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Jose Soriano DEALING, bullpen REELING as Angels win two of three games in Cincinnati · Halo Territory: A Los Angeles Angels Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hey, Angel fans, Welcome back to Halo territory. I am
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  Speaker 1: Mike d. Giovanna, former La Times Baseball writer and host
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  Speaker 1: of the show, joined by Mark Trumbo, our regular co
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  Speaker 1: host and the former Angel slugger. And Sam Blum of
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  Speaker 1: the Athletic back with us. Welcome back, Sam. How's everybody
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  Speaker 1: doing today?
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  Speaker 2: Great to be back.
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  Speaker 1: Great talent, very talent, and he's still pretty young. So
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  Speaker 1: the Angels took two out of three in Cincinnati this week,
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  Speaker 1: but as often as the case with our Angels, and
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  Speaker 1: it was a little messy and I had a little drama.
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  Speaker 1: Angels are up nine nothing, nothing going into the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the eighth on Sunday, give up three in the eight,
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  Speaker 1: three more in the ninth on a Eli de la
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  Speaker 1: Cruz through run homer. They have to bring Drew palmerans
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  Speaker 1: into the game to get a couple of big outs,
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  Speaker 1: and Drew was able to close it out, but of
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  Speaker 1: course a closer, Jordan Romano and what was once a
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  Speaker 1: nine run game was warming up. Shouldn't affect his availability
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  Speaker 1: ability for the Yankees series. But how does that kind
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  Speaker 1: of take the edge off what was a pretty good
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  Speaker 1: weekend for the Angels.
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  Speaker 2: Guys, Yes, I don't know you thinks, Okay, I'll let
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  Speaker 2: you go.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna be I beat you. I beat you once. Yeah, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: I honestly, it doesn't take the edge off.
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  Speaker 1: No, not really.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, I know. Another fantastic start, utterly dominant. I can
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  Speaker 3: talk a little more about him in a second. But
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  Speaker 3: that game was in the bag Cincinnati. The record going
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  Speaker 3: into it was pretty respectable, but they're hitting not good. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: and and against Soreanno nobody's is. But at the end
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  Speaker 3: they started to string something together and Bachmann got into
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  Speaker 3: the game. He scuffled a bit, and then unfortunately Palmerantz
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  Speaker 3: gave up a three run homer, uh, necessitating ramon to
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  Speaker 3: come in and pitch.
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  Speaker 1: As you said, so, actually Ramonald didn't pitch, he was
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  Speaker 1: warming Palmeran's got the last one, didn't. Yeah, but yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Nick Salmon too is debut with the Angels this year,
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  Speaker 1: finally up with the team. Also had a rough eighth
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  Speaker 1: inning as well. Chase Silseith had a rough Saturday. And
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  Speaker 1: as you said, Sam Bachman, those are two young arms
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  Speaker 1: who had done pretty well in the first week and
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  Speaker 1: a half two of the season. Mark you think it
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  Speaker 1: was just one of those cases today with Sam where
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  Speaker 1: you know, coming into a game of the Big League,
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  Speaker 1: not a leverage situation, just wasn't attacking hitters. His stuff
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  Speaker 1: seemed okay.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of one of those weird things. I was
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  Speaker 3: slightly distracted in all honesty, I know, I know Ramond
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  Speaker 3: didn't pitch hearing something the Masters is going on and
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  Speaker 3: all this.
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  Speaker 1: Other stuff.
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  Speaker 3: With Bachman. Yeah, you know, as a team, like the
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  Speaker 3: pitching staff quick notes say that we the Angels are
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  Speaker 3: second in the league and walks, so that unfortunately is
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  Speaker 3: in the cards for many guys. Uh Bakman's not immune
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  Speaker 3: and still set the other day had a rough go
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  Speaker 3: of it. I don't know quite what to make of that,
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  Speaker 3: but you know it it was with Sam. I you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's just pounding the strike zone. It's gonna be the
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  Speaker 3: same rhetoric with him, with Class and with Urania, with
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  Speaker 3: Kokuchi and with Detmer's. I think all these guys are
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  Speaker 3: our candidates to improve in that that regard, because and
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  Speaker 3: on the flip side, the Angels are getting walked at
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  Speaker 3: a just a crazy pace. They had what seven to
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  Speaker 3: nine today the starter, I guess Abbott looks like he
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  Speaker 3: has regressed pretty big an All Star team last year,
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  Speaker 3: and he didn't look sharp at all today. He's usually
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  Speaker 3: got a pretty good fastball, but not the case. They
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  Speaker 3: were all over him and got out to a quick lead.
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  Speaker 3: Would have been nice to to, you know, shut him out,
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  Speaker 3: but it kind of, you know, at the end was
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't as good. But that's they won a series
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  Speaker 3: first time in a long time. It looked like Lackie
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  Speaker 3: was on the last team that won a series in.
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati, So that's telling me something. Yeah, there's an interesting
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  Speaker 1: stat with the walks from Matt Birt Berchie the Angel
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  Speaker 1: John twenty six walks in this series in Cincinnati, which
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  Speaker 1: tied the franchise records for walks in a three game series.
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  Speaker 1: And I think Zach mettawalk three times today. I'm pretty
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  Speaker 1: sure he hasn't done that too often in his career. Sam,
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  Speaker 1: are you seeing u maybe a new level of patients
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  Speaker 1: from these hitters this year?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I just think the Angels are very much like
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  Speaker 2: a three true outcomes offense, and you know last year
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  Speaker 2: when they struggled, they were they were much more two
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  Speaker 2: true outcomes, right, it was either strikeout or at a
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  Speaker 2: home run. And so when you're walking I mean, you
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  Speaker 2: know what, what I think you saw on this weekend
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  Speaker 2: was a lot of good at bats, and you know
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  Speaker 2: there are there's a tough team to get out, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when they're drawn walks. That first inning today against Dad,
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  Speaker 2: it was kind of just moving the line along, which
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  Speaker 2: I thought was it's a good sign for them, you know.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, ultimately, I think when you strike out
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  Speaker 2: as much as you as they do, they won't you
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  Speaker 2: won't succeed with that type of offense. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: just hitting home runs, striking out and walking is sustainable.
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  Speaker 2: There's too many rallies that are going to get kind
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  Speaker 2: of just stymied that way. But you know, when when
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  Speaker 2: things are going well, you're walking more. I Mean, it
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  Speaker 2: was not like a really great series to watch in
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  Speaker 2: that regard. I mean, especially on Saturday, it was just
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  Speaker 2: both teams. I think there was like almost like twenty
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  Speaker 2: combined walks and in by bat, hit by pitch, So
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  Speaker 2: just not a very not really good baseball. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean I think, you know, going back to the bullpen,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's to me going to be their biggest area
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  Speaker 2: of concern. I mean, I think they're overworking them a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. You know, you talk about Chase sill Seth
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  Speaker 2: coming in and just looking like he shouldn't be in
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  Speaker 2: the game, and he's pitched almost like more than half
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  Speaker 2: the game so far. I think, so he's in. He's
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  Speaker 2: in there a lot, you know, and when you have to,
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  Speaker 2: like you said, you're up nine nothing, that's not a
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  Speaker 2: you know, you don't want to have to start using
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  Speaker 2: some of these guys because now you got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of games in a row here for New York, and
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  Speaker 2: you fly all the way back west, and so it's just,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's a lot of games. You can't be
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  Speaker 2: taxing your bullpen. It's already not like a really big
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  Speaker 2: strength of this team, but you know, if you have,
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  Speaker 2: there are certain elements of the way they're playing right
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  Speaker 2: now that I think are probably better than expected at least,
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  Speaker 2: you know, over the first two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we talked about this three true outcomes on a
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  Speaker 1: couple of shows recently, and yeah, they're still leaning heavily
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  Speaker 1: toward that type of offense. But I thought the first
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  Speaker 1: inning today they were definitely not a three true outcome team.
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  Speaker 1: They I think they had five singles in that rally.
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  Speaker 1: They moved you know, we talked about how you put
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  Speaker 1: pressure on a defense, and we talked about base running
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  Speaker 1: aggressive base running, but I think just having guys on
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  Speaker 1: base and having guys pitch out of the stretch puts
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  Speaker 1: pressure on a defense. And to me, the biggest ad
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  Speaker 1: bat of the game happened in that first inning. Nolan
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  Speaker 1: shan Well against what we thought going in was a
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  Speaker 1: pretty good left hander, and Andrew Abbott just goes with
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  Speaker 1: a pitch and strokes a nice two runs single in
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  Speaker 1: the less center field, not only scores two, but keeps
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  Speaker 1: that chain moving. And I think they scored with three
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  Speaker 1: or four in that first inning. What do you that?
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  Speaker 1: Was that one of the better at bats we've seen
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  Speaker 1: this here?
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  Speaker 3: Mark, I think you just answered the question. I think
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  Speaker 3: we to do that, but true, you know what it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was nice to see and it's contrary to what
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  Speaker 3: I was maybe going to make this point, Sam, would
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  Speaker 3: you be surprised this is a somewhat of a BTh territory,
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  Speaker 3: but persevont The Angels are first in the league in
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  Speaker 3: under contact, so basically hitting the ball in the air.
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  Speaker 3: They are first in pull oriented contact, They're twenty fifth
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  Speaker 3: in extra velocity. They lead the league in k's in
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  Speaker 3: their fifth in walks. But the first two stats line
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  Speaker 3: up with what and we will get to it in
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  Speaker 3: the fan mail bag. But and you know, many have
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  Speaker 3: noticed they hit the ball in the air and to
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  Speaker 3: the pull side a lot, and the stats confirmed that.
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  Speaker 3: So when I was looking at it, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: expected them to be high. I didn't expect him to
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  Speaker 3: necessarily be in the lead. But they are so that
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  Speaker 3: same approach that we've seen the last couple of years,
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  Speaker 3: despite you know, some new voices. It appears to be
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  Speaker 3: kind of the way that these guys operate, which is
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  Speaker 3: kind of a binge and purge offense. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 3: so far, I think they've held their own, but it
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  Speaker 3: can make it tough. And you know, Netto is a
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  Speaker 3: guy that is extremely gifted and extremely talented at pulling
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  Speaker 3: the ball. There's some other guys like Nolan. This was
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  Speaker 3: a nice at bat for him. I think he should
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  Speaker 3: use the whole field. He should stay in the middle
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  Speaker 3: of the field early on. You know, the exit velocities
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  Speaker 3: and the bat speed haven't really proven out. You know,
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  Speaker 3: a quick glance at some of the advanced metrics, you
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  Speaker 3: know they're kind of you know, Nolan, which is not
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  Speaker 3: to say it's a bad thing, but he's I think
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  Speaker 3: he should stick in this realm that at bat right
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  Speaker 3: there is the best version of him. I've seen him
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  Speaker 3: cut loose a little bit more. He's not done a
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  Speaker 3: good job of challenging with the abs. I think he's
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  Speaker 3: Ozer for four and you know, the defense left some
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  Speaker 3: to be what left something to be desired behind classing,
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  Speaker 3: So you know that was, you know, one of those
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  Speaker 3: things still early in the year. But uh Ohapi. A
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  Speaker 3: couple of hits today which was nice to see and Trout.
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  Speaker 3: You know that Trout's hit was actually really cool to me.
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  Speaker 3: That was vintage Trouty. It wasn't lasted, but he stayed
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  Speaker 3: inside it and was able to hit a single up
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  Speaker 3: the middle. He used to get a ton of those,
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  Speaker 3: So it looks like the version of him. I didn't
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  Speaker 3: see too many of those hits last year, so that's
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  Speaker 3: a positive sign. Not so positive. Hilaire smashing a ball
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  Speaker 3: off of Mike's it looked like but I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if you saw that, Sam, but a foul ball.
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  Speaker 1: I did, I did, I did crazy.
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  Speaker 2: It's yeah, man, it's just like Mike Trout needs like
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  Speaker 2: better some better luck. I feel like it's just the
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  Speaker 2: ball is finding him man.
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  Speaker 1: Not in the best ways he did. I think he
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  Speaker 1: was four for thirty three before that RBI double in
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  Speaker 1: the second too. Talk about Yeah, he did pull it,
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  Speaker 1: but he ripped it down the line. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that's a good sign for Trout. He's definitely not
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  Speaker 1: he had a great first couple of games, but it's
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  Speaker 1: definitely doesn't look like the Mike Trout of old. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: that's a sign that he's going to break out a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. We're we take a quick break for a
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  Speaker 1: word from our sponsors, and when we come back, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about the brightest of lights for this
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  Speaker 1: Angel team. Jose Sorriana and welcome back to Halo Territory.
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  Speaker 1: I Mike d Giovanna with Mark Trumbo and Sam Blum. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Jose Sorriano. What a game he had Sunday. Seven innings, pitch,
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  Speaker 1: two hits, zero runs, three walks, ten strikeouts. On the season,
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  Speaker 1: he's now four and zero with a major league best
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  Speaker 1: zero point three to three ERA. In twenty seven innings,
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  Speaker 1: he's given up nine hits, one earned run, thirty one strikeouts,
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  Speaker 1: nine walks, and then this one of those crazy stats
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  Speaker 1: that I'm guessing this was another Matt Birch special. Jose
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  Speaker 1: Soriano is the first player in American League history to
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  Speaker 1: pitch six plus innings with one or fewer runs aloud
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  Speaker 1: and three or three or fewer hits aloud in each
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  Speaker 1: of his first four games of a season.
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  Speaker 2: It's nice, but Matt Birch has has like real, like
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  Speaker 2: really exciting information between them instead of make up something
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  Speaker 2: that makes the Angels look good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, good for Matt Birch. I know it is his
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  Speaker 1: Arizona basketball team took a took a tough loss last week,
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  Speaker 1: but good on your Matt Birch for that stat. We've
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  Speaker 1: talked about Soriano being a budding ACE, and clearly he's
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  Speaker 1: the ace of the Angel staff. And you know, just
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  Speaker 1: I want to clarify something for our viewers, Like when
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  Speaker 1: I've talked about, you know, Soriano being a potential ACE,
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  Speaker 1: I've sort of looked at it in the context of
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  Speaker 1: like that Andy McCullough, you know, the Aces project story
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  Speaker 1: for the Athletic Yeah, he's clearly an Angel's best pitcher
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  Speaker 1: right now, but is he starting to get into that
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  Speaker 1: range where we start to think of him as one
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  Speaker 1: of the best pitchers in baseball. Once again, it's only
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  Speaker 1: four starts, but you have to like this kid's trajectory.
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  Speaker 1: What are you guys seeing from this kid? Stuff wise?
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  Speaker 1: And he just looks like a horse out there, And
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  Speaker 1: I was, I was so impressed. He had eighty one
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  Speaker 1: pitches through five innings and you're thinking, oh, man, he's
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  Speaker 1: he's dealing, but he's he's really not efficient. Then he
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  Speaker 1: has a four pitch six on him. So that was
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  Speaker 1: that was really impressive. Impressive to me. What do you
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  Speaker 1: guys like about this guy right now?
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  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I mean I think it's obviously legit.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, he's you know, it's four starts.
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  Speaker 2: I think this, you know, he's gone from someone who's
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  Speaker 2: like a fringe ase to probably someone who's putting himself
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  Speaker 2: quickly in the you know, all star starting conversation where
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  Speaker 2: you know, you can't even start to think about cy
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  Speaker 2: Young at this point. But he's if you stay on
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  Speaker 2: this trajectory, certainly why not. I think the thing with
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  Speaker 2: Soriano is he's cutting back on the walks, he's using
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  Speaker 2: his fastball more, just leating more strikeouts. He's you know,
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  Speaker 2: going deeper in games, working efficiently. I think he's got
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven innings in the first four starts to me,
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  Speaker 2: the thing that you know, we've seen from Soriano that
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  Speaker 2: you kind of have to keep an eye out for
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  Speaker 2: is when he gets later in the season, he's that's
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  Speaker 2: when he kind of starts to you know, has had
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  Speaker 2: his struggles. So you know, you want to be cognizant
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  Speaker 2: of how much he's pitching. You know, at this pace,
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  Speaker 2: he's probably close you know, close to like a two
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  Speaker 2: hundred something getting pace, so you know, to keep him
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  Speaker 2: good for the whole season, I think would be something
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  Speaker 2: they need to be cognizant of. But right now, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean he's he's pitching better than anyone in the
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  Speaker 2: game right now. There's no there's no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean he's just almost impossible to score off.
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  Speaker 2: I think Baldwin hit a homer like like just kind
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  Speaker 2: of it took like a ball above the zone and
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  Speaker 2: just kind of turned on it. But other than that,
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  Speaker 2: he isn't even allowed I mean anything, I mean really anything.
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  Speaker 2: He's not walking anybody. He's just kind of dominating.
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  Speaker 1: Mark. You've talked about his use of the four seamer
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  Speaker 1: a lot more of this year. Is that setting up
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  Speaker 1: his off speeds, the splitter and the knuckle curve a
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  Speaker 1: little better.
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  Speaker 3: Well, in true fashion for us, the timing today he
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  Speaker 3: went back to more sinkers. So yeah, right. You know
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  Speaker 3: what he did do is is he's still using He's
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  Speaker 3: got a four pitch mix, and I think he's really
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  Speaker 3: refined it. I'm guarantee somebody or you know, this is
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  Speaker 3: not by accident. His pitch usage has changed and his
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  Speaker 3: knuckle curve makes me glad I'm retired because I just
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  Speaker 3: don't see anybody hit that pitch right now. It is
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  Speaker 3: absolutely filthy. It is as good at breaking ball as
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  Speaker 3: I've seen in a very long time. And when he does,
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  Speaker 3: you know, both fastballs are very effective. He was a
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  Speaker 3: death on left handed hitters today. One of the advanced
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  Speaker 3: stats or you know they give grades out at the end,
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  Speaker 3: I'll give credit or maybe in the footnotes, but he
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  Speaker 3: got an A plus against lefties. It's it's a newer expert,
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  Speaker 3: but it does a nice job of breaking down what
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  Speaker 3: what guys are doing. I think the opposing pitchure go
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  Speaker 3: an F today and you know grades the stuff plus
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  Speaker 3: and the outing as a whole. So know what's was
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  Speaker 3: not graded quite as high the other day stuff wise,
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  Speaker 3: but then you know, because he was able to limit
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  Speaker 3: the damage and he also did a very nice job,
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  Speaker 3: very good game out of him. So you know, as
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  Speaker 3: far as Soriano, there's no question unless you know, I
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  Speaker 3: don't see any reason why he would take a huge
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  Speaker 3: step back, even a slight regression. It's still you know,
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  Speaker 3: there's there's not too many guys. I mean, he probably
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  Speaker 3: he might be the best pitcher in the game currently.
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  Speaker 3: It's four starts in too early to YadA YadA. But
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  Speaker 3: you know what, find somebody better, find somebody else than you. Guys,
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  Speaker 3: are you know, struggling that mightily.
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  Speaker 1: Against Do you think it's the split against the lefties
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  Speaker 1: that's making him so effective or or is it more
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  Speaker 1: pitch mix can you can you tell?
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  Speaker 3: As a hitter, I think the thing that makes guys
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  Speaker 3: really tough in the aces, and I've said it before
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  Speaker 3: is the ability to have three pitches. Now he's got four.
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  Speaker 3: The split is not used quite as often, but you
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  Speaker 3: never know what's coming, and he's probably a guy that
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  Speaker 3: can lean on. He is mixing it up early. It's
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  Speaker 3: kind of a newer thing in years past, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and I heard Showalter talking about it the other day, Bucksholto.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: That is with Kurt Chilling trying to get through three
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: innings with his fastball alone. You just don't see that anymore.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: Guys don't do that. Soriano doesn't need to do that.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: But him and o'happy you are really a good, good
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: thing right now. Yeah, you know why or how. Maybe
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: we can get a little more info, maybe you guys
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: can ask, But if he keeps it going, it's awesome.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: Now he's not going to be able to pitch this
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: coming series against the New York Yankees, so some of
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: the other guys that have been you know okay so
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: far are going to have to step up.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well we'll talk a little more about Jack o'hannowitz
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: at a great start on Friday. But you mentioned Logan o'happy,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: and I want to talk a little bit about Saturday's game. Logan.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: It just seems to be a magnet for controversy this year.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: There was that big, you know, a failure to challenge
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: in Houston, but I think it was the eighth inning
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: check swing on a two strike pitch, ball goes back
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: to the backstop. He's looking back at the or the
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: first base ump to get some kind of ruling and
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: he's laid out of the box. He uh, I guess
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: he actually beat the throat at first, but then he's
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: ruled out for being inside the baseline. Leads to Kurt
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Suzuki's first injection of the year. Well, that just seemed
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: like a whole messed up play from the start. I
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: assume did you guys see that play and how did
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: you sort of read it?
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean, I mean I get it because like
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: your your your instinct is to see what the umpire says.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: You don't want to maybe tip your hand that you
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: think you swung. I don't know, but I think in general,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: like your your instinct needs to be to run out
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: of the box. On that play, now, I mean they
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: called they called him safe and it led to the ejection.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, looking at the replay, looked like he was
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: out anyway. So I don't I don't know, but I mean,
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: to me, this is just like the instinct is, you know,
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: needs to be just to run.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: It's you know.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: I mean I think he had a really tough time
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: with like sil Seth. I mean there was like I
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: think three or four wild pitches in that sequence.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: May.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it was just it was it was a
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: little rough go that Saturday was was just an ugly
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: game for them. But I mean with all the walks,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: with with the wild pitches, with yeah, with that mistake. Yeah,
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I mean just you see it
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: a couple I mean, I don't I mean, hotpies, like God,
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: some good instincts when it comes like challenging pitches. I
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: think overall is really high percentage on that front. But yeah,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: I mean there's just some times he does things and
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: you're like, that feels like it's just you know, it's
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: not clicking perfectly. But you know, it's hard to judge
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: him too on some of the stuff.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: But I don't know Mark is as a hitter, is
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: it just natural to look to that first base hope
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: in that situation.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: It's an awkward play. Like Sam said, I probably wouldn't
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: be too keen to err on the side of admitting well,
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: I guess it would be a strikeout. But the hustle
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: was the effort, you know, less, something to be desired.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: I think, you know, there were some comments about it online,
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: as there are comments about literally everything that player you
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: know I'm not I don't have a strong opinion on that.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: One thing I would like to see improve is the
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: blocking of the balls. The one Knie dance. It's if
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: you've listened at all, you know it's not a favorite
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: of mine, you know, And ultimately what I see are
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: just a lot basically only glove saves. You know, there
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: have been some, but to me it's just you. I mean,
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: you've done this for forty years. You know, you've seen
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: some of the best catchers in the game. Do you
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: think it's as reliable to lean on the glove trying
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: to essentially like a first basement kind of piket as
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: opposed to using the whole body and you have all
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: that gear.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, most catchers, as when I was coming up
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: as a writer, they're always taught to shift their body,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: you know, to block that ball in the dirt, get
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: your body in front of it. And yeah, I mean
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: when you lunch for the ball with your glove on
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: that like if you're on one knee and Alrighty throws
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: a ball into the left handed batter's box and you
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: lunch for with your glove. That those catchers used to
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: be called lazy and now it's just part of the game.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: So it's kind of strange how it. Yeah, we probably
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: need to do a whole show on catching. I don't
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: know if we need to get Sosh back on, but
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: it might last for three hours if we did.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: But yeah, well, the one knee. The idea is trying
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: to get underneath those pitches and with the abs like
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: I don't think I think umpires are hyper aware. They
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: should probably always have been, but probably are really on
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: guard for these close pitches now. Yeah, so I'd like
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: to see the game as a whole what what you know,
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: I need to watch some other teams and see how
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: their catchers are doing it. One thing too, it's leaving
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: him exposed to a lot of foul tips. I think
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: he's worn a couple. He fast, he moved off the
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: hips and thighs and stuff.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: He finally moved his hand behind him after spring training.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: That was good. Yeah, I feel like I'm okay with
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the one knee when the bases are empty. But when
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: there's guy's on, man, you need mobility. You got maybe
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: a potential stolen base threat. You got to you got
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: to be on your toes literally and figurably. Uh, we'll
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: get to Jack Ky in a bit, but we got
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: to talk about young George Claus and again rough day Saturday.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: A lot of a lot of chatter on social media.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: What is this kid even doing here? You know, full disclosure,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know the Angel system as well as I
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: used to. I probably need to learn a little more. Sam.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Is there really any other option at this point besides
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: young George and for Mark? Let's start with you, Sam,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: what are the what are the dangers? Leave? Well, they
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: send them down today, but you know, if you leave
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: this kid exposed for for more beatings like that just
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: doesn't seem good in the long run.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: We got this one.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Well, this just goes back to this is my number
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: one criticism of the Angels. I mean, to me, there's
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: a lot I don't know if that's true, there's a
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: lot of criticisms, but to me, this is this is
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: right up there because you've you know you first off,
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's throwing Keith's i think sixty eight pitches
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: in the first two innings, so you're you're not and
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: then they stick him back out there in the thirty
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: immediately walks another guy.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Again.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: They're making decisions based on their needs in this moment,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: and ultimately the reason why they have to use him
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: in there, that they're choosing to use him, you know,
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: is they don't really have a ton of other options
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: on their forty men roster, because their forty men roster
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: is stocked with other pictures just like him, who are young,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: who probably have come up at one point or another
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: and struggled and want in some capacity or aren't ready.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: And you know, they also didn't really go out and
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: acquire any starting pitching that was usable right now, you know,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Alec Manoa, I mean, this is a guy who doesn't
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: look like he's really eating a big lea picture at
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: this point. I mean, you know, we'll see what happens.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: But kind of the early early returns on him from
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: spring training, Grayson Rodriguez injury history always.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Was going to be a risk.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: They didn't really go ahead and just kind of get
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: a guy that can eat innings, that can be a
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: fifth guy, and that's really what they needed. And so
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: instead you're kind of piecing together with your top prospects
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: who aren't really ready. And I don't you know, I'm
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: not saying George Clausen will will be damaged forever by
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: like this pretty difficult experience of coming up and just
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: walking everybody in his two starts, But it just doesn't
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: do anything for the team.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: It doesn't do anything for him.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: And the only reason they're doing is because they don't
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: really have anybody else that they can just go and
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: stick in that rotation, and now they're gonna probably have
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's the same thing with Ryan Johnson. His
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: first start was kind of mirroring the first two starts
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: by crossing a lot of walks. It looks like a
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: guy who wasn't ready to be starting big league games.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: So yeah, that's that's my takeaway. I think the Angels
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: just continuously do damage to a lot of their young
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: starting pitching. Now you see Kohanowitz, Hopefully.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: He's turning a corner.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Hopefully there's you know, there's this guy's figured something out.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: You know, there's good pitching coaches maybe at least in
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: the major leagues right now that are you know, be
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: able to put their stamp on him. But you know,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: I still, I mean, I think he's another kind of
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: case of someone that came up a little bit quick
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: and didn't do not do very well at the start.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: So at least his first few first few addings. So
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: I think this is just an issue with their system.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: I think that a lot of people internally feel the
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: same way about this. I'm not speaking out of turn.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: I mean I think that that they they make this
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: mistake at their own peril. And it's you know, it's
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: exciting when a couple guys do well, but over the
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: long term, there are reasons why this Perrymanazien in this
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: front office have to have struggled to develop good starting pitching.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: And you know, I know people are gonna point to
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Jose Souriano. I said, the last time I was on here,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: the first thing that this front office did was let
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Jose Soriano walk to the pitsic pirates. So they are
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: fortunate to happen back and they have developed him. But
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: you know, they're lucky that they got the chance.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: I give them credit. They send George down today or Sunday,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: and you think two starts is not going to be
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: as damaging as damaging to his psyche psyche mark as
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: maybe if if he let him, you know, wear it
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: for three, four or five starts like this.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's you don't know, I don't know
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: he seems pretty resilient. He said the right things. He
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: owned it. Here's one thing that I can offer, And
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: I asked the next teammate who was excellent with pitching mechanics,
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: because I saw it myself and I wasn't, you know,
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: as I wasn't a pitcher. People like to pounce on,
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: you know, those that get out of line. But with
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: the mechanics, what I've seeing is his glove side. His
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: glove in particular, Gooby talked about his front side flying open.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: But what I saw, and this is getting technical, but
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: apparently people like this stuff. He really doesn't have any anchor,
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: meaning his glove. Mark Pryor would be the extreme example.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: It was a Tom House method. But your glove is
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: kind of stopping your momentum, but you've got to keep
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: it in front of the chest. With George, he is
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: not his soft. What I was told is he's got
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: a very soft front side leading to his head getting
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: significantly over onto the left side of his body if
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: you look at a shot from behind, and that is
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: a very difficult way to throw strikes repeatedly. So his
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: whole momentum is kind of going off to the left.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: And yes, his shoulder is too. But everything else, and
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: what I was told is probably a byproduct of chasing
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: velocity max effort. And I personally think he'd be a
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: lot more effective, maybe ninety three to ninety six. But
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: the stuff and all this stuff, plus you know, you
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: grate out really well when you're sitting at ninety eight.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: But for command purposes, I very few guys really benefit from,
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: you know, just going out at full bore. I think
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: George would be a guy that that you know, he
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: needs to play with it. He needs to find a
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: reliable pitch. Maybe it's a cutter, maybe it's something else,
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: but he can't get just you know, behind in these
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: counts and these four pitch walks, and you know it
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: needs to start looking more like Soriano where and I
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: said it before, he's probably a guy that could get
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: away with setting up or with logan setting up down
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: the middle. You don't need to work corners. There's no
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: reason to because he's not capable of hitting them at
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: this point. Anyway, you know, he's got a ways to go.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: I think Urania has a further was to go. Kaiten Dana,
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure where he is. Sam Aldegery rough go
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: of it so far. So I think a lot of
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: people have noticed that we would have benefited and I
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: say we the Angels from having an additional Sobali type starter,
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: even a Hendrick Kyle Hendricks eating in. You need somebody
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: to eat those innings and keep you someone in these
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: games to give your offense a chance. And Ryan Johnson
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: and George have really struggled in these games, have gotten
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: out of reach.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well we'll close the show with another bright spot
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: in the rotation. Jack Ohanowitz got that series in Cincinnati
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: after a great start seven innings, pitch, two hits, one
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: earned run, four walks, a little high, two strikeouts, out
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: pitched a pretty good pitcher and Chase Burns and attend
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: to win over the Reds. Hey, what are you guys
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: seeing from from Jack? And we've talked a little bit
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: about his I think his pitch mix has changed a
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: little bit. Mark, how would you evaluate to start so far?
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: And I'd like to hear what Sam Blum thinks.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: No, I mean, listen, you know, I think Jack o'onowitz
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: is a guy who can make a make a difference
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: in this rotation. He's kind of like the swing guy
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: for them. In my opinion of if he's going to struggle.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: I mean him and Debtmers are kind of in that boat.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: I think, like if if these guys are I mean,
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: if Cohanowitz, who was probably worst starter in baseball last
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: year for as long as he was in the rotation,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: you know, if he's gonna be that guy, if he's
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: going to be close to that guy. And I think
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: this is gonna be a really long season for the
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Angels if they have you know, you know, you have
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: story on and you know Kakuchi's gonna at the very
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: minimum give the innings be somewhat solid. Like if you
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: have a couple other guys that are keeping you in games,
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: they have a chance to overperform. I think what at
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: least certainly what I expected of them this year and
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: what others did. But you know, I mean Kanowitz, I
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: think he's had three starts. He's you know, his first
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: one was really rough, but he really locked in, you know,
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: against against the Reds, and I mean this is I mean,
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: he's like, he's the kind of pitcher that people kind
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: of doubt as a starter. Can he you know, does
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: he have their pitch mix, does he you know, can
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: he get strikeouts? Can he miss bats. You know, he
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: didn't always need to do that in his first stint
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: with the big leagues. I don't think he needs to
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: be that guy to be able to, you know, last
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: as a starting pitcher. He can be efficient. He can
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: work seven eight innings and keep it below one hundred
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: pitches if he's you know, generating the contact that he
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: needs to. So yeah, I mean that's what we saw
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: on Friday. I think there's there's an avenue for that
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: to exist in his game, and you know, for me,
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: I I hope, you know, for him that he's able
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: to figure it out and be be someone that's you know,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: not dragging the team and can actually really helped them.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: What do you got, Mark, I, I've been high on
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: him all year, taking any credit. I liked some of
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: the you know, social clips I saw over the Winner.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: It looked like a better delivery in my opinion. He's
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: a big guy, he's got a lot, you know, a
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: lot of moving parts, and he's kind of I really
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: talked about it as for whatever reason, I think as
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: he doesn't generate as many whiffs, but power pitcher, he
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: throws upper nineties and he's got an improving breaking ball.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: So I think the pieces are all there.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Sam.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: Maybe maybe it was I'm a guy on the couch
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: watching now, I'm not plugged in, but uh, it didn't
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: well last year, you were there, everyone knows you were there.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: It seemed like Ron Washington and him didn't. Maybe there
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: it's not a sensational story there, but a lot of
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: frustration at times and it's probably just easy struggled on
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: the mound, but it just didn't seem like he last
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: year really got any momentum going and a lot of
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: remember some when he got taken out of the game,
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: it looked like he was angry and as he should
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: have been, but over the top a little bit. I
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: kind of wondered if there was friction that was palpable
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: or just part of the game.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think that there was maybe some frustration
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: for the fact that like he was, you know, he
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: came in and felt I think he felt like you
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: needed to miss a lot of bats and like that.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: I think there. I mean, it's it's tough to say
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: if there was like tons of frustration with Wash and
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: obviously didn't manage most of the season last year.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: I think yeah.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, to some extent, I think there was you know,
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: some friction between just players in general and the coaching
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: staff at times, and it was just was an ugly year.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: It was you know, it didn't play out the way
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: that they at least kind of telegraphed. But yeah, I mean,
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: I don't want to speak it too authoritatively on that,
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: particularly because I don't you know, I don't know exactly
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: what was in everyone's head. But you know, I think
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: that Kohana, who's coming in and maybe feeling like he
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: needed to be a different type of starting pitcher than
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: the one that had been pretty successful in the like
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: the latter part of twenty twenty four, and now he
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: needed to miss more bats. He ended up walking just
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: a ton of guys last year, and you know, I
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: think the frustration off anything is probably more on himself.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: You know, we're seeing him change things up a little
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: bit this year, and you know, threw a change him
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: more and just be you know, a little bit different picture.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: And I don't know, I think he can pitch to
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: contact pretty effectively, and that's what keeps him in games longer,
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: and you know, as long as he's not allowing like
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: home runs and really hard contact like he was for
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: long periods of last season.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, second least home runs allowed Angels pitchers.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well they have two ground ball pitchers, so they
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: have two guys that just only allow grounders.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they've actually had some pretty good stats. I wrote
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: a few of him down there. Well, they're leading major
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: leagues and walks, they're leading the major leagues and strikeouts.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: They're categories tied for third home runs, so you know,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: two of those three true outcomes aren't all terrible. And
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: they're pitching has only allowed ten home runs, tied for
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: the second fewest. They've struck out one hundred and forty
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: six and Soriano has a lot to do with that,
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  Speaker 1: tied for six. They've walked eighty six, second most in baseball,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: which seems kind of strange. And the era is about
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: three night it's three nine nine going into the Yankee Series,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: so right about middle of the pack. But yeah, there's
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: some good things going on. They're five hundred, which you know,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: we've talked about it. A five hundred record would be
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: a major step in the right direction for this team
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: this year. We'll close the show with that. Thanks for
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: joining us, Please like and subscribe, and Angels will open
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: a four game set in Yankee Stadium Monday night, and
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll be talking about that later in the week.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see you next time on Halo Territory.