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Speaker 1: Time now to spend ten quality minutes with our good

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friend Brian mctaggard MLB dot com on.

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Speaker 2: The Astros beat. He'll be with the local nine in.

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Speaker 1: Atlanta, uh for the weekend series against the hated Atlanta Braves.

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By the way, they've been I think fully eliminated from

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any playoff contention, and uh, if you put tag on

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the screen format, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Uh, Brian, It's a strange situation here.

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Speaker 1: You've either got teams in the midst of a really

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die hard, tough Pennant race, or you got teams just

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playing out the string. So there's no it's a completely

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mixed bag between now and the end of the year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the the Yeah, you're right.

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Speaker 4: I mean they're gonna they're gonna play nine games against

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teams that are completely out of it. I mean, we

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all know those games can be a little bit dangerous

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because those teams have nothing to lose. But those are

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also teams that could be resting players or shutting guys

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down for the season. So they're definitely teams they should

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take advantage of, you know, especially at the end of

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the year going to the A's and the Angels. I

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mean those teams have been out of it for a while,

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so but it's all gonna come down to the next

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week's homestand I mean that's massive. I mean, you know,

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three teams battling it out for the division title. The

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Astros are the only one of the three it gets

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to play both of them, and they get to play

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both of them at home.

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Speaker 3: The Mariners haven't been good on the road, you know.

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Speaker 4: The Astroals haven't played very well at home frankly in

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the second half of the season. So if they can

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win both those series, you know, I think it'll set

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them up very well in the final week week to

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try to close this thing out.

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Speaker 3: But you know, if they go into.

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Speaker 4: This home stand next week and lay an egg there,

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you know, they could be in some trouble because if

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they're now chasing wins and chasing the Mariners or chasing

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the Rangers gets a lot more difficult.

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Speaker 1: Every loss this time of year feels like it's compounded

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with frustration. I thought that the setback two days ago

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really really hurt a because of Garcia, b because they

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gave up the game late, and the fact that you

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really had some serious doubts about the role of Brian

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and Braga in the ninth inning, and yesterday he came

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back and was really good. Not only did he get

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things done in the ninth anybody did it with a

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low amount of pitches. What do you notice? What do

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you think about Brian A. Braw's ability? Very early on

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when he replaced Hater, it was great, But it feels

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like for a better part of a month it's been

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difficult for him to kind of assume that role now

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that Josh has been gone.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's not alone in that.

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Speaker 4: I mean, we've seen that through the years, when when

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closers go on the IL or you lose a closer

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to free agency or whatever. Sometimes as an adjustment period,

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sometimes a guy comes in and just can't do it.

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I mean I remember Will Harris taking over his closer.

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He'd been such a great setup man and just couldn't

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get it done and they had to move him back

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to the setup role. I'm not gonna say that's happening

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with the Brave. But Brave's issue is just when he

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lets the leadoff guy get on base, he gets in trouble,

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and that happens a lot. I think he's let I

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think around eighteen percent of the leadoff hitter get on

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base via a walk. I mean, he's got really good stuff.

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He just needs to stay in the zone a little

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bit more. And he did that yesterday. I mean, he

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came out you could tell that. I mean that he

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was he was gonna come in there and throw strikes

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and and and not spray the ball like he did

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the night before. And you know, I think props to

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Joe a Spota for putting him back out there. I mean,

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no one expected that he was going to be ready

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to pitch, but they needed him to go out there,

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and you know, he didn't probably have you know, a

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lot left as far as pitches go, and he went

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out there and threw strikes and dominated and got it done.

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And I think that will be worlds for the confidence.

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As bad as the loss was in Toronto in the

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first game, I think last night's game was one of

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their biggest wins. And probably the biggest swing of the

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bat of the season was by jannar Diez with that

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homer in the ninth inning.

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Speaker 5: How concerned are you about his a velocity being down

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a tick or two?

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Speaker 4: Not concerned? I mean he was, you know, second day

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in a row. I mean he's pitched a ton of innings. Again,

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you know, you'd love to get him more rest. If

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you're Astros, you just don't have that luxury. I mean,

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they're just so thin in the bullpen right now. I

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mean they're they're pretty much a bullpen man short than

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other teams because mccullors isn't pitching at all.

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Speaker 3: So I think we're just at that point the season.

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Speaker 4: When guys are trying to give it everything they have

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and they're tired, and you know, if their Astros, you

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gotta hope you can maybe win the division by two

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or three games and just shut some of these guys

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down on the final weekend.

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Speaker 3: But with the way this thing's going, I don't think

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that's going to be the case. This looks like it's

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going to go down right to the wire.

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Speaker 5: Brian McTaggart astros dot Com with us here on Sports

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Talk seven ninety. Great outing last night from Jason Alexander.

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I guess if we're calling it a fluid situation, but

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as of this moment, he could be your third starter

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in a playoff scenario, just as we all predicted.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, didn't we all say that at the beginning of

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the year. They would get him off waivers, he'd be

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their third starter. I don't know I wrote that at

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that maybe not, but but yeah, you're right.

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Speaker 4: I mean, if you look at their playoff rotation now,

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it's clearly going to be Hunter Brown and Frember Valdez.

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I mean, despite all the things that's gone on with

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Fromber last couple of months, he's still your your second

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best option as a starting pitcher. He's a guy that's

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dominated in the playoffs before, like he did in twenty two.

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So he's going to be your number two. But yeah, Alexander,

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he's probably your number three. I mean, we're not sure

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what Christian Haavier is yet. You know he's got going

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to get the ball today. He's certainly got a chance

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over the next sixteen games or however many starts he

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has three, three, four starts to maybe solidify his spot.

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But with the way Alexander threw yesterday, they had won

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his previous seven starts before that. Just the guy that

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competes and throws strikes and doesn't do it overpowering that

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you know, throws that change up to lefties and rightys

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and just isn't afraid of anything.

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Speaker 3: He's he's your number three. Star.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I think at this point in the season,

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he's probably earned that and that probably speaks more to

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the injuries they've had to anything else, but also a

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tip of the hat to him for, you know, really

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coming here and making an impact.

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Speaker 1: I was talking to Ross earlier in the day about

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jose l Twove getting the day off, and you know,

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you would think those days off would be few and

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far between, especially this late in the season. Combination of things,

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day game, night game, you have turf field. Every one

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of these games are impactful. Oh, by the way, he's

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 1: The base running situation wasn't great the other day, going from

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second to third extra innings. I'm guessing Jose went to

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him and said, I'm ready to go. I wanted to play,

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and I think probably Joe said I'm gonna go ahead

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and just give you the chance to sit back and relax.

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Speaker 2: On this one.

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Speaker 1: I felt like yesterday was as much a mental day

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for Jose as compared to just getting him off his feet.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt. I mean I think there were a

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lot of reasons that.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you just ran him all down while you

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want to sit him, and you know you did get

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get the get get the pinch it at BA. But uh,

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you're right, he needed a break and Joe said that,

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you know, he talked to Altuve after the game on Tuesday.

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I'm sure it was that point that I mean, Joe

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probably made up his mind he was going to give

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him the day and they probably talked about it after

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the game. So give him a chance to you know,

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go to bed with a clear head and come to

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the park yesterday and not have to you know, worry

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about getting ready or you know, studying the starter or

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all that. And you know this, you know, he's a

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guy that's played in more games than anybody else, so

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it's been a real grind for him, and he has

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not played well for over a month now. And jose

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know this is probably wearing on him big time.

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Speaker 3: But he's also a.

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Speaker 4: Guy that can turn it around in a dime where

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we could see him go like, you know, seven for

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sixteen in a series and absolute carry a team, So

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that that could happen, you know, this weekend in Atlanta.

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here over these final sixteen games because he's he's gonna

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hit high in the lineup, he's gonna be in the

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middle of some of their you know with Alvarez, and

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Speaker 1: You mentioned Lance McCullers Junior a couple of minutes ago.

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Is he just mop up low leverage you need an

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arm to thrown inning, because it feels like, and you

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defined role for him right now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so. I mean we saw him come in,

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you know, I don't know how long ago.

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Speaker 4: It was the X Rating game a few days ago,

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and you know, you know, he hasn't I don't know

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if he's even warmed up since I think it's pretty

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clear he's probably not going to make the playoff roster

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and then you know, they might have to have some

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difficult conversations about him in the offseason. But it was

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just clearly just he just doesn't have the stuff. I mean,

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he's just you know, he's throwing ninety two, you know,

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hitting ninety three.

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Speaker 3: You know, he's getting some swing and miss.

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Speaker 4: He can pitch a little bit, but the fastball just

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just isn't there, and he's not throwing enough strikes, and

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it's probably extremely frustrating for him, and this is probably

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a low point of his career.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, it certainly looks like I don't even mop

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Speaker 4: I mean, I hate to say that about a guy,

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but the Astros don't blow any teams out, and they

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generally don't get blown out, so there's no opportunities to

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throw a guy out there in a six run game.

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Speaker 3: They just don't have those. So they got to keep

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going to the same guys over and over.

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Speaker 4: And you know it's clear that to a spot out

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with the way he's used his bullpen, he's not one

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Speaker 5: Yeah, as you mentioned, we talked about a Brave, but

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the rest of the bullpen as well. They end up

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in these highly leverage situations and it's going to continue

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to happen. I mean, I would say there's a lot

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of concerns on this team, but especially in the pecking

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order out of a Brak. I just it's hard for

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me to have real confidence in this bullpen down the

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Speaker 3: Totally agree.

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Speaker 4: I think losing Hater was just a massive blow to

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this team. I mean, you could put Bennett SUSA.

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Speaker 3: And ord In there as well.

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Speaker 4: But losing Hater, you know, a guy who's having a

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tremendous season. Now you're moving guys into roles and not

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your bullpen. And I agree. I mean, I think that's

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the real issue they're going to have, is just closing

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how do you piece together those final four innings and

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at pressure situations in the postseason against they're gonna be

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playing very, very good teams Toronto, Detroit, you know, Seattle

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Hater could come back. I don't think he's even throwing yet,

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so it seems unlikely. But yeah, I think that's just

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the one issue they're really gonna have to overcome. And

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that's why, you know, I really don't see them making

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a long playoff run. It's just with the injuries they've

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had to the bullpen.

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Speaker 1: So so let's wrap up our conversation with a little

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bit of a glass half full situation.

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Speaker 2: They have had all these.

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Speaker 1: Things from runners in scoring position to slumps, to injuries,

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to bullpen to whatnot, and they're still sitting here with

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a game leading the American League West. If they are

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to survive this, if you were to write the storyline

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of Wow, these last fifteen games were so good because.

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Speaker 2: Of how would you fill that out? Do you think

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or how does it have to happen?

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Speaker 4: I think they're gonna have to. I think it's gonna

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come down to hitting. I mean, they're just gonna have to.

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They're gonna have to get a few guys hot. They're

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gonna have to out slug a few teams. They can't

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come home and go, you know, two for thirty with

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runners in scoring position in a series, they're gonna get beat.

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They're just gonna have to. I just think they're gonna

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have to outscore outslug teams. I mean they're pitching, is

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what it is. You feel good when Hunter Brown takes

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the ball. Not sure about Valdez. I mean, Alexander, you

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feel pretty good. Uh beyond that, who knows? So Uh,

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They're just gonna have to find a way to score

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runs and not getting these prolonged slumps, not only not

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only not getting slumps, but come through in the clutch.

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I mean they they the runners in scoring position cannot

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be an issue. So to me, that's what it's gonna

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come down to, is just can they can they hit?

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Can they hit over these final six games enough to

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get them to that division title?

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Speaker 1: Men, Taggart, great stuff as always for ends, Safe travels

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to the at L and we'll talk to you with

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you again next week.

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Speaker 3: All right, Thanks EV.

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Speaker 2: That's Bryan McTaggart m LB dot com with US year