WEBVTT - Ketel Marte Placed on Restricted List as D-backs Get Routed by Red Sox 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:12.680 Hello, and welcome to another episode of Snake's Territory, part 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:15.480 of the Foul Territory Network. Be sure to like this video, 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:18.840 subscribe to our YouTube channel, maybe leave us a five 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:22.319 star review wherever you get your podcasts. I am Jesse 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:25.960 Friedman alongside Jack Summers, coming to you with a live 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:31.120 postgame edition of the show and Jack. The Diamondbacks lost 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:35.600 eleven to one. It wasn't great the game. We'll talk 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:39.800 about later because the biggest storyline from today by far 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:44.880 was Dback's second baseman, kateel Marte. There's a lot here. 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.520 Jack will dive into it, but the gist of it 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:49.760 is that katel Marte did not show up at the 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:54.040 ballpark due to personal reasons. Does not appear that the 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:58.080 Diamondbacks know what those reasons are, and it also looks 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:02.280 like the Diamondbacks don't know where kutel Marte is right now. 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:08.160 Yeah, this entire situation castle entire paul over the team, 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:12.039 in the organization, and the fan base on a night 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:15.039 that should have been a celebration of the return of 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:20.840 two outstanding young players. Instead, everything is completely overshadowed by 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:26.320 the drama and the clear gut punch that this situation 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:30.960 has delivered to management and to the team, to his teammates, 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:35.160 we don't know what's going on exactly. We have some 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:40.600 ideas about communications, which we'll get into, but the bottom 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:42.640 line is is that this is really going to be 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.520 a tough thing I think for this team to overcome, 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:47.240 both on and off the field. 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:51.920 We'll go ahead and start with with some tweets that 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.160 we have. This is from Steve Gilbert, who is out 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:58.240 in Boston tonight. For those of you who just watch 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.000 the postgame show, some of this you might have seen 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.240 on the air, but Steve tweets after the game. Diamondbacks 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:07.680 manager Tory Leavello said he first learned Katel Marte might 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:10.680 not show up tonight in the morning, but preferred to 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:14.040 keep the specifics private, and then Steve added the d 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:17.240 Backs shortstop Geraldo Perdomos that he did not know what 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.280 caused Marte not to show up and that he had 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:24.440 not talked to him today. There's just a lot to 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:30.120 unpack here, Jack. It appears that Katel has some kind 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:34.200 of personal situation going on. Interesting that Tory said he 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.120 had an idea from early this morning, from when he 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:40.520 woke up this morning that kateel might not show up 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:43.880 at the ballpark today. This wasn't like a sudden thing 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:48.400 that came out of nowhere this afternoon, but there appears 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:53.160 to be a pretty glaring lack of communication. Frankly, the 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.760 fact that the Diamondbacks don't know where kudel Marte is 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:00.600 at present, the fact that they do not know what 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:04.680 this personal issue is, and the fact that they waited 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:08.000 until just a few minutes before game time to post 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:11.800 their lineup because they apparently thought that he was going 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.720 to show up to the ballpark and that just never happened. 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.119 Yeah. Well, I mean Tori's exact words on the post game. 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:20.600 You know, I was just I just was doing my 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:24.120 best to reach out to him, and there's very little 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:28.720 coming back, you know. So for whatever reason, Katel has 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:33.360 chosen not to communicate. Now, his phone's working fine, I mean, 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:35.840 I'm just gonna say it. Around two thirty three o'clock 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:39.640 he posted to his Instagram. It was a congratulatory message, 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:43.600 obviously about Corbyn, Carroll and Pee a Lonzo winning Player 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:48.680 of the Week. So you know, he was fine physically 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:52.680 and able to function with his communication device, but he 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:55.400 just chose not to use that device to communicate with 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:59.760 his team, and look, I am not going to engage 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:08.200 in speculation about what's going on with him psychologically, mentally, family, whatever. 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:13.640 I have no idea, nobody has any idea. But he 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:19.240 has a responsibility to communicate. And you know, this is 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:24.360 a fairly egregious act to not communicate with your manager 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:28.880 who's reaching out to you, and not communicating back to 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:34.000 him and not showing up to the ballpark. Now, there 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:39.000 may be some ultimately very extremely mitigating circumstances that may 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:44.920 be reported, and I'm absolutely willing to entertain that possibility, 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:50.320 but you know, it's just beyond reason that he would 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.960 not communicate. I mean, it's not that hard to say. Look, 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.320 I can't come today. I'll tell you all about it later, 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:58.280 but I'm not going to be there. But to leave 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:02.080 everybody hanging until game time, I mean, I can only 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:05.000 imagine the confusion in the clubhouse as they're trying to 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:06.919 put together a lineup and figure out who's playing and 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:10.560 who's not. So very very tough situation for the Arizona 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:13.920 Diamondback set clearly carried over onto the field tonight. 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:19.040 This was from the Diamondbacks Twitter account at three point 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:22.760 fifty eight pm Arizona time. Game time, of course four 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:26.280 to ten pm, so this was twelve minutes before first pitch. 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.880 The Diamondbacks tweet out this graphic saying that Jose Fernandez 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:32.840 had been recalled from Triple A Reno and catel Marte 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:36.240 had been placed on the injured list. Fernandez, according to 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:42.719 two reports, was actually available. Was in Boston because d 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:45.320 Backs were thinking they might have to put Nolan Arnado 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:48.960 on the injured list, and so Fernandez was there. I 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:50.880 guess it sort of worked out. He was able to 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:55.280 step in started this game at third base. But it's 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:59.640 just such a messy situation Jack, And obviously there's a 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:03.480 history here with katel Marte. There's everything that happened over 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:06.720 the offseason with the trade discussions. There's what happened coming 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:10.320 out of the All Star break last summer where his 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:15.520 house was broken into really tough situation, but still appeared 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:19.400 that he just did not communicate and even though that 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:22.520 was a tough thing to deal with, the he left 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:25.200 the team in the dark in that situation, it did 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.520 not seem that there was a good reason for him 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:31.240 to not report to that weekend series. And of course 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:33.559 there have been other moments in the past as well, 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:38.400 so it's an ongoing narrative, and his relationship with Tory 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:42.720 Lavello is one of the more fascinating things about this organization. 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:45.880 It's been very clear that Toy cares deeply for Katel. 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.360 You could see that in the post game show. Tory 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:51.520 you went out of his way to talk about how 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.200 much he cares about Katel and just wants what's best 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:59.960 for him. But there's an undeniable element here of Ktel 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:04.480 just falling short when it comes to showing up in 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.640 one what is once again a really big moment for 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:08.680 this Diamondbacks team. 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:09.760 I mean, they're trying. 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:11.840 To chase down the Phillies and the Padres right now, 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:14.360 and they need to tell Marte to do that. 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.400 Yeah, Torri was obviously extremely emotional. I mean you could 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.840 see the tears willing up in his eyes, and you 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:27.160 know he he basically virtually broke down crying. You know, 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:30.280 he held it, barely held it together, but you know, 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.640 his voice broke. There were tears in his eyes clearly, 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:36.480 and you know, he expressed a great deal of concern 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:39.960 for Katel, you know, and just worried about him and 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:43.280 all of that. And I believe that you know, I 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:47.040 don't think that there's any reason that Tory wouldn't have 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:51.200 a strong bond with the player. However, you know, this 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.520 is a situation that they find themselves in and it's 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:58.640 you know, you have to consider the possibility that this 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:02.200 time around, this is going to take a while. You know, 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:07.240 Nick Piccoro asked a question, you know, how difficult is 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.440 it going to be for to tell to men fences 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:16.160 with his teammates after this one, and you know, toris 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:18.440 that I don't know. I haven't thought about that yet. 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:22.000 I really can't address that, so you know, we'll have 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:24.600 to see how it all plays out. But you know, 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:29.120 I'll be surprised, pleasantly surprised if this is only like 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.960 a couple of game absence and you know, there's a 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:36.360 good explanation that satisfies everybody and he's able to come 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:39.320 back unhindered and play soon. I mean, that would be 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:43.320 the best case for to tell, for the team, for 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:46.000 the fan base, and I hope that that's the outcome. 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:53.200 The restricted list is just a weird, complicated aspect of 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:58.600 baseball that, honestly, I've never fully understood what exactly the 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:00.520 restricted list means. It kind of feel like it's this 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:04.080 idea in baseball that no one really knows what it is. 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:08.440 There's no minimum stay, there's no maximum stay. We see 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:12.160 guys go on the restricted list for you know, ped cases. 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:14.520 That's a more common thing if there's some you know, 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:19.280 kind of investigation happening in the player, you know, situation 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.720 like that. But you know, this isn't like a player 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.880 going on the paternity list or something like. If you're 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:29.439 on the restricted list, you're not paid, you don't improve 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.560 service time, which I guess that doesn't really matter for 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:34.199 a Catel at this point, seeing it is how he's 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:35.040 already at ten years. 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:39.520 At one point, Nick in his article mentioned that the 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:42.280 team has the option to either pay or not pay him, 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:47.160 and as of you know, six o'clock tonight, he did 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:49.480 not know if the team was planning to pay him. 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:51.680 So they could still pay him, that's up to them, 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:53.920 and I don't think they will. I don't think they 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.280 will in this case. Last year when they put him 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:59.120 on a restricted list, they also docked his pay or 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:00.960 they did not pay him for those days for those 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:04.120 two games. So the odds are that they won't, but 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.920 it's actually up to the team. 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:10.440 Yeah, that's a good call. So I guess it's it's unknown. 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:12.480 We don't even know that. We don't even know whether 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:15.680 it could tell Marte will be paid during this this 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:19.960 bizarre stretch while he's on the restricted list, And you know, 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:23.480 I guess you could say that from a baseball standpoint, like, 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:25.880 I mean, let's face, it could tell Marte has not 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:29.200 been a superstar caliber player in twenty twenty six. This 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:31.920 is not as if you know, the cornerstone of your 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:36.520 team has you know, stepped aside, and you're kind of 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:39.920 they're wondering, like, you know, what is our roster without 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.760 this player? Like maybe you'd like it to be that way, 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.040 but that's just not the player that could tell Marte 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.240 has been this season. At the same time, Jack, you 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:52.080 have to wonder, just like them, from from a mentality standpoint, 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.560 like what does this do to you as a teammate? 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:58.040 You know, what were those guys in the clubhouse thinking 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.440 leading up to first pitch today? Where you just have 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:05.080 a teammate who isn't there. Heraldo Perdomo did speak to 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.920 the media after the game. We read off some some 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.960 notes from Steve Gilbert earlier. He didn't seem to say 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:12.520 a whole lot. I mean, he said he didn't know 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:16.240 anything about the Kutel situation. He said he hadn't talked 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.760 to Kutel about this at all, and he said our 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.240 goal now is just to go out and win baseball games, 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:24.800 and that we don't, you know, need any distractions at 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:28.760 this point. So just from a from a psyche standpoint, 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.320 and I guess, especially given the way that things looked 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:36.240 on the field tonight, it's it's hard not to wonder if, 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:39.520 if the impact of this goes beyond, could tell Marte 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:41.440 just not being in the lineup right now. 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.080 Yeah, I mean, you know, it didn't help that Mitch 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:48.439 Bratt struggled, you know, and we're going to get into 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.000 the game. But when you start off like that and 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:53.480 walking a bunch of guys and giving up some early runs, 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:58.640 you know, it's easy to just get down on the 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:01.720 whole situation. But you know, some of the early at 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:03.360 beats as easy as oh they didn't look good, but 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:05.240 they hit the ball kind of hard early on, just 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:09.160 right out people. So you know, I bounce here or 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:12.959 there the other way. You know, maybe Mitch Brad doesn't 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.280 struggle as bad as he does, and the team you 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.920 know is able to bear down, but like once they 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:21.080 started to get down in this game, four nothing, five nothing, 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:23.560 it just rolled away from them and you could see 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.000 they there was definitely a letdown. I mean you could 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.840 see it. The play on the field showed it. And 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.680 it's not just about making out and not scoring runs. 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:33.200 It was the way they played defense. 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:39.080 Yeah, ugly day all the way around for the Arizona Diamondbacks. 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:43.160 They lose in Boston eleven to one. And yeah, once again, 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:46.480 this whole situation with Cautel Marte, we just have a 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:50.040 whole lot more questions than answers at this point. As 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:53.959 you mentioned earlier, when Tory was asked about the way forward, 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:57.600 he said, I don't know. It seems very unclear right now. 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.000 How long could tell Marte is going to be out 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.640 for and what it would look like for him to 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:06.520 return to the organization. Maybe try to mend what's been 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:09.560 broken a little bit in terms of trust and relationships 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.760 at least feels like that would be part of the 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:15.960 situation there. So it is all very complicated right now 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:19.120 in the Diamondbacks universe. We are going to talk about 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:23.439 the game a little bit. It wasn't a great baseball 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.400 to watch, but we will talk about a few details there. 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:29.040 The Diamondbacks also made a whole lot of other roster 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:32.320 moves tonight that were not related to the Ketel Marte situation. 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:35.400 And I'm sure we'll circle back to some comments that 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.840 you all have about what's gone on tonight, So don't 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:42.200 go anywhere. 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Three innings of 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:37.840 work from him four hits, three runs, three walks, did 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:41.760 not strike out of batter. Zach Lttel was probably even 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.240 worse in relief in this one three and two thirds 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:48.040 innings from him, he allowed eleven hits, eight runs, little 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.800 bit of sloppy defense behind him. Six of those runs 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:53.520 were earned. He also did not strike out a batter 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.520 in this game, gave up a couple of homers. So 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.640 it was just a really really rough night Jack. From 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:04.160 a hitching standpoint. There was some tough luck occasionally on offense. 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:07.840 D backs did have some hard hit balls that found gloves, 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:11.040 but all in all, this was one of the worst 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:14.000 games we've seen this team play in twenty twenty six. 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.360 Yeah, I mean on the Mitch Bratt front, I think 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:20.200 we have to focus there. He's the you know, fifth 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:24.680 member of the rotation, and you know, his forcing fastball 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:27.960 was down one point seven miles per hour. He only 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:31.840 had one pitch recorded over ninety miles an hour. He 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.440 had one that was like ninety one one, and everything 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.120 else was down between one point seven and two point six. 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.040 His slider was down two point six miles per hour, 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:43.120 his sinker was down two point three. He only threw 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:46.560 one of them. You know, the slur was down one 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:49.480 point eight, so I mean essentially he was down almost 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:51.960 two miles per hour, close to two miles per hour 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:55.960 across the board. Now, you know, is that to do 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:59.520 with maybe some mechanics tweaks he tried to make, you know? 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:02.480 Or is there some kind of red flag underlying there? 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:07.280 Tory didn't seem to think that there was, but we'll see, right, 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:12.560 you know, after what seemed like a really good turnaround 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.560 for him, this was a major step backwards for Mitch Bratt, 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:19.560 and it does have repercussions going forward. Fortunately, Zach Lytel 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.240 was not able to come in and calm things down, 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:25.320 so that kind of, you know, it's not so easy 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:27.400 to say, well, I'll just put Zach Lateell in this place. 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.600 Is that fortunately that Zach Ltel gave up eight runs 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:31.760 and three and two thirds? 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:35.560 Did I I meant like, unfortunately? 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:38.800 I might I might have misheard you. It was all 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:40.600 it was all bad, It was all bad tonight. 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:44.240 Yeah, But I mean I'm just thinking bigger picture right 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:49.000 beyond tonight, Like, okay, if if there's an issue with 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.680 Bratt and he's got to be removed from the rotation, 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:56.000 the next man up is Zach Ltel, But that didn't 0:17:56.040 --> 0:18:00.280 exactly look encouraging tonight. Yeah, that's my point. That is 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:00.960 all very fair. 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:05.480 I pulled this this graphic of Mitch Bratt's velocity by game. 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:09.119 This is just his four seam fastball, and tonight was 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:11.000 not really a one off. This has been a bit 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:13.560 of a larger trend for him. He was just up 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:16.760 over ninety two miles per hour in his in his 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.000 big league debut, that coming against Saint Louis, and it 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:25.000 is generally gone downwards since then. His last start, his 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:28.600 velo was just under ninety one miles per hour. In 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:31.720 this game it was eighty nine point six. I guess 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:34.320 you could make a case like, hey, Mitch Bratt, his 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:37.720 game was never about velocity to begin with. If if 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:42.040 he could just find the zone more consistently, or maybe 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:45.040 better stated, just like be around the zone. I mean, 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:47.800 he did throw about fifty percent of his pitches in 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:51.160 the strike zone, which technically is really not bad at all. 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:53.200 The problem was all of the pitches out of the 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:55.720 zone were just so far out of the zone, or 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:58.240 at least a vast majority of them, that he wasn't 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:01.320 getting any kind of chase from Red Sox hitters tonight. 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:04.639 They had a nine percent chase rate compared to an 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:08.560 eighty two percent swing rate in the zone, so they 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:11.760 saw the ball very well against Mitch Bratt. There was 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:14.359 some soft contact here and there. He was able to 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:17.280 kind of pitch around all of the walks to an extent. 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:21.000 But when you're spraying the ball around like that, eventually 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:24.840 you're gonna get beat. And that happened for Mitch Bratt tonight. 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:27.439 Yeah. I mean there are a bunch of pop ups, right, 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:29.359 I mean, there are three popouts in the first inning 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:32.760 surrounding those two walks. He got to pop out in 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:36.400 a very shallow fly ball to right field. In the 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:39.639 second inning, you know, in the third inning he started, 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:41.800 he got a pop up and then a double and 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:47.800 another pop up, so you know, one, two, three, four, five, 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:51.119 six popouts to the infield and one week flyout. So 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:53.880 I mean the outs were a lot of soft contact 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:55.960 in between there, and I think that's just you know, 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:57.600 throwing a fastball up at the top of the zone, 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:01.159 guys getting under it, even though it's not not very fast, 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:04.400 but there are tipping points, you know, when it comes 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:07.399 to velocity in how one pitch plays off against the 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:11.720 other and anyway you slice it. I mean, look, yes, 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:15.919 he's not a fast velocity depending guy, but all the 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:18.600 more reason why a guy that's like that can't afford 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:20.320 to lose two miles an hour. I mean, if you 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:23.159 throw ninety eight and you drop to ninety six, you 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:26.000 still have weapons to get guys out. If you throw 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:28.760 ninety five and you drop to ninety three, you still 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:30.919 have weapons to get guys. If you throw ninety ninety 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:33.920 one and you drop to eighty nine, that's going to 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:34.560 be a problem. 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:42.680 Yeah, and it was unfortunately for Mitch Bratt in this game. Offensively, 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:45.600 not a whole lot going on in this one. Diamondback's 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:48.400 just a run on four hits. There were some hard 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:53.119 hit balls, as I said earlier, and I guess we'll 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:57.359 transition to some guys we haven't seen in quite a while. 0:20:57.440 --> 0:20:58.960 Jordan Lawler hit. 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:01.320 Fifth for the dime Backs in this game in the 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:04.200 lineup for the first time since June. He went over 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:07.080 four with three strikeouts. Didn't look real sharp at the plate. 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:10.560 Jose Fernandez went one for three with a strikeout in 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:14.440 his return to the lineup. So Fernande is a different case. 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:17.360 I don't know exactly how long he'll wind up being here. 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:21.080 It might depend on the catel Marte situation. But Jordan 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:25.159 Lawler is a player that you hope could really contribute 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:28.080 something down the stretch. At least for me, Jack not 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:30.480 not too concerned to see him struggle a little bit 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:31.040 on Day one. 0:21:32.000 --> 0:21:33.720 Yeah. Well, I mean everyone was impressed by all the 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:36.240 five homers and four games, but he was striking out 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:37.320 of Fairmount too. 0:21:37.400 --> 0:21:39.720 Yeah. He had like a thirty five percent strikeout rate 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:41.440 and double a on his reab assignment. 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:43.720 So you know, I'm not gonna be surprised if it 0:21:43.760 --> 0:21:46.320 takes him a week or two to get rolling. Jose 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:51.200 Fernandez was hitting really well since July, you know. And 0:21:52.720 --> 0:21:55.200 he had the base hit, which was a sharp ground 0:21:55.200 --> 0:21:57.840 ball that got through, and then well he lined out 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:01.600 to left center, I mean as a rope too, you know, 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:04.360 and the outfielder made a nice running play. And then 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:08.080 on the strikeout, looking, you know, he just didn't challenge. 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:11.080 There were two pitches way outside the strike zone he 0:22:11.119 --> 0:22:13.240 could have easily challenged. I don't know why he didn't, 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:17.480 you know, I think there's just something, you know, I 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:19.679 have one source that told me there might be some 0:22:19.800 --> 0:22:24.520 mixed messaging when it comes to calling, you know, making 0:22:24.560 --> 0:22:28.240 the challenges, and it certainly does seem like young players 0:22:28.280 --> 0:22:31.640 on this team, rookies and younger players are far more 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:37.280 hesitant to challenge. So something's going on that makes all 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:39.800 the young guys kind of hesitant to do that. Of course, 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:43.000 Nolan seems hesitant to challenge too, so it's not only 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:46.520