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MLB All-Star rosters released! Who got in, who got snubbed? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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I believe the Mets are going to give him a significant They're
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going to have a ton of money to spend.
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Why not put it in one of the top three offensive players in the
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league? We're going to be looking at
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Aaron Judge and saying that he can't win the big game, Michael
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Jordan said. I played 82 games.
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You don't see LeBron doing that. A game where?
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You got to go before. I told you, giant feet Saquon
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Barkley. At this
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Remember, ladies and gentlemen, throughout the weeks, over the
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So Jabba, how was your weekend? By the way?
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Happy 4th of July 0. It was good.
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The weather held off so that was that was nice.
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It was warm, but All in all it was nice.
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Played a little golf and blew some things up and hung out and
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ate some good food. And yeah, it was, it was all
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around. It was, it was really good.
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Carter has all of his fingers and everything left too, so you
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can always count that as a win. I want to wish one person a very
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happy birthday. And he's a fan of the show.
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He's been a part of our network and really he's been watching
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every bit of our shows over the last couple of years.
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And that's Jamie Lee and he has been a fan of the show.
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He loves our show. So happy.
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I don't know what is he, 4243 Jamie Lee, happy 42nd or 43rd
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birthday. We really appreciate your
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support over the years. We love you.
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You're a good personality off air, love meeting and hanging
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out with you as you've come to our show live when we were at
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Miller S Ale House and we loved 40 and 42.
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So he's 42 years old and and going and ticking, ladies and
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gentlemen, as the Lee baby is still around.
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So thank you to Jamie Lee and all the time and and precious
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love that he gives to our show and, and obviously his
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personality off air. He loves our show and we really,
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we give him a shout out all the time.
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But thank you for really supporting what we do here on
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job in the mouth. So thank you very much.
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But I, I just want to say something.
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I, I was working all week and all weekend for, for 4th of
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July. Everybody tells me, well, did
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you celebrate 4th of July? It's your favorite holiday.
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I actually was not supposed to work 4th of July.
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I was asked at the last minute to DJA party and it was a crazy
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one. This guy had some fire firework
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show. It really was amazing and a lot
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of people came up to me. One kid actually came up to that
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kid actually knew who I was and he told me he watches our show
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Speedy. He actually, he listens to our
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show on the weekend Crunch on Saturday.
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And his father and his brother listens to our show throughout
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the our podcast. Well on Spotify and Apple.
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He actually knew who I was and actually was a big fan, actually
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took a picture of him. So Mark and his son John and
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Jimmy who were at the party, I'd like to give a shout out to them
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for supporting what we do on our show.
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So I, I didn't even know that he knew who I was until he came up
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to me and say you're you're the guy.
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You're the guy. So we really appreciate
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everything over the last couple of months, all the support of
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some of the Long Islanders that listen to our show.
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And if you don't listen to our show, shame on you, all you
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Islanders. And I'm not saying Islander
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fans, all you Islanders should be taking a look at least a look
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If you miss any of the live footage that we have on YouTube
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And I want to give a shout out to Blue Eye.
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We're on Blue Wire, so all the fans out there that listen to us
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But I'd like to thank Blue Wire for really supporting what we do
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here at Jop of the Mouth. So it's going to be a crazy
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show. Let's get into the stories right
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now. The big story right now is the
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the All Star game. The American League and National
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League All Star rosters were released yesterday for next
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Tuesday's MLB All Star Game in Atlanta.
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The Dodgers had the most total players with five with Shay
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Otani, Freddie Freeman and Will Smith as starters.
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Clay Kershaw because Clayton Kershaw because this could be
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his last year as a Major League player, making his first ever
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legend selection, so he will be heading to his pond a possibly
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final All Star game. The Mariners had four total
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players including Julio Rodriguez who had fans, I'm
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sorry, who many fans did not believe deserve to make it
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having just A247 average, eleven home runs in 43 RBI has the
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Tigers who currently have the best record in baseball also had
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four players with Gleber Torres a big mistake for the New York
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Yankees, Javier Baez, Riley Green being named starters and
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screwball obviously screwball will probably be the the starter
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for the American League. The Yankees had three All Stars,
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Aaron Judge, obviously Jazz Chisholm AZAK, Jazz Chisholm and
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Max Freed. I was very surprised, but Jazzy
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has been very hot for the Yankees.
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He's the only one besides Aaron Judge hitting the ball.
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So it's been shameful watching the New York Yankees, but we'll
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get into that a little bit later.
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The Mets had three All Stars, Francisco Lindor being named an
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All Star, Edwin Diaz who's had a good season, and Pete Alonso
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making making it to the reserves despite many fans thinking Pete
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got robbed of being a starter over Freeman.
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Juan Soto was one of many notable All Stars.
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All Star game snubs with a lot lots of fans thinking that he
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deserved to be picked over Fernando Tatis.
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Well, I I mean it's AI believe the All Star game is a fan
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voting, you know, type of All Star game the same thing.
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And we could go on and on about who should have been named and
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who shouldn't have been named. The facts here is who's been hot
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over the last couple of weeks and and that's that's the way
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the fans are going to vote. Do I believe Jazz Chisholm is an
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All Star? No.
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Now, has he had a good season since he's come back from his
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injury? He's been pretty good.
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I mean, he's been one of the oddest hitters in baseball in
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the American League, especially in the infield.
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He's been hit. What is he since he's been back?
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I think he's hitting over 330. He's been unbelievable.
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So this is something that we want to see from Jazz since he's
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come to the Yankees and really when he was traded at the trade
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deadline last year. A lot of questions, questions.
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Is he going to handle New York? How is he going to handle New
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York? Well, he's handled it pretty
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well since he's come back from an injury now, can he do it in
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the playoffs? Could he do it when the Yankees
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need him the most? That is the question.
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But I'm not going to take shots at Jazz for what he's done over
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the last couple weeks. He's been very hot.
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So usually when you're a hot hitter, the fans are going to
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love you and and Jazz has been out in the open with his
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personal life. He comes out there, he speaks to
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the press, he's all over podcast and he loves to wear his thick,
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beautiful chain that he wears on the baseball field during game,
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you know, before and after games.
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So I I love his personality somewhat.
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I just don't like how he likes to throw his team under the bus
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when the team is not playing well.
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And he loves to praise the team when they're playing well.
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So I want to see more of his game develop as a Yankee.
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But as we all know over the over the next couple of weeks and
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really the next couple of months, we'll know what Jazz
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Chisholm is. And that's really what he does
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in the playoffs. The Yankees are going to be a
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playoff team. I know the Yankees are not hot.
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They're not playing very good baseball.
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We saw him this weekend against the Mets.
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We saw him against the Blue Jays getting their butts whipped by
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the Blue Jays. So they have not been good.
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The only person, the only two players that have actually been
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hitting is Jazz Chisholm and the one and only Aaron Judge.
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That's it. And that's the problem right now
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with the New York Yankees. So I, I do believe Max Freed has
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been probably the third best American League pitcher in, you
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know, over the last couple of weeks.
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He's the the last couple of starts have been, if he hasn't
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been as hot as he was when he was up, he was 7 and O in the
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beginning of the season. He's it's kind of taking a back
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seat from screwball and, and, and and what scruples done is
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just been so impressive. I mean, the guy throws ultra
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hard. He throws over 103.
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I think he had 104 one time this year.
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So the guy throws really and he threw that, by the way, in the
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9th inning. OK, just think about this.
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This guy pitched a full game and at the final batter, the final
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hitter, the. Final.
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It was his. It was his last pitch, yeah.
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His final strike, he threw 103 mph.
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It it it's it's very, very impressive when you see a
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pitcher throw over what 80 something pitches, almost 90
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pitches and then strike out the side and do it with 103 mile per
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hour fastball. So I I expect Scrubal to be the
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starter for the American League. But again, you just don't know.
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You don't know how the vote, I don't know how it works.
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Does do the do the players vote that or do do their fans vote
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that? Managers vote the pitchers, they
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fan votes for the hitters. So so the manager.
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The start, the starter basically depends on where they fall in
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the rotation. Really.
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Got it. True.
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I got it. Yeah, because if they have a
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start that's Saturday or Sunday, they're not going to start a
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Tuesday All Star game. I expect Scribble to pitch no
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matter what, even if it's one inning, 2 innings.
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I expect he's been the best pitcher in baseball.
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I don't think you can argue that he's been the best pitcher in
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baseball for the last two years. I mean, Detroit, I remember at
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the, and I, I, if I'm not mistaken, at the trade deadline
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last year, there were conversations that should the
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Detroit Tigers actually trade scruple and, and actually add
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pieces to the roster, a young roster that has tremendous
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amount of talent and, and a great of a great farm system.
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But I, I guess obviously Detroit saw their team, saw the
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opportunities that they were going to have in the offseason
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and the money that they spent. They went after Glaber Torres
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and boy, oh boy, what a slam dunk Glaber Torres has been for
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the Detroit Tigers. By the way, if you look at their
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infield, it's it's pretty impressive When you think about
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the Detroit Tigers, the two best infielders right now, especially
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in the middle of the infield in the American League is Javier
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Baez and Glaber Torres when it comes to the bats.
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So just think about that when you think about Detroit.
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And nobody would have thought Detroit was going to be as good
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as they have been so far this season.
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They're the best team in baseball.
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They have the best record in baseball and it's impressive.
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They're in a division, obviously that is not very well, you know,
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well groomed as far as talent is concerned.
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Kansas City, obviously last year was a playoff team.
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Cleveland's always a playoff team.
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But they're in a division in the Central that's not very good.
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OK. But you look at the American
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League East, it's always, you know, it's always a run from the
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top to the bottom. You, you and everybody thought
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Baltimore was going to be great this year.
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Their pitching's falling off. They're not as good as everybody
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thought they were going to be this year.
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I didn't think they were going to be good because their
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pitching staff was not built to win.
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And and then the lineup has been hot and cold all season long.
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So that what's surprising right now are some of the players that
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didn't make the the All Star game and, and the snubs.
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And I, I know Speedy put up the snubs for me to look at and I
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will get into the National League in the American League.
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I know everybody's going to sit here and say, well, what about
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this and what about that? There are a couple of stubs that
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really stuck out to me. And the one guy that a lot of
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fans are wondering why he didn't make the playoff, he didn't make
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the All Star team. That's Juan Soto, Fernando
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Tortis. He's been up and down all season
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long. Remember, Tortis is a guy that
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used steroids and a lot of people don't like him, But Titis
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has been a really, really good outfielder since he's he's been
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moved from shortstop to the outfield and he's a good bat.
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Now, is he hitting better than Juan Soto?
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No Juan Soto has been unbelievable in the last three
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weeks. He's been the hottest hitter for
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the New York Mets. What I don't like about Juan
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Soto all season long is he doesn't play.
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He didn't play in the beginning of the season as hard as he's
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played over the last three weeks, and I think that cost him
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a snub. Now, that doesn't mean he
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doesn't make the playoffs. He doesn't make the All Star,
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the All Star team because how many weeks are left before the
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All Star game? It's next week, all right?
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So there could be injuries. There could be guys that are
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going to back out at the last minute.
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If anybody backs out, Juan Soda is going to be moved into that
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lineup. He's going to be moved as as
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probably a bench player or a guy, a reserve player.
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So I expect Juan Soda one way or another to make the team.
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I know everybody thinks Freddie Freeman shouldn't have it,
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shouldn't be the starter. He made the team and he's the
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starter. A lot of people think Pete
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Alonso deserves to be the starter of the National League.
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And if Peter Launch has been unbelievable, you saw what he
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did against the Yankees over the weekend.
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He beat the hell out of the Yankees, smashed the ball all
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over the field in in City Field. The thing is, Freddie Freeman
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won a championship last year. Freddie Friedman has been the
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best first baseman in baseball for the last 10 years, and fans
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have a love fest for him. Those Dodger players, there's a
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lot of love with those that share.
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Otani is he? Say whatever you want.
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He's been, give him a lot of credit since he's gotten on the
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mound, since he's gotten a chance to throw the ball, He's
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throwing the ball pretty hard. His pitching is starting.
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He's starting to find the strike zone.
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He's starting to look like the old Shay Otani when before he,
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he tore his UCL. Now I don't know if Shay Otani
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will ever be the same as a pitcher.
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We all know what he can do with his bat.
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He's been since sensational really the last, I would say
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last month, month and a half, he's been the hottest hitter in
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baseball. I I mean, if you look at his
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numbers, there's they're unbelievable.
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He's stealing. He's stealing bases again.
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And you expect Shay Otani to just get better and better as
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the season progresses? Because I believe the Dodgers
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are going to get healthier. Their pitching is going to get
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healthier. And that's really been the story
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right now in the National League is it's not the fact that the
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Dodgers aren't the best team in the National League.
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The fact is the Dodgers have been the unhealthiest team in
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the National League. Speedy.
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Yeah. No, they've had.
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Already Java. You said it last week, 16
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different guys start a game for them.
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This year they've had 14 total guys on the in the injured
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listed once cycling out throughout the season.
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And that's what makes it impressive with the development
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system they've put together with their pitchers.
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Obviously, we joked about it a few weeks ago with how much Dave
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Roberts has pitched position players.
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So they're trying to preserve them as much as possible, but
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they're they're making it work now.
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They got swept by the Astros over the weekend, but the
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Houston Astros have also been very hot to the last month of
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the season. They're the best record in the
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American League. So not not anything to write
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home about. But yeah, the Dodgers starters
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are still definitely very strong.
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I I think the argument is Pete Alonzo with double the amount of
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home runs versus Freddie Freeman is the argument that people were
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making. But yeah, Freddie Freeman is
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still the better player all around.
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So it's not it's not like you can't really go wrong with that
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kind of thing. And again, he's still very
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deserving. And the Dodgers are going to
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bring that national prowess as well to, to Atlanta.
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Obviously, Freddie Freeman being in Atlanta too, where he played
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most of his career up until the last four years.
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So I guess maybe that had something to do with it too.
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Maybe even the Braves fans are also probably voting for him to
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try to get that void because Matt Olson, I mean, he's at a
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good, good year, but I'm not like the All Star caliber year.
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I think he made it as a reserve, but he wasn't going to be a
18:28
starter. So I'm sure there was a push for
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that too. And that's where the fan vote
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versus the manager vote like we were talking about comes into
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effect. But Freddy Freeman's had a great
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year. Pete Alonzas had a great year.
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Just glad, glad they both made. As far as Soto, he definitely
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has better overall hitting numbers than Tatis does.
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So maybe there was a case for that to get in.
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But yeah, he wasn't going to be a starter for all the Mets fans
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were thinking, OK, he's been hot, so he's going to be a
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starter. No, the Cubs guys, Pete Crow
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Armstrong, Mets legend, and Kyle Tucker, definitely deserving of
18:53
that. And then James Armstrong's a
18:54
young. Kid, why do you say Mets legend?
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Because he's killed the Mets? No, because he used.
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To be a prospect, he was actually traded for bias at the
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time, so it's funny to think. Now neither.
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Of them are with the Mets and they're both All Stars, but
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that's a whole other story. But why are you?
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Crying. You got Juan Soto, you got a
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team right now that's as good. I know right now, over the last
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couple of weeks they haven't been as good as they were in the
19:12
beginning of the season, but they're still going to make the
19:14
playoffs. There's a very good chance that
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the Mets could get hot or they make a trade at the trade
19:18
deadline that can give an additional pitching arm that
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they're going to desperately need moving forward.
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Because as we spoke about this job over the before the season
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started, the Mets put all their eggs in one basket.
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And that was Juan Soto's basket, which was $768 million worth.
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And they didn't put it in the most important part when it
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comes to their pitching. They could have went after Max
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Free. They could have went after some
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of these better pitchers that were available in the offseason.
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There were two of them that went to the Dodgers.
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They had a chance to land one of these pitchers.
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Instead, they put all their eggs and Juan Soto's basket and I
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believe Jabba. That cost the Mets an
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opportunity to really take a long lead, an early long lead in
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the National League, where maybe at the All Star break, no matter
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how bad the Mets have played over the last couple of weeks,
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everybody would have been chasing them.
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Yeah, I think it's you knew what you were going to get from.
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So you're going to get great at bats.
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You're going to get, you know, he doesn't give away, you know,
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free outs. He's going to have a one to one
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ratio usually on walks to strikeouts.
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He's going to have an OPS upwards of, you know, 900 to
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1000 and it it towards the end of the year.
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It'll be interesting to see if how his home run numbers
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translate because he's at 21 right now and he hit 41 if I
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recall last year at Yankee Stadium, which was his career
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high. I'd like to see the Yeah, I'd
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like to see the splits between home and away.
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Last year I didn't really delve into that too much, but I mean,
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there's a lot I I can see why, you know, obviously he has a, a
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snub per SE. I mean, his his numbers didn't
20:55
start off great and I think that obviously kind of hurt him.
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But I mean, obviously being in New York and having that fanfare
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and in the last three, I'll give it like, yeah, three weeks to a
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month. He you know, he's obviously been
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a different player. The Soto shuffle came back a
21:08
little bit. You know, that swagger where,
21:11
you know, sometimes that happens where, you know, you you come
21:14
into it and, you know, you forget what made you successful
21:18
because everybody's like doesn't look like he's having fun.
21:19
He's not doing the Soto shuffle. And then when he kind of I don't
21:22
know if did a self reflect or a reboot or whatever you want to
21:26
call it, where he's like, all right, this made me successful.
21:29
You know, people like that it as who I am and that's that, you
21:32
know, the kind of player I am. So there's a lot of other dudes
21:36
that aren't names that are having great years, like Suzuki
21:40
from the Cubs. It sucks.
21:41
He's behind Otani because he's sitting.
21:43
He has 25 homers and 77 RBI. Yeah, he was one of those almost
21:47
fun. I think a lot of the
21:48
outfielders, I think in general, George Springer was another one
21:50
too. That was a pretty big snub,
21:52
having a very good bounce back year in Toronto.
21:54
And yeah, he's in. 281 with 16 and 53.
21:57
He's got ten stolen bases, almost a 900 OPS another one.
22:00
Is anybody crying? About that why is everybody
22:03
crying about snubs? Because if I was any of these
22:05
players, I'm enjoying my family, I'm going I'm going to Hawaii,
22:09
I'm going to a Cayman Island. I don't care if I'm playing in
22:12
the All Star game. Who cares if they're a snub?
22:15
They get a chance to spend time with their family for a week
22:17
instead of or two weeks where they don't have to go and play
22:20
in those games to put themselves, their bodies on the
22:22
line just for the fans. I think I'm just want to rest
22:25
and and give my give my an opportunity.
22:28
Remember, there's 162 games job, but we talk about this all the
22:31
time and you don't really get a chance to spend it with your
22:33
family. Why would you want to go to the
22:35
All Star game when you have a chance to spend it?
22:37
You know, during the the next week, two weeks where you could
22:40
spend there's. There's multiple reasons why.
22:43
First, it's an honor. Second of all, it helps your
22:46
contract. Third of all, you make more
22:48
money and when you go in, now you're a four time All Star.
22:52
You're this, this and then that helps bolster your number of
22:57
getting paid. So yes, some people, you know,
22:59
they like to well, and it used to be you could get out of it
23:02
and say you're not going to play now.
23:04
Now you don't have that option. They they nixed that probably
23:07
like that was probably 810 years ago because the guys were like,
23:10
yeah, I'm going to go to the All Star game, but I'm not doing
23:12
anything. You're getting credit.
23:12
For it and do nothing yeah, yeah, then you'd.
23:14
Still get you'd still get the bonus, you'd still get all the
23:17
perks. You just didn't play and you
23:19
have to be hurt now or like if you're selected as a pitcher,
23:23
you still go. But obviously like school, he he
23:26
he started yesterday. So it'll be interesting to see
23:29
kind of how they they played that off.
23:31
I would I would doubt that he's going to start it because then
23:34
that'll give him like a week. But you never know.
23:37
And we've seen how it's come to bite people in the ass
23:40
sometimes. Remember when Brad Penney
23:41
started, he had that great first start through every pitch at 100
23:44
and couldn't get anybody out in the second-half.
23:46
So Giabo. Juan Soto made his money.
23:49
So you think Juan Soto cares that he was snubbed?
23:51
He made $768 million, so I don't think he cares if he's in the
23:56
All Star game or not. Yeah, but I.
23:57
Mean at the same it just depends.
23:59
Like to be an All Star is to be an All Star.
24:00
I don't care. Does he care?
24:03
I don't know that that's guess you'd have to ask him that.
24:06
But yeah, it's, it's it's something to, you know, to be
24:10
proud of, to to be in that situation.
24:13
And it it's still kind of weird because I remember a year and it
24:16
was right after we won the World Series in 2015 with the Royals,
24:19
Omar Infante was hitting 189 as a second baseman.
24:22
He was leading the AL and vote gets yeah, I think that.
24:24
Was a weird year that was like where the Royals and Cubs were
24:27
like stabbed like this ballot stopping that whole year and
24:30
Aston Russell was an All Star starter at shortstop for no
24:33
reason. He's numbered very.
24:35
League average yeah as nuts and it's so I mean and there's
24:39
there's some teams that are so bad they have to have one
24:41
representative so it's you know you're kind of you're kind of
24:44
stuck that's the. Case this year though, because.
24:46
The Pirates representative is Skins, obviously.
24:49
The The Rockies representative is Hunter Goodman, who's a very
24:51
good young all kinds of. Catcher.
24:53
No, I. Mean yeah, but they they're not
24:55
taking more. They're going to have to have at
24:56
least one and obviously skins and and they're going to have
24:59
one, one player that's deserving of making it.
25:02
And I mean, it's like I said, lesser names like Junior
25:05
Caminero from the Rays, you know, he's got 21 homers and 57
25:09
stakes and he's an 800 OPS. So there's literally, there's a
25:14
lot of choices. But I think 2 it comes down to,
25:18
you know, the likeability and, and some of these other names
25:21
like, you know, just Andrew Abbott is not a name that people
25:25
know, but he's 7:00 and 1:00 with 15 starts for the Reds with
25:29
a 215 ERA. Not, not a big name.
25:33
Another guy, Joe Ryan has 18 starts.
25:36
He's 18, four with a 27, but he's with the Twins.
25:39
So, you know, it's not, it's not the sexiest thing when you know
25:42
you're in those, those smaller markets and how you know that
25:47
that following or whatever. I if it was, if it was literally
25:52
like I would, I would reverse it if, if this was me, like let the
25:56
players decide who the starters are and still keep the fans
25:59
involved, but then let them do the Subs because then it's going
26:02
to be their favorite players. And I think that would be that
26:07
would make more sense to me of having the players pick the
26:11
starters and then have the fans, because now then you get, you
26:14
know, obviously more guys that it's, oh, he's a fan favorite.
26:18
And but the ones that are going to play because obviously the
26:20
starters aren't playing the whole game because the game
26:24
isn't like it used to be where whoever won, they got home field
26:27
advantage in in the World Series.
26:28
So leading to the 80. Three win Cardinals having home
26:31
field advantage against the Tigers in O 6.
26:33
I think the. Importance right now going into
26:35
the All Star game is who is going to stay hot after it and
26:39
who's going to make those trades at the Because right after the
26:42
All Star game, what is it like 2 weeks after it's the trade
26:45
deadline? It's very fast now.
26:47
Baseball, August. August 1st.
26:49
Yeah, Rob Manford or Manfred has decided over the last couple of
26:54
years that he wanted to move the trade deadline a little bit up,
26:57
a little bit closer after the All Star break.
26:59
So it gives teams a little bit less of a time to try to
27:03
transition. Maybe.
27:04
Obviously there's a waiver, waiver wire at the tail end of
27:07
the season where there are teams that drop players and they could
27:10
add players. And also over the years we've
27:12
seen teams actually make trades before after the trade deadline,
27:17
which makes no sense. I don't get the baseball trade
27:20
deadline. If it's over, it's over.
27:22
Why do these trades actually go through?
27:23
Yeah, it's the. Revocable waiver clause?
27:25
I don't get it. Yeah, it's technically you see
27:28
it. Actually, you see it a lot in
27:30
like older guys that have big contracts.
27:31
Well, basically nobody's obviously going to do it, but
27:34
they're technically like they did with AJ Burnett and they put
27:38
him technically on the waiver wire to see if anybody would
27:40
pick it up. But obviously that's 9.99 times
27:45
out of 10 that it never happens. But yeah, you you see it every
27:48
once in a while. So.
27:50
But yeah, it used to be the week like that, that week of August,
27:54
but now the trade deadline ends, the 31st, I think it's like.
27:57
Jabba The only exciting thing when it comes to the All Star
28:00
Break is is the Home Run Derby. That's all I care about.
28:03
I don't care about the game. I never watch the game past the
28:06
three innings. I want to see what the starting
28:08
pitchers are going to do. And then I get to see Aaron
28:10
Judge because he's, he's going to be up maybe twice, maybe
28:13
three times, depending on who they're going to move and how
28:16
they're going to rotate the rosters during the game.
28:19
So that's the only time I want to watch the All Star game.
28:21
I don't really care about anything else but that.
28:24
I, I, to me, I, I think that when you look at the All Star,
28:27
the All Star game, you'll get a chance to see some of these
28:29
players when the World Championships, what do they call
28:33
that? The World Cup of baseball in at
28:35
at the end of the season, where in the offseason when you get to
28:39
see Team USA and and team Team Canada and team Puerto Rico and
28:43
team Dominican Republic, you're going to get a lot of you're
28:45
going to get a chance to see a lot of those superstar players
28:48
in the All Star games because these guys are the best players
28:51
in the world. So that's what I'm looking
28:53
forward to get a chance to see some of these players in action
28:55
playing with one another. But I, I really that's the only
28:58
time I really care about these All Star games.
29:01
Is is the World Championships now OK, you.
29:03
Always. You always give dudes a hard
29:06
time for not participating in in the dunk contest in basketball.
29:09
So what? What's your opinion on judge
29:11
never doing other than one year? I will.
29:16
I'll answer you right now because John Carlo Stanton did
29:19
it one year too. I thought.
29:21
The thing is, after you do it one year, besides Pete Alonso,
29:24
who loves it, he loves being center of attention.
29:26
This is what Pete Alonso loves. He loves being there smacking
29:30
balls and everybody saying polar bear and all that other crap
29:33
that he does. His little stomach roll or
29:35
whatever the hell he does. That's great for him and I, I'm
29:38
not, I'm not taking shots at Pete Alonso because he loves to
29:40
compete. The thing is, over the years,
29:44
and we've heard this about home run derbies, as soon as you play
29:47
in the home run, as soon as you hit in the Home Run Derby, your
29:49
swing is short. You're not.
29:52
You don't have the same swing after the Home Run Derby.
29:55
We've seen players have problems after.
29:57
I remember Hamilton. Hamilton won the Home Run Derby
30:00
in in Yankee Stadium. I remember it.
30:02
No, he didn't. He didn't win because of the
30:04
old. Rule.
30:05
He didn't win because they reset all.
30:06
Right. Whatever it it never, never the
30:09
less after after the Home Run Derby, Hamilton in for like
30:14
weeks couldn't hit a home run. He had problems.
30:16
He had like two or three home runs in the first in three weeks
30:19
after the All Star break. And you you don't want to see
30:22
that hurt your swing. We've heard that in Home Run
30:24
Derby. So Pete Alonso don't care.
30:27
And by the way, last year after the after the Home Run Derby,
30:30
Pete Alonso was pretty, pretty good.
30:32
But the year before that Pete Alonso couldn't hit a home run
30:34
for a month. So I think Aaron Judge is
30:37
protecting himself. Obviously the injury situation
30:40
and he's he's looking for the long haul.
30:43
He wants the Yankees to go to the World Series.
30:45
He wants to win a championship. So I understand what you're
30:48
saying. You want to see Aaron Judge face
30:50
again, you know, face Pete Alonso, you want John Carlos Dan
30:53
to face Aaron Judge. You want to see Julio Rodriguez
30:56
and Vladimir Guerrero. You want to see all these
30:59
superstar guys go at it one at a time.
31:02
The problem is when you look at the game and you look at
31:05
obviously the fans, some of these players don't care about
31:08
going into a Home Run Derby and trying to oppress and press.
31:11
All the fans that are watching on television are watching,
31:13
watching in the arenas. All they care about is winning
31:15
the World Series. And by the way, Aaron Judge
31:16
hasn't won a World Series since he's come up with the New York
31:19
Yankees. So I think he's more entitled to
31:22
under, I mean, I think fans are more entitled to complain about
31:25
it. But I think Aaron Judge as a
31:27
player and as a as a captain, he cares about winning
31:31
championships. I don't think he cares about
31:32
winning home run derbies, Sean. Browning in the comments section
31:35
too. Goldie deserved a nod as a
31:36
reserve. Yeah, his numbers are definitely
31:38
close. He fell.
31:39
He fell off, Yeah, he fell off a.
31:40
Little bit, that's where, that's where.
31:42
Jonathan Aranda, a young kid for the Rays, got the other reserve
31:45
spot. So obviously Vlad was going to
31:46
be the starter. He's been the best by far of
31:48
first base. But yeah, his numbers are not
31:50
far off from Miranda. So that it definitely was the
31:52
case. And Jamie Lee, Toronto's been
31:53
killing it this year as well. You know, they're probably the
31:55
biggest surprise team in the American League this year.
31:57
Goldschmidt was going to be fool's gold all along.
32:00
Unfortunately his bat speed has still gone down from last year.
32:04
He had a real hot first couple of month and a half really, and
32:08
then he saw the splits. Goldie cannot face off against
32:14
same side pitching. That's what's that's what's
32:16
going on right now. So he's he's going to have to be
32:18
a platoon guy the rest of the way.
32:19
And they're probably going to do a platoon with him and Ben Rice.
32:22
Ben Rice will play some catcher right now and he's going to play
32:26
some first base and that's what they're going to do.
32:27
Goldie's not an All Star, but he could have gotten one of those
32:30
like memorial positions that they gave to Clayton Kershaw
32:34
because he is a former MVP. He is a great player entering
32:37
his late 30s. Maybe he's not.
32:38
I don't think he's retiring at the end of this year, but he's
32:41
the type of guy that you would give that I that.
32:42
How many, many times have they given that out?
32:44
No, it's the first time I've ever heard this that.
32:46
Kind of thing. Yeah, the Legends pick.
32:48
This is the first year you see that.
32:50
Arrow. It's a Legends pick that Clayton
32:51
Kershaw gets to be in the All Star game because it's his last
32:54
year, hey. What?
32:55
You know what we should do? If a fan is a legend, they
32:58
should be able to play in the All Star game.
33:00
Hey, he's a legend. He was.
33:02
He tried to RIP Mookie Betts his arm off and yeah, in the Yankee
33:06
Stadium, you know, during the playoffs, got him in the game.
33:09
Let's let's play the outfield. Let him play centerfield.
33:13
Have the kid. Have the kid who corralled the
33:15
most legend this. Legend might crush.
33:17
OK, I should be, I should be the dancing phenomenon over there,
33:22
you know, in, in the outfield when the Home Run Derby's going
33:24
around, you know, I'll put on like a wig and, and I'll, I'll,
33:28
I'll dress like Rex Ryan did, you know, at the press
33:31
conferences when he was wearing a mop on his head And maybe
33:35
somebody could try to hit me in the ass or something and
33:37
that'll, that'll give you 500 points.
33:39
So I mean, baseball's trying to find a way to, you know,
33:43
interest people to watch the game.
33:46
Now, the interesting part of the All Star game is really the home
33:50
run derbies in and all the different things offset from the
33:53
game. I don't care about the game
33:55
because honestly, the only people that care about the game
33:59
are the pitchers. I I really do believe that
34:01
because they want to, they want to look like, hey, I'm going to
34:04
strike out this guy. I'm going to strike out the best
34:05
hitters in baseball, screwball. I remember Harvey when he
34:08
started in the All Star game and how hard he was throwing.
34:10
He was throwing like a hundred 101.
34:12
Remember that. And Matt Harvey was like The
34:14
Dark Knight and everybody want to see Matt Harvey and he what
34:17
did he have two innings with no hits and six strikeouts and
34:20
everybody's he's the All Star. He's the All Star in VPI.
34:23
Think that's all I want to see. I want to see screwball.
34:26
I want to see the the elite pitchers, the the, the
34:29
screwballs or whoever starts for The Who starts for the National
34:32
League right now. Who's the hottest pitcher right
34:33
now in the National League? Who is going to be skiing?
34:37
Wheeler, Wheeler. That was obviously the.
34:38
Second one, Wheeler just had a great start.
34:40
Yes, by the way. I want to, I want to say
34:41
something about Zach Wheeler, Mikey C, if you're listening to
34:44
the show, right, Mets legend, yes, I want, I want to say
34:47
something to him because over the years, my argument with
34:50
Mike, we were trying to go through the Mets and, and there
34:53
are 4 superstar pitchers. We had Steven Matz, we had the
34:58
Thor, we call him, you know, Mr. Noah Syndergaard.
35:02
We had Matt Harvey, The Dark Knight, Zach Wheeler and Jacob
35:05
degrom. They were, those were their
35:07
pitching, that was their pitching staff.
35:09
When everybody was talking, it was an unbelievable pitching
35:11
staff for maybe a year when they went all the way to the World
35:13
Series. Now when me and Mike were
35:15
arguing, he said Jacob degrom was the better of the pitchers.
35:19
And I said Zach Wheeler is going to be in a long haul.
35:22
If, you know, over the next 10 to 12 years, I believe Zach
35:26
Wheeler is the best pitcher out of all of them.
35:28
And if the Mets don't keep them, which I believe they won't
35:30
because they're going to be too demanding to sign Matt Harvey or
35:33
Thor, they're going to walk away and let Zach Wheeler go on to to
35:37
another team, another organization where he's going to
35:40
dominate. And boy, oh boy, Mikey, see, 99%
35:43
or 90% always right. You were wrong, buddy.
35:46
And I love Jacob degrom. The best pitcher of that
35:49
pitching staff, it's Zach Wheeler.
35:51
It's not even an argument. Zach Wheeler over the last five
35:54
years has been unbelievable in the National League.
35:56
Jacob degrom has had great the last.
35:58
Five years because he's been hurt.
35:59
Yeah, but if you were better. Zach Wheelers numbers are better
36:04
than Jacob the ground because Jacob the ground don't play that
36:07
many games. Jacob, the ground is never.
36:09
The last five years. Yeah, but if you look at their
36:11
career, Zach Wheeler has been a better pitcher.
36:14
If you look at the numbers, Zach has been better.
36:17
He has been and he's played in more games, more strikeouts.
36:20
I think he's been the more dominant pitcher in his career.
36:24
And if you were to ask me right now, none of them are Hall of
36:26
Farmers, but he's playing in the National League East.
36:30
That's what he's playing in. Now we go back and you you talk
36:33
about Jacob the Grom, where is he playing it?
36:35
He's not in, he's not in the National League anymore, so.
36:38
And he gets the stats up there. We talked about talk about the.
36:42
Games talk about the games because you don't play a lot.
36:45
Jacob the stat. The.
36:46
Stat for the Hall of Fame. We talked about it the other
36:49
day. Speedy was if you have a WAR
36:51
between 50 and 70, you're usually a Hall of Famer.
36:54
Jacob degrom sitting at 48.2 is that player sitting at 39.9.
37:00
So despite the fact that he hasn't played WAR is a
37:03
cumulative step that means he's been nine wins more valuable.
37:06
That's a seat like two seasons, almost two seasons worth of wins
37:10
more valuable than Wheeler. You forget Wheeler was hurt a
37:12
lot earlier in his career. And I stayed away from him in
37:16
fantasy drafts for years because every year they said, oh, this
37:19
is the year he's going to blow out his arm again and that's it.
37:22
But he's been healthy and he's been pitching many, many more
37:26
innings than anyone ever thought.
37:27
And he's getting close. I don't think he's a Hall of
37:29
Famer. You have to.
37:30
I didn't say I don't think Jacob degrom is a whole offense, but
37:33
degrom is real close to being a whole.
37:35
He doesn't play enough. He doesn't, he might not make
37:38
it, but he's close. He's close.
37:39
I I don't think he plays enough. I think if you look at both
37:42
guys, Zach Wheeler and Jacob degrom, if you would ask me
37:45
right now if I'm AGM of a team in an organization, I'm taking
37:47
Zach Wheeler of a Jacob degrom right now two years younger.
37:50
Slam dunk. Absolutely.
37:52
And if you remember the the Zach Wheeler trade, he was traded for
37:57
Carlos Beltran. If you remember, as the New York
38:00
Mets obviously decided to part ways with Carlos Beltran, he
38:04
went to the Giants. And Zach Wheeler was a talented
38:07
young man in the Giants farm system.
38:10
Could you imagine if Zach Wheeler was still with the
38:12
Giants, that organization, with all the great pitchers they've
38:15
had over the years? And by the way, that
38:16
organization has had dime pieces over the air.
38:19
Lincolnsum, remember him? He was a he was a great pitcher.
38:22
Who was the other one? That was Matt Kane.
38:25
There were a lot of them. Bob Garner.
38:26
Yeah, there were a lot of them. And, and, and Zach Wheeler has,
38:30
if you look at his who he is and what he's done over the last
38:33
couple of years, he's been pretty dominant.
38:35
He's one of the best strikeout pitchers right now in baseball.
38:38
And he's playing in the National League East.
38:40
The National League East, you can argue is the hardest
38:42
division in baseball right now. I don't think you could argue
38:45
that the Braves are in that division.
38:46
Philadelphia, the Mets, even the Marlins have played pretty well
38:49
over the last couple of weeks. So I, you could argue that's the
38:53
best division in baseball. And Zach Wheeler is the best
38:55
pitcher in that in, in that division.
38:58
So I don't think you can argue that anymore about him.
39:01
And I, I'm not saying I don't like Jacob degrom.
39:03
Jacob degrom is a sensational pitcher.
39:05
I just think that Jacob degrom is an injury prone player and
39:08
he'll always be considered that. And his time with the Mets has
39:12
been it really, really was because the Mets couldn't hit in
39:14
front of him and Zach Wheeler over the years when he was with
39:17
the Mets, he couldn't stay healthy enough to pitch for the
39:20
Mets. That was the the up down thought
39:22
of where Zach Wheelers. And by the way, if the Mets
39:25
could go back in Brody Van Wagon and can change the the the
39:29
twister game and he twisted another way, he would have kept
39:33
Zach Wheeler. That was a big mistake by the
39:35
organization and the Will Ponds. And I think they're licking
39:38
their lips watching what Zach Wheeler's done for the
39:40
Philadelphia Phillies. Yeah, they actually.
39:42
In the last five years since he's joined the Phillies, he
39:45
actually has three years out of the six years that he's been
39:47
besides the short year, 10 or more strikeouts per 9 innings in
39:52
in and he leads baseball this year, 11.5 strikeouts per nine
39:55
innings this year, 39.3 with, like you said, fish with WAR is
39:59
probably mostly with the time with the Philly.
40:01
So he's going to need more and probably both pitchers are going
40:03
to have to get to 2000 strikeouts in order to get
40:06
there. So yeah, you're looking at a
40:07
pace of both of them, probably two more years, maybe three more
40:10
years. But Wheeler at the current
40:11
strikeout pace might get there next year.
40:13
He's at 1773. It's.
40:15
Wheeler Wheeler sitting at 3.8 WAR.
40:18
That's tied for third in all of baseball with Garrett Froshay
40:22
just behind Scubal and Skeens. That's how good we're talking.
40:27
Zach Wheeler is at age 35. So I would say they did mess up
40:31
pretty badly selecting The Dark Knight Knight and Thor of that
40:35
that that grouping that had two almost Hall of farmers.
40:39
Maybe, you know, maybe they changed things later on.
40:43
Could have been three, could have been three.
40:45
It's pretty wild. But now they're OK because they
40:48
spent $765 million on Juan Soto and 6868.
40:52
My mistake. Errol you you said that he
40:55
should go home and stay with his family on the All Star break.
40:58
But but Errol the the uncle Stevie in that contract made
41:03
sure that because it was such a bad time that he had a Yankee
41:06
Stadium. His family that his family is
41:08
taken care of. He is his family has a designer
41:11
jet to get to wherever they want.
41:13
They'll go down to Atlanta. Grand old Jabba you are.
41:16
You going to send me my designer jet from the Jabba Chamberlain
41:20
jet where I could jump in and and fly wherever I want?
41:22
I mean, I'm sure you have a jet somewhere, right?
41:24
Jabba? You invested in Jabba Air?
41:27
Jabba. Air, Yeah.
41:28
No, I, I just, I just call Al Palagonia from Apollo jets
41:32
Apollo. Jabba.
41:34
I'm snorting now if Jabba were to get a custom.
41:37
Jet, he would. Get it with a Nebraska logo.
41:40
He's the dude. You obviously watch Knick games,
41:42
right? Of course.
41:43
Yeah, yeah, he's the dude. That sits right next to Spike.
41:46
I farted. Really.
41:48
Oh. Jabba, just so you know, a
41:49
little teaser for later, we got a Nebraska story and dial it up
41:52
later tonight. Yum Yum.
41:55
Just give you a couple of guys we didn't mention that were
41:58
snubbed. Joe Ryan didn't make the All
42:00
Star team. The Twins ace, he is awesome.
42:03
He's got like a 2.6 ERA this year.
42:05
He's got more strikeouts than innings pitched.
42:08
He's over 100 innings pitched. Let's face it, this guy should
42:11
have been in the All Star game. There's no question Julio
42:13
Rodriguez made the All Star game with a sub 700 OPS.
42:17
That usually means you're not a good starting player in Major
42:20
League Baseball, especially if you're considered a power
42:22
hitter. I don't really think that he
42:24
should have made the team in a year when Mookie Betts didn't
42:27
make the team with similar struggles.
42:28
Doesn't make any sense to me. Trey Turner didn't make this
42:32
team even though he's having an amazing year because of the
42:34
stacked situation behind Lindor and Ellie Delacruz.
42:37
I still would have found a way to put that guy on.
42:40
Jeremy Pena didn't make the team.
42:41
He know we know he's hurt, so he's going to be replaced.
42:44
There will be some injury replacement guys, some guys,
42:47
even if they're not on the IL, you know, like I know Jose
42:50
Ramirez got some bumps and bruises.
42:51
He may not come in. There's going to be some guys
42:54
like that. So we'll see some of these guys.
42:55
I'm sure Soto will eventually make this team.
42:57
I, I said. That and I, I want to give a
42:59
shout out to Alex Bregman. Bregman, who's had a really good
43:01
season. He deserves absolutely an
43:04
opportunity to play on this team.
43:06
Now he's been up and down, but when he got hot early in the
43:09
season, he was batting at one point, I think at 3:40.
43:12
He was, I don't think anybody wanted to pitch to him.
43:15
He they were pitching around found him, but I mean, he's
43:17
taking a couple of steps back. It's been back and forth, but
43:20
Bregman has really been a great addition to the Boston, the
43:24
Boston, Boston Red Sox. I'm about to say Bruins, but I'm
43:28
thinking about hockey over the last couple of weeks because
43:31
this offseason is going to be big for all the New York teams.
43:34
As a matter as a matter of fact, the trade deadline.
43:36
I mean, not the trade deadline, the offseason free agency market
43:39
and everything that's gone on with the Rangers and the
43:41
outages. But that's that's past tense.
43:43
But going back to this, I Bobby Witt junior I you'll expect to
43:46
be one of these, you know, American League chances to win
43:52
the MVPII think he hasn't had a really good start in the season.
43:56
I expect the second-half to be a lot better.
43:58
Bobby Witt is one of the best infielders in baseball and I
44:01
think we'll see a lot better when it comes it comes to
44:04
statistics offensively in the second-half of the season.
44:07
The one guy that I've been very impressed pressed for and, and,
44:11
and the guy that I've mentioned is the infield of the Detroit
44:15
Tigers. And that's Gaber Torres, who has
44:17
been unbelievable. If you look at Gaber Torres, his
44:20
numbers, Gaber Torres hasn't been this good in maybe the
44:24
first season or first two seasons with the New York
44:27
Yankees. Think about this. 279 at bats,
44:31
47 runs, 77 hits, nine home runs.
44:34
This is a second baseman, OK 44 RBI's, four stolen bases and
44:39
batting 276 right now. And his OPS8O6I mean he's he's
44:46
doing he's doing what you wanted him to do with the New York
44:49
Yankees that one year where he had forty home runs and he hit
44:52
like 13 of them with the Baltimore, the Orioles park.
44:57
I remember that he thirteen home runs against the Orioles.
45:00
Besides that, he he has not had that power season.
45:04
I could see Glaber Torres if he continues moving forward at
45:08
second base right now for Detroit, he can hit probably
45:11
2526 home runs give you close to 100 RBI's this year.
45:15
And this is slam dunk contract for the Detroit Tigers where the
45:19
Yankees are probably saying, even though Chisholm has had a
45:22
pretty good season since he's come back, Claybur Torres has
45:25
been a better player and been more healthier this season than
45:29
Chisholm has. And Claybur Torres has been up
45:31
and down with injuries. Remember that UCL tear that he
45:34
had with the Yankees when he he slid into home plate at home
45:37
plate and he was out for practically a whole season.
45:40
So I, I expect Claybur Torres to earn himself a lot of money in
45:44
the offseason. If I'm not mistaken, he only saw
45:46
what was it a year contract? One year it was one year
45:48
15,000,000. He's going to earn.
45:50
Himself a lot of money I I could see a team giving him 353536
45:55
million if he continues playing the way he is he's been
45:57
unbelievable and he's been pretty good defensively right
46:01
now for the Tigers too, which is one of the better defensive team
46:04
defensive infields in all the baseball right now speedy
46:07
that's. The killer, isn't it?
46:08
Yeah, Speedy, how bad were Glaber Torres's defensive
46:12
metrics with the Yankees? Because they made us feel like
46:14
they were so bad that they had to get rid of this guy.
46:17
Yeah, they. And they were highly touting him
46:19
as a prospect for a while defensively for what he was able
46:22
to do, that he just wasn't good enough to play shortstop.
46:24
But he still was supposed to be rising as a second baseman.
46:26
And it never took off whatsoever.
46:28
And it got really bad where it got in his head enough.
46:30
And like you said, the range factor has not been nearly to
46:33
that same level. And he's been definitely a lot
46:35
better since going to the Tigers.
46:36
Maybe, again, there could be a confidence thing.
46:38
Errol and I were talking about it before the show with earlier
46:41
today with Anthony Volpe and I was comparing it to Amed
46:43
Rosario, like Amed Rosario supposed to be that same kind of
46:45
thing and Volpe even better to that level.
46:47
Neither of them were able to get it going defensively whatsoever.
46:50
Sometimes it just gets in your head like that.
46:52
But fish range factor is a whole different like a skill set type.
46:55
How about the return? Of Ronald Lacuna this year, I
46:57
mean, he's not giving you the power numbers that you would
47:00
expect at the trade at the, at the really the trade deadline,
47:03
which is a couple weeks away, the All Star break.
47:06
PS nine home runs in 18 RBIs, but he's batting 331.
47:09
He, he came back from those horrible injuries over the last
47:12
two seasons and everybody thought, is he going to be the
47:14
same player? Is he going to be the same
47:16
offensive player that we remember?
47:18
And Acuna obviously doesn't have the speed he once had because he
47:21
has four stolen bases probably at the All Star break over the
47:25
years, he'd have 20 to 23 stolen bases.
47:27
He's, he's one of those electrifying 512 players.
47:30
He doesn't have that anymore, But he still can, he could still
47:33
play, you know, he could still play the field.
47:35
What, what, what we've seen over the last couple of years and,
47:38
and he could still hit the ball all the way.
47:40
He has when it comes to batting average and, and hitting per,
47:43
you know, per hit, what is it, 331?
47:46
So every three hits every three at 3.1.
47:49
Every. Three, yes, so.
47:50
Every three at bats he's getting a hit so and he's only.
47:53
Been playing since like I think the beginning of June because
47:55
he's had that injury that he came back from late.
47:58
So if you project his power numbers are all the power
48:01
numbers are there, he's actually going to be in the Home Run
48:03
Derby. And the speed, Yeah, he doesn't
48:05
he. Doesn't even have 200 at bats
48:07
yet. Yeah, so.
48:08
He's at was it was it nine home runs with nine home runs?
48:11
Yeah, nine home runs in one month.
48:13
If you did that for the entire season, you're a 40 home run
48:16
hitter. So the power I think is still
48:18
there for him. The speed on defense, the speed
48:20
on the base pass. They're not going to ask him to
48:21
run anymore unless it's like a big game.
48:24
Does he have? An error yet this year.
48:26
I don't think he has an error yet in the outfield.
48:28
That's a good. Question, I don't even think he
48:29
does. He's a huge shot in the army so
48:32
if that team just had the year from hell, at least they get the
48:34
host of the All Star game and enjoy Acuna being back, that's
48:37
for sure. He's had to carry.
48:38
A really bad offense. So even when they were healthy
48:40
like that, nobody else is really hitting on that team outside of
48:43
Olson again. They've had bad.
48:46
Luck. They've had bad luck over the
48:47
last two seasons. They just can't stay healthy.
48:50
And again, they lost a lot of big names for free agency.
48:54
A lot of guys came up. Max Freed.
48:56
You lost Max Freed, who could very much be the starter of the
49:00
American League right now in the All Star Game.
49:02
Now, he won't be because Scrupal will be, but he's one of the top
49:05
three pitchers right now in the American League and they had a
49:08
chance to sign him in the offseason and then let him go to
49:11
the Yankees. Now, obviously the Yankees paid
49:13
him a lot of money, but he he was one of their best players on
49:16
that roster. So now he's he's starting for
49:18
the Yankees. He's a big time superstar with
49:20
the New York Yankees and they're trying to figure out who their
49:22
number one guy is because none of their pitchers could say
49:25
Alvie. Yeah, no.
49:26
Errors yet that yet this year for a Cooney only had two last
49:29
year as well, even off the before the injury as well.
49:31
So and. Freed.
49:33
Is tied for fourth in WAR for pitchers with Blubich behind
49:38
great defensive player, great defensive player.
49:40
Yes, yes, Scubal Crochet and Hunter Brown ahead of them.
49:44
So he's a top five guy. They gave up a top five guy for
49:48
nothing. Nothing.
49:49
That's that's that's what I mean.
49:50
Top ten in the entire league and he's 8.
49:52
The Braves too. When when you're leading hitters
49:54
in 273, it's you're struggling, yeah.
49:58
Because he doesn't even qualify, right?
50:00
He doesn't even qualify yet, so it doesn't even count.
50:03
But the Braves are more bad season.
50:05
No, no and. And again, you look at you look
50:07
at the look at the opportunities right now with baseball and and
50:12
the All Star game. You're excited.
50:13
If you're a Braves fan, you're excited because you want to see
50:15
this. You want to see an you have an
50:17
opportunity to get a chance to see the Braves a host an All
50:22
Star game. I always, I always went with the
50:24
All Star game. I always mix it up with, you
50:26
know, the Home Run Derby and, and the trade deadline, because
50:29
I don't really care about the All Star game.
50:31
I really don't. I just care about what happens
50:33
at the Home Run Derby. Who's going to compete in the
50:36
Home Run Derby? How many home runs are going to
50:37
be hitting the Home Run Derby? And then the celebrity game,
50:40
which I watch all the time, which is so ridiculously stupid.
50:43
And watch these guys laughing and joking on the baseball
50:46
field. What pitcher, what former
50:48
pitcher is going to be bitching? And it's like a softball game.
50:51
And it's, it's so funny, It's so stupid.
50:53
Anyways, you always have. The staple of Jenny Finch,
50:57
though, that's true. I love Jenny Finch.
50:59
I love her Java. You ever?
51:00
Do any of those after you retired?
51:03
I played in a rec league softball one time with a bunch
51:07
of buddies, all right. Ladies and gentlemen, we call
51:09
this segment sounded out. Take a roll.
51:12
Here, Jake Quelin. Where's Jake Quelin at?
51:13
No, Jake Quelin here. Do you mean Jacqueline?
51:16
Let's sound it out. What you call?
51:18
Me. Sound it out out OK.
51:23
Guys, welcome to another edition of Sound It Out.
51:28
This is the game where we can see if Errol can pronounce some
51:32
complicated names. And we're going to stay with
51:34
baseball today. Errol.
51:36
We're going to go into a couple of All Stars.
51:38
You have these things are more familiar, at least the first one
51:42
is. Let's see if you can figure this
51:44
one out. Here.
51:46
Tonight, right here it is. Sound it.
51:50
Out. Former all.
51:54
Star for the Braves Jar ear Jergens.
51:58
That is incorrect. Let's get the sound.
52:02
Oh my God, I forgot they changed this whole thing.
52:05
There it is. Sorry, I kicked off the wrong
52:07
answer. There it is.
52:08
I have no. Sound all right?
52:10
It is actually pronounced gergens.
52:13
They're the J in the the the the G in the last fish wears pain
52:17
the hard G jar gergens. Oh for one Errol.
52:23
But it's always a great chance to come back is 2 more to go.
52:27
If you can get one of them, you're still an All Star hitting
52:29
330. Let's see if you can get this
52:31
next one here here it goes. Let's get the music on sound it
52:36
out. This guy won an All Star game in
52:40
1960. OK, Bill.
52:51
I have no idea this was. A trick question, Errol.
52:56
It was 1960 when people didn't care how to pronounce French
53:00
names. It's just Bill.
53:01
Mon Bucket. Are you kidding me?
53:05
This is. This is.
53:05
I'm not. It's a trick one.
53:07
I gave you some tricky ones today.
53:09
Thank you. This is not obscure.
53:11
Russian ones. This is a.
53:12
Grumpy old man. Yeah, I would be grumpy if I
53:16
was. Oh, and two, let's see if you
53:17
can't get the next one. We have one more Errol.
53:21
Let's get the music on. Time to sound.
53:24
It oh kidding me. What the hell, This guy?
53:28
'S nickname Errol. He wasn't an All Star, but this
53:30
guy's nickname was the Human Eye Chart because his last name
53:36
looks like an eye chart. Doug Watts.
53:45
What the hell is this? This is.
53:47
This is Doug Goosh. Yeah, that.
53:51
Is Doug Goosh. Doug Douche, GW.
53:53
OSDZ Goosh what? Did it?
53:59
Happen everybody for Errol tonight.
54:02
Oh for three. Sorry.
54:04
We'll get plenty more at bats next time.
54:06
Jabba likes. My consulted out.
54:09
Yeah, well, thank you for embarrassing me once again on
54:12
this stupid, you know, segment. Anyways, thank you to all the
54:15
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Subscribe to us if you haven't. We'll be back on Thursday.
54:31
Speedy, who would? Who do we have on the show?
54:32
Return to the show. At 9:45 will be Phoenix Suns
54:35
play by by broadcaster and Dallas Cowboys play by play
54:37
broadcaster. Kevin or Ray?
54:39
Oh, Kevin. He'll join us.
54:40
And by the way, Kevin, I'm sure he has his own thoughts about
54:43
George Pickens, as we heard CD Lamb and George Pickens on a
54:46
broadcast recently and CD came out and I wouldn't have ever
54:50
thought this to to be true. CD Lamb said there's no one or
54:54
two, it's all once. And he says now you got to
54:57
contend with two number ones on one roster.
55:00
Well, we'll see how that works for the whole season with George
55:02
Pickens. Doesn't see enough balls,
55:04
especially up his ass. And if he does, maybe somebody's
55:07
going to bend over and give him a nice little poutang pie, as
55:10
Speedy would say. That's why Kevante Turpin had to
55:12
do what he did, because he knew he wasn't a number 10.
55:15
Absolutely. By the way, Speedy, I haven't
55:17
used this drop in a long time. Go share a.
55:19
Pew Tang pie with the rock, anyways.
55:21
That's it for our show, ladies and gentlemen.
55:24
We'll be back with Nick Goody on Thursday.
55:26
Hopefully Tommy feels better. He's pooping, he's scooping and
55:30
let it dish out speedy as we dish got by to all the fans.
55:33
By the way, thank you to our our our social media people.
55:37
I'm not going to mention any names because I don't want to
55:39
throw them throw anybody a bone so they steal our guys.
55:42
But thank you to our our our interns, all the guys, Jake,
55:45
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55:53
good nights. As I always say, Santa's not
55:54
back. And if Santa is Santa's going to
55:56
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