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Skubal’s HISTORIC “Maddux” · The 3-0 Take

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Well, we love talking ball and I'm here to tell you that we got
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some good things we're talking about today.
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Let's talk some ball before we do that, though.
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Well, no, I already know the answer to this question.
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You didn't get a chance to get any dogs or burgers today.
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Did you celebrate the the new the day that is Memorial Day,
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honor our fallen. Honestly, let's just let's just
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go ahead and acknowledge that right off the top here because
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that's that's more important than anything we're going to
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talk about. You know, we don't even, we
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don't say happy Memorial Day, but it is a weekend worth
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celebrating as we, we pay our respects and our, and the honor
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to those who have fallen, have paid the the ultimate sacrifice
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to protect our freedom, greatly appreciated to those men and
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women and their families, because as, as we know, like we,
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we know people who have, who have served and it takes a toll
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on the family as well. So, you know, this is a, this is
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a weekend not about not about burgers and dogs, although that
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is an opportunity for people to gather and, and reflect on these
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things. That is an element of this, but
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an important weekend to, to honor and remember and reflect.
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So we, we thank, we thank those of you who have served or are
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part of a family or have friends or or loved ones that that have
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served. So we thank you for that.
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Big time, man. What better way to celebrate our
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freedom than, you know, hanging out with fam, Grilling,
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laughing, telling stories, watching ball, yuking it up.
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That's what freedom's all about, baby.
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Baseball and freedom, they just go hand in hand.
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I tell you what, it's very true. I tell you, I tell you a guy
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who's worth talking about right now and I'll look, it's, you
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know, it's not even, it's not even our midweek episode.
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But I tell you what. It's hair Scubal.
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Can we? I know, I, I, I got to be
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careful with that, man. I, I use that a little too
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liberally where I'm just, yeah, I'm, I'm going to get, I'm going
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to get some people in trouble. I apologize.
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I, I, I'm going to, I'm, I'm messing something up, messing
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somebody up. I don't, I got to keep, keep an
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eye out for that. But no little, little premature
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credit cannon for Tarek Scubal. We'll just go ahead and and hit
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him with that. Sure.
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Dude. The.
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Without a doubt the best pitcher in baseball.
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This guy like he, every time he goes out, it's like what, what
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is he going to do differently this time out to demonstrate
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that he's still the best pitcher in baseball to eliminate any
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question of anybody else possibly taking that title from
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him this season. And he goes out and and does
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this. I mean, this is just hands down
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one of the better games you're ever going to see pitched.
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And I don't like to throw that around loosely, but I mean, ACG,
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two hits, no runs, no walks, 13 KS and that great.
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As crazy as it sounds, that's not even the the most, to me at
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least you may disagree. That's not even the most
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impressive part of the whole feet 94 pitches, which as as we
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all know, is a Maddox under 100 pitches.
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That's the rule. 94 pitches, 72 strikes, 72 strikes.
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Let me do the quick math on that.
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What is that? What does that come out to?
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What is that? What is that strike percentage
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I'm? Going to say 82%.
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All right, it's been a minute since I, I did math.
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I'm going to divide those numbers 72, I got it, I got it.
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72 / 94 that comes out to a strike percentage of 77%.
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Close enough. That's gross. 26 swings and
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misses, his first and honestly the biggest of shout outs to
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Tarek Schuble, the first CG of his career.
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All of this according to Is Jeffrey Passing?
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Kind of surprising about that update, you know?
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That's what I'm saying. You would assume this, this dude
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would have at least half a dozen C GS on his belt.
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But he's like, you know what? I don't actually I, I have 0C
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GS. Let me just go out and do it in
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arguably the most dominant fashion that it could be done.
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Well, I wanted to, I wanted to kind of look up if there is
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anything different necessarily. So are my question for you is,
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are you wearing your nerd hat today?
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I'm wearing my nerd ears. I'm open to whatever it is that
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you have for me. OK, I'm wearing my nerd.
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I'm so I'm listening. When I, when I like to nerd out,
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I, I just, I just take a little jaunt, just a little stroll over
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to baseball savant. We just, we're just making up
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words now. Is that a thing?
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Jaunt. Jaunt.
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I don't. I don't I'm.
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Going to go JAUNT jaunt. You know that's a word jaunt, a
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short excursion or journey for pleasure.
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How about that? There we are.
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That's a pole right there. I'm.
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A nerd jaunt. Don't know if I've ever used
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that before, but let's. Roll with welcome.
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Well, I was trying to figure out like just year by year if
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there's anything that's doing differently, right?
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Because like, he really came on the scene in 2023, Cy Young last
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year. So like, is there anything
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ticking up? Is there anything changing?
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Like what? How is he just getting better?
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Not a ton of change. Couple things that have tweaked
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is that the fastball has like really kind of dropped off a lot
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more and the change up has gone up and the sinker usage has gone
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up. So it's stuffed with movement.
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And then it was like, OK, we'll have those pitches themselves
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changed at all. The spin rate has jumped up on
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the change up and so has the speed a little bit.
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Last year he was at that change up was sitting at about 86 This
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year sitting about 88. So he's getting a little more
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movement, he's getting a little more velocity on it.
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And I think it's I think it's playing dude.
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And that's how it's number one pitch.
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His number one usage of of pitches is change up and the
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fact that 4 seam is going down and the sinker usage is going
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up. So it's like those three are
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just dangerous, bro. And it's not like he's doing
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this where he's got like 9293 in the tank.
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No, he he's averaging 97, so it's like it's unfair.
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It's no, what's what's unfair is the last pitch of the of this
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Maddox 102.6. How, how do you get, I mean, I,
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I guess if there's a guy in the league that can do it,
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apparently it's schooble, but like, how do you how do you keep
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that in the tank when it's gross?
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You can only assume as mere mortals that we are, you can
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only assume that you kind of empty the tank to reach the,
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the, the milestone of ACG. But he's like no pump the brakes
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still got 103 left to go. I it's nuts, man.
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The my, the, the biggest take away and I've, I put out a post
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about it, which it's, I, I, you know, I'm, I'm very encouraged,
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I'll say by the, by the feedback I was getting on it, but I put
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out a tweet earlier today and I, I posted it to the IG and
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Facebook and, and folks for sharing their thoughts.
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But I said Major League Baseball doesn't care about starting
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pitchers like it once did. But I'm here to tell you, a dog
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who can go 7 to 9 innings every fifth day and make opposing
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batters look like little leaguers will never not be cool.
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And I stand by that. And if they're if they're
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they're they're a handful of guys in baseball that I still
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feel really encapsulate that that description really fit that
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description. What I would I would have to say
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if not leading the pack is at the very near top of that list
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in Tarek Skubal. I mean, this guy does not care
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about, you know, keeping some in the tank, holding out for the
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next start, keeping an eye on on a pitch limit.
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He wants to go out there and shove it down your throat.
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And I how how we ever got away from this being the norm, I will
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never understand like why we decided why we look how we as a
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sport looked at that. And he was like, I mean, that's,
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that's great and all, but let's let's switch gears here to
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employing 6 to 9 high leverage guys that'll throw 12 pitches
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every 3rd day. Let's let's do that.
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I. Don't understand.
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Like sometimes you just got to go with, you got to go with what
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feels good in your gut, what feels good in your heart.
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And if you look at Tarek Schuble, that just feels right.
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Not this open or nonsense, not this.
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We've got a closer, but we're going to use them in the seventh
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because it's the high leverage situation that doesn't feel
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right. Give me the red blooded American
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dog that's going to give you 8 plus throwing 130 pitches every
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fifth day. Give me that.
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I want that again. And you're.
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Gassed up, I love it. I dude, I, I'm, I'm telling you
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what, man, and you know, you know what's really what's really
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got me gassed on this whole starting pitcher thing.
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I dusted off the Xbox this weekend, sure.
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And I popped in, I popped in MVP 2005.
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Actually, I didn't even need to pop it in.
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That's the only that's it stays. It's the only it's the only game
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that I played anymore. Turned it on.
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On that turned it on and I was like, well, earlier the over the
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weekend I played, I played classic Red Sox, Yankees.
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I was like, let me just get this out of my system.
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I had Wakefield on the bump. He threw like a one run CG.
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Which little trivia for you? Tim Wakefield never threw ACG,
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by the way, in his many years on the Bump.
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But it was, I believe it was, was it last night, the night
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before? I was like, let's let's go off
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the beaten path here a little bit.
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Let's let's mix it up. I was like, let's look around
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what other teams I could use. I completely forgot that in that
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MVPO 5 game that you could play with what they call the Legends
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team and then I think it's like the Heroes team.
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And so they just divvied it up like half of the guy like the, I
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think it's the Legends. It's like Ruth Gehrig, guys like
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that. And then on the Heroes, it's
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like, I think it's like Bob Gibson, Willie Mccovey, like
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guys like that. I think some of the more recent
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guys, Brooks Robinson I think was on team, but I'm just
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looking at that starting staff and it was like Nolan Ryan, Bob
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Gibson, Bob Feller and I'm like. Why?
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Why did we? Why did?
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We Why did we get away from this?
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I don't know, man, this is I mean, but if you if you want to
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pull up this thread, we can. It's just it's analytics have
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have really, I don't want to say ruined because there is some use
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like there's no, no doubt, but I don't think we were really fully
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prepared or aware for what it was going to do to, to not just
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our sport, but sports in general, brother.
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The NBA has been more affected by analytics than baseball.
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Has it really? Yeah.
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Dude that's why they only Chuck up threes now.
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That's the all. That's all they do.
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They just launched threes and like big men aren't big men
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anymore. They don't post up anymore.
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They just hang out behind the arc and they just Chuck it.
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Everybody just chucks up threes. And I I think it's like that,
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that approach of same thing, man, where it's it's apparently
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more efficient and and more advantageous to try to hit the
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ball out of the ballpark, to knock it on base tonight, hit
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behind runners. And I think with that, like
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pitching has just let's just Max these guys out all the time.
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That's what's super refreshing about what Tarek Scubal is
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doing. That's why I wanted to look into
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the numbers because it's like, how are you averaging that kind
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of velocity with your fastball, but it's not even your main
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pitch? And how are you somehow getting
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13 punches in a Max? Because if you see 7-8
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strikeouts from a starter, like it's normally coming in like the
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5th and they're already at 8590 pitches, you know what I mean?
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Like there's no shot of him going all the way.
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So how do you have that efficiency with swing and miss
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with the Vela? Like it's, it's very impressive.
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I, I think there's a sweet spot where you can have stuff and
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still pitch in what I mean pitch, not throw.
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I mean pitch. It's very refreshing.
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And I know he's a little bit of a Unicorn, but like I do believe
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that it could, it could trend back a little bit in this
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direction. I want to believe it in my
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heart. It's just crazy because like
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you, I mean, I I understand that those guys were greats in the
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game in their own respect, but you mentioned Scooble being a
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bit of a Unicorn, but like, and not to be the whole like back in
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the day guy, because I wasn't even alive quote back in the
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day. But a few of those there, yeah.
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Like there were multiple Tarek Scoobles in the league and
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nobody really thought twice about it.
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They're just like, well, this is what we do.
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And I just I this has no, this is I'm not using this as
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evidence towards my argument about trying to reinstate the
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importance of starting pitching, But it's it's just always a
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funny nugget. Do you know, I think we've
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talked about on here, Do you know how many, you know, how
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many complete games Cy Young had?
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If you really want to go quote back in the day, I'll give him
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250 complete games. Yeah, 749, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. I mean, like, we don't even have
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to compare those guys, you know, like we wasn't that long ago
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that we had Verlander and Scherzer and their prime and CC
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and guys that are just like, I, you're going to have to drag me
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off this mound. I don't care about what my
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pitch, my pitch count is like. I, I, I don't know.
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I don't know if it's a mentality thing.
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I don't know if it's, it's, I think it's very hard if you're
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not pushing these guys to the limit in the minor league system
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and then expecting anything different in the big league
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system. I don't know if it's a lack of
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development. I don't know if it's a complete
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philosophy change, but I think we see that like it's funny to
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me that the postseason really exposes the value.
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Like why do we not value? Why do we play the game
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differently when we get to the postseason?
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You know what I mean? Like you see how good and deep
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these teams go when they have a solid rotation because that
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bullpens going to be tired no matter what.
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By the time we get to that point in the season, the bullpens
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going to be exhausted and we see how bullpens are going to let
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you down like we just watched in this Last Post season, like you
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can't expect 130 innings out of a closer.
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It's just it's not going to work, man.
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They were talking about on the broadcast this weekend.
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I was super busy this weekend. We had a lot going on.
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So a lot of what I was catching was actually the radio calls of
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the Sox game against the OS. And they were talking about on
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the broadcast how they've currently got three guys in
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their pen trending towards 60 appearances, which if you're not
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familiar with like reliever appearances, like what's
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considered normal, Like that's, that's a lot like usually you
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have like maybe one guy, they have three.
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And sort of on that note, they're talking about the guy
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who's leading that rotation and Garrett Crochet and apparently
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Alex Core. I don't know if it's ultimately
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Core's call, but maybe it's possibly.
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Those above him, but they're limiting, limiting his workload
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so that he's fresher in October. And I said you got to get there
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1st and you're not going to get there two games under 500.
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Yeah. Which is how this season is
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shaking out for them. And, and I'm not, I'm not just
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like picking on the Red Sox. I know this is like a, a broader
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issue around the league where you've got workload management
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and, and how that plays into the, the value or devaluation
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of, of starting pitching. But there's just so much at play
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here that like, I feel like they're trying to solve too many
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issues by just slapping a well, let's just go after these these
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relievers and and we'll just we'll just rely heavily on the
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bullpen. Like it's not that's not going
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to solve all your issues. You we need like it may sound
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old fashioned, but like starting pitching is going like that's
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not, it's not going to lose its value.
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It like that's going to continue to help regardless how you may
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feel about a traditional closer role.
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Regardless of those things, having starting pitching that
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will get you 678 innings is going to lighten the load on
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your bullpen. That's what these starting
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pitchers are are built to do. Is to give you length.
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The opposite argument is that like if you can get into a
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team's bullpen early in their series, like it shapes out to be
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advantageous for you, right? If you can make, if you can
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bounce that first or second starter and really get into the
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bullpen, it it's I, I, I'm sure there's numbers out there.
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I'm sure there's analytics to show you how much it would sway.
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And that comes. I mean, it's, it's a whole can
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of worms, dude. We can get into we can get it a
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hitter side and and talk approach and talk about having
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an actual game plan when you get in the box in making, you know,
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hunting for a certain pitch or making a pitcher work or paying
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attention to what he's done before you and the hitters
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before you. Like I I don't know, I think
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we're in a like a serious like developmental issue where
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there's just I don't know if things are being talked about or
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taught. And this is the worst defensive
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ever has ever looked, by the way.
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So it's like I it's a very different game and, and I'm not
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trying to say like our game that we grew up with was better.
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It was just, it's just different.
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And and I think skewing the rules just to get the game back
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to what it used to be should tell you all it all you need to
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know. That's a good point.
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That's a good point. It's like last thing I'll say to
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to what you just said, right? You're not saying the game we
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grew up with was better. Like we're we're fully open to
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changing the game to to evolve in the game if it makes the game
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better. But if you're changing the game
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and in the process leaving behind the fund, all of the
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fundamentals and everything else that got the game to the point
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that it's at where you felt you needed to change it.
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Yep. What does that say?
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Yep. I don't know.
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All in all, though, tip of the cap to Derek Schuble.
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Last note here on that first, the only major leaguer to throw
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a shot out with 13 or more strikeouts and fewer than 100
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pitches since pitch count records started in 1988.
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Yeah, just continues to to be hands down best pitcher in
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baseball. Not even close.
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Another guy that has throughout his career been in the
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conversation as one of the game's best.
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Ronald Lacuna Junior made his return to the diamond this past
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weekend. First pitch that he sees correct
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on in on Friday, 467 feet the next day Saturday hits another.
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So he's got coming in today. 2 jacks in as many games or had
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had two jacks in as many games. How do we feel about the impact
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that this has on the Braves? Savior Man, although they've
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lost two out of the three that he's been back.
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In our what our fantasy in our fantasy league group text, he
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hit the first pitch that he sees Friday night.
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I because we got some Braves fans in that chat.
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I I text him, I said the Braves are back and then they lose the
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game and then I follow up with the text at the end of the game
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narrator. They, in fact, were not back.
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And that's, you know, I feel like that's kind of the way the
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season has gone for them thus far, where they just can't, they
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just can't get traction. It's very odd.
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I I think it is a good thing. Obviously he's a he's a
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difference maker and it's and it's all aspects, right.
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He's A5 tool guy and what he brings defensively and and base
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running is like, you know, we talk about there's there's
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really only a handful guys in the league that are going to, no
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matter what, leave their print on every single game they're in
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somehow, some way. And he's one of those guys.
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So does that doesn't even have to be falling in love with the
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home run because he's going to bring it in some other way.
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But what do we think of the knee guard, by the way?
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Can we address that? All I know is that.
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I didn't got to have a dialogue. Not that we have to get into
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like an accessories conversation, but I, I, I did
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say in that in that very group text, I said the yellow, the
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pops of yellow that he was rocking on top of the Friday
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Reds. I was about it.
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Now you're it seems as though you're asking more about the the
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practicality. Are we talking the practicality?
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I we're talking about a a shin guard that has now gone above
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the kneecap. It's it's it's an additional
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piece that. Congress the knee.
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I got to look at this Oh yeah, you're right, I did that's OK.
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I yeah, I was watching him and I was like, there was something
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that just wasn't wasn't making sense to me and I couldn't put
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my finger on it. But yeah, that OK, now I'm
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seeing it. Yeah, that's a that is an
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interesting little. No, I understand a little bit of
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a higher shin guard. I I mean, there's plenty of guys
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that do it. I think Shohei wears one that's
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pretty high. To be fair.
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It's inside the pant, the pant leg.
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But this I mean the knee, like I understand you've had knee
27:28
injuries. What?
27:28
I was going to say, I mean, if there's a guy.
27:30
Bidding for torn AC LS that's it makes no sense.
27:34
It makes no sense. Well, I, I, I mean, I've
27:39
thankfully, I mean, there are, there are many things that I am
27:42
truly grateful for. And one of those things is the
27:45
fact that I have never, knock on wood, have never dealt with an
27:49
ACL injury. But I would have to imagine like
27:53
at the very least, it's like a Peace of Mind thing, right?
27:56
It's like practically it may not help, but like having a little
28:01
bit of just reassurance there that you're telling me that
28:03
wouldn't do anything for you mentally.
28:05
I think a brace or a sleeve like some type of compression thing
28:10
on the inside, like sure, I mean that it's understandable.
28:13
You see guys with like elbow injuries that wear sleeves like
28:16
I I can wrap my mind around that.
28:18
But like a protective hard shin guard like you fouling a ball
28:26
off of your knee that you had surgery on doesn't change
28:29
anything. So that's all.
28:32
We're here. We're Nate.
28:34
Mean to be the accessory police. Nate had a flight today.
28:39
He just bear with him. Just got to get some of the, I
28:43
mean, just give him some grace. He's got to get some of the
28:47
grumps out. You know, you know what really
28:50
pisses me off are the people that put their backpacks in the
28:55
overhead bins. What are we doing?
28:58
Guys, as opposed to under the seat?
29:00
It's it's under the seat. It's under the seat.
29:05
Now we're delayed because these idiots are walking up and down
29:08
the aisle trying to find a spot for their bag, but there's no
29:12
spots because your backpack's up there.
29:18
Sorry. Good.
29:21
Good thing Acuna's back, man. Glad he's back.
29:23
Looks. Good.
29:24
I'm glad. Yeah, yeah, let's.
29:25
I'm glad we circled back. Looks good, looks good.
29:29
Love to see the pop right away. I think that's the biggest thing
29:32
too, is that like as a hitter, you just knees are tough, man.
29:38
There's a lot of rotating thing, there's spikes, you know, it's
29:41
it's all the above. So the fact that you've seen
29:43
immediately exit Velo there pop is there.
29:50
It's good news, man. It's good news, fully healthy.
29:53
Looks good swinging. It looks good running.
29:56
All seems as though all the boxes have been checked like
29:59
right away, like you said, immediately.
30:01
So good news for the Braves. How do we feel coming into
30:05
today? How do we, well maybe not coming
30:07
in today, but as of this very moment, how do we feel about the
30:10
8 1/2 game gap between them and the top of the division, a
30:15
division that I had them winning and I think you maybe had at the
30:21
very least in the mix? Let's check.
30:25
I'm a little nervous, but I don't.
30:29
I think there's plenty of time. Obviously it's a very volatile
30:33
division. I had them finishing second in
30:37
this division and I do have them in the wild card.
30:41
So yeah. Because look, I mean, the
30:51
reality, the reality of it is there are a few guys in the
30:54
league that if they come back can truly to use your, to use
30:59
the term use earlier, the save your role.
31:01
There are a few guys in the league that can actually live up
31:04
to that kind of expectation and fulfill that kind of hope that
31:09
you can only imagine the fan base has where they're like,
31:12
what? Like checking the clock,
31:14
constantly refreshing the feed, Like when is this guy guy back?
31:17
We need this guy back there to to sort of rehash that there's
31:22
there's only so many guys that can that.
31:25
I mean, there's guys in the league that you you think can be
31:28
that guys that you maybe erroneously hope can fill that
31:36
gap. But again, there's only two guys
31:37
that can actually do that, and he's one of them.
31:39
I think there's guys that like, you know, any fan base would
31:42
have bias towards as well and try to put that guy in that
31:44
category. But this I biases I this guy is
31:47
in that category. That's what he does.
31:49
And they're getting another one on the other side of the ball,
31:51
hopefully. And Spencer Schreider just being
31:54
back on the horse full time. You know, I know that hammy has
31:57
been an issue, but I, I think it's, I think it's going to end
32:01
up being a very tight race. That's just what this division
32:04
is. I haven't looked at like
32:05
divisional matchups. I my only thing is that like,
32:08
yes, it was a rough start start O and seven or O and eight,
32:12
whatever it was to like creep towards.
32:15
I think it was just a game under 500 by the time April ended.
32:21
And now we're coming up on the end of May and you're still kind
32:24
of in that neighborhood. Like there hasn't been this like
32:28
who we weathered the storm. Glad this rough first two weeks
32:34
is kind of out of our system. Like it's still like there
32:37
hasn't been like this. Let's kick it in the next year
32:40
and find something else quite yet, which I'm just curious to
32:44
see. I've really like dove deep into
32:47
what Braves performance looks like.
32:49
But I would say that there's some positive that has come out
32:54
of like, you know, Cunya's absence.
32:56
You're seeing some other guys that have kind of, you know, Eli
32:59
White and and Nick Allen, like guys that like, you haven't
33:02
really heard of before. And then, you know, they get the
33:04
opportunity to play this year and you're like, OK, I can kind
33:07
of see some stuff out of that. You know, even though they look
33:11
like substitute teachers, you take the uniform off.
33:15
You know, but I mean, to your point, like, maybe, yeah, sure,
33:20
maybe there wasn't like a 2-3 week stretch where it's like,
33:23
OK, who got that out of our system?
33:25
Now let's kick it into gear. Maybe it wasn't two or three
33:29
weeks, but now two months into the season, you get Acuna back.
33:36
It's now the time where you finally go.
33:38
Oh, who? OK, we weathered that we're
33:41
we're flirting with 500. Now we go like, granted, it
33:46
this, this was a a more drawn out weathering of the storm that
33:52
we would have hoped for, but it's still early enough to where
33:57
you can close and at me, it sounds crazy to some, but you
34:00
can close an 8 1/2 game gap. You put a couple good weeks
34:06
together and you're only a few games out.
34:08
Yeah, and once this, I think once this lineup gets going on
34:12
all cylinders too, because I mean, they clearly have a lot of
34:15
pop. I think once once it gets going,
34:19
it's and that's what this guy does.
34:21
That's what he just he Mikuni is going to ignite that in a way.
34:26
And you got Matt Olson that's starting to, you know, come
34:28
around. Like I think they're going to be
34:30
fine. I think it's going to be a tight
34:32
finish. They got to get it going,
34:35
though. They got to just play a little
34:37
bit better baseball goofy on the bases so far.
34:41
So yeah, I believe in him still. Well, they are chasing down the
34:49
Philadelphia Phillies who leading up to Sunday had a nine
34:55
game win streak, which was funny enough was a game that I as an
35:01
honorary Phillies fan to I tuned in for.
35:06
I tuned in for. Well, I just want to you know
35:08
all about transparency here. I tuned in for the game.
35:15
Was it, it would have had to have been Saturday night.
35:19
I think it yeah, I think it was Saturday night, 'cause I was
35:21
like, you know, I've been talking, I've been talking up
35:24
the A's, which I'm there. I'm not going to name names
35:28
here, but there's some people taking victory laps on the the
35:32
A's just being suck right now, just being nothing but suck.
35:38
And I'm like, let's, it's May. Sure.
35:45
Plenty of time for the A's to be the playoff team, the postseason
35:49
team that I believe them to be. So I'm just I just wanted to
35:54
acknowledge that. But coming into Sunday, the nine
35:59
game win streak Phillies the starting staff to discussing
36:05
first eight games of that streak, A182 ERA.
36:10
The team had an OPS of eight O 7 and 12 homers during that
36:16
stretch. And not to mention best team in
36:20
baseball coming in today. So as we mentioned, this is a
36:23
team at the the Braves and and even the Mets are are chasing
36:27
down only game and a half back at this point.
36:30
But Phillies are Phillies are pacing the the National League,
36:35
right? Well, the entire league, but
36:37
specifically the National League right now.
36:40
Do we feel that this will sustain itself for some time or
36:43
do we feel like the Phillies had to go on this run to reach this
36:47
mark? But now we're going to level
36:48
back out and now that Acuna is back, maybe Soto starts heating
36:52
up. Now that then maybe we feel like
36:54
the Annalise is going to start to beat up on itself again.
37:00
I don't know. I'm kind of looking through the
37:02
Phillies schedule for the month of May and I don't know as far
37:07
as weakness goes, you know, where they rank.
37:09
But it doesn't look like it was a very tough month starting off,
37:15
you know, finishing a series with the Nats, Diamondbacks,
37:19
Rays, Guardians. We're like, OK, not bad.
37:23
And then it's just starts to, you know, Cardinals, Pirates,
37:26
Rockies, A's, and then they're going to end with the three-game
37:31
set starting against the Braves tomorrow and then Brewers again.
37:35
So, you know, it's weird. It's always that fine line of
37:40
like, hey, you can't sit here and knock A-Team for beating
37:44
teams that they're supposed to beat.
37:46
You know, we can't, we can't take that and hold it against
37:50
them. But at the same time, you got to
37:52
wonder what's real, what's not. But you mentioned already their
37:58
starting staff is real. That's that's they're crazy deep
38:03
and they all look good. And even this streak had to end
38:06
on a on a walk off, didn't it? I think the A's had to walk it
38:09
off to be able to to be able to cap this, yeah, this win streak
38:15
off for the Phillies. So playing good ball, man,
38:21
playing good ball. And it's not live and die by the
38:24
home run from from my point of view, from my perspective, it's
38:28
it's a lot of hitting, a lot of a lot of swipes and good
38:34
pitching. And that Brandon Marsh played
38:40
the plate the other day was nice.
38:42
It was yesterday, dude. I That was nice.
38:46
Beautiful. I love those.
38:49
Yeah. And kind of more broader
38:54
conversation. I, I got to say I I enjoyed
38:57
watching some some ball in in Sacramento.
39:01
I enjoy the experience. Did you?
39:02
It was a nice it was a nice mix up.
39:04
I was watching, I think it was Saturday because I think I was
39:13
that. I went to the Yanks Rocks game
39:15
and then came back and then we just really just kind of vegged
39:18
out and I threw, I think it was Saturday.
39:24
I threw the game on and I was watching.
39:27
No, it was yesterday. I was watching Philly's Days
39:30
yesterday. That's what it was.
39:31
I didn't get to see the end, but I was watching.
39:34
'Cause you were scoreboard watching for our fantasy match.
39:37
I was. I'll just go ahead and say that.
39:41
Bad guy won good guys. I'll let you do the math on.
39:46
Fighting for life right now. Good guys are struggling, but
39:50
Kotze got tossed. There's no clubhouse to walk to
39:59
when you get tossed. You got to go out the outfield
40:01
wall. My man the.
40:04
Walk of shame. I saw that.
40:06
I, I, yeah, I saw that. I watched it live and I was
40:09
like, this is unbelievably awkward and I love it.
40:13
It's just so weird, man. What is that?
40:15
You get those those commercial breaks now where they do like
40:19
the rewind during MLBTV and they'll show you like an old
40:22
clip. This is the kind of stuff, this
40:26
is the kind of stuff that gets clipped and you watch it decades
40:29
later and you're like, why is why is a manager getting tossed?
40:33
And I'm going to walk out freaking getting cheered by all
40:37
of his fans as he's walking up the the warning track.
40:40
Yeah, that's one of those like out of contact.
40:42
It's just context clips. Weird stuff, man.
40:44
It's weird. I like it.
40:46
I'm telling you, I I think once you wrap your mind around like,
40:49
hey, this isn't the forever scenario for the A's and it's
40:52
just like, this is a cool, unique thing.
40:56
And it really didn't even seem like that bad of an experience
40:59
watching it on TV in Sacramento. And that was without her face
41:05
calling the game someone else. She get booted or she'd get
41:08
fired or what happened? I don't know, stay off, maybe an
41:11
off day. But no, you mentioned the thing
41:15
about the clubhouse, which reminded me.
41:16
I saw these I I saw Severino had some had a gripe about it
41:21
recently. So I pulled it up and sure
41:23
enough, this was I think earlier this past week.
41:27
Severino was talking about his home Rd. splits and how he's
41:34
been significantly better on the road.
41:37
He said I just need to figure out a way to pitch good at home.
41:40
I feel like if I only pitch on the road, I'll be freaking sigh
41:44
young, but I need to get better at home.
41:46
Through six starts at Sutter Health Park, Severino is now O
41:50
and four and holds a 675 with fourteen walks and just 29
41:54
strikeouts. Through four way games has
41:57
allowed just two earned runs and 25 innings with six walks and 16
42:02
strikeouts and no homers for a .72 road ERA.
42:06
That's something I need to pay attention to in fantasy.
42:09
I got this man on my club. I got to keep.
42:12
These are things I got to know. But no, he the reason was it was
42:19
it was actually interesting. It was because of, like, the
42:22
park itself, he said. One fix Severino talked about is
42:28
throwing his home bullpen sessions in between starts off
42:31
the actual stadium mound rather than in the A's bullpen.
42:36
Yeah, it there was. He mentioned something.
42:39
Oh, oh. Severino also referenced the
42:42
lack of a connected clubhouse to the dugout.
42:46
His this is OK, this is what it was.
42:48
His usual in game routine on days he starts consists of
42:52
heading inside the clubhouse during the half innings.
42:54
He is not on the mound to either watch film or move around to
42:57
keep his body warm. So he can't do that at home,
43:01
which like. That's kind of a thing if you
43:03
ever. Like say what you will about
43:05
like first world problems or whatever, but like creatures to
43:08
have it man, especially starting pitchers.
43:10
And if you don't have that, like.
43:12
If you got it in 29 other parks, you don't have it here.
43:15
Well. Crazy.
43:17
Well, maybe 2828 maybe. I don't know what Steinfeldt.
43:21
Has at clubhouse. They have to.
43:24
Yeah, I feel like he does. Yeah, but either way, it was
43:32
cool. Neato torpedo to watch that
43:34
game. Phillies.
43:37
Is Alec bone back? He's he's been raking lately.
43:43
He. Has he's been He's been swinging
43:44
it well. Not so well that anybody in our
43:48
fantasy league needs to pick him up off waivers.
43:52
I saw I you. Can let at him today, you can
43:54
let that pass a game of glance today, just let it pass.
43:58
He hasn't been hitting it that well, but.
44:01
I might do it right now. He's.
44:03
He's no, no, no. You don't need to do it.
44:05
Seriously. You don't need to do that.
44:06
It's not. I mean, it has been that great.
44:08
He's been good. Not that great, but no, it's
44:13
possible. But you know who hasn't been
44:15
good? And we just I mean we just kind
44:17
of got done talking about them, but we haven't even really
44:18
talked about the A's losing streak, which ended funny enough
44:23
on Sunday, as did the Phillies win streak.
44:26
A's losing streak ended on Sunday versus with a win over
44:29
the Phillies. That was an 11 game slide.
44:33
And this all started after they, if you recall, they took down
44:38
the dodgers by a score of 11 to 1.
44:40
And I'm sitting there I'm you want to talk about victory laps.
44:43
I'm taking a victory lap going, you know, oh big bad dodgers.
44:47
My, my sack town A's just rolled right into Chavez Ravine and
44:53
said we'll take care of this and then proceeded to lose 11
44:58
straight. So not the not the strongest of
45:02
victory laps for myself, but fortunately they avoided A12
45:06
game losing streak, something they had not done since 1994.
45:12
During that stretch, the pen had a because it when, when things
45:16
like this go South, you always, you're always trying to look at
45:19
which which position group is responsible.
45:22
Is this on the offense? Is this on the rotation?
45:25
Is this on the pen? I'm going to go ahead and say
45:28
it's a little bit of everything, but very much so on the pen.
45:34
Their bullpen during that losing streak had an ERA of 10 O2,
45:38
which I don't even think you need to bother looking at any
45:41
advanced metrics for that. I think that's a good stopping
45:43
point. And then offensively, they had
45:47
an OPS of 671 during that skid. So little bit everything, but I
45:54
think a lot of that falls on the pen.
45:56
Mason Miller even had, I think like an outing or two there
46:01
recently were like specific in the game I watched wasn't wasn't
46:05
terribly sharp. But I still believe in this A's
46:11
team. I think they can figure it out.
46:12
Just got to get this skid out of your system.
46:14
We talk about it all the time. You, you're due for one of
46:17
these, maybe not to this this extent, but you're due for a
46:20
skid or two over the course of 162.
46:23
So just get out of your system now.
46:25
Get back on the horse. Yeah.
46:30
Last thing on the A's, I I think I have like like an epiphany a
46:35
little bit on you know, when, when you like recognize a like a
46:40
former player in a current player.
46:43
Jacob Wilson gives me like major Hunter Pence vibes.
46:47
Yeah, yeah, OK. Like constant movement,
46:52
constant, like weird quirkiness, tweakiness.
46:55
But like, I think he's just always tapped in.
47:00
And I, I, I don't know what the numbers used to be because I
47:03
remember like a few years ago when Nolan Arnotto was in, in a
47:08
Rockies uniform. Still.
47:11
There's like a limited amount of players that get approval to
47:14
have like ADHD medication because it's like medically they
47:20
need it. And he was one of them that was
47:22
like allowed to take Adderall or whatever ADHD meds.
47:26
Sure. Jake Wilson.
47:28
I'm like, I'm wondering, you know, does he get to cause the
47:31
guy just fouls everything off like he's just it's nuts.
47:37
It's. Proud to watch he's fidgety he's
47:39
he's fidgety he's all over the place he's.
47:41
Fights, dude, it's. Like poking balls.
47:43
The left, the right. It's a fun at bat to watch.
47:46
If you haven't gotten to see an at bat from him, it's just
47:49
TuneIn 'cause he just doesn't take a pitch off.
47:52
Where are we at on the the season line right now?
48:00
200 through 200 ABS he's hitting 350 a war of 1970 hits.
48:08
What was the what was the thing though, with him?
48:10
Wasn't it like the the? Strikeouts, wasn't it.
48:14
Strikeouts are walks. One of the two.
48:17
He's got he's got 11 strikeouts, 12 walks, OPS 888.
48:26
Not bad. It's old school baseball baby, I
48:29
like. It not bad at all.
48:33
Anyway, like it. That's it.
48:35
That's one of the many reasons I believe in this team.
48:37
Rhodes, Severino and Jacob Wilson.
48:40
That's it. They're going to lead the
48:41
charge. They're leading the They're
48:42
leading this team to the promise Lane.
48:44
You watch. Lane or land?
48:48
Promise land. Just checking words are hard.
48:52
Yeah. You know what else is hard?
48:54
Being a Red Sox fan. We can't have 5 seconds of joy.
48:59
Alex Bregman to the IL 10 day IL but will presumably miss much
49:07
more time than 10. Days.
49:08
What's up, man? What happened?
49:10
Fill me in. I was busy.
49:12
Strained right quad thinking it's not too bad, think it think
49:19
it'll be maybe a short stint. But then I believe it was the
49:22
next day Cora came out and said it was quite a significant
49:26
injury and then you had Bregman talking about it in in a post
49:31
game presser and. If you didn't.
49:36
Not too positive, huh? Yeah, if you didn't.
49:40
Like if you're feeling OK about it, you didn't leave that post
49:43
game presser feeling the same way.
49:45
Was not was not pleased. Was making comparisons to the
49:50
injury he experienced back in 2021 where he missed 2 1/2
49:53
months. So not sure what kind of well,
49:57
I, I know what kind of impact this is going to have on the
50:00
team. Like it certainly not a good one
50:02
considering he was you are best even with the start, the Devers
50:08
or the I shouldn't say the start even with like the last few
50:11
weeks that you've gotten out of Devers, consistently speaking,
50:16
your your best offensive player to this point, not having that
50:20
your lineup is not good. And then they and, and I don't
50:26
think maybe not officially, but for all intents and purposes A
50:30
corresponding movie bring up Marcella Meyer.
50:33
He gets the call up finally. What do?
50:37
We think of him. I'm, you know, I'm excited about
50:41
it. I, I hate that he's getting this
50:43
opportunity given the circumstances, but I, I think he
50:46
has a chance to serve as a little bit of a spark.
50:48
But the reality of it is, is this is nothing more Like this
50:51
team has been 500 for the last I think like 4 years.
50:55
In fact, I think going back to the World Series when they won
50:58
and back in 18, I think they're like a game.
51:00
They're like a game above or below 500 since they won the
51:03
World Series. So quite literally back going
51:07
back that far seem as mid. This team is, is nothing but
51:13
mid. And unfortunately, as as excited
51:16
as as I am for Marcelo, I don't know if he's going to be able to
51:20
do enough to change that, but at the very least can hopefully
51:25
serve as a little bit of a bright spot for this team.
51:27
What's he been doing? Have we, have we looked at
51:30
numbers at all? Has he been?
51:34
He's he hasn't been, no, he has been lighting the world on fire.
51:37
Slash, 271-340-7471. He had 9 homers, 5 double s and
51:44
a triple in the International League.
51:48
But I mean, he wasn't he wasn't Roman Anthony status in terms of
51:54
lighting the world on fire. But I I'm, I'm eager to see what
52:02
he can do, but I'm not going back to the whole savior
52:04
conversation. This is not going to be a guy
52:07
that's going to come up and and turn the season around single
52:09
handedly. It's just not going to happen.
52:12
So that's that, a guy that talking about call UPS knocking
52:21
on the door. Jack Caglione coming into today,
52:26
six games at the AAA level, they just caught him up I think last
52:30
like a week or two ago. We can some change in his last
52:34
four. The over the last four days
52:36
coming in today, had five homers at the AAA level this year, he's
52:40
hitting 34610 ribbies, slugging 923 with an OPS of 1280.
52:49
So any minute now. Yeah, yeah.
52:55
Correct me if I'm wrong, this was your this is your rookie of
52:57
the year pick that was. My rookie of the year and I
53:00
think if he even with the delayed start, if he keeps
53:03
hitting like that. My goodness.
53:06
Looks looks like he's going to be special.
53:10
And for those unfamiliar, this is the kid out of Florida who
53:15
was a two way player in college and was the real deal on both
53:21
sides of the ball, but obviously just kind of focusing at first
53:27
base. And I did read that the Royals
53:30
were trying to get him some outfield appearances in the in
53:33
the minor league system as well just to try and find a spot.
53:38
But I'm I'm honestly just I'm kind of confused, man.
53:42
Like, I don't really understand what they have to lose their
53:48
their offense at the big league level has just been abysmal.
53:52
I think Pastor Tino has started to turn it on as of late.
53:56
Yeah, it looks like he's gotten hot as of ladies up to 2:58 with
54:01
Ajax. So, like, it was a rough start
54:03
there. But I don't know, man.
54:05
Like, you got to find a way to get him in.
54:09
And there's a fine line of of when you start, you know,
54:15
shaking confidence a little bit by not believing in your guy and
54:20
not giving him the chance. And then there's also this fine
54:24
line of like, well, you'd hate to see it kind of fizzle out if
54:28
he doesn't get to play every day.
54:31
And that's what he's doing right now.
54:32
He's playing every day, and he looks good.
54:33
Just the Royals need to find out to do that at the big league
54:36
level. Is this real?
54:41
I'm seeing this tweet from Matt Foss at Matt Foster TV.
54:46
Jack, this was from yesterday. Jack Kaglion in 44 games this
54:51
season. So that's across AA and AAA in
54:54
44 games this season, 14 homers. The Royals in 54 games this
55:00
season, 32 homers. Is that real?
55:06
I, I just, I don't want to, I don't want to hear about any
55:12
type of like, you know, service manipulation going on here
55:18
because like at a certain point we're going to have to start
55:20
asking those questions of what's going on.
55:24
When your offense is this bad, when your pitching is doing this
55:27
well, when your defense is playing this well, when you're
55:30
in games, you're in the hunt, you're winning ball games with
55:36
one of the worst offenses in the big leagues.
55:38
It's like, what is the point? What are we doing?
55:42
Like find a way to get this guy on the field somehow?
55:46
And if that means Sao Perez needs to catch every day to make
55:50
sure that that DH spot opens up, like, then that's what needs to
55:53
start happening. And I don't know where the hole
55:57
is. Like who, who do we need to
55:59
subtract to get this kid in the lineup?
56:03
MJ Melendez? Like what?
56:06
Well, Kevin Biggio I mean not not this is just a name I just
56:10
saw on the feed today he got I think he got option down to
56:12
triple AI think. I'm all done with that
56:17
experiment. Yeah, I'm kind of working. 4th
56:20
uniform and it's like it. It's all looks the same
56:22
everywhere it goes. But you mentioned the the
56:24
pitching being as good as it is, I don't think I realized you
56:29
they've give they've they've allowed the third fewest runs in
56:32
all of baseball. I mean, we're, we're talking
56:36
about them so differently. If they're scoring, even just
56:41
if, even if they're middle of the road offensively, we're
56:44
talking about them very differently than we are right
56:46
now. It'd be getting a lot more
56:48
attention and this kid would absolutely help.
56:50
What do you have to lose? 3rd fewest runs allowed by the
56:54
staff. 4th fewest runs scored by the offense.
56:59
What are we doing? What are we doing?
57:03
I told you this offline. I think I think Pasquantino is
57:06
going to be wearing a different uniform.
57:08
I think if if this continues to be a log jam and it's not big
57:12
league service manipulation going on, I think you got to
57:16
kind of sell high on on Pasquatch and and get this kid
57:20
in. Well, going going back real
57:25
quick to the the, the point you made about shaking confidence if
57:28
he doesn't get his opportunity. I mean, he has you you talk, you
57:32
hear guys about getting cups of coffees at at different levels.
57:37
I mean, they haven't even handed him the cup of coffee yet at
57:41
AAA. So is it fair to say that, you
57:44
know, like even considering the start he's had or I shouldn't
57:49
say the start he's had? Yeah.
57:50
Oh sure. Season as a whole to this point,
57:52
but specifically the stint that he's had at AAA, as short as it
57:55
is, could you make the argument that like maybe give him just a
58:02
little bit more time at this level before we start talking
58:05
about like. Well, I think it's going to
58:07
happen whether we want to or not.
58:09
Like I think he's going to have more time there.
58:11
It's just it's a different conversation.
58:14
If this if this offense was better as a whole, that's a hot
58:19
topic. And like sometimes you don't
58:21
like your hands are your your your hands being forced here
58:24
like you have no other choice. And to play devil's advocate,
58:31
and I understand they have different, we're we're talking
58:33
about two different player profiles here.
58:34
But it's it's a name that gets referenced in situations like
58:39
this where you're sort of rushing a guy along.
58:44
What if we get a Jared Kelnick situation here?
58:49
Do we, first of all, do we even think that's possible with the
58:51
way like the talking player profiles like is like, is the
58:57
way that he's hitting right now, like is he even capable of
59:00
hitting a, a Jared Kellnick's slide should he get called up
59:07
prematurely? Like does, does do his struggles
59:11
look that bad? I don't know.
59:13
He's got a lot of swinging, he's got a lot of swinging miss in
59:15
his game, which is fair. He's huge.
59:18
And I think that's just something that like you got to
59:22
let big guys just kind of figure their body out still to kind of
59:26
like start to get the the strikeout numbers under control.
59:29
And now you see what he's doing. And I'm not saying Caglion is
59:32
the next Aaron Judge, but like as far as body size and and, you
59:38
know, similar style goes, like it's, it's a very long swing and
59:42
just curious to see if anything changes there. 65250, yeah.
59:48
He's massive. That's a big boy.
59:50
He's a. Big human and he's very wide in
59:54
the box too. Like he takes up the whole box.
1:00:00
Just interested to see if if if there is some.
1:00:06
Kind of down tick it. In minor league and whether it's
1:00:11
AA, AAA, like whatever, like how much time does that give?
1:00:13
And I just, you know, I, if it was me, I'm, I'm going to start
1:00:17
asking that question like, what more do you need me to do and
1:00:20
how many more? Excuses can my manager?
1:00:23
Or GM give me. That's why I'm not up there
1:00:29
doing it for for the. Team that matters.
1:00:34
It's just my perspective, but obviously.
1:00:36
There's a lot more that goes into this behind the curtain and
1:00:39
there's inner workings. But like to me it's pretty
1:00:42
simple. You got a guy that is tearing
1:00:44
the cover off the ball, you draft him in the first round to
1:00:47
use your first pick on him like it.
1:00:52
And he's and he's performing. At a rate that no one on your
1:00:56
team is doing, what are we doing, Albeit it's at the minor
1:01:02
league level. It I with the Oh my goodness,
1:01:06
with the start of the the year, he just as a baseball player
1:01:09
forget the level. It would be one thing if he get
1:01:14
if. He gets if he got bumped up.
1:01:16
To AA if he gets. If he got bumped up to AAA and
1:01:19
he's hitting like, you know, 290 with an occasional bop here and
1:01:24
there, maybe he sprays one to the opposite field.
1:01:28
Like, OK, he's like, he's showing some positive signs.
1:01:31
He's hitting 326 with 14 homers. Yeah.
1:01:40
Yeah, like at some, I think you're.
1:01:43
Right about the excuses thing. It's some point you're not
1:01:45
hitting 260. Yeah, you know what I mean.
1:01:48
It's not like. A it.
1:01:50
It it. Kind of reminds me of the
1:01:52
Jackson holiday situation where they sent him back down and
1:01:54
they're like, well, we need to see him.
1:01:55
What was it? Hit off lefties and immediately
1:01:58
just starts raking off lefties. It's like, OK, well, he, he,
1:02:02
he's, he's checked that box. What else are we waiting for?
1:02:06
It's kind of the same situation here where it's like, what are
1:02:08
we doing? He's going to force the issue at
1:02:10
some point. He like they, they're not going
1:02:12
to have any choice. Yep, Yep, couple more items.
1:02:16
Here. O'Neill Cruz, did you see?
1:02:19
Did you see the ball he hit 122.9 miles an hour, the hardest
1:02:24
hit ball in SAC cast era he had. He had himself a weekend.
1:02:28
That ball he hit on Friday, I don't know if you saw Friday
1:02:32
night, dude game tying in the ninth against the Brewers.
1:02:37
He was so nonchalant after he hit it.
1:02:42
I legit it 'cause I was looking down at my computer because I
1:02:45
had it up here on the monitor and I looked up and I kid you
1:02:50
not, I thought it was a foul ball.
1:02:52
I'm like, oh, he's just kind of like leaning back, sort of reset
1:02:55
to get back in the box. Meanwhile the the ball is like
1:03:01
600 feet away and then does. What he did yesterday.
1:03:06
Sunday with this this stat cast record exit below.
1:03:15
Dude's a. Freak.
1:03:16
Dude is a freak. What a waste.
1:03:19
What a waste. Unbelievable.
1:03:22
Let's let's figure it out 125. I'm rooting for 1/20. 5 Now it's
1:03:29
my next number I'm looking for, although I just I I haven't the
1:03:35
way it like just didn't even look like it had the the correct
1:03:38
launch angle to be able to get into the river and clear the
1:03:41
bleachers and right I was like, did it get all the way?
1:03:45
Out, yeah. For some reason, I thought I'd
1:03:48
ended up because I he he yanked it like pretty.
1:03:52
Yeah, pretty well. It was like a, it was like a
1:03:53
hook. It was like a let me watch this
1:03:56
again linea hook. Line drive that.
1:03:59
Just. There's a few baseballs that
1:04:03
like I'm, I'd be a little. Nervous to try and get out and
1:04:06
snag if I'm in the I'm in the crowd and wanted to grab that
1:04:09
bare handed. I don't think that's I think I'm
1:04:11
going to let that one go. Oh yeah.
1:04:13
Oh yeah, that thing surely got. Out there.
1:04:15
Holy cow, yeah. What a what to your point?
1:04:20
What a waste. Get whatever, I'm not talking
1:04:23
about it. No more pirates talk.
1:04:25
Speaking of freaks, Shohei Otani.
1:04:28
We're we're that much closer. We're one day closer to freak
1:04:32
status. Getting this guy back on the
1:04:34
bump. He touched 97 and a live bullpen
1:04:38
on Sunday are thrown off the mound at Citi Field. 22 pitches
1:04:45
across 5 different ABS. He's sitting at.
1:04:51
I'm reading that he was sitting at 9495 but touch 97 and they're
1:04:57
still taking it. I don't think they have much of
1:04:58
A timetable yet. Still taking it day by day but I
1:05:04
don't know. Man, it's getting more.
1:05:06
Real. Did you see the clip Kiki?
1:05:10
Sitting behind the the shell, the PP shell.
1:05:14
Just like literally like crisscross applesauce, just
1:05:18
watching. Like you see the catcher in the
1:05:20
frame and then you see Kiki just chilling, just looking like a
1:05:24
little kid, just taking. It all in I did yeah, I did see
1:05:29
that it just. Tells you that like there's,
1:05:32
there's just different tears and when you have guys that do this
1:05:36
daily and that they're one of the best in the world and then
1:05:39
they look at him and they're like, oh, there's another tier.
1:05:46
Above this, yeah. I'm not that.
1:05:48
Yeah, dude, it's cool, man. It's cool to see that.
1:05:52
And like, I know Kiki is a little bit of a character, but
1:05:54
like, I think that just that tells you exactly what you need
1:05:58
to know about what this man is capable of.
1:06:02
I keep thinking. Though about what you said
1:06:03
about. Maybe there being a little bit
1:06:08
of urgency with getting him back given the state of their staff.
1:06:14
I don't know, man. What do I don't know?
1:06:16
I just took another dub tonight but like.
1:06:19
I unless this, unless the West starts pushing out him a little
1:06:25
bit. I mean, there's just not.
1:06:28
Much to worry about right now outside.
1:06:30
Of the Giants, then it's. If you're the Dodgers and you're
1:06:34
like, hey. Can we weather this storm
1:06:36
without even bringing back this guy?
1:06:41
Scary stuff, man Scary, scary. Stuff.
1:06:48
That's all I got, my friend. I got AI, got a.
1:06:52
Little hot take for you. I got a little take away.
1:06:53
As we as we end this episode from my from my experience at
1:06:58
Coors Field this weekend, real quick before I forget I've got
1:07:01
I've got a. Parting question, so don't let
1:07:03
me forget. What do you got?
1:07:04
What's what's cooler my? Hot take or your question?
1:07:08
No, no, I'll I'll leave it for people to I'll.
1:07:11
I'll let it marinate to to over the next few days.
1:07:17
My hot take is I don't think the.
1:07:19
Rockies are going to end up breaking the White Sox record.
1:07:24
You're absolutely wrong You. Know why?
1:07:26
Why? Earlier this episode you.
1:07:28
Brought up strength to. Schedule for the I think we were
1:07:30
talking to Phillies and you're like, well, what's just out of
1:07:34
curiosity. I know it's still we're only in
1:07:36
May still, but I looked up just remaining strength of schedule.
1:07:41
No, I think. It was when we're talking.
1:07:42
Braves and I was like OK where do the Braves fall in this
1:07:44
Braves have the 5th toughest strength of schedule left in the
1:07:48
season. Again, I know it's early, but
1:07:51
looking at the. Sample size of what's the left?
1:07:54
Braves are fifth on that list. Rockies have the third toughest
1:07:58
strength of schedule. Who runs that out?
1:08:02
Since we're here. Second on that list.
1:08:06
Cincinnati. Reds, which is not a good look
1:08:08
for yeah, that stuff for a team that.
1:08:10
I think we both had high. Hopes for and rounding out the
1:08:14
list at #1 the Chicago White Sox.
1:08:19
Nice. We're looking at some.
1:08:21
We're looking at some shaky ball.
1:08:24
I'm just saying I I don't think. I don't think they're as bad get
1:08:30
to kind of see some guys in person, like in watching this
1:08:33
series as intently as I did. Like I think Bretton Doyle is,
1:08:38
is obviously a name that a lot of people know now that Tovar is
1:08:42
back. I I think Tovar is like, I don't
1:08:46
think he gets enough love, man. I don't think he gets enough
1:08:48
credit like that. That cat is real good.
1:08:52
And then you guys like I, I think Jordan Beck, Jordan Beck's
1:08:57
been legit, man. Like a.
1:09:00
Legit top of the order play good defense, kind of name.
1:09:05
There's, there's some guys there and you know, whether Ryan
1:09:08
McMahon, like, survives the trade deadline or not, plays
1:09:11
incredible defense even though he's not really hitting quite
1:09:14
yet. I'm not saying this team is good
1:09:19
by any. Means I just.
1:09:20
I think they're going to end up being better than.
1:09:28
The worst team in. Baseball history.
1:09:31
I think. I think that I I just I.
1:09:34
Can't see it? I think they're better.
1:09:37
I mean, dude, they're not. Even though I was there and
1:09:40
they. Gave they lost. 13 to one on
1:09:42
Saturday. They played the Yanks tough all
1:09:44
weekend. Outside of that, yeah, I think
1:09:46
it says more about the Yankees. Than a dozen Rockies.
1:09:49
Well, that's my other take, which is, yeah, I think the
1:09:54
Yankees are better than they are last year.
1:09:57
I think they're a lot better. Than they were last year.
1:09:59
Yeah, no going. Going toe to toe with the team
1:10:03
that's on track to be the worst in.
1:10:05
Baseball. That's definitely a dude.
1:10:07
That's a good sign. I'm watching this team daily.
1:10:11
They. Put the ball in play and they
1:10:14
play good defense and they run the bases.
1:10:17
They have speed. It's way different than last
1:10:20
year. I'm telling you right now if
1:10:24
they add some pitching. Depth in their bullpen.
1:10:26
Get solidified. I think they're a lot better
1:10:29
than they were last year. It's a better team to watch and
1:10:33
they put up that ten runs in that 5th inning when I was
1:10:37
there. No home.
1:10:40
Runs. Just knocks dude.
1:10:41
Just. Putting the ball in play, you
1:10:42
have a line up that does that. Now I'm telling you it's
1:10:44
different. Now I'm done my my parting.
1:10:56
Question and I, I think I, I tweeted this out, post it or
1:11:00
something. I don't think I, I don't think
1:11:02
we talked about this at the end of the last episode.
1:11:04
At least I hope we didn't. My parting question that I want
1:11:12
that I want you listeners to think about.
1:11:15
Do you think there's? Ever been?
1:11:17
Two Major League home runs hit at the same second.
1:11:23
Like we're talking wood hitting leather like split second.
1:11:30
Do you think there's ever been a tie?
1:11:32
A moment in time where two Major League Major League home runs
1:11:40
have been hit? At the same exact moment.
1:11:42
Is this a rhetorical question like episode?
1:11:44
Ends with this or. Do you actually have an answer?
1:11:49
No, I don't. Have an answer?
1:11:50
It's a legitimate question and. That's why I said I wanted, I
1:11:52
want to let it marinate, let people think on it, because
1:11:54
there was a shocking amount of people that are like, yeah, oh,
1:11:57
definitely had to have happened. I'm like, I he look here, hear
1:12:01
me out. I I get it that like, you know,
1:12:05
there's. A lot of games being played in
1:12:06
a. Given day and in a given season,
1:12:08
I get that, but the same I'm not talking like the same minute
1:12:13
like oh, these two homers were both hit at ten O 4.
1:12:16
I'm talking the same honestly, going even deeper, like even
1:12:22
more more specific than. Just like a second.
1:12:26
Like I'm talking like fractions of a second.
1:12:29
Do you think there's ever been two home runs at the same same
1:12:32
point in time? I I think no.
1:12:35
I say yes, I think no. Are you do?
1:12:41
You want to go back to work, I think, yeah, you've had, I think
1:12:45
you've had some thoughts that are rattle.
1:12:46
Yeah, there's there's whiteboards.
1:12:49
And newspaper clippings and strings all back here all over
1:12:53
the place. This four day weekend has gotten
1:12:55
to your head a little bit. Yeah, it's.
1:12:59
I need to. I need to.
1:13:00
Get grounded, yeah. I need to come back down there.
1:13:05
That's all I got you. Go ahead and think on that.
1:13:08
And will do. Hit me up and if you're
1:13:10
listening or watching, hit me up in the messages with your
1:13:13
rationale, because I'm, I'm curious.
1:13:15
I'm, I'm, I'm curious to hear the arguments for because I, I
1:13:19
just don't think it's ever happened.
1:13:23
No particular reason, no particular I mean it.
1:13:27
It'd be impossible to track, I think.
1:13:29
I don't think there's any way of ever knowing.
1:13:31
So probably it's really an an answerless question.
1:13:34
You're probably right. That's all I got.
1:13:37
Don't get Jason. Curveballs, folks, we.
1:13:39
Love you all and as always, looking forward to talking more
1:13:41
baseball. With you guys soon.
1:13:42
Until next time, stay filthy.