WEBVTT - Ranking MLB's BEST Division Races 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:04.560 Hello, and welcome to Awaken Jake myself Jake Stromboli BBD, 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:08.399 catching up on the world of baseball. I want to 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:10.320 check in on some of the division race to see 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:14.080 if we see any sauce there a little under a 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:16.880 week after the deadline, see what else we can dig 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:22.400 up from that. The other Okay, I was gonna save this, 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:25.560 like this was something to be saved. It's been so funny. 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:27.920 We've been looking forward to the trade deadline for so long, 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:31.880 like it's All Star break deadline. Who's in, Who's out? 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:36.800 We look at today, Monday, August fifth. If you remember, 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:40.480 this baseball season also started early. We got a March 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:45.559 start this year. Season end September twenty eighth, eight weeks 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:50.880 of regular season baseball right August five on the calendar 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:55.040 season end September twenty eighth looked at an actual calendar 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:59.720 eight weeks to go of regular season baseball. So still 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:02.040 a lot of fun stuff to be decided this season. 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:05.440 The NL wild card race has become a fun one. 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:10.319 We'll see if the al either becomes a couple team 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:13.640 race or does everyone come back to the pack. We'll 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.920 dive into that a little bit. The divisions are interesting 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:18.759 to me right now because there's a couple that are 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:21.240 close and then the ones that aren't. I want to 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:25.200 see what might feel closer than it is, and then 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:27.600 maybe a little Olympics at the end. I got into 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:30.480 it this weekend. I feel like this was the perfect 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.000 It was almost too hot out, so it was like, Hey, 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:37.319 let's watch actual live Olympics instead of the event of 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:42.000 the night which no shots fired at the Olympics for 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:46.399 running them later because I've still been watching. We'll do 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:49.160 the baseball first before we deep dive into that. But god, 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:53.440 football's common people. I got my fantasy football draft this weekend. 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:58.040 Daniel Jones has some facial hair looks really good, so 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:01.680 that's exciting. There'll be more that to come. Hey, maybe 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:07.000 comment if you might know. Let's see what would be 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.800 the comp here. It's tough because we work with Panic 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:14.520 and Bobby, who were really good football guys. But I 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.880 don't know if there was a foolish Bailey of football 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.480 that you guys wanted some content from. I guess comment 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:22.440 below let me know. We'd love to reach out and 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:27.040 interact with some good people because, as some of you 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:30.000 may know, or if you're new, hey, thank you subscribe. 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:35.560 Twenty point eight k subs now pretty cool. I'll round 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:39.040 up to twenty one. But yeah, with football, like I 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:42.640 don't have that deep football knowledge. I guess with baseball 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.920 I do and I don't. With baseball, I have enough 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:50.760 more than your average bear. With football, I'm very much 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:55.880 bar talk level conversation, which some people like. I'd like 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.480 to get into some of the Dvoa stuff and some 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:03.239 of that more, but a lot of eye test and 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:06.519 I love I mean, football's football. I've a lot of 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:08.840 people here at waken Jack may know. I thought I 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.919 was worried about losing football altogether because it starts in 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:17.280 baseball season, but that Sunday routine of it comes pretty nicely. Anyways, 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:23.240 what was that. Let's talk some baseball and checking in 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.480 on the divisions, and I want to start with my 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:30.919 al East, where the New York Yankees and the Baltimore 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:33.720 Orioles are lining up for I think one of the 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:38.800 more fun stretches we have seen my New York Yankees. 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:40.960 They just went through a losing stretch. It was a 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:43.200 bad time. They were the worst team in baseball for 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:46.480 over a month. We hated that. We've seen that in 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:51.240 previous seasons and it really really made us miserable. The 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:58.040 pitching gave out, gave out the bullpen kind of part 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:02.280 of the pitching that had given out, and the Yankees 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.840 had a deadline. I know we wanted more, especially when 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:09.200 there's Jack Flaherty rumors. Seeing Mark Lighter Junior has been 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:11.920 pretty cool. That's a guy that in a whole situation, 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:16.159 Yankee fans are feeling comfortable with. So that's a guy 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.360 on the back end of the bullpen. They also had. 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.240 Jake Cousins has kind of come onto the scene as 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:27.080 a perfect I don't know, six seventh inning, if you're 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:30.320 up three runs, I think Yankees fans would feel good 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:33.919 about him right now or down one. That's kind of 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:35.719 a key guy to have in the bullpen. Can you 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:38.640 keep a game close or if you're not ready to 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:40.920 go to your apen, do you have that. 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:44.279 If the game matters but doesn't all the way matter? 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:48.760 Good option, And him and Mark Lighter Junior punched tickets 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.320 out there, which the Yankees desperately needed in their bullpen. 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:55.800 So Garrett Cole, Yankee fans had an unnecessary scare with that, 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.640 and I don't think we're out of the woods. They 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.359 skipped to start because he's that he had tummy problems, 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:05.359 came out, looked kind of recovered well, and his velo 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:08.760 and everything was there, so like overall. 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.200 Like the velocity number was numbers were there even if 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:12.920 he didn't look his nastiest. And at the end of 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.039 the day, it's a five point two tour and didn't 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:17.200 walk anybody start. 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:21.440 Yeah, I mean in the rotation, you're hoping for more 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:22.280 from Coal. 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.279 By the time the playoffs come. I don't think Yankee 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:27.880 fans should be worried about him not being where he's 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:28.880 supposed to be by then. 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.880 Well, I think part of what's gonna be interesting there 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:36.640 is where is Garrett Cole at Rodin is kind of 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:40.559 surging again, which is exciting for Yankee fans. You feel 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:43.400 like you're gonna have one of Heel and Coal feeling 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:46.200 peak of their powers. Heel had a rough stretch, got 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:50.479 through it. Stroman has been deep on the struggle bus. 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.719 Nestor has been on the struggle bus. A couple signs 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:58.920 of bouncing back. The Yankee schedule really eases up Angels, Texas, 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.400 Chicago White Side over the next week and a half. 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.840 And I don't know, man, I guess during that Yankees 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:07.880 bad stretch, all these Yankee fans had a lot of 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:09.760 dark thoughts creep in. Because we've seen it the past 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.440 couple of years. It's pretty cool looking at their team 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:17.520 page today, Yankees first and runs first and on base 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:22.720 percentage second in ops. That's really good. And I guess 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:28.279 Yankee fans were pretty hot to trot before they started 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:31.560 playing terrible baseball. I don't know. There was just something 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:36.279 seeing Judge, seeing Sodo. Now that they've got pieces around it, 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:39.200 that something is gonna click, whether it's Jazz, whether it's 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:45.919 June Carlo, the next level of Verdugo Glaber. Austin Wells 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:50.120 has been playing really good baseball. It feels like Anthony Volpi, 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:54.200 my god down in the lineup. Anthony Volpi has been 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:58.920 a really good baseball player. And the Yankees some conversations 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.560 we haven't leaked into on talking Yanks yet. We kind 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:05.720 of did the tip of the iceberg. But there's reinforcements coming. 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:10.000 It's just we don't know what they are. Jose Travino 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:12.560 when he left, he was in a full time platoon 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:17.920 as catcher. Rizzo was supposed to be a guy. He's 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:24.640 kind of been supplanted. Is that a word supplanted, supplanted 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:30.040 surpassed maybe both John Birdie in a role I don't 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:32.560 know if you can get excited about that. Jason Domingez 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:37.720 the Martian. So it's gonna be interesting to see as 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:42.000 those veterans get healthy. The Martian is playing, and he's 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.400 had some good games and he would fill a need. 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:47.720 It's gonna be interesting to see how this Yankees roster 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:53.120 rounds out the year. But man, something about Judge and Soto, 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:57.360 Judge fully blown getting the intentional walk treatment this past 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:01.480 series was like, Wow, that's that's what we're watching now. 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:03.560 And the guy that hits in front of him is 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:07.800 just as good. So if they get any other support 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.800 from the lineup, which I think they've shown at this point, 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:15.720 they will excited about our Yanks, especially in an al 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.880 where things aren't things aren't clear. We've done the whole 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:22.560 Yankees Houston, Baltimore. We'll get to the central two. 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.840 The other Yankee stat that's kind of stuck out to 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.640 me as they're starting to come out of the bad 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.920 times and we've had a complicated relationship with the stat 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:35.320 but they have the best run differential in all of baseball, 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:39.240 and it's by a lot, like I know's there's a 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:42.679 few games and we've discussed it, like maybe blowouts that 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.680 should be cacked at like a six or seven or something. 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:47.840 But I think even with those, it's not like a 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.440 crazy number of or called like three games they won 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:52.920 by ten, Yeah, not a lot. 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:55.680 Of silly ones like twenty to two. 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.959 I don't think it's getting like juice juice. So it's like, 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:02.840 what I've noticed that threat this. I'm like, huh okay, 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:04.600 well got a comfortable wins. 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:08.480 Speaking of juice, the team they'll be racing with down 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:13.000 the stretch is your Baltimore Orioles, who they are first 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:16.320 in ops, they are second in runs, and they are 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:19.480 first in home run So that Orioles offense has been 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:25.559 clicking all year. Colton Kowser in their outfield, he's got 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:28.640 a hit streak going. Guy got off to a hot 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:32.439 start to the season, kind of blended in with those Orioles. 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.600 He got a slow during the middle of the season. 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:37.120 Is he a trade piece for them? Feels like everyone 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.800 kind of is. He's been towards the top of their 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:43.240 lineup and he's putting together a really nice season. Former 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.160 first round pick fifth overall. So again, these guys aren't 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:51.480 like these Orioles. Guys are real deal. Holy Field checked 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.760 out Adley's numbers on the yarn, was a little surprised 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:55.720 where they're at. Wouldn't be surprised if he's got more 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:57.560 in the tank coming. He had a nice series over 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:01.560 the weekend. And the biggest story, Jack Holiday, the top 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:05.160 prospect who gets called up for the first time, really 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:09.640 struggles sent down. He gets called up against the Guardians 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:13.959 and has a massive series. So wherever you land on 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:18.719 Jackson Holliday's potential. Never mind Kobe Mayo, who they call 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:23.320 up only the twenty first prospect in baseball as a 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:27.320 potential infield option for them. Their lineup could potentially be 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:31.000 tapping into more Jordan Westburg out for them, who was 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:35.000 having a really nice year. So there's that, and they 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.520 added pieces to their bullpen. Let's see how it comes 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:43.080 together for them, Sir Anthony and Soto come over from 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:46.720 Philly and kimberl Did they just have Philly's bullpen last year? 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:51.560 What's that about? Kind of funny how front offices work. 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.080 Eflin trade is working out well for them. He's just 0:10:55.120 --> 0:11:00.800 giving them standard starts Trevor Rodgers. Let's see, but man 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:04.640 Cordon Burns has arguably been the best picture in the AL. 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.880 He has the most quality starts. This is gonna be 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:13.360 an absolute dogfight. I I'm trying to remember. I guess 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:19.240 Ale East Wise Biberton. Can you remember the last AL 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:23.720 East like title race? Is that a dumb statement? 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:29.080 Like down the stretch the race was like intense. 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:32.880 Yeah, let's see MLB standings is something I probably should 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:36.559 have looked up. And Fangrafts is fighting my computer. Great, 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:40.640 amazing because we'll get BBD on research and development for that. 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:45.400 Twenty two. They sort of ran away with it last year. 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:48.960 Look it into it last year. 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.880 I mean the race had the perfect April, Yes, but 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:58.480 then the Orioles cooked. I don't know, I feel like 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:01.920 we haven't had a true Orioles ended up winning it 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.319 by two games. Two games, so I'd have to relive 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:08.600 how how told how we got there? Yeah, twenty two 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.920 Yankees won by seven games, twenty one Raised one by 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:17.559 eight games. Twenty twenty Raise somehow won by seven games 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:25.200 in the shortened season, twenty nineteen Yankees twenty eighteen Socks 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:25.920 won by eight. 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.160 Yeah, that was an awesome race. Until they ended the 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:30.320 season in August. 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:35.400 So twenty seventeen, twenty seventeen Red Sox win by two games. 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:40.360 So again, it's tough to feel how those emotions were 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:46.280 in the moment. But yeah, I think the Yankees and 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:48.600 the Orioles have an argument for the two most talented 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:52.200 teams in the American League. They're currently tied atop the 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:55.880 AL East. The Yankees are the Yankees hate him or 0:12:55.920 --> 0:13:01.600 love them? Underdogs on top Fitty or I mean, the 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.440 Orioles have this young core that I know baseball just 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:08.240 does not work like this. But again, they just called 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:11.600 up Jackson holiday number one prospect in baseball. They just 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:15.960 called up Kobe Mayo, number twenty one prospect. That's like 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.000 Orioles fans would say this, but he's a blip on 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:22.440 their radar because they've called up Adley and Gunner and 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:27.400 now Jackson that, yeah, this could be the start of something. 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:32.000 We saw these two teams brawl this year, and I 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:34.720 hope it doesn't come down to like, well, oh my god, 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.760 this injury, that injury, which I feel like baseball has 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:39.360 gotten to a point where there's a lot of that 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:45.480 We're set up for a really good wire to Wire 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:49.800 Orioles Yankees finale, which is gonna be massive. I mean, 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.000 one of those teams is gonna be a wild card team. 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:57.120 You've got to win two out of three at home 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:01.079 to save your season. And who are those games gonna 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:05.280 be against? Which brings me out out west to the 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:08.520 other divisional race. I do owe my Seattle Mariner fans 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:12.960 an apology, if not a follow up apology. Me and foolish, 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:14.680 I think we ended up being a little too harsh 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:18.560 on your guys. Deadline. I respect it more than I 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:21.240 think I let on you guys need to add hitting, 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:23.760 and you did some of that. Randy has an argument 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:25.920 to be one of, if not the best hit or 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:30.600 added at this deadline. Justin Turner came over, had the 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:33.520 best on base percentage on the team, always hits. Feels 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:35.800 like a Seattle icon. I keep saying that. I feel 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:37.880 like Justin Turner is gonna have a coffee shop in 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:41.480 Seattle pretty soon. It's gonna be a popular place. We'll 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:44.680 see if they win a playoff series, absolutely, especially if 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.360 he has the big hit. I feel like that's gonna happen. 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:54.320 The Seattle Mariners are in first place in the Aos. 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:59.240 They're one game up on the Houston Astros. The Astros 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:03.360 just lost a set to the Rays. They've got the 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:07.160 Texas Rangers coming out Houston. Man, they've got some weird 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:10.520 stuff going on. I know, the hitting's been there all year. Uh, 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.360 Kyle Tucker. There was just a weird quote that came 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:16.000 out from manager Joe Spotta that was like, we were 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.120 we'd love to see him in August, but we don't 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:22.520 know if we will. I think everyone assumed it was 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:25.640 going to be quicker than that. If you go look 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:30.280 at their offensive numbers, Jordon's Jordan, which is just crazy 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:33.360 that that kind of happens every year. Kyle Tucker still 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:35.240 leads that team in war and he's been out for 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:41.640 a while. Al Twovey's numbers are still great, but they're 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:45.000 not where you might expect them. Al twoves ops as 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:48.960 it today stands at seven ninety five. Alex Bregman stands 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.120 at seven to fourteen, so I know he got off 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.520 to a slow start, so he's been a lot better recently. 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.280 But when you look at the Astros on paper right now, 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:58.560 I know Yaner Diaz is run into a hot stretch. 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:04.280 No one with ops in the eights. It's Jordan in 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:09.720 the Nines, and then Altuve and yin A are above league average. 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:15.960 Bregman and Paynya are close that This offense that all 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:19.360 year has kind of stayed around the top. There's some 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:23.760 thin parts in the lineup right now, whether that's Meyers, Singleton, 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:32.120 dubonn McCormack, Victor Krattini, victor Carrottini. The pitching, on the 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:35.400 other hand, which has been the weakness this year, has 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:38.520 started punching tickets. I think I saw some stat double 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:44.400 digit strikeouts in a lot of games for their pitching staff. 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:49.000 So young Spencer Agedti he just put together a good one. 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.280 Verlander threw a bullpen the other day. He expects to 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:58.480 do two rehab stints. If this hus this is what 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.360 I've said, I've said it again. I'm probably gonna say 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.960 it again again. If this Houston Astros team wasn't named 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:07.239 the Houston Astros team, I don't think I would be 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:11.159 in on them. But you have to respect the track record, 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.480 because God, if they sneak in. Even if they don't 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:17.520 sneak in, they could be dominant the rest of the way. 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.120 If they find a way to the dance, they're gonna 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:23.400 be one of the most feared teams in the tournament. 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:27.840 Do we want to call it a tournament bracket? Yeah, 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:28.240 I guess. 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:37.119 I guess bracket is accurate like tournament technically is one right? Playoffs? 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:40.200 Yeah, I don't know if I like that. I think 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:42.440 we did this last year too. I'll go playoffs. 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:44.560 No one will yell at you for playoffs. 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:50.600 Yeah, Seattle, the hitting scares me. But you guys just 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:52.560 went on a run. I think they were scoring seven 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:55.600 runs per game for about a week. I think there's 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:57.159 some White Sox involved in that. 0:17:57.960 --> 0:17:58.080 Uh. 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:00.560 And they finish with a shutout against the Phillies and 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:04.359 Zach Wheeler but he's in contention for the NLCY Young 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:11.240 yet again. Ah Hey, I want to believe Seattle, I 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:18.240 really do. Man where Julio's stats on the air? Crazy 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:24.040 that they're still where they are? Ah, Man, I I 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:27.320 was gonna give the same speech. Mitch Hanneger has been 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:30.840 hitting since the All Star break. Maybe that's something they 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:33.360 can bank on. They need one of the Mitches Mitch 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:37.080 Hanneger or Mitch Garver kind of a funny name. Nich 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:42.720 dive more into that later. Jore Polanco had been bad 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:44.879 for them. He's put a couple of games together and 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:48.000 he's back again. With that Mariners lineup, you can look 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:50.600 at it as upside that if they start getting anything, 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:54.520 it's really exciting. They had a five run comeback, which 0:18:54.560 --> 0:19:01.160 for their struggling offense, that's that's a big feeling. If 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:05.239 everything I knew in my brain was excluded, I'd have 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:09.320 Mariners as the clear favorite horse. The other thing to 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:12.600 watch out with these two teams, if they don't pick 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:17.639 it up soon, it's division or bust. Right now in 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:23.120 the Wildcard, Houston is five games back, eight weeks to go. 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:28.600 Like I think, obviously we've seen we should watch these 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.639 Seattle Mariners give up a ten game lead in twenty 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:36.080 one days, so baseball can't happen. But they really need 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:40.120 to start chopping into that now before it gets any closer. 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:45.600 The Minnesota Twins and the guard Dogs and the Royals 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:47.600 should be thrown in that mix. Actually, you know what 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:52.439 are very similar division standings right now, the NL West 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:57.280 and the AL Central. The Guardians are on top, They've 0:19:57.280 --> 0:19:59.640 been on top for a while. Saying with the Dodgers, 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:02.760 the Padres are four and a half games back, the 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:06.040 d Backs are five. In the AL Central, the Twins 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:08.160 are four and a half back the Royals are five, 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:14.280 so literally the same distance apart. Cleveland has been there 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:19.280 the whole time. I would really be shocked. Well, I 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:20.920 guess when I initially said I want to do the 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:26.120 rankings of division confidence, the Milwaukee Brewers are my number one. 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:30.600 The Cardinals, Pirates, Cubs, and Reds have given me nothing 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:32.800 to believe in all year. The Brewers are on a 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:36.320 three series losing streak, so I guess watch out to 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:39.040 see if that tail spin gets worse. But those other 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:43.159 teams have given me nothing to believe in. Meanwhile, in 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:46.600 the Central this year, the Royals have beat up on 0:20:46.640 --> 0:20:51.240 the Central, which that's good, that's your division, More power 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:54.320 to you. The Twins have had some ebbs and flows 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:57.800 this year. I guess I guess you would say, if 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:01.960 you're being honest, the Minnesota Twins have a better chance 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:06.280 to catch the Guardians than either of the NLS teams. Yeah, 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:10.800 they're the Dodgers. Mookie's gonna come back at some point, 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:14.240 show hey, show, Hey, They've they've got the bodies there. 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:18.960 But man, do the Padres and d Backs look good 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:25.719 right now? Those teams both have the juice as I 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:31.440 like to label it. And again this Padres run has 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:34.520 been without Fernando that if he comes back with piss 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:39.000 and vinegar also Martine Perez uh kind of a late 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:41.959 deadline move by San Diego. He has a good start 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:44.439 this this week and they've been looking for another body 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:47.680 in their rotation that his innings could come up being 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:52.080 very valuable. Eduardo Rodriguez for the Diamondbacks. He's coming back 0:21:52.119 --> 0:21:55.560 this week. Could his innings be e rod level innings. 0:21:56.200 --> 0:21:58.920 Sometimes it's tough to come back mid season, especially after 0:21:58.960 --> 0:22:03.679 an injury. Maybe he's there revital he's revitalizing, ready to go. 0:22:04.119 --> 0:22:09.680 Maybe he's not ready and gets knocked around. But the Snakes. 0:22:09.840 --> 0:22:12.440 Let me give my Perdomo stat because I saw it earlier. 0:22:15.160 --> 0:22:18.080 When Perdomo has been in the lineup this year for 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:23.320 the Diamondbacks, they are thirty and eighteen. That's pretty good. 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:26.320 That lines up a little bit with Alec Thomas and 0:22:26.359 --> 0:22:29.199 some of their pitching returning. And I did see a 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:33.560 good comment that Bailey foolish. Bailey wasn't enthused about the 0:22:33.560 --> 0:22:39.000 Snake's deadline, and someone was like, man, the Snakes, they're 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:41.359 banking on their own starting pitching to come back, so 0:22:41.400 --> 0:22:44.480 they went out and they got relievers and they did. 0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:49.080 I mean it might not be San Diego's Adam and 0:22:49.119 --> 0:22:55.159 Tanner Scott, but them going out, Sorry, just lost my 0:22:55.240 --> 0:23:03.240 page again, them going out, ajuck. I think reliever wise 0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:05.720 is gonna go toe to toe with anyone at this deadline. 0:23:05.800 --> 0:23:09.840 He came in and got an emergency emergency save the 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:14.159 other day. And Dylan Floro doesn't give up homers on 0:23:14.200 --> 0:23:19.239 that sinker. So do with that which you will. I 0:23:19.359 --> 0:23:22.480 don't think either of these teams can reel in the Dodgers. 0:23:22.520 --> 0:23:25.520 They're the Dodgers, right, The Dodgers win the division every year. 0:23:26.440 --> 0:23:32.320 Literally that it stinks to think that way. I do 0:23:32.320 --> 0:23:35.480 think it's honest. And let's see where they're at. I mean, 0:23:37.760 --> 0:23:40.800 Freddie has been gone and dealing with some real stuff. 0:23:40.880 --> 0:23:42.439 I don't know if you've seen any of that, but 0:23:43.280 --> 0:23:47.920 his son had a weird neurological disorder that I think, 0:23:48.080 --> 0:23:50.840 knock on wood. I think they got in touch with 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:53.159 the right people and they're doing some good steps, but 0:23:53.240 --> 0:23:55.880 it's like crazy stuff, like I think his kid has 0:23:55.920 --> 0:23:57.520 to like relearn how to walk. 0:23:57.280 --> 0:24:01.280 In stuff, Like yeah, it's a thing that happens, like 0:24:01.320 --> 0:24:05.320 you just like legs stop working for a little while. 0:24:05.240 --> 0:24:08.840 Nuts, So imagine that going on in your life. So 0:24:09.400 --> 0:24:12.280 that the vaunted top of that Dodgers lineup, Freddy's been 0:24:12.320 --> 0:24:15.200 out dealing with some real life ish, Mookie's been hurt 0:24:15.240 --> 0:24:18.400 for a while, that Gavin lux has been hitting three 0:24:18.480 --> 0:24:21.919 for them. You know, the bottom half of their lineup 0:24:22.000 --> 0:24:24.399 right now, it lists Nick Ahmed as their shortstop and 0:24:24.480 --> 0:24:28.240 Cavin Biggio as their first baseman. That'll change soon, but 0:24:29.359 --> 0:24:31.840 it'll be interesting to see if the padres with all 0:24:31.880 --> 0:24:34.480 the momentum in the world. The Snakes, who haven't lost 0:24:34.520 --> 0:24:36.920 a series in their last ten, can they get close 0:24:37.000 --> 0:24:38.840 enough to the Dodgers to make it feel like a 0:24:38.920 --> 0:24:43.119 race Because this might be obnoxious outside stuff, but the 0:24:43.160 --> 0:24:45.520 Dodgers have been so dominant in that division, it's hard 0:24:45.520 --> 0:24:48.800 to believe that any of those teams could reel them in. 0:24:49.240 --> 0:24:53.040 Where the Minnesota Twins in the Al Central, we've seen 0:24:53.040 --> 0:24:55.560 that franchise be able to come on top of that division. 0:24:57.600 --> 0:24:59.879