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Can Lauri Be an All-Star Again? Darryn Peterson SL Recap, Red Sox Roll & Ohtani News, Tarik Skubal Trade Rumors · DnA Sports Recap

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  SPEAKER_00: All right, so let's go ahead and get right into it.
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  SPEAKER_00: When it comes to Utah Jazz content this week, let's talk about Darren Peterson and let's make our final impressions on him uh for the Summer League.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now he was able to play in one more summer league game after uh last week, after our episode last week.
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  SPEAKER_00: And let's go ahead and kind of cover that line there.
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  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't that impressive.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, so we won't spend whole much time on that, mainly just covering what we thought overall.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but his final game against the Spurs, like I said, was kind of meh.
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  SPEAKER_00: He did score 15 points on four of 16 shooting, which was not good, not at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but overall, I think we can be happy with what we saw from our number number two overall pick.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh his final line for the summer uh has him at averaging about 23 points per game, five assists, three rebounds, uh, one block and one steal per game.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, he played in five games.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was shooting 39.8% from the field and 34.5% from three.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh his best games obviously did come uh in Salt Lake City with quite a big drop off uh abruptly once that went from Salt Lake City to Vegas.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh he went from 53% shooting in Salt Lake down to 31% shooting in Vegas, which is you know quite obvious, a a big drop in efficiency there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um but if you watch those games, especially those first against the Clippers and the Wizards there, you can see that they specifically saw those games in Salt Lake and they made their defense uh scheme appropriately based off of those, where you know, DP was getting double-teamed, sometimes triple-teamed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Any times he came across the line, there was two eyes on two sets of eyes on him, and if he touched the ball, he was double-teamed right away.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they were forcing him to either A, try and take a tough shot, or B make a pass.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you saw a lot of those early turnovers uh and a lot of sloppy play there in that case.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, something I don't expect to see him have to deal with once uh he's you know on with the rest of the team on an NBA roster.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, he's gonna have a little bit more faith in his ability to, you know, when he makes those passes, that those folks are gonna be able to again catch those passes, first of all, and also you know, be able to make a shot, create a shot.
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  SPEAKER_00: The defense, the team defense is gonna be a lot better.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh they're not they're gonna have more than just a couple weeks of playing with each other, but um to build some chemistry there.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna have preseason, so we're gonna see a lot of DP uh with this team, and we're probably gonna see quite a bit of the inefficiency drop off, quite a bit of the uh, you know, questionable plays there.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you know, what can we say?
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  SPEAKER_00: What is our takeaway from Summer League uh when it comes to uh Darren Peterson?
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  SPEAKER_00: Hashtag future statue.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um we saw we saw a flash of a complete player, right?
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, there were games where he stated, you know, stuffed the stat sheet there.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_00: He was elite at getting into the line uh in games where he wasn't shooting uh very well.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_00: He still was able to get to the line.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_00: Uh he was able to get inside, create a shot, uh, and play through contact, which I think is really important.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it actually leads me to the main point when it comes to Darren Peterson, and what I wanted to see coming out of Summer League was health.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, he was able to stay healthy, play without any injury concern, or play without any real uh reservation to his game.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, like I said, he was not avoiding contact.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_00: He was he was you know driving in the paint, trying to put up shots, drawing contact, playing through it.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, he averaged 28 minutes playing in five games in 11 days, and you know, he came out of it saying he felt 100, he felt healthy.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so you love to see it.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, now does this completely put together put to bed any of the conditioning issues that we may have seen coming out of Kansas?
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  SPEAKER_00: Not necessarily, but it's definitely a good indication in the right direction when it comes to this kid.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, he's gonna do a great job uh as far as you know keeping up on his conditioning.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, he's saying all the right things in the in the post-game interviews, you know, telling that he wants to clean up his turnovers when he had some bad turnover night and staying in in shape there coming into uh fall camp for the Jazz.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_00: So I want to hear from you folks.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let us know uh what your thoughts are in the comments down below.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_00: I want to hear from you, let me know what your takeaways are, what your thoughts, what your feelings are when it comes to Darren Peterson.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, did he impress you in summer league this year?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, was there anything that came out of it that you guys were concerned about uh that I didn't cover?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me know in the comments down below.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love to hear from you there on that.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and again, um, yeah, let us know what your thoughts are there.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, now again, fall camp is coming up uh for the Utah Jazz.
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  SPEAKER_00: They do start uh fall camp on September 27th.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, that's the next time we're gonna be able to see uh Darren Peterson in a Utah Jazz uniform.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not just Darren Peterson, uh, the rest of the team's gonna be there too, believe it or not.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_00: And so it's time uh that we actually uh talk about somebody who really hasn't been talked about a lot in quite a while uh when it comes to the Utah Jazz.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_00: So um, yeah, we talked a lot last year.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_00: If you're if you're a regular on the channel, we talked a lot last year about Keonta George, the breakout season that he had uh as far as his development and you know, you know, becoming improving his um the play on the court there.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_00: We talked about Ace Bailey developing quite nicely and the fantastic trade they got when they traded for uh Triple J.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um Jaron Jackson Jr.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_00: Uh again, just fantastic trade.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_00: We don't we didn't talk about enough about how great that was when it went down, but it's easily one of the probably I'd say easily the best trade the Jazz have made within the last 10 seasons.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know, correct me if I'm wrong, let me know in the comments there if I'm if I'm missing somebody, but I'm pretty sure we're good on that one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh probably one of the best trades I think.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_00: I think I said it was the best one since Jeff Hornisek um way back in the day.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but yeah, let me know what your thoughts are in the in the chat there if I'm missing somebody.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um yeah, one player that we you know didn't talk much about, that's gonna have a lot of expectations coming into this season, is gonna be the finisher, Larry Markinen.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, really, he only had one real full healthy season uh when he was with the Jazz, where he played more than 56 games in a season.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um I know it feels like he's played on his team forever, but he hasn't been here forever.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um in that season, the 2022-2023 season, I believe that was the year, uh, he played 66 games, averaged 34 minutes per game.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_00: He scored 25 points per game with two assists, eight rebounds, shooting 50% from the field and 39% from deep.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um in that season, he was an all-star, all-star starter, by the way, in Salt Lake City.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, again, that's one of the things that doesn't get mentioned enough.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_00: He was a starter uh in that all-star game, which was absolutely awesome.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_00: He also won most improved player of the year award that year.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, in the next game, we he actually only played 55 games that season.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we still saw some of the same level of production, uh, but due to injuries, and right around that time we started seeing the Jazz try not to win, uh, win games.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_00: So we saw a lot of these, you know, quote unquote air quote injuries, if you're listening on the podcast, air quote injuries, that started to affect um Laurie Marketing down the down the way there throughout that season, uh, as well as through the the rest of his time here so far with the Utah Jazz.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_00: But with that said, um, do we expect uh the finisher to return to form in a Utah Jazz uniform?
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um I would absolutely say 100 yes.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_00: Uh this again, we're gonna have expectations for this guy.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, when he's playing more than 50 games a year, he's averaging pretty close to 25 points per game.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, he's you know uh an efficient score.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_00: Again, he was even better from three last year than he was the year before.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so we're seeing improvements on that uh from deep there.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_00: He's becoming great at a spot up three-point shooter.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_00: He's really great at stretching the floor.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I think it's really important to kind of say, okay, when he was an all-star, he had a great team around him, right?
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, he hasn't really had that the last couple of years, but again, he hasn't been really playing a lot uh the last couple of years.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_00: So, what does it look like for Larry Markden coming into this year?
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_00: And we actually have uh some uh comments there that I got from AJ, uh, which I'll read to you here.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_00: He was kind enough to share this with me before we left.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so let's go ahead and break down uh what he basically stated there when it comes to uh Larry Markinen.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um he said here that the most important things is to look at Larry is to see who's around him uh when he was last selected uh to the All-Star game.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, because analyzing your talent around you, uh he could become the key answer in is can become the key answer on whether or not he could get back to all-star performance uh with this team uh that he currently has.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_00: So when he was selected to the All-Star game in the 2022 season, 2023 season, 2022 and 2023 season, uh the main starting five uh was as follows.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_00: He had Mike Mike Conley, Jordan Clarkson, Lari, uh uh Jared Vanderbilt, and Kelly O'Linick.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_00: That was the starting rotation for the Utah Jets at the time.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um we look at uh now we all know Mike Conley and and Jordan Clarkson, uh, what they can do.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_00: Mike is a solid point guard, uh legit shooting threat from outside.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_00: Uh he's a serviceable defender uh for an underside undersized guard, and he makes everyone around him a little bit better.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_00: Now compare him to Keontae George.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_00: Keontae George is four inches taller, he's a better all-around scorer, and he has showed uh from his defense a lot of improvement on the defensive side last year, and is becoming better defensively uh than what Mike was doing in his tail end of his career as a jazz man.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_00: Jordan Clarkson has always been an elite scorer uh his whole career.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, congratulations, Jordan Clarkson, by, by the way, getting that ring uh this year with the Knicks.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um he put uh you know, if you put him, you take him out and then you put uh the potential of Darren Peterson, who I would say is uh JC's skill level, if DP's floor for his talent, except DP is a much better defensive player, and then uh a lot more, and he's also a lot more consistent on offense.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_00: Very true.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um JC could be streaky at times.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_00: Darren Peterson seems a little bit more um a little bit more consistent there.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um Jerry Vanderbilt is absolutely no comparison to Triple J at the four.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_00: Triple J is a former defensive player of the year uh who can also spread the floor, shoot the three, and is just much better polished player all around.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_00: I think Olinik uh and Nurkic are actually an interesting comparison because Kelly uh shoots better, uh, but uh they have a very similar ability to pass the ball and make plays um and make people players better around them.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_00: Um with all that said, uh Larry Markden has much more talent around him, and if he ever is going to return to All-Star form, this is the year that he should be able to do that uh with much more talent on the bench and a much deeper team than what he had in 2022 and 2023.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so yeah, I want to hear from you folks, man.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_00: What's your thoughts on that in the comments down below?
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_00: If you're watching this on the live stream, jump in the chat, let me know what your thoughts are.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_00: There's not a whole lot of discourse around Larry Marketing right now and what we should expect coming uh from this player out of the you know, out of the rebuild, basically.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: Now the rebuild's over, and now we're moving into the development phase and seeing what this team can do on the court.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, what are your expectations of Larry Markden?
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I I honestly think that he is going to be as productive as he was in the 2023, uh, 2024 season.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_00: I think that's probably gonna be seeing where we're gonna be see him at when he was playing, when he played in 55 games, um, which again was still putting up all-star numbers.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_00: I just don't think he played in enough games to uh qualify for an all-star position to be an all-star.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_00: I think he might have been hurt originally um right around that time, so he didn't make the selection, but I think we're gonna see the same level of um production from him.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I just think that there's a lot more when it comes to being an all-star than simply just being a good player.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_00: I think there's a lot more to the um conversation of you know how marketable you are as a player, um, who's, you know, what's the media buzz around you.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um and I can see that he would, you know, while I still agree with AJ to an extent that he's the most important player on this team right now out the gate, um, I do see that not a lot of eyes are gonna be on him, and there's gonna be a lot more media coverage on Keontae George and Darren Peterson and how those two are gonna be playing with each other, you know, no playing, you know, playing on the same court as each other in the uh front court or backcourt, front court.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_00: Front court, backcourt.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_00: I always get that one confused.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_00: Let me know in the chat what I'm getting wrong on that one.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_00: But I think there's gonna be more conversation around that, around Ace Bailey, and where he's gonna find mitts, and then we're gonna see uh the finisher get.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_00: Hopefully I'm wrong on that.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_00: Hopefully he uh again he I expect him to be back to form as usual.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_00: Again, shooting 50% from the field, shooting 40% from three.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, one thing I definitely need to see from that guy, and we'll talk about this in another episode when AJ's back is talking about how we're gonna cover who's gonna get um who's gonna get the rebounds.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, this is not a strong rebounding team.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_00: We need to find rebounds.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_00: I know I mentioned that Lari's gotten eight rebounds, but we're gonna start seeing double digit rebounds from Larry.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_00: More to come on that here in another episode when we get into that later on uh in the offseason there.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, I want to hear from you folks.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_00: Let me know what your thoughts are uh in the chat there.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_00: Let me know what your thoughts are in the comments down below uh so we know uh where you guys are coming from.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, do you expect him to return to all-star form?
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_00: Do you think he's gonna be selected as an all-star, which I think is a completely different subject altogether?
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_00: He could be at all-star form, put up the points, rebounds, assists, could be the efficient player, you know, but is he gonna get a look because of how many, how many eyes are gonna be on other players on this team?
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_00: Just something you want to keep in mind there.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, again, we want to hear from you folks.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_00: Let's know what your thoughts are in the comments down below when it comes to uh Larry Market and your expectations for him this offseason.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we also have another subject you want to talk about here, which actually is uh Josh Anoki, uh Anoki, Akogi, uh signed with the Utah Jazz.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so this sign, this signing, uh the Jazz signed a seven-year veteran.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Akogi has signed a two-year,$12 million contract with the Utah Jazz.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, it is expected that he will be brought in to bolster the team's perimeter defense and be more of a veteran presence on this uh roster.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, one of my favorite things about this is he is a 6-4 shooting guard uh who last played in Houston.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: Again, you know how I feel about the the short king thing.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_00: I think we're done with that.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_00: I think Isaiah Collier is the shortest guard we have on the team.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and I think um 6-4 with a decent wingspan is going to be uh pretty good for a little bit of help there.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um again, he played in Houston last.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_00: He played 78 games last year, uh starting in 32 of them, where he averaged four points per game, shooting 42% from the field, 39% from three.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um his defensive rating is 113.5.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_00: Uh that stat shows you uh basically how many points you're allowing per 100 possessions, and the average amongst guards is 117.1.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: So he's above average defensive player, and I think that's gonna be where he's gonna be fitting in offensively.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_00: Not much to talk about there.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_00: He's averaging 17 minutes per game.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_00: I think he averaged like four points per game, less than two assists per game, less than a steal and a block.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_00: I think his presence is more on just where we're probably gonna see him be, it's gonna be more in that 3D type player, three and D type player for the Utah Jazz.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, keep uh the best, the other team's best guard in check while they're on the floor and filling in kind of that Royce O'Neal spot uh that we really haven't had since his departure.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that trade was really the move, really the move that the Utah Jazz front office did that kind of set this whole um Jazz tanking thing into effect.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_00: Uh that really kind of set the bar.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_00: Then after that, you saw what happened with this team uh where we you know gutted all of our talent for prospects and draft capital and kind of went from there.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_00: Now, with that all behind us, uh I'm super excited to see um you know how Josh fits in with this team, like where he's gonna be most.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, he's gonna be a second unit guy, right?
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be great to actually have somebody like him back on the roster, like a Royce O'Neill type back on the roster, um, with this team that's you know gonna be that defensive presence on that second unit we're gonna need.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um, obviously with Isaiah's Collier locking uh lacking the size that we would need for defensive presence at the one.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: While he is a physical defender, he does lack that size that we need.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_00: So having a more defensive uh shooting guard that can guard their best the other team's best guard, best perimeter player, is I think is gonna go quite well for this team.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, obviously we have DP uh as well as Keontae George, who both uh I mean DP is considered a two-way player.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_00: He's he's very proud of his defensive prowess, uh, as well as you know, Keontae George made huge strides on that side of the ball uh last year, and he's serviceable as a defensive point guard.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: I think just his size and his reach kind of helps fill in some of the gaps there, and obviously we're gonna have you know three, seven footers on the team.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_00: So um it's gonna be pretty interesting.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_00: Front court there or backcourt.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: I still can't remember get those things nailed.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_00: I've heard them both ways.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_00: Uh but uh yeah, it's gonna be great to see.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I love the signing.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_00: It's not a huge contract, two years,$12 million.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, right around it.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: So you're getting about six million dollars of value per, you know, per year for this player.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_00: If he's averaging 17, 20 minutes a game, and we get, you know, just again, some uh defensive uh suppability and some suffocation on the defensive end there for these guards that traditionally have torched the Utah Jazz.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you guys know this over the last like five, six years, you know, even going back to the Donovan Mitchell days, we see a lot of these like guards that just have career.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_00: Some of these guards are not even starters, just having career nights against the Utah Jazz.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_00: We've never been that well um defensively among the guard lines.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm excited to see what this guy's can do.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's a perfect signing for the Utah Jazz.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: You're adding depth on the perimeter, uh, and I think that's just the right move here.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_00: You're not going for the splashy sign here.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_00: I think this is exactly where the move that they need to make to help shore things up uh for and again that that veteran presence.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_00: This guy's had uh been on five different teams uh in seven years.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_00: So to have him on that veteran presence on this team, I think is gonna is gonna go um have paid great dividends in the locker room.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_00: We've got a comment here from uh Michelle McKinnon there.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_00: Uh good hustle, a goge.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: I'm looking forward to it, man.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_00: He's gonna have that uh in him.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_00: So we'll see.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we'll see how that translates.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_00: Again, looking forward to seeing him um in the uh once the season starts in October.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry, I lost my train of thought there.
• 21:26
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• 21:29
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, what's your take on the signing on Josh Akogi?
• 21:33
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• 21:40
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• 21:40
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• 21:42
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• 21:43
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• 21:44
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• 21:47
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• 21:53
  SPEAKER_00: This was a channel that's not even two months ago, uh, didn't break 300 subscribers and over the last two months.
• 22:00
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• 22:01
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• 22:04
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• 22:11
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• 22:13
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• 22:14
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• 22:16
  SPEAKER_00: And again, we're really looking forward to the Utah Jazz.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: They had a I think they had a great summer league, a great showing from the key player we wanted to see.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_00: I think we've signed back the talent we needed to have.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: I think we've added on the perimeter.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: But my hot take is I don't think the Utah Jazz are done.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think they're done.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_00: I think there's something else they're going to do.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_00: I just, again, we'll talk more about this when AJ comes back, but I think there definitely is need for some more rebounding on this team.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know where it's going to come from.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if it's a rebounding by committee here, but um again, I mean, hopefully it's not where Jaron Jackson's playing majority of his minutes at the center, which again, I know he's not necessarily the most, I mean, he's a great player.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_00: He won defensive player of the year as a center, right?
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_00: But again, he's if you're center, you need to be averaging more rebounds.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and that's been not part of his game.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: So I'd rather have him at the power forward spot, and hopefully he would we see some improvement from him on the rebounding uh as well.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, I still feel like there's another move out there where the Utah Jazz are going to do something there.
• 23:15
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• 23:20
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• 23:21
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• 23:22
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• 23:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um, again, so that kind of brings us up to everything we want to talk about when it comes to Utah Jazz.
• 23:28
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• 23:31
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• 23:34
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• 23:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we're gonna be covering more about the Utah Jazz this offseason, talking more about the lineups, um, you know, what's the death lineup gonna look like for this team, um, where's the side's coming from, you know, what's our first rotation look like.
• 23:59
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• 24:00
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• 24:03
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• 24:04
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• 24:08
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, this really isn't a recap type channel.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_00: We really kind of more cover the stories because we're doing more of a I know it says DNA sports recap, right?
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_00: But um we cover more of the stories on the team or the storylines.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_00: We kind of only when we meet once a week, it's really kind of tough to break down the games and kind of recap, you know, every single game.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be more of uh like how we're doing this week and if there's any stories like injuries or you know, breakout players.
• 24:31
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• 24:32
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but if there's anything uh during the offseason you guys want us to cover in specific, let us know.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we did get one uh suggestion there from um channel subscriber there uh where he talked about what uh the MLB expansion uh with the Utah with the state of Utah, mainly Salt Lake City, being one of the front runners for MLB expansion, um, how is that going to impact the Utah Jazz?
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_00: I think that's a fascinating subject.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_00: Again, something I could talk about on my own right here, but I don't want to.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want to cut AJ out of that conversation.
• 25:02
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• 25:05
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• 25:09
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• 25:17
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• 25:23
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• 25:32
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• 25:45
  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so um again, lots to talk about when it comes to Major League Baseball.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we just came back, uh, we have just seeing games coming back from the All-Star Break.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, a few things we want to talk about.
• 26:12
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• 26:16
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• 26:16
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• 26:20
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• 26:27
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• 26:28
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• 26:31
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• 26:32
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• 26:34
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so uh again, appreciate you guys joining us on Major League DNA.
• 26:39
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• 26:46
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• 26:48
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• 26:53
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• 26:55
  SPEAKER_00: Um look forward to speaking about uh some Utah football here coming up soon here in the next couple weeks.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_00: But uh yeah, let's go ahead and get into it.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_00: Let's talk some Major League Baseball.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_00: But first, before we get into the content, folks, we'd like to encourage you to join the conversation in the comments down below.
• 27:16
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• 27:22
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• 27:26
  SPEAKER_00: All right, we got a comment here from Utah GI's DNA saying, great show, Darren, appreciate it.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_00: Gee, I wonder who that is.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um you'll love to see it.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_00: You'll love to see it.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um again, everybody, uh tell AJ uh happy vacation and travel safely.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, feel free to drink the water.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um I'm not bitter at all.
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um, anyway, let's go ahead and talk some baseball here.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_00: First subject I want to talk about is gonna be uh we got to talk about the Red Sox, man.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_00: The Boston Red Sox.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_00: This team at the time of the recording just had their 15-game winning streak come to an end tonight uh against Baltimore on a second game of a doubleheader.
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this team, man.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_00: So the Red Sox, last time we spoke, uh last time we spoke about the Red Sox, they were um uh we got another comment here.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we got it from AJ there.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, buddy.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_00: And LOL, I'm not drinking the water.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_00: That's good.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_00: Hopefully, whatever you're drinking has a lot higher proof than that, AJ.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_00: Appreciate it.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um, thanks for jumping in.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so yeah, again, what we want to talk about when it comes to baseball, the first thing is gonna be the Red Sox.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_00: Again, they are on, they just came to a 15-game winning streak, just came to an end.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um, last time we spoke about the Red Sox, they had just fired their manager, uh Alex Kora.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we did a video on that.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, for all five people who watched that one, thank you very much.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we'll link to that one somewhere around here uh so you can see about that.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_00: But the Phillies fired their manager at the exact same time, right around the exact same time there.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_00: And their interim manager, I believe, um was Donnie Don Manningley, and they kind of turned it around right away.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_00: The Phillies went on a 46 and 26 turnaround, uh basically right after they made that managerial change.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_00: The Red Sox, however, uh didn't turn things around so quickly.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_00: Uh before the run started, they were 36 and 48, six games below 500.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_00: And crazy thing is on June 24th, so that was less than a month ago, on June 24th, the Phillies had sorry, the Red Sox had the worst record in the American League.
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_00: So, yes, the Red Sox had the worst record in the American League on June 24th.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_00: That's not even a month ago, like I said.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_00: Now they are only six and a half game backs of the division, and they have a firm two and a half game lead uh in the wild card over the next spot, uh sorry with the last spot in the wild card over the Seattle Baroners.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_00: What a run, man.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_00: What a run for this team.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_00: All doing it without their best players they have, uh, which would be Roman Anthony.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_00: He has a torn ligament in his right hand, uh, Garrett Croce.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Garrett Crochet, um, he is actually their best pitcher.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_00: He hasn't been in this, he's been out with a lat issue and shoulder issues.
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and he's not due back until September.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, there's no timeline on when Anthony's going to return.
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, this team's just been on a crazy run.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, been killing it.
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_00: 15-game winning streak.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, this comes in with sweeps of the Yankees.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_00: It comes in with a sweep of the Rays, who is the first place team in the their division, and and the list goes on and on and on.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, with a 15-game winning streak, you sweeped pretty swept pretty much everybody, right?
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, so this team was just doing playing really, really well.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and again, the key question, the real question you have to ask yourself there is is this sustainable, right?
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, now no team's gonna keep continue rattling off 15-game winning streaks, uh, but you can tell that, you know, way this team's playing now, are they sitting in a position where you think they're gonna hold off uh Seattle and maintain that secondary wild card spot?
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, I think that's a that's a that's a it's that's a valid question to ask, right?
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you do have teams like Seattle, Minnesota, and Baltimore.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_00: They're looking up at that spot.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you also have teams like the Tigers who are six and four in their last ten, uh, may hold on to Terek Scuball, may not.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and the Astros, they're still close.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_00: They're only four and a half games out of that last wildcard spot.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_00: So there's a lot of chance, there's a lot of uh teams that are are gonna be in the hunt for that last spot.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_00: Do I think this team can hold them off?
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, absolutely, I think they can.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_00: I think the Red Sox are in a position where, again, they have enough talent.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_00: They Sonny Gray has been pitching incredibly well.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_00: Like they have enough talent on this team to make you wonder why their record up until this point, this winning streak, was so bad in the first place, right?
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_00: Um, they made the acquisitions they needed to, they signed elite pitching.
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, Sonny Gray was a great addition uh in the offseason.
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, Garrett Crochet the year before, uh, the trade deadline the year before.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_00: He's you know, you know, they made the moves to prove to their fan base that they're trying to win games.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_00: And when they were underperforming, they fired their manager.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_00: And it seems like they just, you know, really started to turn it on recently.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_00: And they're basically it looks like the you know, again, the hottest team in the AL right now, hottest team in baseball, period.
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_00: 15 straight winning game, a 15-game winning streak for this team, just completely balling out of their minds.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_00: Love to see it.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, I think they're gonna pretty much hold on to that spot.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think this is sustainable.
• 32:33
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think any team can win at this clip.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but I do think it is possible for them to hold on to a wildcard spot and make sure that they uh make themselves known in October.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_00: We got some comments here uh from uh looks like we got uh AJ uh joining us uh on vacation, man.
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, super cool to see that.
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, screw the Phillies.
• 32:54
  SPEAKER_00: Um, don't worry, buddy.
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_00: I got you there.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_00: I got you.
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um Tammy, friend of the channel, uh what AJ said, a little bit of back and forth.
• 33:04
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• 33:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, and and obviously it's not an episode of Major League DNA with if we don't have AJ mentioning Go Braves at some point.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and of course, Tammy's letting her know her friend, her uh fandom there, go Dodgers, absolutely.
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you love to see it, man.
• 33:22
  SPEAKER_00: You love to see it.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we got another comment here from AJ here.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_00: What's your opinion on uh the Tigers?
• 33:29
  SPEAKER_00: Uh what do the Tigers do with Terek Suball?
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, so great question, AJ.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so when it comes to Terry Scuball, there's a lot of rumors on him.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of folks are talking about like, okay, it are the you know, who's the best fit for them?
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_00: You know, the discourse is pretty much that the tigers don't plan on re-signing him.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_00: At least that's not the rumor.
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_00: The rumor is is like again, and this is kind of where I'm not sure.
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_00: Because if you're willing to sign a player for basically what you're paying him for this year, you know, in um Framer Valdez, you're paying him 30 million a year, and and he's been a complete disaster, why wouldn't you pay for the army you have?
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't know.
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_00: There's the there's a there's uh a bit of discourse on this, but in my opinion, I actually think that the Detroit Tigers don't trade Terek Scuball.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_00: This is probably gonna age terribly, right?
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_00: I'm probably gonna get an ESPN notification any second now uh that they have made a trade, right?
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but um, in in my opinion, I don't think they trade them.
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think that they're far enough out.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_00: Again, they're six and four out of their last ten.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I think they they're going to do what um Artie uh with the Angels did did with Shoey Otani.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_00: Like, hey, you still want to sell tickets, you still want to get people to show up to the games.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so the you know, if you want to have a sellout every fifth start, you need to have Scuball out there.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's worth it more to them as the team than what they're gonna be able to get back in a prospect hall for them.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_00: At least to them, I think that's what they're thinking.
• 34:57
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think they move them, they're not far enough out in order for them to move them.
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, they got some players coming back, obviously not all their starters, but uh man, Detroit Tigers, man, that team needs to be studied.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_00: They had just a rotation.
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_00: You had Tarek Scubal, you had Framar Valdez, you had um Casey Mice, and I believe they also had another pitcher uh that was also hurt, you know.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_00: But they just they basically have a full rotation of starting pitchers that were supposed to be elite all down this year, um, at some point for a decent amount of time.
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_00: And again, Scuball, you know, do they the right move is to trade them, absolutely, 100%.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_00: You trade them, you you get what they reportedly wanted, which is a outfield prospect and a starting pitcher uh who's ready to be in the rotation.
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, there's plenty of teams that can offer that um and what they want, and also some draft capital back as well, maybe some additional prospects.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, I don't think that the Detroit Tizers are gonna trade them.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_00: I want to know from you guys.
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_00: Let me know what your thoughts are in the comments down below.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_00: Drop down in the chat, let me know what your thoughts are.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, do you think that uh the Detroit Tigers trade Terek Skubal before the deadline?
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_00: Again, we're about 10 days out.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_00: We'll probably have one more show, uh AJ and I before the trade deadline.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so we'll probably re-engage with this a little bit.
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um might age terribly, you know, but who knows?
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_00: We'll see.
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_00: Uh but yeah, that's my take, guys.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_00: Uh roast me in the comments, let me know um how about how off I am about uh Tarek Scuball.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_00: I I I I the right move is to trade them.
• 36:34
  SPEAKER_00: I just don't think they do.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_00: I just don't think they do.
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't make a whole lot of sense uh why you wouldn't, but uh, I don't think they will.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_00: That's just kind of where I'm sitting on that.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um want to hear from you guys on that one for sure.
• 36:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um let's go ahead and jump into our next subject here, and uh, you know, common subject for the for this channel, uh, which actually is something we've brought up quite a bit lately.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and again, probably the number one watched video on the channel uh is about this player, which is Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_00: Uh again, appreciate everybody who uh watched that video and engaged in the comments with that one.
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we actually had a commenter uh that made a suggestion when we talked about pitch limits that actually made a suggestion, and I think it's something that AJ and I need to dive in deeper on a future episode about because I think that that's a good point.
• 37:22
  SPEAKER_00: Uh something that uh he brought up that I want to dive in deeper on.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_00: We'll probably save that for another episode.
• 37:27
  SPEAKER_00: But Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched a complete game against the New York Yankees.
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um, again, this is cool for a few reasons.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_00: Uh the first time, first one is that we all know that he pitched two complete games in the postseason last year, uh, but this was his first time actually doing it in the regular season.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, it was the first time uh that any Dodger pitcher has pitched a complete game against the Yankees in New York.
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so he made Dodger history by being the first player to ever do it.
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_00: Uh first Los Angeles Dodger to ever do it in New York City at Yankee Stadium.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um he's also the first one to do it.
• 38:06
  SPEAKER_00: Uh there's actually competing information on the internet here.
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_00: Uh there's some that say uh a Seattle pitcher did it in 2010, and there's some that say that hasn't happened since Pedro um back in like 1996.
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_00: So uh there's competing on uh stats on that one, so I won't really go into that history there, but it's basically been the first time in a long time since anybody pitched a complete game against uh the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium.
• 38:35
  SPEAKER_00: What's great about this is he did it under 102 pitches, he did allow two runs during that time, so not close to qualifying as uh what's in the industry known as a Maddox, which is uh complete game shutout in less than 100 pitches by the legendary Greg Maddox.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um yeah, uh you love to see it, man.
• 38:53
  SPEAKER_00: You love to see that the Yoshinobi Yamamoto again is continuing to put this narrative uh you know to bed there about a pitcher, you know, having to worry about his image, his pitch limits, his innings limits, just going out there and shoving every, you know, every sixth game, you know, again, 102 pitches, not exactly a huge audience for him, uh, but again, able to get it done, able to record um a complete game, only allowing two runs, and really bouncing back after his performance against uh, I believe it was Arizona, where he gave up six runs in that performance, which was you know, not great, to say the least.
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if he's ever had a game where he's giving up that many runs, uh, which I don't think so.
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_00: I think that's the worst he ever had was back then.
• 39:36
  SPEAKER_00: Uh for sorry, in that start.
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_00: So anyway, you love to see it.
• 39:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yoshinobu Yamamoto uh continuing to be the anchor, the ace of that dodger rotation.
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_00: And uh yeah, look forward to seeing um hoping he's stays healthy downstretched.
• 39:49
  SPEAKER_00: We see him in the postseason.
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we'll see if there's more CGs in his uh future there.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_00: I really want to see the no-hitter.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_00: He's flirted with that twice, going into either the last inning uh or of the the last out of the last inning or the last out of the eighth inning uh with a no-no.
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_00: And I think the last time was a perfect game, too.
• 40:09
  SPEAKER_00: So he's flirted with it in two seasons, um, and he also pitched a complete game, two complete games in the playoffs, you know, just being a stud of the rotation.
• 40:18
  SPEAKER_00: I really want to see that no-no, man.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_00: I think that'd be great to see.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not picky, it doesn't have to be a perfect game.
• 40:23
  SPEAKER_00: Just a no-no would be great.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um, let's see here.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_00: How long uh can Yamo keep this going?
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_00: Well, he signed a I think a 12-year contract, AJ.
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_00: So uh I'm hoping that it's at least that long.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_00: No, I think that he's got the type of stuff that even when his fastball uh starts to slow down a little bit, he still has the movement on his pitches that he's gonna have a nice long career for sure.
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_00: For sure.
• 40:48
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Tommy Price, friend of the channel, uh sends in here, uh, he will get it.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean he's flirted with it uh a couple times.
• 40:55
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, do I expect it to happen this year?
• 40:57
  SPEAKER_00: Probably not.
• 40:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um, again, really just focusing on staying healthy, uh getting into the postseason, being healthy.
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_00: So that's really the focus there, I think, for Yoshi.
• 41:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, it's it's coming.
• 41:11
  SPEAKER_00: It's coming.
• 41:11
  SPEAKER_00: Two years in a row, he's flirted with it.
• 41:13
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and he's pitched uh three complete games, two in the playoffs.
• 41:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's coming for sure.
• 41:17
  SPEAKER_00: One of them in a World Series game for crying out loud.
• 41:19
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, it's definitely coming.
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um, one more thing we want to talk about here, and that's gonna be uh Shohei Otani.
• 41:26
  SPEAKER_00: Uh is reported over the week here that he is out of the Dodgers rotation indefinitely, um, creating another challenge for this Dodgers uh pitching staff here, uh, already battling injuries throughout this series uh season so far.
• 41:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um again, we've talked about it at nauseum on this channel.
• 41:44
  SPEAKER_00: They're dealing with uh pitching history.
• 41:48
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, pitching has always been a problem for the Dodgers.
• 41:50
  SPEAKER_00: Starting in starting pitching, it's always been an issue.
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_00: They seem to not be able to keep starters healthy.
• 41:56
  SPEAKER_00: Uh right now they have uh Blake Snell and Tyler Glass now that are down.
• 42:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um and we're having to rely on players like Emmett Sheehan and Robleski, and these are players that wouldn't necessarily be in starting rotation for a team that has a starting rotation like Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Roki Sasaki, Shohei Otani, Tyler Glass now, and Blake Snell, right?
• 42:19
  SPEAKER_00: Blake Snell is a two-time Sayonga winner winner.
• 42:21
  SPEAKER_00: You know, he's not taking second, you know, he's not being the fifth or fourth or fifth rotation uh uh pitcher on that team.
• 42:27
  SPEAKER_00: So when you get those two back, these two players are obviously gonna be moved either to the bullpen or down to triple A, uh, more as a backup in case anybody else goes down.
• 42:35
  SPEAKER_00: Uh but to have Shoei Otani go down again and have it be indefinitely uh is definitely a bit of a concern for this team.
• 42:41
  SPEAKER_00: Uh again, with the trade deadline approaching, you know, they're gonna significantly try to add, sorry, not significantly try to add, but add some significant depth there.
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_00: I think one of the smartest things that this team's done all year was again was add uh Eric Lauer.
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Eric Lauer actually had another great start today uh against the Phillies, another quality start uh from Lauer there, uh, which is something you love to see.
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_00: So uh Eric Lauer did a great job today in helping uh the push the Dodgers past the Phillies for a win today.
• 43:09
  SPEAKER_00: Um Gotta talk about that double play, man, that ends the game last night, um, where they got the they got Soto in a rundown.
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_00: Uh great play for Max Muncey.
• 43:21
  SPEAKER_00: I gotta say that the Max Muncey is the most underrated player in baseball.
• 43:25
  SPEAKER_00: We have a video on that.
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_00: Actually, check it out.
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_00: We'll link it somewhere uh in the comments down below here.
• 43:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um Max Muncie, you know, gets a ball uh grounder hit to him, and he doesn't throw home immediately because all that's gonna do is just push the runner back to third.
• 43:37
  SPEAKER_00: He waits long enough to get him in a rundown, and they get him in a rundown, they they tag him out, uh, and then for some reason Real Muto, who's supposed to be a smart player, runs back to second.
• 43:47
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know why you're not just standing on that bag at third.
• 43:50
  SPEAKER_00: But anyway, he runs back to second, they gun down to second, tag him out, and that's the way that game ends.
• 43:56
  SPEAKER_00: Reminiscent of the wheel play that they pulled against them uh back in the day.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_00: Where Muncie just crashed on the bunt, turned around and fired to third with Muki ready there to tag out Casilianos, I think is his name.
• 44:14
  SPEAKER_00: At there at third.
• 44:15
  SPEAKER_00: It's just beautiful play.
• 44:16
  SPEAKER_00: You love to see it.
• 44:18
  SPEAKER_00: Again, Otani going down.
• 44:20
  SPEAKER_00: We're definitely getting to replace him at starting pitching somewhere.
• 44:23
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if they're going to bring somebody up for that, or we're just going to see more bullpen games.
• 44:27
  SPEAKER_00: But I definitely think the Dodgers have two areas of concern there.
• 44:30
  SPEAKER_00: One is catching, and two is definitely going to be filling out that starting pitching depth.
• 44:36
  SPEAKER_00: Is it going to be the sexiest thing?
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_00: Like I said, I don't know if uh Scuball is going to be available and if that's even a move that they make.
• 45:12
  SPEAKER_00: So I think Shoe Otani is basically making his point saying that he wants to come back sooner than what the team wants to do.
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_00: So we'll see about that.
• 45:21
  SPEAKER_00: Honestly, I would just say shut him down to September.
• 45:23
  SPEAKER_00: Don't uh don't risk it.
• 45:25
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I'd rather have him in the lineup than not at all and just make him healthy for and give him a couple starts before the postseason.
• 45:32
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I think the chance that the Cy Young's already gone with the starts that he's missed.
• 45:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um, because he's just simply not going to get the innings.
• 45:40
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so um I think now it's probably just best just to make sure he's healthy and ready to go for the postseason.
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_00: Got a couple comments here uh from uh in the chat here.
• 45:50
  SPEAKER_00: We've got AJ.
• 45:52
  SPEAKER_00: Uh can the Dodgers survive without Otani?
• 45:54
  SPEAKER_00: Uh injuries keep stacking up.
• 45:56
  SPEAKER_00: I think so.
• 45:57
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, again, the Dodgers have survived without I don't think they can survive without him in the lineup.
• 46:03
  SPEAKER_00: I think they'll make it they'll make it to the postseason without him.
• 46:06
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, they did it for you know 10 straight seasons without him on the team, you know.
• 46:11
  SPEAKER_00: Believe it or not, Shoya Otani has not always been a Dodger.
• 46:14
  SPEAKER_00: It's kind of funny to think about that.
• 46:15
  SPEAKER_00: He did spend seven or eight seasons with the Angels.
• 46:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, I think they still are a major league team.
• 46:21
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but uh it's crazy to think there that um this team was great without him.
• 46:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um do can they make it to the playoffs?
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 46:31
  SPEAKER_00: Could they win the World Series without him?
• 46:33
  SPEAKER_00: Probably not, definitely not, I would say.
• 46:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um they need Shohei on this team uh for that.
• 46:38
  SPEAKER_00: And so yeah, I'd rather have him just stay in the lineup and start, you know, just keep swinging and start the rehab process versus trying to rush him back too soon.
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we got uh friend of the channel, Tammy Price.
• 46:52
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, if there is another great pitcher, the Dodgers should sign since uh if only there were a great pitcher the Dodgers could sign, since so many are hurt.
• 47:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I love that.
• 47:02
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Tammy Price.
• 47:03
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I think that's hilarious.
• 47:04
  SPEAKER_00: Scuball, uh would rather sign with the Braves.
• 47:07
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I think everybody's a bra every thinks every Braves fan.
• 47:11
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure they think that for sure.
• 47:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um not sure, you know, if the Braves have what the Tigers want.
• 47:20
  SPEAKER_00: Again, I don't think they trade them.
• 47:22
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think that they're gonna do the smart thing there, which would be to trade them.
• 47:25
  SPEAKER_00: But if they did, um I don't know if the Braves have what they would need.
• 47:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you would know, AJ, on that one.
• 47:33
  SPEAKER_00: Let me know.
• 47:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um seriously though, I think uh Glasnow, I don't think Glasnow is coming back.
• 47:38
  SPEAKER_00: Snell would be, but I'm worried that he's going down again.
• 47:42
  SPEAKER_00: Honestly, yeah, I think Tyler Glasnow um is going to be going to be an issue.
• 47:48
  SPEAKER_00: If we get anything out of him um this season, I I don't think he's gonna make it to the post through the postseason.
• 47:55
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, I hope that they just do what they did last year.
• 47:59
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I just keep him shut down until September, get a couple starts in, and let them roll through October, see how long we can get them um and kind of go from there.
• 48:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um AJ says Snell has been so unreliable.
• 48:12
  SPEAKER_00: It's frustrating as a I bet it's frustrating as a Dodgers fan.
• 48:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, Blake Snell uh has always been a second half pitcher.
• 48:21
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so while it would have been nice to have him in the rotation during the first half of the year, uh he's always been best in the second half of the year.
• 48:27
  SPEAKER_00: Again, two tie so two-time Sayung Award winner.
• 48:30
  SPEAKER_00: We don't win the World Series if he doesn't come in on on that game seven to pitch the ninth.
• 48:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, when um Miguel Ross hit that home run to tie the game.
• 48:39
  SPEAKER_00: If he wasn't in, um if he didn't come in uh and pitch in relief twice in the postseason and get hurt for it, he pitched hurt in the World Series, um, and then tried to come into the season regular and obviously had one start, did not last, went back on the aisle.
• 48:55
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you you make sacrifices uh as a player to perform in October, and I don't hold anything against him for doing that.
• 49:04
  SPEAKER_00: I think it was the right move.
• 49:05
  SPEAKER_00: Uh he got his World Series ring.
• 49:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um it was worth it for him, it's worth it for the team.
• 49:10
  SPEAKER_00: Even if he doesn't pitch another game in a Dodgers uniform, I think Blake Snell's contract overpaid for already paid for itself uh with that World Series uh with the help when he helped in the World Series.
• 49:20
  SPEAKER_00: I mean he pitched great against Baltimore, uh not Baltimore, he pitched great against the Brewers uh in that series.
• 49:26
  SPEAKER_00: I think he didn't get a complete game, but he pitched eight innings uh of solid game of solid uh solid pitching there, had at least 10 strikeouts.
• 49:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um yeah, he's bit he was really good down the stretch, and yeah, we got what we needed out of him.
• 49:37
  SPEAKER_00: We got another World Series ring, and I think if he doesn't pitch another game, that contract was worth it.
• 49:42
  SPEAKER_00: Not that can't say the same for Tyler Glass now, and I don't know why, because there's similar uh I guess his performances just haven't been the same in the postseason.
• 49:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um so I don't know why it doesn't feel the same for Glasnow as it does for Blake Snell.
• 49:57
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's weird that it doesn't feel the same.
• 50:00
  SPEAKER_00: Love this.
• 50:00
  SPEAKER_00: Bring back Wardvet gum guy.
• 50:02
  SPEAKER_00: You know, if you watch Ben Wardvet play, that guy's chomping at the bit like he you know, it's it's crazy.
• 50:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's crazy.
• 50:09
  SPEAKER_00: Um we also have a comment here from uh Teddy Price.
• 50:12
  SPEAKER_00: What do you think about all the talk that if he doesn't pitch, PC will take the MVP?
• 50:16
  SPEAKER_00: Um there's a lot of talk on it.
• 50:18
  SPEAKER_00: Uh PCA is having a great year, uh especially since um you know he hit that home run into the tarps off section and kind of turned his season around.
• 50:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um I still think Shoyo Tani, even if he doesn't pitch, is gonna out war him.
• 50:30
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and I think even just as a batter, uh, if he continues playing the same way he is, I do think it's closer than it's ever been uh for Shoyo Tani not to have the MVP.
• 50:40
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I think that race is tighter, but I still don't know anybody who's gonna pick PCA unless you're a Cubs fan, or unless you just have voter fatigue.
• 50:48
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know how you can look at the war production for Showyotani and the fact that he did pitch and did have what eight starts so far this season, 10 starts so far this season, you know, with a sub-4 ERA still while hitting what 20 home runs, you know, wherever he's at on that.
• 51:05
  SPEAKER_00: You know, he's still gonna have a productive season, still gonna have close to 100 RBI, you know, still gonna be batting close to 300, you know, still gonna have some of the best OPS, OPS plus all in the major league.
• 51:15
  SPEAKER_00: It's tough to argue against that, you know.
• 51:17
  SPEAKER_00: Again, only voter fatigue would probably pull that away.
• 51:20
  SPEAKER_00: Uh sorry, Greg, uh on that one there.
• 51:23
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, I think it's gonna be closer than it ever has been, but I I don't see uh him winning the MVP over Shohei.
• 51:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um yeah.
• 51:31
  SPEAKER_00: I do like the uh chances that um American League has.
• 51:37
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, obviously, uh Judge has missed too much time, he's not gonna win the MVP there.
• 51:42
  SPEAKER_00: So um I believe AJ's uh prediction of Bobby Way Jr.
• 51:46
  SPEAKER_00: could be could come to fruition there.
• 51:47
  SPEAKER_00: So that'd be cool.
• 51:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um again, that kind of brings us to the end of the show here, folks.
• 51:51
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we want to hear from you.
• 51:52
  SPEAKER_00: Let us know where your thoughts are in the comments down below.
• 51:54
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, should the Dodgers be in paddock mode with Shoe Otani already uh being out of the rotation indefinitely?
• 52:00
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, do you think they should shut him down pitch-wise until at least the postseason or at least close to the postseason to wrap him back up?
• 52:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um, or do you think uh this is, you know, do you think the fact that he's already pitching off the mound uh and throwing a bullpen uh is a good sign that he's it's gonna be short-lived.
• 52:14
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• 52:16
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