August 24, 2023 • 30 mins
On this week's edition of Inside the (Rob) Parker, Rob reacts to horrible news regarding Shohei Ohtani and explains what he thinks the superstar should do next. Rob dives in to the Yankees' historic losing streak and shows how Mookie Betts is putting together an all-time great career. Former MLB Manager Bo Porter joins Rob to discuss Ohtani's injury and his future. Mariners Play-By-Play Broadcaster Dave Sims joins Rob to discuss Seattle's recent hot streak and Julio Rodriguez's historic run. Plus, we've got appearances from MLBBro.com managing editor, the analytics guru himself Anthony Masterson, and the Mets make a huge announcement!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the berkshears to the sound from wherever you live
in MLB America. This is inside the Parker. You give
us twenty two minutes and we'll give you the scoop
on Major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of Fame
voter number seven, Rob Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker. What
a show we have for you today. Former major league
manager and MLB network analyst both porter stuff spy. He'll
give us some knowledge, insight on the old Tawny injury
and more, plus the streak in Seattle. Mariners will dig
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deep with their play by play television man Dave Simms
all that let's go.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Better up to lead off, it's getting robbed and keep
them out. Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories
in Major League Baseball. Number one, What a bummer.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
For baseball fans that Shoe hal Tany will not pitch
anymore this season. He has a UCL tear, still a
question mark. They'll continue to play him as a hitter.
Only you know, he was having a historic season obviously,
And then the question is what do you do going
on from here? You know, should should he just pitch?
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Should he just hit. Should he continue to try to
do both? He's a unicorn. There's all kinds of stuff.
He's going to be a free agent. Would you sign
him now that he has a pitching injury. Is he
still worth five or six hundred million dollars? There's a
lot of stuff out there. I'm gonna tell you a
he's going to get his money because they're going to
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believe he's twenty nine years old, what he's been able
to do, and they'll make all that money back from
Japan and those fans. I just I just don't think
that money is the issue when you have a chance
to sign a player of that magnitude. Now, the real
question is should he Should he be Babe Ruth, which
is Babe Ruth gave up his pitching and decided to
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just be a hitter. Should show hey, old Tani just
be a hitter. I think that's something really to think about.
And think about him playing right field every day, not
as a DH because I think you get detached from
the game. We've seen some great hitters not be nearly
as good. Just dhen play him in right field, Let
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him be a part of the action every day, And
I think there's a chance that he could be one
of the best hitters in the game. If he's just hitting,
I know it. It's hard to give up the pitching aspect.
Babe Ruth did it. Old Tani should do it too.
Number two, the New York Yankees finally broke their nine
game losing streak. My god, I mean the Yankees hadn't
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lost nine games since Yep, Moby Dick was a guppy.
It's been forever. And we know Aaron Judge had three
home runs Wednesday to help them get that monkey off
their back. But let me tell you, the Yankees need
to stop with the nameless and faceless players and get
back to what helped them win those championships. And when
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they were dominant in the nineties and the early two thousands,
they had star after star. The Yankees don't have that anymore.
You have Judge and they have a couple other stars
on the team, but not enough. Most of the players
there just aren't that good. They really aren't. And they're nameless.
They're faceless. One guy's left handed, one guy's right handed.
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You don't know who the guy is. And that's what
the Yankees are penny pinching, not trying to go out
and get the best players available. Yes, they signed Judge,
they had no choice without them, I mean it would
be even worse. So my point is the Yankees need
to rethink about who they are, how they used to win.
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And sure, you want to develop players. I'm not talking
about going out and just any and everybody, but you
can't shy away from stocking that lineup with some good,
very good, all star players to surround Aaron Judge. Aaron
Judge would have two other stars in that lineup with them,
and he doesn't have it. And that's why the Yankee season,
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in the words of GM Brian Cashman, has been a disaster.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Number three.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I have some numbers and ideas I want to share
with you on this getting rob number three, and there's
some interesting things and numbers. First, I want to talk
about the Chicago Cubs and their second half run, which
has been pretty incredible. The Cubs, are you ready for this?
Coming into Thursday? The Cubs were twenty three and twelve
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in the second half of the season stix point one
runs a game, second in the NL Central and second
in the NL Wild Card. Think about it. The first
half of the season, they were forty two and forty
seven and getting less than five runs a game, and
they were seventh in the wild card. So they have
really come on and they are viable. So the Cubs
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are streaking. And the year where most people thought that
the Cubs had no shot really at making the playoffs,
they look like they're rolling and have a real good chance.
Here's another thing I want to give you numbers. Wise,
everybody knows Julio Rodriguez with the Mariners was the AL
Player of the Week for August fourteenth through the twentieth.
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And when you start to talk about players young players,
players are twenty three years old and younger, you would
right away think, man, Julio is the best of the lot.
I got news for you. How about these numbers? Okay,
here we go for this season. Julio Rodriguez twenty one
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home runs, seven ninety eight ops, thirty three stolen bases.
Can I tell you about Bobby with Kansas City twenty
five home runs, eight sixteen ops and thirty seven stolen bases.
So as great as Julio is, let's not leave out
Bobby Witt Junior. He's been incredible. And there's one other
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number I want to give to you, and that what
someone did on MLB Network. A comparison through the first
twelve hundred and thirty one games comparing the Mookie Bets
from the Dodgers and Barry Bonds, and you won't believe this.
Through the identical number of games, Mookie Bets has more hits,
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more home runs, more RBIs, more run scored, and Bonds
only beat him out in slugging five twenty eight compared
to Bets's five twenty seven. You're watching one of the
all time great players. Do not kid yourself when you're
watching Mookie Bets.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Here comes the big interview. Listen and learn.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
It's so good.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Now let's welcome into the podcast. Bouporter, former major league manager.
Of course, he managed the Houston Astros and now as
an analyst for MLB dot Com. Bow Welcome to the podcast.
I appreciate you. How you doing.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
I'm doing great, Rob It's pleasure to be.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
With you always, my man, I need your knowledge. Help
me with Shohi Otani. My goodness, gracious, he's injured. He's
not going to pitch for the rest of the season.
There's still a debate on whether he'll play and just
hit What a blow is this for? Show Hey baseball
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and for the.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Angels, yes, it's a it's a major blow.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
I mean when you when you look at show Hey
and and one what he means to the game.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
I mean, he is arguably the.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Biggest star in our game right now, and it's very
unfortunate that this has happened. I go back to just
to pre trade deadline and the decision that the Angels
made to hold on to show Heo tany now now
not one you don't want to see injury to any player,
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but there was there was a lot of question on
whether or not they should have traded him, they should
have not traded him. I was in the camp that
from a standpoint of looking at their organization, they had
a chance to reset their organization. What a trade of
show Heyo Tani and it's no telling what that return
could have bought for them.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
So when you look at the organization as a.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Whole, I mean, this is this is not a good
day obviously for the Angels organization, and you just you
just hope that even when they get a second opinion
or a third opinion, that he's able to to one
get through this and be able to do the things
that that We've been so blessed to watch him, you know,
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can and do each and every day, which is be
in front of the rotation starter and one.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Of the best hitters in our game.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I'm with you. I was in that camp we're not playing,
you know, Monday morning quarterback and saying I told you
so now. But I was with you both. He has
a UCL tear now and they were kidding themselves. They
never had enough pitching to make a real playoff run,
and Trout was heard, you know, so when you added
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all those things together, the chances of you really making
a run by keeping him didn't make any sense. And
I know they won seven in a row before the
trade deadlines, so people started feeling like maybe they got
a run in them. But now they're left holding the bag.
And you just said it. This is an organization. They
won a World Series in two thousand and two, and
it's been a rocky road. They have Trout, who is
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one of the all time great players as well, and
they've been to the playoffs one time. Bow. I mean,
like you, as an organization, there's something wrong there.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Well.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
One of the points that I made a few months
ago when we were on this very topic, is you
can go ahead and you can throw Rendon into the
conversation with them. Having you know, arguably three of the
top players in our game when healthy, and when healthy
is a major component. But even when you look at
the numbers and all three of them healthy and in
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the lineup, they were still a sub five hundred team.
So for me, one of the hardest things for organizations
to do is to face their own reality. And what
happens is the emotion in the room went out. So
I said this then, and I'll say it now. If
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you're able to remove the emotion and just look at
it from a pure baseball standpoint, what is the best
thing for our organization? It would have been to trade Otani,
reset the organization, get a lot of the money that
you have allocated off your books, and have an opportunity
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to develop a new, young core group of players and
now have payroll flexibility moving forward. You look at the
Washington Nationals, so prime example. I mean they traded Max Scherzer,
they traded Trade Turner, they traded Juan Soto. I mean
you're talking about, you know, elite players in our game.
But you know what they realized, One we don't have
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a championship team anymore with these players or two. We
offered Juan Soto the max contract that we were willing
to pay, he did not want to accept it. So
at that point, as an organization, we have to move on.
And people look at the Nationals and I said this
last week on the network, the Nationals are the same
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organization that went all the way to the finish line
with Bryce Harper, and Bryce Harper ended up leaving beer
free agency and he went to Philadelphia. Well why were
they in a position to make that decision. Well, because
they had one solo coming.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Right behind him.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
So when you position your organization, you know, for long
term success, it's about creating what I call consistent championship windows.
And the Anaheim Angels missed the opportunity to reset the
organization to create a championship window.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Our guest here on inside the Parker is Bob Porter,
of course, former major league manager and analysts now on
MLB Network. The White Sox very disappointing the last couple
of years. So Kenny Williams, Rickhon both shown the door
in Chicago. Kenny Williams, we know won a World Series.
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We're putting together that team in two thousand and five.
We know about his history and his success. Rick con
not as much success, you know as the GM when
he took over. What do you make of what happened there,
because it felt like a couple of years ago, maybe
they had some pieces, but it never wound up being
what the Cubs did when they rebuilt and had the
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framework of young players.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
What happened in Chicago, well, one, you know, when you
never want to see anyone lose their jobs, especially Kenny
Williams as a dear friend of mine.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I know Rick Haines as well.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
They were great executives and they own right during their
time in Chicago. But I look at it like this,
at some point it reached ahead and they were not
able to get that group of players to perform to
their potential. Whether that, you know, falls on the manager,
whether it falls on the general manager, the president of
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baseball operations, the owner has to look at the fact
that we had a core group that we put together
that we believed was a championship team and they never
reached a full potential. And the decision, it seemed like,
was made that they're going to get a new executive
the opportunity to start to reshape and hit the reset
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button with this organization.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I actually agreed with the organization.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
I said this early on when they were talking about
Kenny and Rick Han being fired earlier in the season.
I didn't think it would have been wise of the
organization because they needed to get through this trade deadline
with that executive team, because they know the players better
than anybody else, so they're going to be in a
better position to execute the trades that needed to take place.
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When you look at the timing of this now, I
think it gives the owner the appropriate time that he's
going to need to find who that next executive is.
It also is going to give that next executive the
opportunity to really look at what's left of this roster
that was a part of the core group and figure
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out one.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Who do you want to move forward with with your.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Next core group and who do you trade from the
pieces that they have right now. Because make no mistake
about it, if you look at the individual pieces of
the White Sox, one would tell you that this should
be a good baseball team, but for whatever reason, they
didn't play as they didn't play like a good baseball team.
There was some questions about the makeup. There was some
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questions about the clubhouse. There have been other players that
have come out and said different things about the culture there.
So those are all things that will equal demise in
any organization. So when you when you when you look
at it, it cost these men their jobs and it's
it's one of those things where the organization had to
take a hard look and say can we continue on
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in this fashion? And when you look at the last
few years of underachieving, it just did not make sense
to the owner.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
One last thing, bo the Yankees, they had a similar
situation going on just end of the nine game losing
streak the Yankees and another nine game losing streak since
Moby Dick was a guppy. I mean, I mean, it's
just been a long time. They don't lose like that.
And you gotta look at the front office. Brian Kasman's
been there twenty five years as an executive, which is
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incredible in baseball. I know people both it's easy to
want to get rid of the manager and Aaron Boone,
I get it, but you have to look at the
front office and both to me, the Yankees have become
nameless and faceless. Other than maybe Judge and maybe another
two or three players. I remember the days when the
Yankees on their bench had guys like Darryl Strawberry, Tim Rains,
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and Charlie Hayes. They've gotten away from that and there's
a lot of nameless and faceless players. Do they need
to get back to being star studded and getting really
good players? It seems like the Yankees have cut corners.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Well, I think the first thing that has to happen
is reality has to set in. And the reality that
we have with the New York Yankees is it's not
a good baseball team. And you can have Aaron Judge,
who is arguably one of the best players in the game.
And I'm on record of saying this, the key to
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having a good baseball team is to stay away from
sinkholes and bad players. So when you look at the
Yankees in some of their parts around the diamond, they
just have too many below average players. Yes, is that
on Aaron Boone? Is that on you know, Brian Cashman.
When you look at what the Yankees were able to
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do when they were successful, they were able to outslug
their mistakes. When you look at the fact that they
let Major League Baseball in the home runs by a
large margin.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Well, when you are hitting the ball out of the ballpark.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Now, things like going first to third in which I
think they're twenty ninth in baseball going first to third,
when you think about going from second to home on
a single, they're in the bottom three in baseball, they're
in the bottom three.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
And on base puson they don't steal bases.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
So all of the things that help create offense, they're
just not good at. They're non athletic. So when you
start to look at the roster in itself, yes, you
can go and you can go buy more players, But
who's to say when you buy all of those players,
they're gonna come together and make a good team. So
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for me, if I'm the New York Yankees, they have
to go back to the drawing board, look at their
farm system, look at how you draft, look at what
you're trying to draft, and you got to get down
to share development of players. And that development can't stop
when they leave the minor leagues. They have to have
coaches that are in the big leagues that can develop
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players even when they get to the big leagues.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
All right, his name is bo Porter. There's some information
and knowledge for you right here on inside the Parker.
As always, Bow, we appreciate you, my man.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Stay well, okay, brother, I appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
It's time for the pocket Protector Centro. The analytic numbers
you need to know?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Well, maybe Anthony Masterson is his name, BS. Analytics is
his game. What do you got for me, Anthony?
Speaker 7 (19:14):
The last week we saw from Julio Rodriguez might have
actually been the hottest we've ever seen anybody at the
plate in our lifetimes, unless, of course, you preceded the
Roaring twenties. Over the seven games against Casey and Houston,
Julio hit five sixty eight, with two of them runs,
twelve RBI, six steals, and four doubles. But it was
the way he did it that turned heads. Julio set
a big League record with seventeen hits over a four
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game span, becoming only the second player ever with four
or more hits in four straight, joining the inimitable Milt
Stock for the nineteen twenty five Brooklyn Robins. His eighteen
hits over a five game span was one shy of
the record set by Jimmy Johnston for those nineteen twenty
three Robins. He was the first player with twenty hits
in a seven game span since David Fletcher in twenty
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twenty one, and the first Marriger since Each Row in
two thousand and four, just a third AL player with
twenty hits and ten RBI in a seven game span
this century, and the only one ever with twenty hits
and five steals in a seven game stretch. He was
the only player since RBI came an official stat in
nineteen twenty to have twenty hits, ten RBI and five
stolen bases in a seven game span, and unofficially, he
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was the first player to reach those marks in a
seven game span since the Georgia peach Ty Cobb did
spanning the end of the nineteen oh seven campaign in
the beginning of nineteen oh eight. RBI before nineteen twenty
can be fickle business, of course. He raised his average
twenty two points and his ops forty seven points, and
that's already with five hundred plus played appearances under his
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belt this season, an unheard of increase this late in
the year. He's led the Mariners the best record in
the AL in the second half and could potentially lead
them to the AL West Crown. When they were ten
games back on July nineteenth.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
When Rob was a newspaper columnist, he lived by this motto,
if I'm writing, I'm ripping. Let's bring in a writer
of broadcaster, old or new.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
All right, now, let's welcome into the podcast one of
my favorite people, one of the best baseball play by
play men out there, exciting, fun to listen to and
watch on television. Dave Simms from the Seattle Mariners Day.
Welcome to the podcast, My friend, good to be with you, Rob.
How you doing man? Always great? My goodness, Here we
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go again. Last year and Mariners team are charging and
this year they're charging again. So coming into Thursday, they
won eight of their last ten. They have a home
stand starting on Friday. A couple of I hate to
say cupcakes, but easier teams that are coming into Seattle.
Just tell me about what's working with this Mariners team.
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And this feels like last year.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Well it might be a little bit better than last
year because the hitting has really stepped up significantly. I mean,
the pitching has carried a bunk up for most of
the year, starters, the bullpen. They did trade Paul seawall
the and they're still trying to you know, guys are
still trying to get and get more comfortable. Brash and
Munos in the in the in the closer role that
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you know that hasn't become rock solid yet, but it's
been really good. But the biggest thing is to hitting
and the hitting contributions from six through nine in the
batting owner has been outstanding, particularly on this last road trip.
Mccats are hitting the ball out of the yard, get
big knocks, and the top of the order has been
doing it. It's it's fair share. So it's been a
lot of fun. Man the starters that the young starters
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have been good. Luis Castillo and it lives up to
his name in the rock I think. I think that's
the biggest thing the offense coming to the four because
the last two years pitching has been strong.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Let's talk about Julio Rodriguez, the AO Player of the
Week for August fourteenth through the twenty eighth numbers five
sixty eight and seven games, uh six home runs and
ops one point four one seven. He's been balling, my goodness, gracious,
and he's only twenty.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Three years old. He's scared me.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Yeah, he you know, he drove in a run at
the game yesterday, getting hit by a pitch the bases loaded,
but he missed. Let's see, we had had a day
off Monday and a stomach issue Tuesday, and they played yesterday.
He got a base hit, a hard hit to write.
I think the biggest thing when he he so got
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to me. He's so excitable sometimes and when he's trying
to get himself out of a slump, he over swings.
But during that stretch that you just ran, just coordinated
on time, good swing decisions in rhythm, and he said,
he's you know, I'm going back to being me. And
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during that stretch we had the seventeen hits I think
it was he was on he had nine consecutive hits
and at one point and I think he was on
base ten times. I mean it was hit ten to
second times.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
It was just.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Crazy, fantastic athletic strong hit the ball heart and the other.
He had been getting jammed all out because of that overswinging,
and he was hitting weak round balls at the right side.
Now he's hitting bullets right side. And he started hitting
the ball out of the yard too. And there's a number.
It's changed, but there was a number there in his
career when he had at least one hit, the manners
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playing something like seven fifty ball wow on the flip
side and they're playing three to fifty ball when he
didn't get a hit. So that's how much he meant
to the ball club.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Talk to me about George Kirby. I mean, I saw
a stat where he has the best strikeout to based
on ball wall in the modern era for a single
season for a player younger than twenty five. Yeah, twenty
five or younger. And I mean the name on there
that jumped out to me was Walter Johnson's.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Yeah, he's on that list.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
And here's George Kirby with a nine point five zero
in the twenty twenty What is Tell me, give me
the scouty report. What does he have?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
New York guy, I'm gonna fight you tooth and nail.
I got a fastball, I'm not gonna walk it. He
went into yesterday's game doing something that no rookie had done.
I think I think it was game forty nine and
he had not walked fifty guys, you know this season,
and for a guy in his second year, I mean,
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it was like an all time more. He's about to
send an all time mark by the time he gets
to to a certain point. I mean it was so
they find me stats. But at the point being he
doesn't walk anybody. He's very efficient. He had one hiccup yesterday,
gives up the home run. I think it's been Attende
got him, and he has an ability to bounce back.
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If he does have a quote unquote clunker, he comes
back strong the next day. I mean he's got And
I'll never forget the game he pitched against the Yankees.
Man he it had a bad alley before and he
came out and pitched eight shut out of a shutout
at Ans I think one hit against the yank He's nine,
ten strikeouts, no walks. So he's a real deal. So
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I mean when you as Mariners, you look ahead playoffs.
You got Cass Steel is elite dog. You got Kirby Uh,
you got the Bryce Miller kid, you got Logan Gilbert.
I mean we got some pitch, we got some starters, and.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
You need that in the playoffs. Dave, you know, you
have all the hitting in the world. If you don't
have pitching, you're not winning in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Bingo and the other thing too, It's good about that
crew is that they can get deep and they can
go you know, shorten that game. They can go seven
innings and then you got six outs to get.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Our guest is Dave Simms, the television play by play
man for the Seattle Mariners. Does a great job. I
get goosebumps. Last year, I remember listening to your call. Uh,
you know when they make Yeah, just just an awesome call, Dave.
It was awesome. But let me ask you this, can
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they how what's their ceiling? How good is this team Seattle?
I mean this is the second year, like, can they
win a World Series? Can they get into the ALCS? Well?
How good are they?
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Well?
Speaker 3 (27:07):
I tell you they had played so well lately since
July one that for the longest time we were just
talking about, hey, let's just make the playoffs. If you
check your standards. We went into yesterday's game a game
out behind Texas, uh, and we were right on the
heels of second place Houston. So and here's the other thing.
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The last ten games we've got what is it, We've
got three at three at Texas, come home, three for Houston,
and finished with four with Texas. If they were within
shouting distance coming into that last week. It's going to
be determined in that final week and we're talking about
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making the playoffs, we're talking about winning the division. We're
talking about maybe making be in the second seed. So
it's voting. Well, just got to stay healthy and that's
always sticking out. Yeah, man, you gotta stay healthy, and
you hope the producce it. You can't expect it. Guys
to be playing eight, you know, nine hundred ball coming
down to stretch. But if they placed, you know, you know,
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seven hundred ball, six fifty ball win series coming down
to strets, they got a shot.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
And a schedule. There's a big series against the.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Dodgers at home, as as well as those series against
the two Texas teams. So there's some there's some tough,
tough schedules coming up, tough series coming up.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
His name is Dave Simms. Dave, always a pleasure, my man.
Thank you for filling us in on the Mariners in
their charge, second half charge. We're getting used to the
last couple of years. Thank you, my man. Enjoy enjoy
the ride.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Oh believe me, I got them all buckled in ready
to go, man. Thanks a lot.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Ron all right, appreciated Dave anytime.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Now bring in the closer right, Here's why MLB is
better than the NFL or NBA, and it is in
even close.
Speaker 8 (29:02):
Reason number one hundred and fifty five why Major League
Baseball is better than the NBA and the NFL. All
we have to do is look in Flushing, New York,
look at City Field, look at the New York Metropolitans,
and the announcement on Thursday that the Mets will retire
very popular.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Mets Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry's numbers in separate ceremonies
that will happen in the twenty twenty four season at
City Field. If you were in New York or you
know anything about the Mets, those guys transformed that franchise
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from an also ran into must see TV. Darryl Strawberry
with his unbelievable home runs, the beautiful left handed swing,
and Dwight Gooden, of course, a Cy Young Award winner,
a guy had an unbelievable heater and her ball. But
these are the kind of players that fans latch onto
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and hold on to forever. You know, short and the
other sports are favorite players, but their eras and there's
something about baseball. You get to know the players a
little bit more. They play so many games, you watch
them for so much longer than you do one football
game a week in football or NBA, baseball is six
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months strong. With these players, you get to know and
love and that's what makes the game great. In the
words of New York TV legend the late Bill Jorgensen,
thanking you for your time this time until next time,
Rob Parker out.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
D can't Gavin.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
This could be an inside the Parker.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
See you next week, same bat time from the same
MAT's station.
From the berkshears to the sound from wherever you live
in MLB America. This is inside the Parker. You give
us twenty two minutes and we'll give you the scoop
on Major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of Fame
voter number seven, Rob Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker. What
a show we have for you today. Former major league
manager and MLB network analyst both porter stuff spy. He'll
give us some knowledge, insight on the old Tawny injury
and more, plus the streak in Seattle. Mariners will dig
(00:41):
deep with their play by play television man Dave Simms
all that let's go.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Better up to lead off, it's getting robbed and keep
them out. Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories
in Major League Baseball. Number one, What a bummer.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
For baseball fans that Shoe hal Tany will not pitch
anymore this season. He has a UCL tear, still a
question mark. They'll continue to play him as a hitter.
Only you know, he was having a historic season obviously,
And then the question is what do you do going
on from here? You know, should should he just pitch?
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Should he just hit. Should he continue to try to
do both? He's a unicorn. There's all kinds of stuff.
He's going to be a free agent. Would you sign
him now that he has a pitching injury. Is he
still worth five or six hundred million dollars? There's a
lot of stuff out there. I'm gonna tell you a
he's going to get his money because they're going to
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believe he's twenty nine years old, what he's been able
to do, and they'll make all that money back from
Japan and those fans. I just I just don't think
that money is the issue when you have a chance
to sign a player of that magnitude. Now, the real
question is should he Should he be Babe Ruth, which
is Babe Ruth gave up his pitching and decided to
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just be a hitter. Should show hey, old Tani just
be a hitter. I think that's something really to think about.
And think about him playing right field every day, not
as a DH because I think you get detached from
the game. We've seen some great hitters not be nearly
as good. Just dhen play him in right field, Let
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him be a part of the action every day, And
I think there's a chance that he could be one
of the best hitters in the game. If he's just hitting,
I know it. It's hard to give up the pitching aspect.
Babe Ruth did it. Old Tani should do it too.
Number two, the New York Yankees finally broke their nine
game losing streak. My god, I mean the Yankees hadn't
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lost nine games since Yep, Moby Dick was a guppy.
It's been forever. And we know Aaron Judge had three
home runs Wednesday to help them get that monkey off
their back. But let me tell you, the Yankees need
to stop with the nameless and faceless players and get
back to what helped them win those championships. And when
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they were dominant in the nineties and the early two thousands,
they had star after star. The Yankees don't have that anymore.
You have Judge and they have a couple other stars
on the team, but not enough. Most of the players
there just aren't that good. They really aren't. And they're nameless.
They're faceless. One guy's left handed, one guy's right handed.
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You don't know who the guy is. And that's what
the Yankees are penny pinching, not trying to go out
and get the best players available. Yes, they signed Judge,
they had no choice without them, I mean it would
be even worse. So my point is the Yankees need
to rethink about who they are, how they used to win.
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And sure, you want to develop players. I'm not talking
about going out and just any and everybody, but you
can't shy away from stocking that lineup with some good,
very good, all star players to surround Aaron Judge. Aaron
Judge would have two other stars in that lineup with them,
and he doesn't have it. And that's why the Yankee season,
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in the words of GM Brian Cashman, has been a disaster.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Number three.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I have some numbers and ideas I want to share
with you on this getting rob number three, and there's
some interesting things and numbers. First, I want to talk
about the Chicago Cubs and their second half run, which
has been pretty incredible. The Cubs, are you ready for this?
Coming into Thursday? The Cubs were twenty three and twelve
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in the second half of the season stix point one
runs a game, second in the NL Central and second
in the NL Wild Card. Think about it. The first
half of the season, they were forty two and forty
seven and getting less than five runs a game, and
they were seventh in the wild card. So they have
really come on and they are viable. So the Cubs
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are streaking. And the year where most people thought that
the Cubs had no shot really at making the playoffs,
they look like they're rolling and have a real good chance.
Here's another thing I want to give you numbers. Wise,
everybody knows Julio Rodriguez with the Mariners was the AL
Player of the Week for August fourteenth through the twentieth.
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And when you start to talk about players young players,
players are twenty three years old and younger, you would
right away think, man, Julio is the best of the lot.
I got news for you. How about these numbers? Okay,
here we go for this season. Julio Rodriguez twenty one
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home runs, seven ninety eight ops, thirty three stolen bases.
Can I tell you about Bobby with Kansas City twenty
five home runs, eight sixteen ops and thirty seven stolen bases.
So as great as Julio is, let's not leave out
Bobby Witt Junior. He's been incredible. And there's one other
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number I want to give to you, and that what
someone did on MLB Network. A comparison through the first
twelve hundred and thirty one games comparing the Mookie Bets
from the Dodgers and Barry Bonds, and you won't believe this.
Through the identical number of games, Mookie Bets has more hits,
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more home runs, more RBIs, more run scored, and Bonds
only beat him out in slugging five twenty eight compared
to Bets's five twenty seven. You're watching one of the
all time great players. Do not kid yourself when you're
watching Mookie Bets.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Here comes the big interview. Listen and learn.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
It's so good.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Now let's welcome into the podcast. Bouporter, former major league manager.
Of course, he managed the Houston Astros and now as
an analyst for MLB dot Com. Bow Welcome to the podcast.
I appreciate you. How you doing.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
I'm doing great, Rob It's pleasure to be.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
With you always, my man, I need your knowledge. Help
me with Shohi Otani. My goodness, gracious, he's injured. He's
not going to pitch for the rest of the season.
There's still a debate on whether he'll play and just
hit What a blow is this for? Show Hey baseball
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and for the.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Angels, yes, it's a it's a major blow.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
I mean when you when you look at show Hey
and and one what he means to the game.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
I mean, he is arguably the.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Biggest star in our game right now, and it's very
unfortunate that this has happened. I go back to just
to pre trade deadline and the decision that the Angels
made to hold on to show Heo tany now now
not one you don't want to see injury to any player,
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but there was there was a lot of question on
whether or not they should have traded him, they should
have not traded him. I was in the camp that
from a standpoint of looking at their organization, they had
a chance to reset their organization. What a trade of
show Heyo Tani and it's no telling what that return
could have bought for them.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
So when you look at the organization as a.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Whole, I mean, this is this is not a good
day obviously for the Angels organization, and you just you
just hope that even when they get a second opinion
or a third opinion, that he's able to to one
get through this and be able to do the things
that that We've been so blessed to watch him, you know,
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can and do each and every day, which is be
in front of the rotation starter and one.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Of the best hitters in our game.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
I'm with you. I was in that camp we're not playing,
you know, Monday morning quarterback and saying I told you
so now. But I was with you both. He has
a UCL tear now and they were kidding themselves. They
never had enough pitching to make a real playoff run,
and Trout was heard, you know, so when you added
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all those things together, the chances of you really making
a run by keeping him didn't make any sense. And
I know they won seven in a row before the
trade deadlines, so people started feeling like maybe they got
a run in them. But now they're left holding the bag.
And you just said it. This is an organization. They
won a World Series in two thousand and two, and
it's been a rocky road. They have Trout, who is
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one of the all time great players as well, and
they've been to the playoffs one time. Bow. I mean,
like you, as an organization, there's something wrong there.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Well.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
One of the points that I made a few months
ago when we were on this very topic, is you
can go ahead and you can throw Rendon into the
conversation with them. Having you know, arguably three of the
top players in our game when healthy, and when healthy
is a major component. But even when you look at
the numbers and all three of them healthy and in
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the lineup, they were still a sub five hundred team.
So for me, one of the hardest things for organizations
to do is to face their own reality. And what
happens is the emotion in the room went out. So
I said this then, and I'll say it now. If
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you're able to remove the emotion and just look at
it from a pure baseball standpoint, what is the best
thing for our organization? It would have been to trade Otani,
reset the organization, get a lot of the money that
you have allocated off your books, and have an opportunity
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to develop a new, young core group of players and
now have payroll flexibility moving forward. You look at the
Washington Nationals, so prime example. I mean they traded Max Scherzer,
they traded Trade Turner, they traded Juan Soto. I mean
you're talking about, you know, elite players in our game.
But you know what they realized, One we don't have
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a championship team anymore with these players or two. We
offered Juan Soto the max contract that we were willing
to pay, he did not want to accept it. So
at that point, as an organization, we have to move on.
And people look at the Nationals and I said this
last week on the network, the Nationals are the same
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organization that went all the way to the finish line
with Bryce Harper, and Bryce Harper ended up leaving beer
free agency and he went to Philadelphia. Well why were
they in a position to make that decision. Well, because
they had one solo coming.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Right behind him.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
So when you position your organization, you know, for long
term success, it's about creating what I call consistent championship windows.
And the Anaheim Angels missed the opportunity to reset the
organization to create a championship window.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Our guest here on inside the Parker is Bob Porter,
of course, former major league manager and analysts now on
MLB Network. The White Sox very disappointing the last couple
of years. So Kenny Williams, Rickhon both shown the door
in Chicago. Kenny Williams, we know won a World Series.
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We're putting together that team in two thousand and five.
We know about his history and his success. Rick con
not as much success, you know as the GM when
he took over. What do you make of what happened there,
because it felt like a couple of years ago, maybe
they had some pieces, but it never wound up being
what the Cubs did when they rebuilt and had the
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framework of young players.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
What happened in Chicago, well, one, you know, when you
never want to see anyone lose their jobs, especially Kenny
Williams as a dear friend of mine.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I know Rick Haines as well.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
They were great executives and they own right during their
time in Chicago. But I look at it like this,
at some point it reached ahead and they were not
able to get that group of players to perform to
their potential. Whether that, you know, falls on the manager,
whether it falls on the general manager, the president of
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baseball operations, the owner has to look at the fact
that we had a core group that we put together
that we believed was a championship team and they never
reached a full potential. And the decision, it seemed like,
was made that they're going to get a new executive
the opportunity to start to reshape and hit the reset
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button with this organization.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I actually agreed with the organization.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
I said this early on when they were talking about
Kenny and Rick Han being fired earlier in the season.
I didn't think it would have been wise of the
organization because they needed to get through this trade deadline
with that executive team, because they know the players better
than anybody else, so they're going to be in a
better position to execute the trades that needed to take place.
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When you look at the timing of this now, I
think it gives the owner the appropriate time that he's
going to need to find who that next executive is.
It also is going to give that next executive the
opportunity to really look at what's left of this roster
that was a part of the core group and figure
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out one.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Who do you want to move forward with with your.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Next core group and who do you trade from the
pieces that they have right now. Because make no mistake
about it, if you look at the individual pieces of
the White Sox, one would tell you that this should
be a good baseball team, but for whatever reason, they
didn't play as they didn't play like a good baseball team.
There was some questions about the makeup. There was some
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questions about the clubhouse. There have been other players that
have come out and said different things about the culture there.
So those are all things that will equal demise in
any organization. So when you when you when you look
at it, it cost these men their jobs and it's
it's one of those things where the organization had to
take a hard look and say can we continue on
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in this fashion? And when you look at the last
few years of underachieving, it just did not make sense
to the owner.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
One last thing, bo the Yankees, they had a similar
situation going on just end of the nine game losing
streak the Yankees and another nine game losing streak since
Moby Dick was a guppy. I mean, I mean, it's
just been a long time. They don't lose like that.
And you gotta look at the front office. Brian Kasman's
been there twenty five years as an executive, which is
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incredible in baseball. I know people both it's easy to
want to get rid of the manager and Aaron Boone,
I get it, but you have to look at the
front office and both to me, the Yankees have become
nameless and faceless. Other than maybe Judge and maybe another
two or three players. I remember the days when the
Yankees on their bench had guys like Darryl Strawberry, Tim Rains,
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and Charlie Hayes. They've gotten away from that and there's
a lot of nameless and faceless players. Do they need
to get back to being star studded and getting really
good players? It seems like the Yankees have cut corners.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Well, I think the first thing that has to happen
is reality has to set in. And the reality that
we have with the New York Yankees is it's not
a good baseball team. And you can have Aaron Judge,
who is arguably one of the best players in the game.
And I'm on record of saying this, the key to
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having a good baseball team is to stay away from
sinkholes and bad players. So when you look at the
Yankees in some of their parts around the diamond, they
just have too many below average players. Yes, is that
on Aaron Boone? Is that on you know, Brian Cashman.
When you look at what the Yankees were able to
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do when they were successful, they were able to outslug
their mistakes. When you look at the fact that they
let Major League Baseball in the home runs by a
large margin.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Well, when you are hitting the ball out of the ballpark.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Now, things like going first to third in which I
think they're twenty ninth in baseball going first to third,
when you think about going from second to home on
a single, they're in the bottom three in baseball, they're
in the bottom three.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
And on base puson they don't steal bases.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
So all of the things that help create offense, they're
just not good at. They're non athletic. So when you
start to look at the roster in itself, yes, you
can go and you can go buy more players, But
who's to say when you buy all of those players,
they're gonna come together and make a good team. So
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for me, if I'm the New York Yankees, they have
to go back to the drawing board, look at their
farm system, look at how you draft, look at what
you're trying to draft, and you got to get down
to share development of players. And that development can't stop
when they leave the minor leagues. They have to have
coaches that are in the big leagues that can develop
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players even when they get to the big leagues.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
All right, his name is bo Porter. There's some information
and knowledge for you right here on inside the Parker.
As always, Bow, we appreciate you, my man.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Stay well, okay, brother, I appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
It's time for the pocket Protector Centro. The analytic numbers
you need to know?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Well, maybe Anthony Masterson is his name, BS. Analytics is
his game. What do you got for me, Anthony?
Speaker 7 (19:14):
The last week we saw from Julio Rodriguez might have
actually been the hottest we've ever seen anybody at the
plate in our lifetimes, unless, of course, you preceded the
Roaring twenties. Over the seven games against Casey and Houston,
Julio hit five sixty eight, with two of them runs,
twelve RBI, six steals, and four doubles. But it was
the way he did it that turned heads. Julio set
a big League record with seventeen hits over a four
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game span, becoming only the second player ever with four
or more hits in four straight, joining the inimitable Milt
Stock for the nineteen twenty five Brooklyn Robins. His eighteen
hits over a five game span was one shy of
the record set by Jimmy Johnston for those nineteen twenty
three Robins. He was the first player with twenty hits
in a seven game span since David Fletcher in twenty
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twenty one, and the first Marriger since Each Row in
two thousand and four, just a third AL player with
twenty hits and ten RBI in a seven game span
this century, and the only one ever with twenty hits
and five steals in a seven game stretch. He was
the only player since RBI came an official stat in
nineteen twenty to have twenty hits, ten RBI and five
stolen bases in a seven game span, and unofficially, he
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was the first player to reach those marks in a
seven game span since the Georgia peach Ty Cobb did
spanning the end of the nineteen oh seven campaign in
the beginning of nineteen oh eight. RBI before nineteen twenty
can be fickle business, of course. He raised his average
twenty two points and his ops forty seven points, and
that's already with five hundred plus played appearances under his
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belt this season, an unheard of increase this late in
the year. He's led the Mariners the best record in
the AL in the second half and could potentially lead
them to the AL West Crown. When they were ten
games back on July nineteenth.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
When Rob was a newspaper columnist, he lived by this motto,
if I'm writing, I'm ripping. Let's bring in a writer
of broadcaster, old or new.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
All right, now, let's welcome into the podcast one of
my favorite people, one of the best baseball play by
play men out there, exciting, fun to listen to and
watch on television. Dave Simms from the Seattle Mariners Day.
Welcome to the podcast, My friend, good to be with you, Rob.
How you doing man? Always great? My goodness, Here we
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go again. Last year and Mariners team are charging and
this year they're charging again. So coming into Thursday, they
won eight of their last ten. They have a home
stand starting on Friday. A couple of I hate to
say cupcakes, but easier teams that are coming into Seattle.
Just tell me about what's working with this Mariners team.
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And this feels like last year.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Well it might be a little bit better than last
year because the hitting has really stepped up significantly. I mean,
the pitching has carried a bunk up for most of
the year, starters, the bullpen. They did trade Paul seawall
the and they're still trying to you know, guys are
still trying to get and get more comfortable. Brash and
Munos in the in the in the closer role that
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you know that hasn't become rock solid yet, but it's
been really good. But the biggest thing is to hitting
and the hitting contributions from six through nine in the
batting owner has been outstanding, particularly on this last road trip.
Mccats are hitting the ball out of the yard, get
big knocks, and the top of the order has been
doing it. It's it's fair share. So it's been a
lot of fun. Man the starters that the young starters
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have been good. Luis Castillo and it lives up to
his name in the rock I think. I think that's
the biggest thing the offense coming to the four because
the last two years pitching has been strong.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Let's talk about Julio Rodriguez, the AO Player of the
Week for August fourteenth through the twenty eighth numbers five
sixty eight and seven games, uh six home runs and
ops one point four one seven. He's been balling, my goodness, gracious,
and he's only twenty.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Three years old. He's scared me.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Yeah, he you know, he drove in a run at
the game yesterday, getting hit by a pitch the bases loaded,
but he missed. Let's see, we had had a day
off Monday and a stomach issue Tuesday, and they played yesterday.
He got a base hit, a hard hit to write.
I think the biggest thing when he he so got
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to me. He's so excitable sometimes and when he's trying
to get himself out of a slump, he over swings.
But during that stretch that you just ran, just coordinated
on time, good swing decisions in rhythm, and he said,
he's you know, I'm going back to being me. And
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during that stretch we had the seventeen hits I think
it was he was on he had nine consecutive hits
and at one point and I think he was on
base ten times. I mean it was hit ten to
second times.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
It was just.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Crazy, fantastic athletic strong hit the ball heart and the other.
He had been getting jammed all out because of that overswinging,
and he was hitting weak round balls at the right side.
Now he's hitting bullets right side. And he started hitting
the ball out of the yard too. And there's a number.
It's changed, but there was a number there in his
career when he had at least one hit, the manners
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playing something like seven fifty ball wow on the flip
side and they're playing three to fifty ball when he
didn't get a hit. So that's how much he meant
to the ball club.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Talk to me about George Kirby. I mean, I saw
a stat where he has the best strikeout to based
on ball wall in the modern era for a single
season for a player younger than twenty five. Yeah, twenty
five or younger. And I mean the name on there
that jumped out to me was Walter Johnson's.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Yeah, he's on that list.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
And here's George Kirby with a nine point five zero
in the twenty twenty What is Tell me, give me
the scouty report. What does he have?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
New York guy, I'm gonna fight you tooth and nail.
I got a fastball, I'm not gonna walk it. He
went into yesterday's game doing something that no rookie had done.
I think I think it was game forty nine and
he had not walked fifty guys, you know this season,
and for a guy in his second year, I mean,
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it was like an all time more. He's about to
send an all time mark by the time he gets
to to a certain point. I mean it was so
they find me stats. But at the point being he
doesn't walk anybody. He's very efficient. He had one hiccup yesterday,
gives up the home run. I think it's been Attende
got him, and he has an ability to bounce back.
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If he does have a quote unquote clunker, he comes
back strong the next day. I mean he's got And
I'll never forget the game he pitched against the Yankees.
Man he it had a bad alley before and he
came out and pitched eight shut out of a shutout
at Ans I think one hit against the yank He's nine,
ten strikeouts, no walks. So he's a real deal. So
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I mean when you as Mariners, you look ahead playoffs.
You got Cass Steel is elite dog. You got Kirby Uh,
you got the Bryce Miller kid, you got Logan Gilbert.
I mean we got some pitch, we got some starters, and.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
You need that in the playoffs. Dave, you know, you
have all the hitting in the world. If you don't
have pitching, you're not winning in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Bingo and the other thing too, It's good about that
crew is that they can get deep and they can
go you know, shorten that game. They can go seven
innings and then you got six outs to get.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Our guest is Dave Simms, the television play by play
man for the Seattle Mariners. Does a great job. I
get goosebumps. Last year, I remember listening to your call. Uh,
you know when they make Yeah, just just an awesome call, Dave.
It was awesome. But let me ask you this, can
(26:55):
they how what's their ceiling? How good is this team Seattle?
I mean this is the second year, like, can they
win a World Series? Can they get into the ALCS? Well?
How good are they?
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Well?
Speaker 3 (27:07):
I tell you they had played so well lately since
July one that for the longest time we were just
talking about, hey, let's just make the playoffs. If you
check your standards. We went into yesterday's game a game
out behind Texas, uh, and we were right on the
heels of second place Houston. So and here's the other thing.
(27:29):
The last ten games we've got what is it, We've
got three at three at Texas, come home, three for Houston,
and finished with four with Texas. If they were within
shouting distance coming into that last week. It's going to
be determined in that final week and we're talking about
(27:50):
making the playoffs, we're talking about winning the division. We're
talking about maybe making be in the second seed. So
it's voting. Well, just got to stay healthy and that's
always sticking out. Yeah, man, you gotta stay healthy, and
you hope the producce it. You can't expect it. Guys
to be playing eight, you know, nine hundred ball coming
down to stretch. But if they placed, you know, you know,
(28:12):
seven hundred ball, six fifty ball win series coming down
to strets, they got a shot.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
And a schedule. There's a big series against the.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Dodgers at home, as as well as those series against
the two Texas teams. So there's some there's some tough,
tough schedules coming up, tough series coming up.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
His name is Dave Simms. Dave, always a pleasure, my man.
Thank you for filling us in on the Mariners in
their charge, second half charge. We're getting used to the
last couple of years. Thank you, my man. Enjoy enjoy
the ride.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Oh believe me, I got them all buckled in ready
to go, man. Thanks a lot.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Ron all right, appreciated Dave anytime.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Now bring in the closer right, Here's why MLB is
better than the NFL or NBA, and it is in
even close.
Speaker 8 (29:02):
Reason number one hundred and fifty five why Major League
Baseball is better than the NBA and the NFL. All
we have to do is look in Flushing, New York,
look at City Field, look at the New York Metropolitans,
and the announcement on Thursday that the Mets will retire
very popular.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Mets Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry's numbers in separate ceremonies
that will happen in the twenty twenty four season at
City Field. If you were in New York or you
know anything about the Mets, those guys transformed that franchise
(29:43):
from an also ran into must see TV. Darryl Strawberry
with his unbelievable home runs, the beautiful left handed swing,
and Dwight Gooden, of course, a Cy Young Award winner,
a guy had an unbelievable heater and her ball. But
these are the kind of players that fans latch onto
(30:03):
and hold on to forever. You know, short and the
other sports are favorite players, but their eras and there's
something about baseball. You get to know the players a
little bit more. They play so many games, you watch
them for so much longer than you do one football
game a week in football or NBA, baseball is six
(30:25):
months strong. With these players, you get to know and
love and that's what makes the game great. In the
words of New York TV legend the late Bill Jorgensen,
thanking you for your time this time until next time,
Rob Parker out.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
D can't Gavin.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
This could be an inside the Parker.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
See you next week, same bat time from the same
MAT's station.
Host
Rob Parker
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