WEBVTT - Fair Territory: Rays surge, M's sinking, White Sox lead AL Central, Angels Trade Deadline golf outing 0:00:01.160 --> 0:00:03.960 Welcome everyone to the Monday edition of Fair Territory. I'm 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:06.680 Ken Rosenthal, and we are here to tell you the 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:11.520 craziness of this season continues every week. It's something else. Now. 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:16.160 Over the weekend I was in Chicago at Guaranteed Great 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:19.119 Field for the White Sox and Guardians, and the White 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:21.720 Sox rallied to win two of three after losing four 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:24.720 straight overall. Remember they were swept in Boston and then 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:27.880 they came back, lost to the Guardians in the first 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:29.800 game in this series, and then won the next two. 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:33.919 So here is the AL Central, a team or a 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:37.640 division where the Tigers sold their best pitcher, the best 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:41.440 pitcher in the sport, and another highly regarded pitcher, a 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.599 division in which the Minnesota Twins traded pretty much their 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:49.080 whole team last year. And all these teams are still 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:52.320 in contention except for Kansas City, a club that we 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.680 all expected, well maybe not everybody, but a lot of 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:59.360 us expected would be in contention this season. Now, the 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:01.360 White Sox, the big question with them is going to 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:04.880 be can they're pitching survive this. They've got a lot 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.440 of guys who are really doing this for the first time. 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:10.000 Over the weekend, they made a couple of interesting moves. 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:13.280 They brought up two of their top prospects who have 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.720 pitching or have been pitching in relief in the minor leagues, 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:21.280 Hagen Smith and Tanne McDougall. Brought them up to serve 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:23.920 as relievers, help out in the bullpen, take some pressure 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:27.440 off guys like Grant Taylor. Smith made his debut yesterday 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:32.120 pitched well. So the White Sox, as they have all season, 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:36.639 showed resilience. They're a really young team and yet nothing 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:38.840 seems to phase them. Of course, it helps playing in 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.920 the American League Central. It helps playing in the American League. 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:45.760 The Guardians are a team I really like. I like 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:48.760 what they did at the deadline, Joe Adell, Nathaniel Lowe 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:52.320 coming in, Foster Griffin joining the rotation, and they have 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:57.120 a trio of starting pitchers now with Griffin, Gavin Williams, 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:00.640 Parker Messek and Griffin that is probably one of the 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:04.280 most formidable in the game. Offense continues to be a challenge. 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:07.640 Jose Ramirez coming off the hamdmade surgery. He told me 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:10.360 over the weekend he sort of rushed back. He did 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.600 that to help the team, and obviously he has not 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:17.320 been the same since then. There are the Tigers. The 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:21.560 Tigers who do these things seemingly every other year, where 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.840 they sell and they still compete. Here they go again 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:29.600 seven and two on their West coast trip to Sacramento, Seattle, 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:33.800 and San Francisco. Admittedly against weaker or struggling opponents. Five 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:37.520 and two since the trade of Scooble, Dodgers haven't done 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:40.560 that well, not even close. Tigers are now in second 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:42.960 place in the Division, three and a half back in 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:46.560 the wildcard race. They're one game back, so they've got 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:50.440 a shot, a good shot. Jackson job now in the rotation. 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:54.959 They're excited too about Drew Anderson becoming a starting pitcher. 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:57.360 He's been in relief most of the years. So the 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:59.959 Tigers felt when they made the trades, obviously it wasn't 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:03.079 going to be the same without schoogl and Casey miz 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:06.200 but they felt okay, Jackson job onces one of the 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:09.600 top prospects in the sport coming off Tommy John surgery, 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.400 he would help. Same goes for Drew Anderson, who they 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.520 expect to be in the rotation next year. And finally, 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.520 the Twins. Now the Twins are struggling three and six 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.559 on their road trip to Seattle, Kansas City, and Milwaukee. 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:25.760 Five of those losses in that road trip were by 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.799 one run. So it's been close for the Twins. They've 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.360 been right there, just haven't done it. They'd game and 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:34.320 a half out in the wild Card. So the Central 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:38.480 looks to be a fascinating race down the stretch. We're 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.320 going to have the White Sox trying to hold on, 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:42.920 the Guardians trying to do what they always do, which 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:45.240 is kind of rally in the end and keep it 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:49.400 together and hopefully with their additions, become a better Guardians 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.440 team than maybe even in the past. An hell Hanau 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.480 is a really interesting player. They brought him up last week. 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:59.440 And then of course the Twins and the Tigers, and 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:03.040 the Tigers that we just talked about, they're quite an 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:05.960 interesting club down the stretch. So that's the AL Central. 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.080 We also had some action over the weekend off the 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.280 field action in the NL West. Now, if you recall 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:14.800 it the deadline, there are a lot of teams always 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:18.000 that don't fill all of their needs. The Padres were one. 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.520 They didn't get the right handed bat they were looking for. 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.800 The Diamondbacks were another. They thought they had a deal 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:26.479 for Clay Holmes, as reported by Nick piccorro of the 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.680 Arizona Republic, but it fell apart when one of the 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:33.039 players going back to the Mets, the Mets flagged as medical. 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.040 So you see the exclusive that Nick picccorro had there. 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.039 I don't know that a lot of people around the 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:41.320 country are aware that this happened. So the Diamondbacks didn't 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:44.200 get a starter, and they badly needed one. They're still 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:48.240 waiting for Corbyn Burns and for Zach Gowan. Mike Siroka 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:51.400 comes off the injured list tonight. So what the Diamondbacks 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:56.600 did was claim Zach Lettel and he's a guy who 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:00.440 had struggles this season with the Washington Nationals, but he 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:06.039 should help them. The Padres they acquired or signed Austin 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.920 Hayes to a major league deal. He had been dfad 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:11.520 as well by his team, the Chicago White Sox after 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:15.000 kind of an injury plagued weird year. He just hadn't 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:18.000 gotten going. He'd been hurt, calf hamster and you name it. 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.360 So Austin Hayes joins the Padres last night. They've been 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:25.120 horrible against left handed pitching. They badly need a right 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.600 handed hitting outfielder, and what does he do. He hits 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:30.120 a home run in the eighth inning. So those two 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:34.560 teams doing some interesting things. And the Dodgers now they're 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.159 not going to lose the division, but they have lost 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.920 eight of nine and there are some questions here. Edwin 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:44.040 Diaz is now a big question in that series against 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:47.040 the Diamondbacks this weekend, in which the Dodgers lost two 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:49.800 of three, lost the season series to the Diamondbacks for 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:53.960 the first time since twenty eighteen. Diez blew two saves 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:57.880 and actually the Diamondbacks should have swept this series. Back 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:01.960 to back triples leading off the ninth in Saturday night's game, 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.039 and yet after tying the score, they could not get 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.359 the go ahead run home or the winning run home, 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:10.200 even with a man on third and none out. So 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:14.440 the Dodgers they've got the DS question. Will Smith is 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.360 still not back, some of their players are older. We 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:20.800 know that they're not performing right now as they should. 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.320 It's going to be interesting to see whether they can 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.040 kick it up again in October. 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They're coming off a 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:15.160 season in which they went to Game seven of the ALCS. 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:20.040 They added Brendan Donovan, they added some other pieces as well. 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:23.000 We all thought this would be a team that was 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.360 really primed to go to the World Series and win 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:31.160 their first World Series in franchise history. Not happening. It's 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.400 swept this weekend by Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay has won 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:35.600 sixth straight. And you look at Seattle now, they are 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:38.800 four games out. As we see right there, they are 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:42.679 falling fast. Three and six on their nine game homestand 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:47.360 nine and nineteen since July seventh, nine to nineteen. That's 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:50.800 the second worst record in Major League Baseball during that time. 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:55.200 And why is this happening? It's happening because the Mariners, 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:59.800 after tying for ninth last season in runs, they are 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.600 last in the majors, last in runs per game. The 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.439 team with Cal Raleigh and Josh Naylor and Randy A. 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:11.680 Rosarina and Julio Rodriguez, all these star caliber offensive players, 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:15.880 and it's not happening. Now. Why it's not happening is 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:20.640 probably a combination of reasons. Let's start with Raleigh. He's 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:24.000 their sixty homer guy. He's got twelve, he's got a 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.520 five to seventy one ops. And yes, I do buy 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:30.760 the theory that he was disrupted in spring training when 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:33.800 during the WBC he didn't get a lot of playing time. 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:36.360 He wasn't playing a lot. Then he had the oblique 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:39.800 miss some time. His season has been disjointed, and he 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.800 just has not gotten going yet. The other thing this 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.160 was mentioned to me by someone who had been with 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:49.000 the Marriners this week, was remember they made the move 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:52.520 they brought up Colt Emerson, their top prospect they had 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:56.080 signed to a big contract, moved into shortstop JP Crawford 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:59.480 to third base. It was the right move to do. Ever, 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.960 since is the better defensive shortstop at this juncture, of 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:06.319 their careers, his in Crawford's, and Crawford took it well. 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:09.160 I wrote a whole story about how Crawford really handled 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:13.400 this like an ultimate professional and did something that in 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:15.720 this free agent year was hard to do, switch positions. 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:20.280 But it seems like because Emerson has struggled, and because 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:23.840 Crawford is such a big person in that clubhouse, so popular, 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:27.640 maybe that's contributed to some of this too, that it's 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.840 a little unsettled. We bring up this kid, he's not hitting. 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.600 I'm not sure. I don't know. I'm not in that clubhouse. 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.280 But they've had some things going on. And again I'm 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:39.480 not suggesting there is dissension or anything like that, but 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.360 it's a different dynamic, that's what I'm saying. So the 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:46.000 Mariners they're four out, as we mentioned, behind Houston, three 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:48.640 and a half behind Texas in the Ale West, and 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:53.800 now the schedule gets really hard for them. Listen to this. 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.560 They now start a trip to New York for the Yankees, 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.000 Houston for the Astros that will be a big sity, 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.920 and Milwaukee for the Brewers. Good luck. Then they come 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.680 home and they've got the Cubs and Phillies right away. 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.200 So this is it. For the Mariners, this is probably 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:13.440 the key stretch of their season, the season or the 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:17.480 stretch that will decide whether they are contenders or whether 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:19.880 they are simply going to be a team that sputters 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.600 and doesn't have the season that we all envisioned for them. 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:27.440 So there you have it, AL Central, NL West, AL West. 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.600 We've got more on the AL West in the Inside Dish, 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:40.079 and that's coming back right after this time. Now for 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:41.640 the Inside Dish, the part of the show where I 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.680 talk about story I've written, trend in the game, something 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.760 else going on entirely, And today I want to talk 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:50.200 about a story I wrote that I published this morning 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:54.040 in The Athletic about the Angels and their trade deadline. 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:58.040 Now people often ask me, Ken, Hey, what do you 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:02.400 like doing better TV? Writing? Well, writing is what I've 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:04.839 always done, and that really is, I guess what I 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:08.160 would consider my home. But of course I enjoy both, 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.480 and what I often say to people is both play 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.480 hand in hand with each other. So sometimes when I'm 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.880 working on something for television, it will turn into a story. 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:21.600 Sometimes when I'm writing a story, it's something I later 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:26.360 can use on television. Now, this particular story today, the 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:28.880 one I published. Mike Trout brought the Angels to his 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:31.959 private golf club for team bonding, and then the trades began. 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.440 This began with a simple conversation I had with jo 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:40.040 Adell on Friday afternoon in Chicago. Jodell, of course, just 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:43.720 traded from the Angels to the Guardians, and I asked him, 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.400 as I often asked players after they get traded or 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.400 call to the big leagues, Hey, what was that? Like? 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:51.800 What was the experience? Like? How did you get the news? 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:56.120 And Jodell told me something that just kind of shocked me. 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.600 He said, well, I was on the seventh hole at 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:03.080 Trout and I got the call and it was crazy. 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.480 And then he went on to explain exactly what had happened. 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:11.920 That a number of Angels players were at Mike Trout's private, exclusive, 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:16.240 invitation only golf club in Millville, New Jersey, South Jersey. 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.560 It had been an off day. They'd just flown east. 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.440 They had a serious starting in Baltimore the following day, 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:26.880 so they bust up. The players. About a dozen of 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:30.479 them stay at Trout's house the night before home in Millville, 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:33.040 and then they went to this golf outing and then 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:35.520 they had some coaches and staffers. They took a bus 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:39.040 up from Baltimore, about a two hour drive to the 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:41.320 golf course, and they joined in on the fund the 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:46.320 next day. Well, when Trout planned the trip the outing 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.600 at the time, this was in spring training, he said 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.840 he didn't realize that it was going to be the 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:56.320 day of the deadline. And of course, if you're Mike Trout, 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:59.120 you played for the Angels all these years, you're not 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:04.000 expecting the Angels to sell big. They never sell big. Well, 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:07.720 the story is about how they sold big, and how 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:11.319 three of the players received the news while they were 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:14.760 on the course. That would have been Brent Souter, Joe 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:17.560 adell As I mentioned, and Ryan Zephyr John and then 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.160 another player, Kirby Yates, who didn't expect to get traded 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.080 at all. As he put it, I'm a thirty nine 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.240 year old guy throwing ninety miles an hour. They're in 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.800 cars going back to Trout's house. Some guys went back 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:29.920 to the house, some guys went right back to Baltimore, 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:34.360 and he gets the news too. Now, the one other 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:37.680 guy who was traded, Jose Soriano, was not on the trip. 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:40.480 He doesn't play golf, so he was back in the 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:43.080 hotel in Baltimore when he got the news. So I 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:47.040 wrote this story. I actually had to work fairly quickly 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.880 to get it done for today because Adele told me 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:55.000 this On Friday, I contacted Suitor and Yates. The Athletic 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:58.280 Sahata Sharma got in touch or was with the Cubs, 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:01.080 so he talked to Ryan Zephyr John And then yesterday 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:04.600 the Angels pr staff did a really great job connecting 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.520 me with Trout after their game against Miami, and I 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:10.000 just needed a few details from Mike and just a 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:14.920 few questions. So it's a story that obviously came out 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:19.120 of my work for television for Fox Sports, but proved 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.960 to be a good story I think for the Athletic. 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:26.160 Certainly one of the craziest trade stories I've heard, and 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:29.360 I've heard a lot over the years, obviously, and certainly 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:32.080 last year was one of them. You remember last year 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:35.520 with the Minnesota Twins when they tore it down and 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:39.320 they traded Carlos Correa. They traded really their entire bullpen, 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.400 and I later found out that the entire group of 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:46.240 relievers was together. They were kind of hanging out together, 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:49.440 I guess, at a hotel room watching TV watching the 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:53.040 trades go down and one by one they got picked off. 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.080 This was kind of the same type of thing, except 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:59.440 the players were golfing. They were enjoying this lovely day 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:03.360 at Trout National, this amazing course designed by Tiger Woods, 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:06.880 and this Trout put it. Every three or four holes, 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:11.880 someone got a call. So when it comes to trade deadline, 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:13.800 you never know what's going to happen. I tell people 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:15.600 this every year. You guys hear me to tell it. 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.280 Say this. Every year, things will happen that will make 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.960 your head spin that you don't expect. If you look 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:24.480 at any number of trades this year. I talked about 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:27.240 this on the show last week. How many of them 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:30.120 were actually predicted in all the stories we write and 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:32.400 all the things we do trying to match up teams 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.520 and figure out who's doing what. Nothing, None of them. 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:38.880 I don't know that anyone trade other than Trek Schoogle 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.280 was predicted. And a lot of people, of course, did 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:44.840 think Schooble was going to the Dodgers. Not many people thought, 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:48.040 if any, that Adley Rushman was going to the Red Sox, 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:51.360 classic example, and then right down the line, all the 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:55.440 other trades were kind of surprising. What was so cool 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:59.920 about this story for me was that it was just 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.920 a fun story, and these guys will remember if forever. 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.400 Kirby Yates said, it was an amazing thing. We were 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:08.280 all wondering who was next. And a lot of times 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:11.679 in baseball, cool stuff happens off the field or crazy 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.000 stuff happens off the field that we find out later. 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:16.320 And again, this was a lot of fun to work 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:23.840 on and a lot of fun to write. MLB on 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.200 Fox is streaming on Fox one. The Race to October 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:28.080 starts now when we have your front row seat to 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:30.800 the wildless walk offs, lights out pitching, and clutch plays 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:34.240 all season long. Now, this game tonight is a game 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:37.800 involving the Phillies, and the Phillies did a lot in 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:41.440 the deadline. Obviously, they brought in Luisa Rise, We constructed 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:46.440 their entire position player roster, and they're an interesting team. 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.240 They're three and three since they've had some poor pitching performances. 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:53.640 Andrew Painter goes tonight and he is going to obviously 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:55.720 be a key guy for the Phillies going forward because 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:58.080 they didn't get a starter. He's facing Hunter Dobbins. Now, 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:00.639 as I was saying, m'll be on Fox. They're streaming 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:02.879 on Fox One. The Race to October starts. Now. We 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:05.720 have your front row seat to the wildest walk offs, 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:08.920 lights out pitching and clutch plays all season long, follow 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:11.639 every campus matchup as teams battle for a spot in 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:14.760 the postseason, and then stream the twenty twenty six World 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:18.080 Series live on Fox One at home or on the go, 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:21.400 live or on demand. Never miss a moment stream now 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:25.120 start your Fox one three day free trial today at 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:33.400 foxwe dot Com. Time now for Gill and Cannon part 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:35.920 of the show where I answer your questions. Let's get 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:40.040 to them right away. First question comes from Mike, who 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:43.200 asks why a Seattle's still been so hesitant or stubborn 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:46.359 to trade one of Kirby Gilbert Miller Wu Hancock for 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:50.600 significant offensive upgrades, especially with Kate Anderson and Ryan Sloan 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:54.520 coming soon. Well, they did trade Lewis Castillo. Now they 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:57.040 didn't get an offensive upgrade there. They got another reliever, 0:18:57.119 --> 0:19:01.560 Sir Anthony Dominguez, and then acquire Taylor in a separate trade. 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:04.800 So it's not like they didn't do anything to upgrade 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:08.160 their offense. And it's not like they didn't listen on 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:11.760 George Kirby and Emerson at Hancock, they did, but they 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:15.000 set the bar high, and it's always dangerous to trade 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:18.480 starting pitching because you might compromise your depth, and ultimately 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:21.920 they didn't get the package they wanted. Now, you're right, 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:25.359 their offense isn't good enough. They're gonna lose a Rosa 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:28.080 Rain into free agency. Most likely they're gonna lose JP 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:32.520 Crawford to free agencies. So come the off season they 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:36.280 might be active again in listening on Kirby and Hancock 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:39.400 simply because they're gonna need to fill those holes, and 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:42.240 maybe they don't want to do it through free agency. 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:47.560 All right, Next question, let's see this comes from MC. 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:50.639 Why aren't the Rays getting the respect of national media 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:53.320 types even now? Folks are picking the Yankees of Boston 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:55.959 to win the AL East End or the AL. But 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:58.640 the Rays have been number one or number two all 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:01.359 season and have been the most concient team since mid April. 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:05.400 Points Well, taken, you are absolutely right, and I don't 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:08.800 know that they're not getting the respect from I guess 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:13.359 people like myself. They certainly get our attention, and I 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:15.399 wrote about them early in the season. I haven't written 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:17.920 about them much since. But early in the season I 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:21.159 wrote about how being back at the trap was energizing 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:23.320 to them, and they've played really well at the Trap 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:27.720 all year, and they deserve the respect that you're talking 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:31.040 about Nick Martinez and Drew Rasmusson in that rotation with 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:35.040 Jane McClanahan, and they've got a good thing going and 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:37.879 offensively they're always going to be a little bit short, 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:42.520 but the trade for Liam Hicks should help. And obviously 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:45.080 they have played the best of all these teams this season. 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:47.639 You look there at some of their statistics, So the 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:51.879 Rays obviously have everyone's respect. Do they get the attention 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:54.439 that those other teams do? Know, they don't play in 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:56.880 the same kind of market. That's kind of the reality 0:20:56.960 --> 0:21:01.000 of how baseball is covered. I don't necessarily I try 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:03.000 to get to all thirty teams, and you know that 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:05.280 if you read me, people accuse me all the time 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:08.040 of writing only about this team or that. No, that's 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:10.879 not how it works. But do those teams in the 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:13.200 big markets get more attention? I don't know that anyone 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:16.680 would question that. That's the simple reality of it, all, right. 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:20.200 Next question, Evattasher asked, do you think that the Cubs 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:24.200 can catch the Brewers. Interesting question. I would say no, 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:27.879 simply because the Brewers really have not dipped. They have 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:31.919 played extremely well all season long. I liked what they 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:34.879 did at the deadline. They supplemented a pitching staff that 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:39.440 needed some supplementation, Dustin May, Jojo Romero who's still out 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:44.760 with an appendectomy, Antonio Sanztela. They should be down the 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:48.520 stretch pretty strong from their pitching perspective. As long as 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:51.040 they stay healthy. They may have to build in some 0:21:51.119 --> 0:21:53.760 extra days from Mizzarawski and Harrison, of course, has had 0:21:53.760 --> 0:21:57.840 his issues Johann this is uncharted territory for him, but 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:01.560 they're in good shape now. The question I guess would be, 0:22:01.680 --> 0:22:04.600 are the Cubs good enough to mount this kind of 0:22:04.680 --> 0:22:07.600 crazy surge that they had early in the season to 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:11.000 catch the Brewers. My guess is the answer to that 0:22:11.119 --> 0:22:15.080 is no. But the Cubs are playing very high level 0:22:15.160 --> 0:22:18.760 right now. They too make terrific moves of the deadline 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:21.240 in my estimation, at least in the short term. Look 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:24.520 Gossman and Clay Holmes. Gosman at a terrific first start. 0:22:24.960 --> 0:22:27.080 Holmes not so good, but he's just coming back from 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:31.040 the fractored phibia and It seems to me the Cubs, 0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:34.160