WEBVTT - The latest Adley Rutschman trade speculation 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:09.720 Well, the final game of the series in Boston. That 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:11.840 felt like a big one for the Orioles that they 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:15.080 had to have after losing the first two. They did 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:17.960 get it behind Kyle Bradish. We're going to touch on 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:21.079 that a lot in this show. Here today, welcome into 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:24.599 the latest Birdland Territory with Steve, Tim and Brad at 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:27.280 the top. Today we're going to talk about the latest 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:32.560 trade I guess rumor slash speculation. And this was all 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:35.400 started with the ESPN, the Four Letter Network, when they 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:38.920 ranked badly on their list of top one hundred trade 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:42.720 candidates for this trade deadline number fifteen. It came out 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:45.839 of nowhere because their first two times they published a 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:48.880 list of one hundred, he wasn't even on it. Then 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:52.560 he gets on it at fifteen. So that was curious 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:55.800 to some of us following that. And Tim, you've been 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:58.160 following it pretty closely, and why don't you start here. 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.440 We don't know what that means, but it might mean 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:03.840 the ools are at least open to listening, which it 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:06.560 seems like that's the job of the front office. Why 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:09.280 would you not listen on anti player, There's a big 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:13.399 gap between listening and making a deal. We'll see where 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:15.119 any of this leads. 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:18.720 And we've brought up this speculation probably a couple of 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:21.040 weeks ago on an episode guys, and I think we 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:24.920 were all unanimous and saying, you gotta listen, but you're 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:29.440 not actively shopping Adlei Rutchman. But I did find it 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:33.800 very interesting that yesterday, two days ago, Jeff Passon, who's 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:38.119 as well respected a national MLB insider as they come, 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.360 his first two editions of this top one hundred list 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:46.800 did not have Adley Rutchman, and then pretty much immediately 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:50.000 following the Oriole seven game winning streak to get them 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:53.920 back in the hunt, Adley Rutchman comes in at number fifteen, 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:58.400 and one tiny part of the blurb to me, that 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.560 was the headliner. Guys, He's a free agent after next season. 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:05.000 Baltimore has Samuel Bisseillo locked up, locked up long term, 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:08.880 and there's almost no chance of the sides coming together 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.520 on a long term deal. That was kind of my 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:16.040 biggest takeaway. And he handicaps the top twenty five guys 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:19.280 on his list. He lists Adley Rutchman's chance of being 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:20.720 traded at thirty percent. 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:22.520 Here's how I see it. 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.560 They're back in the mix and they're three games back 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.600 out of the wild card hunt. I think it would 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:32.320 be one heck of a needle to thread for michae 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:37.800 Elias to trade Adley Rutchman while buying while still in 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:41.919 the mix and get the major league caliber players back 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.680 in return. I just think Adley brad he's second on 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:49.359 the team in RBIs this offense, which is extremely banged 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.720 up right now, and we'll get into that more later. 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:52.440 In the episode. 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.320 If you're gonna make a run at this thing and 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:58.880 try to get back to playing October baseball, assuming you're buying, 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:01.359 you're probably don't want Adli Ruchman there. 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:03.480 Yeah, I mean one hundred percent. 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:05.959 I think it's it's like you said, it's just kind 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:07.880 of surprising that it popped up out of nowhere. 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:11.000 So there's got to be some rumbling somewhere in the. 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:14.079 Grapevine there that they for them to actually even bring 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:15.200 this up and write about it. 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:16.680 So it's definitely interesting. 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:18.760 But like you said, if this team just worked their 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:21.080 way back into the wildcard mix for real this time 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:24.160 where they crept up right below five hundred and to 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:26.679 kind of think that Adlie gets traded here is just 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:30.400 kind of crazy. It's just kind of a wild speculation 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:32.000 at this point. I would say I was kind of 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.520 classified as that, but obviously there's something there, and for 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.000 them to even have it at thirty percent, to me, 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.320 it's just kind of a crazy number. And it's just 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:41.680 kind of when you look at the extension of Kyle Bradish, 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:44.320 you have Samuel Pasila locked up for so many years. 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:46.240 Maybe they were else are trying to make a play 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:48.640 here where they're trying to extend this window to five 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.000 to seven years along the way, and if they don't 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:53.880 see ADLEI fitting in that five to seven year window, 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.120 maybe if they get a deal that blows their minds 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.480 right now and they get the major league talent that 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.440 they're kind of expecting to get him, it is something 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:04.080 you have to look at. So it's definitely an interesting speculation, 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.720 but at this point, but it just it would be 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:08.680 wild to me if they were actually able to pull 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:10.960 the trigger at this point of the season, and with 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.800 the time dwindling here before the trade deadline. 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:18.720 We should point out this speculation comes at a time 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:21.840 when Adlie Rutchman is on the injured list with the 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:25.320 left wrist. It's his third trip, and does that turn 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:28.800 off the potential sooner who knows the very different than 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:32.440 obliques which bothered him. I believe last year you've had 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:36.680 an ankle, a concussion, and the left wrist, and so 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:41.200 it all are kind of strange, fluky things that just happened. 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:43.599 It's not like he's been injury prone this year, but 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:47.359 it is three trips. And I'll add this caveat maybe 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:50.560 this is signaling that if he doesn't get dealt at 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:52.400 the deadline, I think all three of us feel the 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.960 odds are longer that happening that he'll be an Oriel 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.480 after August third. No one can guarantee you. We'll see 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.000 how it plays out, but maybe that means this winner 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:04.440 is push or go time for the Orioles and actally, 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:06.919 either you're gonna get a deal or there might be 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.960 a trade, and then then the winner they can figure 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:13.720 out where you're going with catching Can we sign this guy? 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:16.240 If we can't, maybe we trade him. Someone will get 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:19.040 a full year and it brings more back, and so 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:22.000 of course that's leading into the labor situation. So this 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:25.520 whole thing is there's just nothing really clear here right now. 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:28.320 Yeah, definitely, definitely not. 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:32.440 Yeah, it's it's a it's a complex puzzle to kind 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:36.359 of put together, like you're saying, Steve, with the possible lockout, 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.880 the trade deadline coming up, I think it would make 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.080 more sense to wait for the winter and then from 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:42.760 there you just you got to see how the labor 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:43.520 agreements go and. 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:44.239 All that kind of stuff. 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.360 But if if you don't feel he's gonna be there 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:49.040 long time, the winter, to me makes way more sense 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:51.920 to kind of get a package together, see what team 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:53.600 you could send him to if you don't see him 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:56.000 fitting in this long term picture, which it kind of 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:58.159 seems like Michael Oas is trying to put together here, 0:05:58.480 --> 0:05:59.760 not just trying to figure out what they're gonna do 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.039 for the new two years, but more of a beyond 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:05.680 that kind of frame picture that he's trying to put together. 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:10.200 Yeah, that's how I see it, guys, where if you're buying, 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.760 if you're going for it, I would like Adley Rutchman 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:16.680 to remain on this roster. But moving forward, if you 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:21.680 take passings reporting as true, then yeah, I think you 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:24.719 got to move him in the off season because you 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.760 don't want him to walk for nothing. Obviously, the Orioles 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:31.080 have every single intention of going for it again in 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.200 twenty twenty seven, So it's not going to be a 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:37.160 situation where you anticipate selling him at the deadline as 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:40.240 a rental. I think this is definitely a huge storyline 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:43.360 for the off season to come, and boys, it's set 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:46.560 to be a very wild and wacky off season just 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:47.920 with the labor of it a whole. 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:52.520 Yeah, just never dull around here. I think also there 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:57.359 might be in the game, what is Adley Rutchman. He 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:01.839 had two off years, he had injuries, and now he's 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.560 back at an all star level. And as hope he 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:06.640 has to seven to fifty, it's not eight to fifty. 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.600 His catching has been really good. His framing is its 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.400 top of the game. The pitchers love throwing to him. 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:15.160 He's all star caliber. That's if you have an all 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:18.880 star caliber catcher, you're ahead of most of the league. 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:23.360 But is he the superstar player that it once looked 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:25.880 like he would be. There's a there's a middle ground 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:27.880 in there somewhere where he probably fits in. 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.120 Well, Steve, I think the reality and I was diving 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:33.520 into the numbers yesterday on the show on one O 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.520 five seven the Fan. You look at his year this year, 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:40.040 it's only played in sixty seven games, so he's missed 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:42.000 a third of the season, and not all of that 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:45.960 has just been il he's been sitting a lot of games. 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:49.080 That was a big plan and point of emphasis to 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:52.280 try and keep Adley Rutchman healthy this year, and they've 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:56.280 really lessened his workload. He's caught forty nine games. This 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:59.640 is the number that really shocked me. Guys, Adley Rutchman 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:04.240 is only caught three straight days twice all year long. 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:08.520 He's only called three straight days. Samuel Bissio. He has 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:11.720 a stretch where he's caught four straight days three straight 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:16.560 days two other times. So they've done everything they can 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:20.480 do to keep Badly upright and healthy, but unfortunately it 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:21.600 just hasn't been the case. 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.400 And look the concussion one that that's just free clock. 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:28.280 That's really unfortunate, but it's a big factor for any 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:30.120 team that's acquiring Adley Rutchman. 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:36.240 For sure, interesting times. As we said, never tell around here. 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.600 That's a good thing for shows like this, I guess 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:42.800 and media guys who keep constant stories happening. 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Tie head NC State outfielders ranked ninth on 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:33.320 this list. Kevin Roberts, Junior, Mississippi High school outfielder with 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:37.360 the loud tools is sixteenth, and right hand to pitcher 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.640 Dom Vogel of University of Kansas is thirtieth. So four 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.680 Orioles moved right into the top thirty out of the draft. 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:45.600 And Eric Booth Junior, by the way, in the top 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.720 one hundred is number sixty four. He's the highest ranked 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:53.680 oriole currently on the Baseball America Top one hundred. So guys, 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:57.880 let's get into this game. Kyle Bradish on Wednesday night, 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:00.960 game two of the doubleheader, he did his thing. Man 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:04.400 that wasn't Bradish at the absolute top of his game, 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:08.480 but he was in control throughout. I never thought he 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:10.760 was giving up more than the one run he was 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:13.400 giving up. It just felt like they could have pitched eight, 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:15.920 nine to ten and they wouldn't have got much off him. 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.400 Last night, What did you guys see from his outing 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:20.640 in a very important five to one oriel win. 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.520 Yeah, he's just becoming that a stopper that they kind 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:28.160 of always needed throughout the season. Between him and Trevor Rogers, 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:30.280 right now, you have two guys that you have confidence 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:31.800 who are going to win every time they go out there. 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:33.559 And to me, it was just the two seamer he 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:37.040 was running in on right ees, he was front hipping 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:39.240 at the lefties and just using it as such a weapon. 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.200 Jim Palmer talked about it multiple times that pitch has 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.680 been such a difference maker with the left to right 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:45.439 movement of it. 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:47.120 Everything else he throws. 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.160 His fastball has that cut, like we talked about, everything 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.760 moves right to left. His slider, his curveballs more twelve 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:54.560 to six, but it still has that little bit of 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:57.440 right to left movement, and with that two seamer, it 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:00.400 just it just cannot be a comfortable bat for anybody 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.040 left these righties, I don't care who you put up there. 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:04.319 His that patch just. 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:06.720 Must be really uncomfortable. You know, the curveball on the 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:08.520 slider are there. But he was just getting a hit 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:10.320 with the fastball. And if you don't get on that 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.240 first pitch, you know you have to deal with those 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:13.080 breaking balls after. 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:14.079 So for me, he was just. 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:17.360 Being super aggressive, throwing tons of strikes. I think those 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:19.520 first seventy five pitches that I think they said sixty 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:21.920 seven percent pitches in the strike. 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:23.480 Zone, and that's a high number for him. 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.160 He's usually thrown a lot of pitches out of his 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:27.439 own but if he's throwing strikes at that rate, good 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:28.199 luck to hitters. 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:29.440 And he just showed it last night. 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:32.520 He's just being aggressive, attacking these guys and then using 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:33.920 this stuff for there when he got ahead. 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:39.040 Yeah, guys, it's hard to call a game a must 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:42.600 win when they're still quite a lot of games to go. 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:44.360 But that was a you better not. 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.720 Lose it type of game because if you would have 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.040 lost it, you would have felled the five games back 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.840 and all that good will of that seven game winning 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:53.920 streak getting swept by the Red Sox. That would have 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:57.120 been really, really rough, But Kyle Braddish should give him 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:00.280 a ton of credit for a multitude of reasons. That's 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.440 been a team that has given him a lot of 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:06.080 trouble over his career. Heading into last night, he was 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.640 one in six with the six seven five ERA and 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:12.640 ten starts against the Red Sox. In three starts at 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:16.120 Fenway Park, he had given up fifteen runs over just 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:19.720 ten innings. But Bradish, we know walks have been an 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:21.840 issue for him at times this year, a lot of 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:25.120 starts for him, only one walk last night. The slider 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:28.520 and curveball were really strong. And also, how was this 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.480 going to look? Because he was coming off in eleven 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.600 day layoff, it had been a while since Kyle Bradish 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:36.880 was on the mound, and add on top of that, 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:40.040 although it's a good problem to have the really long 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:43.079 first inning where gosh, it was probably a thirty minute 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.240 forty minute first inning, so it had been a while 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:48.000 since he even had thrown his warm up pitches since 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.640 that point, and all he did was deliver one two, 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:55.640 three shutdown inning, which unfortunately avoided Dean Kramer a lot 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:58.720 in the game one of the doubleheader was. 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:02.319 He nine pitches, one unfour hit, six innings early in control. 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.400 You gave the career numbers to which he overcame, plus 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.960 the eleven days rest which he overcame last six starts 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:11.560 as ra for the Orioles two oh three. Bradish. By 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.760 the way, we'll be celebrated Friday afternoon at Oriel Park 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:18.480 at Camden Yards with a press conference, uh to announce 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:22.840 officially the ninety million dollar deal. And you know, celebrate 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:26.360 this guy who's just so consistent. He's ninety four every game. 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.840 Occasionally you see a little more, but you can count 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:33.040 on it. Yeah, last night it was exactly fifty percent fastballs, 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:37.640 fifty percent secondaries. And Brad I found this interesting. On 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.280 the data we can look up the two seam is 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:44.560 thrown mostly to righties to pound that thing in against lefties. 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:49.160 Last night all seventeen of his four seamers, all seventeen 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:51.920 were against left handed batters, not one to a righty. 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:54.320 Why would that be do you. 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:58.720 Think, I would say, especially at Firmway Park, you want 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:01.720 lefties to pull the ball. So with this cutting action 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:03.800 on the fastball, you're going to try to run that 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.080 in on lefties and really make them hitted to the 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.320 large part of the ballpark. And if you get beat 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.600 out there, the guy obviously put a good swing on it, 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.560 but it makes sense that he's throwing that pitch, especially 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:15.640 a f nWay, But just in general, I just think 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:19.000 it's a really hard pitch for lefties to get extended on. 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.560 And when I say get extended on, just means a 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:23.480 lot of hitters want the ball out over the plate. 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:25.920 And when we're able to run the ball in on guys, 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:28.560 and especially with that cutting action where okay, it looks 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:31.040 middle in but it ends up on the really inside 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.040 part of the plate, he's just able to pound that 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:35.080 in on lefty. So it makes a lot of sense 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.040 to throw his four seamer to lefties and not so 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:40.520 much the righties, because when you miss with the rights, 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:43.320 it almost turns into a cutter, and for a righty 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.440 pitcher throwing to a righty hitter, the cutter pitch becomes 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:48.480 kind of a home run pitch, is what I've always 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:50.920 been told in my career. So it makes a lot 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:53.320 of sense to jam that four seamer in on him, 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:55.160 and then he's got that back foot breaking ball and 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:57.280 the curveball, and I mean, it's just good luck. And 0:15:57.520 --> 0:15:59.920 if you're able to jam that four seamer in on lefties, 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:03.000 you could sneak a sinker away because the guys have 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:05.560 seen everything coming in coming in coming in. You throw 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:07.640 that sinker away. Now they're way off and it just 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.280 creates a big problem. He's a tough pitcher, I mean, 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:12.440 I just like I said before, it's just I can't 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:15.600 imagine any of bat's being fun against Kyle Brad's, especially 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:18.120 when he's punding the strike zone and getting ahead of guys. 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:19.240 Greg. 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:23.000 Kyle's a bulldog, and I'm sure just knowing him, he 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:26.120 probably wasn't even thinking about those career numbers, but just 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.600 reading them, it kind of brings me back to the 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:32.320 episode with Zach Britton, right where I forget was Peter Borges. 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.360 You know, he brought up a guy that had good 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:39.280 numbers against him. But there's thirty teams in baseball, and then, inevitably, 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:41.200 I'm sure Brad, there was a team that gave you 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.040 a lot of trouble. Like, does that ever go through 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:47.240 your head or a ballpark where you particularly struggle in 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:50.360 like he did at Fenway Park prior to that, do 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:51.960 pictures think about that at all? 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:55.840 Not a ton I would say you might think about 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.120 it like maybe before the series starts, but when you're 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:00.440 out there, all that kind of goes out the windows. 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.760 So it's definitely a thought that you're like you probably have, like, man, 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.760 I just can't figure out this lineup or this team 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:08.840 or this stadium. It might creep in your head in 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:10.720 the beginning of this series, but when you're out there, 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:13.160 you get your game plan once you leave the bullpen 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:15.119 there after he gets done warming up, it's really not 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.200 a thought that comes in. But I'm sure it's something 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:20.000 he's thought about, and I'm sure he's been told these numbers, 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.680 and you know, whether he reads it somewhere or sees 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:23.800 it or he knows. 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:24.680 That in the back of his mind. 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:26.760 So to go out there and put up the outing 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:30.400 had yesterday, it's just a It's really good on him 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:32.200 because he was able to flush it and go out there, 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.600 and especially with the he's got that fat wallet now 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:37.480 in about his back pocket after signing that contract. To 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:39.800 go out there and have the outing he had is 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:41.439 just it was awesome to watch. 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.679 Listen, there's pressure every night in Major League Baseball, but 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:48.360 here's a guy eleven days rast who knows what that's 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:52.480 going to bring just got the big contract or O's 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:54.680 had to have it. Yeah, it was maybe the most 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:57.600 pressurized game of the year for any Oriel to pitch, 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.840 and there couldn't have been a better guy to pitch it. Bradish. 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:03.359 I was surprised him pitch game one of that doubleheader. 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:04.959 I think that's the way I would have done it. 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:08.399 And when I saw Kramer, I wasn't disappointed because Deane's 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:11.120 a good pitcher too, but I just thought, your best guy, 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:13.520 why why not pitch him in Game one? I'm sure 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:16.200 the Oils had a reason for that, and that's how 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:19.040 they did it. So let's the guy with a long 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:22.639 name here, one of the longest done Major League Baseball history, 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:26.959 Christian and Carnacion. Strand comes up. There's five for eleven 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:28.920 hits two home runs in this series. By the way, 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:31.240 the Oriols hit two in the series. He hit them both, 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:34.119 and he doesn't when it hit him, they say, as 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:36.119 the scouts say, when he hits one, it stays hit. 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:39.960 I mean, this was a big performance by this guy 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:43.879 who's been just quietly putting up numbers all year for Norfolk. 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:46.879 Yeah, you know what, it's a I think it's a 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:49.440 great credit to him to just kind of keeping his 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:51.800 head down and playing at Triple A, never knowing when 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:54.119 an opportunity was going to come. With the way Blaisee 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:56.439 Alexander was playing in the way. They love having Kobe 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:59.840 Mayo out there against lufties, especially, but he's been on 0:18:59.880 --> 0:19:02.320 the all year. You just never know when the opportunity 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:04.520 is gonna come. And he got his name called and 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:07.080 he really stepped up this series. He did a great job. 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:10.240 Balls that he can handle out over the plate, he 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:12.400 crushed them, and with those two home runs, the one 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:14.159 was a big time home run to center field there 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:16.240 at Fenway Park. That is not a small part of 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:17.800 the park to go out at, and. 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:18.880 He just did a great job. 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.240 And I think it's just really a good testament to him, 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:24.199 and honestly, the guys at Triple A, the managing the 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:26.800 staff there down at Triple A kind of making sure 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:28.520