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New York Yankees April Recap W/ Barstool's Eric Hubbs · Yankees Pod

0:23
SPEAKER_00: Alright, we are back on Yankees Pod.
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SPEAKER_00: We have a very, very special guest today.
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SPEAKER_00: Co-editor in chief at Barstool Sports.
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SPEAKER_00: The pulse of the Yankees at Barstool Sports.
0:36
SPEAKER_00: Eric Hubs.
0:37
SPEAKER_00: Hubs, thanks for coming on, man.
0:39
SPEAKER_01: What's going on?
0:40
SPEAKER_01: Happy to be here.
0:41
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
0:42
SPEAKER_00: Um, gotta start a little solemn.
0:45
SPEAKER_00: We gotta talk about John Sterling passes away on Monday.
0:49
SPEAKER_00: 34 years doing the Yankees, over 5,000 games.
0:54
SPEAKER_00: Um, just an absolute legend.
0:56
SPEAKER_00: Um, and I actually saw that you were able to interview him.
1:00
SPEAKER_00: So uh, what was that moment like for you and what did he mean to you?
1:04
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, uh well, uh John was a legend.
1:07
SPEAKER_01: Um he I I I've said this a few times, but um, and I think a lot of people will echo it.
1:12
SPEAKER_01: Like he was a big part of a lot of childhoods, including mine.
1:16
SPEAKER_01: Like going to and from baseball games, long trips in the car with the family.
1:20
SPEAKER_01: If they happened to fall in the Yankee game, we had John tell us what's going on with the Yankees, John and Susan.
1:26
SPEAKER_01: So um, you know, it was uh you know, his voice and you know, the the the homers, the the nicknames, the big moments, the championships, the failures, the honest mistakes he'd make.
1:38
SPEAKER_01: It was all part of the beautiful charm.
1:40
SPEAKER_01: Um and I will I you know I I've missed him since he's retired, of course.
1:44
SPEAKER_01: Um I'm happy that at least they made a world you know, a run to the World Series in his final year where he came back.
1:50
SPEAKER_01: But um yeah, and I got the privilege of interviewing him twice.
1:54
SPEAKER_01: We went down to spring trading, the first time being uh Tommy Smokes just had his number back from the Fordham days.
2:00
SPEAKER_01: We were kind of a few interviews had fallen through, and we were like, let's just call him, what's the worst that can happen?
2:05
SPEAKER_01: And we gave him a call, he picked up right away, and he really didn't know what we were asking about.
2:10
SPEAKER_01: Um and he was like, Yeah, sure, come on by, we'll have a conference, we'll have a talk.
2:14
SPEAKER_01: And uh it was it was so awesome.
2:17
SPEAKER_01: We didn't really know what we were getting into.
2:19
SPEAKER_01: We were sitting in the hotel lobby, all of a sudden he appears in a towel from the pool, he greets us, he goes, I'll be right back.
2:24
SPEAKER_01: Uh in his you know, obviously his vintage voice.
2:27
SPEAKER_01: Uh, and he came back and he sat down, and we could have probably talked for 10 hours.
2:31
SPEAKER_01: Um, he was so happy to just talk talk baseball, talk Yankees, anything.
2:36
SPEAKER_01: Um and he was a joy.
2:38
SPEAKER_01: The stories, they could go on and on.
2:39
SPEAKER_01: Um we did that twice, and he couldn't be.
2:43
SPEAKER_01: It was, you know, they never say they say like never meet your heroes, but um that was a good instance where it was a good time to meet him.
2:49
SPEAKER_01: Uh he he was an absolute joy.
2:51
SPEAKER_01: Um and I he actually he was so good that we ended up using um a clip of his for the outro of our podcast for a while to end the show.
3:00
SPEAKER_01: Um and he actually gave us like I wish I every now and then I wish I I could go back if I really need like a pick-me-up, but his because I don't think I could find the episode anymore, but he basically like compliment us on the interview, was like, I didn't know what I was getting into, but that was that was great.
3:15
SPEAKER_01: You guys were so good on your stuff.
3:16
SPEAKER_01: I was like, holy crap, John Sterling is just like giving us this great compliment.
3:20
SPEAKER_01: That's awesome.
3:20
SPEAKER_01: So um, yeah, uh he meant a lot to me, no doubt, and um was a big part of my Yankee fandom, obviously, growing up.
3:29
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean, I think my favorite call was the Burn Baby Burn.
3:34
SPEAKER_00: I mean, you had A uh an A-bomb from A-Rot.
3:37
SPEAKER_00: I don't know, what was your favorite one?
3:38
SPEAKER_01: I'm a Matsui guy, so I like Thriller from Godzilla, um, especially in a big moment.
3:44
SPEAKER_01: So I was a sucker for that.
3:45
SPEAKER_01: Uh that was my personal favorite.
3:47
SPEAKER_01: But burn burn burn baby burn is great, especially the um the Homer and the uh and the ALCS against the Orioles uh is so good.
3:55
SPEAKER_01: Um you know, there were so many clips poured on the internet of of his calls over the years.
4:00
SPEAKER_01: Uh it was he was the best, man.
4:02
SPEAKER_01: He was the best.
4:03
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
4:03
SPEAKER_00: Speaking of the Orioles, we just swept them.
4:06
SPEAKER_00: The Yankees have won 15 of 17.
4:11
SPEAKER_00: It feels like they're moving differently this year.
4:15
SPEAKER_00: I don't want, you know, I don't fingers crossed, obviously.
4:17
SPEAKER_00: It's only May, but it just feels a little different.
4:20
SPEAKER_00: Am I right?
4:21
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, uh, I'm waiting for the other shoe to fall.
4:24
SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, in a way, and you know, you look at other cities just burning on fire, Boston, the crosstown Mets, Houston, everyone's got their problems, and maybe the like everyone's having nightmare seasons.
4:35
SPEAKER_01: The Yankees are kind of having the exact opposite.
4:37
SPEAKER_01: Uh it's beautiful.
4:39
SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, the the players that are excelling, the young guys stepping up, uh, the pitching that's held together, the lack of injuries most for the most part, like you know, stands on his usual I.
4:49
SPEAKER_01: L stint there, you know, come back in August or whenever.
4:52
SPEAKER_01: It's not going to take till August.
4:53
SPEAKER_01: But like, you know, just be ready to go for the stretch run in the playoffs.
4:55
SPEAKER_01: Ben Rice has his little hand thing going on, but it's nothing too serious.
4:58
SPEAKER_01: I I don't hope I I I uh I hope so.
5:01
SPEAKER_01: Um But so like yeah, everything's kind of just you know, people are like, oh, Aaron Judge is struggling.
5:06
SPEAKER_01: Well, he's got a mid-1000s OPS.
5:09
SPEAKER_01: So it'll be okay.
5:10
SPEAKER_01: Uh so it it's it it's weird.
5:13
SPEAKER_01: It definitely is a weird feeling, especially this run here of winning 15 to 17.
5:17
SPEAKER_01: Like you said, it's like, you know, they they've got that old feel them.
5:21
SPEAKER_01: It's like even if they go down a few runs, like last night I was in the building and they're done, they go down 3-0 to deGrom, and it's like, you know, in years past, you lay down your sword, that's the game, but they just they fought right back.
5:30
SPEAKER_01: They were right back in it.
5:31
SPEAKER_01: Um so it's it's it's it's very fun.
5:34
SPEAKER_01: It's a good brand of baseball to watch.
5:35
SPEAKER_01: Clutch hitting, extending leads late, and not letting it up for the bulk and the blow.
5:40
SPEAKER_01: Um, so there's really no complaints I can have.
5:43
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and especially like I even want to ask you about the Anthony Volpe move.
5:47
SPEAKER_00: Like, it feels like last year or the year before that, they probably Anthony Volpe would probably be at shortstop right now.
5:54
SPEAKER_00: Um was that surprising to you at all?
5:58
SPEAKER_01: Um at the start of the year, if you told me, hey, what do you think is gonna happen when he comes off the IL, I'd absolutely say, like, yeah, they're gonna play him at short.
6:06
SPEAKER_01: Um, but credit to your organization for finally just like crediting somebody for working their tail off in Jose Caballero and being a great fit for the bomb of this order and being a great defensive shortstop.
6:16
SPEAKER_01: And and that's really a big part of it.
6:18
SPEAKER_01: And just a really smart baseball player who has great instincts for the most part and is a great base runner, and just plays winning baseball.
6:26
SPEAKER_01: His OPS will never you know be something that's gonna amaze people, and neither will his hard-hit metrics, but he brings value in a lot of other places.
6:34
SPEAKER_01: And Anthony Volpe, we kind of just know what he is at this point, and it's an inconsistent defender who leaves you wanting more, and he's a hitter who will drive you nuts with his streaky hitting up and down, and it's mostly down.
6:47
SPEAKER_01: You'll have two really good weeks where you're like, he figured it out, look at this new batting stance, followed by like six weeks of like he just is nowhere close to the ball and is guessing before the pitch is thrown, and it's a mess.
6:58
SPEAKER_01: So uh I I think I actually saw today that he forgot how many outs there were running the bases.
7:03
SPEAKER_01: Um on a Spencer Jones double that he thought there were, he didn't think there were two outs, so he wasn't running hard and he didn't score on a double.
7:11
SPEAKER_01: So it's like that type of stuff.
7:12
SPEAKER_01: It's like, dude, you're down in the minors right now, kind of at a low point in your career, at least since you've come up, and you're not locked in still.
7:21
SPEAKER_01: Like that tells me all I need to know right now.
7:24
SPEAKER_01: So um he's gotta prove it, and listen, I think he will be back up at some point.
7:28
SPEAKER_01: It's just how things work.
7:29
SPEAKER_01: It's May 6th, injuries happen, all sorts of things.
7:32
SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, baseball's impossible to predict.
7:34
SPEAKER_01: Um, but he's got to earn his spot up here, and there's another guy gonna be playing right next to him, all over the field, and in in George Lombard, who George Lombard Jr.
7:44
SPEAKER_01: who's doing what Volpe should be doing, is playing his tail off and giving them every reason to promote him.
7:50
SPEAKER_01: And if that continues for another month and a half, two months, you're gonna see George here and not Volpe.
7:55
SPEAKER_01: So uh that's just that's just how it goes.
7:57
SPEAKER_01: And the same thing with Dominguez, right?
7:59
SPEAKER_01: Gritchik, um, and that was uh you know, that was a really exciting thing was Gritchuk, we know what Randall Gritchuk is at this point, and he doesn't really give you much of a ceiling, but Dominguez does obviously from both hitting from both sides of the plate.
8:11
SPEAKER_01: The defense obviously is lacking, they're trying not to put him on the outfield, but his bat has way higher of a ceiling than Gritchuk's.
8:19
SPEAKER_01: And Jason Dominguez worked his butt off in the minor leagues this year to give them a reason to promote him, and guess what?
8:25
SPEAKER_01: They rewarded him with it.
8:26
SPEAKER_01: This is all what kind of the fan base has been asking for them for years.
8:30
SPEAKER_01: For for you know, years past, they would simply look at how much is a guy getting paid?
8:34
SPEAKER_01: Well, he's gotta play.
8:35
SPEAKER_01: Um, how much stock do we put into a guy to start?
8:38
SPEAKER_01: And you know, we don't want to admit our wrong, so he's gotta play.
8:41
SPEAKER_01: Doesn't seem like they're doing that anymore, which is like that's all we want.
8:45
SPEAKER_01: Just be serious about this team and and and you know, be aggressive, and that is what they're doing.
8:49
SPEAKER_01: Same with Louis Heel.
8:51
SPEAKER_01: Um, they could have easily stuck him in the rotation for another two or three starts and not called up uh called up uh Elma Rodriguez Cruz uh until Rodan came off the I.
9:02
SPEAKER_01: L.
9:02
SPEAKER_01: Instead, they did.
9:03
SPEAKER_01: They they sent heel, they sent heel down there.
9:05
SPEAKER_01: Like, you're not an MLB pitcher right now, and we're not just gonna waste a start every fifth day when we can have ERC get a taste of this right now, and maybe even showcase him if we're gonna trade him in July or you know, move him to the bullpen.
9:16
SPEAKER_01: Which getting, you know, hey, here's what it's like.
9:18
SPEAKER_01: You deserve this because you've been pitching your butt off for the last three years here in the minor league.
9:22
SPEAKER_01: So I just like the rewarding good performances and not just handing things to people.
9:28
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
9:29
SPEAKER_00: I mean, perfect.
9:30
SPEAKER_00: Makes perfect sense.
9:31
SPEAKER_00: The the one only move that I've disagreed with all season long is when they were benching Ben Rice.
9:39
SPEAKER_00: Um, when they benched him two days in a row, and listen, I might know the first base coach really well now.
9:46
SPEAKER_00: I was a high school buddy of mine, so I've been trying to be good on Boone.
9:50
SPEAKER_00: And I just went crazy when they when they benched him two days in a row, uh, Ben Rice, because I was like, he can hit a lefty, he can hit a righty, can hit, he can hit anybody.
10:00
SPEAKER_00: But other than that, they've been making the right mood.
10:02
SPEAKER_00: So kudos to them.
10:03
SPEAKER_00: Uh kudos to them.
10:04
SPEAKER_00: Hopefully the June swoon doesn't come, but we'll we'll hold our breath.
10:10
SPEAKER_00: Uh, because I know uh you're a very realistic fan.
10:13
SPEAKER_00: You call it how you see it, and I I I just feel like it's got the shoes gotta drop at some point.
10:19
SPEAKER_00: We're not gonna be sitting with our tans uh in like in July.
10:24
SPEAKER_00: I there's just no way.
10:25
SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's baseball, so let's just get to the next question because I can go on about it.
10:30
SPEAKER_00: No, no, no, no.
10:31
SPEAKER_01: I I agree with what you're saying too.
10:32
SPEAKER_01: And this uh to me, the starting pitching, like in the depth of it and the quality of it really gives me hope that the June swoon won't you know destroy this team.
10:40
SPEAKER_01: And at least they're winning the games now, so you can maybe falter.
10:43
SPEAKER_01: You know, it's a baseball season, you're gonna go through lulls.
10:45
SPEAKER_01: They've already gone through one.
10:46
SPEAKER_01: It was really short, thank God.
10:47
SPEAKER_01: Um, but I have some faith here that that June swoon's not gonna happen.
10:52
SPEAKER_01: So Okay, love that.
10:53
SPEAKER_00: Love that.
10:54
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and so like Cole's gonna come, Cole's gonna come back, Rodon's gonna come back, Elmer's not gonna be there, yeah, and then Ryan Weathers probably will go to the bullpen.
11:04
SPEAKER_00: What do you think about that?
11:05
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, if all holds health-wise with everybody.
11:08
SPEAKER_01: Um, I would think the move would be, yeah, obviously, Elmer went down uh last night or today, I forget when they officially made the move, but um he his future for 2026 barring injuries is a bullpen piece, which is a good one too.
11:22
SPEAKER_01: Uh, of course.
11:23
SPEAKER_01: Um he's got nasty stuff.
11:25
SPEAKER_01: And then yeah, Weathers, I think, is the move.
11:27
SPEAKER_01: Uh Curry kind of alluded to it um uh like last week.
11:30
SPEAKER_01: Um that yeah, uh, you know, it's it's nice to have I love Tim Hill.
11:35
SPEAKER_01: He's been super effective, and he will continue to be super effective, but he doesn't have that velocity and the strikeout stuff that Weathers has.
11:42
SPEAKER_01: So having that type of lefty arm and the pen that can throw 100 with you know some some a lot of swing and miss there, that's very effective to have in your bullpen.
11:50
SPEAKER_01: Um and I I'm not messing with Will Warren right now.
11:53
SPEAKER_01: Like this is kind of the guy we everyone kind of hoped when you see what he brings with his arsenal.
11:58
SPEAKER_01: You're kind of seeing just Michael King at this point.
12:00
SPEAKER_01: So um I wouldn't I don't I don't think they're gonna mess with him, and I would not mess with him.
12:05
SPEAKER_01: So my five would be obviously Schlitter, Fried, Cole, Rodan, and Warren.
12:11
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and uh shout out to Paul who asked this.
12:14
SPEAKER_00: He said, like, if October were today, you're the manager, how do you how do you do you do who who do you put game one, two, and three?
12:24
SPEAKER_00: If if Cole's fully healthy, what what would you do?
12:27
SPEAKER_00: I don't think there's really a wrong answer.
12:29
SPEAKER_00: It's like an impossible question, but what would you do?
12:32
SPEAKER_01: So the thing with Cole is fully healthy, I hope to God he is.
12:36
SPEAKER_01: We got a temporary expectations with him.
12:38
SPEAKER_01: Guys coming back from Tommy John, those first few months are are are scary.
12:42
SPEAKER_01: Um like San remember um oh wait, what's that say?
12:46
SPEAKER_01: Oh, okay.
12:47
SPEAKER_01: Ben Rice will not have to go on the I.
12:48
SPEAKER_01: L.
12:48
SPEAKER_01: That's what Aaron Boone just said.
12:50
SPEAKER_01: Um breaking.
12:51
SPEAKER_01: I didn't see the word not, and I got very very alarmed there because I think he's fine.
12:56
SPEAKER_01: Um no, so like Sandy Alcantara um came off the IL and looked like a complete shell of himself.
13:01
SPEAKER_01: Like it takes time coming back from this surgery.
13:04
SPEAKER_01: It usually takes about six months.
13:06
SPEAKER_01: So as as upsetting as that kind of sounds, I don't think anyone should expect Garrett Cole to look like Garrett Cole until the start of the 2027 season, which who knows when that will actually be.
13:16
SPEAKER_01: But um, but can we get 80% of Cole?
13:20
SPEAKER_01: I think so.
13:20
SPEAKER_01: I don't think that's uh he's a pretty smart pitcher.
13:23
SPEAKER_01: I uh you know he's he's learning that he's trying to figure this out.
13:25
SPEAKER_01: They're trying not to rush him back because they I think they want to be right with with the time they're promoting him.
13:30
SPEAKER_01: But um he's not starting game one.
13:32
SPEAKER_01: Uh it's it's Cam Schlitter uh 100% is starting game one.
13:36
SPEAKER_01: And um depending how Cole looks, um, you know, that you know, assuming you're hosting that series, you know, whether you want to go Cole at home or Cole on the road, you know, that will depend where you throw Freed.
13:48
SPEAKER_01: I I think right now I would I the plan would be um Schlitter uh Freed Cole and then either Rodon or Warren for that fourth spot, you know, however that goes the rest of the year.
14:00
SPEAKER_01: But for me, Cam's getting the ball game one, and it's not it's really not even a question.
14:05
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I asked a few people, three, I got three different answers.
14:08
SPEAKER_00: So I get it's a good problem to have.
14:10
SPEAKER_00: It's a good problem.
14:11
SPEAKER_00: But you're absolutely right about Barrett Cole.
14:13
SPEAKER_00: Like, if we can get four innings out of him in October, like Yeah, so that's that's that's I meant to bring this up when you asked for the rotation.
14:21
SPEAKER_01: Weathers is 100% gonna be piggybacking Cole to start when he comes back here because Cole is only gonna go about four to five innings for like about a month or so here.
14:31
SPEAKER_01: Because one, he's not gonna be built up, it's gonna be a slow process, gonna be very delicate with him because he's not young.
14:36
SPEAKER_01: He's not old, old, but he's 34, so yeah, they gotta be careful.
14:39
SPEAKER_01: Or yeah, I think he's 34.
14:41
SPEAKER_01: So um they gotta be careful with him.
14:43
SPEAKER_01: So um I think weathers will be like a two to three inning guy following Cole when uh his day is is coming up.
14:51
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, absolutely.
14:51
SPEAKER_01: And that's purposefully.
14:52
SPEAKER_01: And that could easily continue into October as well, or you know, be until Cole looks the part.
15:00
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and it and honestly, it's kind of like what the Red Sox had in 2018.
15:04
SPEAKER_00: Wait, like when you have so many starters that you like, you just take them out of the bullpen.
15:08
SPEAKER_00: Like they they have an arsenal, it's great.
15:10
SPEAKER_00: And like even Luis Heel, people want him traded.
15:13
SPEAKER_00: It's like, let's just see, let's just see what we got.
15:16
SPEAKER_00: The only real issue we have right now is third base.
15:20
SPEAKER_00: Like Ryan McMahon.
15:21
SPEAKER_00: I mean, he's doing all he's doing all right.
15:23
SPEAKER_01: He has picked it up, he yeah, he's picked it up in the last like 10 games.
15:27
SPEAKER_01: So to at least be a serviceable bat.
15:29
SPEAKER_01: You know, it's not gonna be.
15:31
SPEAKER_01: I don't think he's gonna be the third baseman in the second half and into October.
15:34
SPEAKER_01: I think that's gonna be Lombard, but um, you know, is assuming he continues on this trajectory.
15:40
SPEAKER_01: Um, but McMahon for now, sure.
15:43
SPEAKER_01: I'm I'm I'm okay with it.
15:45
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, if you're you're right though.
15:46
SPEAKER_01: If you poke holes anywhere, it'd probably be the bullpen and it would be McMahon.
15:50
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
15:51
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, absolutely.
15:52
SPEAKER_00: Um the talk of the town last night coming into today was Brent Hedrick.
15:58
SPEAKER_00: 19 appearances, 1.47 ERA, stranded all 13 runners he's inherited.
16:05
SPEAKER_00: Just talk about him for a minute and uh what he's meant to this bullpen who really doesn't have a lot of star power.
16:12
SPEAKER_01: Right.
16:12
SPEAKER_01: And you know, and I I you know we mentioned uh Tim Hill and you know Ryan Weathers, and you you know, Hedrick is obviously really kind of proven himself here to be very trustworthy when he comes in the games.
16:23
SPEAKER_01: You just mentioned all those stats, and um, you know, i i he he just looks the part.
16:28
SPEAKER_01: He kind of you know, he's a big fella too.
16:30
SPEAKER_01: I mean, this is uh you know, he's big stature, 6'6 guy.
16:35
SPEAKER_01: But how can you complain with with Brent Hendrick right now?
16:38
SPEAKER_01: You know, it's uh if they needed guys to step up, um you know, when you at least to start the season with how dreadful the bullpen looked, and it's like how do we bridge the game to Bednar and is is is you know, can you Cruz can have his off days, you're gonna have other guys.
16:54
SPEAKER_01: Hedrick's right up the top of my totem pole of uh you know, trust tree and all that.
16:58
SPEAKER_01: So uh I he's been a pleasant surprise, and he ain't going anywhere.
17:01
SPEAKER_00: That's what I was gonna ask you.
17:03
SPEAKER_00: The next question trust tree, give me your trust tree.
17:06
SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, obviously Bednar, Bird, Blackburn, Cruz, Doval, Hedrick.
17:12
SPEAKER_00: I mean, Doval gives me nightmares.
17:14
SPEAKER_00: Hedrick, Hill, and Yarborough.
17:16
SPEAKER_00: I mean, you could just give me your top five, you don't have to really go into it.
17:19
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
17:20
SPEAKER_01: Um, so Bednar obviously won.
17:22
SPEAKER_01: I'd still go, I'd go Tim Hill too.
17:25
SPEAKER_01: Tim Hill just, I mean, he wasn't great last night, but there's really no doubt they ever really, you know, question Tim Hill.
17:31
SPEAKER_01: Then probably Cruz, Hedrick is a 3A 3B type of deal right now.
17:37
SPEAKER_01: And after that, it gets pretty dicey because I'm with you on Duvall.
17:42
SPEAKER_01: Like, he he can throw you seven straight hundred mile an hour cutters, and you're like, what the hell is that?
17:48
SPEAKER_01: And then he throws you a hanging slider and all of a sudden he gives up a run.
17:51
SPEAKER_01: Seems like kind of what he does all the time.
17:53
SPEAKER_01: So, yeah, Duvall would probably be in the fourth spot, and then after that, it's you know, soft.
17:59
SPEAKER_01: You know, you got two long men in Blackburn and Yarbrough.
18:02
SPEAKER_01: Yuri De Los Santos got called today, Jake Burr, I'll never trust.
18:06
SPEAKER_01: Um, I I I do want the I want to see what Giovanni Cruz has to you know offer when you know he gets the call.
18:13
SPEAKER_01: He's he's booked the part in the minor leagues and is definitely worthy of promotion sooner rather than later.
18:18
SPEAKER_01: So um the bullpen is incomplete at the moment, and it you know, it will be uh filled out with guys like ERC or Le Grange or Weathers um you know getting or Cruz getting into the mix uh and um you know really fortifying it.
18:33
SPEAKER_01: Right now it's thankfully the offense is putting away teams that we really haven't had to worry too much about late inning games.
18:40
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I asked Jabba last week about Carlos Le Grange, or how do you pronounce it?
18:45
SPEAKER_00: Lagrange?
18:47
SPEAKER_00: That's it.
18:47
SPEAKER_01: No, you got Le Grange, yeah.
18:49
SPEAKER_00: Le Grange, yeah.
18:50
SPEAKER_00: I was asking Jabba about it, because I'm like, Jabba, like the rotation looks great.
18:55
SPEAKER_00: We might need another bullpen arm.
18:57
SPEAKER_00: Um, like how would you, because he, I mean, he he was the perfect person to ask, how would you do it?
19:04
SPEAKER_00: And he said to me, like, you can bring him up and make him a bullpen arm, but as long as he knows his specific role for 2027 and talks to his agent about 2027, yeah, like because you could we could use, I mean, God, there's 102.
19:20
SPEAKER_00: Having him in like a pinch in the postseason might be something crazy, crazy good.
19:26
SPEAKER_00: And obviously, you don't want to start the season, you know, with a guy who's gonna be a starter eventually going out of the bullpen, but like I think it might be a decent move to have him like in September, just like, all right, we're gonna dial it back a little bit.
19:43
SPEAKER_00: We're you're gonna throw 20 times as hard as you possibly can.
19:47
SPEAKER_00: Um, because like just because the bullpen is our Achilles heel this season, I don't know what your thoughts on are uh on our uh on that, but um Yeah, no, I think that's definitely that's definitely gonna be the move unless he's traded for a bigger piece.
20:02
SPEAKER_01: Um and they may wait to call him up um to not like maybe ruin the shine, so to speak, on him if he comes up and he's walking some guys and he doesn't look the part in the bullpen and his trade value goes down.
20:17
SPEAKER_01: I'm not saying they're gonna trade him, but they may wait just uh just in case something comes across their their desk.
20:22
SPEAKER_01: Um but yeah, that's a guy who's destined for the bullpen for this year.
20:25
SPEAKER_01: Afterwards, I have no clue.
20:26
SPEAKER_01: Um and you know, uh Jabba obviously knows how you can get you know messed around there a little bit being a starter, reliever, starter, reliever.
20:34
SPEAKER_01: So you got you gotta be careful there.
20:35
SPEAKER_01: Um but his stuff plays so good out of like, yeah, imagine him coming in the seventh inning of a playoff game and you know he's got his control under him.
20:43
SPEAKER_01: Like that's a that's an absolute nightmare.
20:45
SPEAKER_01: And they've been really good at developing these arms over the years, Cam Schliller, ERC, and him.
20:51
SPEAKER_01: The guy we're not even talking about is Clark Schmidt's gonna be a guy in the second half.
20:54
SPEAKER_01: He'll be a probably in the back end of that bullpen or something, or a two-in, a one-in-two-inning guy, you know, a bulk guy or something.
21:00
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
21:01
SPEAKER_01: But there's a lot of depth here, and there's a lot of depth coming.
21:05
SPEAKER_01: There's more more depth coming from the minor leagues.
21:08
SPEAKER_01: And it really just like, I don't know.
21:10
SPEAKER_01: There's been prior years where we were throwing Marcus Strowman and Carlos Carrasco's starts, and it's it's just not the case right now.
21:17
SPEAKER_01: They've kind of it's all, it's just a perfect storm of depth and quality that they have, and it's very refreshing.
21:24
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, embarrassment of riches.
21:26
SPEAKER_00: And I was I mean, you've been answering every question before I got to it, but do we know like the timetable for Schmidt at all?
21:32
SPEAKER_01: The only thing I kind of know is second half, right?
21:35
SPEAKER_01: So August and August.
21:36
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
21:37
SPEAKER_00: Okay, cool, cool.
21:37
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but I think a couple more questions.
21:39
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
21:40
SPEAKER_00: Go.
21:41
SPEAKER_00: Sorry.
21:41
SPEAKER_00: Couple more questions, and I'll get you out of here.
21:43
SPEAKER_00: I didn't mean to cut you off on the Clark Smith stuff.
21:46
SPEAKER_00: Um, you're fine.
21:47
SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, so uh what do you think about the ADS system so far?
21:52
SPEAKER_01: I like it a lot.
21:53
SPEAKER_01: Um, Judge has got to learn how to challenge more because it's that was kind of the hope, is when that became a thing.
21:59
SPEAKER_01: It's like, well, now Aaron Judge is gonna become even better of a hitter.
22:03
SPEAKER_01: He's a little gun gun shy on uh on the challenges, and Jazz obviously is very bad at them.
22:09
SPEAKER_01: He did one win one, I think, last week or whatever.
22:11
SPEAKER_01: But you know, Cabero's been pretty good.
22:13
SPEAKER_01: Ben Rice has no idea what he's doing.
22:15
SPEAKER_01: Um I think Trent's been solid.
22:17
SPEAKER_01: I I like it in general.
22:19
SPEAKER_01: I was pushing for it.
22:20
SPEAKER_01: I was tired of umpires just ruining the game.
22:22
SPEAKER_01: I think it helps keep them in check and hopefully make them better in the future, so we don't need to use as many challenges.
22:27
SPEAKER_01: But um, I have really no problem with it.
22:30
SPEAKER_01: It's pretty fast.
22:31
SPEAKER_01: Um, it doesn't slow down the game whatsoever.
22:34
SPEAKER_01: Um so yeah, there's no complaints from me.
22:36
SPEAKER_01: I think it's I think it makes the game better.
22:38
SPEAKER_01: Perfect.
22:39
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um I'm a big Barstool fan.
22:42
SPEAKER_00: Like, I consume a lot of the content.
22:44
SPEAKER_00: Uh and somebody asked me to ask this question which current Yankee would thrive the most in Barstool content?
22:54
SPEAKER_01: Would thri I mean Jazz is by far the best personality, so uh I think that's an easy one.
23:00
SPEAKER_01: Um in terms, like, you know, Judge, I love him to death.
23:03
SPEAKER_01: Not exactly the most like, you know, charismatic guy in the world.
23:07
SPEAKER_01: Um so at least from the offensive side, uh you know, Ascara has been funny from when I seen him, so I feel like Oscar would be pretty solid.
23:16
SPEAKER_01: Um pitching wise, everyone's pretty much to their own, I feel like, on the root rotation, uh in the starting rotation.
23:24
SPEAKER_01: I I I think the answer easily is jazz.
23:27
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
23:28
SPEAKER_00: No, I think that's the perfect, perfect answer.
23:31
SPEAKER_00: Um what is it like in October when you're in that gambling cave, and you know there's 30,000 people watching you, and like you're probably not even focused on that.
23:43
SPEAKER_00: You're focused on the game, but it's gotta feel different, right?
23:46
SPEAKER_00: It feels it's gotta feel different.
23:48
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, hey, the it's not exactly something I want to be doing.
23:52
SPEAKER_01: I'd much rather just be probably watching on my couch or like at the game.
23:56
SPEAKER_01: Um but you know, that is uh if that's the you know the the the tough part of this job, I could be having a lot worse time in another job.
24:05
SPEAKER_01: So you you know, you kind of it's it's part of the gig.
24:07
SPEAKER_01: Um and at this point, like you don't even know you're live anymore because we've been doing it so many times, like it doesn't bother you at any any point.
24:14
SPEAKER_01: Um you know, you just want to f finally win a World Series doing it.
24:18
SPEAKER_01: So uh but you know, I'm in there with Tommy and Marty and and the rest of the guys, and yeah, we have a good time about it.
24:25
SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, we'll get a drink after or something, and yeah, it's you just gotta know you can't make any trips in October, obviously.
24:31
SPEAKER_01: You gotta you gotta tell the wife earlier September or November, you know, not October.
24:36
SPEAKER_01: October, we gotta keep the whole month clean.
24:39
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, absolutely.
24:40
SPEAKER_00: And as long as you don't have uh Meek Phil badgering you too much in that thing.
24:45
SPEAKER_00: Because he's the talk of the town right now.
24:47
SPEAKER_00: He really is the talk of the town.
24:49
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yes, he is.
24:50
SPEAKER_01: Well, can't wait to see him tomorrow.
24:51
SPEAKER_01: Can't wait to see him in the office.
24:53
SPEAKER_00: All right, we'll end it there.
24:55
SPEAKER_00: Hubs, really appreciate you taking the time.
24:58
SPEAKER_00: Um just a nice chat because the Yankees are doing so well.
25:02
SPEAKER_00: So really again, appreciate you coming on.
25:05
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I've been losing a lot less hair lately, so that's nice.
25:08
SPEAKER_01: Um, Jimmy, thank you so much.
25:09
SPEAKER_01: Appreciate you, man.
25:11
SPEAKER_01: Appreciate you.