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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome back to The Hammer's Territory Podcast. This

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Speaker 1: is episode two hundred, Yes, episode two hundred. I am

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Speaker 1: your host, Brad rumand on his Sunday evening, a pretty

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Speaker 1: jovial Sunday evening, and I am joined as I always

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Speaker 1: am by Scott Coleman. Scott, how was feeling? Two hundred episodes,

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Speaker 1: A couple of Brives wins, one not so great Braves lost,

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Speaker 1: but hey, up beat weekend and the Braves are over

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Speaker 1: five hundred.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Brad, I was thinking about it just before we

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Speaker 2: started recording. Is this the most positive the vibes have

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Speaker 2: been all season long? Other than maybe Opening Day because

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Speaker 2: Hope springs eternal and we didn't know what was right

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Speaker 2: around the corner on opening Day. But for me anyway,

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Speaker 2: this is probably the most upbeat and optimistic I've been

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Speaker 2: about this team all season long, and a really nice

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Speaker 2: series in Boston this weekend.

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Speaker 1: I think you're right on that. I think that would

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Speaker 1: not have been the case that we recorded twenty four

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Speaker 1: hours ago. That's probably safe to say after Saturday's game.

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Speaker 1: But taking a half step back and we like we

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Speaker 1: more not prisoner of the moment. Yeah, I mean number one.

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Speaker 1: They're over five hundred for the second time, I suppose,

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Speaker 1: but first time that we've done a podcast together and

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Speaker 1: been playing really well for a while now. Like you know,

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Speaker 1: they went five and two this week with two series victories.

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Speaker 1: That's just series after series victory. They could have been

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Speaker 1: seven to oho this week fairly easily. They blew leads

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Speaker 1: and both wins, sorry both losses. Obviously those are more frustrating,

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Speaker 1: but it's also a good sign that you're leading, like

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Speaker 1: you're playing better for most of the game. They've also

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Speaker 1: won seven of the last nine series. They're nineteen and

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Speaker 1: ten the last forty nine games. Like the Brains are

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Speaker 1: playing good baseball. They're playing at one hundred plus win

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Speaker 1: pace for about a month plus now, and that's usually

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Speaker 1: a good so I think we are justified in our vibes.

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Speaker 1: Being up. Doesn't mean that everything is going perfectly, but

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Speaker 1: certainly we have to feel better. I think you'd be

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Speaker 1: crazy not to feel better than you did a few

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, And the Braves have done a good job

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Speaker 2: of keeping their head above water after that very poor start,

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Speaker 2: and they're in a position to be in position now

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Speaker 2: that they have two superstars presumably right around the corner

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Speaker 2: with Spencer Schreider and Ronald d'acunya Junior. We're going to

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Speaker 2: talk about both of them a little bit later in

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Speaker 2: the show. But sure have there been moments of frustration,

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Speaker 2: God knows there have been. But you mentioned winning seven

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Speaker 2: out of nine series in a one hundred win pace.

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Speaker 2: That's really really good, Captain Obvious, and I think there's

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Speaker 2: reasons for optimism after the offense has really woken up

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Speaker 2: the last couple of games. Pitching staff should be getting better,

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Speaker 2: especially with some reinforcements on the way. And then if

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Speaker 2: Ronald d'acunya Junior is even a shell of the player

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Speaker 2: that we know he can be in, this team is

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Speaker 2: going to be even better on paper than what it's been.

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Speaker 2: And if there have been one hundred win team, or

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Speaker 2: last six weeks, there's obviously something you can work with there.

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Speaker 1: Back when we used to do a podcast that was

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Speaker 1: a little bit more weekly like that, we did like

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Speaker 1: a whole week breakdown. When we did podcasts, sometimes we

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Speaker 1: sample and in an effort to not do that, and

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Speaker 1: necessarily this week, the last seven days when they've played

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Speaker 1: seven games in a row, they've played seventeen games in

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Speaker 1: a row. Actually, but the offense has decided to wake

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Speaker 1: up and that's what we're all waiting on. And they've

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Speaker 1: been pret darn good on offense now for a little while.

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Speaker 1: They've scored thirty eight runs in the last seven games. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that includes ten today, but even before that, they scored

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Speaker 1: twenty eight runs in six games. That's like almost five

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Speaker 1: and again we have to see it for longer. But

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Speaker 1: Captain obvious, when you score more runs, your pitching staffs

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Speaker 1: that's the thing we've all been saying for weeks and

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Speaker 2: Well, and hopefully the offense can continue the work it did,

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Speaker 2: recent memory. I think the broadcast said today that Schwallenbach

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Speaker 2: fifteenth straight time a Brave starting pitcher has covered six innings.

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Speaker 2: That's crazy, and that generally means that every single night

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Speaker 2: the rotation is giving the Braves a chance to win. Now,

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Speaker 2: of course it then continue to score. It's not gonna

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Speaker 2: then you can start to be greedy and say, Okay,

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Speaker 2: have been playing better lately, Let's win eight out of ten,

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Speaker 2: Let's win ten out of thirteen and really distance yourself

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Speaker 2: on the Phillies and the Mets, who have had really

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Speaker 1: I'm with you all the way. And you know, it's

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Speaker 1: kind of expected to. But how are you not in

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Speaker 1: score runs, and that's we'll come back to it, I'm

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Speaker 2: Definitely, I mean scoring cures all in all sports, not

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Speaker 2: have to be encouraged by what you've seen. Of course,

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Speaker 1: At this point, then is a professional segue from my

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Speaker 1: under most circumstances, we probably just dive into the games

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Speaker 1: it is for us obviously as well. So ron Akunya,

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Speaker 1: No one has said when he's coming back, but the

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Speaker 2: Oh, it looks great and if folks missed it. On

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Speaker 2: Saturday night, Ronald Acuna Junior had a four hundred and

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Speaker 2: Ronald looks like he's in fantastic shape. There was a

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Speaker 2: mean he has quads for days. He must work out

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Speaker 2: at least in a calendar year, hit a ball for twenty,

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Speaker 2: But offensively, Ronald looks ready. Obviously, the more he sees

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Speaker 1: How he's looked.

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Speaker 2: Obviously, it's not Game seven of the World Series tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: The Braves probably want to see Ronald play a full

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Speaker 1: Just to kind of get that under him.

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Speaker 2: But I mean, everything we have seen from Gwinnett is encouraging,

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Speaker 2: next week we'll see Ronald Acuna Junior back with the Braves.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Mark Bowman floated to Friday as the Braves would

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Speaker 1: That makes some logical sense. But potentially I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: have a funny stat it's only a handful of the

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Speaker 1: play appearances, like you said, but he has at ops

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Speaker 1: That's six walks in twelve plate appearances. Like no one

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Speaker 1: everyone's just excited. I'm just excited. I don't know everybody else.

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Speaker 1: he's he looks like an ace again. And that's the

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Speaker 1: big takeaway is if you were worried in early April,

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Speaker 1: late March, I don't necessarily blame you. He's an older guy.

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Speaker 1: Our antennas were up a little bit more than they

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Speaker 1: probably would have been. We even said that on the

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Speaker 1: show because of his age. But that looks to be

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Speaker 1: a thing of the past, even you know, Chris Sale

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Speaker 1: is famously kind of prickly in a good way, very

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Speaker 1: competitive guy. He's kind of refused to say that he's

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Speaker 1: like okay, likes he's like, yep, make it progress, doing

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Speaker 1: his Chris Sale thing. But even he's not been like

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Speaker 1: hard himself in public interviews like the way he was

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Speaker 1: earlier the season. I think he's feeling it again. He

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Speaker 1: looks great to me, and I'm just really encouraged because, look,

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Speaker 1: he's not great on the game. Back bringing back to Friday,

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Speaker 1: he had to be great in that game. It was

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Speaker 1: a low scoring game. Most of the way. He outdueled

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Speaker 1: Grek Kroshet. Grey Kroschet is awesome. The Braves got him

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Speaker 1: a couple of times in that outing, but Sale, that's

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Speaker 1: one of those games where they didn't blow up on offense.

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Speaker 1: They had to be really good pitching wise, and Sales

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Speaker 1: the big freezone to win a game.

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Speaker 2: And credit to the Braves boppers in the middle of

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Speaker 2: the order for supporting Sale and scoring just enough until

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Speaker 2: the Boston bullpen just completely imploded in the eighth inning.

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Speaker 2: But back to back homers from Matt Olsen, who had

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Speaker 2: a fantastic weekend at Fenway, and a homer from Sean Murphy,

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Speaker 2: who I mean, it's crazy that the Braves can just

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Speaker 2: kind of interweave Followin and Murphy Right now, and really

460
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Speaker 2: not miss much of a beat. And then the Braves

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Speaker 2: they held it. They made that two number stand up.

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Speaker 2: Sale did a great job of navigating Boston's lineup, and

463
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Speaker 2: then they were I mean it was it was funny

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Speaker 2: this weekend. The Braves kept on walking and like loading

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Speaker 2: the bases with walks, and that was such a sight

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Speaker 2: for sore eyes because this team, we've lamented the fact

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Speaker 2: that they have just swung themselves out of so many innings,

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Speaker 2: so many rally opportunities, and they were very patient this

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Speaker 2: weekend against a Red Sox team that really struggled to

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Speaker 2: throw strikes at times, and those a couple extra insurance

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Speaker 2: runs late, especially with the way the bullpen has had

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Speaker 2: to be taxed lately. I think everybody breathed a little

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Speaker 2: bit better.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, And it was one of those nights

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Speaker 1: where I was kind of chuckling because the combination of

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Speaker 1: Chris Sale and then Matt Olsen and Sean Murphy kind

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Speaker 1: of carrying you to a win was not social media's delight.

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Speaker 1: I don't I wouldn't say everyone's root for the brands.

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Speaker 1: Of course I'm being tongue in cheek, but Murphy and

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Speaker 1: Olsen get pot on a lot, and those guys had

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Speaker 1: big nights at a good time. But yeah, there was

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Speaker 1: you mentioned that they had this four consecutive walk run

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Speaker 1: that led to a run the end of that at

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Speaker 1: the end of the game, a little bit of insurance

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Speaker 1: and a Glasis wasn't great on Friday night, like he

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Speaker 1: gave up another By the way, speaking of Babbitt, luck

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Speaker 1: if you look at ryce sales numbers, and we won't

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Speaker 1: dive into those on this podcast this for another day.

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Speaker 1: He's getting backed up to death. Man, it's actually quite

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Speaker 1: kind of hilarious. Maybe he's due for that because he's

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Speaker 1: been pretty lucky about it the last couple of years,

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Speaker 1: if you were to be objective about it. But man,

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Speaker 1: another like, how many infield singles, how many fisters to

494
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Speaker 1: the right spot can happen against Russell Egasias. It's happening

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Speaker 1: every time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, early in the season, the home run

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Speaker 2: ball was the real problem for Rice. Ell agreed, and

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Speaker 2: now he's I mean, he's still giving up homers. He

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Speaker 2: gave up a homer maybe ten days ago in that

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Speaker 2: Red Series that was painful. And no one's saying Ryce

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Speaker 2: Ell has figured it out. But there are some things

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Speaker 2: to make you believe that ryce El is on the

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Speaker 2: right path, and Braves analyst CJ Nikowski tweeded at least

504
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Speaker 2: a couple of days ago, but I'm sure you can

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Speaker 2: find it on his Twitter account. CJ was talking about

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Speaker 2: the movement of Rycell's pitches and his slider, which is

507
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 2: a really important pitch, and that the movement location command

508
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Speaker 2: has been better recently, and even if he's been running

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Speaker 2: into some bad luck, I'm pretty optimistic that rice Ell

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Speaker 2: is going to figure it out, even if he's getting

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Speaker 2: to that age and that career part of his career

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Speaker 2: where there's not a ton of really good relievers in

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Speaker 2: their late thirties.

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Speaker 1: I am also cautiously optimistic. Like you said, I'm also

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Speaker 1: not saying everything is perfect, because it's definitely not. I

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Speaker 1: also am more the way he's pitching recently. I'm glad

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Speaker 1: you mentioned CJ, who's again, if you didn't know, a

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Speaker 1: former pitcher, formationally pitcher that knows what he's talking about

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Speaker 1: with pitching much more than we do. But he him

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Speaker 1: pointing to that. Also, just the eye test some of

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Speaker 1: the data, it looks it looks better to me than

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Speaker 1: it was before. But we'll see the result sens that

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Speaker 1: have to follow. Uh, and we'll leave it there for now.

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Speaker 5: On Risel, I just want to say, before Arena Club,

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Speaker 5: if you were trying to very actively buy sell trade,

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Speaker 5: it was very complicated and used a lot of mail

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Speaker 5: that was unnecessary.

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Speaker 1: I don't know I even know how to do it,

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Speaker 1: but I'm glad we have Arena Club now because it's

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Speaker 1: a one stop shop for everything card related.

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Speaker 3: It is and right now you can get twenty percent

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Speaker 3: off your first slab pack or your first card purchase

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Speaker 3: by going to Arena club dot com. Slash foul, use

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Speaker 3: code foul. If you're a collector, you've got to check

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Speaker 3: out Arena Club. Go get after it.

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Speaker 1: Let's do our best to talk about Saturday's game in

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Speaker 1: relatively tidy fashion. I've talked to myself more than anything Scott.

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Speaker 1: Right now, I'm telling myself on the podcast, let's not

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Speaker 1: go super long about Saturday. If we had done a

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Speaker 1: podcast twenty four hours ago, and I said this on Twitter,

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Speaker 1: I was honestly surprised that a game like that happened

542
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Speaker 1: on Saturday instead of Sunday. We have a long record

543
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Speaker 1: of these weird things happening to us on Sundays, and

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Speaker 1: maybe it's just because we're the main characters in our

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Speaker 1: own story, Scott, but it was one of those losses

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Speaker 1: that was like really pretty brutal. And we've tried to

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Speaker 1: teschlay on this podcast episode to talk about how good

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Speaker 1: the vibes are. I mean that one hundred percent with

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Speaker 1: five and two this week. In the moment Saturday night,

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Speaker 1: nobody was having fun. That was a brutal, brutal experience.

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Speaker 1: Fortunately they won the game today so we were able

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Speaker 1: to kind of smile on and do this podcast. But

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Speaker 1: let's talk about the game that was seemingly at hind

554
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Speaker 1: with a five nothing lead, six to two lead, and

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Speaker 1: then it got away from them on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: So we'll hit the positives to start this. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's funny. The Saturday's game was really shaping up to

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Speaker 2: be a good one. It was the first time since

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Speaker 2: April twenty ninth, which was the second game of the

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Speaker 2: series against the Colorado Rockies, that the Braves scored six

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Speaker 2: runs or more, and it looked like the blowout was

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Speaker 2: probably gonna happen relatively early because the Braves were up

563
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Speaker 2: five nothing and then even once Boston chipped away the

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Speaker 2: Braves did a good job of battling back and made

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Speaker 2: it six to two, and everything was just kind of

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Speaker 2: good and dandy, and then it just all went to

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Speaker 2: hell with the bullpen and Brian Stetker and I guess

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Speaker 2: for the next couple minutes we will well, we should

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Speaker 2: say one more positive note here because we've talked about

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Speaker 2: Drake Baldwin a couple times. Drake Baldwin, like this dude

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Speaker 2: is unbelievable. I'm I understand it's been two months of

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Speaker 2: his career, but he goes up there, and I'm not

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Speaker 2: saying that Drake Baldwin is Freddy Freeman, first ballot Hall

574
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Speaker 2: of Famer Freddy Freeman, but doesn't he kind of look

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Speaker 2: like Freddy up there? He has elite back control, incredible

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Speaker 2: hand eye coordination. As we saw on Saturday, he can

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Speaker 2: turn on a ball and hit it four hundred and

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Speaker 2: fifteen feet with a ton of exit velocity down the

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Speaker 2: right field line. We've seen him hit homers to the

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Speaker 2: opposite field. And then he can also just like poke

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Speaker 2: his bat out there on an O two count and

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Speaker 2: drop a ball into the outfield for a single. Drake

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Speaker 2: Baldwin is so impress He played both Saturday night and

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Speaker 2: Sunday afternoon, which was interesting. How how do you keep

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Speaker 2: him out of the lineup? And the answer is because

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Speaker 2: Sean Murphy has also been awesome right and is probably

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Speaker 2: a top three defensive catcher in baseball right now. It's

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Speaker 2: it's a non problem, but it's every night when Baldwin

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Speaker 2: goes out there, something good happens multiple times usually.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's it's the same thing, like, we don't

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Speaker 1: have to overdo this now because I know we talked

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Speaker 1: about it on our last show this week, so did

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Speaker 1: Sean and Steven. It is a non problem, like you said,

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Speaker 1: but it's going to keep being a storyline when he's

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Speaker 1: hitting like this. I mean you pulled this number. He

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Speaker 1: is a WRC plus of like well over two hundred

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Speaker 1: for about the last six weeks. It's like a ludicrous

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Speaker 1: and granted the sample is not enormous, but man, he

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Speaker 1: looks the part. Like you said, the numbers tell the

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Speaker 1: story of that. I share this number on social media

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Speaker 1: before we started recording. I'll say it now. Murphy came

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Speaker 1: back on April eighth from the injury. People can already

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Speaker 1: forgotten about. That was like six weeks ago. I did

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Speaker 1: a queer at fangrafts. Two of the top four catchers

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Speaker 1: in all of baseball since the day Murphy came back

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Speaker 1: are on the Braves roster, and I added this caveat

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Speaker 1: that's already impressive enough, right, two of the top four

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Speaker 1: not in the National League, in all of baseball. That's

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Speaker 1: a crazy, crazy thing to have that catcher in particular.

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Speaker 1: But also that's with no DH time Ozuna has been

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Speaker 1: playing the whole time, so like they're not even playing

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Speaker 1: extra positions like a lot of times there's some catcher

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Speaker 1: fuzzy math with primary positions, where like guys will play

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Speaker 1: first base, they're also played. These guys are just they're

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Speaker 1: only playing catcher and they're still while splitting time. Two

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Speaker 1: of the top four catchers in baseball over six weeks.

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Speaker 1: That's ludicrous and also speaks to how good Murphy's been. Quietly,

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Speaker 1: but ball On's been ridiculous, like completely ridiculous. Obviously, he

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Speaker 1: isn't gonna be this because nobody's ever been this, Like honestly,

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Speaker 1: if he was this player, he would be a up

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Speaker 1: to your we use the joke first bout Hall of

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Speaker 1: Fame or territory. He's gonna cool off to some degree

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Speaker 1: first time through baseball, all that stuff, but all the

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Speaker 1: all the fundamentals are awesome and it's been huge. I

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Speaker 1: mean to have that from catcher. It is by far

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Speaker 1: the most positive thing about that night. You got the

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Speaker 1: home run from Olson and Azuna to Balwenhomers is a

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Speaker 1: good opportunity to maybe push against the negativity of the

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Speaker 1: rest of this game by just again spotlighting how ludicrous

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Speaker 1: the catcher spot's been, because it's been a huge, huge

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Speaker 1: strength and no one else has that in baseball, no one.

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Speaker 2: You want to look at the underlying numbers for Drake Baldwin,

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Speaker 2: everything is encouraging. Go look him up at Baseball Savant.

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Speaker 2: Basically everything in Drake Baldwin's profile tells you this is

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Speaker 2: very real. And even defensively, you always wonder a little

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Speaker 2: bit about catching prospects when they come to the majors.

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Speaker 2: There is so much stuff, both behind the scenes and

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Speaker 2: on the field defensively that catchers have to do. And

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Speaker 2: Baldwin grades out really well other than I think he

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Speaker 2: has a couple pass balls which are gonna knock him

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Speaker 2: down in the eyes of the metrics, but he's a

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Speaker 2: really good arm too. Seems like every night Baldwin throws

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Speaker 2: a runner out at second base, so he has I mean,

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Speaker 2: he is a truly well rounded catcher at a position

645
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Speaker 2: where you really don't come by a lot of offense.

646
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 2: And the Braves have two of the five better hitting

647
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 2: catchers in the game. And it is it's going to

648
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 2: be a fascinating storyline over the summer. What the breakdown is,

649
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 2: what the playing time is. Can Baldwin even come close

650
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 2: to He's not going to do this all summer long.

651
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 2: I don't think.

652
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 1: I hope he does.

653
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too, obviously. I mean he Drake Baldwin has

654
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 2: been Aaron Judge. Statistically speaking, he has the same numbers

655
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 2: as Aaron Judge, who's probably going to go down as

656
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 2: one of the I don't know fifteen best hitters in

657
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 2: baseball history. At least his peak of the last five

658
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 2: years for judges up there with basically any peak in

659
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 2: all of one hundred and thirty years of baseball. I'm

660
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 2: not saying Drake Baldwin is Aaron Judge or Freddie Freeman,

661
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 2: but he is so good and every time he comes

662
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 2: to the play you feel like something good is going

663
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:00,480
Speaker 2: to happened.

664
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 1: Okay, with that out of the way, let's get to

665
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 1: the not so fun stuff. From Wednesday. We did. We

666
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 1: did our job, everybody. We did the positives from Saturday.

667
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 1: Actually at Wednesday. From Saturday, the pitching was a mixed

668
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 1: bag until the end that it was a negative bag.

669
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: So Grand Holmes and his outing was six innings and

670
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 1: two earned runs. I don't know about you. He did

671
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: not pitch that well the numbers and obviously in the end,

672
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 1: you'll take six innings, two runs all day long. But

673
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 1: we like to do process on this show. He did

674
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 1: not pitch well enough to just by those numbers. And

675
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 1: by the way, you know, four walks, five strikeouts, and

676
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 1: got hit hard. He got lucky, and the Braves were

677
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 1: up four runs because he got a little bit lucky.

678
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 1: But we should at least stop and acknowledge that he

679
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 1: wasn't probably as good as the numbers indicated.

680
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:48,720
Speaker 2: Grand Holmes really good the first time through awesome and.

681
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 1: Oh you're all year by the way, like yeah, hit splits.

682
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: I think he has the sub two bra the first

683
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 1: time through the order this year, and then after that

684
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 1: it doesn't. It's not as pretty.

685
00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 2: Three of the first four batters of the game strikeout.

686
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 2: I was like, wow, this is the best I've seen

687
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 2: Grand Holmes all season, and then the second time through

688
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 2: and the third time through were not nearly as pleasant,

689
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 2: only two strikeouts the rest of the way. You mentioned

690
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 2: the walk numbers, and there was a lot of loud,

691
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 2: hard contact too from Boston. I think we said it

692
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 2: in our Hammer Territory DM group chat that it was

693
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:26,120
Speaker 2: a miracle, semi miracle. Boston only scored two runs against Holmes.

694
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 2: It looked like it was going to hold up, and

695
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 2: then there was now this kind of infamous bullpen blow

696
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 2: up which maybe cost the.

697
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:37,600
Speaker 1: Braves to sweep. Yeah, so let's talk about it relative quickly.

698
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 1: I think I'll start here. Before we knew that three

699
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 1: of their top four relievers were unavailable, I was a

700
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 1: lot more mad about what happened process wise. Then it

701
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 1: went from mad to confused. I would say, not still frustrated,

702
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 1: but not quite as like any rape. I was really

703
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: mad in the moment that I usually m get in May.

704
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 1: But just the short sample here is that apparently Aglecias, Das,

705
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 1: Bill Hernandez, and Dylan Lee were all unavailable at the

706
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 1: same time. A Glazius had pitched two days in a row,

707
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 1: it would have been his third that makes total sense.

708
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 1: That's very normal that he'd be unavailable. That's one guy.

709
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 1: The other two less normal. Day's Bell had pitched the

710
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:29,440
Speaker 1: day before, but before that he had not pitched for

711
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: like three days. But brid Sticker apparently did not want

712
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 1: to pitch days Bell on back to back days, which

713
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 1: is that's concerning to me on a number of levels.

714
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:38,920
Speaker 1: I don't know what there's any story behind that, but

715
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 1: that was weird to me. I don't know, it's uh,

716
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 1: maybe he just didn't feel great or something like that.

717
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 1: And stick to say like it was like there's unavailable

718
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 1: and then there's like unavailable and he said basically like

719
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 1: emergency only like it wasn't like he wasn't in uniform.

720
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 1: He could have pitched, but they didn't want to use him.

721
00:34:56,280 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 1: That's a little weird, a little weird. The weirdest one

722
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 1: is Dylan Lee. Dylan Lee had not pitched on Friday,

723
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 1: and what they said it was an available Like is

724
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 1: he hurt? Like what's going on with Dylan Lee? Was

725
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: he was there a family thing, a personal thing? No,

726
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:16,800
Speaker 1: I don't, we don't know. But Dylan we pitched today,

727
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 1: so he's not hurt. That's a good. That's a good thing.

728
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 1: He's not hurt, looks fine today. But that was the one.

729
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 1: I just don't understand that how both of them. I mean,

730
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 1: Bernana is frustrating that he would be able to pitch

731
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 1: as in a row. I'm not a medical expert. Whatever.

732
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 1: We not pitching on we're not being available on Saturday.

733
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 1: It was like the point where I'm pulling my hair

734
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: out because we won't go through every single machination. But

735
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 1: you end up when you have your three or top

736
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 1: four guys unavailable, You're suddenly pitching guys that you don't

737
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 1: want pitching in a pretty high leverage spot.

738
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'll say this, I'm gonna make a small, small,

739
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 2: small defense of Brian snicker, and then we're gonna criticize

740
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:55,239
Speaker 2: his decisions. I'm growing, Brad. I don't usually do this,

741
00:35:55,400 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 2: but this was the sixteenth game in sixteen. That is

742
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:04,880
Speaker 2: not easy to manage. And it is especially not easy

743
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 2: to manage when seemingly every single night you are playing

744
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 2: a one run baseball game. The Braves lead the Majors in.

745
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: One run games.

746
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 2: That is difficult. It really taxes your bullpen. But I

747
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 2: don't know why Dylan Lee was not available, especially when

748
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,839
Speaker 2: you look at Boston's lineup. They have four really, really

749
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 2: really good hitters. Three of them are lefties.

750
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 1: Correct.

751
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:34,759
Speaker 2: So even if Dylan Lee was like, ah, I'm all right,

752
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 2: but I don't feel great, why wouldn't you still go

753
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:40,360
Speaker 2: to Lee there? Or I can't believe I'm gonna say this,

754
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 2: I would have gone to Dylan Dodd.

755
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 1: I agree against.

756
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,400
Speaker 2: The three of the top four hitters in Boston's lineup

757
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:49,799
Speaker 2: are left handed, as we said, and they were due

758
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 2: up in the biggest moment of the game, and he

759
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 2: went with Pierce Johnson, who did not look good at all.

760
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 2: And that's a really tough spot to bring Pierce in,

761
00:36:58,239 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 2: who has been good this season.

762
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:00,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, but.

763
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:05,320
Speaker 2: That that was just it was bad, bad, bad bullpen management.

764
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 2: I mean, I boy, I was. I was really frustrated

765
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:12,239
Speaker 2: for a Saturday game in May. I was about as

766
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 2: amped up as I get for regular season baseball games.

767
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 1: Our text chain was lively between the two of us

768
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:22,400
Speaker 1: and also our colleagues Steven and Seawan. Again, in an

769
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,839
Speaker 1: effort to not do the playoff length episode, we won't

770
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 1: go through all of the machinations, but that encapsulates our feelings.

771
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:32,919
Speaker 1: It went from enraged to merely confused. I would say

772
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 1: for me, uh, they the idea was to go to

773
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 1: Piers Johnson for what was going to be a four

774
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,240
Speaker 1: out save, because he was the guy they were saving

775
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:41,359
Speaker 1: to use at the end of the game.

776
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 4: He was.

777
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 1: I mentioned the four guys that out of the three

778
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 1: of the four that were the fourth is Pier Johnson,

779
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 1: who's been really good this year. He was novioucely not

780
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:50,839
Speaker 1: good in this outing, but he's been great. In fact,

781
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:52,360
Speaker 1: he came into the night with a two point one

782
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 1: sixty and a one point eighty five FIP. People were like, well,

783
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: it's like prece Jahnson was their best available reliever that night.

784
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 1: That's why he was pitching. Before that, you get into

785
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:03,319
Speaker 1: Dani Los Santos, who looked awful when he came in.

786
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:05,319
Speaker 1: We won't do the Bummer thing that we've done one

787
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: hundred million times, Bummer, although I will see you up

788
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: to make your own observation. Bummer, Well we and I

789
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:17,319
Speaker 1: will speak myself. I have defended Bummer's babbit issues. His

790
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: stuff is not playing in the same way that it

791
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 1: was before, and if that's going to continue, he isn't

792
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 1: the same quot even though, by the way, he still

793
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 1: has great peripherals, which is crazy to me, but that's concerning.

794
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 1: So what did you what did you kind of gather

795
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:31,320
Speaker 1: there on Bummer?

796
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 2: I think with Bummer one, no matter what happens, he

797
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 2: never has.

798
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 1: A quiet calm. Inning impossible.

799
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:43,439
Speaker 2: Sometimes it's his fault, sometimes it's not. Yep, Fordugo had

800
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:45,400
Speaker 2: a horrible throw home.

801
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 1: What is he doing on that place?

802
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, high school kids, middle school kids know

803
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 2: to hit the cutoff man because it allowed the runner

804
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:56,359
Speaker 2: to come to advance. There was the horrible air by

805
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:59,799
Speaker 2: Austin Riley against the Nationals on I think Wednesday, when

806
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 2: blew it. Obviously that's not Bummer's fault. Riley should have

807
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:06,840
Speaker 2: that ball. So there's always something with Bummer. But the

808
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 2: concern and we are not defending his performance because it

809
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:10,359
Speaker 2: was pretty bad.

810
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, he did it look good.

811
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 2: But the fastball and sinker that he throws, the velocity

812
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,720
Speaker 2: is down about two miles an hour, and that wipe

813
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:23,399
Speaker 2: out slider sweeper that he throws, the velocity's also down

814
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 2: almost two miles an hour. So that is cause for

815
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 2: concern for a guy the Braves have under contract for

816
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:30,280
Speaker 2: another year and a half.

817
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll save that comic for later on. But uh,

818
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 1: one of those free structures that Alex seemingly did because

819
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 1: they kind of ran out of money along the way

820
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:41,840
Speaker 1: might come back to bite the my bummer. We'll come

821
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:44,840
Speaker 1: back to that nill later day. Dale Santos, we mentioned

822
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:48,359
Speaker 1: before Montero opens to the aighth Inning, I don't want

823
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 1: to speak for you. I will share my thoughts and

824
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 1: then throw it to you. Even with everything we just

825
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 1: said about who was unavailable on Saturday, I still don't

826
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 1: understand why you get to Ruffael Montero and it's two

827
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 1: run game in the afning personally.

828
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 2: No idea, and Rafael Montero is getting very close to

829
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:08,759
Speaker 2: Eddie rosario territory.

830
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 1: I don't think he's as bad as the edit Rosario.

831
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 1: But I'm I'm with you. I understand, I understand the

832
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 1: point you're making. Anyway, you have to take the club

833
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 1: out of the bag. You have to take the toy

834
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 1: away from the three year old. Well he got I

835
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:26,320
Speaker 1: just saw my notes. He'll have three straight batted balls

836
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,240
Speaker 1: of one hundred and two miles an hour or harder

837
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 1: to begin his outing. The first three batters he saw. Yeah,

838
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:35,280
Speaker 1: on Saturday, that's bad, folks, it's not good.

839
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 2: I have zero confidence in Montero. If I had to

840
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:42,759
Speaker 2: bet a nickel, I'm guessing that Montero will have a

841
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:47,840
Speaker 2: sore something when they want to bring Craig kimberl up, well,

842
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:50,000
Speaker 2: either him or Dale Santos would be my would be

843
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:50,279
Speaker 2: my key.

844
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:54,399
Speaker 1: Yes, I mean maybe do okay, so let's do this now.

845
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 1: I thought it was a little bit funny, not in

846
00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 1: a bad way, but uh, apparently Scott blewed is Mario

847
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:04,880
Speaker 1: and Rivera according to Braves fans, because and I get

848
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 1: Blue's done a great job. We praised him a lot

849
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:08,799
Speaker 1: on our Space episode. He's earned He's pitched very well

850
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:10,840
Speaker 1: with the Braves. But I thought it was hilarious that

851
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 1: people were like clamoring for Scott Blewett as if he's

852
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 1: like the shutdown reliever. Maybe he is. I just don't

853
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 1: think that's probably gonna be a reality, but hey, just

854
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 1: delasgrate the difference. So I was saying, like Montero is

855
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 1: so untrusted and Deale Stampsus is so interested that fans

856
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 1: were like, give me Scott Bluwller, give me death was

857
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 1: the basic way the feelings.

858
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 2: Absolutely, yes, is Scott Blewett prime John Smoltz or Mario

859
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 2: and Rivera no but ninth inning Thai Game World Series

860
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 2: Game seven. I would take Scott Blewett ten times at

861
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:44,439
Speaker 2: more than ten times. At ten, I would take Scott

862
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:47,840
Speaker 2: Blewett one hundred times out of ten before rafie on Montero,

863
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:50,760
Speaker 2: who has one of like two outcomes. He either walks

864
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 2: you or he gives up a one hundred and nine

865
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 2: mile an hour rocket ship. There is a reason that

866
00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 2: the contending Houston Astro the contending Houston Astros voluntarily paid

867
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:10,280
Speaker 2: eight million dollars to get Montero off the roster. Contending

868
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 2: teams generally are not selling good players in April, so

869
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 2: I think you have to pull the plug. If they

870
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:18,839
Speaker 2: want a DFA Montero, I would be fine with it.

871
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 2: If they want to throw them on the injured list

872
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:24,280
Speaker 2: for a few weeks just to preserve some kind of depth. Sure,

873
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:27,799
Speaker 2: and I don't think anybody should expect Craig Kimberrel to

874
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 2: come up and be twenty twenty or twenty twelve Craig Kimbrel.

875
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 2: But I would take Kimberl all day long over Montero

876
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:37,759
Speaker 2: at this point, or at least see what Craig has ye,

877
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 2: because I mean, we know what Montero has.

878
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's more that I mean. And I do understand

879
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 1: people clamoring for Kimberrell after what they've seen, and I

880
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 1: agree with the urging that we're trying. I don't think

881
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 1: Kimbrell is Kimberle that people remember anymore. But still I

882
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:55,280
Speaker 1: think that he'll be getting a shot at some point.

883
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 1: We'll see. And I want to just re emphasize one

884
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 1: more time, the Braves bullpen has actually been totally fine

885
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 1: this season. They're thirteenth in Major League Baseball on ERA.

886
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: It's not good. I'm not saying it's good awesome, but

887
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:12,959
Speaker 1: given what people's fears were about the bullpen, and given

888
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 1: what the vibes have been at times about the bullpen,

889
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:17,440
Speaker 1: to be honest, including from us, you look up and

890
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 1: they have about a league average bullpen. Uh, it's true.

891
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:23,319
Speaker 1: It's just the numbers say what they say. I know,

892
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: you're I know, no, it's hard to believe for everybody.

893
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:27,840
Speaker 1: But even including that, by the way, that includes Saturday

894
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:29,839
Speaker 1: night and all that blow up. Like, even with that,

895
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:31,920
Speaker 1: they're again they're thirteenth in the array. They're like fifteenth

896
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 1: and fifth, Like it's not good. But it's not a

897
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 1: disaster like it's it's today. It has nothing a disaster.

898
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:39,879
Speaker 1: Maybe it will be in the future, but it hasn't

899
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:40,279
Speaker 1: been yet.

900
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:43,840
Speaker 2: I think in my mind I am spoiled by just

901
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 2: how good this bullpen was last year. Agreed, everybody had

902
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:51,560
Speaker 2: a defined role, like Brad, you are the seventh inning

903
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 2: man when the Braves you're leading, or Brad you are

904
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 2: the sixth inning guy when the Braves you're losing, or

905
00:43:56,760 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 2: Brad you are the ninth inning guy when the Braves

906
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 2: are up by two. There are no defined roles in

907
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:05,400
Speaker 2: this bullpen, which is kind of mind numbing and frustrating

908
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 2: on a nightly basis. And we'll never know. But I

909
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:12,759
Speaker 2: still don't get why the Braves did not add to

910
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:17,080
Speaker 2: this bullpen. Hopefully this can be shades of twenty nineteen

911
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 2: where Alexanthopolis had to go out at the trade deadline

912
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:24,320
Speaker 2: and added three really good relievers. I think that's probably

913
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:27,360
Speaker 2: the path we are heading towards in twenty twenty five.

914
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 1: I agree, And maybe Holmes ends up there all kinds

915
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 1: of machinations that we'll talk about if we need to

916
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 1: talk about them. Let us move on to Sunday and

917
00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 1: talk about some more upbeat baseball in an effort to

918
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 1: make this podcast less than an hour and a half

919
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:44,399
Speaker 1: on a Sunday evening, sun Skin was a lot of fun.

920
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:46,279
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest with you, Scott. The vibe as

921
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 1: we alluse earlier, would have been a lot different if

922
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 1: Sunday had gone worse. But it went very well. A

923
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:53,160
Speaker 1: ten to four victory, the first time the Bridge scored

924
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:56,879
Speaker 1: ten runs since the home opener a long long time

925
00:44:56,920 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 1: ago in early April, so they have not scored ten

926
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 1: runs very often. The lineup was awesome. Sixteen hits, seven walks,

927
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 1: everyone doing, everyone doing the right things. They took the

928
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 1: leader early on, they added to it even though I

929
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:13,359
Speaker 1: will say they had a couple opportunities to break it

930
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 1: really wide open and they didn't take them early on.

931
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:19,279
Speaker 1: They finally did it eventually, but man hard didn't pick

932
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:21,280
Speaker 1: anything with the offense in this game. That was pretty

933
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:22,839
Speaker 1: awesome all the way all the way through.

934
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:26,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, great day for the lineup and the Braves needed

935
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:30,640
Speaker 2: a game like this where pretty much everybody ate. Sixteen hits,

936
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 2: seven walks, only seven strikeouts. As a team, everyone in

937
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 2: the lineup had a hit besides Michael Harris, who did

938
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:41,759
Speaker 2: walk twice, which is really encouraging. And it was not

939
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:43,960
Speaker 2: just like one big inning. I mean the Braves were

940
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 2: basically involved offensively every single inning, and you mentioned I

941
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 2: mean they could have had even more. We don't want

942
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:54,279
Speaker 2: to be too greedy here, because ten runs is a lot,

943
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:57,960
Speaker 2: but I mean there was a rocket from Austin Riley

944
00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:01,319
Speaker 2: with the bases loaded that turned into a play that

945
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 2: Alex Bregman made a crazy catch on and double play ball.

946
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:08,880
Speaker 2: I mean, the Braves could have had twelve runs, fourteen runs.

947
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 2: Mett Olsen had a ball that defied physics and bounced

948
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:16,360
Speaker 2: off the top of the wall three hundred and forty

949
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:20,160
Speaker 2: feet away back and then and then came backwards. That

950
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:23,400
Speaker 2: that's weird. Yeah, I mean there was a lot. I

951
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 2: think the Braves had an expected batting average today of

952
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 2: like four to seventy five or something crazy, which is crazy.

953
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:29,720
Speaker 1: Yeah.

954
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:33,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, they ran BeO had some regression coming and the

955
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:37,759
Speaker 2: Braves hit him hard. Old friend Sean Newcomb kind of

956
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:38,880
Speaker 2: ate it for Boston.

957
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:40,000
Speaker 1: Yeah.

958
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 2: Newcomb was actually, I mean good for Sean for still

959
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:44,960
Speaker 2: being in the majors. But the Braves the second time

960
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:48,399
Speaker 2: through the lineup against Newcombe Marcelo Zuna hit a ball

961
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:50,880
Speaker 2: out of the ballpark for the second time this weekend.

962
00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 2: It was just a really good day for this team offensively,

963
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 2: and hopefully they can build on that this upcoming week.

964
00:46:57,560 --> 00:46:59,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I actually just lost cat. I was trying to

965
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:02,360
Speaker 1: count of a one hundred mile an hour or harder

966
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:04,560
Speaker 1: batted balls in this game for the Braves. It's a

967
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 1: very long list, like a dozen of them, plus uh

968
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 1: that hit the crap out of the ball today. That

969
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun, specially Swallenbach pitched very well

970
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 1: outside of about ten minutes. And I mean that actually,

971
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:19,160
Speaker 1: like he pitched very well, pitchcut Honestly, he probably could

972
00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 1: have kept going. I was. I was actually kind of

973
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:23,440
Speaker 1: confused why he didn't start the eighth because the pitchcout

974
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 1: was very low and they're up big. But seven innings

975
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:31,840
Speaker 1: one walk through only through shockouts. But he basically allowed

976
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:35,759
Speaker 1: a one, two, three grand Slam sequence and that was it.

977
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 1: That was the entirety of Boston's production in the game. Obviously,

978
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:40,399
Speaker 1: you don't want to excuse that the Braves did lose

979
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:43,319
Speaker 1: the lead, and we were doing our our darnness to

980
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 1: be as angsty as possible offline, but cuz to the

981
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 1: offense for picking him up. But that aside from that

982
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 1: little window, it was like what you want to see

983
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:51,760
Speaker 1: from Schwelle.

984
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:55,400
Speaker 2: I thought Spencer was really good. You said it perfectly

985
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 2: outside of those ten minutes. And that's that can happen

986
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 2: in baseball. That's why it's such a difficult game, especially

987
00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 2: in Fenway Park where you have all those weird dimensions

988
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 2: all over the place. But if you take out that

989
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 2: fourth inning, Schwellenbach was awesome and the stuff looked pretty good.

990
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 2: He continues to leave a little bit, not a little bit,

991
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:17,880
Speaker 2: a lot of bit too much in the zone.

992
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you exactly this. I was gonna say, Okay, Scott,

993
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:23,720
Speaker 1: if there's one thing that you can nitpick about, specially

994
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 1: swelling Bach, he just like can't miss the zone. It's hilarious,

995
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:29,759
Speaker 1: like most guys have control issues and that they start

996
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:32,920
Speaker 1: walking people. Schwelly just like doesn't know how to miss

997
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 1: and that I mean that in a nice way. But

998
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:36,400
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to figure out how to miss a

999
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 1: little bit more or a little bit uh at least

1000
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:41,320
Speaker 1: further off from mid lot of middle middle with Schwelly,

1001
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:42,440
Speaker 1: which you don't you don't love that.

1002
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,520
Speaker 2: And it's funny because over the years we have watched

1003
00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:49,320
Speaker 2: so many pitching prospects not throw enough strikes. M h,

1004
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:54,879
Speaker 2: those Sean Newcomb starts, Ian Anderson, Tuki tousand oh down

1005
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 2: the list. Oh that was that was being spirited for

1006
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 2: my guy Tuki. I know, I know, I love Twoki.

1007
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:03,480
Speaker 2: I'm still a believer. But you know, it's weird because

1008
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:07,360
Speaker 2: most young pitchers don't have great command, and Schwalenbach like

1009
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:10,319
Speaker 2: it's almost like he's robotic and that he has to

1010
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:13,480
Speaker 2: throw strikes. Yeah, and even when he gets ahead like

1011
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 2: one two, he's still not bearing pitches down in the zone.

1012
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:21,440
Speaker 2: And even if the ball is close enough to the

1013
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:23,720
Speaker 2: strike zone, he needs to get it even farther away,

1014
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 2: which again is a bizarre thing to say because the

1015
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 2: name of the game is throwing strikes and getting out.

1016
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:33,720
Speaker 2: But this was only the thirty first start of Schwinbach's career.

1017
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:36,839
Speaker 2: It's basically been a full calendar year now that he's

1018
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:40,279
Speaker 2: been pitching. It's a full year worth of starts. Obviously,

1019
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:42,719
Speaker 2: you take all day long the pitcher who throws too

1020
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:45,839
Speaker 2: many strikes and has really good stuff than the guy

1021
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:48,400
Speaker 2: who has good stuff. But just has spurts where he

1022
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 2: just cannot throw a strike.

1023
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:53,640
Speaker 1: It's true, and even today like just some I don't

1024
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:55,480
Speaker 1: want to say unlucky because it's his fault, but like

1025
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:59,920
Speaker 1: some poor sequencing, like he really only allowed one smashed

1026
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 1: baseball and have to be with the basis loaded to

1027
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:05,480
Speaker 1: a and also even the sequel team having having Devors

1028
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:07,400
Speaker 1: be up in that spot their best hitter. It's like

1029
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:09,880
Speaker 1: kind of a bad Anyway, he pitched well other than

1030
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 1: that little hiccup. They didn't they were losing briefly in

1031
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:14,480
Speaker 1: this game. We should say that they were down four

1032
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:16,040
Speaker 1: to three after that swing and it was like, oh man,

1033
00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:17,839
Speaker 1: they're really gonna do this again. A three out three

1034
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,640
Speaker 1: nothing to lead all those things, but the offense picked

1035
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:22,719
Speaker 1: it up. We alluded to it. But just to say, well,

1036
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 1: Michael Harris walks twice today. He's now walked six times

1037
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:29,920
Speaker 1: in the last ten games, which isn't crazy to bring

1038
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:32,880
Speaker 1: anybody else, but for Michael, that's a huge step forward.

1039
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:35,759
Speaker 1: Don't want to jinx it, but hey, look, would you

1040
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:38,480
Speaker 1: look at this what his process is better and he

1041
00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 1: takes more pitches, it takes some walks. His other stuff

1042
00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:44,600
Speaker 1: looks better. It's it's like almost like it's science to

1043
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:47,400
Speaker 1: some degree. We love Michael, but it's not a coincidence.

1044
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 1: Like take some walks, man, it's we're good.

1045
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:52,480
Speaker 2: Take some walks. I thought Ozzie Alby's also had a

1046
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:53,840
Speaker 2: couple of walks this weekend.

1047
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:54,400
Speaker 1: Yep.

1048
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:58,440
Speaker 2: Love that great sign. Get on base guys, especially for

1049
00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:01,560
Speaker 2: two guys who need power to get them home a

1050
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:03,440
Speaker 2: lot of the time, and there has not been a

1051
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:06,640
Speaker 2: ton of power from Harris and from all these in

1052
00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:10,560
Speaker 2: the early going. Just keep doing it, man, keep working

1053
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:15,319
Speaker 2: the count, make the picture work deep into the count. Drawwalks,

1054
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:18,560
Speaker 2: It's only going to help that. It was really encouraging.

1055
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 2: Maybe not like Michael Harris walking that much over the

1056
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:23,440
Speaker 2: last ten days is maybe not going to be like

1057
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:26,480
Speaker 2: the one a headline of a podcast. No, And I'm

1058
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:29,319
Speaker 2: glad we mentioned it because that is one something we've

1059
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 2: talked about a lot of his and is really the

1060
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:35,200
Speaker 2: one thing holding Michael Harris back from being just a

1061
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 2: otherworldly baseball player is the play discipline and the on

1062
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:41,719
Speaker 2: base in the last ten days have been a really

1063
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 2: good sign in the right direction.

1064
00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:47,759
Speaker 1: You mentioned Ozzie. Ozzy had that street that we talked

1065
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:49,480
Speaker 1: about a few days ago when I talked about think

1066
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:51,879
Speaker 1: he was like, oh for thirty at one point. Last

1067
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:54,880
Speaker 1: six games, he's hitting all six and a few walks,

1068
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:58,200
Speaker 1: and he's showing some signs not just destroying the ball,

1069
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:01,239
Speaker 1: but two hits in the game on Tuesday, I hit

1070
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:02,960
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, hit on Thursday, hit on Friday, two on

1071
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:05,919
Speaker 1: Saturday one today plus a walk. Like he's just been

1072
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 1: productive now for about a week, which little things just

1073
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:13,880
Speaker 1: incremental improvement, and that leads to everything else. Last note

1074
00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 1: on the game today. We alluded to it earlier, but

1075
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:24,000
Speaker 1: Lee pitching today created a bit of a stir. The

1076
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:26,880
Speaker 1: defense here is that when he started warming up, they

1077
00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:29,879
Speaker 1: were only up by three, and I'm pretty sure that's

1078
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:31,640
Speaker 1: why he went into the game, because he had already

1079
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:35,120
Speaker 1: been warming up. But the synergy of him not being

1080
00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:37,359
Speaker 1: available last night when they badly needed him, and then

1081
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:39,120
Speaker 1: him pitching in a ten to four game today was

1082
00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:40,080
Speaker 1: not lost on anyone.

1083
00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:45,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh dude, Twitter was blowing up, and I get it,

1084
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:49,279
Speaker 2: just on the surface, it's very odd when you have

1085
00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:53,520
Speaker 2: a bullpen implosion eighteen hours before and then you pitched

1086
00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:57,319
Speaker 2: Lee in a ten to four game. But I got it, dyll.

1087
00:52:57,360 --> 00:52:59,399
Speaker 2: ONLYE was warming up when it was seven to four

1088
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:02,759
Speaker 2: and you were facing the very top of Boston's order.

1089
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:04,440
Speaker 2: Three out of four lefties do up.

1090
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:08,200
Speaker 1: I get it and off day tomorrow too, like you know,

1091
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 1: you can be you know, aggressive shit and hey, at

1092
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:14,400
Speaker 1: least and what was a good indicator to me was

1093
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:17,520
Speaker 1: that Snid did throw Bluett in the ninth up six.

1094
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 1: Like if you had, if you had gone to a

1095
00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:21,080
Speaker 1: Glacies or something, I like, up up six, I'd have

1096
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 1: been like, all right, what are we doing here? But

1097
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:26,520
Speaker 1: I really do I'm convinced now that because they want

1098
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:28,520
Speaker 1: to blue it the knife. Lee only pitched because he

1099
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:30,040
Speaker 1: had warmed up. That was why he wanted to do

1100
00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:31,880
Speaker 1: so I'm good.

1101
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:35,520
Speaker 2: Yep, exactly ensure if we could do the magic clock

1102
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 2: and go back in time, you would have had Dylan

1103
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:39,640
Speaker 2: Lee pitch Saturday, and then you would have had Dylan

1104
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 2: Dodd or Scott Blewett covered two innings on Sunday. But

1105
00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:44,839
Speaker 2: can't always do it. We try to be at least

1106
00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:49,000
Speaker 2: somewhat fair to Brian Snitker, even if Saturday was a

1107
00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:52,719
Speaker 2: real stinker. But hey, two out of three against a

1108
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:55,239
Speaker 2: pretty good Red Sox team. Really, there's a lot of

1109
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:58,640
Speaker 2: parallels between the Braves and the Red Sox this season.

1110
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:01,480
Speaker 2: Not a bad team. And if you want to tell

1111
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:03,160
Speaker 2: me the Red Sox are going to be a postseason

1112
00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:05,400
Speaker 2: team at the end of the day, I would believe it.

1113
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:08,319
Speaker 2: And I think the Braves actually see Boston again in

1114
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:11,239
Speaker 2: a couple of weekends at home, so soon. Yeah, we'll

1115
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:14,640
Speaker 2: keep seeing them. Yeah, so a great start. Braves did

1116
00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:17,160
Speaker 2: a great job on Sunday, especially when they went down

1117
00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:19,640
Speaker 2: after the Grand Slam. It was like, here we go again,

1118
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:22,880
Speaker 2: We're going to blow another lead. But no, the offense

1119
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:25,600
Speaker 2: was awesome. The pitching staff did a really really good job,

1120
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:27,080
Speaker 2: was basically perfect.

1121
00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:32,520
Speaker 1: Outside of those ten minutes for Schwalllenbach, they were resilient. Okay, Scott,

1122
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 1: Let's look ahead a little bit and not a whole

1123
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:36,279
Speaker 1: lot of news. We mentioned Kimberle is getting closer. He

1124
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:38,400
Speaker 1: pitched twice in a row. That was a step he

1125
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:41,960
Speaker 1: had to take. Really, the only news outside of the

1126
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:44,600
Speaker 1: Strider and a Cooney updates is kimberl So nothing else

1127
00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:47,520
Speaker 1: away to add there. Let us talk about the upcoming

1128
00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:51,319
Speaker 1: National Series. We just saw the Nationals a few days ago.

1129
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 1: The Braves are all on Monday, first time in seventeen

1130
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:57,680
Speaker 1: days they've been off. May first was the last off day.

1131
00:54:57,719 --> 00:55:00,400
Speaker 1: Tomorrow is May nineteenth, so it's been a while a

1132
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:02,239
Speaker 1: little bit of a breather. I'm sure they'll everybody be

1133
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:05,879
Speaker 1: thrilled about that. And it's three in Washington after that,

1134
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:07,960
Speaker 1: and they just they just beat the Gnats three to

1135
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:10,280
Speaker 1: one the series. The Nats are not a great team.

1136
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:13,319
Speaker 1: They're not Rockies bad, though, they're a competitive team. They

1137
00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:15,680
Speaker 1: have a bad bullpen, which was showing up in that

1138
00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:19,560
Speaker 1: series previously. What are you looking for over the next

1139
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:21,640
Speaker 1: couple days.

1140
00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:23,920
Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure for one, the players are just thrilled

1141
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:25,480
Speaker 2: to get an off day on Monday.

1142
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:26,600
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1143
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:29,759
Speaker 2: It was also really easy travel going from Boston to DC,

1144
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 2: so that's nice. So hopefully everybody can just get away

1145
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 2: from baseball, unplug, get some rest, get some relaxation, because

1146
00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:41,439
Speaker 2: seventeen games seventeen days is quite a bit. But hey,

1147
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:45,040
Speaker 2: let's keep building, let's get another series win against the Nationals.

1148
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:48,120
Speaker 2: It's going to be similar pitching, of course, Spencer Strider

1149
00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 2: on Tuesday against lefty Mitchell Parker, who pitched a week ago.

1150
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:56,520
Speaker 2: It'll be a j Smith Shauver against Trevor Williams on Wednesday,

1151
00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:59,279
Speaker 2: which is a rematch of last week's final game in

1152
00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:02,480
Speaker 2: the series, and then Thursday is a dandy. It's Chris

1153
00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:06,640
Speaker 2: Sale against Mackenzie Gore, who is off to a really

1154
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:09,480
Speaker 2: good start this season. Gore has good stuff, and of

1155
00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:11,480
Speaker 2: course we know how well Sale has been pitching, so

1156
00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:14,120
Speaker 2: that's a really fun matchup between a couple of the

1157
00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:16,200
Speaker 2: better lefties of the National League this year.

1158
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:18,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm looking at this up to make sure I'm

1159
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:21,520
Speaker 1: not Yeah, I believe. Yeah, Mackenzie Gore is currently the

1160
00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:26,960
Speaker 1: MLB strikeout lead this season eighty four strikeouts already. He

1161
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:29,840
Speaker 1: is good. He is by far their best starting fisher

1162
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:32,200
Speaker 1: as far as talent and all the things concerned there.

1163
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:34,799
Speaker 1: So that'll be a similar He's not quite as good

1164
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:37,440
Speaker 1: as Crochet, I would say, but a similar headline grabbing

1165
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:39,160
Speaker 1: matchup to what we just saw with Sale. For show

1166
00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 1: on Friday with Sale and Gore on Thursday. In the meantime,

1167
00:56:43,719 --> 00:56:47,320
Speaker 1: we'll have podcasts in between in during the series. Probably

1168
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:49,800
Speaker 1: not on Monday night unless something crazy happens, but we

1169
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:53,120
Speaker 1: will cover the series as it unfolds, and another good

1170
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:55,320
Speaker 1: chance for the Braves. I mean, you never want to

1171
00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:57,839
Speaker 1: assume anything great, but on the road against a team

1172
00:56:57,840 --> 00:57:00,319
Speaker 1: that you're better than you should be trying to win

1173
00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 1: the series. Just get two out of three. If you

1174
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:04,879
Speaker 1: can sweep Degree, that'd be great, but a good chance

1175
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 1: to stack another series win. If they could do that

1176
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:09,919
Speaker 1: this time, it'd be eight out of ten. We said

1177
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:13,040
Speaker 1: this on the last show. Once you get over five hundred,

1178
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:16,400
Speaker 1: you don't want to go back. And if you win

1179
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:19,120
Speaker 1: the series, you're at least two games over, if not

1180
00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:21,160
Speaker 1: three games over. Sorry if you're not two games if

1181
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:24,120
Speaker 1: not four games over, So just go that direction. Win

1182
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:27,200
Speaker 1: some games. The schedule has been a little bit more

1183
00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:29,200
Speaker 1: favorable in this run, as we've kind of alluded to

1184
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:31,800
Speaker 1: it being ahead of time. It gets a little bit

1185
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:34,520
Speaker 1: more challenging after this they come home for the Padres.

1186
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:37,920
Speaker 1: The Padres, of course, beat the Braves badly earlier the season.

1187
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 1: They go to Philly, Boston, Arizona to San Francisco. Like

1188
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:46,560
Speaker 1: it's harder now for a while after the series, which

1189
00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:48,040
Speaker 1: means you need to win the series.

1190
00:57:48,840 --> 00:57:51,200
Speaker 2: You do, and the Braves did a great job of

1191
00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 2: taking advantage of the softer schedule for the better part

1192
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:58,439
Speaker 2: of the last six weeks. But yes, schedule gets much

1193
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:02,680
Speaker 2: harder now. Going forward. Thankfully, I have Strider back on Tuesday.

1194
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:05,960
Speaker 2: You should be getting a COONa back within I don't know,

1195
00:58:06,040 --> 00:58:10,040
Speaker 2: somewhere between three to ten days from now. Hope for

1196
00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:14,040
Speaker 2: all the best with Ronald, But yes, I mean full circle.

1197
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:17,560
Speaker 2: Not the start to the season. The Braves wanted five

1198
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 2: and thirteen, eight games below. They're a game above five hundred.

1199
00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:24,600
Speaker 2: They've won seven out of nine series against coming off

1200
00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:27,040
Speaker 2: a nice series win against the Red Sox. Let's keep

1201
00:58:27,080 --> 00:58:29,400
Speaker 2: building on it. Let's not have a setback against the

1202
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:32,080
Speaker 2: Nationals and try to take two out of three against

1203
00:58:32,080 --> 00:58:35,160
Speaker 2: the team you probably should take two out of three against.

1204
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:38,480
Speaker 1: We are fully in agreement about that. Well, Scott. In

1205
00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:42,000
Speaker 1: an effort to be under an hour of actual recording time,

1206
00:58:43,040 --> 00:58:45,000
Speaker 1: let's get out of here, shall we? Anything to add?

1207
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:47,440
Speaker 1: And if not, where can folks. I'm gonna be new

1208
00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:51,560
Speaker 1: to the podcast follow all of your live musings elsewhere.

1209
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:55,800
Speaker 2: Nothing to add, Brad, Nice to see you on this

1210
00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:58,000
Speaker 2: this Sunday evening. Deep into this as well on the

1211
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:02,640
Speaker 2: East East Coast at Scott Coleman fifty five on socials

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1213
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Speaker 2: and as Brad said, we will have a whole bunch

1214
00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:10,200
Speaker 2: of shows coming this upcoming week. Win or lose, good

1215
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:12,880
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1216
00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:15,919
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1218
00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:22,360
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