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[SPEAKER_03]: New week at the Just Baseball Show here, you've got my self-arm latent and our managing editor actually.
[SPEAKER_03]: What's the new official title Ryan Finkelstein?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not an engine editor anymore.
[SPEAKER_02]: Editor-in-chief now, because we got a couple new managing editors, Leo Morgan, Stern, and Erica Troy, and so happy to have those guys get a little bump in a title there, and I took one as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: be much deserved and not just because you are our plenty Harris the best pincheter for those who don't know on the just baseball show but because what you've done in editorial has been absolutely amazing the website growth has been so exciting and we got so much more on the way but I realize that right as I said managing editor I'm like wait
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a dated title now.
[SPEAKER_03]: We got editor and chief, but Peter is on the way to Chicago, making his whole big life move.
[SPEAKER_03]: Jack is leaving Fenway Park and I believe coming back down to Miami.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if they have one more road series after that.
[SPEAKER_03]: So we're gonna do an expedited like a rapid roundup.
[SPEAKER_03]: So instead of going through all the games and doing that, we're gonna talk about each series and give you a few takeaways.
[SPEAKER_03]: Of course, it's the dog days.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's gonna be some series that
[SPEAKER_03]: There's not that much to take away.
[SPEAKER_03]: And we're sorry.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know that we got a lot of listeners that are fans of those teams.
[SPEAKER_03]: We try to find something within that.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're not going to recap the games as much.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're just more going to talk about what we got from that series or just some headlines about that team during that series.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like there's something I'm excited to talk about with the Rockies and the Diamondbacks and had nothing to do with what went with what on
[SPEAKER_03]: the field.
[SPEAKER_03]: We also have the mats finishing up their game as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I was going to give you a hard time about the mats, but with my luck, I'll give you a hard time and then to winning as we're recording this.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I still am going to ask you about the mats a little bit and what's going on there because I'd be remiss not to do that with you on here and the way that they've been playing of late, but we're going to go through each of the series and figure think you can lead things off.
[SPEAKER_02]: So the first series I got was Philly's Nationals.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have a couple of different ones.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've one of the Nationals, one of the Philly's to start it off with just a more fun one.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Nationals.
[SPEAKER_02]: King Cavali has he finally arrived because he had a great start against a very good Philly's lineup.
[SPEAKER_02]: Seven shot innings, no walks, five strikeouts.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we also had a really good story.
[SPEAKER_02]: We actually had a writer
[SPEAKER_02]: at the game down your router he did a really good notebook on it and you just had the inner manager think it's Miguel Cairo just gushing over what you saw from Cavali and what it can mean for them moving forward so that was my biggest takeaway on the national side was maybe there's another guy that can be somewhere near the top of the rotation next year
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll be honest, I know the athletics are good, but he did it against the athletics away from Sacramento.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I was like, okay, but still impressive start the first time out.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then the follow-up was fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was five innings or four runs, but it's rookie, fastball still sitting, ninety eight.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then doing it now seven innings against the Phillies.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm getting excited here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, I hope you stay healthy.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not quite the same level of stuff when he was arguably one of the best pitching prospects in baseball, but it's still damn good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like his fastball is averaging ninety seven and a half.
[SPEAKER_03]: And again, I think to do it to that Philly's lineup.
[SPEAKER_03]: And to also be thrown strikes, didn't walk anybody seven, shuddy with the five cases well.
[SPEAKER_03]: man, they need Cavali.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I really do hope that it's for real, but even if he's anything close to this, like if he's just a solid forestarter for them, I think you welcome that, but you're seeing flashes of, what could be a lot more than that?
[SPEAKER_03]: And he's always had that in the tank.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I like the forestarter that can have the gem, you know, like, exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's the guys that are fore starters who are just consistently like five innings, three runs, but I like the foresetters that might get blown up sometimes, but also, they might go, you know, against the fillings and put up seven shutout.
[SPEAKER_02]: But the bigger takeaway for the season right now is the fillings dodge one bullet, can they dodge another?
[SPEAKER_02]: Duran gets drilled in the ankle, gets caught around the field,
[SPEAKER_02]: Thought that could be really bad.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's apparently fine.
[SPEAKER_02]: Doesn't even seem like an IL state.
[SPEAKER_02]: But Zach Wheeler is on the IL now with a blood clot near his pitching shoulder.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I mean, blood clots, you and I is Miami heat fans.
[SPEAKER_02]: We know a thing about blood clots.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I don't know what this means for the Phillies.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it kind of coincides with Aaron Nola coming off the IL, but he gets rocked and his return.
[SPEAKER_02]: So this Phillies rotation that that's going to be something that we're going to have to monitor for sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: Will and also the feel it's like you're looking at the playoffs at this point.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, especially with the way that the meds are playing like you got the division kind of unlocking and Zach Wheeler is your guy in the playoff.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's one of the best postseason pictures of all time.
[SPEAKER_03]: So one side of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like, OK, good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Take your time.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's get you back.
[SPEAKER_03]: But as you mentioned, blood quats are big.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just kind of question mark and
[SPEAKER_03]: If they don't have Zach Wheeler in the postseason, that changes everything.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't want to get there yet.
[SPEAKER_03]: They've got time.
[SPEAKER_03]: Good news is it's August.
[SPEAKER_03]: Eighteenth is we're recording this or seventeen is we're recording this.
[SPEAKER_03]: But one super scary hope he's okay in the larger just macro health thing in general, but then just from the pitching side.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, that's a guy you really need.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it is good to get an ol' back to get through the rest of this regular season of the next couple weeks, or however long he's going to be out.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I think that is something that's definitely important to monitor.
[SPEAKER_03]: The other wrinkle, Dylan Cruz makes his return.
[SPEAKER_03]: Long I Elstint for what was in a bleak, but he came back for that series.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're like in that series.
[SPEAKER_03]: He picked up a hit and each of the first two games, and then I think was was
[SPEAKER_03]: O for two in the third ball game, but wasn't punching out a lot.
[SPEAKER_03]: It looked like you said on it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It wasn't great in the rehab.
[SPEAKER_03]: Again, it's shaking off some rust.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I think just seeing doing cruise back in the lineup has to be really exciting for national fans.
[SPEAKER_03]: Again, he was out for a long time.
[SPEAKER_03]: May twenty it was the last time we saw him in a big league game.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, uh, sizable.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I would say.
[SPEAKER_03]: just departure from the lineup for an oblique thing, glad he's back, and it's been rough for the nationals of late, so it's just another reason to tune in and look forward to some ball games, but think of always the other big wrinkle.
[SPEAKER_03]: And for the Phillies, yeah, it's really just about getting healthy and making a push, you know, for it to be ready for the postseason, which is just going to kind of be a wait and see with Wheeler.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, for sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: The next series I got was Rangers vs. Blue Jays didn't really have much of a takeaway on the Blue Jays because they just continued to win series, but my big takeaway is just the Rangers might be wasted in the best one, two punch and baseball because of what Jacob DeGrom and Nathan Evaldi are doing.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Grom goes five shot out on Friday, left with the three nothing lead.
[SPEAKER_02]: Rangers bullpen blows it, gives up six runs.
[SPEAKER_02]: Saturday, Patrick Corbin, John Gray, combining up eleven runs and lose that game.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sunday, Evolty did lead them to a win.
[SPEAKER_02]: Seven innings allowed just two runs, but just looking at the ERAs for these guys.
[SPEAKER_02]: Evolty, one point seven, six ERA, to Grom, two point seven, six.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is that the best one, two punch to baseball?
[SPEAKER_03]: When authorities like, I mean, he had the one little blip right, and then other than that, I mean, right now it is, from just a pure run prevention standpoint, and now with wheel or out, I mean, you could have probably said wheel or in Christopher Sanchez.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: But now, you're going to be hard for us to find a better one to punch, at least just from a pure run prevention standpoint.
[SPEAKER_02]: And just to shame if they it doesn't seem like right now they're going to be able to sneak into the plows because I mean what what team would you want to face less than a wildcard ground that if you can line up the ground with all the one two or either way they want to put that but that that's the crazy part and I feel like they're built to be able to to be the team you want to avoid in the loudcard and it just the bullpen and the offense like
[SPEAKER_03]: It just feels like they're not quite holding up their end of the bargain.
[SPEAKER_03]: I will say credit to the blue jays though, like even with facing the tough starters, I mean, this team rakes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're in two, seven.
[SPEAKER_03]: He is a ball club now that was entering Sunday.
[SPEAKER_03]: They've got a three, forty on base percentage entering Sunday and they teed off on Sunday.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that teed off.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I'd say they still put up some runs.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then teed off the way the Rangers did.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I mean, this is a team that is swinging it and they're just adding guys back.
[SPEAKER_03]: They just had to send down Joey Low Perfito, who's been playing out of his mind because George Springer's off the aisle.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're doing this without Santander, who I know is terrible, but like he's still Anthony Santander, where he's gonna fit it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just a crazy deep lineup of just different guys that, I mean, you've got one, two, three, four, five, six different players with ten plus homers.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then, Ernie Clement has nine, Alejandro Kirk has eight Davis Schneider.
[SPEAKER_03]: has been amazing with eight of his own.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's got like a one forty six WRC plus now.
[SPEAKER_03]: It feels like top to bottom this team rake.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I do think it was more impressive of a series by the blue jays and like a disappointment for the Rangers and they did salvage.
[SPEAKER_03]: But man, it does feel like it's a lot on the shoulders of the ground and any of all the and if those guys aren't shoving and going deep into games right now feels like it's it's hard for the Rangers to to really make something happen.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, for sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: And another guy as far as the Blue Jays coming back, that's all Darden Varsho had a big game this weekend to get a three for three game.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's just another iron to add to their fire.
[SPEAKER_02]: Braves Guardians.
[SPEAKER_02]: This takeaway was just simple for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think the braves might be the best spoiler down the stretch.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: The braves are starting to get hot.
[SPEAKER_02]: They took four or five from the Marlins.
[SPEAKER_02]: two or three from the mat and then they sweep the guardians over the weekend.
[SPEAKER_02]: So a nine and two stretch for the braves.
[SPEAKER_02]: I took a second and said, wait, is there an outside chance you can see the braves?
[SPEAKER_02]: And like now they're still they're still, they're still twelve back.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's no world that getting back into this race, but I don't think there's any team that's in it that's going to be excited when the braves come to town down the stretch here.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, I'm just seeing what, you know, you get the marlins going into that, just playing really well.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you're like, oh, you got five games and four days against the lowly braves.
[SPEAKER_03]: The marlins, all of a sudden, could close the gap on the struggling mats.
[SPEAKER_03]: And they got their teeth kicked in.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then I thought, okay, well, maybe it's the marlin setting a wall.
[SPEAKER_03]: And maybe it is.
[SPEAKER_03]: They will talk about their series with the Red Sox.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I think it was more just the braves playing well.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you can speak to that because they took what two out of three from the mats as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I know the mats aren't playing great, but I think that's part of the reason why.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're definitely, I think, eager to play the spoiler role, given that they're never really used to being in that spot.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I also think this is a brave scene that probably, they're not looking at the Sannings.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're probably just thinking, hey, we always do this in the second half.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're just going to play ball all the way through and see what happens.
[SPEAKER_03]: But the individual will take away from me, hers and waltre.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've been very skeptical on him.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, the fastball quality is just not was not really there.
[SPEAKER_03]: It still isn't really from a forcing or perspective.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the splitter has always been that white-bout pitch.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it's like, okay, that's a little one-dimensional.
[SPEAKER_03]: You just have the splitter.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now he's been throwing this cutterish slider with a lot more confidence.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that pitch has really added.
[SPEAKER_03]: So he has a slider that is cutterish and then he has a true cutter that he's added as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: And those two pitches now, he's been able to phase out the foreseamer.
[SPEAKER_03]: So now he's only throwing the foreseamer about thirteen percent of the time, a sinker about thirteen percent of the time.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then he's going cutter slider splitter heavy now.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he's able to make that work because the command of the cutter and the slider has been so good.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it's on orthodox.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's different, but it's a lot more effective for him because it really was just a question of
[SPEAKER_03]: What else can he mix in?
[SPEAKER_03]: So he's not throwing the splitter, fifty percent of the time, and it was not the foreseamer, and it was not a curveball.
[SPEAKER_03]: And now it seems like that cutters take in some pressure off the foreseamer, and he'll get wall drips, whilst couple outings.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, the last three outings since he's come back up was five innings, five and two thirds, a one run ball in great American ballpark.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then he goes six settings, a one run ball against the marlins and he goes six settings scoreless with seven case against the guardians who have been playing pretty good ball themselves.
[SPEAKER_03]: So Waldrup all the sudden looks like he may have made some tweaks to that arsenal and he may be back to an option for for this brave team.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, no, for sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the other thing I was looking for this serious was the Guardians.
[SPEAKER_02]: They scored one run the first two games and I'm not here.
[SPEAKER_02]: You talking about Waldrup and maybe that was a little more impressive on his then than I was given him credit for.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was just wondering about this Guardians offense because it was Waldrup and Joey Wentz and they scored one run across two games before they got to see Eric Fetti today and they scored some runs.
[SPEAKER_02]: They still lost the game, but this Guardians offense, I just don't know if it's going to be good enough and then to ultimately
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, grab one of those wild card spots.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, they get Nate, they played the Marlins pretty tough when I watched that series, but
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, you'll get the stretcher.
[SPEAKER_03]: They've been playing better ball to beat up on the meds.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what you saw specifically to air, but it felt like it wasn't the offense necessarily that was catapulting them aside from maybe the first game of the series.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then, you know, I think they took care of business against the white socks, but I do think it's an offense.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's very dependent on a big swing from Jose Ramirez or
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, whoever it may be, if you're getting on base at a two ninety nine clip, it's going to be tough.
[SPEAKER_03]: It has been a lot better of late, but yeah, I just don't know if they're going to be able to score enough.
[SPEAKER_03]: And especially now when you lose Class A and Bieber's coming back, not for them for the Blue Jays.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, they're going to hang around because they're the guardians, but I don't feel as good about them relative to the last couple years.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, either.
[SPEAKER_02]: Tigers Twins didn't really take much from this series.
[SPEAKER_02]: The one thing that jumped out to me, the Tigers took three of four, just Charlie Morton and the importance that he has on this Tigers team had another good start.
[SPEAKER_02]: He said three starts so far.
[SPEAKER_02]: Two of them in quality starts goes six scoreless, a lot only two hits.
[SPEAKER_02]: Paddock on the other hand, the other addition from the deadline got rocked on Sunday, eight earned.
[SPEAKER_02]: It really feels like Charlie Morton is going to be counted on to start a playout game.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe one.
[SPEAKER_02]: See the game two starter game three starter for the Tigers.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just feel like there's a lot hinging on Charlie Morton, but maybe he's up to the task.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm really interested to see how they use him, but he has been great.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the crazy part is, as you know, like, he's another postseason performer.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I mean, I was talking down on him a little bit and like, oh, that's your big deadline acquisition right at forty nearly forty two year old guy.
[SPEAKER_03]: How much do you trust him in the playoffs?
[SPEAKER_03]: But he's throwing like this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe I do trust him a little bit in the playoffs because he's earned that with his track record and all the sudden the fastball velocities.
[SPEAKER_03]: Savage in ninety five.
[SPEAKER_03]: As a tiger, you know, it just seems like he's a little bit more invigorated.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's up like a half tick in the average fastball velocity.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's not walking anybody, he's striking out everybody.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's it's different.
[SPEAKER_03]: So maybe he just needed a little bit more of a spark.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it's very clear there.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I am fascinated to see how they, you know, kind of utilize their rotation.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is a series that you should take care of business.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it's easy to not take care of business and they did.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I still think they deserve credit for that.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the tigers have just been starting to get right.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I think you've seen Troy Melton come up and be an impact arm for them all of the sudden.
[SPEAKER_03]: They took care of business against the white taxes you should.
[SPEAKER_03]: They took care of business against the angels like you should, but to keep this rolling into, you know, really controlling the series against the twins as they should is encouraging.
[SPEAKER_03]: The only other takeaway I have is I have never heard of Pearson Ol, who threw for via the twins on Friday.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, that, you know, when you trade half of your roster, you're going to get some new guys mixed in there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, I just, that was a name.
[SPEAKER_03]: I had not seen before.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that was it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then Guadaluu keyshall is back in healthy.
[SPEAKER_03]: That guy's just picking up right where he left off for the twins.
[SPEAKER_03]: That keys, he's a ball player.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, that guy is it.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's the one silver lining with the rebuild and, and everything.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're getting some more action for the young guys.
[SPEAKER_03]: So he was playing before anyways.
[SPEAKER_03]: Look out for Luu keyshall.
[SPEAKER_03]: That guy's a player.
[SPEAKER_02]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yankees vs Cardinals.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yankees swept the Cardinals much needed for the yanks to get on track score.
[SPEAKER_02]: Twenty four runs in the series and Ben Rice had a seven RBI game on Saturday.
[SPEAKER_02]: So my question to you is my takeaway.
[SPEAKER_02]: Where does he start in the playoffs?
[SPEAKER_02]: See, they're first baseman, see their catcher, not going to be the DH.
[SPEAKER_02]: So where do you put Ben Rice in the lineup when you get into that focus playoff environment?
[SPEAKER_02]: I do wonder like
[SPEAKER_03]: Because, you know, there was some like discussion about maybe catching him a little bit.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're not going to do that.
[SPEAKER_03]: As good as Paul Goldschmidt was out of the gate, it seems like he's slow down a good deal.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I wonder if Goldschmidt's just going to be their lefty master.
[SPEAKER_03]: And be that the rest of the way.
[SPEAKER_03]: Because aside from the great start, you will get his last forty games.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's a six twenty five OPS.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now against lefties,
[SPEAKER_03]: That OPS is eleven fifty five, which probably prompts you to think, oh shit.
[SPEAKER_03]: What's his OPS against right needs in that span?
[SPEAKER_03]: Four, twelve.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I think it's first base and because he's Paul Goldschmidt, and less than Rice is hitting everything and he's coming his way, I think maybe against the tough left handed starter.
[SPEAKER_03]: Goldsmith gets the start and then rice may be pinch hits, you know, off of that when you get the hard throwing ready, but it's the classic.
[SPEAKER_03]: evolution of, you know, a long-jewity player where they're so talented mentally and they still have the swing mechanics or just not quick anymore.
[SPEAKER_03]: That they just crush lefties and they carve out a little bit more of a role.
[SPEAKER_03]: The rest of their career.
[SPEAKER_03]: So people still it feel like goldies at that stage now or it's just like, I had the hard throwing righties made just not be worth it.
[SPEAKER_03]: By the way, Ben Rice, one eighty seven against lefties.
[SPEAKER_03]: So they made form a nice blue tune.
[SPEAKER_02]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll tune it.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what I was thinking too.
[SPEAKER_02]: So be interested to see if this link is on, if you continue to carry this team, because the pitching is still a pretty big question.
[SPEAKER_02]: Max Freed got rocked again by the way.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's what Max Freed is not been good.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's funny.
[SPEAKER_03]: Both in New York team struggling a little bit.
[SPEAKER_03]: This series got them right.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was going to ask you which team should be more worried.
[SPEAKER_03]: The Yankees are the mats right now.
[SPEAKER_03]: What would your answer be still?
[SPEAKER_02]: My, it's tough because part of me, you know, I was on on the JB show.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it was last week with Peter and Jack and they were asking me the same thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: And my, my case at the time was that the ink should be more words because I saw a little more competition in that wildcard race where I'm just kind of just hedging against the reds in the on the NL side, but
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, the Yankees always sort of find their way to stay the ship.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Mets, we've seen the ship sink.
[SPEAKER_02]: I personally know too many times.
[SPEAKER_02]: I honestly think both of them are going to end up being okay when it's all said and done, but I might now lean Yankees a little bit just because this Mets rotation will get to them in a minute, but you know, you're going to be asking a lot of some top prospects to carry you because it's kind of falling off for a particular back into that rotation.
[SPEAKER_03]: Fair.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then Louis heel, little bit better missed time out as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, that he's going to be huge for them.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, that's a guy that they're going to need to throw them all well.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm just, that's a big storyline.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think just to continue to watch as he comes back from injury, just to see what it all looks like.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, other than that, you kind of know what you need to see from the Yankees and ultimately great game from goldsmith on Sunday.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, so we'll see if that car was out more playing time, but still I, you know, they caught Ben Rice.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think they're going to try those things, but I still think between it first makes a lot more sense.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, then catching Ben Rice and set a well.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I am fascinated to see how they, how they handle that whole situation though.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be an interesting puzzle to put together.
[SPEAKER_02]: This next series, we sort of buried the lead.
[SPEAKER_02]: We talked about it earlier.
[SPEAKER_02]: Diamondbacks, Rockies, D-Bax, lose three or four, but what is going on with Ketelmar Tay?
[SPEAKER_02]: All of a sudden, there's always reports about his teammates being upset with him.
[SPEAKER_02]: And now, draw a little protocol I saw after the game today, I believe.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, when at the media over those reports that were out there, but you have Bob Nightingale saying that the Diamondbacks are open to trading him, it's just a crazy story to happen for a team that's out of it here in the middle of August.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's weird that it got out like this way.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I was a little skeptical at first and then even when like listening to what Perdomo said, and also we were just gushing about Perdomo.
[SPEAKER_03]: But that's, Corbin Carroll's obviously your franchise player, but Perdomo's a key franchise piece here.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is also, I always felt like you don't need to have maybe one clear cut face of the franchise.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think you can have multiple face.
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe people will disagree with that.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I think you have multiple leaders in different ways.
[SPEAKER_03]: Perdomo seems like he's a little bit more vocal.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the fact that he was willing to go out there and wear that and kind of stand up for his teammate, I think he's just not even for Catalan, just the entire clubhouse feeling like they're safe.
[SPEAKER_03]: And to realize, hey, these things can't get out.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sure they handled it from within.
[SPEAKER_03]: But at first I was skeptical about it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, oh, well, maybe this isn't really that, isn't true.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's hyperbolic.
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe they're taking something and blowing it out of context.
[SPEAKER_03]: But Perdomo didn't really say like, no, none of this is true.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was more like, what's in the past?
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's play baseball.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so that did kind of tell me something.
[SPEAKER_03]: If that's the case, I'm very interested to see how they maneuver that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I still don't see him getting moved.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's too good, man.
[SPEAKER_03]: We put out a tweet on the just baseball account.
[SPEAKER_03]: His last one hundred and sixty two games are up there with anybody in Major League Baseball just about other than maybe Aaron Judge.
[SPEAKER_03]: and show hey I guess but it's up there I just I don't see a world where they move him because this isn't a team that's going into rebuild mode they they retooled because they had a lot of expiring pieces but I don't know what what do you think I with the contract that he's on to it's pretty team friendly
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't see a world where you're going to move a guitar marte and be able to sell it one to fans, but to even sell it to the team that we're still just as well positioned to compete because who's going to be able to trade for a guitar marte and give you most likely big league pieces like they're going to want big league pieces with some prospects.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't see that a world where could tell Marta is so much of a cancer that you got to get him out of there.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's way bigger pains in the asses who are less good playing on other teams.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's the part of the story that I don't get.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think there's probably merit.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's probably a little bit of a diva.
[SPEAKER_03]: So a lot of divas in Major League Baseball.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know where you at.
[SPEAKER_02]: and it's one thing if it's a diva that's not performing when the guy that said it was earned the right to be a diva that you just mentioned that could tell marte on the dime backs he is kind of their their I mean him and Corbin Carroll but their biggest star I don't know how you trade him it
[SPEAKER_02]: The only thing I guess is if you really felt great about what you have internally, but it's not like, you have what third base and second kind of open, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: So it's like, it's not Jordan Lawyers kicking the door down and saying, oh, this guy, he's gonna take over.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think he has the skills too, but he's come up and he struggled.
[SPEAKER_03]: Small samples, but he struggled.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can't just say, oh, he's gonna say, it also, okay, you can play third or second.
[SPEAKER_03]: You need someone to play the other one.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just, again, I don't see a world where he is such an issue that, you know, you're, you're, I mean, even look at the way the teammates came out and stood up for him when you had the fan just yelling, you know, horrible things.
[SPEAKER_03]: I had him about, I don't even know if it was about his mother, but of course, it was, you know, interpreted that way.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just I struggle that he is so difficult to deal with that you got to get him out of there.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's too good.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that was the big thing for me.
[SPEAKER_03]: The other thing is the Diamondbacks are still hanging around like I don't want to fully like that that's the other one where we were talking about like the the the Braves and it's just going to be too much for them.
[SPEAKER_03]: I understand that the Diamondbacks they went with a bullpin game on Sunday and it was
[SPEAKER_03]: the bill, Chris Matt, who threw he end up throwing five innings at one run ball against the Rockies.
[SPEAKER_03]: They dropped what two out of three to the Rockies, but because of the mess, they're still in it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And also because of their stretch before that, they won what?
[SPEAKER_03]: Was it six of seven?
[SPEAKER_03]: It was against the Rockies and the Rangers, but I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not fully, I'm not fully going to, uh, utilize them just yet.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it was, it was a two to split actually with, with the Rockies in the series.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought it was a, I thought they lost three or four, but I couldn't.
[SPEAKER_03]: Was it three or four they lost?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, they lost on Sunday too.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, they lost.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's probably tough then.
[SPEAKER_02]: five games under five hundred I don't I don't necessarily think that they're gonna get back in it, but I think this wildcard race because of the mats and I'm not even sure where the games at right now I'm curious if they've blown to lead that they had, but no, because then added on so it seems like
[SPEAKER_02]: might have saved the season for the meds and maybe that has me a little more confident but I've been trying to find like who the other wildcard team is just because I don't entirely believe in the reds and I was looking at the giants and it's like oh well they got they got Logan Webb and Robbie Ray
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, and that's by next series here, Ray's first Giants, Ray's take two with three.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you see like, okay, you got Rafi, you got Matt Chapman, you got a Dom is playing much better.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, you could sort of understand how the Giants could get hot, but it's just not happening for them.
[SPEAKER_02]: My biggest takeaway from the Giants in Ray's series is poor Justin Verlander can't buy a win.
[SPEAKER_02]: Senator, he goes seven shuddy, two hits, no walks, eight strikeouts is winning one to nothing when it leaves the game.
[SPEAKER_02]: And Jose Budo,
[SPEAKER_02]: who had not allowed a run since getting trades of the giants in his first six appearances, gives up two, and the giants lose two to one.
[SPEAKER_02]: So Verlander, who actually last seven stars, three.
[SPEAKER_02]: No three are a, but he's one one game all year.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's crazy.
[SPEAKER_03]: And even early in the year, there are several outings where it was like,
[SPEAKER_03]: Man, get this guy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Come for more wins.
[SPEAKER_03]: I want to see how high you can get that number because we're not even going to see many guys ever get north of two hundred.
[SPEAKER_03]: Really any more.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I was hoping we could just see him push the number as high as possible, but it's just it's just tough right now when you're when you're not scoring much and you look at what it did score six runs on Friday, but
[SPEAKER_03]: Again, in that rural ender game, the only square one run, you're not going to win a lot of games.
[SPEAKER_03]: I understand it's a race staff, but it's tough.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's just another reminder, too, is like we're trying to see who can fit into the wild card, expanded playoffs, all that good stuff, the giant sold, the D-back sold, and then the reds bought, and they're right there, the cardinal sold, and then the marlins are the marlins.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you pretty much every team that is looking up at the meds sold, except for the reds.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the ones are always active.
[SPEAKER_02]: They buy again.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, combined by definition, they bought, I guess, but it wasn't even really much of a buy to your point.
[SPEAKER_03]: So they didn't sell.
[SPEAKER_03]: They added major league players.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it wasn't much of a buy.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that's the crazy part about the expanded playoffs, too.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like, if you wanted to make a case against it, I would probably use the twenty twenty five nationally grace right now.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, the American League isn't doing much more just to see there in terms of trying to sell the the overall of the expanded playoffs, but I mean, at least the Guardians are somehow for games over.
[SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, that was part of the reason why I was trying to talk myself into a D-backs run, but you know, you dropped three out of four with the Rockies.
[SPEAKER_03]: The Rockies have kind of had their number.
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like a point this year.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's going to be tough.
[SPEAKER_03]: It just feels like it's a reds-mets battle.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the mets are just the better team.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not going to fully count out the reds because they're fun and young and you ever know what can happen.
[SPEAKER_03]: But Chase burns it's the IL and it's going to be it's going to be hard.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, for sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we'll see if the Met's bullet pit holds on to us right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's seven to one lead, but if so, that's able to take this series against the Mariners.
[SPEAKER_02]: And Saturday, we got to watch one of the most exciting pitching prospects in baseball, Nolan McLean pitch.
[SPEAKER_02]: And my big takeaway is favorite for the twenty twenty six and I'll rookie the year and also.
[SPEAKER_02]: It kind of makes more sense that the mess might have been playing the PPI game with him because he makes his debut on the sixteenth, which is the day after he's going to maintain his rookie eligibility.
[SPEAKER_02]: They desperately need him in the rotation, probably could have used him two weeks ago.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I mean, I don't know what you watch of that start.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was pretty special.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like watching someone throw a blitzball.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just, if you want to visualize spin rate, watch an old McLean pitch because that's what it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was just really special to see him.
[SPEAKER_02]: Not only dominant on the mountain, but also make an incredible play to get himself out of a baseless load of jam where he reaches behind his back.
[SPEAKER_03]: calmly throws at a second in terms of double play to get out of a jam so really really impresses stuff from a claim that's sweepers just ridiculous I was talking about it being one of the best you know and in mind like baseball and then just to get up pick up that big league ball and still spin at the same way like guys that are super super high spin right guys sometimes that feels not always going to be right there
[SPEAKER_03]: It was there and in the curve ball, he was ripping curve balls north of thirty three hundred RPM.
[SPEAKER_03]: There are not only in the monoings, there's not a lot of guys in professional baseball period that can spin the ball like well in the clay.
[SPEAKER_02]: They said that Charlie Morton
[SPEAKER_02]: led majorly baseball and spirit on the curve ball this year and it was one game, but it's been it was higher than Charlotton de Morton's, but I think like a hundred RPM.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's pretty crazy.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I still think there's a lot more to unlock.
[SPEAKER_03]: People are going to look at the age and say, oh, you know, like he's a good pitcher.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, remember, there's a two way guy didn't throw a ton in college.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, this is really now just breaking out into what he can be was still hitting the first couple years in professional baseball for sure and a half.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, I think he's going to make gains as a big leader, but what's clear is, and what we talked about before when we preview this debut is like,
[SPEAKER_03]: He's gonna get ground balls and he's gonna get the swing and miss, but the days where maybe he's not getting the swing and miss as much.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's gonna still get those ground balls.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's gonna still get enough swing and miss to where he's one of those guys where I think on his off days, where he's not pitching as well, he's still gonna battle and give you five or six of like three runs.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then the days where he's on, it could be dominant.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I am really excited about that.
[SPEAKER_03]: My other question though to you is,
[SPEAKER_03]: Did you do this?
[SPEAKER_03]: How much better did this series make you feel?
[SPEAKER_03]: Because the Mariners were playing well.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you take a couple when it's been a future at stretch.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is it brought the vibes up a little bit for you?
[SPEAKER_02]: I think so, I mean, just the fact that this team, when it comes to their rotation, has been so brutal for really, I mean, since the middle of June, Kota is saying, I went down, this rotation, which was the best in baseball at the time, has spiraled to be the worst in baseball.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so, to see McLean come up and look the way he did, to just know that one of every five days, one of every six days, you got someone a lot better than Frankie Montaz taking the ball.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that does help a lot.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, but also like this team is just one that needed a vibe shift in some way.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think this weekend all together is going to be a real change in vibes last year.
[SPEAKER_02]: They went to the London series and that kind of was the beginning of their turnaround for them to have McLean make his debut.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then on the heels of that, you go play this little e-classic.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're with kids all day.
[SPEAKER_02]: You had this really fun kind of team bonding experience.
[SPEAKER_02]: off of a good win and then now it seems like they have a route in that game they're able to win a series.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it goes a long way especially because it metz fans and everyone was freaking out but three out of you is like we've been talking about the whole show.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Wildcar race is not gotten away from them at all.
[SPEAKER_02]: The division hasn't even gotten away from them at all if they really were able to turn it on so it's it would be such a shock for them not to make the playoffs but they needed a week and like this to get back on track.
[SPEAKER_03]: One other shout is just, you know, Brian Wu, I know you had a couple blips.
[SPEAKER_03]: I had the first like first two or three.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think two of the three starts back from the All Star Break.
[SPEAKER_03]: He was human.
[SPEAKER_03]: But Brian Wu is kind of right back.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the fact that McLean kept them in that game because Wu went six endings of one run ball and eight strikeouts.
[SPEAKER_03]: I still think he's like the most underrated pitcher in the game somehow.
[SPEAKER_03]: Last three outings is a two three seventy r a struck out twenty six walk three.
[SPEAKER_03]: He just continues to be great and feels like every time he's on the mound.
[SPEAKER_03]: You got a great chance to win.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm also very excited to see what their postseason rotation looks like because you know who gets the ball game one.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think you could have a lot of fun conversations about it, but I have as much confidence in Brian Wu taking the ball for me is just about anybody.
[SPEAKER_03]: If I were, you know, I'm Aaron is fan.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, no, for sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they're gonna have some tough choices there with that rotation.
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_02]: That wraps my series though.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was my last one.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you can, you can take it away from here with the other half.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll get to mine in a moment before that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Quick break.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, we'll talk, Marlon's Red Sox.
[SPEAKER_03]: Red Sox continued to play really well.
[SPEAKER_03]: And first game of the series, too, I just, I thought was interesting where the pictures duel, they win it that way.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then second game of the series is more of like this offensive onslaught, and they win it that way.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then game three was fun, though.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, just seeing the Marlon's battle back and win that, I don't think you can knock the Red Sox too much in that one.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just a big takeaway for me is,
[SPEAKER_03]: The red socks are starting to become a little bit of a force here.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I understand it's the marlins are not playing the best baseball right now.
[SPEAKER_03]: This and that, but it's it's just a pretty reliable well rounded ball club now when I'm working at the red socks and you'll get the lineup top to bottom.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's it's
[SPEAKER_03]: pretty darn good.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know fans probably want a little bit more out of the first base position, but I just I look at that, especially at the top of the lineup with Roman Anthony, we'd now for or batten here the top and then who you have fallen after that, just the dynamic that he is added.
[SPEAKER_03]: Where you now add a guy that
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, you've heard Alex Breggman say these already looking like one of the best hitters in the game.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like having that guy who wasn't in your lineup to start the year and now is leading off for you, just the dynamic that he adds to their team.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think is really, really exciting.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then you think Breggman get right back to, to Breggman now that he's healthy and you know, further removed from that injury.
[SPEAKER_03]: This offense is potent and I'm just curious for you like, where do they stack up for you?
[SPEAKER_03]: with the way they're playing now with Roman Anthony, you know, you could look at season long stats and stuff like that, but where they're at now, which by the way, there are six than batting average six and OBP seventh and swagger.
[SPEAKER_03]: Where do they stack for you?
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like I don't even know how to tear the American League right now, like I'm thinking maybe the blue jays and tigers are the top tier and then maybe everyone else has below that, but everyone else have made the Astros Mariners and the Red Sox and
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's maybe how it's stack them up the other thing about this red socks team.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was just looking because it's felt like their rotation has gotten stable as a new geolito have been thrown at well, but you're looking over the last month here.
[SPEAKER_02]: You got Brian Beho with a three four seven year array.
[SPEAKER_02]: You got Walker Bueller with a three five four year array.
[SPEAKER_02]: You got those to Mays for a couple of starts throwing the ball well.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it feels like they've got their rotation kind of locked in too.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I think this American League is so wide open.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think the nationally those top five teams are definitely better than the best American League has to offer.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I don't think you can count any of those teams out for making around the American League to the world series and the Red Sox are definitely right there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you lead O'Bing this sharpest he has been?
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's huge.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean,
[SPEAKER_03]: The last twelve start to two, three, four.
[SPEAKER_03]: You bring up a great point.
[SPEAKER_03]: If that rotation is stable, they can win ball games.
[SPEAKER_03]: They don't even need to have a great rotation to make a run in the postseason.
[SPEAKER_03]: They just need a rotation that's not going to put them behind immediately all the time.
[SPEAKER_03]: It doesn't make all the sudden as thrown a little bit better.
[SPEAKER_03]: And maybe they made some tweaks.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm interested to see that if that happens, they're in a good spot.
[SPEAKER_03]: So Red Sox keep it rolling.
[SPEAKER_03]: They lose the crochet starts somehow, which is why they're my baseball is so funny, but ultimately, another good series for them.
[SPEAKER_03]: You got the Reds and the Brewers.
[SPEAKER_03]: And Reds Brewers.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, this was a fun battle.
[SPEAKER_03]: The Brewers did what they do.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I mean, you run into the hottest team in baseball, what they were, twelve in a row, entering the series, won the first two to make it fourteen in a row.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then the Reds end up, you know, snapping that wind streak and taking game three.
[SPEAKER_03]: But
[SPEAKER_03]: Game one was ten to eight.
[SPEAKER_03]: Game two was six to five.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then game three, reds when that three to two.
[SPEAKER_03]: The reds came to play.
[SPEAKER_03]: They played them tough.
[SPEAKER_03]: And understand what time out of team that is making, you should be, we're talking about a potential wild card team and all that good stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: But they knocked around Mr. Rowsky and his first doubting back.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'm sure he had some rust to shake off.
[SPEAKER_03]: They played good ball.
[SPEAKER_03]: They did not make it easy on the Brewers.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think that was highlighted by salvaging.
[SPEAKER_03]: That last ball game there.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it's hard to have any other takeaway than the Brewers are the best team in Major League Baseball right now.
[SPEAKER_03]: And they just continue to do that because they can beat you with the pitching.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like we're talking about, but they can also go to Grand American Ball Park where a lot of runs are scored and they can out-slug you.
[SPEAKER_03]: And they did that two out of three games.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I just watched the Burr's by the Mats recently and that line-up is just relentless.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's gotta be so annoying to pitch those guys because every single guy in that line-up can just waste a ton of pitches, extended at bats.
[SPEAKER_02]: They really make you beat them where they put the ball and play, everyone's fast.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just a really tough thing to beat in the reds.
[SPEAKER_02]: They got out to lead in every single game.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the Burr's just,
[SPEAKER_02]: can come back from down, however, man, I mean, that could be down ten runs early and find that way back, it feels like a team that's ready for playoff baseball too, because that's what you see in the playoffs.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you just start or might get knocked around, but if you have a team that's resilient, that can just chip away, you can get back into some games.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we definitely saw that also shout out to Andrew Abbott, because he went up against that lineup, that Brewers lineup, and seven shot out, four hits, no walks,
[SPEAKER_02]: it's shaming to get the win cause uh... he was winning one nothing the burrs of course score two runs to the ninth res tied up and went in extras but uh... again that burrs team is really good but and you're having a really nice as well it's a baller and it would burn sitting the aisle you know just for him to
[SPEAKER_03]: to just go out there and shove hundred four pitches and go seven and two thirds like that on on the web and as well against the fillies and then fall that up with another great one, you know, against the brewers.
[SPEAKER_03]: Those are two of the best teams in baseball right now and and just to I think just be that steady arm for them as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: And they've got a few now.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's got to be super encouraging other takeaways.
[SPEAKER_03]: First start after there's a space ball show appearance.
[SPEAKER_03]: Great.
[SPEAKER_03]: Again, five and a third, two-run runs, continues to be solid for them as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: Christian Yalitch is starting to become that masher for them and heating up on that side of things in the danger of on.
[SPEAKER_03]: We talked about them on the last episode.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just been a revelation.
[SPEAKER_03]: So really fun series.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think maybe one of the most fun series we had this weekend.
[SPEAKER_03]: And again, credit to the reds for battling, but the brewers just cannot be stopped right now.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I'm waiting for the World Series odds to fully reflect it, but I get it because they did not the same fire powers, but I know that we put something out from the main account, like their odds have moved a ton.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I know that the sports books are starting to respect them a little bit more, including our friends at BenMGM.
[SPEAKER_03]: So two teams that they're not as much, and I don't think anybody really is, even though technically the royals are still in this a little bit too.
[SPEAKER_03]: We talk about the AL side.
[SPEAKER_03]: Rolls, white socks.
[SPEAKER_03]: This was a big series.
[SPEAKER_03]: My big takeaway is just the royals did what they need to do to keep themselves in this and keep themselves in the hunt.
[SPEAKER_03]: They sweep, they get back to five hundred.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was kind of Royals way of winning where they're going to pitch pretty well and then score enough runs, but this scored six in each of the next two, but they held the white socks to a total of five runs and three games.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I mean, that really set them up for success.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, I don't think anyone's taking the Royals too seriously, but the Royals did soft by and put themselves in a position to where these guys can be playing some meaningful ball down the stretch.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it looks like they're going to keep themselves in a position where they can play some meaningful ball down the stretch.
[SPEAKER_03]: And sweeping bad teams is a good way to do that, even if you're maybe not beating good teams all the time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm looking at that road ahead here to see what it looks like.
[SPEAKER_02]: They got the ranger's coming to town for a four-gamer.
[SPEAKER_02]: Then they go to Detroit to put the tigers.
[SPEAKER_02]: They got the white socks again, and then they put the tigers again.
[SPEAKER_02]: So the tigers will have a chance to really put the royals out of the race over the next couple of weeks, but the other size that the royals can maybe show something against some top tier competition.
[SPEAKER_02]: and really prove they are a team to be reckoned with in this wildcard.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a lot of teams right now that are just, we're waiting to see over the past little next couple weeks of August, if they're really going to be in the race in September, or it's going to be time to just sort of play as many kids as you can and start to look ahead to next year.
[SPEAKER_02]: And there's the Royale's definitely fit in that bucket.
[SPEAKER_03]: My other takeaway is Ryan Burger, who I was surprised to see the, the Padre's move, right hander, just continues to be great, you know, in his outings, you know, for the, for the Royals, since had an over.
[SPEAKER_03]: First time out, he went five inning, five and two thirds of two run ball, followed that with five and two thirds of two run ball, and then you get Burger on Sunday, five and a third, one run ball, seven strikeouts.
[SPEAKER_03]: So he's been really good, and that came on the heels of
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, a couple really solid outings to close out his Padre's career.
[SPEAKER_03]: Some of them might be clicking for Berger at here.
[SPEAKER_03]: It looks like a nice get, you know, for for this Royale's team trading from what the kind of a surplus of organizationally and Freddie for me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Carter Jensen, it's homework again today.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's a Seventeenth Homer and Triple A. They're catching prospect there.
[SPEAKER_03]: They also have Blake Mitchell below there.
[SPEAKER_03]: And speaking of Triple A, Jack Cagleon, I think he's on rehab right now in Triple A as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I know he wasn't playing great, but it's still a bat that you're excited to add to the fold and just see what he could do.
[SPEAKER_03]: But Ryan Berger, also just, it looks like he can actually help them now, even though that was guy that they're probably acquiring with, you know, the future, you know, more in mind than the present.
[SPEAKER_03]: Might be a savvy kind of buy and sell deadline for the royals here that kind of liked the way that they're setting themselves up for next year and beyond if they can just add a little bit more offense into the fold here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Orioles Astros.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, I think the big takeaway would be that
[SPEAKER_03]: They called up a couple of just baseball top one hundred guys, Dylan Beaver's outfielder.
[SPEAKER_03]: Of course, right after the, they would be exhausting rookie eligibility.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, you're gonna get a bunch of guys called up after the fifteenth.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then Samuel Bassayo, who's one of the best prospects in baseball.
[SPEAKER_03]: He had his home run robbed that would've been his first career homer.
[SPEAKER_03]: But that's really exciting for the O's.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think the youthful energy, because from what I've gathered, the, it seems like the Orioles,
[SPEAKER_03]: The clubhouse has been a little bit dead.
[SPEAKER_03]: How could it not be?
[SPEAKER_03]: You were expecting, you're off a year where you won a hundred games almost like you're expecting to get back to the playoffs again.
[SPEAKER_03]: You have all these aspirations and it's just been a dud.
[SPEAKER_03]: You guys have gotten hurt, got it, you end up selling.
[SPEAKER_03]: What's going to spark the clubhouse?
[SPEAKER_03]: young guys were hungry and I think that has helped that said they dominating game one and dominating game three they took two out of three astros took the middle game five to four but this looks a lot more like the
[SPEAKER_03]: that the Orioles team that, you know, we knew they could be.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think Westburg had some really good games that stand out to me for hits and the final game.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then again, just just having Kobe Mario starting to swing the battle a little bit better, having Dylan Beaver's in the fold there who I do really like.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then of course, one of the best, you could argue, one of them, maybe V best power hitting prospect and moderately baseball now, getting up to the big leagues, it's gonna make things more exciting.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it also helps when Dean Kramer goes seven shuddy.
[SPEAKER_03]: There was a hundred and fourteen pitches for you as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was literally just looking at that.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I was going to the boss crowd.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like Dean Krammer, seven innings, but I almost think the Orioles and the Braves are on sort of parallel lines right now and differently.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I think the Orioles might be the American League version of the spoiler that teams don't want to see, especially because I think for both of these teams, it's really the lineup.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're pitching is obviously part of a got them in the hole, but they're lineups underperforming the other side of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And these are teams that are going to, you might go into a series against the Orals, like the Astros just did.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they hang, twelve on you, they beat up your pitching staff, you're coming out of it, tired going into the next series.
[SPEAKER_02]: So again, these are spoilers that you really don't want to see down the stretch.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now you're going to see like, you're straight to schedule and you're facing this many teams this many, you know, give it a nice point.
[SPEAKER_02]: But Orioles Braves, these are just teams that I wouldn't want to see it on the stretch.
[SPEAKER_03]: I, a hundred percent agree.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, Kate Pove, it's trying to piggybacks, punches out ten over five innings in, you know, eventual loss in twelve innings in game two.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then, you know, in game one, even though you saw the seven run scored, but Brandon Young, you get a perfect game in the eighth.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it was broken up on a bullshit little dribbler.
[SPEAKER_03]: He almost made such an awesome play on that too.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was talking about this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, if he made that play and finishes out the perfect game, that might be the most impressive perfect game.
[SPEAKER_03]: Unless there's some other one that we don't know of the other twenty something where pitcher also made an insane play, that would have to be the best play a pitcher is made in his own perfect game.
[SPEAKER_03]: Unfortunately, he threw it away.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was trying to figure out if he was better off letting it go.
[SPEAKER_03]: Westburg's behind him there has a shot to make that play.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's a pretty athletic third baseman.
[SPEAKER_03]: But if I have to think about it on my couch for more than five seconds, for more than two seconds, it's unfair already to judge him for that.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he's throwing the perfect game.
[SPEAKER_03]: He wants to make the play.
[SPEAKER_03]: But that was an impossible play to try to make.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, he had it until the throws the crazy park because he got there so fast.
[SPEAKER_02]: Feel good to send his fan and he just he just he just sailed the throw a little bit, but the reason why I love baseball the time out before that.
[SPEAKER_03]: He went three innings against the athletics at home and gave up six earned and he follows that up with
[SPEAKER_03]: almost a perfect game finished eight innings one hit no runs no walks six case so that was awesome was hoping to see his tree but definitely a career start for for him to hang his hat on and it was a lot of fun to watch and and just just check in on I can't remember the last time we were like that close on perfect game watch I felt like he was actually going to do it
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, for say, and honestly, again, it wasn't a good hit.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it almost makes you more pissed.
[SPEAKER_03]: Almost what she barreled it and just put it over the Crawford boxes and I'd be like, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, they beat them, but it didn't really happen.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was another piece of weak contact there.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it wasn't one hit or two.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was that was the only hit.
[SPEAKER_02]: You got through the eighth, you got picked up a strike out, got out of that ending, and then somebody else closed it out, but that was the only hit, an infield hit on a little little chopper come back or it's tough.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then you go over to Chicago where again, I always feel like we're talking about so many teams that are struggling.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, who's not struggling right now?
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, the Pirates come into town and we'll always help that.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's exactly what happened.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think the cups played very well to be honest.
[SPEAKER_03]: They dropped the first game of the series and then they took the next two and three to one and four to three.
[SPEAKER_03]: It wins away.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't feel any better about the cubs right now than I did before the series.
[SPEAKER_03]: The one key takeaway though is Pete Crow Armstrong's coming alive again, and that is huge.
[SPEAKER_03]: So maybe I do feel a little bit better just off of that in a vacuum.
[SPEAKER_03]: Because PCA goes three for three in the finale.
[SPEAKER_03]: DABs, if you just were watching the series, we're just better overall.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think, you know, just even seeing him walk and then, and I hit by pitch, but then even just DABs where he's getting out.
[SPEAKER_03]: It just felt like it was better.
[SPEAKER_03]: showed him an agaturn in a great one.
[SPEAKER_03]: There was some subtle positives, but I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: Something seems off with Kyle Tucker.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if he's hurt.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what it is because he's still giving you the good A-bees.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's still seeing the ball well.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's still walking.
[SPEAKER_03]: But the impact is gone.
[SPEAKER_03]: Gone.
[SPEAKER_03]: So those are like my two key takeaways.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thank goodness PCA's heating back up.
[SPEAKER_03]: And
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm concerned about Cal Tucker, does he need like a little fan of my elk stench or something?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, you also have you have Owen K. K's who just came up.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, line up.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it could make sense to I'll talk her if there was something going on just just to try to get by.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, maybe you let it this next series play out because I'm looking they have a five game or this week against the brewers double hender on Monday and three more games.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I mean, that that very well could be that if if the brewers steam roll and that could just be the end of the division right there.
[SPEAKER_02]: But
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it is the Kyle Tucker situation very strange right now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Others practicing ashcraft always love to his arm in terms of just like the arm talent there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Health has been a huge challenge for him with the pirates.
[SPEAKER_03]: He went five innings one earned run at sixty one pitches only to get through those five innings.
[SPEAKER_03]: He went healthy is a legitimate rotation piece for them.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think you can be a darn good one.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just all about being healthy, Mike Burrow's continues to look really good too.
[SPEAKER_03]: And we're talking about young pitchers that
[SPEAKER_03]: Isn't Bubba Chandler, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: That isn't Jared Jones.
[SPEAKER_03]: Mike Burrow is five innings, a one-run ball too.
[SPEAKER_03]: He looks pretty, pretty darn solid as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: So pitching ain't the issue in bits for, we knew that.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it seems like they've got even more guys popping up, but unfortunately the offense man, oh my goodness.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, you look top to bottom in that lineup right now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, but yeah, get Owen Casey at bats.
[SPEAKER_03]: If he's going to be up there, I know it's hard right now at the lineup, but
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe mix in an extra off day here and there for a couple of guys because the case he could be that spark that they need.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I know he was not going to endure for a long time to get a promotion, but why promote a guy and not plan?
[SPEAKER_03]: Especially like, wouldn't he technically exceed Big League, the rookie limits?
[SPEAKER_03]: Did they bring him up on like the Fourteen to my, am I wrong on that?
[SPEAKER_03]: I've seemed like the plan might just be to option them back down then.
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then why not wait?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just, it's very strange to call, or wait to just be a September call up.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you want them to be part of it, then, but I don't know, it just seems.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if they wanted them for the stretch, whatever it is, but they've done this a couple of times where the cubs, they'll bring up prospects.
[SPEAKER_03]: And understand, prospects like, if you're trying to win now, you shouldn't put all the chips and all the eggs in the prospect basket, but
[SPEAKER_03]: If you're bringing up a top prospect, they should play.
[SPEAKER_03]: Or if it's the last couple weeks of the season, then sure, it's different.
[SPEAKER_03]: But if you're bringing up a top prospect in August, they should play.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm very interested to see how much more or how much you just plays in general over the next couple weeks, and potentially the rest of the season.
[SPEAKER_03]: Angels athletics.
[SPEAKER_03]: Another one that doesn't have a ton of posties and implications, but the athletics, they break at home.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, everybody breaks in Sacramento, but the athletics put up a water run.
[SPEAKER_03]: So they take two out of three, ten runs in game one, seven runs in game two, and then the angel salvage with the eleven runs of their own.
[SPEAKER_03]: In game three, athletics had five there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Joe Adele had a big one in the finale.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think that's just his season in general.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know it's not the sexiest that line, but it's a guy that I thought maybe it was running out of time to even get opportunity.
[SPEAKER_03]: So just seeing him do that is exciting.
[SPEAKER_03]: Shail English, man.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like guys, it's just an absolute baller.
[SPEAKER_03]: I would say that's probably my other takeaway.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then one of my favorite pitching prospects for a while now is get is up in the big leagues and starting to throw pretty darn well.
[SPEAKER_03]: Luis Morales.
[SPEAKER_03]: He had another solid outing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Five innings, a one run ball in game two.
[SPEAKER_03]: Athletics win that one.
[SPEAKER_03]: He struck out five.
[SPEAKER_03]: Command has always been the question with Morales.
[SPEAKER_03]: It got better this year in AAA and throwing an environment like Sacramento and trusting it stuff filling up the zone, turning another good outing.
[SPEAKER_03]: This guy that has as much upside as any picture they've got.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's where you're looking at the athletics and saying, okay, for next year, who are the guys that we can start to pencil in here?
[SPEAKER_03]: Think Jack Perkins is earned.
[SPEAKER_03]: That when depending on what role that is, I think Morales is now in that where you can look at him and say, this is a rotation piece for us.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's exciting stuff because you don't have to any questions with that lineup.
[SPEAKER_02]: No questions at all with that line up and everyone locked up moving forward.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a team that's going to have a lot of fun in their next couple years in Sacramento.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's for sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: Colby Thomas.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've skewed well.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're on him in general.
[SPEAKER_03]: He has made some improvements this year.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think just being on hand of velocity and things like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: He has had a great start to his big lead career.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think he homeworked in the first two games of the series as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I mean, if they just have another outfielder that ends up exceeding expectations here too.
[SPEAKER_03]: They've got a really fun situation there as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: So just excited to potentially monitor that and see what they've got there overall.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then wrapping up with these series, I think that everybody was was really looking forward to.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let me ask you this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Padre's Dodgers, the best rivalry in baseball right now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is that the new person?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think so.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, at least if you look at the last like three years in particular, but yeah, I would say so.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's funny that Rod Manford actually said that on the broadcast tonight on Saturday night baseball.
[SPEAKER_02]: He said that we now have a rivalry that is like the old Yankee's Red Sox rivalry.
[SPEAKER_03]: So now it's going to be Sunday night baseball for the next fifteen years.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I don't know why they didn't stick them at the little lead classic, but yeah, I think the way the respect that the Dodgers paid the podger is after the one the world series last year.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that shows how much these teams sort of see each other at I and
[SPEAKER_02]: If there was ever a time for some of that steam of the rivalry to go out, it would have been if the podry sort of fizzled a little bit this year.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And when they were starting to agent, probably does this thing in the deadline again.
[SPEAKER_02]: And now it's right back in there, you know, neck and neck in this division and feels like we're all just hoping that we get to see them play on October again.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I think a big reason why they didn't have them playing the littlely classic is just the risk of exposing the youth to another sinister sling.
[SPEAKER_03]: I couldn't have that happen in front of these these poor kids, but Dodgers made their statement, though, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Everyone's like, what's wrong with the Dodgers?
[SPEAKER_03]: What's wrong with the Dodgers?
[SPEAKER_03]: I brought this up on the last JV show that I feel like the Dodgers may have a little bit of that Miami heat effect, where it's just
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, it's world series.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like we're gonna make the playoffs.
[SPEAKER_03]: We don't really need to worry about it until we get to the championship series or at least get to the playoffs.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, I think it's really silly and baseball.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think that's much more of an NBA thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: But if there ever was a baseball team that could settle into that cadence, especially just on the hangover, I was listening to Anthony Rizzo talking about how real the world series hangover just is.
[SPEAKER_03]: Because then you climb the mountain top.
[SPEAKER_03]: and then you're back at the bottom of the mountain top except this time you got a backpack on because everyone's got a target on your on your back essentially to so it feels like you got to climb the mountain top again even though you have the team that's proven to be able to do it feels like it's going to be even harder this time right so that that part I think is very real but this is where those teams start to snap in and a curse shot even kind of downplayed the series but then also acknowledged it were curse shot was like
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you know, none of these game.
[SPEAKER_03]: There are no games before the playoffs are really that important, but with the way we were playing this one felt like it could be important.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm paraphrasing, but like that's essentially what he said.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that's, I think Hall of Famer speak for, yeah, we wanted this one.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think it was a hell of a statement where they take the first one, three to two, there's the second one, six zip, and they take the third one, five to four.
[SPEAKER_03]: Two out of three recalls games.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think the podrides played bad.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think you see Alex Vesia going out there for, you know, a five-out save.
[SPEAKER_03]: It just, it felt different.
[SPEAKER_03]: It felt different from the Dodgers.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's like, okay, here they are again.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think Vesia has had a five-out appearance if I'm not mistaken the entire season.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, maybe that's a coincidence?
[SPEAKER_03]: I think they wanted this one and not just because of the division and implications I think there was it was also a statement you know like we're still that we're still the fucking Dodgers man and they showed it and all of a sudden now
[SPEAKER_03]: You look at the, you look at the standings.
[SPEAKER_03]: You see a W three streak for the Dodgers.
[SPEAKER_03]: You see two games back in an L three for the podries, just like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that doesn't mean that the podries are in trouble.
[SPEAKER_03]: They can get right back into it with another good series, but it shows you how quick a good series against your one B to your one A or your neck and neck, the I to I team.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can fix that narrative real quick.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, you know, to follow your sort of your NBA comp, it's like those those regular seasons with the heat where if you get a Celtics or the time of Pacers in town, it's a little bit of a different intensity than, you know, the Hawks at the time, whoever was I can't remember who was bad back then, but
[SPEAKER_02]: But the point stands, I think if you're the Dodgers and you're looking, then your next series is going to course, play the Rockies, like empty the taking as the Podger is sent a message.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then you can put cruise control back on and wait till you see them again or wait till, you know, you got to October.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it did feel like they put a little more in this series.
[SPEAKER_02]: And also, I don't know how much you guys have mentioned how Clayton Kershub, but it's just what's so cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's like he can pitch to a three-year-a forever.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I mean, going into that series, you put up with a six, was a six-shotty against the Padre.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's just, how low of a velocity do you think he could still have a sub-four-year-a-a at?
[SPEAKER_02]: I think the way that, as long as he creates the separation, I mean, as long as it's got separation between the fastball and the curveball, it doesn't really matter.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, he could throw eighty-two.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like he would still get out.
[SPEAKER_02]: He might not be able to pitch to a three-year-old, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: But I honestly think that if Rich Hill can still get his way on a big league mound, the first shot had the will to pitch into his four-years, which I don't think he does.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, he could extend his career if he wanted to.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just think he's probably got the ones to go out on top and he's clearly still on top.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, he is.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, you know, the last three outings for Kursha, which by the way, Kim gets the raise in Tampa, where they swing it well, the Blue Jays who swing it as well as anybody and the Padres who have been swinging as well as anybody over the last few weeks, eighteen innings, two earned runs.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's why he's, I think, the best left-handed picture of all time.
[SPEAKER_03]: But awesome stuff there.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then aside from a sweet being galvanizing, tower glass now comes out there and looks like tower glass now.
[SPEAKER_03]: He goes five innings, two orange, one walks, strikes out eight.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're talking about health and everything and how like the one, like I guess just concern could be just just health of the rotation.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, by the way, Blake's now one six-shotty as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: If those two guys are throwing, they're going to be a problem.
[SPEAKER_03]: And those two guys threw when they needed them to throw.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't even know if Kirstal starts a playoff game.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's been amazing.
[SPEAKER_03]: crazy man.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, it's one cool Kershaw stat that I was just looking at here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Look at his career.
[SPEAKER_02]: He still has a loss to hundred games and he started almost four hundred and fifty and it's been a great thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's at ninety six losses through four hundred and forty four career starts.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have to guess that if you look at like career winning percentage is he has to be someone here at the top of that list.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I actually that'd be a fun dive.
[SPEAKER_03]: It does help when you play your whole career with the Dodgers, but still.
[SPEAKER_03]: But still.
[SPEAKER_03]: That is not.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then old Matt Michael can fordo had had a good game mixed in there.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't believe we still get net bats, but he is.
[SPEAKER_03]: Here we go.
[SPEAKER_03]: Any final thoughts on the weekend that was.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're going to have a lot of coverage as we get ready for the final stretch on just baseball.com.
[SPEAKER_03]: The Marlins are promoting Max Acosta Acosta.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's interesting.
[SPEAKER_03]: I wonder what that means because I mean somebody must be hurt.
[SPEAKER_03]: So we'll see from that.
[SPEAKER_03]: But that's a fun little spark maybe to the Marlins lineup.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's interesting.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wrinkle, but anything else that comes to mind.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nothing that jumps out.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm checking back in in my match that the bullpen's giving up to and Ryan Hells is on the mountain trying to get through an ending.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I got to go run and see if they can finish off this game here.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, let you go.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thanks again as always for pinch hitting.
[SPEAKER_03]: And thank you for listening out there.
[SPEAKER_03]: I hope you enjoyed this rapid round up.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think we'll be back on the
[SPEAKER_03]: Old school roundup for next week.
[SPEAKER_03]: So don't you worry, but it is the dog day.
[SPEAKER_03]: So maybe you like the rapid roundup.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let us know what you think and we can adjust.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I have a feeling Peter is going to want around it up after this hiatus.
[SPEAKER_03]: But as always, thank you for listening.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you're in South Florida, would love to see it just baseball day.
[SPEAKER_03]: The link for that is in the episode description over at Lone Depot Park.
[SPEAKER_03]: A lot of fun things going on there and look forward to talking to you guys tomorrow.