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Welcome back, everyone,

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to Inside the Diamonds podcast.

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This will be episode 11.

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I'm your host, JC,

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and I'm joined again tonight with CJ.

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How are you doing, CJ?

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Fantastic.

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Glad you're back,

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so it's not just me talking

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for 45 minutes aimlessly

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about random things that

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I'm sure people are like,

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where is he going with this now?

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Yeah, no, I apologize.

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As we've said in several of

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the other podcasts,

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we both have other jobs,

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and mine has been rather

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demanding as of late with issues getting

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getting ourselves back to normal.

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So I do apologize for that.

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And I know that last week

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there was no other days

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that matched up for, for you and I to,

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to connect.

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So I appreciate you moving

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forward without me.

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And hopefully we won't have

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to do that too often.

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If we do foresee it,

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that we can jump into another day.

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So another great week of baseball,

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a lot of exciting things.

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Just wanted to kind of get

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your feel to start and kick

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off your thoughts on the past week.

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Well,

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I texted you on Saturday and said I

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was going to start the

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episode off with this,

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and we're probably going to

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name it the episode of this.

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We're cursed.

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You and me.

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Everything we talk about on here,

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it goes the opposite way,

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like within a week.

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So let's start a couple things.

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Red Sox is going to be the

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worst in the division.

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Red Sox is going to be the

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worst in the division.

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Well, you said that.

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I said fourth, maybe even better.

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No, I'm just trying to jinx it.

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I'm just trying to jinx it.

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I'm just trying to jinx it.

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Yeah, let's hammer that down.

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Red Sox are terrible.

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Wyatt Langford,

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we talked about him a couple weeks ago.

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Jesus.

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Max Freed, we talked about.

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I think he was doing it

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while we were talking.

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And what a week later, hurt.

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Nolan Jones,

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you brought it up in

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requesting his struggles.

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He immediately went three

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for six right after that.

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And then now he's on the injured list.

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Two weeks ago, I said to everybody,

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let's see what the A's do.

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Maybe they're not as bad as

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we think they are.

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Yeah, well, they proceeded to go, what,

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2-5 that week,

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and then since then they're

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2-12 and have lost now

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eight straight entering today.

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Yeah.

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Nice job on my part.

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And then last week I said

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the Padres may be sneaky good.

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The first three games after

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that they got swept by the Rockies.

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But then they've had, you know,

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changing the title a bit with the Braves.

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But, again, you get swept by the Rockies,

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it's a different conversation.

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So whatever we talk about today,

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make sure you watch for the

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next week because it might

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not be the same.

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That's a beautiful play by Rafaela.

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Well, I told you they stink,

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so maybe they're going to turn it around,

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although tonight they're already up 5-0.

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Yeah,

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we probably should have waited on

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saying that until they were

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down or something.

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Yeah, should have waited.

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Going to jump out too far ahead.

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So, yeah, no,

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it does seem that... And again,

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this is not par for the course,

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but it's early in the year.

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There's still a lot going on.

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There's still a lot of guys struggling.

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A lot of guys...

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uh working their way back

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from injury or back on the

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injured list there's a lot

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of things happening right

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now that neither one of us

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uh you know really

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predicted the one I won't

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give you too much crap

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about is your detroit

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tigers and because I was

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thinking they had the

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pitching the bats just have

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not supported it right now

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and meta hasn't been what I

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what I anticipated for them and uh

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The Cincinnati Reds are the

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other one that I really

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thought that they were going to do well.

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And I also am surprised by

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the Arizona Diamondbacks

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and their struggles.

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The other one too, the Brewers.

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I think we both had them

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finish at the bottom of the division.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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That was another one.

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I'm waiting.

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I am patiently waiting for

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something to happen there.

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But I've done it when

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writing the roster moves

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for the Brewers –

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You can see they're making the right calls,

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and they're not waiting.

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They're making a bunch of them,

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moving them up and down,

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and I kind of now,

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watching a lot of what the Cubs do,

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I see where Council's getting it.

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He's making a lot of moves,

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letting guys play the first six innings.

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He'll play Morell at third,

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and then Madrigal comes in

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at the seventh to play defense,

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and he's making all these

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moves with what he has.

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but they're also doing it

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with what's in the minors

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and moving people around,

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pitchers up and down, giving them rest.

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It's really interesting to see,

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and I can still see that

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effect in Milwaukee.

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I don't know what's going to

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happen there because they

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still have Devin Williams coming back too,

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unless something is

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announced tomorrow that

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he's going on the 90-day IL

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instead of the 60.

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We'll have to see.

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So what for you was, you know,

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other than the fact that we

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can't seem to get anything right.

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Go ahead.

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Are the Astros back?

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You know, I said to you a couple weeks ago,

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they could be a team, you know,

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that you don't count them out.

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They might get off to a slow start.

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Don't count them out.

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Since then,

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they've taken two or three from

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the Tigers.

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They swept the A's,

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two or three from Milwaukee.

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They were six and one last

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week with a run differential of 22,

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plus 22.

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And in their last 10 games,

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they're 8-2 with a run

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differential of plus 25.

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And they're right back in that race.

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They're four games back.

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That's entering tonight.

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I don't think they might play tonight.

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But they're a team that, like I said,

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don't count them out.

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Everybody was talking about

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Verlander and Bregman

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getting traded at the deadline.

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That looks like it could.

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Obviously, it's May.

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I mean, we're approaching the end of May,

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and it'll get interesting

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when June hits where –

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You're in the dog days of summer now,

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and you get conversations

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about who's really good,

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who's going to compete.

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And then everybody says it too,

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that extra playoff spot now

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where six teams make it.

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That makes teams hold off a

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little bit longer before selling,

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unless you're the Marlins

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and you trade Luis Arias when you do.

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Yeah.

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My next one,

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it's somebody that you

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actually probably know

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quite a bit about because

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you cover this team, Robert Gasser.

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Okay.

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I've been impressed by him so far.

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If you're not familiar with him,

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he was acquired in the Josh

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Hader trade with the Padres.

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He's so far for the Brewers this season.

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He's made two starts.

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He's 2-0 with a 0.82 ERA, a 0.82 whip,

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six strikeouts,

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which I'd like to see that

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number a little higher.

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He's pitched 11 innings.

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He goes tomorrow.

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He's previously pitched

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against the Cardinals and Pirates,

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so not –

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Great teams, but, you know,

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it's interesting to watch.

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He's got nice stuff.

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And there's a couple of videos.

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I think it was Pitching

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Ninja or something like that.

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Somebody like that tweeted

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out a couple of videos of him pitching.

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He looks good.

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Only one walk so far.

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That's the other thing.

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One walk and one hit batter.

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Well, that's, I mean,

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I think for any guy that's coming up,

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From uh,

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the minors is is being a be be

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around the plate You don't

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necessarily have to be a

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paul skeens and strike out

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a ton But as long as you're

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not giving up the hits and

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you're not giving up any free passes.

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You're giving yourself a

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shot So he's a guy that I'm

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excited to watch I'll

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probably have that on one

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of my screens tomorrow And

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tune into that start

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because he's interesting.

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I mean, that's you know,

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that that pitching, you know

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It's not big-name guys,

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but it's part of the reason

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why they're doing what they're doing.

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I mean, yeah So he's in now.

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Yeah him if he is the real

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deal if he keeps doing what

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he's doing He's gonna be an

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arm to watch the rest of

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the season and we know I

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love talking about arms Yeah,

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yes you do Next one and

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this was an interesting one to me.

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I wasn't expecting this and

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as I watched Tonight

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baseball last night and he

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got a hit and it was an

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interesting hit that not

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many people are getting

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Marcelo Zuna's off to a hot start

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And if it wasn't for the

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fact he's in the National

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League with Shohei and Mookie Betts,

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he probably is up there in

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the MVP conversation.

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Right now, I'd probably have him third,

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and if not fourth,

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because you never know what

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Freddie Freeman's going to

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do going forward.

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I mean, he's still hitting the ball, too.

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But Ozuna is riding a

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12-game hitting streak

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entering tonight's game.

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I don't know.

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It's 3-0 at the top of the ninth right now,

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so I don't know if he's

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even playing or if he's

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getting hit tonight.

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But entering tonight's game,

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he had a 12-game hitting streak.

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He's 16 for 41 in that time

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with a 390 average.

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He has a double, four home runs, 10 RBIs,

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five runs, five walks.

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In this season,

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he's hitting 323 with a 1.020 OPS.

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He has 13 home runs, 42 RBIs,

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and 25 runs scored.

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Now,

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if you had told me before the season

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started that that was

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Ronald Acuna's numbers, I would have said,

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yeah, that sounds about right.

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Marcelo Zuno, I did not see that coming.

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And that makes me question, like,

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did the Braves not see that coming,

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and that's why they brought Duvall back?

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And now he's doing this,

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and so now they're kind of in a logjam?

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Well, he's only 33 years.

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I mean, I think a lot of people,

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just myself included,

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and I think we talked about

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it early on when we were

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talking about another

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person that's been

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suspended that we'll touch upon earlier,

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is that he was suspended a while back.

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Right.

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And kind of came back in

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that first year back.

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He was really kind of, he has the talent.

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He did it when he was with

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the Cardinals and has done

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it with the Braves,

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but he had that down year.

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So kind of, again, you've got Riley,

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you've got a Kuna, you've got LVS,

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you've got Matt Olson.

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He's typically,

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if you're looking at normal stats,

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he's the fifth, maybe sixth guy, you know,

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with, um, uh,

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Sean Murphy also in that lineup.

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Yep.

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That one actually loaded

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from top to bottom.

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Oh, it's unreal.

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Yeah.

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I mean,

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and they got hit with the injury bug.

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You know, Strider's out.

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I think he's – I believe

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he's out for the year, right?

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I believe so, yeah.

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So, I mean,

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they got hit with the injury

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bug in their rotation.

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But next man up mentality.

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Reynaldo Lopez,

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who saw the journeyman

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coming in and doing what he's doing.

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Chris Sale stayed healthy,

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and he looks filthy.

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I mean – Yeah.

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So,

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that's – he was the most – he's the

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most interesting bat in

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that lineup to me to the hot start.

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Like, it's just – Acuna is not Acuna yet.

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And –

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Right now, I mean, granted,

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going into today,

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I don't know where they're at right now,

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but going into today,

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they were five games back.

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I think they're actually

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five and a half after this

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afternoon's game.

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So five and a half back of the Phillies,

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which is,

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if the Phillies keep playing

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like they're playing,

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they got a good series coming up,

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but I'll get to that later.

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So that's going to be interesting.

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That division, like we said before,

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it's just a two-team race.

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You said it too.

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It might be the Phillies

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division this year,

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and it's looking more like that, but

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One come playoff time,

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you can't count this Braves team out.

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And you know they're getting it.

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Yeah.

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I mean,

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there's no doubt in my mind they're

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getting it.

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I mean,

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they're my pick to go to the World

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Series.

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Yeah.

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So, my next one,

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and this is a little bit

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because I like them as one

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of my National League teams.

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The Marlins had a good week.

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Yep, they did.

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Going four and two and three

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straight shutouts.

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Of all teams, I didn't see that coming.

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shut out the tigers twice

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with two what two nothing

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or one nothing and two

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nothing one whatever I

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might have those flipped I

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almost sent you a message

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this weekend when I was

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watching those I was like

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man that was tough I mean

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that's part of what we said

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was the tigers lineup is

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struggling but then I

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couldn't believe saturday's

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game I had the I had it on

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for a little bit because I

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believe at that time it was

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the only game on and I had

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to shut it off because I

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was like this game's over

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I'm gonna go find something

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else at that point I think

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another game had started

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And then all of a sudden

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they scored four runs in

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the ninth to force extras,

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and then they walked it off

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with Otto Lopez,

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which where did he come from?

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He had a great week.

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I shouldn't say a great week,

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but he had a good week.

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He went six for 22 with a double home run,

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five RBIs, two runs scored, and a walk.

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The big one, though,

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for the week was De La Cruz.

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He loved facing the Tigers.

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I mean, he had a game-winning run scored,

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and he had the walk-off home run.

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So he had a hell of a week.

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He's loving Miami.

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He loves facing the Tigers.

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So keep him away from the AL Central.

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Whatever we do,

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do not let him join the AL Central,

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especially if they start

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selling off more pieces in

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the next coming weeks.

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Don't let him be one of them.

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Yeah.

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Going into that, though,

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let's feed right into the

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Tigers for a second.

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Terrence Google.

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Unreal.

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Is he, you know, I think, I believe,

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I know he was in my top three,

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but he was my Cy Young pick, right?

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Yeah.

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He was yours too, right?

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Or do you have somebody else?

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Oh, God.

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I went with one of the Mariners.

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I think I had Gilbert or Kirby.

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So I was interested by this,

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and I was like, I know he's been good,

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but where does he rank

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right now across all of

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baseball and the American League?

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The 6-0 record is the best

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in the American League,

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only second to Ranger Suarez,

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who's 8-0 for the Phillies.

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He's got a 1-8-0 ERA after

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his start on Friday against

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the Diamondbacks,

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which now puts him entering play today,

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the sixth best ERA in

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baseball and the second

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best ERA in the American League.

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He's got a 0.78 whip,

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which is the second best in

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baseball and the best in

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the American League, and 66 strikeouts,

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which is sixth in MLB,

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fourth in the American League.

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Now, I know, like I said last week,

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record doesn't really matter.

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I mean,

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your team could be terrible and

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your record's three and eight,

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but you have an ERA of one

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something and a whip of just under one.

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How are you not in the conversation?

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So he's the reason why the

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Tigers are even still in this right now.

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And, of course,

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I feel bad for Gage wrote a

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great article about Reese Olsen and

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And how that guy gets no run support.

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And it seems like they just

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took all their run support

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from Reese Olsen and just

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gave it to Tarek Scouble at

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the start because it was 13-0.

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Which I can't wait for.

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And I think right now, from what I've seen,

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it lines up that next week

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they have a two-game series

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against the Pirates.

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And from what I've seen,

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it looks like those two

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games are going to be Jared

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Jones and Paul Skeens,

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which we'll talk about in a little while.

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But I believe that Skeens

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game is going to be against Scooble.

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That'll be a good one.

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So that'll be,

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if you like watching

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pitching and watching a pitcher's duel,

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that might be the game to watch.

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The future, well,

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I guess technically the future,

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both future arms,

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because Scooble is very young.

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Yep.

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So, but...

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Another interesting pitcher

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that I wanted to talk about,

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and I don't know if you

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watched his start this past weekend,

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is Alec Manoa.

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Yeah, I didn't watch it,

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but I did watch the

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condensed game afterwards.

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Could he be back?

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I mean, so he got called up,

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and his first start was not good.

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He came against the

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Nationals going four innings.

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He gave up seven runs,

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six of which were earned on six hits,

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four walks, and six strikeouts.

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Since then...

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He's gone 14 innings, given up three runs,

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none earned, five hits, two walks,

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and 13 strikeouts.

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And those two games didn't

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come against bad teams.

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One was the Twins.

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The other one was the Rays.

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So he's an arm that – and

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we'll talk about this in a

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little while with the other

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Blue Jays stuff that you want to cover.

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If he can get back on track –

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I think he's good for baseball and he not,

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he reminds me of a player

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that we'll talk about later on, but he,

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uh, I liked watching him pitch last year.

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I actually had him as my Cy Young pick.

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And then obviously that didn't go right.

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And he's just been a

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rollercoaster ever since then.

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And they didn't have a spot

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for him in the rotation to start the air.

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They didn't really want to

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have him as a spot for him

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to start the year.

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Cause they planned on,

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from what I've heard,

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they were planning on my

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top prospect in the Blue Jay system,

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Ricky Tiedemann, uh,

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being in the rotation, and he got hurt.

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And so then they went to – I

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think there was a

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competition between Yariel Rodriguez,

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who they signed from Mexico, Manoa,

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and Bowden Francis, and Francis won.

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And then all of a sudden

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Rodriguez got a look.

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He came up,

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and it was kind of like he was

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the starter, but he would go four innings,

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and then they'd go to Francis.

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And then both of those guys go down.

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So what do you do?

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You turn to the third option

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you have in Manoa –

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And aside from the first start,

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he's looked good ever since.

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I mean, so right now through three starts,

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his numbers are 1-1 with a 3 ERA,

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a 4-7-1 FIP, a 0.94 WIP, 19 strikeouts,

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and 18 innings pitched.

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Not bad.

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No.

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But something to watch for

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sure over the next couple weeks.

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I don't remember when he pitched Saturday.

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No, he pitched yesterday.

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Yeah.

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Yesterday.

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I think Brios is today.

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So he pitches again against the Tigers,

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I want to say,

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on Friday because they have

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a four-game set with the

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Tigers this weekend.

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So I believe he'll have Friday's game,

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I think.

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Let me think.

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Barrios, one, two, three, four, five.

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Yeah, Friday.

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Yeah.

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I'll get Friday's game.

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So I'll be tuned in for that

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because it'll be Barrios.

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I think it's going to be

00:17:52.654 --> 00:17:53.776
Casey Mize or Reese Olsen,

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one of the two.

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Yeah, yeah.

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I think Mize is Friday night, I think.

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I've got him on one of my fantasy teams,

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and I believe I was looking at that.

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I think it's a Friday night.

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If not Friday, it's Saturday.

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I'm trying to think right

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now who's throwing today.

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It's Olsen today, Mize tomorrow.

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So that means Skubal Wednesday.

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So Mize might be Sunday.

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Yeah, I think Mize,

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because I think they avoid Skubal.

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The Blue Jays avoid Skubal.

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Yeah.

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So it's got to be, I think it's Flaherty,

00:18:26.468 --> 00:18:26.847
Manning.

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or I might have those two flipped, Olsen,

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and then Mize.

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So Mize is Sunday.

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Yep.

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Because I'm going to miss

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Scooble next weekend.

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Ah, that's right.

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That's right.

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So my last one from the weekend,

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or it's really not even from the weekend.

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It's from the whole first, what are we,

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eight and a half weeks in the season now?

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Seven and a half weeks?

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Eight and a half weeks.

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Yep.

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Um,

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I wrote an article a while back.

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It was right after you wrote

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yours about Ellie Dela Cruz.

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And I wrote that he could do

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something we've never seen before.

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And at the time I was like, this really,

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this really isn't going to happen.

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Like, it's just, it's not, I can't see it.

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Something's going to happen.

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But the things he's doing right now,

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it very well could.

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And that is a 30 home run,

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80 stolen base season.

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The home runs is now the iffy part.

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The stolen base, he really might get 80.

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Yeah.

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Right now, so I did the numbers today.

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He's on pace for 103 stolen

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bases this year.

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Yeah.

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And at that point,

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I got to say he's got to reach 80.

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I mean, he graded in his last five games.

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He's only got four,

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and they all came in one game.

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Yeah.

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But if you can go five games

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and steal four bases and

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four of them come and run one game,

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I mean, I'll take that any day.

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Yeah.

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So I wrote that.

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If you go back,

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I think it's like the sixth

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or seventh article down on the Reds tab.

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If you want to go read that.

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But I'm curious,

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do you think he could

00:20:04.075 --> 00:20:05.256
actually get 30 home runs,

00:20:05.256 --> 00:20:05.996
80 stolen bases?

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I did the article before

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just in regards to the pace

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he was setting at that point.

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I think he was at like 100

00:20:16.578 --> 00:20:17.098
stolen bases per.

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Over 100 stolen bases at that point,

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and he was over 30 home

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runs on pace at that point.

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He was right in the middle

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of his hot streak when he

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was starting to get heating up.

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I think it was 45 and 110.

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Yeah, 45 and 110.

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I think that my hope, I should say,

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for the Reds in general is

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I would like to see 80

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instead of 100 because if he's at 80,

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that means more than likely

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he's starting to –

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hit the gaps a little bit

00:20:50.199 --> 00:20:51.138
and drive the ball a little

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bit more and get some

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doubles rather than steal

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second and then third.

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Um, that that's,

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he has been walking more was,

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and I think for him, the other thing too,

00:21:05.789 --> 00:21:06.590
is I'd like to see some

00:21:06.651 --> 00:21:08.392
runners on in front of them, you know,

00:21:08.511 --> 00:21:09.472
that would kind of,

00:21:09.492 --> 00:21:10.894
I think that's another

00:21:10.953 --> 00:21:13.154
reason why he's had this

00:21:13.256 --> 00:21:14.476
free reign on the base pass,

00:21:14.496 --> 00:21:15.457
not just because he's got

00:21:15.477 --> 00:21:16.617
the ability and the speed,

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But there's generally no one else on base.

00:21:19.928 --> 00:21:22.069
So he's trying to do it all himself.

00:21:22.190 --> 00:21:23.390
Spencer Steer is kind of

00:21:23.470 --> 00:21:24.631
slumping off a little bit.

00:21:25.050 --> 00:21:26.592
Jonathan India hasn't done anything.

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But I really think my hope

00:21:29.032 --> 00:21:30.134
would be is that 80-30.

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You know, I mean,

00:21:31.595 --> 00:21:32.755
obviously to see someone

00:21:32.795 --> 00:21:35.436
steal over 100 bases would be amazing.

00:21:37.198 --> 00:21:38.719
But my hope would be for the

00:21:38.778 --> 00:21:40.839
Reds and for him that they

00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:41.880
get some more runners on

00:21:41.920 --> 00:21:42.740
base in front of him.

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So instead of stealing, you know,

00:21:44.301 --> 00:21:45.021
both bags.

00:21:45.538 --> 00:21:47.618
to get on third base that he would be,

00:21:47.638 --> 00:21:47.999
you know,

00:21:48.019 --> 00:21:50.439
maybe a single drive guy to

00:21:50.500 --> 00:21:51.359
third or whatever,

00:21:51.380 --> 00:21:52.440
and then still second to

00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:53.619
get in scoring position.

00:21:53.680 --> 00:21:54.740
But, you know, 80,

00:21:54.740 --> 00:21:55.881
I think is well in reach

00:21:56.381 --> 00:21:57.602
given what he's doing right now.

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Can we just get him stealing home?

00:22:01.563 --> 00:22:03.482
I was thinking about that the other day.

00:22:03.502 --> 00:22:05.824
I don't know who the hell I

00:22:05.844 --> 00:22:06.943
was talking to now,

00:22:07.744 --> 00:22:10.566
but it was someone talking

00:22:10.586 --> 00:22:11.705
about stealing home.

00:22:13.151 --> 00:22:15.031
And in regards to, you know,

00:22:15.071 --> 00:22:16.971
what it takes and how rare it is.

00:22:16.991 --> 00:22:19.712
And I'm like, well, Duran did it, you know,

00:22:21.373 --> 00:22:23.013
and I think,

00:22:24.273 --> 00:22:25.714
I think that it's going to be

00:22:25.795 --> 00:22:26.375
interesting.

00:22:26.394 --> 00:22:27.575
It would be really cool as

00:22:27.714 --> 00:22:29.976
if it's in a game that matters,

00:22:30.476 --> 00:22:31.036
you know what I mean?

00:22:31.096 --> 00:22:32.276
And the school is close and

00:22:32.296 --> 00:22:33.096
he pulls it off.

00:22:33.676 --> 00:22:35.116
Cause I think that right now

00:22:35.196 --> 00:22:36.057
I could see that with the

00:22:36.076 --> 00:22:37.278
reds that are sputtering so

00:22:37.337 --> 00:22:38.337
much offensively,

00:22:38.417 --> 00:22:40.699
that being the spark plug he is,

00:22:40.759 --> 00:22:41.858
especially depending on,

00:22:43.470 --> 00:22:46.451
who's at bat and who's pitching,

00:22:46.471 --> 00:22:48.691
I can see him trying to pull it off,

00:22:48.810 --> 00:22:49.811
especially if there's a guy

00:22:49.852 --> 00:22:52.593
on first base because they

00:22:52.633 --> 00:22:53.792
just totally forget about it.

00:22:54.813 --> 00:22:55.113
Yeah.

00:22:55.692 --> 00:22:55.932
Mike,

00:22:56.252 --> 00:22:57.673
one last one I just thought of that

00:22:57.713 --> 00:22:58.554
popped in my head just

00:22:58.574 --> 00:23:00.015
because it happened tonight

00:23:00.035 --> 00:23:01.194
and I forgot to write it down.

00:23:01.755 --> 00:23:02.434
And I'm just trying to

00:23:02.494 --> 00:23:03.335
crunch the numbers right

00:23:03.375 --> 00:23:04.615
now to see if it's possible.

00:23:05.175 --> 00:23:06.895
And I don't think it is, but I'm curious.

00:23:07.737 --> 00:23:09.037
I want to see if you think

00:23:09.057 --> 00:23:09.636
it could happen.

00:23:10.497 --> 00:23:11.617
Jaron Duran breaking the

00:23:11.657 --> 00:23:12.698
triples record this season.

00:23:15.728 --> 00:23:16.228
The record's 36.

00:23:17.489 --> 00:23:18.128
Oh, Jesus.

00:23:18.148 --> 00:23:18.128
36.

00:23:18.709 --> 00:23:20.250
And what's he at, like 10?

00:23:20.890 --> 00:23:22.070
Eight after tonight.

00:23:22.770 --> 00:23:23.632
After tonight, eight.

00:23:24.211 --> 00:23:25.752
We're a third of the way.

00:23:26.133 --> 00:23:27.634
What's he tripled in like

00:23:28.233 --> 00:23:29.233
three straight games now?

00:23:32.236 --> 00:23:34.356
So here's another reason why

00:23:34.576 --> 00:23:36.337
this is very much so like

00:23:36.718 --> 00:23:40.359
De La Cruz and hitting the 100.

00:23:40.359 --> 00:23:41.180
Not a lot of guys are

00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:42.641
getting on base in Boston right now.

00:23:43.161 --> 00:23:43.381
Yeah.

00:23:44.385 --> 00:23:46.625
So in terms of him being

00:23:46.806 --> 00:23:47.807
slowed up and having to

00:23:47.866 --> 00:23:51.146
settle for a double, he's got the,

00:23:51.646 --> 00:23:53.367
you know, once he gets those wheels going,

00:23:54.087 --> 00:23:57.327
if he gets a little bit of a window,

00:23:57.387 --> 00:23:58.009
he's taking it.

00:23:58.528 --> 00:23:59.588
And that's pressure on the

00:23:59.648 --> 00:24:01.328
outfield arms and the relay arms,

00:24:01.409 --> 00:24:03.269
and he's taking advantage of it right now,

00:24:03.289 --> 00:24:04.450
and he's hitting the ball really well,

00:24:04.490 --> 00:24:05.609
and he's utilizing the

00:24:06.210 --> 00:24:07.710
green monster really well as well.

00:24:08.250 --> 00:24:09.050
Let's be serious, though.

00:24:09.070 --> 00:24:09.570
Yesterday's,

00:24:09.590 --> 00:24:10.371
do we really want to count

00:24:10.391 --> 00:24:10.990
that as a triple?

00:24:11.637 --> 00:24:12.878
I don't know if you – did you see it?

00:24:13.259 --> 00:24:14.259
Yeah.

00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:16.642
They literally said on the Roku,

00:24:16.682 --> 00:24:18.262
which I want to talk about

00:24:18.303 --> 00:24:19.284
that towards the end of the

00:24:19.324 --> 00:24:21.026
episode and your thoughts on that.

00:24:21.105 --> 00:24:24.808
But I thought it was funny

00:24:24.848 --> 00:24:26.349
that they literally said

00:24:26.390 --> 00:24:27.171
right after the play,

00:24:27.691 --> 00:24:28.751
let's see how they score this.

00:24:29.011 --> 00:24:30.333
And then it just came right away, triple.

00:24:30.993 --> 00:24:31.114
Yeah.

00:24:31.134 --> 00:24:31.213
Yeah.

00:24:31.881 --> 00:24:33.221
which I get like it was the

00:24:33.261 --> 00:24:34.461
sun played a factor so that

00:24:34.541 --> 00:24:35.622
is a hit it's not an error

00:24:35.803 --> 00:24:38.042
but no it triples that's

00:24:38.083 --> 00:24:39.884
wow to get a trip on they

00:24:39.903 --> 00:24:40.463
said it too in the

00:24:40.503 --> 00:24:41.224
broadcast that might have

00:24:41.244 --> 00:24:42.285
been the shortest triple in

00:24:42.325 --> 00:24:45.506
baseball history yeah

00:24:45.526 --> 00:24:47.027
without a throwing yeah I

00:24:47.047 --> 00:24:51.448
mean it was it's definitely

00:24:51.508 --> 00:24:55.369
if not the shortest it's a

00:24:55.430 --> 00:24:56.730
tie for second there

00:24:56.750 --> 00:24:57.611
shouldn't be any others

00:24:57.830 --> 00:24:59.550
quite like that that was

00:24:59.791 --> 00:25:00.852
he's electric he's electric

00:25:01.460 --> 00:25:03.121
yeah watching him is so much

00:25:03.161 --> 00:25:04.362
fun and like you know they

00:25:04.382 --> 00:25:05.021
were talking about I

00:25:05.241 --> 00:25:06.022
started somewhere today

00:25:06.042 --> 00:25:06.883
they were talking about it

00:25:07.423 --> 00:25:08.703
he changed from a power guy

00:25:08.763 --> 00:25:10.144
to he's just a contact guy

00:25:10.184 --> 00:25:11.204
now he's got the speed that

00:25:11.224 --> 00:25:12.306
he can make it an inside

00:25:12.326 --> 00:25:14.007
the park home run too yeah

00:25:14.047 --> 00:25:14.846
he's driving the ball to

00:25:14.906 --> 00:25:16.067
all fields right now he

00:25:16.087 --> 00:25:17.568
pulled one I don't know if

00:25:17.628 --> 00:25:18.608
it was this weekend or

00:25:18.628 --> 00:25:19.670
whatever he hit a home run

00:25:19.769 --> 00:25:22.090
to right and that I don't

00:25:22.131 --> 00:25:23.432
know if it was lou merloni

00:25:23.511 --> 00:25:25.512
or or if it was uke in the

00:25:25.553 --> 00:25:27.473
box at the time talking uh

00:25:28.342 --> 00:25:28.982
through the game.

00:25:29.163 --> 00:25:30.163
That's good to see.

00:25:30.344 --> 00:25:31.545
He's going to all fields.

00:25:31.884 --> 00:25:34.567
He's utilizing everything.

00:25:34.646 --> 00:25:35.287
During that game,

00:25:35.528 --> 00:25:36.528
he might have been the best

00:25:36.588 --> 00:25:38.130
move that wasn't made this

00:25:38.230 --> 00:25:41.311
offseason by the Red Sox by keeping him.

00:25:41.511 --> 00:25:44.134
He is electric.

00:25:45.895 --> 00:25:47.336
If he can keep this pace,

00:25:48.678 --> 00:25:50.278
I think he's either going

00:25:50.298 --> 00:25:54.321
to beat the triples record

00:25:54.362 --> 00:25:56.943
or come close and maybe have over 20,

00:25:56.943 --> 00:25:57.464
but he's going to

00:25:58.240 --> 00:25:59.061
Some of these triples are

00:25:59.082 --> 00:25:59.761
going to end up turning

00:25:59.801 --> 00:26:00.481
into more doubles.

00:26:01.042 --> 00:26:01.202
Right.

00:26:01.583 --> 00:26:02.963
And more home runs.

00:26:02.983 --> 00:26:04.684
And he's just going to be well-rounded,

00:26:05.184 --> 00:26:06.425
which is what this Boston

00:26:06.465 --> 00:26:07.747
team needs in the future.

00:26:07.866 --> 00:26:10.548
And he kind of recently,

00:26:10.567 --> 00:26:12.789
and I hate to bring him up,

00:26:13.450 --> 00:26:14.750
recently he's been kind of

00:26:14.790 --> 00:26:16.131
reminding me more and more

00:26:16.511 --> 00:26:18.073
of Jacoby Ellsbury.

00:26:19.353 --> 00:26:19.472
Yes.

00:26:19.553 --> 00:26:20.834
Using the wall and it just,

00:26:21.634 --> 00:26:22.615
I kind of see it a little

00:26:22.634 --> 00:26:23.955
bit more and more each time

00:26:23.996 --> 00:26:25.176
and as he's developing.

00:26:25.297 --> 00:26:27.298
So, which isn't a bad thing, obviously.

00:26:28.012 --> 00:26:31.473
But, yeah, he's a fun guy to watch.

00:26:32.094 --> 00:26:33.213
They have a big question on

00:26:33.253 --> 00:26:35.674
their hands for 2025, that's for sure,

00:26:35.714 --> 00:26:37.835
with Abreu, Rafaela, Duran,

00:26:38.055 --> 00:26:38.994
Anthony all coming.

00:26:39.535 --> 00:26:40.875
And that's with Ref Snyder

00:26:40.955 --> 00:26:41.895
and you got Yoshida.

00:26:41.935 --> 00:26:42.855
I think Yoshida's gone.

00:26:43.675 --> 00:26:44.435
But, you know,

00:26:44.455 --> 00:26:45.497
you create a logjam now

00:26:45.537 --> 00:26:46.616
where what are you going to do?

00:26:46.636 --> 00:26:47.477
I think Rafaela's your

00:26:47.497 --> 00:26:48.576
center fielder once you

00:26:48.596 --> 00:26:49.596
have a shortstop back.

00:26:50.357 --> 00:26:51.877
I think you really have to

00:26:51.897 --> 00:26:53.018
make the conversation of

00:26:53.137 --> 00:26:54.337
Duran and Anthony,

00:26:54.377 --> 00:26:55.479
and then that kind of puts

00:26:55.538 --> 00:26:56.598
Abreu in a tough spot.

00:26:57.259 --> 00:26:58.819
But I also debated this the other day,

00:26:59.519 --> 00:27:01.701
and I'm curious your thoughts.

00:27:01.721 --> 00:27:02.741
This is completely off topic.

00:27:02.761 --> 00:27:03.882
This wasn't from my weekend,

00:27:03.922 --> 00:27:05.823
but both being New England

00:27:05.863 --> 00:27:07.864
fellas and being Red Sox fans.

00:27:10.145 --> 00:27:12.106
What about the idea of he

00:27:12.146 --> 00:27:13.207
played there the other day, too.

00:27:13.926 --> 00:27:15.347
Rafaela goes to third.

00:27:15.867 --> 00:27:18.150
You get rid of Yoshida, Devers DHs,

00:27:19.150 --> 00:27:22.092
and then you could keep O'Neal, Abreu,

00:27:22.152 --> 00:27:23.152
Duran, and Anthony,

00:27:23.471 --> 00:27:24.593
and you have four outfielders,

00:27:24.633 --> 00:27:25.472
and you could rotate,

00:27:25.673 --> 00:27:26.794
and then Devers is your DH.

00:27:29.335 --> 00:27:31.195
So I haven't seen enough of,

00:27:32.557 --> 00:27:33.277
or Meyer third.

00:27:33.757 --> 00:27:35.097
Well, that's what I was just going to say.

00:27:35.137 --> 00:27:37.558
Like Raphael seems to have more,

00:27:39.980 --> 00:27:41.000
he seems just to be a

00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:42.921
little bit quicker and a

00:27:42.980 --> 00:27:47.682
little bit more reaction time and speed.

00:27:48.104 --> 00:27:49.903
Now his glove compared to Meyer,

00:27:50.184 --> 00:27:51.204
I don't know, or mayor.

00:27:51.224 --> 00:27:54.467
I think in that situation there,

00:27:54.487 --> 00:27:56.207
if I was going to do

00:27:56.267 --> 00:27:57.428
anything and I don't even know if,

00:27:57.930 --> 00:27:59.550
Jesus, now I'm looking in deeper.

00:27:59.810 --> 00:28:04.515
What if you moved Marcel Mayer to second,

00:28:06.296 --> 00:28:08.617
Rafael at short, and Story to third?

00:28:09.638 --> 00:28:11.019
Then you question the elbow

00:28:11.500 --> 00:28:13.402
of Story that he's had, I think,

00:28:13.801 --> 00:28:14.662
a surgery or two.

00:28:14.682 --> 00:28:15.542
Two of them.

00:28:15.682 --> 00:28:17.104
So I would actually move him

00:28:17.163 --> 00:28:20.146
to move Rafael at either

00:28:20.186 --> 00:28:23.288
short or third with Mayer, vice versa,

00:28:23.368 --> 00:28:24.730
and then put Story at second.

00:28:25.471 --> 00:28:26.173
but then you could trade

00:28:26.212 --> 00:28:27.153
Grissom for something.

00:28:27.634 --> 00:28:29.434
I like Grissom, but who knows?

00:28:30.096 --> 00:28:32.258
He's looked like shit to start the year,

00:28:32.298 --> 00:28:33.598
and he hasn't had spring training.

00:28:33.679 --> 00:28:35.299
I get that.

00:28:35.380 --> 00:28:35.901
He was sick.

00:28:35.921 --> 00:28:37.082
He lost 14 pounds.

00:28:37.122 --> 00:28:39.083
That throws off your timing.

00:28:39.723 --> 00:28:40.023
It's weird.

00:28:40.104 --> 00:28:41.025
It seems like they've gone

00:28:41.065 --> 00:28:41.865
away from him because right

00:28:41.885 --> 00:28:43.307
now we've got Gonzalez at second.

00:28:44.347 --> 00:28:45.127
He hasn't looked bad.

00:28:45.248 --> 00:28:46.429
He's a good utility guy.

00:28:50.752 --> 00:28:51.794
Compared to what we have,

00:28:51.874 --> 00:28:52.894
he's not horrible.

00:28:53.315 --> 00:28:54.556
He's not bad at all.

00:28:56.806 --> 00:28:59.988
The other thing that, you know, with Story,

00:29:01.588 --> 00:29:03.210
he's probably another big

00:29:03.269 --> 00:29:06.811
injury away from thinking about things.

00:29:07.291 --> 00:29:07.491
Right.

00:29:09.032 --> 00:29:10.094
I don't want to wish that on

00:29:10.153 --> 00:29:11.153
anyone because I actually

00:29:11.253 --> 00:29:12.194
love Trevor Story,

00:29:12.234 --> 00:29:13.895
and it sucks that he had

00:29:13.935 --> 00:29:14.855
that injury he had this

00:29:14.895 --> 00:29:16.277
year because it was a hustle play,

00:29:16.297 --> 00:29:17.438
you know what I mean, an effort play.

00:29:17.458 --> 00:29:19.598
It wasn't like pulling up a lame,

00:29:19.659 --> 00:29:20.118
running down.

00:29:20.159 --> 00:29:21.640
Yeah, it is what it is.

00:29:23.280 --> 00:29:25.041
And I really think that really –

00:29:26.508 --> 00:29:28.528
him being in this lineup every day,

00:29:29.169 --> 00:29:30.230
especially right now,

00:29:30.829 --> 00:29:34.432
changes the outlook of them

00:29:34.491 --> 00:29:38.153
offensively a little bit more.

00:29:38.213 --> 00:29:39.294
Because you think about it,

00:29:39.314 --> 00:29:40.255
they don't really have –

00:29:40.255 --> 00:29:42.375
they have Tyler O'Neal, they have Devers,

00:29:43.836 --> 00:29:46.017
and then that's really it for power.

00:29:47.198 --> 00:29:48.097
They're trying to just stay

00:29:48.137 --> 00:29:49.419
afloat until Costas comes back,

00:29:49.459 --> 00:29:50.459
which good news on him.

00:29:50.499 --> 00:29:51.519
He's coming back in June.

00:29:51.980 --> 00:29:53.280
He's coming off the first day.

00:29:53.320 --> 00:29:54.721
He's actually allowed to be

00:29:54.882 --> 00:29:55.582
off the injured list.

00:29:56.407 --> 00:29:56.988
Which is good.

00:29:57.627 --> 00:29:58.608
They need that bat and

00:29:58.648 --> 00:30:00.429
hopefully he can get back

00:30:00.449 --> 00:30:01.369
to where he was going.

00:30:01.430 --> 00:30:02.349
But yeah, no,

00:30:02.910 --> 00:30:04.529
that's an interesting one because I mean,

00:30:04.550 --> 00:30:05.830
I've been trying to I'm

00:30:05.851 --> 00:30:07.290
blacked out from watching the Red Sox.

00:30:07.310 --> 00:30:08.071
So I have to watch every

00:30:08.132 --> 00:30:10.152
game on replay because of

00:30:10.211 --> 00:30:11.252
the network I've got.

00:30:11.292 --> 00:30:12.252
I don't have nothing yet.

00:30:12.313 --> 00:30:13.752
I'm going to figure that one

00:30:13.813 --> 00:30:14.953
out and getting that back.

00:30:17.253 --> 00:30:18.994
But when watching it, it's kind of.

00:30:19.718 --> 00:30:20.838
I already know what happened

00:30:21.038 --> 00:30:21.839
to a certain degree,

00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:25.241
so I'm not paying as close

00:30:25.281 --> 00:30:26.722
attention as I should be on

00:30:26.782 --> 00:30:32.287
every play to see the positioning,

00:30:32.366 --> 00:30:34.249
to see how he gets to the ball,

00:30:34.528 --> 00:30:37.651
just to see how he is using momentum,

00:30:38.031 --> 00:30:38.832
picking up the ball.

00:30:38.872 --> 00:30:39.653
Does he wait on it?

00:30:39.772 --> 00:30:41.173
Is he relying on his arm?

00:30:41.653 --> 00:30:42.515
There's all those little

00:30:42.555 --> 00:30:44.195
things that when talking

00:30:44.236 --> 00:30:45.757
about Rafael at short that

00:30:46.057 --> 00:30:47.198
he's obviously an athlete.

00:30:47.218 --> 00:30:48.098
He's not Mookie Betts,

00:30:48.138 --> 00:30:49.299
but he's a great athlete.

00:30:50.317 --> 00:30:52.138
to be jumping around like he has been.

00:30:52.419 --> 00:30:54.701
And I think it does open up that door that,

00:30:55.340 --> 00:30:57.221
and I agree with you, Yoshida,

00:30:57.481 --> 00:30:58.883
as much as I liked him last year,

00:30:58.942 --> 00:30:59.803
just for some reason,

00:30:59.843 --> 00:31:01.284
it seems like he has fallen

00:31:01.364 --> 00:31:03.865
right out of interest with that team.

00:31:04.246 --> 00:31:07.708
And now that saying that,

00:31:07.807 --> 00:31:10.509
I wonder if there's a team

00:31:10.588 --> 00:31:12.730
in California that might want him.

00:31:13.851 --> 00:31:14.611
I'm sure there's a bunch of

00:31:14.631 --> 00:31:15.511
teams that might be interested.

00:31:15.531 --> 00:31:16.451
I just don't think they want

00:31:16.471 --> 00:31:16.992
to take the money.

00:31:17.653 --> 00:31:17.732
No.

00:31:18.557 --> 00:31:19.438
The only team that has the

00:31:19.478 --> 00:31:20.598
money for is the Dodgers.

00:31:21.159 --> 00:31:22.099
You know who I wonder would

00:31:22.119 --> 00:31:23.299
like the money?

00:31:23.881 --> 00:31:24.721
It's the guy that signed him,

00:31:25.602 --> 00:31:26.061
sitting in St.

00:31:26.082 --> 00:31:26.382
Louis,

00:31:26.402 --> 00:31:27.982
who might be the future GM of that team.

00:31:32.464 --> 00:31:34.266
They are a hot mess.

00:31:35.227 --> 00:31:40.729
I think he would be a guy this year,

00:31:40.828 --> 00:31:42.130
if they become sellers,

00:31:42.829 --> 00:31:44.932
he would be the bat other

00:31:44.971 --> 00:31:47.492
than perhaps O'Neal that would be

00:31:48.521 --> 00:31:49.162
on the market.

00:31:50.202 --> 00:31:50.844
And I don't even like the

00:31:50.864 --> 00:31:51.743
idea of moving O'Neal.

00:31:52.183 --> 00:31:52.644
Me neither.

00:31:52.805 --> 00:31:54.425
It's a one-year deal, but still,

00:31:55.105 --> 00:31:57.428
I think he's so far, he's, yeah,

00:31:58.347 --> 00:31:59.108
I'd be for that.

00:32:00.650 --> 00:32:01.069
But like I said,

00:32:01.089 --> 00:32:02.070
that further is the log jam

00:32:02.090 --> 00:32:02.951
where you might have to put

00:32:02.990 --> 00:32:04.132
Raphael in the infield or

00:32:04.152 --> 00:32:05.012
you're going to move one of

00:32:05.053 --> 00:32:06.032
those guys in the outfield.

00:32:10.096 --> 00:32:13.377
Yeah, I don't, it'll be interesting.

00:32:13.438 --> 00:32:14.999
I think a lot will be told

00:32:15.058 --> 00:32:16.099
over the rest of the season.

00:32:16.655 --> 00:32:18.917
and to see what Breslow's trying to do.

00:32:18.938 --> 00:32:21.220
It'll be very interesting to

00:32:21.279 --> 00:32:23.102
see when people come back.

00:32:24.063 --> 00:32:24.743
That's all I had.

00:32:24.763 --> 00:32:25.663
All right.

00:32:25.723 --> 00:32:25.924
No,

00:32:25.964 --> 00:32:27.625
I think the only thing I was going to

00:32:27.665 --> 00:32:28.326
mention when you were

00:32:28.366 --> 00:32:29.327
talking about the Tigers

00:32:29.728 --> 00:32:31.169
that's kind of surprised me

00:32:31.750 --> 00:32:34.952
is Jack Flaherty is 8Ks per

00:32:34.992 --> 00:32:36.914
game right now, 8Ks per start,

00:32:37.615 --> 00:32:38.215
which is good.

00:32:38.276 --> 00:32:39.317
I mean, I think that.

00:32:40.153 --> 00:32:41.474
He's starting to turn the

00:32:41.535 --> 00:32:42.394
corner a little bit,

00:32:42.454 --> 00:32:44.175
and perhaps he could be one

00:32:44.215 --> 00:32:45.336
to watch second half of the

00:32:45.376 --> 00:32:46.477
season if he stays healthy

00:32:46.497 --> 00:32:47.557
for the Tigers to kind of

00:32:48.417 --> 00:32:49.699
round into form and kind of

00:32:49.719 --> 00:32:50.919
get back to his old self.

00:32:51.480 --> 00:32:52.980
He's definitely missing some bats.

00:32:53.580 --> 00:32:55.501
He's allowed 50 hits, but, I mean,

00:32:56.142 --> 00:32:57.123
he's someone to watch out

00:32:57.182 --> 00:32:58.482
for because they've already got school,

00:32:58.603 --> 00:33:00.324
like we've talked about, Reese Olsen,

00:33:00.683 --> 00:33:01.525
Casey Mize.

00:33:02.244 --> 00:33:03.306
They've got the pitching,

00:33:03.365 --> 00:33:04.266
and once those bats

00:33:04.346 --> 00:33:05.507
actually start to heat up,

00:33:07.167 --> 00:33:08.208
I'll be very interested

00:33:08.228 --> 00:33:09.628
because those win totals will change.

00:33:09.648 --> 00:33:10.009
I think he's gone.

00:33:10.801 --> 00:33:11.442
I think he's gone.

00:33:12.124 --> 00:33:12.423
Really?

00:33:12.443 --> 00:33:14.246
I think he's gone at the deadline.

00:33:14.445 --> 00:33:15.406
I think he's on a one-year

00:33:15.448 --> 00:33:17.190
deal and the way they're going right now.

00:33:17.730 --> 00:33:18.431
And this is the one thing

00:33:18.471 --> 00:33:19.372
I've said nonstop.

00:33:19.412 --> 00:33:20.894
If you read any of my down on the farms,

00:33:22.375 --> 00:33:23.237
even my roster moves,

00:33:23.277 --> 00:33:24.438
I mentioned it quite a few times.

00:33:25.058 --> 00:33:25.799
The Tigers are like one of

00:33:25.819 --> 00:33:26.921
the teams in baseball that

00:33:26.980 --> 00:33:28.041
are just loaded with arms.

00:33:28.762 --> 00:33:29.044
Loaded.

00:33:29.703 --> 00:33:30.005
Where...

00:33:30.911 --> 00:33:31.590
Ty Madden, yeah,

00:33:31.611 --> 00:33:33.031
he struggled at AAA right now.

00:33:33.892 --> 00:33:36.212
And Jackson Jobe, at least on MLB,

00:33:36.353 --> 00:33:37.433
mine hasn't been updated.

00:33:37.453 --> 00:33:38.574
It will be, I think,

00:33:38.835 --> 00:33:40.015
on tomorrow's Down the Farm,

00:33:40.055 --> 00:33:40.615
I mentioned it will be

00:33:40.634 --> 00:33:41.796
coming up in the next week or two,

00:33:41.855 --> 00:33:42.715
where I'll have a brand-new

00:33:42.736 --> 00:33:43.497
top 10 for them.

00:33:44.096 --> 00:33:45.617
But Jackson Jobe on MLB has

00:33:45.678 --> 00:33:47.258
jumped into the top 10 for

00:33:47.317 --> 00:33:49.298
prospects in all of baseball.

00:33:50.099 --> 00:33:51.059
And he's hurt right now,

00:33:51.140 --> 00:33:52.721
but he's looked good this year,

00:33:52.740 --> 00:33:53.740
and he's just up and coming.

00:33:54.362 --> 00:33:55.481
You know, and there's a couple more,

00:33:55.521 --> 00:33:56.663
like Cater Montero.

00:33:56.682 --> 00:33:58.623
Wilmer Forrest is more in a

00:33:58.663 --> 00:33:59.604
relief role right now.

00:34:00.415 --> 00:34:01.736
Think about that.

00:34:01.756 --> 00:34:03.497
That's a top 10 for them.

00:34:04.977 --> 00:34:06.377
Those forearms I just named,

00:34:06.417 --> 00:34:07.218
they might be a fifth one

00:34:07.238 --> 00:34:08.398
that I'm completely blanking on,

00:34:08.438 --> 00:34:10.199
but they got nothing but arms.

00:34:10.298 --> 00:34:11.798
Oh, Sawyer Gibson Long's out for the year.

00:34:11.960 --> 00:34:12.639
That's another arm that's

00:34:12.659 --> 00:34:13.519
coming back next year.

00:34:14.659 --> 00:34:15.661
The whole thing with Casey

00:34:15.701 --> 00:34:16.541
Mize and Reese Olsen

00:34:16.561 --> 00:34:17.541
getting the last two spots,

00:34:17.581 --> 00:34:18.862
and Olsen's looking like he

00:34:18.882 --> 00:34:20.461
could be an ace of the future,

00:34:20.702 --> 00:34:21.521
just like Scoogle,

00:34:22.463 --> 00:34:23.422
and he's just not getting

00:34:23.443 --> 00:34:24.222
the run support right now.

00:34:24.842 --> 00:34:26.463
But Matt Manning got forced out.

00:34:27.226 --> 00:34:28.927
because they signed Flaherty and Maeda.

00:34:29.186 --> 00:34:31.268
And I was thinking about it the other day,

00:34:31.307 --> 00:34:33.047
and it's just this Tigers

00:34:33.068 --> 00:34:33.768
team needs a bat.

00:34:34.668 --> 00:34:36.608
So it was a move for Flaherty for a bat,

00:34:36.768 --> 00:34:38.009
a possibility with somebody.

00:34:39.028 --> 00:34:39.829
And that's something I might

00:34:39.849 --> 00:34:40.630
end up writing about in the

00:34:40.690 --> 00:34:41.449
next couple of days.

00:34:41.489 --> 00:34:43.230
We'll see what happens in his next start,

00:34:43.250 --> 00:34:44.690
which I think is coming up here soon.

00:34:44.710 --> 00:34:47.811
It might actually be against

00:34:47.891 --> 00:34:49.110
Toronto in the first game.

00:34:51.132 --> 00:34:53.751
But Maeda's here in a two-year deal.

00:34:54.612 --> 00:34:56.972
So if it was the other way around...

00:34:57.914 --> 00:34:59.195
you probably can't get Maeda

00:34:59.615 --> 00:35:01.137
traded for that.

00:35:01.257 --> 00:35:02.878
Whereas Flaherty with what he's doing,

00:35:02.918 --> 00:35:03.297
you could.

00:35:04.219 --> 00:35:05.840
And it's a great bounce back year for him,

00:35:05.940 --> 00:35:06.739
especially after he

00:35:06.760 --> 00:35:09.481
struggled last year in St.

00:35:09.521 --> 00:35:11.103
Louis and then got traded to Baltimore.

00:35:11.143 --> 00:35:12.543
And even when he got to the Orioles,

00:35:12.583 --> 00:35:13.364
the Orioles put him in a

00:35:13.405 --> 00:35:15.085
relief role after a couple of starts.

00:35:15.945 --> 00:35:16.666
So I think it's just,

00:35:16.927 --> 00:35:17.847
it's something to me that

00:35:17.867 --> 00:35:18.907
it seems like he's going to

00:35:18.947 --> 00:35:19.847
be an arm that could be

00:35:19.869 --> 00:35:21.989
talked about at the deadline to get moved,

00:35:22.150 --> 00:35:23.550
whether the Tigers are in it or not.

00:35:24.110 --> 00:35:24.791
It could be something that's

00:35:24.811 --> 00:35:25.472
floated out there.

00:35:26.192 --> 00:35:26.893
Now, if they're in it,

00:35:27.619 --> 00:35:28.960
I say you hold them and keep

00:35:28.981 --> 00:35:29.942
them and try to make a run,

00:35:30.061 --> 00:35:32.143
but if somehow they stay

00:35:32.164 --> 00:35:32.903
where they're at right now

00:35:32.943 --> 00:35:34.585
and that Central is so crowded together,

00:35:34.606 --> 00:35:36.567
it's something that could be entertained.

00:35:38.128 --> 00:35:39.650
So this is off topic and

00:35:39.889 --> 00:35:41.951
definitely wasn't planned for us,

00:35:41.990 --> 00:35:44.012
but as we're talking and

00:35:44.052 --> 00:35:45.054
we've mentioned their

00:35:45.114 --> 00:35:47.315
bullpen and the back end

00:35:47.556 --> 00:35:50.617
specifically being not

00:35:50.677 --> 00:35:52.719
desirable situation for them.

00:35:54.201 --> 00:35:55.202
Flaherty has given up

00:35:56.050 --> 00:35:57.391
more hits than I would like,

00:35:58.692 --> 00:35:59.713
but he's striking out

00:35:59.773 --> 00:36:00.954
batters and he's missing

00:36:01.014 --> 00:36:04.817
plenty of bats and he's had

00:36:04.876 --> 00:36:06.277
injury issues in the past.

00:36:08.398 --> 00:36:11.280
Could he be someone in the

00:36:11.360 --> 00:36:13.902
future that could move to that ninth,

00:36:13.922 --> 00:36:14.704
eighth inning role?

00:36:15.905 --> 00:36:16.985
I don't hate the idea of him

00:36:17.005 --> 00:36:17.885
being the closer because

00:36:17.905 --> 00:36:18.987
that's one issue they've got.

00:36:19.666 --> 00:36:20.927
Although Foley's looked

00:36:20.947 --> 00:36:22.869
pretty good there and took

00:36:23.030 --> 00:36:24.311
it away from Alex Lang.

00:36:24.972 --> 00:36:26.233
And there was talk of Shelby Miller,

00:36:26.253 --> 00:36:28.273
but he's got something going on.

00:36:29.175 --> 00:36:30.936
Who knows what that's going to look like.

00:36:31.036 --> 00:36:33.797
But it's not a bad idea.

00:36:33.818 --> 00:36:34.998
Like I said,

00:36:35.018 --> 00:36:36.219
the only issue is you've got Foley.

00:36:36.280 --> 00:36:38.420
And if Lane can figure his stuff out,

00:36:38.440 --> 00:36:39.262
he's electric too.

00:36:39.561 --> 00:36:40.161
Or he can be.

00:36:40.782 --> 00:36:41.003
Can be.

00:36:41.023 --> 00:36:43.425
So it really, at the end of the day,

00:36:43.445 --> 00:36:44.806
becomes what are you seeing

00:36:44.826 --> 00:36:46.847
in the next month,

00:36:47.007 --> 00:36:47.947
month and a half or so.

00:36:47.967 --> 00:36:49.469
Like I said, really at the end of the day,

00:36:49.708 --> 00:36:50.588
all this conversation

00:36:50.630 --> 00:36:51.429
should be happening in the

00:36:51.469 --> 00:36:52.030
middle of June.

00:36:52.110 --> 00:36:53.090
Where are you at and what do

00:36:53.110 --> 00:36:54.152
you see your team looking like?

00:36:54.713 --> 00:36:54.952
Yeah.

00:36:55.753 --> 00:36:58.255
And, and then again, it would start really,

00:36:58.295 --> 00:36:59.056
it's to me,

00:36:59.115 --> 00:37:01.757
it starts your observation of

00:37:01.777 --> 00:37:02.878
your team is the middle of

00:37:02.918 --> 00:37:04.059
June till the all-star break.

00:37:04.378 --> 00:37:05.179
And then you have all that

00:37:05.219 --> 00:37:06.920
time to figure out, okay, who do we,

00:37:06.980 --> 00:37:07.820
who are we moving?

00:37:08.501 --> 00:37:09.661
And then you can dangle them out there,

00:37:09.681 --> 00:37:10.242
see what's available.

00:37:10.282 --> 00:37:11.023
And that's when you start to

00:37:11.063 --> 00:37:11.902
see the trades happen.

00:37:11.922 --> 00:37:12.342
Cause I mean,

00:37:12.943 --> 00:37:14.143
realistically the trade

00:37:14.164 --> 00:37:15.025
deadline has been quiet the

00:37:15.065 --> 00:37:16.365
last couple of years with, you know,

00:37:16.385 --> 00:37:17.746
a little bit of moves here and there,

00:37:17.806 --> 00:37:18.606
but everything happens

00:37:18.626 --> 00:37:19.327
before the deadline.

00:37:19.927 --> 00:37:20.108
Yeah.

00:37:20.666 --> 00:37:21.445
Everyone's trying to jump

00:37:21.485 --> 00:37:23.226
ahead and get as much value as they can,

00:37:23.806 --> 00:37:25.068
which the Padres did right away.

00:37:25.608 --> 00:37:25.807
Yep.

00:37:28.489 --> 00:37:28.789
All right.

00:37:28.889 --> 00:37:29.530
No, I think,

00:37:29.769 --> 00:37:31.871
I think my notes are going to

00:37:31.911 --> 00:37:33.630
be a little bit similar.

00:37:33.670 --> 00:37:34.612
And I think obviously

00:37:34.672 --> 00:37:35.692
there's a few things that

00:37:35.711 --> 00:37:37.353
we both would have wanted to talk about.

00:37:38.793 --> 00:37:39.954
So I've only got a few

00:37:40.014 --> 00:37:42.195
that'll be that we can talk about,

00:37:42.275 --> 00:37:44.335
but in the meantime,

00:37:44.376 --> 00:37:47.257
let's take a break and discuss, you know,

00:37:47.436 --> 00:37:49.137
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00:37:49.849 --> 00:37:51.891
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00:38:02.503 --> 00:38:03.523
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00:39:01.969 --> 00:39:03.809
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There you go.

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Perfect.

00:39:23.086 --> 00:39:26.027
So I think my first note is

00:39:26.068 --> 00:39:26.987
something that you and I

00:39:27.329 --> 00:39:28.489
have obviously been talking

00:39:28.528 --> 00:39:29.389
back and forth about.

00:39:30.150 --> 00:39:30.869
Paul Skeens,

00:39:30.909 --> 00:39:33.592
who was the number two ranked

00:39:33.931 --> 00:39:37.152
ITD prospect to start the year.

00:39:37.434 --> 00:39:40.355
Paul Skeens came up, made his first start.

00:39:40.858 --> 00:39:43.880
in Pittsburgh against the Cubs.

00:39:44.681 --> 00:39:45.501
In that start,

00:39:45.902 --> 00:39:47.061
he started the game off by

00:39:47.121 --> 00:39:50.083
striking out Mike Tauchman off a foul tip,

00:39:50.204 --> 00:39:52.224
and then he completely

00:39:52.545 --> 00:39:54.865
owned Seiya Suzuki in his first start.

00:39:55.425 --> 00:39:58.688
Started him with a breaking

00:39:58.728 --> 00:40:00.389
ball on the outside,

00:40:01.188 --> 00:40:04.070
then came in and finished him with a,

00:40:04.570 --> 00:40:06.572
I want to say it was a

00:40:06.612 --> 00:40:07.713
fastball right on the corner.

00:40:07.733 --> 00:40:09.233
He painted the corner on the

00:40:09.273 --> 00:40:10.614
second strike and third strike.

00:40:11.103 --> 00:40:12.744
He basically reverse-pitched him,

00:40:13.204 --> 00:40:15.086
where he threw his strikeout pitch first,

00:40:15.586 --> 00:40:16.166
came inside.

00:40:16.226 --> 00:40:17.387
I think it was maybe either

00:40:17.427 --> 00:40:19.989
the split or whatever you

00:40:20.269 --> 00:40:20.871
were calling it.

00:40:22.090 --> 00:40:22.632
A splinker.

00:40:22.652 --> 00:40:26.173
A splinker, and he hit the inside corner,

00:40:26.233 --> 00:40:28.054
and then he just pasted

00:40:28.114 --> 00:40:29.016
another one on the outside

00:40:29.076 --> 00:40:29.735
corner fastball.

00:40:29.815 --> 00:40:31.338
Totally had him guessing the hole at bat.

00:40:32.657 --> 00:40:33.418
The first start,

00:40:33.918 --> 00:40:34.920
he didn't get the decision.

00:40:35.440 --> 00:40:38.242
He left the game after five

00:40:38.302 --> 00:40:39.262
innings when they were up 6-0.

00:40:42.382 --> 00:40:45.625
They went in to a rain delay, tied 6-6.

00:40:45.644 --> 00:40:46.545
So it was no matter,

00:40:47.106 --> 00:40:48.126
wasn't going to be in the decision.

00:40:49.047 --> 00:40:49.887
The biggest thing I took

00:40:49.947 --> 00:40:51.268
away from that game for him

00:40:51.989 --> 00:40:53.411
was he didn't have the

00:40:53.471 --> 00:40:54.811
control of his fastball.

00:40:55.192 --> 00:40:55.871
And I was a little

00:40:56.293 --> 00:40:57.172
interested to see what he

00:40:57.193 --> 00:40:58.134
was going to do in game two.

00:40:58.653 --> 00:41:00.114
Well, game two,

00:41:00.155 --> 00:41:01.456
he came out and just kicked their ass.

00:41:02.297 --> 00:41:03.697
Struck out the first seven

00:41:03.737 --> 00:41:06.679
batters he faced in Wrigley on the road,

00:41:07.059 --> 00:41:08.701
ended up with 11 strikeouts,

00:41:09.041 --> 00:41:10.222
and then ended up winning the game.

00:41:10.242 --> 00:41:11.063
He got his first win.

00:41:11.630 --> 00:41:14.452
was perfect he was perfect

00:41:14.492 --> 00:41:17.572
he was electric his I don't

00:41:17.612 --> 00:41:18.514
know if you saw the

00:41:18.994 --> 00:41:20.894
interview in regards to

00:41:22.215 --> 00:41:25.077
when someone asked him what

00:41:25.117 --> 00:41:26.277
he was going to do to make

00:41:26.378 --> 00:41:28.338
like when the batters were

00:41:28.358 --> 00:41:29.298
going to make adjustments

00:41:29.338 --> 00:41:31.360
to him and he just goes I i

00:41:32.021 --> 00:41:33.942
I don't even know good he

00:41:33.961 --> 00:41:35.242
said good luck something

00:41:35.282 --> 00:41:36.382
along those lines good luck

00:41:36.563 --> 00:41:38.204
and just the confidence he has

00:41:39.030 --> 00:41:41.913
I mean, he's been doing this in AAA.

00:41:42.313 --> 00:41:43.974
He did it in his college career.

00:41:45.315 --> 00:41:46.876
You know, the Pirates do need a bat.

00:41:46.936 --> 00:41:48.237
I don't think they'll pinch hit with him,

00:41:48.717 --> 00:41:49.898
but he can hit the ball too.

00:41:50.059 --> 00:41:51.059
He did that in college.

00:41:51.099 --> 00:41:52.719
He can hit too.

00:41:53.280 --> 00:41:54.260
Yeah, he's an athlete.

00:41:55.282 --> 00:41:57.483
So when looking at this,

00:41:58.764 --> 00:42:00.445
Jared Jones pitched the game before,

00:42:01.445 --> 00:42:04.248
and Jared Jones has been lights out too.

00:42:04.748 --> 00:42:06.889
And I was just thinking right now,

00:42:08.987 --> 00:42:11.349
Is there a better duo, young duo,

00:42:13.152 --> 00:42:14.452
in the major leagues than these two,

00:42:15.014 --> 00:42:16.175
currently, the way they're pitching?

00:42:16.635 --> 00:42:16.815
No.

00:42:18.117 --> 00:42:18.376
I mean,

00:42:18.516 --> 00:42:19.699
I think the future is very bright

00:42:19.739 --> 00:42:20.278
in Pittsburgh.

00:42:20.579 --> 00:42:20.840
Yeah.

00:42:21.039 --> 00:42:22.862
And I mentioned this last

00:42:22.902 --> 00:42:24.003
week with somebody that I

00:42:24.043 --> 00:42:25.603
really like watching pitch, Tanner Houck.

00:42:26.344 --> 00:42:26.525
Yeah.

00:42:27.286 --> 00:42:28.306
Where I mentioned his numbers,

00:42:28.327 --> 00:42:29.768
and I said along the lines of, you know,

00:42:30.088 --> 00:42:30.969
so far this year,

00:42:31.130 --> 00:42:32.210
he has his best starts in

00:42:32.251 --> 00:42:33.472
his first appearance against the team.

00:42:34.206 --> 00:42:35.146
Now that changed against the

00:42:35.186 --> 00:42:36.088
Rays where he had his worst

00:42:36.108 --> 00:42:37.367
start against them and

00:42:37.407 --> 00:42:38.748
looked better tonight, obviously.

00:42:40.829 --> 00:42:42.168
So my question was with Skeens,

00:42:42.809 --> 00:42:44.329
it's really tough your first two starts.

00:42:44.349 --> 00:42:45.489
You're going against the same team.

00:42:46.269 --> 00:42:49.070
So how do you, in your first two starts,

00:42:49.150 --> 00:42:50.210
how do you adjust to a

00:42:50.251 --> 00:42:52.612
lineup you just saw five days before?

00:42:53.472 --> 00:42:55.612
And he came out and he adjusted.

00:42:56.512 --> 00:42:59.054
The thing I didn't like was

00:42:59.094 --> 00:43:00.034
his first start.

00:43:00.574 --> 00:43:01.914
And I don't know if I said it to you.

00:43:02.014 --> 00:43:02.815
I said it to somebody.

00:43:03.550 --> 00:43:05.391
But I didn't like how, you know,

00:43:05.911 --> 00:43:07.632
obviously in the minors, he went, what,

00:43:07.771 --> 00:43:09.072
probably averaged three and

00:43:09.172 --> 00:43:10.992
two thirds or four and a third.

00:43:11.032 --> 00:43:12.474
He felt he never went fifth

00:43:12.514 --> 00:43:13.094
at five innings.

00:43:15.195 --> 00:43:18.257
But he got into trouble early on.

00:43:18.277 --> 00:43:19.056
Maybe it was the second and

00:43:19.077 --> 00:43:20.177
he had the bases loaded or

00:43:20.498 --> 00:43:21.677
second and third or first and second,

00:43:21.697 --> 00:43:22.038
whatever.

00:43:22.057 --> 00:43:23.818
And they let him get out of it, which,

00:43:24.099 --> 00:43:24.278
good.

00:43:24.498 --> 00:43:25.260
That's the second inning of

00:43:25.300 --> 00:43:26.280
his big league debut.

00:43:26.300 --> 00:43:26.981
Let him figure it out.

00:43:28.061 --> 00:43:29.402
In the fifth inning,

00:43:29.722 --> 00:43:30.661
when they took him out, wasn't it?

00:43:31.161 --> 00:43:32.103
It was one or two outs.

00:43:33.010 --> 00:43:34.070
I didn't like the fact that,

00:43:34.170 --> 00:43:35.570
I don't even think, was it bases loaded?

00:43:35.650 --> 00:43:37.050
But I thought it wasn't bases loaded.

00:43:37.070 --> 00:43:37.612
It might have been.

00:43:37.632 --> 00:43:39.791
But they didn't let him finish it.

00:43:40.351 --> 00:43:41.012
Let him finish it.

00:43:41.213 --> 00:43:41.833
You had the lead.

00:43:41.873 --> 00:43:42.952
It was 6-2 at the time.

00:43:42.972 --> 00:43:46.333
He was at like 89 pitches, I think, too,

00:43:46.393 --> 00:43:47.594
if I could be mistaken.

00:43:48.195 --> 00:43:49.976
And the guy just threw 116

00:43:49.976 --> 00:43:50.956
all last season pretty much

00:43:50.996 --> 00:43:51.976
every start in college.

00:43:53.697 --> 00:43:55.117
You know, let him finish it.

00:43:55.197 --> 00:43:56.958
And, you know, worst case scenario,

00:43:57.038 --> 00:43:57.757
it's 6-6,

00:43:57.777 --> 00:43:59.039
which is what it ended up being

00:43:59.099 --> 00:44:00.099
anyways after you took him out.

00:44:01.063 --> 00:44:02.804
So let him finish it, see what happens.

00:44:04.804 --> 00:44:05.445
Then you're in line.

00:44:05.505 --> 00:44:06.465
Maybe he's in line for a win

00:44:06.565 --> 00:44:07.387
in his first start.

00:44:07.806 --> 00:44:08.666
That's what everybody wants

00:44:08.706 --> 00:44:10.288
to see is everybody's tuning in for him.

00:44:10.947 --> 00:44:12.088
I get you got to win a baseball game.

00:44:12.128 --> 00:44:12.789
I understand that.

00:44:12.869 --> 00:44:14.369
But, I mean,

00:44:15.130 --> 00:44:15.829
let him try to see if he can

00:44:15.849 --> 00:44:16.309
get out of it.

00:44:16.469 --> 00:44:17.449
That's your future right there.

00:44:17.469 --> 00:44:18.251
So you got to figure out if

00:44:18.291 --> 00:44:19.291
he can get you out of jams

00:44:19.311 --> 00:44:19.951
when you need him to.

00:44:20.672 --> 00:44:20.871
Yeah.

00:44:21.711 --> 00:44:22.873
It was very interesting.

00:44:23.072 --> 00:44:23.873
Very interesting.

00:44:24.012 --> 00:44:24.952
Because I agree.

00:44:25.353 --> 00:44:26.514
He only pitched four innings

00:44:26.534 --> 00:44:27.454
in that first start because

00:44:27.474 --> 00:44:28.195
they pulled him when they

00:44:28.215 --> 00:44:29.034
got two guys on.

00:44:29.929 --> 00:44:34.092
And he was only sitting at 84 pitches,

00:44:34.092 --> 00:44:35.552
54 of strikes.

00:44:36.152 --> 00:44:38.074
But they were hitting .353

00:44:38.074 --> 00:44:38.954
against him that game.

00:44:41.436 --> 00:44:42.677
The Cubs were.

00:44:43.197 --> 00:44:44.777
But then the second game, he throws 100.

00:44:44.818 --> 00:44:47.498
And the average dipped down to 171.

00:44:47.599 --> 00:44:49.239
He had a .90 whip in that game.

00:44:49.260 --> 00:44:50.599
But he was electric that game.

00:44:50.619 --> 00:44:51.021
And I think it was...

00:44:57.405 --> 00:44:59.726
part of me was thinking in regards to,

00:44:59.827 --> 00:45:00.807
was he, cause he, you know,

00:45:01.387 --> 00:45:02.708
like you had mentioned in the minors,

00:45:02.748 --> 00:45:04.869
he didn't pitch for shit in regards to,

00:45:05.349 --> 00:45:06.351
they didn't want to waste him.

00:45:07.030 --> 00:45:07.190
Right.

00:45:07.231 --> 00:45:08.931
But was he,

00:45:10.213 --> 00:45:11.293
did he have a chip on his

00:45:11.313 --> 00:45:12.373
shoulder in game two?

00:45:12.954 --> 00:45:15.414
Because he felt like they

00:45:15.454 --> 00:45:16.856
didn't trust him to get out of that.

00:45:17.115 --> 00:45:19.077
So he never put himself in that situation.

00:45:19.237 --> 00:45:20.697
So these,

00:45:20.858 --> 00:45:23.460
these two guys in the last 15 days, uh,

00:45:24.853 --> 00:45:26.713
Skeens is 1-0 in two starts

00:45:26.753 --> 00:45:28.514
with 10 innings pitch, six hits,

00:45:29.016 --> 00:45:29.916
three earned runs,

00:45:30.376 --> 00:45:32.818
only giving up one home run, you know,

00:45:32.978 --> 00:45:34.518
three walks, one hit batter,

00:45:34.518 --> 00:45:39.181
18 strikeouts with a 2.70

00:45:39.181 --> 00:45:42.684
ERA and a .90 whip.

00:45:44.244 --> 00:45:45.686
Jared Jones has started two

00:45:45.726 --> 00:45:46.606
games going 1-1 with a 3.75 ERA,

00:45:46.606 --> 00:45:46.885
12 innings.

00:45:50.438 --> 00:45:53.139
Five earned runs, two home runs, two walks,

00:45:53.179 --> 00:45:55.601
and 11 strikeouts with a 1.33 whip.

00:45:56.880 --> 00:45:58.461
There's a guy, Mitch Keller,

00:45:58.541 --> 00:45:59.943
who's in the middle of it all,

00:46:00.123 --> 00:46:01.784
who got his new contract this year.

00:46:01.804 --> 00:46:03.304
It's 3-0,

00:46:03.304 --> 00:46:05.806
1.29 ERA over the last 15 days

00:46:05.846 --> 00:46:06.525
and three starts,

00:46:06.826 --> 00:46:08.706
one of which was a complete game.

00:46:09.367 --> 00:46:11.588
He's thrown 21 innings, 15 hits,

00:46:11.789 --> 00:46:14.409
three earned runs, one home run,

00:46:16.590 --> 00:46:17.952
six free passes with two of

00:46:17.972 --> 00:46:20.112
them being by means of hit-by-pitch.

00:46:20.458 --> 00:46:21.498
and 15 strikeouts,

00:46:21.559 --> 00:46:24.380
and he also has a .90 whip.

00:46:24.739 --> 00:46:26.460
So as good as Jared Jones

00:46:26.661 --> 00:46:31.043
and Paul Skeens have been, Mitch Keller,

00:46:32.664 --> 00:46:33.885
the veteran of the group,

00:46:34.786 --> 00:46:35.905
has done just as well.

00:46:36.306 --> 00:46:37.786
And this Pittsburgh team,

00:46:39.447 --> 00:46:40.789
if they can start giving

00:46:40.829 --> 00:46:43.550
the run support to Jared Jones,

00:46:43.730 --> 00:46:47.864
which he has lacked, this team –

00:46:47.864 --> 00:46:49.164
Give them a bat here.

00:46:49.184 --> 00:46:51.106
I really think they need a first baseman,

00:46:51.525 --> 00:46:53.387
a right-handed bat or a

00:46:53.626 --> 00:46:56.469
switch-hitting bat at first.

00:46:56.509 --> 00:46:58.510
I'm not a rowdy-to-leaves guy,

00:46:58.949 --> 00:47:00.751
but they have some guys.

00:47:00.791 --> 00:47:01.532
They're scrappy,

00:47:01.572 --> 00:47:03.952
and Jack Swinski hit one

00:47:04.012 --> 00:47:04.713
out the other day,

00:47:04.813 --> 00:47:06.514
so maybe he's starting to heat up.

00:47:06.554 --> 00:47:07.355
But this team,

00:47:07.434 --> 00:47:09.315
I like watching the Pirates play.

00:47:09.356 --> 00:47:10.016
They're scrappy,

00:47:10.416 --> 00:47:11.556
and I like their pitching staff.

00:47:12.398 --> 00:47:13.418
You know who's also turning

00:47:13.498 --> 00:47:14.358
on is O'Neal Cruz.

00:47:16.360 --> 00:47:16.539
So...

00:47:18.090 --> 00:47:20.972
If you didn't know baseball

00:47:22.333 --> 00:47:24.215
and you just knew Cruz was

00:47:24.255 --> 00:47:25.416
the last name and you

00:47:25.476 --> 00:47:29.239
watched O'Neal Cruz run and

00:47:29.519 --> 00:47:30.940
swing the bat and make

00:47:31.001 --> 00:47:35.184
contact and Ellie Della Cruz hit, swing,

00:47:35.485 --> 00:47:35.905
and run,

00:47:37.266 --> 00:47:38.347
would you be able to tell the difference?

00:47:38.788 --> 00:47:39.327
No.

00:47:39.688 --> 00:47:40.409
I thought the same thing

00:47:40.708 --> 00:47:42.150
watching Della Cruz last season.

00:47:42.771 --> 00:47:43.771
I thought that's the same

00:47:44.152 --> 00:47:45.012
player it reminded me of.

00:47:45.753 --> 00:47:47.356
I'm happy to see him back

00:47:47.396 --> 00:47:47.956
hitting the ball.

00:47:48.076 --> 00:47:48.255
I mean,

00:47:48.275 --> 00:47:49.177
he got off to a little bit of a

00:47:49.197 --> 00:47:49.818
slow start.

00:47:50.639 --> 00:47:51.199
I agree with you.

00:47:51.239 --> 00:47:55.023
The Pirates are now in the bright future,

00:47:55.222 --> 00:47:55.842
great future,

00:47:55.862 --> 00:47:57.224
and they got a couple

00:47:57.264 --> 00:47:58.626
prospects that I like coming up.

00:47:59.326 --> 00:48:01.007
But all of a sudden, to me,

00:48:01.929 --> 00:48:03.349
they become a team now that

00:48:04.050 --> 00:48:04.630
they're still in the

00:48:04.670 --> 00:48:05.632
nationally central race.

00:48:06.932 --> 00:48:07.534
Skeens is up.

00:48:08.222 --> 00:48:09.463
They got their big three right now.

00:48:09.483 --> 00:48:11.605
Like you said, Keller, Jones, and Skeens.

00:48:12.405 --> 00:48:13.327
When lineup starts hitting,

00:48:13.867 --> 00:48:14.867
they're a team that could

00:48:14.887 --> 00:48:16.588
be a lot of fun to watch as

00:48:16.628 --> 00:48:17.389
the weather gets warmer.

00:48:18.309 --> 00:48:18.530
Yep.

00:48:18.989 --> 00:48:21.532
They are an interesting team to watch.

00:48:22.572 --> 00:48:24.213
And I'm here for it.

00:48:24.693 --> 00:48:27.235
I just love – I think I said

00:48:27.295 --> 00:48:28.496
it in another podcast.

00:48:28.516 --> 00:48:29.838
The Pirates having a good

00:48:29.898 --> 00:48:31.978
team is good for baseball.

00:48:32.300 --> 00:48:34.340
It makes that NL Central

00:48:34.380 --> 00:48:35.702
that much more fun to watch.

00:48:36.653 --> 00:48:39.215
And having the pitching that they have,

00:48:40.016 --> 00:48:42.458
to me, they've had pitching before,

00:48:42.539 --> 00:48:43.398
but it's only been one,

00:48:43.458 --> 00:48:44.559
and the team's been horrible,

00:48:44.619 --> 00:48:45.380
so they get moved.

00:48:46.282 --> 00:48:47.882
I think you hold on to these three,

00:48:48.722 --> 00:48:49.884
and if you're going to move someone,

00:48:49.923 --> 00:48:51.585
move one of these one-year

00:48:51.626 --> 00:48:52.967
deals to try to see if you

00:48:52.987 --> 00:48:55.409
can get a bat and make a

00:48:55.449 --> 00:48:57.210
run for this and see if you can't get in.

00:48:57.309 --> 00:48:58.831
Get some playoff experience

00:48:58.851 --> 00:49:00.632
with these young guys so

00:49:00.693 --> 00:49:02.373
that as you keep getting

00:49:02.393 --> 00:49:03.574
some of these prospects up,

00:49:04.039 --> 00:49:05.159
You've got that experience

00:49:05.219 --> 00:49:06.179
and you just build off it.

00:49:06.318 --> 00:49:08.980
And I'm really impressed with Jared Jones,

00:49:09.300 --> 00:49:10.519
obviously Paul Skeens,

00:49:10.780 --> 00:49:11.980
and Mitch Keller is just

00:49:12.519 --> 00:49:14.061
finally getting some run support.

00:49:14.340 --> 00:49:17.161
And he's not the only guy anymore.

00:49:17.201 --> 00:49:17.681
You know what I mean?

00:49:17.701 --> 00:49:20.422
They don't need him to be the savior.

00:49:20.461 --> 00:49:21.581
They've got these two other

00:49:21.922 --> 00:49:24.121
arms that can just jump in

00:49:24.402 --> 00:49:25.382
and shut another team's

00:49:25.422 --> 00:49:27.822
down and face an ace and hold their own.

00:49:27.943 --> 00:49:29.202
So the Pirates are going to

00:49:29.222 --> 00:49:30.603
be fun to watch the rest of the way.

00:49:31.643 --> 00:49:32.623
And I think we'll probably

00:49:32.684 --> 00:49:33.443
be talking about

00:49:34.251 --> 00:49:35.532
Paul Skeens, Jared Jones,

00:49:35.572 --> 00:49:36.753
and the rest of this

00:49:36.833 --> 00:49:38.235
Pirates team quite a bit as

00:49:38.295 --> 00:49:39.135
we move forward.

00:49:40.876 --> 00:49:41.617
The other one,

00:49:41.657 --> 00:49:43.059
when I was looking over and

00:49:43.079 --> 00:49:44.840
just kind of picking up in

00:49:44.880 --> 00:49:46.663
the last 15 days,

00:49:47.943 --> 00:49:49.804
actually even just even better than that,

00:49:49.905 --> 00:49:50.985
the last seven days,

00:49:51.005 --> 00:49:52.387
let's bring it down the last seven days.

00:49:53.489 --> 00:49:54.909
The San Francisco Giants

00:49:54.969 --> 00:49:57.592
called up Luis Matos to

00:49:57.632 --> 00:49:59.173
play in the outfield.

00:49:59.313 --> 00:50:00.335
He's played in five games.

00:50:01.567 --> 00:50:04.047
In 22 at-bats, he has only two runs scored,

00:50:04.108 --> 00:50:05.068
but he has nine hits,

00:50:05.329 --> 00:50:08.271
three of which are doubles, one home run,

00:50:08.690 --> 00:50:10.152
and 13 RBIs.

00:50:11.532 --> 00:50:12.913
He's hitting .409 with a .409 OPB,

00:50:12.932 --> 00:50:17.255
slugging .682 and an OPS of 1.091.

00:50:17.255 --> 00:50:18.416
I know they've got

00:50:18.436 --> 00:50:20.317
Yastrzemski playing right.

00:50:20.336 --> 00:50:21.177
They still have Soler.

00:50:29.909 --> 00:50:34.130
They have – oh, what's his name there?

00:50:34.411 --> 00:50:37.992
And who's the other outfielder,

00:50:38.032 --> 00:50:41.014
for crying out loud, that they had?

00:50:41.034 --> 00:50:42.394
It was Lee.

00:50:42.454 --> 00:50:43.434
He's done for the year.

00:50:43.735 --> 00:50:45.295
Yeah, Lee's done for the year.

00:50:46.856 --> 00:50:49.077
Conforto, Michael Conforto,

00:50:49.398 --> 00:50:52.599
who's been hitting the ball well also.

00:50:53.099 --> 00:50:55.880
But Matos coming up and playing and,

00:50:55.981 --> 00:50:57.405
you know, whether he –

00:50:57.405 --> 00:50:59.027
takes that job and fills the

00:50:59.067 --> 00:51:02.068
role of Jung-ho Lee,

00:51:02.608 --> 00:51:04.190
I'd be interested to watch this kid.

00:51:04.869 --> 00:51:06.130
I was one of my best friends

00:51:06.150 --> 00:51:07.052
as a Giants fan,

00:51:07.112 --> 00:51:09.793
and I think it was Mother's Day, perhaps.

00:51:09.972 --> 00:51:11.893
I was watching the Reds-Giants game,

00:51:12.875 --> 00:51:15.916
and I just like watching

00:51:16.396 --> 00:51:18.018
the San Francisco Giants play.

00:51:18.057 --> 00:51:19.938
I'm not a fan of their team, perhaps.

00:51:20.786 --> 00:51:23.246
And but I like watching what they do.

00:51:23.286 --> 00:51:24.246
I like their bullpen.

00:51:24.686 --> 00:51:25.907
They have depth pieces.

00:51:25.987 --> 00:51:27.228
They may not have the

00:51:27.288 --> 00:51:29.327
superstars like they did in

00:51:29.347 --> 00:51:32.088
the early late 90s, early 2000s.

00:51:32.829 --> 00:51:33.748
But I'll be watching this

00:51:33.829 --> 00:51:35.889
kid and to see what he does

00:51:35.929 --> 00:51:37.030
and see if he carries it on,

00:51:37.070 --> 00:51:38.769
because right now he's got, you know,

00:51:38.789 --> 00:51:40.251
the next highest RBI total

00:51:40.331 --> 00:51:43.771
is from Ramos and he's got eight.

00:51:43.931 --> 00:51:45.092
So he's been leading the way,

00:51:45.152 --> 00:51:46.152
doubling up and he's

00:51:46.192 --> 00:51:47.012
hitting the ball well.

00:51:47.032 --> 00:51:48.012
So I'll be very interested

00:51:48.032 --> 00:51:48.873
to see what he does.

00:51:49.431 --> 00:51:51.913
this coming weekend so Luis

00:51:51.972 --> 00:51:54.474
Matos is one to watch the

00:51:54.635 --> 00:51:57.416
other guy um that has

00:51:57.456 --> 00:51:58.938
gotten red hot for Boston

00:51:59.099 --> 00:52:00.280
is Devers who had his sixth

00:52:00.300 --> 00:52:01.501
home run in the sixth game

00:52:02.141 --> 00:52:03.561
but he only has nine RBIs

00:52:04.402 --> 00:52:05.403
and this kind of goes to

00:52:05.623 --> 00:52:06.664
previously what we were

00:52:06.704 --> 00:52:08.346
discussing in regards to

00:52:08.445 --> 00:52:10.507
Duran and even Eli De La

00:52:10.547 --> 00:52:12.369
Cruz they're just not

00:52:12.409 --> 00:52:13.750
getting enough people on in

00:52:13.829 --> 00:52:15.311
front of him so that these

00:52:15.371 --> 00:52:17.072
home runs are devastating

00:52:17.483 --> 00:52:18.463
They're devastating in a

00:52:18.543 --> 00:52:19.643
manner where it's one,

00:52:20.023 --> 00:52:21.244
maybe a two-run shot.

00:52:21.603 --> 00:52:23.025
But you get two guys on,

00:52:23.105 --> 00:52:24.485
he's hitting three-run bombs.

00:52:25.144 --> 00:52:26.164
That changes the course of a

00:52:26.204 --> 00:52:26.985
game real quick.

00:52:29.206 --> 00:52:30.286
Endeavors is just one of

00:52:30.326 --> 00:52:31.847
these guys that when he gets hot,

00:52:32.606 --> 00:52:33.266
he's red hot.

00:52:33.387 --> 00:52:34.228
It doesn't matter if it's a

00:52:34.288 --> 00:52:35.728
left-hand pitcher or a

00:52:35.768 --> 00:52:36.527
right-hand pitcher.

00:52:36.927 --> 00:52:38.228
He's going to take it to left field.

00:52:38.268 --> 00:52:39.588
He's going to hit it to dead center.

00:52:39.608 --> 00:52:41.048
He's going to take it to deep right.

00:52:41.710 --> 00:52:43.909
He uses that ballpark amazing.

00:52:44.909 --> 00:52:46.090
That ball was crushed tonight.

00:52:46.231 --> 00:52:46.530
Oppo.

00:52:46.650 --> 00:52:46.891
Oh, yeah.

00:52:47.632 --> 00:52:48.831
He's just an amazing hitter,

00:52:48.871 --> 00:52:50.353
and he's one of the funnest

00:52:51.172 --> 00:52:52.253
players to watch when he

00:52:52.273 --> 00:52:53.253
gets red hot because he

00:52:53.293 --> 00:52:54.594
loves the game too.

00:52:54.614 --> 00:52:55.253
That's the other thing.

00:52:55.313 --> 00:52:56.574
He loves playing the game.

00:52:56.974 --> 00:53:00.476
He's got that big energy, and like I said,

00:53:00.496 --> 00:53:01.916
with Travis Story not being there,

00:53:01.936 --> 00:53:04.097
it stinks not being able to

00:53:04.137 --> 00:53:05.438
see more guys get on base

00:53:05.478 --> 00:53:07.938
ahead of him to see him do more damage.

00:53:08.838 --> 00:53:09.639
It's the story of the whole

00:53:09.659 --> 00:53:10.438
Red Sox season.

00:53:10.498 --> 00:53:13.119
Tyler O'Neal, I mean, he put 11 home runs,

00:53:13.119 --> 00:53:13.519
17 RBIs.

00:53:13.579 --> 00:53:14.480
17 RBIs, like such an awkward number.

00:53:18.257 --> 00:53:19.318
Which is too bad because

00:53:19.338 --> 00:53:20.338
they do have the power.

00:53:20.358 --> 00:53:22.440
It's just that it comes at

00:53:22.460 --> 00:53:23.961
the times when they need the home run,

00:53:24.021 --> 00:53:25.362
but they don't have anyone on there.

00:53:25.762 --> 00:53:26.983
The question I have, though,

00:53:27.403 --> 00:53:29.545
is so over the last two games,

00:53:29.786 --> 00:53:30.646
yesterday and today,

00:53:31.407 --> 00:53:32.588
they've scored – what was

00:53:32.628 --> 00:53:33.309
yesterday's score?

00:53:33.329 --> 00:53:35.570
11-3.

00:53:35.610 --> 00:53:38.233
So they got 16 runs in the last two games.

00:53:38.594 --> 00:53:39.673
Is the offense waking up?

00:53:40.375 --> 00:53:41.476
And Cutter Crawford said it

00:53:41.536 --> 00:53:43.056
last week – or two weeks ago.

00:53:43.097 --> 00:53:43.657
He made a start,

00:53:43.677 --> 00:53:44.498
and I think he actually got

00:53:44.518 --> 00:53:45.753
shut out where –

00:53:45.753 --> 00:53:47.494
He's been part of the culprit,

00:53:47.514 --> 00:53:49.257
him and Houck, where they pitched well,

00:53:49.277 --> 00:53:50.438
but the team just doesn't

00:53:50.478 --> 00:53:51.278
score when they pitch.

00:53:52.239 --> 00:53:54.581
And he even said it after

00:53:54.641 --> 00:53:56.202
one of his starts, and it might have been,

00:53:56.242 --> 00:53:57.242
I forget what start it was,

00:53:57.282 --> 00:53:58.423
but I think they got shut out,

00:53:58.503 --> 00:54:00.146
and he ended up giving up like two runs,

00:54:00.186 --> 00:54:00.985
and they just lost.

00:54:01.646 --> 00:54:03.068
But he said, the offense wasn't going,

00:54:03.088 --> 00:54:05.369
and when we do, we're a good team.

00:54:05.849 --> 00:54:07.030
And, you know,

00:54:07.931 --> 00:54:09.012
it was fun to see the other night,

00:54:09.072 --> 00:54:11.315
Durant scored, and they tied it at twos,

00:54:11.355 --> 00:54:12.496
and then obviously in the

00:54:12.556 --> 00:54:13.556
ninth or eighth inning,

00:54:13.615 --> 00:54:14.476
things got away from them

00:54:14.536 --> 00:54:15.438
after they tied it, but

00:54:16.217 --> 00:54:17.217
Now the question becomes,

00:54:17.297 --> 00:54:19.039
is this offense waking up

00:54:19.079 --> 00:54:19.818
and are the Red Sox

00:54:19.838 --> 00:54:20.778
potentially going to be a problem?

00:54:21.079 --> 00:54:21.278
I mean,

00:54:21.298 --> 00:54:22.380
I'm not going to get ahead of myself.

00:54:22.440 --> 00:54:23.019
It's two games.

00:54:23.880 --> 00:54:24.719
See what happens the rest of

00:54:24.760 --> 00:54:25.719
the series against the Rays

00:54:25.739 --> 00:54:27.081
and get the Brewers this weekend.

00:54:28.440 --> 00:54:30.161
Again, now I might have just jinxed them.

00:54:31.481 --> 00:54:32.282
Hey, you never know.

00:54:32.342 --> 00:54:33.461
The Brewers are a team that

00:54:33.481 --> 00:54:34.322
I think is beatable.

00:54:34.382 --> 00:54:36.523
I think their pitching has been good.

00:54:37.478 --> 00:54:39.760
but I'm trying to think if we miss Peralta,

00:54:39.980 --> 00:54:43.202
I can't, I can't remember, but either way,

00:54:43.262 --> 00:54:44.563
he's a guy that if you just

00:54:44.623 --> 00:54:46.704
are patient and don't swing at the stuff,

00:54:46.744 --> 00:54:48.005
his breaking ball that just

00:54:48.125 --> 00:54:49.166
starts in the middle of the

00:54:49.186 --> 00:54:50.106
zone and dips out.

00:54:50.686 --> 00:54:51.807
If you can be patient with

00:54:51.847 --> 00:54:53.409
him and get him out of there in the fifth,

00:54:53.429 --> 00:54:55.369
sixth inning, you can have a chance.

00:54:55.449 --> 00:54:56.931
And sometimes that slider

00:54:56.971 --> 00:54:58.592
will stay up and O'Neill

00:54:58.612 --> 00:55:00.193
will take advantage as will Devers.

00:55:00.333 --> 00:55:01.793
So it'd be a very

00:55:01.833 --> 00:55:03.315
interesting series to watch.

00:55:04.215 --> 00:55:04.376
Um,

00:55:05.106 --> 00:55:05.987
I hope to see Devers

00:55:06.027 --> 00:55:07.467
continue his hot streak and

00:55:07.847 --> 00:55:09.789
maybe perhaps this weekend

00:55:10.389 --> 00:55:11.710
see a few more runners on

00:55:11.751 --> 00:55:12.610
base when he does.

00:55:14.353 --> 00:55:17.375
My next note,

00:55:17.394 --> 00:55:21.318
and I've been kind of holding

00:55:21.358 --> 00:55:23.139
back on this, but holy shit,

00:55:23.778 --> 00:55:26.601
Shota Imanaga might be the

00:55:26.661 --> 00:55:28.943
best pitcher in baseball right now.

00:55:30.784 --> 00:55:32.065
He started nine games.

00:55:32.485 --> 00:55:32.646
He's 5-0.

00:55:32.686 --> 00:55:33.806
His ERA is

00:55:35.858 --> 00:55:39.000
.84 in 53.2 innings.

00:55:39.501 --> 00:55:40.902
He's only given up 40 hits.

00:55:41.521 --> 00:55:42.563
Five earned runs.

00:55:43.422 --> 00:55:44.943
Of those five earned runs,

00:55:45.784 --> 00:55:47.846
three home runs in that mix.

00:55:48.427 --> 00:55:51.509
He's walked nine batters in 53 innings.

00:55:53.369 --> 00:55:54.251
And he's struck out 58.

00:55:57.132 --> 00:55:57.793
His whip is .91.

00:55:57.833 --> 00:56:00.175
Opponents are hitting 200 against him.

00:56:02.661 --> 00:56:02.961
Again,

00:56:03.041 --> 00:56:05.123
we've had a conversation in regards

00:56:05.164 --> 00:56:07.505
to what happens in Chicago

00:56:07.945 --> 00:56:09.547
when it starts to get muggy

00:56:09.806 --> 00:56:11.389
and humid in the summer.

00:56:11.909 --> 00:56:13.269
How's his ball going to play

00:56:13.329 --> 00:56:14.271
there when he's trying to

00:56:14.351 --> 00:56:15.612
beat the top of the zone?

00:56:17.313 --> 00:56:18.233
But this guy,

00:56:18.253 --> 00:56:20.596
I was trying to think about

00:56:20.635 --> 00:56:23.697
it in regards to if I've

00:56:23.737 --> 00:56:27.501
seen a pitcher coming from overseas,

00:56:27.880 --> 00:56:30.443
have this much fun with it.

00:56:31.371 --> 00:56:35.094
He has got a lot of personality.

00:56:35.855 --> 00:56:38.777
He, in one of his press conferences,

00:56:38.876 --> 00:56:40.898
said that he was changing

00:56:40.958 --> 00:56:43.059
his ringtone to the crowd

00:56:43.099 --> 00:56:45.021
of Wrigley because he likes it so much.

00:56:46.463 --> 00:56:47.903
And seeing him in the dugout

00:56:47.963 --> 00:56:49.125
when he's not pitching and

00:56:49.264 --> 00:56:50.505
standing there with Seiya

00:56:50.525 --> 00:56:56.331
Suzuki and right now, you know,

00:56:56.351 --> 00:56:57.552
Javier Saad has pitched

00:56:57.612 --> 00:56:59.193
really well for the Cubs as well,

00:56:59.393 --> 00:56:59.853
filling in

00:57:00.831 --> 00:57:01.831
filling in these gaps.

00:57:02.552 --> 00:57:07.414
Justin Steele is by proxy their ace,

00:57:07.713 --> 00:57:07.934
you know,

00:57:07.954 --> 00:57:09.195
because of what he did last year.

00:57:09.795 --> 00:57:11.335
Steele's only pitched in four games.

00:57:11.396 --> 00:57:14.936
His ERA is 5.21 in 19 innings.

00:57:15.177 --> 00:57:17.257
He's got 18 strikeouts, five walks,

00:57:17.838 --> 00:57:20.039
a whip of 1.21.

00:57:20.039 --> 00:57:21.260
I think showed us the ace of

00:57:21.280 --> 00:57:24.061
this team and he's the

00:57:24.101 --> 00:57:25.981
number three in the rotation right now,

00:57:26.402 --> 00:57:28.382
but he's pitching like an ace and he,

00:57:30.318 --> 00:57:34.021
He is of the two high-priced

00:57:35.043 --> 00:57:36.364
Japanese pitchers coming

00:57:36.403 --> 00:57:37.503
from overseas this year.

00:57:37.625 --> 00:57:39.106
I think right now, yes,

00:57:39.246 --> 00:57:43.809
Yamamoto showed signs,

00:57:43.949 --> 00:57:45.530
but showed us looked great

00:57:45.570 --> 00:57:48.072
from start one to start nine.

00:57:48.893 --> 00:57:50.634
And he is so much fun to watch.

00:57:50.693 --> 00:57:51.675
And if you haven't been able

00:57:51.695 --> 00:57:55.518
to see him start a game, try to dial in.

00:57:55.657 --> 00:57:56.599
Or if you've got MLB...

00:57:57.460 --> 00:57:59.061
you know, watch a condensed game.

00:57:59.161 --> 00:58:01.103
He has a lot of fun to watch

00:58:01.163 --> 00:58:02.304
pitch and he's kind of

00:58:02.364 --> 00:58:03.545
quirky on the mound.

00:58:04.164 --> 00:58:04.965
He does some different

00:58:05.045 --> 00:58:08.387
things with his motion and

00:58:08.427 --> 00:58:10.009
the way he'll stare in at

00:58:10.048 --> 00:58:11.789
the ump trying to get a call.

00:58:11.869 --> 00:58:13.811
Not disrespectful, not showing him up,

00:58:14.150 --> 00:58:15.731
but he'll just wait and

00:58:15.751 --> 00:58:17.172
then he'll smile and turn around.

00:58:17.193 --> 00:58:17.393
You know,

00:58:17.413 --> 00:58:19.434
he knows he's having fun with the game.

00:58:20.135 --> 00:58:21.375
And for me, that's just,

00:58:21.655 --> 00:58:23.237
that's even that much more

00:58:23.317 --> 00:58:25.398
reason to root for a guy like that.

00:58:25.952 --> 00:58:27.393
He doesn't take it too serious.

00:58:27.434 --> 00:58:28.715
He's out there for the fans.

00:58:28.735 --> 00:58:29.534
He just loves it.

00:58:29.675 --> 00:58:33.617
And I didn't really know

00:58:33.838 --> 00:58:34.458
what they were going to do

00:58:34.498 --> 00:58:35.257
this offseason.

00:58:36.679 --> 00:58:38.860
There was rumors about Otani, this, that,

00:58:38.880 --> 00:58:39.661
and the next thing.

00:58:40.521 --> 00:58:42.282
There was rumors about Snell

00:58:42.623 --> 00:58:43.443
and Montgomery.

00:58:43.963 --> 00:58:46.005
And I didn't really know much about Shota.

00:58:46.585 --> 00:58:47.505
And then I started paying

00:58:47.525 --> 00:58:48.565
attention a little bit more,

00:58:48.606 --> 00:58:49.867
watched him in spring training,

00:58:49.967 --> 00:58:51.847
and how he was shocked that

00:58:51.867 --> 00:58:53.708
they wanted him to pitch up in the zone.

00:58:54.679 --> 00:58:55.818
and we talked about this

00:58:56.318 --> 00:58:57.599
where the Japanese hitters

00:58:57.659 --> 00:58:59.320
generally are more level swing.

00:58:59.340 --> 00:58:59.940
They're not playing the

00:58:59.981 --> 00:59:03.181
launch angle game and he is

00:59:03.322 --> 00:59:05.362
eating it up right now for the Cubs.

00:59:05.661 --> 00:59:06.742
And like I said,

00:59:06.782 --> 00:59:07.862
if you haven't got a chance

00:59:07.902 --> 00:59:08.742
to see him pitch,

00:59:09.302 --> 00:59:10.344
I highly recommend it

00:59:10.384 --> 00:59:11.224
because he's a good one.

00:59:11.864 --> 00:59:14.144
And I think he is going to

00:59:14.184 --> 00:59:15.244
be the ace of this team

00:59:15.625 --> 00:59:17.045
with Justin Steele or not.

00:59:17.425 --> 00:59:18.666
And even if Justin Steele

00:59:18.726 --> 00:59:19.865
comes back and pitches the

00:59:19.885 --> 00:59:20.907
way he did last year, um,

00:59:22.764 --> 00:59:24.786
I still think Shota is right

00:59:24.846 --> 00:59:26.766
now the guy for this team.

00:59:26.827 --> 00:59:28.487
And the Cubs will go as far

00:59:28.527 --> 00:59:30.148
as he can continue to go, I think,

00:59:30.188 --> 00:59:30.748
in my opinion.

00:59:31.489 --> 00:59:31.989
Like I said,

00:59:32.048 --> 00:59:33.369
I want to see what happens

00:59:33.409 --> 00:59:34.329
when the weather gets warm.

00:59:34.570 --> 00:59:35.510
And I just looked it up.

00:59:35.650 --> 00:59:37.672
I don't know if he's going

00:59:37.692 --> 00:59:38.572
to pitch this series

00:59:38.592 --> 00:59:39.672
because it's too far away

00:59:39.713 --> 00:59:40.632
to even figure it out.

00:59:41.373 --> 00:59:43.934
When they face the Phillies in July,

00:59:43.994 --> 00:59:44.755
Fourth of July weekend,

00:59:44.795 --> 00:59:47.255
if he pitches that series, to me,

00:59:47.315 --> 00:59:48.657
that's the decision right there.

00:59:48.737 --> 00:59:49.217
Because, I mean,

00:59:49.237 --> 00:59:51.494
what they have coming forward –

00:59:51.494 --> 00:59:52.074
Could he struggle?

00:59:52.135 --> 00:59:52.434
Maybe.

00:59:52.554 --> 00:59:54.335
But the lineups that I've seen,

00:59:54.356 --> 00:59:55.757
what they're going to have coming up,

00:59:56.436 --> 00:59:58.297
I'm not overly concerned with.

00:59:58.657 --> 00:59:59.559
And, again, that could change.

01:00:00.398 --> 01:00:03.541
But, I mean, that Philly series,

01:00:03.581 --> 01:00:04.302
that's the best team in

01:00:04.342 --> 01:00:05.242
baseball right now.

01:00:05.601 --> 01:00:05.842
Yep.

01:00:05.882 --> 01:00:07.043
Or at least the best team, I think,

01:00:07.063 --> 01:00:07.923
in the National League.

01:00:10.125 --> 01:00:10.545
Facing them,

01:00:10.585 --> 01:00:11.666
if he gets one of those starts,

01:00:11.706 --> 01:00:12.626
that's the test for me.

01:00:13.186 --> 01:00:14.648
If he comes out of – I mean, granted,

01:00:14.728 --> 01:00:16.168
that's, what, a month and a half away?

01:00:16.628 --> 01:00:17.489
Yeah.

01:00:17.509 --> 01:00:19.971
So things could change by then, but –

01:00:21.097 --> 01:00:22.757
if he's doing what he's doing right now,

01:00:22.838 --> 01:00:24.278
and we're talking it's 4th

01:00:24.318 --> 01:00:26.501
of July weekend, he's pitching game two.

01:00:27.681 --> 01:00:28.521
Let's see what happens.

01:00:29.382 --> 01:00:31.242
And he comes out of there, lights out.

01:00:31.704 --> 01:00:33.545
He's might be the best

01:00:33.565 --> 01:00:34.304
pitcher in the national

01:00:34.324 --> 01:00:35.686
league or up in the top five.

01:00:37.166 --> 01:00:38.728
So that is a good segue.

01:00:40.148 --> 01:00:40.409
You know,

01:00:40.429 --> 01:00:42.329
I want to talk about a guy in Boston,

01:00:42.349 --> 01:00:42.690
but I'll,

01:00:42.829 --> 01:00:44.130
I'll go down and talk about

01:00:44.231 --> 01:00:45.331
Aaron Nola first.

01:00:46.693 --> 01:00:48.753
Aaron Nola kind of had a,

01:00:49.106 --> 01:00:51.168
few down years where he wasn't horrible,

01:00:51.628 --> 01:00:53.789
just wasn't the guy he was

01:00:54.489 --> 01:00:55.530
from previous years.

01:00:56.351 --> 01:01:00.373
Right now, in the last 15 days,

01:01:00.393 --> 01:01:03.175
Aaron Nola's made three starts.

01:01:03.576 --> 01:01:06.157
He's 2-1 with a 2.49 ERA,

01:01:06.538 --> 01:01:10.701
one complete game shutout, 21.2 innings,

01:01:10.701 --> 01:01:13.481
15 hits allowed, six earned runs,

01:01:13.601 --> 01:01:16.304
two on home runs, only walked three,

01:01:16.443 --> 01:01:19.780
but struck out 20.

01:01:19.780 --> 01:01:20.402
Zach Wheeler,

01:01:20.461 --> 01:01:21.762
who is the strikeout pitcher

01:01:22.063 --> 01:01:25.224
on that roster, has 19 in three starts,

01:01:25.746 --> 01:01:27.427
but only in 18.1 innings.

01:01:28.108 --> 01:01:30.489
So with a whip of .83 and

01:01:31.190 --> 01:01:32.871
opponents hitting 190 off him,

01:01:34.233 --> 01:01:37.554
this is a guy that if can

01:01:37.614 --> 01:01:39.297
continue this route and

01:01:39.336 --> 01:01:40.416
continue to pitch the way

01:01:40.478 --> 01:01:41.438
he's been pitching for the

01:01:41.478 --> 01:01:45.360
Phillies with Zach Wheeler, Ranger Suarez,

01:01:46.061 --> 01:01:47.242
pitching the way they have been,

01:01:48.150 --> 01:01:50.172
They're an extremely deep team,

01:01:51.092 --> 01:01:54.014
especially – Who saw him coming?

01:01:54.574 --> 01:01:56.315
I mean, 8-0 and nine starts.

01:01:57.976 --> 01:01:58.657
What was it?

01:01:58.677 --> 01:01:59.856
It wasn't last year because

01:01:59.876 --> 01:02:00.378
he was injured.

01:02:00.398 --> 01:02:02.199
It was the year before where

01:02:02.259 --> 01:02:03.599
he kind of came on second

01:02:03.619 --> 01:02:04.639
half of the year and showed

01:02:04.719 --> 01:02:07.201
signs that he – World Series year.

01:02:07.260 --> 01:02:08.222
Yeah, the World Series year.

01:02:08.262 --> 01:02:09.402
He doesn't throw overly hard,

01:02:10.983 --> 01:02:12.063
but he misses bats.

01:02:12.884 --> 01:02:15.905
He is a bulldog, I guess,

01:02:15.965 --> 01:02:18.597
is another way he battles –

01:02:18.597 --> 01:02:20.577
He's 2-0 in the last 15 days

01:02:21.797 --> 01:02:22.858
without giving up an earned

01:02:22.938 --> 01:02:24.998
run in two starts.

01:02:25.059 --> 01:02:26.659
He's pitched 12 innings,

01:02:26.679 --> 01:02:29.239
so he's going at least over five,

01:02:29.280 --> 01:02:30.139
six innings a game,

01:02:30.599 --> 01:02:31.521
which is what they need.

01:02:31.981 --> 01:02:35.001
Seven hits, only two runs scored,

01:02:35.181 --> 01:02:35.942
none earned.

01:02:36.842 --> 01:02:38.483
One hit by pitch, four walks,

01:02:38.523 --> 01:02:39.483
and 12 strikeouts,

01:02:39.563 --> 01:02:40.702
and they're hitting... He's

01:02:40.722 --> 01:02:42.103
got a 0.92 whip and a 1.63

01:02:42.103 --> 01:02:42.963
average from the opponents.

01:02:42.983 --> 01:02:43.063
This...

01:02:47.898 --> 01:02:49.438
This pitching staff is deep,

01:02:49.539 --> 01:02:51.500
but Aaron Nola being that

01:02:51.599 --> 01:02:53.360
guy who slotted in after

01:02:53.400 --> 01:02:55.320
Zach Wheeler and Zach

01:02:55.360 --> 01:02:57.501
Wheeler being their big

01:02:57.561 --> 01:03:00.322
money extension this

01:03:00.443 --> 01:03:02.764
offseason is the guy that

01:03:02.804 --> 01:03:04.045
they look for for the future.

01:03:04.085 --> 01:03:05.626
But Aaron Nola pitching the

01:03:05.666 --> 01:03:07.927
way he has been along with,

01:03:08.086 --> 01:03:08.806
like you mentioned,

01:03:08.887 --> 01:03:11.047
Ranger Suarez is a guy that

01:03:11.088 --> 01:03:12.068
kind of gets overlooked

01:03:12.088 --> 01:03:13.648
because of Ranger Suarez's

01:03:13.688 --> 01:03:14.929
success so far this year.

01:03:14.989 --> 01:03:16.190
Zach Wheeler signed the new

01:03:16.250 --> 01:03:17.570
contract and pitching well

01:03:18.452 --> 01:03:20.193
Aaron Nola, if he can keep this up,

01:03:21.315 --> 01:03:24.777
that's a pretty good 1-2-3 right there.

01:03:24.797 --> 01:03:26.539
That's your player rotation.

01:03:27.500 --> 01:03:27.719
Yeah.

01:03:28.599 --> 01:03:32.663
And even, I mean, shit, even Walker.

01:03:34.184 --> 01:03:34.403
Yeah.

01:03:34.423 --> 01:03:36.606
Warren Walker hasn't pitched horrible.

01:03:37.606 --> 01:03:39.248
He's not lighting the world on fire,

01:03:39.307 --> 01:03:42.710
but this Phillies team is deep.

01:03:42.730 --> 01:03:43.690
Chris Sanchez is another one.

01:03:43.831 --> 01:03:44.050
Yeah.

01:03:44.371 --> 01:03:45.331
Chris Sanchez is another one.

01:03:45.391 --> 01:03:46.333
Not pitching bad either.

01:03:47.030 --> 01:03:48.291
Yeah, they're a deep team.

01:03:49.293 --> 01:03:50.172
Yeah, yeah,

01:03:50.413 --> 01:03:51.753
and they got a lot of stuff coming.

01:03:52.534 --> 01:03:52.675
Yeah.

01:03:52.695 --> 01:03:53.536
People don't talk about the

01:03:53.576 --> 01:03:54.556
prospects they have coming,

01:03:54.617 --> 01:03:56.137
Andrew Painter, Mick Abel,

01:03:56.697 --> 01:03:57.978
and they even have bats, you know,

01:03:58.018 --> 01:03:59.860
Justin Crawford, son of Kyle Crawford.

01:04:00.541 --> 01:04:01.340
Yeah.

01:04:01.581 --> 01:04:03.523
And Aiden Miller, future third baseman.

01:04:04.182 --> 01:04:05.483
They're going to have some

01:04:05.523 --> 01:04:06.164
issues coming up,

01:04:06.244 --> 01:04:07.186
and those guys are already

01:04:07.266 --> 01:04:08.266
what they're going to do.

01:04:08.365 --> 01:04:09.226
Decisions, oh, yeah.

01:04:10.387 --> 01:04:11.829
Decisions, decisions.

01:04:12.168 --> 01:04:12.568
They're deep.

01:04:13.010 --> 01:04:13.650
They're very deep,

01:04:14.050 --> 01:04:16.012
and they got a lot of players coming.

01:04:18.182 --> 01:04:20.884
So the other guy that I

01:04:20.943 --> 01:04:22.264
mentioned from the Red Sox

01:04:22.324 --> 01:04:23.184
is Nick Pavetta.

01:04:24.085 --> 01:04:25.146
You and I talked briefly

01:04:25.206 --> 01:04:27.126
before jumping on in

01:04:27.186 --> 01:04:29.128
regards to being able to

01:04:29.188 --> 01:04:30.188
keep him afterwards.

01:04:30.547 --> 01:04:31.507
When he's healthy,

01:04:32.809 --> 01:04:33.929
he's a strikeout machine.

01:04:33.949 --> 01:04:35.030
You know,

01:04:35.050 --> 01:04:38.490
he's pitched 15.2 innings in the last 15,

01:04:38.490 --> 01:04:40.751
struck out 17, only one walk.

01:04:41.592 --> 01:04:43.893
His ERA, though, is 4.6-0.

01:04:45.853 --> 01:04:46.635
Eight earned runs,

01:04:46.954 --> 01:04:48.195
six of those were home runs.

01:04:49.157 --> 01:04:50.737
You know, he gave up six home runs.

01:04:50.958 --> 01:04:52.639
Out of the 12 hits he gave up,

01:04:52.719 --> 01:04:53.581
half were home runs,

01:04:53.740 --> 01:04:55.862
which inflates his ERA, obviously.

01:04:56.402 --> 01:04:59.346
But with a whip of .83,

01:04:59.346 --> 01:05:00.907
if he can eliminate, you know,

01:05:01.427 --> 01:05:02.429
half those home runs,

01:05:03.088 --> 01:05:04.530
his ERA most likely will

01:05:04.550 --> 01:05:06.271
drop down somewhere in the three range,

01:05:06.331 --> 01:05:09.094
if not lower, depending on the results.

01:05:10.282 --> 01:05:11.003
how much of that do we

01:05:11.043 --> 01:05:12.523
equate to him coming back

01:05:12.563 --> 01:05:13.603
and getting accustomed again?

01:05:13.623 --> 01:05:14.824
Because if you think about it,

01:05:14.885 --> 01:05:16.085
his first two starts before

01:05:16.106 --> 01:05:16.786
the injured list,

01:05:16.927 --> 01:05:18.867
and he was the culprit of a one,

01:05:18.907 --> 01:05:20.369
nothing win and a one, nothing loss.

01:05:20.809 --> 01:05:21.030
Yep.

01:05:21.289 --> 01:05:23.911
So I don't have it in front of me.

01:05:24.172 --> 01:05:25.472
Did he give up a home run to

01:05:25.492 --> 01:05:25.873
the Cardinals?

01:05:25.893 --> 01:05:26.673
I think he gave up one.

01:05:26.713 --> 01:05:29.054
I think it was that bomb.

01:05:29.235 --> 01:05:29.735
Yeah.

01:05:30.516 --> 01:05:32.358
I'm pulling up his game logs right now.

01:05:33.217 --> 01:05:36.039
So as you mentioned before the,

01:05:37.521 --> 01:05:38.342
before the injury,

01:05:39.018 --> 01:05:41.661
On March 29th, he pitched against Seattle,

01:05:42.822 --> 01:05:44.302
gave up one earned run,

01:05:44.643 --> 01:05:46.144
pitched six innings, three hits,

01:05:46.485 --> 01:05:47.945
struck out 10.

01:05:47.945 --> 01:05:49.947
Then he faced Oakland, got the win,

01:05:50.708 --> 01:05:53.530
gave up no runs, one walk,

01:05:53.630 --> 01:05:54.572
only three strikeouts.

01:05:56.132 --> 01:05:58.153
And then he came back.

01:05:58.193 --> 01:05:59.494
He missed the rest of April

01:05:59.876 --> 01:06:01.157
after the April 3rd start.

01:06:02.077 --> 01:06:03.659
In May, he faced Atlanta,

01:06:04.298 --> 01:06:06.320
gave up five earned runs,

01:06:06.521 --> 01:06:07.681
three home runs right there.

01:06:08.563 --> 01:06:09.603
and only struck out one.

01:06:10.864 --> 01:06:11.925
The next two starts,

01:06:12.106 --> 01:06:14.568
one against Tampa Bay and one against St.

01:06:14.588 --> 01:06:14.847
Louis.

01:06:14.867 --> 01:06:16.208
He won the game against St.

01:06:16.248 --> 01:06:16.610
Louis.

01:06:18.150 --> 01:06:19.351
Wasn't factored into the

01:06:19.411 --> 01:06:20.773
decision against Tampa.

01:06:21.552 --> 01:06:24.215
In the Tampa game, he pitched 5.2 innings,

01:06:24.615 --> 01:06:26.257
struck out eight, no walks,

01:06:27.518 --> 01:06:29.039
but he did give up two home runs.

01:06:29.760 --> 01:06:29.980
St.

01:06:30.000 --> 01:06:31.521
Louis, he gave up one home run.

01:06:31.621 --> 01:06:33.282
It was a solo shot,

01:06:33.322 --> 01:06:34.483
but he did strike out eight.

01:06:35.965 --> 01:06:36.144
And

01:06:37.092 --> 01:06:40.655
He only pitched 81 pitches against Tampa,

01:06:40.655 --> 01:06:43.958
61 for strikes, and against St.

01:06:43.998 --> 01:06:44.338
Louis,

01:06:44.458 --> 01:06:46.739
only 72 pitches in those six innings.

01:06:46.800 --> 01:06:49.402
He was very efficient, 51 for strikes.

01:06:51.324 --> 01:06:51.664
That one.

01:06:52.744 --> 01:06:52.965
Yeah.

01:06:53.485 --> 01:06:54.786
He should have gone further in that game.

01:06:55.027 --> 01:06:55.806
Yeah, I agree.

01:06:56.367 --> 01:06:58.409
So they're obviously easing him back,

01:06:58.489 --> 01:07:00.951
but he's a guy when he's on,

01:07:01.010 --> 01:07:02.972
and I do agree that's a

01:07:03.012 --> 01:07:05.375
tough start coming off the injured list.

01:07:05.987 --> 01:07:08.507
to face Atlanta and that lineup,

01:07:09.288 --> 01:07:10.389
obviously giving up five

01:07:10.429 --> 01:07:12.449
home runs is not ideal, but you know,

01:07:13.590 --> 01:07:16.451
he's obviously, he wasn't,

01:07:17.170 --> 01:07:18.431
he's given up a total of

01:07:19.813 --> 01:07:22.112
nine home runs in five starts.

01:07:22.273 --> 01:07:23.434
So, and I,

01:07:23.494 --> 01:07:24.534
I would like to think that would

01:07:24.594 --> 01:07:26.655
improve over the year, but you know,

01:07:26.695 --> 01:07:28.876
striking out 16 in his last

01:07:28.936 --> 01:07:32.077
two and only 11.2 innings.

01:07:32.918 --> 01:07:34.958
He's, he's a guy for me.

01:07:35.099 --> 01:07:35.719
Hopefully they,

01:07:36.327 --> 01:07:38.690
get situated and into this race.

01:07:38.750 --> 01:07:40.570
So he's not an arm that gets moved.

01:07:41.532 --> 01:07:44.213
Um, but he, he's a guy for me.

01:07:44.293 --> 01:07:46.155
I just like watch pitching and I hope he,

01:07:46.496 --> 01:07:47.677
he's another one to root for.

01:07:48.117 --> 01:07:49.358
Cause he battles this year.

01:07:49.577 --> 01:07:50.659
He looks a lot better this year.

01:07:51.019 --> 01:07:51.800
And you can say the name.

01:07:51.900 --> 01:07:52.880
Why does he look better this year?

01:07:54.222 --> 01:07:55.003
Andrew Bailey.

01:07:55.943 --> 01:07:57.224
Now CJ's right.

01:07:57.425 --> 01:07:59.545
Andrew Bailey is the second coming of,

01:07:59.865 --> 01:08:02.568
you know, the next best thing.

01:08:02.688 --> 01:08:05.150
Matos is the giants.

01:08:05.190 --> 01:08:05.471
I like,

01:08:06.485 --> 01:08:07.545
But their pitching is not as

01:08:07.565 --> 01:08:08.045
good this year.

01:08:08.766 --> 01:08:09.266
Why is that?

01:08:09.286 --> 01:08:09.646
It's not.

01:08:10.445 --> 01:08:10.967
It's not.

01:08:11.027 --> 01:08:12.027
It's Andrew Bailey,

01:08:12.547 --> 01:08:14.387
which is the Andrew Bailey effect.

01:08:15.648 --> 01:08:16.868
You were the guy that brought it up.

01:08:17.849 --> 01:08:19.309
We talked about before we hopped on.

01:08:19.328 --> 01:08:21.670
I just got this breaking news on my phone,

01:08:21.710 --> 01:08:23.230
so I figured we're talking about Pavetta.

01:08:23.251 --> 01:08:25.532
We might as well bring it up.

01:08:26.112 --> 01:08:26.671
We talked about,

01:08:26.692 --> 01:08:27.671
I think I said to you right

01:08:27.692 --> 01:08:28.432
before we hopped on,

01:08:28.472 --> 01:08:29.512
that Pavetta could be a guy

01:08:29.533 --> 01:08:30.672
that enjoyed the last year

01:08:30.712 --> 01:08:31.793
of him out and he's coming back.

01:08:32.394 --> 01:08:32.613
Yeah.

01:08:33.207 --> 01:08:34.387
I think you have to bring them back now,

01:08:34.748 --> 01:08:36.548
even with G Alito being back next year.

01:08:36.988 --> 01:08:37.829
Uh, breaking news,

01:08:38.130 --> 01:08:40.551
Garrett Whitlock has a

01:08:40.671 --> 01:08:41.730
ligament damage in his

01:08:41.810 --> 01:08:43.792
elbow and surgery is a real possibility.

01:08:44.391 --> 01:08:48.394
So yeah, for those of you that don't know,

01:08:48.434 --> 01:08:49.474
if you're not a Red Sox fan,

01:08:49.934 --> 01:08:50.734
he actually was pitching

01:08:50.774 --> 01:08:51.875
well as a starter this year,

01:08:51.895 --> 01:08:53.655
went down with an oblique injury,

01:08:53.836 --> 01:08:54.376
made a rehab,

01:08:54.416 --> 01:08:58.438
a startment rehab start in Portland.

01:08:58.457 --> 01:08:59.858
I believe it might've been Worcester.

01:08:59.877 --> 01:09:00.958
It was either Portland or Worcester.

01:09:01.779 --> 01:09:01.859
Um,

01:09:02.520 --> 01:09:03.119
didn't pitch bad.

01:09:03.140 --> 01:09:04.461
I think he went five and two

01:09:04.501 --> 01:09:05.640
thirds or at least five.

01:09:06.601 --> 01:09:11.302
And all of a sudden he was getting set.

01:09:11.483 --> 01:09:12.104
They were going to go to a

01:09:12.163 --> 01:09:13.243
six man rotation with the

01:09:13.264 --> 01:09:14.083
way Cooper Criswell has

01:09:14.104 --> 01:09:16.645
been pitching to just, you know,

01:09:16.685 --> 01:09:18.685
give how could Crawford,

01:09:18.706 --> 01:09:20.546
especially more time to

01:09:21.226 --> 01:09:23.488
rest and get them situated.

01:09:23.507 --> 01:09:24.828
So we don't deal with an injury with them,

01:09:25.748 --> 01:09:28.210
but he ended up not being

01:09:28.250 --> 01:09:29.149
able to make that start.

01:09:29.250 --> 01:09:30.430
It was bail on Sunday

01:09:30.489 --> 01:09:31.871
against the Cardinals and,

01:09:32.734 --> 01:09:34.034
And Whitlock was flown back

01:09:34.074 --> 01:09:35.076
to Boston for further

01:09:35.095 --> 01:09:36.176
evaluation of his elbow,

01:09:36.277 --> 01:09:37.136
and the news has come out

01:09:37.176 --> 01:09:38.798
today that there is a

01:09:38.838 --> 01:09:39.798
possibility of surgery.

01:09:40.699 --> 01:09:42.721
So with that being said,

01:09:43.122 --> 01:09:45.703
I liked him pitching as a starter.

01:09:45.724 --> 01:09:47.104
I think it's time we end

01:09:47.145 --> 01:09:48.046
that conversation.

01:09:48.345 --> 01:09:49.487
And we've had this

01:09:49.546 --> 01:09:50.367
conversation before the

01:09:50.386 --> 01:09:52.708
season started that Ken Lee

01:09:52.769 --> 01:09:54.189
is likely to get moved to the deadline.

01:09:54.210 --> 01:09:55.291
It's clearly obvious he

01:09:55.511 --> 01:09:56.712
doesn't really want to be here.

01:09:56.731 --> 01:09:59.234
Disengaged big time.

01:09:59.829 --> 01:10:00.911
Chris Martin is getting up

01:10:00.951 --> 01:10:03.153
there in age where he's been good.

01:10:03.212 --> 01:10:04.173
He's had his hiccups,

01:10:04.333 --> 01:10:05.815
but he might be an arm that

01:10:06.496 --> 01:10:07.537
is here for the rest of this year.

01:10:07.556 --> 01:10:08.998
I forget how long his contract is.

01:10:09.859 --> 01:10:10.760
We could talk about the

01:10:10.779 --> 01:10:11.761
potential of a Slayton

01:10:11.780 --> 01:10:13.403
Whitlock back into the bullpen,

01:10:13.483 --> 01:10:14.524
and we also have Liam

01:10:14.543 --> 01:10:15.904
Hendricks coming back in August.

01:10:15.984 --> 01:10:16.284
Yeah,

01:10:17.686 --> 01:10:19.547
I'm very interested to see him come back.

01:10:20.248 --> 01:10:21.489
That creates a potential for

01:10:21.510 --> 01:10:22.411
a three-headed monster at

01:10:22.451 --> 01:10:23.452
the back end of that bullpen,

01:10:23.612 --> 01:10:25.573
even if you keep Martin this year.

01:10:26.408 --> 01:10:27.708
It gives you four solid arms.

01:10:27.748 --> 01:10:28.770
If you can make the playoffs,

01:10:28.789 --> 01:10:30.811
that's good arms in the future.

01:10:31.932 --> 01:10:32.873
Obviously, I think Whitlock,

01:10:32.934 --> 01:10:33.434
it sounds like,

01:10:33.493 --> 01:10:34.795
is going to be done for the year.

01:10:34.814 --> 01:10:37.137
I'm sure based on what they

01:10:37.158 --> 01:10:37.837
did with Yoshida,

01:10:37.898 --> 01:10:39.619
I'm sure there's a second opinion coming.

01:10:40.020 --> 01:10:40.581
I'm sure they're going to

01:10:40.600 --> 01:10:41.360
look more into this.

01:10:41.461 --> 01:10:43.802
But he had an elbow injury last year,

01:10:44.463 --> 01:10:46.204
and that's all coming from

01:10:46.225 --> 01:10:46.945
him as a starter.

01:10:47.747 --> 01:10:48.807
So I think it's time we got

01:10:48.828 --> 01:10:50.890
to stop with the starter conversation,

01:10:51.350 --> 01:10:52.310
have him be a reliever.

01:10:53.323 --> 01:10:54.863
And let's go into next year

01:10:54.884 --> 01:10:55.944
with a rotation of,

01:10:56.145 --> 01:10:57.185
if you want to go find a guy, fine.

01:10:57.784 --> 01:10:58.585
But let's plan for the

01:10:58.625 --> 01:11:02.565
rotation next year of Bayo, Pavetta, Howe,

01:11:02.706 --> 01:11:03.865
Crawford, and Giolito.

01:11:04.086 --> 01:11:04.907
And I'm okay with that.

01:11:05.766 --> 01:11:06.966
From what I've seen from Andrew Bailey,

01:11:06.987 --> 01:11:08.688
and I've hyped up Andrew Bailey to no end,

01:11:09.387 --> 01:11:10.068
what I've seen from him,

01:11:10.108 --> 01:11:11.188
I'm okay with that rotation.

01:11:13.088 --> 01:11:13.328
Yeah,

01:11:13.349 --> 01:11:15.029
especially the way Criswell's pitched.

01:11:15.809 --> 01:11:17.710
You can always, you know,

01:11:17.909 --> 01:11:19.710
if Giolito is a guy that,

01:11:20.355 --> 01:11:21.815
doesn't pan out and doesn't

01:11:21.876 --> 01:11:23.037
come back and doesn't show

01:11:23.096 --> 01:11:25.877
any promise um you've still

01:11:25.917 --> 01:11:27.438
got him in the mix there's

01:11:27.478 --> 01:11:28.458
a name in double a that

01:11:28.498 --> 01:11:29.418
I'll actually like he's

01:11:29.458 --> 01:11:30.338
been hot I think he was

01:11:30.399 --> 01:11:31.720
actually just named uh

01:11:31.800 --> 01:11:32.460
eastern league player of

01:11:32.479 --> 01:11:34.461
the week zach penrod yeah

01:11:34.480 --> 01:11:35.541
I'd like to see him move up

01:11:35.560 --> 01:11:36.881
to triple a hopefully soon

01:11:37.341 --> 01:11:38.282
and maybe he could be

01:11:38.322 --> 01:11:39.101
somebody next year you're

01:11:39.122 --> 01:11:41.042
talking as a such a long

01:11:41.082 --> 01:11:41.983
reliever maybe even a

01:11:42.023 --> 01:11:43.283
starter if something goes

01:11:43.323 --> 01:11:45.043
wrong um but it's an arm to watch

01:11:46.082 --> 01:11:49.024
I also talked about it on down the farm.

01:11:49.345 --> 01:11:50.045
I've talked about it for a

01:11:50.104 --> 01:11:50.746
couple of weeks now.

01:11:50.765 --> 01:11:52.386
I think he had a bad start last week.

01:11:52.947 --> 01:11:54.148
I like Luis Perales.

01:11:54.247 --> 01:11:55.149
It's another name to watch,

01:11:55.189 --> 01:11:56.930
but he's down in high a Greenville.

01:11:57.530 --> 01:11:58.671
So you're talking probably

01:11:58.770 --> 01:11:59.692
two more years before you

01:11:59.712 --> 01:12:00.993
really see him start to

01:12:01.033 --> 01:12:02.833
make a name and see what he can do.

01:12:02.953 --> 01:12:04.095
Cause obviously, like I said,

01:12:04.135 --> 01:12:05.076
for time Madden earlier,

01:12:05.136 --> 01:12:06.337
he's struggling to triple a

01:12:07.117 --> 01:12:08.057
just Jack lighter's.

01:12:08.078 --> 01:12:09.118
Another example of he

01:12:09.179 --> 01:12:10.000
struggled since he got

01:12:10.039 --> 01:12:11.180
called up and he was a big

01:12:11.220 --> 01:12:12.902
name prospect after he got drafted.

01:12:12.962 --> 01:12:13.301
So yeah,

01:12:13.842 --> 01:12:14.762
Because these guys that look

01:12:14.802 --> 01:12:15.944
fantastic and they're down

01:12:15.984 --> 01:12:16.684
to lower levels,

01:12:16.703 --> 01:12:17.484
they get called up to a

01:12:17.524 --> 01:12:18.463
couple of higher levels and

01:12:18.503 --> 01:12:19.123
they don't look great.

01:12:19.845 --> 01:12:20.784
But there's arms.

01:12:21.505 --> 01:12:23.086
And clearly, like I've said,

01:12:23.225 --> 01:12:24.605
Andrew Bailey seems to know

01:12:24.626 --> 01:12:25.225
what he's doing.

01:12:25.466 --> 01:12:27.426
So let's trust him.

01:12:28.567 --> 01:12:29.747
But it's tough news for Whitlock.

01:12:30.507 --> 01:12:30.747
Yeah.

01:12:31.228 --> 01:12:31.807
We don't like that.

01:12:31.828 --> 01:12:33.307
That's too bad.

01:12:35.009 --> 01:12:35.529
Too bad.

01:12:36.309 --> 01:12:36.908
Sorry to interrupt you.

01:12:36.969 --> 01:12:37.970
I just had that brief.

01:12:38.010 --> 01:12:39.270
No, no, no.

01:12:39.470 --> 01:12:41.371
That's impact news.

01:12:41.430 --> 01:12:42.990
And it played well with the Pivetta.

01:12:44.657 --> 01:12:46.118
The last player that kind of

01:12:46.177 --> 01:12:48.599
caught my eye is a pitcher

01:12:48.679 --> 01:12:52.439
from the Angels, Jose Siriano.

01:12:52.661 --> 01:12:56.261
Last 15 days, three starts, 1-0,

01:12:56.261 --> 01:13:00.923
2.55 ERA in 17 innings.

01:13:01.423 --> 01:13:02.805
He's given up five earned runs,

01:13:02.984 --> 01:13:04.385
one home run, walked seven,

01:13:04.984 --> 01:13:09.922
struck out 17 with a whip of 1.13.

01:13:09.922 --> 01:13:11.524
Opponents are hitting 200

01:13:11.524 --> 01:13:13.125
against him on a team that

01:13:13.204 --> 01:13:16.167
really has not a lot going for him.

01:13:17.648 --> 01:13:18.547
And that was something I

01:13:18.728 --> 01:13:20.069
actually snuck up on that

01:13:20.109 --> 01:13:22.210
when I was doing an article in regards to,

01:13:22.810 --> 01:13:23.791
I was actually looking up

01:13:23.850 --> 01:13:25.332
Taylor Ward's information.

01:13:25.431 --> 01:13:26.493
I looked at their pitching

01:13:26.512 --> 01:13:27.113
to see if there was

01:13:27.172 --> 01:13:28.453
anything there for the Reds,

01:13:31.435 --> 01:13:32.136
for the bullpen,

01:13:33.016 --> 01:13:34.057
and it just stuck out to me.

01:13:34.097 --> 01:13:35.599
So I want to shout out to him,

01:13:36.038 --> 01:13:36.719
someone that I'm going to

01:13:36.819 --> 01:13:37.680
just pay attention to

01:13:37.699 --> 01:13:39.640
because I don't know a lot about him.

01:13:40.564 --> 01:13:41.685
So I want to watch his next

01:13:41.725 --> 01:13:42.765
start and see how that goes

01:13:42.805 --> 01:13:43.865
for him because he's the

01:13:43.926 --> 01:13:46.606
lone bright spot right now for that,

01:13:46.747 --> 01:13:48.707
other than Tyler Anderson

01:13:48.806 --> 01:13:51.408
and Sandoval who have been so-so.

01:13:52.047 --> 01:13:53.768
But Soriano is a guy that

01:13:53.787 --> 01:13:54.769
I'm interested in watching

01:13:54.788 --> 01:13:56.349
to see what he can't become

01:13:56.368 --> 01:13:57.748
for the Angels in a team

01:13:57.769 --> 01:13:59.510
that's pretty much destined

01:13:59.529 --> 01:14:00.489
for last place at this

01:14:00.550 --> 01:14:01.390
point right now or in a

01:14:01.470 --> 01:14:03.430
battle with the Oakland

01:14:03.511 --> 01:14:06.731
Athletics or Sacramento Athletics,

01:14:06.771 --> 01:14:07.891
whatever one you want to talk about.

01:14:08.935 --> 01:14:10.237
The last thing that really

01:14:10.417 --> 01:14:13.399
in terms of notes for me

01:14:14.019 --> 01:14:15.420
was I caught John Heyman

01:14:17.662 --> 01:14:19.823
breaking down kind of some

01:14:19.943 --> 01:14:21.625
trades and some different ideas.

01:14:21.685 --> 01:14:22.704
And he brought up the

01:14:22.784 --> 01:14:24.445
blowing up of the Toronto

01:14:24.466 --> 01:14:25.487
Blue Jays roster.

01:14:25.987 --> 01:14:27.268
And this for me is kind of

01:14:27.347 --> 01:14:28.448
more of a discussion with

01:14:28.488 --> 01:14:30.791
you to see your thoughts on it.

01:14:30.810 --> 01:14:31.770
And we did touch upon it

01:14:31.810 --> 01:14:32.832
before we jumped on.

01:14:33.431 --> 01:14:33.712
Again,

01:14:33.773 --> 01:14:35.274
I did an article for the Reds and

01:14:35.314 --> 01:14:36.293
how they could kickstart

01:14:36.333 --> 01:14:37.295
their offense and

01:14:37.878 --> 01:14:40.900
And I did include Vladimir Guerrero Jr.,

01:14:40.961 --> 01:14:42.141
who might be a guy that

01:14:42.202 --> 01:14:44.662
needs a change of scenery.

01:14:44.922 --> 01:14:45.304
Now,

01:14:45.863 --> 01:14:47.784
I don't think they blow it up completely.

01:14:47.805 --> 01:14:49.485
Me personally,

01:14:49.546 --> 01:14:52.328
I could see a piece or two

01:14:52.387 --> 01:14:53.628
move to try to just

01:14:54.048 --> 01:14:55.109
kickstart some things.

01:14:55.189 --> 01:14:56.250
They have some pitching

01:14:56.310 --> 01:14:58.110
starting to improve,

01:14:58.211 --> 01:14:59.551
but it's the offense that

01:14:59.591 --> 01:15:01.613
has been a little lacking.

01:15:01.673 --> 01:15:02.453
So I want to get your

01:15:02.514 --> 01:15:04.274
thoughts in regards to the news,

01:15:04.335 --> 01:15:05.756
John Heyman, or the idea of

01:15:06.123 --> 01:15:07.644
John Heyman brought up about

01:15:07.703 --> 01:15:09.465
blowing up this Blue Jays roster.

01:15:10.505 --> 01:15:10.784
So,

01:15:11.744 --> 01:15:12.845
and I mentioned it when I talked a

01:15:12.904 --> 01:15:14.765
little bit earlier about their pitching,

01:15:15.126 --> 01:15:16.685
Ricky Tiedemann and Alec Manoa,

01:15:17.426 --> 01:15:18.206
which I think opens the

01:15:18.246 --> 01:15:19.225
door that you could see

01:15:19.966 --> 01:15:21.386
Manoa as an arm that gets moved.

01:15:22.306 --> 01:15:22.386
Yeah.

01:15:22.667 --> 01:15:25.167
Gosman or Barrios.

01:15:25.386 --> 01:15:26.387
Justin Turner's another one.

01:15:26.528 --> 01:15:28.127
I've heard rumors of him to

01:15:28.228 --> 01:15:29.108
many different places.

01:15:30.028 --> 01:15:31.847
But realistically, I think that team,

01:15:32.569 --> 01:15:32.769
you know,

01:15:32.788 --> 01:15:34.849
they had the big three come up with

01:15:35.395 --> 01:15:36.916
biggio guerrero and bichette

01:15:37.476 --> 01:15:39.697
yeah things didn't pan out

01:15:40.438 --> 01:15:41.698
and now the conversation

01:15:41.738 --> 01:15:43.559
became what do you do going

01:15:43.618 --> 01:15:47.079
forward and it's tough

01:15:47.100 --> 01:15:48.760
because I like I mentioned

01:15:48.800 --> 01:15:50.581
it with you I mentioned it

01:15:50.621 --> 01:15:51.381
I think last week or

01:15:51.400 --> 01:15:52.881
whatever but I like arovis

01:15:52.921 --> 01:15:54.721
martinez I think he's a

01:15:54.761 --> 01:15:55.822
good piece to come up and

01:15:55.841 --> 01:15:56.563
could play that middle

01:15:56.622 --> 01:15:57.903
infield and I think biggio

01:15:57.943 --> 01:15:58.762
is a guy that you could see

01:15:58.783 --> 01:15:59.542
get moved because he can

01:15:59.563 --> 01:16:00.703
play any position you need

01:16:00.724 --> 01:16:02.965
him to um except for pretty

01:16:03.005 --> 01:16:04.125
much catcher in first base

01:16:05.029 --> 01:16:07.610
But, yeah, this team,

01:16:08.190 --> 01:16:08.992
they're in a series right

01:16:09.032 --> 01:16:11.412
now where I think they won

01:16:11.453 --> 01:16:13.354
today that if they can find

01:16:13.414 --> 01:16:14.475
a way to sweep,

01:16:16.036 --> 01:16:17.356
the conversation could change.

01:16:17.698 --> 01:16:19.078
But they went out and got

01:16:19.118 --> 01:16:20.279
Springer from the Astros.

01:16:20.319 --> 01:16:21.420
They signed him,

01:16:22.341 --> 01:16:23.502
and he hasn't looked right

01:16:23.521 --> 01:16:24.202
since he got there.

01:16:25.502 --> 01:16:28.664
He just looks old, and I get it.

01:16:29.324 --> 01:16:31.226
And the reason why he left Houston was –

01:16:32.016 --> 01:16:32.237
You know,

01:16:32.256 --> 01:16:34.217
the whole cheating scandal in 2017,

01:16:34.217 --> 01:16:35.958
he wanted to create a new

01:16:35.979 --> 01:16:37.439
name for himself, same as Correa,

01:16:37.560 --> 01:16:38.840
and show that it wasn't the

01:16:38.880 --> 01:16:40.501
cheating that made them the

01:16:40.541 --> 01:16:41.140
player they are.

01:16:41.761 --> 01:16:41.942
Yep.

01:16:42.282 --> 01:16:45.644
And in a way, I feel like maybe it is age,

01:16:45.764 --> 01:16:46.604
but at the same time,

01:16:46.663 --> 01:16:48.045
maybe it was the cheating

01:16:48.085 --> 01:16:49.484
that made Springer the player he was.

01:16:49.505 --> 01:16:51.626
He has moments.

01:16:52.766 --> 01:16:53.747
Oh, no, he absolutely does.

01:16:53.867 --> 01:16:55.007
It's just he just hasn't

01:16:55.047 --> 01:16:56.368
looked like he did in Houston.

01:16:57.088 --> 01:16:58.689
I mean, he was clutch that whole 2017 run,

01:16:58.810 --> 01:17:00.610
and that makes you wonder.

01:17:00.631 --> 01:17:01.131
He was healthy.

01:17:01.854 --> 01:17:02.034
Right.

01:17:03.636 --> 01:17:04.596
And they also, you got to remember,

01:17:04.617 --> 01:17:05.837
they let Kiermaier walk.

01:17:05.858 --> 01:17:07.378
You know, Kiermaier's not a bad... Oh, no,

01:17:07.458 --> 01:17:07.759
sorry.

01:17:08.159 --> 01:17:09.060
They got Kiermaier.

01:17:09.501 --> 01:17:09.761
Yeah.

01:17:10.440 --> 01:17:11.721
And, you know,

01:17:12.162 --> 01:17:12.922
Kiermaier's not a bad...

01:17:12.962 --> 01:17:15.364
He's a great glove, but... Yeah.

01:17:15.664 --> 01:17:17.466
They make interesting signings.

01:17:17.845 --> 01:17:19.027
Like... Strange signings.

01:17:19.328 --> 01:17:20.268
IKF didn't make sense.

01:17:21.048 --> 01:17:22.048
Justin Turner made sense.

01:17:22.109 --> 01:17:23.189
They needed a bat to play

01:17:23.210 --> 01:17:23.970
the corner infield.

01:17:24.530 --> 01:17:25.351
I don't know why they didn't

01:17:25.372 --> 01:17:26.872
bring back Matt Chapman, but...

01:17:27.664 --> 01:17:27.864
Yeah.

01:17:28.426 --> 01:17:29.706
Bring Turner in made sense.

01:17:29.765 --> 01:17:31.226
He produced last year.

01:17:31.686 --> 01:17:33.548
And so adding that to your lineup,

01:17:33.609 --> 01:17:34.588
it makes sense.

01:17:35.550 --> 01:17:37.131
He's the only one, though,

01:17:37.270 --> 01:17:38.310
right now that really seems

01:17:38.310 --> 01:17:39.412
– Vlade's gotten hot.

01:17:39.492 --> 01:17:41.273
I mean, Vlade leads the team in RBIs,

01:17:41.353 --> 01:17:42.453
and I believe he has one of

01:17:42.474 --> 01:17:43.835
the best batting averages on the team.

01:17:44.555 --> 01:17:45.695
He only has four home runs.

01:17:45.836 --> 01:17:47.277
That's the sneaky thing to me.

01:17:47.856 --> 01:17:49.417
Dalton Varsha leads the team in home runs.

01:17:49.837 --> 01:17:50.099
Yeah.

01:17:51.019 --> 01:17:52.560
But their pitching hasn't been bad.

01:17:52.600 --> 01:17:53.621
I mean, think about it.

01:17:53.640 --> 01:17:55.001
Jose Barrios, I just saw it tonight.

01:17:55.020 --> 01:17:55.662
He got the start.

01:17:56.453 --> 01:17:58.635
And he leads the league in quality starts.

01:17:59.274 --> 01:17:59.454
Yep.

01:18:00.155 --> 01:18:02.917
So, but is that an arm you want to trade?

01:18:03.077 --> 01:18:03.877
Or is that an arm that you

01:18:03.896 --> 01:18:06.318
build as an ace and you bring up to him?

01:18:06.358 --> 01:18:07.578
Well, that's what they wanted him to be,

01:18:07.618 --> 01:18:09.078
and he hasn't been until this year.

01:18:09.519 --> 01:18:09.719
Right.

01:18:10.158 --> 01:18:10.640
So I don't think,

01:18:10.659 --> 01:18:11.739
I don't know if you move him now.

01:18:12.439 --> 01:18:13.421
I think that goes back to

01:18:13.440 --> 01:18:14.740
the Gausman hasn't looked the same.

01:18:14.761 --> 01:18:16.122
No.

01:18:16.601 --> 01:18:17.582
He was, I mean, granted,

01:18:17.601 --> 01:18:18.342
I wanted the Red Sox to

01:18:18.363 --> 01:18:20.143
sign him so bad when he was a free agent.

01:18:20.483 --> 01:18:20.682
Yep.

01:18:20.963 --> 01:18:22.583
But now he doesn't look right.

01:18:23.043 --> 01:18:24.404
Manoa coming back to form.

01:18:25.235 --> 01:18:25.555
However,

01:18:25.615 --> 01:18:28.016
I do want to see Manoa face the Yankees,

01:18:28.096 --> 01:18:28.777
and I want to see that

01:18:28.817 --> 01:18:31.557
Verdugo rivalry just steam right up.

01:18:33.757 --> 01:18:34.137
I don't know.

01:18:36.198 --> 01:18:36.979
They could get hot.

01:18:37.319 --> 01:18:39.260
They're a team with Bichette

01:18:39.479 --> 01:18:41.840
and Vlade and Springer.

01:18:42.380 --> 01:18:44.780
If two of those three warm

01:18:44.860 --> 01:18:46.581
up at the same time, it's different.

01:18:46.780 --> 01:18:47.521
I mean,

01:18:47.582 --> 01:18:49.981
you talked about Barrios in having

01:18:50.002 --> 01:18:51.743
the most quality starts.

01:18:51.962 --> 01:18:53.042
What if he gets run support?

01:18:53.921 --> 01:18:55.042
Now what are we talking about for him?

01:18:55.061 --> 01:18:55.582
He did tonight.

01:18:55.922 --> 01:18:56.823
Yeah, tonight he did.

01:18:56.983 --> 01:18:57.984
Eight or nine runs tonight.

01:18:58.484 --> 01:18:58.684
Yeah.

01:18:58.884 --> 01:19:02.725
So I said – and that's the

01:19:02.765 --> 01:19:03.666
team I said the other day.

01:19:03.685 --> 01:19:04.867
I don't know if I said it last week,

01:19:04.987 --> 01:19:07.006
but I said I gave four

01:19:07.046 --> 01:19:08.427
teams that I was completely wrong about.

01:19:08.688 --> 01:19:09.529
That's the team so far at

01:19:09.548 --> 01:19:10.189
this point that I was

01:19:10.208 --> 01:19:11.048
completely wrong about.

01:19:11.389 --> 01:19:12.369
I had them finishing second.

01:19:13.390 --> 01:19:16.131
I mean – That's still not far-fetched,

01:19:16.150 --> 01:19:16.331
though.

01:19:16.371 --> 01:19:16.631
Again,

01:19:16.652 --> 01:19:18.712
if they don't make moves or if they

01:19:18.752 --> 01:19:20.619
do make some minor moves –

01:19:20.619 --> 01:19:22.020
they they can still get hot

01:19:22.039 --> 01:19:22.859
and they do have some

01:19:22.899 --> 01:19:23.961
pieces like you mentioned

01:19:24.001 --> 01:19:25.180
down the minors that could

01:19:25.621 --> 01:19:26.560
could potentially

01:19:26.701 --> 01:19:29.362
contribute um so that was

01:19:29.381 --> 01:19:30.962
an interesting one I think

01:19:31.002 --> 01:19:32.202
it's too early to tell

01:19:32.242 --> 01:19:33.502
right now I do think that

01:19:33.561 --> 01:19:35.603
there if it continued down

01:19:35.662 --> 01:19:37.243
this path and the way the

01:19:37.283 --> 01:19:38.823
season's going I think

01:19:38.842 --> 01:19:39.844
there will be some pieces

01:19:39.923 --> 01:19:42.904
moved which ones all

01:19:42.923 --> 01:19:45.225
depends I hate to put it on

01:19:45.465 --> 01:19:46.885
one guy and one guy only

01:19:48.003 --> 01:19:49.604
But – and I mentioned him before.

01:19:49.625 --> 01:19:50.845
I actually mentioned him

01:19:50.865 --> 01:19:51.786
when I did my thoughts.

01:19:52.747 --> 01:19:54.828
If Alec Manoa really is back,

01:19:56.429 --> 01:19:57.630
could that save their season?

01:19:58.871 --> 01:19:59.992
Because before the injury,

01:20:00.152 --> 01:20:01.512
Ariel Rodriguez looked good too.

01:20:01.573 --> 01:20:03.413
So you keep him, he comes back healthy,

01:20:04.073 --> 01:20:07.136
and you have him, Manoa –

01:20:07.136 --> 01:20:09.237
Barrios, Bassett, Kikuchi.

01:20:09.556 --> 01:20:10.596
Kikuchi even looks good.

01:20:10.617 --> 01:20:12.738
And Gausman, that's six guys.

01:20:13.217 --> 01:20:14.417
That gives you a chance to

01:20:14.457 --> 01:20:15.378
potentially look into

01:20:15.519 --> 01:20:16.679
moving somebody because

01:20:16.719 --> 01:20:18.300
they want Tiedemann up soon.

01:20:18.539 --> 01:20:19.199
And he comes back.

01:20:19.840 --> 01:20:20.579
I believe the only place I

01:20:20.619 --> 01:20:22.180
saw was maybe Juni comes back.

01:20:23.301 --> 01:20:26.082
So that gives you the chance

01:20:26.162 --> 01:20:29.023
to move somebody early and

01:20:29.042 --> 01:20:29.743
get a sell high.

01:20:29.762 --> 01:20:30.662
So if Manoa is good,

01:20:36.613 --> 01:20:40.595
pitching at what he is, is he the guy?

01:20:40.614 --> 01:20:42.896
I mean, really, his whole thing,

01:20:42.936 --> 01:20:43.997
he could be the one that

01:20:44.078 --> 01:20:44.717
saves their season,

01:20:44.757 --> 01:20:46.139
whether it's he pitches

01:20:46.179 --> 01:20:48.279
like he is and he brings them right back,

01:20:49.041 --> 01:20:50.001
or he pitches like he is

01:20:50.041 --> 01:20:51.301
and he's the arm they move

01:20:51.341 --> 01:20:52.542
to bring in a piece that

01:20:52.823 --> 01:20:55.304
makes them better and gets them there.

01:20:55.323 --> 01:20:58.025
Because he's young enough to

01:20:58.065 --> 01:20:59.546
still have an impact and draw.

01:21:00.207 --> 01:21:00.447
Right.

01:21:01.247 --> 01:21:02.969
So that's why I say,

01:21:02.988 --> 01:21:04.590
do you put the Blue Jays

01:21:04.649 --> 01:21:06.270
season on one player like that?

01:21:07.141 --> 01:21:07.903
Because the lineup's there,

01:21:07.922 --> 01:21:09.845
and you know Vladdy can get going.

01:21:10.005 --> 01:21:11.405
You know Bichette can get going.

01:21:11.445 --> 01:21:12.967
Bichette was mentioned at

01:21:13.047 --> 01:21:14.288
the offseason about being

01:21:14.328 --> 01:21:15.671
traded to the Dodgers.

01:21:16.131 --> 01:21:17.431
I heard the Cubs at one point.

01:21:17.613 --> 01:21:20.175
Yeah, which made zero sense to me.

01:21:20.895 --> 01:21:22.037
There is that possibility.

01:21:22.056 --> 01:21:22.637
Uh-oh.

01:21:23.720 --> 01:21:24.819
That's not Taylor Ward, is it?

01:21:25.161 --> 01:21:25.320
No.

01:21:26.680 --> 01:21:28.242
It says Taylor Ward on my screen,

01:21:28.261 --> 01:21:28.962
but there's an Angels

01:21:29.002 --> 01:21:30.122
player down at second base,

01:21:30.162 --> 01:21:34.203
and it doesn't look like Taylor Ward.

01:21:34.224 --> 01:21:34.904
Oh, Jesus.

01:21:35.885 --> 01:21:37.064
I just mentioned him in a

01:21:37.164 --> 01:21:40.225
trade potentially to the Reds to, again,

01:21:40.286 --> 01:21:40.926
another guy.

01:21:40.945 --> 01:21:43.287
It's not Taylor Ward.

01:21:43.327 --> 01:21:44.028
He's up right now.

01:21:44.887 --> 01:21:46.889
Okay.

01:21:47.208 --> 01:21:47.788
Who is that?

01:21:49.170 --> 01:21:49.750
Rengifo?

01:21:51.050 --> 01:21:52.390
Oh, Luis Rengifo?

01:21:52.890 --> 01:21:53.070
Yeah.

01:21:56.105 --> 01:21:57.586
So before we take our next

01:21:57.725 --> 01:22:00.046
little break and get into

01:22:00.426 --> 01:22:02.408
matchups and prospects,

01:22:03.127 --> 01:22:04.088
I want a yes or no.

01:22:04.349 --> 01:22:06.710
Will Trevor Bauer pitch this

01:22:06.789 --> 01:22:07.909
year in the major leagues?

01:22:08.470 --> 01:22:08.631
No.

01:22:11.131 --> 01:22:12.532
I think the longer it goes,

01:22:12.612 --> 01:22:16.273
the longer that is the correct answer.

01:22:16.372 --> 01:22:17.934
He was bragging today.

01:22:17.953 --> 01:22:20.414
I saw a tweet from him about how he was,

01:22:21.220 --> 01:22:22.822
striking out and defeating

01:22:22.921 --> 01:22:25.262
the um the home run

01:22:25.323 --> 01:22:28.345
champion voight like geez

01:22:29.465 --> 01:22:30.805
big deal you can strike out

01:22:30.845 --> 01:22:32.447
lucas boy the best two

01:22:32.506 --> 01:22:33.648
tweets I've seen from him

01:22:34.028 --> 01:22:35.969
as of late I just I had one

01:22:35.988 --> 01:22:36.948
in my head I just lost it

01:22:36.969 --> 01:22:37.649
so maybe I'll go with the

01:22:37.689 --> 01:22:39.390
one tweet he is the only

01:22:39.451 --> 01:22:42.572
pitcher in the history of

01:22:42.631 --> 01:22:44.412
baseball to be an all-star

01:22:44.472 --> 01:22:46.594
in the mlb the japanese

01:22:46.634 --> 01:22:47.835
league and the mexican league

01:22:49.280 --> 01:22:50.902
There's no doubt the talent's there,

01:22:50.981 --> 01:22:53.042
but there's something that

01:22:53.283 --> 01:22:57.244
the rest of the GMs and owners know,

01:22:58.025 --> 01:22:58.865
have been told.

01:22:58.905 --> 01:22:59.286
Hire up.

01:22:59.706 --> 01:23:00.106
Hire up.

01:23:00.546 --> 01:23:01.266
You really think so?

01:23:01.546 --> 01:23:01.927
Hire up.

01:23:03.587 --> 01:23:03.889
Hire up.

01:23:03.908 --> 01:23:05.668
I don't know if you saw that tweet.

01:23:05.689 --> 01:23:06.869
You replied to somebody's tweet.

01:23:07.390 --> 01:23:07.489
Yeah.

01:23:07.510 --> 01:23:08.451
And he said something about

01:23:08.490 --> 01:23:09.451
how the GMs want him,

01:23:09.470 --> 01:23:10.091
the coaches want him,

01:23:10.112 --> 01:23:10.792
the players want him.

01:23:10.851 --> 01:23:11.412
Everybody wants him.

01:23:11.452 --> 01:23:11.733
Yes.

01:23:11.972 --> 01:23:12.193
Hire up.

01:23:12.212 --> 01:23:13.734
That's the one we were talking about.

01:23:14.134 --> 01:23:15.454
So what do they know?

01:23:16.755 --> 01:23:18.256
He hasn't been charged with anything.

01:23:19.328 --> 01:23:21.131
I think it's the sponsors to

01:23:21.211 --> 01:23:22.533
Manfred saying we don't

01:23:22.573 --> 01:23:27.639
want the backlash of bringing him back.

01:23:27.819 --> 01:23:28.940
That's my personal opinion.

01:23:28.961 --> 01:23:31.363
I think it's the sponsors

01:23:31.423 --> 01:23:32.444
coming and saying we don't

01:23:32.484 --> 01:23:33.265
want to deal with this.

01:23:33.447 --> 01:23:34.067
Or it's Manfred.

01:23:35.168 --> 01:23:35.930
It could be that too.

01:23:35.970 --> 01:23:36.911
It could be Manfred saying I

01:23:36.930 --> 01:23:37.652
don't want to deal with this.

01:23:38.771 --> 01:23:40.492
I mean, let's be serious.

01:23:41.011 --> 01:23:42.113
The guy... Nobody will ever

01:23:42.172 --> 01:23:43.533
forget Terry Francona

01:23:43.552 --> 01:23:44.132
coming out trying to take

01:23:44.153 --> 01:23:45.332
the ball from him in Cleveland,

01:23:45.372 --> 01:23:46.573
and he turned around.

01:23:46.594 --> 01:23:47.613
It was not in Cleveland.

01:23:47.634 --> 01:23:48.533
He was playing for Cleveland.

01:23:48.554 --> 01:23:49.774
They were at Coffman Stadium

01:23:49.833 --> 01:23:50.493
in Kansas City.

01:23:51.015 --> 01:23:51.954
He turned around and threw

01:23:51.994 --> 01:23:53.135
the ball over the center field wall.

01:23:54.335 --> 01:23:56.115
I mean, the guy is an asshole.

01:23:57.195 --> 01:23:58.775
But is he fun to watch?

01:23:59.256 --> 01:23:59.735
Absolutely.

01:23:59.895 --> 01:24:00.737
Is he a good pitcher?

01:24:00.936 --> 01:24:01.537
Absolutely.

01:24:02.157 --> 01:24:03.277
Could he still be a top

01:24:03.337 --> 01:24:04.417
pitcher in the game of

01:24:04.936 --> 01:24:05.677
Major League Baseball?

01:24:05.877 --> 01:24:06.438
Absolutely.

01:24:07.457 --> 01:24:07.658
But...

01:24:09.195 --> 01:24:11.735
what happened has punished him.

01:24:11.976 --> 01:24:12.737
And I, you know,

01:24:12.756 --> 01:24:15.436
I've seen so many tweets

01:24:15.457 --> 01:24:17.176
with people coming out and saying, well,

01:24:17.237 --> 01:24:18.018
something happened.

01:24:18.078 --> 01:24:19.297
Nobody's talking about it

01:24:19.358 --> 01:24:20.137
and stuff like that,

01:24:20.177 --> 01:24:21.637
which I'm not going to get into that.

01:24:21.698 --> 01:24:24.538
Cause it's all, he said, she said,

01:24:24.838 --> 01:24:25.859
and nobody knows the truth.

01:24:26.019 --> 01:24:27.238
And, you know,

01:24:27.279 --> 01:24:28.099
all we can say is we know

01:24:28.139 --> 01:24:29.319
the truth of what happened

01:24:29.399 --> 01:24:30.180
on the other stuff.

01:24:30.420 --> 01:24:33.140
And the girl that he claimed she's going,

01:24:33.279 --> 01:24:34.360
she comes back all the time

01:24:34.400 --> 01:24:36.400
with him and his, um,

01:24:37.563 --> 01:24:39.363
agent they it's just they go

01:24:39.404 --> 01:24:40.265
back and forth on twitter

01:24:40.284 --> 01:24:42.447
all the time and who knows

01:24:42.667 --> 01:24:44.207
not a good look so that I

01:24:44.228 --> 01:24:45.788
mean not a good look

01:24:45.809 --> 01:24:46.850
because when we were

01:24:46.890 --> 01:24:47.710
talking about someone

01:24:47.789 --> 01:24:48.591
earlier who's been

01:24:48.631 --> 01:24:50.252
suspended but you didn't

01:24:50.292 --> 01:24:51.493
hear a peep from him when

01:24:51.533 --> 01:24:52.594
he was suspended he was

01:24:52.634 --> 01:24:53.694
convicted you know was

01:24:54.274 --> 01:24:55.576
charged with what he did

01:24:56.456 --> 01:24:57.457
and but he would there was

01:24:57.516 --> 01:24:58.698
nothing said he served his

01:24:58.757 --> 01:25:00.538
time came back all the

01:25:00.618 --> 01:25:01.619
classes he needed to go to

01:25:01.659 --> 01:25:02.600
yep and he did what he had

01:25:02.621 --> 01:25:04.462
to do and came back and it's just

01:25:05.528 --> 01:25:06.288
But I think that's part of

01:25:06.309 --> 01:25:07.149
the problem is I think

01:25:07.210 --> 01:25:08.871
Bauer has been blackballed,

01:25:08.911 --> 01:25:10.591
and that's why you hear so much from him.

01:25:11.353 --> 01:25:13.134
He doesn't shut his mouth either, though.

01:25:14.034 --> 01:25:15.636
It's weird the girl has said a lot more.

01:25:16.377 --> 01:25:17.438
She still keeps going.

01:25:18.318 --> 01:25:19.960
That's where I have some issues.

01:25:19.979 --> 01:25:21.640
Like I said, it's all he said.

01:25:21.680 --> 01:25:21.961
She said,

01:25:21.980 --> 01:25:23.242
we'll never know the whole story.

01:25:24.143 --> 01:25:24.922
Baseball might know,

01:25:24.962 --> 01:25:25.923
and that's part of the reason.

01:25:26.304 --> 01:25:26.664
I don't know.

01:25:27.706 --> 01:25:28.926
But it's an interesting

01:25:28.966 --> 01:25:29.806
situation because I would

01:25:29.827 --> 01:25:31.788
love to see him in any team.

01:25:32.248 --> 01:25:33.310
I mean, there's so many teams –

01:25:34.273 --> 01:25:35.253
I thought the tweet that I

01:25:35.293 --> 01:25:36.074
found was interesting.

01:25:36.255 --> 01:25:36.515
It said,

01:25:36.555 --> 01:25:39.016
I'm better than any of the top

01:25:39.056 --> 01:25:39.938
three on any team.

01:25:40.618 --> 01:25:41.779
And I went through and I was like, well,

01:25:41.798 --> 01:25:42.659
you're not better than the

01:25:42.739 --> 01:25:44.041
whole Mariners starting rotation.

01:25:46.563 --> 01:25:46.922
Right now,

01:25:46.943 --> 01:25:48.304
I would take four guys on

01:25:48.363 --> 01:25:50.064
Baltimore that you're not better than.

01:25:52.087 --> 01:25:53.108
And the Red Sox had the best

01:25:53.247 --> 01:25:55.088
ERA at the time, starting-wise.

01:25:55.288 --> 01:25:56.430
I wouldn't take you over the

01:25:56.650 --> 01:25:58.811
four that I expect.

01:25:59.152 --> 01:26:00.393
I would still gladly take

01:26:00.412 --> 01:26:01.094
them as a Red Sox.

01:26:01.113 --> 01:26:02.255
Don't take that any different way.

01:26:03.029 --> 01:26:04.451
But, you know, you just,

01:26:04.530 --> 01:26:05.452
that's the thing he said.

01:26:05.492 --> 01:26:06.632
And I just went through and I'm like, ah,

01:26:06.693 --> 01:26:07.193
it's not true.

01:26:07.993 --> 01:26:08.134
Well,

01:26:08.173 --> 01:26:09.716
look at the competition he's facing

01:26:09.756 --> 01:26:10.336
right now too.

01:26:10.735 --> 01:26:10.916
Right.

01:26:11.317 --> 01:26:12.358
That's, that was the other thing.

01:26:12.438 --> 01:26:14.720
So, so that was just something that,

01:26:14.979 --> 01:26:15.220
you know,

01:26:15.279 --> 01:26:17.202
you and I touched upon briefly and,

01:26:17.521 --> 01:26:17.761
you know,

01:26:17.782 --> 01:26:19.122
I agree that I thought that

01:26:19.182 --> 01:26:20.463
maybe after April,

01:26:21.225 --> 01:26:21.984
maybe it was some of the

01:26:22.046 --> 01:26:23.166
injuries that we saw that

01:26:23.206 --> 01:26:24.828
maybe someone would reach out.

01:26:25.507 --> 01:26:26.729
But if no one has now.

01:26:26.748 --> 01:26:27.789
Yeah.

01:26:27.829 --> 01:26:28.149
Yeah.

01:26:30.854 --> 01:26:32.055
I'm a little surprised on that one,

01:26:32.114 --> 01:26:33.536
but that's where we're at, I think,

01:26:33.615 --> 01:26:36.877
is it's just... It could

01:26:36.917 --> 01:26:38.918
get interesting to see what happens,

01:26:38.958 --> 01:26:41.140
because if someone gets desperate enough,

01:26:43.402 --> 01:26:46.262
come late July, early August,

01:26:47.423 --> 01:26:48.465
because he's a free agent.

01:26:49.685 --> 01:26:50.206
You know what I mean?

01:26:50.685 --> 01:26:52.306
He can be signed at any point in time.

01:26:52.787 --> 01:26:54.207
And he costs nothing.

01:26:54.228 --> 01:26:56.829
A league minimum with incentives.

01:26:57.789 --> 01:26:58.690
What do you have to lose?

01:26:59.587 --> 01:27:01.488
That's where I scratch my head.

01:27:01.609 --> 01:27:03.850
That's what tells me it's higher up.

01:27:04.951 --> 01:27:05.430
You're right.

01:27:06.091 --> 01:27:06.872
It's owners,

01:27:06.912 --> 01:27:08.813
but who's saying it to the owners?

01:27:09.153 --> 01:27:09.853
Who's telling them?

01:27:10.373 --> 01:27:11.173
What's the fine?

01:27:11.434 --> 01:27:14.456
What's going to happen if you do this?

01:27:15.716 --> 01:27:16.737
Before we get into the key

01:27:16.777 --> 01:27:18.978
matchups and the prospects,

01:27:19.417 --> 01:27:20.538
I want to just touch again

01:27:21.038 --> 01:27:22.319
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All right, CJ,

01:28:45.077 --> 01:28:47.257
what matchups are you looking for?

01:28:49.500 --> 01:28:50.279
I actually kept it light

01:28:50.319 --> 01:28:51.661
this week because I wasn't

01:28:51.701 --> 01:28:53.341
really impressed with this week's slate.

01:28:55.444 --> 01:28:56.484
The first one I want to talk about,

01:28:56.524 --> 01:28:57.824
which isn't looking good right now,

01:28:57.925 --> 01:28:58.706
is I want to talk about the

01:28:58.746 --> 01:28:59.645
Tigers and the Royals.

01:29:00.667 --> 01:29:01.667
I thought this was the

01:29:01.887 --> 01:29:04.168
series for the test for the Tigers,

01:29:04.588 --> 01:29:07.251
where if you can beat the

01:29:07.310 --> 01:29:08.471
Royals in three games,

01:29:09.252 --> 01:29:10.773
then you're back in the race.

01:29:11.314 --> 01:29:11.673
Yep.

01:29:12.664 --> 01:29:13.864
eight three royals right now

01:29:14.824 --> 01:29:16.706
and granted they're gonna

01:29:16.725 --> 01:29:18.185
have school won the finale

01:29:18.225 --> 01:29:19.166
so I think that looks good

01:29:19.206 --> 01:29:20.287
for them if they can steal

01:29:20.327 --> 01:29:21.006
one of the other ones I

01:29:22.167 --> 01:29:23.287
think we're looking okay

01:29:23.627 --> 01:29:25.688
but right now eight three

01:29:25.707 --> 01:29:28.828
yeah the one thing I did

01:29:28.847 --> 01:29:29.608
find when I was doing the

01:29:29.648 --> 01:29:31.109
preview for the series was

01:29:31.908 --> 01:29:33.128
salvador perez leads all

01:29:33.168 --> 01:29:34.269
the offensive categories

01:29:34.309 --> 01:29:36.989
for the royals he just doesn't quit he

01:29:38.668 --> 01:29:39.429
It's wild.

01:29:39.890 --> 01:29:41.909
And I think Bobby Witt's the real deal,

01:29:41.949 --> 01:29:42.090
too.

01:29:42.109 --> 01:29:43.890
Like, this team could be a problem.

01:29:44.371 --> 01:29:45.192
Yep.

01:29:45.271 --> 01:29:45.712
Lugo.

01:29:45.952 --> 01:29:47.353
Lugo has been unreal.

01:29:47.393 --> 01:29:48.052
Lugo's a problem.

01:29:49.533 --> 01:29:51.253
But Welko looked good tonight, too.

01:29:51.814 --> 01:29:52.074
Yeah.

01:29:52.354 --> 01:29:53.875
Although, it was interesting.

01:29:53.895 --> 01:29:55.315
I don't know what's going on with him.

01:29:55.376 --> 01:29:56.515
He was doing some weird

01:29:56.615 --> 01:29:58.136
stretches in the dugout in

01:29:58.157 --> 01:29:58.817
between innings,

01:29:58.856 --> 01:30:00.137
like holding his hand up

01:30:00.198 --> 01:30:01.297
his arm and stretching his

01:30:01.377 --> 01:30:02.698
elbow and his shoulder.

01:30:02.759 --> 01:30:03.279
So, I don't know.

01:30:03.899 --> 01:30:04.399
I mean, granted,

01:30:04.420 --> 01:30:05.439
I could be overlooking that

01:30:05.659 --> 01:30:06.479
as a Tigers fan,

01:30:06.539 --> 01:30:07.921
thinking something's going on there, but

01:30:09.905 --> 01:30:10.565
He looked good, though.

01:30:11.867 --> 01:30:12.306
Another one,

01:30:12.327 --> 01:30:13.327
and the only one I have for

01:30:13.407 --> 01:30:15.108
this week before I get to the weekend,

01:30:15.887 --> 01:30:16.769
is Rangers-Phillies.

01:30:17.889 --> 01:30:18.069
Yep.

01:30:18.208 --> 01:30:20.489
Where I like the fact you're

01:30:20.510 --> 01:30:22.751
going to see Wheeler and

01:30:23.850 --> 01:30:25.731
you're going to see Ranger Suarez.

01:30:26.271 --> 01:30:27.231
I believe Ranger Suarez has

01:30:27.271 --> 01:30:27.811
the first game.

01:30:27.832 --> 01:30:28.912
Wheeler has the finale.

01:30:29.132 --> 01:30:30.632
Or maybe it's Chris Sanchez

01:30:30.672 --> 01:30:31.573
I have in the first game.

01:30:31.594 --> 01:30:32.934
But you're going to see

01:30:32.953 --> 01:30:34.314
Wheeler in the series, that's for sure.

01:30:34.994 --> 01:30:35.114
Yep.

01:30:36.559 --> 01:30:37.479
And I said it last week.

01:30:37.960 --> 01:30:38.581
I know you weren't here.

01:30:38.600 --> 01:30:39.141
I don't know if you had a

01:30:39.181 --> 01:30:40.002
chance to listen to it.

01:30:40.061 --> 01:30:41.684
But I mentioned the Rangers

01:30:42.024 --> 01:30:42.925
are an exciting team.

01:30:43.085 --> 01:30:44.006
They're right there in the

01:30:44.046 --> 01:30:46.108
race for the AL West.

01:30:46.788 --> 01:30:47.309
And they're going to get

01:30:47.350 --> 01:30:48.289
DeGrom and Scherzer back.

01:30:48.890 --> 01:30:50.311
So going up against the

01:30:50.332 --> 01:30:51.793
Phillies team without those two guys,

01:30:52.994 --> 01:30:53.494
not great.

01:30:53.895 --> 01:30:56.719
But if they can find a way

01:30:56.738 --> 01:30:57.599
to take two out of three

01:30:57.639 --> 01:30:59.001
from the Phillies, that's a good look.

01:31:00.069 --> 01:31:01.529
But the Phillies are a lot

01:31:01.550 --> 01:31:02.470
of fun to watch right now.

01:31:02.949 --> 01:31:04.150
So if you've got anything

01:31:04.171 --> 01:31:04.751
you want to watch,

01:31:04.770 --> 01:31:05.971
like if there's a team you want to watch,

01:31:05.992 --> 01:31:06.811
the Phillies are must-see

01:31:06.832 --> 01:31:09.014
baseball right now.

01:31:09.474 --> 01:31:11.734
This weekend, not thrilled by the slate.

01:31:13.315 --> 01:31:14.275
I was going to say Red Sox

01:31:14.555 --> 01:31:15.476
Brewers was one of them,

01:31:15.516 --> 01:31:17.398
but the Red Sox had looked

01:31:17.438 --> 01:31:18.358
bad against the Cardinals,

01:31:18.398 --> 01:31:19.538
so I wasn't thrilled about it.

01:31:19.658 --> 01:31:21.000
They've looked good over the last two.

01:31:21.819 --> 01:31:22.800
So that's a test.

01:31:22.940 --> 01:31:23.801
I will mention it because

01:31:23.841 --> 01:31:27.284
I'm interested to see can the Red Sox –

01:31:27.284 --> 01:31:28.145
go against a team that's

01:31:28.164 --> 01:31:31.065
leading a division and come out hot,

01:31:32.246 --> 01:31:35.027
whereas they came out cold

01:31:35.327 --> 01:31:36.506
against the Cardinals team

01:31:36.527 --> 01:31:37.867
that's in last place in their division.

01:31:39.488 --> 01:31:40.868
The other one is the

01:31:40.908 --> 01:31:41.828
Cardinals and the Cubs

01:31:42.967 --> 01:31:44.408
because it's rivalry weekend.

01:31:46.168 --> 01:31:47.208
As bad as the Cardinals are

01:31:47.248 --> 01:31:48.349
and as good as the Cubs have been,

01:31:49.390 --> 01:31:50.329
it just seems like whenever

01:31:50.350 --> 01:31:51.270
there's a rivalry,

01:31:52.229 --> 01:31:54.230
the bad team always gets

01:31:54.310 --> 01:31:55.430
pumped up for their chance.

01:31:56.328 --> 01:31:56.689
So,

01:31:56.970 --> 01:31:58.171
and the Cardinals are up 5-3 on the

01:31:58.211 --> 01:31:58.832
Orioles right now.

01:31:58.912 --> 01:32:00.073
So I'm going to even more

01:32:00.113 --> 01:32:00.873
back that up because the

01:32:00.894 --> 01:32:01.713
Cardinals could be turning

01:32:01.734 --> 01:32:02.694
the ship around right here,

01:32:03.475 --> 01:32:04.938
taking two or three from the Red Sox.

01:32:04.997 --> 01:32:05.658
And now all of a sudden

01:32:05.738 --> 01:32:06.899
you're up 5-3 on the Orioles.

01:32:08.541 --> 01:32:09.282
And they have pitching.

01:32:09.841 --> 01:32:10.082
Yep.

01:32:10.722 --> 01:32:12.385
So, I mean, Sonny Gray,

01:32:12.465 --> 01:32:13.426
is it Sonny Gray tonight?

01:32:13.525 --> 01:32:14.266
So Sonny Gray is going to

01:32:14.306 --> 01:32:15.608
pitch this weekend against the Cubs.

01:32:16.309 --> 01:32:16.529
Yep.

01:32:16.809 --> 01:32:17.510
Probably Sunday night

01:32:17.529 --> 01:32:18.730
baseball if it is him tonight.

01:32:21.333 --> 01:32:23.154
No, that'll be an interesting series.

01:32:23.635 --> 01:32:25.395
It's not one for me on the weekend.

01:32:25.416 --> 01:32:28.957
I have two for this week.

01:32:29.958 --> 01:32:32.579
One is Toronto going against

01:32:32.619 --> 01:32:33.380
the White Sox.

01:32:34.560 --> 01:32:36.021
If they sweep that series,

01:32:37.863 --> 01:32:39.804
as Tampa Bay and the Red

01:32:39.863 --> 01:32:43.586
Sox continue to kind of slip, slide,

01:32:43.605 --> 01:32:44.905
and are wishy-washy in

01:32:44.966 --> 01:32:46.426
regards to what's going on with them,

01:32:46.747 --> 01:32:48.268
Toronto can start to climb.

01:32:49.309 --> 01:32:49.548
And then...

01:32:50.416 --> 01:32:51.756
Again, this weekend,

01:32:53.037 --> 01:32:54.197
Toronto takes on Detroit.

01:32:55.877 --> 01:32:59.677
And if the Blue Jays

01:32:59.738 --> 01:33:03.497
pitching can stay strong

01:33:03.899 --> 01:33:05.859
and the Blue Jays bats come alive,

01:33:07.519 --> 01:33:08.960
that's a series if they win

01:33:09.000 --> 01:33:11.119
that and they sweep the White Sox,

01:33:11.720 --> 01:33:12.779
we could be watching

01:33:12.840 --> 01:33:14.020
Toronto get hot right in

01:33:14.060 --> 01:33:15.841
front of us this weekend to

01:33:15.921 --> 01:33:16.661
ride into June.

01:33:17.787 --> 01:33:18.789
So that's the break.

01:33:19.170 --> 01:33:21.993
Then no school this weekend.

01:33:22.354 --> 01:33:23.435
So that's correct.

01:33:23.475 --> 01:33:25.078
So that's an interesting one for me.

01:33:25.698 --> 01:33:28.801
The other one, uh, during the week is,

01:33:28.822 --> 01:33:29.302
and I'm not going to

01:33:29.323 --> 01:33:30.864
mention the Cubs Braves cause that's,

01:33:30.925 --> 01:33:31.966
that's something that to me

01:33:32.046 --> 01:33:33.247
is interesting and it'll

01:33:33.868 --> 01:33:34.689
prove their worth.

01:33:35.371 --> 01:33:35.610
But,

01:33:36.578 --> 01:33:37.378
because they've got a tough

01:33:37.418 --> 01:33:41.820
weekend with the three games with Atlanta,

01:33:41.961 --> 01:33:45.804
which they lost that series most recently,

01:33:46.144 --> 01:33:46.925
and then the Cardinals

01:33:46.965 --> 01:33:47.824
being a home division.

01:33:47.864 --> 01:33:49.586
That's just a division rival.

01:33:49.645 --> 01:33:50.627
That's going to be a tough one.

01:33:51.127 --> 01:33:52.448
But the other game for me,

01:33:53.048 --> 01:33:54.488
or the other team for this week,

01:33:54.689 --> 01:33:56.190
I should say, it's this week period,

01:33:56.831 --> 01:33:58.051
is the Cincinnati Reds.

01:33:58.891 --> 01:34:01.594
They host the San Diego Padres,

01:34:03.114 --> 01:34:04.555
and then the Dodgers come to town.

01:34:05.716 --> 01:34:06.497
So they have seven.

01:34:07.417 --> 01:34:08.717
They play seven games.

01:34:08.998 --> 01:34:10.819
No, they play six games this weekend.

01:34:10.840 --> 01:34:11.420
There's seven.

01:34:11.439 --> 01:34:12.039
They play tonight?

01:34:15.002 --> 01:34:15.742
No, I don't think so.

01:34:15.761 --> 01:34:17.082
So they play Tuesday, Wednesday,

01:34:17.382 --> 01:34:19.304
Thursday against the Padres.

01:34:21.925 --> 01:34:23.405
And then they face the Dodgers.

01:34:24.286 --> 01:34:26.426
They're two and five in their last seven.

01:34:26.447 --> 01:34:27.787
Taking one of

01:34:31.497 --> 01:34:32.918
Four against the Dodgers and

01:34:33.198 --> 01:34:34.878
only one of three against

01:34:34.979 --> 01:34:35.859
the Diamondbacks.

01:34:36.880 --> 01:34:39.801
If the Reds can't win one of

01:34:39.841 --> 01:34:40.780
these two series,

01:34:42.242 --> 01:34:44.381
they're already in last

01:34:44.443 --> 01:34:45.722
place in the NL Central,

01:34:45.802 --> 01:34:48.863
and they're eight and a half games back.

01:34:50.224 --> 01:34:54.966
They could fall to 10, 11 games back.

01:34:55.065 --> 01:34:55.305
Now,

01:34:56.166 --> 01:34:58.106
the Mariners or the Marlins did beat

01:34:58.127 --> 01:34:58.987
the Brewers tonight.

01:34:59.448 --> 01:34:59.688
Yep.

01:35:00.007 --> 01:35:00.547
That helps.

01:35:01.274 --> 01:35:04.314
But those two series for the

01:35:04.354 --> 01:35:06.055
Reds are big in terms of

01:35:06.414 --> 01:35:07.435
they were a team that

01:35:08.136 --> 01:35:09.475
everyone had high hopes for.

01:35:09.555 --> 01:35:10.777
Yes, they're dealing with injuries,

01:35:11.237 --> 01:35:13.157
but that to me is a very

01:35:13.398 --> 01:35:16.217
crucial series this week

01:35:16.257 --> 01:35:17.219
against the Padres and then

01:35:17.279 --> 01:35:18.719
again against the Dodgers.

01:35:19.359 --> 01:35:20.659
The other series this

01:35:20.739 --> 01:35:22.100
weekend that I'm interested

01:35:22.260 --> 01:35:24.520
in is the Red Sox Brewers.

01:35:24.581 --> 01:35:28.662
They miss Peralta, and I think at home,

01:35:30.466 --> 01:35:32.587
if the Red Sox can beat up

01:35:32.707 --> 01:35:34.467
on Tampa Bay during the

01:35:34.507 --> 01:35:36.849
week and can win the series

01:35:36.889 --> 01:35:38.649
against the Brewers,

01:35:38.868 --> 01:35:40.588
they keep that hope alive

01:35:41.130 --> 01:35:42.109
while they're waiting for

01:35:42.170 --> 01:35:43.390
Casas to come back.

01:35:43.909 --> 01:35:45.390
They're waiting for, you know,

01:35:45.430 --> 01:35:47.490
Grisham to kind of get his

01:35:47.530 --> 01:35:50.912
feet under and get back into his body.

01:35:50.931 --> 01:35:51.372
You know,

01:35:51.391 --> 01:35:53.292
losing 14 pounds in a hurry due

01:35:53.311 --> 01:35:54.493
to an illness, you know,

01:35:54.912 --> 01:35:56.453
takes a toll on your body.

01:35:56.592 --> 01:35:58.054
So that'll be a very

01:35:58.134 --> 01:35:59.713
interesting series for me.

01:36:00.854 --> 01:36:02.796
Um, and other than that was,

01:36:02.876 --> 01:36:03.997
those were my only two, um,

01:36:05.198 --> 01:36:06.838
except watching out for Kansas city.

01:36:06.878 --> 01:36:08.659
Cause they do have Tampa Bay this weekend.

01:36:08.760 --> 01:36:10.480
So if they can stay hot this

01:36:10.541 --> 01:36:12.442
week and then get Tampa Bay

01:36:12.502 --> 01:36:14.823
and can win that series, uh,

01:36:14.943 --> 01:36:15.904
the guardians are going to

01:36:15.944 --> 01:36:16.844
have someone knocking on

01:36:16.863 --> 01:36:17.765
their door really quick.

01:36:18.465 --> 01:36:20.166
What's with the reds get 19

01:36:20.166 --> 01:36:21.766
games against the NL West right here.

01:36:22.528 --> 01:36:24.488
Their, their schedule sucked.

01:36:25.009 --> 01:36:26.989
They're just getting beat up, but I mean,

01:36:27.010 --> 01:36:28.011
I get it, but Whoa.

01:36:28.817 --> 01:36:29.757
Diamondbacks for three

01:36:29.837 --> 01:36:30.858
Giants with three down

01:36:30.877 --> 01:36:32.279
backs three Dodgers for

01:36:32.378 --> 01:36:34.140
Padres three Dodgers three

01:36:34.180 --> 01:36:35.100
and then back to the NL

01:36:35.121 --> 01:36:42.404
Central It's a trial No,

01:36:42.425 --> 01:36:43.265
I'm mixing the Rockies

01:36:43.284 --> 01:36:43.845
there and get a little

01:36:43.865 --> 01:36:46.987
momentum at least Here's the four teams.

01:36:47.006 --> 01:36:47.908
They're gonna fight for that.

01:36:47.927 --> 01:36:49.969
Well Three of the four teams

01:36:50.029 --> 01:36:50.708
are gonna fight for the

01:36:50.748 --> 01:36:51.729
wild card in the National

01:36:51.770 --> 01:36:55.612
League Enjoy Yeah,

01:36:55.891 --> 01:36:56.912
it's it's gonna be rough

01:36:57.697 --> 01:36:59.078
It's going to be extremely rough.

01:37:01.618 --> 01:37:05.539
The Reds have to find a way

01:37:06.180 --> 01:37:07.320
to get their bats going

01:37:07.341 --> 01:37:08.041
because their pitching

01:37:08.081 --> 01:37:09.301
hasn't been horrible.

01:37:09.981 --> 01:37:11.903
Their bats have been so inconsistent.

01:37:11.962 --> 01:37:12.962
We talked about it earlier

01:37:13.002 --> 01:37:14.184
with Eli De La Cruz.

01:37:14.904 --> 01:37:17.505
Steer's not been horrible.

01:37:18.185 --> 01:37:19.666
He just was hotter earlier

01:37:19.706 --> 01:37:20.746
in the year and has kind of

01:37:20.805 --> 01:37:22.527
cooled off and come back down to earth,

01:37:22.567 --> 01:37:23.787
but there's no one else to

01:37:23.828 --> 01:37:24.948
support them right now.

01:37:25.807 --> 01:37:27.208
They've got TJ Friedel out.

01:37:28.354 --> 01:37:30.376
the aisle again this time

01:37:30.416 --> 01:37:32.177
with a fractured thumb Matt

01:37:32.217 --> 01:37:34.819
McClain I'm not sure if we

01:37:34.880 --> 01:37:36.662
see him until maybe after

01:37:36.782 --> 01:37:39.904
August if if then and

01:37:40.725 --> 01:37:42.546
Candelario has done nothing

01:37:43.747 --> 01:37:46.850
CES is on I believe the IL

01:37:46.930 --> 01:37:49.073
he hasn't done much will

01:37:49.132 --> 01:37:50.293
Benson has not done

01:37:50.354 --> 01:37:52.877
anything at all Jake Fraley

01:37:53.644 --> 01:37:55.305
is a fourth outfielder at best.

01:37:55.385 --> 01:37:56.966
And the same with Stuart Fairchild,

01:37:57.006 --> 01:37:58.747
that they're not bad defensively,

01:37:59.287 --> 01:38:00.207
but they're certainly not

01:38:00.247 --> 01:38:01.288
doing anything at bat.

01:38:01.309 --> 01:38:02.509
And Jonathan Indy has been

01:38:02.548 --> 01:38:03.510
so inconsistent.

01:38:03.770 --> 01:38:06.931
It's really tough to watch right now.

01:38:07.372 --> 01:38:09.153
And the Reds do have the talent.

01:38:09.172 --> 01:38:10.293
They just aren't all there

01:38:10.354 --> 01:38:11.654
together and they're not firing.

01:38:11.715 --> 01:38:13.655
So if they have a rough week this week,

01:38:13.716 --> 01:38:16.457
it's going to be a big hole

01:38:16.478 --> 01:38:17.599
to climb out of with the

01:38:17.658 --> 01:38:18.878
way the Brewers and Cubs

01:38:18.918 --> 01:38:19.579
have been playing.

01:38:19.619 --> 01:38:21.261
And even the Pirates, as we mentioned.

01:38:21.381 --> 01:38:21.541
So,

01:38:22.365 --> 01:38:23.265
It'll be interesting.

01:38:23.426 --> 01:38:25.307
So with those matchups,

01:38:25.368 --> 01:38:26.387
it leads us right into your

01:38:26.408 --> 01:38:27.828
top prospects for the week.

01:38:29.350 --> 01:38:31.570
So the first one I'm going to go,

01:38:31.751 --> 01:38:33.271
I actually did this week the right way.

01:38:33.912 --> 01:38:34.351
Okay.

01:38:34.471 --> 01:38:35.733
Last week I did two hitters

01:38:35.832 --> 01:38:36.832
and I think what a couple

01:38:36.912 --> 01:38:37.694
weeks ago I did two

01:38:37.753 --> 01:38:39.475
pitchers and this year I

01:38:39.494 --> 01:38:40.614
actually have a hitter and a pitcher.

01:38:41.296 --> 01:38:43.856
The first one is now before

01:38:43.877 --> 01:38:47.439
I get into this, I want to say,

01:38:48.323 --> 01:38:50.003
That I'm working on.

01:38:50.024 --> 01:38:51.664
I know I promised it.

01:38:51.746 --> 01:38:52.605
It's not up yet.

01:38:53.367 --> 01:38:54.568
But right now we still have

01:38:54.608 --> 01:38:57.088
March for the top 100 prospects.

01:38:57.970 --> 01:39:00.150
I'm hoping to have a new one up.

01:39:01.271 --> 01:39:02.033
I guess at this point I

01:39:02.052 --> 01:39:02.993
might as well say for June.

01:39:03.014 --> 01:39:06.975
So we're going with the same rankings.

01:39:08.117 --> 01:39:09.057
I have a spreadsheet that

01:39:09.078 --> 01:39:10.139
has a new top 100.

01:39:10.139 --> 01:39:10.698
Don't worry.

01:39:10.719 --> 01:39:11.560
So when the time comes that

01:39:11.579 --> 01:39:12.199
will be updated.

01:39:13.841 --> 01:39:14.502
But for right now he's

01:39:14.542 --> 01:39:15.322
ranked 25th in my top 100.

01:39:15.322 --> 01:39:15.601
Shortstop.

01:39:18.225 --> 01:39:19.487
In the Tampa Bay Rays system,

01:39:19.506 --> 01:39:21.007
he's playing double-A Montgomery,

01:39:21.948 --> 01:39:22.648
Carson Williams.

01:39:23.708 --> 01:39:24.429
This past week,

01:39:24.448 --> 01:39:27.291
he went 8-for-18 for a .444 average,

01:39:27.970 --> 01:39:30.972
three doubles, a triple, three home runs,

01:39:31.773 --> 01:39:34.774
six RBIs, nine runs scored, five walks,

01:39:34.835 --> 01:39:35.654
and a stolen base.

01:39:36.695 --> 01:39:37.416
On the season,

01:39:37.676 --> 01:39:38.577
he's hitting .346 with a 1.057 OPS,

01:39:38.636 --> 01:39:39.917
seven home runs, 20 RBIs, 34 runs scored,

01:39:40.037 --> 01:39:41.057
and 10 stolen bases.

01:39:48.395 --> 01:39:50.856
The pitching prospect is my

01:39:51.417 --> 01:39:52.377
82nd-ranked prospect.

01:39:53.318 --> 01:39:54.957
This guy has made his way to

01:39:55.018 --> 01:39:55.778
a couple of different

01:39:55.818 --> 01:39:57.078
systems in the offseason.

01:39:57.759 --> 01:39:58.118
Right now,

01:39:58.219 --> 01:39:59.939
he is currently pitching in AA

01:39:59.960 --> 01:40:01.159
with the Birmingham Barons

01:40:01.460 --> 01:40:02.479
for the Chicago White Sox.

01:40:02.520 --> 01:40:03.280
It's Drew Thorpe.

01:40:04.041 --> 01:40:05.180
And if you don't get the reference,

01:40:05.240 --> 01:40:07.421
he was traded from the

01:40:07.462 --> 01:40:09.502
Yankees to the Padres for Juan Soto.

01:40:10.063 --> 01:40:11.262
The Padres then flipped him

01:40:11.563 --> 01:40:13.144
to the Chicago White Sox in

01:40:13.184 --> 01:40:14.064
the Dillon Seas trade.

01:40:14.881 --> 01:40:16.561
This past week, he made one start.

01:40:16.622 --> 01:40:17.462
He got the win,

01:40:17.681 --> 01:40:19.061
went five and two-thirds innings,

01:40:19.122 --> 01:40:20.682
gave up two hits, didn't allow a run,

01:40:20.823 --> 01:40:22.123
walked two and struck out seven.

01:40:23.203 --> 01:40:24.444
The interesting stat line is

01:40:24.484 --> 01:40:25.524
his season so far.

01:40:26.645 --> 01:40:27.505
In eight starts,

01:40:27.545 --> 01:40:30.466
he's six and one with a 5.0 ERA,

01:40:30.947 --> 01:40:32.287
a 0.93 whip.

01:40:32.627 --> 01:40:35.768
He has 40 strikeouts and 42 innings.

01:40:36.849 --> 01:40:37.109
Now,

01:40:37.908 --> 01:40:39.328
I would like to see a call to AAA

01:40:39.368 --> 01:40:40.229
coming soon for him.

01:40:40.729 --> 01:40:40.949
Yep.

01:40:42.390 --> 01:40:43.930
So that is my prospects for the weekend.

01:40:45.402 --> 01:40:46.322
So I want to throw a twist

01:40:46.381 --> 01:40:47.842
in for next week to be thinking about.

01:40:48.662 --> 01:40:49.604
I want you to think about

01:40:49.684 --> 01:40:51.043
someone that's in the top

01:40:51.043 --> 01:40:52.244
100 that's performed so

01:40:52.305 --> 01:40:53.625
poorly that could drop out.

01:40:55.185 --> 01:40:55.345
Okay.

01:40:56.386 --> 01:40:57.546
Just to be interesting.

01:40:57.886 --> 01:41:00.167
Just one, one or two, whatever.

01:41:00.787 --> 01:41:01.787
I can ask you for one.

01:41:01.828 --> 01:41:02.908
I know we're going to get three.

01:41:02.929 --> 01:41:05.130
You kind of remind me of Moneyball.

01:41:05.189 --> 01:41:08.850
Here I did 52 player evaluations.

01:41:08.990 --> 01:41:09.490
Actually, I did 57.

01:41:09.530 --> 01:41:09.810
It's hard.

01:41:12.417 --> 01:41:13.458
You're passionate about it,

01:41:13.618 --> 01:41:14.359
and there's so much

01:41:14.418 --> 01:41:16.699
information that you can't just pick one.

01:41:16.760 --> 01:41:17.841
So it'd be interesting to

01:41:17.881 --> 01:41:18.961
kind of get an idea,

01:41:19.400 --> 01:41:20.822
especially I know it's a

01:41:20.841 --> 01:41:22.082
little behind in regards to

01:41:22.122 --> 01:41:23.122
getting the rankings out,

01:41:23.403 --> 01:41:24.543
but it'd be interesting to

01:41:24.684 --> 01:41:26.664
see who's falling out,

01:41:26.744 --> 01:41:28.685
not because people are overplaying them,

01:41:28.706 --> 01:41:30.327
but they're just performing so poorly.

01:41:31.386 --> 01:41:33.368
Now, you want it from March's rankings?

01:41:34.047 --> 01:41:36.029
Wherever is best for you.

01:41:36.429 --> 01:41:38.990
Because I have a top 100 for

01:41:39.051 --> 01:41:40.631
May that I haven't been

01:41:40.650 --> 01:41:41.492
able to get out yet.

01:41:41.931 --> 01:41:43.693
on the website that I have a

01:41:43.752 --> 01:41:44.753
player that off the top of

01:41:44.774 --> 01:41:45.833
my head right now is already.

01:41:45.873 --> 01:41:46.375
Who is it?

01:41:47.114 --> 01:41:47.935
Arjun Namala.

01:41:48.435 --> 01:41:49.697
And I was very high on him.

01:41:49.756 --> 01:41:51.037
He's the third rank prospect

01:41:51.057 --> 01:41:52.958
for me in the blue J system.

01:41:52.998 --> 01:41:55.380
He's currently playing at Dunedin.

01:41:55.439 --> 01:41:58.221
He's hitting way under the Mendoza line.

01:41:59.283 --> 01:42:00.823
He's at a buck 57 right now

01:42:00.863 --> 01:42:01.564
for the season.

01:42:01.884 --> 01:42:02.765
That's rough.

01:42:03.524 --> 01:42:04.565
I had high hopes from coming

01:42:04.586 --> 01:42:05.225
into the season.

01:42:05.426 --> 01:42:07.547
I thought for sure he would, you know,

01:42:07.648 --> 01:42:09.908
jump up into double a New

01:42:09.929 --> 01:42:10.789
Hampshire at some point.

01:42:12.371 --> 01:42:13.872
but he's just struggling

01:42:13.952 --> 01:42:15.052
this season at the start.

01:42:15.713 --> 01:42:16.435
He has his moments.

01:42:16.494 --> 01:42:17.255
He's had a couple of weeks

01:42:17.274 --> 01:42:18.576
where he's been hot,

01:42:19.256 --> 01:42:19.938
which has been part of the

01:42:19.957 --> 01:42:21.519
reason why I've debated, you know,

01:42:22.020 --> 01:42:23.980
putting him in the top 100.

01:42:23.980 --> 01:42:26.243
But to me, he's definitely falling out.

01:42:26.283 --> 01:42:26.923
And I think he's going to

01:42:26.944 --> 01:42:29.006
get replaced with a Marlins

01:42:29.046 --> 01:42:29.846
pitching prospect,

01:42:30.506 --> 01:42:31.627
which that seems to be all.

01:42:31.708 --> 01:42:34.490
So it's crazy.

01:42:36.353 --> 01:42:36.552
Well,

01:42:37.284 --> 01:42:38.685
think it was a little longer

01:42:38.886 --> 01:42:40.167
tonight than we had planned

01:42:40.207 --> 01:42:40.966
but I think there was some

01:42:41.027 --> 01:42:42.547
conversations that had just

01:42:42.707 --> 01:42:43.748
in regards to what's been

01:42:43.788 --> 01:42:45.670
going on uh it was good to

01:42:45.710 --> 01:42:46.770
get back into the swing of

01:42:46.810 --> 01:42:48.051
things I know that last

01:42:48.110 --> 01:42:49.292
week didn't work out for me

01:42:49.372 --> 01:42:50.851
and the timing was just

01:42:50.912 --> 01:42:51.792
poor with work and

01:42:51.832 --> 01:42:53.134
everything but I'm looking

01:42:53.253 --> 01:42:55.335
forward to you know next

01:42:55.414 --> 01:42:56.636
week I'm looking forward to

01:42:56.695 --> 01:42:57.775
recapping a little bit of

01:42:57.836 --> 01:42:59.796
what we the matchups we talked about um

01:43:01.488 --> 01:43:02.648
Looking forward to seeing

01:43:02.728 --> 01:43:03.568
some of these things we

01:43:03.587 --> 01:43:05.469
discussed to see you know

01:43:05.509 --> 01:43:07.288
How Dela Cruz does how

01:43:07.588 --> 01:43:09.128
Duran does over the next

01:43:09.189 --> 01:43:10.810
few weeks and just see how it plays out?

01:43:10.930 --> 01:43:13.390
So and also hopefully to see

01:43:13.489 --> 01:43:14.770
the new prospects list as

01:43:14.810 --> 01:43:16.711
well to see who's moving

01:43:16.751 --> 01:43:17.990
who what are some new names

01:43:18.030 --> 01:43:18.730
that we can look at?

01:43:20.291 --> 01:43:22.351
so Before I want to give my

01:43:22.372 --> 01:43:23.131
final two thoughts.

01:43:23.452 --> 01:43:23.591
Yeah,

01:43:23.612 --> 01:43:27.172
that's some interesting ones for you

01:43:28.712 --> 01:43:29.332
The Red Sox

01:43:31.248 --> 01:43:33.090
I've discovered today after

01:43:33.350 --> 01:43:34.091
listening to a couple

01:43:34.131 --> 01:43:35.511
things and then doing some research,

01:43:36.632 --> 01:43:37.314
they're God's team.

01:43:37.333 --> 01:43:39.375
Okay.

01:43:39.716 --> 01:43:40.595
And I say that because

01:43:40.936 --> 01:43:41.657
they're the only team in

01:43:41.676 --> 01:43:44.259
baseball this season that

01:43:44.279 --> 01:43:45.680
are 8-0 on Sunday.

01:43:47.881 --> 01:43:48.162
Really?

01:43:48.783 --> 01:43:49.842
They haven't lost a game on Sunday.

01:43:51.323 --> 01:43:52.385
And I went through every team.

01:43:53.405 --> 01:43:54.447
Every team has lost at least

01:43:54.546 --> 01:43:55.688
one game on Sunday.

01:43:56.668 --> 01:43:57.769
That's good for those of you

01:43:57.788 --> 01:43:58.449
who like to bet.

01:43:59.265 --> 01:44:00.305
Bet the money line on the

01:44:00.345 --> 01:44:01.386
Red Sox on Sundays.

01:44:01.587 --> 01:44:03.426
And coming forward, or going forward,

01:44:03.447 --> 01:44:03.868
I'm sorry.

01:44:03.887 --> 01:44:05.688
I believe when I looked it up,

01:44:05.747 --> 01:44:06.467
and I might be wrong,

01:44:06.748 --> 01:44:08.488
but I know these four teams are correct.

01:44:09.288 --> 01:44:11.130
It's the Brewers, the Tigers,

01:44:11.409 --> 01:44:12.170
the White Sox,

01:44:12.289 --> 01:44:14.091
and the Yankees the next four Sundays.

01:44:16.771 --> 01:44:18.252
So do with that information what you want,

01:44:19.132 --> 01:44:20.613
but the Red Sox are 8-0

01:44:20.773 --> 01:44:21.573
right now on Sundays.

01:44:23.413 --> 01:44:24.494
So I'm going to be hammering

01:44:24.515 --> 01:44:25.375
the Sox on Sunday.

01:44:26.395 --> 01:44:27.775
Yeah, money line all day long.

01:44:28.136 --> 01:44:28.296
Yep.

01:44:29.376 --> 01:44:29.936
I thought that was

01:44:29.976 --> 01:44:31.117
interesting when I heard that.

01:44:31.858 --> 01:44:32.877
Somebody said they were 8-0,

01:44:33.479 --> 01:44:34.078
but they didn't say the

01:44:34.118 --> 01:44:34.698
rest of the league,

01:44:34.719 --> 01:44:35.779
anything about the rest of the league.

01:44:36.399 --> 01:44:37.621
So I looked up the rest of the league.

01:44:39.002 --> 01:44:41.082
Everybody else has a loss, at least one.

01:44:43.104 --> 01:44:45.945
So they have the Brewers on Sunday.

01:44:46.746 --> 01:44:48.127
I don't have the pitching matchup yet.

01:44:48.587 --> 01:44:49.028
Actually, hold on.

01:44:49.047 --> 01:44:49.688
Let me see if I can tell you

01:44:49.707 --> 01:44:50.649
who's selling for the Sox.

01:44:52.649 --> 01:44:53.149
I think it's Houck.

01:44:55.612 --> 01:44:57.493
Hammer, that money line.

01:44:57.512 --> 01:44:57.773
Yeah.

01:44:59.248 --> 01:45:00.430
I don't know what the Y is going to be.

01:45:00.609 --> 01:45:01.751
I don't know if DraftKings

01:45:01.831 --> 01:45:03.613
or FanDuel or any of those

01:45:03.632 --> 01:45:05.014
are going to hear us.

01:45:05.073 --> 01:45:05.954
If anybody there listens,

01:45:06.534 --> 01:45:08.055
the line might be minus 200

01:45:08.055 --> 01:45:09.296
at that point if they hear this,

01:45:09.417 --> 01:45:14.521
but I'm just telling you, there ain't no.

01:45:15.042 --> 01:45:15.563
That's a good one.

01:45:15.603 --> 01:45:17.104
The other one,

01:45:17.663 --> 01:45:18.664
I wrote an article this past

01:45:18.704 --> 01:45:26.532
weekend that was meant a lot to me, but

01:45:27.838 --> 01:45:29.079
as the red sox struggled

01:45:29.119 --> 01:45:30.340
they lost before sunday

01:45:30.359 --> 01:45:31.400
they had lost four straight

01:45:31.560 --> 01:45:32.421
again they won sunday

01:45:32.801 --> 01:45:35.863
shocking um they lost four

01:45:35.882 --> 01:45:37.925
straight and I think we

01:45:37.965 --> 01:45:38.805
mentioned it earlier in the

01:45:38.824 --> 01:45:40.246
podcast where it was two

01:45:40.305 --> 01:45:41.305
two at one point and all of

01:45:41.326 --> 01:45:42.407
a sudden became seven two

01:45:42.447 --> 01:45:44.268
in the eighth inning and I

01:45:44.988 --> 01:45:45.889
ended up laying in bed I

01:45:46.488 --> 01:45:47.189
went to bed right after the

01:45:47.229 --> 01:45:48.409
game which is not normal

01:45:48.430 --> 01:45:50.411
for me on saturday but I

01:45:50.811 --> 01:45:51.511
was laying there and I

01:45:51.572 --> 01:45:52.632
thought why do I keep doing

01:45:52.653 --> 01:45:53.252
this to myself

01:45:54.280 --> 01:45:55.202
Like, I love this team.

01:45:55.242 --> 01:45:57.984
Why do I watch 162 games?

01:45:58.144 --> 01:46:00.765
Whether it's DVRing it,

01:46:00.845 --> 01:46:02.025
going back and watching a

01:46:02.487 --> 01:46:03.927
condensed game or finding

01:46:04.068 --> 01:46:05.469
clips and going to watch.

01:46:05.509 --> 01:46:06.829
But I find everything.

01:46:07.670 --> 01:46:08.610
And so I know what's going

01:46:08.631 --> 01:46:09.731
on every Red Sox game.

01:46:10.813 --> 01:46:12.194
And, you know,

01:46:12.213 --> 01:46:13.935
losing four straight and the

01:46:13.975 --> 01:46:15.195
talk of the full throttle

01:46:15.416 --> 01:46:17.837
offseason and everything that happened.

01:46:17.896 --> 01:46:19.479
And I found myself asking,

01:46:19.538 --> 01:46:20.479
why am I such a fan?

01:46:20.719 --> 01:46:21.380
Now, granted,

01:46:21.420 --> 01:46:22.640
the article is about the Red Sox.

01:46:23.498 --> 01:46:24.458
But I think if you listen to

01:46:24.498 --> 01:46:26.880
this as a baseball fan,

01:46:27.720 --> 01:46:28.520
you could go read that

01:46:28.600 --> 01:46:29.800
article and you could tie

01:46:29.840 --> 01:46:30.659
it to your team.

01:46:31.980 --> 01:46:33.980
It could be like JC for you,

01:46:34.421 --> 01:46:36.020
Cubs related from what

01:46:36.041 --> 01:46:36.820
we've talked about.

01:46:36.841 --> 01:46:39.662
I can tie it in even for the Tigers.

01:46:39.681 --> 01:46:41.322
I've done one for the Tigers.

01:46:41.421 --> 01:46:42.381
I could have done it anyway,

01:46:42.462 --> 01:46:44.323
but I wrote it the way that

01:46:44.363 --> 01:46:45.582
I did because that's how I

01:46:45.603 --> 01:46:46.403
was feeling that night.

01:46:47.283 --> 01:46:48.963
But I think it's relevant to

01:46:49.604 --> 01:46:50.043
all 29 other teams.

01:46:51.653 --> 01:46:52.573
So if you get a chance,

01:46:53.113 --> 01:46:54.413
go find that and read that.

01:46:54.493 --> 01:46:58.095
It's called Why Do I Do This?

01:46:58.256 --> 01:46:59.555
It's under the Red Sox tab.

01:47:00.355 --> 01:47:01.676
It's under the Cardinals tab.

01:47:01.697 --> 01:47:02.837
It's under the A's tab.

01:47:04.037 --> 01:47:04.818
You'll understand why when

01:47:04.837 --> 01:47:05.559
you read the article,

01:47:05.639 --> 01:47:06.918
but that's the tab that's on there.

01:47:07.578 --> 01:47:08.699
I'm going to find one more,

01:47:08.760 --> 01:47:09.460
but I can't remember.

01:47:09.500 --> 01:47:10.380
But if you get a chance and

01:47:10.940 --> 01:47:12.060
you care about baseball and

01:47:12.081 --> 01:47:12.900
your team's struggling this

01:47:12.940 --> 01:47:14.061
season and you find yourself saying,

01:47:14.082 --> 01:47:14.702
why do I do this?

01:47:15.362 --> 01:47:16.143
It's an article I highly

01:47:16.162 --> 01:47:16.802
suggest you check out.

01:47:18.239 --> 01:47:18.439
Yeah.

01:47:18.500 --> 01:47:21.720
No, being a Cubs fan, you know, and even,

01:47:21.980 --> 01:47:22.341
you know,

01:47:22.440 --> 01:47:23.921
growing to pay attention to

01:47:23.940 --> 01:47:24.621
these other teams,

01:47:24.680 --> 01:47:26.402
I could certainly share

01:47:26.742 --> 01:47:27.622
first and foremost,

01:47:27.721 --> 01:47:29.421
the Cubs struggles and what

01:47:29.462 --> 01:47:30.122
it means to me.

01:47:30.181 --> 01:47:32.743
And then even, like I said, growing,

01:47:33.122 --> 01:47:33.802
even though they're in the

01:47:33.842 --> 01:47:35.724
same division a little bit

01:47:35.783 --> 01:47:37.904
more with both the pirates

01:47:38.083 --> 01:47:38.823
and what they've done in

01:47:38.863 --> 01:47:40.204
the past with some of the

01:47:40.244 --> 01:47:41.505
young prospects and not

01:47:41.545 --> 01:47:42.585
turn them into anything.

01:47:43.064 --> 01:47:45.206
And then the reds this year, the reds,

01:47:45.246 --> 01:47:46.126
particularly this year,

01:47:46.145 --> 01:47:47.286
I was pretty high on them and,

01:47:47.734 --> 01:47:49.154
And almost like them more

01:47:49.194 --> 01:47:50.876
than I did the Cubs going into it.

01:47:50.975 --> 01:47:52.997
So, no, it's a great concept.

01:47:53.117 --> 01:47:55.958
And, no, definitely the Red Sox,

01:47:55.979 --> 01:47:58.720
when I saw that pop up and seeing that,

01:47:58.760 --> 01:47:59.740
especially knowing what

01:47:59.780 --> 01:48:00.862
happened the night before,

01:48:01.742 --> 01:48:04.904
I took a look and it hits home.

01:48:06.904 --> 01:48:07.125
Yeah,

01:48:07.364 --> 01:48:09.487
I was definitely in my feels that

01:48:09.567 --> 01:48:11.528
night and was frustrated.

01:48:13.849 --> 01:48:14.309
It's a good one.

01:48:16.570 --> 01:48:16.751
So...

01:48:17.698 --> 01:48:19.380
I appreciate you jumping on tonight.

01:48:19.840 --> 01:48:21.461
Again, sorry for last week,

01:48:21.560 --> 01:48:23.141
but for all the listeners,

01:48:23.203 --> 01:48:24.023
we appreciate it.

01:48:24.462 --> 01:48:25.884
Like, share, follow,

01:48:26.444 --> 01:48:28.386
join any of our social

01:48:28.886 --> 01:48:29.867
channels that you want so

01:48:29.907 --> 01:48:30.926
you can catch up on any of

01:48:30.966 --> 01:48:31.627
the information,

01:48:31.667 --> 01:48:33.269
any of these articles that

01:48:33.309 --> 01:48:34.250
we're mentioning so that

01:48:34.289 --> 01:48:35.750
you can read those, get caught up,

01:48:35.930 --> 01:48:38.051
check out CJ's Top 100 that

01:48:38.131 --> 01:48:39.273
is listed right now so you

01:48:39.292 --> 01:48:41.293
can at least see what's there currently.

01:48:41.809 --> 01:48:43.109
all the player profiles.

01:48:43.170 --> 01:48:43.989
And then, you know,

01:48:44.029 --> 01:48:46.310
we've got several down on the farms.

01:48:46.430 --> 01:48:48.171
So if your team is out there,

01:48:48.311 --> 01:48:48.952
check that out.

01:48:49.091 --> 01:48:50.393
Cause a lot of us have been

01:48:50.432 --> 01:48:51.932
covering the top 10

01:48:51.932 --> 01:48:53.314
prospects for those teams too.

01:48:53.413 --> 01:48:54.594
So there's plenty of content

01:48:54.613 --> 01:48:55.694
there for you to check out.

01:48:56.475 --> 01:48:57.635
Um, like we said,

01:48:57.654 --> 01:48:59.155
we really appreciate you guys listening.

01:49:00.657 --> 01:49:01.716
There's eight teams now for

01:49:01.756 --> 01:49:02.317
down on the farm.

01:49:02.717 --> 01:49:03.358
That's perfect.

01:49:03.377 --> 01:49:04.118
It's great.

01:49:04.137 --> 01:49:07.198
You got blue Jays, Phillies, Red Sox.

01:49:08.479 --> 01:49:08.600
Um,

01:49:10.409 --> 01:49:12.372
Tigers, Reds, Cubs, Rangers.

01:49:13.873 --> 01:49:15.676
Yankees has been missing for

01:49:15.695 --> 01:49:16.095
a couple weeks.

01:49:16.136 --> 01:49:17.478
I think that's coming back soon.

01:49:17.497 --> 01:49:20.280
So we will have seven this week.

01:49:20.881 --> 01:49:22.503
One actually came out today, the Phillies.

01:49:22.804 --> 01:49:24.405
We will have eight moving

01:49:24.466 --> 01:49:25.247
forward throughout the summer.

01:49:25.266 --> 01:49:26.328
I shared that Phillies one

01:49:26.368 --> 01:49:27.248
for you just so you know.

01:49:27.725 --> 01:49:28.826
Thank you for the channels I had.

01:49:28.945 --> 01:49:30.747
So no, a lot of good content,

01:49:30.766 --> 01:49:32.349
a lot of interesting stuff there.

01:49:32.748 --> 01:49:33.789
So there's plenty of things

01:49:33.810 --> 01:49:34.770
for you to be interested in,

01:49:34.791 --> 01:49:35.610
but it also gives you a

01:49:35.671 --> 01:49:36.612
feel for what we do.

01:49:37.051 --> 01:49:38.573
And like we've said, if you're interested,

01:49:38.634 --> 01:49:39.094
reach out.

01:49:39.354 --> 01:49:40.395
We're always looking to add

01:49:40.414 --> 01:49:41.716
more people to the family.

01:49:41.775 --> 01:49:43.476
So appreciate everyone for

01:49:43.516 --> 01:49:45.779
listening and tuning in and

01:49:45.979 --> 01:49:47.079
look forward to next week.

01:49:47.180 --> 01:49:48.421
So thanks again, everyone.

01:49:48.501 --> 01:49:48.862
Take care.

01:49:49.702 --> 01:49:50.082
Thanks, guys.

01:49:50.103 --> 01:49:50.462
Have a good week.