WEBVTT - Concerned Now? 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:02.040 This is called Hamil's Welcome to the Philly Show. 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:20.480 Hi, everybody, This is the Philly Show with Ruben Tomorrow, Junior, 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:24.000 Jim Salisbury, Todds Lucky. We're part of the Foul Territory Network. 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:29.560 It's Monday, August twelfth, twenty twenty four. Gentlemen, coming off 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:33.720 the weekend in Arizona. Ruben, how was Arizona? Other than 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:37.320 the play on the field, It was. 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:41.480 Like being on the equator. It was the hottest place 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:45.920 in the planet. But other than that, I mean, you know, 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:47.040 it's it was. 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:52.400 It was a reminder that the Arizona Diamondbacks have the 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:56.200 Phillies number. I mean, they played baseball exactly how the 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:58.600 Phillies played baseball in the first two months, and that's 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.440 exactly what they wanted. That's the kind of baseball that 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:04.319 the Phillies wanted to play, and they just it was 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:08.560 a beatdown in a lot of different ways. The pitching, 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:13.520 the offense, the situational hitting. 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:15.280 There was all types of things going on. 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:20.240 As far as just playing baseball is concerned, all the 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:25.360 things fundamentally, situationally, they just played better baseball. They are 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:28.240 a very fast team, they're a very athletic team. They 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:33.440 got exploited in that area. The Phillies pitchers got exploited 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.440 by walking too many people and making too many mistakes 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:39.360 defensively and leaving too many pitches in the middle of 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.400 the plate, and the d bas just took advantage of it, 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.800 as simple as that. And the Phillies are going to 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:49.760 have to figure out what's going on because it's an 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:51.640 unmitigated disaster right now. 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:55.120 The pitching's not very starting. Pitching has been. 0:01:55.640 --> 0:02:02.440 Subpar, and they're gonna have to right They're gonna figure 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.680 away to right the ship because right now, if they 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.320 were going to go into a playoff game, regardless of 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:10.200 whether they win the division or not, they'll get knocked 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:13.160 out quick because the kind of baseball that they're playing 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:14.760 right now is just not going to get it done. 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:15.880 Yeah. 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.080 Those I mean, they're a very good team, the Diamondbacks. 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:21.520 You mentioned their speed and the way they can string 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:24.880 hits together and and and put put runs on the board, 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:27.880 and then they also have some power pop too. A 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:32.560 really nice team playing terrific baseball. You can say they 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:34.400 have the Phillies number or whatever you want to say. 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:37.480 They're just out playing the Phillies. You know, going back 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:41.480 to Game six and seven last year. So you know, 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:46.919 I was watching Bryce Harper's post game interview. I mean, 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:48.639 it was a tough series. You lose three out of 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:52.639 four after taking the first game, and uh, there's a 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.279 lot of disappointment in that room, a lot of disappointment 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.720 etched on his face. And he was asked, I think 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.480 Corey Seideman asked him about the Diamondbacks team and how 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:06.160 they played, and he made the comment that they're not scared. 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.560 They play the game the right way. They're not scared 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:13.800 play the game the right way. And you know, like 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:16.760 it's our job. We read into things. That's what we 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:23.400 do as reporters and observers, and my little antennae I 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.200 went right up when I heard that they're not scared, 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.400 they play the game the right way. Bryce is a 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:35.080 master at messaging and kind of laying it out there. 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.600 You got to read between the lines. Do you think 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.920 there was a message there to possibly some of his 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:46.040 teammates about them not being scared about playing the game 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:49.320 the right way. Do you read anything into that comment 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:53.240 or am I just being a little hyper observant. 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:56.560 No, I think that Bryce. You're right. Bryce does not 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:58.840 say things and not know what he's saying. When he 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.880 says them, very rarely do I feel like he slips up, 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:05.160 you know, when it comes from free agency gym. Remember 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:07.760 a couple of springs ago when they got Schwarbi's like, well, 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:10.320 you know, we'll see hopefully they're not done yet. Nick 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:12.920 Castianos comes aboard, you know, he's he says a lot 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:16.120 of those things, you know, trade deadline, free agency, the 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:19.560 way the team is playing, So yeah, I absolutely think 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:21.920 that he might have been trying to send a little 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:25.599 message there or maybe just trying to wake up, wake 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:29.240 up this team, which is twenty four and thirty since 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:32.080 they won that first game in London on June eighth 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.360 or twenty, there's six games under five hundred. 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:38.560 So here's what I observed about it, and the playing 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:41.560 scared part and playing the right way. I saw some 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:48.479 situations where guys were not like defensively, some throws that 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:50.800 were just not thrown with crispness. 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:53.160 Guys look a little they do. 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:56.360 They are playing a little timid, and it's it's there. 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:59.920 They're not making plays that they typically would make. They 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.560 are they're not running balls out the same way. There's 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:08.400 some concern about in the case of Turner. I've seen 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:14.239 him on many occasions lately where he is not going 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:17.520 full full bore at times. There was a situation where 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:19.520 a ball was hitting the gap one time that maybe 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:21.720 he hit a scored. There was a situation where it 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:25.360 was a groundball double play that no way on the 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:30.840 planet that he gets doubled up. Where he get doubled up, 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:34.960 and I'm not sure whether he's feeling like he can't 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:39.160 bust him because he's worried about his hamstring or what 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.359 the deal is. I have a feeling that that's probably 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.679 part of it. But there have been some situations where 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:48.559 there's some players who are not playing with the same 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:55.280 sort of fervor and I don't know confidence that you 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:57.920 would typically see in a team that's up what seven 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:02.160 and a half games on the division, that that's a concern. 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.400 And pitching wise, I don't see guys getting after it. 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.000 And I mean it's it's a little everybody. 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:10.400 You know, guys are coming out of the pendum walking people. 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:12.520 I mean, you're not, they're not. You're not seeing now 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:15.279 certain guys, not all of them, now, certain guys are. 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:16.080 Are getting after it. 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.640 I mean, if I if I were going to name people, 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.880 I think Casianos is playing is his tail off right now. 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.640 I think you're doing a lot of things really really well. 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:29.320 He's having great at bats, he's he's playing, you know, 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:31.800 he's playing to win. I think that there's guys like 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.240 Strom and those kind of guys that are getting after it. 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.479 But there's some guys that are not getting after it 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:41.120 right now. And it's pretty and it's a pretty obvious thing. 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.479 And if they don't start getting after and start gaining 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:47.800 and regaining their confidence, it's good be an awfully short postseason. 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:56.360 You mentioned you mentioned confidence another intangible urgency, sharpness, but urgency. 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:58.640 They built such a big lead, do you think it 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:01.000 dulled some of their urgency? 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:06.560 Todd, Yeah, I wonder. I wonder if it might have 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:12.560 just looking back at their play recently. Yeah, I just 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.440 you know, I don't know, I don't I don't know. 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:17.480 I don't know if it's still their urgency at all. 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:21.400 But I do think that they're really lucky to have 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:25.920 the lead that they do have because in the division anyway, 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:28.520 I still think they're going to win the division. But 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:32.000 you look at the standings today and they are tied 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.320 with the Dodgers for the best record. In the National League, 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.240 and the Brewers are only a game and a half 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:41.520 back of both of those teams. Right, So, now you're 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:45.600 getting in a situation you talk about urgency. They better 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.160 start picking it up, because now you're starting to get 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.160 in a situation where they might not even get a 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:55.480 first round by they might have to play the number 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.360 one wild card winner, which right now, as of today, 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:02.080 would be the Arizona Diamondbacks. You know, that's that's how 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:05.760 the matchup would would go in the playoffs. So yeah, 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.000 I don't know. I don't know that, Jim. Do you 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.960 think that they're there may be too complacent? I mean, 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.840 I guess I don't get that vibe so much, but 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:15.760 I mean you might feel differently. 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:17.480 I don't. 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:20.840 I wouldn't say too complacent, but you know, I think 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:22.960 the way human nature works, you get that big lead, 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:24.239 you play. 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.080 So well, it might take some of the some of 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:26.880 the sharpness away. 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:30.640 There might be a a little bit of complacency and 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:31.960 it's it's time to kick it in. 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:32.400 Uh. 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:37.520 You know, since I was looking this up, since that 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:43.240 sweep of Milwaukee at home right before they went to London, 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:46.680 they're five games under five hundred. Yet they've only lost 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:48.079 a half game in the standings. 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:50.960 I mean that, right, you know, all of. 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:52.840 A sudden, I, hey, we really haven't played well, but 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:54.640 we only lost a half game in the standings. Yeah, 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.920 I think that can probably dull some of your urgency. 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.560 One of the real buzz words around this team since 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.959 Rob Thompson took over in June of twenty two, has 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:06.839 been the word resilience, almost to the. 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.760 Point where it's been a cliche. Well, it's time to see. 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:13.160 Some you know, they've been really good at it, and 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:15.240 that's the reason it became a buzzword. They played through 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:18.720 a lot of injuries. They really scrapped in September of 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:24.080 twenty two. But you know, this prolonged stretch that they've 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:27.800 gone through really since London, now, I mean the second 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:29.840 half of the season, since the All Star break. They 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.079 have the second worst record of the major leagues. 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:34.160 So that will be gone. 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.400 Chicago White Sox. They have the worst record of the 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:38.720 major leagues. So what are they the team that had 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.840 the best record in baseball? The team you know, obviously 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:45.719 they're in the middle and well toward being one of 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:49.480 the best teams in baseball, But gosh, this funk has 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:51.920 gone on long enough, it's time to pull yourself out 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.440 of it before you can't and before it bites you 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:55.200 in October. 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:58.680 So a couple of things resonate with me. This shows 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.720 me how poor the end National League is. The National 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:03.400 League's just not a very good league. I don't I 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:05.400 don't think there's very good There's not that many great 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:09.760 teams in the National League. And it also brings to 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:16.360 light to me, you know, the complacency piece, and and 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.640 it also brings to light what how. 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:21.560 Really good are are the Phillies. 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:25.880 The talent is there, and they were playing like the 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.360 best team in all of baseball, and they have the 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:31.720 talent to be the best team in baseball, but they're 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.679 not playing the game as the best team in baseball. 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:37.120 The teams that are playing the game as the best 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:40.840 teams in baseball the Milwaukee Brewers and the Arizona Diamondbacks. 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:42.160 In the National League. 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.680 Los Angeles is going to get there too, because Mookie 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.120 Betts is coming back. They're going to get some of 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.720 their pitching backs. The more they're starting pitching back, they're 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.640 they're they're going to get better and better and so 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.240 and in the San Diego Padres, they're playing as a 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:58.840 team finally, which is something they had not done in 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:01.679 a couple of years. So all of those teams are 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:05.600 playing better baseball as a team, not necessarily more talented, 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:10.880 but playing better baseball, and that's what you need. I 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:13.920 also think back to the comment when I talked to 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:17.520 Chase Utley, he was there in a Los Angeles. He 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:20.280 made a tremendous comment and he said, you know, this 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:22.800 team needed to face the little adversity. They needed to 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.480 figure it because it was crude. They were going cruise control, 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:27.839 and maybe this is a good thing that they will 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:31.040 come out of it and be better for it. And 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:34.360 it's a little bit like developing a young player where 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:36.880 you know, the guy's just cruising through the minor leagues 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:40.160 and not ever having any issues. He's hitting you know, 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:43.160 three hundred or three point fifty, or he has a 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.960 you know, one point two era and never really faces adversity, 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:48.880 and then when he gets to the big leagues, boom, 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:50.880 you know, all of a sudden, he slapped in the 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:52.839 face with the Hillary and Bradsby and he can't get 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:56.520 anybody out. So I think this is a good this 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.560 is a good way of good test for them because 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:01.120 it's time for them to kick it in, and I 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:03.360 would not be surprised if Brob Thompson doesn't have a 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:07.200 little chat with him. Meetings are can be silly at times, 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:09.640 but with the way that they're playing baseball right now, 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:11.079 they do need a little kick in the pants. 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.800 I feel like, especially with I. 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:16.920 Was gonna say, they really could use Trey Turner to 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.440 get going too, because he can be such a catalyst. 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.160 You know, he was hitting three forty nine going into 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.400 the break. He's lost like forty nine points on his average, 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.680 almost fifty points on his batting average, and his OPS 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:32.719 is plummeted. It's just had a very poor run here 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:34.840 in the second half. It like a buck buck eighty. 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:39.079 He can be such a catalytic player. It would be 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:41.360 nice to see him really really turn it on. I mean, 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:44.640 Harper's been pretty good, Castianos has been good for a 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:46.959 couple of months. It's such a drop off and once 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:50.559 you get to the middle of that lineup with Stott 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:51.920 and Marsh really struggling. 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:53.600 Now that those two guys who really need to pick 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.359 it up, Stott and Marsh have been really. 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:58.480 Not very good. I mean, Chipple is that JT. 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.480 They're Yeah, they just haven't been good, and and and 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:03.760 Stott and Marsha. They just need to be better. There 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:07.360 are bats need to be better. And don't be surprised 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.880 if you don't see some shakeup in the lineup and 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:14.079 or the roster, if some of these guys don't start 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:17.520 picking it up. I'm just gonna say that because I 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:22.640 know Dave Dombrowski. He is patient and he I mean, 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:24.760 he understands the game. But if you're not performing, this 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:27.040 is a performance space. I mean, they're here, they're here 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:30.680 to win, baby. So if guys don't start playing the game, 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.840 you may see some you may see some things change 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:34.520 in this lineup. 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:37.800 What would you do with the lineup and what would 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:38.360 you do the roster? 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:38.559 Like? 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:40.640 Would you bump down trade until he gets going? Move 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:44.319 up Castianosh? You know what would you guys do? 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:47.079 I would I would move to Castianos because Castianos is 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:50.040 having quality at bats like day in and day out, 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.679 there's no question he's having the best most quality of 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:55.959 bats on the team. He and Schwarber I think are 0:13:56.000 --> 0:14:00.080 having the best, you know, as far as uh. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.400 And Harper as well. I mean, he's he's out back. 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:07.000 After that, After that, very very difficult stretch he's had. 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:09.240 Those are the guys that are getting it done right now. 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:13.120 Would you send somebody out one of the you know, oh, 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:17.439 I would think about it like Stought or marsh It. 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.520 Would be something that would least I mean, listen, no 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:24.040 one's immune. I mean Divon White years ago got sent 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.640 down after being in the big leagues for three years. 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.560 I played with him in California with the California AIE 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:30.240 is down at Edmonton. 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:31.960 I was like, what are you doing down here? Dude? 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.880 No, it can be It can be a shock that 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:38.040 can get some guys going. I mean Alvarado went down 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:41.000 a couple of years ago. It was very much remedial 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:42.600 because he came back with that cutter. 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:46.040 He did good things with it. Maybe, but I'm also 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:46.960 I bet. 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:48.720 Mentally it was a bit of a shock to his 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:50.920 pride and it kicked him in a little bit. You know, 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.800 I think anything should be on the table. It's a 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:57.520 team that doesn't do a lot of that because you 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:58.240 got a patience. 0:14:58.240 --> 0:14:58.440 GM. 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:01.320 You've got a patient man. If you're but you know, 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:05.480 maybe a shake up in the lineup, something well placed 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:10.720 might have positive benefit. I'm not you know, I'm not 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:15.640 saying you exile somebody for the whole season, but you know, 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:19.240 you can send a bit of a message, kind of 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:23.560 roll a grenade figurative grenade through that clubhouse and wake 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:24.280 some people up. 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:30.280 Trade Like, yeah, four guys who trade ops since that 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:34.200 Dodgers sweep in mid July five seventy four JT five 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:39.800 sixty two dot five twelve marsh four forty five. I mean, 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:41.560 there's just a few days ago we were talking about 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:44.800 him having some better bats against lefties. But uh, you know, 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:47.640 he's he's he's really been he's really been struggling. So yeah, 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:49.960 I think that would it would be interesting to see 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:51.440 how they would do that and what they would do 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:53.320 and how they would message it, because this is a 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:57.240 team that you know, talks about, you know, resiliency and 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:59.760 not panicking and and but but on the other hand, 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:03.760 it's like, all right, we're twenty four and thirty since 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:07.160 since June eighth. Listen, you have to perform for six 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:08.320 games under five hundred. 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:12.120 Yeah, you have to perform. You have to play winning baseball. 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:14.440 And if you're not performing and you're striking out at 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.640 a forty percent rate, or you're not getting on base, 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:18.160 or you're. 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:21.920 Not contributing offensively, then. 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:25.080 Somebody else has to take that place and replace that 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.400 offensive I mean it's been going on for. 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:28.040 A while now. 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:31.000 This is not like like two weeks. This is two 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:35.680 months almost, and so you know something's gonna have to change. 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:40.760 And the complacency piece that that would change it if 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:41.800 someone was shaken up. 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:48.160 Oh yeah, you get some people's attention, and it could 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:50.240 have a very positive effect. 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:51.720 I don't know what that is. 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:56.080 But for a team, an organization that you know, really 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:58.560 prides itself on being even keeled, maybe it's a maybe 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.240 it's just a lineup shakeup. Maybe if somebody says for 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:04.640 a couple of days, just get somebody's attention, you never 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:06.200 know where it might go. 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:09.919 Is there anything on the pitching side that has you, 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:10.800 guys concerned? 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:13.000 Everything? Everything does? 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:14.080 Everything does? 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.679 Everything does? I mean, listen, this is the best starting 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:19.879 rotation in baseball. It is no longer the best starting 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:23.080 rotation in baseball. I mean, Suarez coming back is great, 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:26.600 Tywan Walker's coming back on Tuesday, that's that's fine. He's 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:28.639 not a world beater, but he's gonna eat up some 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:32.160 innings and and in fact, you know, the other guys 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:35.120 are good Kobe Aller did a good job, and Tyler 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:38.359 Phillips has done a decent job. But the other big boys, 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.160 they're gonna have to pitch better. Aaron did not pitch well. 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:46.200 They have his number and and he he has not been, 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:49.000 you know, pitching all that well. I mean he's fairly consistent, 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:50.720 but you know, he needs to dominate a game or 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:54.840 two here. And uh, you know, Christopher Sanchez I thought 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:57.920 was gonna I thought he's good a deal yesterday and 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.520 he really did not have command of his stuff and 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:04.160 so he got beat up. But the but the bullpen 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:07.400 is another issue. I mean, Alvarado clearly is struggling. He's 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.080 a lot of pitches in the middle of the plate, hopmins, 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:12.960 hopmins been lights out, and then all of a sudden 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:14.480 he only leaves a couple of pitches in the middle 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:18.080 of the play. He's getting whacked around a little bit. Uh, 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:22.280 there's I mean, it hasn't been good. It's as simple 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.400 as that. They're better than this. I don't think there's 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:26.160 any question. But they're gonna have to have to start 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:29.919 executing or it's gonna be an ugly couple of months. 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:33.760 Sanchez has an era in the mid sixes since he 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:36.200 won Pitcher of the Month in June. I mean, Noah's 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:40.119 era is almost you know, four seven five in his 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:43.320 last eleven starts. So both of those guys are really wheelers. 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:45.959 But he's had those two terrible starts where he gave 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:49.800 up like seven runs, but other other than that, he's 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:51.240 been okay, I say, other than that. 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:53.760 And then then as oftentimes, they don't have a lot 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:59.400 of margin forever because the hitting with Mars and scoring position, 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:04.960 which you know has really not been good. I mean, 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:08.159 especially in this series at Arizona. You get these runners 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:09.919 out there, you've got to find a way to deliver them. 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:11.280 And they had you know, they had a game where 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:13.320 they were i mean they were seven for thirty four 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:16.280 with runners in scoring position two h six in this series. 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:19.160 I mean there were opportunities they just didn't get them 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:20.760 in and that can make a difference on the pitching 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:24.600 staff as well. But Sanchez and Nola in this series 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.159 a lot of balls over the plate, and that's a 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:28.600 team that will hurt you, and they got hurt. 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:30.280 You have to pitch. 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:32.480 When you have to start thinking about pitching and not 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:35.560 giving up a run because you're not getting the support 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:39.120 then that baseball gets a little tighter, gets a little heavier, 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:40.160 and you. 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:43.159 Try to get every pitch becomes even more. 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:49.000 Stressful, and you know you're having a lot of things 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:51.280 happen at the same time. No part of their game 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:53.160 right now is going well, not one. 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:58.240 Do you do you think I mean, they really struggled again. 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:00.880 Every team they've played since the break has been five 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:05.199 hundred or better and they've struggled seven to fifteen. Now 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:08.960 they're going to see Miami and Washington. Do you think 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:13.800 that could cure some things here? And also they're gonna 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:16.840 see Citizens Bank Park and it's gonna be banged out. 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:19.800 They've had a day off, but you know, I feel 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:22.080 like we've talked about this before. Okay, day off, they're 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:23.639 coming home. This is gonna get them going and then 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:27.200 it doesn't. But these are two poor teams. You can't 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:29.400 play down to their level. You've gotta come out, you got. 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:32.040 To you gotta take hold of these games early, and 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:33.000 then you've got to tag on. 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:36.000 That's the way I was looking at this series, this 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:39.520 homestand gym. I hate to like overstate the importance of 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:42.240 a homestand, but you almost need them to like go 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:45.240