Speaker 1: All right, welcome in. It's Thursday. It's trade deadline Thursday.
Brian Leonard Tokyo Brand, and I think that's why we
have no games. That must be a new thing. Three games,
but we're gonna give you the full the full rub
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it hop in the chat. Just drop your questions and
we'll get to as many as possible within the hour.
I was just joking off air. My second screen today
is not working. But if there was ever a day
for it to happen, it's today because I pretty much
memorize my memorized all three games already, so I know
what we're dealing with. I don't even have to really
look at the lines. So we'll get let's get it
started right. We have one day game. It's raised Yankees.
Ryan McMahon, his first Yankees moment last night, walking it
off in a five to four win. Now they go
to the Bronx for a day game. Brian Leonard, how
are you seeing this one raise Yankees?
Speaker 2: Yeah. I talked yesterday about with the trade deadline and
what's gonna happens, it's hard to make strong plays at
this time, and I gave it. I gave four plays
out to my clients. My top play was the free
play that I used and the play that I used
on the parlay yesterday, and that was Miami. That worked
out well. But I did have Tampa Bay as a
smaller play, and I thought it was a pretty good
shape after they made that come back late. But I
think that this was the first time a team as
ever I was falling behind in like the ninth inning,
the tenth inning, and the eleventh inning, and they won.
And that was the Yankees yesterday, So you would think
it'd be a good spot here for Tampa Bay. They've
got the better picture on the mound, obviously, with against Strawman.
Strawman comes in he's about a one ten favorite nine
to the under in this game. When you take a
look at Pepio's's standings, he's six to night other season
three point four two e are a three point eight
eight expected one point one point five whip. His numbers
are pretty good, but if you look at his stackcast
numbers other than extension, he's six with three and his
extension is seventy fourth percentile. Everything else is pretty mediocre.
He's not bad at anything. He's not good, really good
at anything. He's more of a just a normal pitcher.
But he does have six pitches. He throws his four seemer.
He does throw too much, in my opinion, forty third
percent forty three percent usage, and he's basically at league
average ninety five miles an hour for a right handed pitcher.
He's got a curve for center and cutter, but he
doesn't use any of them more than ten percent of
the time. I think he could incorporate some of those
and have a little bit better success because his barrel
rates on the twenty six percentile, and that's probably the
worst out of all of his numbers. And if you
can barrel him up and you know the foreseamer is coming,
then you can have some success in that regard. Marcus Strowman,
you know he had a lot, He's taken a lot
of shit the last few years. He may not be
the greatest teammate in the world, and he thinks a
lot about himself, but he puts in the innings for you.
This year unfortunately, six point nine ERA, five point five
to five expected, Yet he's two and two on the season.
His whip is horrendous one point five nine. You know,
his career whip is one point two eight the last
two years one point five nine, one point four to seven.
That's really where he's fallen off. The good thing he does.
He's a ground ball pitcher eighty second percent TEL and
that is the only thing he is good at. If
you look at his below ten percent TOLE numbers. Looking
at expected ERA, we're looking at fastball velocity, average exit
of velocity, fifth percentage, strikeout percentage, hard hit percentage, and extension.
He's only five foot seven. He's usually you find guys
that are small like that that don't last in the majors.
He's placed eleven seasons and he's actually two games over
five hundred three point seven eighty RA. He's had. Really
you got admire a guy from a talent standpoint. He's
not the most talented. He's the smaller guy and I
don't know about you guys, but most of my life
I've dealt with a lot of smaller guys and they've
got the heart of champions. They've been picked on all
their lives. He's another one like it, and he gets
the best out of his information. That said, I really
don't like Stroman here. I prefer Tampa Bay with the
Pepio side, especially after the way they lost yesterday. I
talked about that in one of the games yesterday where
a team blows a game, I believe it was the
Reds blow game, and then the next day I kind
of root for them a little bit more, and I
think they come out with a little bit of a
chip on their shoulder, especially in this one, because they
have not played well the last couple of days. We
only got three games going. I'm gonna get mine out
of the way right now. I'm gonna play Tampa Bay
basically about minus one oh five I think is about
the league average right now. So Tampa Bay minus one
five here is going to be my parlay piece. I
am probably going to pass today for anything. I may
not even put out a free play, although we won
six straight free players. It's just such a small card,
and as we saw yesterday, a lot of movement of players,
a lot of stuff going on. If you followed the
Minnesota Twins situation, that's a team that's looking right now
that we could fade pretty much for a while. They
don't play today, so I can't get into that one,
but we'll stop with that. We'll just go with pepiol
with Tampa Bay and try to get you something on
all three of these games.
Speaker 3: You can't really argue with that. Pepio's got good numbers
against these batters, and he's by far the better pitcher.
Had a great start in his last one against Cincinnati,
but before that he got tagged by the Orioles, so
he's a little up and down. You can always rely
on him to basically give you six innings and give
up maybe two or three runs. Yankees, I thought they
were really crushing the ball until I crunched the numbers,
and they're batting sixteen out of thirty in current form.
But the Rays are batting twenty four, So neither team's
actually ripping the cover off the ball here. I give
the Rays the advantage with the bullpen by quite a
big margin, and I give them the advantage in starting
pitching by quite a big margin. I guess my lean
here would be to take the Rais team total over,
but I just checked it and it's four and a half,
So I don't like four and a half. It's a
little high. Stroman Stroman, Yeah, he's he's got a really
obscene whip and ere his numbers are pretty bad, but
if you look at his games in his last four starts,
he hasn't really been that terrible. I also would lean
to Tampa Bay over in the first five, but it's
two and a half and I don't think they're gonna
get three runs right off the bats, so nothing to
play here. But I would like to take a Tampa
Bay team total over if it was lower, but it's not.
Speaker 1: I want to pull collins comment up because it's an
interesting one and I think I have an opinion on
on on what he said. So he says, the only
thing that worries me about the Rays does Yandi or
Brandon Laura anyone else get traded during the game. The
Rays are a team. They're one of the teams that
I think could sell, and it's not gonna make a
difference to like them being in the mix or not.
The reason I say that is they've got a lot
of guys that are the same or similar, Meaning if
you look at the roster at Durham right now, there's
a lot of guys that are kind of interchangeable with
most of their big league rosters. So like, if you've
watched what they've done this year, it's like, you know,
they've had like Palacios and de Luca, like battling injuries
and trying to get back in the mix. Chandler Simpson,
they have him up for a while, then he's down,
then he's back up, and it kind of you know,
they've got some good players at Durham that you haven't
even got a chance yet, Like Bob Seymour, I think
Tristan Peters is having a really good season down there.
He's been down there. So it's like I kind of
look at the Rays as a team. You know, they're
three games out of a wild card spot right now.
So yes, they're two to eight in their last ten
and they may sell because it's the right thing to
do from a long term standpoint, but this team is
not out of it by any means, and so like
that's where that that's where I would think that I
wouldn't really worry about that, because now I do think
it's worth bringing up the fact that I kind of
said this in regards to the Diamondbacks last week and
that has gone completely off the rails, at least in
the short term. But I still look at this Raise
team and say, Okay, they could sell, and it doesn't
make them any less sort of in the mix. The
reason that's important, and the reason it's an important thing
to bring up, is because the market will see them sell,
and they'll and the market will bail on them. Right,
So this might not be as much for today as
that in the coming days. If you see a team
like the Rays trade some guys, it does not mean
that they're not still like trying to trying to win
a wild card spot this year, or it's good, or
the effort's going to be any less different. In this case,
it means they've got a lot of the same guys
and so it's not going to matter if they trade
guys and look long term, which is something the Rays
always do. The Rays are always looking at next year.
It does not matter if they're in it. There was teams,
There's been years where they've been like an ALCS team.
They're always looking at next year. It's how they it's
how they're able to stay competitive year to year with
the payroll in the market that they have. So I
wouldn't put much stock into that at all. And I'm
with Brian like, I'm not gonna I don't think I'll
bet this game. But I can't really argue with the
Rays being the right side here. I just I like
their makeup a little bit better with Pepio as opposed
to Strom. So that's kind of how I'm seeing this one.
Go ahead, Brian.
Speaker 2: The good point and I was going to make it,
you made it is Tampa Bay every year goes into
the trade deadline trying to improve their team for the future. Uh,
they do it the correct way if you ask me.
These teams that send out a lot of you look
look at the metch yesterday to get the pitcher from
San Francisco. I mean they sent away a lot of good,
three good players, and you don't know what's gonna happen
just for a guy who's going to pitch what two
months for them, And that is that's not the way
you know the match could end up winning the World Series.
It's going to help their team this year, but in
the future it's gonna hurt them. Tampa Bay doesn't do that.
They worry about the future, not the present, and I
like that about them. That's why they're consistent. Every year
they're considering their payroll and nobody goes to see the
games in Tampa and they got the worst stadium in baseball.
They've been able to be competitive each and every year.
Management's great, and you find teams like that and the Brewers.
Cleveland's done that for the most part. So that's the
way you're supposed to play it, if you ask me,
those are the teams that are good long term. And
they may end up trading these guys today and that
will hurt today's game. I have no doubt if they
trade away those guys today. You know, even if they
bring up the guys from the Miners, it's their first
game back and we first game up there, and we
have seen so many guys fail the first time up.
It wouldn't make a difference today. But in the long run,
I think it'll help them.
Speaker 1: Can we talk about that Mets trade for a minute,
because I have an opinion there and I feel like
I have a little bit of insight. So like I
was at the Syracuse Mets game like two weeks ago,
and my father in law's company was throwing out the
first pitch that day, so we got to go on
the field and we actually my nine year old nephew
got to throw out the first pitch. Like I was jealous,
very jealous of that. But the reason I bring this
up is I struck up a conversation with the with
one of the kind of the promotion guys that's there
every day, and we were talking about some of the
Mets younger players, and I read through the lines of
what he was saying. It sounds like Gilbert did not
have I don't think they were really thrilled with his
overall attitude. Sounded like he was a little bit immature.
And so I kind of think the Mets and Cohen
and just like where they're at. And the reason I
bring this up is this should tell you, like what
the Mets mindset is this year. This they expect to
win the World Series, Like they think like if they
don't win the World Series or they're not in the
World Series, I think they would deem this an unsuccessful season.
So you look at the Mets in their organization, the
pitching that they have, the fact that they have Sproke,
they have Nolan MacLean in double A, they have Jonah Tong,
who's probably better than all of them. I just don't
think they give a shit. I think they were like Tidwell,
Yeah whatever, you're all right, see ya, Gilbert. We don't
like the attitude, see you. We'll take a bullpen guy
and maybe we overpaid, but we also just like got
you know, we got rid of some like trying to
have to force Tidwell in there, and we got rid
of a guy that maybe doesn't have the attitude that
we want, and we got a great relieve room return.
So I really think that was the Mets mindset there.
And I think the Mets are their NLCS or better
this year in my opinion. Yeah, and if you guys
want to, I mean, I don't you know, I'm trying
to throughout the show to all.
Speaker 3: Oh, go ahead, you're talking about getting Hellsley from the
Cardinals or are you talking about no?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they made so Yeah, the Hellsley thing is
a good thing to bring up too. But they traded Brian.
What was the actual trade they traded for Rogers, and
it was like they Gilbert Gilbert Tidwell and yeah, but
that's the point is they just went, they got healthy,
they went and got another reliever. Like, if you don't
think the Mets are like competing for a World Series
this year, you're out of your mind. And that's where
it's like. But there's some people that are still going
to have them undervalued in the market. So the other
thing I want to do with this show, since we
only have three games, will probably be here for an hour,
is try to give you some insight into where I
think certain teams could go in the second half. Listen,
we were on the Mariners stuff months ago. I see
people betting the Mariners now. The time to bet the
Mariners was three months ago when I came on the
show and said, hey, they've got a million pieces they
can trade. What did they do? They got they got
Geno Suarez, they got Josh Naylor. The time to do
that was a while ago. Right now, I think you
could grab the Mets before it's cool, before it's the
cool thing to do, because what happens when they have
a huge August and now all of a sudden, there's
no value on doing that. So that's that's really why
I wanted to bring it up.
Speaker 3: They picked up Soto as well, which is not a
bad ACTIVI They've they've added three relievers, but I think
Rogers is the best one that they added. Yeah. I've
never been a fan of Diaz, but man, you look
how he's performing lately, really well, closing games out at
You know, they got Juan Soto probably one of the best,
you know, pure hitters in the game. Not the best,
but he's up there and uh not really performing like
he should be. Uh. I think he performed better with
the Padres than he is this year. But I think
he'll catch on. He's a momentum kind of guy. And
when when this team starts getting a little momentum, how's
their division shaping out? You know, that's the question. Do
you think they can hold on?
Speaker 1: Well? Yeah, they talk about that one. How about TV?
How about Johan Duran? How about the Phillies doing what
they do every year?
Speaker 2: At the headline, I didn't think Minnesota got nearly the
value that we were expecting out of that trade.
Speaker 1: They should have demanded justin Crawford in my opinion, but
they should have gotten Crawford. Yeah, I mean, Mick Abel
has the ability to be a very good big league starter.
But I agree, Brian, I thought they would have gotten
Able and another MLB like guy that was kind of
close to being like MLB position player. I think they
got a catcher that was like, he's a little bit
further down the line. He's probably an A ball or
something like that. So yeah, that was that. That was interesting.
I thought they would have got a little bit more
and how and props to the Phillies they were able
to go out and get Johann Duran and not give
up their best position player prospect in Crossford Crawford, So
there's yeah, well they didn't give up nothing Mick Gabel.
Mick Gabel is a major league starter at this point.
But I think they had you know, Andrew Paynter is
back from injury, he's been down there. I think the
Phillies just looked at their team and said, one of
these guys is expendable. The Twins probably wanted Able because
he's a lefty, and and they might he might have
just he's probably the more big league ready at this point.
He's proven he can do it at the big league level.
A little bit. So yeah, it's gonna be that'll be
a great division race. But I still think I still
think the Mets are better, a better team. And Brian Leonard,
is there a on paper? Is there a better bullpen
now than the Mets? Like really like on paper?
Speaker 2: Pretty pretty nice? You know, I'm a bigger Budo fan
than I listened to a lot of what I looked
on Twitter. A lot of Mets fans handed Budo. But
he's not having the greatest year or not, but that
guy's been really good for them. Yeah, and yeah, to
give him up I think hurts a little bit. We'll
see what happens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be interesting. We'll see what happens the
rest of the day. The one cool thing I guess
that Major League Baseball did was kind of clear out
the middle portion of today. So it's like, you know,
the the all the focus is going to be on
the trades since I believe the deadline ends around like
six o'clock before the too late games starts, so we've
got basically got Yankees raised. Then it's gonna be like
three hours of uncut trade deadline coverage and then we'll
play the two night games. So let's go to the
first of the two night games.
Speaker 2: I think they did. Plus. You know, if you're a
baseball fan, you're gonna say it's because of the trade deadline.
If you're a football fan, they're gonna say, oh, there's
only three games today because the Hall of Fame game.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But yeah, but they're putting they're putting two of
them up against the Hall game. Yes, So I think
I really think it's because I think they're trying to
avoid as many awkward scenarios as possible, like players getting
pulled from games and stuff like that. I think that
that's why. So they give you a.
Speaker 3: Couple of team during the game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I think they you know, that was the
that was the reason that that they did that like this,
but I'm glad they gave us. I'm glad they didn't
just totally shut the day out. They gave us a
couple of games to talk about, to bet on. So
the next one we'll go to is in Cincinnati. Cincinnati
moved a little bit yesterday, so we've got Braves, Reds,
Brian Leonard. How do you do you think Cincinnati improved
their chances by going out and getting to Brian Hayes yesterday.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not a fan base though, great defensive third baseman,
and I've seen breakdowns where if they've taken his uh
fly balls and put it over Cincinnati, he will have
fifty seven more home runs on the season. Uh. But
I've never liked him. He's a bad hi and I
don't think that makes much difference. He's a better defensive
player that's going to help him out there, but I've
never been much of a fan. We're looking at Carlos Carrasco,
a new member of the Atlanta Braves, going against Abbott,
Abbot being the lefty today, Abbott and Cincinnati about a
one seventy one sixty five favorite. You're looking at a
total of nine and a half to the under minus
one twenty. Carrasco on the season five point nine to one, ERA,
four point nine to four, expected, one point five to three.
Whip love Carlos Carrasco as a person, do not like
Carlos Carrasco is a pitcher at this age. Unfortunately, he's
thrown thirty two innings this year, not very much last
year one hundred and three year before ninety coming back
from cancer. But wish him the best all the time.
Everything I've heard. He's a guy, but his number is
not very good. His walk percent sixty ninth percentile, extension
seventy fourth percentile, everything else is in the blue barrel
rate sixth percentile, Every Jackson velocity ninth, fastball tenth, expect
to Benny Everge seventh. He is. He's just not the
pitcher he was at one point. He does throw five
pitches and he mixes him up, which is what I like.
You know, he doesn't have that four seamer any longer
ninety one point five, which is about three and a
half miles an hour less than a normal right hander.
He's not going to beat you out of that, but
he only throws at twenty two percent of the time.
I like that every pitch he throws nine percent or more.
He's getting the best out of what he has. Unfortunately,
he does not have a lot at this point. Andrew
Abbot's been a guy who we've talked about this all
season long. He's a guy that's played a little much
better in what his number state two point oh ninety
ra three point two oh expect. He did get hit
a little bit since the All Star Game, but one
point oh seven a whip, he's a It amazes me.
And this this is the best hitting home run parking baseball.
And he's a terrible ground ball rate. He's nine percent
tile in ground ball percentage, and yet he's able to
survive there. In fact, the Reds overall have a lot
of guys and they just traded for Luttel, and it
tells another one of these guys that's a flyball pitcher.
Is something changed. They know something we don't know, because
they're using these flyball pitchers in Cincinnati and they're surviving,
and they're pitching very well and thriving in some regards.
His hard hit rate ninety first percentile average ex velocity's
seventy nine percent tiles. He's a good pitcher, throws five
different pitches. Is four seamer the most though, forty eight percent,
and it's only ninety two point five percent. He needs
to cut back on that four steamer a little bit
to have more success. But hey, what can I say?
The guy's got a two point zero nine three point
two well expected. He has been one of those guys
that just defies metrics and this season he's been extremely good.
For myself on this game, I don't want Atlanta and
I don't want Carrasco. Unfortunately, I would have to go Cincinnati.
But am I willing to pay the one sixty five
one seventy Probably not, So I'll be sitting this one out.
Speaker 3: This is going to be my parlay leg. I'm going
to take the reds. And Brian, you said two things
that are true but also kind of make you take
a double take.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: You said that this is a home run part. It
kind of is. And if you look at Abbott's stats
at home in fifty six innings, He's got a one
nine to three ERA, it just blows your mind. How
is he doing this. I've never been a huge fan
of his, but but man, you got to give him
some credit how he's pitching this year. And we've talked
about this in previous shows that a pitcher's record really
is not a reflection of how good he is. But
when you have more than ten starts and you're eight
and one, it doesn't necessarily say you're a great picture,
but it does say that you're keeping your team in
every single game and your bullpen is closing things out
for you. So I think you know pitcher's win loss
record is more a reflection of the lineup in the bullpen,
because just an innings eater can have a really good
win loss record. So if you look at how he
does and the other thing you said that kind of
maybe do double think is his numbers are better than
he actually is. But his numbers are great, So it's like, yeah,
but you're right. I agree with you. So, man, I
just find it hard to believe that Abbot's this good.
But Carrasco, like you said, heart of a Lion, the
guy is just a trooper. How can you dislikes someone
who comes back from cancer and is pitching at the
highest level on Earth. Heart of a Lion. But I
think he's just age and he's kind of lost his stuff.
I think the Reds just looking at straight rankings, I
have the lineups basically dead even I have the bullpens
both not very good but starting pitching. Huge advantage for
the Reds here. Like you said, the line is a
little steep for Cincinnati. But you know, you can tell
if a team if they're in it to win it
by how they're acting yesterday and today. And the Reds,
although I don't think they're acquisitions like Hayes, and Littel.
I don't think they're like top notch acquisitions. They certainly
are showing their players that they're in it to win it,
and players feed off that a little bit, so I
think I think they'll get a little boost from this.
Lettel is one of those guys who I think is
basically an inning yer. He's not a great picture by
any means. He's good, he's not bad. He's good. But yeah,
players look at how the team is reacting in these
two days, and they're saying, damn, they're on our side,
they got our backs, let's go out and crush it.
So you know these guys are human. I like the
Reds here because it's because it's gonna be a three
leg parlay. I don't mind the minus one sixty. I
don't know if I would put it out straight as
a client play. I might do it as a minus
one as a client play today, but we'll see definitely
my parlay leg.
Speaker 1: So a couple things here. The one thing that concerns
me a little bit is with the Reds is that
Carrasco's throwing the ball as well as he's had in
like the last two years. Over the last month, his
whipen in Triple A over the last month is zero
point ninety three. He I've watched his last two stars.
Dude just looks like a different guy. I don't know
what it is. Now. He did face Worcester and he
did face Rochester to lineups that I'm not particularly fond of,
so maybe maybe it was just you know, two poor
lineups at that point. But he's I mean, this has
been the whole month. I mean the last three He's
three straight starts at Triple A where he's gone seven innings,
all quality starts. I think he's given up six run
totals six runs total over their three starts. So say
what you want about it being Triple A or whatever.
He's thrown the ball excellent over the last month. Now,
does that mean he's gonna go stroll into Great American
Ballpark and throw out great today. No, not necessarily, But
it also doesn't mean he's not gonna like he very
well could come out, be a little bit juiced up
to like on his first start with the new team,
come out and give a pretty good effort. So that's
I guess the only reason that you know, that's the
main reason that sort of scared me off the reds Now.
I want to talk about the Braves because this would
be my pro Reds comment here. The Braves are a
team that's out of it, but they're gonna be playing
with veteran guys, right, So it's like that is a
huge concern because the Braves are in this weird spot
where they're there, their season is over, but they're keeping
the team together because that's just the way they want
to play it. I think they're going to bring in
I think Snicker is gonna be gone after this year.
I think they're going to bring in some new management
and they're gonna say, let's go at it again with
the with the with the same squad, the Austin Riley's
the Akuna Olsen. So whereas you have these bad teams
that are out of it by the break and start
to sell, and then usually it's guys really hungry to,
you know, to get a chance to play. Look at
the White Sox right now, right, guys that are just
hungry to get their first taste of big league action.
And you'll see that a couple of times with other
teams over the next couple of months. The Braves are
like veteran guys that are accustomed to playing in the playoffs,
So how is this team gonna like get off the
mat to give an effort over the next two months.
To me, that makes them a very big feed because
I just don't know how you get guys like Olsin
and Riley, Like, how do you get those guys interested
on a forty five and sixty two team over the
next two months. That's my concern, So that that would
be the reason I don't necessarily want a part of
the breaks here, go ahead, Brian.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And we've been talking about them all the way
back before the All Star break regarding that, and now
they've got their best hit of at Conya back on
the IL. I will say, in regards to Carrasco, most
of the time when guys go down to the minors,
they're doing it, come start coming off of an injury,
and they don't care what the results are. They just
want to be able to get out there and get healthy.
Carrasco's got something to prove. He's probably got a breath
of fresh air that he's finally back in the majors again.
You know, it's it's like you're coming to the end
of your career, you're going to take advantage of that.
So you know he's going to come out and give
everything he's got. And so his numbers in the minors,
you got to take those and realize that he's out
there on a purpose and he wants to get himself
back to the majors and uh so that's why he's
looked good there. I hope he does well in the majors.
But pitching pitching for the Braves, he's gonna have to
pitcher very wall to get to get some wins, because,
as you said, you know, the Braves are a team
came into the season expecting to do very well. They
have it, and uh yeah, it's it's a tough, tough
way to end the season for Braves fans.
Speaker 3: Do you guys think the way that, uh, the way
that Abbott's pitching, do you do you think nine and
a half is high in this game? Because it seems
high to me, But I don't know why it's nine
and a half.
Speaker 1: Well, TB. I'll tell you what if if Carrasco comes
out and like fire six seven innings of two three
run ball, I don't think it's gonna go over If
that's like that, you know, I think that's a little Yeah,
I think it's a little bit inflated based on Carrasco's
big lead sort of numbers this year. If he turns
in a quality start, I would I would be very
confident in the game staying under And one more point
about the Braves, just because we have the time, they
have no one at tripa A as far as like hitters.
They have some pitching. They've got some pitching that could
could become pitching like in the future. I don't think
much of it is like really truly big league ready
at this point. But they have no one. So it's
not like they're gonna be you know, calling up a
guy that's probably gonna like hit fifth and like give
them like a good I mean, they have no one.
What you see is what you get right now with
the Braves. So like this is what I guess I
keep harping on. This Braves team that you see right
now struggling is the Braves team that you're probably gonna
get the rest of the year. So like, this isn't
the team that I think you start to bet on
now because it's like the market's gone on them. They
just they just don't have anyone that's gonna, in my opinion,
that's gonna be very hungry to get up there. It's
just it's gonna be a law two months for the briefs.
Let's put it that way. Just really really how I
see it? Gee Hurt in the chat. Yeah, you're one
hundred percent right about this. MLB trade deadline is easily
the best trade deadline in sports. It's not remotely close. Yeah,
what what else? I mean, what what? What? What could
you even compare to it? The way team it's it's
it's ocky.
Speaker 2: Hockey is good. Uh, the NFL has never been a
team anywhere The trade deadline makes a louch of a difference.
But hockey, hockey is important.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point, Brian. I'm not a I'm
not a huge hockey guy, so I wouldn't. I didn't
know that it was similar to MLB. But the point
is it's gonna be a great It's gonna be a
very interesting day, you know, you know that MLB. I
wonder if MLB is like talking to a couple of
these teams that have an off day today and it's like, hey,
can you hold off on like the announcement until like
four thirty PM, so we can get the view because
we need we need, so everyone's gonna tune in from
like four to six as it's like you know what
I mean, Like, do you think they're like, hey, can
we can we wait till the end to announce announce
the blockbuster so we can get all the eyes over.
I don't know. I I wouldn't put it past Manford
to do something like that, but it's not something in
the mL but he's going to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean MLB marketing is not the most savvy
out of the four big leagues.
Speaker 1: Very true, if you're right, if anyone would botch, if
anyone would botch that opportunity, actually it would be majored exactly.
Speaker 3: Anyone's gonna botch.
Speaker 1: I got I gotta throw this up there. San Francisco
Sports Talk radio has rumored Devers will be traded today.
Is that true? Is there like merit to that? That's crazy?
Like that would be.
Speaker 3: That would be amazing because actually when they acquired him,
they were on a roll and they were in the
running for something and now well absolutely not.
Speaker 1: Here's here's the I mean that is Sean says, Sean says,
no way, DEVS isn't being traded. I my initial gut says,
no way. There's no There's absolutely no way. But I
do think the interesting thing here is they gave up
nothing to get him. Really, they really didn't give up
much to get him at all. So I think there
if they who knows what the internal thing is, if
if he maybe hasn't been a fit, I don't think
that they wouldn't. Like, they literally gave up very little
to get him, So if they could flip him for something,
I wouldn't. It doesn't sound that crazy, but that is
a she hurt says, Oh my god, please give me
another DEVS trade. I need it like I need air
to breathe. That would certainly be interesting. But Sean makes
a really good point here, like who wants that? Who
wants that contract? Right? Like they kind of that. I
guess that's like they took on his contract, so who's
gonna want that for him? At this point?
Speaker 3: It's a good kind of turned him into a heel
over there as soon as he arrived. He's not performing
like they want. I've heard that their media over there
is just destroying him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess he I guess Will Clark, very very famous,
giant MLB great, just like an all time great, reached
out to Devers and like really wanted to work with
him at first base, and I think he no showed
like the first sort of session or something, and and
that that pissed off a lot of San Francisco people,
because yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Mean, there are guys in the league that are jerks basically,
I mean, for better for lack of a better term,
and there always have been. And he's definitely from the
stories I've heard, he's definitely not a likable teammate for sure,
and turning down standing up Will Clark in San Francisco
is not going to get you a lot of a
lot of sympathy in that city for sure. Will Clark's
like a hero of there.
Speaker 1: I So then I then I read that he didn't
want to He didn't want to like work out The
Red Sox were in town that week, and he didn't
really want to like be out there working in front
of his old team. But I don't know it just
it was a bad look in San Francisco media. I
know that at the time, So, like, I wouldn't be
surprised if if someone in the chat was like, there's
zero truth the stuff that comes out of San Francisco
sports media. Maybe they're just maybe they're just trying to
stir the pot. But it's interesting. It's very interesting because.
Speaker 2: It came from Boston, one of the worst media for
a player, New York Boston one of the worst media.
You gotta be tough to play baseball in there. And
you just just look at the center fielder for the
Red Sox. A lot he's had to go through this year.
So uh, yeah, San Francisco. Anything on the West coast
is more laid back. It's not the way it is.
Speaker 1: And yeah, in the Northeast, all right, we have about
twenty minutes left, we've got well, we've got one more
game to talk about, so we'll close out the parlay
and then we'll use there of the time to talk
trades and other stuff. Yeah, Robert s says, if will
the thrill offers to help you, you show up, shut
up and listen. Was one of the best when you play. Yeah,
he does a great podcast still with Eric Burns. I
listened to it sometimes. It's it's entertaining. Those two are
are kind of just but they have great stories.
Speaker 2: I would guess. Robert is an American and he is
an older guy, and it means something to him. For
a guy from a foreign country and he's a younger guy.
He probably doesn't even know who will we'll get true.
Speaker 1: That is true, yep, for sure. And and a guy
that like wasn't has only been in the Giants organization
for a day. Like if you if you spend a
year in the Giants organization, you know, they they do
a lot. I feel like he's you know, paraded out
at games and stuff. But yeah, if you're only there
for a day, you're not gonna you're you're not gonna know,
all right, one more game Mariners Rangers. So we have
the Seattle Mariners who have become the overnight darlings. All
of a sudden, they go out, they get Gino Suarez.
A couple of days ago, they get Josh Naylor. If
you watch Total Bases, you probably should. You should already
be holding a Mariner's ticket because I told you this
was gonna happen like two months ago, that they were
gonna move at the deadline, and suddenly they were. They
they had the amo to do it. And so now
they've got the h they've got the lineup that you
know that they want. You would think, right, Naylor swore
as you know you can move a Rose Raina down
in the order, they still have the pitching. So Brian
Leonard like, what what do you you know? Talk to
me about Mariners Rangers in general, because I think the
Rangers have done some really nice things too, just to
get back in the mix. And also, how are you
seeing this game tonight?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Texas and Seattle Rocker against Kirby. Kirby's about one
seventy favorite here total about seven and a half. Uh
Kumar Rocker is pitched better as of late. Comes in
with a five point seven three ERA, five point five
to expect, a one point four to four whip, very
good ground ball percentage. He's in the seventy nine percentale
extench in eighty fifth percentile. He's six foot five. In
his fastball velocity he's in the seventy first percentile, and
he only throws his four seamer at nineteen percent of
the time, which I think is why he is having
this kind of success. It's a little bit better in
league average about a mile an hour. But when he
was younger, his fastball he would throw it all the time,
and it works in the minor leagues. It doesn't work
quite as well once you get to the major leagues.
He's learning that his barrel percentage is bad. Fifth percentile,
hard hit rate, ninth percent tle expected the ra sixth.
So he's a guy right now finding his way. Definitely
a pitcher with a lot of talent. He's learning how
to pitch in stead a throw, and I think he's
going to have a pretty decent future. But you've got
to learn once you get up into the majors. These
guys can. These guys can hit fastballs. George Spair four
point five OERA, three point eight zero expected, one point
one five whip. He's had a nice comeback ever since
come back from injury. He struggled mightily early on. Now
he's starting to put it together. So we've got two
pitchers here that I think are going to be better
from now through the end of the season than they
were up to this point. H So that might point
me to the under in this game. Uh, we've got
when you take a look at this team Seattle, as
you mentioned, they've lacked a little bit of power. They
bring in two really good power guys and Naylor's a leader.
He pitched for Cleveland, or he played first base for Cleveland,
the team would rally around him. He's an emotional guy.
That's going to help Seattle the rest of the rest
of the year here. And obviously when you bring in
a guy at third base that hits him many homers
as far as does, it's going to help. But keep
in mind, he just played in Seattle and he's his
numbers were not nearly as good there, and a lot
of it is because the home games in Seattle. It
seems to be this year they're hitting a little bit
better at home than they have been on the normally,
but they're still a much better hitting team when they're
on the road as opposed to home. I kind of
like Seattle in this game. This is a big series here.
Texas and Seattle, both teams right now, think that they
can compete and possibly win this division. And I think
if you're a Houston Astros fan, you've got to think
that unless they get some of these guys back and
start playing well. The younger guys for Houston are starting
to fall off a little bit. And of course they
come back yesterday and they play well. But for the
most part, I'm worried about this Houston team right now,
and I think they could end up in third place
in this division. Big series here with Rocker and Kirby.
I'm going to enjoy this game, but I'm not going
to have anything on this one.
Speaker 3: Someone needs to test Suarez because the guys hitting a
ton more home runs in less at bats than he
did last year and the year before. So last time
he was with Seattle, I mean, he was just a
nobody he went to the Diamondbacks started hitting last year.
When he went to the Diamondbacks, he was like a
clutch hitter. He wasn't like a power hitter. I mean
he did hit home runs here and there, he wasn't
anything like he is this year. Though he's clutch. Though
I do like his how he hits with guys on base.
He is a clutch guy. But something strange about how
he's hitting this year. And I don't know if going
back to Seattle, if he's going to perform the same
way he was with Arizona. I don't know. But Seattle
is another team where these guys are human beings. They
see adding nailor they see adding Suarez. Okay, this is something, guys,
we can do this. We can do this, you know,
is the kind of the locker room theme. The thing is,
they're in a pretty tough division. Someone said in the
chat that Seattle to make the playoffs is minus one fifty.
I'm not sure if that's a good bed or not.
The fifty seven and fifty two. The reason they have
such a deep well, the reason they have a winning record,
in my opinion, is because they're a really good road team,
much better than most teams on the road. They have
a winning record on the road, which is actually pretty
rare in MLB, and they have such a good pitching staff.
Now can they hit? They added a Rosania, and I
thought when they added a Rosarania from Tampa Bay that
that was going to be something special. But he's kind
of he hasn't been the guy he was when he
was at Tampa Bay in my opinion. I mean, he's
been solid, okay, kind of a low average. Sometimes he'll
hit a home run, kind of hit her. I expected
more from him. But now they got Suarez, Naylor, a
Rosarania and that pitching staff, and Wu's been pitching like
garbage lately, though very surprising. The Yankees knocked him around.
He got knocked around again last night. Very surprising because
I thought he was one of the better pitchers in MLB,
definitely the best third pitcher in MLB. But yeah, I
think not only just about this game, but I'd like
to get your guys thoughts about if you think Seattle's
going to make the playoffs or not in this particular game.
I like Kirby's stats against these Rangers in his career,
and Kumar Rucker on the road as a nine plus
cra So that doesn't mean everything, but it's an indication.
I don't you know, anyone can just look up an
Era and say, oh, he sucks, but it is an
indication that he struggles on the road. So I think
if Seattle's bats can get any kind of production, I
think they'll probably come out on top. The question is
do you want to pay the price or not.
Speaker 1: Not only do I think Seattle's gonna make the playoffs,
I think I'm gonna hit my seven to one bet
on the Division. And I think all of my futures
from April and May on the Mariners to win the
World Series, to win the AL.
Speaker 3: Are live like this series exactly.
Speaker 1: I have them laddered at different times. I've just been
adding throughout the year, I have multiple positions on them
to win the division, to make the playoffs, and I'm
just there's absolutely no reason for me to not like
be confident about that when they've they've done everything I've
expected them to do to this point, hang around pitching,
starting to get healthy, and then they went out and
made the moves, and now their lineup's gonna look something
like this. Crawford, Julio cal Rawley. You probably have Gino
Suarez fourth or fifth. Naylor. I don't know what they're
gonna do with the Rose Arena. I guess I'm guessing
they move him down in the order, and then you know,
seven through nine is probably gonna be a little bit interchangeable.
Dom km Zone has been playing good like And the
thing is like, even with giving up Locklear, they still
have like other guys that they have depth too. So
someone goes down like God for big cal Rawly went
down for any stretch of time, you got Harry Ford
just chilling at Triple A. He's gonna be a star,
right Like. You've got depth guys at Triple A, like
Samad Taylor, who's who's probably good enough to be on
a big league roster, but there's just not really a
spot for him. You know, this team has so much
in the in the best part about it is we
haven't even really seen their pitching give them what what
their pitching should give them at this point, Like George
Kirby was hurt for the first couple of months of
the season, and then he was trying to work his
way back from being hurt. Now last time out, nine strikeouts,
six innings, two runs. I think, you know, a couple
couple starts prior to that pitching of the seventh innings
seventh innings shutout, nine strikeouts against the Pirates, had a
you know, a couple of duds, you know, right around
the All Star break. But we'll we'll give him a
pass for that because you know, he's he's I mean,
he's just like I think he continues to look more
like George Herby as the season goes on, because he
had to battle through that stretch where he didn't really
have much of a spring So that's really tough. Like
when you get a guy that kind of miss spring training,
had some rehab time, like it does take some time
to get back into the mix, and so for that reason,
I think George Kirby's gonna be just fine. Now. I
don't dislike Rocker. I think he's probably you know, better
than where the market has him. But in this case,
you're giving me the Mariners at home, their new retool lineup,
the better starting pitcher. And make no mistake about it,
this is a huge game for them. They just lost
back to back games to the A's. The fans are
going to be out, like, the expectations are going to
be massive now that they've got these two guys. I
think they kind of have to win tonight. I think
they're going to be focused to do so. And you know,
it's still Rocker Like, he's still someone that he's just
not in the same stratosphere as George Kirby, even though
he's probably a little bit better than what he's done
in the Big league so far this year. So this
will be my parlay league, I'll go. I'll go Mariners
right here.
Speaker 3: Just a couple of things known in the game regarding Kirby.
Would you guys argue that Simeon and Segar are the
are the most feared hitters in the Texas lineup? Would
Is that a fair statement.
Speaker 2: Uh, Simon's not feared. Seeger is the only good hitter
in that lineup.
Speaker 3: Soar yeah, Well.
Speaker 2: He's heard all the time.
Speaker 3: Seegars oh for thirteen against Kirby in his career. Now
doesn't mean he's going to be oh for four today,
but it does mean that Kirby has faced him in
three starts and secrets done nothing. So that's another you
know thing that indicates that Kirby might have a good
game today.
Speaker 2: I do I do want to put in regards to Seattle. Uh,
they did bring in Caleb Ferguson for the Pirates. I
like him. He's going to help that bullpen out and
Bryce Miller eventually is going to come back. There's been
talking may pitch in the bullpen. I'd love to see
him cut back and then get rid of the Logan
Evans So I think is a little bit over his
head so far, but from a future standpoint, he might
be a good picture. But Seattle's Seattle's pretty loaded. Now.
You talked about the lineup. Crawford is going twenty six
at bats without getting a hit. He's struggling right now,
and he's betting the leadoff he's not really a leadoff
hitter for them. When they get Ryan Bliss back, a
lot of speed on him is the second basement. I
think that'll help them give him a little bit of
a dimension. Right now, they don't have a lot of speed.
Dylan Moore is a guy that with a lot of speed,
but he's just doesn't hid enough to play every day.
He's a bench bench warmer. But you know they've they've
got some good guys on the bench, Garvers, Solano, Williamson,
and they can bring like I said, Bliss up there,
they'd be really pretty well set all over. And you
mentioned Ford. I'm really surprised that he is still in
the minors and nobody's tried to trade for him. Maybe
they have, but we just don't know about it. But
he's blocked with Raley a catcher. But this this guy's
got a really bright future in Major League Baseball. As
you pointed out, trade.
Speaker 1: Listen, there's still hours left in the day. Do not
be surprised if the Mariners go get like a big
time starter and move Harry forward, because I thought I
thought for sure he would have been the guy to
move because he's a projected like all star caliber catcher
at like, well at least what his ceiling is projected
to be in the big leagues, at the most coveted
position in the league. Theoretically, the Mariner should have been
able to say, who wants him and overpay please and
get it, So go ahead, Brian.
Speaker 2: Would they trade for Justin Bieber and give up?
Speaker 1: Because I'm pretty sure Bieber's on his way to Toronto? Though?
Did that is that final yet?
Speaker 2: I haven't heard anything, but Cleveland needs a catcher can hit.
They haven't had a catcher that can hit since it's
it's been at least a decade.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, listen, Harry Ford. And here's the other thing.
The Mariners have already kind of toyed with, like they
toyed would trying to change his position, and they pretty
much said they're not gonna do that. So they've come
out they said they're not going to change his position.
It's it's kind of crazy to think that they wouldn't,
and who knows, you know what they're probably trying to
move him, but I can guarantee you they are going
to The asking price for him is going to be
outrageous and maybe no one can can meet the demand,
but that could be the way the Mariners get their
fifth starter. Now they've got like, it's not gonna be
Logan Evans, I'll tell you that much. It's it's gonna
be someone else. They've got a guy in the on
Triple Ay Sarah and law Lao that they've converted. He
was a really good Triple A reliever. They're trying to
stretch him out. They've got him going about five innings
to start in Triple A. So someone's gonna be in
that fifth spot. It's not gonna be Logan Evans. He's awful.
He just doesn't belong, not on a team of this caliber.
He does not belong in the starting rotation. But I'll
be interested. That's one thing I'll be looking to see
today is if the Mariners try to make a play
for like another starter, because man, you you throw another respectable,
solid starting pitcher in with Gilbert and Kirby Castillo, like
that's that's suddenly a very very good baseball team. Brian, Yeah,
of course, it's very good.
Speaker 3: They could have six legitimate starters.
Speaker 2: And you know.
Speaker 3: The baseball baseball teams value pitching more than the value hitting,
which is weird because the hitters are everyday guys, but
pitching is so hard to acquire, you know, you know,
you get guys like Rally or Suarez who are putting
up similar numbers to someone like Soto, right, even though
Soto is you know, a generational talent. But you can
find guys who get production in your lineup like Juan Soto,
But it's very difficult to find guys who can pitch
like Wheeler or you know, uh Schemes or someone like that.
It's just more rare. So there is more value on
starting pitching in baseball than there is on hitting.
Speaker 2: In my hitting, you can do the lefty righty thing
and make up more. That's what the Dodgers or excuse me,
was the Dodgers one of the teams did san Diego
did coming in and he's didn't work out for him?
They go, well, we can't, we don't have Soto anymore.
But we can put this guy who's good this lefties
and this guy who's good against righties and get something
similar to it. You can't do that with pitching.
Speaker 3: Right pitching is more valuable because it's more rare, and
also catchers are more valuable catchers who can hit like
a Will Smith or a cal Rally. You know, if
you have one of those guys as a catcher, you
have you automatically are three times better at at one
of the nine positions than the team you're facing. That's
exponent tully valuable. So there are certain positions that are
that are just have more value because of rarity.
Speaker 1: Turbuckle Tommy says, big names don't mean anything. You named
all these names in the marriage like they're gonna score
fifteen plus every night. No, I don't think they're gonna
score fifteen plus every night. But you you can't tell
me that that Mariners team now on with the pitching
and the and the lineup that they have and the
the overall package, is not the first, second, or third
best team in the American League. Who who is better
than the Mariners right now? Other than maybe, like maybe
the blue Jays a month ago, I would have said
the Tigers. I'm not so sure anymore.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's the blue Jays.
Speaker 1: Look at the right, like just got so the blue
Jays just finalized the trade for Shane Bieber. I mean,
that's that's a name, but yeah, that's kind of feel
like that too.
Speaker 3: I mean Shane Bieber. Where would he be in Seattle's
rotation number six.
Speaker 1: I think they got some prospects, like like younger prospects
back and for them. I didn't see the full deal,
but but the point is, like I think that's a
great point to be made, like that, you know, you
want to talk about markets like World Series market that
the the AL is not even close to the caliber
of the league the NL is this year. So you
get a team like the Mariners and the fact that
like they wouldn't they wouldn't have to see the three
or four best teams in baseball very possibly could be
in the National League, right, Like, I don't know that
the American League is a team better than the Mets,
the Cubs, the Dodgers. God, you've got to start putting
Brewers in the mix there. So it's like you think
about that, like the Mariners competition to get to the
World Series at this point, even though like they're forget
where they are in the context of the whole league.
They'd essentially have to get by a team like the Yankees. Okay,
I don't know. I don't think that we just talked
about liking the Yankees to miss the playoffs the other day.
Right maybe the Blue Jays that's manageable, Tigers, manageable opponent.
There's not one team that's like on that right now
you can say is like better than them, maybe some equals,
but certainly not better. So that's that's you know that,
that's kind of like, yeah, go ahead, TV.
Speaker 3: Not to interrupt your thought, but did one of you
mentioned that you see it or that you see the
Astros fading in the second half from here on out?
Speaker 1: Why why is that?
Speaker 3: I'm not disagreeing, I'm just asking why do you think that?
Speaker 1: Because because they're the Sugarland Space Cowboys with like two
extra players, they're just not they just aren't. They have
It's a it's a Triple A team essentially at this
point that has managed to massively overachieve in the first half,
and there's just no way that that that crop of
players can can just play out of their minds for
another three months. Now. They're gonna get Jeremy Paynea back.
He was down in Triple A you know the other day.
But like, I don't know, they're just you can't you
can't run Ryan Gusto out there every fifth day, and
and Colton or and it's like these are guys that
they're they're not gonna gonna propel you to a playoff spot,
maybe a wild card spot because the al is so bad.
But the Astros they're not doing anything this year.
Speaker 2: In my opinion, I will point out unbuckle Tommy's if
they're for some I've ever seen somebody in a pirate
uniform with money around him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, Paul got some money, but not what he
should get exactly exactly now. If he's traded today, that
would make serious headlines.
Speaker 1: That the city of Pittsburgh would burn to the ground
if they if they ever moved on from him.
Speaker 3: Could you imagine if they traded Skemes to the Dodgers today?
Speaker 1: That Okay, Ryan, Ryan makes a good point here, Ryan says,
Ryan says, uh, wild to think Houston doesn't make a
move to stay on top of the West. My question is,
I'm not saying they're not going to make a move.
I don't see the move that they could potentially make
making inherently better than they are right now. They could
probably get someone, but it's like I don't know, Like
I'm looking at like the way the organization is built.
They don't have unless they are. They're sitting on guys
at like single A and double A that are like
big time futures type prospects. They don't have like like
a really like big league ready triple A guy right now.
In my opinion, that's like someone that they would move
like maybe the kid they just called up with Bryce Matthews,
but like feels like they're committed to him. I don't
think they're gonna move on for such a month. Yeah,
let's read off the parlay we do have. So we
made it an hour. That was that was a fun conversation.
I mean honestly, like I could sit here for another
hour and just banter trades and potential like it's that's
that's fun stuff. So I hope, I hope you guys
got something out of of, you know, the hour long show,
even though there was only three games, but we did
manage a parlay. So the three games, hopefully this provides
day long entertainment here and Brian gets it done in
the afternoon with the Rays. Then we've got Tokyo Brandon
with the Reds and I'm on the Mariners. So raise Reds.
Mariners should should hopefully last year the full day and
if it wins, we're looking at plus four twenty two odds.
So raise Reds Mariners is the parlay for Thursday. I
doubt I'll actually put out go ahead TV.
Speaker 3: So I didn't mean to interrupt you again. No, yeah,
yesterday I should have won my leg. Let's just note that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, great call on the Red Sox.
I was wrong about that and I did the same
thing TV. I was gonna use white socks, and I
last second talked myself off and put myself onto a loser.
Brian Leonard, what a call with the Marlins. That was
a fantastic call. They just dominant from start to finish.
Calquantra was throwing ninety seven last night?
Speaker 2: Was that away from Colorado? Is a guy who can
get some nice value on.
Speaker 3: Five solid innings. Yeah, didn't expect that.
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it. Guys throwing nine. I didn't know
he had that in him. Still, but yeah, one more time,
one more time, we have raise Reds Mariners, three teamer
for today. Everyone enjoy trade deadline Thursday. I'm sure, I'm
sure it's gonna be. There's gonna be some talking points
when we're back tomorrow. So we will be back tomorrow
nine am for our final show of the week, and
everyone enjoy the day. Hopefully we cash the parlay. Check
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