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Speaker 1: Network alongside Reggie Standfell, I am grang So Chris Venture
Speaker 1: all the way for our number two. What's going on
Speaker 1: Frankie Reggae. Happy hump Day here on Wednesday April, I
Speaker 1: got a lot to talk about Stack night last night.
Speaker 1: Lots of action. Obviously on a Tuesday, every team is in.
Speaker 1: Every team Almost every team was in action out of
Speaker 1: the thirty UM teams. I think we're not so almost
Speaker 1: every team in action. We had some day baseball yesterday,
Speaker 1: we have some day baseball today, but there's a lot
Speaker 1: to go over before that. Greg last night, went to bed,
Speaker 1: definitive quick answer. There. I was following sleep on the
Speaker 1: couch last night, and then I went into the bed,
Speaker 1: fell right asleep, woke up when you do, into the
Speaker 1: bathroom at five two, And the next night I knew
Speaker 1: my alarm went off. Nice yep, good to hear, buddy,
Speaker 1: good too. Here we have we have three day games today.
Speaker 1: We've already have a postponement. There's snow in Colorado, so
Speaker 1: unfortunately we will not be getting another Ronald Ducunia home
Speaker 1: run today. If only he could play all the games
Speaker 1: in Corse fields, Greg, how did I sleep? M It
Speaker 1: was all right, you know, it wasn't the best, but
Speaker 1: definitely had worse. So I'm alright, Okay, today, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: We'll be sorry. Everything's Everything's all right, Greg. I watched unless,
Speaker 1: of course you're Marcelo Zuna trying to make a catch
Speaker 1: or Clint Fraser. Seriously, Uh so I watched the I
Speaker 1: watched the Yankee mass night before that game. Before that,
Speaker 1: I watched the Last Maze Runner. Do you know that movie?
Speaker 1: Franchise movie we franchise. I don't know anything about it,
Speaker 1: all right, I watched the last in that trilogy. Okay,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, not good, not good good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't really know anything about this greg film trilogy,
Speaker 1: Maze Runner. I haven't seen any of them. Did you
Speaker 1: see the dive Virgent trilogy? No, don't see Divergent either.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen any of you. But not good. So
Speaker 1: I really so basically Divergent and Maze Runner or two
Speaker 1: like book series that we're turning into movies that's around
Speaker 1: the same time, um and the Verse, you know what
Speaker 1: kind of Yeah. So I liked the Divergent series more
Speaker 1: in the Maze Runner series, but the Diversion series trying
Speaker 1: to turn their last book into two movies, the last book,
Speaker 1: book three, into two movies. And the problem is they
Speaker 1: made the third movie, but they decided, you know what,
Speaker 1: nobody saw the third movie. We're not gonna take a fourth.
Speaker 1: So I don't I don't know what happens in the end.
Speaker 1: They're just not making the last movie. And this trilogy,
Speaker 1: which I cared less about, makes their third movie and
Speaker 1: it's crap, crap, oh man, crap. And the only reason
Speaker 1: I watched is because I was on HBO Go a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago searching for someone to watch, and
Speaker 1: I round up watching Deadpool too, and I'm like a
Speaker 1: maze runner. I like to watch that. Well, Greg, you
Speaker 1: don't watch superhero movies, So what do you think of
Speaker 1: dead fool like that? Did you watch the first Deadpool? Yes?
Speaker 1: The reason I liked to watch the second Deadpool because
Speaker 1: I really liked the first Deadpool. It was like I
Speaker 1: also really liked the first. It was a little bit
Speaker 1: different than the other things. It's way different. That's why
Speaker 1: I liked it. A little bit more mature, sex, a
Speaker 1: little more. It was funny. It was also funny crude.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. Yeah, to me, Deadpool is up there. It's
Speaker 1: inside my top three superhero movies. Okay, So like I
Speaker 1: don't know what's up there with like the Dark Knight
Speaker 1: with he Ledger. Awesome. That's how good I think it is.
Speaker 1: So I don't really think anything, right, So I saw
Speaker 1: a Deadpool two and like, I don't really care about
Speaker 1: superhero stuff at all. It's not what you want to
Speaker 1: be entertaining, right, So I was more entertained by the
Speaker 1: first movie than the second movie. Like I thought, like
Speaker 1: when he opened the door with the X Men cameo
Speaker 1: on the second movie, that was kind of cool. Not
Speaker 1: that I know anything about it, but like that's cool.
Speaker 1: And then I always love when did Pool like makes
Speaker 1: fun of Ryan Reynold's decisions, Like I think that's hysterical
Speaker 1: to the fourth Walls, like he talked about like the
Speaker 1: green Goblin, like decisions you can change. Like that's great,
Speaker 1: Green lantern, Green lantern, Like that was hilarious. Hys, Like
Speaker 1: that's funny to me. So I like Deadpool. I mean
Speaker 1: on Deadpool, not in on most other super movies. The
Speaker 1: first movie to what I really enjoyed Greg was and
Speaker 1: this is kind of our precursor to Baseball Talk obviously today.
Speaker 1: The first movie was such a wide range of emotions, right,
Speaker 1: so they make you crack up, they make you cringe,
Speaker 1: like some of the action stuff, some of the gore
Speaker 1: that you see. But then there was also kind of
Speaker 1: like a love subplot thing that like really drew me in.
Speaker 1: It was really well done. I enjoyed it. Yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: I'm in. It's better than most superhero movies. I know
Speaker 1: why you don't like a lot of superhero movies great
Speaker 1: because they're very predictable. It's not that not that Deadpool
Speaker 1: is not predictable. Villain is gonna come and then here
Speaker 1: you're gonna come and save the day. Hey, it's basically
Speaker 1: like every John Cina match you every right, So not
Speaker 1: like Deadpool is different and that, but but the way
Speaker 1: was the story was told was different exactly. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: agree with you on that. So that was different. That
Speaker 1: was That was why I don't know. That was weeks.
Speaker 1: A few weeks back, I watched Deadpool yesterday, watched Maze Runner.
Speaker 1: I also watched the season premiere of Killing Eve. How
Speaker 1: do you have all this time to watch all this stuff?
Speaker 1: So I was able. I got home like about an
Speaker 1: hour to hour earlier than I said normally do. It's
Speaker 1: because of that. And then Junior went out, So I
Speaker 1: watched Maize Runner and the Yankees didn't start yesterday. Remember
Speaker 1: it eight ten, so would later start. I didn't enjoy that,
Speaker 1: so I was done with the movie about ten to eight,
Speaker 1: so I started making dinner. Had the Yankees on, I
Speaker 1: this is perfect, So I watched Yankee games. Junior got home,
Speaker 1: watched the episode of TV. Wasn't bad? Boom, What was
Speaker 1: it to here, Greggy, I'm sorry, I'm a little in
Speaker 1: on something here because you know, a lot of faces
Speaker 1: because pitching Ninja shirt that I'm wearing today. Rob Freedman
Speaker 1: puts out great work. I put out a video yesterday
Speaker 1: of Jimmy Nelson's off speed stuff minor league start, right,
Speaker 1: and he was ridiculous. That's great. You know, come to me, Nelson, guys.
Speaker 1: So I'm very intrigued. But I do want to apologize
Speaker 1: for not car for for being more intrigued by Jimmy
Speaker 1: Nelson's rehab start yesterday than uh whatever's going on in
Speaker 1: Gregg says, Oh yeah, you asked how I had the time.
Speaker 1: I explained it all the day. A big deal. It's
Speaker 1: a big deal. It's a big deal to someone. Greg. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, let's get into baseball. Baseball big story. Last night,
Speaker 1: Mike Trot left this game with a groin injury, as
Speaker 1: the collective world shuddered. And the good news is he's
Speaker 1: gonna have today off the Angels. I will leave him
Speaker 1: off day tomorrow and he will expect to be back
Speaker 1: in the line up Friday. Of course, last time we
Speaker 1: heard that my Clevinger was on the now I O
Speaker 1: six day weeks. Um. Don't wish that evil upon Pike.
Speaker 1: I do not, but they're not. Trot does not even
Speaker 1: expect to have an m r I on it, which
Speaker 1: is never makes sense to me, like always have the
Speaker 1: m R I back to come out of an m
Speaker 1: r or what good what back can come out of
Speaker 1: having the m R I. Um, but you don't expect
Speaker 1: to need one, so the good news should be okay, Frank,
Speaker 1: I think that normally that's good. You know, if if
Speaker 1: he doesn't need an m R I, then that means
Speaker 1: it really is as mild as they're leading on. I
Speaker 1: think normally if you need an m r I right away,
Speaker 1: that means like, Okay, this is bad. It's probably gonna
Speaker 1: be bad, so take it with a grain of salt.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens here. Miles right, growing strain not
Speaker 1: gonna play today, has the off day tomorrow, expects to
Speaker 1: be back in the lineup. Um. You know, we always
Speaker 1: expect a lot of things and we get let down.
Speaker 1: So let's see what happens here with Mike Trout, who
Speaker 1: just ato a phenomenal start to the season forty nine
Speaker 1: played appearances, Greg, would you like to guess his ops
Speaker 1: at this points one point six to one point oh
Speaker 1: six to Actually, his ops for the entire season last
Speaker 1: year was even higher than that. But let's try fifty nine.
Speaker 1: One point five to nine is the open from Mike
Speaker 1: with a walk right and an eight percent strikeout right.
Speaker 1: The guy just keeps getting better. And I can't even
Speaker 1: use the fine wine thing because he's not old. He's seven.
Speaker 1: You don't even like wine. He's in the prime of
Speaker 1: his career. I don't don't like wine. Don't like wine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's your favorite wine? Greg? I don't know. My dad's
Speaker 1: a huge wine guy. He's having cheap and red white,
Speaker 1: red wheat stuff. Sweet sweet, you know, like semi sweet
Speaker 1: is the only is the one She always makes me
Speaker 1: pick up. Told me she likes Kianti Santi a lot.
Speaker 1: I don't know, like like I've tried moscato. It's not
Speaker 1: really wine. It's just really like it's fine. But other wine,
Speaker 1: I'm out, Greg, that's fine. I mean it just something
Speaker 1: cheap like that that's not like actually, don't I'll think
Speaker 1: it anything, I really will. We go to Trader Joe's
Speaker 1: the best. We have like six dollar models, you know,
Speaker 1: the older drag heads. It's like more like alcoholic he gets.
Speaker 1: Just give me anything else, I'll drink it. Put it
Speaker 1: in front of me. It doesn't matter. A long week.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it has manum, oh, he said, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: you told me, Oh it was, You're right. I guess
Speaker 1: on a one point oh five three one point what
Speaker 1: I guess at one point six too? Yes, on nine.
Speaker 1: Trout last year is one point eight eight. That's the insane.
Speaker 1: I didn't think my guest was so awful in there. No.
Speaker 1: But the thing is with the with the start that
Speaker 1: he's off too. I'm sorry. Usually you're good at I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not bad. I'm usually in the range. I'm usually
Speaker 1: in the range to No, not today. Yeah. So the
Speaker 1: big story was that Trout got hurt, came back. Um,
Speaker 1: that was the good news. The other big news yesterday
Speaker 1: was in regards to Luis Severena, and we heard set
Speaker 1: back yesterday. We talked a lot about Severena. He said
Speaker 1: could be a lost for him. And this is actually
Speaker 1: a really funny story in our minds. Any way, we
Speaker 1: hope you laugh. Long. So we find out that Trump
Speaker 1: has a Latin issue and he's going to be shut
Speaker 1: down for six weeks. And who has a lat issue?
Speaker 1: Isn't that? Does? Said Trump? Like, what do we talk?
Speaker 1: Do you know? What's weird? That's got a text message
Speaker 1: I have nothing asked nothing to do with politics on here.
Speaker 1: It's all I don't know. You said Trump has a
Speaker 1: lat issue, it would be out six weeks. That's weird, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm like, there's no politics anywhere on
Speaker 1: my screen. It's literally wrote a world fan grafs, ESPN,
Speaker 1: Yahoo Fantasy. There's nothing to do with politics going on.
Speaker 1: It was a little that's weird. Okay, Well, so Savorina
Speaker 1: has a Latin issue and he should be out. Uh, well,
Speaker 1: should not such a shut down for six weeks and
Speaker 1: this is kind of what I said yesterday. Then they
Speaker 1: didn't find anything. He's just gonna be shut down for
Speaker 1: a longer period of time. They say it's a great
Speaker 1: two lat issue that had nothing to do with this
Speaker 1: prior injury. Dr A immediately when on Twitter is like, yes,
Speaker 1: it does so, and I think it makes sense that
Speaker 1: it does too. It was just overcompensating in a way
Speaker 1: so close to your shoulder to like definitely makes sense.
Speaker 1: And I mentioned that to you yesterday we were a
Speaker 1: little with Florio and yeah, Floora, you know, you said, oh, well,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think it's really connected. But I'm
Speaker 1: thinking well, he tried long tossing and then he actually
Speaker 1: get shut down and then he find a new injury.
Speaker 1: Then yeah, it's probably overcompensating for the shoulder and leads
Speaker 1: to the latter. Yeah. So so for me, I think
Speaker 1: that happened to Karls Martinez last year to remember or
Speaker 1: no Alex and then he heard his lass, So yeah,
Speaker 1: they definitely could be connected. Absolutely. Alex raises up for
Speaker 1: like three months with the lad right so to me,
Speaker 1: I don't know why. My initial thought was like that
Speaker 1: was like you're back, and that's okay. Greig doesn't work out,
Speaker 1: so I don't really know where the muscles. That is
Speaker 1: a fact. Greig does the bicep workout and walk. I walked,
Speaker 1: you know, with the beers. I got I got it. Um.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so I get this, and Frank's Altduman gloom
Speaker 1: as he usually tends to be with the Ygkes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was all duper negative and pretty much in most
Speaker 1: aspects of life that's true. And me like, I'm known
Speaker 1: as the injury pessimistic guy, and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: you know what, this gives you more time for the
Speaker 1: rot rotator cup to heal. Everything will kind of heal
Speaker 1: and hopefully the second half of the year, sever you
Speaker 1: can kind of let it fly, like I don't think
Speaker 1: there's like the worst case in the world, worst case
Speaker 1: in the world. Okay, new album. So then Florio chimes
Speaker 1: in and he goes, you are a hypocrite. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what do you mean, because you are an effing hypocrite.
Speaker 1: I was like, what, there's number one. You're the most
Speaker 1: injury pessimistic guy. Now like, okay, fair trying to be optimistic.
Speaker 1: You're fair. He goes, If this was the Mets. If
Speaker 1: this was the Mets and Severalos has a rotator cup injury,
Speaker 1: sits down for a week or two and immediately hurts
Speaker 1: his lat, you would go on the air tomorrow. You
Speaker 1: would laugh your ass off. You would joke about the
Speaker 1: Mets training staff and how big of Joe beaks they are.
Speaker 1: And I would sit there silently because I got nothing,
Speaker 1: because you're right. And now you're sitting here saying, oh,
Speaker 1: not not bad, not a bad idea, no, no, we deal,
Speaker 1: all good? Who are you? And I'm just like, I
Speaker 1: got nothing. I got nothing Because he's right it was
Speaker 1: the Mets. I would I would kill him. Let didn't
Speaker 1: kill I didn't kill Alex Rays when this happened, Like,
Speaker 1: I didn't go nuts about that. I said, so you
Speaker 1: would just do it, because you would just do it
Speaker 1: to the Mets, of course. Yeah. I mean it's kind
Speaker 1: of a given at that point when these kind of
Speaker 1: things happen to the Mets. Um. Yeah, I agree with
Speaker 1: Floria regarding your your fandom here, Greg, because well, I
Speaker 1: don't think I don't think these things are related like
Speaker 1: it should be, all right, And I tell you that's
Speaker 1: probably the most class half full that I've ever heard
Speaker 1: from regarding an injury of this magnitude. But no, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. This is really bad about no, no, no, no, absolutely,
Speaker 1: are you crazy? The worst things you could have heard?
Speaker 1: This is very bad. There's no surgery on the table.
Speaker 1: The worst thing you could have Alred is he towards
Speaker 1: rotator cough and he's out of the next year. Isn't
Speaker 1: even be shut down for the year at this point
Speaker 1: if he comes back and reinjures himself. You were sick
Speaker 1: to me, you know, the worst thing you could have heard,
Speaker 1: he's shut down for six weeks. To worst, I said,
Speaker 1: it's one of no, this is one of the best
Speaker 1: who finding a new injury Greg on top of a rotator?
Speaker 1: What is the best What did you think the best
Speaker 1: case scenario is gonna be? Yesterday? Honestly, the absolute best
Speaker 1: case scenario. Once we heard that he was yeah, he
Speaker 1: has to back to New York. Best in your opinion,
Speaker 1: what was the best word you could have heard? The
Speaker 1: rest news you could have heard, um that he hasn't
Speaker 1: had a new injury, that he hasn't reinjured himself. That okay,
Speaker 1: like we're just gonna take it slow kind of thing.
Speaker 1: But another injury popping up to me, Greg is really bad.
Speaker 1: But isn't this like I understand a new injury popped
Speaker 1: U But isn't this like God of that right? Like
Speaker 1: he's not fully healed, he's gonna rest. Same thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but originally we thought it was gonna be back May first.
Speaker 1: Now it's like no earliest we knew that hope. Yesterday
Speaker 1: on Twitter was saying the earliest, the absolute earliest, will
Speaker 1: be back. Yeah. I'm not saying it's not a setback,
Speaker 1: but I'm saying this is a lot better news that
Speaker 1: could have been. You gotta tore his rotator, cough. You
Speaker 1: could have had it, Tommy John for some reason that
Speaker 1: perspective like it's not the worst. He doesn't have thoracic
Speaker 1: outlet syndromes. I mean, it's still really bad. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't agree. Finding another injury too. And it's a
Speaker 1: grade to strain, so it's it's kind of like a
Speaker 1: medium strain. It's not the worst, but it's not like
Speaker 1: a mild strain either. It's pretty bad. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: to Virginia zak Is about this. Tooma, no, I've had
Speaker 1: a lot of people asking no, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no, no no no no. I would try to hold him
Speaker 1: as well, but it's like these injuries are piling up,
Speaker 1: you know, it's also piling up the y egges. Terrible,
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Speaker 1: Frank Stample, Gregg Susman and right when we go to break,
Speaker 1: literally we still hear the music in our ears. You
Speaker 1: have Lindsay Ad Louis and Yankees beat writer tweet this.
Speaker 1: It's a little odd to describe a six weeks shutdown
Speaker 1: midseason as a bullet miss for the Yankees, but the
Speaker 1: news that it is a latch strain that's kept Louis
Speaker 1: Savarino from progressing instead of a worsening shoulder injury should
Speaker 1: bring you some serious relief. And I'm like, zactly what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And Frank sually, this is this is the
Speaker 1: worst positive reinforcement, Craig, that's all you needed. This is
Speaker 1: the worst is that's the down what I'm saying. So
Speaker 1: the think it's good. Having one really bad injury rotator cuff,
Speaker 1: and then having another really bad injury on top of that,
Speaker 1: to me is not good. I get what you're saying,
Speaker 1: but to me, yeah, I'm just I'm obviously negative. Nancy. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Like having two severe injuries to me are just not good. Greg, like,
Speaker 1: two injuries is not better than one, is better than one?
Speaker 1: Not in this case. All right, Um, but you're not
Speaker 1: dropping Severy now? Also, what if you're own Severy, no
Speaker 1: Clevinger standing Daniel Murphy, they would have decisions. Do you
Speaker 1: realize that there's a chance Severina could be back before
Speaker 1: cleveing Cher? That's possible. I would not bet on that.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't bet on either, but I'm saying it's possible.
Speaker 1: Also possible, said Kevin Garnett. That's right. Also, Alex Bregman
Speaker 1: left this game last night due to a hamstring injury,
Speaker 1: and this happened in the eighth inning. He pulled up lamebring.
Speaker 1: It's like amazing, tweeked it. He doesn't think it's serious.
Speaker 1: He's probably a mission tonight's game. But mhmm, not great newsman. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just another injury here for a star player in fantasy
Speaker 1: baseball feel it feels like every single night we get
Speaker 1: at least a few of these, so it shouldn't surprise anyone.
Speaker 1: But unfortunately, Yes, Alex Bregman left yesterday's start against the Yankees,
Speaker 1: and I feel like he's gotten off to a slow
Speaker 1: start to I don't have any shares of Bregman. I
Speaker 1: wanted him, I wasn't avoiding him, but for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: I just didn't end up with him. He has one homer,
Speaker 1: three RBIs. She's hitting three one, so it's fine. Like
Speaker 1: the batting average has been great, six runs scored. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's just not lighting up the scoreboard yet. I guess
Speaker 1: only one homer, one stolen BASI, it's fine more than
Speaker 1: non Arronado. Ohn Arnado doesn't have any single homer yet,
Speaker 1: so that kind of sucks. But um, yeah, I doubt
Speaker 1: I doubt Bregman will be in the lineup tonight. They
Speaker 1: should just rest he. I'm sure that he's uh, he's
Speaker 1: good to go for the weekend. Hopefully it doesn't, you know,
Speaker 1: make anything worse here as Yankee fans. Two games I've
Speaker 1: gotten away from the Eggs in Houston. Unfortunately, as terrible
Speaker 1: these fall six to three, sloppy based second night in
Speaker 1: a row, they go to the late innings with a
Speaker 1: lead and the bullpen blows. And even before that, sloppy,
Speaker 1: sloppy baseball mistakes from um as Clint Fraser, as I
Speaker 1: was joking about in left field, just like a disaster. First,
Speaker 1: the first catch that he tried to make earlier on
Speaker 1: in the game was a little bit tougher. You should
Speaker 1: have made that absolutely, And then as Florio and Frank
Speaker 1: we're talking about something last night. I don't remember what
Speaker 1: it was. I think it was our r G D
Speaker 1: D team with the Kuna. I just chimed in, effing
Speaker 1: Rhet Gardner because that, like, as a tenure veteran in
Speaker 1: this leads, while you are veteran in this league, not
Speaker 1: running out what you did cannot happen. This wasn't like
Speaker 1: he was huge. It was a huge, huge Jacks factor
Speaker 1: is what the bases loaded? What out after they intentionally
Speaker 1: walked judge the second and third. Yeah, but it was
Speaker 1: so they threw the guy out at second. That guy
Speaker 1: was gonna be out regardless. It would have been first
Speaker 1: and third judge up, but I don't think they would
Speaker 1: have intentionally walked him. They still have the double play
Speaker 1: in play technically, so I don't think they would have
Speaker 1: done met but yeah, it's a huge play in the
Speaker 1: game because so we have first and third with with
Speaker 1: Judge up, any opportunity to attack on runs against Garrett Cole,
Speaker 1: you gotta take advantage. So what happened there was Brett
Speaker 1: Gardner laid down a bunt that he thought went foul.
Speaker 1: It it didn't, so he immittis to the catcher, uh
Speaker 1: through the second base got the out, and Altoba or Correy,
Speaker 1: whoever had the ball, just looks up. Its shocked that
Speaker 1: Brett Gardner is not at first base and literally just
Speaker 1: lilly gags and over the first and Gardner's argue that
Speaker 1: it's foul. There was nothing even remotely foul about it.
Speaker 1: It wasn't even close to being foul awful. He's supposed
Speaker 1: to be one of the veterans on the two, one
Speaker 1: of the leaders people who to him like you don't
Speaker 1: want Clint Fraser and guys like Gary sanche Is seeing
Speaker 1: stuff like that happened because and they could I think,
Speaker 1: all right, well maybe you could do something like that too.
Speaker 1: Next time, you know, I think a bunt is foul.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm not going to run it out. Bad
Speaker 1: example there by Brick Garden. This is a really bad
Speaker 1: game from the Yankees overall, very sloppy. The bullpen, oh,
Speaker 1: the elite bullpen, the World Series bullpen. They have been overused.
Speaker 1: But no excuses. Man, you gotta I mean, you gotta
Speaker 1: do your job. And they haven't been doing their job.
Speaker 1: They have not absolutely not been doing jobs their job recently.
Speaker 1: They fell, as we said to the Astros. Six three
Speaker 1: is Josel Tobay going deep for us, his third bomb
Speaker 1: of the year that found a Luke Void bomb for
Speaker 1: the New York yank He's also his third bomb oh
Speaker 1: the year. Correa Karlsa steals his first base of the
Speaker 1: year without a throw of awesome Roman, who also has
Speaker 1: been terrible this year behind the plate, behind the plate, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had Sander texting me a bunch yesterday. You seen
Speaker 1: that much better than Gary Sanchez. I think I'm off
Speaker 1: these tax is great. Yeah, I mean, Sandra were going
Speaker 1: out of last night. Like Look, Garry Sanchez is basically
Speaker 1: edwinning Carnacione. He's a really good DH. He's a great
Speaker 1: power hitter. Get three home runs on Sunday d H yesterday,
Speaker 1: huge to run double or run double. Why can't he
Speaker 1: be am? And well, they have five players who are
Speaker 1: DH eligible, So that's part of the reason. I understand. Look,
Speaker 1: you don't want to give up on a young player
Speaker 1: as a catcher, I get it. But to me, Gary
Speaker 1: Sanchez has not put the work in to get better,
Speaker 1: and I can't say that. We don't know what he's done.
Speaker 1: You don't know what. But then why isn't he getting better? There?
Speaker 1: I don't know, not getting better, He's gotten progressively worse.
Speaker 1: Agree with you put the work. I don't think it's fair.
Speaker 1: You don't know, all right, So if you were putting
Speaker 1: the work in, why would you get worse? As a
Speaker 1: defensive has he gotten worse? Had better? Since when he
Speaker 1: came into the league. He's throwing everybody out on the
Speaker 1: base path. He's not been doing that well of balls
Speaker 1: get past. When I realized it's a tough bullpen to catch.
Speaker 1: Everyone throws hundred miles per hour. Everyone has these crazy
Speaker 1: breaking pitches. I get it, But at the rate that
Speaker 1: he lets balls pass, to me, it's he hasn't and
Speaker 1: getting better. He's been getting worse. So it's part of
Speaker 1: my argument against Gary Sanchez as a catcher. Uh. Jonathan Eliza,
Speaker 1: who was optioned to Triple A after the game. Three innings,
Speaker 1: four hits, two runs, five strike outs, struck out the
Speaker 1: sign of the first inning and then the next six
Speaker 1: next twelve batters reached. It was weird, but he's got
Speaker 1: some nasty stuff, man. He know, there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: I think the only through like seventy pitch last night,
Speaker 1: eleven eleven swinging pitches against the Houston Nastros team that
Speaker 1: makes a lot of contact. Eleven swinging strikes on on
Speaker 1: seventy pitches. That's a that's a nice amount. But he's
Speaker 1: not gonna yet, and he's gotta be able to not
Speaker 1: get him ownto trouble every inning. True, but look, he's
Speaker 1: a young starting pitcher. You know it happens, uh, happen
Speaker 1: to the best. Maybe maybe that's a guy he put
Speaker 1: threw on the Bullpatter's amazing for that. Yeah, and his
Speaker 1: velossity would only be better. He already throws miles per hours.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe that's an option. Like Garrett Cole on the
Speaker 1: other side, he was seven innings, the last four hits,
Speaker 1: three runs, strikes out at six walks three Uh. He
Speaker 1: ran into some trouble a couple of times. Also had
Speaker 1: some streets where no Yankees were getting on base. Obviously, Um,
Speaker 1: so solid night, Solid night is correct. I don't love
Speaker 1: the three walks, but overall it wasn't great. No, the
Speaker 1: strikeouts have still been there this season. I'm looking at
Speaker 1: the hard hit rate against him really high to start
Speaker 1: the season, forty one percent. But the velocity is still there.
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy's averaging nineties seven miles per hour
Speaker 1: on his fastball right now. Everything is in line with
Speaker 1: last season in terms of the of the velocity of
Speaker 1: the swinging. Strike rate is actually up, the chase rate
Speaker 1: is up, the first pit strike percentages up. Garret Cole
Speaker 1: is gonna be just fine, all right, So there you go.
Speaker 1: Um anything else on the Yankees Astris game? Mm hmm,
Speaker 1: not necessarily. I do think that Carl's Korea is healthy.
Speaker 1: It seems some of the some of the defensive plays
Speaker 1: that he were phenomenal stole his first base as well.
Speaker 1: You haven't necessarily seen it turn into to power production yet,
Speaker 1: but he looks healthy based on a lot of things
Speaker 1: that I've seen him doing to this point. So if
Speaker 1: you own him, I think better days are to come. Again,
Speaker 1: I have zero shares. I was very adamant about not
Speaker 1: drafting Carlos Correa because of the injuries he's had the
Speaker 1: past couple of seasons. But as of now, I do
Speaker 1: think he's healthy, so if I owned him, I would
Speaker 1: feel right. I think the production is gonna come with
Speaker 1: our GST team. One of the things that complained about
Speaker 1: was pitching staff, in particular the fact that we drafted
Speaker 1: Louis Castillo. We know it was a good out, a
Speaker 1: good spot last night, and Luis Castillo made it count.
Speaker 1: He went seven shoutout innings against Miami. Based on Marlins
Speaker 1: every star Craig I would help police kiss you with
Speaker 1: eight strikeouts. His Earray's point nine too. On this young
Speaker 1: year was Ranio was mediocre, we in Chen was awful.
Speaker 1: Ten runs, ten runs, a lot of relief. He's actually
Speaker 1: making the most money on the Marlins ross of this year,
Speaker 1: something like seventeen eighteen million dollars for way. One of
Speaker 1: those that you just knew immediately was yeah, and you know,
Speaker 1: that's part of the reason why Dallas Kaikel does not
Speaker 1: have a contract right now, because a lot of those
Speaker 1: mid tier starting pitchers, you know, guys like him you
Speaker 1: bad him Menace. It seems like a lot of just
Speaker 1: Orioles contracts, Alex Cobb, a lot of these mid tier
Speaker 1: starting pitchers got these contracts and they haven't lived up
Speaker 1: to these contracts. Some would argue that Dallas Kaikl is
Speaker 1: better than a mid tier starting pitcher, but he's starting
Speaker 1: to regress a little bit. Um. You saw that last year.
Speaker 1: Like he normally doesn't strike people out, the strikeouts were even.
Speaker 1: They were more down last year than they have been
Speaker 1: in years past. And he was walking a lot of guys.
Speaker 1: So that's all part of the reason why Dallas Kaikel
Speaker 1: doesn't have a contract. But back to Louise Castillo, Greg,
Speaker 1: he's been a really good eight teens meeting strikes yesterday.
Speaker 1: I know it was against the Marlins, but you know
Speaker 1: er fastball, he's throwing his change up a ton, has
Speaker 1: changed up his nasty whatever. Really like about Louis Castillo's
Speaker 1: arsenal and I was watching a lot of the start yesterday.
Speaker 1: What he's making really good, Greg, is that he has
Speaker 1: a pitch that can break in on lefties. And then
Speaker 1: he has something, um, he basically has pitches that could
Speaker 1: break in on lefties away from lefties and then vice
Speaker 1: versa against right handed pitching because the slider obviously is
Speaker 1: a very good pitch, but the changeup. The changeup has
Speaker 1: so much like breaking away action that that's what makes
Speaker 1: it so valuable. I mean, seven swinging strikes yesterday on
Speaker 1: his on his twenty five changeups. Throne. Uh thought it
Speaker 1: was interesting that he only threw his slider ten times yesterday.
Speaker 1: He has to work that in a little bit more.
Speaker 1: But he was phenomenal and he's been great this season.
Speaker 1: So without Yap in the line of all the other
Speaker 1: outfielders for Cincinnati got going, including Matt Kemp who had
Speaker 1: his first home run of the season, as did Jesse
Speaker 1: Wink who it is first home run of the season,
Speaker 1: Scottie Chevla his second homewber from season. All three outfits
Speaker 1: Cincinnati go deep. It was the coming out party yesterday
Speaker 1: for the Cincinnati offense. They really really needed this one.
Speaker 1: Fourteen runs on sixteen hits. Joey Votto is still silent,
Speaker 1: know not the second one of the yearati to thirty
Speaker 1: five batting average for Voto this far into the season. Again,
Speaker 1: I don't really have shares. Votto was a hard one
Speaker 1: for me. If you to figure out during the draft
Speaker 1: season because you kind of saw signs of you know,
Speaker 1: he's mid thirties, he's getting older. The power declined dramatically
Speaker 1: last year, So Joey Vado was a harder one for
Speaker 1: me to figure out. But ultimately I didn't end up
Speaker 1: with any shares of Vaudo, and I think I was
Speaker 1: kind of off of him. But Jesse Winkers, this is
Speaker 1: what you need to see. He's the opposite field of
Speaker 1: home run off Jose Urania and then he also gets
Speaker 1: a a two run single off of the lefty way
Speaker 1: in Chen, so I'd like to see that. Obviously a
Speaker 1: little bit of lefty on lefty action there for Jesse
Speaker 1: Winker desperately, desperately needed this, and the Reds broadcasters were
Speaker 1: actually talking about how in his career, whenever he's let
Speaker 1: off an ending, he's been really, really bad. So they're
Speaker 1: kind of questioning the fit for him as a leadoff
Speaker 1: hitter because he makes a lot of contact and O
Speaker 1: b P should be good. So me personally, I see
Speaker 1: why David Bell and the Reds would want him to
Speaker 1: be a leadoff hitter. But maybe it's just something mental
Speaker 1: for him where he just isn't comfortable as a lead
Speaker 1: off hitter. Maybe he should be more so in the
Speaker 1: middle of the lineup, maybe lead off Scott Schebler try
Speaker 1: something like that. To try something like that, I mean
Speaker 1: Raza again, isn't your typical lead off hitter because he
Speaker 1: doesn't walk. But he's got good speed. So we'll see
Speaker 1: if they ultimately change Jesse Winkers spot in the lineup.
Speaker 1: But I thought it was a really interesting tidbit from
Speaker 1: the Reds broadcast. Okay um. Also last night standing out
Speaker 1: to me was Oakland Athletics. We just talked about one thing,
Speaker 1: to put fourteen on the board. The A's put thirteen
Speaker 1: on the board in defeating the Orioles thirteen to two.
Speaker 1: Brad Anderson went six and two thirds seven hits, two runs.
Speaker 1: He struck out four Not a great night for anybody
Speaker 1: that pitches for the Orioles. But Jerson profile hits his
Speaker 1: first oal run, Marcus Simeon hits his second for Oakland
Speaker 1: thirteen runs. It was don't hinder the pinder going three
Speaker 1: for four or three run scored. Yeah, this is part
Speaker 1: of why people want Chad Pinner to have him everyday
Speaker 1: role because he's played well. I mean it's been a
Speaker 1: you know, kind of part time role so far this season.
Speaker 1: But he's batting over three oh another three hit performance.
Speaker 1: Yesterday you mentioned Jerks and pro Far, who was ice
Speaker 1: cold honestly to start the season coming in here. Even
Speaker 1: after four hits, he's only batting one two, so that
Speaker 1: really tells you how cold he was to start the season.
Speaker 1: But adds a home run. I had no rbi is
Speaker 1: heading into this game. He ends the game with five RBIs,
Speaker 1: so really really big game for Jerks in pro Far.
Speaker 1: You know that's that's gonna be um a remedy for
Speaker 1: a lot of hitters this year. If you're struggling, you
Speaker 1: get to face in Baltimore Orioles pitching. That's obviously gonna
Speaker 1: be a remedy for a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: hitters this year. But Ramon Loriano also on the board.
Speaker 1: He is what four olculus sister Hendy, Yeah, just stopped
Speaker 1: running o Ramo Loriana that it's just completely ridiculous. I mean,
Speaker 1: he has a cannon another two RBIs. So he's been
Speaker 1: great because of late and you know what I wanted
Speaker 1: to reference Greig. This is for deep, deep leaguers obviously,
Speaker 1: Josh Fagley. Josh Fagley has played well here for the
Speaker 1: Oakland A's and he's getting the majority of the playing time.
Speaker 1: Gets another two hits yesterday, a single and a double
Speaker 1: and RBI. He's batting over three hundred. It's probably not
Speaker 1: gonna last, but a lot of people stream their second
Speaker 1: catcher in rhoto leagues where you need to catchers, and
Speaker 1: he's been one of the better ones to start the season.
Speaker 1: So I was really surprised when I looked into it
Speaker 1: last night. It's really Josh Fagley has been this Really
Speaker 1: that's good, you know, I mean, just players hot like that,
Speaker 1: all good? You want to see. Sure, I'm very cool
Speaker 1: with that, right, Josh Fagley. There you go for the Orioles.
Speaker 1: Not much cooking. Obviously they do runs, so obviously not
Speaker 1: not much going on. He is lounge terrible. It wasn't
Speaker 1: a knight for Boom Boom, Boom Boom. Nope, only one hit.
Speaker 1: It was not a huge night. Still having an awesome
Speaker 1: start this season. It was not a huge night for
Speaker 1: Boom Boom either. One other team putting up thirteen fourteen runs.
Speaker 1: That was a Minnesota Twins. They put a fourteen runs
Speaker 1: in the game started by Jacob Degram fourteen to eight.
Speaker 1: The Twins beat the meth Ties. De gramallows six runs
Speaker 1: on eight hits, three strike ads. He did not have
Speaker 1: it last night ran well. To be fair, nobody had
Speaker 1: it last night unless you were hitter in this game
Speaker 1: because and I saw this, the ball was just flying out.
Speaker 1: The ball was carrying in city field last night. And
Speaker 1: you see that with the amount of home runs that
Speaker 1: were hit here. Look, Eddie Rosario takes Jacob Degram deep,
Speaker 1: Jonathan sc it's two home runs in this game. Mitch Garver,
Speaker 1: it's two home runs in this game. Jorge Polanco another
Speaker 1: one red hot right now, Greg, it's another home run here,
Speaker 1: Pete Alonso two home runs, So the ball was just
Speaker 1: flying out in city field. Can Ford Oh his third
Speaker 1: home run of the season. Brandon Nemo gets off the
Speaker 1: schneid here hits a home run. Who was struggling still
Speaker 1: struck out two more times here, but also added two hits.
Speaker 1: Hide Alonso, Greg and I saw Modica tweeting about this
Speaker 1: earlier today. The Powers legit like he's gonna strike out.
Speaker 1: He has over a thirty percent strike out, right, But
Speaker 1: we might see the Mets version and maybe not to
Speaker 1: the same level. I'm not saying that Pete Alonso is
Speaker 1: gonna return, you know, first second round value, but Heete
Speaker 1: Alonso might be the Mets version of Aaron Judge. He
Speaker 1: hits the ball extremely hard. He's gonna strike out over
Speaker 1: thirty percent of the time. But because he hits the
Speaker 1: ball hard, maybe he can maintain a two fifty to
Speaker 1: two sixty batting average. He already has five home runs.
Speaker 1: It's only greg, Why can't he hit thirty home runs
Speaker 1: this year? I know some people felt that way heading
Speaker 1: into the season. I was a little bit easier to
Speaker 1: draft him as we got closer because it came out
Speaker 1: that he was going to open the season with the
Speaker 1: opening day roster. If you drafted earlier on in March,
Speaker 1: you didn't know this. But why can't Peter Alonso be
Speaker 1: a poor man's Aeron Judge? I don't see why not.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I want to go to Aaron Judge,
Speaker 1: do you think he'll get just in terms of striking
Speaker 1: out as much as he does and hitting the ball
Speaker 1: as hard as he does, so he might be able
Speaker 1: to maintain a batting average that doesn't completely sink you.
Speaker 1: Because he hits the balls. Do you get made another
Speaker 1: comparison Alonzo didn't he they like better? I don't know
Speaker 1: who it was now though it wasn't. It wasn't Judge.
Speaker 1: It was somebody else was like, oh, I see that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he he doesn't walk as much as Judge, so it's
Speaker 1: not I guess it's not true. Re uh Re outcome
Speaker 1: player here for Pete Alonso, walk rate's only seven percent,
Speaker 1: so look, you just he hasn't walked as much yet.
Speaker 1: But last year in triple eleven percent walk crate, double
Speaker 1: a scent walk crate. Who's to say that the walk
Speaker 1: rate doesn't get better? I can't find it. Fall rate
Speaker 1: sixty hard hit rate to start the season for Pete Alonso,
Speaker 1: so fourteen. Ribby's listen, he's been great. I picked up
Speaker 1: the KI year. So I'm trying to think now and
Speaker 1: with Joe Gallo, maybe nationally Joe joe Yallow, but the
Speaker 1: average we hired than Joey Yallow should be definitely should be.
Speaker 1: Everybody was hitting in this game for the Twinkies and
Speaker 1: the mentory. Polanco was fantastic three for five, two runs
Speaker 1: to r B I s beuting four oh five to
Speaker 1: start the year and moment A Studios for Jacob deGrom Gregg.
Speaker 1: That was his first start with three runs or more
Speaker 1: since April ten, which is one year the day to day,
Speaker 1: and he lost three four days from yesterday. It's thirty
Speaker 1: one straight starts to three runs are less lest scored
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Speaker 1: about Pete Alonzo right there if I go looking forward
Speaker 1: to Also he is third home run of the year
Speaker 1: while I forgotten man, I feel like even all the
Speaker 1: Alonso hype, Yeah, definitely for sure, everything that's going on
Speaker 1: with the Mets right now. It's also kind of gone
Speaker 1: under the radar that Robertson can always been terrible awful
Speaker 1: after that home run against Max Scherzer has seemingly done nothing,
Speaker 1: but yeah, Conforto has three run scored. He's in a
Speaker 1: good spot obviously, you know where he's hitting for the Mets.
Speaker 1: He has twelve runs scored. The Mets offense has been
Speaker 1: awesome to start the year. Yeah, you're right, Michael Conforto
Speaker 1: has been forgotten thus far, but he's off to a
Speaker 1: decent start. He's not lighting the world on fire, but
Speaker 1: pretty good, pretty good to the far hes any three
Speaker 1: seventy five, So if I own him, I feel good
Speaker 1: about for the Twinkies. Jonathan Scope Goat went deep the
Speaker 1: first two times this year, as did Mitch Garver, the
Speaker 1: third catcher on this team. He went boom twice as well.
Speaker 1: Anyo Rosario went boom once and Grey Blanco, as we said,
Speaker 1: had a great night. He homered as well. Do you
Speaker 1: want to know? Byron bucks until his third base of
Speaker 1: the year, had a couple of doubles yesterday as well.
Speaker 1: Byron Buckston off too a nice start on the season,
Speaker 1: still batting in that eight nine spot, but he is
Speaker 1: up to ninety two on this young season. Yeah, Greg,
Speaker 1: and I saw some stuff on Twitter last night regarding
Speaker 1: his heart hit rate and his average eggs velocity to
Speaker 1: start the season. He's up to nineties seven point seven
Speaker 1: mile per hour average eggs of velocity. That's second in baseball,
Speaker 1: behind only Bryce Harper. And the quote I saw from
Speaker 1: Buckston was basically, I'm gonna try and see the ball well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try and swear it up. I don't care
Speaker 1: where it goes. I'm not swinging for the fences. Maybe
Speaker 1: something that he was trying to do in the past,
Speaker 1: putting a little bit of pressure on himself because of
Speaker 1: the prospect status that he has. Maybe he said, you know,
Speaker 1: in years past, I gotta hit home run, I gotta
Speaker 1: try and show everybody what my talent level is. Now
Speaker 1: he's just kinda k taking what pictures are giving him,
Speaker 1: trying to square the ball up and hit it hard.
Speaker 1: If it happens to go out, then it goes out.
Speaker 1: That's fine. But I really really liked this approach that
Speaker 1: Byron Buckston is off to to start the year, seeing
Speaker 1: the ball well, hitting the ball extremely well. One of
Speaker 1: those doubles came off Jacob de Gram too, And I
Speaker 1: know everyone kind of hit the ground yesterday, but I
Speaker 1: think it's a really good sign from Byron Buckson early
Speaker 1: on in the season. Do very lead Frank here, a
Speaker 1: little bit potentially very lead you think, what are you
Speaker 1: talking about regarding what the Aaron Buckson strikeout rate to
Speaker 1: start the year two. I wanted to look that up
Speaker 1: so that would uh that's by far the best in
Speaker 1: his career. That's about eight percent lower than his career mark.
Speaker 1: Gonna make sure you don't get be buried the lead,
Speaker 1: lead story yesterday? What was the lead story? Greg? You
Speaker 1: tell me, well, we were talked about it yesterday afternoon
Speaker 1: Pidgeon performance. Yeah, I don't know where you're going with
Speaker 1: this because you got a little grin on your face,
Speaker 1: so you clearly you got some guy. You got something
Speaker 1: up your sleeve today. What are you talking about? You
Speaker 1: by the lead? I want to sure we didn't it,
Speaker 1: Chris Sale, No, no, no, what? No, dude, what are
Speaker 1: you talking about? That wasn't the afternoon perform? Not shoe either.
Speaker 1: I think wes Me buried the lead of Jordan's Erman yesterday.
Speaker 1: We spoke about it on the area, so I think
Speaker 1: we missed it. No, we didn't. We spoke about him
Speaker 1: what not enough? What was going on? Not enough? He sucked?
Speaker 1: What do you want to say? The third for him?
Speaker 1: Three home ruds? I didn't fall for it, And you
Speaker 1: know why. You know why because I liked Jordan's Zimmerman
Speaker 1: coming into the start, because he was doing something differently
Speaker 1: this season. He was throwing his curveball, and his slider more.
Speaker 1: And he was throwing his fastball less because his fastball sucks.
Speaker 1: If you're watching this Jordan's Immerman, your fastball sucks. It
Speaker 1: averages ninety miles per hour and you get rocked whenever
Speaker 1: you throw your fastball a lot. He threw thirty six
Speaker 1: times out of seventy three pitches yesterday, and he threw
Speaker 1: his curball eight times. The reason why I was buying
Speaker 1: into Jordan's Immerman was because in his first two starts
Speaker 1: he was throwing his slider more and his curveball more.
Speaker 1: Why would you go away from what was working, Greg,
Speaker 1: I never understand this and it and it could be
Speaker 1: applied for any sport. If something is working for you,
Speaker 1: why do you change it. Your fastball is ninety miles
Speaker 1: per hour with a max of ninety one and a
Speaker 1: half miles per hour. It is not a good fastball.
Speaker 1: Your slider and your curveball was working in the first
Speaker 1: two starts when you were throwing them a lot. And
Speaker 1: understand maybe maybe it add some tension to your arm
Speaker 1: and your elbow, whatever it might be, but that's what
Speaker 1: you have to do to be effective at this point
Speaker 1: Jordan's Innerman, because your fastball sucks. So I don't think
Speaker 1: that my analysis was off because if you would have
Speaker 1: done what he was doing his first two starts yesterday,
Speaker 1: then maybe he would have had success like he did
Speaker 1: in his first two starts, Greg, But he didn't. So
Speaker 1: Jordan's Immerman, you suck, and I'm dropping you because I
Speaker 1: can't rely on you to do what you were doing
Speaker 1: in your first two starts, which was clearly working. That's
Speaker 1: my Jordan's Inman rant of the day was your daddy
Speaker 1: going a round? I guess sorry? Does that make sense? Though?
Speaker 1: Like something was working for him, he may stopped doing it.
Speaker 1: Why did he do that? Maybe it was that was
Speaker 1: the game plan for yesterday? The game plan wants to suck, Greg.
Speaker 1: The game plan was to use a pitch that's terrible.
Speaker 1: Why is that your game I would that ever be
Speaker 1: your game plan? Like if you did something on the
Speaker 1: radio that I hated, Greg, I wouldn't say, hey, Greg,
Speaker 1: today's the day that you should What if I said
Speaker 1: that's my style? Certain people don't like the style isn't working, Greg.
Speaker 1: I think it's working for me. Maybe Jordan's Imman thinks
Speaker 1: it's working. But you know, when you have an e
Speaker 1: r A over five since joining the Tigers, Greg, and
Speaker 1: that comes on the back of you know, throwing your
Speaker 1: fastball almost forty of the time, and your fastball, according
Speaker 1: to Fangrass pitch values, is one of the worst pitches
Speaker 1: in baseball, and it's clearly not working. It's not so
Speaker 1: I don't have anything other than that. Regarding Jordan's Dimerman.
Speaker 1: If you picked him up because of me, I apologize
Speaker 1: because I trust to Jordan's Dimmerman to do what he
Speaker 1: did in his first two starts, and he didn't yesterday,
Speaker 1: So screw you. Jordan's Dinerman, I'm dropping you, and everyone
Speaker 1: else did two also yesterday afternoon was good on the
Speaker 1: other side, six and things two runs, one of them
Speaker 1: earned one walk, eight strike out, let hit ninety six
Speaker 1: pitches um, which you needed to see from him, though
Speaker 1: the eight ks and the fifteen swinging strikes were bull
Speaker 1: season highs for him. It was against the Tigers, but
Speaker 1: you needed to see this bountback performance because if he
Speaker 1: sucked against the White Sox and then sucked again yesterday
Speaker 1: against the Tigers, then you know everyone's kind of hitting
Speaker 1: the panic button. Regarding Corey Klueber, and probably rightfully so.
Speaker 1: So you need to see a good star from Cluber yesterday,
Speaker 1: and that's exactly what. Exactly what you got. The fastball
Speaker 1: of the velocity is still kind of downe per hour
Speaker 1: yesterday for Corey Klueber, whereas in years past when he
Speaker 1: was in his prime, he was like sitting nine three
Speaker 1: a lot of the time. It regressed last year to
Speaker 1: a little bit below, but it will be down at one.
Speaker 1: So it's something to pay attention to. You might not
Speaker 1: believe this, but two miles per hour on your fastball
Speaker 1: for Corey Klueber, and you know, normally he doesn't even
Speaker 1: throw a good fastball. He kind of used it to
Speaker 1: set up all of his other breaking pitches, which are
Speaker 1: obviously very good. But when it's sinker is down to
Speaker 1: per hour from in his prime, that's gonna be the
Speaker 1: difference between him allowing, you know, a couple of home
Speaker 1: runs here or there, and it's gonna make the r
Speaker 1: a be closer to the three five, whereas you know,
Speaker 1: when he's in his prime it's sub three. So I'm
Speaker 1: going to pay attention to for Cluber, what's wrong with
Speaker 1: Jose Ramirez because I think it's time to at least
Speaker 1: bring that up he was over four yesterday against Jordan's Erman,
Speaker 1: who everybody gotta hit against. But and I looked into
Speaker 1: this a little bit yesterday myself. So whose ra mirrors
Speaker 1: on this young season? Again, it's early, it's two weeks
Speaker 1: in about a one seventy one. He's got two RV eyes,
Speaker 1: he says, two multi hit games. He only has four
Speaker 1: games total, and that he's gotten a hit in. He
Speaker 1: has not hit a home run yet. I know he
Speaker 1: struggled the second half last year. Admittedly I just wrote
Speaker 1: that off. Yeah, because when I brought it up to
Speaker 1: Florio when we had the fourth pick overall, hey, should
Speaker 1: we think about taking someone else beside Jose ramiror Is
Speaker 1: Two of us both said no. Brought up trade Turner
Speaker 1: that would have sucked as well. But the other name
Speaker 1: I brought up was J. D. Martinez, which would be
Speaker 1: pretty good. Right now, it's a small sample size. Again,
Speaker 1: it's only two very small sample size, and we wouldn't
Speaker 1: worry normally in a two week slump for who's a Ramirez.
Speaker 1: But I'm wondering because it's coming off a massive two
Speaker 1: months slump last year, now almost a three month slump
Speaker 1: of baseball action that we have what's going on. So
Speaker 1: I looked into this yesterday regarding his I was doing
Speaker 1: the expected batting average stuff a lot yesterday and looking
Speaker 1: into that and seeing if Jose ramirez Is expected batting
Speaker 1: average was a lot higher than his actual batting average.
Speaker 1: Because right now he's hitting let's see one seventy one.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's gonna get the job done obviously here,
Speaker 1: but his expected batting average GREG on the season is one.
Speaker 1: It was hitting one one, and he's expected batting average
Speaker 1: is one, at least yesterday, when I spoke about a
Speaker 1: Kunya his batting average below two hundred, his expected batting
Speaker 1: average was over three hundred. So you have something to
Speaker 1: hold your hat on. Okay, he's he's been a little
Speaker 1: bit unlucky. Um who was a Ramirez with an expected
Speaker 1: batting average of one. Basically, what I'm looking at here
Speaker 1: is he's hitting a ton fly balls, flyballs. It's on
Speaker 1: par with last year. And and this is regardless. This
Speaker 1: is including yesterday, because before yesterday's game he was hitting
Speaker 1: forty percent flyballs. The hard hit rate is over. It's
Speaker 1: not like he's pulling the ball like a ton. He's
Speaker 1: pulling it twenty pc. Of the time. Maybe he's just
Speaker 1: start pulling the ball more, because in his career he
Speaker 1: has a forty pull rate and that has obviously led
Speaker 1: to a eight three career batting average. He's only pulling
Speaker 1: the ball two percent of the time. He's hitting a
Speaker 1: lot of falsa center field. He's hitting a straight away
Speaker 1: so it seems like he's just hitting a lot of
Speaker 1: flyballs and straight away center field which are not turning
Speaker 1: into home runs. He doesn't have a home run yet.
Speaker 1: At least, he still has three stolen bases, but it
Speaker 1: is bad that there's one eight eight Greg, it seems
Speaker 1: like he's been unlucky, but according to his expecting batting average,
Speaker 1: he hasn't been that unlucky. And I don't know when
Speaker 1: it's gonna turn around. Maybe once Lindora gets in the lineup,
Speaker 1: he has a little bit more protection. He's not walking
Speaker 1: a lot to start the year. That's probably because he
Speaker 1: doesn't have the ability to walk a lot. It's not
Speaker 1: like they're you know, like he's not getting good pitches
Speaker 1: to hit and ultimately he's just not doing a lot
Speaker 1: with these And he hasn't been unlucky either based on
Speaker 1: his expected batting average, So maybe it's gonna take it
Speaker 1: Lindore getting back in the lineup. Maybe you know my
Speaker 1: guy Bradley Zimmer, who were waiting waiting to see what's
Speaker 1: happening with him, but not on the list this week.
Speaker 1: By the it's not it's not a good line of it.
Speaker 1: We knew that coming in and it's worrisome. It's definitely worrisome.
Speaker 1: If you're drinkies, we'll pull out this AO Central after all.
Speaker 1: What do you think? What do you think Regardian jose
Speaker 1: Are mirror is? I think I'm nervous. I'm nervous because
Speaker 1: I'm somebody that had jose Are mirrors last year. So
Speaker 1: I watched this thing up close where it's like he's
Speaker 1: been really bad and to not off get off to
Speaker 1: the hot start this year, You're just like, this is
Speaker 1: really bad. Will a light just turn on with something change?
Speaker 1: Something has to change in order for him to be successful,
Speaker 1: because what he's done for now, the last three months
Speaker 1: he's played baseball, has it worked. There's nowhere to move
Speaker 1: him either in this line up, there's nothing you can do.
Speaker 1: There's nobody surrounding him whatsoever, that zero protection behind him,
Speaker 1: only that Leoni's morte ahead of him. He desperately needs
Speaker 1: Lindor to come back. He's got Jordan Lublow behind him today, Greg,
Speaker 1: I can only help, Oh, Jordan Luplow, exactly right, I
Speaker 1: aint nothing, man, I don't. I don't see signs that
Speaker 1: when I look into it, I'm nervous. All right, would
Speaker 1: you what do you trade Hosier mirrors for? Right? And
Speaker 1: if that's the obvious next question, looking at you can like,
Speaker 1: how you so low? Right now? You can't trade him?
Speaker 1: So I'm looking into his bad ball data in the
Speaker 1: second half last year, right, Greg, to get an idea
Speaker 1: of what he was doing. Fly ball rate last year,
Speaker 1: but his heart hit rate was so all right that
Speaker 1: kind of leads to believe he wasn't hitting the ball
Speaker 1: all that hard. He was still hitting the ball in
Speaker 1: the air, so kind of buying into launch angle a
Speaker 1: little bit too much. He's probably just hitting a lot
Speaker 1: of routine flyballs in the second half last year. We
Speaker 1: know the struggles against breaking pitches and curveballs, but the
Speaker 1: first half is bad and ball data forty eight percent
Speaker 1: hard hit ratetent fly ball rate this season forty point
Speaker 1: six percent hard hit rate, forty percent fly ball rate.
Speaker 1: So his bad and ball data in terms of hitting
Speaker 1: the ball hard and putting them all on the air,
Speaker 1: Greg looks a lot like his first half from last year,
Speaker 1: not his second half. The biggest difference is that he's
Speaker 1: not holding the ball right now. In the first half
Speaker 1: last year, fifty four percent holl rate, So he's basically
Speaker 1: just trying to pull the ball ball as hard as
Speaker 1: he can and hit home runs to right field. Well,
Speaker 1: he just switch hit her, so so he's just pulling
Speaker 1: the ball a lot and hitting a lot of fly balls.
Speaker 1: Four percent pull rate in the first half last season,
Speaker 1: that's only down, that's down this year is huge difference.
Speaker 1: So he's got to pull the ball more. The hard
Speaker 1: hit rate, the fly ball rate is right on par
Speaker 1: with his first half last year. He's putting the ball
Speaker 1: thirty percent less of the time to start this season
Speaker 1: than he was in that first half last year. For
Speaker 1: Jose Ramrez, so we'll see if if he can correct that.
Speaker 1: Hope he's listening. This is what you need to do, Jose,
Speaker 1: Please for us, I gotta look into the batting average
Speaker 1: against certain pitches kind of thing. To be honest, I
Speaker 1: don't know where to find that. Let's see here. Fan Grass.
Speaker 1: All right, wait, wait, so I'm finding this here on
Speaker 1: baseball savant against breaking pitches. Okay, here you go, Gredd.
Speaker 1: Your name is not Gred, it's Greg So against breaking pitches.
Speaker 1: Last year he hit one with an expected batting average
Speaker 1: of T twelve, and his slugging percentage was against breaking pitches.
Speaker 1: So far in he's seen forty six breaking pitches and
Speaker 1: he's batting against breaking That seems very good, very good,
Speaker 1: very good. He's hitting one against fastballs. He had three
Speaker 1: d against fastballs last year. It's gonna get better. I
Speaker 1: think this is enough for me that it's gonna get
Speaker 1: better because at least, you know, what he struggled with
Speaker 1: last year was breaking pitches, and he's actually doing pretty
Speaker 1: good against breaking pitches. And he's always been good against fastballs,
Speaker 1: and he's only baying against fastballs this year. It's gonna
Speaker 1: get better. He's got to pull the ball. There's a
Speaker 1: little bit of going on with the bat ball data
Speaker 1: right now, but I think it's gonna get better. I'm
Speaker 1: more so on the side of trying to buy low
Speaker 1: on Jose Ramirez based on everything I just looked into,
Speaker 1: rather than just oh I'm panicking. I gotta sell him
Speaker 1: for anything that I can. Right now, I'm willing to
Speaker 1: buy low. So don't trade Jose Rameres. Don't give up there.
Speaker 1: That's big. That's a big peop are wondering that as
Speaker 1: as this he's the first round pick, he's been crap.
Speaker 1: It's making this GFC steam started with Josei Mars and
Speaker 1: Sean Carlos Stanton and we're still in what four fifth place?
Speaker 1: So it's not all bad like we're gonna get standing
Speaker 1: back hitting. It's making our pitchings like that. And this
Speaker 1: was the team where we started three hitters in a row.
Speaker 1: We thought our hitting was gonna be awesome. It's very bad.
Speaker 1: It's our pitching that's carrying us to start, and he's
Speaker 1: us Aguilars our first basement. Oh my god, Like, do
Speaker 1: we have any any good hitters on this team? Austin
Speaker 1: Meadows man Austin Meadows, Auston Meadows batting three o eight.
Speaker 1: Alex Gordon, who's on our AI, has been good at
Speaker 1: three sixty four. We have more hitters batting under two
Speaker 1: hundred than batting over three hundred, all of averages. Greg
Speaker 1: says that these hitters are not going to hit under
Speaker 1: two hundred for the entire season. They have do some
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