probably the heart rate would have been through the roof.
Speaker 1: Craig kimberl Hey always love me, kimber Well, Yeah, actually
Speaker 1: I had one of the best reliever seasons I think,
Speaker 1: definitely in Red Sox history. But he had one of
Speaker 1: the best seasons in twenty seventeen. Yeah, Shabban, he's getting
Speaker 1: a little iffy lately. You kind of wonder if if
Speaker 1: he's trying to if he's working on something. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. But again I mentioned this, like, I
Speaker 1: wonder if the front off like they are holding their
Speaker 1: cards close to the vest. They're not saying like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're buyers. They're not doing that. They're saying like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna see what We're gonna see where we're at.
Speaker 1: They're not letting the emotions get to them. Especially, you
Speaker 1: don't want to put stuff out in the media because
Speaker 1: then the other teams are going to see that right.
Speaker 1: So they're still going about it the right way. And
Speaker 1: I've said it before. I wonder if they get creative.
Speaker 1: You know, I would love to keep Chapman, but I
Speaker 1: just wonder if they end up doing something moving on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Craig Kimberrel oh Man, what have we got from Paul?
Speaker 1: Did you hear about Oh? There it is, Paul. Thank
Speaker 1: you for the super chat, Paul. I think I gave
Speaker 1: you about fifteen minutes on this. Yes, we did hear
Speaker 1: about it. And I quite the day looking at that
Speaker 1: one and seeing all the different responses to it. Oh Man, Paul,
Speaker 1: that was fun here today, Paul again. Luke Weaver for
Speaker 1: bullpen reinforcement. Sure, I'd love Luke Weaver. He's awesome. He
Speaker 1: brings just a good vibe as well. We all like
Speaker 1: to use the word vibes these days, but Weaver's a
Speaker 1: guy that's just he just seems like a fun dude
Speaker 1: to have in the clubhouse. And he's been great on
Speaker 1: the mound over the last couple of years. He's awesome.
Speaker 1: He has a good strikeout to walk ratio. He's very
Speaker 1: tough out there in the later innings. I would love
Speaker 1: someone like Luke Weaver. I do wonder, you know, again,
Speaker 1: if you end up let's say you move Chapman, I
Speaker 1: don't know, like do you bring in Weaver all right?
Speaker 1: Or keep Chapman and bringing Weaver to add to it.
Speaker 1: I wonder though, if they end up going for a lefty,
Speaker 1: that's where I could see maybe aj Minterter, maybe Brooks
Speaker 1: Raley from the Mets, maybe your reunion with Brennen Bernadino.
Speaker 1: I don't know, he's having a good year, but yeah,
Speaker 1: you kind of wonder maybe maybe Weaver could be on
Speaker 1: that list. I think we have caught up to all
Speaker 1: the super chats, ladies and gentlemen. I think we have
Speaker 1: all we have caught up on all of them. TD.
Speaker 1: Can Guerrero be the closer? I don't think so. I
Speaker 1: think where he's at right now, that's a perfect role
Speaker 1: for him. Like that sixth seventh inning kind of bridges
Speaker 1: the gap to the eighth and the ninth. I like
Speaker 1: him in that spot. I think, don't mess with that.
Speaker 1: Don't mess with that. If anything, ad a lefty to
Speaker 1: that mix to kind of help him out in those innings.
Speaker 1: That's where I'm at and where I'm at next is
Speaker 1: going to bed soon very happy everybody. I'm gonna wrap
Speaker 1: it up right there. We'll be back here tomorrow. Let's
Speaker 1: check on the game time one more time. We'll be
Speaker 1: back same time tomorrow, Ladies and gentlemen. Seven to ten
Speaker 1: Eastern time is the start. Ranger Suarez back on the man.
Speaker 1: We've been back right around the same time, Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: I want to thank all of you for coming out
Speaker 1: here tonight. Appreciate all the members coming out. Paul, don't
Speaker 1: do it, Steve, all the other members. Oh, ball Cap
Speaker 1: Sports was here. Jim are you still here. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you're still here, but ball Cap was here.
Speaker 1: It's going on, Jim. But the other members that stopped
Speaker 1: on by, I'm just making sure I'm not seeing any others.
Speaker 1: Let me see. Let me see that's all the members,
Speaker 1: unless there's another someone else put something in the shot. Nope,
Speaker 1: don't see anything anyway. I'm out of here. I'm gonna
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