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MLB power rankings + Ken Rosenthal on Anthony’s debut, Sacto field issues, Padres & Giants ballin’ · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Can you win with the three of them? Well, if
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  Speaker 1: they're good enough, I guess the answer is yes. But
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  Speaker 1: the bigger question with the Red Sox is still going
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  Speaker 1: to be their starting pitching.
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  Speaker 2: Let's hit the inside SCOO with that f T senior
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  Speaker 2: insider Ken Rosenthal. And for those of you that think
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  Speaker 2: we talk about the Red Sox too much in a
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  Speaker 2: season where they're pretty mediocre.
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  Speaker 3: You're right.
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  Speaker 2: But Ken, Roman Anthony gets called up. He's the top
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  Speaker 2: prospect in the sport. You wrote about this this weekend,
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  Speaker 2: and wow, how quickly your column came to life.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Well, I would think Roman Anthony's four hundred and
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  Speaker 1: ninety seven foot Grant Slam on Saturday Night had a
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  Speaker 1: lot more to do with the Red Sox decision. His
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  Speaker 1: performance over the course of this season had a lot
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  Speaker 1: more to do with the Red Sox decision than anything
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  Speaker 1: I wrote. But at the time I wrote it, that
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  Speaker 1: was the night he hit the Grand Slam, And that
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  Speaker 1: was also the night Christian Campbell made a play at
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  Speaker 1: second base that I knew bothered their staff talking to
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  Speaker 1: some of them after the game. So I put two
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  Speaker 1: and two together, and I know they're concerned about Campbell's
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  Speaker 1: defense and have been really all season. That's an issue.
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  Speaker 1: And you guys were just talking in the previous segment
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  Speaker 1: about how defensively they have not played crisply at all.
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  Speaker 1: So ultimately they need better from Campbell at second. But
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  Speaker 1: what I suggested at the time was bring up Anthony,
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  Speaker 1: move Rafaela to the infield, sa Don Rafaela, who can
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  Speaker 1: play the infield, not maybe as well as the outfield,
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  Speaker 1: where he is absolutely elite, but he's a quality player
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  Speaker 1: wherever you put him. From a defensive standpoint, what happened
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  Speaker 1: was William or Brew suffered an oblique injury and they
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  Speaker 1: had the opening created that way, created kind of in
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  Speaker 1: a natural way. So here's Roman Anthony and we'll see
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  Speaker 1: how this all goes. It's not easy when you're a
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  Speaker 1: young player playing in a town like Boston where there
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  Speaker 1: is an intense microscope and adapting to the major leagues,
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  Speaker 1: where the difference between the Triple A and the Majors
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  Speaker 1: has never been greater. But this is a talented and
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  Speaker 1: he saw even last night he showed discipline at the plate,
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  Speaker 1: major league debut, and he's still taking pitches, still doing
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  Speaker 1: his thing. There's a lot of promise there. Obviously, that's
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  Speaker 1: why he's the number one prospect in the game. And
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  Speaker 1: we'll see if this helps turn the Red Sox around.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously last night it did not.
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  Speaker 3: Ken. Was this just.
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  Speaker 4: A long pause?
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  Speaker 3: Okay? Ken, Sorry it was a dramatic pause.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, but Ken, I want to I mean, Anthony's there,
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  Speaker 5: Campbell's there, Meyer's there. Can the Red Sox still win
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  Speaker 5: this division or get back into the playoff race with
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  Speaker 5: basically three rookies on the field. We've seen Campbell struggle,
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  Speaker 5: Meyer has been okay, Anthony's one game in. But can
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  Speaker 5: they win or division and get make a deep playoff
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  Speaker 5: run like they want to with basically three rookies in
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  Speaker 5: the starting lineup.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great question, AJ, and we're gonna see, as
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  Speaker 1: we've seen so far, Alex Cora pinch hit for these
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  Speaker 1: guys in certain situations. Again, left these with Meyer and
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  Speaker 1: Anthony in certain cases, with Rob refsnin or on the bench,
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  Speaker 1: Roman Gonzalez on the bench. Can you win with the
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  Speaker 1: three of them? Well, if they're good enough, I guess
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  Speaker 1: the answer is yes. But the bigger question with the
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  Speaker 1: Red Sox is still going to be their starting pitching
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  Speaker 1: and the challenge that they face the deadline is going
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  Speaker 1: to be whether they can turn some of their depth
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  Speaker 1: into starting pitching help. And I'm not sure they can.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure they'll line up with anybody with any
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  Speaker 1: of the players they have. And when you're talking about
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  Speaker 1: the three kids you just mentioned, and William Abreu, who
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  Speaker 1: has been a brilliant player for them, and as well
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  Speaker 1: as Jared Duran All Star Game MVP last year, top
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  Speaker 1: ten finisher in the overall MVP booting, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how you get fair value for those guys easily. It's
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  Speaker 1: difficult to do so. Craig Breslow's second full year as
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  Speaker 1: president of Baseball Operations, he has a significant challenge ahead
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  Speaker 1: of him, and we'll see if he's able to somehow
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  Speaker 1: take advantage of his depth to address the needs of
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  Speaker 1: his club.
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  Speaker 5: All right, you were, you were just doing the Red
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  Speaker 5: Sox Yankees game. Did they mention anything about Obviously Roman
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  Speaker 5: Anthony wasn't up yet, but Jared Duran is a was
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  Speaker 5: a good center fielder.
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  Speaker 3: Raphael overtook him and they moved him the left.
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  Speaker 5: If Roman Anthony is not great, you're essentially putting him
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  Speaker 5: in a center field. Boston's right field is like a
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  Speaker 5: center field, there's so much area. Why would they not
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  Speaker 5: put him in left? Do they feel like do they
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  Speaker 5: feel like the green Monsta is so hard to play
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  Speaker 5: that they'd rather have him out in right field?
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  Speaker 1: That's a good question. I don't know the answer to that, Eric,
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  Speaker 1: off the top of my head. When I originally wrote
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  Speaker 1: that column, the idea was Anthony and left, where he's
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  Speaker 1: been playing mostly, or where he is best. Duran in center,
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  Speaker 1: where he was a Gold Glove finalist last year, even
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  Speaker 1: if he's not quite Raphaela and then a bray you
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  Speaker 1: in right with a bray you getting injured. They did
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  Speaker 1: not decide that they wanted to disrupt Duran. They decided
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  Speaker 1: to put Anthony out there. Now, Anthony is a kid
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  Speaker 1: who can handle all three outfield positions. He's quite capable defensively,
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  Speaker 1: and I would imagine that came into it. Maybe let's
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  Speaker 1: not expose him to the monster right away. Let's have
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  Speaker 1: him play right field, which is a big right field.
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  Speaker 1: But he has played center in the minor leagues and
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  Speaker 1: played it at an adequate to above average level, so
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  Speaker 1: I don't see it as that big a deal. But
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  Speaker 1: it's a fair question, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Ken, did you I'm sure you know this, because you
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  Speaker 3: know everything.
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  Speaker 5: Your broadcast on Fox on Saturday had like three million viewers.
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  Speaker 5: Now I don't know if that was combined between your
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  Speaker 5: broadcast and mine. So you guys got like two million,
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  Speaker 5: nine hundred in ninety nine thousand, and then our Brewers
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  Speaker 5: padres went to like a thousand people.
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  Speaker 3: Is that how it worked? Is that like the breakdown?
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  Speaker 3: And did you request that on purpose or was this
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  Speaker 3: something above your pay grade?
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  Speaker 1: It's well above my pay grade, and you know that.
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  Speaker 1: And as far as I know, aj that three million,
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  Speaker 1: whatever the number was, was just for the Yankees Red
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: Sox game. And frankly, when I saw that today, that's
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  Speaker 1: the highest ratings since twenty twenty two for a regular
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  Speaker 1: season game, I was rather surprised. The game was okay,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't great, and the Red Sox are kind of
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  Speaker 1: down right now. But it shows you again, the value
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  Speaker 1: of those teams is from a television perspective, and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of times fans complain, and sometimes I even complain
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  Speaker 1: that we show the same teams over and over again,
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  Speaker 1: But there's a reason for that, because the most people
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  Speaker 1: watch those teams play, and when we put them on
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  Speaker 1: the air, we do the best as far as our
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  Speaker 1: ratings are concerned. So it's an interesting dynamic always because
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  Speaker 1: if you want to promote the entire sport, you should
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  Speaker 1: promote all of their teams. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: Fox is running a business, ESPN's running a business TBS,
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  Speaker 1: and they want the largest audience as possible, and that's
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  Speaker 1: certainly understandable given the amount of money they're paying for
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  Speaker 1: the rights.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, I complain every day all we talk about is
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  Speaker 5: Red Sox. But there's a reason why people tune in
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  Speaker 5: for the Dodger, the Red Sox, the Yankees.
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  Speaker 3: There's certain teams. Cubs Cars are also in.
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  Speaker 1: This case AJ in this particular case with the Red Sox,
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  Speaker 1: they're a fascinating case study right now because of these
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  Speaker 1: top prospects that they're bringing to the major leagues, because
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  Speaker 1: they've been a disappointment because they signed Alex Bregman and
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  Speaker 1: traded for Garrett Crochet. They're a really interesting club right
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  Speaker 1: now in a more interesting way. And I'll probably tick
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  Speaker 1: off people when I say that. Then say Kansas City
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  Speaker 1: right now, Kansas City. Yes, they brought up Jack Caglion,
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  Speaker 1: and that's a big deal and that got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of attention as it should have. But they don't have
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  Speaker 1: as many things going on as the Red Sox do.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm trying to say. I'm not saying they're
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  Speaker 1: less interesting, because every team is interesting in its own right,
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  Speaker 1: even Miami. But the different dynamics going on with the
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  Speaker 1: Red Sox right now.
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  Speaker 3: Are even the Rockeys, even the Rockets.
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  Speaker 1: They're interesting in their own weird way too. Are they
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  Speaker 1: gonna set the record or not? I mean that's where
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  Speaker 1: they're interesting.
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• 9:01
  Speaker 5: They swept the Marlins. The Mighty Marlins can come on stick.
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  Speaker 5: I know, I know they're not big market teams, but
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  Speaker 5: the Rockies are getting hot. Okay, Ken, I need you
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  Speaker 5: to watch more all the teams. Eric one team that
• 9:16
  Speaker 5: you probably didn't want to watch too much of the
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  Speaker 5: last ten games, they were leading the National League with
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  Speaker 5: the best record in baseball, and the Phillies went one
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  Speaker 5: and nine.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously they won last night.
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  Speaker 4: What do they need?
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  Speaker 5: Do they need something that is actually feasible to go
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  Speaker 5: out and get or is it just something that we
• 9:34
  Speaker 5: say at this time of year and the Phillies team
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  Speaker 5: is the Phillies team and they better figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: They need Bryce Harper healthy, that's for starters. But what
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  Speaker 1: you're asking Eric is beyond that, because with Bryce Harper healthy,
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: they were not necessarily gangbusters either. Luckfield has been an
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  Speaker 1: issue for them. Center field's been an issue from them.
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: From an offensive standpoint, You're going to need bullpen help. Obviously,
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: even with Alvarado coming back, he won't be eligible for
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  Speaker 1: the playoff. They know that that's going to be an
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: area of focus. If you remember, going back to the offseason,
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  Speaker 1: we talked about or they talked about maybe changing up
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  Speaker 1: the mix a little bit, doing something different just to
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  Speaker 1: jolt the team. And that's where the trade talks involving
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: Alec Bohm came from. They never got that done for
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  Speaker 1: whatever reason. And it still seems that maybe this team,
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  Speaker 1: which is largely set, could use something from the outside
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  Speaker 1: that would elevate it. I don't know who that player is,
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: but sometimes a deadline edition can have that galvanizing kind
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  Speaker 1: of force. And if they could go out and get
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: the right left fielder the right center fielder, that seems
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  Speaker 1: to me to be the kind of play that they
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  Speaker 1: should make.
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  Speaker 3: Let's do it.
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  Speaker 5: There's a great name on there, Kyle Tucker to the Phillies.
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  Speaker 5: Oh wait, they're right they tried Yeah, okay, yeah, they
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  Speaker 5: did try it, right, but they went to the Cubs instead.
• 10:57
  Speaker 5: Speaking of the National League Padres or the Giants, I
• 11:01
  Speaker 5: know the Dodgers beat the Padres. It was a great game,
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  Speaker 5: But can they one of these two teams actually catch
• 11:06
  Speaker 5: the five hundred Dodgers? For like the last month or so,
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  Speaker 5: they've they've been just kind of hovering around five hundred
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  Speaker 5: playing along all the injuries. Can one of these other
• 11:15
  Speaker 5: teams jump up and bite the Dodgers and win this division?
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: Well, ja, if you were watching Fair Territory yesterday, you
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  Speaker 1: might have gotten some insight into that. ID is that
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: a show out here? And I'll answer the question as
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: best I can. The Padres, my concern with them is
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: the starting pitching. With Michael King down and you Darvish,
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: you just don't know what you're going to get from him.
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: They have done a remarkable job of bringing in lesser
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: name starters and getting the most out of them. Randy
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: Vasquez is an example, Colex an example. They just do
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: this kind of routinely under Aj Preller, and it's really impressive,
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: to be honest. Their offense in the last month, Tatisa
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  Speaker 1: in the last month hasn't been what it was earlier,
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: that's for sure. But if they somehow can get Michael
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: King healthy for sure and get more offense out of
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  Speaker 1: what they're getting. Left field's an issue for them as well,
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  Speaker 1: then yeah, they can hang in there. And the Giants
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: are really interesting too, second in the majors in era
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  Speaker 1: only to the Mets. They have that They shook up
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  Speaker 1: their roster last week to in their minds, hopefully get
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  Speaker 1: more out of first base, maybe in the outfield as well.
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  Speaker 1: Brought in Dominic Smith and Daniel Johnson and Andrew Kisner.
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  Speaker 1: That's not going to do it, I wouldn't imagine. Those
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  Speaker 1: are guys who are kind of journeyman players and guys
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  Speaker 1: who can help you short term. They're major league players,
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  Speaker 1: but ultimately at the deadline they're going to need to
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: be more aggressive. And there was an article yesterday written
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  Speaker 1: by Tim Kawakami of the San Francisco Standard, and it
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: was very interesting because he talked to Buster Posey about
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: the Zach Wheeler for Carlos Beltron trade many years ago.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that was thirteen when that trade was made.
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  Speaker 1: Wheeler was a prospect, and of course he went on
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  Speaker 1: to great things Beltron did well for the Giants, but
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  Speaker 1: they didn't win that year. And Posey said that he
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  Speaker 1: loved that trade, and he was a player back then
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  Speaker 1: in the Giants, but he loved that trade because of
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  Speaker 1: what it represented go for it mentality. So if that
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  Speaker 1: was his feeling, then it's only been reinforced over the years,
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  Speaker 1: and he was clearly stating to Tim Kawakami, that's my
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  Speaker 1: feeling now. So I do expect them to be aggressive
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  Speaker 1: at the deadline. They've got the pitching, they need first
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  Speaker 1: base help, maybe another outfielder. They're an interesting club because
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  Speaker 1: that pitching is so.
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  Speaker 2: Good twenty eleven and then Wheeler debuted in twenty thirteen. Man,
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  Speaker 2: it's been a long time. I remember that trade like
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  Speaker 2: there was yesterday, feeling old. One more question for you
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  Speaker 2: on San Francisco. We haven't talked a ton about him.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously he's not doing much. Are you surprised that Williadamis
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  Speaker 2: has struggled this much? I know guys changed scenery, they
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: feel the heat like they have to perform and live
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  Speaker 2: up to the contract. I just I thought that there
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: would be a higher floor for him, and now we're
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  Speaker 2: getting close to the halfway mark.
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  Speaker 4: Of the season.
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  Speaker 2: So when I've watched him actually play, it looks like
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of the fun is sucked out of
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  Speaker 2: him right now, which I thought I would never see.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you feel the same way. But
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  Speaker 2: and I'm not there, so I'm not going to try
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  Speaker 2: and comment too much on this, ken. But I'm just
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  Speaker 2: watching from TV and I'm like, Oh, he doesn't look
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  Speaker 2: like the guy that's just joking around with everybody.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's tough.
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  Speaker 2: He's getting all the money to go here, and then
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  Speaker 2: he's not performing well and these aren't people that he
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: knows well.
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  Speaker 1: Yet he was certainly early on having fun. Now I
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: haven't noticed much of a difference lately. I haven't paid
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: that close attention to that aspect of it. But for
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: all the talk of Juan Soto struggling with his contract
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  Speaker 1: when he was never really struggling, just struggling by his standards,
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: what William Damas is doing is really a problem. He's
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  Speaker 1: in the bottom ten, I believe in the league, in
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  Speaker 1: ops the major leagues, and when you pay him that
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  Speaker 1: kind of money, when you bring him in to be
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  Speaker 1: that kind of player, you want a lot more than
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  Speaker 1: you're getting. And part of their offensive struggles sure are
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: related to the fact that they're getting nothing out of
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  Speaker 1: a guy that was supposed to be, if not a
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  Speaker 1: dominant offensive player, certainly a contributing offensive player. Willie o'domas
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: at his best is a good offensive players, not great.
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  Speaker 1: So that's been a surprise, and again it speaks to
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: the difficulty of the transition. When you get all that
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: money to go to a new team, the expectations are high.
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  Speaker 1: The entire dynamic changes. He's not in Milwaukee anymore. So
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: while it's no excuse, and I know fans think, well,
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: he's getting all the money, he shouldn't have a problem.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: I get it, and certainly that's an understandable perspective from
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: a fan's point of view. But at the same time,
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: we've seen this time and time again. Often players who
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: get big contracts, who'll go to new cities, they have
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: a transition period, and it seems that a Dominis is
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: going through that he's got to be better for them
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  Speaker 1: to get where they want to be. He has to
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  Speaker 1: be a lot better, and we'll see if it happened.
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: Let's transition from San Francisco up to Sacramento. Can you
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: hit on the field conditions for us a little bit.
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: What we're hearing from players, Zach Wheeler talking about he
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: had no footing, he had to use all arm, Carlos
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: Correy talking about sliding around in the box is major
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  Speaker 5: League Baseball? Were they aware of it ahead of this
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  Speaker 5: and have they made an adjustment where they're going to
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: need to come in and help Sacramento figure this out.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know the answer to the second question, but
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: certainly the league, in conjunction with the players union, got
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: the ballpark to a point where they both believed, and
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: the union is part of this too, where they both
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: believed that this playing field was sufficient, that it was
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: good enough. And what we're hearing from players on opposing teams.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: You're not hearing this from the Athletics because they're probably
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: too young and too afraid to talk. But what you're
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: hearing from guys like Correa and Wheeler, these things are disturbing,
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: and yes they need to be fixed. I don't know.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: With the heat in Sacramento coming then it's going to
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: be really easy to get the field in a different
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: kind of condition. It's probably going to get worse before
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: it gets better, I imagine, probably will get harder before
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: it gets softer. But sure, this is something that needs
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: to be carefully looked at and considered. And I've written
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: about this quite a bit. I haven't writen about this
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: particular issue, but this whole idea of playing in that stadium,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: not just for one year because of a natural disaster
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: like they're doing with Tampa, but for three years maybe more. Well,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: it was never a great thought. And here we go
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: and we've had problems, the team has had problems themselves.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: It just isn't a good situation. Yeah awful.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: Now you're starting to hear the players speak out about it,
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: and I really hope that it's not causing injuries like
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: that Pablo Lopez lost, because that would suck. We have
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: enough problems with arm injuries as it is. Ken, thank you.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: We'll see you on Thursday on Fair Territory.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Sounds good, Thanks Scott.
• 18:00
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• 18:03
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• 18:14
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  Speaker 4: I'm excited.
• 18:23
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• 18:27
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• 18:36
  Speaker 4: Krats, Go Krats first. Okay, go ahead, Kratz. Who's your
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: first team on your list?
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: I gotta make sure everybody knows the Mets, because they're
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: the best. The Mets are the best. So I went Mets, Dodgers, Tigers, Phillies, Yankees, Cubs, Padres, Giants, Twins, Astros.
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: I feel like you can mix and match all those,
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: but I'll be honest, after the Padres, I don't really care,
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: Like I don't think any of those teams even deserve
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: to be in the top ten from what I'm seeing
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: right now. And I kind of had to force those
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: I had to force those teams. So you mean you
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: had to force the Phillies who were two and eight
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: in their last ten and have played horrible for the
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: last about fifteen games up to number four spot. They
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: were ten bad games. Has anybody had ten bad games
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: after they were the best record in the National League?
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Never? But isn't this right now? Or is this it's
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: a mix?
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: It's how you look at it. Yeah, so you don't
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: like the Giants, the Twins, or the Astros.
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: I don't like. I don't I don't like what the
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: team has in total. For a when I looked at
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: power rankings, I look, what does a team have in total?
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: What do they have moving forward? As are going to
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: have to figure out how to score runs? So I'm like, Okay, well,
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: the Padres, you know, they're kind of in that same boat.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: I think the Padres are a little more electric. I
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: think they have a power packed lineup, but they're starting
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: pitching is what it is. You know, Pavetta's gonna kind
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: of go down. I feel like Cease has to be
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: that ace, not not he's going to go down, saying
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: Pavetta is going to, you know, come back to earth.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: He had a good he had a good start to
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: the season. I feel like some of the metrics say
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: he's going to regress a little bit. And so the
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: Padres could be in that in that mix of like
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: I don't really know about them. And I didn't have
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: the Cubs higher because I'm not sure the Cubs lineup
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: can carry the entire team. And so to me, I
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: picked my power rankings based on the fact that these
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: are teams that show me that they're going to have
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: strength for the rest of the season. They're gonna have
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: success for the law Hall. And that's really why I
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: put the Mets up there. I was a very skeptical
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: about them not having enough starting pitching. But who's who's
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: starting pitching? Would you rather have right now? The Mets
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: or the Dodgers.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: Right now? The Mets, for sure.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: The Dodgers have Yama Moto. Of course, I look good
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: the other day, but Dustin May. Dustin May look okay
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: then yesterday, Uh sweeper. Wait here, So here's where there's
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: a difference.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: AJ.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Why don't you roll out your list and then I
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: think you and I are in the same page about
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: something and we can debate it with Well, first.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Of all, I do because Dodgers just get bored.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: You saw they showed up to play the Padres and
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: I was not know it was a hell of a game,
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: and they yet they started hitting right.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: They kind of get a little bored, Okay, but they're
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: still the best team.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: They're jaded, They're still the best team. I'm sorry, I
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: don't care you say whatever you want. They're the best team.
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: That's or second for me because the Mets are right there.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: Okay. Three for me is the Tigers. Though Tigers are
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: the best record in.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: The American League, they have in the in the one
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: two punch if they're healthy of Scooball and Flairty is
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: as good as you could probably find. And the way
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: Hinch handles the bullpen top notch. Okay, then I go Cubs.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: That's that's kind of a big jump for me. But
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: I just think their offense is that good, and if
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: they figure out Palencia has kind of figured out the
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: back end for him. I think I think council knows
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: how to handle it. By the way, love you, Lucial,
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: You're awesome to me. Padres are five, Giant six. It's
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: hard to separate those two. Phillies are seventh because they
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: haven't played worth the crap and they can't hit. They
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: they with Harper out, they haven't hit. So that's why
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: Yankees eight for me. And then the last two Astros Cardinals.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: I just I just did them a solid. The Astros
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: in first place. They took over your Mariners, and the
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: Cardinals are playing good. If they could get Ryan Helsley
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: just to save a game, I think he's blown his
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: last three saves.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: They might even be at nine. This is a huge difference.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: It's a good list.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: We've had a lot of similarities here, so I'll jump
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: right to mine and then we can pick.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: Apart, so he deserves it.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: The Cardinals do look like a top time team in
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: the sport right now. I've got Mets one over the
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Dodgers right now. Should the Dodgers have a better rotation
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: than the Mets come playoff time? Yeah, but I have
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: no idea what it's going to look like. So I've
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: still got them as a top notch team. But I
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: think these teams are pretty close offense defense. Give the
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Dodgers an edge with their bullpen, not a huge edge,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: and then give the Mets an edge with their rotation
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: right now. Mets have guys coming back soon too, Sean
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: and Iya could be their ace.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, those two are close. Those two of me are
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: the easiest two probably on this whole list to figure out.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: I agree.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: For me, I am much higher on the Padres than
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: most of the rest of life since the offseason.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: I mean I got them at five.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: No, you're right, I'm saying they're are still even. The
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Athletics list had them like eight.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: Or nine.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Still, I'm like, what else do they have to prove?
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: They're neck and neck with the Dodgers. Their bullpen is sick,
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: they lost by a run last night.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: This is a good team. They're missing guys too that
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: will come back.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: I'm sure Michael King's going to figure it out to
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: get himself back, hopefully for their cause, you darbish will
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: be back at some point. I got the Tigers four,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: so for me, I want to put some National Legue
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: teams ahead first, because I do think the NL is
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: better than the ALE. So then I'm like, Okay, I
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: can start my AL excursion at four with the Tigers,
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: five with the Yankees. Then I go back to the
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: National League Cubs. These are teams that I think have
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: a few more flaws Cubs. Do I trust the bullpen
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: to maintain itself? Like that offense looks great, Phillies, They're
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: gonna have to redoce some things with their bullpen in
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: addition to getting some more life back from their offense.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Giants eight, they're there, they're playing well. I don't know
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: if I trust the offense long term, but the pitching's there.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: Astros.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: For me, I actually felt really good about at nine
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: they're leading the Als, they're playing good. They're missing Jordan
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Alvarez for a while now, and he's gonna come back
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: at some point unless they discover yet another injury that
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: the medical staff missed. And then the Cardinals at ten
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: they deserve it. Solid team playing well. Not sure what
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: they'll do at the deadline. Are they gonna go all
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: in and pick up a big piece or two? I'm
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: not sure, but this right now is a contender. Yeah,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: we have the Phillies quite a few spots lower than
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: the guy with the red hat on.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: Do you have what the Phillies had on? You mean,
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: it's even.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: Worse braves for anyone listening on the pod later on.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: But I just can't.
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: I just can't put the Phillies there right now because
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: Harper and their offense is not score runs. They're just
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: not scoring runs the way we expect them to score runs.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: Aren't they really?
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: I mean, listen, Wheelers really good. Nola hasn't been good.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: No, and he's been hurt me too.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean of their bullpen, Romano, like, is that
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: what you're going to count on the ninth Denny? I
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: can say I can say that their bullpen is I mean,
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: they're gonna have to Dave Dombrowski is going to do
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: something with that bullpen. He's going to go and get
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: guys he missed in the offseason, going to get Jordan Romano.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: He thought he was gonna bounce back.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: He hasn't. He had like a six game stretch.
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: I can't I can't get on board with their starting
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: rotation being being bad. Their starting rotation has been electric
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: during this time. The only person that had a stinker
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: in these last ten games, which you have to remember,
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: they had the best They had the best record in
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: the National League before these last ten games. So this
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: is recency bias that you guys have pushed him down.
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: But the only the only starting pitcher that gave up
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: more than two runs was Jesus Wizardo and that was twice.
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: So you got Christopher Sanchez doing it. You have Ranger
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: Suarez who's doing it. You have Zach Wheeler, who I
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: don't think he's a cy young leader right now, but
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: he's a top three guy with Skeins and Yamamoto Like
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: to me, this the solid rotation that they have may
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: enable them to maneuver some things later on in the season. Here,
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: I just worry about their offense. Home runs per game
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: in the small park seventeen in baseball, but seventeen, But
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: that was there, That was the that was the reason
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: that Scott says, well, this is a this is not
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: a playoff lineup. So they've changed to not hitting as
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: many home runs, and they've almost decreased their strikeouts per
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: game by an entire strikeout from last year. So they're
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: striking out last, putting the ball in play more, and
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: they haven't scored as many runs. So should they go
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: back to the all or nothing? Dingers are nothing? You know,
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: they're they're definitely watching them play. It feels like they're
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: trying to change what got them knocked out the last
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: two years. But it's not producing more runs. It's just
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: producing less strikeouts, which is the exact reason why all
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: the metrics say strikeouts have no big deal, are not
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: a big deal.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: So they're there.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: It almost looks like they're toying with things like, oh,
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: we're gonna try to take the ball the other way,
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: we're gonna try to get the base hit through the middle,
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: shorten up with two strikes and they're doing less damage.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: So is that good or bad?
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: It sounds like you're trying to sell me on the
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: Phillies and Scott and ain't buying, doesn't it he's trying
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: to make excuses for what they're not hitting. They're not
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: hitting for power. Charver's the one a guy right now
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: that can hit a home run, and he's not hitting them.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: They're trying.
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: They're trying something different because of exactly what their goal is.
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: It's World Series. What did Bob Nightingale say yesterday? World Series?
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: Or bust and swinging and missing and constantly not making
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: contact in October was killing them.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: So yep, we'll see. Yeah, yeah they have to hit
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: good pitching. I'll get yeah, they do.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: I'll give one more props at the end here to
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: the Mets, because I didn't think I was going to
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: take the Dodgers off the top seat the whole year.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: And I mean, you haven't, but you at least had
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: to think about it.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: I thought about it.
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: But listen, until they're the defending champs. They win when
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: they need to. They still have that lineup, they'll figure
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: out the pitching. They won the pitching with no starting
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: pitching last year, they won.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: The World Series.
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: You're right, so to me, listen unless they go on
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: to two and eight like the Phillies are on right
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: now or one and nine.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be hard for me to knock them out.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they've been playing five hundred ball for the last
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: few weeks. But look at their schedule. Yankees, Mets Padres.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: They're playing good teams.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: The Padres came in their game and a half behind them.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: What they do. They won last night. Yeah, it was
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: a great game. It was a great extra ing they won.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: But their neck and neck.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Dodgers are playing a different game for most
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: of the rest of ball because they're.
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: Just trying to get into the postseason and then we
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: will it work. And they're veterans. You have to understand.
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: It's a bunch of veterans. Look at their lineup show
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: Hey Freddie, Mookie, Muncy, Will Smith, Oscar these guys have
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: done it. They know, they know, like they know, like,
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: just get us to the postseason.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: Guys, they're trying to crack the code.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Can a team win a World Series and then win
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: another one because we haven't seen it in a long time.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: That's part of it.
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