Latest / District Territory / The Nationals are going to buy a little at the deadline

Transcript

The Nationals are going to buy a little at the deadline · District Territory

• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the District Territory Podcast and Happy Saturday
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: to all of our listeners. I'm Eric Shellhouse from the
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: Bat Boys. Joining me Spencer Nusbaum of The Athletic. The
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: Nationals couldn't get the job done last night, but they
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: got two more against the Dbaks later on today. Let's
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: open up with Spencer's story from The Athletic earlier today, Spencer,
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: some evaluators are saying that the Nationals will be sellers.
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: That don't at the deadline. Some are saying we'll be buyers.
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: Walk me through it and what you had this morning?
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so obviously I've been kind of canvassing the league
• 0:38
  Speaker 2: trying to figure out it's actor what the Nationals will do.
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: The overwhelming sentiment from deep by doctor around the league
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: is they kind of expected the Nationals to be sellers,
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: or at least to sell off some pieces of the deadline.
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: That all is expected given where the Nationals are at
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: in their competitive window. What are more and I heard
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: on good grounds yesterday was that the Nationals planned to
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: buy at least a little bit but the deadline, which
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: again is something we can talk about throughout the course
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: of this episode. But before we get into the specifics
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: of who that could be or how much they'll buy
• 1:17
  Speaker 2: or anything like that, which are all good questions we'll
• 1:20
  Speaker 2: get to. I just think it's a really notable development
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: that this team has put itself in a position where
• 1:26
  Speaker 2: they were supposed to be taking the long term view
• 1:29
  Speaker 2: and still are, but they were also supposed to be terrible,
• 1:31
  Speaker 2: right and they have put themselves in a position where
• 1:34
  Speaker 2: they're good enough where they're going to at least buy
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: a little bit. And I think that is huge and
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: a testament to what the clubhouse and the players have
• 1:44
  Speaker 2: done this season.
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you look at this team's record month by month,
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: it's not twenty nineteen nineteen and thirty one horrendous start.
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: But this wasn't a blazing start. It's not like this
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: was jumping off of you on paper. Is like all
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: the rebuild is thriving. But here we are sitting at
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: the end of the July as the deadline approaches in
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: the Nationals are in serious contention. Here, I'm going to
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: bring up the NL standings and then the National League
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: wildcard standings. The Marlins have just fallen off the face
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: of the earth ten losses in a row, which has
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: allowed the Nationals to kind of remain in it here
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: is that's one of the teams they're jugging with the
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: loss of the Diamondbacks a big one last night as
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: they're chasing them for that final wildcard spot. Long Phillies
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: right now. But it's remarkable, as you mentioned, Spencer, that
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: the Nationals have found themselves in the first season here,
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: and it's a testament not just to the players but
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: also the new regime that has come in here and
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: brought in this new era of Nationals baseball.
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: Absolutely right, Like you know, I have to credit the
• 2:48
  Speaker 2: players first foremost because they are ones like throwing the ball,
• 2:52
  Speaker 2: hitting the ball, all those things. But yeah, I mean,
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: this doesn't happen without a serious regime change, right where
• 3:00
  Speaker 2: have as we've talked about many times, new technology, clearer approaches,
• 3:05
  Speaker 2: more data, more refinement, all you know, a clear alignment
• 3:11
  Speaker 2: from the you know, Dominican up through the major leagues.
• 3:16
  Speaker 2: Right You're you're having the same messages breached everywhere. All
• 3:20
  Speaker 2: these things have created a system and an environment where
• 3:24
  Speaker 2: the Nationals are kind of built to thrive. And it's
• 3:28
  Speaker 2: it's been so encouraging to see given where this team
• 3:32
  Speaker 2: was at, you know, at this this same point last year,
• 3:35
  Speaker 2: or maybe I should even say thirteen months ago, given
• 3:39
  Speaker 2: that there was an interim general manager in Mike de Barlow,
• 3:43
  Speaker 2: who kind of set some of these wheels in motion.
• 3:45
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I think really really encouraging stuff, and yeah
• 3:50
  Speaker 2: we can we can get into the nitty gritty whenever.
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to jump into that last episode. We
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: talked about Luis Garcia Junior a lot. He's definitely a
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: fan favorite here in Washington, but I know a lot
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: of small market teams probably go through this frequently at
• 4:05
  Speaker 1: the deadline, not to say Washington's a small market sports city,
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: but you know these top names C J. Abrams and
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: Foster Griffin. That's two of the NAT's three all stars.
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: You can't think there's a universe where they're moving James Wood.
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: But to have them in Luis Garcia Junior being the
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: three names that jump off on paper to me that
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: that's frustrating to hear that those are kind of the
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: top names. But if you look at the other twenty
• 4:31
  Speaker 1: nine teams, if you gotta think where with I guess
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: a sense of respect baby and say, hey they want
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: these guys on their.
• 4:37
  Speaker 2: Team, right, And that's the big part too, right, is
• 4:42
  Speaker 2: if the Nationals buy, it will come with some selling.
• 4:46
  Speaker 2: I think that's effectively inevitable at this point. The degree
• 4:51
  Speaker 2: to which they sell is uncertain. As you reported at
• 4:55
  Speaker 2: the Athletic, all three of those guys we've named could
• 4:58
  Speaker 2: still be Nationals on August fourth. Which of those three
• 5:04
  Speaker 2: will be again still kind of parsing that out. But
• 5:08
  Speaker 2: the reason that these guys are in these trade talks
• 5:10
  Speaker 2: is because other teams value them so highly where there
• 5:13
  Speaker 2: isn't a lot of infield power help on the market,
• 5:17
  Speaker 2: and Garcia fits that mold perfectly and is turning himself
• 5:22
  Speaker 2: into one of the premiere bats, frankly in all of baseball. CJ.
• 5:28
  Speaker 2: I think is his kind of case speaks for itself.
• 5:31
  Speaker 2: I don't need to get into all that, but there
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: is a real case for moving him if he's world
• 5:40
  Speaker 2: is lengthened by the potential of what you get back there.
• 5:45
  Speaker 2: And with Foster, I mean, he's an expiring contract at
• 5:48
  Speaker 2: the end of this year, and so while there are
• 5:49
  Speaker 2: levers they can pull in terms of an extension or
• 5:53
  Speaker 2: extending the qualifying offer or just things of that nature, right,
• 5:59
  Speaker 2: or resigning him and free agency, it'd be really tough
• 6:03
  Speaker 2: to let him go and not get anything better, And
• 6:06
  Speaker 2: I think that's something the team has toway when they know, hey,
• 6:10
  Speaker 2: maybe we can keep our postseason window open this season,
• 6:13
  Speaker 2: but our World Series window is ultimately what matters. And
• 6:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah's that they're not winning a World Series this year.
• 6:20
  Speaker 2: I think that's pretty fair to say, and so that'll
• 6:23
  Speaker 2: factor in as well, I believe.
• 6:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Abrams is a guy that I think his
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: name pops up every deadline because you've seen that the
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: raw potential is there and now over the stretch of
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: the entire season just terrific, and he keeps it going
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: into the second half this year. He is such an
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: interesting one to me that is clearly now a proven
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: part of hopefully future World Series pushes. Maybe it's not
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: this season, but hey, maybe he's a part of a
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: Pennant push this season and the World Series next season.
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: Is there any potential this season before we get into
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: the offseason that there's an extension for him or talks
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: to make him a national for a longer period of time, Spencer.
• 7:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, again, I don't really want to get into that
• 7:08
  Speaker 2: without having all the reporting short up what I would
• 7:12
  Speaker 2: tell fans, and I will have something up on this
• 7:14
  Speaker 2: in the next coming day, So I feel comfortable saying it.
• 7:18
  Speaker 2: Part of the reason why it feels so unlikely, and
• 7:20
  Speaker 2: that is not me directly saying it is unlikely. What
• 7:24
  Speaker 2: feels unlikely is just I mean, there's so much working
• 7:28
  Speaker 2: against it. Right where you look at you know his value,
• 7:33
  Speaker 2: what he could make in free agency, right he'd be
• 7:35
  Speaker 2: a twenty eight year old shortstop. He'd basically be him,
• 7:40
  Speaker 2: Gunner Henderson, and maybe one other guy on the market
• 7:43
  Speaker 2: as a premiere guy. If your premier short stop like
• 7:47
  Speaker 2: that number is not small that it starts with, and
• 7:50
  Speaker 2: it's especially not small when you have, you know, ten
• 7:53
  Speaker 2: teams negotiating against each other for your services. I think
• 7:58
  Speaker 2: the other case that makes it at least something that
• 8:01
  Speaker 2: Washington could have a little trouble stomaching is how much
• 8:05
  Speaker 2: internal strength they have at the position, which, again, like
• 8:08
  Speaker 2: those are mystery boxes and cg Abrams is much less
• 8:12
  Speaker 2: of a mystery box. We kind of know what he
• 8:14
  Speaker 2: is at this point, and we know how much he's
• 8:16
  Speaker 2: grown every season. But when you have Eli Willets, when
• 8:19
  Speaker 2: you have sever king you have I could list seven
• 8:22
  Speaker 2: other infielders in the system, It's different than if you're
• 8:26
  Speaker 2: giving an extension to a picture where you say, hey,
• 8:28
  Speaker 2: we're really weak at the spot and we're at least
• 8:33
  Speaker 2: in the minor leagues trending in the right direction, but
• 8:36
  Speaker 2: nowhere near that sort of death that they have in
• 8:38
  Speaker 2: the infield. So those are at least two things I'm
• 8:41
  Speaker 2: considering as I try to figure this out. But I
• 8:44
  Speaker 2: think it's still kind of TVD as to whether an
• 8:47
  Speaker 2: extension is a real possibility or not.
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: We'll jump into some more of that next week. Really
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: quickly bring up the NAT's upcoming schedule for you. They
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: have the Diamondbacks two more and then the Blue Jays
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: up the homestand and then the Braves and Phillies. That
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: is going to be a testing road trip. But if
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: you're looking for tickets to get over the ballpark today,
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: think about sea Geek. I want to give a shout
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: out to the sponsor of today's video, steep Geek. With
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: over thirty five million downloads, sea geek is the number
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: one rated ticketing app. There are more than seventy thousand
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: events listed on sea Geek, including concerts, sports, festivals, and more.
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: Saturday is going to be Harry Potter Day over at
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: the ballpark, folks, figure out which house you're part of.
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: Sunday is the Kids plus keychain. There's a lot of
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: exciting stuff going on. Whether it's a Nats game or
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: any MLB game. Check in with seat Geek. Sea Geek
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: is MLB's official ticket marketplace, and your tickets are fully
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: guaranteed and instantly fulfilled in your account after purchase. You know,
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: we got NBA season and fell. You know, whatever it
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: is coming up, rely on seat Geek and of course
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: they have the bubbles you're familiar with. Then it's easy
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: to read and understand. I got a code for all
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: of you wonderful people. You can use code Territory ten
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: for ten percent off your next set of tiicket It's
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: at seat Geek. That's ten percent off any tickets with
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: promo code Territory ten. Make sure you click the link
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: in the description to download the app and have the
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: code automatically added to your account so you can use
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: it later. Big shout out to seat Geek Spencer. You
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: were over at the ballpark last night the Nats. This
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: was an interesting game. It was a clean ball game.
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: The Nats trailed early. The Diamondbacks scrapped together two runs
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: in the second inning, but Dylan Cruz had an answer
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: for that. He tied it up two to two in
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: the bottom of the fourth with this roaring home run,
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: And over the last six games, Dylan has been on
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: a cruising streak six for twenty two home runs, five RBIs,
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: four walks. I just want to take a moment to
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: give him his flowers because it has been such a
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: drastic turnaround. Where you look at Harry started the season
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: at Triple A to where he's been at the last
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks, and then I think, you know, we've
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: been seeing this Nats fans on the just underneath the
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: surface for the last month or so here and to
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: see the results on pay for the last couple of weeks,
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: I'm so happy for Dylan.
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah. We talked to Dylan after yesterday's game and kind
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: of such a lot of these topics. One of the
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: most important things to me is him getting comfortable and
• 11:12
  Speaker 2: relax in the box. We often use that phreezing with CJ.
• 11:15
  Speaker 2: Abrams as well, and I think it's apt. He looks
• 11:18
  Speaker 2: especially comfortable against lefties right now where I think the
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: ops at the start of yesterday it was the nine hundred,
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: It might be higher now, but yeah, he's so comfortable
• 11:29
  Speaker 2: and locked in against lefties, and I think a lot
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: of that production has been against left handed pitching. The
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: next step for him is clearly getting that relaxed and
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: comfortable against right e's as well. That is who he
• 11:42
  Speaker 2: will need to have at least some kind of baseline
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: level of success to really like whatever he's he's having
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: a productive season, to really blossom as like a guy
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: that is going to take better results against right handed pitching,
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: something he has acknowledged himself, but I think that we
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: have and given where the swing was at in spring training,
• 12:07
  Speaker 2: right it was enough for the Nationalists to send him
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: down something they did not really want to do. Something obviously,
• 12:13
  Speaker 2: if you're a big leaguer you don't want to do
• 12:15
  Speaker 2: right is go down to But he took that assignment well.
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: And yeah, he's clearly looked agains left handed pitching specifically,
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: but I still worry about some of the at bats
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: as righties. But this is definitely a positive step in
• 12:30
  Speaker 2: something that he could hold on to and say, hey,
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: I can off of this.
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, after that there wasn't much offense for the Nationals.
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: But this is what the box scores looked like in
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: many games this season. Blake Peterra used all of his resources,
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: everything that he could, pulled out all the stops, and
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: the top of the seventh inning, Gabby Moreno was able
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: to bring home a run on a sacrifice fly made
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: it three to two. Paul Seawall blocked down the saves. So,
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: you know, kudos to the d Backs pitching, but if
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: you look at the Nats pitching score, it's not anything
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: to cry over. Three runs will usually win you a ballgame.
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: And for Zach Lttel, I think this is a pretty good,
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: pretty positive outing collapse for that against this Diamondbacks lineup,
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: given what he has been this season.
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and a lot of focus for Lttel, and I'd
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: say the Nationals at large is leaning into what makes
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: him special and what their best pitch is. You saw
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: him use his slider, excuse me, his splitter about thirty
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: six percent at the time yesterday. That is his best pitch.
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: That is something where he has gotten away from that
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: at times this season. I think you will see even
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: more emphasis on that pitch, and you will see even
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: more emphasis on everyone's best pitch down the stretch as
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: the Nationals try to figure this out. I think they
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: are trying to lean even harder into that strategy, and
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: they were already leaning pretty hard into it at the start,
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: so aison wouldn't be shosted. If we see Lttel's like
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: get up over forty percent, it could really help given
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: what the result in the season.
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: Let's get back to the trade front. Anything wants to
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: talk or hear about. If there's one thing the Nets
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: may need in addition to the relief pitching, it's the
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: starting pitching. In my eyes, Spencer, the offense is clearly
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: clicking on all cylinders on any given night, it seems like.
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: But are the names popping up to you that have
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: stuck out? I read earlier today that the Angels may
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: be expected to sell a little harder than they have
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: at previous deadlines. They're not notorious for being aggressive buyers
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: or sellers. But Jose Storiano is a name that comes
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: to mind to me as far as a guy that
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, that the results have been there eight
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: and six this season with the three four three a
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: career three seven seven, that's a guy that I'd love
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: for the Nets. Ad to the rotation. But are there
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: any starting pitchers that you see that would be noteworthy additions.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: Well, I think Sorian is an interesting name, right. Where
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: are the Nationals frontrunners for him? Absolutely not. Again, as
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: we talked about last episode, there are so many teams
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: that are more motivated to buy than the Nationals are,
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: which is candidly why you don't probably see them coming
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: from this deadline with a true postseason type arm. But
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: there are absolutely names out there, and this is this
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: is also something I wanted to talk about right where
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: you look at guys on expiring contracts and you think,
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: why would the Nationals go after them this season? But
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: I was told yesterday like that going to be in
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: their calculus. They understand that their postseason are not zero.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: And if there is a way to build some sort
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: of momentum where you're giving yourself still a decent shot
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: to make the postseason this year or at least have
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: a good stretch run, there's real value. While I'm still
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: exploring who specific actually be, and a lot of that
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: would be floated more than like, oh, so and so
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: is definitely a Washington National. I think it's really interesting
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: that the window of who they could acquire is far
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: far wider open than I candidly would have guessed, you know,
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: seventy two hours ago, right, because all of a sudden
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: we'll afflect Iron contracts. I'm not saying they are definitely
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: going to get an next Barron contract. They still could
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: get a controllable guy. But if you're a nasman and
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: you're looking out there like congratch, you just got another
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: hour research because you can you can basically look anywhere
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: on the market and say, hey, if this guy you
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: know can do anything on the mounds, can he fit
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: on the Nationals? And I think that's pretty exciting.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's exciting. It just is a lot more
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: active than it has been at previous deadlines for the Nationals.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: That that is for sure. I want to remind our
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: subscribers and our non subscribers to subscrib really quickly to
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: the District Territory YouTube channel, or listen to us on Apple, Spotify,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: check in, follow there, whatever it is. Once we get
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: to one thousand subscribers on YouTube, we're going to be
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: giving away this Eli Willetts sign baseball card. Take a
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: quick break, but we'll finish up with some more NAT's
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Talk when we come back.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: This episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Baseball fans
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: think you know who's hitting a homer today, Well, FanDuel
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: is giving you a free chance to call your shot
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: with Daily Dingers. Joining the action is easy. Just make
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: your free pick on who's hitting a home run in
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: their game, and if you're right, you'll get a profit
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: boost to use on your next bet for a chance
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: at extra winnings. You've got nothing to lose and a
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: lot to gain, and don't forget you can make a
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: free pick every day all season long. It's just another
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: reason why FanDuel is the home for home runs. So
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: are you ready to play your game today? Join all
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: the action at FanDuel dot com slash podcast. That's FanDuel
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: dot com slash podcast to play Daily Dingers and make
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: your free pick on who's hehadingup homer. Playball and swing
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: for the fences on FanDuel, an official partner of Major
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: League Baseball twenty one plus select states for Kansas in
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: affiliation with Kansas Star Casino eighteen plus DC, Kentucky, Wyoming.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: No purchase necessary, opt in required, bonus issued is non withdrawable.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Profit boost tokens. Restrictions apply, including any token expiration and
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: max wager romount. See terms at sportsbook dot FanDuel dot com.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: Gambling problem called one eight hundred Gambler call one eight
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: hundred my reset one eight eight eight seven eight nine
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: seven seven seven seven. Visit CCPG dot org, slash chat Connecticut,
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: visit MD Gamblinghelp dot org. Maryland visit gambling Helpline MA
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: dot org. Call eight hundred three two seven five zero
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: five zero, Massachusetts call one eight seven seven eight Hope
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: and why text hope and why. New York call one
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: eight seven seven seven seven zero seven eight six seven Louisiana.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: The last chance to head over to the foul Territory
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: shop dot com and shop the all star collection. We
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: got Foster Griffin, James Wood, and of course ce Jabrams merchandise.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: There.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Let's give you a look at Saturday's pitching preview. Mitch
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Bratt a young left handed arm against an older left
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: handed arm that has been quite reliable. It's Fosterfest for
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: the Nationals later today. Due to his nails last time
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: against a poppin' athletics lineup. I'm trying to search for war,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: but I'm just gonna go with Boppin' Spencer. What's gonna
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: be key for him today against the d Backs to
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: keep on rolling as he has been.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's it's hard for me to say
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: anything we haven't already heard because he has done this
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: eight starts in a row where he's put up one
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: or a few earned allowed earned runs against. It's it's
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: just remarkable, you know. Last time out, it was it
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: was kind of funny as you put that up on
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: the screen right where it's it's one round, it's two strikeouts.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: We've seen more swing and mess from him than that.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: But no matter what the lineup is, he seems to
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: know which pockets he needs to avoid and which ones
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: he needs to really go after. This Timebacks lineup is
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: is really taught to and so I think when you
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: try to factor in, hey we're into trouble, it is
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: the fact that you go march A to Carol. There's
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: there's not like a week spot there, per say. But
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: if he can handle the top of that lineup, I
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: strongly believe he could do this for a ninth straight time,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: which is maybe an unfair expectation to set, but something
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: that will be really enticing for fans to watch today.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Definitely, And as we mentioned before, as you all should know,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Nats fans, this is a big one. They are chasing
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: the d back. So if you're over at the ballpark
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: later today or tomorrow, whenever the ballpark makes some noise,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: the boys need your support. Spencer, you're gonna be headed
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: over there soon. But anything you want to toss him
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: before we head out.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: No, I think that's it. Just I'd recommend reading that
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: story we talked about over at the Athletic and we
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: might have something else interesting for you guys at some
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: point today or tomorrow. That yeah, I just I Reckomon
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: and refreshing with age if you want to.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Of course, don't forget to subscribe to District Territory on
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: YouTube wherever you get your podcasts, follow us on Spotify,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Apple Music, whatever it is. I know there's a few others,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: so you can get spot get podcasts. Until next time,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: See you later,