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Speaker 3: Dan Matthew, excuse, this is the Shawn Salisbury Show. Some
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Speaker 3: Jump aboard. Let's keep it going with John and Fresno
Speaker 3: wants to weigh in. John, good morning, Hey, good morning guys.
Speaker 3: Good morning Dan, Hey Seun.
Speaker 4: Good to hear you.
Speaker 1: Bok, my friend, did you back? It's you too, brother.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you.
Speaker 2: My first vacation about eight years, so it's kind of nice.
Speaker 2: That's great to be well, it's great to be back
Speaker 2: with you.
Speaker 1: Man. I miss you, guys. Thank you. Yeah, you deserve it.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: Hey, Nick, here one thing I like about the Astros. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you're right, Sean, you came to close to you had.
Speaker 4: But one thing that gave the manage that chant to
Speaker 4: do is the sais that we got on this team
Speaker 4: and them youngs, them young guns. Hey, you look here,
Speaker 4: and you know what the moves he made by making
Speaker 4: opinions the lead off. Hitler having the best year so
Speaker 4: far of his career. Miles is having the best year
Speaker 4: so far of his career. Hey, lord, before you found
Speaker 4: a superstar out there coming up. Cam switch solidified right here.
Speaker 4: Your third basement is hitting, he's raking, then this, and
Speaker 4: then you got your first basement that's beginning to hit.
Speaker 4: Now pitching his deep bullpen is showing out. So what
Speaker 4: I'm saying is that by them having this team together
Speaker 4: and the way they playing allows you're done to come
Speaker 4: back healthy. So that's why they don't have to rush
Speaker 4: them back. And hey, look here the way they're playing
Speaker 4: just to be a couple of games out of their division, Hey,
Speaker 4: they'll take that in the day. So my question is
Speaker 4: gonna hang up is when you're done come back, how
Speaker 4: do you think they're gonna work that thing?
Speaker 1: Why he won't break up.
Speaker 4: The uples, up his youngsters, and who's gonna be the
Speaker 4: man out?
Speaker 1: And I hang up in this.
Speaker 3: I appreciate the call, John, I don't really think there
Speaker 3: is an odd man out right now, Sean. Because of
Speaker 3: all the things we talked about this morning with the lineup,
Speaker 3: you notice who we haven't mentioned, Janar Diez. He's another
Speaker 3: guy that's been incredibly inconsistent for this team this year,
Speaker 3: so much to the point that Joe has had to
Speaker 3: rely on Victor Carrattini, I think a lot more than
Speaker 3: he wanted to be able to at this point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and brought his name up earlier. The inconsistency.
Speaker 2: You still haven't had him rake like you expected. Hence
Speaker 2: Victor Carrattini, who I think is one of the more
Speaker 2: unherlded important players to a team in this league, especially
Speaker 2: this team. They've needed him leadership, versatility to step in
Speaker 2: and he just continues to do it. And the guy's
Speaker 2: been reliable. This isn't the same Yainer that is that
Speaker 2: we expect to be an All Star. Correct, it's not
Speaker 2: that guy yet, no, so, but we've we've seen flashes
Speaker 2: of it last year. Guy can play. Yet well, you
Speaker 2: haven't seen his consistency, because when you do, the lineup
Speaker 2: would be again Painya al Twove, Jordan Walker Parades or
Speaker 2: or whoever is in the four, five, six hole, whoever
Speaker 2: you decide to put in there. Walker Parades, Yiner, Diaz,
Speaker 2: Jiner Diaz Walker Parades, those first six and even you know,
Speaker 2: hell the way that the you know that Jake Myers
Speaker 2: has played, so you get seven, I mean you're you're
Speaker 2: now looking at a a roster that you say, okay,
Speaker 2: that can Rake as we had ert Alex mentioned earlier
Speaker 2: about the way they can play, but think about it again.
Speaker 2: Al two Bays had his ups and downs this year,
Speaker 2: started off fast and went through a lull. His bats
Speaker 2: started to pick it up. Painia has been pretty damn
Speaker 2: good all year long. Diaz up and down, Walker hasn't
Speaker 2: hasn't stayed up. Jordon, I mean as far as his power,
Speaker 2: Jordon has been hurt. And even before that there was
Speaker 2: obviously bothering because the power wasn't there.
Speaker 1: I mean, and.
Speaker 2: Paradis has been really good. So in truth, you've had
Speaker 2: two players in the first six that have been consistently
Speaker 2: good this year.
Speaker 1: Parades and Peana.
Speaker 2: The rest of them have had Altovey started hot, but
Speaker 2: the rest of them, whether it's injury or performance, they
Speaker 2: have not been consistent. And this still, this team is
Speaker 2: still above five hundred and still staring Chlaue, I mean,
Speaker 2: can reach out and grab the division lead. And remember
Speaker 2: again Wesnsky, Spencer Arraghetti, uh Renelle Blanco getting mccolors back
Speaker 2: after all this, I mean, I'm not saying, you know,
Speaker 2: it's not a matter of all this is a great team,
Speaker 2: but you've got to consider man if I started taking
Speaker 2: players out of other lineups like this, how many of
Speaker 2: them can sustain and survive it? And that goes to
Speaker 2: their development of young players and a pitcher stepping up
Speaker 2: and doing their thing. We see all France do it
Speaker 2: in you know, a year and a half or so ago,
Speaker 2: where they needed Renelle Blanco last year.
Speaker 1: There's always somebody. But what's it. What will it be.
Speaker 2: Like when Jiner and Walker and Jordan are all in
Speaker 2: the lineup and all rolling.
Speaker 1: Let's hope we see it.
Speaker 3: Well, it's also too I think one bit of good
Speaker 3: news with Jiner is watching his at bats this weekend,
Speaker 3: which I would say that probably Sean. I watched about
Speaker 3: ninety percent of the games this weekend, obviously at Buzzfest
Speaker 3: on Saturday, so wasn't able to see the end of
Speaker 3: that game, but did notice that he was starting to
Speaker 3: lay off that slider that has sent him kind of
Speaker 3: with the butt going in the third base dugout and
Speaker 3: the bat going through the zone and not usually a
Speaker 3: good swing. So if that's starting to be the case,
Speaker 3: you hope that he's able to start jumping on the
Speaker 3: pitches that are in the zone.
Speaker 2: Oh, there's absolutely no question because if he does different ballgame.
Speaker 2: You are one hundred percent correct, And wouldn't it be
Speaker 2: nice to have all this going at once, stand for
Speaker 2: about thirty games? I mean, you know, it'd be nice
Speaker 2: for a month to say, okay, now make the rest
Speaker 2: of them chase. But yes, they hit the balls you
Speaker 2: can reach and are in the zone.
Speaker 1: Key. And it's not.
Speaker 2: Only for the Ironer Dias and for the Christian Walkers
Speaker 2: and anybody else. But when Jordan's back and healthy and
Speaker 2: swinging when he's average, he can load you up and
Speaker 2: carry you. When he's really good, well, then it's not
Speaker 2: even just his his ability at the plate, it's his presence.
Speaker 2: Guys like that impact the game even when they're not
Speaker 2: swinging well because the pitcher still wonders, well, is this
Speaker 2: the time? So you're still you know, protected, and you're
Speaker 2: still pitching. You're still not going to try to You
Speaker 2: don't want to be the reason he's out of his
Speaker 2: that he gets healthy on you. And I'm not talking
Speaker 2: about physically, I'm talking about starts feasting on you or
Speaker 2: whoever that is.
Speaker 1: You don't want to be the guy. Oh here we go.
Speaker 2: So the whole key is, yeah, laying out of laying
Speaker 2: off balls out of it, which has been a big
Speaker 2: part of paying his success this year in Agnes.
Speaker 1: But for other guys, it's being able to drive the.
Speaker 2: Balls that are in the zone that normally a guy
Speaker 2: like Jordan hits all he uses foul pol the foul pole.
Speaker 2: So we're going to find out when he gets back.
Speaker 2: The question is when will he the threshold of pain
Speaker 2: kick in. And then if Jayinter and Christian Walker can
Speaker 2: add the power bat that we think they both have
Speaker 2: and that we've seen it times from both, then it'll
Speaker 2: make for a really good change up for this team
Speaker 2: because right now you're getting a lot of good production
Speaker 2: from guys you probably didn't expect it to plate well.
Speaker 1: I mean especially too.
Speaker 3: That's one of Jordon's calling cards is how good he
Speaker 3: is at recognizing pitches that are outside the zone and
Speaker 3: being able to square up the ones that are in
Speaker 3: the zone, and I mean to the.
Speaker 1: Point out of the ballpark the other way.
Speaker 2: Dan, it's a pitch it's just off the plate, then
Speaker 2: instead of rolling over on it, hits it the other
Speaker 2: way for a home running the Crawford boxes.
Speaker 1: That's who he is and when he's.
Speaker 2: Seeing it like that, even if he doesn't hit it,
Speaker 2: Pitchers are afraid to throw it, so you know, they
Speaker 2: get a little they get a little testy and little
Speaker 2: curious that you know. Protection for him is big, but
Speaker 2: also it's like anything a great running back, even if
Speaker 2: he doesn't carry it in a game.
Speaker 1: Linebackers are afraid to be the reason why he runs
Speaker 1: over them, so they still got to get.
Speaker 2: Stout and ready, which helps play action over the top.
Speaker 2: Same thing here even when he's not even the threat
Speaker 2: of Jordan Alvarez enhances the lineup greatly because the pitcher
Speaker 2: is always there's that anxiety of okay, don't let me be.
Speaker 1: The reason today is the reason.
Speaker 2: He busts out of this and then starts a forty
Speaker 2: five game where he's like as good as areas in
Speaker 2: baseball from which we've seen which we've seen