August 29, 2024 • 10 mins
Brian Bogusevic, former Astros outfielder and Space City Home Network analyst, joins Next Up after the Astros avoided the series sweep by shutting out the Philadelphia Phillies 10-0 on Wednesday. The Astros had lost six of their previous eight games, and the offense was struggling to maintain consistency at the plate. However, Yordan Alvarez provided a spark, smacking three home runs for his third career three-homer game, and pitching continued to hold steady as Spencer Arrighetti struck out 11 batters and had a no-hitter through seven innings. "The bats could be better," but "the pitching has carried such a heavy load," Bogusevic said. Chas McCormick also recorded a home run Wednesday in his hometown; however, he was optioned to Triple-A Sugar Land after the game. McCormick's offensive slump "needs to be fixed by getting regular at bats." The move clears up space for veteran outfielder Jason Heyward, whom the Astros are expected to add to their active roster ahead of a four-game series against the Kansas City Royals. Heyward is a "no risk, low cost, marginal upgrade," especially in matchups against right-handed pitchers.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And we are your home for Astros Baseball, and let's
go to the guest line and do so. If you
missed the first half of the show, you can go
to Sports seven ninety dot com or use the free
iHeartRadio app to get caught up. At the conclusion of
this program, Stros in action tonight over at minute May Park,
Kansas City makes their way in. You'll have Astros on
(00:20):
deck at six. Shortly after seven, we'll get first pitch.
Astros avoid the sweep. Last night, this particular gentleman I
know was watching and we get insight from our Thursday
regular appreciate his patients and his flexibility. One Brian Bogus Sevin,
former first rounder, started doing some pitching and made its
way to the outfield courtesy Currently excuse me on Space
(00:43):
City home network bo get good morning morning.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I guys doing I understand that now that it's football season,
everything takes a backshit, So God appreciate flexibility.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Do you know how this goes? Okay? So look Stros
all right, they won three of the last nine. They
avoid getting embarrassed and getting swift all time, great performances
at the play and own the bump. Where you want
to start, Just kind of.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Body of work as a whole. I guess, yeah, it hasn't.
You know, you look at the wins and losses. It's
not great, but just in general, they're not playing poorly.
The bats could be better, but they're still not one
in that lineup. So I think just the consistency that
with which they're pitching, and the fact that we know
(01:34):
eventually guys are going to get hot, Like, yeah, you
would like to be winning more games, but I don't
think there's anything that's alarming.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
It's a it's so interesting Brian and how that game
played out. And man, you you're watching yourd On starting
to slug those home runs yesterday and you're going, god,
it would have been it would have been nice to
have one of those the night before or the night
before that. But you know, hopefully this opens the floodgates
and kind of gets some of that power back going
for you On. But what did you make of how
the Astros got after Taywan Walker?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
You know, he's Tomlin Walker. He's he's the kind of
pitcher that they can really beat up on. He doesn't
really have power stuff anymore. There's not a lot of
swinging this They've got a lot of high contact bats
and you know the results showed. But yeah, getting not
just jord On obviously he's the most important offensive piece,
but just getting the offensive. The pitching has carried such
(02:28):
a heavy load over the last gosh, I mean it's
been weeks now, maybe a month now. It would be
nice to have some games like that where the offense
just you know, kind of blows the doors off the
other team and you can coast to a victory because
there hadn't been a whole lot of those.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Talking with Brian Bogosvik Space City Home Network Astro's analysts
joining us for his weekly typically at ten thirty again,
thanks for his flexibility. Uh, Jordan Alvarez mashing And how
do you explain this by I see he's going all
the time with he I'm like youord Not hadn't hit
a home run in a while, and then he'll rattle off,
(03:08):
you know, fourth in five games or you know three
in a row last night? What is that just baseball?
Or what's going through his mind? Is that the time year?
How do we explain Ordon? And when they come in bunches.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Like that, Uh, that's typically how they come home run,
you know, even for guys like Jordan who have huge power.
I mean, he's still a hitter first, and he's up
there trying to put together good at bats, trying to
you know, hit the ball hard, put the ball and
put the ball in play, drive and runs. That's what
he is first and foremost. And then every once in
(03:40):
a while you just get to a point where you're
catching it a little bit out front, you know, you're
getting under it a little bit, and those line drives
turn into home runs. You know, he's the kind of
guy where they turn into really impressive home runs and
he can hit a whole bunch. But yeah, home runs
for guys who are hitters first, home runs usually do
come in bunches.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Like It's ago, Brian Bogasavic and Brian was so good.
I mean, Spencer Raghetti him and Hunter around. What they've
become here the last couple of months is it's been
nothing short of amazing. And to become two really reliable
arms for a rotation of the future, I mean you
just kind of look ahead to the future and go,
all right, well, we'll get Havir back, you know, hopefully
get mccullery's back. Like you start to look at it
(04:21):
and go, damn, these guys can continue to pitch like
this and solidify themselves as bona fide starters in Major
League Baseball. It's gonna help everything, But it's also going
to help Joe a spot as we get closer to
the playoffs and make a difficult decision on who you
lean on. If all these guys keep pitching like this,
with runout Blanca, with Justin Verlander back and frob are
doing what Robber's doing.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It's crazy to think that come playoff time, it's going
to be really hard to decide who the four best
guys are because, you know, not too long ago, we
were trying to figure out if we had four guys. So, yeah,
it's been huge. I mean, what those two guys have
particul Ker have done in terms of putting together everything
(05:05):
throughout the course of the season, taking individual pitches and
figuring out how to build an entire repertoire and game
plan and basically doing it on the fly while they're
you know, facing major league lineups every five days has
been really impressive. And yeah, moving forward, you know you're
talking about those two guys, you know, in the infancy
(05:25):
of their pitching careers, and then you can have a
guy like Rombert throw Christian Haavier back in there. Eventually
it goes from really quickly we don't have very much
pitching till we've got quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Bogie. Think about Chas McCormick, and God bless his heart,
it just it hasn't been there this year, and he's
getting an option to sugar Land and we'll see what
requisite move. The team announces this afternoon real quick, just
on Chazz and then more so pivoting into the rumor
of Jason Hayward potentially joining the roster.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, so it stinks for Chass because he's tried to
work his way out of it, but you know, it's
become apparent that what needs to be fixed isn't going
to be fixed in a cage, and it needs to
be fixed by getting regular at bats, and he just
wasn't going to get regular at bats at this point
at the big league level. It stinks, but you know,
(06:28):
if you're thinking long term, you know he comes spring
training next year, he's going to be right back in
the mix in the outfield. So to get him right,
he's going to have to go play and hopefully figures
it out quickly and gets back into the mix here
before the end of the season. But he's got to play,
he's got to get timing, he's got to fix the
things in this swing, and you just can't do that
in the cage. In terms of the corresponding move, if
(06:53):
it is Jason Hayward, which seems like it is, it's
a marginal up grade. It's more of a situational upgrade.
You get a guy who's a left handed bat who
for the last five years or so has played pretty
much exclusively against right handed pitching. And as tough as
it was for Chaz if he was going to give
(07:13):
you anything, it was going to be against a lefty.
So Hayward you get the other side of that. So
it just gives you a different option. You know, you
can use Mauricio Dubon in the outfield against a left
handed pitcher, you can use Jason Hayward against the right
handed pitcher. And you know, but it's a no risk,
low cost, marginal upgrade at this point. But you know,
(07:34):
we've seen with Ben Gammle, if the guy comes in
and catches fire for a week, it can kind of
be a shot in the arm. So that's kind of what.
I don't think that's, you know, a season altering move
by any means, by the.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Way, thirteen years ago, just this past week, thirteen years ago,
almost to the week, Brian bogusvic three home runs in
five games. We had one against Chicago against the Cobbs
here at Mint of May Park. Then he had one
against the Giants, and then I don't know if we
count this one kind of a cheapye you did it
out in Colorado against the Rockies. I guess we count.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Also, records do matter, Apparently on this show, I was
gonna say, Gordy Bogie, only certain records matter and certain
stats matter. So it's good to know. I agree with you.
Ball les art matter? Was that?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
But was that the same thing you were talking about,
Like you come in bunches like you're just feeling the
power that week.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yes, even for even for really bad hitters, they can
come in bunch us as well.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Talking with Brian boga Savic Space City Home Network Astros analysts,
former draft selection first rounded by the Astros, playing some
five seasons here in Houston. Okay, uh, I think I'm
done with Philly. I mean it was rough, but they
salvage it. They come on back here and I'm checking
(08:51):
these standings. Yep, three and a half game. Still you're
worried about the man that's creeping up. And then I'm
using that to start having some Royals conversation. Royals seventy
five and fifty nine on the season. They are just
one game back of the Cleveland Guardians.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, the Royals are. The Royals are a serious team.
I mean, I know that going into the season, expectations
weren't all that high. They were a team who was
kind of on the rise, but they've proved that they're
ahead of schedule. I mean, they've got serious star power
in Bobby Wit and a very good starting rotations. So
(09:27):
they're a serious contender. And they seem like a team
who think this is their shot. I mean, they just
made up a bunch of ground to close the close
the gap on Cleveland and they're playing really well. So
it's almost going to be playoff style baseball against the
Royals for the next four days. And then, yeah, I'm
always worried about the Mariners. When you can pitch the
way they can and you know, shut a team down
(09:49):
for an entire series and you know, sweep a series
or win a series by scoring five or six runs. Yeah,
I am not going to be off of the Mariners
being a threat until it's out of reach for them.
I think there's just too much pitching on that team
to ever put them away.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
All Right, that's the voice and opinions of the great
Brian Boga Sevic. Follow him, won't you? At Brian b
r I A N. Boga Sevic b O g U
S E V I C. You can't miss him. He's
on Space City, adorned appropriately, quite handsome, fellow rocking some gear,
buttoned up, quite nice. Keep it up, Bogie, you're representing
(10:30):
us well here on next up, dropping by off his
weekly typically at ten thirty, was kind enough to shift
some things today.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
All right, guys, see you next week.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
All right, man, have a good holiday weekend. We'll do
it next week
And we are your home for Astros Baseball, and let's
go to the guest line and do so. If you
missed the first half of the show, you can go
to Sports seven ninety dot com or use the free
iHeartRadio app to get caught up. At the conclusion of
this program, Stros in action tonight over at minute May Park,
Kansas City makes their way in. You'll have Astros on
(00:20):
deck at six. Shortly after seven, we'll get first pitch.
Astros avoid the sweep. Last night, this particular gentleman I
know was watching and we get insight from our Thursday
regular appreciate his patients and his flexibility. One Brian Bogus Sevin,
former first rounder, started doing some pitching and made its
way to the outfield courtesy Currently excuse me on Space
(00:43):
City home network bo get good morning morning.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I guys doing I understand that now that it's football season,
everything takes a backshit, So God appreciate flexibility.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Do you know how this goes? Okay? So look Stros
all right, they won three of the last nine. They
avoid getting embarrassed and getting swift all time, great performances
at the play and own the bump. Where you want
to start, Just kind of.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Body of work as a whole. I guess, yeah, it hasn't.
You know, you look at the wins and losses. It's
not great, but just in general, they're not playing poorly.
The bats could be better, but they're still not one
in that lineup. So I think just the consistency that
with which they're pitching, and the fact that we know
(01:34):
eventually guys are going to get hot, Like, yeah, you
would like to be winning more games, but I don't
think there's anything that's alarming.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
It's a it's so interesting Brian and how that game
played out. And man, you you're watching yourd On starting
to slug those home runs yesterday and you're going, god,
it would have been it would have been nice to
have one of those the night before or the night
before that. But you know, hopefully this opens the floodgates
and kind of gets some of that power back going
for you On. But what did you make of how
the Astros got after Taywan Walker?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
You know, he's Tomlin Walker. He's he's the kind of
pitcher that they can really beat up on. He doesn't
really have power stuff anymore. There's not a lot of
swinging this They've got a lot of high contact bats
and you know the results showed. But yeah, getting not
just jord On obviously he's the most important offensive piece,
but just getting the offensive. The pitching has carried such
(02:28):
a heavy load over the last gosh, I mean it's
been weeks now, maybe a month now. It would be
nice to have some games like that where the offense
just you know, kind of blows the doors off the
other team and you can coast to a victory because
there hadn't been a whole lot of those.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Talking with Brian Bogosvik Space City Home Network Astro's analysts
joining us for his weekly typically at ten thirty again,
thanks for his flexibility. Uh, Jordan Alvarez mashing And how
do you explain this by I see he's going all
the time with he I'm like youord Not hadn't hit
a home run in a while, and then he'll rattle off,
(03:08):
you know, fourth in five games or you know three
in a row last night? What is that just baseball?
Or what's going through his mind? Is that the time year?
How do we explain Ordon? And when they come in bunches.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Like that, Uh, that's typically how they come home run,
you know, even for guys like Jordan who have huge power.
I mean, he's still a hitter first, and he's up
there trying to put together good at bats, trying to
you know, hit the ball hard, put the ball and
put the ball in play, drive and runs. That's what
he is first and foremost. And then every once in
(03:40):
a while you just get to a point where you're
catching it a little bit out front, you know, you're
getting under it a little bit, and those line drives
turn into home runs. You know, he's the kind of
guy where they turn into really impressive home runs and
he can hit a whole bunch. But yeah, home runs
for guys who are hitters first, home runs usually do
come in bunches.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Like It's ago, Brian Bogasavic and Brian was so good.
I mean, Spencer Raghetti him and Hunter around. What they've
become here the last couple of months is it's been
nothing short of amazing. And to become two really reliable
arms for a rotation of the future, I mean you
just kind of look ahead to the future and go,
all right, well, we'll get Havir back, you know, hopefully
get mccullery's back. Like you start to look at it
(04:21):
and go, damn, these guys can continue to pitch like
this and solidify themselves as bona fide starters in Major
League Baseball. It's gonna help everything, But it's also going
to help Joe a spot as we get closer to
the playoffs and make a difficult decision on who you
lean on. If all these guys keep pitching like this,
with runout Blanca, with Justin Verlander back and frob are
doing what Robber's doing.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It's crazy to think that come playoff time, it's going
to be really hard to decide who the four best
guys are because, you know, not too long ago, we
were trying to figure out if we had four guys. So, yeah,
it's been huge. I mean, what those two guys have
particul Ker have done in terms of putting together everything
(05:05):
throughout the course of the season, taking individual pitches and
figuring out how to build an entire repertoire and game
plan and basically doing it on the fly while they're
you know, facing major league lineups every five days has
been really impressive. And yeah, moving forward, you know you're
talking about those two guys, you know, in the infancy
(05:25):
of their pitching careers, and then you can have a
guy like Rombert throw Christian Haavier back in there. Eventually
it goes from really quickly we don't have very much
pitching till we've got quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Bogie. Think about Chas McCormick, and God bless his heart,
it just it hasn't been there this year, and he's
getting an option to sugar Land and we'll see what
requisite move. The team announces this afternoon real quick, just
on Chazz and then more so pivoting into the rumor
of Jason Hayward potentially joining the roster.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, so it stinks for Chass because he's tried to
work his way out of it, but you know, it's
become apparent that what needs to be fixed isn't going
to be fixed in a cage, and it needs to
be fixed by getting regular at bats, and he just
wasn't going to get regular at bats at this point
at the big league level. It stinks, but you know,
(06:28):
if you're thinking long term, you know he comes spring
training next year, he's going to be right back in
the mix in the outfield. So to get him right,
he's going to have to go play and hopefully figures
it out quickly and gets back into the mix here
before the end of the season. But he's got to play,
he's got to get timing, he's got to fix the
things in this swing, and you just can't do that
in the cage. In terms of the corresponding move, if
(06:53):
it is Jason Hayward, which seems like it is, it's
a marginal up grade. It's more of a situational upgrade.
You get a guy who's a left handed bat who
for the last five years or so has played pretty
much exclusively against right handed pitching. And as tough as
it was for Chaz if he was going to give
(07:13):
you anything, it was going to be against a lefty.
So Hayward you get the other side of that. So
it just gives you a different option. You know, you
can use Mauricio Dubon in the outfield against a left
handed pitcher, you can use Jason Hayward against the right
handed pitcher. And you know, but it's a no risk,
low cost, marginal upgrade at this point. But you know,
(07:34):
we've seen with Ben Gammle, if the guy comes in
and catches fire for a week, it can kind of
be a shot in the arm. So that's kind of what.
I don't think that's, you know, a season altering move
by any means, by the.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Way, thirteen years ago, just this past week, thirteen years ago,
almost to the week, Brian bogusvic three home runs in
five games. We had one against Chicago against the Cobbs
here at Mint of May Park. Then he had one
against the Giants, and then I don't know if we
count this one kind of a cheapye you did it
out in Colorado against the Rockies. I guess we count.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Also, records do matter, Apparently on this show, I was
gonna say, Gordy Bogie, only certain records matter and certain
stats matter. So it's good to know. I agree with you.
Ball les art matter? Was that?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
But was that the same thing you were talking about,
Like you come in bunches like you're just feeling the
power that week.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yes, even for even for really bad hitters, they can
come in bunch us as well.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Talking with Brian boga Savic Space City Home Network Astros analysts,
former draft selection first rounded by the Astros, playing some
five seasons here in Houston. Okay, uh, I think I'm
done with Philly. I mean it was rough, but they
salvage it. They come on back here and I'm checking
(08:51):
these standings. Yep, three and a half game. Still you're
worried about the man that's creeping up. And then I'm
using that to start having some Royals conversation. Royals seventy
five and fifty nine on the season. They are just
one game back of the Cleveland Guardians.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, the Royals are. The Royals are a serious team.
I mean, I know that going into the season, expectations
weren't all that high. They were a team who was
kind of on the rise, but they've proved that they're
ahead of schedule. I mean, they've got serious star power
in Bobby Wit and a very good starting rotations. So
(09:27):
they're a serious contender. And they seem like a team
who think this is their shot. I mean, they just
made up a bunch of ground to close the close
the gap on Cleveland and they're playing really well. So
it's almost going to be playoff style baseball against the
Royals for the next four days. And then, yeah, I'm
always worried about the Mariners. When you can pitch the
way they can and you know, shut a team down
(09:49):
for an entire series and you know, sweep a series
or win a series by scoring five or six runs. Yeah,
I am not going to be off of the Mariners
being a threat until it's out of reach for them.
I think there's just too much pitching on that team
to ever put them away.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
All Right, that's the voice and opinions of the great
Brian Boga Sevic. Follow him, won't you? At Brian b
r I A N. Boga Sevic b O g U
S E V I C. You can't miss him. He's
on Space City, adorned appropriately, quite handsome, fellow rocking some gear,
buttoned up, quite nice. Keep it up, Bogie, you're representing
(10:30):
us well here on next up, dropping by off his
weekly typically at ten thirty, was kind enough to shift
some things today.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
All right, guys, see you next week.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
All right, man, have a good holiday weekend. We'll do
it next week
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