Speaker 1: Eleven oh one on Sports Talk seven IY. Let's spend
ten caullity minutes with our regular Wednesday guest. He is
Astro's analyst on Space City Home Networking. We are very
happy at having with us every Wednesday at eleven o'clock
Brian Bogasvic on the show and Brian, as you know
in television, getting in and out of the stadium in
a relatively decent hours spectacular two hours in less than
two ten last night to watch a great Pitchers matchup
and a dramatic and very happy ending for folks that
are rooting for the local nine.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I like wins. I especially like wins that are under
two and a half hours. So last night was about
as good as it gets for us.
Speaker 1: Hey, let me tell you we've kind of brought up
this narrative this year, good Fromber versus bad Fromber? Last
night was great Fromber. What did you see maybe that
we have not seen even some of his better performances
earlier in the year.
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, he had all three of his
pitches working fastball, change up, in the curveball, and there
have been you know, more than a handful of starts
where he hasn't had every everything, and it's taking them
a couple of innings to feel out what is working
and what is not working and then adjust accordingly. He
had everything going from the jump yesterday, and for him
that means.
Speaker 2: Everything is down.
Speaker 3: If you look at like a spray chart of his
pitches from yesterday, everything was the bottom third of the
zone and below. And with the guy who has such
big movement on his sinker, if he can start it
at the knees and drop it below, he's going to
get a ton of curve balls. If he can convince
hitters that he's going to be at that bottom of
the zone and they're going to have to deal with
that pitch and they're going to have to swing at
that pitch, he can then go to the curve ball
and get them chasing pitches below the zone for a
lot of.
Speaker 2: Swing and miss.
Speaker 3: You know, when the change up is coming out of
the same slot as the fastball and they're having a
you know, rush out there trying to get to ninety
five ninety six, it's going to be even more weak
contact round balls. And when when you're seeing everything on
the ground from Promber and then couple that with a
bunch of swings and misses on the curveball, he's going
to be almost impossible.
Speaker 2: Be Brian.
Speaker 1: Shouldn't he have more nights like this? I mean, look,
not every pitcher, for every start's going to be able
to give you eight innings or gonna be you know,
let me nights where getting knocked around a little bit.
But by the type of pitches he throws, with the
fluidity in his motion, shouldn't he be a guy even
as long as he's been the major leagues that should
be around that eighty five ninety ninety five pitch count
to go deep into games? Isn't that what Fromer was
kind of built for.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you look at the type of pitcher he is.
You know, even though he can get swings and misses
at a high rate, especially with his curveball, he is
at his core a pitch to contact action type of pitcher,
and that typically lends itself to guys going deep in games.
And you know, sort of the rules of engagement have
changed over the last twenty years of how deep you're
willing to let guys go. But if there is a
profile for the type of pitcher that you can just
put out there and push a little bit further or
be willing to throw on short rest if need be.
He is that guy because everything he does is predicated
on movement and movement even if you get, you know,
a little bit tired, even if your pitch count is
up near one hundred, even if you're you know, you've
been throwing every fifth day or every fourth day, whatever
it could.
Speaker 2: Be, that doesn't change.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it'll even get better with a little bit of fatigue.
So yes, he is a guy where if you're gonna
look at anybody in that rotation and say who can
who can get pushed a little bit, it's definitely him.
Speaker 4: Brian bogasvic well us here on Sports Talk seven to
ninety estoc paratus with the walk off and pulled into
the Crawford boxes. Just overall what you've been seeing from
him as a hitter, and for a guy for him
who is such heavy pull, what exactly how does he
end up like that? Especially with opposing pictures, Know that
he's going to try to pull everything and he's still
able to do it.
Speaker 3: For him, it's by design, and it's by design in
how he approaches his a bat. Sometimes you hear about
guys who are heavy heavy poll hitters, and you think
they must just be cheating, they must just be guessing.
Swinging early, they're going to be susceptible to chasing. You know,
you've seen a million of those guys come along and
it typically doesn't go well. I've been really impressed with
him watching him on a day in a day out
basis of how he executes, you know, his plan of
being a poll hitter, and it's all about knowing what
pitches he can handle, knowing what pitches he can do that,
which do that with. And he's really stubborn in his
that bats. He's not going to go and give in
and swing at, you know, a sinker down in a
way early in the count and roll over it. He's
looking for breaking balls up. He's looking for fastballs on
the inner third that he can turn on and he'll
make the adjustment lately at that and deal with it
with a tough pitch, you know, with two strikes if
need be. But he's really has a good idea of
what pitches he can handle, and he's very stubborn in
waiting out those pitches. That's why he walks. He walks
a lot, not because you know, he's just trying to
get on BASI because he's passive. He walks a lot
because he doesn't give in in hunting his pitches.
Speaker 4: And on Jake Myers, this is a running bit here,
Brian on the show that I'm the president of the
Jake Myers fan Club. We're having a good May, but
we also had a good May last year. What are
you seeing from him now? Does it feel different or
somewhat the same from the May that he had last
year where we're almost waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Speaker 2: No, I think it feels different.
Speaker 3: I think it feels different in that it's more consistent.
We've seen him get hot at times before, but it
was very very much an all or nothing type of
hot streak.
Speaker 2: You know, he'd get.
Speaker 3: Four or five games in a row where everything was
falling in and you could just see that he was
riding this hot wave and then it would eventually come
back to baseline. But right now, it's just a lot
of good at bats. It's a lot of hard contact.
Even if you look back at the series in Milwaukee,
he got a base hit in every game, but there
were probably two or three balls that he hit hard
every game and they didn't all fall in, so there's
a lot more volume of quality. And he also feels
like he's gotten comfortable with his approach and he's obviously
being more aggressive early in at bats. He doesn't want
to get to two strikes where pitchers can really try
to expand the zone on him. And once you get
comfortable with how you want to approach and at that,
it really settles you. It really gives you a good
gauge as a hitter of when was I successful in
executing my plan and when was I not? And it
gives you something to fall back on when you're trying
to evaluate am I doing what I need to do
or not, you know, other than just did I get
a hit? Did I not get a hit? And it
seems like he's very comfortable and very settled in how
he wants to approaches at bats, which has resulted in
a lot more consistency.
Speaker 1: Are we going to see somebody not named Jeremy Pana
in the Ladov spot for the foreseeable future for the
local nine? And are you surprised that's gone as well
as it has? Are you surprised that the Jose went
to him and said, let's make a change just your
general thoughts about what now he's been able to do
kind of finding the most comfortable spot in line up
for him in probably a couple of years now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think that's his spot, and I
think it's a really good fit. You know, all the
things that he can do, from handling his at back
to you know, how dynamic he is on the basis
to just you know, being sort of an energy type
of guy at the top of the order. It's a
really good fit. And you know, am I surprised that
Jose went to him and said, hey, let's make this change. No,
because that's what Jose Altuve is. You know, as great
a player as he is, he's an even better teammate.
So no, I'm not surprised by the whole situation. And
you know, you have to be able to make quick adjustments.
Being in the leadoff spot, you're going to get a
ton of that backs, you're going to have. You know
that you're going to be the guy getting that fifth
or sixth played appearance at the end of the game,
So you cannot be susceptible to making the same.
Speaker 2: Out over and over again.
Speaker 3: And he's made a lot of quick adjustments this year.
So it's been a really good fit up there.
Speaker 2: Boggy.
Speaker 1: We do a segment on Tuesdays called Gut Feelings, were
we just make kind of like predictions. I want to
get a gut feeling from you on how is right
field ultimately going to be settled this year? Is it
a mixture of Descenzo and Smith? Do you think one
of the two guys takes over? What are your thoughts
about both of the guys and how Joe is kind
of trying to figure out which hot got to keep
an line up every single day.
Speaker 2: I think as is right now.
Speaker 3: I think it stays as a mixture.
Speaker 2: Of playing time.
Speaker 3: You know, both guys bring things to the table that
are valuable. Zack Zendos had a ton of quality at bats.
Camp Smith continues to improve, but it's also turning into
not just you know, a solid outfielder, but a very
very good defensive outfielder. I think the only thing that
can throw a wrench in that is if they ever
they eventually make a move to get a left handed
piece in the outfield. You know, it's a very right
handed team and that seems like it's the one place
that they could add a left handed bat. And then
you're going to have to make a decision on the
one of those two guys, probably, But as is, I
think they're doing a nice job finding favorable matchups. I
think either one of those guys at this point, if
you throw them out there every day, every day, it
might be a little bit too much, but you know,
exposing them to favorable matchups has been working so far.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Lastly, you are not that far removed from being a
player in Major League Baseball, and obviously a lot of
the conversation the last twenty four hours in the sport
has been about Pete Rose being added to the eligible
list now for the Hall of Fame, forgetting about and
if you want to add your two cents on Pete,
we'd love to hear from you, but also your thoughts
about the players and what they are told and those
meetings before the start of the season, about the absolute
no knows, whether it's performance dancing, drugs, whether it's gambling.
How often do the players association, the manager, the coaches,
do they get it into your ear? You guys have
to know there's a certain set of rules that will
ultimately get you in some trouble.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, it's very clear what the rules are.
Speaker 3: I mean, there are meetings every year in spring training.
Any clubhouse do you walk into, whether it be a
home or visiting clubhouse, has rules posted, you know, somewhere
right near the entrance where everybody can see and read
on a daily basis. There's no excuse for not knowing
the rules. And I know it's a little bit different
now with how more prevalent sports betting.
Speaker 2: Is and how easy it is.
Speaker 3: You know, you basically have a bookie in your hand
at all times. But the excuse of not knowing is
not there because it's made very clear, you know. That
being said, my opinion on the Hall of Fame I
like very simple. I like black and white where I
think the best players should be in. And if you're eligible,
I think you vote accordingly. But obviously, you know, writers
will vote how they want to write, how they want
to vote, and we've seen that play out with the
whole performance enhancing era of some of the voting, you know,
not making sense where certain guys get votes and certain
guys don't. But you know, if I understand the band
and the lifetime ban, and that played its way out,
and you know, Pete Rose he's served his time, and
for the rest of his life he was not eligible,
and now that's over, and now that he is eligible
and can be voted in.
Speaker 2: I have no problem with it.
Speaker 3: If that's the case, Okay, we'll.
Speaker 1: Live at that, bog You're looking forward to seeing you
on TV tonight and we'll talk again next week. Thanks
for the visitors always, all right, I'll feel it all right,
Sprian Bogusvik with us here on Sports Talk seven only
every Wednesday at eleven o'clock.