Latest / Foul Territory / September MLB Power Rankings + Astros checkup w/Chandler Rome

Transcript

September MLB Power Rankings + Astros checkup w/Chandler Rome · Foul Territory

• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Power Rankings is powered by Arena Club. Oh gosh, what
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: do we have for September? Aj Prazinski?
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: Wow?
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: Is that your power ranking?
• 0:14
  Speaker 3: Well, I have to write them down because I have
• 0:15
  Speaker 3: to send them to producer lad.
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: On paper, lay them out, give it to us.
• 0:19
  Speaker 4: Okay, Well, I'm going Dodgers one just because I've had
• 0:21
  Speaker 4: Dodgers one all year and nothing's changed or starting to
• 0:23
  Speaker 4: get healthy, so there's still one for me.
• 0:25
  Speaker 3: They're number one of my heart Dodgers.
• 0:27
  Speaker 4: Then Brewers make crats happy with Brewers Phillies, Phillies. Probably
• 0:31
  Speaker 4: maybe two if Wheeler wasn't hurt, but he's hurt, so
• 0:34
  Speaker 4: that heard.
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: But above the Brewers, Yeah.
• 0:36
  Speaker 4: I just think they're bill for October with their power
• 0:38
  Speaker 4: and what they have. Listen, these are my power Rankings,
• 0:41
  Speaker 4: not yours. Okay, Scott, shut up. M'm Tigers because they
• 0:46
  Speaker 4: have the best record in the American League.
• 0:47
  Speaker 3: I love the Blue Jays pitching the way they're swinging it.
• 0:49
  Speaker 4: Then we get to the Cubs, Astros are seven just
• 0:52
  Speaker 4: because they're leading the division. Yankees and Met The Yankees
• 0:55
  Speaker 4: and Red Sox are tied because that's what they deserve.
• 0:57
  Speaker 4: And then the Mets are ten and then there's two
• 0:59
  Speaker 4: playoff teams that aren't there. Can you name them, Scott?
• 1:01
  Speaker 4: They're in the playoffs right now.
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: The Mariners.
• 1:07
  Speaker 4: And the Padres yep, Padres are banged up doll Hill
• 1:11
  Speaker 4: and the Mariners can't win a game east of Spokane,
• 1:14
  Speaker 4: So I mean, yeah, it's gonna be tough.
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: You can't separate the Yankees and the Red Sox for
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: they're tied. You couldn't give us an eight nine?
• 1:22
  Speaker 3: I did, they're tied?
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: How's the season series going?
• 1:25
  Speaker 3: I don't know what they're tired right now?
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: The Red Sox are beating the crap out of them
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: in the season.
• 1:29
  Speaker 4: Your power ranking, Scott les, you broke the Wolves ten teams.
• 1:36
  Speaker 3: I gave ten teams.
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: One through ten. Nine.
• 1:39
  Speaker 5: I don't see nine there, Scott.
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: Okay, but just give me an eight? Okay?
• 1:45
  Speaker 3: Fine? Ten is the White Sox No?
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: Eight? Who's eight nine? Which one? Yankees Red Sox are tied?
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: Which one you're tired? Come on, you can't give me
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: an eight nine?
• 1:56
  Speaker 6: I didn't see what Scott was talking about, but now
• 1:58
  Speaker 6: tied for eighth. AJ just wants to do the Fox
• 2:02
  Speaker 6: Premier game later this month. Yankees, Red Sox so he
• 2:06
  Speaker 6: doesn't want to doesn't.
• 2:07
  Speaker 2: Want to ruffles.
• 2:09
  Speaker 3: No, I've done that game. I did one that went
• 2:11
  Speaker 3: like fifteen innings. It took five hours.
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: That's a normal.
• 2:15
  Speaker 3: I think I fell asleep three times in that game.
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: All right, well, the Red Sox have the season series,
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: so we'll give it to them for now.
• 2:21
  Speaker 3: You can't change my power.
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: You give me your You broke the rules.
• 2:26
  Speaker 3: You break the rules all the time.
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: No, I don't. I always go one through ten, prats,
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: did you go one through ten?
• 2:31
  Speaker 6: I did? But producer lady asked me.
• 2:33
  Speaker 2: It was weird.
• 2:34
  Speaker 6: She asked me because I accidentally put eleven down. I
• 2:37
  Speaker 6: thought I had ten. She goes, is somebody tied? Is
• 2:40
  Speaker 6: somebody tied in your list? I was like, no, why
• 2:42
  Speaker 6: and I had put the so I said, beat it.
• 2:45
  Speaker 6: Drop the cubs out of there. So that's that's what's
• 2:48
  Speaker 6: gonna get me some visceral ten. I don't.
• 2:55
  Speaker 5: Oh, go then go everyone watching mart My list was bad,
• 3:05
  Speaker 5: really not in the top ten.
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: All right, go ahead, crats.
• 3:08
  Speaker 3: Ten other teams that are better.
• 3:10
  Speaker 6: So I'm going Phillies, Dodgers, Brewers, Tigers, Padres, Blue Jays.
• 3:18
  Speaker 6: Blue Jays are the second our number six and the
• 3:21
  Speaker 6: second American League team that I have in there, Astros, Mets, Yankees,
• 3:26
  Speaker 6: Red Sox. The Yankees are ahead of the Red Sox,
• 3:29
  Speaker 6: and I changed it because Rum and Anthony, I think
• 3:33
  Speaker 6: is a huge part. That's how close they are. I
• 3:35
  Speaker 6: would agree, but there's something for each team. Like I
• 3:39
  Speaker 6: can't sit here and go okay, the Padres bullpen, and
• 3:43
  Speaker 6: I guess I was kind of more thinking playoff team.
• 3:46
  Speaker 6: The Padres bullpen in the playoffs is going to be
• 3:49
  Speaker 6: a prop to me, it's gonna be such a problem
• 3:51
  Speaker 6: that I think, out of all these teams, that bullpen
• 3:54
  Speaker 6: in the playoffs might be the biggest superpower of any
• 3:58
  Speaker 6: of these teams. Because the Dodgers have issues with their lineups,
• 4:02
  Speaker 6: the Phillies can be pitched to. The Brewers don't hit
• 4:06
  Speaker 6: enough Dingers, the Tigers, unless Terrek Scoogle is good enough,
• 4:11
  Speaker 6: maybe he doesn't, you know, maybe they don't even make
• 4:13
  Speaker 6: it out of.
• 4:13
  Speaker 3: The first round.
• 4:14
  Speaker 6: Like to me, that Padres bullpen is a superpower that
• 4:19
  Speaker 6: all these other teams don't have. Don't have that.
• 4:23
  Speaker 3: Kind of superpower.
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: In my opinion, that's a great call. Seriously, it's a
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: great call. I think the Padres are receiving too much
• 4:31
  Speaker 1: hate right now because of what's happening through the rest
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: of the regulars.
• 4:35
  Speaker 3: They lost.
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: Jason Adam agreed, that's why I knocked down guys.
• 4:40
  Speaker 6: They don't have a shortstop. They have nine shortstops. They
• 4:45
  Speaker 6: all played shortstop in the big lead. Is it gonna
• 4:49
  Speaker 6: be tough? You can't just replace a big league shortstop.
• 4:51
  Speaker 6: I get that, But you have the Phillies number one
• 4:54
  Speaker 6: without Wheeler Aaron Nola pitched last night.
• 4:58
  Speaker 3: They're still number one.
• 5:00
  Speaker 6: I didn't even have well, I made my list before yesterday,
• 5:03
  Speaker 6: but I have, But I honestly didn't even have Aaron
• 5:08
  Speaker 6: Nola pitching in the playoffs for him. I know it's
• 5:10
  Speaker 6: crazy to have three lefties, but what do we just
• 5:12
  Speaker 6: talk about that left handed pitchers have the Even they're
• 5:15
  Speaker 6: having a better season against righties all throughout the league,
• 5:20
  Speaker 6: they have three left handed pitchers. Aaron Nola might get
• 5:23
  Speaker 6: a start in Game four, in my opinion. I know
• 5:25
  Speaker 6: they want to split up the lefties. He can't go
• 5:27
  Speaker 6: three straight lefties. But to me, he hasn't proven that
• 5:31
  Speaker 6: he is in the playoff rotation yet. He has a
• 5:34
  Speaker 6: history of it. He has a history of being really
• 5:36
  Speaker 6: good in the playoffs for him this year. To me,
• 5:40
  Speaker 6: it doesn't look like it. And I get it. No Nola,
• 5:42
  Speaker 6: no Wheeler. I think those other three guys, though, you
• 5:45
  Speaker 6: can match up against any other three guys that are
• 5:49
  Speaker 6: going to be the top three pitchers in there in
• 5:53
  Speaker 6: the playoffs, and I think you go Lozardo game two
• 5:56
  Speaker 6: because right now he shows he can give you four innings.
• 5:59
  Speaker 6: The fifth inning is kryptonite. And game two you got
• 6:02
  Speaker 6: an off day of the next day most likely, and
• 6:04
  Speaker 6: then you just drain the bullpen.
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: Ready for mine.
• 6:10
  Speaker 3: No, they're skipping yours, crats.
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: I went one through ten. I followed the rules.
• 6:17
  Speaker 6: Need o gang.
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: If I did two eights, you would talk about it
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: for the ten teams.
• 6:25
  Speaker 3: No, ten teams.
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: You wait. Give us always find something and then he'll
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: bring it up forever.
• 6:33
  Speaker 3: Give us your ranking.
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: Brewers one best record, fair right, They're still in a
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: good spot for me. I think that they have a
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: better chance this year in the playoffs than they have
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: in the past. Dodgers two for me based on talent
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: track records. Right now, you don't like the Mets. Third,
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: why you.
• 6:58
  Speaker 3: All you talk about is how bad they are in
• 7:00
  Speaker 3: a rotation stakes.
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: They have a whole new rotation. They got a makeover
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: in September, glam up in September.
• 7:08
  Speaker 4: The Mets better than the Phillies, and you are records
• 7:10
  Speaker 4: and this and that, the Phillies.
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: Are way ahead of the Mets. I don't give a crap.
• 7:14
  Speaker 3: Oh, but then you said the Yankees.
• 7:16
  Speaker 1: Rot right now. If I match those two teams up,
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: I like the Mets better than the Phillies. Okay for me,
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: I like the Mets lineup better. In the first season.
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: I think they cannot win in city field. I think
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: the Mets can grab a game in Philly. And I
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: think the starting rotation is going to make all the
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: difference for this team now because the kids are bawling,
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: the kids are bopping, and the Phillies are right there,
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: They're right next to them. I couldn't put a tie
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: for third because that's not allowed, So I put Mets
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: then Phillies. This is big for me. Usually I do
• 7:46
  Speaker 1: top six teams from the National League all in the
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: top six on my power rankings. But I am buying
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: what the Blue Jays are selling. Yes, I have the
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: Blue Jays over the Tigers. I think the Blue I
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: think half of their starting rotations gonna end up in
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: the bullpen.
• 8:02
  Speaker 4: Half of five is too they have six starters? Which
• 8:04
  Speaker 4: half guy goes into the bullpen?
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: Will you tell me? Let's go through that they have
• 8:07
  Speaker 1: six starters.
• 8:08
  Speaker 3: Well is already in the bullpen? They have five?
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: Right, so that Derek Lauer he goes to the bullpen.
• 8:11
  Speaker 1: Who's starting game one for you? I think some of
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: it depends on who they're going up against, right, But
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: you can make a case for five starters. I think
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: Shane Bieber is definitely going to start a playoff game
• 8:20
  Speaker 1: for you.
• 8:21
  Speaker 3: Okay, so what half of guy goes to the bullpen?
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: I think Gosman will start, I think Bieber will start.
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: I think sures Are will probably start, and then maybe
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: Bassett's a guy who's done it before. Who out of
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: the bullpen? And Barrios in the best of seven series
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: is here is one of your four starters in a
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: shorter series, maybe he comes out of the bullpen too.
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: Depends who's good in a starting role and who am
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: I worried about coming out of the bullpen. But anyway,
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: the point is that I think there's enough depth there.
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: I like the lineup. I think there's enough pop to
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: win in the playoffs and there's a ton of contact.
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: I like the Blue Jays, so I'm popping them up
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: in the five spot. Then I've got the Cubs six,
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: the seven, just because of what they're going through right now.
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: But I'm like Krats, I think knocking them too much.
• 9:06
  Speaker 3: You have to score some runs at some point.
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: Agreed, got the run. I'm worried about the power. It's
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: a team that's what bottom three or five in power
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: this year, and Jason Adam injury is big. Right. It's
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: a scary bullpen, but it's a little less scary now
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: because it's four instead of five, Tigers eight, Astro's nine,
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: Red Sox ten. We know essentially who the playoff teams
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: are already, so you have to leave two playoff teams
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: out right now. The Mariners are looking messy, but again,
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: I think they could be dangerous in the playoffs too,
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: if the starting pitching finds it In the nah I've
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: been on that train for a while and they're letting
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: everyone down right now. And then the Yankees for me,
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: because I can separate the Yankees in the Red Sox
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: at ten and eleven.
• 9:47
  Speaker 6: No Red Sox does that. Would that have been different
• 9:51
  Speaker 6: if Roman Anthony was still.
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: In No, I have the Red Sox. The Red Sox
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: are ten.
• 9:54
  Speaker 3: No, no Yankees, No Yankees. I'm sorry.
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: The Red Sox are better than the Yankees right now
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: because of the bullpen. Because the bullpen, Yes, the Red
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: Sox bullpen is better than the Yankees. When you match
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: those two teams up against each other, the Red Sox
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: are a good matchup or the Red Sox like facing
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: the Yankees this year. I think that's fair. So if
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: I'm putting those two teams against each other for the
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: ten spot, I take Red Sox Astros for me. Get
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: back in the mix with your on your down's insane,
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: which is going to lead us to the next segment
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: because we're gonna get to Chandler Rome in a minute.
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: But let's ever let everyone know about Arena Club where
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: you can buy, sell, trade, open slab packs and you
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: can rank your cards and if you want to rank
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: them all eight, you can. But you can also get
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: twenty percent off your first slab pack or card purchase
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: at arenaclub dot com slash foul. That's Arena club dot
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: com slash foul. Each week, aj rips open a new
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: slab pack and we show you those ads during FT,
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: so wait till you see next week. All right, keep
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: us all on here as you bring in Chandler Rome
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: from the Athletic and of course the one of the
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: stars of Crush City territory. Uh, Chandler, great to talk
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: to you.
• 11:03
  Speaker 3: You have a TV.
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, here, what do you want to hear in some feedback?
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: I want to have a clean interview here.
• 11:10
  Speaker 2: I don't own a television, so it can't be my TV,
• 11:14
  Speaker 2: you know how.
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: And the radio callers sometimes will be like, hey, come down,
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: you're well. I'm gonna wait for my production team to
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: tell me this is okay. Are we sounding good? Oh,
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: it's it's gone. Okay.
• 11:25
  Speaker 3: Chandler finally muted himself.
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: We're good, We're good. All right, So Chandler, let's let's
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: start with a question from Eric Kratz. Ask the question
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: of Chandler, who's in the clubhouse every day for the Astros.
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: The question that you have about PitchCom device is being
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: used by other teammates.
• 11:43
  Speaker 6: Was it ever asked of Payana or Altuve or the
• 11:47
  Speaker 6: center fielder who also have a PitchCom device? What pitch
• 11:52
  Speaker 6: was called in the infamous Framber Valdez Saysar Salazar incident.
• 12:00
  Speaker 2: It was not, and maybe that's a dereliction of duty
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: on our part. I to be completely honest with you,
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: I can't. I don't know who specifically on the field.
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: Where's PitchCom devices for the ashers. I know at one
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: point Pania was. I know at one point they had
• 12:15
  Speaker 2: the third basement wearing it. Depending on who it was Altuve,
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: I don't believe. I think al too a DH that game,
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: so he wouldn't have been in the field with it on.
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: But no, that was not asked of the guys. It's
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: a good thought and it's something we probably should have
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: thought of. But I mean to kind of peel the
• 12:30
  Speaker 2: curtain back a little bit. I mean, we walked in
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: that clubhouse and the first thing we saw was you know,
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: Fromber and Saysar Salazar having a discussion at Salazar's locker,
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: and then bench Cojo mar Lopez came in and escorted
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: both of them into the manager's office. So we were
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: a little bit preoccupied, just kind of, you know, watching
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: that unfold and to kind of see what was going
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: on next, to maybe think that far ahead, and to
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: be honest with you, Eric, we didn't know what their
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: stories were going to be coming out, so we walked in.
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: We really couldn't have the wherewithal to think, all right,
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: let's go hear what was called and what wasn't called,
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: because we didn't get all those details until Fromber and
• 13:09
  Speaker 2: say Sar Salazar spoke to us afterward, and by that
• 13:12
  Speaker 2: point the clubhouse pretty much cleared out and the players
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: no no reheal players there to talk to anymore.
• 13:19
  Speaker 3: I have the book too, by the way, I'm just
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: I have the same.
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: Night Jeff Fletcher, shout out Fletch.
• 13:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I just wanted to throw that out there. I
• 13:27
  Speaker 4: have a lot of books here that Scott won't let
• 13:28
  Speaker 4: me read. But that's a different story. Chandler, you know
• 13:32
  Speaker 4: Korea had a PitchCom I mean, there's no way Korea
• 13:34
  Speaker 4: doesn't play short stud without knowing what's coming. He likes
• 13:36
  Speaker 4: to be in control of almost everything, so you know
• 13:38
  Speaker 4: you know that he had the pitchcomp. The thing for
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: me is you mentioned when you walked in there that
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: they were talking, But there's now reports coming out that
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: the players on the astros weren't happy and they made
• 13:50
  Speaker 4: fromb Or go over and talk to him.
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: Has anyone figured out.
• 13:53
  Speaker 4: The chain of eventser and then they went and Joe
• 13:55
  Speaker 4: a spot his office and then they all came out
• 13:57
  Speaker 4: with kind of the same story.
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: Oh, I would never do thath blah blah blah whatever.
• 14:01
  Speaker 4: Frommer and his agent's got doing the PR tour saying
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: this is ridiculous. But does anyone ever is that true?
• 14:07
  Speaker 4: First of all, that the players on the Astros went
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: the Frommer said, hey, you need to apologize and you
• 14:11
  Speaker 4: need to act better toward Salazar. And then do we
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: know what Joe Spottas said to him other than what
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: he said in his press conference yesterday?
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to pretend like I
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: was in the room and I know exactly what happened,
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: you know. I Look, I can say that there were
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: some there were some frustrations. There were some frustrations in there.
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: I don't know to what level it rose. I don't
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: know the chain of command of who apologized when was
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: there a forced apology? Like, I don't know, So I
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: don't want to speak out of turn. All I can
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: know is what fromer Velde has told us after the
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: game that he apologized to Saysar Salas are both in
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: the dugout after the fifth inning and after the game.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: That is what he told us. We asked Asar salas
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: aar if he felt an apology was required, and he
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: kind of said no, he didn't and just kind of
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: reiterated how good of a relationship that he's built with
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: and how and how well they work, how well they
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: work together. So you know, I I wasn't in there,
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: so I'm not going to try to put words in
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: people's mouth or figure out what was and what didn't happen.
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: There was some frustration, Don't get me wrong, I do
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: know that, but I can't give you a blow by
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: blow of who apologized. When, was it a forced apology?
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: Was it was it made?
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: All I All I can tell you is what the
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: people told us on the record and from ber Valdez
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: told us that he apologized twice to say Sarsalas are
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: on Tuesday.
• 15:33
  Speaker 6: The dynamic of that clubhouse, who would be the guy
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: if you were to guess, because Korea just got back,
• 15:40
  Speaker 6: I know he has a lot of clout there. Who
• 15:42
  Speaker 6: would be the guy that would get up in Fromber's
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: face or maybe make this make sure we like, hey,
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: we're addressing this. This isn't gonna just get swept under
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: the rug like like we like, I feel like it
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: kind of has been.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, we've got video evidence of Carlos Korea getting
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: in front ravel does his face in the twenty twenty
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: ALCS at Petco Park in Tampa. So Fromber and Korea
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: do have history, even though Korea just got back here
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: a month ago. You know, Correa is probably that guy,
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: the guy that's going to be the one to take
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: to take hold here. Don't discount hose al Twove either.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: I know he's a quiet guy. I know he's a
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: guy that usually doesn't love the spotlight, doesn't love being
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: the focus of things. But he's a leader in there
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: and he will he'll speak up when he has to.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: He probably will never do it publicly, he'll never do
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: it when the cameras are on, and he'll never tell
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: anyone that he did that. But he is he is
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: capable of doing that. So it'd be those two guys.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: And then you know, Joe Espota had a playbook for this,
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: and he had to use this playbook a couple of
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: months ago when from ervel Does questioned openly questioned the
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Astors defensive positioning after his start against the Nationals, you know,
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: Fromber made his comments that night and then they kind
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: of set off a firestorm. We had not we talked
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: from Er that night after we talked to Joe Aspata,
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: so we didn't have a chance to ask Joe Aspata
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: about it. The next day, Joe Aspata opened his pregame
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: news conference with a statement similar to the one he
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: said yesterday, similar to the one he gave yesterday, and
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: then basically said, this is it. I'm not taking any
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: more questions. I'm not talking about it anymore. Yesterday he
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: was asked a couple of follow up questions, and I
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: mean he gave he gave answers, but didn't really answer
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: the question like he responded to them. But the answers
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: were not He didn't, you know, divulge anything else. So
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: they were clearly on that playbook of let's address it
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: once a pregame on Wednesday, and then, as Joe Aspata said,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: put it behind us, and they seem to do that.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: They went out and beat the Yankees eight to seven.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: And like I said on Krush City Territory this morning,
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: the thing I love about baseball is that the new
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: cycle just constantly moves right like this isn't football where
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: you have to wait six days for another game. This
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: isn't basketball where there could be a day or two
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: between games and the new cycle can on. Like the
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: quickest way to put it behind you is go out
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: and play the next day. Go out and play, go
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: out and win. And the Ashers took a good step
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: toward that on Wednesday, kind of distancing themselves from all
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: this from this hoopla.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Ft fam Designer clothes can be expensive, but we want
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: our clothes to look good, we want to feel good.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: We want them to be affordable and crats. If you
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: tell me that I can wear a T shirt that
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: looks like it's tailored but it's not actually tailored and
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: it just comes that way, then sign me up for
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: True Classic.
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: Have to you gotta sign up for it because these
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: shirts are soft, they're thin, they're durable, and they're very versatile.
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: You can wear them to the gym, you can wear
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: them out to a nice dinner. Let's get after it
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: because these shirts are the real deal.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: They are. Check it out. I've got one of the
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: performance ones. It's a nice blue fits well. I can
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: go to the gym, I can go out, I can
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: do ft in a shirt like this ft FAM. There's
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: a reason why True Classic has sold over twenty five
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: million shirts to more than five million customers, and they
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: are racking up over two hundred thousand and five star reviews.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: See for yourself with our exclusive link at true Classic
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: dot com slash foal to say that's True Classic dot
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: com slash foul.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: Tayler, do you think this is something that lingers around?
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: I know you're saying they're trying to distance himself from it.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Is it pretty obvious to say that Salazar won't catch
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: fromburn next time he pitches? And then also, is this
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: something that in the clubhouse and going forward with the
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: Astros I'm not even talking about maybe this year, but
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: when he's a free agent that the Astros look at
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: and say, ah, because this isn't listen as good of
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: a picture as from Breval does. Is this isn't his
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: first thing where guys people have said what the heck
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: is he doing? And he's kind of done some stuff, right,
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: So do you think's going forward? This is something the
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: Astros look at in free agency and say, ah, maybe
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: we'd rather have somebody else here, even though they know
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: fromber very well well.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: The Astros probably aren't bringing from Bravell does back, but
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: it's not Becau because of anything you just said. It's
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: because they're not going to give him the sort of
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: contract that that he his market value says he's worth
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: and that he will command on the free agent market.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: You know, he's a year older than Max Freed, but
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: has very similar career numbers, if not better in some
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: regards to Max Freed. So you look at eight for
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: two eighteen that Max Freed got. I'm not saying frommer
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Valdez is going to get that exact deal, but that
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: will be the framework that you know, perhaps is a
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: starting point. And the Astros have never guaranteed a player
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: more than one hundred and fifty one million dollars, much
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: less a pitcher. Jim Crane the one thing in his
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: ownership tenure he has not given massive deals to starting pitchers.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Lance mccullor's got a five year, eighty five million dollar
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: extension before he went to free agency. Josh Hater got
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: a ninety five million dollar deal as a closer. Ninety
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: five million is the most safe ever guaranteed to a
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: pitcher in Jim Crane's ownership tenure. So the Ashers probably
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: aren't bringing Valdez back, but it's more of a money thing.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: That's more of like that he is going to want
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: a contract that they just don't give as far as
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: what it's going to do for the next month month
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: and a half. You know, Victor Carrottini is back off
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: of the il, off the concussion ale So the Ashers
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: have three catchers on their roster right now. I don't
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: know who's going to catch from Er in his next start.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: I'd be surprised if it was Csar Salazar for no
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: other reason than you know, I for no other reason
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: than I think Victor Carrottini and Yinor Diaz are you know,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: better options to catch just from an offensive upside. This
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: is a team that needs to score runs. This is
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: a team that is looking to upgrade its offense in
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: any way possible. Those two guys are are just better offensively.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: You have to remember the reason Ceasar salas are caught
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: from ber Valdez on Tuesday was because Victor Carrottini was
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: still on the concussion I l and they needed Yinor
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Diaz to DH Because if I'm remembering the days right,
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: I think you're on Alvarez was off, so whatever like
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Salas are caught Valdez because they were in a little
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: bit of a pinch just roster wise, they're not in
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: that anymore. So I imagine one of Keratini or Diaz
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: catches Valdez in his next start. And then with Fromber specifically,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: and I've reiterated this on christ City Territory, you know,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: they know how to handle him, like this isn't a
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: new guy that's come in and it's just been like this,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Like they've had Fromber around for going on seven years now,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Like they have seen him evolve. They they know how
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: to get the most out of him. You know, sometimes
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: things like this happen. They've had instances like this where
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: some stuff has occurred and they've been able to manage it.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: They've been able to handle it. I don't think it's
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: going to be that as big of a deal maybe
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: as most think, just because they're so experienced with this,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Like they kind of know how he is, they know
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: what makes him tick. They they understand kind of how
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: to how to handle him in the clubhouse. So I
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: think they'll be able to be fine with it for
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: the next month and a half. But as far as
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: the future goes, like, I never thought fromber Valdez was
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: coming back to Houston when the season began, and nothing
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: that happened Tuesday night changes my thought on that and
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: has nothing to do with the cross up or the
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: failed to step off.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Chandler. I'm going to take us to the lineup. How
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: much better does it look with Jordan Aubres back and
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: looking mostly like himself? And then I saw you writing
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: about Estac parade, So is there a chance.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Let's start with escoc paratus. I don't think anyone knows
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: if there's a chance. No, he got cleared to start
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: baseball activities on Wednesday yesterday. If you watched him at
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: dik And Park while he was taking ground balls and
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: while he was running, he is nowhere near full speed,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: not that I expected him to be full speed, but
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: this was very light baseball activities, like I'm talking. He
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: fielded five grounders that didn't really require him going side
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: to side. He did some running in the outfield that
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: he said was about fifty percent. He is not close
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: to coming back, so but they are going to send
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: him to West Palm Beach this week to continue his rehab.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: He'll be down there Esach said that he's still not
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: sure if he's going to play this season. He's going
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: to try his best, but it's still very much up
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: in the air. I think the bigger question is, you know,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: if everything goes well, and let's say he is available
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: for a potential playoff spot on a roster like, he's
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: obviously going to have to DH a little bit. He's
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: gonna be probably DH, primarily because I don't know by
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: that time if he'll be in good enough shape to
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: play a nine inning game defensively. I also don't know
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: where he would play defensively, considering you know, Carlos Carrez
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: on the team and now plays third base. They're rotating
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Ramon Urius and Mauricio Dubon and Josel Tuve at second.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: They could play Paradus at second, and you know, have
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: left field for either Jordan or Altuve. But if they
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: if he comes back in a d H role, that
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: would force both Alvarez and Altuve to play defense every day.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Whether the Ashers would be okay with that trade off,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: You know, this is a team that misses Paradus's plate
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: discipline and miss how many pitches he sees like he
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: would be a massive addition to this lineup, so I
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: think they'd take the trade off. But again, this is
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: this is really far off, Like I think, it is
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: still very much up in the air of paradis you know,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: plays again this season. But it is still a good
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: sign to see him doing baseball activities after he faced
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: the possibility of undergoing surgery that would have sidelined him
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: for six months. So that's a win in and of
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: itself that he's back to do at baseball activities. And
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: then Jordon, I mean, it's it changes the complete dynamic
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: of the lineup. And we said this, and we we
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: kind of Joe spot had reiterated this before Jordon came back.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Even if he came back at you know, less than
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: full Yordon, even if he came back at a little
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: bit less efficacy, just his presence and just the fear
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: he strikes in opponents is going to change how opposing
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: managers and opposing pitchers navigate. You know, his first series
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: back against the Rockies, I think he walked five times,
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: and the Rockies like they weren't even trying to hide it,
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: like these were they were pitching around him and he
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: hadn't played a major League game. He had missed one
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: hundred games, and they were pitching around him, and you
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: could already tell it was a different sort of presence. Now,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: last night would lead me to believe that he's all
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: the way back. He hit five balls last night, all
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: one oh three point five or harder off. The bat
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: was spraying the ball to all fields. Josh Reddick was
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: was marveling earlier this morning about him, you know, going
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: with a Luke Weaver change up in the left field
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: for a game tying single to the other way. He
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: pulled the ball, he went up the middle. This is
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: I mean he is when he's on. He's a top
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: five hitter in baseball. And you know, adding that can
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: only help this lineup that you know, has had its
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: struggles with runners in scoring position, that has not been
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: able to have the run production we think it could have.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: But I mean, adding Alvarez in the just changes the
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: calculus entirely.
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: He's one of the guys the only league, the only
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: the only chance the league has against him is if
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: he gets called up to the next league, which I
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: don't think they've created that yet, But he's one of
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: those guys. Last question, we haven't hit on this bullpen.
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: And I'm not saying this because of Bray. You actually
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: had a blip last night. He's ridiculous. Does this bullpen
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: have enough length? Does it have enough just inning to
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: inning skill to succeed in the playoffs.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think it could. And I also think
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: you're gonna see starters go into the bullpen in the playoffs,
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: just like we see, you know, every year. So I
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: think that the complexion of this bullpen could look a
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: lot different in the playoffs. One thing we didn't hit
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: on is that Spencer Arraghetti went on the il yesterday
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: with elbow inflammation. That would have been maybe my pick
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: as the guy that would have translated best to the
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: bullpen in a playoff scenario. I'm not sure they want
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: to risk that. With Javier and Garcia, two guys that
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: have just come off long arm surgery recoveries, I'm not
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: sure they want to risk putting them in the bullpen.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: That quick Arraghetti only you know, broke his thumb, That's
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: why he missed so much time. So to me, he
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: profiled as the guy that would have been the obvious
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: kind of swingman, guy that could give you some length,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: a guy that could the stuff could play up out
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: of the bullpen. Without him, it's gonna be a little
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: bit more difficult, but you know, I think they've got
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: some good pieces. You know, Brian King is a guy
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: that as a left handed hitter, as a left handed pitcher,
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: excuse me, has been dominant against right handed batters, so
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: they can use him kind of regardless of platoon splits.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: They've got in yelled dell As Santos, who's been very
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: good for them since they got him from the Braves.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Caleb Ort has pitched some leverage innings and succeeded. Pitched
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: very well last night, and then they have all the
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: confidence in the world. And Brian Abrave. I know the
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: blip last night wasn't great. The Homer to Bellinger, but
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: he is by most statistical measures, he's been as good,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: if not better, in some categories than Josh Hater this year.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: So when they give him the ball in the ninth inning,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: they're not worried. I think it's just the bridge to
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: get to a bray. You I think that's going to
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: be a little bit interesting, and I think it's going
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: to test Joe Aspata's kind of managerial kind of how
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: he's going to match, guys up, how quickly he goes
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: to his bullpen, or quite frankly, how long he sticks
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: with his starters, because maybe his starters can give him.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Maybe he's got a little more confidence in the upside
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: of the starters than he would go into the bullpen
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: and maybe the fourth or the fifth inning.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Chandler great insight. As always. Much more of this on
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: crush City Territory, which has a merch shop now too.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Go check it out. Crush City Territory part of the
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Ft Network Pods YouTube channel. Chandler, Tyler Stafford, and Josh
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Reddick part of the mix. Thanks Chandler, appreciate your thanks, guys,