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- 0:00Speaker 1: I think I would have pil Alonzo in front of
- 0:03Speaker 1: him right now if you.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Want to what, I want to know why, because this
- 0:08Speaker 2: is a good discussion.
- 0:14Speaker 3: Hey, you can vote for All Stars now, So if
- 0:18Speaker 3: you had a sick first two months, you're gonna get
- 0:20Speaker 3: a lot of attention starting right about now. Yeah, it's
- 0:24Speaker 3: already June All Star Game and week and all that is.
- 0:26Speaker 3: In a month, we'll be there, by the way, We'll
- 0:28Speaker 3: give you a lot more details when we get closer
- 0:30Speaker 3: to it. Let's play off Jim Boden's article on his
- 0:33Speaker 3: early MLB All Star team picks for the American League
- 0:36Speaker 3: and the National League. We can unveil the American League
- 0:40Speaker 3: for Todd Father first, if that's cool, and go over
- 0:42Speaker 3: what he's bringing to the table here.
- 0:44Speaker 4: It is first base.
- 0:47Speaker 3: He's got Vladdie one, then Aronda and Torkolsen second base, Labor,
- 0:52Speaker 3: then Brandon Lao shortstop, mister Bobby wit Junior, then Jeremy
- 0:56Speaker 3: Panya and Jacob Wilson third base, Jose Ramirez, followed by
- 1:00Speaker 3: Bregman who's currently hurt Riley Green starting in left field,
- 1:04Speaker 3: Stephen Kwan behind him. He's got Trent Grisham in center field.
- 1:08Speaker 3: With Julio Rodriguez and Byron Buxton behind him, Aaron Judge
- 1:12Speaker 3: in right, and then Cal Riley and Logan o'happy for
- 1:16Speaker 3: your catchers, and we didn't forget about DH. I can
- 1:21Speaker 3: mention DH. So we had hold on him on the
- 1:24Speaker 3: nationalague side, Rapiel Devers and Ryan O'Hearn for DH. Todd Father,
- 1:30Speaker 3: you've seen a lot of Trent Grisham. Do you think
- 1:33Speaker 3: he's the guy?
- 1:35Speaker 1: I do. I do think he is. I think this
- 1:39Speaker 1: is the year he's come along.
- 1:40Speaker 5: He's playing a lot more, he's getting the opportunity to
- 1:44Speaker 5: be the everyday center fielder. His power numbers are up,
- 1:48Speaker 5: his defense has gotten even better, even still as a
- 1:51Speaker 5: Gold Glover, and he's played every He's pretty much hitting
- 1:54Speaker 5: every spot in the lineup, and he's not afraid to
- 1:57Speaker 5: hit you know, ninth, first, whatever it is. He's been
- 2:01Speaker 5: solid all year round, and he's been a really good
- 2:05Speaker 5: a really good plus for this Yankee team. I mean,
- 2:08Speaker 5: when you look at this lineup top to bottom, you know,
- 2:10Speaker 5: going into this year, Oh, everybody's like Trent Grisham, okay, whatever,
- 2:14Speaker 5: but he has come along strong here and he's hitting
- 2:17Speaker 5: the ball with a lot of power too.
- 2:18Speaker 1: As well.
- 2:20Speaker 6: Kratz, do you agree, No, I think this is the
- 2:23Speaker 6: year that Buston Buxton gets his start. He's already I
- 2:27Speaker 6: think he's been a one All Star game, He's been healthy.
- 2:30Speaker 6: I think he's a guy. I think they're trending in
- 2:33Speaker 6: different directions. Trent Grison's gonna get a lot of And
- 2:36Speaker 6: that's why I like about Bowden's article is the fact
- 2:38Speaker 6: that he understands where the fan votes are gonna come
- 2:41Speaker 6: from and how the fans are going to vote the
- 2:43Speaker 6: starters in. I think Buxton's been having a better year
- 2:46Speaker 6: and will continue to have a better year on a team.
- 2:49Speaker 6: It's almost like the way his season is going is
- 2:52Speaker 6: the way the Twins season is going. Shocker, shocker. You
- 2:55Speaker 6: have a big time star in center field and the
- 2:57Speaker 6: team goes by that.
- 2:59Speaker 2: But I think I think it's Buckston. I think buckstonill
- 3:02Speaker 2: end up getting it. Yeah.
- 3:05Speaker 3: The biggest challenge for Buxton is can he stay healthy
- 3:08Speaker 3: for the next six I'm not even joking about it.
- 3:10Speaker 3: It's just real something that's plagued him throughout his career.
- 3:14Speaker 3: Can he get himself to July healthy?
- 3:18Speaker 6: And I even think he believes that. I think he
- 3:20Speaker 6: even believes that because if you believe you're as good
- 3:24Speaker 6: as you are, and I think everybody thinks Buxton is
- 3:27Speaker 6: this elite superstar, you don't sign the contract that he signed.
- 3:32Speaker 6: I mean, maybe I'm way off. He signed an eight year,
- 3:34Speaker 6: one hundred some million dollar contract, which is huge money,
- 3:38Speaker 6: but he's a two hundred million dollar player. But I
- 3:41Speaker 6: think he believes it's really hard to stay on the field.
- 3:43Speaker 6: By the way he plays. This man is all over
- 3:46Speaker 6: the field, and I don't mean just like running all
- 3:48Speaker 6: over the field. He is slamming up against the wall,
- 3:51Speaker 6: laying on the warning track, diving for balls in center,
- 3:54Speaker 6: left and right center. Like he understands the game is
- 3:58Speaker 6: tough to stay healthy. That's why he signed the contract,
- 4:01Speaker 6: and I think this is the year that he becomes
- 4:02Speaker 6: the he's a starter in the center field for the
- 4:05Speaker 6: American League.
- 4:06Speaker 3: I'm with you on that one. I'go Buxton won. He's
- 4:10Speaker 3: close with Grisham on a lot of offensive stats.
- 4:15Speaker 4: Grisham's got an edge, but it's close.
- 4:18Speaker 3: He's obviously got a significant base running edge. Buckston's beast
- 4:21Speaker 3: on the basis even this year, like he's not super aggressive,
- 4:24Speaker 3: but he's casually gotten ten stolen bags.
- 4:27Speaker 4: That's not Grisham's game.
- 4:29Speaker 3: And yeah, I think when you add that up, he's
- 4:32Speaker 3: got a little edge even on defense. I would get
- 4:34Speaker 3: bucks in the edge over Grisham. Grisham's fantastic, right, But
- 4:38Speaker 3: when you go bust In over Grisham for.
- 4:40Speaker 6: D hands down, hands down, and that's that's saying a
- 4:44Speaker 6: lot because Grisham's a gold Glover like it. I don't
- 4:49Speaker 6: know how to paint the picture for Byron Buckston, but
- 4:52Speaker 6: if you're not a Twins fan, you're missing out on
- 4:55Speaker 6: watching this guy play at the at the level that.
- 4:58Speaker 2: He plays at.
- 4:59Speaker 6: You're talking about a guy that, again healthy is a
- 5:02Speaker 6: gold Glove slash Platinum Glove winner year in and year out,
- 5:07Speaker 6: but he just hasn't stayed healthy to accrue those numbers exactly.
- 5:12Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got the edge and out of a average
- 5:14Speaker 3: and some metrics too. So not just eye test there, Let's.
- 5:17Speaker 4: Get some pictures. Pick your al starter.
- 5:22Speaker 3: So this is who Jim Bowden has, Trek Scougel, Chris
- 5:26Speaker 3: Bubach having an awesome year, Gartt Crochet, Max Fried Nadi,
- 5:30Speaker 3: Valdi Hunter Brown, Carlos Rodon, Shane Smith, Andres Munos, Carlos Estevez,
- 5:37Speaker 3: Josh hater John Durant.
- 5:39Speaker 4: Obviously, if you're watching this after the fact.
- 5:42Speaker 3: And we mentioned anyone in the ale, and then when
- 5:44Speaker 3: we get to the NL that you think shouldn't be
- 5:47Speaker 3: on there or you think there's someone missing, then comment below.
- 5:50Speaker 3: But for the case of this exercise, Todd Father, is
- 5:54Speaker 3: it obvious to start Trek Scugel or do you think
- 5:58Speaker 3: Boonie and the decision might look over to Max Freed
- 6:02Speaker 3: and say thanks for signing with the World Series team
- 6:07Speaker 3: from last year, I get to pick you.
- 6:09Speaker 4: You made the right decision.
- 6:11Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. I don't think it's obvious.
- 6:14Speaker 5: But oh man, this is tough because I'm biased as
- 6:19Speaker 5: all this stuff when it comes out. Man, I'm taking
- 6:22Speaker 5: my guys for sure. A lot of lefties on there.
- 6:26Speaker 5: But I do think schoobl deserves it.
- 6:27Speaker 1: I do.
- 6:28Speaker 5: I think he's a really really good picture. And then
- 6:32Speaker 5: you know, maybe you go with Max and Rodin right
- 6:35Speaker 5: after that. But there has been some really a good
- 6:38Speaker 5: plothora of left handed pitchers starting pitchers. Garret Crochet, who
- 6:42Speaker 5: we talked about as well. I don't think he could
- 6:44Speaker 5: really go wrong. But Tarik has been or Erk whatever.
- 6:50Speaker 5: I'm losing his name here, Sorry, he's been.
- 6:52Speaker 2: He's been.
- 6:55Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, Sorry, I just had a little bubble there.
- 6:58Speaker 5: He's the guy I would say, he's the guy I
- 7:00Speaker 5: just started. Man, he's been doing it for two years
- 7:02Speaker 5: now and it's been really fantastic.
- 7:05Speaker 6: I know who Boonie's not choosing. He's not going Garrett Crochet.
- 7:09Speaker 6: That would That's an easy way of saying, I don't
- 7:13Speaker 6: want to be in New York anymore. I chose a
- 7:14Speaker 6: Red Sox to start the All Star Game. I really
- 7:17Speaker 6: think if all things stay exactly the same, there's gonna
- 7:21Speaker 6: be some dudes that are missing out on starting for
- 7:24Speaker 6: the American League, like they are gonna make the All
- 7:27Speaker 6: Star team. I get it in other years. Even Shane
- 7:31Speaker 6: Smith is having from the White Sox, it's having an
- 7:33Speaker 6: incredible year in his rookie campaign, and he's might not
- 7:38Speaker 6: even get in the game based on the other starters
- 7:40Speaker 6: that are out there with Rodon and what he's doing, Crochet,
- 7:42Speaker 6: all the guys that Todd just said. I do think
- 7:45Speaker 6: it's Scoobale, and I think Scooble's advantage that he has
- 7:49Speaker 6: over the other guys. He just wanted to say young
- 7:52Speaker 6: he led his team to the playoffs, last year's and
- 7:54Speaker 6: he is not only continued what he was doing, but
- 7:58Speaker 6: he stepped it up.
- 7:59Speaker 2: He doesn't like guys on base I think his whip.
- 8:02Speaker 6: Is under point eight, a point eight whip, like he doesn't.
- 8:07Speaker 6: He's just he's dominating right now, and I think he's
- 8:10Speaker 6: he has got he's got that starting nod locked up
- 8:14Speaker 6: as of today.
- 8:15Speaker 3: You know, the only move that would make Boonie even
- 8:19Speaker 3: more hated for a decision, Hunter Brown. I think Yankee
- 8:23Speaker 3: fans hate at the Astros more than the Red Sox
- 8:26Speaker 3: in this current in this generation, much more successful team
- 8:31Speaker 3: trash scandal that directly affected the boys. Do you agree
- 8:36Speaker 3: to motated team for Yankee fans is a man right now,
- 8:43Speaker 3: right now, like in the last few five years, call
- 8:45Speaker 3: it it's got to be Houston the Red Sox.
- 8:48Speaker 5: I would say, yeah, I would yeah, I would say
- 8:51Speaker 5: there's still a little little hate towards them, but you know,
- 8:55Speaker 5: as the years are going on, it's kind of going
- 8:57Speaker 5: away a little bit because they've struggled.
- 8:59Speaker 1: So it's like, I don't know, it's hit or miss.
- 9:02Speaker 5: It's just if they're playing the Red Sox istem if
- 9:04Speaker 5: they're playing Astros, they remember those days back in seventeen.
- 9:07Speaker 4: Yep okay.
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- 10:11Speaker 3: Let's go to the National League and unveil who Boden
- 10:14Speaker 3: put out there. At least so far, I don't think
- 10:17Speaker 3: there's a ton of debate for starters. There's going to be,
- 10:21Speaker 3: of course, many people calling out who's missing on this
- 10:24Speaker 3: list orho shouldn't be on this list. But Boden's got
- 10:26Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman starting over Pete Alonzo. You can see some
- 10:31Speaker 3: pros and cons with the offensive numbers for both guys.
- 10:33Speaker 3: Pete's got Moore pop, Freddy's the better glove. Brendan Donovan.
- 10:37Speaker 3: I think Leeds in war for second basement. He's been
- 10:40Speaker 3: awesome this year for Saint Louis. Than Bryce Terrang behind him,
- 10:44Speaker 3: Lindor starting shortstop. I don't think there's much question there
- 10:47Speaker 3: than Ellie and Trey Manny Machado at third, than Austin
- 10:51Speaker 3: Riley behind him. Look at rookie James Wood and rookie
- 10:55Speaker 3: Kyle Stowers in left field. He's got Wood in front
- 10:58Speaker 3: of Stours, Crow Armstrong of course in center field, and
- 11:02Speaker 3: O'Neil Kruz deserves it behind him, Kyle Tucker and Wright
- 11:05Speaker 3: Corbyn Carroll, who's coming on really strong, and you could
- 11:08Speaker 3: make a case if you're looking at numbers for those
- 11:10Speaker 3: two right now, that Carol could.
- 11:11Speaker 4: Make a case for going above KT.
- 11:14Speaker 3: And then Fernando Tatis Junior right behind them, Will Smith
- 11:16Speaker 3: starting catcher, he's like five hundred with runners in scoring position.
- 11:20Speaker 3: And then Hunter Goodman because the Rocky's got to have
- 11:22Speaker 3: somebody Kratz anything you like, don't like here, I would.
- 11:27Speaker 6: Take Terrang over Brandon Donovan, but I get it. Brendan
- 11:31Speaker 6: Donovan's got you know, he's got a high batting average,
- 11:34Speaker 6: but Terrang is actually beating him in a lot of
- 11:37Speaker 6: other a lot of war categories. So I'm also a
- 11:41Speaker 6: Brewers apologist, So I love Bryce Terrang. He's a shortstop
- 11:45Speaker 6: playing second base. And I would almost say what Matt
- 11:51Speaker 6: Chapman's doing in San Francisco while he's batting averages way behind,
- 11:57Speaker 6: way behind Manny Machado's actually a more valuable player on
- 12:01Speaker 6: a team that, in my opinion, needs him more. I
- 12:04Speaker 6: think Matt Chapman should be in the discussion over Austin
- 12:08Speaker 6: Riley at third base. Those are the two that I
- 12:11Speaker 6: feel like Matt Chapman needs to get recognition for what
- 12:15Speaker 6: he's doing there, and the fact that that team isn't
- 12:19Speaker 6: what they are, that pitching staff isn't what they are,
- 12:20Speaker 6: because they're gonna They're gonna throw a pitcher on the
- 12:23Speaker 6: on the All Star Game and they need him at
- 12:26Speaker 6: third base.
- 12:29Speaker 5: Okay, Pete Alonzo, Freddie Freeman over there. That's a battle
- 12:33Speaker 5: that's gonna probably go on until you know, the All
- 12:37Speaker 5: Star Game comes along. I think Peter Alonzo's right there
- 12:39Speaker 5: with him. I think he's having a fantastic year. Freddie
- 12:42Speaker 5: Fraeman doing what he does best, even after an injury,
- 12:46Speaker 5: but I think I would have Peter Alonzo in front
- 12:50Speaker 5: of him right now if you want.
- 12:51Speaker 6: To truth why. I want to know why, because it's
- 12:55Speaker 6: a good discussion.
- 12:57Speaker 1: I I'm not.
- 13:00Speaker 5: I don't have the exactly just from what I'm seeing
- 13:02Speaker 5: from Pete Alonzo, especially from last year to this year.
- 13:05Speaker 5: I know it's not about last year's numbers, but what
- 13:08Speaker 5: he's been dealt with and the crap he's done off
- 13:11Speaker 5: the field, and people be like, well it doesn't really matter, Well,
- 13:14Speaker 5: this dude has been put through the wringer with trying
- 13:16Speaker 5: to get signed and still coming back and putting up
- 13:19Speaker 5: the numbers. He's doing his averages up, his power still there,
- 13:23Speaker 5: and he's doing it with Sodo in the helm too
- 13:25Speaker 5: as well. He's basically in hitting wise, I think he's
- 13:27Speaker 5: carrying the team.
- 13:29Speaker 6: Freddy has a ops plus of one ninety eight. He
- 13:34Speaker 6: is batting three seventy right now, three seventy.
- 13:41Speaker 4: M.
- 13:42Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got a big edge on offense here, and
- 13:45Speaker 3: he's a better defender. He's the only case that Todd
- 13:47Speaker 3: Father can make. Pete Alonzo two hundred and twenty seven
- 13:52Speaker 3: abs Freddy's at what one?
- 13:56Speaker 4: Didn't you miss a little hair at time?
- 13:58Speaker 3: That's the only case is the volume game, right, I mean,
- 14:02Speaker 3: Pete's obviously driven in more runs if you're looking at
- 14:04Speaker 3: more of the classic stats. But yeah, Pete's got more pop.
- 14:11Speaker 4: Here's the thing.
- 14:13Speaker 3: I'm from the area, so I can say what I want,
- 14:16Speaker 3: and so is Todd Father.
- 14:18Speaker 4: Dodger fans are cray. They're gonna vote more. They just are.
- 14:21Speaker 4: It's a voting war. He's gonna vote more.
- 14:24Speaker 2: I was thinking, well, that's said.
- 14:27Speaker 6: I'm gonna call out in New York Mets fans because
- 14:29Speaker 6: they didn't like them before, because I called the Mets
- 14:31Speaker 6: a third place team. If you don't get Pete Alonso
- 14:34Speaker 6: into the All Star Game. You haven't shown up like
- 14:37Speaker 6: Dodgers fans.
- 14:39Speaker 4: He's getting in.
- 14:39Speaker 3: He's just not starting because Freddy is going to win
- 14:42Speaker 3: the starting vote.
- 14:44Speaker 4: It is a world of votes.
- 14:46Speaker 2: Now.
- 14:46Speaker 4: They're not going to dominate in every category.
- 14:48Speaker 3: But the Dodgers are the world's team and Freddy is
- 14:51Speaker 3: a superstar and they love him worldwide, the worldwide Dodger fans.
- 14:56Speaker 4: I think they're gonna have the edge with the clicks.
- 14:59Speaker 2: But then Pete go ahead.
- 15:02Speaker 5: And Pete did say when we ask him about the
- 15:05Speaker 5: home run derby, he says, I gotta see if I
- 15:06Speaker 5: make the All Stars first.
- 15:07Speaker 1: So he didn't say he was not going to do it.
- 15:10Speaker 4: He's going to be there. He's going to be there.
- 15:11Speaker 4: That's obvious. It's the it's just the starting No, it's
- 15:13Speaker 4: just a fun thing, all right.
- 15:14Speaker 3: Lastly, uh, the dh is Otani and then Schwarber makes sense.
- 15:19Speaker 3: Pitchers Paul Skens, Zach Wheeler, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Chris Sale, Logan Webb,
- 15:26Speaker 3: Jesus Lozardo, Robbie Ray Mackenzie, Gore, Hunter Green, Kodai Sanga,
- 15:32Speaker 3: Robert Suarez, Edwin Diaz again, We're not going over you know,
- 15:37Speaker 3: the nitpick of who should be on, who should be off.
- 15:39Speaker 3: I'm just going to the cream of the crop right
- 15:42Speaker 3: now for this exercise.
- 15:44Speaker 4: Who's starting?
- 15:47Speaker 2: Zach Wheeler? Wow?
- 15:49Speaker 1: Who should be starting? Or who will be starting?
- 15:52Speaker 4: He can get me both.
- 15:54Speaker 1: Well, Well, who's the manager?
- 15:55Speaker 5: As we know, Dave Roberts. Yeah, we talked about this
- 16:01Speaker 5: Aaron Boone. On one side, Roberts is Yamamoto. Right now,
- 16:03Speaker 5: he's having a fantastic gear. Who should start? I think
- 16:07Speaker 5: same thing, Christy. I love Wheeler, you can't go wrong
- 16:10Speaker 5: with him, but you got to understand too, Now who's managing?
- 16:13Speaker 5: Who's gonna get the upper hand? And I'm not saying
- 16:15Speaker 5: he shouldn't start, but it's really close to me right now,
- 16:19Speaker 5: and I think Yamamoto will get the nod if he
- 16:21Speaker 5: keeps going the way he is.
- 16:23Speaker 6: I don't think he will be able to pitch in
- 16:26Speaker 6: the in the All Star Game the Dodgers. The Dodgers
- 16:29Speaker 6: don't allow these guys to pitch extra Why would they
- 16:32Speaker 6: let him get an extra start that's not in the playoffs.
- 16:35Speaker 6: I'm gonna go on a limb and say maybe the
- 16:37Speaker 6: Dodgers don't even let him maybe he's like, maybe Dave
- 16:41Speaker 6: Roberts will play a little cat and mouse game. He'd
- 16:43Speaker 6: be like, I'm not gonna let one of the teams
- 16:45Speaker 6: that we're gonna play against not have a starter start
- 16:48Speaker 6: an extra start. So you know what, wheel Er, go
- 16:51Speaker 6: for it. Maybe we'll tire you out for the rest
- 16:53Speaker 6: of the for the for the stretch run of the season.
- 16:56Speaker 3: Here doesn't Yamamoto do the weekend because he's a once
- 17:01Speaker 3: a week guy. He's I think, I mean, as of
- 17:03Speaker 3: right now, he's Fridays. But they can easily be like, oh,
- 17:06Speaker 3: you know, we're giving him one more so it'll get
- 17:09Speaker 3: pushed to Saturday. And then once you're on, is it
- 17:11Speaker 3: Saturday or Sunday?
- 17:12Speaker 4: You're off?
- 17:13Speaker 2: Is it Sunday for Sunday?
- 17:15Speaker 3: Sure you're off. So they'll they'll figure it out. I
- 17:18Speaker 3: agree with you, he should be starting. I don't know
- 17:21Speaker 3: if they'll let.
- 17:22Speaker 1: Him do it.
- 17:23Speaker 3: I mean, he's the guy. If he goes down right now,
- 17:27Speaker 3: there's trouble.
- 17:30Speaker 2: Do you think he's having a better season than Paul Skeen's.
- 17:33Speaker 3: I don't know, but Paul Skean started last year, and
- 17:35Speaker 3: I do think it's not like an MVP or Cy
- 17:37Speaker 3: young you can switch it up, so Phelix. Skeen's got
- 17:41Speaker 3: his moment last year, and if Yamamoto can pitch, he
- 17:44Speaker 3: should get his moment. It makes sense this year. And
- 17:47Speaker 3: if not, I do think has Wheeler ever done it?
- 17:49Speaker 3: Has he started?
- 17:51Speaker 4: I don't know. I gotta look.
- 17:53Speaker 3: I don't know, okay, but I mean yes, there are
- 17:56Speaker 3: potential cards that get put in play where Skeen's might
- 18:00Speaker 3: start it. Think about it. Schemes need something to get
- 18:02Speaker 3: motivated for. I mean every time he pitches, it's like
- 18:06Speaker 3: one nothing two to one team season has been over since.
- 18:09Speaker 4: The first few weeks of the year.
- 18:11Speaker 3: It's tough sledding for a guy that seems super competitive,
- 18:14Speaker 3: so something for him to look forward to. He's definitely
- 18:17Speaker 3: got a shot. I mean, numbers wise, he's right there.
- 18:20Speaker 3: And he's given you length to this year, which is impressive.
- 18:23Speaker 3: And he started the year right away versus last year
- 18:25Speaker 3: and he was called up about a month into the season. Anyway,
- 18:28Speaker 3: fun debate. We'll do more of this, of course, We've
- 18:30Speaker 3: got some time with all star rosters. But now you
- 18:31Speaker 3: can vote, so thanks for checking this out comment below
- 18:34Speaker 3: if you're watching it later on. I'm looking at some
- 18:40Speaker 3: responses in here, Michael said, Joe Ryan's gotta be in there.
- 18:44Speaker 4: That's fair for American League.
- 18:50Speaker 3: Who do you I mean, I always play this game
- 18:52Speaker 3: when you when you give this in right, take someone off?
- 18:56Speaker 4: Who are you taking off?
- 18:57Speaker 6: I'm not taking anybody off. I'm putting I'm taking We
- 19:00Speaker 6: should talk about shortstop in the American League. Jeremy Pania.
- 19:04Speaker 6: Jeremy Pania is helping keep the Astros afloat right now
- 19:08Speaker 6: without Jordan Alvarez. He's got better numbers across the board
- 19:12Speaker 6: than Bobby Wit. I get I get it, Bobby WIT's
- 19:15Speaker 6: popularity vote maybe, but Jeremy paeney to deserves to be
- 19:19Speaker 6: the starter over Bobby Witt.
- 19:26Speaker 1: Yeah, Bobby with so I'm one of the sure.
- 19:30Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 19:34Speaker 3: Do you guys only look at the first couple of
- 19:37Speaker 3: months of the season. Also keep in mind, if you're
- 19:39Speaker 3: doing that, you still have a month and a half
- 19:41Speaker 3: despair where Bobby can go nuts and be ahead of Penia.
- 19:45Speaker 3: But do you only look at like for Bobby, he's
- 19:47Speaker 3: not playing poorly, he's playing well, and he was the
- 19:50Speaker 3: second best player in the American League last year.
- 19:53Speaker 4: Does he get some Brownie points for that? In your mind?
- 19:56Speaker 4: For me, he does.
- 19:59Speaker 2: From just a yeah, no, no, you're a good time.
- 20:04Speaker 2: Go ahead.
- 20:05Speaker 5: And that's why I said about Alonzo. I mean you
- 20:07Speaker 5: look at you know, you think about the gold glove
- 20:10Speaker 5: and I and I'm telling you right now people, the
- 20:13Speaker 5: guys that get it always deserve it. But if you
- 20:15Speaker 5: once you win one, it's like, all right, this is
- 20:17Speaker 5: a guy that's already on top of the list. You know,
- 20:20Speaker 5: he has to be have like a catastrophic you know,
- 20:24Speaker 5: year to not get it. And you see usually the
- 20:27Speaker 5: same guy's going over. Bobby Witt is Bobby Witty's top
- 20:30Speaker 5: five player in the Big leagues hitting wise, in my opinion.
- 20:33Speaker 5: So he's already up on the board whether he know,
- 20:36Speaker 5: unless again he falls off, which you know, he can
- 20:39Speaker 5: go average right now and still be the top third
- 20:41Speaker 5: baseman or excuse me, short stime.
- 20:46Speaker 3: I see a couple could tell Marte Hall outs that's fair.
- 20:50Speaker 3: He was what number three or four and MVP last year.
- 20:54Speaker 3: The problem is just missed time for him right now.
- 20:58Speaker 2: He's not front of mind. Scott. You need to check
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- 21:33Speaker 3: Jack Summers on the show right now. Publisher and beat
- 21:36Speaker 3: writer for SI covering the Diamondbacks and one of the
- 21:40Speaker 3: stars of Snakes Territory show.
- 21:41Speaker 4: You should check out.
- 21:42Speaker 3: It's I think the newest one still on the Foul
- 21:45Speaker 3: Territory Network.
- 21:46Speaker 2: Jack.
- 21:46Speaker 3: Great to see you, hope you're having fun with the show.
- 21:49Speaker 3: And are the Diamondbacks.
- 21:51Speaker 7: Okay, great question. That's a good way to put it.
- 21:57Speaker 7: Thanks to have a chance.
- 21:58Speaker 8: I mean they're not out of it, but they went
- 21:59Speaker 8: through a really bad stretch here.
- 22:01Speaker 7: They've had a lot of problems.
- 22:02Speaker 8: I just want to chip in real quick. Cotel Monte
- 22:05Speaker 8: missed four weeks with hamstring injury. He's hit ten homers
- 22:09Speaker 8: since he came off the il May second, and he's
- 22:12Speaker 8: got over one thousand oh ps one seventy nine ops
- 22:15Speaker 8: plus and just a little bit less war than you know,
- 22:19Speaker 8: Donovan or terrang in half as many games. He's still
- 22:24Speaker 8: the best second basement in the league. Just want to
- 22:25Speaker 8: say that that's fair.
- 22:27Speaker 2: He can win.
- 22:28Speaker 6: He can win, he can win July Player, the I
- 22:31Speaker 6: mean May Player of the Month. He's got time yet,
- 22:33Speaker 6: but right now he's not. He's not the All Star.
- 22:36Speaker 6: Doesn't mean he's not the best player, best second baseman
- 22:39Speaker 6: in the league. Nobody, nobody's arguing.
- 22:40Speaker 7: That right I hadn't chip in. Listen, that was a
- 22:44Speaker 7: great conversation you guys were having.
- 22:46Speaker 4: I appreciate it.
- 22:47Speaker 2: I like that.
- 22:48Speaker 3: Hey, Katell obviously has been amazing when he's been on
- 22:51Speaker 3: the field for them, and Corbyn Carl's had a big
- 22:54Speaker 3: bounce back year for the team. The pitching's been a
- 22:58Speaker 3: hot mess. The mess continue with Corbyn Burns put on
- 23:01Speaker 3: the I L So I'll ask it again.
- 23:04Speaker 4: Are the Diamondbacks.
- 23:05Speaker 8: Okay, they're going to have to really pull it something
- 23:10Speaker 8: out of there, you know what to you know, get
- 23:12Speaker 8: over and pass this. Corbyn Burns injury. We don't know
- 23:15Speaker 8: yet if his injury is going to result in surgery
- 23:20Speaker 8: or just a month or two on the Il there
- 23:23Speaker 8: probably will tell us Thursday or Friday. He's getting a
- 23:26Speaker 8: second opinion with doctor Neil la Tresh. And you know,
- 23:30Speaker 8: he said it never felt anything like that before. He
- 23:33Speaker 8: said he felt tightness. He said he didn't feel a pop.
- 23:37Speaker 8: Tory Lavello said that the MRI results were not inconclusive.
- 23:42Speaker 8: I don't know what exactly that means. I guess it
- 23:45Speaker 8: wasn't inconclusive because people were trying to say that some
- 23:49Speaker 8: certain reports came out. So I think in the case
- 23:52Speaker 8: of Corbyn Burns, we're just gonna have to wait and
- 23:54Speaker 8: see my best case scenario as he misses, you know,
- 23:57Speaker 8: a month, I think, because once you're down for a
- 24:00Speaker 8: week or two, as you guys know, then you have
- 24:03Speaker 8: a ramp up period. If he's down for two or
- 24:05Speaker 8: three weeks, then it's six to eight weeks for him
- 24:07Speaker 8: to come back. So they're going to have to bridge
- 24:09Speaker 8: this gap with Ryan Nelson and a Dwarter Rodriguez who's
- 24:13Speaker 8: just coming off the IL. And it's going to be
- 24:15Speaker 8: tough because, as you said, their pitching has been a
- 24:17Speaker 8: hot mess all year. It's certainly not going to be
- 24:20Speaker 8: easy to get better or improve in that area.
- 24:22Speaker 7: With Corbyn Burns going on the injured list.
- 24:25Speaker 6: A name that a lot of non Diamondbacks people don't
- 24:28Speaker 6: know is Brent Strom. Does Brent Strom deserve an apology
- 24:32Speaker 6: because he got blamed for I think the third worst era,
- 24:36Speaker 6: the third most runs given up by a pitching staff
- 24:40Speaker 6: in Major League Baseball and he got fired. Is it
- 24:44Speaker 6: just how this team has been constructed? And maybe not
- 24:47Speaker 6: necessarily the pitching coach who was considered one of the
- 24:50Speaker 6: better pitching coaches and essentially helped them get to the
- 24:52Speaker 6: World Series by the changes that the pitchers made in
- 24:56Speaker 6: that NLCS against the Phillies.
- 25:00Speaker 8: I certainly feel that him being the fall guy was unfair.
- 25:03Speaker 8: It was a roster construction issue. Also, some of the
- 25:07Speaker 8: pitchers that he was working with perhaps were resistant to
- 25:11Speaker 8: what he was saying, and one of those I think
- 25:14Speaker 8: included Zach Gallen, who's struggled even worse this year. On
- 25:17Speaker 8: the new pitching coach, Brian Kaplan. Now, I've never worked
- 25:22Speaker 8: at that level in the major leagues. I've been an
- 25:24Speaker 8: analyst for a team, but it's very different than actually
- 25:28Speaker 8: working with the guys every day and their bullpens and
- 25:30Speaker 8: their game prep. So it's hard for me to evaluate
- 25:33Speaker 8: just how much influence the pitching coaches have. I think
- 25:36Speaker 8: at the end of the day, you need good pitchers
- 25:38Speaker 8: that are figuring things out mostly on their own, with
- 25:41Speaker 8: the guidance of the pitching coaches. But you know, you
- 25:43Speaker 8: guys have probably a better feel for just how much
- 25:47Speaker 8: influence they actually have. Maybe the top flight best in
- 25:50Speaker 8: the business can help fix a few guys. But I
- 25:55Speaker 8: don't think every guy is going to mesh with every coach, right,
- 25:58Speaker 8: So in this case, I think it's really on the players,
- 26:01Speaker 8: not on the coaches. And yes, I think Brent Strom
- 26:04Speaker 8: got kind of a raw deal last year.
- 26:07Speaker 5: Let's stay on this a little bit. Zach Allen really
- 26:10Speaker 5: still a good pitcher. He's been incredible over the years.
- 26:14Speaker 5: Can trade deadline coming up? You know, with all the
- 26:16Speaker 5: problems that are going on, can you see a guy
- 26:18Speaker 5: like that be moved? Merrill Kelly coming up on a
- 26:21Speaker 5: contract year? I mean, can you see a trade with
- 26:24Speaker 5: any of these guys?
- 26:26Speaker 7: Oh, anything's possible. Everything's on the table.
- 26:28Speaker 8: I mean, if the Diamondbacks are sellers, certainly they have
- 26:31Speaker 8: to consider it. Mike Hazen's mo in the past has
- 26:35Speaker 8: been to really let it wait out. He doesn't believe
- 26:38Speaker 8: in trying to force these issues now, and he doesn't
- 26:41Speaker 8: think a lot of the conversations are easy to have
- 26:43Speaker 8: at this stage of the season.
- 26:45Speaker 7: Now. You know, Aj Preller may disagree, right, he pulled.
- 26:48Speaker 8: Off some early stuff last year, But I think that's
- 26:50Speaker 8: the exception, not the rule. You know, if you're talking
- 26:53Speaker 8: about more significant impact moves, generally they're going to happen,
- 26:56Speaker 8: and you know, around the early part of July to
- 26:59Speaker 8: the end of July that's usually.
- 27:01Speaker 7: When it happens.
- 27:02Speaker 8: So they need to see how things shake out for
- 27:04Speaker 8: the next month. The other thing is if they're in
- 27:07Speaker 8: that middle zone where they're still kind of in it
- 27:10Speaker 8: and they're not sellers, but they're not in a strong
- 27:13Speaker 8: enough position to be strong buyers, then maybe the calculus
- 27:16Speaker 8: of well, do I want to weigh the draft pick
- 27:18Speaker 8: value that I get from giving Zach Allen the qualifying
- 27:22Speaker 8: offer and having him sign elsewhere? Is that worth more
- 27:26Speaker 8: than what I can get returned. It just depends really
- 27:29Speaker 8: on the market. Pitching market is probably not real strong
- 27:32Speaker 8: and deep this year, so my guess is that they
- 27:34Speaker 8: could get quite a bit for them. They're just not
- 27:37Speaker 8: quite there yet. With Zach in particular. You know, I
- 27:41Speaker 8: think for me, his issues actually date back to the
- 27:45Speaker 8: second half of twenty three. You know, prior to twenty
- 27:48Speaker 8: twenty two, he was usually three and a half walks
- 27:51Speaker 8: per nine type of guy, and then from twenty two
- 27:54Speaker 8: All Star Break to twenty three All Star Break he
- 27:57Speaker 8: was the best pitcher in baseball. But starting in the
- 28:00Speaker 8: second half of twenty three, his fastball started to get
- 28:03Speaker 8: knocked around a little bit, and subsequently, by August September,
- 28:06Speaker 8: he started to get chased out of the zone a bit,
- 28:09Speaker 8: and that trend has continued. There's been a lot of breakdown,
- 28:13Speaker 8: a lot of analysis on the shape of his fastball
- 28:16Speaker 8: where he's.
- 28:16Speaker 7: Trying to put it.
- 28:17Speaker 8: I think he was getting a lot of swing and
- 28:20Speaker 8: miss and soft contact at the top of the zone
- 28:22Speaker 8: previously with his fastball, and it just doesn't happen anymore.
- 28:25Speaker 7: It gets banged around, and when it.
- 28:27Speaker 8: Does from these eyeballs, he starts nibbling and it gets
- 28:31Speaker 8: kind of tough to watch.
- 28:32Speaker 1: You know.
- 28:33Speaker 8: Once he gets banged around a bit, next thing, you know,
- 28:35Speaker 8: here comes. You know, he goes from one to three
- 28:38Speaker 8: to one, or he just starts, you know, falling behind
- 28:40Speaker 8: on guys quickly and starts issuing walks. He's issued the
- 28:43Speaker 8: most walks of anybody in the National League this year.
- 28:46Speaker 8: So last night he had a good game. He went
- 28:48Speaker 8: twenty one to twenty seven first pitch strikes. He also
- 28:52Speaker 8: had like a seventy three percent strike percentage. But the
- 28:54Speaker 8: Rays were helping him out. They were chasing big time
- 28:58Speaker 8: at pitches, you know, just.
- 28:59Speaker 7: Off or out of the zone.
- 29:00Speaker 8: I don't know why the Braves had such an aggressive
- 29:02Speaker 8: approach against the guy that's been struggling to keep walks
- 29:06Speaker 8: off the board, but that's the way it went last night.
- 29:08Speaker 8: So hopefully that's a turnaround game for him. Dbacks are
- 29:11Speaker 8: certainly going to need it if they're going to stay
- 29:13Speaker 8: in contention.
- 29:15Speaker 2: Let's say it continues to go and they just kind
- 29:17Speaker 2: of are middling.
- 29:18Speaker 6: The death toll for an owner is when you start
- 29:23Speaker 6: spending money and your team doesn't improve. Now last year,
- 29:27Speaker 6: I think they went up by six or seven wins
- 29:30Speaker 6: last year but didn't make the playoffs. If this year
- 29:33Speaker 6: continues the way it goes, I get it. Injuries, Corbyn burns,
- 29:36Speaker 6: all those things. Is there a chance Tory Levello's job
- 29:40Speaker 6: is at stake because I know there's three teams that
- 29:44Speaker 6: would love to have him, and maybe even Baltimore would
- 29:46Speaker 6: love to have him because they actually want to win
- 29:48Speaker 6: and he's not looking to go to a rebuild.
- 29:52Speaker 8: Very difficult to evaluate that in that I mean, first
- 29:55Speaker 8: of all, there is a big, I guess ground swell
- 29:58Speaker 8: coming up from the fan base. A lot of people
- 30:00Speaker 8: are pushing to replace Levello. I don't think personally think
- 30:04Speaker 8: the issues are primarily his fault. They have struggled on
- 30:07Speaker 8: defense this year and focus on defense, and so some
- 30:11Speaker 8: of that can be tied to, you know, the manager
- 30:13Speaker 8: and his coaches keeping the players moving in the right
- 30:16Speaker 8: direction there, but they're still playing hard for him. He's
- 30:19Speaker 8: not lost that clubhouse. These are still primarily you know,
- 30:23Speaker 8: run prevention issues and pitching issues, and he doesn't choose
- 30:26Speaker 8: the pitchers they get. He and Mike Cayson are very close.
- 30:31Speaker 8: And Mike Casen went on air and took full responsibility
- 30:35Speaker 8: for the issues with the bullpen and the bullpen construction
- 30:38Speaker 8: and even defended Tori's you know, selection and usage of
- 30:44Speaker 8: his bullpen, and he put the onus on himself the
- 30:46Speaker 8: general manager, for not giving him the right tools or
- 30:49Speaker 8: enough depth to withstand a couple of injuries. So will
- 30:54Speaker 8: the owner I mean goes back to the owner. Will
- 30:55Speaker 8: the owner lose patience. In the past, Ken Kendrick has
- 30:58Speaker 8: had a quick trigger, but in the last you know,
- 31:02Speaker 8: nine years, he's been very patient. He's really changed in
- 31:05Speaker 8: that regard. I would be surprised if Tory Leavello was
- 31:09Speaker 8: let go at.
- 31:11Speaker 7: The end of this year in season or at the
- 31:13Speaker 7: end of this year.
- 31:14Speaker 8: Now, if that carried over again into twenty twenty six
- 31:17Speaker 8: and they got off to a slow start in his
- 31:20Speaker 8: you know, lame duck year because he signed to the
- 31:22Speaker 8: end of twenty six, then that's a different story. But
- 31:25Speaker 8: my guess, if I was a betting man, I would
- 31:27Speaker 8: say that he survives the season and into twenty six.
- 31:30Speaker 2: All Right, who wins an MVP? First, Corbyn Carroll or
- 31:36Speaker 2: ca Tell Marte.
- 31:41Speaker 7: I'm going to go with Corbyn Carroll.
- 31:43Speaker 6: Because he's made the changes, or because he stays healthy.
- 31:48Speaker 7: I think because he stays healthy.
- 31:50Speaker 2: There.
- 31:50Speaker 8: You know, Catel's had these hamstring issues before, even though
- 31:54Speaker 8: the team gave him a pretty big extension, I think
- 31:56Speaker 8: eventually he's going to have to be moved off second base.
- 32:00Speaker 8: Whether that's into a dh Roll or first base, I'm
- 32:02Speaker 8: not really sure, but I think that durability is going
- 32:07Speaker 8: to be an impediment for Katel to be able to
- 32:09Speaker 8: win an MVP. I mean, you got to play one
- 32:10Speaker 8: hundred and fifty games generally, unless you just put up
- 32:12Speaker 8: such crazy numbers in less than that. So I think
- 32:15Speaker 8: that Corbyn Carroll has a better chance to do that
- 32:17Speaker 8: and stay healthy.
- 32:19Speaker 3: Corbyn Carrol's much younger too, so he's got more years
- 32:23Speaker 3: to try and rack up an MVP. Marte's gotten closer though, right,
- 32:29Speaker 3: or what was Carol came in third year?
- 32:32Speaker 2: Came in third, top three twice? Right?
- 32:34Speaker 7: Yeah he was.
- 32:35Speaker 8: I think it was top five in nineteen and third
- 32:38Speaker 8: last year?
- 32:39Speaker 4: Okay, what was Carol his rookie year? Did he get
- 32:42Speaker 4: placed high?
- 32:42Speaker 8: Or now I'd have to double check. I do you
- 32:45Speaker 8: not remember? Off the top of my head.
- 32:48Speaker 4: I like to pop quiz people. Jack, you're the best.
- 32:50Speaker 4: Thank you so much. That was great.
- 32:52Speaker 3: Make sure everyone want to check out Snake's territory. He
- 32:55Speaker 3: was fifth his rookie year. Yeah, there you go.
- 32:58Speaker 4: Hey, look at the nice graphics on this show.
- 33:00Speaker 3: Thank you, appreciate you, Jack, And on your way out here,
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