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Speaker 3 (00:39):
And Off Day for the Rangers.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
That gives us plenty of time to talk about the good,
the bad, and the ugly.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
It's next on the DLLs Rangers podcast.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
You know in some ways that qualifies as the bad
and the ugly the offense. We'll talk lots about that
the course of the program as we welcome you into
the DLLs Sports Studios. It's the DLLs Rangers Podcast me,
John Radag and Jeff Wilson there. We've got Alijah Smith
profit over there. And we appreciate you being here with
(01:13):
us to celebrate your lunch hour blated lunch hour with us,
hang out, chat like subscribe, do all those things that
you do for us, and we'd appreciate it very much.
As we talk lots of Rangers Tacebaul for you. The
bad and ugly is still to come. But you start
with Jeff, what is the best pitching staff in baseball?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
All right, well, let's start with the positives.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yeah, man, you know it's it's as.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Surprising as it is positive.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I'd say, I think the the bullpen has really done
great work. Rotation, you know, the rotation has a chance
to get better. Yeah, you know as the year goes along.
They're doing this right now in the rotation with with
with two rookies and without John Gray and Cody Bradford.
(02:07):
Some theory that says a chance to be sustainable and
get better with the grom getting better, with the Valdi.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Of all, the Tyler Balley being.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
The best picture on the planet all of a sudden, Yeah,
Locker had the good start the other night, so everything's
trending the right away Lighters got three fighters coming back
like that.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
What are you seeing the jet?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I am.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I'm trying to figure it out. He's trying to figure
that out. Everybody.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
It sounds gonna take over here. It sounds like he's
I'm talking in at ten can. I usually talk loud
enough that you can hear me without the microphone.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
So yeah, it's well, we're working on it.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And in the meantime, John, you just sit there and
be quiet, will Yeah, I'll drink my soda.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
We'll have some thoughts.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Uh No.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I wrote a story yesterday about the pitching is really
carrying everything and and that it can get better, that it.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Is sustainable, because you know it's not gonna be great
for sixty two games. Obviously you can't. You can't have that.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
But then you you recognize their HIPNI the hip gups.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And and everything that comes along with a baseball season.
But you know, you have veteran guesses, you know, even
the molten Chris Martin is thirty thirty nine years old.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Here in a couplement.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
He's been around a while.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Leave Jackson has been around a while.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
These guys have done it, and so I think they
can sustain it. And what they're doing is really simple.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
They're just throwing quality strikes and not hurting themselves, which
is like a staple of baseball.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
But then why can't everybody do it right? Why can't
everybody do it? So they're doing it. It's Mike Maddox's philosophy.
It's everybody's philosophy, but he really is has harped on
his whole career. So they're doing it.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
It looks good, it looks like you can be sustained,
but it's really hard to win games three to two,
four to three, and one to nothing.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Yeah, well, and you cannot win a game if it's
if you've got the nothing right, Like that's impossible. And
the whole point is about Mike Maddocks's message that you've
been you know that you reference there. Its sometimes like, look,
the reality is both things in baseball, hitting and pitching
(04:25):
are simple.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Right, throw strikes, Yeah, such a simple approach. You have
(05:03):
good quality strikes. Yeah, you agree with what.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You do and for strikes and you know you can't
you can't say it any better than that, but executing.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
It is a requirement.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
And These guys can execute. They have a lot of pitches,
they have a lot of different go to so yeah,
you know, just keep keep that up. That's the positive,
very unfortunate development in the chat here.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Yeah, say, it seems like a silent movie. Our subtitles available.
Profit is working on this thing feverishly and we'll see
if we can get this corrected.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
You got an update over the profit.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Not yet?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
No, okay, well, I'm thinking, yeah, you hear it there? Interesting, Well,
I don't know. I think we keep talking because I
can hear it a little bit. Hold on one second,
it's not talking, and I'm gonna I'm gonna do something
real quick.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
So just tell them now that the guy says we
sound fine, Paul says, we sound fine.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
M all right now no, hello, I'm casting, I'm casting.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah, okay, I think we keep going because I can
hear it on my computer.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Okay, here all right?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
And some people apparently, oh, definitely definitely don't sound fine.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Definitely don't sound fine. Do we sound at all? Do
we sound it all again? You hear us at all? Man?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
If we sounded all grows Matt. If Matt can't hear us,
he can they head certain good point.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
It sounded great. Oh good, Yeah, we're nice to hear it.
Nice to hear it. Well. So anyway, yeah, back to
the pitching.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Look, the reality is it's a fairly simple approach, which
is awesome. But as we've always said, it always comes
down to execution, and what's happening right now is the
pitchers are executing the game plan.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
To your point, though I don't.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
I mean, it looks like obviously that Jacob de Grum
did his execution was there Friday.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
You know, he gives up a lead off home run
in there a game and then to twenty the next
three out.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah, he walked a guy and gave him two hits.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yeah, so you know, he appears to be But I'm
not positive we've seen Nathan Valdi execute at his peak
yet this season.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I think it's the Reds probably in that shutout. Yeah
that's right, that's right. Yeah, But like he's not walking guys,
so you know he's he's he's able to to limit
damage and and pitch better. Rarity is saying the audio
is better now.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Yeah, and Matt Matt the biggest of the oh, there's
been the critics.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
He said, bingo, all right, let's play beautiful. So but
but it's in the bullpen too, you know, and you
don't see guys getting walked in the bullpen. Chris Martin
walked the guy yesterday, and I guess technically it affected
the one run scored, but I also think he walked
Shoe Tani. Have you ever heard of him?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
I've heard of him. He's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah, So I think that the pitching without a question
has been the best part of about the Rangers, who
are thirteen and nine by the way. Yeah, and then
I did see a question earlier from Paul or a
statement earlier from Paul. You know, the Rangers got pitched to.
They did get pitched to in this series. You're right,
(08:54):
the Dodgers have good pitching, but the Rangers.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
The Dodger also got pitched to, right.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
But the Rangers have also struggled all season. So yeah,
I think that's kind of what we're getting to. It's
not necessarily the weekend, but I think within the weekend
you can identify that the theme has continued. The Rangers
have pitched really, really, really well, better than expected, and
they haven't hit it all far much much worse than expected.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Way worse and you know, I mentioned in one of
the in the in the show description. So the Rangers
have always been known as a team that hits, and
as recently as I'm gonna say twenty twenty two, maybe
even yeah, I think it was twenty two. I was
in Houston on a road trip and one of their
(09:43):
writers came up to me and said, I just did
you know a story about how many innings Astros pitchers
who have been developed in our organization have thrown. And
it was, you know, about a halfway through the season,
maybe three quarters of the way through the season. You know,
there's was astronomical. All their guys were you know, homegrown.
(10:04):
And then I did one of how many the Rangers
have thrown, you know, with their own pitchers, And he
goes for the Rangers at seven, and I said, wait
a minute, you're not counting Martin Perez. Then, because Martin
had thrown, he goes, oh, yeah, okay, And then he
went back and counted and he goes, oh, like it's
thirty nine or you know whatever. I mean. Like it
(10:25):
wasn't significantly higher, but it was the joke around baseball
forever that the Rangers couldn't develop pitching granted, several of
the guys were talking about our free agents, but the
development is there too, with Rocker and with Lighter in particular.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, and you got to have that, you know, all
teams needed. It's what is the foundation for, you know,
a successful run into the playoffs. And you know, you
can spend and spend and spend, but if teams are
trying to be at least a little bit financially responsible,
(11:03):
like the Rangers are trying to by stain below of
the threshold. If you have, you know, two starting pitchers
in the rotation who are making league minimum, that does
a lot. It does a lot. It gives you a
lot of flexibility. And you know, you think about, okay,
baseball history, the A's, you know, the A's the the
late nineties, early two thousands with Hudson, Mulder and Zito
(11:27):
kept them pretty pretty good for a long time. And
then the Mets in the mid twenty ten's there, We're
we're good.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Even those Giants teams of Bruce Boat Trips, all those
guys are young when they got you.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Know, yeah, Linscomb and Matt Kine and bum Warner, those
are all homegrown guys. So it's it's nice to see.
And you you know, Jack is throwing his rehabs start
tomorrow in Round Rock, so you hope that goes well,
you hope you know, Rocker has to has to level
this thing out. Yeah, you know, how about how about
(11:59):
a steady line instead of up down, up down, up down,
Because that last one was really good.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
It was fantastic with.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
All the the slider in the velocity and using multiple pitches.
So these are all positive developments. But again, the pitching thing,
it's just been it's just been so so good and
so you hate to see it waste.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
It, right, and technically it hasn't been. I mean it
obviously you can certainly point to games where it's been wasted.
But big picture wise, you're still in first place in
the American League West. Now you could have a pretty
good lead in the American League West, which, by the way,
is you know, it's gonna looks like it might just
haul off and be a tight division. Yeah, this year
(12:42):
with only about three games separating the top from the
bottom in the division right now is the A's are
flirting with five hundred, and so the Astros and of
course it's the Rangers, Mariners and Angels at the top.
And you know, obviously the first two in particular are
known at least right now. The Rangers are for their pitching,
(13:04):
so and this time of year, you know again, pitchers
are often ahead of hitters early in a season.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yeah, but yeah, yeah, we're the lead should not be
as big now.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Yeah, the Mariners have started to hit a little bit.
They had a pretty good series in Toronto, and so yeah,
you know, it's like you look at these stats. The
Rangers have scored the fewest runs in baseball them in
the Royals sixty seven runs is all. That's unbelievable in
(13:38):
twenty two games.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
That's bad. That's three runs a game. Yeah, I'm smart
enough to do that, man. Yeah, you know, the on
base percentage is dreadful. Only the White Sox are worse.
So it's just these little things. And the Rangers have
had the second fewest chances with runners and scoring positions.
So you can complain, well, they went over five yesterday
with runners in scoring position. That's not a that's not
(14:03):
a lot of no, no, no, And then b you've
got to get guys on. So I mean, it's not
just like they're you know, have the bases loaded every inning.
And are striking out and popping out. These are bases empty.
They didn't get a runner to third base yesterdays. Yeah,
and again, sure the Dodgers can pitch, and they pitched
well all weekend. I get it, But you still got
(14:25):
to You still gotta get guys on base and score,
especially a lineup with these all these names and then right,
and that's in history.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
And the only guy that's been doing it consistently, at
least on the weekend is Josh Smith. And good for him,
Thank goodness, he's around, so lots more coming. You heard
the ball, I hope, I hope you're hearing everything. Now
we talk offense next, we try to figure out this conundrum.
And I like Malcolm's comment there about yeah, I hit
the like button if you think the Rangers will start hitting,
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Speaker 4 (17:20):
It sounds like one stop shopping to me. And by
the way, I hope this is gonna you know, and
again I know it's always going to be an argument
North Carolina barbecue versus Kansas City barbecue versus Saint Louis barbecue.
I got news for you, there's not one of them
that can compete with the way we do brisket in Texas.
(17:41):
All those other guys here's and I've traveled a ton.
You know that you like too. Yeah, all those other
guys can do good barbecue, but it's mostly on the sauce, right,
And it's like, that's a really good sauce, but pull
all that sauce off or don't you know, don't dunk
your meat in the sauce. It's not nearly as good
our brisk it's better. I'm just saying it's about the
(18:03):
meat in Texas, and by god, we smoke brisket and
sausage and turkey and anything. Ribs better than all those
other states done. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I don't use sauce on any of my barbecue.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Noll And to me, like if I make ribs and
I'm not that great, but I'm you know, I've kind
of figured it out.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
I don't want you.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
I don't even put sauce out, like you don't need
sauce for these eat those people will go. You got
barbecue sauce. Try it first, you know, because they're moist,
they're tasty, right, I don't, I don't, Uh, I don't
want to use sauce. I'll use it, right, I don't
want to.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yeah, no, I'm with you there. And yeah, Kansas City's
heavy sauce. You got any of those great places? Yea,
And they're good, they're good, like try our sauces, like,
all right, we'll try them, but yeah, you can do.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
But I could put your sauce on you know, a
big just a hunk of roast beef, or I could
put it on you know, anything, and that whatever that
is would probably be pretty good because you've got nice sauce.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
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We divert. But that's what a smoke out will do
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We're going to be around there anyway, so I mean
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Speaker 2 (19:17):
We could walk. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
So are they both day games the weekend though, Well,
I'm gonna look, yeah, that's nice. We'll figure that out.
Let's talk about the offense. Uh and uh and I hope.
I haven't offended as we start with offense anyone. But
I think we're all Texans here, so we're okay. Now
I say that, you know, if Dino's in there from Australia,
maybe he's got strong opinions about Australian barbecue, you know.
(19:41):
But anyway, here we are as a team that's supposed
to hit, a team that was built to hit, a
team that has proven it can hit, a team that
spent last year waiting to hit, and suddenly it's a
team that can't hit. And it's just like that word
to me is is wrong. It can't it can it can't.
(20:04):
I just don't know. I can't explain it. Here's what
I here's where can't comes in. I can't explain it.
It seems like there's this breakout moment. Now maybe Corey
Seeger starting to get hot, Maybe that will be the
breakout and what breakthrough if you will moment. Maybe all
those hard hit balls yesterday, you know, becomes something of
a breakthrough moment. But it's really strange for me that
(20:28):
this offense continues to just you know.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Nah, yeah it and it's not now now it's to
the point where it's not just the start of the season,
because last season it wasn't very good either. So now
you start to wonder what what's the carryover effect? And
(20:54):
you know, the one commonality would be the hitting coach.
Now I don't I don't know that that in today's
day and age, these guys have their own hitting coaches
in a lot of cases. Uh so maybe you look
at the guys who rely on strictly on Rangers hitting
coaches and then look at them and be like, oh, okay,
(21:14):
he's doing all right. Like it, But but I don't,
I don't know all the intricacies of it. Now, you know,
they just hired Justin Veeley to who is who was
Donnie Eker's good buddy, and uh you know protege, they're
they're they're of the same hitting mind, you know. So
if you make a change, it's not like you just
(21:36):
go from the offense according to the hitting coach, because
it's the same thing. So then where do you go?
You know, do you go to the minor league hitting
coordinator Cody Atkinson? Do you do you try to go
from go outside the organization? You know? Do you do
you just is that a possibility? And I think I
think at some point you got to think it will
be I think, you know, if you kind of look
(21:57):
back in Rangers' history with when certain hitters have gone
been sent down, Yeah, because they just struggled and didn't
get it figured out. It's usually late April early May.
And the two that I are fresh on my mind.
Or Leodi Tavaris in twenty twenty one when he was
(22:20):
just just lost and he finally got sent down like
April twenty sixth, somewhere in that range. And then in
fifteen rugenot o'dor was terrible for the first five or
six weeks before he got sent down in early May,
and he came back and was really really good. Leodi
came back and was better. So it's like, all right, yeah,
(22:43):
but you can't send everybody down. No, that's the thing.
Marcus Simeon can't be sent down. Yeah, you know, John
Peterson can't be sent down. So how do you manage
them and try to get them straight?
Speaker 6 (22:56):
You know?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Is like, yeah, drop him in the order? Does that help?
I mean, the bottom of the order has been really good.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
It has, and you know, and Boat has been trying
the things you usually do, right, the managerial tricks if
you will that. You know, he put Peterson in the
leadoff spot the one day to maybe jump started. He
let Peterson sit out yesterday to maybe jump start him.
It's like all these maneuvers, all these things that managers
typically try to do. He's trying, right, So there's and
(23:25):
there's only so much a manager can do. There's also
only so much a hitting coach can do. Now, it
was a completely different situation, but it seems like it
was a little later in the year than this, But
in twenty eleven, the Rangers fired their pitching coach. They're
hitting coach. I'm sorry, they're hitting coach Fat Bosley.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yeah, it was a different situation.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Yeah, it was because there was a there was a
disconnect with his personality, right, and the.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Hitters that were right, and yeah, so that that was
that was kind of there. You know, nobody that I've
heard dislikes no no or has any issues with them.
And it's not a it's not a matter of these
guys not trying, you know. I finally was able to
track down Corey Seeger yesterday and he said, we're we're
(24:15):
all competing, you know, we're all up there trying to
trying to compete, but you kind of look at the
at bats. They're generally quick at bats, and you you know,
you look at runners and scoring vision and are these guys,
you know, I think, are these guys shortening up? Are
they changing their approach at all? Are they just trying
to put the ball in play? Are they still trying
(24:36):
to drive it? And you know, there are accounts in
times where you absolutely want these guys to drive the ball,
but there are also times when this team's not scoring runs,
you're like, gosh, maybe we should maybe we should go
ahead and just move them, move them up ninety feet
or you know, hit it the other way to right field,
(24:57):
do something to put some pressure on the opposing team
and the and the opposing picture. I thought, And I
was looking this up as it happened. I thought, after
why at Langford beat out that that ball for that
hit Kevin Plar was next as a pinchit or it's like,
well maybe they would bunt Polar. He's only bunted. He
only has thirteen sacrifice bunts in his career and he's
(25:17):
only he only has one since twenty seventeen. I think
it was so it's like, all right, could he still
get one down, Yeah, could you have moved him to
second and and and and put put some pressure on
Tanner Scott. I don't know, maybe, but it just seems
like and that would be a coaching thing. Then at
that point that that would be you know, hey, let's
(25:38):
let's see if we can get a butN down. But
then I guess Bruce Poachin knew that Kevin Pilar is
not a maybe he's not a great bunner, yeah, you know,
so they're just it just seems like that even in
the situations where something looks like it could be done
baseball wise, like a hit and run or something like that,
it's not the right personnel up or you know, the
wrong guys on first base. You know, it just it
(26:00):
just seems like and then, you know, do you want
to be making out the outs on the bases at
that point? I get it all, but it just seems
like at some point something's got to start to give.
And I think I think the first thing yesterday, the
first sign toward that was Dustin Harris Yep playing for
Leodi Taveres, and Bruce Boti said before the game, Harris
(26:21):
has been swinging the bat better than Leodi and so
we're sticking with Dustin all right, And he went out there.
He played a good center field, didn't do a lot
at the plate, although he almost beat out a chopper
to first. You know, I mean, he's fast, he's athletic.
But so maybe that's the first thing that the first
shoot a drop. But I do think that you know,
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in that original lineup that had been drawn up before,
why it was activated, Jock Peterson was batting seven, So
maybe that's maybe that's the next move. You know, at
some point down moved him down. Do you do you
at some point go ahead and say, all right, Josh
Smith is our hottest hitter. We need to get we
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need to bat him first.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Okay, somebody's got to be on base ahead of Corey Seeger,
who crushed two balls yesterday and almost took the pitcher's
hand off with one of them and almost knocked over
the right field or with another. But he is hitting
the ball and hitting the ball hard. Got robbed of
a home run the Saturday. So I mean, this guy
is just he's in a groove and so getting just
(27:27):
one guy on him, one guy on base for him
if he hits a gap, Josh Smith's going to score
from first, that kind of thing. So and at this point,
when you're not scoring runs, you got to do whatever
you can to get one or two across. You do,
so we'll see what happens. But I think that, you know,
yesterday Bruce Pochi was late coming into the manager's postgame
(27:51):
press conference because they were talking about it, and he said,
we're going to go talk about it some more. They
have an off day to day, what are they going
to do? Well, they're probably going to talk about it,
you know, and if not, it's definitely gonna be on
their minds. So I think that I think the change
is coming.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Yeah, And you know, it begs the question too with
regard to Donnie Ecker, who, again I agree, I think
everybody likes him, and I think but he is, as
we've talked about, when you talk to him, you feel
like you're learning right because he definitely speaks on a
level that's that's not intentionally not trying to talk down
(28:29):
to people, not trying to be condescending, but his ideas
and his thought processes are deep and they're up here.
They're on a different level than most of the baseball
talk we hear and I just wonder if maybe if
it is up here, it's kind of just going over
the players heads.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
You know, he had talked, he was talking Friday before
the game about Yamamoto and the splitter, and you know
how hard it is to lay off of him. But
if the Rangers hand lay off of them, it's going
to be a big advantage and it could help determine
the outcome of the game. Well, they couldn't lay off
(29:05):
of him. I mean, he's said to let nine strikeouts,
you know, and and a lot of them are on
that pitch and it's a great pitch and it's tricky
and if you're behind the count, you get it. If
you're laying off of it early in account, maybe you
get ahead. But you know, is that on him? You know,
it sounds like that would have been what he told
the hitters to do. You know, hey, let's try to
do a splitter, you know, And and maybe they couldn't
(29:26):
execute it. But you know, the thing with runners and
scoring businesses again, is that is that an approach thing?
Does something have to change there? It's just there's a
lot of ways to go and patients, you know, being
patient waiting on these guys, as of Corey Seeger said,
needs to be done, just kind of have to ride
it out. Well, it's a tough ride right now, but
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they are still above five hundred. Sure, they are still
above five hundred. So but I agree, and I think
that it needs to end pretty quickly.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Yeah. Another theory to just us regarding the hitting. Maybe
it's a big picture conspiracy theory. As we continue this
talk about the hitting, the offense of the Texas Rangers,
which has been downright offensive. We talk about it next
as we continue with the DLS Rangers podcast.
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We haven't been great.
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Change. Change needs to be made.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Yep. Yeah, we're going to get in trouble for this,
I believe. Yeah, Yeah, that's all right. Okay, we'll be better.
We'll be better next read. I promise, Yes. So here's
my conspiracy theory. I enjoy it big one big picture
could be the Rangers. Maybe it's everybody. My thought right
now is that in some ways, and I hate to
(33:02):
criticize this apparatus, for lack of a better word, I
hate to criticize this thing in any way because I
love me some two hour and fifteen minute, two hour
and a half game. But is the pitch clock. Obviously
it has a tremendous effect on the pictures, it has
(33:22):
an effect on the hitters, but typically the thought is
it's not much of a negative effect. But you were
mentioning in the last segment about even Corey Seeger acknowledging
a lot of these are very short at bats, right
is the presence of the pitch clock. Has it created
an atmosphere where not only are the pitchers moving faster,
(33:47):
but the hitters feel a little bit of that urgency too.
It just doesn't seem like we have nearly as many
twelve pitch at bats, fourteen pitch at bats, ten pitch
at bet I'm not saying they don't don't exist, It
just doesn't seem like we have as many. And of course,
the more pitches that are thrown to you, the more
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pitches you and your other teammates are seeing from that pitcher.
So we'd probably have to do a little research to
find out if that's been the case. That is what
my eyeballs tell me right now, Jeff.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
You know, I think it varies on hitter to hit her.
You know, like Corey Seeger, he's never he never leaves
the batter's boxes, never takes the time out. But also
Corey Seeger generally is hacking at the first two.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Going to say, Cory Seger's never had a fourteen pitcher back.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's He's out of there pretty quick.
And then and then you get told a guy like
Adoles who swings and swings and swings. You know, I
don't I don't know who is the most patient Rangers hitter.
Would it be why at Langford?
Speaker 4 (34:53):
I'd say that's why. Who is? But again, mister full Count,
who's not backed up yet, he might have something to say.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
With he gets here right, But it's it's just I
don't know that there are a bunch of hitters who are.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Built that way.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Maybe maybe that's maybe that's a philosophy, game game approach thing,
you know, the Rangers, and and this is kind of
something that's been said, you know, throughout the years as well.
You know, why take the first pitch. Sometimes the first
pitch is the best bitch you're going to get. You
gotta be ready when the moment you set in the
(35:27):
batter's box. All right, that's true, but you know it
and then it is a strike? Is it really? Is
it really the pitch that you're going to drive or
is it just a strike that is a pitcher's pitch.
And yeah, it just so I don't know. It seems
maybe some guys do need to reset. Maybe maybe Tony
(35:49):
Beasley needs to get the flash of the take sign
a little bit more. I don't know what the deal is.
You know, you remember I and this wasn't that long ago,
and it was like if you were behind in the seventh,
eighth or ninth inning, you didn't swing until the pitcher
threw a strike. It you got in the matter's box
and knowing it was a take until somebody threw a strike. Absolutely,
(36:10):
you don't see that anymore. No, And that annoys me too.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
Like if a guy comes out and he walks a
guy on four pitches and then somebody comes to the
plate and swings at the first pitch, I'm like, what
are you doing right? He can't find the plate right right?
Speaker 2 (36:22):
And it just seems like like two oh three to
one automatic swings no matter what I know, And it's
like they're kind of kind of hunting but guessing for
a fastball. And you just see it more and more
of these days. You do not get three zero, three
to one two oh cookies anymore. They throw they will
(36:44):
throw you a slider or an off speed pitch because
they know that you're swinging. Yeah, you know, and it
just seems like a couple little adjustments. And you know,
you don't want to take aggression away from guys if
that's who they are. But if that's not who they are,
and they'll let them be who they are and see what happens.
I mean, you can't what can it hurt at this point.
Speaker 4 (37:03):
There were two or three instances yesterday where guys actually
swung at and you know, I mean again, you know,
they're facing a pretty good curve ball from glasnow, but
they swung at pitches that didn't even make it to
the plate. They landed in the dirt before the plate.
And Mike Bassett was talking about it on the broadcast,
(37:24):
and I think the answer to that is simply, you
have to decide so soon as a hitter if you're
swinging at that pitch and he does a good enough
job making it look like all the other pitches right
that this thing comes in and when it lands, you're like,
what is he thinking? But the reality is he decided,
(37:46):
you know, when the ball was still here. That's the
hardest thing about this process. Yeah, no, I mean, hitting's
not easy. It's the hardest thing to do in sports.
And recognizing pitches, you know, you have a split second.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
You know, to see the hand. You know, if the
hand's like this, okay, if it's like this okay, And
and maybe you have a little bit while longer to
see the spin. And but you know, there are guys
who you know, they say, oh it was it was
a ball coming out. It was you know, when pictures
will say, oh, yeah, it was a ball out of
my hand. It wasn't a competitive pitch. So they know
there are guys that are able to do that, you know.
(38:24):
So I but but maybe it is just slug slug slug,
and the art of hitting has been lost or never
taught to a lot of these guys. I don't I'm
not pointing fingers anybody, but it just I mean, we're
searching for answers.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
We are.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
And here's the thing. Bruce Boti is, Donny Ecker is,
you know, Jock Peterson. Sure, the heck is they're looking
for anything, and and you know. And and the thing
is that it is It's twenty two games now, so
that's three weeks of baseball. It is still early. The
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Rangers have one hundred and forty games left to go,
all right. They're not going to hit like this the
rest of the season, you wouldn't think. But we said,
like you said a couple of last week, we were
saying that exact same thing last year. And boy, you
know it, if if you look at this month as
(39:25):
a continuation of twenty twenty four, then maybe, yeah, something
is wrong. And you know, I'm not, I'm not. I
don't want anybody to lose his job. Nope, But how much,
how much longer, how much more patience is there with
the with the status quo, because again, if you include
last year, this looks a lot like the status quo does.
(39:47):
This is actually this has actually probably been worse than
last year, I would think.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
But yeah, because they addressed it with off season acquisitions,
you know.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Yeah, And and they haven't hit, so I'm not sure
it'll be It'll be interesting road trip. It'll be an
interesting couple of days, uh, you know, from last night
until first pitch tomorrow to see what what things are
are are going to happen. And you know, you see
a couple of people have mentioned that the A's are
(40:17):
pitching very poorly. And you know, this ballpark, it looks
like it's a hitters ballpark. We'll see. I mean, I
know you could say that about a lot of teams. Oh,
don't worry about it. The the White Sox are coming
to town. And then what happened we had last year?
The White Sox played the Rangers as as competitively as
any team out there. Yeah, the Rangers won every.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
Game, won them, but there were one run game games.
You know, you know our boy out there making a
circus catch. Yeah. So yeah, it's it's a confounding thing.
It's probably going to turn around. But at some point, yeah,
and truly, like Jeff said, the Rangers, the coaches, the players, everybody,
they're doing everything they can to make this thing turn around.
(41:00):
And suddenly we'll look up and it will have turned around.
Power rankings are out this week. We kind of go
over them every week. We won't spend too much time
on them. A lot hasn't changed at the top. Dodgers
padres one and two as they were last week. Number
three is now the Mets, who move up from four.
Mets have been playing well, and Juan Soto says he's
(41:21):
found it. Oh good, Yeah, he says he's founded whatever
he lost, he found it. Cubs are up. I mean
they were only I mean only up one spot. They
were five last week. Their four Phillies fell a little bit.
They're at five. Six is the first American League team.
That would be the New York Yankees, who are off
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to a really good start despite what a lot of
the pundits thought about them this year. Giants were six
last week, they're seven this week. The Detroit Tigers are
at eight. They were at eight last week. Two Tigs
played well though, all week long, and they got the
Padres coming in too, which should be a fun series.
(42:03):
Diamonds Back, let's go ahead and call the World Series preview. Yeah,
it might be we called yesterday or that. So Diamondbacks
are up from ten to nine, which means what your
Texas Rangers are in tenth. They've moved from ninth. Okay,
not bad, you know again, because the truth is, I know,
(42:23):
the power ranking doesn't just talk about bats and power,
but they've shown no power, you know what I mean.
The Rangers are not a powerful offensive team right now,
but the power ranking considers everything, and they're still considered
a top ten team, and certainly they're pitching, as we
said at the beginning of the show, like a top two,
three four team.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
All right, so then let's uh, let's back it off
a little bit here and consider consider the thirty thousand
foot view, which is what those are from national people.
Of course, all right, they still they still look at
the lineup, they look at the pitching, they see the hitting,
and they're probably like, eh, I don't think that's a
real thing. Yeah, maybe it is, And maybe they're hedging
a little bit because the Rangers have dropped throughout here,
(43:07):
but maybe they're like, you know what, I'm gonna be
all right, yeah yeah, so I yeah, but hey, who
who who am I to say? But again, just common
sense tells you. It tells you two things. It tells you, Hey,
these guys are going to get better, and they are.
They are Dock Peterson's tinking about oh fifty five all season.
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But then the common sense also says, hey, didn't this
happen last year? Yeah, so there are a couple couple
things are juggling here.
Speaker 4 (43:34):
I I've told people, fans and stuff. When they ask me,
I've told them, you know, I wouldn't hedge this at
all if it weren't for last year. The only reason
I even say otherwise, I'd just say fear not. The
offense will come around. Yeah, fear not, That's what That's
always the answer. The offense will come around. The offense
will come around. Then last year happened, and I feel
(43:54):
like I can't with confidence say it even though that's
really last year offense. Last year is the aberration. So
you know, we'll see what happens. They are another one
of those thirty thousand foot views out there. I like
to look at these when MLB dot Com puts them out.
They said the best newcomer for each team, and we
won't go over all of them. But who do you
(44:15):
think they would have picked. It's not just a young player,
it's anybody new to a team. Who do you think
they would have picked as the best newcomer to the
Texas Rangers this year?
Speaker 2 (44:26):
Well, I think they probably would have said John Peterson.
Speaker 4 (44:29):
Nope, I mean with based on the first twenty two,
on what they've done throughout.
Speaker 2 (44:36):
Luke Jackson.
Speaker 4 (44:37):
Yep, that's exactly who they picked Luke Jackson, who had
one bad game. That's it. Yeah, and even that wasn't
even a bad game. It was bad pitch.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
Yeah, it kind of kind of sticks out.
Speaker 4 (44:47):
Yeah it does. It's memorable. But anyway, Yeah, I thought
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Speaker 2 (48:52):
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Well pull it up and just look at it is
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(49:16):
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(49:38):
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Speaker 2 (49:43):
Yeah, he had to stay in Houston over night. Yes,
he was going to fly to Detroit here today, you know.
And the thing and the thing about Arise is he's
not a big dude, No he is. He is little.
I know he plays first base, but he doesn't really
have a position. He's a little guy. So glad he's okay.
(50:06):
He's a great hitter. He's a great hitter, and you know,
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field all the time in baseball.
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In football, sorry. Yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
So glad, he's glad, He's gonna be okay. But yeah,
I just saw it. Yeah, and it's yeah, it's like
he ran into a brick wall.
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It is. And the reality is, you know, in the
way he's running the first he's more of the brick
wall in some ways. Bond was just kind of there.
But at that point, with all the momentum he has,
I mean, it looked like a rise hit him and
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of fell. I mean I think he was banged up
(50:58):
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size of the bases in particular, I think because they
they're trying to avoid those collisions at first base, which
(51:20):
could you know, could happen on any every play.
Speaker 2 (51:24):
Yeah, and you know, and they have the you know,
they're prevalent in softball, the safety bases, yeah, or you
have the one for the base earner and the one
for the fielder. Yeah, I don't know if you need
to go to that extreme here, but they are. They're
in college baseball. I think they have the the double basses,
(51:45):
so maybe something to consider. But again, how often does
this happen?
Speaker 4 (51:51):
Yeah, no, not that often, you know, not that often.
The bigger bases will probably have probably helped some. I'm
sure that MLB studies it and they've got people do that.
So anyway, we'll hope they do. About the Brewers yesterday,
and again, we've talked about this before. I'm a big
fan of the stolen base. I'm a big fan of
small ball. I'm a big fan of creating offensive opportunities
(52:13):
for yourself. I think the Rangers are doing that, you know,
as much as they can to try and get out
of this offensive funk. But but they're not doing it
quite as much as the Brewers did yesterday. Jeff and
MLB modern day or what is it modern era modern?
I think it might be modern era record nine stolen
bases in a game. That's a lot Six in an inning,
(52:36):
Holy moly, six in the first inning of the game.
And you know, the Brewers are just like, that's the
way we play, you know, that's our identity. That's what
we're doing. It's the first time anybody has stolen six
bases in an inning since like nineteen nineteen, and the
first they began keeping this record in nineteen sixty one.
(52:59):
Oh and uh so anyway, that's uh who.
Speaker 2 (53:02):
Did they who did they play?
Speaker 4 (53:04):
Uh? Brewers played, I got it over hairshed and.
Speaker 2 (53:07):
By sorry to put you on the spot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Reds,
I think now the Reds one two.
Speaker 4 (53:14):
Oh yeah, that's right, they played.
Speaker 2 (53:16):
They played the A's.
Speaker 4 (53:17):
Hey, oh, the a Hey, here you go. Oh, there
you go.
Speaker 2 (53:22):
So maybe the Rangers can run like crazy. Of course,
you know, it's very very very hard to uh blame
the starting pitcher for that. However, however, the A's started
a left hander and right so in the first inning,
(53:42):
all these stolen bases were against a left hander. Jeffrey Springs,
the former Rangers draftee and super nice guy who had
Tommy John surgery but has become a handy, a handy guy.
But yeah, you're talking, okay, so terrain, well Jesus, he
sold three bases. Yeah, so Springs ended up pitching into
(54:03):
the third. William Contreras, the catcher, not exactly a speed
demon still third base. Rhys Hawkins not exactly a speed demon,
He's still second base. And now maybe that was on the
back of a double steel or something. I didn't see it,
but man, that is that is rough.
Speaker 4 (54:23):
Yeah. And again you can almost you can forgive springs
or a lefty if they're stealing third on you. I mean,
you still can't. But okay, but not stealing first, you know,
especially once there's a runner. I don't know how, I
don't know how that's happening, but but I like it.
I mean, and I like the mentality, and I like
the fact that obviously some of these managers are saying
(54:46):
sort of, you know, analytics be damned right, because analytics
don't like the steal right.
Speaker 2 (54:54):
But you know, and Bruce Botus asked about this the
other day. Our teams shine away from you know, as
it's become all about the slug and all this stuff.
Uh and and he said, I think now you're not.
You're seeing a lot less of that because teams are
trying to steal bases. And you know, if you I'm
telling you, if the Rangers need to get a run across,
(55:16):
and that's the right personnel, steal second and bun them
to third. Sure, you know, hell what just just try
something like that. But I think that I like the
stolen base being back. And I tell you, I think
it's really surprised a lot of pictures because you see
a lot of pitchers who aren't very good at holding
runners right. And the Rangers have worked on that over
(55:39):
the first three weeks and and it's it's gotten better.
I think I think their catchers actually throughout some runners
here in the past week, which is which is a
step in the right direction. And I'll tell you another
thing I think. I think this is something that I
haven't asked specifically about it, but something that I've noticed
a lot more interference calls on the back wow are
(56:01):
being made at home plate on the throws. I thought
the one yesterday when Adulas's backswing hit Austin Barnes and
Josh Smith had.
Speaker 4 (56:11):
To go back to to first in the second, I
thought that one was a little too far. I mean,
the catcher is moving into the batter.
Speaker 2 (56:18):
Yeah, it's not. It's not like Adulas was in the
middle of the plate and hit him with the bat.
I don't I thought that was at but it has
happened a lot more. You've seen it a lot more.
Speaker 4 (56:28):
Yeah, it's annoyed and maybe I don't know, I didn't
I know there weren't many, if any rule changes this year,
but maybe sometimes the umpires are given a sort of
a mandate to focus on certain things more. And maybe
that's been one of the focuses because I've never seen
this many batter interference calls we've seen this year.
Speaker 2 (56:46):
So maybe that's a way to combat the stolen base
that that, yeah, is being enforced now by umpires.
Speaker 4 (56:54):
Yeah, certainly the Rangers lost to stolen base because Josh
was safe there, so they definitely lost a stolen base yesterday.
How about the story of Liam Hendrix.
Speaker 2 (57:05):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (57:06):
Two years out of the game and back to pitching.
I mean, that's terrific.
Speaker 2 (57:12):
And you know, he had the cancer that he overcame.
He was hurt last year and the rehab assignment, and
during his rehab assignment he got he ran out of
a food truck for not just his his the minor
league team, but for the visiting the home team, if
you will, because they were the home team I believe
in that scenario, and then all the stadium employees. He
(57:34):
just ran out of food truck for everybody in the
ballpark who worked there and the players. So that's pretty cool.
Probably very grateful, but a good guy. And he was
a really good closer there for a while.
Speaker 4 (57:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, and so and they, you know, the
whole place was emotional. He was emotional. I mean, to
get an opportunity to do this after all that. I
think it was like six hundred and thirty five days
or something like that. I mean, that is a that's
a tremendous stretch of days between opportunities at this level.
(58:06):
But will we'll hope really you know that he does.
He continues to recover and and does well and can
you know, stick with it here at this level?
Speaker 2 (58:16):
Yeah, I I am. You always root for a guy
like that, Yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (58:20):
Uh. And then did you see the call up? Did
you see about the call up of Colorado Rocky Jeff
This is in your wheelhouse named Zach agnes a g
n os No. Zach was called up. I think this weekend.
I was trying to see if it was yesterday, it
(58:40):
might even make it more special. Zach was called up,
yes this weekend. And of course, you know the first
call he makes is to his mom, yeah, well, his
mom was in Virginia. Uh, and she was with her dad,
of course, Zach's grandpa, who had just entered hospice. Oh no,
(59:00):
well his dad, his grandpa, should say. Her dad is
a man named George Miller. He played in the Rangers, well,
actually the Senator's Organists, oh wow, in the early sixties.
He played in through two or three organizations. Never got
higher than double A, but still he was in the
Senator's Organization. And George Miller always quizzed Zach agnos, what's
(59:25):
the best pitch? Since he's a little boy, what's the
best pitch? What's the best pitch? And of course the
answer to what's the best pitch is a strike? Right right,
That's the best pitch. A strike. So anyway, when Zach
got on the phone with his mom, she said, I'm
here with grandpa. She turned the phone around and Zach
(59:45):
said to his grandpa, who's you know on his deathbed?
What's the best pitch? And his grandpa said, strike, Yeah,
that's awesome, and neck well that's how he added. Of course,
tears all around the place as he was able to
share that news, you know, with his grandpa. So I
just I get chills telling that story. I think that's
(01:00:07):
a fantastic I love so many of these different instances
of not only how they hear about being called up,
but then how they tell people and who they tell
yeah type.
Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
Of yeah, well that's a heck of a story there, Yeah,
and good great timing too, yeah yeah, yeah, right before
who knows, I.
Speaker 4 (01:00:26):
Don't know if you know, mister Miller, maybe I'll have
a chance to hopefully I had a chance to see
his son a play or his grandson play at the
major league level. But anyway, the Rangers are off to California.
They take on the A's beginning tomorrow for three games
in Sacramento and then back to San Francisco, Bruce Bochi's
old stomping grounds where they will take on the Giants. And,
(01:00:48):
by the way, one of those thirty thousand foot view
things MLB highlights I think every week the five series
to watch this week, and that's one of them. The
Rangers and the Giants this week a series to watch
with all of the implications, the fact that both teams
are playing quite well to start the season, and of
course the return of Bruce Boci to his old stomping
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days at noon, and then we will be here for
a postgame show on Thursday night. That is getaway day
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eleven thirty eleven forty five on Thursday night. We hope
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And Off Day for the Rangers.
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That gives us plenty of time to talk about the good,
the bad, and the ugly.
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It's next on the DLLs Rangers podcast.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
You know in some ways that qualifies as the bad
and the ugly the offense. We'll talk lots about that
the course of the program as we welcome you into
the DLLs Sports Studios. It's the DLLs Rangers Podcast me,
John Radag and Jeff Wilson there. We've got Alijah Smith
profit over there. And we appreciate you being here with
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you do for us, and we'd appreciate it very much.
As we talk lots of Rangers Tacebaul for you. The
bad and ugly is still to come. But you start
with Jeff, what is the best pitching staff in baseball?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
All right, well, let's start with the positives.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yeah, man, you know it's it's as.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Surprising as it is positive.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I'd say, I think the the bullpen has really done
great work. Rotation, you know, the rotation has a chance
to get better. Yeah, you know as the year goes along.
They're doing this right now in the rotation with with
with two rookies and without John Gray and Cody Bradford.
(02:07):
Some theory that says a chance to be sustainable and
get better with the grom getting better, with the Valdi.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Of all, the Tyler Balley being.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
The best picture on the planet all of a sudden, Yeah,
Locker had the good start the other night, so everything's
trending the right away Lighters got three fighters coming back
like that.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
What are you seeing the jet?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I am.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I'm trying to figure it out. He's trying to figure
that out. Everybody.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
It sounds gonna take over here. It sounds like he's
I'm talking in at ten can. I usually talk loud
enough that you can hear me without the microphone.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
So yeah, it's well, we're working on it.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And in the meantime, John, you just sit there and
be quiet, will Yeah, I'll drink my soda.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
We'll have some thoughts.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Uh No.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I wrote a story yesterday about the pitching is really
carrying everything and and that it can get better, that it.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Is sustainable, because you know it's not gonna be great
for sixty two games. Obviously you can't. You can't have that.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
But then you you recognize their HIPNI the hip gups.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And and everything that comes along with a baseball season.
But you know, you have veteran guesses, you know, even
the molten Chris Martin is thirty thirty nine years old.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Here in a couplement.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
He's been around a while.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Leave Jackson has been around a while.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
These guys have done it, and so I think they
can sustain it. And what they're doing is really simple.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
They're just throwing quality strikes and not hurting themselves, which
is like a staple of baseball.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
But then why can't everybody do it right? Why can't
everybody do it? So they're doing it. It's Mike Maddox's philosophy.
It's everybody's philosophy, but he really is has harped on
his whole career. So they're doing it.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
It looks good, it looks like you can be sustained,
but it's really hard to win games three to two,
four to three, and one to nothing.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Yeah, well, and you cannot win a game if it's
if you've got the nothing right, Like that's impossible. And
the whole point is about Mike Maddocks's message that you've
been you know that you reference there. Its sometimes like, look,
the reality is both things in baseball, hitting and pitching
(04:25):
are simple.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Right, throw strikes, Yeah, such a simple approach. You have
(05:03):
good quality strikes. Yeah, you agree with what.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You do and for strikes and you know you can't
you can't say it any better than that, but executing.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
It is a requirement.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
And These guys can execute. They have a lot of pitches,
they have a lot of different go to so yeah,
you know, just keep keep that up. That's the positive,
very unfortunate development in the chat here.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Yeah, say, it seems like a silent movie. Our subtitles available.
Profit is working on this thing feverishly and we'll see
if we can get this corrected.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
You got an update over the profit.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Not yet?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
No, okay, well, I'm thinking, yeah, you hear it there? Interesting, Well,
I don't know. I think we keep talking because I
can hear it a little bit. Hold on one second,
it's not talking, and I'm gonna I'm gonna do something
real quick.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
So just tell them now that the guy says we
sound fine, Paul says, we sound fine.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
M all right now no, hello, I'm casting, I'm casting.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah, okay, I think we keep going because I can
hear it on my computer.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Okay, here all right?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
And some people apparently, oh, definitely definitely don't sound fine.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Definitely don't sound fine. Do we sound at all? Do
we sound it all again? You hear us at all? Man?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
If we sounded all grows Matt. If Matt can't hear us,
he can they head certain good point.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
It sounded great. Oh good, Yeah, we're nice to hear it.
Nice to hear it. Well. So anyway, yeah, back to
the pitching.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Look, the reality is it's a fairly simple approach, which
is awesome. But as we've always said, it always comes
down to execution, and what's happening right now is the
pitchers are executing the game plan.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
To your point, though I don't.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
I mean, it looks like obviously that Jacob de Grum
did his execution was there Friday.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
You know, he gives up a lead off home run
in there a game and then to twenty the next
three out.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah, he walked a guy and gave him two hits.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yeah, so you know, he appears to be But I'm
not positive we've seen Nathan Valdi execute at his peak
yet this season.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I think it's the Reds probably in that shutout. Yeah
that's right, that's right. Yeah, But like he's not walking guys,
so you know he's he's he's able to to limit
damage and and pitch better. Rarity is saying the audio
is better now.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Yeah, and Matt Matt the biggest of the oh, there's
been the critics.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
He said, bingo, all right, let's play beautiful. So but
but it's in the bullpen too, you know, and you
don't see guys getting walked in the bullpen. Chris Martin
walked the guy yesterday, and I guess technically it affected
the one run scored, but I also think he walked
Shoe Tani. Have you ever heard of him?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
I've heard of him. He's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah, So I think that the pitching without a question
has been the best part of about the Rangers, who
are thirteen and nine by the way. Yeah, and then
I did see a question earlier from Paul or a
statement earlier from Paul. You know, the Rangers got pitched to.
They did get pitched to in this series. You're right,
(08:54):
the Dodgers have good pitching, but the Rangers.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
The Dodger also got pitched to, right.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
But the Rangers have also struggled all season. So yeah,
I think that's kind of what we're getting to. It's
not necessarily the weekend, but I think within the weekend
you can identify that the theme has continued. The Rangers
have pitched really, really, really well, better than expected, and
they haven't hit it all far much much worse than expected.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Way worse and you know, I mentioned in one of
the in the in the show description. So the Rangers
have always been known as a team that hits, and
as recently as I'm gonna say twenty twenty two, maybe
even yeah, I think it was twenty two. I was
in Houston on a road trip and one of their
(09:43):
writers came up to me and said, I just did
you know a story about how many innings Astros pitchers
who have been developed in our organization have thrown. And
it was, you know, about a halfway through the season,
maybe three quarters of the way through the season. You know,
there's was astronomical. All their guys were you know, homegrown.
(10:04):
And then I did one of how many the Rangers
have thrown, you know, with their own pitchers, And he
goes for the Rangers at seven, and I said, wait
a minute, you're not counting Martin Perez. Then, because Martin
had thrown, he goes, oh, yeah, okay, And then he
went back and counted and he goes, oh, like it's
thirty nine or you know whatever. I mean. Like it
(10:25):
wasn't significantly higher, but it was the joke around baseball
forever that the Rangers couldn't develop pitching granted, several of
the guys were talking about our free agents, but the
development is there too, with Rocker and with Lighter in particular.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, and you got to have that, you know, all
teams needed. It's what is the foundation for, you know,
a successful run into the playoffs. And you know, you
can spend and spend and spend, but if teams are
trying to be at least a little bit financially responsible,
(11:03):
like the Rangers are trying to by stain below of
the threshold. If you have, you know, two starting pitchers
in the rotation who are making league minimum, that does
a lot. It does a lot. It gives you a
lot of flexibility. And you know, you think about, okay,
baseball history, the A's, you know, the A's the the
late nineties, early two thousands with Hudson, Mulder and Zito
(11:27):
kept them pretty pretty good for a long time. And
then the Mets in the mid twenty ten's there, We're
we're good.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Even those Giants teams of Bruce Boat Trips, all those
guys are young when they got you.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Know, yeah, Linscomb and Matt Kine and bum Warner, those
are all homegrown guys. So it's it's nice to see.
And you you know, Jack is throwing his rehabs start
tomorrow in Round Rock, so you hope that goes well,
you hope you know, Rocker has to has to level
this thing out. Yeah, you know, how about how about
(11:59):
a steady line instead of up down, up down, up down,
Because that last one was really good.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
It was fantastic with.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
All the the slider in the velocity and using multiple pitches.
So these are all positive developments. But again, the pitching thing,
it's just been it's just been so so good and
so you hate to see it waste.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
It, right, and technically it hasn't been. I mean it
obviously you can certainly point to games where it's been wasted.
But big picture wise, you're still in first place in
the American League West. Now you could have a pretty
good lead in the American League West, which, by the way,
is you know, it's gonna looks like it might just
haul off and be a tight division. Yeah, this year
(12:42):
with only about three games separating the top from the
bottom in the division right now is the A's are
flirting with five hundred, and so the Astros and of
course it's the Rangers, Mariners and Angels at the top.
And you know, obviously the first two in particular are
known at least right now. The Rangers are for their pitching,
(13:04):
so and this time of year, you know again, pitchers
are often ahead of hitters early in a season.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yeah, but yeah, yeah, we're the lead should not be
as big now.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Yeah, the Mariners have started to hit a little bit.
They had a pretty good series in Toronto, and so yeah,
you know, it's like you look at these stats. The
Rangers have scored the fewest runs in baseball them in
the Royals sixty seven runs is all. That's unbelievable in
(13:38):
twenty two games.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
That's bad. That's three runs a game. Yeah, I'm smart
enough to do that, man. Yeah, you know, the on
base percentage is dreadful. Only the White Sox are worse.
So it's just these little things. And the Rangers have
had the second fewest chances with runners and scoring positions.
So you can complain, well, they went over five yesterday
with runners in scoring position. That's not a that's not
(14:03):
a lot of no, no, no, And then b you've
got to get guys on. So I mean, it's not
just like they're you know, have the bases loaded every inning.
And are striking out and popping out. These are bases empty.
They didn't get a runner to third base yesterdays. Yeah,
and again, sure the Dodgers can pitch, and they pitched
well all weekend. I get it, But you still got
(14:25):
to You still gotta get guys on base and score,
especially a lineup with these all these names and then right,
and that's in history.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
And the only guy that's been doing it consistently, at
least on the weekend is Josh Smith. And good for him,
Thank goodness, he's around, so lots more coming. You heard
the ball, I hope, I hope you're hearing everything. Now
we talk offense next, we try to figure out this conundrum.
And I like Malcolm's comment there about yeah, I hit
the like button if you think the Rangers will start hitting,
(14:52):
or or just hit the like button. Anyway. We'll talk hitting,
we'll talk offense and more about your Texas Rangers. Next.
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Yeah, like anyway, there's a beer around, you know.
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Yeah.
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the way, I hope this is gonna you know, and
again I know it's always going to be an argument
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I got news for you, there's not one of them
that can compete with the way we do brisket in Texas.
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All those other guys here's and I've traveled a ton.
You know that you like too. Yeah, all those other
guys can do good barbecue, but it's mostly on the sauce, right,
And it's like, that's a really good sauce, but pull
all that sauce off or don't you know, don't dunk
your meat in the sauce. It's not nearly as good
our brisk it's better. I'm just saying it's about the
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meat in Texas, and by god, we smoke brisket and
sausage and turkey and anything. Ribs better than all those
other states done. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I don't use sauce on any of my barbecue.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Noll And to me, like if I make ribs and
I'm not that great, but I'm you know, I've kind
of figured it out.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
I don't want you.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
I don't even put sauce out, like you don't need
sauce for these eat those people will go. You got
barbecue sauce. Try it first, you know, because they're moist,
they're tasty, right, I don't, I don't, Uh, I don't
want to use sauce. I'll use it, right, I don't
want to.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yeah, no, I'm with you there. And yeah, Kansas City's
heavy sauce. You got any of those great places? Yea,
And they're good, they're good, like try our sauces, like,
all right, we'll try them, but yeah, you can do.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
But I could put your sauce on you know, a
big just a hunk of roast beef, or I could
put it on you know, anything, and that whatever that
is would probably be pretty good because you've got nice sauce.
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We divert. But that's what a smoke out will do
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We're going to be around there anyway, so I mean
that's truly for us, that's truly one stop shopping.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
We could walk. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
So are they both day games the weekend though, Well,
I'm gonna look, yeah, that's nice. We'll figure that out.
Let's talk about the offense. Uh and uh and I hope.
I haven't offended as we start with offense anyone. But
I think we're all Texans here, so we're okay. Now
I say that, you know, if Dino's in there from Australia,
maybe he's got strong opinions about Australian barbecue, you know.
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But anyway, here we are as a team that's supposed
to hit, a team that was built to hit, a
team that has proven it can hit, a team that
spent last year waiting to hit, and suddenly it's a
team that can't hit. And it's just like that word
to me is is wrong. It can't it can it can't.
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I just don't know. I can't explain it. Here's what
I here's where can't comes in. I can't explain it.
It seems like there's this breakout moment. Now maybe Corey
Seeger starting to get hot, Maybe that will be the
breakout and what breakthrough if you will moment. Maybe all
those hard hit balls yesterday, you know, becomes something of
a breakthrough moment. But it's really strange for me that
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this offense continues to just you know.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Nah, yeah it and it's not now now it's to
the point where it's not just the start of the season,
because last season it wasn't very good either. So now
you start to wonder what what's the carryover effect? And
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you know, the one commonality would be the hitting coach.
Now I don't I don't know that that in today's
day and age, these guys have their own hitting coaches
in a lot of cases. Uh so maybe you look
at the guys who rely on strictly on Rangers hitting
coaches and then look at them and be like, oh, okay,
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he's doing all right. Like it, But but I don't,
I don't know all the intricacies of it. Now, you know,
they just hired Justin Veeley to who is who was
Donnie Eker's good buddy, and uh you know protege, they're
they're they're of the same hitting mind, you know. So
if you make a change, it's not like you just
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go from the offense according to the hitting coach, because
it's the same thing. So then where do you go?
You know, do you go to the minor league hitting
coordinator Cody Atkinson? Do you do you try to go
from go outside the organization? You know? Do you do
you just is that a possibility? And I think I
think at some point you got to think it will
be I think, you know, if you kind of look
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back in Rangers' history with when certain hitters have gone
been sent down, Yeah, because they just struggled and didn't
get it figured out. It's usually late April early May.
And the two that I are fresh on my mind.
Or Leodi Tavaris in twenty twenty one when he was
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just just lost and he finally got sent down like
April twenty sixth, somewhere in that range. And then in
fifteen rugenot o'dor was terrible for the first five or
six weeks before he got sent down in early May,
and he came back and was really really good. Leodi
came back and was better. So it's like, all right, yeah,
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but you can't send everybody down. No, that's the thing.
Marcus Simeon can't be sent down. Yeah, you know, John
Peterson can't be sent down. So how do you manage
them and try to get them straight?
Speaker 6 (22:56):
You know?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Is like, yeah, drop him in the order? Does that help?
I mean, the bottom of the order has been really good.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
It has, and you know, and Boat has been trying
the things you usually do, right, the managerial tricks if
you will that. You know, he put Peterson in the
leadoff spot the one day to maybe jump started. He
let Peterson sit out yesterday to maybe jump start him.
It's like all these maneuvers, all these things that managers
typically try to do. He's trying, right, So there's and
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there's only so much a manager can do. There's also
only so much a hitting coach can do. Now, it
was a completely different situation, but it seems like it
was a little later in the year than this, But
in twenty eleven, the Rangers fired their pitching coach. They're
hitting coach. I'm sorry, they're hitting coach Fat Bosley.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yeah, it was a different situation.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Yeah, it was because there was a there was a
disconnect with his personality, right, and the.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Hitters that were right, and yeah, so that that was
that was kind of there. You know, nobody that I've
heard dislikes no no or has any issues with them.
And it's not a it's not a matter of these
guys not trying, you know. I finally was able to
track down Corey Seeger yesterday and he said, we're we're
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all competing, you know, we're all up there trying to
trying to compete, but you kind of look at the
at bats. They're generally quick at bats, and you you know,
you look at runners and scoring vision and are these guys,
you know, I think, are these guys shortening up? Are
they changing their approach at all? Are they just trying
to put the ball in play? Are they still trying
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to drive it? And you know, there are accounts in
times where you absolutely want these guys to drive the ball,
but there are also times when this team's not scoring runs,
you're like, gosh, maybe we should maybe we should go
ahead and just move them, move them up ninety feet
or you know, hit it the other way to right field,
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do something to put some pressure on the opposing team
and the and the opposing picture. I thought, And I
was looking this up as it happened. I thought, after
why at Langford beat out that that ball for that
hit Kevin Plar was next as a pinchit or it's like,
well maybe they would bunt Polar. He's only bunted. He
only has thirteen sacrifice bunts in his career and he's
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only he only has one since twenty seventeen. I think
it was so it's like, all right, could he still
get one down, Yeah, could you have moved him to
second and and and and put put some pressure on
Tanner Scott. I don't know, maybe, but it just seems
like and that would be a coaching thing. Then at
that point that that would be you know, hey, let's
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let's see if we can get a butN down. But
then I guess Bruce Poachin knew that Kevin Pilar is
not a maybe he's not a great bunner, yeah, you know,
so they're just it just seems like that even in
the situations where something looks like it could be done
baseball wise, like a hit and run or something like that,
it's not the right personnel up or you know, the
wrong guys on first base. You know, it just it
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just seems like and then, you know, do you want
to be making out the outs on the bases at
that point? I get it all, but it just seems
like at some point something's got to start to give.
And I think I think the first thing yesterday, the
first sign toward that was Dustin Harris Yep playing for
Leodi Taveres, and Bruce Boti said before the game, Harris
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has been swinging the bat better than Leodi and so
we're sticking with Dustin all right, And he went out there.
He played a good center field, didn't do a lot
at the plate, although he almost beat out a chopper
to first. You know, I mean, he's fast, he's athletic.
But so maybe that's the first thing that the first
shoot a drop. But I do think that you know,
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in that original lineup that had been drawn up before,
why it was activated, Jock Peterson was batting seven, So
maybe that's maybe that's the next move. You know, at
some point down moved him down. Do you do you
at some point go ahead and say, all right, Josh
Smith is our hottest hitter. We need to get we
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need to bat him first.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Okay, somebody's got to be on base ahead of Corey Seeger,
who crushed two balls yesterday and almost took the pitcher's
hand off with one of them and almost knocked over
the right field or with another. But he is hitting
the ball and hitting the ball hard. Got robbed of
a home run the Saturday. So I mean, this guy
is just he's in a groove and so getting just
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one guy on him, one guy on base for him
if he hits a gap, Josh Smith's going to score
from first, that kind of thing. So and at this point,
when you're not scoring runs, you got to do whatever
you can to get one or two across. You do,
so we'll see what happens. But I think that, you know,
yesterday Bruce Pochi was late coming into the manager's postgame
(27:51):
press conference because they were talking about it, and he said,
we're going to go talk about it some more. They
have an off day to day, what are they going
to do? Well, they're probably going to talk about it,
you know, and if not, it's definitely gonna be on
their minds. So I think that I think the change
is coming.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Yeah, And you know, it begs the question too with
regard to Donnie Ecker, who, again I agree, I think
everybody likes him, and I think but he is, as
we've talked about, when you talk to him, you feel
like you're learning right because he definitely speaks on a
level that's that's not intentionally not trying to talk down
(28:29):
to people, not trying to be condescending, but his ideas
and his thought processes are deep and they're up here.
They're on a different level than most of the baseball
talk we hear and I just wonder if maybe if
it is up here, it's kind of just going over
the players heads.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
You know, he had talked, he was talking Friday before
the game about Yamamoto and the splitter, and you know
how hard it is to lay off of him. But
if the Rangers hand lay off of them, it's going
to be a big advantage and it could help determine
the outcome of the game. Well, they couldn't lay off
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of him. I mean, he's said to let nine strikeouts,
you know, and and a lot of them are on
that pitch and it's a great pitch and it's tricky
and if you're behind the count, you get it. If
you're laying off of it early in account, maybe you
get ahead. But you know, is that on him? You know,
it sounds like that would have been what he told
the hitters to do. You know, hey, let's try to
do a splitter, you know, And and maybe they couldn't
(29:26):
execute it. But you know, the thing with runners and
scoring businesses again, is that is that an approach thing?
Does something have to change there? It's just there's a
lot of ways to go and patients, you know, being
patient waiting on these guys, as of Corey Seeger said,
needs to be done, just kind of have to ride
it out. Well, it's a tough ride right now, but
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they are still above five hundred. Sure, they are still
above five hundred. So but I agree, and I think
that it needs to end pretty quickly.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Yeah. Another theory to just us regarding the hitting. Maybe
it's a big picture conspiracy theory. As we continue this
talk about the hitting, the offense of the Texas Rangers,
which has been downright offensive. We talk about it next
as we continue with the DLS Rangers podcast.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
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It did swing by quickly, and it has us both
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Speaker 4 (31:27):
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Speaker 2 (31:32):
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Speaker 2 (32:35):
Tell you what, John, we struggled with our ad reads today.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
We haven't been great.
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Change. Change needs to be made.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Yep. Yeah, we're going to get in trouble for this,
I believe. Yeah, Yeah, that's all right. Okay, we'll be better.
We'll be better next read. I promise, Yes. So here's
my conspiracy theory. I enjoy it big one big picture
could be the Rangers. Maybe it's everybody. My thought right
now is that in some ways, and I hate to
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criticize this apparatus, for lack of a better word, I
hate to criticize this thing in any way because I
love me some two hour and fifteen minute, two hour
and a half game. But is the pitch clock. Obviously
it has a tremendous effect on the pictures, it has
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an effect on the hitters, but typically the thought is
it's not much of a negative effect. But you were
mentioning in the last segment about even Corey Seeger acknowledging
a lot of these are very short at bats, right
is the presence of the pitch clock. Has it created
an atmosphere where not only are the pitchers moving faster,
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but the hitters feel a little bit of that urgency too.
It just doesn't seem like we have nearly as many
twelve pitch at bats, fourteen pitch at bats, ten pitch
at bet I'm not saying they don't don't exist, It
just doesn't seem like we have as many. And of course,
the more pitches that are thrown to you, the more
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pitches you and your other teammates are seeing from that pitcher.
So we'd probably have to do a little research to
find out if that's been the case. That is what
my eyeballs tell me right now, Jeff.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
You know, I think it varies on hitter to hit her.
You know, like Corey Seeger, he's never he never leaves
the batter's boxes, never takes the time out. But also
Corey Seeger generally is hacking at the first two.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Going to say, Cory Seger's never had a fourteen pitcher back.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's He's out of there pretty quick.
And then and then you get told a guy like
Adoles who swings and swings and swings. You know, I
don't I don't know who is the most patient Rangers hitter.
Would it be why at Langford?
Speaker 4 (34:53):
I'd say that's why. Who is? But again, mister full Count,
who's not backed up yet, he might have something to say.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
With he gets here right, But it's it's just I
don't know that there are a bunch of hitters who are.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Built that way.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Maybe maybe that's maybe that's a philosophy, game game approach thing,
you know, the Rangers, and and this is kind of
something that's been said, you know, throughout the years as well.
You know, why take the first pitch. Sometimes the first
pitch is the best bitch you're going to get. You
gotta be ready when the moment you set in the
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batter's box. All right, that's true, but you know it
and then it is a strike? Is it really? Is
it really the pitch that you're going to drive or
is it just a strike that is a pitcher's pitch.
And yeah, it just so I don't know. It seems
maybe some guys do need to reset. Maybe maybe Tony
(35:49):
Beasley needs to get the flash of the take sign
a little bit more. I don't know what the deal is.
You know, you remember I and this wasn't that long ago,
and it was like if you were behind in the seventh,
eighth or ninth inning, you didn't swing until the pitcher
threw a strike. It you got in the matter's box
and knowing it was a take until somebody threw a strike. Absolutely,
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you don't see that anymore. No, And that annoys me too.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
Like if a guy comes out and he walks a
guy on four pitches and then somebody comes to the
plate and swings at the first pitch, I'm like, what
are you doing right? He can't find the plate right right?
Speaker 2 (36:22):
And it just seems like like two oh three to
one automatic swings no matter what I know, And it's
like they're kind of kind of hunting but guessing for
a fastball. And you just see it more and more
of these days. You do not get three zero, three
to one two oh cookies anymore. They throw they will
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throw you a slider or an off speed pitch because
they know that you're swinging. Yeah, you know, and it
just seems like a couple little adjustments. And you know,
you don't want to take aggression away from guys if
that's who they are. But if that's not who they are,
and they'll let them be who they are and see what happens.
I mean, you can't what can it hurt at this point.
Speaker 4 (37:03):
There were two or three instances yesterday where guys actually
swung at and you know, I mean again, you know,
they're facing a pretty good curve ball from glasnow, but
they swung at pitches that didn't even make it to
the plate. They landed in the dirt before the plate.
And Mike Bassett was talking about it on the broadcast,
(37:24):
and I think the answer to that is simply, you
have to decide so soon as a hitter if you're
swinging at that pitch and he does a good enough
job making it look like all the other pitches right
that this thing comes in and when it lands, you're like,
what is he thinking? But the reality is he decided,
(37:46):
you know, when the ball was still here. That's the
hardest thing about this process. Yeah, no, I mean, hitting's
not easy. It's the hardest thing to do in sports.
And recognizing pitches, you know, you have a split second.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
You know, to see the hand. You know, if the
hand's like this, okay, if it's like this okay, And
and maybe you have a little bit while longer to
see the spin. And but you know, there are guys
who you know, they say, oh it was it was
a ball coming out. It was you know, when pictures
will say, oh, yeah, it was a ball out of
my hand. It wasn't a competitive pitch. So they know
there are guys that are able to do that, you know.
(38:24):
So I but but maybe it is just slug slug slug,
and the art of hitting has been lost or never
taught to a lot of these guys. I don't I'm
not pointing fingers anybody, but it just I mean, we're
searching for answers.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
We are.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
And here's the thing. Bruce Boti is, Donny Ecker is,
you know, Jock Peterson. Sure, the heck is they're looking
for anything, and and you know. And and the thing
is that it is It's twenty two games now, so
that's three weeks of baseball. It is still early. The
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Rangers have one hundred and forty games left to go,
all right. They're not going to hit like this the
rest of the season, you wouldn't think. But we said,
like you said a couple of last week, we were
saying that exact same thing last year. And boy, you
know it, if if you look at this month as
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a continuation of twenty twenty four, then maybe, yeah, something
is wrong. And you know, I'm not, I'm not. I
don't want anybody to lose his job. Nope, But how much,
how much longer, how much more patience is there with
the with the status quo, because again, if you include
last year, this looks a lot like the status quo does.
(39:47):
This is actually this has actually probably been worse than
last year, I would think.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
But yeah, because they addressed it with off season acquisitions,
you know.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Yeah, And and they haven't hit, so I'm not sure
it'll be It'll be interesting road trip. It'll be an
interesting couple of days, uh, you know, from last night
until first pitch tomorrow to see what what things are
are are going to happen. And you know, you see
a couple of people have mentioned that the A's are
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pitching very poorly. And you know, this ballpark, it looks
like it's a hitters ballpark. We'll see. I mean, I
know you could say that about a lot of teams. Oh,
don't worry about it. The the White Sox are coming
to town. And then what happened we had last year?
The White Sox played the Rangers as as competitively as
any team out there. Yeah, the Rangers won every.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
Game, won them, but there were one run game games.
You know, you know our boy out there making a
circus catch. Yeah. So yeah, it's it's a confounding thing.
It's probably going to turn around. But at some point, yeah,
and truly, like Jeff said, the Rangers, the coaches, the players, everybody,
they're doing everything they can to make this thing turn around.
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And suddenly we'll look up and it will have turned around.
Power rankings are out this week. We kind of go
over them every week. We won't spend too much time
on them. A lot hasn't changed at the top. Dodgers
padres one and two as they were last week. Number
three is now the Mets, who move up from four.
Mets have been playing well, and Juan Soto says he's
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found it. Oh good, Yeah, he says he's founded whatever
he lost, he found it. Cubs are up. I mean
they were only I mean only up one spot. They
were five last week. Their four Phillies fell a little bit.
They're at five. Six is the first American League team.
That would be the New York Yankees, who are off
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to a really good start despite what a lot of
the pundits thought about them this year. Giants were six
last week, they're seven this week. The Detroit Tigers are
at eight. They were at eight last week. Two Tigs
played well though, all week long, and they got the
Padres coming in too, which should be a fun series.
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Diamonds Back, let's go ahead and call the World Series preview. Yeah,
it might be we called yesterday or that. So Diamondbacks
are up from ten to nine, which means what your
Texas Rangers are in tenth. They've moved from ninth. Okay,
not bad, you know again, because the truth is, I know,
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the power ranking doesn't just talk about bats and power,
but they've shown no power, you know what I mean.
The Rangers are not a powerful offensive team right now,
but the power ranking considers everything, and they're still considered
a top ten team, and certainly they're pitching, as we
said at the beginning of the show, like a top two,
three four team.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
All right, so then let's uh, let's back it off
a little bit here and consider consider the thirty thousand
foot view, which is what those are from national people.
Of course, all right, they still they still look at
the lineup, they look at the pitching, they see the hitting,
and they're probably like, eh, I don't think that's a
real thing. Yeah, maybe it is, And maybe they're hedging
a little bit because the Rangers have dropped throughout here,
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but maybe they're like, you know what, I'm gonna be
all right, yeah yeah, so I yeah, but hey, who
who who am I to say? But again, just common
sense tells you. It tells you two things. It tells you, Hey,
these guys are going to get better, and they are.
They are Dock Peterson's tinking about oh fifty five all season.
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But then the common sense also says, hey, didn't this
happen last year? Yeah, so there are a couple couple
things are juggling here.
Speaker 4 (43:34):
I I've told people, fans and stuff. When they ask me,
I've told them, you know, I wouldn't hedge this at
all if it weren't for last year. The only reason
I even say otherwise, I'd just say fear not. The
offense will come around. Yeah, fear not, That's what That's
always the answer. The offense will come around. The offense
will come around. Then last year happened, and I feel
(43:54):
like I can't with confidence say it even though that's
really last year offense. Last year is the aberration. So
you know, we'll see what happens. They are another one
of those thirty thousand foot views out there. I like
to look at these when MLB dot Com puts them out.
They said the best newcomer for each team, and we
won't go over all of them. But who do you
(44:15):
think they would have picked. It's not just a young player,
it's anybody new to a team. Who do you think
they would have picked as the best newcomer to the
Texas Rangers this year?
Speaker 2 (44:26):
Well, I think they probably would have said John Peterson.
Speaker 4 (44:29):
Nope, I mean with based on the first twenty two,
on what they've done throughout.
Speaker 2 (44:36):
Luke Jackson.
Speaker 4 (44:37):
Yep, that's exactly who they picked Luke Jackson, who had
one bad game. That's it. Yeah, and even that wasn't
even a bad game. It was bad pitch.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
Yeah, it kind of kind of sticks out.
Speaker 4 (44:47):
Yeah it does. It's memorable. But anyway, Yeah, I thought
that was fun and interesting to see. And there's the bell,
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Louisa Rise.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
I only heard about it. I was dealing with the
flat tired at the time.
Speaker 4 (48:55):
Well pull it up and just look at it is
and he you know, it's a classic second basement coming
over to first. Arise is busting it down the first
baseline and you know, second basement, arrives just at the
point that that Arise does, and Arise just and he
(49:16):
was out off on a stretcher. Didn't know where he was.
I mean, it was one of those We've seen it
so many times in football, but one of those things
that's so very, very scary. And anyway, that happened in
the first inning. Uh, And he was back, went to
the hospital there in Houston, got everything back, and he
(49:38):
was back at the ballpark later in the game. Made
it to the end of the game.
Speaker 2 (49:43):
Yeah, he had to stay in Houston over night. Yes,
he was going to fly to Detroit here today, you know.
And the thing and the thing about Arise is he's
not a big dude, No he is. He is little.
I know he plays first base, but he doesn't really
have a position. He's a little guy. So glad he's okay.
(50:06):
He's a great hitter. He's a great hitter, and you know,
kind of actual hitter, hitter, you know, in the art
of hitting, and and so that's fun. So, yeah, that
is scary. You don't see it a lot in our
game either. Obviously. You see guys get carted off the
field all the time in baseball.
Speaker 4 (50:25):
In football, sorry. Yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
So glad, he's glad, He's gonna be okay. But yeah,
I just saw it. Yeah, and it's yeah, it's like
he ran into a brick wall.
Speaker 4 (50:36):
It is. And the reality is, you know, in the
way he's running the first he's more of the brick
wall in some ways. Bond was just kind of there.
But at that point, with all the momentum he has,
I mean, it looked like a rise hit him and
just flew backwards and you know, uh, Bond just kind
of fell. I mean I think he was banged up
(50:58):
a little bit too, but he just yeah, yeah, that's
that's that's a that's a good one. That's a big
collision call. And look, that's one of the reasons they've
made changes, uh, you know, to the base running and
to the size of the bases and those things. The
size of the bases in particular, I think because they
they're trying to avoid those collisions at first base, which
(51:20):
could you know, could happen on any every play.
Speaker 2 (51:24):
Yeah, and you know, and they have the you know,
they're prevalent in softball, the safety bases, yeah, or you
have the one for the base earner and the one
for the fielder. Yeah, I don't know if you need
to go to that extreme here, but they are. They're
in college baseball. I think they have the the double basses,
(51:45):
so maybe something to consider. But again, how often does
this happen?
Speaker 4 (51:51):
Yeah, no, not that often, you know, not that often.
The bigger bases will probably have probably helped some. I'm
sure that MLB studies it and they've got people do that.
So anyway, we'll hope they do. About the Brewers yesterday,
and again, we've talked about this before. I'm a big
fan of the stolen base. I'm a big fan of
small ball. I'm a big fan of creating offensive opportunities
(52:13):
for yourself. I think the Rangers are doing that, you know,
as much as they can to try and get out
of this offensive funk. But but they're not doing it
quite as much as the Brewers did yesterday. Jeff and
MLB modern day or what is it modern era modern?
I think it might be modern era record nine stolen
bases in a game. That's a lot Six in an inning,
(52:36):
Holy moly, six in the first inning of the game.
And you know, the Brewers are just like, that's the
way we play, you know, that's our identity. That's what
we're doing. It's the first time anybody has stolen six
bases in an inning since like nineteen nineteen, and the
first they began keeping this record in nineteen sixty one.
(52:59):
Oh and uh so anyway, that's uh who.
Speaker 2 (53:02):
Did they who did they play?
Speaker 4 (53:04):
Uh? Brewers played, I got it over hairshed and.
Speaker 2 (53:07):
By sorry to put you on the spot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Reds,
I think now the Reds one two.
Speaker 4 (53:14):
Oh yeah, that's right, they played.
Speaker 2 (53:16):
They played the A's.
Speaker 4 (53:17):
Hey, oh, the a Hey, here you go. Oh, there
you go.
Speaker 2 (53:22):
So maybe the Rangers can run like crazy. Of course,
you know, it's very very very hard to uh blame
the starting pitcher for that. However, however, the A's started
a left hander and right so in the first inning,
(53:42):
all these stolen bases were against a left hander. Jeffrey Springs,
the former Rangers draftee and super nice guy who had
Tommy John surgery but has become a handy, a handy guy.
But yeah, you're talking, okay, so terrain, well Jesus, he
sold three bases. Yeah, so Springs ended up pitching into
(54:03):
the third. William Contreras, the catcher, not exactly a speed
demon still third base. Rhys Hawkins not exactly a speed demon,
He's still second base. And now maybe that was on the
back of a double steel or something. I didn't see it,
but man, that is that is rough.
Speaker 4 (54:23):
Yeah. And again you can almost you can forgive springs
or a lefty if they're stealing third on you. I mean,
you still can't. But okay, but not stealing first, you know,
especially once there's a runner. I don't know how, I
don't know how that's happening, but but I like it.
I mean, and I like the mentality, and I like
the fact that obviously some of these managers are saying
(54:46):
sort of, you know, analytics be damned right, because analytics
don't like the steal right.
Speaker 2 (54:54):
But you know, and Bruce Botus asked about this the
other day. Our teams shine away from you know, as
it's become all about the slug and all this stuff.
Uh and and he said, I think now you're not.
You're seeing a lot less of that because teams are
trying to steal bases. And you know, if you I'm
telling you, if the Rangers need to get a run across,
(55:16):
and that's the right personnel, steal second and bun them
to third. Sure, you know, hell what just just try
something like that. But I think that I like the
stolen base being back. And I tell you, I think
it's really surprised a lot of pictures because you see
a lot of pitchers who aren't very good at holding
runners right. And the Rangers have worked on that over
(55:39):
the first three weeks and and it's it's gotten better.
I think I think their catchers actually throughout some runners
here in the past week, which is which is a
step in the right direction. And I'll tell you another
thing I think. I think this is something that I
haven't asked specifically about it, but something that I've noticed
a lot more interference calls on the back wow are
(56:01):
being made at home plate on the throws. I thought
the one yesterday when Adulas's backswing hit Austin Barnes and
Josh Smith had.
Speaker 4 (56:11):
To go back to to first in the second, I
thought that one was a little too far. I mean,
the catcher is moving into the batter.
Speaker 2 (56:18):
Yeah, it's not. It's not like Adulas was in the
middle of the plate and hit him with the bat.
I don't I thought that was at but it has
happened a lot more. You've seen it a lot more.
Speaker 4 (56:28):
Yeah, it's annoyed and maybe I don't know, I didn't
I know there weren't many, if any rule changes this year,
but maybe sometimes the umpires are given a sort of
a mandate to focus on certain things more. And maybe
that's been one of the focuses because I've never seen
this many batter interference calls we've seen this year.
Speaker 2 (56:46):
So maybe that's a way to combat the stolen base
that that, yeah, is being enforced now by umpires.
Speaker 4 (56:54):
Yeah, certainly the Rangers lost to stolen base because Josh
was safe there, so they definitely lost a stolen base yesterday.
How about the story of Liam Hendrix.
Speaker 2 (57:05):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (57:06):
Two years out of the game and back to pitching.
I mean, that's terrific.
Speaker 2 (57:12):
And you know, he had the cancer that he overcame.
He was hurt last year and the rehab assignment, and
during his rehab assignment he got he ran out of
a food truck for not just his his the minor
league team, but for the visiting the home team, if
you will, because they were the home team I believe
in that scenario, and then all the stadium employees. He
(57:34):
just ran out of food truck for everybody in the
ballpark who worked there and the players. So that's pretty cool.
Probably very grateful, but a good guy. And he was
a really good closer there for a while.
Speaker 4 (57:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, and so and they, you know, the
whole place was emotional. He was emotional. I mean, to
get an opportunity to do this after all that. I
think it was like six hundred and thirty five days
or something like that. I mean, that is a that's
a tremendous stretch of days between opportunities at this level.
(58:06):
But will we'll hope really you know that he does.
He continues to recover and and does well and can
you know, stick with it here at this level?
Speaker 2 (58:16):
Yeah, I I am. You always root for a guy
like that, Yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (58:20):
Uh. And then did you see the call up? Did
you see about the call up of Colorado Rocky Jeff
This is in your wheelhouse named Zach agnes a g
n os No. Zach was called up. I think this weekend.
I was trying to see if it was yesterday, it
(58:40):
might even make it more special. Zach was called up,
yes this weekend. And of course, you know the first
call he makes is to his mom, yeah, well, his
mom was in Virginia. Uh, and she was with her dad,
of course, Zach's grandpa, who had just entered hospice. Oh no,
(59:00):
well his dad, his grandpa, should say. Her dad is
a man named George Miller. He played in the Rangers, well,
actually the Senator's Organists, oh wow, in the early sixties.
He played in through two or three organizations. Never got
higher than double A, but still he was in the
Senator's Organization. And George Miller always quizzed Zach agnos, what's
(59:25):
the best pitch? Since he's a little boy, what's the
best pitch? What's the best pitch? And of course the
answer to what's the best pitch is a strike? Right right,
That's the best pitch. A strike. So anyway, when Zach
got on the phone with his mom, she said, I'm
here with grandpa. She turned the phone around and Zach
(59:45):
said to his grandpa, who's you know on his deathbed?
What's the best pitch? And his grandpa said, strike, Yeah,
that's awesome, and neck well that's how he added. Of course,
tears all around the place as he was able to
share that news, you know, with his grandpa. So I
just I get chills telling that story. I think that's
(01:00:07):
a fantastic I love so many of these different instances
of not only how they hear about being called up,
but then how they tell people and who they tell
yeah type.
Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
Of yeah, well that's a heck of a story there, Yeah,
and good great timing too, yeah yeah, yeah, right before
who knows, I.
Speaker 4 (01:00:26):
Don't know if you know, mister Miller, maybe I'll have
a chance to hopefully I had a chance to see
his son a play or his grandson play at the
major league level. But anyway, the Rangers are off to California.
They take on the A's beginning tomorrow for three games
in Sacramento and then back to San Francisco, Bruce Bochi's
old stomping grounds where they will take on the Giants. And,
(01:00:48):
by the way, one of those thirty thousand foot view
things MLB highlights I think every week the five series
to watch this week, and that's one of them. The
Rangers and the Giants this week a series to watch
with all of the implications, the fact that both teams
are playing quite well to start the season, and of
course the return of Bruce Boci to his old stomping
(01:01:12):
grounds in San Francisco, So we're here the next two
days at noon, and then we will be here for
a postgame show on Thursday night. That is getaway day
as they leave Sacramento and had to San Francisco. So
we'll be here, you know, right around eleven forty five
eleven thirty eleven forty five on Thursday night. We hope
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you'll join us then as well as tomorrow and Wednesday
at noon. It's the DLS Rangers podcasts all like the man.
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