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Speaker 1: Friedman alongside Jack Summers and Jack Diamondbacks. They did the thing.
Speaker 1: They took two out of three from the A's. Certainly
Speaker 1: a sweep would have been nice. Monday game was not great,
Speaker 1: that did not allow for that. But the Diamondbacks get
Speaker 1: a walk off win on Tuesday, and on Wednesday the
Speaker 1: bats were alive and well. Diamondbacks put up arguably their
Speaker 1: best offensive showing of the season. Fifteen runs on seventeen hits.
Speaker 1: Another big series win for this team.
Speaker 2: That was a close game early, right, I mean it
Speaker 2: was you know, two two after the top of the
Speaker 2: fifth and then kaboom. I mean, you know, they scored
Speaker 2: twelve runs in the next two innings. So we don't
Speaker 2: see that every day. That was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: All those home runs, you know, all the hits falling
Speaker 2: in better approaches at the plate. I mean, this is
Speaker 2: what we've been waiting for.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean early on, for the first half of
Speaker 1: this game. This was very much a baseball game, and
Speaker 1: there were legitimate concerns like are the Diamondbacks about to
Speaker 1: lose two out of three to a team that entered
Speaker 1: this series, But I think two wins in the entire
Speaker 1: month of July, And yeah, it was a competitive game
Speaker 1: up to that point. Diamondbacks put up a couple of
Speaker 1: runs in the bottom of the fourth inning they took
Speaker 1: a two to one lead. The A's then responded. Jeff
Speaker 1: McNeil hit a solo shot in the top of the
Speaker 1: fifth to tie the game, and then the bottom of
Speaker 1: the fifth came along Jack and kind of felt like
Speaker 1: the d Backs were gonna let another opportunity go by
Speaker 1: the wayside Kutel a leadoff double Heraldo Perdomo moved him
Speaker 1: to third with the ground doubt, which felt like a
Speaker 1: good thing. But then Corbyn Kale grounds out, the run
Speaker 1: doesn't score, and you're like, all right, here we go.
Speaker 1: This might be a rough situation where the Dbacks can't capitalize.
Speaker 1: And then the Dbacks went home run, lock, double home run,
Speaker 1: single home run the rest of that inning and come
Speaker 1: away with seven runs a nine to two Diamondbacks lead
Speaker 1: at that point, and maybe the most notable hit in
Speaker 1: that inning. There were obviously quite a few big ones,
Speaker 1: but Ryan Waldschmidt put the icing on the cake there
Speaker 1: and that fifth inning with his first major league home run,
Speaker 1: giving the Diamondbacks that nine to two lead.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was sitting in the press box with gambo
Speaker 2: on Friday night and Alex Weiner and I kind of
Speaker 2: rhetorically turned around the gamble and I said, is well,
Speaker 2: are you ever going to hit a home run this year?
Speaker 2: Is he going to get one? And I was just
Speaker 2: kind of being, you know, typical sarcastic me and Gambos
Speaker 2: took it quite earnestly and goes, oh, yeah, I think
Speaker 2: he will. So I had fun texting and forth with him.
Speaker 2: A you were right, but it was no cheapy either.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it was a pitch inside, but
Speaker 2: it wasn't you know, it wasn't a middle middle cookie.
Speaker 2: And you know, he got the bat head around and
Speaker 2: launched that sucker four hundred and thirty one feet. So
Speaker 2: that was great to see. I mean, you know it's
Speaker 2: in there, but we hadn't seen it. And hopefully this
Speaker 2: is the first of many more to come.
Speaker 1: It definitely took a while for this to happen for
Speaker 1: wald Smid. There's there's no getting around that. This was
Speaker 1: his one hundred and forty second Big League played appearance
Speaker 1: where where this actually happened. So yeah, I think if
Speaker 1: you'd ask me when he first came up when that
Speaker 1: was going to happen, I probably would have thought he
Speaker 1: would pull that off a whole lot sooner. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you feel like that's just kind of a mental thing
Speaker 1: where once you hit the first one, it kind of
Speaker 1: allows you to be more relaxed up there at the
Speaker 1: plate to know, like, hey, I am capable of hitting
Speaker 1: a home run in the major leagues. And Ryan Waldschmid
Speaker 1: is a big piece to this team. He has swung
Speaker 1: and missed quite a bit since coming up to the majors.
Speaker 1: His strikeout rate is still around thirty five percent, but
Speaker 1: with a good game today he also singled later in
Speaker 1: this one. His ops is now up to six eighty two.
Speaker 1: You'd love to see him settle in as you know,
Speaker 1: maybe even if it's just a league average contributor offensively,
Speaker 1: that would be a really big boost for this team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and talking about getting booths, I mean,
Speaker 2: Corbyn Carroll looks like he's back getting that home run,
Speaker 2: getting off the Schneid there then just missing one later.
Speaker 2: As I know that you were very excited about the
Speaker 2: location of the pitches that he's been hitting, and you know,
Speaker 2: then you turn around you look at Nolan Arnado, you know,
Speaker 2: several walks and of course a big home run and
Speaker 2: James McCann, I mean, you know, gets his two starts
Speaker 2: a week and here he is home. I'm worrying again.
Speaker 2: And it was this one hundredth career homer and that
Speaker 2: happened in the same inning with Waltschmith. So that was
Speaker 2: a nice juxta position too, get undred homer guy gets
Speaker 2: his first homer. A lot of fun there.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the location on the Corbin homer. I was
Speaker 1: indeed intrigued. It definitely got the gears turning a little
Speaker 1: bit on just the types of pitches that Corbin has
Speaker 1: been dealing with and the way that he's been attacked
Speaker 1: this season. There's no it's no secret, right it's been
Speaker 1: high fastballs, specifically four seen fastballs not just above the
Speaker 1: zone but in the strike zone. And as you can
Speaker 1: see here, that's exactly where this pitch was. It was
Speaker 1: center cut, but in the top third of the zone.
Speaker 1: Ninety six miles per hour gauge jump is certainly a
Speaker 1: hard thrower. And not only did Corbin hit it out,
Speaker 1: but he hit it out to the opposite field, which
Speaker 1: is always a great sign. And I did some checking
Speaker 1: on this. I tweeted about it as well. Well, you
Speaker 1: go back to June tenth, this is about a month
Speaker 1: and a half Corbyn Carroll only has three hits on
Speaker 1: four seam fastballs that are in the top half of
Speaker 1: the play, whether whether in the zone or out of
Speaker 1: the zone, just in the top half vertically, and two
Speaker 1: of those hits have come in the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: He had a single that was up in the zone
Speaker 1: yesterday that he drove for a hit. I believe that
Speaker 1: was in the third inning. And then there was the
Speaker 1: home run in this game. Corbyn also a couple of
Speaker 1: it bats later, laced a triple to the opposite field.
Speaker 1: Another really nice swing there. That was a splitter that
Speaker 1: was down out of the zone. So some positive signs
Speaker 1: here for Corban jack not just against these four seam
Speaker 1: fastballs that have given him so many fits, but that splitter.
Speaker 1: I mean that was a great swing as well. It's
Speaker 1: starting to feel like maybe this drought is coming to
Speaker 1: an end.
Speaker 2: For him. Yeah, I mean early in the game, things
Speaker 2: didn't quite feel that way. As we look at this
Speaker 2: game and how it ended up. He won fifteen to five,
Speaker 2: but you know, Corbyn hit into a double play. Albeit
Speaker 2: it was a very hard hit ground ball, but it
Speaker 2: was still a ground ball. R had second basement hits
Speaker 2: into a double play and kills a Rally in the
Speaker 2: first inning, you know, and the team was kind of
Speaker 2: just barely hanging on. Meryl was struggling with his pitch count.
Speaker 2: He wasn't thrown terribly by any means, but he was
Speaker 2: just you know, getting deep into counts or the A's
Speaker 2: were getting him deep into counts. He had fifty seven
Speaker 2: pitches for the first three innings. It took you know,
Speaker 2: the two homers to take a two to one lead
Speaker 2: in that bottom of the fourth, and then it was
Speaker 2: a tie game and the top of the fifth, so
Speaker 2: you know, this was kind of an on edge game.
Speaker 2: They really needed Merrill to get deep in the game
Speaker 2: to protect that bullpen. I mean, that was the main story. Instead,
Speaker 2: they got all this offense that allowed them to go
Speaker 2: with Carrillo for two innings, and you know, then you
Speaker 2: brought in Loasaca for one and then of course Ildemaro
Speaker 2: Vargas pitched the ninth inning, which Tory had some comments
Speaker 2: about that he wasn't overly comfortable with it, but sometimes
Speaker 2: you know that's what you need, right, Like the offense
Speaker 2: took over today for Merrill Kelly, who wasn't able to
Speaker 2: get six or seven innings. So you know, Merrill was
Speaker 2: fine five innings, two runs most days you'll take that.
Speaker 2: They really needed six or seven innings from him today,
Speaker 2: weren't able to get it, but the offense made up
Speaker 2: for it.
Speaker 1: Tory did say after the game that Meryl was a
Speaker 1: little under the weather, so I think that was part
Speaker 1: of the part of the calculus in cutting him in
Speaker 1: eighty seven pitches. But yeah, he wasn't the most efficient.
Speaker 1: I mean, eighty seven pitches in five innings. You'd like
Speaker 1: to have seen him at least touch the sixth inning.
Speaker 1: There's another part of me. Obviously, this game got out
Speaker 1: of hands and it didn't really wind up making a difference,
Speaker 1: But there's another part of me that's like, maybe protecting Meryll,
Speaker 1: you know, third time through the lineup isn't isn't a
Speaker 1: bad decision a bad idea kind of in general, this
Speaker 1: game was probably not the game where you were going
Speaker 1: to play, where you were going to go that route,
Speaker 1: or where you wanted to go that route, because, as
Speaker 1: you said, the bullpen is a in a pretty rough
Speaker 1: spot right now. But from what we've seen from Meryl
Speaker 1: this season, it's it's kind of hard to feel confident
Speaker 1: with him facing a top of a lineup for the
Speaker 1: third time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, right now, for the eighteen starts that
Speaker 2: Merrill's been out there, he's roughly a five VR guy,
Speaker 2: and you know, it's fourth or fifth starter level performance.
Speaker 2: So that's kind of what he is this year and
Speaker 2: some there's a few games in there where he looked
Speaker 2: like the Meryll of old. There's quite a few games
Speaker 2: where he looked like gold Meryl. You know right now,
Speaker 2: I wasn't aware that he was ill. Thank you for
Speaker 2: filling me in on that full disclosure. I had to
Speaker 2: leave immediately towards the end of the game, and I
Speaker 2: wasn't able to hear Tory's postgame comments, So that's news
Speaker 2: for me, and you know, I hope he's feeling better.
Speaker 2: I don't know when you said he was under the weather,
Speaker 2: was it the heat or fatigue or was you know
Speaker 2: some kind of illness. Tough game to go out there
Speaker 2: and be a major league pitcher and throw eighty seven
Speaker 2: pitches if you're not feeling your best. So hats off
Speaker 2: to Marrow for getting that done. And I just I
Speaker 2: was intrigued to see Courier today. You know, I thought
Speaker 2: that the stuff looked interesting. Obviously, it was his major
Speaker 2: league debut. There were some rough edges there in that
Speaker 2: second inning of work, but I think overall, very intriguing arm,
Speaker 2: and I'm looking forward to see you a little bit
Speaker 2: more of what he can do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think I think even though Korea
Speaker 1: wasn't you know, all that sharp in this game. There
Speaker 1: were some big misses at times. He winds up giving
Speaker 1: the run in his second inning of work. But it
Speaker 1: is indicative of like this version of the Diamondbacks, that
Speaker 1: you call up someone when you desperately need an arm
Speaker 1: and he's throwing it, you know, a cutter at ninety
Speaker 1: three and a sinker at ninety eight and a four
Speaker 1: seamer and he's got a splitter and a sweeper and
Speaker 1: a curveball, and you know, the threshold in terms of
Speaker 1: stuff out of the bullpen has definitely been raised. He
Speaker 1: really didn't give up much hard contact at all in
Speaker 1: that inning. You just might have liked to see the
Speaker 1: command a little bit sharper there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he get one hard hit ball, you know,
Speaker 2: the whole game, it's the whole two innings that he worked.
Speaker 2: So yeah, he didn't get a ton of swing and miss,
Speaker 2: but he got some, you know, a little bit here
Speaker 2: and there. So more please. I mean, obviously, you know
Speaker 2: Dre Jamison went on the il. We'll talk about that
Speaker 2: a little bit later. And I think Corio's probably going
Speaker 2: to be here for a little bit. I mean, there
Speaker 2: aren't really any other pictures that they can bring up
Speaker 2: right away to replace them, so I would expect him
Speaker 2: to stick around for most of this road trip.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've really been wheeling and deal in with Reno,
Speaker 1: sending guys back and bringing him up over and over
Speaker 1: and over again, and it feels like Correo is maybe
Speaker 1: the end of that where he's going to stick around
Speaker 1: for a while. Diamondbacks didn't have to tax their bullpen
Speaker 1: much in this game, which was very much needed. You
Speaker 1: mentioned Ildamar Vargas pitching the ninth inning, and he certainly
Speaker 1: played a role in that. Tory said after the game
Speaker 1: that had he gone to Brandon Garcia, which is who
Speaker 1: he would have gone to if he'd gone to another
Speaker 1: guy to the bullpen. Had he made that move, Garcia
Speaker 1: would not have been available for the game tomorrow night
Speaker 1: against the Saint Louis Cardinals, which is obviously very important
Speaker 1: and also worth noting. Garcia's last outing came on Monday
Speaker 1: in a low leverage spot when the Diamondbacks wound up
Speaker 1: losing the game. So Garcia is the diamondbacks best relief
Speaker 1: pitcher right now, and using him in back to back
Speaker 1: low leverage situations wouldn't have felt right. So you and
Speaker 1: I were texting back and forth about this. Going into
Speaker 1: the ninth. I was team I was really team James McCann.
Speaker 1: And then and then Vargas showed up out there and
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, all right, Vargas works too. It
Speaker 1: was a little scary Jack he did allow for the
Speaker 1: first five to reach base. He hit Jonah him with
Speaker 1: a pitch. It was like a two to two county.
Speaker 1: It just dotted a sixty seven mile per hour fastball
Speaker 1: in his own and then he and then he plunks
Speaker 1: Hime and it's like, oh gosh, like he just might
Speaker 1: not be capable of getting them out of this without
Speaker 1: Brandon Garcia having to come in any way. But props
Speaker 1: to Ildmorrow. Jack not only did he have three hits
Speaker 1: in the game and to walk as well, but he
Speaker 1: also was able to shut the door in the ninth inning,
Speaker 1: only gave up two runs, and Brandon Garcia as a result,
Speaker 1: is preserved and is able to go with the game tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, our friends at Azy Snakepit were also asking, I
Speaker 2: think it was about, you know, has anybody had the
Speaker 2: walk off hit the night before and then and then
Speaker 2: the next day, you know, pitched the ninth inning.
Speaker 1: Ildamorrow has been doing it. And we are going to
Speaker 1: talk a little more at Ildemar of Vargas after the
Speaker 1: break because he was, of course the man of the
Speaker 1: hour on Tuesday night and he did it in very
Speaker 1: Ildemar of Vargas fashion. So don't go anywhere. We're going
Speaker 1: to talk more about that on the other side of
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Speaker 1: and done that. Jack. Of course, there was some Paul
Speaker 1: Seawall chatter that came out of the Tuesday game, and
Speaker 1: we'll get to that in a moment, but sticking on
Speaker 1: the positive side, because the Diamondbacks did win this game,
Speaker 1: the crisis was averted, and Ildamara Vargas was right at
Speaker 1: the center of it. Bases loaded one out in the
Speaker 1: tenth inning. The Diamondbacks had already tied the game, but
Speaker 1: Tim Tawa had just struck out, and so there was
Speaker 1: still this feeling of like, all right, the Diamondbacks with
Speaker 1: runners in scoring position, you're not necessarily feeling the most confident,
Speaker 1: and then Iil Damara Vargas puts together this at bat.
Speaker 1: It's a one to two count and he gets a
Speaker 1: ninety nine mile per hour fastball that was basically at
Speaker 1: his head but vertically speaking, it was sort of on
Speaker 1: the outside part of the plate, and somehow not only
Speaker 1: does he put it in play, but he hits it
Speaker 1: to the opposite field and he gets like on top
Speaker 1: of it and manages to ground it through for a
Speaker 1: game winning single. This was like the most ildemar of
Speaker 1: Vargas thing.
Speaker 2: Ever, absolutely, and you know, he's probably the only guy
Speaker 2: on the team that could actually hit that pitch. You know,
Speaker 2: I think I don't think even could tell who's probably
Speaker 2: got the next best back control and you know, makes
Speaker 2: the most contact, it strikes out the least. I don't
Speaker 2: even think Kutel could could get on top of that pitch,
Speaker 2: So I mean, kudos to him. That was not an
Speaker 2: easy thing to do, but it was still kind of
Speaker 2: funny just to see him hit a ball in that
Speaker 2: location and be able to knock it through, so huge
Speaker 2: moment for him. The right guy at the right time
Speaker 2: is really exactly who you wanted up maybe at that
Speaker 2: point in time, somebody that's going to put the ball
Speaker 2: in play. You know, he doesn't strike out, So that
Speaker 2: was key for them obviously to have that right guy
Speaker 2: at the right time. But again, what a pitch. I
Speaker 2: don't know how he got on top of that, but
Speaker 2: he did. That's some mad skills.
Speaker 1: I of course had to do a Baseball Savant search
Speaker 1: on this, and I learned that this pitch was four
Speaker 1: point three four feet above the plate, which when you
Speaker 1: consider that Ildamorro is like, I don't know what five
Speaker 1: eight maybe something like that. Maybe I'm selling him a
Speaker 1: little short there, but something in that range. So four
Speaker 1: point three four feet above the plate, and I did
Speaker 1: a search. This of course is just the stat Cast era,
Speaker 1: so it goes back to twenty fifteen. That's the data
Speaker 1: that we have. But this was the second highest pitch
Speaker 1: ever hit for a base hit by a Diamondbacks hitter
Speaker 1: in stat Cast history. The one other Diamondbacks hitter who's
Speaker 1: managed to hit a pitch higher than this one is
Speaker 1: Jack Peterson. This happened back on July twentieth, twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: and I watched it back. It was at Wrigley field,
Speaker 1: and it was just an outrageous swing from Jock Peterson,
Speaker 1: and Drew Smiley, who was on the mound, had like
Speaker 1: this big smile on his face and was like, how
Speaker 1: on earth did you do that? So that was four
Speaker 1: point six feet off the above the plate. So I
Speaker 1: have no idea how Jock Peterson managed to do that.
Speaker 1: Granted he probably does have a couple of inches on
Speaker 1: Eel Tomorrow height wise, but yeah, that just kind of
Speaker 1: helps capture Yeah, yeah, maybe probably not that much. It
Speaker 1: was a crazy swing. I mean, the Jock swing might
Speaker 1: have even been crazier than what we saw from Eil Tomorrow.
Speaker 1: But it was also.
Speaker 2: Say again, what was the hit that Jock had.
Speaker 1: It was just like a line drive single in front
Speaker 1: of the right fielder, but it was sharply hit. It
Speaker 1: was like one hundred and one hundred and six off
Speaker 1: the bat or something like that. So it was wild.
Speaker 1: But I thought it was also funny that Eil Tomorrow
Speaker 1: in this Wednesday game, I think it was his last
Speaker 1: hit of the game, was like one foot above the ground.
Speaker 1: It was I have no idea how he hit that
Speaker 1: one either. It was like well off the plate outside
Speaker 1: and also well below the zone. And yet that's just
Speaker 1: Gildamar of Argus. He can get to everything, and sometimes
Speaker 1: that's great, and sometimes it's a little bit frustrating because
Speaker 1: he kind of has a knack for chasing way too
Speaker 1: much out of the zone.
Speaker 2: Be careful what she asked for.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but I guess we should circle back to
Speaker 1: the earlier conversation. The reason the Diamondbacks needed Ildamar of
Speaker 1: Argus to play hero in that Tuesday game was because
Speaker 1: Paul Seawald unfortunately blew the save. In that game, Diamondbacks
Speaker 1: had a four to two lead. Seawald goes out there
Speaker 1: and had two outs, but I was able to get
Speaker 1: the first two outs. Then he gives up a triple.
Speaker 1: He has two strikes on Jacob Wilson, and Jacob Wilson
Speaker 1: hit a two run, game tying home run that sends
Speaker 1: the game into extra innings. And unfortunately for Seawald, even
Speaker 1: though this was just his second blown save of the year,
Speaker 1: and he certainly deserves credit for how he's handled this
Speaker 1: those situations, the run prevention element has gotten pretty ugly here.
Speaker 1: You looked up some numbers just before we hopped on.
Speaker 1: Since June fifteenth, he has a nine point nine to
Speaker 1: zero e er. That's eleven earned runs and ten innings
Speaker 1: pitched five home runs in that span. There's no getting
Speaker 1: around to Jack Paul Sewald has really struggled here over
Speaker 1: the past month.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know, I mean if you look up
Speaker 2: through that time, like up through the fourteenth, he had
Speaker 2: a three zero eight er, you know, and he had
Speaker 2: seven walks, twenty nine strikeouts. There's four home runs and
Speaker 2: twenty six innings. You're like, Okay, that's a little much.
Speaker 2: But now it's nine home runs and thirty six innings,
Speaker 2: so you know, this isn't working, and the dbacks are
Speaker 2: you know, getting close to probably having to make a
Speaker 2: move there. It's only a matter of time until he
Speaker 2: has a spate. I mean, if he keeps pitching like this,
Speaker 2: it's only a matter of time then he has a
Speaker 2: spate of several blown saves back to back. We've been
Speaker 2: here before where he was lights out for a month
Speaker 2: plus in twenty twenty four and then all of a
Speaker 2: sudden the calendar turned to July and he really fell
Speaker 2: apart and eventually lost his closer's role. And I think that,
Speaker 2: you know, it's not just the home runs. I mean,
Speaker 2: like I think his extra base hit percentage is like
Speaker 2: fifty six percent or fifty eight percent, like almost sixty
Speaker 2: percent of the hits that he does give up. If
Speaker 2: they don't go for homers, they also go for doubles
Speaker 2: and triples. So it's just a really odd dynamic for him.
Speaker 2: I mean, his strikeout to walk ratio is still fantastic.
Speaker 2: He gets a lot of strikeouts. He's not walking many guys,
Speaker 2: but you know, when he gives up the hits, they go,
Speaker 2: they stay hit. Now what happens next if this continues?
Speaker 2: I mean, look, maybe he reels off seven eighty nine
Speaker 2: outings in a row and you know, it doesn't blow anything,
Speaker 2: doesn't get put into a say, a non safe situation
Speaker 2: that causes him lose a game. But look, Paul is
Speaker 2: what he is, right, and he's not going to be perfect.
Speaker 2: We know that. The question is is what's your tolerance
Speaker 2: for paying when he has these rough stretches.
Speaker 1: I think there's a misconception with Seawald. You kind of
Speaker 1: just touched on it that you know the fact that
Speaker 1: this is a guy who actually does miss bats. His
Speaker 1: strikeout rate is well above the league average, and also
Speaker 1: his walk rate is well below the league average, and
Speaker 1: there's this perception that, like, oh, at ninety one miles
Speaker 1: per hour, you just can't get anyone to swing and miss,
Speaker 1: and it's not true. The numbers are very clear on this.
Speaker 1: The issue is the home runs and the fact that
Speaker 1: he's given up nine of them in the thirty six
Speaker 1: and the third innings this season, and diving a little
Speaker 1: deeper there. I mean, I think the issue is that
Speaker 1: Seawald just doesn't get ground balls. We've touched on that
Speaker 1: in the past, and it's not just that the flyballs
Speaker 1: have gotten out of control. It's that the polled flyballs
Speaker 1: have have approached a range that we've never seen for
Speaker 1: Seawald in his career. The league average pole air rate,
Speaker 1: so this is I know we're getting into the weeds here,
Speaker 1: but this is like the percentage of batted balls that
Speaker 1: are polled flyballs, and these are the types of balls
Speaker 1: that often go for home runs, right, and the league
Speaker 1: average is sixteen point eight percent. Seawal does at thirty
Speaker 1: four percent. You compare that even to a couple seasons
Speaker 1: ago in twenty four where, of course he was also
Speaker 1: removed or was removed from his from his role as closer,
Speaker 1: that rate was twenty point two percent. So we're talking
Speaker 1: about almost like double the number of polled flyballs this
Speaker 1: season compared to a couple of years ago, much much
Speaker 1: higher number than we've ever seen before. And I think
Speaker 1: it leaves the Diamondbacks in a difficult position to evaluate Seawalt.
Speaker 1: I know that everyone is just going to be like,
Speaker 1: he should he should not be the closer tomorrow, and
Speaker 1: I see where you're coming from. I mean, an era
Speaker 1: of four point seven to one is what it is.
Speaker 1: But there's also the strikeout rate that's really good, and
Speaker 1: the walk rate that's really good, and the home runs
Speaker 1: are just kind of this weird, like small sample size
Speaker 1: sort of thing for relievers, and I think it might
Speaker 1: be I don't know how the dbacs are viewing this.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't shock me if the leash here is a
Speaker 1: little longer than people want to see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, he's as a debate has been going,
Speaker 2: you know, all around social media as well. He's twenty
Speaker 2: three for twenty five and in you know, save chances,
Speaker 2: and we've talked about a lot and highlighted and trumpeted
Speaker 2: the fact that he hasn't been blowing any saves. The
Speaker 2: debate about you know, well, high ERA, but good save percentage.
Speaker 2: You know, what is that value there? We can turn
Speaker 2: around and go look at I was looking at win
Speaker 2: percentage added for WPA for relievers that had at least
Speaker 2: eight or nine or ten saves, you know, and he's
Speaker 2: kind of down the list. It's not it's zero point
Speaker 2: nine heading into last night. So of course that went
Speaker 2: down after the meltdown, So you know, his WPA isn't
Speaker 2: very good right now. You know, it's there's a lot
Speaker 2: of ways to skin a cat when it comes to
Speaker 2: trying to evaluate a reliever. But I think you're just
Speaker 2: going to get to the point where sooner or later,
Speaker 2: his approach is going to catch up to him. He's
Speaker 2: a deception guy, and the more teams see him, the
Speaker 2: less deceived they are. That's that's what it's about, you know.
Speaker 2: And and the home runs are always going to be there,
Speaker 2: but it's really alarming that they're coming at the rate
Speaker 2: that they are. Now, now, what is the team going
Speaker 2: to do? I mean, my guess is that if they
Speaker 2: do feel the need and they're not there yet, they're
Speaker 2: going to have more patients than you or I or
Speaker 2: almost any other fan would have. Right That's just the
Speaker 2: reality that's the name of the game here. But if
Speaker 2: they do remove him from the closers role, though, go
Speaker 2: committee and matchups. I think Brandon Garcia might be their
Speaker 2: best reliever, but he's also their only reliable lefty and
Speaker 2: sometimes you do need to play matchups there. So I
Speaker 2: don't think that they're just going to turn around and say, well,
Speaker 2: Garcia is a closer and that's it. I don't think
Speaker 2: that they'll name anybody. Kevin Ginkle's been around a long time,
Speaker 2: but it's not like he's had a ton of success
Speaker 2: when he's been named the closer, So I don't know
Speaker 2: who they're going to go to. I think it would
Speaker 2: more or less be a committee situation. And then once
Speaker 2: Justin Martinez comes back, which I still think is probably
Speaker 2: a couple weeks away from actually being activated into the
Speaker 2: major league roster, and then from there are they going
Speaker 2: to not is going to turn around and make him
Speaker 2: the closer out right out of the shoot. They're going
Speaker 2: to want to ease him in, So, you know, the
Speaker 2: earliest I think that Justin Martinez would be an option
Speaker 2: at closer would probably be four weeks from now, like
Speaker 2: third or fourth week of August, even if he comes
Speaker 2: back in early mid August, I just think he's going
Speaker 2: to need to pitch for a couple of weeks before
Speaker 2: he's an option.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with that. I think anyone expecting j
Speaker 1: mar to just step right in immediately into the closer role,
Speaker 1: I just don't think that's a realistic expectation in terms of,
Speaker 1: like if the d Backs were to name a closer,
Speaker 1: Ginkle is kind of the only other name on this
Speaker 1: roster that feels realistic to me, just because he has
Speaker 1: done it before. We have seen Tory Lavello make that
Speaker 1: decision in the past, and he's had a pretty good season,
Speaker 1: you know, not an amazing, amazing season. Obviously, Monday was
Speaker 1: a rough night for him, but the full body of
Speaker 1: work with Ginkle has been solid. I think Kuan Mario
Speaker 1: and Brandon Garcia, as great as they've been, they're both
Speaker 1: quite inexperienced, and frankly, we're pretty big question marks going
Speaker 1: into this season, Like Brandon Garcia started the year in
Speaker 1: Triple A and Juan Rio is not exactly a lock
Speaker 1: to make the team in spring training, so going from
Speaker 1: that straight into the closing role hard to imagine there.
Speaker 1: So I think Seawald probably sticks around here for a while.
Speaker 1: The thought of Seawald being on the roster but not
Speaker 1: the closer is a little strange to me, Jack, I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess that would be the most likely move. Like,
Speaker 1: they probably still view Seawald as being more valuable than
Speaker 1: Dre Jamison or Harado Correo or you know that kind
Speaker 1: of last man that's in the bullpen right now. But
Speaker 1: you know, maybe you go out and make a trade
Speaker 1: at the trade deadline or Justin Martinez coming back. Obviously
Speaker 1: that changes the calculus and maybe there comes a point
Speaker 1: where Seawald is no longer viewed as like one of
Speaker 1: the you know, eight best relievers on this team.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, look, he's going to have to get
Speaker 2: it together to hold on to his spot. That's just
Speaker 2: the way it is, and we'll see what happens. But
Speaker 2: the last month has been really rough. We've all watched it,
Speaker 2: seen it. You know, there's a lot of people out
Speaker 2: there and said, well, this is sooner or later, this
Speaker 2: is going to happen. He just knew it would. And
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody you know, really had any doubts
Speaker 2: about the fact that Paul can be a very volatile reliever.
Speaker 2: You know, it's funny. He's such a level headed guy
Speaker 2: when you talk to him in person, but when I
Speaker 2: actually watch him pitch and I watch how he reacts emotionally,
Speaker 2: he's a really emotional pitcher. I think, yeah, And you know,
Speaker 2: I think that he rides that wave and he rides
Speaker 2: that roller coaster with the kind with the results that
Speaker 2: he's getting to a great degree. So you know, hopefully
Speaker 2: he can get his confidence back and get back on
Speaker 2: a role. They're gonna need it. They just can't afford
Speaker 2: right now. Especially, this is never a good time, never
Speaker 2: a good time for a blown save, never a good
Speaker 2: time for a bad stretch from your closer. But right now,
Speaker 2: heading up to this trade deadline, this is just as
Speaker 2: big a situation as any for them.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the trade deadline. Of course, that is a
Speaker 1: very very big topic right now. We're just about a
Speaker 1: week and a half away from August third, and things
Speaker 1: are heating up. So when we come back from this break,
Speaker 1: we're going to look at the standings where the Diamondbacks
Speaker 1: sit in that race, and then we've got some news
Speaker 1: and notes on a few different items heading into a
Speaker 1: really big game against the Saint Louis Cardinals, followed by
Speaker 1: a big series against the Washington Nationals. So don't go anywhere.
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Speaker 1: and notes piece here. The Diamondbacks have used a lot
Speaker 1: of rookies and really just even like the last twenty
Speaker 1: four hours, it feels like we've had seven different rookies
Speaker 1: have like big moments. But yeah, Coldrake was a big
Speaker 1: part of that. He started the Tuesday game. It kind
Speaker 1: of looked like the sky was falling for him in
Speaker 1: the third inning of that start, but miraculously he was
Speaker 1: able to work his way out of it. Mitch Brad
Speaker 1: of course, another rookie who made another their start on Monday.
Speaker 1: And as far as the future for those guys goes
Speaker 1: Tory Leavello was asked about this, he said, we're having
Speaker 1: those conversations right now. This was before today's game. Lavello continued,
Speaker 1: it looks very good that they'll both stay with us.
Speaker 1: So not like AE hundred one hundred percent at this point,
Speaker 1: but it sounds like Cole Drake and Mitch brad are
Speaker 1: here to stay in this rotation.
Speaker 2: I think they both earned another shot another start. I mean,
Speaker 2: your other option would be to Brin Cabrera back. He's
Speaker 2: eligible on the twenty fourth, so you know, next time
Speaker 2: Bratt or Drake's Karen comes up, they could go that route.
Speaker 2: But I think that especially you know, what we saw
Speaker 2: from Cole Drake very much surprised me. I mean I
Speaker 2: did not based on the fact that he had lost
Speaker 2: so much velocity in triple A Reno this year and
Speaker 2: just a result there who was getting. But you know,
Speaker 2: it was mentioned to me that, look, maybe the fact
Speaker 2: that you know he's very breaking ball reliant to and
Speaker 2: that you know, he was just getting a lot more
Speaker 2: break on the curveball and in this game then maybe
Speaker 2: he was in Reno that might have had something to
Speaker 2: do it. Not that he threw a lot of them
Speaker 2: for strikes, but you know, it really gave the hit
Speaker 2: or something to think about standing in the box. You
Speaker 2: know that that probably was a difficult pitch for them
Speaker 2: to actually pick up. That's a sense that I got.
Speaker 2: Had he located it just a little bit better, I
Speaker 2: think it really would have gotten him a lot of
Speaker 2: swing amiss, So you know, I'm intrigued. Also, his velocity
Speaker 2: was a little bit higher. It was I think ninety
Speaker 2: two ninety three most of the game, or at least
Speaker 2: in the early innings, a little bit higher than what
Speaker 2: he was in Reno. So you know, five innings a run,
Speaker 2: you'll take that almost any day from any rookie starter.
Speaker 2: And that's exactly what he said too. He said, you know,
Speaker 2: I'd like to walk less, guys like to have a
Speaker 2: little bit better command, But you know, you send me
Speaker 2: out there and I go five innings and give up
Speaker 2: one run. Yeah, he was very satisfied with his own outing.
Speaker 1: There was definitely more swing and miss than I expected.
Speaker 1: Thirteen whiffs all together for him, four on the fastball,
Speaker 1: one on the curveball, four on the change up, four
Speaker 1: on the cutter, So those pitches worked pretty well for him.
Speaker 1: He also had a little bit more ride on the
Speaker 1: fastball than I expected. He averaged seventeen inches of induced
Speaker 1: vertical break with the four seemer in triple A, it
Speaker 1: was like fourteen, and you always know the elevation is
Speaker 1: going to have an impact there, so it seems like
Speaker 1: he got a big boost from that. So absolutely you'd
Speaker 1: like to see him throw strikes. Only thirty nine percent
Speaker 1: of his pitches were in the zone, which is that
Speaker 1: number is going to have to come up in order
Speaker 1: to have long term success. But absolutely think he deserves
Speaker 1: another shot. Seems like the Dbacks will give him that.
Speaker 1: On the injury front, we do have a few updates there.
Speaker 1: We kind of mentioned this earlier, but Dre Jamison is
Speaker 1: on the fifteen day injured list with a right hip impingement.
Speaker 1: That's what brought Herado Careo to the big league roster.
Speaker 1: Tory Lavello said that Jamison had been trying to work
Speaker 1: through that and they just made a decision on Tuesday
Speaker 1: to just give him fifteen days and then and then
Speaker 1: get him back to the big league. So it doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like a long absence there. The other big one
Speaker 1: that we got today Jack, Although there's not really a
Speaker 1: ton of information here, but Zach Gallon did go see
Speaker 1: doctor Neil Ella Trash on Monday, and he picked up
Speaker 1: a baseball today and that's about all we know. He
Speaker 1: wanted to see how it felt. And it seems like
Speaker 1: surgery is not being considered. But we don't really have
Speaker 1: any idea what the plan or timeline is for Zak.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there's some kind they're just trying to
Speaker 2: work out, like how to rehab him and how to
Speaker 2: bring him back. It's good news for him, good for
Speaker 2: the team that he is not looking at surgery. But
Speaker 2: on the other hand, it sure sounds like something going
Speaker 2: to keep him out at least like another month or more.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's going to have to be down for
Speaker 2: a bit and he's going to have to get ramped
Speaker 2: back up. I know that many people will say, you know,
Speaker 2: don't bring him back, just DFA and just get rid
Speaker 2: of him. But you know, the team needs to figure
Speaker 2: out if they can get anything out of him. Who knows,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe there's a redemption story here. Maybe he
Speaker 2: comes back in you know, September and he pitches well
Speaker 2: and he's a big part of a postseason rotation. You
Speaker 2: never know what this game. You can't predict baseball. You
Speaker 2: can't write him off completely. I'm not screaming optimism here,
Speaker 2: but it would be fun to be able to report
Speaker 2: on a redemption arc for Zach Gallen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely not not something you can totally rule out.
Speaker 1: Hope that he's able to get back soon. Other notes,
Speaker 1: we have Michael Soroka through a bullpen yesterday out at
Speaker 1: Chase Field and apparently that went very well. He's expected
Speaker 1: to face live hitters on on Saturday, so he's just
Speaker 1: kind of staying on track. There still going to be
Speaker 1: a little while before we see Soroka. I think still
Speaker 1: safe to say, Jack, that that Soroka is going to
Speaker 1: be after the trade deadline. Do you think that's pretty
Speaker 1: well established now?
Speaker 2: I believe that's the case. Yes, I mean it would
Speaker 2: be a major upset if he actually pitched in a
Speaker 2: major league game before August third.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't think anyone would be upset. The Diamondbacks
Speaker 1: would be super happy about.
Speaker 2: It, but well, it would be an upset, not as
Speaker 2: in upsetting.
Speaker 1: But you know, I get you. I just had I
Speaker 1: just wanted to give you a hard time there.
Speaker 2: Yes, Hey, one thing I was thinking about what the
Speaker 2: Jamison think. Just want to circle back to Jamison. I'm
Speaker 2: not loving the part about he was feeling this hip
Speaker 2: impingement and was pitching through it. One of the things
Speaker 2: we talked about was Soroka, you know, taking his time
Speaker 2: with the glute injury, and it was that he didn't
Speaker 2: want a cascade injury and he didn't want anything that
Speaker 2: was going to screw with his delivery, you know, with
Speaker 2: all the injuries that Jamison has had, and of course,
Speaker 2: you know Tommy John survivor, I really don't like the
Speaker 2: idea of he was actually pitching through a sore hip
Speaker 2: before he actually went on the il. So, you know,
Speaker 2: hopefully they actually give him some real time down here
Speaker 2: and make sure that thing is healed before he starts
Speaker 2: throwing again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, hopefully hopefully dres able to get back healthy.
Speaker 1: We get a number of requests about talking about prospects more,
Speaker 1: and we do apologize. It feels like in the chaos
Speaker 1: of the week two week news cycle, it's hard to
Speaker 1: spend a whole lot of time there. But we did
Speaker 1: want to give a shout out on this episode to
Speaker 1: Demetrio Carsantis, who was promoted from Double AM Morillo to
Speaker 1: Triple A Reno. He's now on the doorstep of the
Speaker 1: majors at just twenty one years old. Really impressive numbers
Speaker 1: at several different levels. This year he started, I guess
Speaker 1: he played in the complex a little bit while he
Speaker 1: was rehabbing, but he went to and absolutely destroyed the
Speaker 1: baseball there and d Bacs sent him to double A
Speaker 1: pretty pretty quick. In thirty five games there, he had
Speaker 1: three nineteen with a one thirty WRC plus and now
Speaker 1: he's he's up in Triple A. I not really. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I would say I'm expecting Crysantis to
Speaker 1: make his big league debut this year, but he's close
Speaker 1: enough that I'm not going to say it's impossible. If
Speaker 1: he goes out there and puts up crazy numbers for
Speaker 1: you know, the next month or so, maybe there's a
Speaker 1: world in September where Crysantis can make his big league debut.
Speaker 1: We know how the d Bacs do not exactly have
Speaker 1: a ton of depth offensively right now. And if I mean,
Speaker 1: if he just goes out there and Rakes and Reno
Speaker 1: like he might make a case for himself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you only get to add two guys. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, your roster goes to twenty eight, and you
Speaker 2: know at least one of them is going to be
Speaker 2: a pitcher, so you've only got one position player that
Speaker 2: you can add at that point. So we'll see who
Speaker 2: it is. You know, Could it be Demetro Croissantis. Could
Speaker 2: it be Manny Pina, you know, I mean, the guy's up,
Speaker 2: but as he already his thirtieth homeer, and I don't
Speaker 2: know that he did the last twenty four hours, but
Speaker 2: you know, could be one of those guys. You know,
Speaker 2: maybe they meet the extra catcher, although they have three
Speaker 2: catchers on the roster right now if you include Adrian
Speaker 2: del Castio and that well, see, I mean I think
Speaker 2: that for me, I would like to see them give
Speaker 2: Crossantis the proper amount of time to cook. I don't
Speaker 2: want to see him rush to the majors.
Speaker 1: I think that most likely brings him into next season.
Speaker 1: I think that's probably probably fair to say there's a
Speaker 1: something might have gone wrong if Croissantis is in the
Speaker 1: big leagues in a couple of months. You know, you
Speaker 1: wouldn't you wouldn't want to see him forced into that.
Speaker 1: So nonetheless, still super impressive for him to reach that
Speaker 1: level at just the age of twenty one, especially given
Speaker 1: the injuries that he's dealt with in his young professional career,
Speaker 1: so definitely worth a shout out there. We should take
Speaker 1: a look at the standings real quick before we get
Speaker 1: out of here. This is what we got. This is
Speaker 1: still like midway through the action on Wednesday. The Marlins
Speaker 1: game is not done as of the time of recording.
Speaker 1: The Phillies as well. The Pirates are playing the Yankees.
Speaker 1: They had a double header today. We don't know the
Speaker 1: outcome of the second game, so this is probably gonna
Speaker 1: change by the time you all see this. But nonetheless,
Speaker 1: as of right now, the Diamondbacks are in a tie
Speaker 1: with the Pittsburgh Pirates for that third wild card spot,
Speaker 1: and there's four teams right behind them, all within two
Speaker 1: and a half games, so things really tightening up here, Jack.
Speaker 1: But this is about as good as this has looked
Speaker 1: for the Diamondbacks in quite some time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Yankees, by the way of leading the Pirates
Speaker 2: to nothing in the top of the eighth as we speak,
Speaker 2: so that means that if for any reason the Yankees
Speaker 2: are able to hold onto that, then the dbacs would
Speaker 2: actually take over that top spot. But the third spot,
Speaker 2: I should say, the third.
Speaker 1: Wild looks like the maybe we should stop talking about this,
Speaker 1: because I was just about to say that the Marlins
Speaker 1: were losing two one to the Astros, and then just
Speaker 1: as I was going to say, at the score change
Speaker 1: to two to two, the Marlins apparently just tied that one.
Speaker 1: So anyway, these games, by the time you all get
Speaker 1: to this are are probably over and we'll have a
Speaker 1: little bit more clarity, but certainly a big, big series
Speaker 1: win for the Diamondbacks. Taking care of business against the
Speaker 1: A's and looking ahead of the d Backs have more
Speaker 1: very important games right around the corner. Of course, they're
Speaker 1: having to play this bizarre game against the Saint Louis
Speaker 1: Cardinals on Thursday. Brandon fought against Michael McGreevy. That's the
Speaker 1: pitching match up there, and then the d Backs will
Speaker 1: hop on another plane and fly to Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: For the weekend. They'll take on the Nationals and are
Speaker 1: expected pitching matchups for that NAT series at Wardo Rodriguez
Speaker 1: against Zach Lttel, Mitch Bratt and Foster Griffin, and then
Speaker 1: Cole Drake and Miles Michaelis in the finale. So this
Speaker 1: is one long road trip Jack that the Diamondbacks are
Speaker 1: setting out on right.
Speaker 2: And remember, folks, these are East Coast games, so be
Speaker 2: sure to check your game times. These are all going
Speaker 2: to be afternoon, late mid late afternoon games for the
Speaker 2: Diamondbacks in Arizona time, so be sure to look it up,
Speaker 2: and you know, make sure that you catch as many
Speaker 2: of these games live as you can. We'll be doing
Speaker 2: a live post game on Tuesday. I believe, right, Jesse,
Speaker 2: is that the day we.
Speaker 1: Picked lot well, so live postgame on Friday would be
Speaker 1: the next one. Oh yeah, I'm sorry, Friday after the Nationals.
Speaker 1: The Nationals game on Friday next week is too far
Speaker 1: away for me to figure that out right now, but yes, Friday,
Speaker 1: Friday night will be our next episode. Will be live
Speaker 1: after the first game of that series against the Nats
Speaker 1: were we were doing some research on the Nts ahead
Speaker 1: of the show. The d Backs are we think going
Speaker 1: to have three lefties pitch in that series, and the
Speaker 1: Nationals are a great offense against against anyone. They've They've
Speaker 1: been unbelievable offensively this year, but you look at what
Speaker 1: they've done against lefties this season, it's not real comforting.
Speaker 1: A two seventy eight batting average here with a eight
Speaker 1: thirty one. Ops. I guess maybe this isn't every single
Speaker 1: guy on the team I want to hitters, Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1: So these are just these are just the right handed
Speaker 1: hitters against lefties. But like you know, James Wood is
Speaker 1: still pretty good against lefties. CJ. Abrams can hold his
Speaker 1: own as well. So this is a team that is
Speaker 1: definitely built to crush left handed pitching, and the d
Speaker 1: Backs are sending three of them out there in that
Speaker 1: series over the weekend. At least, that's what we think
Speaker 1: things are gonna We think that's how things are gonna
Speaker 1: line up. So, uh, that's a that's a big one.
Speaker 1: The Nationals just beat the Rockies eight nothing earlier today,
Speaker 1: and there's still very much in this as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's a lot of debate about the rock
Speaker 2: the Nationals viability in this wildcard race, you know. There.
Speaker 2: I think that they're not anywhere near being a seller yet,
Speaker 2: but they may not be buyers as well. Jesse, I
Speaker 2: know you've been doing a lot of reading of what
Speaker 2: their management is saying and how they're presenting themselves, so
Speaker 2: maybe you know you have some insights there as to
Speaker 2: what their likely turn is to be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's still very much to be determined,
Speaker 1: but just reading a few stories here and there in
Speaker 1: the past couple of weeks, it seems like it's a
Speaker 1: pretty conservative front office. Just the way that they're talking
Speaker 1: right now, I think they are open to buying. I
Speaker 1: don't think that's out of the question by any means,
Speaker 1: but I think they probably have to be really close.
Speaker 1: I think if they slip back to maybe even like
Speaker 1: three games out of the picture or something like that,
Speaker 1: they they seem like the type of team that's going
Speaker 1: to lean towards sell more quickly. They did not expect
Speaker 1: to be in this position at all coming in coming
Speaker 1: into the season. They very much outperformed those expectations. So
Speaker 1: totally anything is on the table as of right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think they're I think they're a tough team.
Speaker 2: If they get any kind of pitching at all, I
Speaker 2: think they're very formidable. So you know, maybe they'll you know,
Speaker 2: zig while everyone's expecting them to zag. And I mean
Speaker 2: if their lineup keeps hitting like this and they're right
Speaker 2: there in the race, I mean, you know, they may
Speaker 2: change their mind and say, you know what, let's go
Speaker 2: for it. Let's let's grab a pitcher or two. So
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, you put some decent pitching on
Speaker 2: that team and all of a sudden, it's a whole
Speaker 2: different ball of wax. I mean their offense is legit. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. We were looking at expected wOBA around the league,
Speaker 1: and the Dodgers are number one. The Washington Nationals are
Speaker 1: number two. So even you look at the expected stats
Speaker 1: and they're very much right in this as one of
Speaker 1: the best offenses in baseball. So this is going to
Speaker 1: be a crazy week and a half or so leading
Speaker 1: up to the trade deadline. We are excited to follow
Speaker 1: along with all of you and give our thoughts along
Speaker 1: the way. As we said earlier, our next show will
Speaker 1: come on Friday night. We'll be live after that first
Speaker 1: game against the Washington Nationals over on YouTube, so we
Speaker 1: would love to see you there. In the meantime, you
Speaker 1: can find us on social media. I am at Jesse
Speaker 1: and Friedman. Jack is at Show Wizard fifty nine on Twitter,
Speaker 1: of course, and our show is at Snake's Territory. You
Speaker 1: can find Jack's written work over at Arizona Diamondbacks on
Speaker 1: SI Jack any final thoughts here as we head into
Speaker 1: a bizarre one day road trip thing in Saint Louis.
Speaker 2: Well, hopefully it won't rain, and hopefully they'll get some
Speaker 2: good weather in Washington this weekend as well. We're in
Speaker 2: that time of year where those parts of the country
Speaker 2: are really muggy. That bullpen barely got through today, so
Speaker 2: it's going to be really interesting to see how the
Speaker 2: team handles the rest of this road trip that they're
Speaker 2: coming up on.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: Well, now, Sports City's pretty rough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the scheduling there is pretty brutal, and I think
Speaker 1: you've officially jinked the Diamondbacks when it comes to the
Speaker 1: weather during that road trip. So we'll see, we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens. Maybe not. I think the forecast right now
Speaker 1: is looking pretty good for Saint Louis tomorrow. Hopefully it
Speaker 1: stays that way. Thank you again to all of you
Speaker 1: for being with us. We really appreciate your time, and
Speaker 1: we'll be back with another edition once again on Friday
Speaker 1: night of Snake's Territory