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MIDSEASON GRADES: Angels rate average to below average in most categories · Halo Territory: A Los Angeles Angels Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Well, hey Angel fans, and welcome back to Halo territory.
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  Speaker 1: I am Mike D. Giovanni, former Elli Times Baseball writer
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  Speaker 1: and host of the show, joined by Mark Trumbo, the
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  Speaker 1: former Angel slugger my regular co host. Well, today we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do the midseason report cards. The Angels played their
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  Speaker 1: eighty first game the other day and we're at eighty
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  Speaker 1: two games total, so right at the halfway point. But
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  Speaker 1: before we get to the grades, we couldn't let Wednesday's
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  Speaker 1: game pass by without a little comment. Boy, that was
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  Speaker 1: as wild as game as we've seen in a while.
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  Speaker 1: I know a lot of Angel fans lament some of
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  Speaker 1: the blown leads, the games that have slipped away this season, rightfully,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't know that those things even out over
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  Speaker 1: the course of one sixty two. But they were definitely
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  Speaker 1: on the receiving end of a gift wrap victory on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: when they scored the tying and winning runs on two
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  Speaker 1: Fluke plays in the bottom of the tenth for a
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  Speaker 1: seven to six win over the Orioles. The angel are
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  Speaker 1: trailing six to five, two outs, automatic automatic runner on
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  Speaker 1: third and the tenth, Nolan Shanawell hits This looks to
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  Speaker 1: be a routine ground or a second base, but Baltimore
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  Speaker 1: first baseman Pete Alonso took several pretty big steps toward
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  Speaker 1: the toward his right, preventing him from getting back to
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  Speaker 1: the bag. The pitcher goes to cover that, throws a
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  Speaker 1: little low, the balls a little wide. It kicks off
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  Speaker 1: Noan and into right field, tying run scores. Nolan goes
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  Speaker 1: to third and then Logan o'hoappi with a check swing
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  Speaker 1: tapper toward third base and the Orioles rock. Rookie catcher
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  Speaker 1: Samuel Bisseio grabbed it and instead of going to first base,
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  Speaker 1: he tries to tag Shanwell on his way home, misses
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  Speaker 1: him completely, and the Angels walk it off. Mark, was
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  Speaker 1: your head spinning a little bit as you were watching
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  Speaker 1: this game.
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  Speaker 2: It still is, To be honest with you, I think
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure what to make of that banana Baal.
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  Speaker 2: To be honest, the Angels played a cleaner game despite
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  Speaker 2: striking out seventeen times. The Orioles, I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: their plan is. I was on their show the other day.
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  Speaker 2: They're doing the best to cover kind of what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: Rookie manager he felt like his bullpen needed to get work,
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  Speaker 2: so he had eight pitchers up here in that game.
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  Speaker 2: The minute any of them, you know, the first sign
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  Speaker 2: of trouble, they were out of there. But ultimately it
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  Speaker 2: was their sloppy defense. A big article the other day
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  Speaker 2: in the Athletic cal Ripken's going to become more involved,
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  Speaker 2: trying to help out and get things going. Some of
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  Speaker 2: their players had very candid comments, saying Chris Bassett, I know,
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  Speaker 2: said that they make way too many silly mistakes for
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  Speaker 2: a big team and they need to clean that up.
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  Speaker 2: So this is not an Orioles show, but thank you
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  Speaker 2: to them for that victory for the Angels.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you played first base for many years. Pete Alonso's
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  Speaker 1: played it for many years. What do you think he
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  Speaker 1: was thinking on that play? Did he just over commit
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  Speaker 1: way too soon?
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  Speaker 2: The fault was his? He's experienced enough. I don't They
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  Speaker 2: didn't see any comment from him after. I know Bisio
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  Speaker 2: had some comments which I think he was honest and
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  Speaker 2: did a good job with him. Said it was a
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  Speaker 2: physical mistake and maybe there was a play at first,
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  Speaker 2: but very young guy out there doing the best he
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  Speaker 2: can should have never came to that. If they got
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  Speaker 2: the routine out on a below average runner going down
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  Speaker 2: the line. Credit to Shana Wall for the hustle. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I got goofy after that, I know, embracing with the well,
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  Speaker 2: you know they're having fun, but you know it's a
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  Speaker 2: win against a team that they If the Angels are
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  Speaker 2: going places, they got to beat a team that looks
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  Speaker 2: like that because the Oriols didn't deserve to win that
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  Speaker 2: ballgame in particular.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I know the Angels have had their struggles defensively,
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  Speaker 1: but how about that play by Silseth in the top
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  Speaker 1: of the tent to prevent a second run from scoring.
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  Speaker 1: He feels a tapper from I guess it's Gunnar Henderson,
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  Speaker 1: hit it between the mound and the plate, and with
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  Speaker 1: his glove flips the ball. I mean, he's not a
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  Speaker 1: middle infielder, he's a pitcher, flips it to a HOPI
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  Speaker 1: And it was weird how his glove kind of turned
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  Speaker 1: from left to right as he's flipping it and ended
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  Speaker 1: up allowing it. Ended up making that ball go right
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  Speaker 1: to the spot where Logan could catch it and put
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  Speaker 1: the tag on Blaize Alexander who's diving headfirst into the plate.
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  Speaker 1: That was as good a play as I've seen any
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  Speaker 1: Angels defender make in a long time. What do you
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  Speaker 1: think of that?
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  Speaker 2: It was a very nice play. We've seen some good
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  Speaker 2: ones this year, so I think that it was up
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  Speaker 2: there for sure. I guess they practice. They practiced it
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  Speaker 2: a lot. I know the pitchers do practice that the
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  Speaker 2: glove flip because sometimes it is the only play at
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  Speaker 2: your disposal to get the job done, and it was.
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  Speaker 2: Fortunately they pulled it off. And the Angels are a
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  Speaker 2: team that the momentum shifts are pretty huge. Sometimes nothing's
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  Speaker 2: going their way and sometimes everything is going their way.
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  Speaker 2: I think it seemed like every replay, replay challenge or
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  Speaker 2: ABS challenge went the Angel's way most of the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: I know that they some sort of bias that gets
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  Speaker 2: mentioned West Coast bias. I'm not seeing that currently. I
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  Speaker 2: think the momentum definitely on the side of the Angels.
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  Speaker 2: The Orioles Saturday, for example, you know, they didn't hit
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  Speaker 2: any batting practice and come out I don't know why
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  Speaker 2: they didn't. Rest in recovery look very flat, and the momentum,
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  Speaker 2: you know, from there on out was on the Angel's side.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get to some of these grades, what do
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  Speaker 2: you think of Jose Sorianom.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's been a grind for him for a
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  Speaker 1: solid month now, and I'm not sure what's going on
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  Speaker 1: with him. He's throwing a lot more pitches. He doesn't
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  Speaker 1: seem to have the put away pitch with his knuckle curve,
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  Speaker 1: with his you know, his sinker is not as crisp,
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  Speaker 1: his location is not the greatest. He just seems to
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  Speaker 1: be laboring out there. And with him, it's hard to
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  Speaker 1: tell if it's physical or not, because his velocity seems Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't look to see what the stuff graded out.
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  Speaker 1: I was last start, but what are the last three innings?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's just C minus.
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  Speaker 2: That's actually they were C minus or Yeah, nothing great
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  Speaker 2: at out high. It was soggy. It was a soggy start.
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  Speaker 2: And okay, you want the real one of the real reasons.
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  Speaker 2: You can't have an eight degree separation between arm angles
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  Speaker 2: on your four seemer and your knuckle curve, so he's
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  Speaker 2: tipping it. Essentially, it's too big a separation. Big league hitters,
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  Speaker 2: they'll catch on to that. So the arm angle I
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  Speaker 2: think on is both fastballs around thirty one and then
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  Speaker 2: he gets way up on top of the knuckle curve
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  Speaker 2: for him relatively and on a split finger. So pretty
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  Speaker 2: sure that the hitters are Even if you don't know
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  Speaker 2: exactly what you're looking at, you can perceive that and
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  Speaker 2: something looks different. Maybe the hands stay back just a
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  Speaker 2: little bit longer, and it's it's just not going his
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  Speaker 2: way right now. So he's going to need to find
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  Speaker 2: a way to kind of get this back on track.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's you know, with that's split
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  Speaker 1: you obviously want to start it out relatively in the
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  Speaker 1: zone and have a drop down, you know, for a
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  Speaker 1: chase pitch. But he left a couple up, especially that
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  Speaker 1: rookie catcher put one in the middle of the right
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  Speaker 1: field pavilion. My goodness, that kid has some power. I
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  Speaker 1: can see why they gave him that contract, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to let this also another huge hit from
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  Speaker 1: Wade Meckler. How about this kid two out bases, loaded,
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  Speaker 1: two runs single in the eighth inning to tie at
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  Speaker 1: five to five. This kid just, you know, his numbers
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  Speaker 1: are solid. He seems to have a knack for coming
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  Speaker 1: up big in the clutch. Not I mean, we haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen much of this guy in the big leagues, and
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  Speaker 1: he just does not seem to shy away from these situations.
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  Speaker 2: And boy, he.
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  Speaker 1: Made some loud contact on that hit too. It was
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  Speaker 1: not a cheap hit, and he played right field, showing
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  Speaker 1: he's pretty you know, has some versatility in the outfield.
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  Speaker 1: This kid is quite the asset for this team right now.
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  Speaker 1: Would you agree totally?
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  Speaker 2: Totally? I know that he had a challenge that didn't
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  Speaker 2: go his way early in the game. They're pounding him
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  Speaker 2: inside right now with the fastball. He took a couple
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  Speaker 2: strike three lookings earlier in the series, and then yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I think he felt like it is the fact I
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  Speaker 2: think beside o reach ended up reaching for the ball probably.
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  Speaker 2: You know, as a hitter you can kind of sometimes
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  Speaker 2: you can see that jabb emotion by the catcher and
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  Speaker 2: immediately just looks like it had to be a ball,
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  Speaker 2: especially if you kind of thought it was to begin with. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: ends up challenging early, didn't go his way, but you
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  Speaker 2: can see the determination. Another thing, he didn't get hits
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  Speaker 2: on him. He put tremendous pressure on Gunner Henderson down
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  Speaker 2: the line. I think he botched at least one, if
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  Speaker 2: not two throws. Not a good series. He did get
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  Speaker 2: three hits the first day. But Henderson didn't impress me
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  Speaker 2: at all out in the field his sense of the timing.
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  Speaker 2: He seemed like either he wasn't clued into the fact
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  Speaker 2: that Meckler has above average or well above average speed,
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  Speaker 2: and that's something you got to know as a defender.
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  Speaker 2: A great play by Parraza. In the whole Guzman has
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  Speaker 2: looked very good at third base two a couple other highlights.
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  Speaker 2: But I wanted to get the good out because I think.
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  Speaker 1: That Meckler beat out that grounder to Henderson and right
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  Speaker 1: ahead of Solaar's home run. I believe he's in the
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  Speaker 1: first inning, so you know that was a you out,
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  Speaker 1: you know, hustle hit.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if they get him hit on the play,
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  Speaker 1: but either way, I mean put a lot, put a
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  Speaker 1: lot of pressure on the short stop who sat back
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  Speaker 1: on a little too much, and then Solar hits a
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  Speaker 1: home run. So good, uh, good play by Meckler. And
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  Speaker 1: to the report card on Halo territory.
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  Speaker 1: And welcome back to Halo territory with Mark Trumbo and
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  Speaker 1: Mike d Giovanna. Well, the Angels are thirty four and
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  Speaker 1: forty eight at the midway point, but there are only
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  Speaker 1: seven games back in a really awful American League. West
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  Speaker 1: is here, a division that features one five hundred team
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  Speaker 1: Seattle Mariners at forty one and forty one, that puts
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  Speaker 1: the Angels on a pace for a sixty seven and
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  Speaker 1: ninety five record, not far from Pakoda's sixty five win projection.
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  Speaker 1: Mark just general thoughts on the season so far.
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  Speaker 2: It's going in the right direction. Recently say, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think anyone can say that this is not a more
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  Speaker 2: enjoyable brand of baseball. It's more competitive. I think the
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  Speaker 2: energy has been better. It's much different than what we saw,
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  Speaker 2: you know, coming out in spring training. The rotation has
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  Speaker 2: had some real bright spots. There's been a couple of
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  Speaker 2: guys that have scuffled, a couple of injuries. The overall
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: health has been fairly good. Trout should be back here
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  Speaker 2: pretty quickly. You know, some guys like Joyce haven't been
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  Speaker 2: able to get back, but I think they're making every
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  Speaker 2: effort to and you know, you can look under the
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  Speaker 2: hood a bit more, which is what we're going to
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  Speaker 2: do with, you know, Baseball savant, neutral source. You know
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  Speaker 2: some of the grades that they don't assign grades, they
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  Speaker 2: just you know, we can go off the statistics and
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  Speaker 2: where the Angels rank as a team in some various aspects,
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  Speaker 2: and then I guess we can give our individual critiques,
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  Speaker 2: or maybe you can give yours and I can agree, or.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's go right into it. Rotation we're gonna start.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna break it down a rotation, bullpen, offense, defense,
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  Speaker 1: base running and abs challenges. I gave you the rotation
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  Speaker 1: a C plus. I debated whether I should just give
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  Speaker 1: it a C. I mean, overall, they're four to sixty
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  Speaker 1: nine er and the rotation is twenty six in the league.
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  Speaker 2: Not great.
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  Speaker 1: They lead the MLB and Walks for starting pitchers with
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and one. But to me, they have three
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  Speaker 1: pitchers and that's the half year rotation who are performing
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  Speaker 1: at a relatively high level. Reid Detmers three and five
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  Speaker 1: with a three nine to three and Soriano eight and
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  Speaker 1: four with a three four one. Overall, granted he has
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  Speaker 1: not been that good lately. Detmars has one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: four strikeouts and sorry has one hundred and two. That's
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  Speaker 1: twelfth and thirteenth in the major leagues. And of course
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  Speaker 1: the big star in my mind, the breakout pitcher is
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  Speaker 1: Walbert Urania five and four two point four seven, twenty
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  Speaker 1: two years old. This kid has not been phased by
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  Speaker 1: anything in the big leagues. Very impressive. Now, the reason
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  Speaker 1: I give them a C is they those three really
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  Speaker 1: get dragged down by the guys who have really scuffled
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  Speaker 1: in the rotation. Jack Kahanowitz had a let's see, it
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  Speaker 1: was a I forget it was seven or eight something
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  Speaker 1: e RA before he got hurt, Kakuchi oning three five
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  Speaker 1: eight one before he got hurt. Gras and Rodriguez a
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  Speaker 1: bit of a disappointment to me. I know he's coming back,
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  Speaker 1: he's missed a lot of time, but he's got an
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  Speaker 1: eight point six e.
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  Speaker 2: R A right now.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, those guys have really put a drag
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  Speaker 1: on the overall performance of the rotation.
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  Speaker 2: In my mind, Ryan Johnson almost threw a no hitter
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  Speaker 2: the other day.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I watched he's got like two starts. You know, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: good on him. You know, if he can be a
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  Speaker 1: little you know, if he could be a factor, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, that you need a fourth and fifth guy
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  Speaker 1: to keep you in games and to be to have
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  Speaker 1: any hopes of winning series, and you know, at least
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  Speaker 1: trying to ench you way back five hundred.
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  Speaker 2: You're correct in that regard. I would say grade it's
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  Speaker 2: better than than what was yours. Did you say C
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  Speaker 2: plus or A plus? All? Right, A C plus this
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  Speaker 2: one we might have a bigger divide or the biggest
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  Speaker 2: I think a B plus. There you go, well, coming
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  Speaker 2: into camp, this is probably based on what I thought
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  Speaker 2: coming into the season and what is materialized. Did I
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  Speaker 2: think that all five starters, whoever they were, let's say,
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  Speaker 2: the guys that broke camp out of spring, would all
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: you don't be crushing it. No, not at all. But
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  Speaker 2: I've seen enough to think that they have three guys
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  Speaker 2: Soriano right now, it's it's a coin flip. But for
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  Speaker 2: the most part, they've had three starters that you can
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  Speaker 2: count on to win games and usually look better matchup
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  Speaker 2: wise than the guys they are going up against. So overall,
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  Speaker 2: I think that the rotation has impressed me. Probably, you know,
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  Speaker 2: booied big time by Walbert and Reed Detmer's just being
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  Speaker 2: outstanding so far.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for the bullpen. I gave the bullpen as a
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  Speaker 1: whole a D plus four point six to era is
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  Speaker 1: twenty fourth in the league, the Big one eight for
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  Speaker 1: twenty four and save opportunities. And they've walked one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and seventy two that's the third most for bullpens. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: they've struck out three hundred and thirteen, ninth in the
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  Speaker 1: league for bullpens. Not terrible once that I found kind
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  Speaker 1: of odd. For relief pitching, twenty three hit by pitches,
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  Speaker 1: third most in baseball. I think you look at the
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  Speaker 1: good to me, you know, Ryan Zephyr John really struggled
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  Speaker 1: in the first couple of weeks, but his last eight
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  Speaker 1: games he's gone nine innings, allowed zero hits, seventeen strikeouts,
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  Speaker 1: nine walks. Still a little high, but his average average
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  Speaker 1: fastball is ticked up to like ninety nine miles an hour.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, talked about Bachman Silseat. Oh not impressed, is
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  Speaker 1: Mark Trump. But we'll get to you'll have your say.
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  Speaker 1: Bachman Silsea to me have been the anchors of the bullpen.
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  Speaker 1: You know, both have VRA's under three and a half
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  Speaker 1: and one surprise in the group to me has been
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  Speaker 1: the lefty Brent Souter. You know, he's he's given him
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  Speaker 1: quality innings. He's got a three point eighty six ERA
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  Speaker 1: in twenty eight games. Granted not in the highest of
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  Speaker 1: leverage situation, but he's cleaned up a lot of innings.
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  Speaker 1: He's given him some length when they've needed it. So
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  Speaker 1: to me, he's been a bit of an asset out there.
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  Speaker 1: Now once again the drags on the bullpen. Still not
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  Speaker 1: sure what we're going to get out of Kirby Gates, Pomerantz, Romano,
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  Speaker 1: Nick Sandlin, Alec Manoa. Early in the season, these guys
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: provided very little quality of relief, and that's why I
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: gave them a D. What do you got Mark.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Palmerans just signed with the Cubs, I believe today.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: By the way, Oh, he's back in back in Chicago.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Good for him in Chicago. Will be improving recently. It's
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: not a strength and it hasn't been a strength all year.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: The saves can tell you pretty much. All you need
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: to know now is that a product of maybe the
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: wrong guy's being out there. I think that that somewhat
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: the usage and the roles would be where I would
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: and that might actually not be so much the players
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: as the ones dictating who's going out there. I think
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: for me as a guy that has impressed at times
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: still needs to refine the command. As Ephyr John with
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: that huge fastball you mentioned, you want to talk about
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: where those hit batters come from. He's had a lot,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: I think, a lot more than his fair share, which
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: is strange because to me is more of a cutter guy.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Although some people hate his cutter but I don't see
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: him as a guy that should be hitting a lot
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: of batters, but just maybe one of those fluke things
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Kirby Yates. For all that everyone said he is death
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: on right handed hitters, and that is not joking. Right
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: handed hitters against him are having an extremely tough time.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: He's punched out a lot of bats now the opposite
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: with lefties, so he's got to find a way to
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: neutralize those. But he has improved a lot. I think
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: my earlier comments, dating back to when I first was
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: watching him pitch, he's looking is the arm is looking
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: more lively. He's kind of probably with the success, no kidding,
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: but he's trending in the right direction. Some of the
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: other guys I think are coming around. Sam Bachman unfortunately
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: had a real blow up recently. Busy area is north
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: of three and sil Seth a lot of inherited runners scoring,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: but he's also been brought in at an unbelievable rate.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: He's the guy that gets brought in all the time
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: against your Don Alvarez, for example, the basis loaded, they're
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: going to him. So yes, he's given up a lot
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: of runs, but he's had the most opportunities too. So
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: if you don't want, who do you want?
• 20:01
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  Speaker 1: And welcome back to Halo Territory with Mark Trumblin Mike D. Givanna. Well,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: let's turn to the offense. I actually gave the offense
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: a B minus. They've you know, since May twenty second,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: the Angels lead the Major leagues with one hundred and
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: seventy three runs scored. It's in thirty one games. That's
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: not a pretty that's not a small sample sky size,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: And I don't think it's any coincidence that this uptick
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: concurred with the arrival of Donovan Walton, Wade Meckler and
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: then eventually Guzman over the last few weeks. So overall
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: the strikeouts, they still lead the major leagues with seven
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: hundred and eighty two. But they're you know, their tenth
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: in runs, twelfth in doubles, eleventh and homers, twelfth in walks,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: which is good for them. And they're right in the
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: middle of the with on base slugging and ops. You know,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: some of the individual performances, Mike Trout we talked about
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: a lot has really shined Wade Meckler and Donovan Walton
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: since they've been here. I mean, Donovan Walton three point
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: thirty eight with a nine oh four ops, three homes
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: and eleven RBIs in how many games is that? Twenty
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: five games, So once again, not a tiny sample size.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: The guys who have kind of dragged the offense in
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: my in my eyes, Logan Ohapi has been better of late,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: but he really was scuffling for the first two months
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: of the season. Yoann Mancata and Josh Lowen they were here,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: really dragged the offense down. So I'd say overall, once again,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: the Angels are trending in a better direction offensively. It's
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: interesting that solaiers back and they got him right back
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: in that four hole. We kind of speculated before he
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: came back whether he would be a good fit with
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: the way the offense was, you know, scoring and and
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: and putting pressure on teams and manufacturing and doing a
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: lot of the things that we feel brought some versatility
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: to this offense. Bud, he's hit a couple of homers
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: since he's been back. Is so there going to be
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: a good fit with this team right now?
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Mark?
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: And what's your overall great for the offense?
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Great fit, big power, big power bat cranking them out
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: of the park, sometimes when they count, sometimes when the
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: game's a little bit out of reach, but nevertheless, he's
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: given it a mighty lash up there. He's up there
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: to do some damage and just some of those balls
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: that are down and a way, maybe take a few
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: of them. But maybe he'll hit him at some point too.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: The offense is a mixed bag. Mike Trout one of
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: the unluckiest hitters in baseball so far this year. His
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: numbers are still very respectable, but when you some of
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: the statistical stuff has has said that he has got
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: no luck at all. He's made a lot of heart
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: outs to me, and his numbers could be actually better
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: than they are. I've seen improvements, so I think the
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: the I'll agree with whatever it was a typo, I
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: think what was your grade again? A B minus?
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I'd change it to a B minus. I had C
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: going in, but I don't know. Last month, they've been
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: pretty impressive, trying to keep it positive.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Man. Yeah, no, I know you'd fit right in, uh,
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: you know elsewhere. But I think that they've Yeah, I
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: got okay, be B minus B. How about a bee.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: I'll get them a B. They're improving. I like that. Well.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: I like that they pivoted off of the all or
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: nothing approach. If you don't commend effort and uh, I
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: think that that buying largely the whole team. They've they've
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: gone to a different approach and it's worked out better
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: for them. They've had more success. Guys seem to be
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: more engaged. Guys are running harder personnel changes. Yes, we're
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: involved in that, but trending in the right direction, and
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: it's going a lot of runs. Since what may second,
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: where'd you get that stat?
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: I saw it in a newspaper maybe? Actually no, I
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: got out of the Angels notes. Actually yeah, I actually
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: lead those things, one of the rare reporters who reads
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: the notes. Let's get to defense, and I give them
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: a D on defense. No pun intended there. You know,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: we talked a lot about Zach k Nettle this year.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: He's got thirteen errors. I'm pretty sure he still leads
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: major league shortstops. And then you throw in I think
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: when Moncado was playing third base, I mean, when those
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: two were together on that left side of the infield,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: it was not very good. So let's go to the
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Baseball Savant outs above average and this is for team.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: The Angels are twenty eighth with minus twenty outs above average,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: which is not good. And the crazy thing is almost
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: all of that negative number comes in the infield. The
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Angels infield minus twenty one outs above average according to
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Baseball Savant. Mark, what did you would you grade the
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: defense out? And why the numbers say a lot?
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Right there? It's been some bright spots. Nolan Shawnawall has
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: played a really nice first base. He had some great
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: He's picked up his infield. There's a ton digging balls
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: out of the dirt, which is something that I think
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: it is getting computed more. It wasn't a thing I
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: took a lot of pride trying to do it when
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: I played first, but it was something that other than
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: the guys that you were saving errors from being it
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: wasn't value, you know, I never saw anything. And arbitration
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: and the you know actually went. I did go to
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: arbitration one year. It was not something it's not something
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: that gets brought up. You can't nobody uses it there.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: There's been pros has been outstanding. He made a play
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: in the hole that was Jeter esque and they talked
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: about that. I think Denser Guzman has has looked very
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: very good at third base, very comfortable. He had one
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: the bunt play picked up. That's a learning experience, very
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: young guy. Overall, the play at second base, I think
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: has been it's been solid. They've mixed and matched quite
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: a few different guys over there, but it's kind of
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: come together. So for the most part, it's it's been adequate.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: The numbers, though, are pretty glaring. It's it's I guess
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: you got to look and see where those you know,
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: where they're losing some of those outs.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was surprised. Joe Adell had five errors this year.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Obviously had the one bounce office his hat, which was
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: not good. But all right, let's turn the base running now.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: I was trying to wrack my brain on first of all,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: I gave him a D. And this is why when
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: you look at Baseball's a vaunt once again, they kind
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: of rate it ranked them by base running runs above
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: average and the Angels twenty ninth at minus five. Uh,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: And I was I was a little surprised by this
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: in terms of why they rated so low. I know,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: they don't have a lot of burners. I know, you know,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: guys like Solaire on the bases are not very strong.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Then you have Mike Trout, who is zach Netto has
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: a good speed. Why do you any idea why they
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: graded so low? Base running Moore, lack of hustle early on. Yeah,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: that's true.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: No, that's not how the that's not that's not how
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: they created. Maybe it's a slight part of it. It
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: could be. I think a number of caught stealings would
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: probably factor in. You can those that want to look
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: at that up, they can do that. A couple guys
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: haven't had the highest success rates there and compare to
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: some of these other teams. What's coming to especially last
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: year it exploded with the stolen bases overall around the league,
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: with the new rules and you know, the bigger bases,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: all these things and other teams that are built more
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: for speed are probably lapping them in that regard. I
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: think the Angel has done a decent job taking the
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: extra base, playing the style of baseball that I experienced.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: You want to call it social ball or whatever, but
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: people I think that that follow the Angels know what
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: that means. But I think they've been at tad cautious
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: at times sending guys on base hits to the outfield.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: Sometimes that is for the better. I think third base
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: coaches can come under huge fire. The Giants had to
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: make a move because of the over aggressiveness, and I
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: think the Angels gotting picked off maybe a few times.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: I think that's happened.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: I could think of a few on top of my head,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: and yet I didn't look to see.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't think that they'd be rated as low
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: as they are, but that's these are not subjective. They're
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: numerical or twenty ninth in baseball, and you know, on
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: the basis so it's an area that could use some improvement.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: All right, We're our last category is abs Challenges Park
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: consistently included this, and you know, it's become a pretty
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: integral and interesting part of this game. How did you
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: sort of break down the Angels for ABS challenges.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Well, you can do replay challenges and ABS. I think
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: replay challenges the Angels are second or third in baseball
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: in the amount of replay challenges they do. I think
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers are our last. Maybe they have a dozen,
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: the Angels have over thirty. Kurt likes to see, you know,
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: going for the headphones a lot. Hey take a look,
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: and lately it's been working. But they do challenge a lot.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: I think, just not really in regards to this, but
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: the overall some of the stoppage with the some of
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: the flow of the game using eight pictures obviously still
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: haven't recovered from the previous ball game. But I don't
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: know how I feel about ABS yet. I think that
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: Nolan sawn Nowell for some reason you wouldn't think he
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: would struggle with it. I think he did get the
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: last one he did correct that might have been yesterday,
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: but he hasn't had a ton of success. Some guys
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: seem very tentative. I know Joeydell on a podcast maybe
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Mookie's podcast, said he had forbid himself from doing it.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: I know Troudy hasn't done it all that much. Some
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: guys do it and seem very convinced that they're right,
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: they end up not being right. I think Logano Hoppy
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: has improved a lot, at least behind the plate. And
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know if any of our pictures. Maybe one
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: time a pitcher did it. But how do you feel
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: about ABS overall? And then you can give a grade?
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, let's first of all, we'll get to those numbers.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: The Angels thirty nine point eight percent success rate as
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: a team, that's twenty seventh in the league. And here's
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: some of the individual breakdowns. And yeah, the number at
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: the bottom of your scream the name and the number
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: at the bottom of your screen Noan shan Well uh
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: challenge seventeen one sixth loss eleven. And now you know,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: I thought going in has a reputation of great plate discipline,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: good eye, and I still think he does have a
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: good eye, but it's surprising that it hasn't hasn't translated
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: to more success in the ABS. Challenging zach Neno is
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: only at fifteen percent, seven for fourteen, not that great.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: And some of the other oswell, Perrazza three for ten
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: and thirty percent is definitely not great. And those are
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: the guys who have done it most. That horny up
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: top Jorges Solaire has won two and challenge five. But yeah,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: it's forty percent. They're not. Oh, these are once again
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Baseball Savant is ranking these and I didn't even know
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: what the column on the left stands for, but they
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: you know, they will. It's like above average or below average.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Some of the numbers they put on. Some of these
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: are really difficult to try to figure out, but the
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: hard numbers certainly speak for themselves. As far as overall,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: I like it because I don't think it's stopped the game.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: It hasn't been a big, you know, hindrance to the
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: actual pace of the game. They've been able to do
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: it relatively quickly. I think it's kind of I think
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: the fans dig it. It's kind of funny seeing some
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: of the reaction of the players who like, damn that
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: the whole balls and the strikes them.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: I challenge that.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: I thought it was pretty fun of the other day,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: or I think it was last where Wednesday night when
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: show Hey o Tani challenge one on the mound. I'd
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: love to see more pitchers do it, and he was right,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: so I think overall it's been good. I think the
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: strategy that it is forced teams to sort of make
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: is interesting. I still don't understand there's so many players
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: using some of these challenges in the first inning, and
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: we have seen a handful, if not more than a
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: handful of games where you get to that eighth or
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: ninth inning and well, the Angels are out of challenges. Boy,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: they could have used one there. So it's become really strategic.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: I hope they don't fiddle with it too much and
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: go to like three or four challenges a game. I
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: like the fact they give them one extra one per
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: inning and extra innings. I think that's smart. But overall
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: I'm okay with it. Are you okay with it? I
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: don't know yet.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: I'm leaning towards yeah, kind of it Just there's no
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: when you get used to I think that that's the
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: hard thing for somebody who didn't play with this system.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: You got used to having to deal with different umpires
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: and either were umpires a favorite the hit or there
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: were umpires were picture favorites. You knew that going in.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: You knew sometimes you had to expand a little bit.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: But pictures, I think no longer get rewarded, and there's
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: an argument that they should never be rewarded for having
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: better command and earning a little bit off the plate.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: You might recall some uh, you know pictures that did Yeah,
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: some of that was egregious and you know, comical how
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: far they'd get off. But it was kind of a
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: merit system where pictures that you know, the umpire was
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: impressed enough. Hey, this guy's got it and he's making
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: it easy on me. Probably back there too. I think
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: part of the deal too is the catcher framing. These
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: guys are yanking everything to try and deceive the Empire
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: and make used to If you were doing that back
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: to the Empire would tighten you up pretty quick. When
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: I was a younger player in the game, hey knock
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: that off. What are you doing? Like, just catch it
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: as it is and you know, don't don't disrupt me.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: But now they got to do a much better job.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: I'm almost certain the Empire grading this year is going
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: to be worse than it ever has. I see some
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: of the scorecards that are coming in, and they are
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: where it looked like previous year's maybe ninety four, ninety five,
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: ninety six percent was about average it's gone much lower,
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: and I don't know if that's a byproduct of just
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: having the option to, hey, we'll just you know, they'll
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: challenge it and we'll get it right eventually. But maybe
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: it's added a lot of pressure too. It's different.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Definitely, going in with this new system, I thought it
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: would sort of decrease the importance of pitch framing. But
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: do you still think pitch framing is as big a
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: part of the game as it was before.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. I think the other night Markotza getting thrown out
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: early on, and you can say why and laugh and stuff,
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: but he knew that the umpire that game was going
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: to continue calling that pitch that was probably going to
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: hurt his team a lot more than it was going
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: to hurt the Angels that low strike, knee high or otherwise.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: And credit to a hop he was getting underneath them
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: and making them look good. But those two challenges, your
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: hitters are going to have a tough time if they
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: just keep peppering. I don't know if who had started
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: that game, assuming it was either you ran your story
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: on all, but it seemed like that was going to
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: be a strike and it was a tough pitch. You're
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: not going to do anything with it. But that's why
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: he did it, because that framing is still going to
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: be a big thing. We didn't intentionally skip over all
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: the outfield defense, but your early impressions of Christian Moore
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: in the outfield and left field before we wrap.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Up, well, if they continue to play Christian Moore in
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: left field, those outs above average numbers are going to
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: go down even more. I mean, it's been rough. I'm
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: not gonna lie. It's been obvious for everyone to see
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: at this point. I just wonder, can you continue to
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: run him out there and this is so impactful that
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: you want to as opposed to having I guess it
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: depends lefty and righty pitcher, with Meckler and even Donovan
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: wanting to some degree in terms of your platoons. But
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: I don't know. To me, I don't know how much
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: he played left field and triple A. If they're really
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: serious about moving in the left field, they need to
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: send them back down play left field every day. I
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: just think that is not an easy transition by any means.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: It's probably way harder, and we any of us who
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: didn't play the game at a high level, think it is.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: He just doesn't look real comfortable out there, and that's
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: a big concern for me moving forward.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: Eighth overall pick.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, as a second base.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Well, they got to find a place for me. Isn't
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: that where you put the kid in the little league
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: that has the bad love check him out in left field?
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess, so, uh, why not play him at
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: second base?
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, a logjam is why I
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: out and these guys are contributing, and that's uh something
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: they're going to have to figure out. Who do we prioritize,
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: you know, third base? I think, who's my young player promising?
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: You know, the bat has looked pretty good. He's gonna lately,
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: you know, last couple of games not as good, but
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: his defense very impressive. So Kurt's gonna have to find
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: playing time for all these guys or trade some trade
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: partners for uh, some of the extra depth, maybe get
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: something in return if they do trade the open Piazza
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: might be a good candidate for that. You know, he
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: has not a good Yeah, so yeah, we'll see.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: We'll see where the Angels are at the deadline. All right,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: we're gonna close the show with that. Hey, thanks, for watching,
• 39:28
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