Speaker 1: This week on Bucco banner. Are the Pirates a wagon?
Speaker 1: Let's get into it.
Speaker 2: Rock your one on one to see a couple of
Speaker 2: them in My tastes with he and my limit made
Speaker 2: because I let the way it tastes. Beth seats at
Speaker 2: the Pirates getting let me run the base. Yeah, my
Speaker 2: time is like my money because I can't afford to waste.
Speaker 3: Oh why fee is.
Speaker 2: Alloyers my date to my dates or to stick by
Speaker 2: the plate? Send the case, have the case from my
Speaker 2: race at my pace cleared brans.
Speaker 3: We're back. We are back, and go back. We have
Speaker 3: more number, a higher number in the wind calm than
Speaker 3: we do in the lost column, a much higher number.
Speaker 1: I would say, keep winning. Man, I don't know what
Speaker 1: to do with myself.
Speaker 3: You asked in the intro. Are we a wagon? I
Speaker 3: think we kind of are.
Speaker 1: I think we're a wagon.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Jump on now, because later on in the year, when
Speaker 1: we're we're playing meaningful baseball, we're closing the door.
Speaker 3: The power ship is sailing, its sailing down the Allegheny.
Speaker 3: It's low tide now water went down. Ships sailing if
Speaker 3: you're either on it or not, So.
Speaker 1: What a week it's been, man, between the National Series
Speaker 1: and the Oriole Series and getting to go back to
Speaker 1: the ballpark so much fun. Yeah, it's been a great time.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've had some pretty monumental moments in Bucco
Speaker 1: Banner history in our short time on this earth. It's
Speaker 1: absolutely pretty great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we absolutely have. I mean, first of all, I
Speaker 3: think we owned the DC Baltimore metro area now. Yeah.
Speaker 3: But other than that, Yeah, it was a great weekend
Speaker 3: at the ballpark. We're gonna be back tomorrow, which is
Speaker 3: to begin the next week series against Detroit. I'm really
Speaker 3: excited for that. But like if if the last two
Speaker 3: days were any you know, foreshadowing for what this season
Speaker 3: is going to look like, it's gonna be a long one.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable. Man, things are looking up. We got to meet
Speaker 1: some really cool people at the ballpark. It was kind
Speaker 1: of a who's who of Pirates Twitter shout out Sacks Boy,
Speaker 1: Bobby Door and Ethan Smith Bridge October Guys Bucks in
Speaker 1: the Basement. If I'm missing one, I apologize, But everyone
Speaker 1: was super cool, super friendly. It's good to build that
Speaker 1: community help each other out. But everyone was pumped to
Speaker 1: be at the park, even though it was snowing. I mean,
Speaker 1: we really experienced all four seasons and the home opener.
Speaker 1: It was wild. Speaking of the home opener, though, before
Speaker 1: we get into the game, I just want to talk
Speaker 1: about one thing. And this might be a conspiracy. I
Speaker 1: don't know people are talking about it, but the Renegade Dog.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, Yeah, let's get into that.
Speaker 1: Put out fifty likes, got like two hundred likes. I
Speaker 1: ate the Renegade Dog. I did it on camera. Noah
Speaker 1: Hailes eat it on camera.
Speaker 3: Yeah, come on, redo, we're calling for a redo.
Speaker 1: I feel like the reason I bring it up because
Speaker 1: I feel like I gave the realist review there was.
Speaker 1: And Noah Howles and Alex put out a video on
Speaker 1: TikTok and Twitter of their review of the Renegade Dog
Speaker 1: Hanna Mere's eight one on television today. Are they giving
Speaker 1: the general public a different Renegade Dog than they are
Speaker 1: the pirates Hire ups? Yeah, I think we need to
Speaker 1: talk about it. I think they're they're like, you know what,
Speaker 1: just throw everything in a box for these peasants and then, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, let's make the media. I think this is
Speaker 1: some glorious hot dogs.
Speaker 3: Rich get richer and the poor get poor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, it like they gave them these beautifully constructed
Speaker 1: foot long hot dogs and then they gave me just
Speaker 1: like a wet pile of dog shit.
Speaker 3: It really didn't look good. Man, prime example of incoming
Speaker 3: wealth and equality in this country right here at P
Speaker 3: and C Park.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what are we doing? Step up, talk about it.
Speaker 1: We need a rally together. But all in all, it
Speaker 1: actually wasn't that bad. Get a knife and a fork.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to do it on camera because I'd
Speaker 1: be crucified by the Internet. It's definitely if you're eating
Speaker 1: it at your seat, get some knapkins, get a knife,
Speaker 1: get a fork, enjoy it. But yeah, I mean, not
Speaker 1: much to complain over this entire week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that that gained a lot of traction, and we
Speaker 3: quickly realized, like we're gonna have to do basically stupid
Speaker 3: ship every game. Yeah, because it's it's gaining traction, which
Speaker 3: is funny. But I'm I'm excited and also scared to
Speaker 3: see where it takes us.
Speaker 1: It's gonna end. I mean, I don't know if I
Speaker 1: want to say this yet, but it's gonna end with
Speaker 1: somebody going into something.
Speaker 3: It's good. Just say it with me jumping in the
Speaker 3: Allegheny River.
Speaker 1: Ye, it's gonna I mean it wouldn't. It wouldn't be
Speaker 1: to our surprise. But I mean I think people are
Speaker 1: realizing we'll just do about anything if the right amount
Speaker 1: of likes hit that Twitter. So keep following us, see
Speaker 1: what other stupid shit we'll do at the park. We
Speaker 1: got to meet Zach Campbell.
Speaker 3: Too, Yeah, Scott.
Speaker 1: Why don't you talk about that a little bit because
Speaker 1: there's a discourse around Zach Campbell that he's like this
Speaker 1: terrible guy that he.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, yields balls.
Speaker 1: From children and pushes people out of the way, and
Speaker 1: he gets like a lot of unnecessary hate. And I mean, honestly,
Speaker 1: going into this game, I think we were on that
Speaker 1: side without even meeting the guy and just seeing him
Speaker 1: on the internet. But he was at the ballpark and
Speaker 1: we put out a tweet saying a hundred likes and
Speaker 1: we'll box out Zach Campbell. Yeah, and right away it
Speaker 1: got like over one hundred, so easily he found him
Speaker 1: and Scott heldecco.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so let's let's back it up a little bit.
Speaker 3: So it's funny. We saw him on the home opener too,
Speaker 3: and I was like, oh god, there's Zach Campbell, which
Speaker 3: is he reinforces our opinion that we were like kind
Speaker 3: of leaning towards the other way, right, and of course
Speaker 3: touches on the version of his three hundred home run
Speaker 3: would be you know, of course he's going to be here.
Speaker 3: And we we put out that tweet yesterday for the
Speaker 3: game two, and I looked at you, and you looked
Speaker 3: at me because we saw like one hundred and twenty
Speaker 3: two likes or something like that. I was like, we
Speaker 3: gotta do it, we gotta do it. Yeah, how are
Speaker 3: we gonna do this? So we knew he was out
Speaker 3: in left field. We walked over and we kind of
Speaker 3: game planned it there and we were going to do
Speaker 3: it like mid inning, like well no one while he
Speaker 3: wasn't like trying to pay attention. He after a third out,
Speaker 3: he got up and was like leaning against this hole
Speaker 3: and was like and we went up to him. We're like, hey, Zach,
Speaker 3: we introduced ourselves and blah blah blah, and then we're like,
Speaker 3: have a proposition for you kind of put out this tweet, right,
Speaker 3: and we told him the tweet and his head just dropped,
Speaker 3: like he looks so sad and like it was his
Speaker 3: reaction was really funny. I wish I could have gotten
Speaker 3: that on camera. But yeah, he was a good sport
Speaker 3: about it. He did it, and you know, he had
Speaker 3: fun with it, and he was very receptive and nice,
Speaker 3: and you know, wasn't wasn't what I affected. You know,
Speaker 3: you can feel I don't really follow him too much.
Speaker 3: I know about him generally, and I've seen him on
Speaker 3: the stuff on the internet. You can tell that he
Speaker 3: feels the hate because I think he said he doesn't
Speaker 3: have Twitter anymore because of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he got rid of most of his socials or
Speaker 1: he doesn't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you know, I mean that was sad. But again,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to act like I know everything about
Speaker 3: the guy. Just like our experience positive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and when we put the video out there,
Speaker 1: we've got a lot of positive responses. So, Zach, if
Speaker 1: you ever on our Twitter page or if you ever
Speaker 1: get back on there on social media, you ever listen
Speaker 1: to this, the response was super positive. People do enjoy
Speaker 1: the work that you're doing, So keep it up, man.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: My second though, well, Scott, there was a couple of
Speaker 1: other things that happened. Yeah, this week before we get
Speaker 1: into the game, recamps a couple of roster moves and announcements.
Speaker 1: When do we get into that real quick?
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's do that before we get into the games.
Speaker 3: I few you know of news roster management items here.
Speaker 3: Joey Bart was acquired from the Giants for right hand
Speaker 3: pitcher Austin Strickland. Don't know too much about Austin st Strickland.
Speaker 3: I think he was in single A. But Joey Bart
Speaker 3: was recently defeated by the Giants, and from what I've read,
Speaker 3: Ben has been working on a trade for him since
Speaker 3: the off season. Like this wasn't the first time they
Speaker 3: talked to the Giants about very part. It's been rumored
Speaker 3: too like that he was a possibility. So Joey Bart
Speaker 3: was brought in. He has some ins or roots. His
Speaker 3: dad was a football player at Barrel High School. It's
Speaker 3: not far from here. It's an owhipul and I believe
Speaker 3: he still has family here and he's grew up a
Speaker 3: big Steeler fan, big Pittsburgh fan, I think, in general.
Speaker 3: From Georgia. Was a number two overall pick by the
Speaker 3: Giants out of Georgia Tech. One of the best offensive
Speaker 3: catchers in the college game at his point, and he
Speaker 3: was supposed to be the replacement for Buster Posey. It's
Speaker 3: been kind of rocky. And then they traded. They drafted
Speaker 3: another guy named Patrick Bailey in the first round who
Speaker 3: kind of took over that role. So change the scenery
Speaker 3: was needed and to make room for him on the roster.
Speaker 3: Colin Selby was DFA not too surprising there. It's been
Speaker 3: kind of rough for him for the past year. So
Speaker 3: Joey Bart is now the second catcher on the roster
Speaker 3: because Jason Delay is also on a ten day IL
Speaker 3: and I believe they announced it as like a knee
Speaker 3: contusion or there's something wrong on the lower half of
Speaker 3: his body there, knee ankle is inflammation, inflammation, Okay, so
Speaker 3: Delay is on the tendl and it's Davis and Bart
Speaker 3: and you know this is a number one and a
Speaker 3: number two overall pick. So upside is there for sure.
Speaker 3: Excited to see that. And then in other news, we
Speaker 3: had Jose Hernandez recalled from Triple A today. He actually
Speaker 3: started a season team. I think he had the first
Speaker 3: save in Miami, right, first team Sea. Yeah, so he's
Speaker 3: a guy that we thought should be on the roster. Anyway,
Speaker 3: Ryan Brookie, we'll get more into that had a rough
Speaker 3: outing yesterday. He went on the fifteen day IL. Was
Speaker 3: that elbow inflammation I believe, So, yeah, it's not something
Speaker 3: you want to hear.
Speaker 1: I mean, roll the dice on it. It's usually elbow related.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So Ryan Brocki's on the IL. Josiernandez replaces in.
Speaker 3: But to us, it's like, yeah, another pen arm is down.
Speaker 3: But Jose Hernanaz probably should be in the bullpen anyway,
Speaker 3: Like he was a guy that we're kind of surprised
Speaker 3: wasn't up here. He was up here most of last year.
Speaker 3: Along with that, a lot of the minor league rosters
Speaker 3: all not a lot of them, All of them were
Speaker 3: announced this week because Triple A, you know, started on
Speaker 3: three twenty eight, three twenty nine, but all the other
Speaker 3: levels started on Friday the fifth, when we had our
Speaker 3: home opener. We had Double A, Hya and Singles, so
Speaker 3: we had Altuna, Greensboro, and Brenton all going at it
Speaker 3: starting their seasons. A week later, the four rosters were announced.
Speaker 3: We'll get into that later on the episode.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of stuff happening, but more so on
Speaker 1: the field for the Buckos because this week the boys
Speaker 1: were absolutely buzzing They started out in DC the second
Speaker 1: series of the season, on the road eight to four buckos.
Speaker 1: Mark O Gonzalez took the mound five innings, pitch for hits,
Speaker 1: one earned, two walks, two k's, fifty strikes on seventy
Speaker 1: seven pitches. Marco Gonzalez has gotten off to an incredible
Speaker 1: start this season. I was listened to Shelton's postgame presser
Speaker 1: today the last game of the Orioles series, and we'll
Speaker 1: get to that a little bit later. But people are asking,
Speaker 1: are you surprised about Marco given his spring? He said,
Speaker 1: absolutely not. This guy's a veteran. We tend to look
Speaker 1: too much into results, as you know a fan base.
Speaker 1: In the spring, guys are working on specific pitches, getting
Speaker 1: the rust off from not pitching all offseason. He's really impressed.
Speaker 1: And if Marco Gonzalez is contributing at this moment, we're
Speaker 1: going to be just fine given how everybody else is performing.
Speaker 1: But the Penn did pretty well in this game. Chapman
Speaker 1: came in and he's been absolutely gross. Yeah for the Pirates,
Speaker 1: probably been our best guy. Yeah, Chapman, he's been lights out,
Speaker 1: and it's good to see that Chapman strikeout stare down
Speaker 1: on the right on our side instead of going against it,
Speaker 1: because that would piss me off so much. If my
Speaker 1: team was struggling and he's just dominating like that. You know,
Speaker 1: lucky to have him here. Royansey got a bit of
Speaker 1: a he had two innings here, and I got a
Speaker 1: bone to pick with you, Scott on this one. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you remember this. I mean this is
Speaker 1: earlier in the week and a lot has happened the
Speaker 1: line on Row. He did fairly well, okay, and I
Speaker 1: will say again the Buckos won this game eight to four.
Speaker 1: He came in two innings, pitch, two hits, two earned runs,
Speaker 1: one walk, three K. The swing and miss was there.
Speaker 1: His stuff was working. Scott texted me after his first
Speaker 1: inning of work and said bullpen Row like explamation. Mark
Speaker 1: in the minute, Scott texted me that he gave up
Speaker 1: a home run, so I said, don't ever text me
Speaker 1: ever again. So you could blame that. You could blame
Speaker 1: that on Scott em but there's been some really encouraging
Speaker 1: outings from Row. You can tell he's a little he's
Speaker 1: getting more comfortable. He's starting to buy into that role
Speaker 1: a little bit more. And given his situation that he's
Speaker 1: out of options. If this works for him, this is,
Speaker 1: you know, a great way to come back.
Speaker 3: Yeah one numbercent I agree, uh I that text. I
Speaker 3: was really excited after watching that first setting because he
Speaker 3: looked really good. The villa was up, he was ninety
Speaker 3: five ninety six better or higher than he where he
Speaker 3: usually slotted it, and we expect him to hit those
Speaker 3: higher numbers in one inning stints right, his festival should
Speaker 3: play up. He was spotting up well and then just
Speaker 3: a mistake pitch ninety three on the lower half of
Speaker 3: the play right inner part of the zone to Riley Adams.
Speaker 3: I mean he his strength right there is pulling that
Speaker 3: ball in that part of the zone and he crushed it.
Speaker 3: So one mistake pitch for Roe that that game. And
Speaker 3: you know, I've actually been really pleased with what I've
Speaker 3: seen with him so far. But Marco, like you said,
Speaker 3: Marco has been what we wanted him to be or
Speaker 3: what we envisioned, like perfect scenario, a guy that induces
Speaker 3: a lot of weak contact and is able to eat innings,
Speaker 3: throw a lot of pitches, and he's been super efficient.
Speaker 3: He's eight innings and he's been a key arm for us.
Speaker 3: I'd say in our rotation, so really excited about Row,
Speaker 3: I mean Row and Marco. And for the bats, you know,
Speaker 3: this game, the bats jumped on Mackenzie Gore roll early
Speaker 3: and he actually settled in around the end of the
Speaker 3: third fourth inning and looked pretty good. Like I'm a
Speaker 3: big McKenzie Gore fan, but the bats jumped on him early,
Speaker 3: took advantage of that. And you know, Connor Joe did
Speaker 3: what he's been doing at the beginning this is and
Speaker 3: he stayed hot and you know, played a role at
Speaker 3: the at the beginning of the lineup there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, seven for twenty one with runners in scoring position. Hayes, Cutch,
Speaker 1: Joe all have two out RBIs, which has kind of
Speaker 1: been the theme for the first couple weeks of this season.
Speaker 1: Hitting in greaton situations with runners on and two outs,
Speaker 1: not sacrificing an inning, giving up on at bats. We
Speaker 1: can go down the line on guys that hit. Everybody
Speaker 1: kind of participated in this game. Michael A. Taylor, We're
Speaker 1: going to talk about him a lot today, three for four,
Speaker 1: one RBI in this one. What an acquisition he has been.
Speaker 1: He should be the everyday center fielder. They haven't played
Speaker 1: him as much this week, and the reasoning was he
Speaker 1: had a short spring. They're trying to ease him back
Speaker 1: into it. But my dude is hot, and when you're hot,
Speaker 1: you gotta let the big dog eat. Because he is
Speaker 1: seeing the ball so well. He is such a smart
Speaker 1: baseball player. The defense speaks for itself. I'm really excited
Speaker 1: to see what Michael A. Taylor does for this team
Speaker 1: going into this season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this was his return to National's Park. I mean,
Speaker 3: he won a World Series with this team. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: he you know, three for four and RBI. It was
Speaker 3: I think it was the first run of the game.
Speaker 3: It was a hard hit sack fly the left field.
Speaker 3: And he's been on the base paths, in the in
Speaker 3: the field, not to play it. He's not. He's contributed everywhere.
Speaker 3: He's been a really he's been a big bright spot
Speaker 3: for this team so far. So I hope that we
Speaker 3: don't see him out for two games in a row
Speaker 3: anymore because he's someone who I think is gonna play
Speaker 3: a key part of this team success. Also, Davis, you know,
Speaker 3: he had two doubles this game. This was probably his
Speaker 3: best game so far offensively, and it just seems it
Speaker 3: seems like he's taking in bad habits, old bad habits again,
Speaker 3: and we'll get into that more and more as we
Speaker 3: talked about these these next games here this week. But
Speaker 3: you know, hopefully he figures it out. He's a hard worker,
Speaker 3: and you know, you gotta believe in a guy like
Speaker 3: that that works hard and as athletic as he is,
Speaker 3: that he can make those adjustments.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, I mean, positive side, the defense has been
Speaker 1: pretty solid so far. The guys seem to like throwing
Speaker 1: to him, so not too concerned. Baseball can be a
Speaker 1: streaky game. Don't want to see him get too far
Speaker 1: down in the hole. But I think the confidence is
Speaker 1: still there in Davis, although he has had some rough
Speaker 1: at bats as it's late.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this team, they won eight to four Monday in
Speaker 3: DC to secure the five and zero start to the season.
Speaker 3: They scored five runs in the last two innings. It
Speaker 3: was pretty exciting last two innings there in National's Park.
Speaker 3: But then we went into Wednesday because we had Tuesday off.
Speaker 3: It was a day day off, and we had Mitch
Speaker 3: Keller make his second start of the season, and he
Speaker 3: seemed to struggle again a little bit. Five and a
Speaker 3: third innings pitch eight hits, four earn runs, two walks,
Speaker 3: five k's. I think the big question here. I know
Speaker 3: there's been some experimenting with his the type of fastball
Speaker 3: he throws. He's been trying out this new cutter, and
Speaker 3: I'm I think it's time to scrap the experiment. It's
Speaker 3: not really working out. It's I'm not worried, but there's
Speaker 3: been some concerns here to start the season.
Speaker 1: Right Yeah, I'm not absolutely I'm not going.
Speaker 3: To press the panic button yet, but yeah, I mean,
Speaker 3: I think we need to figure it out. And you know,
Speaker 3: he go back to doing what you did last year,
Speaker 3: what made you successful, Like this is what needs what
Speaker 3: the focus needs to be going forward, is focusing on
Speaker 3: what you did to have a full season of two
Speaker 3: or ten strikeouts, secure secure you a five year deal.
Speaker 3: You know, Like, I don't think it's time to reinvent
Speaker 3: the will here.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, you're writing he doesn't have control on the sweeper
Speaker 1: right now, which I think his grossest pitch and what
Speaker 1: he's really known for its starting over the middle of
Speaker 1: the plate and finishing way out of the zone. He's
Speaker 1: throwing his cutter twenty seven point eight percent of the time,
Speaker 1: which I think is like three percent more than any
Speaker 1: of his other pitches. That's more than his four seam,
Speaker 1: his sweeper, sinker, curveball, and changeup. He's throwing the cutter
Speaker 1: forty seven times and the next closest is the four seam,
Speaker 1: So I don't again, I don't know why they're focusing
Speaker 1: on that, especially when he's struggling to throw strikes. He's
Speaker 1: struggling to throw strikes, and when he is hitting the zone,
Speaker 1: he's missing middle up and it's getting sheld. He's getting
Speaker 1: hit really hard. If you go on Baseball Savant, there's
Speaker 1: a lot a lot of blue there right now. And
Speaker 1: we've talked about it before, blue bad, red can be good.
Speaker 1: And where he is hitting in the zone, if you
Speaker 1: look at the charts, it is middle up and it's
Speaker 1: not overpowering. Maybe he's worried about that control, so then
Speaker 1: you know you're you're throwing the cutter with a little
Speaker 1: bit more ease, and it's really not doing what you
Speaker 1: need to do. It's kind of just sticking over the plate. Ideally,
Speaker 1: you want to get that cutter either in on the
Speaker 1: hands on right handed batters or you know, away and
Speaker 1: the zone start you know middle away and have it
Speaker 1: finish out. But again, not going to hit the panic
Speaker 1: on Mitch Keller right now. He's struggled in the past
Speaker 1: and he's been resilient and he's gone through it. But
Speaker 1: I would like to hear some reasoning on why the
Speaker 1: cutter usage is through the roof. Yeah, honestly, that that's
Speaker 1: I mean, when you're looking at twenty seven point eight percent,
Speaker 1: it doesn't it's not like a high number. But when
Speaker 1: you're throwing that that many pitches and that's your highest percentage,
Speaker 1: then it's like, Okay, what are we trying to get at? Here?
Speaker 1: Are we trying to get a feel for it? And
Speaker 1: if we don't have a feel for it, maybe we
Speaker 1: go to something else. The curveball looked pretty good, got
Speaker 1: some swing and missus swings and misses on curveballs, and
Speaker 1: then he kind of abandoned it. Yeah, So I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's a think between him and Davis or
Speaker 1: if Mitch isn't feeling his other pitches right now. Like
Speaker 1: he said, he doesn't have control on the sweeper, so
Speaker 1: maybe he's trying to work on one thing but not
Speaker 1: the best outing man.
Speaker 3: No, No, it wasn't and We're going to be at
Speaker 3: his start tomorrow at home, maybe his first home start
Speaker 3: of the year, So I'm really hoping that it's you know,
Speaker 3: it's a turn a corner moment for him. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I think it's obvious what the issue is. We'll see
Speaker 3: how he switches up here in the next few starts.
Speaker 3: But not pressing the panic button yet. Like I said, offensively,
Speaker 3: Sowinsky had a big game two for four, his first
Speaker 3: home run of the season, and he got his hands
Speaker 3: extended on a off speed pitch from a left handed pitcher.
Speaker 3: Don't see too many of those now, and he pulled
Speaker 3: it too, so uh, don't see too many of those
Speaker 3: from Jack. It was a big game for him. Not
Speaker 3: much happening offensively for the rest of the team. I mean,
Speaker 3: Michael A. Taylor did two RBI single in the second
Speaker 3: that put the Pirates up the beginning to nothing, and
Speaker 3: you know it just that reinforced his clutch ability, right.
Speaker 3: He's been very clutch in many at bats to start
Speaker 3: the season. That's why we want to keep seeing him
Speaker 3: in the lineup. But I think the big takeaway with
Speaker 3: this game offensively is that they faced guys like AJ Puck.
Speaker 3: They've faced. I mean, Lozardo was really good. But the
Speaker 3: other starters from Miami that they faced, Trevor Rodgers, that
Speaker 3: maybe have struggled with their command in the first start,
Speaker 3: and they were able to take that patient approach it
Speaker 3: I think Andy Haynes preaches it's pretty obvious. I mean,
Speaker 3: they showed a graphic on today's game. The Pirates are
Speaker 3: like way in the lead of amount of pitches seen
Speaker 3: this season, which can be a good thing because you
Speaker 3: can make guys throw a lot of pitches, right, But
Speaker 3: a guy like Trevor Williams, for example, Trevor Williams is
Speaker 3: going to overpower you, but he's going to fill up
Speaker 3: his own And I think we saw that this game
Speaker 3: that seemed like overly passive, too passive at the plate
Speaker 3: and gotta get your bat off your shoulders, man, Like
Speaker 3: I can count. I can't even tell you how many
Speaker 3: times I've seen it bats where guys are just sitting
Speaker 3: there watching pitches. I'm like, yo, that's it that you
Speaker 3: might not see a better pitch than that.
Speaker 1: This a bat, right if you have to go up
Speaker 1: there first pitch swinging. I mean, you got charts on
Speaker 1: this guy, you know what You're gonna get You're not
Speaker 1: gonna be overpowered, like you said too many times, where
Speaker 1: you're getting two an account within ten seconds. You know,
Speaker 1: you get up there, you're down to two. Then you
Speaker 1: got to be defensive. Yeah, and you know he has
Speaker 1: an arsenal of pitches where like you said, he's gonna
Speaker 1: dot the zone. He's gonna you know, throw some stuff
Speaker 1: that's gonna paint. And you know it showed. It showed
Speaker 1: a lot during this game. But we'll see how it
Speaker 1: plays out. I think we've talked about this for a
Speaker 1: couple more games after this this week of guys maybe
Speaker 1: being a little bit too patient, I'll say this. I'd
Speaker 1: like to see Henry go up there swinging first pitch,
Speaker 1: kind of hunting a fastball early in the count, because
Speaker 1: I think what's contributing to him maybe pulling off the ball,
Speaker 1: popping up a little bit, is getting down in these
Speaker 1: counts oh two and then kind of tightening up, pulling out,
Speaker 1: not really seeing the ball well, possibly guessing go up
Speaker 1: there and hunt fastballs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we know you.
Speaker 1: I mean you're going to crush fastballs. You might not
Speaker 1: get many of them, especially later on an account. Right,
Speaker 1: So if you're watching balls early on that are very
Speaker 1: hittable that you could pull go for it. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's directed or if that's just a hymn
Speaker 1: thing right now, but I think that's going to contribute
Speaker 1: to his success.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, I agree with that, And I there's not
Speaker 3: a cookie cutter approach to hitting or to anything really right.
Speaker 3: I think that might this approach might work for some guys,
Speaker 3: but some guys like Henry might type up when he's
Speaker 3: down to account. And I appreciate them having this philosophy
Speaker 3: hitting philosophy, and and it can it can work in
Speaker 3: their favor, you know, in a lot of instances, like
Speaker 3: it did against a J. Puck and in other games
Speaker 3: where they're you know, maybe teams pitching isn't as deep
Speaker 3: and they struggle on the command side. But it can
Speaker 3: also work against them just as much. And I hope
Speaker 3: they find like a happy medium. It's not just one
Speaker 3: all in one way, one approach. They need to go
Speaker 3: up there and hunt. If a guy is if you're
Speaker 3: seeing data that this guy is grooving fastballs down the
Speaker 3: middle to get ahead in the count, go up there
Speaker 3: and hunt a first pitch fastball, like seriously, jump on one.
Speaker 3: I don't. I never when I was younger growing up
Speaker 3: in baseball, I never understood the coaches that said, always
Speaker 3: take the first pitch. That's bullshit.
Speaker 1: Seriously, it's at a lot of levels, man.
Speaker 3: It's a lot of levels. I don't buy into that
Speaker 3: at all at all.
Speaker 1: The junior college that I played at for a little bit,
Speaker 1: coach was his philosophy was always you are not swinging
Speaker 1: first pitch, which then half your lineups down in the count.
Speaker 1: Half of the game. It's almost right away then you
Speaker 1: know the books out, hey, let's just groove a fastball.
Speaker 1: They're not swinging at it. I remember I jumped on
Speaker 1: like a first pitch fastball. I think I got like
Speaker 1: a hit up the middle, and I got in trouble
Speaker 1: because I'm not working the count. So it's not like
Speaker 1: it's not like a thing like even when you're younger,
Speaker 1: it's like a weird philosophy that is taught that makes
Speaker 1: no sense.
Speaker 3: No, and it's you know, it's one thing. First, a
Speaker 3: bat if, especially if a batter himself wants to like
Speaker 3: see what it looks like at the play and get
Speaker 3: a fill for the pitcher, but like second third of
Speaker 3: bat on the same guy come on. Yeah, these are
Speaker 3: data out there, especially on professional pitchers. You haven't a
Speaker 3: plethora of data data out there on these guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, I agree. Well, the good news is
Speaker 1: man the bats did wake up the next day Thursday
Speaker 1: against the Nationals. Martin Perez, he might be a dog.
Speaker 3: Was his thirty third birthday, by the way.
Speaker 1: On his birthday, Happy belated. My man was carving it
Speaker 1: up six and two thirds six hits to earn two walks,
Speaker 1: six k's. Mitch wasn't good with his cutter, but Martin
Speaker 1: is very good with his cutter. He's used his cutter
Speaker 1: forty one times this year on right handed batters compared
Speaker 1: to thirteen times on left handed batters. The numbers on
Speaker 1: left handed batters are a little bit more even, but
Speaker 1: that just kind of shows me he's mixing his pitches
Speaker 1: well and he knows how to demand account. He's being
Speaker 1: super efficient on this game. He threw sixty one strikes
Speaker 1: on eighty five pitches. He was staying around the zone
Speaker 1: all game. He was getting twenty two point four inches
Speaker 1: of break on his cutter. And again the book on Martinez,
Speaker 1: if he's going to get you soft contact, he's going
Speaker 1: to get you ground balls and getting six and two
Speaker 1: thirds for Martine Perez, it sets you up for success
Speaker 1: every single time he's been He's been really, really good
Speaker 1: to start the season, and he was good in the
Speaker 1: spring too, so it's nice to see that success go
Speaker 1: over to the regular season, and you know, if he
Speaker 1: can pitch like this, awesome. The bats were alive too.
Speaker 1: Connor Joe has stayed hot. I'll get into it in
Speaker 1: a second, but he had a home run to break
Speaker 1: the game wide open. He's barreling fastballs at forty eight percent,
Speaker 1: so I mean he's he's really not missing pretty good much.
Speaker 1: He's hitting three seventy five at that point. Question of
Speaker 1: should Connor Joe be playing every day right now, regardless
Speaker 1: of matchups, I'll put it out there. I think he's
Speaker 1: hot enough and he's a good enough of a ballplayer
Speaker 1: where you could probably find a spot for him, maybe
Speaker 1: other than Jacksonwinsky, maybe other than Rowdy Talez. Again having
Speaker 1: to play those guys, but stick with the hot bat.
Speaker 1: Michael A. Taylor three for four to one run. Cruz
Speaker 1: continued to hit. Reynolds collected an RBI on two hits
Speaker 1: to Les collected two hits. The pen was a little
Speaker 1: bit shaky this one, or Teas came in two hits
Speaker 1: to earn Chapman and Bennark kind of came in to
Speaker 1: close it out, but they almost got back in this game.
Speaker 1: But Scott, what do you think? I know we've talked
Speaker 1: about it a million times. With Shelton really liking to
Speaker 1: mix up the lineup every single day. It's rare that
Speaker 1: you're gonna see the same thing two days in a row,
Speaker 1: or the same position players two days in a row.
Speaker 1: Do you like staying consistent with the matchups lefty righty matchups?
Speaker 1: Or do you go with your hot bat?
Speaker 3: I go with my hot bat all the time. But
Speaker 3: at the same also in April fifth or whatever it is,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to stress too much on that stuff.
Speaker 3: Sure Like if he's changing the lineup like this in May,
Speaker 3: I'm going to be like kind of annoyed about it.
Speaker 3: And it's also one thing when your team is in
Speaker 3: a position where they are now right the last couple
Speaker 3: of years, he hasn't had the best of rosters. I
Speaker 3: know they get off to the hot start that they
Speaker 3: did last year, but he worked with what with what
Speaker 3: he had, and I am I don't fault him for that,
Speaker 3: but yeah, I mean there's certain certain instances. I think
Speaker 3: he's made a lot of good decisions this year. And
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna harp on lineups just yet. I'm not
Speaker 3: going to be that guy that talks about every single
Speaker 3: lineup in the first week of the season. But there
Speaker 3: are some instances like Michael A. Taylor like not playing
Speaker 3: for two days in a row or you know, uh,
Speaker 3: the differences in these lineups each day is like pretty
Speaker 3: pretty drastic. So I hopefully we see a little bit
Speaker 3: more to see mid season, but again, not not gonna
Speaker 3: think about it too much right now. And I do
Speaker 3: want to touch on Martin real quick. You know, having
Speaker 3: a guy like Martine and Marco and this rotation is
Speaker 3: definitely going to go a long way, especially when his
Speaker 3: guys are getting healthy, like a Mike Burrows, like a
Speaker 3: you know, Mike or Paul Skeins is coming up. Other
Speaker 3: arms that are are that we're expecting later on the season.
Speaker 3: I think having guys like Marco and Martin eat innings
Speaker 3: like they are and you know, I mean we saw
Speaker 3: it today and we'll get into it against the Orioles,
Speaker 3: Like that's a tough lineup to go through and to
Speaker 3: be able to give us quality starts every week. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's gonna be key for this team moving forward, especially
Speaker 3: if I'm Mitch. Keller is struggling at the time, and
Speaker 3: I hopefully I don't expect him to struggle all year.
Speaker 3: So I'm a big fan of what Martin's doing. Louise Ortiz,
Speaker 3: you know you touched on him. Came in uh an
Speaker 3: inning pitch, he entered into seventh. We saw the command
Speaker 3: struggle a little bit, but Chapman hold him out in
Speaker 3: the eighth. H He's by far been been our best reliever,
Speaker 3: I'd say this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, Bednar got his first save. He actually looked
Speaker 1: pretty good in this one.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Mentioning how Martin and Marco are doing well. And obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, if you get some contributions from Keller, I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously Bailey Falter is too. That gives the Pirates enough
Speaker 1: time to buy to quote unquote check these boxes with
Speaker 1: skeens that you don't have to rush them at that point.
Speaker 1: If you're winning games this week, you got four quality
Speaker 1: starts in a row from guys you do not expect
Speaker 1: to get quality starts from. Yeah, So if you're competing
Speaker 1: in your winning baseball games. You don't have to rush skins.
Speaker 1: You don't have to rush guys in their development coming
Speaker 1: back like Burrows. You could take your time, let these
Speaker 1: guys work out some kinks, let him gain some stamina.
Speaker 1: Pitching more than three innings. I think he's building up,
Speaker 1: and we'll touch on that, but it's really encouraging.
Speaker 3: Absolutely absolutely, And along with Martin giving us a quality start,
Speaker 3: I mean the bets got off hot. I mean you
Speaker 3: highlighted them guys, but like just we jumped on Josiah
Speaker 3: Gray from the start. His game was the layed an
Speaker 3: hour and I mean I think he gave up four
Speaker 3: earned runs in the first inning and right, you know,
Speaker 3: big big game for the bat bats. He gave us
Speaker 3: a lead or a cushion throughout the rest of the game,
Speaker 3: and we were to secure another series. W uh. You
Speaker 3: know we took two or three in DC. So two
Speaker 3: series wins on the road to start the season. Love
Speaker 3: that great to start the season, which led us to
Speaker 3: our home opener on Friday, and we came home against
Speaker 3: a team the best team we've faced. Right, we just
Speaker 3: our third team we faced all year, but like by
Speaker 3: far the best team we were working to face probably
Speaker 3: in the first couple weeks of this season the Baltimore Orioles.
Speaker 3: All right, we have Jared Jones on the hill for
Speaker 3: the home opener, and it did not disappoint in that aspect.
Speaker 3: Jared Jones was six innings, pitch, six hits, two in runs,
Speaker 3: zero walks. He I don't think he's had a walk
Speaker 3: this season.
Speaker 1: No, I don't think that's.
Speaker 3: Been the question mark. Right in seven k's he was
Speaker 3: the whiffs leader again for his second start in a row.
Speaker 3: He had twenty one swing and misses. The next guy,
Speaker 3: Tarik Scoble, on Friday had sixteen. He was number two.
Speaker 3: So two straight starts, his two only starts in Major
Speaker 3: League Baseball with twenty plus whiffs. I mean, that's elite stuff, right,
Speaker 3: He started a game with three. He just shoved three
Speaker 3: fastballs down, just threw him in the zone, and Gunner
Speaker 3: swung and missed at all of them. The meanest case
Speaker 3: strut off the mound and fucking P and C Park
Speaker 3: was going wild. It was awesome. We were on the nowtfel.
Speaker 3: I was like, Oh, let's let's go, let's go next.
Speaker 3: He struck out adly. I mean he was just shoving it.
Speaker 3: He was like, try and hit my fastball. I know
Speaker 3: my fastball can get out anybody, and you know he
Speaker 3: was daring able to hit it and they couldn't. He
Speaker 3: two bad pitches are I don't even know if there
Speaker 3: are bad pitches, to be honest with you. A really
Speaker 3: talented offense. Ron O'Hearn and Gunnar Henderson were the only
Speaker 3: runs they hit sales, solo homers up of him. But
Speaker 3: he looked impressive. Again, he can't be mad about. Jared
Speaker 3: Jones is out and he looked really good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, he is, like, you've touched on this many
Speaker 1: times before. He is Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: Yeah it.
Speaker 1: It was thirty degrees outside.
Speaker 3: And my callie boy too. I just want to throw
Speaker 3: it out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, California guy coming out in thirty degree weather.
Speaker 1: It was snowing for a couple innings of the game,
Speaker 1: freezing wind. The elements were terrible. No sleeves, no undershirt.
Speaker 1: My man was letting the chest hair flow, and he
Speaker 1: was going out there. He's like, Hey, I'm better than you,
Speaker 1: and I know it. I don't care if this is
Speaker 1: my home opener debut. I'm gonna I'm gonna throw fuck
Speaker 1: you fastballs by you and you, you know, try and
Speaker 1: hit it. The confidence is through the roof. He threw
Speaker 1: sixty three strikes on eighty pitches. Unfortunately, he didn't get
Speaker 1: the run support in this one. It was a tough
Speaker 1: game all around with the weather. Like we said earlier,
Speaker 1: he kind of experienced all four seasons in nine innings here.
Speaker 1: But it is he is awesome to watch in person.
Speaker 1: It's electric.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he really is. Uh, he's gonna I'm just imagining
Speaker 3: a playoff game at panc Bark with him and it's
Speaker 3: it's gonna be jumping. There might be an earthquake in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie, but no, he he looked great.
Speaker 3: Jared Jones is here to stay and I'm already looking
Speaker 3: forward to his next start, whenever that is. I don't
Speaker 3: think it's in Pittsburgh. Unfortunately, we also had Ryan Brooke
Speaker 3: had a rough start, which we touched on led to
Speaker 3: the il he had. He only got one out, three hits,
Speaker 3: two in runs. Then Hunter Shretton came in bought him out.
Speaker 3: Rosey looked good again. One inning pitched, one hit, no runs,
Speaker 3: one k. Solid. He's inducing a lot of contact, like whatever,
Speaker 3: just get out man, he's getting out. But I think
Speaker 3: the star of the game was Oail Cruise right, three
Speaker 3: for four, hit, a home run, and RBI. I think
Speaker 3: the plus with him is that he's been going to
Speaker 3: all fields to start the season. I mean, he's just
Speaker 3: getting just spraying the ball everywhere, and he's definitely been
Speaker 3: probably our most consistent bad next the key.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I brought that up to you during the game.
Speaker 1: It seems like every O'Neill Cruise hit this year has
Speaker 1: kind of been like a poked single out to left field.
Speaker 1: His approach is significantly better at the plate. I think
Speaker 1: he's only second in the league on opposite field hits,
Speaker 1: So it kind of shows the difference of what I
Speaker 1: like to think of is like Gregory Planco, Right, you
Speaker 1: get like that big body, long arms, you kind of
Speaker 1: worry about how that bat's going to work through the zone,
Speaker 1: and Polanco struggled with it, right, I mean Planco had
Speaker 1: a lot of struggles. And I'm not saying Gregory Polanco
Speaker 1: and O'Neill Cruise are even in the same stratosphere, but
Speaker 1: I like to compare the body type and maybe the
Speaker 1: earlier concerns in the career career of O'Neil Cruz and
Speaker 1: it just looks like he has I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was the time off last year or the work
Speaker 1: he's put in the offseason, but the approach is excellent.
Speaker 1: There's not as many swings and misses. He's hitting line
Speaker 1: drive singles. He doesn't need the big swing every single
Speaker 1: at that because guess what, if he makes contact, it's
Speaker 1: going to be hit hard, and every everything he hits
Speaker 1: has the potential to get out of the park if
Speaker 1: he gets the right launch angle on it. So it's
Speaker 1: really encouraging to see a guy that you're going to
Speaker 1: have in your leadoff spot or potentially in the middle
Speaker 1: of your lineup have that type of success where it's
Speaker 1: this is not just going to be he he's either
Speaker 1: going to hit in the gap or hit it into
Speaker 1: the alleghany or where it's a strikeout. He's working counts.
Speaker 1: Even when he's down oh two, he's able to get
Speaker 1: the barrel on the ball. Yeah, So it's a he's
Speaker 1: a superstar in the making.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he absolutely is. He absolutely is. He's uh, he's
Speaker 3: done really well to start the season that he's gone
Speaker 3: off to a fast start, and it's good to see
Speaker 3: him back in this lineup. That's I think I think
Speaker 3: everyone would agree with that. We also had Jared Triolo.
Speaker 3: I mean, Jared Triollo blasted his first time run of
Speaker 3: the season into the bullpen. It was a deep point.
Speaker 3: You don't think of Triolo hitting monster shots like it's
Speaker 3: a deep part of the field. And he jumped on
Speaker 3: that ball off of Grayson Rodriguez. Good to see. Bad
Speaker 3: news was that Hank back to bad habits? Three k's yeah, man,
Speaker 3: I don't know. We talked about this. We broke it
Speaker 3: down in the spring about how he's pulling off and
Speaker 3: opening up, flying open, and that maybe he resourced to
Speaker 3: that when he's in a bad count, don't. I'm not sure,
Speaker 3: but he seems so much more focused in spring, and
Speaker 3: he seemed to break a lot of those habits and
Speaker 3: the front foot was staying down longer, and it just
Speaker 3: looks like the old bad habits. And it's it's week one.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna start freaking out, but we need we
Speaker 3: definitely he needs to correct that.
Speaker 1: It's a small sample size and you expect to get
Speaker 1: power off the bat of Hank. You look at the
Speaker 1: body type, you look at at what he's provided in
Speaker 1: the past, and the highlights have been you know, those
Speaker 1: big home runs are hitting the ball hard. He did
Speaker 1: hit the to his credit, the first couple of games.
Speaker 1: He hit the ball very hard, and he was unfortunate.
Speaker 1: He hid in some line drives right to third base.
Speaker 1: Just didn't get lucky. So be it. But there's a
Speaker 1: difference between that and when you're just not putting the
Speaker 1: ball and play at all. We joke around about babbit
Speaker 1: a lot, but you got to put the ball in
Speaker 1: play for good things to happen. And you know you
Speaker 1: get that with guys like Triolo. It you know, you
Speaker 1: allow for the other side to make mistakes. He allow
Speaker 1: for those blop singles. Let me go back real quick.
Speaker 1: We interviewed Dorin Dickerson during the game. Unfortunately, the sound
Speaker 1: on the MIC's cut out. I think they died. It's
Speaker 1: just an interview of him talking and it's completely mute.
Speaker 1: His Pirates MVP for this year was Jared Triolo, and
Speaker 1: about a minute after he said that, Triolo hit that
Speaker 1: home run. That's probably the only positive offensive production we
Speaker 1: had in this game. They were one for five with
Speaker 1: runners in scoring position. They didn't really have many runners
Speaker 1: in scoring position to begin with but kind of a
Speaker 1: little bit of validation for a Scottie. I know, seriously,
Speaker 1: we're not the only We're not the only ones that
Speaker 1: are obsessed with Other.
Speaker 3: People that believe in are also say Dorn Dickerson, Jaredrey,
Speaker 3: I did believe in Dorton Dickerson once upon a time.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, right, Dorn's a nice guy. We appreciate
Speaker 1: him joining us. Hopefully we can get him on the
Speaker 1: mics when uh they do not die. And it is
Speaker 1: not a silent interview, but it kind of it was
Speaker 1: an interesting way to see how the Boys are going
Speaker 1: to balance it back off a home opener where things
Speaker 1: didn't really go their way. Right, Yeah, you have a
Speaker 1: good Orioles team come into town. The weather wasn't great.
Speaker 1: The Boys drop a game, second loss of the season.
Speaker 1: But Saturday did not disappoint, and it had every opportunity
Speaker 1: to disappoint.
Speaker 3: Dude, we went to the ballpark. We're like, all right,
Speaker 3: we're going to watch Bailey Falter pitch against the Orioles.
Speaker 3: We're sick, we're seaty, we're ready. Nothing kept for us.
Speaker 1: We're demented. Bailey Falter was on the mound. There was
Speaker 1: no Cutch in this lineup. No Henry Davis in this lineup,
Speaker 1: No Michael A. Taylor in this lineup. It was a
Speaker 1: recipe for disaster, right. And then Bailey Falter goes out
Speaker 1: there and throws six ins pitch, one hit, no runs,
Speaker 1: one walk, one K, fifty three strikes on seventy eight pitches.
Speaker 1: He looked very very good. No nice guy, Bailey Falter.
Speaker 1: I mean you feel bad for the guy. Nothing has
Speaker 1: gone his way since the first time he took the
Speaker 1: bump on in spring training. He's been bad, very very bad.
Speaker 1: And to have that type of outing against an Orioles
Speaker 1: team where you go into the series probably thinking, hey,
Speaker 1: if we grab one win, that's a victory, right, and
Speaker 1: to go out there and shove like that, I mean again,
Speaker 1: one strikeout, not really blowing the ball by anybody, but
Speaker 1: to allow for your defense to work and go out
Speaker 1: there and just be consistent. Incredible. He had a no hitter, Yeah,
Speaker 1: going to the sixth inning. I can get into that
Speaker 1: now because I have some thoughts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I go, why did he not get the no hitter?
Speaker 1: Please tell us and pirates Twitter listen up. I might
Speaker 1: be referring to a very select individual on pilot pirates Twitter.
Speaker 1: But for you guys that do not know baseball, Okay,
Speaker 1: I saw a lot of tweets out there saying Alika
Speaker 1: Williams thought, or like, how could he not catch that?
Speaker 1: There's a chain of command in baseball. Okay, let's start
Speaker 1: with the outfield first. The center fielder commands the outfield.
Speaker 1: He gets to call off your left field or your
Speaker 1: right field if he has the right angle to the ball.
Speaker 1: He also calls off the middle infielders that are converging
Speaker 1: on a ball that's blooped between him in the infield. Okay, shortstop,
Speaker 1: we go to the infield. Shortstop generally has command of
Speaker 1: the infield. The middle infielders have command over your corner infielders,
Speaker 1: and your corner infielders have command over your pitcher and
Speaker 1: your catcher. Okay, so obviously the key is communication here.
Speaker 1: Bailey Falter gave up a no hitter on a I
Speaker 1: don't I'm hesitant to even call it a bloop a
Speaker 1: blooper because that implies that it's really hitting no man's land.
Speaker 1: Nobody's going to get to it. This was just a
Speaker 1: run of the mill fly ball that Alika Williams is
Speaker 1: running out on and as a middle infielder or just
Speaker 1: an infielder. Generally, if there's a ball hit over your
Speaker 1: head and you think you have a shot at getting
Speaker 1: to it, you were supposed to pursue that ball until
Speaker 1: you were called off. Alika Williams almost did that to
Speaker 1: a fault. I think he got too far out in
Speaker 1: the outfield where he's starting to wonder, why isn't anyone
Speaker 1: calling me off? And he kept going. Maybe if he
Speaker 1: doesn't give Jack that visual of him like running hard
Speaker 1: for a ball, maybe it changes. But that's not Alika's fault.
Speaker 1: Alika is doing his job there as the number one
Speaker 1: in the outfield. Jacksoninsky needs to call him off to
Speaker 1: routine flyball. He's right, he has the best angle, worst
Speaker 1: case scenario, or you know, if that ball is caught
Speaker 1: by Alika, that's an incredible catch. Okay. I mean he's
Speaker 1: at that point, he's in the middle of center right field.
Speaker 1: He should not be He should That he got out
Speaker 1: there to begin with is incredible. He should have been
Speaker 1: called off. Jack apologized to Bailey Falter after the game
Speaker 1: was reported. He said, hey, my bad, Falter said, not
Speaker 1: a problem communication, man, It's taught at a young level.
Speaker 1: Even the pros mess it up. Sometimes maybe you think, hey,
Speaker 1: these are these guys are just gonna make the routine play.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they even forget to communicate. But that is on Jacksonwinsky.
Speaker 1: Jack knows that everybody else should know that. Now you
Speaker 1: got you gotta you gotta speak up, man, you gotta
Speaker 1: speak up. Jack hasn't had much time in centerfield this year,
Speaker 1: but he's played there enough to know, you know what's
Speaker 1: going on. But let's not take let's let that take
Speaker 1: away from Bailey Falters good start. Unfortunately, Ryder Ryan, a
Speaker 1: week after we hyped him up and put out a
Speaker 1: hype video on the internet, did not have his best
Speaker 1: outing one inning pitch, one hit, two e in runs,
Speaker 1: one walk. Chapman came in and saved the day with
Speaker 1: two two k's and one inning. This game was going
Speaker 1: to be a save opportunity for David Bennar, and it
Speaker 1: was his second blown save of the year. Are we
Speaker 1: concerned with Bennar or is this too early in the
Speaker 1: season where he was hurt in the spring, he didn't
Speaker 1: have enough opportunities to get in game action.
Speaker 3: Hmmm, I mean right, I think that's gonna be what's
Speaker 3: said a lot is that he didn't get a lot
Speaker 3: of innings in spring and he didn't. Okay, that's fair.
Speaker 3: I definitely think that's contributing to it. But yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean it is a little bit. It's a little bit worriso.
Speaker 3: I'm two blown saves in the first week of the season,
Speaker 3: and it's it hasn't looked easy. And I hope, hopefully
Speaker 3: we're not thinking about this, you know, in a couple
Speaker 3: of weeks, but are We've had a lot of more
Speaker 3: impactful relief appearances from guys like Jose Hernandez and the
Speaker 3: worldest Chapman s Chapman to be getting save opportunities.
Speaker 1: Well, hey, hey, listen, that's a good problem, right because
Speaker 1: you know, at least you have a guy that has
Speaker 1: done in his whole career and is playing really well
Speaker 1: right now. I'm going to look at it this way.
Speaker 1: At least for the first month of the season. Key
Speaker 1: Brian Hayes has made three airs. Am I worried about
Speaker 1: Key Brian Hayes. Absolutely not. He's the best glove in
Speaker 1: the league. I'm not worried about Bednar yet. It's very early.
Speaker 1: Let's see how things progress. We have a good you know,
Speaker 1: He's surrounded by a lot of good arms. Another arm
Speaker 1: Josh Fleming, who again, I don't think it's getting talked
Speaker 1: about enough. Shelton brought him in to get one out
Speaker 1: right away, ground ball to first base, and he got
Speaker 1: the W in this one. He is just going out
Speaker 1: there and doing his job. He knows what he does best,
Speaker 1: and whether it's for one pitch, one inning, three innings,
Speaker 1: you can call him. This guy to do a lot.
Speaker 1: I think this is becoming one of the better acquisitions
Speaker 1: of the off season.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, I really like what Flemming's done. They brought
Speaker 3: him in in perfect situations for him and which is
Speaker 3: a testament to Sheldy's decision making, and and he's he
Speaker 3: hasn't let us down. And you know, that was a
Speaker 3: perfect opportunity for him to come in and against the
Speaker 3: left he get a weak round ball to first base
Speaker 3: and then the inning. So he's a good situational guy.
Speaker 3: I've liked what I've seen from him offensively though. Let's
Speaker 3: talk about another inser we talked about David Bennar, Joey Bart.
Speaker 1: The Bart chants were unbelievable.
Speaker 3: It was unbelievable. I mean, comes in, makes his first
Speaker 3: start as a pirate and first a bat hits a
Speaker 3: home run in the left field. All right, he was
Speaker 3: two for five today at a home run in his
Speaker 3: first bat. Like I said, double one two RBIs he
Speaker 3: was very impactful at the plate. Maybe this is a
Speaker 3: change of scenery. Guy, it's a low risk move, right, Like,
Speaker 3: you know, you're getting a former number two overall pick
Speaker 3: in the drafts to come in here and be your
Speaker 3: second catcher, and you should have should two offensive catchers. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that position shouldn't be a blind spot in the lineup.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the way I look at it, worst case scenario,
Speaker 1: he's not good, he struggles, you get delayed back, or
Speaker 1: you get YASMANI coming back, right, Who's I think a
Speaker 1: little bit off? Still, best case scenario, he finds it
Speaker 1: and you get to catch him what every fourth day,
Speaker 1: every fifth day, and he contributes to this team. If
Speaker 1: he is good, he's in upgrade over Jason Delay if
Speaker 1: the bat reaches even close to the potential that he
Speaker 1: had as a number two pick. Feeling, you know, he
Speaker 1: was put in a rough spot in San Francisco. Maybe
Speaker 1: the pressure got to him to fill buster posey shoes.
Speaker 1: Is I don't know if anyone's going to do that.
Speaker 1: You know, that's one of the best catchers ever.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Right, So good change of scenery for him. Coming back
Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh, he was super welcomed. The crowd loved him.
Speaker 1: He had a double later in the game as well,
Speaker 1: so I mean he was killing it. Speaking of Shelton
Speaker 1: making the right move with Fleming, I think he made
Speaker 1: maybe his first mistake in this game. In extra innings,
Speaker 1: bases were loaded with nobody out, rowdy was coming up.
Speaker 1: You have Cutch, Michael A. Taylor, and Henry Davis ready
Speaker 1: to go on the bench, all available, and you didn't
Speaker 1: use any of them. And keep Ryan in that situation too,
Speaker 1: who got a pinch it later on in the game.
Speaker 1: I think you got to go with one of those
Speaker 1: at bats. I know, you get the righty lefty matchup,
Speaker 1: and so I was collected three hits in the game.
Speaker 1: He was doing well, But in that situation, I think
Speaker 1: you gotta go with your guys and and actually, let
Speaker 1: me back up. It was a lefty lefty matchup, wasn't it.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they brought in Danny Columbae versus Roddy.
Speaker 1: High right, So I mean we're known for playing the matchups, right,
Speaker 1: and then Baltimore does that, they bring in a lefty
Speaker 1: to face a hot till as I think you regardless
Speaker 1: if he has three hits, you know what you're getting
Speaker 1: with Rowdy, right, he's not going to hit lefty as well.
Speaker 1: I think you just need to address that now and
Speaker 1: maybe putting Cotch, Davis, Taylor, Brian in that situation, you're
Speaker 1: setting yourself up for a better matchup. And Rowdy didn't
Speaker 1: get the job done, which led to two bad at
Speaker 1: bats from Truolo and then Bart to finish the inning.
Speaker 1: So you go in extra innings, bases loaded, ready to
Speaker 1: win the game to a big fat zero.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, Well let's start with like, you know, the
Speaker 3: bases were loaded, Allie walked and tied the game. Bases loaded,
Speaker 3: tie game, no outs, you should win that game. I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: there's no excuse. So I think that's where with there
Speaker 3: being no outsets where Chelty had a little bit too
Speaker 3: much confidence and Rowdy to be like, hey, he's been
Speaker 3: hot today, let's ride the hot hand. If it doesn't
Speaker 3: work out, we've got Triolo and Bart behind him, right,
Speaker 3: But it didn't work out that way. Two strikeouts, it
Speaker 3: was it two strikeouts the n inning after Rowdy right.
Speaker 1: Or no, yeah, Triolo and bart yep, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that's you.
Speaker 3: You got to swing the bat and just really bad
Speaker 3: at bats and that inning, that was a really really
Speaker 3: disappointing inning. But we obviously went into the eleventh and
Speaker 3: we had a walk off and it was exciting. Man,
Speaker 3: we stayed. I didn't think that game was gonna end, man,
Speaker 3: I did, really didn't, But exciting walkoff from O'Neill is
Speaker 3: a single line drive single to right field, and Henry
Speaker 3: Davis came around the score. He was the runner on second,
Speaker 3: so we got to w It was stressful and it
Speaker 3: wasn't pretty, but it was exciting in the less, so
Speaker 3: we got one win out of the way from the
Speaker 3: Orioles there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when I'll say talking about a mistake from Shelton,
Speaker 1: he made the right move. Joey Bart was supposed to
Speaker 1: be the pinch runner, the ghost runner on second base
Speaker 1: going to that inning is the last out, and he
Speaker 1: pinched it. Pinch ran for him with Davis, who runs
Speaker 1: hard and has sneaky speed, so maybe Bart doesn't make
Speaker 1: it home on that single by cruise. So that was
Speaker 1: definitely the right call, really good approach by cruise, breaking
Speaker 1: ball coming away, hooks it for a line drive. Really
Speaker 1: really exciting game. I'm glad we got to see that
Speaker 1: in person.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, for sure, I saw Game one and two
Speaker 3: we were at PNC Park, but today we were not.
Speaker 3: We had the last game of the series. It was
Speaker 3: one thirty five today we watched from home. We have
Speaker 3: Marco on the hill against Dean Kramer from the Oriols,
Speaker 3: And like we were talking about Marco on Martin right,
Speaker 3: they've been really good, eating innings and being efficient. Marco
Speaker 3: with six innings, pitch five hits to and run zero walks,
Speaker 3: four k's. And we were texting during the game and
Speaker 3: I was Marco's, you know, letting his ninety one mole
Speaker 3: on hour fastball right at the top of the zone.
Speaker 3: He's getting swings and misses. Like I'm not sure, I
Speaker 3: haven't looked at his spin rate on his fastball, if
Speaker 3: his vestal works for vertically like that like a Marco
Speaker 3: Estrada or that type of pitcher. But it was pretty impressive,
Speaker 3: you know, he just really had one pad inning. Maybe
Speaker 3: if that if I'd even I don't know if i'd
Speaker 3: even call it bad. But he looked really good today.
Speaker 3: Efficient was getting out inducing contact and it worked for him.
Speaker 3: And you know, the Pats didn't really back him up
Speaker 3: for a majority of the game, but I guess they
Speaker 3: did when it mattered.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, for the for the most part, he was
Speaker 1: lights out today. The fourth inning, he got hit hard,
Speaker 1: and I think that's you know, if he's going to
Speaker 1: get hit, it's going to be hard. He's not, like
Speaker 1: you said, he's not overpowering. One oh four point three,
Speaker 1: one twelve point one, one oh six point five, one
Speaker 1: hundred point one all in the fourth inning, Okay, And
Speaker 1: that was, you know, the heart of the Orioles lineup.
Speaker 1: That also there was an airby cruise that inning on
Speaker 1: the transfer. A lot wasn't going our way early on.
Speaker 1: But man, other than that, yeah, like you said, he
Speaker 1: was attacking the top of the zone and then just
Speaker 1: his case straut off the mound today was beautiful. Like
Speaker 1: he knew he he was on his stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he did. You could tell he felt confident.
Speaker 3: It was a good first start for him. I mean
Speaker 3: at Helm, his first start on the road was good too.
Speaker 3: He's had two solid starts to start the season. And
Speaker 3: it also helped that we had two solid relief appearances
Speaker 3: out of the pen. We had Rosey Contrez and Josey
Speaker 3: Hernandez combined three innings, one hit, two k's, no walks,
Speaker 3: no runs. Like you know, it's the that that is positive,
Speaker 3: all right. And Rosie was walking a lot of people
Speaker 3: down spring and that was his issue at the end
Speaker 3: of last year when he started to struggle. And Hernandez,
Speaker 3: I think he gave up the one hit, but like
Speaker 3: he he looked stellar to me so far. I saw.
Speaker 3: I was looking through the trip a box sports. He
Speaker 3: had a couple of clunkers in Indy before coming back up.
Speaker 3: But hey, man, he's looked good up here and he
Speaker 3: should probably be in this bullpen with Brucki out for
Speaker 3: a little bit at least going forward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot lot of good arms, A lot.
Speaker 3: Of good arms, a lot of good arms. It is
Speaker 3: a good problem to have, man, we have the next
Speaker 3: man up mentality and when it comes to the bullpen,
Speaker 3: and there's more comment Holderman and Mudgins here on the way.
Speaker 3: But even with the bats, like we talked about this
Speaker 3: a lot today, the bats we've had had some really
Speaker 3: bad abs, really bad abs, and I guess the only
Speaker 3: positives were really I think Cabrian Hayes hit the ball
Speaker 3: hard a couple of times, and Edward Alvaries who ended
Speaker 3: up walking us in the last inning. Alie, yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: which was a wild ending, and we can get into that.
Speaker 3: But like, really I wasn't too impressed with any of
Speaker 3: the bats today, just maybe those two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, it was. It was pretty pretty bad all
Speaker 1: around again, being too patient, getting down into counts almost
Speaker 1: right away, and then just not giving you know, a
Speaker 1: good approach to to shorten up or put the ball
Speaker 1: in play bad you know, down on strikes. Looking Triolo
Speaker 1: had a really bad one in a bad situation. But
Speaker 1: that I think that again, that that's the biggest thing
Speaker 1: at the plate right now is being too patient. Again.
Speaker 1: That could work if you know you're drawing walks and
Speaker 1: a guy's not really filling up the zone. But you
Speaker 1: gotta I mean you, like you said earlier, you got
Speaker 1: books on these guys, right, you have the data. You
Speaker 1: got to go up there and have an approach based
Speaker 1: on who you're you're playing in. For the most part,
Speaker 1: that bats were not awake for innings one through seven.
Speaker 3: That's not to take away from Kramer, because Ian Kramer
Speaker 3: has had some solid outings he was I think there
Speaker 3: he was there number one in the playoffs las year
Speaker 3: when they had some injuries. So, uh, solid arm. But
Speaker 3: you know, bad a just that does take away from
Speaker 3: the fact that there were some bad A b's too,
Speaker 3: just not really good approaches at the play.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he Brian got robbed. I mean he's in the
Speaker 1: ball super hard.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. That one play by was that by Mateo?
Speaker 3: Is that Cabrian the second baseman?
Speaker 1: I think that was Matteo, I mean Gunner both him
Speaker 1: and oh yeah, so that was Mateo. And then Reynolds
Speaker 1: got robbed by Gunner two back.
Speaker 3: Cabrian's got robbed twice. There are two plays this week
Speaker 3: that I think could be plays of the week for
Speaker 3: the Orioles. Yesterday, if you remember Cedric Mullins dive and
Speaker 3: catch on Cabrian Hayes incredible. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 3: how many guy men center.
Speaker 1: Fielders make that play that's to win the game.
Speaker 3: To win the game. Yeah, and Mateo's leadoff or matil
Speaker 3: As play at second base today was just stupid. That
Speaker 3: was a base hit night on ten times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a lot of good defensive plays as
Speaker 1: many defensive mistakes that were made today on both sides.
Speaker 1: The Orioles had a blunder that led to a Pirates run.
Speaker 1: I mean the Pirates obviously had a couple of blunders.
Speaker 1: O'Neil Cruz had an elite play at shortstop on a
Speaker 1: short short hop where he fired it over. So you
Speaker 1: got some positives to take away. The one thing that
Speaker 1: I think needs to be talked about, and people are
Speaker 1: yelling about Rebello at third base. We had an opportunity
Speaker 1: probably to either get guys on third and second or
Speaker 1: third and first. Early on in the game, O'Neal Cruz
Speaker 1: hit a ball looked like it was going to be
Speaker 1: out right, trioll Is on first base. He gets thrown
Speaker 1: out at home on an excellent relay. Let's not take
Speaker 1: away from that. The relay was incredible. Rebello sends him triolo.
Speaker 1: On the replay, you see him significantly slow down rounding second.
Speaker 1: A couple of things. One he slows down for either
Speaker 1: two reasons, right, and a lot of people are talking
Speaker 1: about the first reason, which people think, oh, he thought
Speaker 1: the ball he didn't have a read on it. He
Speaker 1: might have thought it was going to be going to
Speaker 1: be caught right. The second reason which I'm kind of
Speaker 1: leaning towards now. Is I think he thought the ball
Speaker 1: was going to be out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well I don't. I don't think it really looked
Speaker 3: like the ball was ever going to be caught. I
Speaker 3: thought it was going to be out.
Speaker 1: No, you gotta have the Yeah, that ball is either
Speaker 1: going to hit the wall or it was going to
Speaker 1: be out. I think he thought the ball was going
Speaker 1: to be out, and he slowed down, okay, and then
Speaker 1: he realized it hit off the wall, and then he
Speaker 1: kind of kicked it into high gear. If the ball
Speaker 1: if he thinks that ball is going to be caught,
Speaker 1: he's probably not continuing his momentum towards second base, right
Speaker 1: because he's got to get back at that point. So
Speaker 1: either freezes or he he waits before he gets there.
Speaker 1: It's just that combined with the disengagement rule. They already
Speaker 1: disengaged twice on that at that So Triola can get
Speaker 1: as large as a lead as he wants. He can
Speaker 1: get a running start, so you'd think he'd already have,
Speaker 1: you know, a head start to a ball that's hit
Speaker 1: very hard by O'Neil. You got to score on that,
Speaker 1: and then Rebello probably needs to recognize that. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: you got it. I mean Rebello's only job in that
Speaker 1: situation is to keep an eye on Triolo, Right, that's
Speaker 1: the guy that you're watching the relay. You got to
Speaker 1: recognize who's running, what kind of jump they got, hold
Speaker 1: him up at third. I know you're trying to get
Speaker 1: every run you can, but it was all around really bad.
Speaker 1: And you know that that's a run right there. We
Speaker 1: got no runs that inning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was really bad. I mean I I would
Speaker 3: lane the ladder that he thought it was gone because
Speaker 3: it didn't look like it was ever going to be caught.
Speaker 3: It looked like the outfits kind of give up on it, right.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean you're seeing Rebello like on the
Speaker 3: ground line, just like waving him home and like he's
Speaker 3: got that viewpoint. It's just like Traill was rounding third
Speaker 3: when the ball was down near in the second baseman's hands,
Speaker 3: like that had to be communicated him. And there's been
Speaker 3: a lot of base running blunders at third bases here,
Speaker 3: so questionable. Man, I don't know what do we do
Speaker 3: in Rebello. It's it's some bad decision making. I know
Speaker 3: there's been some people defending him in certain situations like
Speaker 3: in Miami where there were a couple of guys who
Speaker 3: went home on their own think to Henry Davis one
Speaker 3: but still a little bit concerning. But speaking of errors too.
Speaker 3: Just to end, let's talk about how they've won the
Speaker 3: game today. Wild play with bases loaded and all. He
Speaker 3: was up to the plate, hit a ground ball up
Speaker 3: the middle and Gunner Henderson made a great play on
Speaker 3: it to the point where he fell on second base,
Speaker 3: but Rowdy didn't slide and he stood up, which kind
Speaker 3: of probably helped the play.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And Gunner made this really awkward like try to
Speaker 3: heave at the first base and made a bad throw
Speaker 3: and that's what allowed putter Joe to score the winning run.
Speaker 3: And that's how the parents won. And it was unbelievable.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh my god, Oh my god, was
Speaker 4: starting to have some deja vous because it was bases loaded,
Speaker 4: nobody out in that inning started with Rowdy at the plate,
Speaker 4: which happened what.
Speaker 1: The day before. Yeah, so I was like, oh man,
Speaker 1: here we go again. No outs, They're not going to
Speaker 1: capitalize a weird call at home that got overturned right
Speaker 1: before that, where the umpire just straight up forgot what
Speaker 1: was going on. He's like, that's not a force out.
Speaker 1: He's safe.
Speaker 3: He didn't tag what the hell?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah he was. He was in no man's land.
Speaker 1: He was already home in his mind. But yeah, man, rowdy,
Speaker 1: I mean that's like having a you know, a trailer
Speaker 1: coming at you. I mean, the the girth on that
Speaker 1: man to get around him, and that's let's not I
Speaker 1: mean we could joke about it. I mean that's it.
Speaker 1: That's a heads up play, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely is, even if he meant to do it
Speaker 3: or not. Because you saw gunn of like try to
Speaker 3: like contort his body and heave it around him, and
Speaker 3: it was like that won the game, kind of won
Speaker 3: the game for us.
Speaker 1: Yes, good, Yeah, that was awesome. He didn't have a
Speaker 1: good at bat, no to in that situation again, but
Speaker 1: he made up for it. It's it's the little things
Speaker 1: that can win ball games, and we're going to take
Speaker 1: the w's, especially against a Baltimore team that could potentially
Speaker 1: be one of the better teams just in the entire league.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, their lineups stacked and they're breaking news. They're only
Speaker 1: going to get better. Yeah, with the guys that they
Speaker 1: have in Triple A. So for them to come in
Speaker 1: for PNT Park to be rocking all weekend and to
Speaker 1: get two dubs and to take this series. Maybe you're
Speaker 1: beating some fraud allegations early on. Right, Oh, you beat
Speaker 1: Miami who can't hit in the shadows, you beat whatever
Speaker 1: Washington team Orioles were like, it's you know here, it
Speaker 1: is like.
Speaker 3: Hey, the Orioles took care of business in their first
Speaker 3: two series. They played the Angels and the Royals teams
Speaker 3: they should be and they took care of took care
Speaker 3: of those series. Granted they were at home, but still,
Speaker 3: if the Pirates were supposed to be, you know, if
Speaker 3: they're frauds, the Orders should have taken care of business,
Speaker 3: you know, like it shouldn't have been should have been
Speaker 3: a series. But the Pirates fought. I will say that
Speaker 3: it wasn't pretty. They fought and they won the series.
Speaker 3: And hey, we've three for three on series this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, before we we end our recamps, I will say
Speaker 1: Roe did have an appearance out of the pen and
Speaker 1: he looked really good today and the villa was up,
Speaker 1: so yeah, it's also positive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he he didn't have like a strikeout, but he
Speaker 3: just got a bunch of you know, weak contact, fly balls,
Speaker 3: line drives, you know, and he was getting outs and
Speaker 3: the villa was ninety six ish. I don't think he
Speaker 3: had a I don't think the whole team didn't have
Speaker 3: a walk today.
Speaker 1: By the way, there was one walk. It was the
Speaker 1: last Yeah, Connor Joe, which was an incredible great that's
Speaker 1: a major league take right there, and that that gets
Speaker 1: you the ball game.
Speaker 3: Not many guys were laying off that bitch of the same.
Speaker 3: It's a very discipline hitter.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. Well, it was an awesome week in Bucco baseball.
Speaker 1: I cannot wait to do it again this week. Scott.
Speaker 1: Let's take a break there and then let's see what's
Speaker 1: going down on the farm.
Speaker 3: Alright, on the farm, all right, let's do it, Scott.
Speaker 1: The big league club has gotten off to an awesome start,
Speaker 1: but things are cooking down on the farm. This is
Speaker 1: the segment where we highlight everything minor league baseball, touch
Speaker 1: on some prospects, guys that are performing, things that are
Speaker 1: going down in the Pirates system. We're going to start
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis, and of course we're going to highlight mister
Speaker 1: Paul Skens Scott. He is continuing to dominate three years,
Speaker 1: pitch one, hit, one, walk, six, case five or more
Speaker 1: of his fastballs registered at ninety nine point five or higher.
Speaker 1: Exactly half of his fastballs eclipse the one hundred miles
Speaker 1: per hour. It's a grown man playing with little boys.
Speaker 1: And they even said the first outing was really good
Speaker 1: and this one was electric. They just went off script.
Speaker 1: Because the field that he has for the game and
Speaker 1: how he dominates on the mound, you kind of just
Speaker 1: have to let him go out there and do his thing,
Speaker 1: obviously within the parameters that they've set for him with
Speaker 1: his innings. But he's had twenty batters total on only
Speaker 1: two base runners, and he's kate eleven through six, So
Speaker 1: not bad.
Speaker 3: Not bad. That'll do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd say that'll do it.
Speaker 3: He looks like I didn't get to watch this start
Speaker 3: because we were at the home opener obviously, and like
Speaker 3: we mentioned before, a lot of the other levels, all
Speaker 3: the other levels started on Friday, and there were some
Speaker 3: big starters in the system and we didn't get to
Speaker 3: see this start from But what I saw clips on
Speaker 3: Twitter and everything, who just like, if not better than
Speaker 3: his first start, just looks comfortable and there's no doubt
Speaker 3: he could pitch in the majors right now. And that's
Speaker 3: why I keep saying, and I think Jonathan Mayo said
Speaker 3: this and Jim callis that they see him up here
Speaker 3: earlier or sooner rather than later. They predicted May third.
Speaker 3: I don't know where they got that date, but I
Speaker 3: could see early May that he is in Pittsburgh, which
Speaker 3: would be huge.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think they can weather the storm till
Speaker 1: then good things coming for Paul Skeins. Can't wait to
Speaker 1: watch him in his next outing. I think they're probably
Speaker 1: gonna let him go more than three, I would assume
Speaker 1: next time, and kind of expecting the same result on
Speaker 1: that same day, I'll say, uh leover. Pagero had five
Speaker 1: hit night. He's four h six in the season. One
Speaker 1: other guy I want to highlight and triple A is
Speaker 1: Michael Plasmyer. The name might ring a bell. The Pirates
Speaker 1: acquired him this offseason. He has some Major League phill
Speaker 1: I think service time with the Phillies. I think there's
Speaker 1: another team as well. He might have had a cop
Speaker 1: of coffee with someone else. But he's had two starts
Speaker 1: so far. The first start on March twenty ninth, he
Speaker 1: had four innings, pitched one hit, one earned run on
Speaker 1: a solo shot in six case. On the fourth of April,
Speaker 1: he had five innings, pitched, four hits, one earned, one walk,
Speaker 1: eight case. Guys, he's a lefty, not overpowering, same body.
Speaker 3: Talker, Yeah, Pirates have a soft tossing left in no way.
Speaker 1: I mean he's he's six two one ninety seven, twenty
Speaker 1: seven years old, so he's not He's not young, he's
Speaker 1: been he's been a pro for a while. He sits
Speaker 1: around eighty eight on his fastball, throws a change up slider,
Speaker 1: force him in a curveball, I believe, but I believe.
Speaker 1: He was drafted by the Mariners. He got traded to
Speaker 1: Tampa and the Zanino trade. He was assigned with the Raids,
Speaker 1: and he got traded to the Giants, and he was released,
Speaker 1: and then the Phillies selected his contract, and then uh,
Speaker 1: he elected free agency last year and the Pirates picked
Speaker 1: him up. Maybe a guy used to get a spots
Speaker 1: start this year. I don't think, you know, we're not
Speaker 1: thinking he's going to be a guy that's gonna throw
Speaker 1: every five days in the rotation. But good to see
Speaker 1: him have some success. You might see him one or
Speaker 1: two times when we need an arm. But he's off
Speaker 1: to a hot start in Tripa.
Speaker 3: Yah. Yeah, absolutely, he could definitely get a spot start.
Speaker 3: He could be a six man or you know, a
Speaker 3: guy that goes up and down if we need to
Speaker 3: start here and there. But yeah, I've known about Plasmi
Speaker 3: a little bit from when he was with the Phillies.
Speaker 3: I think he got a few starts with them. Yeah,
Speaker 3: self tossing lefty, like you said, But his numbers have
Speaker 3: been really good to start the season, which is good
Speaker 3: to see. So can never have enough arms, you know,
Speaker 3: usually I would say eight to a dozen arms you
Speaker 3: see getting started staring a season for a team. So
Speaker 3: it's good to have another option down there. I also
Speaker 3: want to highlight the top of that order. Has you
Speaker 3: mentioned Peggy four oh six? Top of that order is
Speaker 3: all have have all been pretty consistent. They've all I
Speaker 3: think they're all over like three forty three, fifty, Nick Gonzalez,
Speaker 3: Peggy Gilbert to Celestino, Jake Lamb, who hey, we need
Speaker 3: someone another lefty bat up in the big leagues first base,
Speaker 3: say something happens with browdy. Jake Lamb has a lot
Speaker 3: of experience and he's hitting well to start the Triple
Speaker 3: A season. So that's good to see. And then Quinn
Speaker 3: Priester just want to highlight his second start was on Saturday.
Speaker 3: He went four innings, four hits, tour and runs four
Speaker 3: walks three ks, so a little bit more walks than
Speaker 3: his last start and it was not as it didn't
Speaker 3: stand out as much as his first start, but still
Speaker 3: someone that we're going to be monitoring closely through the
Speaker 3: Triple A season.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, Scott, let's go to al Tuna because there's
Speaker 1: a lot of exciting prospects in al Tuna. They started
Speaker 1: an actor in this weekend. Bubba Chandler got his first
Speaker 1: start three and one third, four hits two and runs
Speaker 1: two walks four K's not, you know, the most eye
Speaker 1: opening line, but fairly fairly decent for his first start.
Speaker 1: Bubba has a heavy fastball and a gross change up,
Speaker 1: so as time goes on and he develops, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you're gonna see Bubba this year year, but
Speaker 1: he probably needs a little bit time, more time to
Speaker 1: mature and get some reps under his belt.
Speaker 3: That's a good test for him, man, he's young for
Speaker 3: the level. Double A is a really good test for him.
Speaker 1: He really is, and we've said it before double A.
Speaker 1: I mean, you arguably have better better talent all around
Speaker 1: in double A than you do in Triple A or
Speaker 1: any other level in the minor league system. So the
Speaker 1: confidence to put him there, I mean, they definitely believe
Speaker 1: in him. But he's not the only one in the rotation.
Speaker 1: I mean this this double A rotation, Like you said,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get out there to al Tuna. There, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of guys you're going to see in Pirates
Speaker 1: uniforms sooner rather than later, one of them being Anthony
Speaker 1: Solometto had his debut today, another really young arm in
Speaker 1: double A. Four innings, pitch, one hit, no earned runs,
Speaker 1: three walks, two ks. This is a high school guy, right.
Speaker 1: Everyone's been super high on Climeto. Obviously, we've talked about
Speaker 1: him a lot if you listen to the show. He
Speaker 1: had a pretty good spring training. Unfortunately, the one time
Speaker 1: that we did see him, he was coming off with
Speaker 1: the flu and he didn't have his best outing in
Speaker 1: minor league camp. But this is pretty good start, four
Speaker 1: innings too, letting him go for in al Tuna. A
Speaker 1: lot of things to work on, but a guy that's
Speaker 1: made his way through the system at a at a
Speaker 1: pretty quick rate. So that draft class is looking real
Speaker 1: nice right now.
Speaker 3: Real nice. For sure, that's gonna be one of Charrington's gems.
Speaker 3: Right Solometto ended in double A.
Speaker 1: Last year, right he got I think he did? Actually
Speaker 1: did not though, Okay, yeah, Bubba, I think Bubba. This
Speaker 1: is Bubba's first start in al Tuna. I think Solometto
Speaker 1: might have gone there at the end of the year.
Speaker 3: Not, yeah, yeah, well regardless, listen, regardless. They're both young
Speaker 3: for the level and so it's gonna be a good
Speaker 3: test for them. I'm really excited to get out Teltuna
Speaker 3: at some point. It's not too far from us, so
Speaker 3: we'll get out there see some ball. Their bats, not
Speaker 3: really anyone in the note just as yet, but they're
Speaker 3: off to kind of a slow start. Trace Gonzalez, Jackson,
Speaker 3: Glenn Matt Fridge or Jas Bowen is someone we really like.
Speaker 3: Curvin Pachard it was now the shortstop he was acquired
Speaker 3: for Jackson. Wolf Goodyear is a catcher. And Connor Scott
Speaker 3: guy we got from the Marlins. He was a first
Speaker 3: round pick. He was there last year. So let's go
Speaker 3: on to Greensboro. They have some guys. I mean, all
Speaker 3: of our levels have some guys. One guy that we're
Speaker 3: in particularly that we're watching is Tamar Johnson. He started
Speaker 3: to weaken in this first series, going two for thirteen
Speaker 3: with four k's, so not the hottest start, but you know,
Speaker 3: we'll be watching him closely. Some arms that are really interesting.
Speaker 3: The top of the rotation. Hunter Barco started on Friday,
Speaker 3: went three innings, no runs, no hits in six k's.
Speaker 3: He's a guy that we really liked from the spring game.
Speaker 3: And also Patrick Riley went Saturday. He was three point
Speaker 3: one innings, four hits, two and runs in eight k's. Man,
Speaker 3: he can miss bats. It's just a matter of he
Speaker 3: only had one walk, so that's that's a plus. It's
Speaker 3: a matter of Kene throw strikes. Barko and Riley are
Speaker 3: two future arms for this organization, and not enough people
Speaker 3: are talking about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and pitching in Greensboro is not easy. It is
Speaker 1: not a picture friendly.
Speaker 3: That's what I've heard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, a lot of a lot of home runs.
Speaker 1: So they they say, if a guy's hitting a lot
Speaker 1: of home runs in Greensboro, take it with a grand salt.
Speaker 1: But Hunter Barco is a college arm. I believe he
Speaker 1: had TJ, he had Tommy John and he had to
Speaker 1: sit out for a while, so it's nice to see
Speaker 1: him have success. He definitely has stuff. And like you said,
Speaker 1: if Patrick Riley can control get his control going, then
Speaker 1: that's a lot of arm talent right there. I'd say
Speaker 1: arguably Greensboro probably has the most bats out of all
Speaker 1: the system.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent. I mean they've got Jackie brand again,
Speaker 3: Mitch jeb Blonnie White, Josiah Siler someone that Evan Smith
Speaker 3: mentioned to us this weekend from locked On or Ethan Smith, Sorry,
Speaker 3: Josiah Seiler is someone that Ethan Smith from locked On
Speaker 3: mentioned to us this weekend that he really likes the
Speaker 3: first baseman, Charles McAdoo, Rodolph and Alaska Hudsonhead, Michael Scotto,
Speaker 3: Michael sianni All, a lot of bats, a lot of names,
Speaker 3: and the Lonnie White has impressed, I guess to start
Speaker 3: the season. Two three run homers to start the year
Speaker 3: and one today. Jackie Branagan had a three run homer today.
Speaker 3: Three RBI is a stolen base, Like that's we talked
Speaker 3: about Jackie bran again after the spring breakout game, Like
Speaker 3: that's the skill set there is on power speed. Like
Speaker 3: he's got a very high ceiling, but a very low
Speaker 3: floor too.
Speaker 1: Really strong arm.
Speaker 3: Very strong arm. I mean he's gotten really out the ass.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a stud man. I think that's going to
Speaker 1: be a fast riser in the system.
Speaker 3: I think I'm watching Lonnie more though, because Lonnie is
Speaker 3: someone who's played like seventy total games in three years,
Speaker 3: and like he's got to have a full season under
Speaker 3: his belt, so really interested. I think if he's someone
Speaker 3: that gets going, they're going to move him and he
Speaker 3: hopefully he gets one hundred plus games under his belt
Speaker 3: this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, lots looks forward to in Greensboro and then Bradenton
Speaker 1: got kicked off Friday. Carlson Reid got the opening day start,
Speaker 1: four innings, pitch, two hits, two walks, six k's. It
Speaker 1: was a cute Yeah, twenty twenty three fourth round pick
Speaker 1: out of WVU. So that's a name to keep out for.
Speaker 1: Carmen Mazinski had a rehab start, win inning, pitch, two hits,
Speaker 1: one earn, three k's. I believe g one based down
Speaker 1: in Bradington as well.
Speaker 3: Right now, start today, I think I saw you get
Speaker 3: a doublet.
Speaker 1: But the two names that I really want to focus
Speaker 1: on here Scott and Bradenton, Michael Kennedy and Christian Curtis.
Speaker 1: We saw Christian Curtis make his pro debut debut in
Speaker 1: the Showcase game, and he looked gross and everyone was like,
Speaker 1: who is this guy? He replaced Solometo. He might finish.
Speaker 1: I mean, I would say he's going to finish the
Speaker 1: year above Bradenton. I think I think he's going to
Speaker 1: move up. People are going to be very surprised of
Speaker 1: what he has to offer. Three innings, pitch, three hits,
Speaker 1: nowhere and runs, two walks, two case. His stuff has movement.
Speaker 1: And another named Michael Kennedy. Man, this is a kid
Speaker 1: from upstate New York who had an offer to go
Speaker 1: to LSU. So if you're an upstate New York kid
Speaker 1: and you got a full ride to go to LSU,
Speaker 1: you're good, You're You're good. Okay. This is a lefty.
Speaker 1: We've compared him in the past to nasty Nester, very deceptive,
Speaker 1: it looks kind of effortless. He had three and two thirds,
Speaker 1: four hits, three year in runs, two walks, two ks.
Speaker 1: Do you do yourself a favor? Friend of the Pod
Speaker 1: Eric Garfield his Instagram, Eric underscore Birdland. He posts a
Speaker 1: ton of videos. He posted a lot of Michael Kennedy's
Speaker 1: start today and while the line doesn't look that attractive,
Speaker 1: the stuff is unbelievable. It floats. He has a lot
Speaker 1: of movement, he's deceptive. He picked off two guys today
Speaker 1: with his move to first base. He's super young again,
Speaker 1: maybe a guy that doesn't finish in Bradington, but they
Speaker 1: have some time to work with him, and it's it's
Speaker 1: really exciting stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, I'm excited for Christian Curtis and Mike Ken
Speaker 3: of all the it's crazy. Each level has have very
Speaker 3: impressive rotation. I'm really excited about it, all these rotations.
Speaker 3: But Michael Kennedy something to note there too. You mentioned
Speaker 3: he's an upstate New York guy, Like he's not people.
Speaker 3: Tim Corbin from Vanderbilt, the head coach of Vannerburg. He
Speaker 3: loves recruiting arms from the Northeast because these guys like
Speaker 3: don't throw year round. They're so like, there's so much
Speaker 3: projection left on this kid. There's so much you can
Speaker 3: dream on here because he's just so like he hasn't
Speaker 3: reached his potential yet. His ceiling or not even closed
Speaker 3: like a lot of these guys haven't. But he's in
Speaker 3: a Northeast arm that hasn't thrown year round for his
Speaker 3: whole life, and he's going to and I think there
Speaker 3: this is we're just at the beginning of what the
Speaker 3: Michael Kennedy era. He's going to be a hopefully you
Speaker 3: know not there's a lot of arms that don't pan out,
Speaker 3: but like there's a lot here that you can work with,
Speaker 3: and the and the you know, I wouldn't focus too
Speaker 3: much on I guess the stat lines, the box score
Speaker 3: just yet, right, So watch those videos from Eric Arfield.
Speaker 3: He posts a lot of stuff. I've been watching this
Speaker 3: of the past couple of days since Brandon kicked off.
Speaker 3: Very good content, but also some bats that I want
Speaker 3: to know if that are in Brandenton. Omar al Fonso
Speaker 3: as a catcher. Braylan Bishop was a guy we got
Speaker 3: to going away from his Arkansas commitment a couple of
Speaker 3: years ago. He was in that Lonnie White. He was
Speaker 3: like eleventh roar Od pick in that Lonnie White, like
Speaker 3: Henry Davis draft. He's just Castillo Garrett Forrester, Shalalon Polonko
Speaker 3: and Javier Revas. All names you should know, especially Garrett
Speaker 3: for is Garrett Forster. This is a name that we
Speaker 3: talk about a lot, you know, exciting names here as
Speaker 3: there are at all levels. I'm excited to be talking
Speaker 3: about the minor leagues in the next few weeks. We're
Speaker 3: maybe introduced like a minor League player of the Week
Speaker 3: here or something like that, once we get the season
Speaker 3: going fully. This was the first weekend for all three
Speaker 3: the other three levels other than Nindy, and you know,
Speaker 3: we'll be tracking all these teams really closely, along with
Speaker 3: going to Altuna.
Speaker 1: Super exciting. One other thing while we were recording, the
Speaker 1: Pirates did make a trade for a guy that is
Speaker 1: going to start down on the farm. Pirates acquired right
Speaker 1: handed pitch. The Royals acquired right handed pitcher Colin Selby
Speaker 1: from the Pirates for left handed pitcher Connor Oliver. Oliver
Speaker 1: was a seventeenth round pick out of Kansas City in
Speaker 1: last year's draft. Went to Miami of Ohio. This guy
Speaker 1: bounced around. I think he went to four different schools.
Speaker 1: Didn't really figure it out until he'd reached Miami of Ohio.
Speaker 1: But when he was there, seventy eight innings pitch three
Speaker 1: point eight nine era had a strikeout rate at twenty
Speaker 1: seven point six percent, walk rate at only twelve point
Speaker 1: six percent. Another lanky lefty uh six two one seventy
Speaker 1: throws low low nineties three fourth arm slot. So kind
Speaker 1: of seeing a trend here of guys that, yeah, the
Speaker 1: Pirates are gravitating to on the left handed side of things,
Speaker 1: so a ton of room for development. But this guy,
Speaker 1: for Colin Selby, I'll take that every single day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, a lot of you know, add arms
Speaker 3: to the lower end of the system and and see
Speaker 3: what you can get here, because we definitely have some
Speaker 3: relievers at the top end. And Colin Selby wasn't wasn't
Speaker 3: paying out, so maybe a change of senior will help
Speaker 3: him too. But anyways, down on the farm, we're looking
Speaker 3: forward to this every week. This gets us so more
Speaker 3: invested than I've ever been in the Pirates farm system.
Speaker 3: You know, I've followed prospects, but not at this rate.
Speaker 3: So I'm really excited to do this going forward. Let's uh,
Speaker 3: let's take a break and then we'll come back and
Speaker 3: give our you know, our hitter pitcher of the week
Speaker 3: and then talk about the week ahead. All right, welcome back.
Speaker 3: We're gonna give our hitter and picture of the week
Speaker 3: real quick. Let's start with pitcher. And we had a
Speaker 3: couple of names to pick from here. It wasn't an
Speaker 3: easy decision, but we're gonna go with Marco Gonzalez. We
Speaker 3: got two quality starts from him this week. He has
Speaker 3: eight innings. We we went through the whole spill right like,
Speaker 3: he's been inducing a lot of contact. He's been giving
Speaker 3: us innings, throwing, throwing well, hitting his spots, and Marco
Speaker 3: Gonzalez has been has been big for us, and I
Speaker 3: hope we continue to see this. He's two starts, one
Speaker 3: at Washington and one today against the Orioles. In total,
Speaker 3: that's eleven innings, pitch, three earned runs, nine hits, two walks,
Speaker 3: six k's. Like we mentioned before, when he gets hit,
Speaker 3: when he leaves pitches in the wrong part of zone,
Speaker 3: he can get hit hard, but when he's hitting his spots,
Speaker 3: he induces a lot of weak contact. I mean, I
Speaker 3: feel like that you could say that about anybody, but
Speaker 3: this is like been his his uh identity as a
Speaker 3: pitcher in the league. Right. He doesn't he doesn't overpower
Speaker 3: you with stuff. He hits his spots, he induces contacts,
Speaker 3: he's not going to strike out ten a game, and
Speaker 3: he's gonna eat innings. So Mark and Gonzalez quality start
Speaker 3: to the year. It's definitely someone I was worried about
Speaker 3: from the spring. I don't want to get too invested
Speaker 3: in spring stats, but he was someone that was getting
Speaker 3: hit hard in spring and I was a little bit
Speaker 3: concerned about. So nice to see him get those two
Speaker 3: quality starts against the Nationals and a really good Orioles offense,
Speaker 3: and you know, hopefully we continue to see the same
Speaker 3: amount of him going forward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of honorable mentions here. Bailey Falter had
Speaker 1: obviously an excellent start, Jared Jones pitched really well, Martin Perez,
Speaker 1: but Marco had two starts this week and both of
Speaker 1: them were outstanding. So, like Scott said, really good to
Speaker 1: have him on track. But hitter of the Week was
Speaker 1: also very difficult. There's a lot of guys that have
Speaker 1: been playing really well. Key Brian's been hitting the ball
Speaker 1: really hard. O'Neil's been hitting the ball hard. Kojo's kind
Speaker 1: of on a tear right now. But the one that
Speaker 1: really stuck out to us is Michael A. Taylor seven
Speaker 1: for fifteen three runs. He's got a double in three
Speaker 1: RBIs and this is not including sackflies. This is not
Speaker 1: including hard hit balls. His outs have been productive, they've
Speaker 1: been hard hit he looks confident, he's drawing good walks.
Speaker 1: Having him at the bottom of the lineup is such
Speaker 1: a blessing because when he's there, it really doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like there is any hole. Yeah, he even you know,
Speaker 1: it's basically like we've we've said a million times, it's
Speaker 1: having a leadoff hitter at the bottom of the lineup.
Speaker 1: And some people make an argument like, oh, I'd like
Speaker 1: to see him maybe get some more at bats or
Speaker 1: get at the top of the lineup. This is where
Speaker 1: he belongs. Like and that's nothing against Michael A. Taylor
Speaker 1: because again he's our hitter of the week. He's playing
Speaker 1: really well. But this is where he's going to thrive.
Speaker 1: He's not going to hit for average right now. He's
Speaker 1: hitting like the four hundreds. Okay, that's unless he's going
Speaker 1: to have like a Luisa Rise season. This is not sustainable.
Speaker 1: But if he gives you that type of at bats,
Speaker 1: those productive at bats, Neil Walker calls them quabs quality
Speaker 1: at bats.
Speaker 3: So I've heard him talk about that today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's going to be able to lay bun down,
Speaker 1: He's going to be able to steal base hits, he's
Speaker 1: going to be able to provide power. Obviously, you know
Speaker 1: we're talking hitting, but the of is always consistent. It's
Speaker 1: just such a nice way to turn the lineup over
Speaker 1: and then go right back to guys like Cruise or
Speaker 1: if you're hitting Kojo at the top, to roll it
Speaker 1: over that way. So he had two days off this week,
Speaker 1: but hopefully we get him back in the lineup and
Speaker 1: he's playing more consistently.
Speaker 3: Just want to mention he batted ninth and played center
Speaker 3: field for a World Series team. Yeah, okay, he won
Speaker 3: a World Series ring. This is such a night. This
Speaker 3: is I don't think you will realize the difference of
Speaker 3: having Josh van Meter or someone name any of the
Speaker 3: Pirates nine hole hitters, Austin Hedges the last couple of years,
Speaker 3: the impact of turning over the lineup and getting to
Speaker 3: O'Neill Cruise at the top and even having that speed
Speaker 3: on the basis when he gets on, it's huge, it's huge,
Speaker 3: and he's he's come up big in clutch moments. That's
Speaker 3: in the first few series, and obviously I was bummed
Speaker 3: to see him out of the lineup the last two nights,
Speaker 3: but we'll be there tomorrow. Mitch Keller is throwing and
Speaker 3: the Tigers are in town. I'm excited to see him
Speaker 3: back in the line up. Hopefully he should be the
Speaker 3: everyday center field or great addition. We broke that news
Speaker 3: live in Tampa we were at Georgetown. Rynderfield really excited
Speaker 3: about it. Someone we talked about all off season since
Speaker 3: we started this podcast. And you know, I'm really excited
Speaker 3: for Mike Waye Taylor. He's Matt as we call him.
Speaker 3: He is going to be a big part of this team.
Speaker 3: And hopefully he I know he got a slow start
Speaker 3: to spring, but hopefully he gets more and more at
Speaker 3: bats more consistently going forward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, excited to have him, Scott. I think that wraps
Speaker 1: everything up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, before we get going, let's let's outline this week
Speaker 3: going forward. Right, we have the Tigers short two game
Speaker 3: series here in Pittsburgh, so they're coming into town tomorrow
Speaker 3: and Tuesday, and then they have the day off on Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Four game series this weekend in Philly. I will be
Speaker 3: there at one of the games. I have family in Philadelphia.
Speaker 3: I'm going to be at the game on Sunday. It's
Speaker 3: the afternoon game. I believe it's gonna be a Mitch
Speaker 3: Keller game too. I'm wanna see Mitch Keller. Pitched twice
Speaker 3: this week. I just mapped it out. I was like,
Speaker 3: who's pitching it? It doesn't say and I will be
Speaker 3: at but I looked it up. So I'm really excited
Speaker 3: for that. I'm I'm excited to be at the bank
Speaker 3: and see the pirates on the road. But yeah, that's
Speaker 3: that's what we'll be outlining next week. That next episode
Speaker 3: will probably be Monday, right since I'll be away, But yeah,
Speaker 3: we'll definitely dive into this series. Two good teams that
Speaker 3: we're facing this week. But let's see what we can do.
Speaker 3: Let's win some more series and and continue this hot
Speaker 3: streak to start to season.
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