July 8, 2024 • 10 mins
Craig and Cam look at the MLB All-Star rosters including the handful of Texas Rangers and Houston Astros selected for the midsummer classic.
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(00:05):
It's the Craig Way Show with thevoice of the Texas Longhorns in Hall of
Fame broadcaster Craig Way. Back hereon a Monday afternoon, coming off the
vacation and had to be back onthe microphone and back at it. Busy
(00:30):
with you. Our thanks again toGene Watson from the Chicago White Sox front
office talking some baseball with us ashe does during the weekly time. It's
a busy time for him with thedraft, the Afshar games coming up,
and they have the trade deadline thingsand all that sort of stuff. All
(00:52):
I did was that kind of quicklywent through of the All Star stores.
This hall was announced last night yesterdayafternoon last night, and already some replacements
and additions and things like that.So I figured to take the moment here
just to kind of run through this. There's really four categories there, really
and truly are four categories under whicha player can be picked for the All
(01:17):
Star Game starters voted on by thefans. There are player elected picks.
Now this takes the place and theold deal where the managers would pick some
reserves and pitchers and things like that. Now there are players to do it.
Kind of like for the Pro Bowl. There's also those who have been
(01:40):
chosen as All Star but will notplay due to injury. I mentioned Mookie
bats being one of those as well. And then there are players who are
replacements for the ones who can't play, but they are all under the umbrella
of the All Stars. So,as I mentioned the American League starters,
here's the interesting thing about this.You have two Orioles catcher Athlete Richman and
(02:07):
shortstop Gunner Henderson. You have twoAstros Jose al Tuve at second base in
your Don Alpharez at DH. Youhave two Guardians Jose Ramirez at third and
Stephen Kwan in the outfield. Youhave two Yankees, Aaron Judge and Juan
Soto both in the outfield, andone Blue Jay, Vladimir ger Era Junior.
(02:30):
So all but one American League starterwill be out there with a teammate,
and with the Astros, Guardians,Orioles, and the Yankees all sending
a pair. Aaron Judge was theoverall top vogue getter. He leads Major
League Baseball and home runs with thirtytwo, in RBIs with eighty three,
and slugging percentage at six eighty eight. Ops with eleven eighteen, so he'll
(02:53):
be in on that national league.The starters include three elected starters and seven
total All Stars from the Phillies,and of course they have the best record
in all of baseball, the Phillies, who are starters of Bryce Harper at
first base, Alec Boham at thirdbase, Trade Turner at shortstop. Then
(03:19):
you have William Catreras from the Brewerscatching, like I said, the first
Brewer to be a starting catcher sinceTed Simmons in the early eighties. Jerkson
Profar the potteris one time Texas ranger. In the outfield Fernando Tatist Junior,
who has been injured. Harper alsohas a left hamstring strain. He is
(03:40):
expected back sometime in the next week, although whether he'll choose to start in
the All Star Game is still unknown. So that's where that Christian Yelich of
the Brewers and Shoe a Otania theDodgers as the dh All right, So
there's that. Then you get tothe pitchers. You have Tyler Anderson from
(04:04):
the Angels, Corbyn Burns of theOrioles and he was a player elected pick.
You have as players of pitchers whowill not be able to participate.
(04:25):
I'm just looking now. All ofthe American leaguers are eligible in it.
Corbyn Burns of the Orioles, EmmanuelPlace of the Guardians, Garrett Crochet the
White Sox, Logan Gilbert of theMariners, Clay Holmes of the Yankees,
tan or Halka the Red Sox,Seth Lugo. Jean was talking about for
the Royals, Mason Miller the Athletics, Colled Reagan's he mentioned the Royals,
(04:49):
Trek Scuball of Detroit and Kirby Yatesof the Rangers in there, so it's
there. And then National League pitchersTyler Glass now of the Dodgers, first
time he's ever been in an AllStar That kind of surprised me a little
bit. Ryan Helsley of the Cardinals, Jeff Hoffman, these are National League
pitchers. Jeff Hoppmins and the Philliesshowed a Emanaga of the Cubs. Let's
(05:15):
see Ronaldo Lopez of the Braves,Chris Sale of the Braves, Tanner Scott
of the Marlins. Paul Skeins justwas pitching for LSU last year, one
of the Rookie Sensation, one ofthirty two first time All Stars, and
a lot of them are pitchers.Matt Stram of the Phillies, Ranger Suarez
(05:39):
of the Phillies, Robert Schwarz ofthe Padres, Logan Webb of the Giants,
and Zach Wheeler of the Phillies,who is not able to pitch.
He will not be able to go. He's out injured. Reserves catcher for
the American League, Salvador Perez forthe Nash League, Will Smith of the
Dodgers. Infielders, these are allreserves. Carlos Korea of the Twins,
(06:00):
Roephaeld Devers of the Red Sox,Josh Naylor the Indian Guardians, Isaac Parodies
of the Rays, Marcus Simon ofthe Rangers, Bobby Witt Junior of the
Royals. National League reserves c J. Abrams, who's having a heck of
a year with a bad Nationals team. He's fourteen homers, fourteen steals at
(06:23):
eight fifty nine ops, so he'she's pretty good. Pete Alonzo, you
know, of course, he's youknow, been at all the home runs
and the home run hitting, andhe'll be in the home run derby.
Luisa Rise of the Padres. MookieBetts is a reserved, but he will
(06:45):
not be able to play. Lade la Cruz of the Reds, Freddie
Freeman of the Dodgers, Ryan mcmahonnonthe Rockies, and so and then outfielders
Jared Durant from the Red Sox,Riley Green of the Tigers, and Kyle
Tucker the Astros. Reserve outfielders NationalLeague Teoscar Hernandez of the Dodgers, Jackson
(07:06):
Merril the Padres, l O RamarazRobos of the Giants, and Brian Reynolds
of the Pirates. Backup the Ages, David Frye for Cleveland for the America
Lea Marcelo Ozuna the Braves for theNational League. The backup Showo Tani and
Ozuna will also be in the homerun derby as well. So all of
(07:27):
that's happy with that? Are youyou pleased with that? You like this
good representation? Yeah? I meanit kind of just shows you where the
Rangers are at this season. TheKirby Yates story is awesome, just like
the Direction Profar story, who ofcourse, Profar first round draft pick for
Texas, just never panned out tobe the player I think the Rangers front
office thought he would be. Andas Gene Watson alluded to there was a
(07:51):
moment where we thought man Profar maybe at a professional baseball But what a
comeback season for him. Same thingfor Kirby Yates and Simeon who's been probably
the most consistent ranger this season.Curious Craig, what you mentioned the ticket
price is for the actual All StarGame? What about the home run derby?
Is that on a Monday night?It is? Okay? What is
(08:13):
that going for the same that's usuallypretty expensive too, But I have not
seen the ticket bright. I didn'tlook for that because that would be I
think more fun than the actual AllStar Game to attend, like an in
person event if you're into it.Yeah, I mean I get a little
wearied by the home run now.The way they did it last year was
(08:35):
more refreshing. The format is alwaysvery, very weird. Yeah, and
I did like it how they didlast year. I've always liked the All
Star Game, the Baseball All StarGame, because it's the closest thing to
a regular game that you would see. It's by the way and seat Keeker,
(08:56):
Well, that's not bad. You'rejust sitting high Hi high up,
Probably were Otani. Yeah, maybeyou could maybe you could get one there,
you know, maybe Ozunakud but wentup. I don't know, Pete
Alonzo, maybe that's not too badfor that. I don't think I would
pay that for that. But yeah, but but some who may want to
(09:22):
be a part of the old.The other thing I remember the All Star
Game in Arlington back in ninety fivewas the whole fan fest because that stuff
was just starting to ramp up andfans could go down there. I remember
doing a doing a talk show downthere and I got a picture taken in
a Dodger jersey with a batman.I kept that picture picture for years.
(09:45):
Uh So they're fans, they're theiropportunities for fans to engage in other activity
activities around it other than just thegame itself, which is But I always
liked the All Star Game for Baseballbecause I thought it more closely resemble bold
a regular Now it's different that you'reseeing a different picture every evening, but
(10:05):
it's the most exciting I think allStar game out of the out of the
professional sports. Then yeah, yeah, absolutely, all right. We'll be
back to wrap up the program herethis afternoon on sports Radio AM thirteen under
the zone of the iHeartRadio app,
It's the Craig Way Show with thevoice of the Texas Longhorns in Hall of
Fame broadcaster Craig Way. Back hereon a Monday afternoon, coming off the
vacation and had to be back onthe microphone and back at it. Busy
(00:30):
with you. Our thanks again toGene Watson from the Chicago White Sox front
office talking some baseball with us ashe does during the weekly time. It's
a busy time for him with thedraft, the Afshar games coming up,
and they have the trade deadline thingsand all that sort of stuff. All
(00:52):
I did was that kind of quicklywent through of the All Star stores.
This hall was announced last night yesterdayafternoon last night, and already some replacements
and additions and things like that.So I figured to take the moment here
just to kind of run through this. There's really four categories there, really
and truly are four categories under whicha player can be picked for the All
(01:17):
Star Game starters voted on by thefans. There are player elected picks.
Now this takes the place and theold deal where the managers would pick some
reserves and pitchers and things like that. Now there are players to do it.
Kind of like for the Pro Bowl. There's also those who have been
(01:40):
chosen as All Star but will notplay due to injury. I mentioned Mookie
bats being one of those as well. And then there are players who are
replacements for the ones who can't play, but they are all under the umbrella
of the All Stars. So,as I mentioned the American League starters,
here's the interesting thing about this.You have two Orioles catcher Athlete Richman and
(02:07):
shortstop Gunner Henderson. You have twoAstros Jose al Tuve at second base in
your Don Alpharez at DH. Youhave two Guardians Jose Ramirez at third and
Stephen Kwan in the outfield. Youhave two Yankees, Aaron Judge and Juan
Soto both in the outfield, andone Blue Jay, Vladimir ger Era Junior.
(02:30):
So all but one American League starterwill be out there with a teammate,
and with the Astros, Guardians,Orioles, and the Yankees all sending
a pair. Aaron Judge was theoverall top vogue getter. He leads Major
League Baseball and home runs with thirtytwo, in RBIs with eighty three,
and slugging percentage at six eighty eight. Ops with eleven eighteen, so he'll
(02:53):
be in on that national league.The starters include three elected starters and seven
total All Stars from the Phillies,and of course they have the best record
in all of baseball, the Phillies, who are starters of Bryce Harper at
first base, Alec Boham at thirdbase, Trade Turner at shortstop. Then
(03:19):
you have William Catreras from the Brewerscatching, like I said, the first
Brewer to be a starting catcher sinceTed Simmons in the early eighties. Jerkson
Profar the potteris one time Texas ranger. In the outfield Fernando Tatist Junior,
who has been injured. Harper alsohas a left hamstring strain. He is
(03:40):
expected back sometime in the next week, although whether he'll choose to start in
the All Star Game is still unknown. So that's where that Christian Yelich of
the Brewers and Shoe a Otania theDodgers as the dh All right, So
there's that. Then you get tothe pitchers. You have Tyler Anderson from
(04:04):
the Angels, Corbyn Burns of theOrioles and he was a player elected pick.
You have as players of pitchers whowill not be able to participate.
(04:25):
I'm just looking now. All ofthe American leaguers are eligible in it.
Corbyn Burns of the Orioles, EmmanuelPlace of the Guardians, Garrett Crochet the
White Sox, Logan Gilbert of theMariners, Clay Holmes of the Yankees,
tan or Halka the Red Sox,Seth Lugo. Jean was talking about for
the Royals, Mason Miller the Athletics, Colled Reagan's he mentioned the Royals,
(04:49):
Trek Scuball of Detroit and Kirby Yatesof the Rangers in there, so it's
there. And then National League pitchersTyler Glass now of the Dodgers, first
time he's ever been in an AllStar That kind of surprised me a little
bit. Ryan Helsley of the Cardinals, Jeff Hoffman, these are National League
pitchers. Jeff Hoppmins and the Philliesshowed a Emanaga of the Cubs. Let's
(05:15):
see Ronaldo Lopez of the Braves,Chris Sale of the Braves, Tanner Scott
of the Marlins. Paul Skeins justwas pitching for LSU last year, one
of the Rookie Sensation, one ofthirty two first time All Stars, and
a lot of them are pitchers.Matt Stram of the Phillies, Ranger Suarez
(05:39):
of the Phillies, Robert Schwarz ofthe Padres, Logan Webb of the Giants,
and Zach Wheeler of the Phillies,who is not able to pitch.
He will not be able to go. He's out injured. Reserves catcher for
the American League, Salvador Perez forthe Nash League, Will Smith of the
Dodgers. Infielders, these are allreserves. Carlos Korea of the Twins,
(06:00):
Roephaeld Devers of the Red Sox,Josh Naylor the Indian Guardians, Isaac Parodies
of the Rays, Marcus Simon ofthe Rangers, Bobby Witt Junior of the
Royals. National League reserves c J. Abrams, who's having a heck of
a year with a bad Nationals team. He's fourteen homers, fourteen steals at
(06:23):
eight fifty nine ops, so he'she's pretty good. Pete Alonzo, you
know, of course, he's youknow, been at all the home runs
and the home run hitting, andhe'll be in the home run derby.
Luisa Rise of the Padres. MookieBetts is a reserved, but he will
(06:45):
not be able to play. Lade la Cruz of the Reds, Freddie
Freeman of the Dodgers, Ryan mcmahonnonthe Rockies, and so and then outfielders
Jared Durant from the Red Sox,Riley Green of the Tigers, and Kyle
Tucker the Astros. Reserve outfielders NationalLeague Teoscar Hernandez of the Dodgers, Jackson
(07:06):
Merril the Padres, l O RamarazRobos of the Giants, and Brian Reynolds
of the Pirates. Backup the Ages, David Frye for Cleveland for the America
Lea Marcelo Ozuna the Braves for theNational League. The backup Showo Tani and
Ozuna will also be in the homerun derby as well. So all of
(07:27):
that's happy with that? Are youyou pleased with that? You like this
good representation? Yeah? I meanit kind of just shows you where the
Rangers are at this season. TheKirby Yates story is awesome, just like
the Direction Profar story, who ofcourse, Profar first round draft pick for
Texas, just never panned out tobe the player I think the Rangers front
office thought he would be. Andas Gene Watson alluded to there was a
(07:51):
moment where we thought man Profar maybe at a professional baseball But what a
comeback season for him. Same thingfor Kirby Yates and Simeon who's been probably
the most consistent ranger this season.Curious Craig, what you mentioned the ticket
price is for the actual All StarGame? What about the home run derby?
Is that on a Monday night?It is? Okay? What is
(08:13):
that going for the same that's usuallypretty expensive too, But I have not
seen the ticket bright. I didn'tlook for that because that would be I
think more fun than the actual AllStar Game to attend, like an in
person event if you're into it.Yeah, I mean I get a little
wearied by the home run now.The way they did it last year was
(08:35):
more refreshing. The format is alwaysvery, very weird. Yeah, and
I did like it how they didlast year. I've always liked the All
Star Game, the Baseball All StarGame, because it's the closest thing to
a regular game that you would see. It's by the way and seat Keeker,
(08:56):
Well, that's not bad. You'rejust sitting high Hi high up,
Probably were Otani. Yeah, maybeyou could maybe you could get one there,
you know, maybe Ozunakud but wentup. I don't know, Pete
Alonzo, maybe that's not too badfor that. I don't think I would
pay that for that. But yeah, but but some who may want to
(09:22):
be a part of the old.The other thing I remember the All Star
Game in Arlington back in ninety fivewas the whole fan fest because that stuff
was just starting to ramp up andfans could go down there. I remember
doing a doing a talk show downthere and I got a picture taken in
a Dodger jersey with a batman.I kept that picture picture for years.
(09:45):
Uh So they're fans, they're theiropportunities for fans to engage in other activity
activities around it other than just thegame itself, which is But I always
liked the All Star Game for Baseballbecause I thought it more closely resemble bold
a regular Now it's different that you'reseeing a different picture every evening, but
(10:05):
it's the most exciting I think allStar game out of the out of the
professional sports. Then yeah, yeah, absolutely, all right. We'll be
back to wrap up the program herethis afternoon on sports Radio AM thirteen under
the zone of the iHeartRadio app,
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