WEBVTT - Yankees Lose / Trade Talk 0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:02.560 Wanted to talk at all. 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:10.200 Welcome back, everybody, Welcome back. Two days until the trade deadline, 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:13.319 game one to eleven in the books. Yankees dropped this one, 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:16.279 five to two to the Cubs, and the series is 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:19.840 even at one game. Apiece joining me to talk about 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:22.160 it tonight is our friend Terrence. Can we call him TK? 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:23.200 How's it going? 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:28.160 Tiaks doing pretty well? Flew in late last night from Chicago. 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:33.000 Got to see the Yankees win yesterday at Wrigley Field. 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:35.000 It was my first time. There was very cool, very 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:41.480 cool ballpark. Rosario that bomb in person, that was a shot, 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:44.680 and then Spencer Jones with a shot of his own 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:47.560 and that was a laser. I was sitting Derek on 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:50.600 the first base side up in like the second deck 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:52.400 and like the first row there, so like I had 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:54.680 a pretty good vantage point to just seeing the trajectory 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:56.120 of the ball there. And that was impressive. 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:58.360 Man, another line drive home run for him today. He 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:01.400 actually had two hits and TK three interconnected things are 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:03.960 happening with Spencer Jones right now, and I think, you know, 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.039 seeing is how the Yankees offense was down and this 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:08.399 was kind of a ho hum loss. I thought we 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:10.720 might talk a little bit of trades. Tonight, we might 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:12.600 focus on the deadline a little bit. I mean, we'll 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:15.479 obviously go over the game, but Spencer Jones is proving 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:18.000 that he can punish mistakes at the major league level. 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:21.360 Two hits tonight, two home runs in the series. The 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:23.720 other thing that's happening is that he is raising his 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:27.720 trade value as the deadline approaches. You know, other teams 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:30.880 have scouts watching these games. They're seeing that this guy's 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:38.160 hitting just electric home runs, line drives, opposite field deep shots. 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:41.360 And then the third thing that's happening is he's making 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:43.000 me want to keep him and run him out there 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:46.760 because he has been playing better. So let's talk about it. 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:50.400 Where do you stand. Are you for maximizing his trade 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:52.720 value as he's on the way up, or has he 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:54.560 shown you enough recently that you want to just kind 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:56.960 of hand the keys to you know, maybe centerfield or 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:57.840 left field to him. 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:01.560 I mean, this is a bit of a complicated, loaded answer, 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:06.520 but I'm willing to include Spencer Jones in the right deal. Obviously, 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:09.800 I got to see what the return looks like. But 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.720 if you're the New York Yankees and you don't like 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:16.640 what the return is giving you for a Spencer Jones, 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:20.920 then I'm keeping him, and I'm actually you know, but 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:24.880 you're keeping him with the mindset that next season and 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:27.400 let's assume there is a season next season that he 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:32.200 is your starting centerfielder. I think defensively he's played really well. 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.919 Obviously he's in left right now. Bellinger being hurt, which 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:39.160 complicates things. All of the injuries to this team has 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:42.280 complicated things tremendously. With the trade deadline, they got to 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:45.280 be very careful with the moves that they make, and 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:48.799 you need to be absolutely positive that Aaron Judge and 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:50.800 Cody Bellinger are going to be able to come back 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:53.520 for September for a postseason run, and you've got to 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:55.280 have that in the calculus when you're making moves. But 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:57.480 I'm kind of leaning towards the side of things, Derek 0:02:57.520 --> 0:02:59.520 at this point because of the Bellinger injury as well, 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:01.600 probably keeping Spencer Jones at this point. 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:05.280 Yeah. He's actually, uh hitting pretty well against lefties too. 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.320 He is six for twenty one, which is two eighty 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:10.160 six with two homers against lefties. Now against right he's 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:12.440 he's hitting two thirty six and seventy two at bats 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:14.920 with three home runs and ten RBIs, But there's no doubt. 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.720 The power is real, the athleticim is real. I've been 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:19.560 saying he's looking a little bit smooth, a little bit 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:21.720 more comfortable in center field. Now. I know this is 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.680 totally on a different spectrum, but I switched high schools 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:26.440 between my sophomore and junior year, and I was a 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:29.680 good outfielder. But when I first got there, I was nervous, right, 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:31.640 and so like, I took some bad routes and I 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:34.240 just like, you know, I maybe muffed a couple of plays. 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.440 I think that maybe, like when a player first gets 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.200 called up to the major leagues, we saw some bad routes, 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:42.800 but he seems to be more comfortable. Also, there's that 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:45.320 like triple deck syndrome or whatever, where it's just like 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:47.240 different for young guys. They have to get used to it. 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:49.960 But he's been looking more comfortable. His arm seems like 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.200 it's pretty good. He gets down the line. We saw 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:54.840 him beat out an error by the first baseman today 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:57.360 or maybe the second basement a ground ball on the 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:00.720 right side. He's looking good, there's no doubt about it. 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:04.960 Yankees offense, though not looking good again, just two runs 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:09.040 for the second straight day, and there was a point 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:13.000 during the game where they were talking with Craig Council 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:14.800 and he basically said, if you take the home runs 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:17.160 out of play, which for the most part they were, 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.880 they were one for each team, but solo shots, and 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:21.480 you're keeping them ball in the ballpark. You got to 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:23.480 get hits, you got string hits together, you got to 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:25.200 create rallies, you got to run the bases. And when 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.440 he's saying that, I'm thinking, you know, he's right, which 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:32.160 means the Yankees might be a little fuss and they 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:36.640 were as they dropped this one. You know, creating rallies 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:39.320 and stringing hits together is not the Yankees bally wick 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.240 as they would say, but it is what it is. 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:46.960 So TK. As we approach the trade deadline, Camillo Doval 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.279 has a new home. He has been traded to the 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.680 Pittsburgh Pirates. How are you feeling about that move? 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.880 Yeah, I'm fine with it. And I know that Yovanni 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.640 Cruz who came up to take his place on the roster, 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:05.240 it didn't pitch extremely well tonight. He was a bit 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:10.880 of radic, but you know, definitely electric stuff, electric fastball. 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:14.680 I'm sort of glad that Yovanni Cruz is going to 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:16.480 get a real chance. I've been kind of saying this 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.039 all season. I didn't really see the purpose of having 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.320 Camillo d'vol on the roster, and you got you got, 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:24.000 you know, two minor leaguers for him. You got some 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:27.320 catching depth, nothing too impressive there, but you got an 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:29.680 eighteen year old lottery ticket. You know, I kind of 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:33.200 think of the Dodgers Josh Fields for YOURDN Alvarez trade 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.839 when they traded Howeverez when he was like eighteen years 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.599 old and the Dodgers at the time had absolutely no 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:41.919 idea who he was. Now, I watched your video this 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:44.680 morning about the deal. You know, Cruz, guy who hits 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:49.640 for contact, which isn't really the Yankees preference when its 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:52.440 old players. But he's only time to screw him up, 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.880 exactly plenty of time to screw him up. But you know, 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:58.320 he's easy eighteen years old, and we'll kind of see 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:00.440 what happens. Maybe it turns into something, maybe he's part 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.280 of another trade. But you got two warm bodies for him, 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:04.840 and I'm cool with that, you know what I mean? 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.440 Yeah, two living human beings is more than I thought 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:11.400 that the Yankees would get for Camilla devall So I 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:16.479 saw that the Mariners and the White Sox made a trade, 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:21.839 Luis Castillo going to the White Sox. This is interesting 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:24.520 because the Yankees might play the White Sox in the postseason, 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.400 and Castillo is always pitched pretty well against the Yankees. 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:32.520 For sure. I do have the suspicion that the Mariners 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:35.839 are going to trade Randy or Rose Arena, and if 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.479 they do, he could be a nice pickup TK. I 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:41.280 want to share his numbers two eighty three average, fourteen 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.200 home runs. We know what he does in the postseason. 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:46.719 He's done it repeatedly, eight thirty six OPS. Right handed 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.159 hitter five to ten, has a little bit of flare 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:53.440 with runners on, and we know the Yankees struggle to 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:55.240 put together rallies. This is a guy who h's three 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.160 hundred with runners on three ZHO three with nine home 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:00.359 runs and a nine to thirty two OPS with runners 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:04.080 in scoring position, hitting two ninety seven with a nine 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:10.000 to seventy five OPS. Clutch time, late and close situations, 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.040 hitting three h two with three homers and seven RBIs 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.040 in forty three at best verse lefties two point fifty 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.360 eight with a seven thirty three OPS so doesn't destroy you. 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.400 But against righty he's hitting two ninety one with an 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:26.239 eight to seventy ops. And let's check out home and away. 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:28.920 So in Seattle he's hitting two forty four, six home 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:30.800 runs twenty two RBI. Is kind of a tough park 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:32.320 to hit in. We've heard a lot of stories about 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.840 their back drop being kind of a little off kilter. 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:36.640 Obviously he's had time to get used to it. He's 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.000 been there for more than a year now. But Away 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.560 hitting better. He's hitting three sixteen with eight home runs 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:44.680 of twenty seven RBIs. What are your thoughts on Randy 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:48.600 A Rose arena. I wouldn't mind an outfield honestly, TK 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:53.480 of Randy Arose Arena in left field, Spencer Jones in centerfield, 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.760 and Aaron Judge in right field down the stretch or 0:07:56.800 --> 0:08:00.560 even Judge at DH right or or there's been some 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.160 talk that they might go out and get a first 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:07.640 baseman and Ben Rice it becomes your DH and Judge 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:11.000 is your right fielder because it stanton not being back 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.840 I think the reason that And sorry to ramble and 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:18.960 filibuster here, but Aaron Bowin has been kind of feisty 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:23.520 when people ask about Stanton. I think that's because he's dead. 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:26.160 I think that's because he's hanging out with Mitch McConnell. 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:28.600 I think I think they're both in the afterlife playing 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:32.920 Backcammon right now. No, I think that essentially, and they 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:36.600 know Stanton is done. He's useless right now, so why 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:40.959 give that card away and let other teams know? Right So? 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:42.680 I think I think we're not going to see Stanton. 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:44.800 I think Yankees have plans for the DH I think 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.160 they could get a first baseman. I think they could 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.880 do a lot of different interesting things. Your thoughts. 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.400 Yeah, he threw a lot at me there, but it 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:54.280 was weird because Ken Rosenthal in the middle of the 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.960 game was like, Stanton may come back before Judge. So 0:08:57.200 --> 0:08:59.680 I feel like, to your point, nobody really knows anything 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:01.520 right now, and the Yankees probably want to keep it 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:05.080 that way. Keep your cards as close as possible, just 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:07.760 so people don't know what you're desperate for, what you're 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:11.040 willing to overpay for. As far as Randy and Rose 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.120 Arena goes like, I would be down. I mean, I 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.280 remember in the twenty twenty playoffs in the COVID season, 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:18.000 like he was a beast in the playoffs. Dude, he 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.480 was such a pest. He was a pin in the ass. 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:22.920 He was always getting the big hit. It was just 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:26.520 a backbreaking thing to face all the time. And the Yankees. 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.480 What is my biggest complaint about the New York Yankees? 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:31.160 And in October and I'll call it in the judge, 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:35.440 E're obviously the offense has gone away. You know, they 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:38.480 can't rally, but they can't get the big hit, you 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:41.320 know what I mean, Especially that they can never seem 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:43.800 to get the big hit. I only think of like 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:46.400 in twenty seventeen when Gary Sanchez had that double in 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.640 the gap against the Astros. Yeah, last big hits, right, 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:51.240 you know what I mean. It's not a home run, 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:53.560 but it's the big hit, and they never get those. 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:55.040 And a Rose Arena can do it. 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.920 DJ hit a opposite field, pretty big hole run in it, 0:09:58.040 --> 0:09:59.920 but it's pretty I get your point. It's few and 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.080 far between. So the first base one I couldn't remember 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:05.480 his name, Luis Garcia Junior with the Nationals. Apparently the 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:06.960 Yankees are linked to him as the guy who's sitting 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:08.960 two eighty three with twenty three home runs, seventy six 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:12.079 RBIs eight seventy three ops. He's a left handed hitter. 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.200 Let's see how he does against lefties to eighteen, So 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:20.600 not great. I guess Righty's though, two ninety five with 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:24.760 twenty home runs home and away, essentially a little bit 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.280 better away. But this is a guy that apparently the 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:30.760 Yankees have been linked to. I mean, around this time 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.760 of year, you hear all sorts of like names thrown 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:37.240 out there, and you never know what's real, what's smoke. 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:39.760 I think there is a chance the Yankees are gonna 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.920 make multiple moves and change this roster around because the 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:45.200 offense is just not getting it done. It's clear that 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:49.559 contact hitting is at a premium these days, okay, and 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.720 the Yankees just don't have it. They just without judging 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.720 the lineup, without Bellinger in the lineup, they just don't 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:58.600 get enough hits. They're twenty seventh in Major League Baseball 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:01.840 in average at two three. When you're first in the 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:05.040 league in era, if you can put up an even 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.880 competent offense, you're gonna win a lot more games than 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:09.720 the Yankees are winning. 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.720 Yeah. Yeah, this offense has just been a knemic. And 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:15.439 you bring up that point, they don't have a lot 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:18.600 of contact. I don't. I don't think the Yankees really 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:23.400 value contact. Aaron Judge is just obviously, thank you. Aaron 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.720 Judge is just like an anomaly, you know, just the 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:30.520 power and the contact combination is rare. I would love 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:32.920 them to get a Luisa rise. It just kind of 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:36.559 changes the dynamic of the team. A little bit of 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:38.360 it changes the dynamic of the I mean, look at 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.680 that three twenty eight. I would kill for three twenty eight. 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.000 I don't need them to hit twenty home runs. But 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.040 when the bases are loaded and there's two outs and 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.480 you get me a double or a single and you 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.280 score two runs, that's big, man, that's big, especially with 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:53.560 the pitching staff that this team has, the starters that 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.360 this team has, you know, in the bullpen. Look, it's 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.600 funny how in the beginning of the season the narrative 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:00.160 of this team, and I believed it as well, that 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.480 this team had a bullpen problem, because it did. But 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:04.520 you know, a little bit of a little bit of 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.480 dumpster diving, a little chev he a Hedrick emergence, and 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:09.319 all of a sudden, it's actually it's turned out to 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:11.040 be one of the better pens in baseball. I think 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:15.480 probably one arm acquired would be enough. Now, Morihan Miller's 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:17.559 the big fish out there. I'm not giving up George 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:19.840 Lombard Junior for Mason Miller, but I'd love to have him. 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.520 I love to have Adrian Morahan from the Padres, but 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.760 apparently the price is pretty high there. Luke Weaver another option. 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:28.440 But for me, you give me one reliever. But you 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:30.640 need bats, you need bats, you need people who can 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:33.080 hit the ball. I love Luke Weaver. He's having a 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:35.080 great season. You know, he was doing it in twenty 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.160 twenty four in the playoffs. He was you know, I 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.440 called him nutsack because every time you would get him 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:44.640 out there, the guy would just lock it down. But exactly, 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:48.240 but dude, bats obviously, I don't know if the Twins 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.640 are dealing Ryan Jeffers. They just acquired a reliever from 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:52.960 the Mets. They got Mint jeff So are they buying there? 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.400 You know, it's weird, right, like the market's weird. 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:59.000 I don't think they're gonna trade Jeffers. The one trade 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:02.439 that I find the most interesting it was floated by 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:06.080 Joel Sherman, and apparently there is some talk in Miami 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:11.800 that this could happen. Otto Lopez and Xavier Edwards, both 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.520 on the block. I would love to acquire a middle 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:17.720 infield combination. Now my trade, my mock trade. I don't 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:19.480 know if you saw this one earlier this week. I 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:22.400 basically would give them the Yankees' top four prospects. I'd 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:25.839 give them Lombard, I'd give them Kilby, I'd give them Lagrane, 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.760 and I'd give them Elmer Rodriguez. I might even throw 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:30.760 at the time, I would have thrown in Spencer Jones. 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:33.040 I don't think I would go right now, but acquiring 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:35.280 a middle of the infield that is used to playing 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:38.480 with each other. Both of them hit for contact. Let's 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:42.480 take a look at Otto Lopez Odo Lopez, who by 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.880 the way, has an awesome name. Odo. That's fricking great. 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:49.400 Three twenty two, nine home runs, fifty one ribis eight 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.800 thirty six OPS one twenty seven WRC plus, so he 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:55.520 is twenty seven percent better than league average three fifty 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:59.480 five on base percentage. He went one for four today 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:02.080 against the Mets in a win. Last five games, he 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.599 has been slowed down a little bit, but this is 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:07.880 a good guy from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. And then 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:12.080 there's Xavier Edwards, who I think is a fantastic player. 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.960 He is a switch hitter, which is important. Who hits 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:18.040 her average. He went over for five today, but hitting 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:21.040 two eighty eight with six home runs forty RBIs one 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:25.240 thirteen WRC plus and he doesn't strike out thirteen point 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:30.360 six percent strikeout rate is my huge trade package? Is 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.680 that a no from you? Or would you go all 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:35.200 in to get an entirely new middle lean feel that 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.280 could help solve some of this hitting problem. 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:40.480 You know, it's funny. I looked up Oto Lopez on 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:42.160 Savant and I was just trying to see what his 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.840 fielding metrics look like. So he's ninety third percentile with range, 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:49.200 and you know the Yankees love shortstop with range. I'm 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.920 about done with Andy Anthony Boltby. That's no secret. That's 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.240 a pretty obvious thing. I really have a tough time 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:56.600 saying to buy to Lombard just because you hear from 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:58.800 this guy. Look, he hit a home run tonight, by 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:02.200 the way, But the thing with Lombard is that you're 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:04.160 hearing from him is that as soon as he steps 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:05.720 on a major league field, he will be one of 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.480 the best defensive shortstops in the league. And it's the 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:11.120 bat is the thing that we do not know about 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.480 waiting for that to come around. And it's a tough 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:17.440 one though, because if he does not get dealt, he 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:19.960 is going to be on this team as soon as 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:23.080 the deadline is over. The reason I think I like 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:24.880 him so much is just because he grew up around 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.240 the game. You know, his dad's a coach in the league. 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:30.560 Like he's been kind of raised as a baseball player. 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:33.600 Like I watched this little short clip on YouTube. There's 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:35.400 like a mini doc about like a kind of day 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:37.720 in the life with George Lombard. And even from a 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:39.720 young age, when he was like seventeen years old, the 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:41.360 way he was kind of living as day to day 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:43.400 was like a pro And I think that that kind 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:46.800 of intangible thing is valuable, like he sort of already 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:48.920 knows how to handle himself from a young age. I'd 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.280 love to have Oto Lopez, but I maybe I'll just 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:52.760 get one of them and not both of them, to 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:56.000 give up a little bit lesser of a package. And 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:58.480 he's a right handed bat and he's hits for contact, 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:01.280 which is like two things the Yankees desperately need. And 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:03.520 if you do get a Lopez, then you know, next season, 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:05.160 maybe you slide them over to second and you have 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:08.640 Lombard play short. I'm sure that would work out fine. 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.880 But yeah, that's probably the direction I'm leaning in right now. 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:14.320 I'm almost kind of looking at it if you really 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:17.600 want to reconfigure the team. I don't know who would 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:19.800 be a suitor for it, but like, are you looking 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:21.880 at moving on from a Grisham and a Jazz just 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.240 to get something in return? Just to have Jones play 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:26.200 every day in center? And if you get a Luisa 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:28.120 Ryes or no to Lopez, all of a sudden they 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:30.520 slide into the second base slot, you bring up Lombard 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:32.120 to play short. 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.800 Let's double click on Jazz real quick, because I've seen 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:37.600 a few comments in the chat about him. He obviously 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:39.720 had another tough game, got into it with the umpire 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.680 a little bit. I hate his two strike approach, just 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:44.480 waving at the ball today, and I think we had 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:46.880 some calls about that. In fact, I'll play one right now. 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:52.520 Hey, Derek MD here, I mean, come on, chis in 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:56.960 the same swing, no two strike approach, the same swing 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:00.320 to have bets today where they seem like he's winning 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:04.640 all homer same swing, strike approach. 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:09.320 Yeah, and I agree one with the caller terrible two 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:12.320 strike approach. Hitting two twenty two. That's basically like two 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:15.160 for every nine, Right, that's not good. It's like one 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:21.080 for three every three games. Basically, that's probably wrong. I'm 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:24.159 not great at math anyway. I would one hundred percent 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:28.080 trade Jazz Chisholm if somebody wanted him, especially if you 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:29.280 can get Luisa Rise. 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:32.199 Yeah. I mean it's one of those situations though, that 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:35.760 because this market might be the perfect market to make 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:38.080 that sort of deal, because the American League is so 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:41.040 bad that you have so many teams that are kind 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:43.080 of in it, but they're also out of it. So 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:45.600 you have the Mariners that are in the wild card hunt, 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:48.000 but they probably don't believe in this team, which is 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:51.760 why they're dealing Luis Castillo away and considering Arizonna dealing 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:54.000 him away. But at the same time, they are probably 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.200 looking at things like their starting rotation is so deep 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:57.720 that they could afford to make that move for a 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:00.639 different need. So if there is a content out there, 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:03.800 or a team like the Twins or you know, the 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:07.119 Padres that are kind of this five hundred team, and 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:09.600 they may sneak in and they need a bat and 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:12.080 they can deal from a position of depth like their bullpen. 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:13.919 I would definitely see if you could line it up 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.520 that way. Grisham is another guy that I think at 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:18.960 this point for if I'm the Yankees, I'm cool with 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:21.160 moving on from Trent Grisham just to have Jones play 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:22.760 every day in the outfield. Now, it's a little bit 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:25.600 complicated just because Bellinger decided to pull a hamstring, and 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:27.720 that complicates things because you need guys out there in 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:30.520 the outfield, so it makes you need Grisham. But if 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:32.760 you know, if you're willing to kind of get something 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.200 in return for those two guys and reconfigure this line 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:37.520 up a little bit, just to get a get more 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:40.320 contact in there, you know, just just walk with me, 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:41.919 Derek for a second. If you're able to pull a 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:45.560 move without giving up George Lombard for just Auto Lopez. 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:48.320 You're not getting Xavier Edwards all right, and you're getting 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:50.320 Louis a rise from the Giants, which won't cost as 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:52.239 much because it's a two month rental, And you can 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:54.359 move on from Grisham, and you can move on from Jazz, 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:57.560 and you got Jones and Center and you have Lopez. 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:00.600 It's short and you can or you can Lopez at 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:02.840 second and George Lombard at short. I think I'm good 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:04.840 with that. You got you got to you got to two. 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:07.480 You got a contact bat in there, which is what 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:09.280 you needed. You got two contact bats. 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:12.600 I still need at I still got to get a catcher. 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:14.640 But like if you get a rise, you get Lopez. 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:17.080 That's your middle end field. Lombard can come up play third, 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:19.479