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Pirates Fire Their Manager · The 3-0 Take

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take, where we talk
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all things Major League Baseball.
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Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes.
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It all starts right now. Welcome back to the Three O Take
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presented by Chinook Cedry. This is episode 534.
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I'll be your host, Kyle Cord. I'm here with my Co host and
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birthday boy Nate Reyes. Nate, how we doing?
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Casey how are we buddy? Doing good doing good.
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Just just another day. I, I got pretty depressed a
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couple weeks ago because I was at that time 31 and change years
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old. That, that realization that it's
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not the age you're turning, it's the age that you've completed.
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And when that, when that switches, when that perspective,
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it's just, it kind of sucks. You know, when you, when you
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figure that out, it's I, you know that you know, this like,
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but I for some reason, I think you just get lost in the sauce
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and, and think I'm just turning 32 now.
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You kind of feel robbed like of a year of life.
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You're like, it's, it's every year you you're reminded of this
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fact. You're like, well, yeah, there
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goes another year of my life. So good stuff though, man, good
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stuff. Got spoiled everybody.
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Everybody's spoiling me. Feel blessed, man, Feel blessed.
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I'm I'm excited for this lid. You got me.
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I got a new lid today from the wifey.
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You know how hard it was to purchase a Yankees hat?
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Oh my, Like under my account? That's what I'm asking.
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Is is it the? It's not the pod account, it's
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your account. It's.
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Oh no, Oh no. It's under my name, under my my
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account with with said company. It's wasn't fun, but you know
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what? The things.
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We do. I'm, I'm stoked for that.
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The things we do for our friends, it's.
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True. It's true.
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Well, there's no Yankee ball for you to enjoy today, but I
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figured we could talk some some ball around the league if if
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you're so inclined, inclined. You want to, you want, you want
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to talk some, some Pittsburgh Pirates?
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You want to, you want to talk some Pittsburgh Pirates?
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Is that what I'm hearing? Is there like a remix to this
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song that we can play with? Just like plays it slow and
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tragic. What a joke, my goodness.
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What a dumpster fire this franchise is.
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My goodness. I mean, where do we start?
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Derek Shelton fired that that this goes to show you the state
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of their team right now. I came into today planning on
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talking about the Pirates, but for a completely different
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reason. I wanted to talk about Paul
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Skeens and how he has little to zero run support anytime he goes
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out these days, really in in his short career thus far.
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And then the news drops that Derek Shelton has been fired,
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further adding to the dumpster that is this fire of a
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franchise. Good on the Pirates for doing
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what they needed to do. I guess I I feel weird saying
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that because you you just never know truly how a guy is received
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by the players, by the front office, by the fans.
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But to your point that you've brought up many times before
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and, and a lot of other people have it's it's a common
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occurrence in sports when things get this bad.
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Heads got to roll. And it sounds like that he maybe
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has lost the clubhouse a little bit, which that tends to happen
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when when losses start accumulating, when bad vibes
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just continue to to pile on one another.
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The managers often the one that everyone looks to.
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And I think the pirates were just done looking to Derek
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Shelton. And so they showed him the door.
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I don't know, like, where do you go from here if you're the
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pirates? I, I don't know, like I, I
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don't, oh, when you fire your manager in May, this isn't like
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a, this isn't like a, oh, we're trying to spark something.
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We feel like we have something. This isn't like a Joe Girardi
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and Rob Thompson situation. You know what I mean?
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It's almost like you got to pack it in like it's May and you got
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to pack it in. And.
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And I think for the average baseball fan that may not be
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super close to the Pirates. And and they just look at the
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standings every once in a while can be like, yeah, of course
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they're 2 and 26 at the time of this recording.
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Of course you're going to pack it in like it's. 12 and 26 not.
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What did I say? 2 I said.
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Yeah, it may as well may as well be as well 26.
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I meant 12, but yeah, it's just like that.
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You, you feel like I, I don't see, I don't see this team going
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on a run. I don't see this team all of a
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sudden like flipping the script with this transition.
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I, I, I feel for Pirates vans because it doesn't feel like
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there's any light at the end of the tunnel at at this point.
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I feel like Pirates fans forgot that they're even in a dark
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tunnel. It's just what life is that?
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That's all they know is darkness.
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That's just what it is and it sucks because of like the talent
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that you see on the roster and like the potential that you see
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with some of these names you have.
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You have like your old vet who's going to have his retired number
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as a pirate. Like you, you feel like there's
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there's enough there to at least have like a competitive,
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enjoyable season as a fan. And maybe that's the hope.
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Maybe that's what like a a new manager can provide.
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I don't I haven't. Do they have an interim
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replacement their bench? Coach Don Kelly will be taking
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over. So this frankly don't know much
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about Don Kelly. He's been in this role since
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2020. Don Kelly Don Kelly The is that
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a lefty for the for the Tigers for a while?
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That's going to be some great recall.
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I don't that doesn't sound. Familiar, like a platoon guy.
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How old is he? Don Kelly, let's do a little,
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let's do a little digging around here.
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Sure. The Pirates new manager, 45
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years old. About. 4045 and 82 days old.
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OK. From Butler, PA Drafted by the
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Detroit Tigers in the eighth round of the 2001 June amateur
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draft from Park University. Let's pull some numbers.
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He is an outfielder, third baseman and 1st baseman.
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Played played for the Pirates in 2007.
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Accumulated a negative .5 WAR in just 25 games and then proceeded
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to spend a a handful of years in Detroit, 2009 to 2014.
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Come on dog, it's your boy. No ball.
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And then finish his career with the Miami Marlins from 2015 to
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2016. It's.
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Your boy, no ball. That's a pull.
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Didn't you hold on? Yeah, I thought you said he was
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a pitcher for the. No, I said.
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A platoon guy for the Tigers. A lefty platoon guy for the
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Tigers. Oh, I.
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Well, you said Lefty. I just.
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Yeah, yeah, I, I think my mind immediately went to.
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Sure. No, I, I, I I remember hearing
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the name. I remember Bats.
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Lefty. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yep. That's some that's that's recall
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right there. That's.
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Some pull dude for somebody didn't see the field everyday.
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And that's your new Pittsburgh Pirates.
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No manager, I don't, I don't mean no, I'm not like throwing
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shade that way. I don't think that's what makes
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a good manager by any means, but overall, just going back to my
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point, like I I, it sucks, man, Like there's nothing to be
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excited about. There's there's not there's no
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hope there. It's.
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Hold on, let me let me ask you this going back to your earlier,
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earlier point about firing a guy in May, early May at that
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thinking to you, you sort of continue that thought by saying
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it's kind of their way of saying pack it in.
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This isn't something that you're going to spark the team with.
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Can I play devil's advocate? Is this I, I'm not giving the
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Pirates run off us any credit necessarily, but just
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logistically looking at the details of this and and the
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timing of it, could you make the argument that the firing
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happening this early in May, this early in the season, all
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things considered, is their way? Or it's, it's an alternate
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response to the state of where the team is at as opposed to
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which we've seen before. Other teams, other front offices
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will ride it out the course of the season and you'll get,
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you'll get a quote, you'll get a, a line or two from, from the
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front office execs being like, no, we believe in our guy.
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We're going to ride this out and see where it takes us, yadda,
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yadda, yadda. But instead of doing that for
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another full season in Pittsburgh, they stepped in and
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said we got to go a different path.
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I'm not, I'm not against the firing.
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I don't I don't think there's anything wrong with it.
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Like you start off this way and what you mentioned about like,
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you know, him losing the clubhouse, Like I'm not against
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the firing. I just all of us baseball fans
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are just waiting for the Pirates to put their foot in the ground
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and commit to a direction. And I don't feel like just
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having interim bench coach fill the role does that.
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It's more the same if they go on some type of run, if they end up
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having a competitive season, that's great.
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But like I everyone is just ready for this.
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We want this, I want this. This is, you know, again, we're
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we're in a a group chat with a die hard pirates fan and and
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Josh and, and he has his own podcast that covers the the
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pirates that he knows a ton about this team and he he's
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like. This this is a classic.
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OG baseball franchise like this is like and everything is set up
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everything. It's an incredible sports city.
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It's in a it's a top tier ballpark, top tier uniforms and
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color scheme. You have a thirsty fan base like
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everything is poised, everything is right there.
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There are so many franchises and baseball and other sports in
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general that like that don't have all of those boxes checked
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that have been more successful. And it's just it's brutal to
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watch this. And it's getting to the point
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where it's like it's it's embarrassing.
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And no pressure on Don Kelly. I don't expect him to come save
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the day. I don't think any Pirates fan
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does. We're like, dude, like just do
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something right, Fire somebody who at the top sell, just change
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completely fold your cards and ask for a new hand because this
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is like, we got to burn everything down and start over
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and firing your manager isn't going to change anything.
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I'm tired with this team of saying, hey, remember that wild
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card game back in 2013? Remember how electric that was?
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How cool, how how great would it be if we could see that again in
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Pittsburgh? I'm tired of saying that.
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I'm over it. Do those are those things still
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true to me? Yes.
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Like I, I think it would be phenomenal for baseball,
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phenomenal for that city if we could see post season baseball
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in Pittsburgh at PNC Park. But unless something changes,
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we're going to, we're going to sound like a broken record for
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years and years and years unless something changes.
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And that's not dramatic. That's they're they're a handful
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of teams across baseball that until they sell, nothing is
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going to change. Because we've said it before
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with the Pittsburgh Pirates, you were essentially A feeder team
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for the rest of Major League Baseball.
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And that's already the that that conversation took place when
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they drafted Paul Skeens. Forget about now like that's
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that's conversation been going on for a year plus is who's he
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going to end up with when he inevitably hits the road?
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Because they, they're, they sure they, they, they'll, they'll
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throw out a, a, a mediocre contract for their standard.
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Or I mean, it's, I guess it's a great contract for their
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standards, but in terms of contracts across baseball,
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across that landscape, mediocre at best.
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When you look at these, you know, Brian Hayes, Brian
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Reynolds type contracts like, OK, good for you.
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And I, I don't, I mean, I don't want to walk it back too much.
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I think we we at least praise the pirates for spending some
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like some money, but at the end of the day that is not going to
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get it done like you are. Nothing at the macro level is
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going to change if that's all that you're willing to commit
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to. Yeah, for sure, for sure.
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I it makes me wonder not to go like, like too far off on a on a
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tangent with this, not to like always tie the Yankees into it.
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But they were having a discussion on the broadcast the
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other day where they were talking about like, will we see
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like a reconfiguration of how baseball is set up?
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Because it was talking about like rain delays and how when
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you have these interleague matchups, like the you're almost
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forced to get these games in through brutal weather because
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it's interleague. And when are you going to meet
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up again, right? And so the discussion is like,
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OK, well, the chances are it's probably not going to be until
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there's an expansion and to bump it up to 32 teams instead of 30,
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that allows you to have, you know, 4 divisions, four teams
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each. And maybe you shake things up.
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And my whole point to this is, is like, it's no offense to the
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Cubs or the Cardinals or the Reds or the Brewers.
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But if there is some type of reshift and you have the Pirates
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now in a division with like the Red Sox or the Yankees or the
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Mets or the Phillies, where there's this these juggernaut
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franchises, like, is that a prime position to sell?
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Is that a prime? Like, it's never going to get
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better than this? Will the owner finally get out
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of the way? Will ownership finally just say,
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just hear the keys and and now you have the viewership of all
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of these massive fan bases. Now you have the attendance of
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all of these traveling fans, right?
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Like does that help boost some stuff?
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If there's a complete reshift, which I, I'm in the camp that I
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believe it's coming, I think there's a massive reshift.
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You're going to see forever teams that have been in the NL
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for forever shifting and vice versa for the AL.
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You're going to have divisions completely shaken up.
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And I think with how jam packed the Northeast is, I don't think
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the Pirates are going to end up in a similar situation playing
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in the central. I think they're going to be
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merged in with some of these huge organizations that have a
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lot more pull, that have a lot more attraction.
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And I, I wouldn't be surprised if that was like the right time
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to sell, especially if you are then seeing some type of salary
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floor introduced in this new art, this new agreement or, you
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know, some new threshold that has to be met in order to
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receive revenue sharing. It's a long winded thought, but
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it's something to consider that, you know, maybe that's.
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All. The Pirates fans have to look
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forward to is that it's just a complete reshift in how we've
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are seeing baseball and how it could change some of these
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bottom tier teams. And it sucks calling them a
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bottom tier team because I think it's an incredible franchise
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with a lot of history and again, has every box checked except
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who's running the ship. Well, let's talk about a guy
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you'd talk to, possibly expansion.
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Let's talk about a guy that's not going to be there whenever
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that happens. Paul Skeens, as I mentioned,
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this was a this was one of the topics I wanted to cover before
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this news even dropped. But his last start, which I
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believe was what, Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday you need.
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Yeah, Tuesday against the Cardinals.
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Not not great against the against the Cardinals.
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He's Owen for let me rephrase, he's he's been good against the
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Cardinals, but maybe for his standards, what he has shown
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against the rest of the league, not his, not his best, but it
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all feeds into a much larger point in the fact that he gets
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his zero run support. But against the Cardinals, who
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he made his last start against, is Owen, 4, with a 276 ERA, 36
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strikeouts and five starts. Yeah.
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He has seven losses, according to Codify Codify, Codify 7
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losses and 31 starts. Four of those have come against
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the Cardinals. But as I mentioned, a much a
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much larger conversation that that's going on right now, I
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believe and people are aware of, I would think if you've been, if
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you've been following Paul Skein's career to this point,
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his rather rather short but exceptional career, no run
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support, no run support, just this season alone.
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And again, I know, I know wins and losses matter not to people.
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I get that. But his earned run game log from
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the Just this season alone, he's given up two runs in order.
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Two runs, zero runs, five runs, one run, two runs, zero runs,
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three runs and two runs. He is 3 and 4 on the air.
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How many, how many starts has he had in his career?
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3131, no. Excuse me?
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Yeah, 31, Yeah, that's what I said earlier. 7 losses and 31
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starts for those being against the Cardinals.
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The look, the reality is, is this year he hasn't.
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It's not good. Man, he has.
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He hasn't looked the same this season.
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Yeah, I don't think it's clicked yet.
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It it's not as sharp as he was last year.
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He's still been very good though.
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That's what I'm saying like outside of that, I think that
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that fart start five runs. I think that came against the
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Cardinals. No, pretty sure.
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Pretty sure they handed him that if I'm not mistaken but.
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It's it's giving me Jacob degrom Mets vibes.
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Very much so, very much so. And you don't have to dig.
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You don't have to dig very deep to to find that comp that like
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it's it's pretty much right in your face.
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It's like, OK, this is just what this is going to be the
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narrative of his career as long as he's in Pittsburgh can.
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You run me through those numbers again.
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I want to hear them again. His earned run logs.
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Yeah, no, just like yeah, during this, this.
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How many runs he's allowed during his starts this year?
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Yeah, yeah. No, no, no with the against the
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Cardinals. Against the Cardinals, he's Owen
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4 in his career with an ERA of 27636 strikeouts in five starts.
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So he's Owen four and five starts, but he has an ERA of
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276. Your guy.
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It makes you wonder, man. It makes you wonder.
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Your guy Justin Havens put out a tweet.
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The Nugget chef, he said Paul Skeens is year over year drop in
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strikeout rate 33.1 to 24.7. Is the third largest in Major
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League Baseball from last season to this season.
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Minimum 125 innings. Pitched I don't, I'm not, I'm
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not too concerned. I my biggest concern is, and I
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hate that they may not just ever in for now in the modern era of
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what we know about the Pirates to get out from underneath the
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cloud of mismanaging pitchers and having names in their
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organization that like go on to shine.
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And this is one of the first names that was almost like
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pirate proof skills wise, you know what I mean?
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Like so, so good that even the pirates can't mess this kid up.
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Then it makes you wonder if that's starting to happen.
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Like you, you got to have that thought in the back of your
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mind. And at the same time you're
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like, oh, he's fine. It's early.
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You know, he just he hasn't got all things clicking yet.
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And he could very well just go on this stretch of just being
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dominant. And I just I'm curious and if
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there's Pirates fans, Josh, if you're in the chat, let me know.
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But like, I would like to know if he's calling his own pitches,
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if if he has a certain catcher, if they're calling these pitches
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is like, is the philosophy working?
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Like all of these things have to be wondered.
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It's not just about like, OK, is he getting around support?
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How's the defense behind him? It's also about like, is the
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pitch with sequencing making sense?
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Is he attacking hitters the same way he did last year?
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Is the philosophy the reason why?
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You know what I mean? Like.
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I mean, if they make a shift, which I I kind of hope that this
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conversation is taking place with Paul Schemes, figure out a
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way to enable him to go deeper in games.
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Like even if it means dialing it back just a tad just to enable
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him to go deeper into games and give us more each outing on
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average. I hope that's happening because
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I, this is a guy that I, to your point, Pirate proof, But I also
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think this guy is like, to put it a different way, current
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state of Major League Baseball proof where we're seeing this
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shift in, in dialing starting pitching, like devaluing
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starting pitching, emphasizing the importance of, of bullpen
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efficiency. I, I think this is a guy that
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kind of turns his nose to that and says I'm, I'm, I'm taking
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the old, I'm, yeah, I was going to say I'm taking the old school
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route. I'm going to give you a 7-8 if I
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can. And I just hope that, you know,
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not putting him in any sort of situation where he gets jammed
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up health wise in order to force the issue.
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But I just hope that he's, they have at least the competency,
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which maybe they don't to develop him to if that's if
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that's the type of pitcher he is to fully develop that and and
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just sort of cut him loose. Yeah, that it, it feels like
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Kent, can the Pirates find a way to get out of his way?
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That's what it feels like. And you hate to just let like a
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young pitcher just completely take the reins and say like,
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he's going to call his own pitches and then he can pull the
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whole, you know, pitch com on his belt kind of thing where
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he's he's making the calls were like, maybe it is that way.
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I don't know, I don't know. But here's a promise that I'd
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I'd think we should make is that since we just spent 25 minutes
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on the freaking Pirates, I, I think we don't talk about them
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again until there's like a 10 game-winning streak.
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How's that? Yeah, I'm with you.
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I'm sick of it, man. Unless Paul's.
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Yeah, unless weak, by the way. Like kid, young guy jumping off
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the freaking wall you got. Dude, it's crazy.
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It's just Pittsburgh right now. It's nuts it's going on.
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Crazy. Let's not talk about the
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pirates. They.
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Just traded. If they're Steelers fans, they
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just traded George Twicken's away.
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Like I saw that. What is happening in Pittsburgh?
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Yeah. All right, that's enough.
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Let's yeah. I mean, unless skeins twirls,
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APG or something kind of out, kind of, yeah, kind of out.
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Let's let's, let's switch gears here.
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Let's let's talk about some some guys that have been tearing it
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up. Let's talk Freddie Freeman, the
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first recipient of this week's credit cannon.
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Nate, did you know his last 50 ABS coming into today?
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Wait, who we talking about? Freddie Freeman, Frederick.
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OK, last 50 ABS. You got to guess on what he's
28:41
hitting his last 50 ABS Nick. I won't look, I won't look.
28:44
Last 50 4/15 close higher. 440 over his last 50 ABS, he's got
29:05
four home runs, 18 ribby, seven walks and an OPS at a clip of
29:13
1289. Decent.
29:16
That's that's worthy of a credit cannon.
29:24
Not to move off of Freddie so fast, but I'm particularly
29:27
excited to to crown this next individual as the next recipient
29:35
of said credit cannon. Nate, would you do the honors?
29:39
Is this the top cannon of the week?
29:40
Would you say that? Given just the trajectory of his
29:45
career, I I'm excited, particularly about this one.
29:49
Oh, OK. Byron Buxton, he's hitting
29:54
three. I mean, talk about just a this
30:00
dude's had a rough go. We'll just say that.
30:03
Yeah, he's had a rough go. But I tell you what, I'm
30:09
certainly regretting dropping him in fantasy.
30:11
I picked him up as a. The ultimate fantasy baseball
30:15
tease every year. I felt good.
30:18
I was like, oh, he's swinging it well, but I was like, I'm not
30:20
going to keep, I'm not going to. I'm not going to jam up my
30:25
roster and just keep him on for too long because, I mean, it's
30:28
Byron Buxton at the end of the day.
30:29
But Byron Buxton said suck it, Kyle.
30:33
I'm Byron Buxton, so do with that information what you will.
30:38
And he, I got to say, is killing it.
30:40
He's hitting 323. This is over his last 15 games,
30:44
hitting 3/23/20 hits, 6 homers, 16 ribbies, 11 runs scored in an
30:52
OPS of 1026. That's coming into today on the
30:56
year. On the year, dude, he's hitting
31:01
274, nine jacks, 25 ribbies. He's got an OPS plus A133 OK,
31:08
And you're a big savant guy. I am a big savant.
31:13
Some say I'm a savant. Lot of red, lot of red and I
31:19
even found out today. Somebody can correct me if I'm
31:22
wrong. I'm pretty sure this is factual.
31:25
Fastest Sprint speed in baseball, which they're.
31:34
I don't know how that makes sense.
31:38
I mean, it makes sense. It makes sense, but it doesn't
31:43
make sense. Can we confirm this?
31:46
Is this what I heard? Too.
31:48
That's what I'm. Saying hold on, let's.
31:52
I don't want to just like, spew even.
31:57
With the Simpson Kid in in Tampa.
31:59
That's what I'm saying. It's.
32:00
Faster than him, it's faster. Bobby Witt.
32:02
Byron Buck OK, here we go. According to TL Schwartz on
32:08
Twitter, Ted. TL Schwartz Was that the feel
32:12
like that was the name of the toy store that Kevin McAllister
32:16
broke into in Home Alone 2? We'll go with it.
32:19
He said Byron Buxton's 30.2 foot per second Sprint speed is the
32:23
fastest in baseball. It's his personal best since
32:26
2019. So he's he went on to say in his
32:29
tweet, Bobby Witt junior is there with him, but seven years
32:32
younger. So the healthy Buxton is
32:34
amazing. Yeah, but his his savant, I mean
32:38
the the base running value 100 his hard hit percentage 98th
32:45
percentile bat speed for how old you say he is 3131 is 88th
32:52
percentile barrel percentage 91. I'm just as broken as him
33:01
physically too. Now now in a lot with a lot less
33:05
money in your bank account. A lot less.
33:08
Hold on. I need to.
33:09
Am I? I'm not older than him too.
33:11
There's no way. Hold on.
33:14
That's right, we're officially. There's no way.
33:21
There is no way. I'm older than Byron Buxton.
33:25
I you could have given me, yeah, 100 names of like, are you older
33:31
than this guy or are you younger?
33:32
This guy, like at the top of that list, I'm saying we'll get
33:36
Byron Buxton out of here. I know for sure he's older than
33:39
me not to be. Yep, Yep.
33:42
I am Saab. I'm three months older.
33:52
No, I'm. I'm out.
33:54
All right. This is good.
33:55
This was fun, I'll I'll catch you later.
33:58
Yeah, Yep. You know what, You know what I
34:02
like so far that's depressing about this situation is that I
34:09
wanted to look up the amount of games he's DH over the last few
34:15
years. So 20/22 he had 35 games at DH,
34:24
20/23 at 80 games at DH 2024, which he played 102 games last
34:34
year, more than I would have guessed, still not great, but
34:37
more than I would have guessed. He only DH 6 times so far, none
34:43
this year. So I wonder if they're just
34:46
starting to just like, you know what like you can't, you can't
34:51
just keep this guy in a cage. You can't just, you know, keep
34:55
him in a bubble like he's going to play the way he plays.
34:58
We have to utilize his, his his skill set and his tools.
35:02
Like let, let's just let him go. Let him play.
35:05
If he gets hurt, he gets hurt. That's kind of how it has to be.
35:09
And for him to be Byron Buxton, I feel like that's the way he
35:13
needs to play. That's the that's the type of
35:15
environment he needs to be in. He can't.
35:18
If the team's looking at me like I need to worry about my glass
35:21
bones, then I'm going to worry about my glass bones.
35:25
But if my team just says, you know what?
35:27
You do you, and now this is what you get.
35:31
So as baseball fans, let's just hope he doesn't break anything.
35:37
You know, this kind of makes me think last year, if you recall,
35:44
in fact, let me confirm how many starts he had because Tyler
35:48
Glass now, obviously a different situation, different side of the
35:51
ball. But if you recall last year, he
35:55
had gotten hurt, but leading out like before that injury even
35:59
happened, before he hit the shelf, I said going into the
36:04
year, I was like, all right, you're with the Dodgers now.
36:08
You don't need to, you don't need to push your limits.
36:11
You don't need to be something more than you are.
36:14
If you're Tyler glassed out, you can give me, and I'm pretty sure
36:17
I threw out like 20 starts. I was like, if you can give me
36:21
20 starts, I'll call this season a success.
36:24
And he put up a three, four, 9 / 22 starts.
36:29
And I was like, you know, because I'm, I'm pretty sure you
36:31
hit the shelf later. It was on the the the back end
36:35
of his year. Yeah, because he didn't.
36:37
Pitch in the postseason, right? Right, yeah, and and Dodgers
36:40
fans like, oh, are you kidding me again with the injuries?
36:43
And I'm like, you got 22 starts out of him and.
36:47
I think you just need to, like, shift our mindset and
36:49
expectations, yeah. For guys like this, Byron
36:52
Buxton's the same thing. I I mean, I don't, I mean,
36:55
what's like a number that we could say like, hey, if you, if
36:58
you can give us this many games and at the very least give us a
37:03
chance to compete for a postseason spot.
37:06
But then, you know, it is what it is.
37:09
He played, you said he played 102 last year, which was just
37:12
the second time in his career. Dear Lord, man.
37:22
I mean, I hate to say it but like, not.
37:23
Played any games? I hate to say it, but like if
37:27
you can give us 100 again, like I, I think that's you kind of,
37:32
you know, I said 20 for glass now last year.
37:34
If you can give us 100 as a as an outfielder this year, that
37:38
would be in my eyes a win. OK.
37:40
Let's do this. I mean, he hit 279 with 18
37:46
homers last year, but he's he's on pace for a better year this
37:50
year. What?
37:53
OK, this doesn't account for 2020's weird season.
38:00
He's averaging like 70 seven games a year before this year.
38:10
That's not good. I don't think I really, yeah.
38:13
And that's not like perfect math because I'm not going to take
38:15
out that year and then fix that. But he's only cracked 100 games
38:20
twice in his career. Yeah, I mean, I'm, I'm not, it's
38:25
not perfect math, I'm sure, but you're probably not far off
38:27
because, I mean, the game lost. I think 100, I think 100 games,
38:32
dude. That's unfortunately what we
38:35
like. The way you see glass now with
38:36
22 starts, I think we got to see.
38:39
Like a. 100 you see Byron Buxton with 100 games.
38:42
And I'd be happy he hit. A36 war last year, which is like
38:47
positive. He had a 136 OPS plus an 859 OPS
38:55
like I. You'll take that, right?
39:01
Yeah. I mean it sucks like you, you
39:04
wish you had more. Well, I mean, look, he's going
39:07
to impact the game. So with, with a guy like Byron
39:09
Buxton, it's just the availability.
39:11
That's all I care about. Like it's not a matter of like,
39:13
well, will you take this? Will you take that?
39:15
Like just give me, just give me availability and we'll and we'll
39:18
figure out a way to to have you impact the game.
39:20
Are do you have a stats pulled over right now?
39:22
Yeah. Can you close them without
39:25
looking at them? Yeah.
39:27
Hopefully you didn't see this number.
39:29
Do you want to know how many stolen bases he has in his
39:32
career? There's probably not very many.
39:36
The The best Sprint speed in baseball has a hundred stolen
39:40
bases in his career. This is his 11th season.
39:45
The fastest guy in baseball has a 100 stolen bases in 11 years.
39:53
That's crazy. So it's not even like they're
39:56
like, it's not even like it's happening.
40:02
I don't understand this. This is broken.
40:04
This is a broken baseball reference page.
40:09
I'm lost. But good on the cannon.
40:11
Good on the cannon. Not to not to poop on that more
40:15
than what we just did. Let's bring it back to some
40:17
positivity. Speaking of the cannon, next on
40:23
the list, another guy that I was excited to get to because, well,
40:27
I'd picked him up in fantasy and made the smart move to actually
40:30
hang on to him. The old fantasy bias.
40:33
Javier Baez. Can we talk about Javier and
40:37
this like jokes aside about the whole fantasy thing, can we like
40:40
talk for a minute about like what Javier Baez has been doing
40:44
this season? And I think we can, you can
40:47
almost single handedly credit the move to the outfield like
40:52
that. That's the only thing that's
40:55
really, but like that's the only shake up that we've that's
41:00
really taken place here. There's a slight mechanical
41:03
thing that looks a little different hitting ones.
41:05
But to this extent that there has the biggest adjustment,
41:09
yeah, this has there like this has been the greatest or or most
41:15
impactful mental shift, I guess you could say, because like a
41:18
mechanical thing can do wonders, but completely changing where
41:23
you play as a position player has to impact you even more.
41:27
I would, I would venture to say in his case, but his last 15
41:32
games he's hitting 333, which comes out to 18 hits, 3 homers,
41:41
14 RBIs, 12 runs scored, and an OPS of 942 over his last 15.
41:48
And that's coming into today. They I, they just, I think they
41:50
just wrapped up the first game of the double header I saw.
41:55
I didn't look at stats. Yeah, I saw he had a knock in an
41:57
RBI today. I don't know what else.
41:58
Yeah, a little bloop. Little bloop in the right, I
42:00
believe. Little RBI single if I recall.
42:03
Whiner in the books. Keeping it going.
42:05
But he's, I mean. He's playing a good center field
42:08
too. It's not just like a, it's not
42:12
like a below average performance like.
42:14
No, I mean he's. He's he looks really good out
42:16
there. He's a crazy athlete, dude.
42:18
He he is. I was going to say the
42:19
athleticism is there. He is currently riding a
42:25
123456788 game hitting streak. There you go.
42:31
Actually, hold on, maybe if he's showing up in the book as
42:37
having, oh, that was a double header against the OS.
42:42
So it actually actually it might be a little more than that,
42:46
might be 9 or so because it looks like he just didn't play
42:49
in the second game. So tack, maybe tack on another
42:52
to that. So he I mean he's approaching at
42:56
near double digit hit streak so stricken together quite a
43:00
stretch right now. Yeah, I feel like he's one of
43:02
those guys that like, if you can just get any ounce of confidence
43:05
back, he can. He can, if he can look in the
43:08
mirror again and be like yes. He feeds off of that.
43:12
I'm back just a little bit. This is what you get.
43:17
This is productive, man. This is like, no, it's not.
43:21
You get a lot, a lot taller hill to climb to live up to the
43:24
contract. But like, hey, if you're a Tiger
43:28
fan, you'll take this, you know? On the years, hitting 313, three
43:33
homers, OPS plus A 137 is already accumulated a WAR of
43:38
1.5, which it's got to be more than the last.
43:46
Three years combined, not because he plays.
43:50
He plays pretty solid defense so.
43:52
Well, yeah, the -1.1 last year a .8.
43:56
Wait, wait, let's do the math. Let's do the math.
43:58
Hold on, read them all. Right, Yeah, let's find, let's
44:00
find the the breaking point here.
44:02
OK, so. 20 - 1.1 What else you got?
44:06
OK, so I think the cut off's going to be 2021 because he had
44:09
a four three that year with because that's when the the
44:12
trade went down from Chicago to the Mets.
44:17
So the we'll say 2022 to 2024 he had a 2.4, a .8 and a -1.1.
44:29
It's a 2.1. He's already almost totaled.
44:34
He's already almost totaled the war of his previous three
44:36
seasons. So and if he stays in.
44:38
Quite a year for another 20-30 games, he's probably there.
44:42
What a start to the year for for him, Mr. Baez moving right along
44:47
here, Nathan Ivaldi of the Texas Rangers.
44:54
His last four starts have been exceptional.
44:58
He's tallied 29 strikeouts over his last four starts.
45:03
He's gone 6 innings on the dot in every one of those four
45:08
starts against, let's be honest, quality teams, the Red Sox, the
45:13
A's, the Giants and the Dodgers. Say what you will about the A's,
45:18
but they're they're hanging around in the early goings of
45:22
the season. 29 strikeouts over those four, those four starts,
45:28
he's only allowed four earned runs in that stretch and is
45:32
managing traffic well. I mean, he the, he's given up
45:36
five hits and two of those and a couple of those starts 6 and
45:39
another three and another. He's only walked two.
45:43
So he's managing the traffic well given the the relative lack
45:48
of earned runs, but looking very strong for a team that
45:52
absolutely needs it on that side of the ball.
45:56
This is why you bring a guy like this back.
45:58
This is why you you can trust guys like this in your rotation
46:07
because the offense is going to have some bad streaks.
46:09
And we have a guy that says, you know what, I got you offense, I
46:13
got you pitching staff. Let me do my thing.
46:17
I'm going to give our team a chance.
46:18
Like that's that's how things can start to pick up in sparks.
46:22
So I think we can all look at the Texas Rangers and say that
46:26
April was not the the Texas Rangers at the end of the year.
46:31
It's just not what they're going to be, especially offensively.
46:35
So just get through this valley and it's guys like this to help
46:40
you lift up. So they're coming.
46:42
I, I feel like they're coming eventually.
46:46
And no one's no one's running away with the West.
46:50
And even if they do, we've seen what the what the Mariners can
46:54
do when they're running away with it shots.
47:01
Fired, shots fired. Next up, Chris Sale.
47:07
I think he may have figured something out.
47:10
I'm just going to go ahead and say it.
47:13
I think he may have figured something out.
47:16
I think. I think you're getting vintage
47:20
Cy Young Chris Sale back. Uh oh.
47:24
From here on out, his last two starts, ten punch outs apiece.
47:33
Decent 13 2/3 Indians over that stretch.
47:37
Only two earned runs I think. That's what you want.
47:44
I think he's figured something out and again, talking about a
47:47
team that that needs all the help they can get as they sort
47:51
of crawl their way back from a a rough start to the season.
47:58
The Braves are are loving every bit of what they've seen out of
48:01
Christie the last two starts and another guy that's looked, hate
48:09
to say it pretty good last four starts.
48:14
Carlos Rodin. I think you can speak to this a
48:17
little bit. 1 of what was it his his last start out right was he
48:25
had he took a no hit bid or am I am I misremembering he had a no
48:30
hit bid there for a little bit against the Padres no or am I
48:36
mistaken? I thought there was 11 outing he
48:39
had recently where he he had a. Little bit, I mean if you want
48:43
to call like getting into like the 5th a bid.
48:46
I thought it was like maybe the 6th but.
48:48
Yeah, you're probably right. But has looked very good or.
48:51
I think it was the Orioles. No, because Orioles feeling went
48:55
six. Yeah.
48:57
I mean, this is this is a pitching staff that like is is
49:03
only going to go if if he goes like, you know what?
49:07
Max Freed has been unreal. Max Freed has been like league
49:13
leader in multiple pitching categories.
49:15
So like the depth there has to be followed up with the Carlos
49:19
Rodon and it kind of feels like he's starting to like figure out
49:28
his mentality in a way. Like he's just he's kind of a
49:31
head case man. He's just all over the place and
49:34
like you don't know who you're going to get.
49:37
Like you, we've seen like the Super amped up Carlos Rodon who
49:41
like wears himself out after one time through the order and then
49:44
looks terrible after that. And this is like the first time
49:48
I think in pinstripes that you're seeing Carlos Sardon like
49:51
go quality starts. I mean these are quality starts.
49:57
Go back to the second in April, 6 innings, 6 innings, 5 and 2
50:02
thirds, 6766 and 2/3. Like those are those are solid
50:07
starts. Those are very decent.
50:09
And even in those April starts, he was getting hit around a
50:13
little bit, but he's still chewing up innings.
50:16
And like, that's what these guys have to do.
50:19
It's not always going to be lights out, you know, 2-3 hits,
50:22
nowhere in runs. He's keeping the walks down, the
50:26
strikeouts. I'll give and take.
50:28
I think when he doesn't fall in love with his slider and overly
50:32
use the the fastball, like it's just a good mix.
50:36
Seems like they might have found like the right recipe and and
50:40
pitch calling. And we'll see if it keeps up.
50:43
Man, I hope it does. I didn't have, I didn't have
50:52
originally didn't have plans to mention this on the show today,
50:55
but they're actually talking about it on MLB Network right
50:59
now. So maybe it's it's notable
51:01
because I did, I actually just saw a quote.
51:04
I think I know what you're going to say.
51:06
Rafael Devers, it sounds, is officially unwilling to play
51:11
first base. Not this again.
51:16
That's, I mean, that's all I can say.
51:17
Not this again please. Is there a leak in the
51:20
clubhouse? What is?
51:21
Happening. Can we not do this again,
51:24
please? OK, here's here's the quote.
51:27
Here's the quote. Yeah, that's the thing.
51:29
We are in the like. Just shut up and go keep.
51:32
Winning media just eats this up. Granted, he's seems like he's
51:36
putting his foot in his mouth, he said.
51:38
Here's the quote, he said. I know I'm a ball player, but at
51:41
the same time they can't expect me to play every single position
51:44
out there. In spring training, they talked
51:46
to me and basically told me to put put away my glove, that I
51:49
wasn't going to play any other position but DH.
51:51
So right now I just feel like it's not an appropriate decision
51:54
by them to ask me to play another position.
51:56
It was the GM that I spoke with. I'm not sure what he has with
51:59
me. He played ball and I would like
52:01
to think he knows that changing positions like that isn't easy.
52:05
My brother, where do you this this whole they can't expect him
52:10
to play every position out there Brother DH in the corners.
52:15
We're not asking you to catch. We're not asking you to play the
52:17
outfield. We're not asking you to pitch
52:19
like we're the the Red Sox are paying him how much like 300
52:25
something and and you're you're throwing a little temper tantrum
52:33
because they said, well, you're going to be our DHS start and
52:36
now we've got an we've got an injury.
52:38
So maybe what you think about playing first base and he's on,
52:41
well, I can't play everywhere, guys.
52:44
Come on, dude. Oh boy, the good.
52:50
News you're making 313 and a half million dollars.
52:54
What? The good news is, I mean, he's
52:59
yours until 2033. Which I'm fine with, but like,
53:04
just stop, stop, stop with the, the posturing and like the
53:11
little hissy fit and like, I get it.
53:15
I get it. You don't like you, you want
53:17
there to be more clarity. But sometimes things happen to
53:19
where you just got to, you got to step up and be like, all
53:23
right, I got to take one for the team here.
53:25
Like you can't just you can't just have this isn't McDonald's,
53:28
man. You can't or freaking BK can't
53:30
just have it your way all the time.
53:33
If you want that, then go to BK, but you're at Fenway Park.
53:39
Respect. On those chicken fries you're.
53:41
Love those chicken fries? It's.
53:44
The only thing I need there. The only reason I would go
53:46
there, but you're at Fenway Park, Rafi, you can't.
53:50
You can't. You can't play at Burger King.
53:54
You can't have it your way all the time.
53:57
Was this I? I feel like I know the answer to
54:00
this, but I'm just confirming this was a Heimbloom extension,
54:06
not your current GM extension, correct or right like the
54:09
contract was? Pretty.
54:11
Yeah, Yeah. But I mean, he was the one in
54:15
the position, but this was ultimately a John Henry move
54:18
because he's the one that opens up the checkbook for these
54:21
bigger deals. Heim for sure.
54:22
Heim was able to to presumably take care of these these smaller
54:27
deals on his own, when John Henry probably didn't even know
54:30
that certain guys were being added to the team, but that John
54:34
Henry was very much familiar with.
54:39
This is weird, man, because like if they have any hopes of of
54:42
keeping Bregman, like this story isn't going to go away if he
54:46
doesn't shut up. I I it's very odd.
54:53
It's really odd to like still have this good for the reporters
55:00
on like understanding. Go back to this well and you're
55:03
going to get an answer. It's like clicks.
55:05
Man, you'd think at this point it would be just dead in the
55:08
water. Don't even bring it up.
55:10
But like he keeps feeding them, man, he keeps feeding them.
55:15
It's crazy. It really is like I I get it
55:18
around like the causes injury and like now this is back in the
55:22
discussion or potentially the cards are are back on the table.
55:25
But like there's a lot of they in that in that.
55:30
Quote which is scary. Yep, exactly.
55:34
That's scary. What a mess.
55:37
No trade clause. Let me see, I had the contract
55:41
already pulled up a mess. Dude like step up and just help
55:47
the team out. Dude, like yeah, I don't see.
55:50
Any like you're good. I, I've said it before, I don't
55:54
want this to turn into like a Rafi Devers slander fest as this
55:59
story continues to progress, but like, like you're good and I'm
56:05
glad, I'm glad you wear the jersey that you do, no doubt.
56:09
But like you're talking an awful lot for a guy that I just, I
56:18
don't think has the the the pull in his career just yet to be
56:25
able to do I I just don't. It's a very strange situation
56:32
because like, you look at his career, he's already, he's
56:38
already been in the league for nine years.
56:40
Yeah, that's crazy. He's 28.
56:44
He hasn't. I mean, which is I'm not saying
56:46
this, this isn't intended, but I can knock on the guy because
56:49
like the numbers he's put up have been good, very
56:52
respectable, but like, he hasn't cracked 40 homers the last. 3100
56:56
guy. The last time he came close to
56:58
knocking on the door was 2021, an All Star season.
57:01
He had 38. But like, if you, it's unfair to
57:07
maybe put him in this kind of conversation.
57:08
But if you look at what Aaron Judge is doing, it's like, OK,
57:11
that's a guy that can can have the pole should he want to have
57:16
the pole. But as as a guy that's talking
57:20
the way Rafael Devers is talking, you'd think he's a 4120
57:24
guy. I'm.
57:26
Going to be honest with you man, I I don't listen to our podcasts
57:33
after they come out, but I might just replay what you said over
57:42
and over again for a while. That's nice that you're just
57:45
comparing situations like this though.
57:48
Am I wrong it Rafael Devers is talking as if he's if he has the
57:57
pole of an Aaron Judge and he's like, yeah, is he?
58:01
Is he? It's weird to say face to the
58:07
franchise because he he's just not a very like forward facing
58:11
guy. He's a guy that just likes to
58:12
show up, mash homers and go home.
58:16
So it's it's weird for me to say face the franchise, but like,
58:21
sure, you can slot him into that role.
58:24
But yes, in the chat, he's no big poppy.
58:26
He's talking like he's big Poppy and he's just not.
58:30
And he needs to be better about especially considering you.
58:34
You finally have a team organized in a fashion that
58:38
could make it to the post season, something they haven't
58:40
done in. Years and off to a good start
58:43
like and you're pretty well. You're continuing to put your
58:46
foot in your mouth by saying, oh, I'm unwilling to do this.
58:49
I'm I'm willing to do that. Honestly, I think that quote
58:51
that I just read off, I think that's he was, he was waiting
58:55
for an opportunity with the way he felt he was treated with the
58:58
whole third basing. The second cost just went down
59:01
like a bag of dirt. He was he.
59:03
That quote was already spent. He was waiting for it and he was
59:06
sitting on it, which is just, that's just gross.
59:11
Anyway, I don't want to talk about it anymore.
59:14
Let's let's close the book here. TE Oscar Hernandez to the IL got
59:20
a we got a couple groin issues here.
59:24
What the heck? I didn't even connect the dots.
59:27
TE Oscar to the IL with the Grade 1 groin strain.
59:30
And it was just announced minutes ago that I think Hunter
59:35
Green's officially on the shelf with a right groin injury.
59:42
Rough week for the Groins Clip that out of context.
59:51
Yeah. Tay Oscar, it's.
59:53
Possibly a name that quote this offseason.
59:55
That's a good one. Rough week for the Groins, Tay
59:59
Oscar and Hunter Green. TIL Dodgers can can certainly
1:00:03
afford that that. Shock to the system, not really
1:00:10
much of A shock. They're they'll be fine.
1:00:12
They'll manage. They're playing very well.
1:00:13
But the Reds you you hope that hunter green can bounce back.
1:00:18
He was he was off to I think the the start he got pulled from he
1:00:21
was off to a pretty good start. He had I think yeah, 6
1:00:24
strikeouts through three. So just continue to show more
1:00:29
that dominance that he's really shown for the majority of the
1:00:32
season thus far. So you hope he can bounce back
1:00:35
for a Reds team that let's check in as of today, second place at
1:00:42
500 behind the Cubs, just three games.
1:00:46
I know it's early, but I was I was propping.
1:00:52
See if they can handle it. I was propping up the Reds
1:00:55
coming into this year, don't you forget.
1:00:57
Yeah, this. Could be.
1:00:59
This could be your Royals of last year.
1:01:02
Pretty sure I made that exact comment.
1:01:05
Yeah. That's some good recall right
1:01:07
there. I am still still working up here
1:01:11
at the age of 32, at the completion of 32.
1:01:17
It's so depressing to say. I my take, I say, I mean, we've
1:01:22
had some good conversation today, but my take away from
1:01:25
this whole thing is the fact that we're both older than Byron
1:01:28
Buxton, which I'd, I, I need to, I really need to reach out to
1:01:32
baseball reference and ensure that that's, that's not a typo,
1:01:35
because I think it is. I need to double check and make
1:01:38
sure they're on top of their their their PS and QS because
1:01:42
this I mean, you just look at Byron Bucks and you're like,
1:01:46
this guy is pushing 40 and he's. 31 Yeah, his body is probably.
1:01:56
Body's pushing pushing 60. Last note here.
1:02:00
Baltimore Orioles this suck, this made me, this just made me
1:02:05
so mad. I'm like, they're they're
1:02:07
unrelated, but just the timing of it couldn't have been more
1:02:11
comical. The According to Matt Weyrich on
1:02:17
Twitter, the Maryland Stadium Authority has approved the
1:02:20
Orioles plans for the upgraded scoreboard in center field they
1:02:25
say will be the 12th largest in Major League Baseball, which I
1:02:29
don't know why that's noteworthy.
1:02:30
That's like 12 middle, middle of the pack.
1:02:34
I guess he's just given sort of some comparison there as to
1:02:41
where it stacks up. 12th largest Major League Baseball upon its
1:02:44
completion this offseason and renderings have been released.
1:02:49
Look again, I'll say it again that I know they're unrelated,
1:02:53
but you're not upgrade. You're making plans to upgrade
1:02:57
the scoreboard before you're making plans to upgrade your
1:03:01
pitching staff. And that, to me, is the
1:03:06
Baltimore Orioles of 2025 in a nutshell.
1:03:12
We need to have Ryan on. So it's just, it's just the
1:03:18
elimination of the like signs that are going around.
1:03:22
It's just going all screen basically.
1:03:24
So it is like the same size, just more screen.
1:03:27
They they may expand it, but yeah, to your point, it's it's
1:03:29
gonna be gonna be a lot of screen, a lot of pixels.
1:03:34
Who cares? I don't.
1:03:36
And that's entirely the point. That's the point.
1:03:39
That's why I wanted to make note of it is because we're talking
1:03:42
about things like this with the Orioles and not talking about
1:03:46
starting pitching or pitching, yeah, at all.
1:03:53
What a mess. They're also doing like the like
1:03:58
attractions outside of the stadium kind of set up soon,
1:04:02
right? Yeah, I think I saw that there's
1:04:04
a lot of parks that are making plans just to take their stab at
1:04:08
like the the battery. If this one makes a lot of sense
1:04:11
though, because it's so close to where the Ravens play.
1:04:13
So it's like I could see something right in between those
1:04:17
two. A little something, something
1:04:19
instead of a parking lot. But yeah, I don't know.
1:04:22
Like, this is just not what needs to be talked about right
1:04:25
now. This is not this doesn't help
1:04:28
the cover up of of how bad this team is.
1:04:31
Look, this year, let's have Ryan on soon.
1:04:35
Let's shoot him a text so your team sucks.
1:04:37
We need you to come on here and bend.
1:04:39
Lauren in the chat says we do need to get Ryan on but he'll
1:04:42
just say the O's are fine. She's not.
1:04:44
Wrong. He's he's overly not wrong.
1:04:46
I need, we need to like tear him down a little bit.
1:04:48
Yeah, we need, we need to tear him down so that he'll tear his
1:04:51
team down and then we can start a we can start anew.
1:04:54
We can, that's right. We can sort of, that's right,
1:04:59
readjust as we go. I'm waiting.
1:05:02
I think the next news I need to hear is a Charlie Morton
1:05:04
retirement. That's the next headline I need
1:05:07
to hear from from Baltimore. Speaking to Which closing
1:05:11
thought a congratulations to friend of the pod.
1:05:17
Like one of the OG friend of the pod Ross trippling, calling it a
1:05:22
career, hanging up the spikes. I saw that announcement just the
1:05:25
other day. What a good career, man, Good
1:05:31
career, good career, good guy and.
1:05:34
I think he was what maybe like our second or third big leaguer
1:05:39
that we ever interviewed. Yeah, yeah.
1:05:41
Like he was like very early on that we got him.
1:05:45
He helped us out. See, man, he tried to, like, put
1:05:47
us into contact with some other guys and yeah, things like that
1:05:50
was always a help whenever I reached out to him.
1:05:53
Good. Dude didn't he do He had a
1:05:54
little podcast at one point didn't he?
1:05:57
Is he still doing that? Yeah, they they finished or they
1:06:00
wrap that up I guess a couple years, few years ago at this
1:06:04
point. But because I think he was just
1:06:06
trying to focus on what he was doing, but it's possible he
1:06:08
brings it back, who knows? Yeah, good guy.
1:06:11
Good, very good career, very solid career.
1:06:15
That's it's a good, good. What did he put out a tweet,
1:06:20
right? I guess he put out a.
1:06:21
Tweet. I think it was Instagram or
1:06:23
something, but yeah, he. I didn't realize his nickname
1:06:26
was Chicken Strip. Yeah.
1:06:28
You remember the player weekend. It was on the back of his
1:06:31
jersey. That's a good.
1:06:32
That's a good nickname. He leaned into that hard, and
1:06:36
for good reason. Yeah, name like that.
1:06:38
Why? Not solid career.
1:06:39
Congrats on a good career, Ross. I know you're listening.
1:06:44
Good guy, good guy. That's all I got.
1:06:48
That's all I got, man. I'm sure enjoy the rest of your
1:06:51
birthday. Thanks enjoying everybody in
1:06:54
chat emails. I'm going to clip that and send
1:06:58
it to your boss. Everybody in chat wish wish Nate
1:07:01
a happy birthday. He's he's turning 74 today.
1:07:07
Feels like it. If you were to ask my knee,
1:07:10
that's what, that's what it would say. 74 crazy.
1:07:17
My sister said that the Walker is on the way.
1:07:21
She said that it's being shipped.
1:07:23
So it's just tough, you know, it's tough.
1:07:27
Use if I. Have a gorgeous wife, you know
1:07:29
what I mean? Like good thing that that helps,
1:07:32
otherwise I'd have no confidence.
1:07:34
I texted you this morning the picture of the hat that I'm
1:07:37
sending your way for your birthday, but it actually is
1:07:40
going to be a hand rail for to put next to your toilet in the
1:07:45
bathroom to help you get up. I'd like, I also have stairs, so
1:07:48
I'd like the chair that goes up and down the stairs with the
1:07:50
seat belt. Yeah, I think that's important.
1:07:54
Safety. Safety first, guys.
1:07:56
Safety first. Yeah, that's all I got.
1:08:00
As always, people, I'm not going to do it, and you better not
1:08:04
either. Don't go chasing curveballs.
1:08:06
Love you all and AS. Always looking forward to
1:08:07
talking more baseball with you guys soon.
1:08:09
Until next time, stay filthy.