Speaker 1: Wanted to talk at all.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, everybody, Welcome back. Two days until the trade deadline,
Speaker 2: game one to eleven in the books. Yankees dropped this one,
Speaker 2: five to two to the Cubs, and the series is
Speaker 2: even at one game. Apiece joining me to talk about
Speaker 2: it tonight is our friend Terrence. Can we call him TK?
Speaker 2: How's it going?
Speaker 3: Tiaks doing pretty well? Flew in late last night from Chicago.
Speaker 3: Got to see the Yankees win yesterday at Wrigley Field.
Speaker 3: It was my first time. There was very cool, very
Speaker 3: cool ballpark. Rosario that bomb in person, that was a shot,
Speaker 3: and then Spencer Jones with a shot of his own
Speaker 3: and that was a laser. I was sitting Derek on
Speaker 3: the first base side up in like the second deck
Speaker 3: and like the first row there, so like I had
Speaker 3: a pretty good vantage point to just seeing the trajectory
Speaker 3: of the ball there. And that was impressive.
Speaker 2: Man, another line drive home run for him today. He
Speaker 2: actually had two hits and TK three interconnected things are
Speaker 2: happening with Spencer Jones right now, and I think, you know,
Speaker 2: seeing is how the Yankees offense was down and this
Speaker 2: was kind of a ho hum loss. I thought we
Speaker 2: might talk a little bit of trades. Tonight, we might
Speaker 2: focus on the deadline a little bit. I mean, we'll
Speaker 2: obviously go over the game, but Spencer Jones is proving
Speaker 2: that he can punish mistakes at the major league level.
Speaker 2: Two hits tonight, two home runs in the series. The
Speaker 2: other thing that's happening is that he is raising his
Speaker 2: trade value as the deadline approaches. You know, other teams
Speaker 2: have scouts watching these games. They're seeing that this guy's
Speaker 2: hitting just electric home runs, line drives, opposite field deep shots.
Speaker 2: And then the third thing that's happening is he's making
Speaker 2: me want to keep him and run him out there
Speaker 2: because he has been playing better. So let's talk about it.
Speaker 2: Where do you stand. Are you for maximizing his trade
Speaker 2: value as he's on the way up, or has he
Speaker 2: shown you enough recently that you want to just kind
Speaker 2: of hand the keys to you know, maybe centerfield or
Speaker 2: left field to him.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is a bit of a complicated, loaded answer,
Speaker 3: but I'm willing to include Spencer Jones in the right deal. Obviously,
Speaker 3: I got to see what the return looks like. But
Speaker 3: if you're the New York Yankees and you don't like
Speaker 3: what the return is giving you for a Spencer Jones,
Speaker 3: then I'm keeping him, and I'm actually you know, but
Speaker 3: you're keeping him with the mindset that next season and
Speaker 3: let's assume there is a season next season that he
Speaker 3: is your starting centerfielder. I think defensively he's played really well.
Speaker 3: Obviously he's in left right now. Bellinger being hurt, which
Speaker 3: complicates things. All of the injuries to this team has
Speaker 3: complicated things tremendously. With the trade deadline, they got to
Speaker 3: be very careful with the moves that they make, and
Speaker 3: you need to be absolutely positive that Aaron Judge and
Speaker 3: Cody Bellinger are going to be able to come back
Speaker 3: for September for a postseason run, and you've got to
Speaker 3: have that in the calculus when you're making moves. But
Speaker 3: I'm kind of leaning towards the side of things, Derek
Speaker 3: at this point because of the Bellinger injury as well,
Speaker 3: probably keeping Spencer Jones at this point.
Speaker 2: Yeah. He's actually, uh hitting pretty well against lefties too.
Speaker 2: He is six for twenty one, which is two eighty
Speaker 2: six with two homers against lefties. Now against right he's
Speaker 2: he's hitting two thirty six and seventy two at bats
Speaker 2: with three home runs and ten RBIs, But there's no doubt.
Speaker 2: The power is real, the athleticim is real. I've been
Speaker 2: saying he's looking a little bit smooth, a little bit
Speaker 2: more comfortable in center field. Now. I know this is
Speaker 2: totally on a different spectrum, but I switched high schools
Speaker 2: between my sophomore and junior year, and I was a
Speaker 2: good outfielder. But when I first got there, I was nervous, right,
Speaker 2: and so like, I took some bad routes and I
Speaker 2: just like, you know, I maybe muffed a couple of plays.
Speaker 2: I think that maybe, like when a player first gets
Speaker 2: called up to the major leagues, we saw some bad routes,
Speaker 2: but he seems to be more comfortable. Also, there's that
Speaker 2: like triple deck syndrome or whatever, where it's just like
Speaker 2: different for young guys. They have to get used to it.
Speaker 2: But he's been looking more comfortable. His arm seems like
Speaker 2: it's pretty good. He gets down the line. We saw
Speaker 2: him beat out an error by the first baseman today
Speaker 2: or maybe the second basement a ground ball on the
Speaker 2: right side. He's looking good, there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: Yankees offense, though not looking good again, just two runs
Speaker 2: for the second straight day, and there was a point
Speaker 2: during the game where they were talking with Craig Council
Speaker 2: and he basically said, if you take the home runs
Speaker 2: out of play, which for the most part they were,
Speaker 2: they were one for each team, but solo shots, and
Speaker 2: you're keeping them ball in the ballpark. You got to
Speaker 2: get hits, you got string hits together, you got to
Speaker 2: create rallies, you got to run the bases. And when
Speaker 2: he's saying that, I'm thinking, you know, he's right, which
Speaker 2: means the Yankees might be a little fuss and they
Speaker 2: were as they dropped this one. You know, creating rallies
Speaker 2: and stringing hits together is not the Yankees bally wick
Speaker 2: as they would say, but it is what it is.
Speaker 2: So TK. As we approach the trade deadline, Camillo Doval
Speaker 2: has a new home. He has been traded to the
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Pirates. How are you feeling about that move?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm fine with it. And I know that Yovanni
Speaker 3: Cruz who came up to take his place on the roster,
Speaker 3: it didn't pitch extremely well tonight. He was a bit
Speaker 3: of radic, but you know, definitely electric stuff, electric fastball.
Speaker 3: I'm sort of glad that Yovanni Cruz is going to
Speaker 3: get a real chance. I've been kind of saying this
Speaker 3: all season. I didn't really see the purpose of having
Speaker 3: Camillo d'vol on the roster, and you got you got,
Speaker 3: you know, two minor leaguers for him. You got some
Speaker 3: catching depth, nothing too impressive there, but you got an
Speaker 3: eighteen year old lottery ticket. You know, I kind of
Speaker 3: think of the Dodgers Josh Fields for YOURDN Alvarez trade
Speaker 3: when they traded Howeverez when he was like eighteen years
Speaker 3: old and the Dodgers at the time had absolutely no
Speaker 3: idea who he was. Now, I watched your video this
Speaker 3: morning about the deal. You know, Cruz, guy who hits
Speaker 3: for contact, which isn't really the Yankees preference when its
Speaker 3: old players. But he's only time to screw him up,
Speaker 3: exactly plenty of time to screw him up. But you know,
Speaker 3: he's easy eighteen years old, and we'll kind of see
Speaker 3: what happens. Maybe it turns into something, maybe he's part
Speaker 3: of another trade. But you got two warm bodies for him,
Speaker 3: and I'm cool with that, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah, two living human beings is more than I thought
Speaker 2: that the Yankees would get for Camilla devall So I
Speaker 2: saw that the Mariners and the White Sox made a trade,
Speaker 2: Luis Castillo going to the White Sox. This is interesting
Speaker 2: because the Yankees might play the White Sox in the postseason,
Speaker 2: and Castillo is always pitched pretty well against the Yankees.
Speaker 2: For sure. I do have the suspicion that the Mariners
Speaker 2: are going to trade Randy or Rose Arena, and if
Speaker 2: they do, he could be a nice pickup TK. I
Speaker 2: want to share his numbers two eighty three average, fourteen
Speaker 2: home runs. We know what he does in the postseason.
Speaker 2: He's done it repeatedly, eight thirty six OPS. Right handed
Speaker 2: hitter five to ten, has a little bit of flare
Speaker 2: with runners on, and we know the Yankees struggle to
Speaker 2: put together rallies. This is a guy who h's three
Speaker 2: hundred with runners on three ZHO three with nine home
Speaker 2: runs and a nine to thirty two OPS with runners
Speaker 2: in scoring position, hitting two ninety seven with a nine
Speaker 2: to seventy five OPS. Clutch time, late and close situations,
Speaker 2: hitting three h two with three homers and seven RBIs
Speaker 2: in forty three at best verse lefties two point fifty
Speaker 2: eight with a seven thirty three OPS so doesn't destroy you.
Speaker 2: But against righty he's hitting two ninety one with an
Speaker 2: eight to seventy ops. And let's check out home and away.
Speaker 2: So in Seattle he's hitting two forty four, six home
Speaker 2: runs twenty two RBI. Is kind of a tough park
Speaker 2: to hit in. We've heard a lot of stories about
Speaker 2: their back drop being kind of a little off kilter.
Speaker 2: Obviously he's had time to get used to it. He's
Speaker 2: been there for more than a year now. But Away
Speaker 2: hitting better. He's hitting three sixteen with eight home runs
Speaker 2: of twenty seven RBIs. What are your thoughts on Randy
Speaker 2: A Rose arena. I wouldn't mind an outfield honestly, TK
Speaker 2: of Randy Arose Arena in left field, Spencer Jones in centerfield,
Speaker 2: and Aaron Judge in right field down the stretch or
Speaker 2: even Judge at DH right or or there's been some
Speaker 2: talk that they might go out and get a first
Speaker 2: baseman and Ben Rice it becomes your DH and Judge
Speaker 2: is your right fielder because it stanton not being back
Speaker 2: I think the reason that And sorry to ramble and
Speaker 2: filibuster here, but Aaron Bowin has been kind of feisty
Speaker 2: when people ask about Stanton. I think that's because he's dead.
Speaker 2: I think that's because he's hanging out with Mitch McConnell.
Speaker 2: I think I think they're both in the afterlife playing
Speaker 2: Backcammon right now. No, I think that essentially, and they
Speaker 2: know Stanton is done. He's useless right now, so why
Speaker 2: give that card away and let other teams know? Right So?
Speaker 2: I think I think we're not going to see Stanton.
Speaker 2: I think Yankees have plans for the DH I think
Speaker 2: they could get a first baseman. I think they could
Speaker 2: do a lot of different interesting things. Your thoughts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he threw a lot at me there, but it
Speaker 3: was weird because Ken Rosenthal in the middle of the
Speaker 3: game was like, Stanton may come back before Judge. So
Speaker 3: I feel like, to your point, nobody really knows anything
Speaker 3: right now, and the Yankees probably want to keep it
Speaker 3: that way. Keep your cards as close as possible, just
Speaker 3: so people don't know what you're desperate for, what you're
Speaker 3: willing to overpay for. As far as Randy and Rose
Speaker 3: Arena goes like, I would be down. I mean, I
Speaker 3: remember in the twenty twenty playoffs in the COVID season,
Speaker 3: like he was a beast in the playoffs. Dude, he
Speaker 3: was such a pest. He was a pin in the ass.
Speaker 3: He was always getting the big hit. It was just
Speaker 3: a backbreaking thing to face all the time. And the Yankees.
Speaker 3: What is my biggest complaint about the New York Yankees?
Speaker 3: And in October and I'll call it in the judge,
Speaker 3: E're obviously the offense has gone away. You know, they
Speaker 3: can't rally, but they can't get the big hit, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean, Especially that they can never seem
Speaker 3: to get the big hit. I only think of like
Speaker 3: in twenty seventeen when Gary Sanchez had that double in
Speaker 3: the gap against the Astros. Yeah, last big hits, right,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. It's not a home run,
Speaker 3: but it's the big hit, and they never get those.
Speaker 3: And a Rose Arena can do it.
Speaker 2: DJ hit a opposite field, pretty big hole run in it,
Speaker 2: but it's pretty I get your point. It's few and
Speaker 2: far between. So the first base one I couldn't remember
Speaker 2: his name, Luis Garcia Junior with the Nationals. Apparently the
Speaker 2: Yankees are linked to him as the guy who's sitting
Speaker 2: two eighty three with twenty three home runs, seventy six
Speaker 2: RBIs eight seventy three ops. He's a left handed hitter.
Speaker 2: Let's see how he does against lefties to eighteen, So
Speaker 2: not great. I guess Righty's though, two ninety five with
Speaker 2: twenty home runs home and away, essentially a little bit
Speaker 2: better away. But this is a guy that apparently the
Speaker 2: Yankees have been linked to. I mean, around this time
Speaker 2: of year, you hear all sorts of like names thrown
Speaker 2: out there, and you never know what's real, what's smoke.
Speaker 2: I think there is a chance the Yankees are gonna
Speaker 2: make multiple moves and change this roster around because the
Speaker 2: offense is just not getting it done. It's clear that
Speaker 2: contact hitting is at a premium these days, okay, and
Speaker 2: the Yankees just don't have it. They just without judging
Speaker 2: the lineup, without Bellinger in the lineup, they just don't
Speaker 2: get enough hits. They're twenty seventh in Major League Baseball
Speaker 2: in average at two three. When you're first in the
Speaker 2: league in era, if you can put up an even
Speaker 2: competent offense, you're gonna win a lot more games than
Speaker 2: the Yankees are winning.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, this offense has just been a knemic. And
Speaker 3: you bring up that point, they don't have a lot
Speaker 3: of contact. I don't. I don't think the Yankees really
Speaker 3: value contact. Aaron Judge is just obviously, thank you. Aaron
Speaker 3: Judge is just like an anomaly, you know, just the
Speaker 3: power and the contact combination is rare. I would love
Speaker 3: them to get a Luisa rise. It just kind of
Speaker 3: changes the dynamic of the team. A little bit of
Speaker 3: it changes the dynamic of the I mean, look at
Speaker 3: that three twenty eight. I would kill for three twenty eight.
Speaker 3: I don't need them to hit twenty home runs. But
Speaker 3: when the bases are loaded and there's two outs and
Speaker 3: you get me a double or a single and you
Speaker 3: score two runs, that's big, man, that's big, especially with
Speaker 3: the pitching staff that this team has, the starters that
Speaker 3: this team has, you know, in the bullpen. Look, it's
Speaker 3: funny how in the beginning of the season the narrative
Speaker 3: of this team, and I believed it as well, that
Speaker 3: this team had a bullpen problem, because it did. But
Speaker 3: you know, a little bit of a little bit of
Speaker 3: dumpster diving, a little chev he a Hedrick emergence, and
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, it's actually it's turned out to
Speaker 3: be one of the better pens in baseball. I think
Speaker 3: probably one arm acquired would be enough. Now, Morihan Miller's
Speaker 3: the big fish out there. I'm not giving up George
Speaker 3: Lombard Junior for Mason Miller, but I'd love to have him.
Speaker 3: I love to have Adrian Morahan from the Padres, but
Speaker 3: apparently the price is pretty high there. Luke Weaver another option.
Speaker 3: But for me, you give me one reliever. But you
Speaker 3: need bats, you need bats, you need people who can
Speaker 3: hit the ball. I love Luke Weaver. He's having a
Speaker 3: great season. You know, he was doing it in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty four in the playoffs. He was you know, I
Speaker 3: called him nutsack because every time you would get him
Speaker 3: out there, the guy would just lock it down. But exactly,
Speaker 3: but dude, bats obviously, I don't know if the Twins
Speaker 3: are dealing Ryan Jeffers. They just acquired a reliever from
Speaker 3: the Mets. They got Mint jeff So are they buying there?
Speaker 3: You know, it's weird, right, like the market's weird.
Speaker 2: I don't think they're gonna trade Jeffers. The one trade
Speaker 2: that I find the most interesting it was floated by
Speaker 2: Joel Sherman, and apparently there is some talk in Miami
Speaker 2: that this could happen. Otto Lopez and Xavier Edwards, both
Speaker 2: on the block. I would love to acquire a middle
Speaker 2: infield combination. Now my trade, my mock trade. I don't
Speaker 2: know if you saw this one earlier this week. I
Speaker 2: basically would give them the Yankees' top four prospects. I'd
Speaker 2: give them Lombard, I'd give them Kilby, I'd give them Lagrane,
Speaker 2: and I'd give them Elmer Rodriguez. I might even throw
Speaker 2: at the time, I would have thrown in Spencer Jones.
Speaker 2: I don't think I would go right now, but acquiring
Speaker 2: a middle of the infield that is used to playing
Speaker 2: with each other. Both of them hit for contact. Let's
Speaker 2: take a look at Otto Lopez Odo Lopez, who by
Speaker 2: the way, has an awesome name. Odo. That's fricking great.
Speaker 2: Three twenty two, nine home runs, fifty one ribis eight
Speaker 2: thirty six OPS one twenty seven WRC plus, so he
Speaker 2: is twenty seven percent better than league average three fifty
Speaker 2: five on base percentage. He went one for four today
Speaker 2: against the Mets in a win. Last five games, he
Speaker 2: has been slowed down a little bit, but this is
Speaker 2: a good guy from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. And then
Speaker 2: there's Xavier Edwards, who I think is a fantastic player.
Speaker 2: He is a switch hitter, which is important. Who hits
Speaker 2: her average. He went over for five today, but hitting
Speaker 2: two eighty eight with six home runs forty RBIs one
Speaker 2: thirteen WRC plus and he doesn't strike out thirteen point
Speaker 2: six percent strikeout rate is my huge trade package? Is
Speaker 2: that a no from you? Or would you go all
Speaker 2: in to get an entirely new middle lean feel that
Speaker 2: could help solve some of this hitting problem.
Speaker 3: You know, it's funny. I looked up Oto Lopez on
Speaker 3: Savant and I was just trying to see what his
Speaker 3: fielding metrics look like. So he's ninety third percentile with range,
Speaker 3: and you know the Yankees love shortstop with range. I'm
Speaker 3: about done with Andy Anthony Boltby. That's no secret. That's
Speaker 3: a pretty obvious thing. I really have a tough time
Speaker 3: saying to buy to Lombard just because you hear from
Speaker 3: this guy. Look, he hit a home run tonight, by
Speaker 3: the way, But the thing with Lombard is that you're
Speaker 3: hearing from him is that as soon as he steps
Speaker 3: on a major league field, he will be one of
Speaker 3: the best defensive shortstops in the league. And it's the
Speaker 3: bat is the thing that we do not know about
Speaker 3: waiting for that to come around. And it's a tough
Speaker 3: one though, because if he does not get dealt, he
Speaker 3: is going to be on this team as soon as
Speaker 3: the deadline is over. The reason I think I like
Speaker 3: him so much is just because he grew up around
Speaker 3: the game. You know, his dad's a coach in the league.
Speaker 3: Like he's been kind of raised as a baseball player.
Speaker 3: Like I watched this little short clip on YouTube. There's
Speaker 3: like a mini doc about like a kind of day
Speaker 3: in the life with George Lombard. And even from a
Speaker 3: young age, when he was like seventeen years old, the
Speaker 3: way he was kind of living as day to day
Speaker 3: was like a pro And I think that that kind
Speaker 3: of intangible thing is valuable, like he sort of already
Speaker 3: knows how to handle himself from a young age. I'd
Speaker 3: love to have Oto Lopez, but I maybe I'll just
Speaker 3: get one of them and not both of them, to
Speaker 3: give up a little bit lesser of a package. And
Speaker 3: he's a right handed bat and he's hits for contact,
Speaker 3: which is like two things the Yankees desperately need. And
Speaker 3: if you do get a Lopez, then you know, next season,
Speaker 3: maybe you slide them over to second and you have
Speaker 3: Lombard play short. I'm sure that would work out fine.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that's probably the direction I'm leaning in right now.
Speaker 3: I'm almost kind of looking at it if you really
Speaker 3: want to reconfigure the team. I don't know who would
Speaker 3: be a suitor for it, but like, are you looking
Speaker 3: at moving on from a Grisham and a Jazz just
Speaker 3: to get something in return? Just to have Jones play
Speaker 3: every day in center? And if you get a Luisa
Speaker 3: Ryes or no to Lopez, all of a sudden they
Speaker 3: slide into the second base slot, you bring up Lombard
Speaker 3: to play short.
Speaker 2: Let's double click on Jazz real quick, because I've seen
Speaker 2: a few comments in the chat about him. He obviously
Speaker 2: had another tough game, got into it with the umpire
Speaker 2: a little bit. I hate his two strike approach, just
Speaker 2: waving at the ball today, and I think we had
Speaker 2: some calls about that. In fact, I'll play one right now.
Speaker 4: Hey, Derek MD here, I mean, come on, chis in
Speaker 4: the same swing, no two strike approach, the same swing
Speaker 4: to have bets today where they seem like he's winning
Speaker 4: all homer same swing, strike approach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I agree one with the caller terrible two
Speaker 2: strike approach. Hitting two twenty two. That's basically like two
Speaker 2: for every nine, Right, that's not good. It's like one
Speaker 2: for three every three games. Basically, that's probably wrong. I'm
Speaker 2: not great at math anyway. I would one hundred percent
Speaker 2: trade Jazz Chisholm if somebody wanted him, especially if you
Speaker 2: can get Luisa Rise.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean it's one of those situations though, that
Speaker 3: because this market might be the perfect market to make
Speaker 3: that sort of deal, because the American League is so
Speaker 3: bad that you have so many teams that are kind
Speaker 3: of in it, but they're also out of it. So
Speaker 3: you have the Mariners that are in the wild card hunt,
Speaker 3: but they probably don't believe in this team, which is
Speaker 3: why they're dealing Luis Castillo away and considering Arizonna dealing
Speaker 3: him away. But at the same time, they are probably
Speaker 3: looking at things like their starting rotation is so deep
Speaker 3: that they could afford to make that move for a
Speaker 3: different need. So if there is a content out there,
Speaker 3: or a team like the Twins or you know, the
Speaker 3: Padres that are kind of this five hundred team, and
Speaker 3: they may sneak in and they need a bat and
Speaker 3: they can deal from a position of depth like their bullpen.
Speaker 3: I would definitely see if you could line it up
Speaker 3: that way. Grisham is another guy that I think at
Speaker 3: this point for if I'm the Yankees, I'm cool with
Speaker 3: moving on from Trent Grisham just to have Jones play
Speaker 3: every day in the outfield. Now, it's a little bit
Speaker 3: complicated just because Bellinger decided to pull a hamstring, and
Speaker 3: that complicates things because you need guys out there in
Speaker 3: the outfield, so it makes you need Grisham. But if
Speaker 3: you know, if you're willing to kind of get something
Speaker 3: in return for those two guys and reconfigure this line
Speaker 3: up a little bit, just to get a get more
Speaker 3: contact in there, you know, just just walk with me,
Speaker 3: Derek for a second. If you're able to pull a
Speaker 3: move without giving up George Lombard for just Auto Lopez.
Speaker 3: You're not getting Xavier Edwards all right, and you're getting
Speaker 3: Louis a rise from the Giants, which won't cost as
Speaker 3: much because it's a two month rental, And you can
Speaker 3: move on from Grisham, and you can move on from Jazz,
Speaker 3: and you got Jones and Center and you have Lopez.
Speaker 3: It's short and you can or you can Lopez at
Speaker 3: second and George Lombard at short. I think I'm good
Speaker 3: with that. You got you got to you got to two.
Speaker 3: You got a contact bat in there, which is what
Speaker 3: you needed. You got two contact bats.
Speaker 2: I still need at I still got to get a catcher.
Speaker 3: But like if you get a rise, you get Lopez.
Speaker 3: That's your middle end field. Lombard can come up play third,
Speaker 3: or play short or whatever. I'd love to have a catcher.
Speaker 3: You're hearing pass and link the Yankees to Adleie Rushman.
Speaker 3: I don't think the Orioles will want to move him
Speaker 3: in division, if at all. But the rumor is that
Speaker 3: the Yankees do have the best offer on the table
Speaker 3: for Adley Rushman. I'm curious to know what that package
Speaker 3: looks like, but that would be a great deadline if
Speaker 3: you got those done.
Speaker 2: I want to take a look at Adlee Rushman. He's
Speaker 2: obviously on the injured list right now. Got off to
Speaker 2: a great start, has slowed down significantly, but he was
Speaker 2: hitting two fifty one when he went on the il
Speaker 2: on the eighteenth, eight home runs forty seven RBIs good defender,
Speaker 2: so you wouldn't be losing anything there. He's a switch hitter.
Speaker 2: He's got a bit of power, not a ton of power.
Speaker 2: But this was a guy who was looked at as
Speaker 2: a potential franchise player. Has never quite lived up to that.
Speaker 2: But he's solid right and right now. Solid is a
Speaker 2: massive improvement from what we're running out there. Ali Sanchez
Speaker 2: had three hits today, but the throw the other night,
Speaker 2: I was done with him right there. He could have
Speaker 2: had twenty hits in a row after that. I still
Speaker 2: would want him gone. I don't want I don't want
Speaker 2: anything to do with this. Guys, you do that in
Speaker 2: a big moment in the playoffs. You can't be that dumb.
Speaker 2: You can't be that dumb and played professional baseball, all right, guys, Uh,
Speaker 2: we are gonna take a quick look at the actual
Speaker 2: game that went down, so tk uh. Two hits for
Speaker 2: Spencer Jones, one for Cabaliro, three for Ali Sanchez, but
Speaker 2: the Yankees come up a little bit short five to two.
Speaker 2: The offense continues to be a problem. What do you
Speaker 2: think of Max Free today? Five and a third with
Speaker 2: one and run, one walk in seven k's.
Speaker 3: I thought he pitched well, you know, I think he's
Speaker 3: still kind of coming back from his injury. It's funny.
Speaker 3: We had a you'll see you'll see in the in
Speaker 3: the blog. I'll be dropping that, I hope Monday on
Speaker 3: my channel. But I was right up next to Max Freed,
Speaker 3: and my dad was like, how you feeling, shoulders good?
Speaker 3: You're like, yep, everything's fine, signing some balls and stuff
Speaker 3: for little kids.
Speaker 2: He was that, man, you're bothering our you're bothering our pitcher.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's fine. I look, I could have bothered Garret
Speaker 3: Cole having lunch with his family, but I didn't. So
Speaker 3: but I thought he pitched you all the night. He battled,
Speaker 3: he's coming back from injury. He looked good, got the
Speaker 3: strikeouts quick inning after a long inning, so I was
Speaker 3: happy with it.
Speaker 2: You know what he was thinking today in the first inning,
Speaker 2: he was thinking about his curve bugs me. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: throw a nasty curve all right here. And he's getting said.
Speaker 2: He's like, man, who is that fucking weirdo? Yesterday? And
Speaker 2: but overall, solid, solid performance. I want to take a
Speaker 2: couple of voicemails here. We're doing kind of a longer
Speaker 2: episode because we got the trade deadline. Uh, here's Danny
Speaker 2: from California.
Speaker 4: Gang from Kelly don't want to jinx.
Speaker 1: He's dang two to one Yankees with Spencer Jones slowly
Speaker 1: coming around. Just hit as good.
Speaker 2: It's good.
Speaker 4: Pretty fired up about that.
Speaker 1: And also Ali Sanchez. Man, he's a little snap hitter,
Speaker 1: but he kind of I know Soho was an infielder,
Speaker 1: but it reminds me a lot of Luis Soho the.
Speaker 4: Way he hits. It doesn't have much pop, but puts
Speaker 4: it where people aren't Anyways, the school Yanks, come on.
Speaker 2: I wish you where somebody wasn't in the ninth inning
Speaker 2: there when he hit into that big double play. But
Speaker 2: again the throw the other day, amateur amateur hour, here's
Speaker 2: a call about Spencer.
Speaker 1: Hey, Derek, this is awesome. So Spencer Jones just had
Speaker 1: a monster home run Apple Taco again. Really excited, man,
Speaker 1: Just amazing. If this hit had had some some more
Speaker 1: time up at this level. But yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 1: hope you can keep it going. The other thing I
Speaker 1: wanted to mention is that I think and I've had this,
Speaker 1: you know, fought for a long time, sort of my
Speaker 1: dream world series Yankees versus Chicago. Just watching the last
Speaker 1: couple of games. How fun would that be? The Yankees
Speaker 1: and the Cubs, you know, in the World Series, Brigley
Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium, you know, iconic cities, iconic franchises. I just
Speaker 1: think that'd be a whole lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I think you've got to score some runs before
Speaker 2: you start thinking World Series.
Speaker 3: I don't think the Cubs are making it in the
Speaker 3: World Series, That's what. I don't think they're even beating,
Speaker 3: let alone the Dodgers. I don't think they're beating the Brewers. Dude,
Speaker 3: Milwaukee is I think Milwaukee's going to be scary Inah
Speaker 3: October and they're.
Speaker 2: About to get Schooble. They're about to get Schooble.
Speaker 3: They could have, yeah, because we're talking about you know,
Speaker 3: they have like the best prospect in baseball. If they're
Speaker 3: willing to cough them up, I think they get him.
Speaker 3: I know that the Dodgers are in the mix, but
Speaker 3: you talk about facing Schooble and miss Arowski and the
Speaker 3: bullpen that they have, and they can hit for contact
Speaker 3: and run. Dude, I think Milwaukee's going to be nasty man, and.
Speaker 2: They actually they could be might pick to come out
Speaker 2: of the National League all right. Time for the good,
Speaker 2: the bad, and the ugly. All right, So Max Schuman,
Speaker 2: oh for three tonight he gets the poop emoji. Trent
Speaker 2: Grisham for over the Walk, he gets the shoe. Goldschmidt
Speaker 2: got the poop. Ahmed Rosario one for four, Jason de
Speaker 2: Mingez with a rare alien sighting silver sombrero for Jazz
Speaker 2: Chisholm Junior, Anthony Vopie, what else is new? He's probably
Speaker 2: leading the league in poop emoji's Ben Rice over one
Speaker 2: nothing from McMahon, Spencer Jones with the stinger, stinger dinger,
Speaker 2: a stinger dinger, and then oh that's great, Spencer Jones
Speaker 2: a spinger I don't know, Alex Sanchez three for four,
Speaker 2: and cab I Arrow one for three. As we take
Speaker 2: a look at the Cubs, p Crow Armstrong, what a
Speaker 2: player he is? Bacon just hit man, say yes, Suzuki
Speaker 2: with a base hit. Bragman continues to just beat the Yankees.
Speaker 2: Carson Kelly with a knock, Michael Bush with a hit.
Speaker 2: The only two guys who didn't hit well or Hap
Speaker 2: and Swanson. You had the home run from Horner. I
Speaker 2: guess Trionto's didn't do much either, but that is the
Speaker 2: good and bad and the ugly. All right, TK, any
Speaker 2: final thoughts here, I probably won't hear from you again
Speaker 2: before the trade deadline.
Speaker 3: How about Tyler Stevenson with the Reds. Is an option
Speaker 3: as a catcher. I've heard that name around. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, it's one of those things. It's not like
Speaker 3: a fantastic player, but at the same time better than
Speaker 3: whatever they have right now. And he's a right handed bat,
Speaker 3: so it is something. Yeah, two fifty two is not
Speaker 3: up great, so I don't know what he looks like defensively,
Speaker 3: and I know that the Yankees love defensive catchers. But
Speaker 3: it's an option. It's on the table.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean his his war is zero point eight,
Speaker 2: so he can't be that amazing defensively. And his WRC
Speaker 2: plus is one hundred, so he's basically league average as
Speaker 2: a hitter. But that's still a far cry from where
Speaker 2: we're at right now. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, thanks for watching,
Speaker 2: stay tuned, keep you your YouTube device close because if
Speaker 2: news breaks, I will be back. Thanks again TK for
Speaker 2: joining us. Let's hope that next time we talk the
Speaker 2: Yankees have a completely new roster.
Speaker 3: Let's see it.
Speaker 2: Hey, thanks for watching. If you're new to the channel,
Speaker 2: do all the YouTube stuff like and subscribe. Also, we've
Speaker 2: got a store, Nyy Designs dot shop. It's got all
Speaker 2: sorts of fun t shirts, mugs, hats. You can also
Speaker 2: get podcast merch at pinstripe territory shop dot com. We're
Speaker 2: also on every podcast platform, so go ahead and subscribe
Speaker 2: to the audio version as well, and give us five
Speaker 2: stars if you don't mind, if we earned it. We'll
Speaker 2: see you next time
Speaker 4: You