WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:25.879 Toby bell Ringer. Welcome to bat Flip and Nerds. Hello, and welcome 2 00:00:25.879 --> 00:00:29.120 to bat Flips and Nerds, the Baseball Podcast with the British Twist. I 3 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:33.079 am Darius Austin and we are having a positive night tonight. There's gonna be 4 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:36.359 a ton of positivity and we're going to kick it all off with the main 5 00:00:36.439 --> 00:00:40.880 man, British baseball commentary Extraordinary. Russell Aysom, how are you doing Russell? 6 00:00:41.159 --> 00:00:44.039 I'm doing good, Darius. There are a few people out there that 7 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:48.079 are probably listened to my voice more than enough after commentating on What's now and 8 00:00:48.200 --> 00:00:52.200 what five Games of baseball? Yeah, it's if people want to listen to 9 00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:56.679 my voice ball, then there's places you can go listen to it. It's 10 00:00:56.719 --> 00:00:59.679 like if you've missed out on our back catalog to day, then you're in 11 00:00:59.719 --> 00:01:02.920 for a treat if you've enjoyed Russell's voice, because there's plenty of it, 12 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:07.480 so go back and check it out. Today we are going to do a 13 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:11.159 bit of a focus on the teams that have been eliminated or near enough. 14 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:15.560 We have had some pessimistic fans send us some nominations, but basically we ask 15 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:19.519 people we're going to spend a lot of time over the next month talking about 16 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:22.840 the playoff teams obviously, so I thought, why don't we focus on the 17 00:01:22.840 --> 00:01:25.920 teams that are out of it? And what did you enjoy? What was 18 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:29.319 it a player was at a moment? Was it a game? Whatever it 19 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:30.920 is. We've got a bunch of suggestions from fans, so thank you to 20 00:01:32.079 --> 00:01:36.599 everybody who contributed. I will mention all of you as we go through the 21 00:01:36.599 --> 00:01:40.000 teams. But to kick it off, I think we should talk a little 22 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:42.920 bit about the national team playing at the European Championships, so russ So how 23 00:01:44.040 --> 00:01:46.840 we get it on? It looks pretty good right now? Right, Yes, 24 00:01:47.719 --> 00:01:49.680 a couple of wins, a couple of the two games that we were 25 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:56.719 expected to win, A close scheme against Sweden in for the first game, 26 00:01:56.799 --> 00:02:00.040 but it pulled out a four nill win, which was to see, anytime 27 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:05.159 that you shut someone down in the game, it's a very good sign to 28 00:02:05.359 --> 00:02:08.840 that. Backs weren't particularly flying in that one, but a good fur now 29 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:17.680 win against Sweden the morning of recording this GB then, I think obliterated hungry 30 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:22.080 is probably the politest way of that. That's a fair description. I think, 31 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:27.120 Yeah, it was a twenty two three ended after five innings of mercy 32 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:32.639 a twelve spot in the second and the ninth spot in the third, followed 33 00:02:32.680 --> 00:02:36.759 by nothing in the fourth. But that was basically because they just all went 34 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:39.080 out swinging, so they could just get the inning over a pitching inning and 35 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:44.800 be done with the day. Yes, so that was a very very strong 36 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:49.159 performance. I still don't know too much what's coming out of those. Obviously 37 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:53.960 there the games who were expected to win tournament had pretty much gone to plan 38 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:59.000 if you were talking about seedings, until today when there was a bit of 39 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:02.759 a shock in GB's group of Sweden actually beating Italy. So that now makes 40 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:07.560 the match of GB against Italy tomorrow very interesting if Italy views that they weren't 41 00:03:07.560 --> 00:03:10.560 finishing the top half of the tournament, which has got to be the first 42 00:03:10.599 --> 00:03:15.039 and looked at it but for a very long time of Italy not making the 43 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:19.280 top half of European Championships. So it's going to be a very strong game 44 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:23.879 going into their tomorrow. It does GB because of now we could potentially have 45 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:25.879 three teams on two wins and at a loss if the result doesn't go our 46 00:03:25.919 --> 00:03:31.039 way tomorrow. There's the lights of runs coefficients that could occur, but yeah, 47 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:35.800 it's fully simple saying GB wins, they'll have top neck group and I'll 48 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:39.759 avoid Tech Republic in the quarterfinal, which will be I think a good thing 49 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:43.520 to do. If they lose, they just don't have to lose by more 50 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:47.120 than five, and I think they'll still make it through that group. So 51 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:50.680 yeah, they're in a strong position. They're looking good. I think the 52 00:03:50.680 --> 00:03:53.680 pitching has been the real strong side so far, obviously by that saying they've 53 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:57.840 got twenty two runs, but there was a lot, a lot of works. 54 00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:02.400 Yes, I think it was the thirteen runs on five hits at one 55 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:06.199 point early in the game. Yeah, which gives you some idea of how 56 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:12.360 things were going for the poor or Hungarian pitching. So yeah, good start. 57 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:15.479 And it's all packed into a week, isn't it Friday? The finals 58 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:17.160 on Sunday? Is that right? Yeah? The finals is next Sunday, 59 00:04:17.199 --> 00:04:20.399 so effectively, from like Sunday to Sunday, it is a is a tight 60 00:04:20.439 --> 00:04:25.319 week, tight week of baseball. Yeah, so do you check that out. 61 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:28.519 We'll keep tweeting things out, I'm sure, but yeah, go follow 62 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:31.439 the British national team and of course our hero Harry Forward who is leading off 63 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:38.560 during a sterling job as usual. So onto the teams, the eliminated teams. 64 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:42.560 So obviously, you know some of these teams have had pretty disappointed seasons. 65 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:45.759 Some of these teams have done exactly what we expected them to do, 66 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:49.519 which may or may not make it less disappointing for certain fans. So we're 67 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:53.000 just going to go team by team. I'm I'm going to cover some of 68 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:56.920 the things that the listener suggested, and then perhaps RUSSA or I will have 69 00:04:56.920 --> 00:05:00.560 our own things that they didn't cover. But maybe you'll learn something out teams 70 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:03.839 you didn't watch very much, and hopefully this puts things on a positive note 71 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:10.040 for people going into twenty twenty four. Where to start, Really, I'm 72 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:13.439 hesitined to do this, but I feel like we probably need to start with 73 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:17.879 the Oakland as they are heading for the worst recording baseball, perhaps not quite 74 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:21.519 as bad as it looks earlier in the season, but there have been have 75 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:26.519 been a few few little bright spots for the A's, so we had a 76 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:31.199 few few suggestions about their rookies. Stirry rees obviously up to sixty five steals 77 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:33.560 in the end, it looks like he could still catch a Kenya, which 78 00:05:33.560 --> 00:05:40.079 would be pretty cool. Uries out I think on whether he's going to provide 79 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:44.959 a ton else butt fun, pretty fun that we've still still got a seventy 80 00:05:45.079 --> 00:05:48.240 steel potentially contributor in the majors. Ago, Yeah, it feels like it's 81 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:55.920 not. With basically making stolen basis value slightly more, well maybe valued more, 82 00:05:55.920 --> 00:06:00.480 but more available, we do get the chances of kind of Billy Hamilton 83 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:03.680 esque players kind of actually having more of a more of a chance to stay 84 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:09.240 in a team. And then yeah, I can bemoan that the rest of 85 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:13.319 Ruiz's value that he that he does provide, or even the fact that his 86 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:17.040 stolen basis doesn't actually provide that much additional value, but it is entertaining and 87 00:06:16.839 --> 00:06:19.800 that and we do have to remember that baseball is a sport that it is 88 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:25.959 supposed to entertainers in the end. So him being more chance of being valuable 89 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:30.519 is a good thing. And so seeing him kind of steal the basis it 90 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:35.800 obviously to me, just seeing anybody steal at Oakland just brings kind of like 91 00:06:35.879 --> 00:06:42.319 Ricky Henderson like vibes back, and I just any time that that happens, 92 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:46.680 it's got to be a good thing. Yeah, definitely, And I think, 93 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:49.759 you know, it's important to note that Ry's husband hurt, he still 94 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:54.360 has under five hundred flight appearances in the season, so you know, if 95 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:57.040 if you can take some steps forward, get you know, let maybe a 96 00:06:57.079 --> 00:07:00.800 little bit better offensively. I don't know. I don't think it's the possibility 97 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:02.399 that you know, he's not going to do a Ricky, but could we 98 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:05.800 see eighty or ninety if he gets six hundred plus play appearances. I think 99 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:10.360 I think we could. Yeah, So that's sounds to look forward to. 100 00:07:10.480 --> 00:07:13.600 And then a couple of guys Brett Walker, one of our contributors for the 101 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:17.279 site, doing a stirling job with all the content right now. He suggested 102 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:20.319 Ryan Noder and Set gelf as well. And I think this is a couple 103 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:25.959 of guys who could potentially be genuinely good longer term players for the AIDS, 104 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:30.920 right, Yeah, A hundred percent. Like obviously, like no do I 105 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:33.160 think it's had that start of the season. He was kind of like the 106 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:36.319 one of the ones that we were talking about like looking at being pretty amazing. 107 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:41.399 Gelf Is the is the man of them, is the man of the 108 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:45.720 moment, not even at like three hundred PA and he's he's he's a two 109 00:07:45.720 --> 00:07:48.680 point eight fanger aft Wars. So if we're talking about like what a player 110 00:07:48.680 --> 00:07:53.240 could be if they pushed that out, that is like all star level was 111 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:59.720 better than all star level performance that we've seen from him and some of them. 112 00:07:59.759 --> 00:08:03.720 Of the underlying metrics also do suggest that it isn't like bad. It 113 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:11.759 is potentially like it is sticky. I'm always a little bit little bit hesitant 114 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:16.600 when someone has a strikeout rate as high as he does, you kind of 115 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:22.399 get a little bit a little bit worried there. But no, it's obviously 116 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:26.600 you've got to take the positives where they are at Oakland. It is I 117 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:30.160 don't quite know. I don't know how I would feel if this was ever 118 00:08:30.199 --> 00:08:33.039 happening to kind of like a team that I chose to chose to support. 119 00:08:33.159 --> 00:08:39.159 So finding that those small breadcrumbs is a beautiful one. You just want these 120 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:46.840 pillay Is to not be like the next Frank Windell or Joey Meneses. Yeah, 121 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:50.919 I think I think no does on base skills out out of the strip, 122 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:56.840 both of those guys for sure, and yeah get off I think yeah 123 00:08:56.879 --> 00:09:00.080 strikeouts for reconcern, it might have actually struck out a bit less, so 124 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:03.080 I was expecting him to which maybe doesn't say about what I was expecting him 125 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:07.919 to do, But yeah, I think you know, as Brett said to 126 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:11.759 me when he sent me these suggestions, I hope they stick around, but 127 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:16.679 he didn't sound that confident about it. So hopefully the Aids have got some 128 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:20.480 of these guys to cheer for next season, wherever they end up. I 129 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:24.639 will note that Steve Paolo, fun guy in the fantasy community, basically said, 130 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:28.039 why are you talking to us about hope? We're A's fans, So 131 00:09:30.279 --> 00:09:35.919 that was the alternative perspective provided. But the A's might still win fifty games, 132 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:39.559 which you know a lot of people said they wouldn't, so they're still 133 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:43.200 already better than that Orioles team that went forty seven and one hundred and fifteen 134 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:48.360 not so long ago, and better than that Detroit team which has the worst 135 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:50.720 record possible. I don't think this is something they have to say that I 136 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:54.799 think. I think at the start of the season, I don't know if 137 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:58.279 the front office tried too hard or not. The front office or the ownership 138 00:09:58.279 --> 00:10:03.120 tried too hard do not be good and then kind of realize that, you 139 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:07.240 know, you can't throw out like Triple A pictures all the time, and 140 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:09.600 so it was it came to the point of like, actually, you know, 141 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:16.240 like they're at least a replacements level team. But yeah, they've had 142 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:20.000 they've had some good moments, Like to me, like they took a couple 143 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:24.360 of games off the Astros the other day, which I think would be kind 144 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:26.840 of like something that they would be pleased with doing, kind of if they 145 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:30.480 could something they could do to end their season or whatever was the scupp of 146 00:10:30.559 --> 00:10:35.919 the chances of maybe like the Astroids, I think they'd take that. Yeah, 147 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:37.120 definitely, It's it's been a weird, odd time. You know, 148 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:41.399 we'll probably talk about the Astros next week. We'll be doing a playoff preview, 149 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:43.039 but I'm less convinced now that the Astroids are going to be in it 150 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:48.919 than a couple of weeks ago. The Royals have thrown a spanner in the 151 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:52.919 works. Why not, let's let's go there, Let's go to the Royals. 152 00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:56.519 We didn't actually get any suggestions for the Royals, which is somewhat surprising 153 00:10:56.559 --> 00:11:00.039 because I think they are one of the easier teams to identify a highlight it. 154 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:03.159 So I guess who's who's your Royals highlight or what's your Royals highlight this 155 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:07.240 year? US? Oh, well, I think Bobby Wick Junior is kind 156 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:09.879 of like the fairly easy one to go with. I do want to talk 157 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:13.360 about, like the Royals seem to be like a very interesting team that I've 158 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:18.080 obviously been watching Cleveland play and an attempt to just fade out their playoff chances 159 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:24.440 for the end of the season, but like managing to like sweep the Rangers 160 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:30.519 across a series, then basically get swept by Kansas before then going and picking 161 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:33.879 up a couple of games against the Orioles. I was like, what's going 162 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:37.159 on here? Like this is exactly like the reverse of what I what I 163 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:41.759 would saw what I happened here. But yeah, that that that team has 164 00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:46.440 has interesting options like that. It's it's not to me if I was looking 165 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:50.679 at the Ale Central, I'd would be far more pessimistic about the Chicago White 166 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:56.559 Stock outlook and maybe even Detroit than I would for the Kansas City Royals. 167 00:11:56.559 --> 00:12:03.240 Obviously they still need to overlay some money and actually kind of get out there 168 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:07.039 to make to make a difference. But yeah, like I think Boyward Junior 169 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:13.159 season is he is he taking Kosei Ra mirrors his place as the most underrated 170 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:18.919 player in baseball or although he's probably still rated in the fantasy world because he 171 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:22.120 picks up those stats that everybody will will love him for. But he just 172 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:26.519 because he's been on Kansas this year and they've done literally nothing that the general 173 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:31.440 person, the general viewer wouldn't know what a season he's had. Yeah, 174 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:35.639 it's an interesting question because probably it was a top prospect, So I don't 175 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:39.519 I don't know if the perception of him has changed. You know, he 176 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:43.080 had a difficult rookie season. At times he struggled to get on base. 177 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:48.279 Defensively, he was bad. He's really turned that well around this season as 178 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:52.519 well as kind of being good at the plate. And obviously he's still in 179 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:56.639 a bunch of bases too. But yeah, i'd be interested to know, 180 00:12:56.720 --> 00:13:01.360 because it's difficult when you're you're in the fantasy community and it's like everybody's interested 181 00:13:01.399 --> 00:13:05.480 in Bobby Witt. But you know, he might he's got a chance. 182 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:09.919 He's one homer away from from going thirty thirty. He might steal fifty bases, 183 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:16.240 which everybody's doing these days. But yeah, it's it's all been all 184 00:13:16.279 --> 00:13:20.919 been pretty positive for where he kind of looks like the superstar he was supposed 185 00:13:20.919 --> 00:13:24.080 to be, you know, five six win players, So yeah, that's 186 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:28.320 that's really exciting. And you know, I don't think we can let this 187 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:35.799 slide without mentioning Karl Reagan's, which is one of the weirder stories I think 188 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:39.600 from this season, because I mean a few of the Texas Rangers looking at 189 00:13:39.639 --> 00:13:43.720 your pitching staff right now, boy would they love to have Carl Reagan's because 190 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:48.720 they've you know, evolved, these kind of fallen apart, and John Gray's 191 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:52.960 in the bullpen, and the Grumb's hurt and shares us hurt, and Karl 192 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:58.759 Reagan's since he was traded to the Royals made his first start on July the 193 00:13:58.759 --> 00:14:03.799 fifth. He has a two thirty four r eighty one strikeouts in sixty five 194 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:09.279 and a third innings. It's just been unbelievable. He looked he looks like 195 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:11.399 an ace, and you know, he didn't look like it was a nice 196 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:13.960 with the Rangers. To be fair to them, he had a five ninety 197 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:18.960 two RA when he got traded and he was in the bullpen, so it's 198 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:22.279 not like you can say he was a stud over there. But he went 199 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:26.399 to the Royals and it seemed like immediately he was a stud. Like it 200 00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:28.960 wasn't like it took a few weeks. It was like, right away, 201 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:33.000 here's one of the best pitches in bothable. It's one of those really weird 202 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:39.759 ones because he hadn't started a game for Texas this year, like he pitches 203 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:43.799 the startup them last year, had a pretty may like high forwards dra over 204 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:48.519 a few games where I was like eight or nine games but hadn't played a 205 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:52.759 single start for the Rangers this season, and then goes to Kansas, goes 206 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:58.120 back to being a starter, and pitching is a mental game as much as 207 00:14:58.120 --> 00:15:01.080 it is like a physical game. But is there, Ah, there is 208 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:03.039 just one of those people that just couldn't get used to like the approach of 209 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:07.919 being thrown in as a reliever and warming up it's going bad and just being 210 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:11.360 given the chance to go back to being a starter. It's just like, 211 00:15:11.399 --> 00:15:13.879 hey, I've taken maybe some of the things they've learned from throwing as a 212 00:15:13.879 --> 00:15:18.000 reliever, but I've now going back to being a starter and actually have something's 213 00:15:18.039 --> 00:15:24.759 clicked. But it does feel so daft that somebody can make that drastic of 214 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:28.080 a change with not even like on a week's notice. It's not like that 215 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:31.720 they were bad for a couple of weeks. I'm thinking like Giolito when he 216 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:35.039 came over to Cleveland, like this season is just like, oh, it 217 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:37.919 was just it was bad for the first couple of weeks. And now he's 218 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:41.440 looked like Jeli too evolved again, and I could be like, oh, 219 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:46.360 maybe like the magic of the Cleveland pitching system has like changed him. But 220 00:15:46.360 --> 00:15:48.279 he was bad for a few games. Riggins wasn't bad for a few games. 221 00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:54.759 He literally came out of the block and was great. Yeah, I 222 00:15:54.799 --> 00:15:56.080 guess, you know he did. He spent a bit of time in the 223 00:15:56.080 --> 00:16:00.960 miners, so you know, yeah, I guess there was some of that. 224 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:03.279 But from what I can gather, it sounds like he's done a lot 225 00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:06.720 of work. Because you've been to is it Trade rather than drive Line, 226 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:08.480 I think he's gone too. I've had a couple of people say, well, 227 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:11.720 you know, we don't give the Royals too much credit here, Like 228 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:15.960 he's been doing a lot of work on the side himself. So regardless of 229 00:16:15.039 --> 00:16:18.919 who is responsible for this, Karl Reagan's I think he's going to be very 230 00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:25.039 interesting picture to watch next year and all of these Royals pictures, we thought, 231 00:16:25.159 --> 00:16:27.200 you know, might be front of the rotation guys, and it happens 232 00:16:27.240 --> 00:16:30.840 to be the guy they got in the random middle of the season. Oh, 233 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:34.559 I didn't think they've got much out of that trade trade. Who might 234 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:40.720 be the Eggs and baseball is weird? Okay, let's let's go back to 235 00:16:40.759 --> 00:16:44.879 the Al West. Let's go to the Angels and Nick right. Shout out 236 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:48.000 to Nick, long suffering Angels fan. It's not been a great season. 237 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:51.960 I mean, you know, obviously, Ohtani is great, but even that 238 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:56.679 sort of entered under a bit of disappointing cloud with the oblique injury and the 239 00:16:56.799 --> 00:17:00.879 weird stuff with him clearing out his locker and all that. But Nikkas highlighted 240 00:17:02.279 --> 00:17:04.240 Noldan Chaniel, who Rob and I talked about a few weeks ago. But 241 00:17:04.759 --> 00:17:10.279 he is now up to tied second all time for the longest on base streak 242 00:17:10.359 --> 00:17:15.039 to start a career at twenty six, So yeah, kind of he showed 243 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:18.480 some some good IBP and the miners, but the aggressive promotion. I thought 244 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:22.319 this was just another mad move by the Angels, But it looks like he's 245 00:17:22.359 --> 00:17:26.559 basically translated that straight across. Yeah, it's a really interesting one because I 246 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:30.480 I can't remember what other podcasts I was listening to that was talking about bad 247 00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:34.519 talking about exit velocities, and it pretty much had like Nolan chaniel as like 248 00:17:34.559 --> 00:17:38.720 the lowest exit velocity like recorded in like Major League Baseball, or one of 249 00:17:38.799 --> 00:17:44.720 like the lowest exit velocities recorded or like the lost average like exit velocity. 250 00:17:44.960 --> 00:17:47.640 So I was talking about the fact that, yeah, like maybe this is 251 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:51.000 something of this something that really do work on in like the minor systems to 252 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:55.319 get people to attune and kind of get that up there. But obviously he's 253 00:17:55.359 --> 00:18:00.400 still he still has the OBP, he still has that discipline that he showed 254 00:18:02.440 --> 00:18:08.160 before being drafted, And so these kind of players to come up really punk 255 00:18:08.279 --> 00:18:15.160 fast make me sometimes question like why the minor league system exists like the way 256 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:18.759 it does. Like obviously there are going to be the exceptions that show that 257 00:18:18.799 --> 00:18:22.599 they can work their way up pretty fast. Like sometimes plays just get thrown 258 00:18:22.599 --> 00:18:26.200 in there, like Soto or whatever when it's just a gap and you're just 259 00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:30.480 like, hey, like should we actually be throwing in a few more like 260 00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:34.000 top end prospects just immediately from like single A or double a like single swim 261 00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:38.440 kind of approach, because you know what, like you could get more value 262 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:42.559 out of them now than you could later on, or they could be like 263 00:18:42.839 --> 00:18:48.039 immense and it is really interesting to see. I think when I come to 264 00:18:48.119 --> 00:18:51.839 that sometimes, especially like I look at like the WBC and I look at 265 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:55.400 how generally that impacts a lot of the prospects to play in it. And 266 00:18:55.440 --> 00:18:56.920 I think this year we can talk about how it's impacted some of the major 267 00:18:57.000 --> 00:19:00.960 league players, but a lot of the prospects who played in it and played 268 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:06.759 well have played well into this season as well. So getting that experience of 269 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:10.680 high level baseball, even if it's not even if he goes back to like 270 00:19:10.759 --> 00:19:15.039 Double A or Triple A next year, I think this is such a valuable 271 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:18.759 experience and what some of these teams, once they are actually done, should 272 00:19:18.799 --> 00:19:22.680 be doing. It's just like throwing them up there. You've got no I 273 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:27.960 think there's there's no risk. Obviously, like a player could suck and it 274 00:19:29.079 --> 00:19:33.319 might affect their confidence, but if they're round a headed athlete, they should 275 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:36.599 realize that they've gone from playing like college to then playing against the best players 276 00:19:36.599 --> 00:19:38.720 in the world, like they might have to realize that like there's a bit 277 00:19:38.720 --> 00:19:41.839 of a learning curve and this might help them, weren't it. But I 278 00:19:41.839 --> 00:19:47.559 think it's a really interesting way of doing it. Yeah, and you know, 279 00:19:47.640 --> 00:19:51.599 he did have absurd numbers. I mean, you know in college too. 280 00:19:51.640 --> 00:19:59.039 You know he had a six fifteen OVP Florida or Atlantic got drafted. 281 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:03.559 That's that's a big number. Barry Bonds would be jealous of that number. 282 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:08.000 So obviously a guy with a great eye will be very interesting to see how 283 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:12.599 things go. If this is the max philosophy. He's tied with Tyler Wade 284 00:20:14.039 --> 00:20:18.640 at the moment one hundred and three point five miles per hour from Maxective lost 285 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:22.680 It, which is outside the top five hundred of people with the twenty five 286 00:20:22.680 --> 00:20:26.720 battered ball events this season. So yeah, it's a very very odd profile. 287 00:20:27.559 --> 00:20:33.200 But sometimes these guys just you know, they know the strike zone and 288 00:20:33.319 --> 00:20:36.400 that gets you a really, really long way. So we'll see how he 289 00:20:36.440 --> 00:20:41.960 goes. But already a pretty pretty cool stat to start his career. Okay, 290 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:47.599 let's go on to perhaps the biggest disappointment of the twenty twenty three season 291 00:20:47.640 --> 00:20:52.359 in some regards, but also a team with some pretty fun highlights I think, 292 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:56.839 and that's the set lowest Cardinals. We've got a bunch of cards ones 293 00:20:56.839 --> 00:21:00.920 on here. I guess we should start with Adam Wayne Right, and this 294 00:21:00.039 --> 00:21:04.960 is two hundred to win. Lightly the miracle that was the miracle that wasn't. 295 00:21:04.960 --> 00:21:10.759 I've completely forgot that the Brewers can't actually play any like attacking baseball whatsoever. 296 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:15.319 I feel this is an entirely faux par on my my part of just 297 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:17.759 kind of just looking at going like, oh, the Brewers were a good 298 00:21:17.759 --> 00:21:22.720 team, donte fan. I just it looked like Wayne Wright at his best, 299 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:26.400 which if we look at everything else that happens at Wayne right, and 300 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:30.279 this season is an indictment on the Brewers more than it is on on on 301 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:33.319 Adam Wayne Right. But yeah, obviously we've got to be up. Like 302 00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:37.799 he got he got the Midlestone number. It's awesome, he's going to retire, 303 00:21:37.960 --> 00:21:40.640 it's going to have that. He's it's it's it's a great position. 304 00:21:40.720 --> 00:21:44.000 But kind of like him to get through and yeah, it was a great 305 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:48.880 way of kind of like I'm finishing that that season off it is. We've 306 00:21:48.039 --> 00:21:51.680 we've been positive here, but it is an indictment of the Cardinal season. 307 00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:55.160 He wouldn't have got to two hundred wins if the Cardinals didn't have such a 308 00:21:55.240 --> 00:22:00.599 terrible season. So, as a Cardinals fan, do you where are you 309 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:07.359 happy that he got two hundred wins? I will say the weird thing over 310 00:22:07.400 --> 00:22:12.039 the last fortnight the Brewers are a fifth in WRC plus including that game of 311 00:22:12.079 --> 00:22:18.079 course, so baseball. But yeah, yeah, you're right, you know, 312 00:22:18.279 --> 00:22:19.599 it would have been a difficult thing for them to do. I'm sure. 313 00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:22.599 But if the Cards had been right in the mix of the wild card 314 00:22:22.680 --> 00:22:26.599 hunt and they couldn't start Wayne Right every fifth day, it would have been 315 00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:30.640 I think a painful decision for them to say, you know what I mean. 316 00:22:30.680 --> 00:22:33.480 I guess they would have maybe stuck him in long relief or something and 317 00:22:34.359 --> 00:22:37.680 said you can go and mop up at the back of games if you want, 318 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:40.559 but you wouldn't have been able to roll him out there as a contending 319 00:22:40.559 --> 00:22:45.759 team, I guess on that topic, Mark Cards, Fanny brought up Wayne 320 00:22:45.839 --> 00:22:51.200 Right, but he also brought up the London win on Sunday, which I 321 00:22:51.240 --> 00:22:53.480 think, you know, after the first game the Cubs cruised it and the 322 00:22:53.759 --> 00:22:56.599 start of the second game was a bit of a mess for st Lewis, 323 00:22:56.640 --> 00:23:00.480 and I think you know, it's going to be pretty depressing weekend for Cardinals 324 00:23:00.519 --> 00:23:03.240 fans, but they pulled it out in the end and they gave them sent 325 00:23:03.319 --> 00:23:07.720 them home happy. I guess yeah. I think the split series from the 326 00:23:07.720 --> 00:23:11.880 London series is kind of like the best for both teams. Everybody gets to 327 00:23:11.920 --> 00:23:14.440 be like, well, if you assuming me, you went to both games, 328 00:23:14.480 --> 00:23:17.960 kits to be like, oh, I saw my team win or London 329 00:23:17.960 --> 00:23:21.799 also, so everybody can kind of be kind of happy because it didn't happen 330 00:23:21.799 --> 00:23:27.039 for Boston. But yeah, I think any any Cards fan who's based here 331 00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:32.599 in the UK has got to that that that day or even just that weekend 332 00:23:32.640 --> 00:23:33.960 if they didn't go to that day, it's got to be a highlight for 333 00:23:34.160 --> 00:23:40.079 probably a significant part of their baseball watching career. Not many people do get 334 00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:41.559 the chance to go out to the States and watch games live. So having 335 00:23:42.039 --> 00:23:48.000 an easier opportunity of doing that and seeing the experience that MLB in and of 336 00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:52.599 the Europe put forward for the London series was I think it was a was 337 00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:56.960 a phenomenal one and a better package than what we've had the previous year. 338 00:23:56.640 --> 00:24:02.880 Previous time around. It wasn't the previous year. Yes, yeah, well 339 00:24:02.920 --> 00:24:04.559 I think we all kept doing that, didn't we We you know, I 340 00:24:04.559 --> 00:24:07.160 know I kept doing it, Tom kept doing it. We kept saying last 341 00:24:07.240 --> 00:24:10.519 year, and it wasn't last year, it was it was four years ago, 342 00:24:11.039 --> 00:24:15.759 which sort of made you feel quite odd, I will say, somebody 343 00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:18.200 who really impressed me not you know, it didn't show up so much in 344 00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:21.200 the games in London, but when we were watching batting practice and I was 345 00:24:21.240 --> 00:24:25.160 watching Jordan Walker just watching the ball come off his bat, you were like, 346 00:24:25.240 --> 00:24:27.319 this is a guy you know this It reminded me of watching Judge take 347 00:24:27.599 --> 00:24:32.279 BP in twenty nineteen. You know, you could see that there was a 348 00:24:32.279 --> 00:24:36.400 ton of power in there. And yeah, we had a couple of guys. 349 00:24:36.759 --> 00:24:41.039 Ken Cards, who's in the discord, and Wesley McKinney both said Jordan 350 00:24:41.119 --> 00:24:44.680 Walker was a highlight of this season, and he's you know, I think 351 00:24:44.720 --> 00:24:48.480 after it maybe slightly difficult, you know, had that hitting streak to start, 352 00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:49.880 but then he sort of called off and got sent back to the miners. 353 00:24:49.960 --> 00:24:55.359 But overall, you know, it's clearly above average offensive contributor. And 354 00:24:55.359 --> 00:24:57.640 I think we've seen the power start to come through as well. I think, 355 00:24:57.640 --> 00:25:02.039 you know, there's probably a going to be a forty homer season in 356 00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:06.599 here for Jordan Walking before too long, and let's not forget he's still only 357 00:25:06.640 --> 00:25:10.480 twenty one, twenty one in May, so long career ahead of him. 358 00:25:10.480 --> 00:25:12.880 I think, yeah, it's really interesting you say that like it would. 359 00:25:14.160 --> 00:25:18.640 BP at the WBC was one of my like real grounding experiences in baseball, 360 00:25:18.920 --> 00:25:23.880 kind of seeing that like even just in BP, you can see the differences 361 00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:30.000 in like the levels of some players. Like I watched GV take BP in 362 00:25:29.480 --> 00:25:33.920 in Chase Field for like the day before the tournament, and I was like, 363 00:25:33.079 --> 00:25:37.079 Yeah, some of these guys are good, like hitting solid contact or 364 00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:41.839 whatever. And then like Trace Thompson came up and like hit some big home 365 00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:45.359 runs and I was like, oh, yeah, he's definitely like better than 366 00:25:45.480 --> 00:25:48.440 like the other players around him when it comes to those sorts of things. 367 00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:51.799 And then like the day afterwards, it was like, oh, I got 368 00:25:51.799 --> 00:25:55.200 teach. So I watched Team USA take BP, and I was like, 369 00:25:55.240 --> 00:25:59.519 Oh, these guys are just so clearly like the contact that they're clearly making 370 00:25:59.640 --> 00:26:02.519 is like so much better they do that. And then one obvious at the 371 00:26:02.599 --> 00:26:04.160 end, I've got to see if Tanny take PP and you're just like, 372 00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:10.839 oh, This is just ridiculous. It feels like something obviously is as simplistic 373 00:26:10.839 --> 00:26:15.079 as VP, that you can actually just see the process of how these players 374 00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:21.319 actually do perform well when it becomes in game Like obviously PP is a isn't 375 00:26:21.319 --> 00:26:23.599 easy or a tightened in scenario or whatever it's going on. But the fact 376 00:26:23.680 --> 00:26:27.920 that they take VP and they actually hit home runs again and again and again 377 00:26:29.880 --> 00:26:32.839 really kind of shows you of what those top players are actually like capable a 378 00:26:32.839 --> 00:26:36.799 lot of Yeah, it is fun. I mean, you know, we've 379 00:26:36.839 --> 00:26:38.279 got another game next year, I will say, if you're thinking about coming 380 00:26:38.279 --> 00:26:41.920 down, you've got an opportunity. You know, hopefully we'll get the opportunity 381 00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:45.400 to have some tickets to the Friday workouts as well. But even if you're 382 00:26:45.400 --> 00:26:48.960 just going to one of the games and you've got the time to get there 383 00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:52.000 early, it is a lot of fun to send and watch these guys hit 384 00:26:52.160 --> 00:26:56.640 in band practice and see how far they send some of the balls. You 385 00:26:56.680 --> 00:27:00.640 know, it's just a different feeling, especially if you're you know, you're 386 00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:03.799 used to watching maybe Bestball in the UK, but you've never seen a major 387 00:27:03.880 --> 00:27:07.240 league up place before. It's it's yeah, it definitely hits different. It 388 00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:12.079 all so sounds different. Yeah. The other guy that Ken brought up, 389 00:27:12.119 --> 00:27:15.160 which somebody I must confess, I hadn't thought about a lot this season, 390 00:27:15.240 --> 00:27:21.480 but maybe you know a little bit about is Richie Pelasios, former Guardians farm 391 00:27:21.519 --> 00:27:25.200 hand who I think always like he hit quite a bit in the miners and 392 00:27:25.200 --> 00:27:30.240 then kind of briefly sucked it up for the Guardians and the Majors. But 393 00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:34.000 Richie has had a nice little cameo for for Cleveland here. He's not striking 394 00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:37.039 out very much, is it for a bit of power? Do you have 395 00:27:37.079 --> 00:27:42.079 any memories of Richie Placios and a Guardians uniform? I pretty certainly played a 396 00:27:42.079 --> 00:27:45.480 few games towards the end of last season and kind of was a bit. 397 00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:48.119 Yeah, there was one of like the few that they threw out there kind 398 00:27:48.119 --> 00:27:52.119 of during that fun but the young guys kind of play, and yeah, 399 00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:56.119 he was I think he was ever really like ranked as like a player or 400 00:27:56.200 --> 00:27:59.240 something to kind of like to think about it. I don't think he was 401 00:27:59.240 --> 00:28:02.559 ever like top the in the Cleveland prospects or whatever, but he had some 402 00:28:02.680 --> 00:28:07.240 like pretty solid numbers in Triple A I think the two years before he came 403 00:28:07.319 --> 00:28:11.279 up and then just kind of didn't look good. And then I can't even 404 00:28:11.319 --> 00:28:14.640 remember why he was let go, but I'm assuming he was let go because 405 00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:18.400 of like forty man problems with Cleveland and always he actually darfaide, I don't, 406 00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:22.279 I can't, I can't remember now, but I'm assuming it was probably 407 00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:26.000 forty man problems because I'm just going to blame that all on every bad decision 408 00:28:26.039 --> 00:28:30.279 that Cleveland has made when it comes to why we don't have any decent batting 409 00:28:30.400 --> 00:28:33.240 or hitting prospects and they all seem to be playing for other teams, but 410 00:28:33.319 --> 00:28:37.480 all of our pitching prospects phenomenals. We'll get to that at some point, 411 00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:44.920 but yeah, that's probably a transition. But yeah, it's you know that 412 00:28:45.039 --> 00:28:48.759 the o VP is is low, I guess for plasios, but yeah, 413 00:28:48.759 --> 00:28:52.640 it does it you know, strike out though, So that was kind of 414 00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:55.160 like Cook compared to like some of the other ones that are coming through, 415 00:28:55.200 --> 00:28:56.680 like Gonzalez and a few of the others. He felt like he was just 416 00:28:56.839 --> 00:29:02.000 he was he wasn't like swinging and missing. He was just not really generating 417 00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:07.519 any massive like contact or power. Yeah, same same number of strikeouts as 418 00:29:07.559 --> 00:29:11.319 walks in the minors for Cleveland before he was let go. This season way 419 00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:15.920 more walks than the strikeouts for the Cards, and it seems to have moage 420 00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:18.480 to hold the strikeout rate lower, at least in the three seventy nine plate 421 00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:25.000 appearances for Solaris. So yeah, it's a crowded little picture still there, 422 00:29:25.039 --> 00:29:29.680 I think for the Cardinals. But yeah, it'll be interesting to see what 423 00:29:29.720 --> 00:29:33.519 they do with him. You know, wouldn't be the first time we've seen 424 00:29:34.319 --> 00:29:41.839 somebody in the Cardinal's uniform way out perform expectations double margin. This is I 425 00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:49.039 was going to trans but you've made me think of Nolan Jones. So let's 426 00:29:49.039 --> 00:29:53.279 do the Rockies. We did, We did get a last minute Rocky suggestion, 427 00:29:53.400 --> 00:29:56.480 but I don't know that we can scat past this without discussing Nolan Jones. 428 00:29:56.640 --> 00:30:00.039 Well, I think the Guardians could probably have done quite a lot based 429 00:30:00.039 --> 00:30:06.559 on the evidence of this is. Yeah, I think Nolan Jones is the 430 00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:14.119 is that is the typical player that is lost because you have your franchise player 431 00:30:14.559 --> 00:30:21.079 plays his position. So Jones was always a third base prospect, and once 432 00:30:21.400 --> 00:30:23.640 Ramirez had signed his first kind of long term deal contract with Cleveland, it 433 00:30:23.680 --> 00:30:27.599 was very much then like Okay, where is he going to fit in somewhere 434 00:30:27.640 --> 00:30:33.400 else because he ain't playing third base because that's Jose spot. So I think 435 00:30:33.400 --> 00:30:36.480 at Cleveland there was a lot of time missing around with him playing third, 436 00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:41.119 playing in the outfield, and then it got to the point whether we're always 437 00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:47.079 questioning, well does his back carry his defensive frailties of the other position because 438 00:30:47.079 --> 00:30:52.519 he hasn't had time to play and learn them. And eventually Cleveland just kind 439 00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:56.400 of gave up on it, like decided that it was like it wasn't worth 440 00:30:56.480 --> 00:31:00.200 their their time to kind of like to work on that, and so traded 441 00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:03.799 him away. And I'm now trying to remember off the top of my head, 442 00:31:03.839 --> 00:31:06.200 which is always not the right thing to do. Who he was traded 443 00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:11.240 away for Darius, you know, but he's obviously I'll let you look at 444 00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:15.359 it, why vamp. But yeah, he's looked pretty solid, not only 445 00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:19.960 from a offensive point point of view. This season actually had of having power. 446 00:31:21.160 --> 00:31:23.279 Now I haven't looked in his splits to work out how many of his 447 00:31:23.319 --> 00:31:26.640 home runs and stuff comes in. Carlia Colorado played to being away, but 448 00:31:26.680 --> 00:31:32.559 he still has a pretty high regarded WSC plus one twenties one dirties. So 449 00:31:33.279 --> 00:31:37.039 yeah, having that power on the Cleveland team this year. We'll get to 450 00:31:37.079 --> 00:31:40.680 that probably eventually, but that's just he actually has more home runs on the 451 00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:44.319 road than he does a course field. We go, it's actually like doing 452 00:31:44.319 --> 00:31:48.160 well. And hey, like the highlights that I've seen the highs and keep 453 00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:52.119 on annoying me is seeing that Nolan Jones being having using his actually can another 454 00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:55.359 an arm in the outfield for getting outfield assists, and I keep on seeing 455 00:31:55.359 --> 00:32:00.079 them, and I keep on seeing them with like the Rockies commentary team and 456 00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:05.079 being like they keep on going on, know that they knowing boy, like 457 00:32:05.160 --> 00:32:08.519 they keep on making the same mistake and seeing him throw. I think I 458 00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:14.200 think it was like the fastest outfield assist in like five years. It was 459 00:32:14.200 --> 00:32:16.200 something like one hundred and two and a half mile an hour throw from the 460 00:32:16.200 --> 00:32:21.319 outfield, which you're like for like that play was like an absolute strike, 461 00:32:21.759 --> 00:32:24.440 Like it was literally like on the money where like the catcher would want the 462 00:32:24.720 --> 00:32:29.680 ball to be to make the tag and made them wanna look stupid because it 463 00:32:29.720 --> 00:32:31.279 was like one of those ones where it was they're easily enough inside that the 464 00:32:31.319 --> 00:32:36.240 catcher could just be like, yeah, you're done. Mate, Yeah, 465 00:32:36.279 --> 00:32:40.680 you want to you want a fun stack carst profile Jockrvin Jones, He's he's 466 00:32:40.799 --> 00:32:46.599 thirteenth in thirteenth percentile and range in the outfield, but one hundredth percentile in 467 00:32:46.720 --> 00:32:52.920 armed value, one hundred percentile arm strength ninety eight point seven miles per hour 468 00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:58.599 arm strength is year average there range because he was supposed to be a third 469 00:32:58.640 --> 00:33:04.240 baseman. Yeah, he is tied with Juan Soto for twenty fourth in max 470 00:33:04.359 --> 00:33:07.720 exit losty as well. So there you go. Let's say you hear a 471 00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:12.240 bunch of home runs on a home on the road. Yeah, it looks 472 00:33:12.279 --> 00:33:17.400 like an interesting little piece for the Rockies somebody else who I think it's been 473 00:33:17.599 --> 00:33:22.400 kind of very un Rockies. But we had a suggestion from Orange and Brew 474 00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:28.519 in the discord go during the discord of Ezekiel Tovar. So you know, 475 00:33:28.559 --> 00:33:31.519 the usual Rockies mo is, we've got a prospect, who can we find 476 00:33:31.559 --> 00:33:36.680 which veteran is out there, but we can sign for very little money to 477 00:33:36.759 --> 00:33:40.200 block this guy. And Ezekiel Tovar came to the season's of twenty one year 478 00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:44.640 old, and I think it was a bit of a struggle from at the 479 00:33:44.680 --> 00:33:46.680 start and the Rockies just said we're going to let him play. We're going 480 00:33:46.720 --> 00:33:51.599 to let him play all the season long. It was extremely un Rockies, 481 00:33:51.799 --> 00:33:54.880 and you know, the line is not great, but I think considering how 482 00:33:54.920 --> 00:33:59.240 it started, he's actually picked things up a little bit and you know, 483 00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:02.920 been good defensively. Probably going to come out about an average player this season. 484 00:34:04.119 --> 00:34:07.960 So as a you know, just turned twenty two year old, I 485 00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:13.159 think he's he's done pretty well. Yeah, I think, yeah, it's 486 00:34:13.239 --> 00:34:15.480 one of those interesting ones that you kind of will We'll see how he progresses. 487 00:34:15.599 --> 00:34:19.559 I think, yeah, that first few games of the season were pretty 488 00:34:19.559 --> 00:34:23.280 bad, and then he's kind of oscillated up and down since then. Kind 489 00:34:23.280 --> 00:34:30.079 of a une was rough. But yeah, what was this April April line 490 00:34:30.199 --> 00:34:34.679 was, I'm just yeah, two sixty three No, sorry, that's the 491 00:34:34.719 --> 00:34:39.360 opp two thirteen two sixty three three zero three thirty eight w RC plus. 492 00:34:39.480 --> 00:34:45.159 So yeah, not the best start, but I think the Rockies are stuck 493 00:34:45.199 --> 00:34:47.440 with him, and I mean a few of the Rockies. There's no reason 494 00:34:47.440 --> 00:34:51.119 not too. But that also isn't the way that we're used to the Rockies 495 00:34:51.159 --> 00:34:57.199 operating. So yeah, I think if for another player that I've seen a 496 00:34:57.199 --> 00:35:00.800 few like clips of like defensive performance. I think he's looked pretty like pretty 497 00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:07.760 phenomenal as a as a fielder at the shortstop. Maybe kind of is it 498 00:35:07.800 --> 00:35:12.480 a throwback to say that, like shortstops should be like defensively good and not 499 00:35:12.599 --> 00:35:15.639 power hitters, Like I know we've we've had the gloss of like power hitting 500 00:35:15.639 --> 00:35:19.440 shortstops here in the last like five years. To be like, you know 501 00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:22.400 what, this is a premium defensive position where you can maybe afford to have 502 00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:29.239 somebody's bat that isn't like exactly that solid, but like his like his fielding 503 00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:32.960 like value is is probably up there as I think somebody who will be a 504 00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:42.199 Gold Glover potentially winner. Yeah, well he currently he only trails Stansby Swanson 505 00:35:42.360 --> 00:35:46.000 in outsbo average at shortstop. I'm just gonna have a look at ucr as 506 00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:52.880 well. I think he will be up there. I nobody cares about USR 507 00:35:52.920 --> 00:35:57.599 anymore, Darius, I can't actually say him on it. I know his 508 00:35:57.679 --> 00:36:04.039 defensive value is very high, so on Fangrass is eighteen point two rather defensively, 509 00:36:04.159 --> 00:36:07.360 which is basically made up for his bat, which is how he's going 510 00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:10.159 to end up as an average player. So yeah, something to look forward 511 00:36:10.159 --> 00:36:15.480 to for the future, and hopefully the Rockies can assemble a team around him 512 00:36:15.679 --> 00:36:21.280 and Jones and a few other than they. I've got some interesting prospects in 513 00:36:21.320 --> 00:36:24.280 the way for once, So let's let's see how it goes in Colorado. 514 00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:29.559 I guess we will circle back around to the Guardians then. So we had 515 00:36:29.719 --> 00:36:34.719 a suggestion from at Willsden Gooner on Twitter, who once again, I mean, 516 00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:38.039 no surprise for Cleveland, but focusing on the pitching emergence of Tanna Byby 517 00:36:38.599 --> 00:36:43.880 was about to kind of guess it was. It basically like Biby Williams and 518 00:36:45.880 --> 00:36:50.280 yeah, who else will they? Yeah, and yeah, Tanna Byby, 519 00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:54.119 Gavin Williams logan Allen, three young pitching prospects. The Guardians factory rolls on 520 00:36:54.679 --> 00:36:58.320 the offense may not be up too much, but they're at it again, 521 00:36:58.440 --> 00:37:04.480 right Yeah, and then it's I think Jay Jaffey did a PC other day 522 00:37:04.519 --> 00:37:07.880 in Fancraft's talking about like the impact of Rockies on teams, and I think 523 00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:14.320 Cleveland led for rookie pictures and then are pretty awful for rookie hitters. It's 524 00:37:14.639 --> 00:37:20.960 it's phenomenal to seek because it's been really like tough injury ridden season for for 525 00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:22.800 the pictures, so that some of these guys have even like had a chance 526 00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:30.280 and gone through and obviously them deciding partly through the season too can sevale go 527 00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:34.760 to as an attempt to kind of, I don't know, improve future seasons 528 00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:39.400 and take take up high prospects bat that might actually be helpful in the not 529 00:37:39.480 --> 00:37:44.119 too distant future to help them out, and knowing that they're kind of like, 530 00:37:44.199 --> 00:37:49.400 actually, they've still got lots of things there. So yeah, you 531 00:37:49.440 --> 00:37:52.960 can't really look beyond those those those those three I think really for the for 532 00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:58.519 the season. I think Bibby is the one that a few people really thought 533 00:37:58.639 --> 00:38:01.079 going into this season that if it was given the opportunity, that he could 534 00:38:01.159 --> 00:38:06.760 have a phenomenal season, And obviously it's been curtailed a little bit by injury. 535 00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:09.519 But you've got to look at those numbers and be like, Okay, 536 00:38:09.719 --> 00:38:16.360 Mike, he should be good again come come next season. So yeah, 537 00:38:16.400 --> 00:38:22.079 you can't you can't not be entertained by those players. What you cannot be 538 00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:25.199 entertained by it's all the bats do. But we're being positive. Hit Darius 539 00:38:25.199 --> 00:38:31.360 for being positive today. I'm not going to bemoan the Cleveland's inability to score 540 00:38:31.440 --> 00:38:36.639 runs. I'm not going to bemoan the fact that we have like multiple sub 541 00:38:36.679 --> 00:38:39.880 six hundred ops players and starting lineups or no, no, no, no, 542 00:38:39.960 --> 00:38:45.119 We'll talk about the positives of I was it one positive? You get 543 00:38:45.159 --> 00:38:50.599 a lot of one run games if your team can't score and you have kind 544 00:38:50.599 --> 00:38:52.920 of good pitching. I think cleven the close to sixty. I think even 545 00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:57.239 like Cincinnati have got like over sixty as well, Like the two Ohio teams 546 00:38:57.239 --> 00:39:00.280 are basically keeping like one run games. Baby, let's have this like really 547 00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:07.639 tight entertaining baseball when everybody else has just been like that's jack bombs. I 548 00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:12.719 think, yeah, I guess probably in a pretty different mode, right, 549 00:39:15.079 --> 00:39:19.400 I don't know how what's the difference. Reds are at four point seven runs 550 00:39:19.400 --> 00:39:22.920 a game and five runs a game allowed, Guardians at four point one and 551 00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:29.519 four point Yes, different types of games, but they're arriving at the same 552 00:39:29.559 --> 00:39:32.599 result. It's usually close at the end. Yeah. I think I saw 553 00:39:32.639 --> 00:39:37.920 something that like there were some teams that have barely had like thirty games at 554 00:39:37.960 --> 00:39:39.639 like thirty like one round games. I think it's something like San Diego have 555 00:39:39.719 --> 00:39:44.480 only had like twenty nine one run games and it's like, well, like 556 00:39:44.679 --> 00:39:51.480 Cleveland have lost thirty one one run games, so they have won twenty six 557 00:39:51.559 --> 00:39:55.239 as well. But it's like, yeah, the difference of what's going like 558 00:39:55.360 --> 00:40:00.000 of what the viewish viewing experience is. It's nail biting, and it was 559 00:40:00.039 --> 00:40:04.320 nail whiting last season when they got over that line, when they got into 560 00:40:04.360 --> 00:40:09.920 like the playoffs. It's just it's entertaining. It's just it's ain't good for 561 00:40:09.920 --> 00:40:13.599 your heart, mate. It's just been glad enough that they've been far enough 562 00:40:13.639 --> 00:40:16.159 behind that they've never really felt like they've blown it because they felt that they 563 00:40:16.159 --> 00:40:20.800 blew it months ago. But if they've been like three or four games better 564 00:40:20.840 --> 00:40:23.960 off coming into this stretch, oh, it wouldn't have been good for me, 565 00:40:24.079 --> 00:40:28.719 Darris. Yeah. I mean the Twins gamble, they said we can 566 00:40:28.719 --> 00:40:30.840 win this division withouty five wins, and you know what, they were right. 567 00:40:34.920 --> 00:40:37.920 That's where we are. I know we're being positive. We are going 568 00:40:37.960 --> 00:40:39.559 to talk about the Padres. I've just got to say, I like fun 569 00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:44.159 records, and I believe the Padres have now tied the record by going over 570 00:40:44.159 --> 00:40:47.960 in twelve in extra inning games. It's been a full year since they won 571 00:40:49.119 --> 00:40:52.920 an extra winning game. Now, they've got three days left, don't They 572 00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:55.880 got three hundred and sixty two days. Yes, there's still time, Padres 573 00:40:55.880 --> 00:40:59.079 fans, but if you go to the end of the season, then it 574 00:40:59.159 --> 00:41:04.639 will be many more days than a full year by the Sorry you want an 575 00:41:04.639 --> 00:41:09.519 extra anning game. So weird old season. But I guess let's talk about 576 00:41:09.559 --> 00:41:15.039 Blake Snell. Sandra Botjes on Twitter. She said, Blake Snell, that's 577 00:41:15.079 --> 00:41:22.079 the highlight and probably gonna win the so young now right, I think so 578 00:41:22.239 --> 00:41:25.599 we were discussing it like the other week. I think he's done nothing but 579 00:41:25.719 --> 00:41:32.440 like increase his credentials. We did get some feedback from from John Ours of 580 00:41:32.440 --> 00:41:37.760 All Pod Partner saying that Darius is now a numbers manners guy. Give it 581 00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:44.239 to to see the world has come come come full circle talking about the fact 582 00:41:44.239 --> 00:41:47.360 that but no, I think he probably is going to get that. It's 583 00:41:47.760 --> 00:41:53.599 it is such an interesting kind of way to watch baseball like that. It 584 00:41:53.599 --> 00:41:59.199 will also be taking gets loads of swinging missus inside the zone as well. 585 00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:02.760 Then obviously people don't swimming this at the stuff outside of the zone. It's 586 00:42:02.800 --> 00:42:07.639 a very weird combination of how you're kind of like watching a game happen. 587 00:42:07.719 --> 00:42:14.119 It's like it is that stuff versus control question that you know, arrists will 588 00:42:14.159 --> 00:42:15.920 have your debating for the rest of your life if you want to kind of 589 00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:17.880 get it, get involved in it. That it is there. He can 590 00:42:17.880 --> 00:42:22.519 move that ball a ridiculous amount, you know, quite low where it's going 591 00:42:22.599 --> 00:42:27.159 to go. Yeah, just like I think it. I think it was 592 00:42:27.199 --> 00:42:31.599 there. You know, if somebody had had just an epic start, you 593 00:42:31.679 --> 00:42:35.840 know, I think there's still you can make the case for Weirder. You 594 00:42:35.880 --> 00:42:37.360 can make the case for Strider, you can make this case for Gallon, 595 00:42:38.360 --> 00:42:43.480 But Snow is so far ahead in terms of keeping the runs off the board 596 00:42:43.480 --> 00:42:51.719 now that I just don't see any of those guys quite edging it. Maybe 597 00:42:51.760 --> 00:42:53.880 I'm wrong, you know, maybe the voters will look at the walks and 598 00:42:54.760 --> 00:42:59.559 you know, the slightly diminished innings and they'll they'll say, you know what, 599 00:42:59.559 --> 00:43:02.159 we're going to go for one of these other guys. But yeah, 600 00:43:02.239 --> 00:43:07.159 I think I think Snails with the two thirty three r RA now is kind 601 00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:10.719 of put himself in the driving seat. I think we're not quite at that 602 00:43:10.800 --> 00:43:14.519 point yet. I think voters are willing to say, we'll look at other 603 00:43:14.559 --> 00:43:15.920 things, But I don't know if they're willing to say we're going to ignore 604 00:43:16.440 --> 00:43:22.000 like a run and a half different between him and Strider, you know, 605 00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:27.400 that's that's probably not happening. So yeah, fantastic season for Snail. Be 606 00:43:27.519 --> 00:43:31.719 very interesting to see what happens in free agency. Kind of an unusual arm 607 00:43:31.760 --> 00:43:36.639 to bet On. I think a bit of a bit of a Robbie Ray 608 00:43:36.719 --> 00:43:40.719 vibe, but perhaps maybe maybe with with more command issues than Robbie Ray. 609 00:43:43.159 --> 00:43:46.280 So well, we'll see how it goes. But yeah, we should add 610 00:43:46.320 --> 00:43:51.400 that, Like, after all the handwringing over Juan Soto, and I'm not 611 00:43:51.559 --> 00:43:54.239 like not like just like, I'm just like sometimes I look at the Leader 612 00:43:54.239 --> 00:43:58.320 bars and I was like, why why would people mad about Juan Soto? 613 00:43:58.360 --> 00:44:00.559 Again, Like I don't, I don't even really remember, because like, 614 00:44:00.800 --> 00:44:05.760 dude is just one of the best sitters. I mean, yeah, it 615 00:44:05.800 --> 00:44:08.119 was obviously just that slightly extended period at the start of like twenty twenty two 616 00:44:08.199 --> 00:44:10.920 or whatever, and maybe he started twenty twenty three a little bit slow. 617 00:44:12.280 --> 00:44:17.599 He had a pretty kind of naff start to August, but then it's kind 618 00:44:17.639 --> 00:44:24.239 of gone back up to his kind of quite a hundred like obp Pan Soto 619 00:44:24.320 --> 00:44:29.599 is an eighteen point six perzen walk right and thirty three home runs and people 620 00:44:29.599 --> 00:44:31.920 were mad about this guy. It's it's when you get the issues of like 621 00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:37.320 when you get compared it's twenty four, but this is you get compared to 622 00:44:37.320 --> 00:44:39.199 Ted Williams or something like that. That's what. But the issue is that 623 00:44:39.280 --> 00:44:44.320 he was too good, too young, and it is almost on the same 624 00:44:44.320 --> 00:44:47.159 as Press Harper, like you have that good a season when you're young, 625 00:44:47.880 --> 00:44:52.039 everybody thinks you're going to be amazing, and then when you go and have 626 00:44:52.960 --> 00:44:57.400 four and five win seasons instead of eight, nine, ten win seasons, 627 00:44:57.400 --> 00:44:59.760 they're just like, oh, he's bad, and it's like, no, 628 00:45:00.880 --> 00:45:05.639 he's not. You're like you're not watching what's going on. You're not seeing 629 00:45:06.480 --> 00:45:10.559 the beautiful Soto shuffle every time that he kind of like teases that he's going 630 00:45:10.559 --> 00:45:14.320 to kind of like swing, but then stops and then just kind of like 631 00:45:14.960 --> 00:45:19.760 leans a little bit forward and then works it ways back. Like I love 632 00:45:19.840 --> 00:45:25.800 watching like highlights of Soto at bats. I understand they're not like givevable moments 633 00:45:25.840 --> 00:45:30.840 like some pitches are or some home runs are, but watching Soto like take 634 00:45:30.920 --> 00:45:34.920 balls and how he kind of positions his body when he does it, it's 635 00:45:34.960 --> 00:45:42.119 such a fun, such a fantastic like entertainment for me. Yeah, he's 636 00:45:42.159 --> 00:45:45.679 one of the most fun players to watch at the plate in baseball. And 637 00:45:46.440 --> 00:45:50.719 you know, I think we probably would be remiss if we didn't slide past 638 00:45:50.719 --> 00:45:54.039 this section without crediting Hassi and Kim, who I think if the Padres had 639 00:45:54.039 --> 00:45:57.719 been good this year, would probably be getting a bit more credit than he 640 00:45:57.760 --> 00:46:00.559 has been. But mostly what I say is people are saying I can't believe 641 00:46:00.599 --> 00:46:06.840 that USI and Kim is leading Padre certainly in b ref War, I think 642 00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:08.760 he has for a while. I don't know Sotos, they were taken him 643 00:46:08.760 --> 00:46:13.599 by now, but just tremendous defense. And I think, you know, 644 00:46:13.719 --> 00:46:16.599 when he first came over, he really struggled with the adjustment, but just 645 00:46:16.639 --> 00:46:22.559 looks like an excellent all around player now and a key piece of I think 646 00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:28.199 a team. Hopefully we'll be better next year. Yeah, I think the 647 00:46:28.760 --> 00:46:34.199 one other thing I'd like to had about the Padres is obviously shame for ending 648 00:46:34.280 --> 00:46:39.239 up with kind of like injury, But the return of Gary Sanchez was was 649 00:46:39.280 --> 00:46:43.559 an interesting moment to me, just to see a player that was close to 650 00:46:43.599 --> 00:46:47.880 being like out of the league, like being like Mexican and Dominican Winter League 651 00:46:47.920 --> 00:46:54.079 bound player for life. Just suddenly one do pretty terrible for the Mets and 652 00:46:55.320 --> 00:47:00.159 and then look phenomenal for the Padres. Maybe everybody just wants to go and 653 00:47:00.280 --> 00:47:07.320 play in Pecker. Yeah, Like Gary Sanchers, I think he's a guy 654 00:47:07.360 --> 00:47:09.519 that people are just going to like keep betting on as long as they can, 655 00:47:09.559 --> 00:47:15.960 because if you catch Gary Sanchez at the right moment, he is probably 656 00:47:15.039 --> 00:47:21.280 still top five offensive catcher in baseball, and he has actually improved quite a 657 00:47:21.360 --> 00:47:24.039 bit defensively. You know, people like have given him a lot of stick, 658 00:47:24.159 --> 00:47:28.840 but you know that was just like the Yankees spotlight. I think. 659 00:47:29.559 --> 00:47:31.719 You know, Gary Sanchez is one hundred and seventy three career home runs, 660 00:47:31.800 --> 00:47:36.639 which is a lot of home runs for a catcher, and he hit nineteen 661 00:47:36.679 --> 00:47:40.559 in two hundred and sixty plate appearances for the year. Like, you know, 662 00:47:40.719 --> 00:47:43.800 there's a lot, a lot of power still in this back. Yes, 663 00:47:43.840 --> 00:47:45.119 he's not going to hit for a high average, but you know, 664 00:47:45.199 --> 00:47:49.880 if you can get a catcher who's like and a five average defender who might 665 00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:53.440 hit thirty thirty five forty home runs, of season, then you should have 666 00:47:53.519 --> 00:48:00.719 him on your roster. So good on Gary Sanchers. Okay, let's keep 667 00:48:00.760 --> 00:48:02.679 it in the West. Let's do my team. I know the Giants aren't 668 00:48:02.719 --> 00:48:09.239 technically eliminated, and the Giants are eliminated. Just to a you know, 669 00:48:10.039 --> 00:48:15.280 avoid any semblance of doubt there, Giants fans, I'm calling it now. 670 00:48:15.880 --> 00:48:17.119 I didn't think they were going to make it. They haven't made it. 671 00:48:17.119 --> 00:48:22.519 It's been a fairly just average season, very average, not a ton of 672 00:48:22.599 --> 00:48:28.519 highlights. But I've mentioned him a few times, and we got a couple 673 00:48:28.519 --> 00:48:32.599 of suggestions from Rob Jones Robert on Twitter. He mentioned Logan Webb, who 674 00:48:32.880 --> 00:48:37.719 you know, has been Logan Webb, good, consistent, probably gonna lead 675 00:48:37.639 --> 00:48:42.880 National League in innings, doing what Logan web should. But I want to 676 00:48:42.920 --> 00:48:45.880 focus on Patrick Bailey. I think it's run out of gas a bit at 677 00:48:45.880 --> 00:48:51.880 the end of the season because he's just played an absolute ton, but he 678 00:48:52.039 --> 00:48:55.800 is He really looks at the business defensively, and I think the Giants have 679 00:48:55.880 --> 00:49:01.000 found their their capture of the next four or five year is because yeah, 680 00:49:01.039 --> 00:49:05.519 he's very hard to run on. He's a good framer. Just you know, 681 00:49:05.639 --> 00:49:07.400 it looks like, you know, I don't want to say Buster Posey, 682 00:49:07.440 --> 00:49:13.320 because nobody's Buster Posy, but we seem to have found a worthy primary 683 00:49:13.400 --> 00:49:20.719 catcher to replace him at the very least. Yeah, they says, well, 684 00:49:20.840 --> 00:49:22.320 I seen from Giants games. I think the Valves looks pretty good. 685 00:49:22.480 --> 00:49:25.760 Like still there's a as a top end reliever. That's one of those ones 686 00:49:25.800 --> 00:49:30.239 you want when you kind of and have that player and you just want them 687 00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:34.800 to kind of like continue to go in to go in that way. So 688 00:49:35.599 --> 00:49:39.679 he's what's still we are, but he's still free agent will we are eligible 689 00:49:39.719 --> 00:49:42.920 for quite a while, So I think that's a positive. I think for 690 00:49:42.960 --> 00:49:46.480 the Giants to think that, hey, like we all know, relieving performance 691 00:49:46.639 --> 00:49:52.159 is kind of this mysterious thing that can appear and disappear, but it does 692 00:49:52.199 --> 00:49:55.159 look like you've got yourself. He's got great stuff and he's still very young, 693 00:49:55.280 --> 00:50:00.440 so I guess I think we should always So let's give some props to 694 00:50:00.519 --> 00:50:07.079 Tara Estrada because I think Tara Estrada was like the quintessential. Nobody believes this, 695 00:50:07.360 --> 00:50:08.960 like, yeah, he had a great twenty twenty two. It's not 696 00:50:09.000 --> 00:50:15.719 happening again. You know, he's probably having a three to four wedin season. 697 00:50:15.679 --> 00:50:20.679 He's missed some time as well. He's been the Jarants best position player, 698 00:50:21.480 --> 00:50:23.760 So I think all credit to him there. You know, it's not 699 00:50:23.840 --> 00:50:29.800 he's not a big power guy, but just somebody who We don't have a 700 00:50:29.800 --> 00:50:31.360 ton of these guys really, you know, it's all very mixed and match. 701 00:50:32.039 --> 00:50:36.880 And I think you average had a steals, great defense, great great 702 00:50:36.880 --> 00:50:42.000 defensive players. Like you can't have like a team of nine superstars like in 703 00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:45.400 baseball anymore. That doesn't it doesn't exist. We don't have like the Yankees 704 00:50:45.400 --> 00:50:47.239 old star teams in the past or whatever. You need to have some of 705 00:50:47.280 --> 00:50:53.039 those unassuming but good players. And I think Estrada really is is that to 706 00:50:53.119 --> 00:50:58.119 a like to a team? Yeah, exactly. And you know that I 707 00:50:58.119 --> 00:51:01.760 think that the great teams understand this. You know, the Dodgers have had 708 00:51:01.800 --> 00:51:07.599 these blue guys over there over the years. You know, they will fill 709 00:51:07.599 --> 00:51:12.480 in everywhere he can. He can do a few things, and yeah, 710 00:51:12.559 --> 00:51:15.519 now now they need to go out, they need to get the big the 711 00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:20.639 big pieces. We'll see what they do this offseason. I've got to believe 712 00:51:20.679 --> 00:51:24.599 that it is on that that list. They've tried a few times over there 713 00:51:24.639 --> 00:51:30.199 in the last couple of off seasons and not hit the mark. So we'll 714 00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:32.760 see how that goes. But yeah, I think you know, they're good 715 00:51:32.760 --> 00:51:37.480 at building the base of the roster around players. It's of what if the 716 00:51:37.519 --> 00:51:40.480 Angels. If you get to combine this and like what the Angels have not 717 00:51:40.559 --> 00:51:44.639 done around Otani and Trout, I think you'd have a good baseball team. 718 00:51:44.639 --> 00:51:50.280 I think that's what the Giants need. Okay, imagine what they both they 719 00:51:50.400 --> 00:51:55.599 combined, how much they could have thwarted the Dodgers. Yeah? Can we 720 00:51:55.639 --> 00:51:59.679 really thought the Dodgers? They don't know it happened once in intok a miracle. 721 00:51:59.800 --> 00:52:06.239 So let's let's do the New York Mets, the confounding New York Mets. 722 00:52:06.320 --> 00:52:09.760 But I think we can all agree Code I Sanger, he's come over 723 00:52:09.840 --> 00:52:13.719 and it's been He's been a lot of fantasn't he like, you know, 724 00:52:14.079 --> 00:52:17.119 not just the production, but the ghost Fork. I love seeing the ghost 725 00:52:17.159 --> 00:52:21.159 fork highlights. I think he has over one hundred strikeouts on the ghost Fork 726 00:52:21.360 --> 00:52:23.760 this season. I think that's been a big win for the Mets in and 727 00:52:23.840 --> 00:52:30.239 I've always pretty disappointed. You. Yeah, I think it's one of those 728 00:52:30.239 --> 00:52:37.000 ones where rightly or wrongly. I think people underestimated him coming into this season, 729 00:52:37.199 --> 00:52:40.119 and I think people will read ready after the first two or three weeks 730 00:52:40.119 --> 00:52:45.400 of the season to ride him off as being like that's another Japanese pictures come 731 00:52:45.440 --> 00:52:52.079 over and hasn't like shown like shown the difference between MPV and and and then 732 00:52:52.119 --> 00:52:54.079 will be and you're just like, thank you, you know what. I 733 00:52:54.079 --> 00:52:57.159 think you're all giving a bit of time. You're all wrong here. But 734 00:52:57.280 --> 00:53:04.280 he's a girl's like and yeah, so I think that coming through And obviously 735 00:53:04.360 --> 00:53:07.760 I don't think any Mets fans would have want Singer to have been the ace 736 00:53:07.880 --> 00:53:09.800 for this season. I think if that's kind of come out being the case, 737 00:53:10.360 --> 00:53:15.960 this season has probably not ended the best because you would have probably obviously 738 00:53:15.960 --> 00:53:20.519 when you start a season with Max Schezer and Justin Ferlando. Yeah, yeah, 739 00:53:20.679 --> 00:53:24.159 if Codi Singer is your race, then yeah, unless they're all on 740 00:53:24.239 --> 00:53:28.800 like seven wins, it's like, yeah, it's not a good thing. 741 00:53:28.880 --> 00:53:31.679 But yeah, nearly twenty nine percent drack out right, sub three r right, 742 00:53:31.679 --> 00:53:36.199 it's you know, it's been a very very good debut season. Yeah. 743 00:53:36.280 --> 00:53:43.760 When I think he's what, I think only him McGill and Peterson and 744 00:53:43.800 --> 00:53:45.800 maybe Twitchers to get more than one hundred innings pitched for them this season. 745 00:53:45.880 --> 00:53:52.079 It's been a it's been that, and that's a hodge podge of players providing 746 00:53:52.039 --> 00:53:59.360 starts for for them this season. So yes, I'm obviously going to put 747 00:53:59.360 --> 00:54:02.960 my my might Cleaveland hat on again and talk about how awesome Linda is. 748 00:54:05.079 --> 00:54:07.039 If I want to talk about another player that I think is one of the 749 00:54:07.039 --> 00:54:13.119 most underrated players in baseball, I think lind Or is being underrated in the 750 00:54:13.119 --> 00:54:15.840 New York market, which I thought was supposed to be the one thing that 751 00:54:15.880 --> 00:54:19.960 wouldn't happen when he went to New York, he'd finally get like rated for 752 00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:22.880 what he actually is. But he's what started the first season kind of badly 753 00:54:22.960 --> 00:54:29.639 and then has now just been like phenomenal since. And I don't know if 754 00:54:29.639 --> 00:54:35.159 this is just I don't see obviously the Mets have been performing performing poorly anyway, 755 00:54:35.199 --> 00:54:38.559 I just don't see people talking about how good he is. Yeah, 756 00:54:38.559 --> 00:54:43.079 so I should say we had three people nominated singer actually Christie or we were 757 00:54:43.239 --> 00:54:47.639 Charling and Discord Richard Wilson. But Sam Skinner on the Twitter as well, 758 00:54:47.679 --> 00:54:52.880 he did say the consistency of the core, which included Linda but also Brandon 759 00:54:52.960 --> 00:54:59.519 Nemo and Peter Alonso. You know, those guys have all had a good 760 00:54:59.559 --> 00:55:02.960 season. You know, the batting average has dropped off a bit for a 761 00:55:02.960 --> 00:55:07.639 Lonzo, but he's hit forty five fronds. So but yeah, franciscan indoor 762 00:55:07.920 --> 00:55:14.679 five win player. Once again, he's just just a very very good baseball 763 00:55:14.679 --> 00:55:20.360 player. And yeah it is he's got a still getting stuck, I don't 764 00:55:20.599 --> 00:55:27.039 but nearly up to fifty wins before his age thirty seasons. So well, 765 00:55:27.119 --> 00:55:31.119 on that Hall of Fame track, he'll be an interesting I am sure when 766 00:55:31.119 --> 00:55:36.199 we get to those Hall of Fame debates, but yeah, very much deserves 767 00:55:36.239 --> 00:55:38.480 it in my book, on the strength of his career so far. I 768 00:55:38.480 --> 00:55:43.760 think we'd also should talk about if we want to talk about how we're hitting 769 00:55:43.800 --> 00:55:49.679 catches. Alvarez has come up and looks pretty good. Been maybe and at 770 00:55:49.719 --> 00:55:52.519 least earlier on in the season, was the source of light for the Mets. 771 00:55:54.000 --> 00:55:58.400 Yeah, I think I think it's you know, it's been tough for 772 00:55:58.480 --> 00:56:00.719 him to catch all the seas and I've asked a lot of him. I 773 00:56:00.719 --> 00:56:05.519 think the second half has been a big struggle. But there's obviously a ton 774 00:56:05.559 --> 00:56:07.480 of power in the bat I think, you know what, what they want 775 00:56:07.559 --> 00:56:12.639 really ideally is to be in a situation. Maybe they hope this would be 776 00:56:12.679 --> 00:56:16.400 the case with Amana byas that he could spell in a bit more and you 777 00:56:16.440 --> 00:56:22.360 know, gets altrest some time at the age to just hit. But to 778 00:56:22.519 --> 00:56:25.760 his credit, Alvrez has been been very good defensively, so I think he 779 00:56:25.800 --> 00:56:30.400 spent a lot of time working on that, and clearly he can still be 780 00:56:30.440 --> 00:56:36.079 a very good offensive catcher. So as a you know, crazy He's also 781 00:56:36.199 --> 00:56:39.960 just twenty one, So yeah, heading into his age twenty two season with 782 00:56:40.480 --> 00:56:44.559 you know, close to five hundred plate appearances done to his belt by the 783 00:56:44.639 --> 00:56:46.639 end of this year, I think, yeah, another bright spot for the 784 00:56:46.639 --> 00:56:53.760 future Gary Sanchez, not the days Gary Sanders. I think, yeah, 785 00:56:53.800 --> 00:56:58.760 this is already a better defensive season than Gary Sanchez has ever had. That 786 00:56:59.159 --> 00:57:01.000 is a disservice to others. I will, I will, I will retact 787 00:57:01.000 --> 00:57:06.559 that comment. Yeah, Otherwise, the batting line, yeah, not dissimilar. 788 00:57:06.760 --> 00:57:09.719 But yeah, I won't cause Mets too much Mets fans too much pain 789 00:57:09.800 --> 00:57:16.760 by bringing that up. And my BP colleague Mike Punella said the elimination was 790 00:57:16.960 --> 00:57:22.960 the highlights of the Mets season. So thanks for that, Mike. Is 791 00:57:22.960 --> 00:57:27.800 there just knowing that like the pain was done, like knowing the pain was 792 00:57:27.840 --> 00:57:31.800 done? Basically, Yes, So there we go. Let's keep it in 793 00:57:31.800 --> 00:57:36.760 New York. The New York Yankees, Mark blakemore good friend of the pod. 794 00:57:37.440 --> 00:57:42.039 He suggested Anthony Vorpe, who has said, you know, an interesting 795 00:57:42.280 --> 00:57:45.119 rookie season, but the Yankees have stuck with him all year young pretty much, 796 00:57:45.280 --> 00:57:50.119 and I think, you know, there's there's some a lot of positives 797 00:57:50.119 --> 00:57:52.159 there. Really. You know, he's played a good short stob he's got 798 00:57:52.239 --> 00:57:57.440 power and speed. I think the overall batting line is obviously not what they 799 00:57:57.440 --> 00:58:01.159 want them to be going forwards, but I think again there's another very young 800 00:58:01.199 --> 00:58:06.760 player. There is some hope for the future there. Yeah. Once again, 801 00:58:06.920 --> 00:58:12.760 like we're talking about players that have like raw power, Like it's obvious 802 00:58:12.840 --> 00:58:16.199 that that's there, Like you don't come out and hit like as well as 803 00:58:16.239 --> 00:58:22.960 he has done from from a power perspective, but he does have and he 804 00:58:23.000 --> 00:58:25.360 didn't really show it, I think until he got to triple A. But 805 00:58:25.480 --> 00:58:31.280 that disturbingly high strikeout rate, which is once it gets creeps closer and closer 806 00:58:31.320 --> 00:58:36.400 to thirty. It's kind of like, okay, like, can can you 807 00:58:36.519 --> 00:58:39.639 improve this? Because I think this is always a very difficult thing for players 808 00:58:39.639 --> 00:58:45.239 to improve once they've kind of got going. We've only seen I think a 809 00:58:45.239 --> 00:58:52.000 few players managed to drastically improve those sorts of things. But he's a he's 810 00:58:52.000 --> 00:58:54.480 almost like like, I don't know what what I was saying that he still 811 00:58:54.519 --> 00:59:00.599 is then like an under an under average level hitter and defensively good. But 812 00:59:00.639 --> 00:59:05.559 it's a really weird combination for a short stop. You always think like if 813 00:59:05.559 --> 00:59:09.280 your short stop is not the offensively solid, they usually don't they like the 814 00:59:09.320 --> 00:59:14.039 power or whatever, but they're like contact hitter and we'll get on base, 815 00:59:14.119 --> 00:59:16.320 whereas this is like, no, you had a power hitter who's also good 816 00:59:16.320 --> 00:59:24.239 defensively but doesn't have the contact skills. Yeah, it's it'll be interesting to 817 00:59:24.280 --> 00:59:29.360 see the striker has got a little bit better in the second half. You 818 00:59:29.400 --> 00:59:30.719 know, you feel you feel like he's that guy. If you can get 819 00:59:30.719 --> 00:59:35.719 it down until like twenty five percent, you know, just just get a 820 00:59:35.719 --> 00:59:37.360 little bit more contact and maybe take a few more walks. You know, 821 00:59:37.480 --> 00:59:43.760 there's if if you can get to that at least average contributor, you know, 822 00:59:43.800 --> 00:59:46.920 I think it'll be a fixture in this lineup, but yeah, it's 823 00:59:47.599 --> 00:59:53.559 it's obviously been a difficult season for the Yankees. I feel like we haven't 824 00:59:53.599 --> 01:00:00.199 really talked about Aaron Judge at all, who was just like his hit five 825 01:00:00.239 --> 01:00:02.480 home runs in one hundred and one games and has like an ops over a 826 01:00:02.519 --> 01:00:06.119 thousand. But because he's been hurt a bit and the Yankees have sucked, 827 01:00:06.280 --> 01:00:09.760 like, we just haven't talked about him. But yeah, partly partly because 828 01:00:09.800 --> 01:00:13.559 I think, like last season was so incredible, it's just like, yeah, 829 01:00:13.599 --> 01:00:16.440 whatever, this is just Aaron Judge through and Aaron Judge things. Yeah, 830 01:00:16.480 --> 01:00:20.440 and that's the thing, like you know, we were talking about like 831 01:00:20.480 --> 01:00:23.280 Soto, you you can it's going from back to Harper. You get compared 832 01:00:23.320 --> 01:00:27.079 to your best seasons, no matter like if you put up a good season 833 01:00:27.440 --> 01:00:32.880 or a great season, if it's not very good, then it isn't noteworthy. 834 01:00:32.960 --> 01:00:36.400 I think I think that. I think ash thing is that I don't 835 01:00:36.400 --> 01:00:37.920 know, if you get any of the Yankees people giving comments, you've potentially 836 01:00:37.920 --> 01:00:42.719 got a frigging cy Young win it here. That was it, Yeah, 837 01:00:42.719 --> 01:00:45.760 it was it was interesting. I don't know if Mark was avoiding the obvious, 838 01:00:45.880 --> 01:00:49.079 but you know, I don't see how Cold doesn't win the cy young 839 01:00:49.119 --> 01:00:53.400 at this point. The last start was Starer again, Yeah, he sit 840 01:00:53.519 --> 01:00:58.760 there the two hundred things. Now, he's just you know, if you 841 01:00:58.840 --> 01:01:02.760 are list being the most reliable pictures in baseball, now, you know, 842 01:01:02.960 --> 01:01:08.639 I think cobbl is on the extremely short There aren't many left anymore. Yeah, 843 01:01:09.000 --> 01:01:13.199 guys that you can count on to make thirty plus starts and pitch two 844 01:01:13.239 --> 01:01:15.840 hundred innings and know that you're going to get an ace. You know, 845 01:01:15.880 --> 01:01:22.800 those guys just are in extremely short supply, yes, I think. And 846 01:01:22.840 --> 01:01:25.199 then it makes me interesting to think of got two years to probably two so 847 01:01:25.360 --> 01:01:31.159 young winners who aren't going to make the posts. Yeah. Yeah, Michael 848 01:01:31.239 --> 01:01:36.400 King is an interesting one as well. Just this quickly, but the Yankees 849 01:01:36.440 --> 01:01:39.679 have put him in the rotation after you know, being a bullpen onarm for 850 01:01:39.719 --> 01:01:46.760 a really long time. And he looks great at thirteen strikeouts against the Right 851 01:01:47.119 --> 01:01:52.039 Jays again his last start one and run, and you know he's on a 852 01:01:52.119 --> 01:01:57.239 streak now, I think five starts in a row and he's given up four 853 01:01:57.320 --> 01:02:02.920 runs, and yeah, the Yankees pitching success. Well, has everybody just 854 01:02:02.960 --> 01:02:07.199 seen what like justin Steel is doing. And if we've gone back to you 855 01:02:07.239 --> 01:02:10.039 know what, we can have starters with two pitches. So let's let's ride 856 01:02:10.039 --> 01:02:15.760 the momentum while it's there, but let's do it. Yeah, so that's 857 01:02:15.800 --> 01:02:21.400 the Yankees season. We might as well keep it in the least. I've 858 01:02:21.440 --> 01:02:30.719 got a few a few Red Sox suggestions which Dave Nico nine and m At 859 01:02:30.760 --> 01:02:37.840 Badger Noble on Twitter both basically said firing high Bloom or was to that effect 860 01:02:38.199 --> 01:02:44.400 that this indicates a potential change of direction. I've heard there's been a real, 861 01:02:44.599 --> 01:02:49.400 like a significant amount of bloom discourse, isn't there I think, you 862 01:02:49.440 --> 01:02:52.840 know, people having takes about oh, well you know, this is what 863 01:02:52.880 --> 01:02:55.440 he was brought in to do or whatever, or it was a poison chatice, 864 01:02:55.519 --> 01:03:00.320 wasn't it. Like Yeah, there's no there's no way that many people 865 01:03:00.320 --> 01:03:02.239 have said this, but there's no way the Bloom went in there and said 866 01:03:02.239 --> 01:03:07.360 I want to trade bets and they are the the owners were like, yeah, 867 01:03:07.400 --> 01:03:10.760 that's a great idea. No, that was that was already done. 868 01:03:12.119 --> 01:03:15.840 Now the deal that he got and how the players have managed to progress afterwards, 869 01:03:16.159 --> 01:03:22.119 No, they haven't done great. Do I think he was fired a 870 01:03:22.119 --> 01:03:24.920 bit early. When you think about what's actually about to come through this system, 871 01:03:25.000 --> 01:03:28.599 I think, yeah, I think he's a bit unlucky, but he's 872 01:03:28.960 --> 01:03:32.920 kind of paid the price of just the analyst being sorry, the a last 873 01:03:34.000 --> 01:03:39.760 being too good. Like they're gonna finish this season what with a slightly under 874 01:03:39.800 --> 01:03:43.079 five hundred record, and they'll be like, oh, they'll last in the 875 01:03:43.079 --> 01:03:45.719 division or whatever. It's like, yeah, you would have been second probably 876 01:03:45.760 --> 01:03:51.519 in the aon Central they might have white. Yeah, but yeah, so 877 01:03:51.800 --> 01:03:53.599 like, yeah, you're you're in that position. It was like earlier on 878 01:03:53.639 --> 01:03:57.159 in the season when the people were talking about, oh, like the Yankees 879 01:03:57.159 --> 01:03:59.280 are in last place for the first time, and I'm like, yeah, 880 01:03:59.320 --> 01:04:02.119 that's because all the teams are like close to five hundred or well over five 881 01:04:02.280 --> 01:04:06.840 hundred, Like great for not putting context on your statistics exactly what. I 882 01:04:06.880 --> 01:04:12.480 hate it because of what my day job is. So it's it is an 883 01:04:12.480 --> 01:04:15.239 interesting thing to kind of talk up from that perspective. I don't know who's 884 01:04:15.280 --> 01:04:20.639 going to take this opportunity, because like you've seen how they've handled the previous 885 01:04:20.880 --> 01:04:25.400 few owners. Like it's fair to be like, even if you win a 886 01:04:25.400 --> 01:04:30.440 world championship, you're not safe, and consumably Dave Dombrowski isn't available again, 887 01:04:30.639 --> 01:04:33.760 so and they end getting Theo Webstein out to come out of like his m 888 01:04:34.519 --> 01:04:40.320 MLB role or the bizarre of the future of baseball or whatever is his his 889 01:04:40.320 --> 01:04:44.719 his role is. But yes, I think going to actually things have happened 890 01:04:44.800 --> 01:04:48.599 on the baseball field. Did you get any suggestions of like actually good players, 891 01:04:48.639 --> 01:04:53.840 because otherwise yea, so often I think would be like the any things 892 01:04:53.840 --> 01:04:55.920 I would think of. Yeah, well, love you, Mike, he 893 01:04:56.000 --> 01:04:59.880 said Tristan Cassus, as did Dave Nico, he said cass Us and your 894 01:05:00.039 --> 01:05:05.320 and also Yashida and Bayo and maybe also Will you're a Breo and Sedana Rafriela. 895 01:05:05.880 --> 01:05:10.239 So, you know, I think there's a recognition out there that Bloomers 896 01:05:10.119 --> 01:05:14.159 has done a pretty good job when it comes to building up this farm system, 897 01:05:14.239 --> 01:05:18.679 which was completely barren. I think, you know, the bets trade 898 01:05:18.719 --> 01:05:23.280 specifically. I think Hanna Kaiser made this point on the Bandwagon that like you 899 01:05:23.320 --> 01:05:26.039 can kind of look at that and go, well, you know, that 900 01:05:26.239 --> 01:05:33.480 sucked, Like like the return that they got for generational player was basically nothing. 901 01:05:33.960 --> 01:05:38.079 You know, downs is not in the organimic like Connor Wong is a 902 01:05:38.079 --> 01:05:45.079 backup catcher that is not good. But when you look at how the farm 903 01:05:45.119 --> 01:05:47.920 system looks now, there is a lot of promise coming through. And yeah, 904 01:05:47.960 --> 01:05:51.000 there are a lot of players on the major league roster you can see 905 01:05:51.119 --> 01:05:58.199 being part of the next great Red Sox team. Yeah, we're getting so 906 01:05:58.320 --> 01:06:01.760 attract here. But you'll always stuss also, like the questions of was like 907 01:06:02.239 --> 01:06:05.840 Deaf as the right person to give like the long term contract too, and 908 01:06:06.280 --> 01:06:11.239 on all of those things. Obviously he had other poison chalices and contracts that 909 01:06:11.280 --> 01:06:15.320 have been given out to pictures as well. So you work with what you've 910 01:06:15.360 --> 01:06:17.559 got. But I think there is enough reason from the players coming through for 911 01:06:17.599 --> 01:06:24.280 Boston fans to be happy. I think they still have to deal with the 912 01:06:24.320 --> 01:06:28.960 bizarreness of how and will be functions. Is that they're in the division that 913 01:06:29.719 --> 01:06:32.559 actually has five teams that seem to want to win the division, which is 914 01:06:32.639 --> 01:06:38.840 unlike every other division in baseball. Yeah, there is interesting. I guess 915 01:06:38.840 --> 01:06:42.840 there is an element of the dynamics there of having the certainly the Yankees and 916 01:06:42.880 --> 01:06:46.599 the rest hours that there is not acceptable, you know, for them to 917 01:06:46.760 --> 01:06:50.239 just tank it. You know, they can't do an Orioles and now that 918 01:06:50.239 --> 01:06:56.840 the Orioles are good and the Raids are just very well run that Yeah, 919 01:06:56.960 --> 01:07:03.559 they've got this like weird level of competition going on. Okay, so we're 920 01:07:03.559 --> 01:07:08.239 nearly there. Let's set up the Pirates because we've got a lot Jason, 921 01:07:08.320 --> 01:07:11.920 Tom's regular listener, Jason, thanks for all your suggestions. See, yeah, 922 01:07:11.920 --> 01:07:14.400 actually came up with quite a lot of things going on the Pirates, 923 01:07:14.920 --> 01:07:16.760 a lot of individual player highlights. I think I think the one we should 924 01:07:16.760 --> 01:07:21.679 focus on is probably Kabrian Hayes, who kind of has actually started to be 925 01:07:21.840 --> 01:07:27.039 an offensive star over the second half. Yeah, it's awesome to see because 926 01:07:27.119 --> 01:07:30.199 maybe now he'll actually win a gold Glove because he hits the ball well enough, 927 01:07:30.920 --> 01:07:33.400 Like you should have had the last two tot off any Cardinal fans. 928 01:07:33.440 --> 01:07:38.599 No, like Ernardo does not deserve all the golden gloves. He's had fight 929 01:07:38.679 --> 01:07:44.039 me about it. But yeah, actually I was so happy that he has 930 01:07:44.079 --> 01:07:47.400 a bat because now this discussion can seemably happen in being serious. But no, 931 01:07:47.679 --> 01:07:53.679 obviously seeing him come through is is a great sign for the Pirates. 932 01:07:54.159 --> 01:07:57.559 Obviously, kind of on the top of seeing kind of like Reynolds not have 933 01:07:57.800 --> 01:08:02.920 like an amazing season, but you can kind of see it's the same with 934 01:08:02.960 --> 01:08:06.119 something like in like with Kansas thing. You can see enough there to be 935 01:08:06.159 --> 01:08:15.039 positive about it just then needs to be fed with some more expensive players, 936 01:08:15.119 --> 01:08:23.960 which isn't gonna happen, but let's be positive. Yeah, we're being positive. 937 01:08:24.039 --> 01:08:26.520 There's you know, there's there's players here. I mean. He also 938 01:08:26.560 --> 01:08:30.840 mentioned Jack Swinsky, who's having an above average season, you know, big, 939 01:08:30.880 --> 01:08:35.279 big walk right, nearly fifteen percent, twenty six homers, So nice, 940 01:08:35.520 --> 01:08:40.199 nice season from him. Gary Triolo who's put up at one and a 941 01:08:40.199 --> 01:08:44.000 half four and barely a third of a season there. This was in to 942 01:08:44.119 --> 01:08:48.199 be the three outcomes King this year. He's got pretty high strikeout rate as 943 01:08:48.199 --> 01:08:54.479 well, hasn't it, oh Sewinsky, Yeah, it's three outcomes King. 944 01:08:55.319 --> 01:08:59.039 Yes, yeah, fourteen point seven percent walk rate, two point seven percent 945 01:08:59.359 --> 01:09:02.279 strikeout right, and yeah, twenty six homers he might might well be Yeah, 946 01:09:04.079 --> 01:09:08.720 so yeah, that's a good little Actually, as a statistic on any 947 01:09:08.760 --> 01:09:12.279 of the sites, one always quickly searched that we used we did. I 948 01:09:12.279 --> 01:09:15.479 think we might have used to have three sh percentage at BP. I don't 949 01:09:15.479 --> 01:09:19.920 know if we still do or a similar stat that calculated that. And then 950 01:09:19.960 --> 01:09:27.399 on the pitching side, we've got the nominative determinism of Colin Holderman and of 951 01:09:27.439 --> 01:09:31.199 course Mitch Keller, who is you know, I think still continues to frustrate 952 01:09:31.239 --> 01:09:35.840 people a lot, but he's getting he's getting closer to the guy that people 953 01:09:35.880 --> 01:09:41.840 thought he might be as a prospect, right, Yeah, I think it's 954 01:09:41.840 --> 01:09:45.800 just going to be one of those players that people are going to be every 955 01:09:45.880 --> 01:09:47.560 single year going to be like, yeah, no, you know what, 956 01:09:47.680 --> 01:09:54.199 like Keller's going to get it back, but he's been solid, and so 957 01:09:54.680 --> 01:09:57.079 is he just going to sit perennially and that there are going to be the 958 01:09:57.079 --> 01:10:00.800 people that think that, no, that that talent was there that so like 959 01:10:00.880 --> 01:10:04.039 he's going to come back and he's going to get the chance to improve and 960 01:10:04.119 --> 01:10:09.800 really kind of excel. But is he just action now? Just he is 961 01:10:09.800 --> 01:10:15.039 the solid number three or four starter and that's not actually anything to be ashamed 962 01:10:15.079 --> 01:10:21.399 about. Yeah, it's not. You know, he's he's never quite reached 963 01:10:21.479 --> 01:10:25.680 I feel like, you know, Cole never got to his full potential and 964 01:10:25.800 --> 01:10:29.960 to be hit Houston, but I think he still was better than Keller has 965 01:10:30.000 --> 01:10:33.359 ever been as a pirate. But yeah, you know you need you need 966 01:10:33.399 --> 01:10:35.880 these guys too, Like if Keller is a guy who they can count on 967 01:10:36.000 --> 01:10:40.960 to throw one hundred and eighty evenings at an above average rate every season, 968 01:10:41.199 --> 01:10:46.479 then and that's still really valuable. And of course David Bednar has been unbelievably 969 01:10:46.479 --> 01:10:53.640 good, so we wasn't David Bednar. I think he was a guy that 970 01:10:53.640 --> 01:10:58.159 people thought would get traded, and maybe he still will, but for now 971 01:10:58.199 --> 01:11:02.760 he remains a pirate and of the best relievers in baseball. I got a 972 01:11:02.840 --> 01:11:08.840 suggestion for the Reds, which the Reds are less eliminated than the Giants and 973 01:11:08.920 --> 01:11:14.640 Patresa I guess I'll read it out. It was ironically from an account called 974 01:11:14.720 --> 01:11:23.279 Let's Go Reds on Twitter, but he hired Christian and Carassion Strand and Spencer 975 01:11:23.319 --> 01:11:28.640 Steers rookie seasons, and in particular Ela de la Cruz stealing three bases in 976 01:11:28.720 --> 01:11:31.680 one inning, which is probably one of the top three coolest things about the 977 01:11:31.680 --> 01:11:35.000 twenty twenty three season. I think, yeah, I think that's going to 978 01:11:35.159 --> 01:11:39.560 kind of come out as that like season of like what it's going to be 979 01:11:39.600 --> 01:11:42.720 just one of those statists, like highlights of the season order, But like 980 01:11:43.119 --> 01:11:46.119 when MLB does its top one hundred plays of the season. I imagine that's 981 01:11:46.159 --> 01:11:51.039 going to be somewhere in the top ten, if not not leading. But 982 01:11:51.039 --> 01:11:54.600 we've had a quite a few stealing come up with a few still on homes 983 01:11:54.680 --> 01:12:01.199 this year. So it's the it's definitely it's coming back. It's the I'm 984 01:12:01.239 --> 01:12:05.199 not I'll make the joke that we have in I talk about a lot that 985 01:12:05.319 --> 01:12:08.960 like the minor tours, the team that I play for, which is like 986 01:12:09.119 --> 01:12:12.359 in single A baseball in the UK, our walk is as good as a 987 01:12:12.359 --> 01:12:18.600 triple because you're going to steal basically on the next two pitches anyway. So 988 01:12:19.600 --> 01:12:24.079 when I see this kind of be implemented at like higher level baseball, it 989 01:12:24.079 --> 01:12:27.560 it does. It does. It is thoroughly entertaining, and I think with 990 01:12:27.640 --> 01:12:34.520 those those young players that you have there, like you can't not be entertained 991 01:12:34.600 --> 01:12:38.039 with what you're being watched. Like you're watching, I think, as I 992 01:12:38.119 --> 01:12:43.279 said, they have a ludicrous number of one round games, and I need 993 01:12:43.319 --> 01:12:45.279 to look you back up again because they I think they were the only team 994 01:12:45.319 --> 01:12:49.880 that has more than Cleveland having one run games, and it is they are 995 01:12:50.039 --> 01:12:56.039 thirty four and twenty seven in one run games. So they've had sixty one 996 01:12:56.479 --> 01:12:59.680 one run games in their one hundred and fifty seven games so far, so 997 01:12:59.800 --> 01:13:04.000 that more than like a third of their games ending one run games, which 998 01:13:04.039 --> 01:13:10.479 is like you're watching, it's entertaining, it's the edge of the seat stuff. 999 01:13:11.640 --> 01:13:15.039 Maybe the result doesn't go the way you want it to, but that 1000 01:13:15.159 --> 01:13:18.039 has got to be got to be an experience, especially if it's just the 1001 01:13:18.079 --> 01:13:23.319 Reds after what they had a hundred losses last season. They didn't they, 1002 01:13:24.439 --> 01:13:29.800 I believe, so. Yeah, so that sort of swing, Yeah, 1003 01:13:29.840 --> 01:13:33.680 that's sort of swing is just it's got to be fun, even if they've 1004 01:13:33.720 --> 01:13:41.680 just not quite made it. But I think they're still there. And given 1005 01:13:42.359 --> 01:13:45.560 I didn't ask for suggestions for the Reds, this was provided unprompted, so 1006 01:13:47.119 --> 01:13:50.520 you know they're still in the hunt. It's it's possible. I think this 1007 01:13:50.680 --> 01:13:56.520 is premature elimination talk, Darius. I just wanted to mention it because I 1008 01:13:56.600 --> 01:14:00.800 got the suggestion. The Diamondbacks have lost to the Yankees already this evening, 1009 01:14:00.880 --> 01:14:05.399 so the door is still open. Okay, we just have talked about San 1010 01:14:05.439 --> 01:14:11.600 Francisco Wars and do higgo. Yeah, team that is definitely out of it, 1011 01:14:12.239 --> 01:14:15.439 and I think it felt like they were out of it perhaps two weeks 1012 01:14:15.439 --> 01:14:21.520 into the season. The Chicago White Sox, it's been I think, you 1013 01:14:21.560 --> 01:14:27.119 know, the Angels have spared the White Sox a lot of a lot of 1014 01:14:27.159 --> 01:14:30.920 grief because they've sort of been more depressing in a lot of ways. But 1015 01:14:31.359 --> 01:14:36.800 the wasting of this core has been something to behold. But we did get 1016 01:14:36.800 --> 01:14:41.399 a couple of suggestions onetheless. One of them was stilln't ceased, Still get 1017 01:14:41.399 --> 01:14:45.640 into two hundred strikeouts. You know, the control has been questionable, but 1018 01:14:45.760 --> 01:14:49.399 I think, yeah, the strikeouts have been there. And the other one 1019 01:14:49.479 --> 01:14:53.840 was Liam Hendricks, not not for his own field performance, but for his 1020 01:14:54.000 --> 01:14:58.319 activism. You know, his obviously battled cancer and he's done a lot of 1021 01:14:58.319 --> 01:15:01.920 work off the field around that. I wanted to shout that out and give 1022 01:15:01.920 --> 01:15:05.439 credits to Lam Hendricks, who, by all accounts seems to be a genuinely 1023 01:15:05.600 --> 01:15:09.960 excellent guy and somebody has done a lot of good work in the community. 1024 01:15:11.399 --> 01:15:16.760 Yes, we saw so much about the middle of the season about maybe how 1025 01:15:16.800 --> 01:15:23.720 this White Talk team is run, so you can't I don't know how much 1026 01:15:23.720 --> 01:15:28.359 optimism you can have from the future, but Cease looks good. Robert looks 1027 01:15:28.359 --> 01:15:33.359 good or Robert looks very good. So I think obviously having him going again, 1028 01:15:33.479 --> 01:15:39.600 he's what a couple of home runs away from a which way do you 1029 01:15:39.640 --> 01:15:45.359 do it, forty twenty season or whatever, So like another we would be 1030 01:15:45.399 --> 01:15:49.680 forty twenty. Yeah, so it's definitely like a good speed power guy. 1031 01:15:51.159 --> 01:15:57.239 Obviously has that questionable strikeout rate, but it doesn't have the low average that 1032 01:15:57.239 --> 01:16:00.319 goes with it. So yeah, and he is a plus defender. Like 1033 01:16:00.600 --> 01:16:05.039 if you're talking about having like a young player, he's what twenty five this 1034 01:16:05.119 --> 01:16:09.600 year, I think, well, it's his twenty five. Yeah, he's 1035 01:16:09.600 --> 01:16:12.119 twenty six now whatever, so it's his year twenty five season or whatever. 1036 01:16:12.159 --> 01:16:15.439 Next year he'll be twenty six or whatever. They've got him on club options 1037 01:16:15.520 --> 01:16:20.760 until twenty twenty seven, so he's still somebody that they can build a team 1038 01:16:20.800 --> 01:16:28.119 around. Like, he's still a phenomenal talent that you that any any team 1039 01:16:28.159 --> 01:16:33.520 would want to have. So yeah, hopefully they do build a team out 1040 01:16:33.560 --> 01:16:36.560 of him, and hopefully they don't do the shocking thing of trading away his 1041 01:16:36.640 --> 01:16:41.880 low value contract to some team that contends to try and scoop a load of 1042 01:16:41.920 --> 01:16:46.039 prospects. But maybe that might just that change might be interesting in Chicago or 1043 01:16:46.079 --> 01:16:50.520 something that needs to happen, because yeah, that's the only positives I can 1044 01:16:50.560 --> 01:16:57.079 actually think about it. Yes, obviously a change has been made and Kenny 1045 01:16:57.079 --> 01:17:00.239 Williams has been fired. I think most people would hope that Jerry Reinsdorff could 1046 01:17:00.319 --> 01:17:04.800 be fired, but he does own the team, so sadly that's not an 1047 01:17:04.800 --> 01:17:09.960 option. But yeah, what what songs? UK didn't dominate Hendricks and says 1048 01:17:10.079 --> 01:17:15.520 it's basically been meeting people with Limphoemer on every road series as well as in 1049 01:17:15.560 --> 01:17:23.119 their home games. So good and lame Hendricks is due. Yeah, so 1050 01:17:23.359 --> 01:17:27.800 we were almost there and we are left with a team for which I did 1051 01:17:27.840 --> 01:17:32.159 not receive any nominations to Washington Nationals. But fortunately we've got some things to 1052 01:17:32.159 --> 01:17:38.880 say about the Nationals. So did you want to highlight anybody? Yeah, 1053 01:17:38.920 --> 01:17:44.560 so the we had a brief discussion about this beforehand to throw back the curtain 1054 01:17:44.640 --> 01:17:47.680 of of of of our production. But the one that came to me with 1055 01:17:48.399 --> 01:17:57.600 CJ. Abrahams, I think, once again we're talking another not offensively stellar 1056 01:17:57.720 --> 01:18:04.039 shortstop who's maybe not the greatest with the glove either, but he's the fast 1057 01:18:04.039 --> 01:18:09.720 boy. He's zoom zoom boy, so kind of like he's getting on those 1058 01:18:09.720 --> 01:18:15.000 bases and kind of providing us with entertainment. In that regard, he's going 1059 01:18:15.039 --> 01:18:19.319 to be probably a forty twenty now we're twenty forty. Sorry, kind of 1060 01:18:19.359 --> 01:18:25.840 the wrong round a twenty forty player this season. Like, So, yeah, 1061 01:18:26.039 --> 01:18:30.880 I think it was he he was a player that highly highly regarded prospect, 1062 01:18:30.119 --> 01:18:36.560 and I think his kind of performance that we'd seen like last season or 1063 01:18:36.560 --> 01:18:44.159 maybe like the end of his time that San Diego was that favor was like 1064 01:18:44.279 --> 01:18:48.319 dropping or that idea of the top level of performable was dropping. But we're 1065 01:18:48.359 --> 01:18:55.399 starting to see like a bit more of that back come back. So I 1066 01:18:55.439 --> 01:19:02.520 think, yeah, he's definitely one to have positive one. Yeah, I 1067 01:19:02.560 --> 01:19:08.880 think, you know, there's been a lot of debate over Abrams in the 1068 01:19:08.880 --> 01:19:11.800 way that he was handled by the Padres, I think, and whether they 1069 01:19:11.840 --> 01:19:15.920 brought him up too early yet another one of the heat extremely young players we've 1070 01:19:15.960 --> 01:19:20.399 talked about tonight, But yeah, it's you know, I think his skill 1071 01:19:20.439 --> 01:19:26.680 set is better suited for these stolen based rules we have, and he should 1072 01:19:26.760 --> 01:19:29.680 have a very long major league career ahead of him now. I think if 1073 01:19:29.680 --> 01:19:32.039 he can be even league average with the bat. I think he's a threat 1074 01:19:32.039 --> 01:19:35.479 on the base paths. You know, maybe they end up with him at 1075 01:19:35.520 --> 01:19:41.279 second base at some point and he's more defensively suited for that. But yeah, 1076 01:19:41.399 --> 01:19:45.319 I think it's been a positive step forward. And I guess the other 1077 01:19:45.479 --> 01:19:49.560 the other guys is laying Thomas is definitely cooled after a very hot start for 1078 01:19:49.600 --> 01:19:56.039 the season, but there's still been a well above average contributor for the Nationals, 1079 01:19:56.960 --> 01:20:01.279 played in the vast majority of their games, and he's he's already at 1080 01:20:01.279 --> 01:20:04.159 a twenty twenty season, could go, could go thirty twenty with a hop 1081 01:20:04.199 --> 01:20:12.279 final week, So another ex Cardinal's outfielder doing doing the business somewhere else. 1082 01:20:12.800 --> 01:20:15.920 They've traded away a few over the years. So yeah, well, then 1083 01:20:16.000 --> 01:20:20.119 to Lane Thomas. I was having a look down the pitching side, I 1084 01:20:20.199 --> 01:20:25.159 guess, I guess if you want to highlight someone, it's probably Hunter Harvey, 1085 01:20:25.199 --> 01:20:30.199 who has had his injury shoes over the years and was sort of once 1086 01:20:30.239 --> 01:20:35.840 seen as a top pitching prospect and you know, barely ever pitched for the 1087 01:20:35.880 --> 01:20:41.479 Orioles really, but he's he's really looked excellent for the Nats this year and 1088 01:20:41.600 --> 01:20:45.079 managed to pitch more or less a full season of innings in the ballpen. 1089 01:20:45.880 --> 01:20:50.199 So I think he's a nice, nice guy for them to have. Certainly 1090 01:20:51.000 --> 01:20:55.840 next season we'll see. He's probably a prime trade candidate at this point in 1091 01:20:55.880 --> 01:20:59.640 his career. But yeah, nice nice season for hunder Harvey could see him 1092 01:20:59.640 --> 01:21:09.720 healthy, Yes, something could should say. I can't wait to hear what 1093 01:21:09.760 --> 01:21:14.520 you want to say now. I'm Braser and Patrick Gorbyn maybe on for three 1094 01:21:14.640 --> 01:21:21.760 years of black ink in a row for the most losses in the National League. 1095 01:21:24.840 --> 01:21:28.840 Patrick Corbyn has done stellar work. I said earlier, you don't find 1096 01:21:28.840 --> 01:21:33.319 many guys who pitch thirty plus starts a year. Now, let's give full 1097 01:21:33.319 --> 01:21:38.520 credit to Patrick Corbyn if you exclude the twenty twenty season in which nobody pitched 1098 01:21:39.000 --> 01:21:44.399 thirty starts. Obviously, Patrick Corbyn has a six seasons in a row of 1099 01:21:44.560 --> 01:21:48.000 thirty plus starts. Now, have the last three of those seasons been very 1100 01:21:48.039 --> 01:21:54.880 bad? Yes they have, But the National needed somebody to pick those innings 1101 01:21:54.920 --> 01:21:57.560 and nobody else was going to do it. So Patrick Corbyn did it. 1102 01:21:58.279 --> 01:22:01.680 And you know the results were mixed, but he has been there and he's 1103 01:22:01.760 --> 01:22:06.720 kept going. He's been better this year than he's been like the pre the 1104 01:22:06.760 --> 01:22:14.399 seasons, like he has improved. Yeah, third consecutive season of a hundred 1105 01:22:14.399 --> 01:22:17.039 earned runs? It out, But he's not last in National League? Who 1106 01:22:17.119 --> 01:22:19.640 is last in the Lash League? Do we think? What's your guests? 1107 01:22:19.720 --> 01:22:27.680 I'm gonna look it up. Wait, who's actually been bad this year? 1108 01:22:27.680 --> 01:22:33.239 I want one hundred earned runs? So let's find out. I think it 1109 01:22:33.239 --> 01:22:40.640 would be Freeland, Freeland or Colvin is only fifth? How many fifth? 1110 01:22:42.279 --> 01:22:45.520 So let's think he's been bad. I want to say, these guys have 1111 01:22:45.560 --> 01:22:50.920 all obviously pitched quite a lot. Yeah to give up that many many runs? 1112 01:22:51.840 --> 01:22:56.479 Who have pitched in the NL? And yeah, so I think Freeland, 1113 01:22:56.600 --> 01:23:04.600 I want to say rich Hill, I want to say Michaelis. Michaelis 1114 01:23:04.760 --> 01:23:12.840 is third, Rachel is twelfth, Freedom is fourteenth. Uh, what's the 1115 01:23:12.880 --> 01:23:15.399 pitch? You will know who it is as soon as I say it's a 1116 01:23:15.439 --> 01:23:20.199 guy who is obvious. Oh, that's really annoying. A guy who's a 1117 01:23:20.239 --> 01:23:30.479 guy who's definitely pitched all season and absolutely sucked. Oh oh we are we 1118 01:23:30.680 --> 01:23:31.640 are we doing all of Major league? Or as I was just thinking, 1119 01:23:31.800 --> 01:23:35.159 I was thinking Henel or oh yeah, so yeah, Well, I mean 1120 01:23:35.199 --> 01:23:40.760 it's a bit tricky with so there's one guy who's ahead of Michaelis who has 1121 01:23:40.800 --> 01:23:44.199 pitched in both leagues. All right, so that's Lanceletin, that's Lancelin. 1122 01:23:44.399 --> 01:23:46.039 Yeah. So in the NL, Michaelis is first if you count la on 1123 01:23:46.159 --> 01:23:49.359 me, okay, and then obviously then it has to be Jordan Miles. 1124 01:23:49.560 --> 01:23:55.920 It's Jordans one hundred and nineteen. I don't think Corbyn's going to catch him, 1125 01:23:56.119 --> 01:24:00.199 no, but obviously Lyles doesn't even have the He's yeah, he's got 1126 01:24:00.199 --> 01:24:03.920 what seventeen losses I think for the season. So he's got seventeen losses. 1127 01:24:04.039 --> 01:24:09.720 Yeah, fair place, Jordan Lyles. He has trucked along. He has 1128 01:24:09.800 --> 01:24:15.680 in fact throwing three complete games, which also leads to major eggs. Oh 1129 01:24:15.760 --> 01:24:18.600 yes, yea with what against Folio Alcantra. Even though he's been kind of 1130 01:24:18.600 --> 01:24:21.039 a bit nap this year, it's probably the only person that gets allowed to 1131 01:24:21.079 --> 01:24:29.199 go deep. Yeah. I always, I always enjoy looking at the leader 1132 01:24:29.239 --> 01:24:31.279 boards for complete games, and it's just a bunch of guys tired these days, 1133 01:24:34.560 --> 01:24:40.960 bleat games. Yes, Sandy and Jordan Lyles. Don't give me looking 1134 01:24:40.960 --> 01:24:43.319 at these leader boards. I'm going to start seeing things that I know and 1135 01:24:43.399 --> 01:24:45.399 no annoy me like do you know who leads to blown saves for the season, 1136 01:24:45.439 --> 01:24:51.760 dereuts Manuel Class, Manuel Glass. You know he has nine losses for 1137 01:24:51.800 --> 01:25:00.640 this season. Yeah, this is probably fitting. But I have almost almost 1138 01:25:00.640 --> 01:25:08.880 skipped over one final team, which is the Detroit Tigers, who, yeah, 1139 01:25:09.039 --> 01:25:13.479 to be fair, you know, hung around this season, and we 1140 01:25:13.640 --> 01:25:17.119 got a it does hung around count if it's because like the whole league is 1141 01:25:17.159 --> 01:25:21.159 bad, so they can kind of have hung around because they were You can 1142 01:25:21.199 --> 01:25:26.920 only beat the competition that's put in front of your us. The Tigers didn't, 1143 01:25:26.960 --> 01:25:31.319 but they thought about it for a bit and at Weeb of the Year 1144 01:25:31.399 --> 01:25:36.479 on Twitter suggested Parker Meadows walk off for his first career home run, which 1145 01:25:36.560 --> 01:25:41.119 was one of the more specific moments we got suggested. But there we go. 1146 01:25:41.199 --> 01:25:43.880 Do you have any Tigers you want to highlight? I think I'm just 1147 01:25:43.880 --> 01:25:46.920 going to say Tick Scruble has been the best picture in the majors since he 1148 01:25:47.000 --> 01:25:54.000 came back, hasn't it? Yeah? Yeah? Hands down? Like yeah, 1149 01:25:54.039 --> 01:25:58.960 I think yeah. And obviously just being one of those players that have 1150 01:25:59.319 --> 01:26:02.439 kind of like how did possible things coming through and then maybe not having like 1151 01:26:02.520 --> 01:26:05.880 the best moments. I think, yes, Google coming through ass has been 1152 01:26:05.920 --> 01:26:11.640 a pretty phenomenal picture and a good chance for them to actually really really something 1153 01:26:11.680 --> 01:26:14.880 to kind of make to build on. But now you just kind of hope 1154 01:26:14.880 --> 01:26:18.680 that you can get that he games out of him. That's gonna be the 1155 01:26:18.960 --> 01:26:24.520 that's going to be the next question. Like he's obviously had like two two 1156 01:26:24.600 --> 01:26:27.960 good seasons. Like obviously I think this season he's better than the last season 1157 01:26:27.960 --> 01:26:31.520 when it comes to like some of the numbers. But he's now got a 1158 01:26:31.520 --> 01:26:36.239 couple of a couple of hundred innings in him of good pitching. It's now, 1159 01:26:36.239 --> 01:26:40.680 can you get a couple of hundred innings of good pitching in one season? 1160 01:26:43.439 --> 01:26:46.439 Yeah, definitely. The stuff is there, Yeah, the talent is 1161 01:26:46.479 --> 01:26:49.840 there. Can we can we get him Let's you know, let's get him 1162 01:26:49.840 --> 01:26:54.560 too hundred and sixty at least next year. That would be great. We'll 1163 01:26:54.560 --> 01:26:59.640 see, But there's the making say, you know, he rode his back 1164 01:26:59.680 --> 01:27:04.199 again season. I think Sawyer Gibson long looks quite interesting in his early going 1165 01:27:04.640 --> 01:27:11.560 Resultsan's flashed a bit. And the other thing for Destroit fans to be positive 1166 01:27:11.600 --> 01:27:14.199 about. And we could have said this about White Sox fans and we can 1167 01:27:14.199 --> 01:27:16.680 say this about Cleveland fans, And we can say this about Royals fans. 1168 01:27:17.199 --> 01:27:21.439 That division is winnable, Like you're going to see a team win eighty five 1169 01:27:21.439 --> 01:27:25.600 wins and win that division. And the Twins aren't going to spend money to 1170 01:27:25.640 --> 01:27:31.920 get better because they spend their money on career MM. So yes, like 1171 01:27:32.279 --> 01:27:36.840 any team that wants to kind of try might win that division. So if 1172 01:27:36.840 --> 01:27:43.520 you believe that your team might try, it might be false hope, But 1173 01:27:44.760 --> 01:27:48.279 there's a division that's winning. Young boys and girls hit the al Center will 1174 01:27:48.319 --> 01:27:54.039 be fun. You heard it here? First? Is Tom going to have 1175 01:27:54.079 --> 01:27:58.439 to make me a new postcard? We definitely have to make him make here 1176 01:27:58.439 --> 01:28:03.479 a new firstcard if that happens. Okay, So I think that's it. 1177 01:28:03.720 --> 01:28:06.880 Everybody else is still in it. The Reds are still in it just for 1178 01:28:06.920 --> 01:28:13.439 the avoidance of wars out. It's still possible. It's going to be an 1179 01:28:13.479 --> 01:28:16.119 interesting final week for them. Oh. The Padres are also still in it 1180 01:28:16.119 --> 01:28:18.880 because I put a better than at thirteen hundred to one to win the ones. 1181 01:28:19.199 --> 01:28:27.159 It's the other day. It's technically possible the Padres play the Giants two 1182 01:28:27.239 --> 01:28:32.079 nights, so one of those teams is probably going to be eliminated. After 1183 01:28:32.119 --> 01:28:39.359 that game basically, but one of them will still be in it, so 1184 01:28:40.840 --> 01:28:45.119 anything can happen. And they Asteroid to play the Mariners as well this week, 1185 01:28:45.239 --> 01:28:48.720 so it's all happening, and we're going to be back next Monday with 1186 01:28:48.880 --> 01:28:54.279 a full playoff preview. The playoff field will be set, so we will 1187 01:28:54.319 --> 01:29:00.239 do our usual breakdown our bracket and probably immediately be proven wrong. While Card 1188 01:29:00.239 --> 01:29:04.159 series a tendency to do this to you, he still gonna win. That's 1189 01:29:04.640 --> 01:29:09.079 what I've said, probably for the last year. They're gonna win. Yeah, 1190 01:29:09.119 --> 01:29:12.000 Houston, I've got to get the Mariners out of the way first and 1191 01:29:12.479 --> 01:29:16.279 make sure they get into the postseason. But yeah, it should be a 1192 01:29:16.319 --> 01:29:21.760 fun final week in a wild card race and the West Race very much up 1193 01:29:21.800 --> 01:29:27.680 for grabs, and we will certainly break all of that down and break all 1194 01:29:27.760 --> 01:29:30.520 the playoffs down next Monday, So rust anything to plug before we go, 1195 01:29:32.079 --> 01:29:35.479 not from writing perspective, but if people want to to look at some of 1196 01:29:35.520 --> 01:29:41.720 the work that I have been doing on commentating Jenny Sports Media is what we've 1197 01:29:41.760 --> 01:29:45.439 been doing to try and show people British baseball that actually exists. Obviously we 1198 01:29:45.479 --> 01:29:48.119 did it for some of the finals that we've had at the end of this 1199 01:29:48.199 --> 01:29:53.840 season, so please go check share that so we can make more people be 1200 01:29:53.880 --> 01:29:58.840 aware that British baseball actually exists. Otherwise, no, nothing for me, 1201 01:29:58.920 --> 01:30:03.479 but obviously there's great on our website from some of the people who have given 1202 01:30:03.479 --> 01:30:09.319 their comments today. Obviously, like the series from Atlanta throughout the whole entire 1203 01:30:09.319 --> 01:30:12.960 season has been a really great read for me. The work being done on 1204 01:30:13.000 --> 01:30:17.960 the rivalry series with me and Gave were asked politely to do something about Cleveland 1205 01:30:18.119 --> 01:30:23.079 and Cincinnati and we kind of both responded, there isn't really a rivalry, 1206 01:30:24.479 --> 01:30:29.439 so I could have done it. I could have done a thousand word piece 1207 01:30:29.520 --> 01:30:33.399 on why the fact that they actually just get along, but quite what the 1208 01:30:33.479 --> 01:30:39.239 rivalry pieces were looking for. Yes, So Charlie Deeks, who has been 1209 01:30:39.239 --> 01:30:43.319 doing that great Atlanta series all year, and Josh Edwards did the Braves and 1210 01:30:43.359 --> 01:30:47.640 the Mets this week and rust whatever to Gav. He would never say this, 1211 01:30:47.720 --> 01:30:53.000 but he talked about he wrote about his twenty twenty three season highlight on 1212 01:30:53.039 --> 01:30:56.000 the side of this week, which was actually really an excellent piece. So 1213 01:30:56.479 --> 01:30:59.640 I know Gave is probably very embarrassed that I mentioned that, but you should 1214 01:30:59.680 --> 01:31:02.880 go to get out because I agree. Phenomenal piece. Yeah, so do 1215 01:31:03.000 --> 01:31:05.479 go and check that out. Batflips and nerds dot com. You can follow 1216 01:31:05.520 --> 01:31:09.239 us on Twitter at bat flips on score Nerds, you can yell at us 1217 01:31:09.239 --> 01:31:13.199 about the things that we missed about your team this season, and we'll be 1218 01:31:13.199 --> 01:31:15.279 back next week to break down the playoff picture. So we will catch you 1219 01:31:15.319 --> 01:31:19.319 then Bye,