Latest / Foul Territory / Red Sox 1B fix, O’s brainwashing, Royals IL Ragans/Lugo, Astros holding back Yordan news?

Transcript

Red Sox 1B fix, O’s brainwashing, Royals IL Ragans/Lugo, Astros holding back Yordan news? · Foul Territory

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: He took a catcher one to one. And who caught
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: Game one of the playoffs last year.
• 0:04
  Speaker 2: It wasn't athlete, it was mckinn because McCain was significantly
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: better defensively.
• 0:14
  Speaker 3: Jason Lackhampora joining us right now. Appreciate the time Jason.
• 0:17
  Speaker 3: You can hear him on one oh five seven the
• 0:19
  Speaker 3: Fan every day two to six Eastern.
• 0:21
  Speaker 4: So he's coming up. So let's get right to biz.
• 0:23
  Speaker 3: Jason uh, Brandon Hyde out, and Mike Elias still running
• 0:28
  Speaker 3: this organization.
• 0:30
  Speaker 4: What is next?
• 0:33
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: Apparently not even a press conference for the GM who
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: went for ten days to find any sympathetic podcast in
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: microphone he could find to spew his problem in BS
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: about his FOA accountability and his allegiance to Brandon Hyde,
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: and then he fires the guy Saturday morning and suddenly
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: has no time to do anything. There's a lot of
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: fraudulent stuff that's been perpetrated on this fan base for
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: several years now. You can really take it back to
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: the twenty three trade deadline, which is when I started
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: seeing right through that warehouse and seeing that there was
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: not only no there there, but there was no soul there.
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: And yeah, so I don't know about this owner, like
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: you guys know anything about this owner like I. I
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: you know, he used to spray people with water guns
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: and throw hats at them, let them eat cake. Now
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: you can't even find him. He's got nothing to say
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: about firing a manager. He's got nothing to say about
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: a farm system that's stagnate.
• 1:24
  Speaker 5: He's got nothing to say I guess about.
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: Six years of international signings that have maybe produced Sam Pasio,
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: but nothing else. He's got nothing to say about all
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: of Michaelias's horrid transactions. He's got nothing to say about
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: these jokers butcher in this ballpark twice and having no
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: playoff wins to show for it. Michaelias is the problem.
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: He's the cancer. He's patient zero until they cut him out.
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: This is all BS.
• 1:47
  Speaker 6: Does it happen? Do they cut him out? I don't know.
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: I have no idea, Like I mean, I would have
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: fired him with Brandon Hyde. Why don't you just fire him?
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: You're really gonna give him another trade deadline? Like he's
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: clearly shown he plays favorites. It's all politics. Certain guys
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: get a million chances, other guys get no chances. Coyle
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: Stellers and so like if you want to let him
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: keep doing this, I mean you can, but like allfull
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: enough to remember this owner with the richest people on
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: the planet from Davo, Switzerland in this offseason saying Michael
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: Wis is a genius. He convinced man, I don't have
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: to spend money. We don't want to win press conferences.
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: Mike's got the next seven years of the American League
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: penciled out and we're good to go. I mean, how
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: do I compete with that? He's completely brainwashed? I mean,
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: I when it is a reality, what really matters? Like
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: do you want to talk about the fact that, like
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: the double eighteen has a fourteen on base?
• 2:37
  Speaker 5: Do we want to talk about that? They're hitting incubator?
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: You want to talk about the high eight team's got
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: a three seventeen on base?
• 2:42
  Speaker 5: We want to talk about that? He's wanna talk about.
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: Vince Honeycutt can't hit high a right handed pitching and
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: he was supposed to be like a fast starter.
• 2:49
  Speaker 5: Like it's a joke.
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: It's rotten to the core all the way through. They
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: haven't produced a picture yet, but like does this guy know?
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: Does he notice? Is he aware? I don't know, but
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: you think Tony Manzelino's gonna fix it.
• 3:04
  Speaker 5: He kept the hitting coaches. I mean, this, this whole
• 3:06
  Speaker 5: thing is a charade.
• 3:09
  Speaker 7: So you think Michae Olias is the guy to get
• 3:11
  Speaker 7: him to the next level? Is that what you're saying?
• 3:13
  Speaker 8: I do?
• 3:13
  Speaker 4: Would?
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: I think?
• 3:15
  Speaker 5: I think he needs to be the team president. You
• 3:17
  Speaker 5: needed Dombrowski him.
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and and then bring in more underlings and let
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: him work this thing even more. I mean, look, they're
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: They're fifty seven and seventy six since beating the Yankees
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: in an afternoon game and chasing Louis Hill from the
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: Bronx last June twentieth, fifty seven and seventy six. They're
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: twenty seven and forty at home in that span, including
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. Like, you know, who's worse than the Orioles
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: at home since June twentieth, the last year the White
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: Sox the same records the Rock You know.
• 3:49
  Speaker 7: No, not fair. I can't take shots at the White
• 3:51
  Speaker 7: Sox and.
• 3:51
  Speaker 5: No that White Sox are. I mean, at least we
• 3:53
  Speaker 5: know what the White Sox are.
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: They're not trying to propagate a myth like they're doing
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: what Elias did.
• 3:59
  Speaker 5: And Elias did what he did to go back to
• 4:01
  Speaker 5: being the White Sox. It's great, it's genius.
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, give him a contract for life.
• 4:06
  Speaker 5: All right?
• 4:07
  Speaker 7: So I mean I do want to know this, Like,
• 4:09
  Speaker 7: what would you have done differently then? Because we talk
• 4:11
  Speaker 7: about Dave Dombrowski and aj Preller and some of these
• 4:13
  Speaker 7: other gms that go out at the EF scene did
• 4:15
  Speaker 7: it for a couple of times and go out and
• 4:17
  Speaker 7: make the moves they need to make. But what would
• 4:19
  Speaker 7: you have done different than what Elias did with the
• 4:21
  Speaker 7: resources he was given.
• 4:23
  Speaker 5: Well, we were begging for Avaldi or Pavetta on my show.
• 4:28
  Speaker 5: We were I look what I have done.
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: I know he hasn't had a huge start there, and
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: I think I might have talked about it with you
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: guys a while back.
• 4:34
  Speaker 5: Gunnar Henderson's a third basement, not a shortstop.
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: Again, we can propagate myths, we can live in alias
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: world and we can live in the real world. I
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: would have brought in Willie Domas, got a real shortstop,
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: move Gunner to third between Westburg or Jackson Holliday, and
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: got a decision to make Conjord and Westburg play first pace.
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: If he can, Why is Ryan Malcastle still here? Like
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: I would have never made the Stowars trade. Can go
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: back and listen to my show. I destroyed that trade
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: in real time. Nobody was their best second basement at
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: that time. Stowars was their best right fielder at that time,
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: and Trevor Rodgers is a jump for a arm that
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: was never going to.
• 5:03
  Speaker 5: Recover, especially not with these guys being the ones to
• 5:06
  Speaker 5: fix them. Who do they fix? I mean we could,
• 5:10
  Speaker 5: we could go on and on.
• 5:11
  Speaker 1: I panned both of their last two deadlines in real
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: time and said, this guy made the team worse. I mean,
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: do you want to you want to defend Eloy Jimenez
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: and Austin Slater like we can? I mean, if you
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: want to take that side, But you tell me what
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: he's done that's been good, like you tell me at
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: the major league level. I'm not talking about tanking to
• 5:29
  Speaker 1: pick fifth overall. By the way, the kid they took
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: second overall can't still can't play corner outfield. I told
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: him that in low A. You can find the text
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: of Michaelias, like, bro, I'm watching this kid. Is you're
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: gonna make them a dh to get the bat up here?
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: Heston curse Dad? Or if you want to be a
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: corner outfielder. Then you better like devote a whole lot
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: of time to that. Just go watch him play right
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: field the other day. There's nothing that's happened that I
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: didn't call. Kobe Mayo is not a third baseman. He
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: makes two errors, they send him back down to Norfolk.
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: Where do you think he plays the next night? First
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: base or right field where he is a future, or
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: third base because Michaellias is a genius, third base because
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: michaelas is a genius.
• 6:04
  Speaker 8: Do they have enough offense that if they weren't down
• 6:07
  Speaker 8: by three or four runs by the fourth inning every night,
• 6:11
  Speaker 8: do they have enough offense to say, you know what
• 6:13
  Speaker 8: we can put together at bats?
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: I was begging for a real bat last year when
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: they were high on the hog when they beat the
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: Yankee seventeen to five. Because you want to know their
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: own base, Since then, in one hundred and thirty five games,
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: their own base is three eleven, it was three run
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: homers or nothing at all. What happens when that drives up?
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: What happens when they don't keep Santanderamrount? What happens when
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: Gunnar Henderson's no longer on a one hundred home run pace?
• 6:35
  Speaker 5: Like it. Don't even get me started with Aley Rutchman.
• 6:37
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's ridiculous.
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: It is unseerious, unprofessional and farcical to keep batting him
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: third or fourth every night with these quality or lack
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: quality of at batch. He's also not even an average catcher. Like,
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: he's not even an average catcher, and he's supposed to
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: be the face of this thing. I mean, he was
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: finding from last year's atrocity with arguably a worst start
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: to this year. Like, No, they're not an e lead,
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: They're not a lead anything. They pla tune all over
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: the place. They don't even know how to do player development.
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: Everybody plays three positions two days a week in the miners.
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: How's that working out for him? Grayson Rodriguez never pitches
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: into the seventh inning in the miners, How's that working
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: out for him? Everybody piggybacks, everybody gets a participation medal,
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: Nobody goes through adversity.
• 7:21
  Speaker 4: It's a joke, Crats. I'm gonna let everyone in on
• 7:25
  Speaker 4: a little secret.
• 7:26
  Speaker 3: I am not a fan of carrying around physical cash.
• 7:30
  Speaker 4: I go cash app where.
• 7:32
  Speaker 3: You can send, receive, or transfer money with family and friends.
• 7:36
  Speaker 3: It's super easy. They got your back to Like, if
• 7:38
  Speaker 3: you're trying to send some money and you maybe put
• 7:40
  Speaker 3: in the wrong account name, they'll be like, hey, this
• 7:43
  Speaker 3: is a sketchy account. Are you sure you want to
• 7:45
  Speaker 3: send this? Cash App has your back. They do it safe, securely,
• 7:49
  Speaker 3: easily and fee free.
• 7:53
  Speaker 8: And all you got to do is download the app
• 7:55
  Speaker 8: and Scott can actually pay for his half of dinner.
• 8:00
  Speaker 4: Exactly for a limited time only.
• 8:03
  Speaker 3: New cash App users can use our exclusive code to
• 8:06
  Speaker 3: earn some additional cash for real. There's no catch. Download
• 8:09
  Speaker 3: cash App, sign up, It's very easy, and use our
• 8:12
  Speaker 3: exclusive referral code Territory in your profile. Send five bucks
• 8:16
  Speaker 3: to a friend within fourteen days and you'll get ten
• 8:18
  Speaker 3: dollars dropped right into your account.
• 8:20
  Speaker 4: Terms apply. That's money, that's cash App.
• 8:25
  Speaker 7: What happened to Adley? I want to know I've been
• 8:27
  Speaker 7: on this train Tea. It's been a year now. I
• 8:30
  Speaker 7: mean it's been like a year now, right, I mean
• 8:32
  Speaker 7: it's not like this has been a couple of weeks
• 8:35
  Speaker 7: and you're like, oh man, you'll bounce back. This started
• 8:37
  Speaker 7: like around June first ish last year. So what happened?
• 8:40
  Speaker 7: Because he was supposed to be the phase he was
• 8:42
  Speaker 7: supposed to be the guy they were going to sign.
• 8:44
  Speaker 7: He was the one one. I mean, this was their guy.
• 8:46
  Speaker 7: What has happened? Because I like Adley and I think
• 8:49
  Speaker 7: he could be really good.
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: I think he's mentally fractured. I think he's over enabled.
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: He had a huge collapse last year. They didn't make
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: him talk to the media. There was zero accountability. They
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: propagated their They kept batting him third or fourth every night.
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: Things got worse instead of getting better. Did they go
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: and get him real help with the deadline? No, like
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: I said, they got Alstin Slater and Eloi Amenez like.
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: So that puts even more pressure on the kids. I
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: don't think he was in tremendous shape last year. I
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: do think he showed up in camp in better shape
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: this year. But they also coddled him. Go look at
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: how few winnings he's actually caught. For someone at the
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: beginning of their career. It became pretty obvious last year
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: he doesn't hit many catches. So their response to that
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: was the dh more bro They took a catcher one
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: to one, and who caught Game one of the playoffs
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: last year?
• 9:33
  Speaker 2: It wasn't Adlie, it was mckinn because mckinn was significantly
• 9:37
  Speaker 2: better defensively McCann's and Triple A like no.
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: I think Adlie shattered in the head. I think he
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: hit major adversity. I think they were ill equipped to
• 9:46
  Speaker 1: handle it. I think they blew smoke up his backside.
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: I think Freddy Gonzalez one of the people who was
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: a bit maybe of a bad cop in that organization.
• 9:54
  Speaker 5: He got tossed out at the end of the season.
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: And they've got a younger coaching staff, even less experienced.
• 10:00
  Speaker 5: And they continue to do the same things they've done.
• 10:02
  Speaker 5: Find me the spot where ADLEI sat for two or
• 10:04
  Speaker 5: three days in a row. Why is he above that?
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: And at the same time, Cedric Mallins was their best hitter,
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: Cedric Mallins a top twenty hitter in Major League Baseball
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: against right handers at home since June of last year.
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: And they had Cedric batt Nathan ninth in the playoffs
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: and he's the only guy delivering. It's politics, it's shameful stuff.
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: They need a new set of eyes to come in
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: here and figure out who fits and who doesn't.
• 10:25
  Speaker 5: And I got news for you. And he might not fit.
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: He certainly might not fit a catcher and if he's
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: going to first base, homeboy better learned to hit the
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: ball hard in the air.
• 10:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 10:34
  Speaker 3: Hey, Michael Isias' computer system's not working out well. Last
• 10:37
  Speaker 3: one real quick. I know you got your show, What's next?
• 10:40
  Speaker 3: So what are you trading?
• 10:41
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 10:41
  Speaker 4: So if you are taking over this team.
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: Pedrick Mallins, Ethlyn Sigano, Jorge Matteo, Ryan O'Hearn, I mean,
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: whatever you can get from Meltcastle. They waited way too
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: long for that. I mean they should have traded when
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: he had thirty home months. Again, this is a vision's history.
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: I talked about this stuff four hours a day, five
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: days a week. And you can check my Twitter feed too.
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: It's all timestamp Like I mean, everything that's not that's
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: not nailed down, like Batista. I would absolutely trade Batista.
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: I mean they like doing business with the Phillies. They
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: get fleeced all the time.
• 11:13
  Speaker 5: But like.
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, it should be but it can't be him,
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: Like this guy can't do it. He's the problem. How's
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: the problem going to fix itself when he won't even
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: admit it's a problem.
• 11:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're gonna go through this trade deadline with with
• 11:26
  Speaker 3: Michael Oas and you're saying he's going to be the
• 11:28
  Speaker 3: guy for the next several years.
• 11:29
  Speaker 4: And I knows fans like you.
• 11:31
  Speaker 7: No, no, because the White Sox went through a trade
• 11:34
  Speaker 7: deadline and then fired Rick On and Kenny Williams.
• 11:36
  Speaker 8: So true.
• 11:38
  Speaker 7: I mean, I don't know if that's necessarily true or not.
• 11:41
  Speaker 7: I mean, you know, you didn't compare the Oils to
• 11:43
  Speaker 7: the White Sox, so maybe they are on the similar paths.
• 11:45
  Speaker 7: Never do.
• 11:46
  Speaker 3: We got to get Jason to a show, but he'll
• 11:48
  Speaker 3: be bringing this today, of course to Jason. Great stuff. Uh,
• 11:51
  Speaker 3: make sure you listen to Jason on the fan in Baltimore.
• 11:54
  Speaker 3: Give him a follow to thank you, Jason, appreciate it man,
• 11:56
  Speaker 3: Thank you for having Thank you love having you on.
• 11:58
  Speaker 3: Let's hit better than box Score and we'll start with
• 12:00
  Speaker 3: the Red Sox, who had an entertaining weekends aj after
• 12:05
  Speaker 3: you know, they were playing a little bit down and lost.
• 12:07
  Speaker 4: The Tigers got swept.
• 12:09
  Speaker 3: Raphael Devers drama kind of continues, even though there hasn't
• 12:13
  Speaker 3: been much publicly about it. The drama continues because Christian
• 12:16
  Speaker 3: Campbell might end up being their first baseman. Devers, by
• 12:19
  Speaker 3: the way, the Big walk off on Saturday, he looks
• 12:22
  Speaker 3: like one of the better dhs in baseball. So some
• 12:25
  Speaker 3: people are starting to be like, maybe we don't mess
• 12:28
  Speaker 3: with this. And cor is talking about how first base
• 12:30
  Speaker 3: is not as easy as you think, which I think
• 12:32
  Speaker 3: is also code for I don't think Devers.
• 12:37
  Speaker 4: Will be good at this even if he tried.
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: So what do you think about the more athletic and
• 12:41
  Speaker 3: younger and I'm happy to be here Christian Campbell trying
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: out first base so that maybe David Hamilton can play second.
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: Eventually Marcella Meyer can come up and either him or
• 12:50
  Speaker 3: Story can play second.
• 12:51
  Speaker 4: In short thoughts, I like it.
• 12:54
  Speaker 7: I mean the sir Christian Campbell's young. He'll play wherever
• 12:56
  Speaker 7: they want them to. Raffie Devers is happy at DH.
• 13:01
  Speaker 7: It seems like he's swinging the bat much better as
• 13:03
  Speaker 7: the DH. He's getting used to it. Yeah, sure, listen.
• 13:06
  Speaker 7: If it makes a team better, then I think Christian
• 13:09
  Speaker 7: Campbe will do whatever he can first base. Listen. Everyone
• 13:13
  Speaker 7: wants to make first base either really easy or really hard.
• 13:17
  Speaker 7: It's kind of in between.
• 13:18
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 13:18
  Speaker 7: If you can play second base, I feel like you
• 13:20
  Speaker 7: should be able to play first base.
• 13:22
  Speaker 8: Now.
• 13:23
  Speaker 7: Listen is for someone like me that only played catcher
• 13:25
  Speaker 7: first base would have been really hard because it just
• 13:27
  Speaker 7: wouldn't have been used to it, and I'm not used
• 13:28
  Speaker 7: to being on the dirt and moving around and using
• 13:30
  Speaker 7: my feet and catching ground balls. But I feel like
• 13:33
  Speaker 7: for a middle infielder guy like Christian Campbell, this could
• 13:35
  Speaker 7: be an easier transition than others. And if it makes
• 13:38
  Speaker 7: the team better and they bring out Meyer or they
• 13:40
  Speaker 7: can put Hamilton there, then yeah, this seems like something easy.
• 13:44
  Speaker 8: AJ talking about people who moves to first base. The
• 13:48
  Speaker 8: reason everybody, I think has the misstep of, ah, he
• 13:52
  Speaker 8: wasn't a very good left fielder, so we'll just move
• 13:54
  Speaker 8: him to first base. Oh he you know, look at
• 13:57
  Speaker 8: Bryce Harper, he moved to first baseer is athletic. You
• 14:01
  Speaker 8: can't just move anybody to first base. So I agree
• 14:04
  Speaker 8: with AJ that Christian Campbell, if you teach him exactly
• 14:08
  Speaker 8: what's there, because I'm sure Christian Campbell, being the athlete,
• 14:13
  Speaker 8: being the you know, future big league prospect that he's
• 14:16
  Speaker 8: been his entire life.
• 14:18
  Speaker 6: Has never played first base.
• 14:20
  Speaker 8: So learning the little intricacies of waiting to stretch for
• 14:24
  Speaker 8: every ball, how to get to the bag without looking
• 14:28
  Speaker 8: down at it and understand the ball might still be
• 14:30
  Speaker 8: on its way, how to drop step, how to not
• 14:33
  Speaker 8: go to your right so that you're not vacating first
• 14:36
  Speaker 8: base bag. Like, there's a lot to learn, but he's athletic.
• 14:39
  Speaker 8: I think he'll do fine.
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: And remember Christian Campbell was one of those guys when
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: he first got the call by the Red Sox who
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: was like, wait, I get my own hotel room.
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: We're traveling private on the team plane.
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: You know, it's a pup who's excited to be in
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: the bigs, and of course then signs the extension. So
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: he's mostly concerned about the team than his individual accomplishments, right,
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think some of those things do lead
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: to it being an easier conversation with Campbell, let alone
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: the fact that, yeah, I think personally he can handle
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: the position better than Devers. I don't want to sleep
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: on the fact that Rafael Devers is one of the
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: best stayers in baseball but was one of the worst
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: defenders in baseball for years four years. I think the
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: Red Sox always saw him as a future DH and
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: it was just a matter of when not if.
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: Is it earlier than we thought?
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: Sure, but it's not his thing and he's doing well
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: in the DH spot.
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: So now I'm like, we went.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: Back and forth on a lot of things during that
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: time period for a week when he said he doesn't
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: want to play first, but it actually might be the
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: best scenario for all sides to have something like this workout.
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: Let's hit better than box scores.
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: And we'll start with the Red Sox, who had an
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: entertaining weekends aja after you know, they were playing a
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: little bit down and lost. The Tigers got swept. Raphael
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: Devers drama kind of continues, even though there hasn't been
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: much publicly about it. The drama continues because Christian Campbell
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: might end up being their first baseman. Devers, by the
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: way the big walk off on Saturday, he looks like
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: one of the better dhs in baseball. So some people
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: are starting to be like, maybe we don't mess with this.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: And Corus talking about how first base is not as
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: easy as you think, which I think is also code
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: for I don't think Devers.
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: Will be good at this even if he tried.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: So what do you think about the more athletic and
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: younger and I'm happy to be here Christian Campbell trying
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: out first base, so that maybe David hamiltonkh play second.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: Eventually Marcella Meyer can come up and either him or
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: Story can play second.
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: In short thoughts, I like it.
• 16:47
  Speaker 7: I mean the sen Christian Campbell's young, He'll play wherever
• 16:50
  Speaker 7: they want them to. Raffie Devers is happy at DH.
• 16:54
  Speaker 7: It seems like he's swinging the bat much better as
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: the DH. He's getting used to it. Yeah, sure, listen.
• 16:59
  Speaker 7: I him makes a team better than I think Christian
• 17:02
  Speaker 7: Campbe will do whatever he can first base.
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: Listen.
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: Everyone wants to make first base either really easy or
• 17:09
  Speaker 7: really hard. It's kind of in between.
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: If you can play second base, I feel like you
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: should be able to play first base now, listen. Is
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: for someone like me that only played catcher, first base
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: would have been really hard because it just wouldn't have
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: been used to it. And I'm not used to being
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: on the dirt and moving around and using my feet
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: and catching ground balls. But I feel like for a
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: middle infielder guy like Christian Campbell, this could be an
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: easier transition than others. And if it makes the team
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: better and they bring out Meyer or they can put
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: Hamilton there, then yeah, this seems like something easy.
• 17:37
  Speaker 8: AJ talking about people who moves to first base the reason. Everybody,
• 17:43
  Speaker 8: I think has the misstep of, ah, he wasn't a
• 17:46
  Speaker 8: very good left fielder, so we'll just move him to
• 17:48
  Speaker 8: first base. Oh he you know, look at Bryce Harper,
• 17:50
  Speaker 8: he moved to first base. Bryce Harper is athletic. You
• 17:55
  Speaker 8: can't just move anybody to first base. So I agree
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: with AJ that Christian Campbell, if you teach him exactly
• 18:02
  Speaker 8: what's there.
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: Because I'm sure Christian Campbell.
• 18:04
  Speaker 8: Being the athlete, being the you know, future big league
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: prospect that he's been his entire life.
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: Has never played first base.
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: So learning the little intricacies of waiting to stretch for
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: every ball, how to get to the bag without looking
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: down at it and understand the ball might still be
• 18:23
  Speaker 8: on its way, how to drop step, how to not
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: go to your right so that you're not vacating first
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: base bag. Like, there's a lot to learn, but he's athletic.
• 18:32
  Speaker 8: I think he'll do fine.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: I remember Christian Campbell was one of those guys when
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: he first got the call by the Red Sox who
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: was like, wait, I get my own hotel room. We're
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: traveling private on the team plane. You know, it's a
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: pup who's excited to be in the BIGS, and of
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: course then signs the extension. So he's mostly concerned about
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: the team than his individualccomplishments, right, I mean, I think
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: some of those things do lead to it being an
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: easier conversation with Campbell. Let alone the fact that, yeah,
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: I think personally he can handle the position better than Devers.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: I don't want to sleep on the fact that Raphael
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Devers is one of the best players in baseball but
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: was one of the worst defenders in baseball four years.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Four years. I think the Red.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: Sox always saw him as a future DH and it
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: was just a matter of when not if. Is it
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: earlier than we thought? Sure, but it's not his thing
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: and he's doing well in the DH spot.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: So now I'm like, we went.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Back and forth on a lot of things during that
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: time period for a week when he said he doesn't
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: want to play first, but it actually might be the
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: best scenario for all sides to have something like this workout.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: Let's get to the Royals.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: They lost two starters in the past what forty eight
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: seventy two hours, and they're two of the top five
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: last year in Cy Young voting. Reagan's is off to
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: a slower start although this injury could be a part
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: of it. Seth Luga and Cole Reagan's both to the
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: shelf and it's a left groin strain for Reagan's apparently
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: it's been bothering him for a bit. Sprained middle finger
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: for Seth Lugo.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: Royals have been.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Streaky actually as a team. Aj I mean they had
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: the what six gamer at one point in mid April,
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: and then they won what was.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: It sixteen out of eighteen?
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: I want to say something crazy here, I got it
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: sixteen out of eighteen, and then now they're in a
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: rut again. So thoughts on if the Oriols are gonna
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: be okay.
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: The Royals I think are. I mean they're over five hundred,
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: they're twenty six and twenty two. As long as they're
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: bullpench six together, I think they'll be fine. They're gonna
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: need Endings Walking needs to stay healthy. But yeah, losing
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: Reagan's and Lugo is a big blow to this team.
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: But Bubich has.
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: Been really good for him. I don't think this kills him.
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: But they're in a tough division. I mean there's fourteens
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: over five hundred in the Al Central and then there's
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: the White Sox. So I think they're gonna be okay.
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: They're gonna be in it till the end. JJ Picolo
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: go out and make a move if he has to
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: as a deadline gets closer. But this is an ideal.
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: They need these guys back as quick as possible.
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: They need to just play the game that they have
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: been built to play. I mean, I think they strike
• 21:10
  Speaker 8: out the second least of any team in baseball. I
• 21:13
  Speaker 8: think they need to up there on base percentage as
• 21:17
  Speaker 8: an offense. But we're talking about losing two of your starters.
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: What team can lose two of their starters, let alone
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: two that essentially carried them last year. And it's gonna
• 21:30
  Speaker 8: really to me, it's really going to test the depth
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: of their bullpen because these guys were going out there
• 21:36
  Speaker 8: and giving them length and giving them innings two out
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: of every the every five times through the rotation.
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: It's going to really test.
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: It because they're not going to They're not going to
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: sit there and you know, let different guys go as
• 21:50
  Speaker 8: deep as Lugo and and Reagan's were going. So I
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: think it's really going to test that bullpen because they're
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: just not blowing teams out. You're you're playing a lot
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: of close games. Even during that fifteen and two stretch,
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: it wasn't a lot of runs being scored, which puts
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: more pressure on your pitching.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that is a really good division. The American League
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Central in a different way, right, But the ALE Central
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: is really good. NL West obviously, I think is probably
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: the best division this year. But the ALE Central stands
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: out just like they did last year. Lastly, AL West,
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: the Astros are missing your Don Alvarez, and this has
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: seemed to come up year after year. Chandler Rome, who
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: covers the team of the Athletic and of course hosts
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Crush City Territory, brings this up, as do many others.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: But you've got fans like what's up with jord Don
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: Alvarez and Chandler Rome's tweeting, Hey, is this going slower
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: than expected? He asked Joe spot Out of spot Is said,
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: I just want to make sure it's completely going away.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: We don't want to go back to where if you
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: feel something again, we have to restore the start the
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: whole process.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: He said. It's there, but every day it feels better,
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: you know.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: And then you've got other fans replying to Chandler being like, yeah,
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: that's what they said last year about Kyle Tucker. I
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: actually think this just goes to an organizational slash medical
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: staff decision from the Astros in particular AJ, who say, we're.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: Not going to give you much.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: You know, it's almost football style, even though it doesn't
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: really affect things the same way. Right, Like if a
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: guy's hurt in football or hockey and then he comes
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: back or he's playing, you can pick on him. That's
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: not really a thing in baseball. So I think from
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: a fan perspective and even from a beat writer perspective,
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: they're like, why can't you just tell us what's really
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: going on? Like Kyle Tucker didn't have you know, a
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: little booboo on his knee last year. He had a
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: fractured what shit or something like that. It was a
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: significant injury and it was kind of hidden for a while.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: Isn't it weird?
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: Uh? You know, teams want to downplay this as much
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: as possible because they don't want people to, you know,
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: think this guy's hurt. They want hope, right, and if
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: you're not, I mean, didn't he have a hand, like
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: he has a bruised hand or he has an injury
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: like I've never heard of it. He's been out for
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: for a long time, and yeah, you don't want it
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: to pop back up. But yeah, you'd like teams to
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: be honest, but let's be honest. No one's honest all
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: the time, So not gonna They're not going to give
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: you everything you want at all times.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is a hand, but it's a muscle strain
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: in his right hand. And he's been on the aisle
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: since May fit. I mean, it hasn't been that long.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: But people look at what they say publicly Crafts and
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: they're like, is that really what the injury is or
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: is it something worse? Because you lose trust when you
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: have a situation like Tucker and that wasn't even the
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: first case.
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: But what but what does I'm going to go on
• 24:27
  Speaker 8: the team side here, Why do we need to disclose it?
• 24:30
  Speaker 8: Why do we need to disclose exactly what it is?
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: You don't we can say whatever we want, right every
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: team can just say dude has a booboo, he'll be
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: back sometime soon. But that's not really the protocol for
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: most they say what the actual situation is?
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: I mean, obviously normally you have.
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: To share it normally you have to tell what the
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: injury is because you don't want a fake ill. That's
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: why you usually have to come up with even though
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: teams just make something up, as we all know, but
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: normally that's why you have to tell the injury so
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: they can have a doctor sign off of and say, oh, yeah,
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: this is really what's wrong.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Yep, which you can disclose I guess privately with the league,
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: with other teams when you're looking at medical stuff like that.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: But I don't know, people just want some transparency. I
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: see both sides, but I'm gonna go on the fan
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: side here. Just tell us what's really happening, and for Alvarez,
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: this is probably what's really happening. It's just that you
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: get a lot of fan mistrust when they dealt with
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: what they did last year with Cocker,