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Speaker 3 (00:51):
At the beginning, there was so much hope. At the end,
once again defeat and this time it looked a lot
like a Little League game. That's the story coming up
on the DLLs. Rangers postgame. Yeah, that's the understatement.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Of the day.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Need more runs. The Rangers lose another one run game,
and it was a head first slide at the end
as the Rangers sort of had their noses rubbed in it.
We welcome you into the DLLs Sports Studios. We welcome
you range DLLs Rangers Podcast. John Radigan here with Jeff
(01:28):
Wilson Elijah Smith over there. We watched in horror at
the end of this one.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Just I was in the bathroom for the role. I
was going to the restaurant.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
You had stepped away, so you you were spared. I'm
up here screaming, Oh and you that's right, you come
up the stairs. Is it a walk off home run?
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Sort of? Oh my god, awful.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Just awful way to see this thing end, and awful
to see a team Jeff that uh, two games in
a row now. Put some runs on the board. Early
yesterday against Robbie Ray, they were really hard to come by.
Today it didn't look like it was going to be
quite as hard to get runs, but then suddenly it was.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
It's it's the same old story. I mean, you know,
it's they apply pressure early and you know, make a
make a starting pitcher work and labor, and they may
not score more than a run and sometimes they don't
score anybody. They scored two here, and the next thing,
you know, the starter settles in, it's comfortable and the
(02:30):
Rangers can't can't hit. I mean, it's a it's happened
to numerous times. I don't know. It happened twice in
the Seattle series. Yeah, then happened the other night. It
just seems to happen, uh consistently yesterday. Yeah right, I
mean it just it just happens and happens and happens.
And so you wonder, well, where does that first inning
(02:51):
approach go? You know, all of a sudden, this pitcher
Jordan Hicks, who pitched today for the Giants, had a
six six and a half six something e r A.
It's still above six, but he managed to lower his
the ra He only gave up two runs, and again
after he threw twenty six pitches in the first inning,
fifty eight over the next four and a very efficient
(03:12):
that's the fifteen inning mark, fourteen and a half. You
want to be a mathematically precise, but it's still inexplicable.
Then you get the leadoff triple from Jock Peterson. Aldoles
Garcia just an awful at bat, chases three pitches out
of the zone, Marcus Seeming hits a grounder to first,
the infield's playing in so he can't get home. And
(03:34):
then Nick Ahmed in the game because Josh Young hurts
his finger pops out the first pitch, you know, and
the Rangers went two for ten with runners in scoring position,
both in the first inning, the first of which didn't
score a run, just moving. It was that little Jack
Peterson line drive that ended up wasn't even a line drive,
a little flare that ended up going for a double.
(03:54):
But you know, Berger had to hold it second until
the ball got through. They both ended up scoring, and
so you know, Simeon got the second hit. But again
it doesn't matter. You're thinking, hey, that's pretty good, and
then it just they just turn turn it off. Yeah,
they had.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
That's the one inning they had a triple, a leadoff
triple with Jock Peterson. The inning before that, which was
the fifth, rather, Leodi got to second base, with got
to third base, We got the second with one out
and third base with two outs, and the very next
inning there was a single.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
I mean they just.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Keep and then in the vindow on the seventh inning,
Leoti's at second again, now there were two outs. But
you get these runners in scoring position like this, two
doubles by Leoti, a triple by Jack Peterson in back
to back to back innings, you've got to bring him home.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Yeah, they aren't getting the big hit. Yeah, I don't,
I don't. I don't care anymore. What what excuses they
come up with? Oh, I'm playing in a pitcher's park. Oh, weather,
it was cold? Oh uh uh? You know Cory c
yours on the injured list. Why Langford wasn't in the lineup?
All right, No, no more excuses. It's it's bad approach.
(05:08):
It's being overly aggressive. It's chasing pitches out of the
strike zone, whether that's them pressing now, whatever it is,
it ain't working. And and you know, as we've said
now for many many times, it's a continuation of last season.
I don't think it's unique to this season. I think
(05:28):
it's a continuation from last season. And if that's the case,
and there's something organizationally that is a miss. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
And you know, yesterday after the game, Bruce Bochie sort
of addressed the media quickly by saying, Okay, is there
anybody who is any chance we can avoid questions about
the offense in this in this session, you know, and
and Boach is obviously tongue in cheek and half kidding there,
but but he's tired of talking about it too. The
bottom line of his answer, though, was every buddy's working
(06:01):
hard at this. The coaches are, the players are off
front offices, manager is every andy. He's right, everybody's working
hard at this. But are they you know, are they
working smart? I don't know, are they? Are they doing
the right things? Is it simply the execution, Jeff, when
it gets out there under the field. We did have
a couple of instances, and admittedly I think most of
(06:24):
them were with a Doolies today, who does appear to
be lost at the plate. He's even admitted, you know,
he's a little lost at the plate right now. But
we're just screaming at the chase. No, don't chase that one,
you know, I mean, it's just but part of that
is also you can you can handle a chase if
you have a little cushion, right right, there's never a
(06:47):
cushion in these games.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
If you're going for the throat, okay, if you're just
trying to get one run, yeah, just get a guy
home from third, and you can do it by hitting
a fly ball. You know, he need to ground her
up the middle, even against the drawn an infield that
probably gets through. You know. It's just it's just hard
to It's like they've all forgotten how to hit. Maybe
some of them never knew how to hit, you know,
(07:09):
a lot of the a lot of the fundamental things
and in baseball that we saw for years growing up, John,
and that probably a lot of our viewers right now
saw growing up. They don't do it, you know. And
and the you know, Saturday, when they tried to bunt,
you know, even that blew up in their face. And
it's probably not the best, a terrible idea, but it
(07:31):
didn't work. And and so even when they tried to
do what the game is presenting, it blows up. But
they still had two chances and it and and couldn't
get any anything done. So it's it's frustrating. And you know,
I know they're not they're not going up there trying
to make out and look like fools, but uh they are.
(07:52):
And so there there has to be something. You know,
you can't you can't change out the whole roster. This isn't.
You can't have a line change, you know, I mean
you can't. You can't call it blame krim. I mean
I guess you could. Well though, you know, I thought
Jake Berger had a good weekend, Yes he did, you
know Jack Peterson for cryingell out, Yeah, had a good weekend.
(08:15):
You know, So what what do you do at this point?
You know, are they so far gone that that, you know,
changing the hitting coaches wouldn't make a difference. I mean,
is that a jolt that you need? Or yeah, I don't.
I don't know. And it's gosh, it's still the first month, right,
still the first month. It's a month, it is. It's
(08:36):
just we're just thirty one month, thirty month.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Today, yeah, thirty days today, twenty eight opening right, thirty days.
And here's the thing, you know, like you mentioned that
bunt situation from yesterday's game, and it's a pop up
to the catcher. But then in their half of the
ninth inning, the Giants did execute right right, they got
(09:00):
down And that's the thing right now, it's like it
is the execution. Although where is the breakdown? Did that
breakdown start? Because I mean, are the Giants practicing that more.
I always wonder that. And and uh, I think, do
they still every every at bat at the start, or
every trip into the cage.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
At the start, at the start they put.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Put down two bunchs. Yeah, they've all something they've always done.
Maybe they got to be more serious about it.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
But too you know, seventy mile hour pitch true, true,
you know, not not anything that's that's moving and hard
to bunt. But the point is it's just something that's
not that's just it's just not in the game anymore,
I know. And if you're if you're gonna bunt and
Leoi's on the bench and you know your button put
Leoni in the game, Yes, I don't know. I mean
it's hard. It's hard to question the manager at this point.
(09:49):
I mean, he's pretty much done all he can do.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Yeah, he's trying, he said it. I mean, he's they're
all trying, and and there's no doubt about that. We're
never in you know, far be it from us to
sit up here and question the effort. That's not it.
But you know, something has to change. And at the
beginning of the road trip, you know, Boach made a
huge change with the batting order, and it worked for
(10:13):
one game. You know, if this is the first game
of this road trip, remember the Rangers started it with
an eight five victory over the Athletics, and it seemed
like maybe things were headed in the right direction offensively.
But since then it's been right back to not being
able to score a score enough runs. As we said
at the beginning, Now ten hits today, right, there were hits.
(10:35):
We mentioned it though, but they kept stranding them. Two
doubles by Leote, a triple by Jock Peterson. Peterson had
a double. I mean, you know, there were plenty of hits.
They were hitting the ball today. They hit the ball today.
They hit the ball well enough to win this game.
But like you said, two for ten, Okay. So yeah,
so then.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
You you can silver line and hey, ten hits. You know,
we're keep giving ourselves chances. It's it's gonna happen at
some point. Okay, you can you can make that argument.
Rangers struck out ten times zero walks. Yeah, you know
there were opportunities for them to walk. Ye, And so
(11:16):
that just tells you that, you know, an aggressive team
that put is putting itself in bad counts, and when
it does that, nothing could happen that and that gets
back to approach, doesn't it. I mean that absolutely is approach,
and I can't even say we I should have kept
track of how many outs were made. Swinging at the
(11:38):
first pitch, Yeah, I know A Dollies did it.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I know Simeon did it once. I mean, you know,
there were just a lot of how it is made,
I think swinging.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
At the first pitch, yeah, And you know, sometimes it's
true the first pitch is that the only pitch you're
going to get to hit. You got to be got
to be ready the second you step in the box,
you know, Shinshu Chu said that. But it seems like
they're swinging it not not at their pitch, right, they're
swinging at pitches that the pitcher wants them to swing at.
It's okay to take a pitch, you know, unless it's
(12:07):
right down the middle on strike three. It's okay to
take a pitch, you know, just because it's a strike
doesn't mean that you're going to hit it. Well. So
I think that's another thing. Maybe they need to they
need to know where they hit the ball best, and
I'm sure they do. There's just you know, either if
they don't get the pitches there or whatever, but a
(12:28):
little patience. Even Bruce Bochi said that before the game,
you got to have more patients aggressive team. You don't
want to take away the aggression because that's what makes
them great. But also sometimes you're just overly aggressive. You
got to be I don't know, how about a smart aggression.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Super super wisely aggressive, right, and that and that is, Look,
if they're if they're trying to sort of, you know,
mirror what the leader does and what their best offensive
player does. Who's on the injured list right now? Corey Seeger,
I mean, Corey Seger is known for swinging at the
first and for being very aggressive at the plate. However,
Corey Seger knows his pitches, he knows his strike zone,
(13:07):
and you don't. You don't quibble or question Corey's approach. No,
Corey gets to do whatever he wants. Yeah, okay, And
there are times that's like, uh, you know, especially like
if the batter ahead of him the first pitch it
makes it out, and then he comes up and makes
it out on the first pitch, doesn't really do a
lot of good for your pitcher.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Puts your puts the guy behind him in a tough
spot because you don't want to do three pitches on
three ounts. It's like auto take. You know, the pitcher
can throw it underhanded and the guy is not going
to swing. Yeah. Uh and and you know it's uh,
it's it's pretty remarkable though. You know how little margin
(13:45):
for eric gives the pictures, you know they you know,
so let's say it's let's say it's four to two
and Luke Jackson makes that throw and they end up
scoring around guess what, You're still alive. Yeah, you're still
in the lead. And even even if they even if
it's three to two, okay, you know what, tye game,
nobody on base, and you're still you're still going. And
(14:07):
the defense was terrific today and yesterday it really really
really was. And I know there's a peach Us defense
made us get walked off twice this week. I disagree,
Yah would Leoti's mistake Thursday was not the worst one.
I mean, losing that fly ball was the That was
a two run mistake. That was the big one. Yeah,
But nevertheless, point taken, But it's the offense that Isn't
(14:34):
pitchers a chance to make a mistake.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yeah, it all comes back to that it's got to
be rectified. That said, uh, there is a lot to
like and and most of it has to do with pitching.
And when we come back on the DLLs Rangers postgame show,
we're going to talk about the pitching jack lighter back
today some struggles and then settled down. We'll talk about him.
We'll look ahead to as we get ready for a
(14:57):
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Speaker 3 (16:04):
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starting right now, which means you already start thinking about
what am I going to do next weekend.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
I got an idea.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
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(16:35):
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(16:56):
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your tickets to the fun. All right, So Lighter back
in there today, Yeah, and everybody was excited, and he had,
you know, had a couple of good rehab starts.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
And well you won but game yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Yeah, and one rehab start and then and he seemed
to have managed the blister, right, It seemed like from
what you can tell, yeah, he seemed to have been
fine with it. So you're you're optimistic. You feel like
the way he pitched for his first couple of starts
big league level this year, and what he had done
in the rehab start and then in the sim game, okay,
(17:37):
you know, Lighter hasn't missed a beat. And and then
you know, reality hits a little bit, Jeff, And again,
I mean, you just have to you have to get
back out there, and you have to do it, and
you have to face major league hitters. And really his
biggest problem today was control. He just had too many walks.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Yeah, and then you know, in the first inning he
walked three, one of them with the bases loaded, so
that was the Giants first run. In the fourth, his
last inning, walked Eli Oramos, who then stole second, later
gotten out, took him out, brought in Jake Latts, and
the run scored on Lats. But it was the it
(18:20):
was the walk in the stolen base that that that
doom Jack. But he threw thirty seven pitches in the
first inning, which is way too many, and so you know,
he wasn't going five innings, so that put the Rangers
in a spot where they had to use Lats and
Caleb Bosley. It did fine, so a little concerning it
looked a little bit like one of those one of
(18:41):
his spring starts where he was off and could make
the pitches, you could see the stuff, but just needed
to make an adjustment, which he kind of did the
rest of the way. I mean, he pitched a really
good second inning, did okay in the third, and then
the fourth, you know, just the the walk that got him.
But again it's but it goes back to those little things.
You know, the walks are major things. Three walks pretty major.
(19:05):
But you know, a walk in the in the fourth
and then you know kind of a high leg kick
that allowed the runner to take second. That's a that's
a little thing. And those those are things that are
coming back to bite the Rangers in these close games.
I mean they're playing all close games and again no
margin for air. And so I mean the Rangers gave
(19:29):
up three runs the last two days, they gave up
six runs in the series, and they're going home one
and two. Yeah, they got walked off three times on
the road trip. You know, they scored what eleven runs
the last five games. Yep, that's not going to cut it,
you know. And and the pitching staff again, you would
you would take what they're what they've been doing every
(19:49):
game exactly right.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
And that's what those one run games tell you. What
those low scoring games tell you is that the pitchers
are doing their job right now. In the you know,
in the last three the walk off to end the
series in West Sacramento, you know, they allowed a total
of four runs, no runs on Friday night, and the
game they won in San Francisco to start the series
(20:13):
yesterday three to two, today three to two. I mean,
even the game where they quote unquote got blown out.
You know, Game two of this of this road trip,
it was five to two, right, I mean even that game,
after some struggles early, you know, the pitching staff kept
them in it. This pitching staff has been unbelievable. It's
been one of the big surprises in the game. And
(20:35):
it's fantastic, and it's just it's being and nobody, none
of the pitchers will say this because they know there
will come a point in the season where they're not
getting it done and the offense carries the low. But
right now, man, for the first month of this season,
the only reason the Rangers are, you know, near the top,
and they won't be at the top. They're fifteen wins
(20:58):
and last I saw Seattle was up in the ninth inning.
So Seattle will move into sole possession of first place
in the American League West with their sixteenth win of
this season. But the reality is the only reason the
Rangers are near the top is the pitching stat Yeah,
and you know, and they are the Rangers coming home,
They've got the A's and then the Mariners.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Corbyn tomorrow, then de gram Evaldi and Mali. Yeah, so
you look pretty good about those three for sure. And
even Corbin. I mean, Corbyn's been great. He's been keeping
them in games as well. So and then those other
three guys, you know, you can almost you know, lock
those all in the bank, especially against an athletics team
(21:44):
that's that's not really found their way yet.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Yeah, especially especially offensively. They've got some they've got some
offense too, And and look, offense is down around the
league around the game, sure, but still even with that,
the Range is ranked near the bottom in almost every
offensive category.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Yeah, and and and you know it was down. It
was down last year too, and that was kind of
you know, as you review the season, that's kind of
what they were talking about early on there, like, yeah, well,
you know, offenses are down around everywhere. It's not just
a Rangers thing, you know. And there's some truth to that.
I mean, the pitchers are so good, you know, they
(22:25):
you know, these pitches that are just moving all kinds
of different ways and doing all kinds of different stuff.
I get it. It's hard. It's hard to hit, and
but other teams are hitting. Yeah, there are probably you know,
I haven't looked at the stats lately, but I would
guess that there are twenty seven to twenty five teams
(22:47):
that are hitting well enough to turn the Rangers pitching
into more wins. You know, I'm sure the Rangers would
let to have the twentieth best offense in the league, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
That would absolutely you know, that would probably secured him
at least five, you.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Know, more wins if they were maybe. Yeah, I mean
it's just it's just crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Yeah, And look, it's and it sometimes is fun. I
missed yesterday with the game on nationally. I missed our
our guys calling it. But it's sometimes fun to hear
perspectives of others. And Aj Prazinski, who was you know,
he was a Rangers catcher for a year and I
actually always got along well with Aj.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
I liked, Yeah, I like he was our he was
our good guy of the year. Yeah, what was he really? Yeah?
I liked Aj a lot.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
And uh, anyway, he and he had a reputation you know,
coming in, but but yeah, he was he was a
good soldier here. But any event, I liked you know,
he said at one point, he goes, God, it's hard
to be a hitter these days, right, I mean that
because they're just throwing all this stuff at you and
a new picture will come in and his trick is
(23:52):
completely different than the guy who left.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
His trick was you know he he I remember or
at the end of thirteen the Rangers were you know,
fading and not scoring runs, and you know, like every
game we would he would be the one at his locker. Yes,
and he one day just said, you know what, go
talk to the other guys. I've talked about this enough. Yeah,
(24:16):
And he's right, you know there, And I think there's
some people who've said it on maybe in our chat
here and definitely on my Twitter. There needs to be accountability.
And I don't know, you know that that sounds like,
I mean, obviously people want this guy fired, so want
Ecker fired and all that. And again, I don't know
that that's the solution because his ways won a World
(24:38):
Series only two years ago. Now has he adjusted? You know?
Are are the Rangers stuck and confused by the advanced
metrics and biomechanics and all that stuff? Maybe, but it
just seems like, you know, what, what do you do next?
Because again you can't you can't just say all right,
(25:00):
everybody on the forty man and three guys out on
the forty man, you're coming up. Everybody else is going
on the IL for for two weeks and we'll see
if we can get this order. He can't do that, no, obviously,
you know. And so yeah, and I'm sure that I'm
sure that Donnie and Justin Veeeley are racking their brains,
pulling their hair out.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Probably not sleeping at night right, trying to come up
with anything they can.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Looking over videos, doing doing at all. But it's just
it's just not working out. So and and you know,
Chris Young is a competitive guy and he is not
enjoying this losing. I can assure I can assure you
that none of them are. But more than anybody, it's
(25:43):
probably Chris Young. And that's he's the one who calls
the shots.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
He is and he is obviously a former player who
won a World Series as a player, who played for
a long time, and he is one who can say
without hesitation and with credibility, they have to get it done, right,
I mean, And that's where and he can recognize it too.
That's the nice thing. If this is a problem with
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the hitting coach, right, if there needs to be a
change there, the offensive coordinator or whatever we call Donnie
these days, if there needs to be a change there.
Chris Young has the eye and the experience to know it,
not just to think it, but to know it. I mean,
and he's I remember him saying it in the off season,
(26:31):
you know, and he felt like that the narrative that
the Rangers weren't weren't good at hitting four seam fastballs
last year was overblown. But in the same context, he said,
but look, our guys have to do it. They can
do it. They just got to do it, and you know,
(26:53):
puts it right back on them. And that's essentially I'm
sure one of the things he's thinking right now.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
You guys got to do this. Yeah. Yeah, And nobody
roots for anybody to get fired.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
No, that's that's for sure, especially not a good guy
like Donnie Ecker. And I don't know Justin very well.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Yeah, I mean, you may blow things off, like we're
saying here and chatting on social media, but okay, but
who are you going to change? Because Justin veely came
from the Giants and is Donnie's like protege. They are
the same same, same, same, same language, all right, So
do you go down to the minor leagues and get
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like Cody Atkinson, the minor league kitting coordinator who knows
a lot of the young hitters really well. But I'm
not sure how much he's worked with Arkasimon, let's say.
And and I think Donnie is wanting to you know,
it's an organ he wants, he wants the minor leagues
to kind of follow his approach so that when they
get to the majors, they're they're ready to go. So
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do you go outside the organization?
Speaker 5 (27:57):
You know?
Speaker 4 (27:57):
But okay, so then who you know? Right? And the
Rockies just hired Clint Hurdle for crying out loud, you know,
and fired to Hensley Mules who worked for who worked
for Bruce Bochie. All right, let's get let's get old
Hensley in here. I don't know what you're gonna do if,
if you are to take that step, but I'm sure
they're Honestly, I really think the Rangers have thought about it.
(28:19):
They're not going to say that they have, you know.
And you know, I haven't heard any vote of confidence
specific you know, the now to vote of confidence. But
I just I think the confidence is waning everywhere on
the on the offense, and I know they say, oh,
we're going to keep. We're going to come out of it.
We're going to come out of it. Are you? Are
you going to come out? I know, I know again
(28:40):
after after after all of last season, and at all
last year.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Again, I've said that, I said it ten times at
a party this weekend. Well, I always say, don't worry,
they'll come around on offense. And then last year happened, right,
And I said it all here last year too, and
they never did. So you have to be cognizant and
and worried honestly about the fact that sometimes the offense
doesn't come around. And you may not need to know,
(29:07):
you may not need to push the panic button yet,
but you damn sure better figure out where it is
because it's uh, it's about that time. We're over a
month now, I mean officially over a month into this season,
and that is you know, that's almost twenty percent of
the year, right, And.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
And I don't know, it's gonna be interesting, you know,
now that they're home. You know, I think Ross fencer
Maker was the executive on the trip. Yeah, I don't.
I don't know that. You know, Chris and Chris Young
didn't travel. I don't think so. I would I would
(29:47):
guess that there will be some meetings here tomorrow, maybe
some phone calls taking place right now. But you know, again,
these guys are doing the best. They they're putting come
trying to come up with new ideas. They're trying to
come up with something, and whatever it is, it ain't working.
So they're gonna have to. I don't want to say
(30:09):
make tough decisions, but you know, something's gonna something's gonna
have to give here.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I like the Billy Martin approach. Let's go back to that,
just draw or draw it out of a hat. Yeah,
although they changed Boach did a pretty big change of
the batting order and it worked for one day in
a row. So but you know, who knows, Maybe try
the Billy Martin approach. Draw names out of a hat
and that is your batting order for that day. We'll
see what they do. We'll see what happens. We still
got more pitching to talk. The bullpen came through today
(30:38):
as they have really all year long. We talk about
that and we get to the injury ish to Josh
Young and update Corey Seeger. Next it's the d LS
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Speaker 3 (33:19):
Yeah, and I'll tell you one thing that is not
dysfunctioning is the Rangers bullpen, right, I mean you're gonna
look at some of the outcomes, and especially if you
look at just the fact that there were these walkoffs, right,
there's a tendency if you see walkoffs to go, well
they're the bullpen failed.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
You can't you can't point to very many.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
I mean, obviously Luke Jackson would love to have that throwback.
He hurried that throw over to first base. But for
the most part, as far as the pitching portion of
this thing has gone, this bullpen's done a fantastic job,
and in fact, maybe Jeff the best job arguably yesterday
(33:58):
when the three high leverage guys were unavailable and they just,
you know, Boats just had to go with who he had,
and who he had, you know, kept him innute, I mean,
you know, again until another walk off, in which case
the Giants just executed. Well, the Rangers had an opportunity
to not walk it off, but they had an opportunity
to take a ninth inning lead and they just couldn't execute.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Yeah, you know, And and it's it's crazy because, uh,
you know, Patrick Bailey is the guy who had the
walk off hit yesterday and in about seventies. He's not
a very good hitter, no, but he he he knew
all he had to do is put the ball in play.
The infield was in and he just had to get
one somehow into the outfield and he did and they won.
But yeah, they got the bunt down, just just execution.
(34:45):
It's I don't know what else we can say, honestly
at this point. I'm sure some news will come out
of there tomorrow or you know, talk to talk to
some guys and and and figure out what the heck
is going on. But it's just kind of we're getting
to the point where it's like, all right, hey, the
offense didn't score again, pitching staff was great, the bullpen
(35:06):
was good, but didn't have any margin for air. And
so these guys are human. You know, Jacob Webb didn't
have his best day yesterday, No he didn't, but you
know he still got out of the eighth and then
the the ninth. It just kind of didn't work out.
But you know, because they're playing all these close games,
they're having to use their leverage of guys a lot more,
(35:28):
and so you're going to run run into days where
it's like we got to go what we got, yeah,
and sometimes it's just not going to be good enough.
But but really, you know, we keep talking about it.
Hobie Milder's been awesome, He's been he's been fun to watch,
and so that's that's that's cool and a good story,
and you hope that it continues. And and after a month,
(35:50):
you know, all signs point toward it continuing, But you
do have to worry about fatigue on on you know, Garcia,
Martin and Jackson. I wouldn't be surprised if they were
to get multiple days off at some point down the
road here. So it's it's it's just a frustrating thing.
(36:12):
I would imagine that the pictures are very quietly frustrated. Sure,
you know, and what more can we do? But like
you said, they know that at some point they're going
to go through a patch where they're going to need
somebody to score seven runs and get him off the hook,
no doubt, And and maybe it all happen, maybe it won't,
but it's gonna be it's gonna be a tough one
(36:35):
in the interim, you know. It just you just I
don't I don't know that, you know. When I talked
to Corey Seeger last week, he was like, you just
have to wait it down it's like, I don't want
to hear that. Yeah, yeah, okay, Corey. You know, it's
easy to use say because you're getting hot and everything
was working out great. But he's also an experienced guy.
You know, he was on this great Dodgers team that
(36:57):
you know, was running away with it and they're like, oh,
those are the best team in baseball. And then they
lost like seventeen of eighteen. Yeah, couldn't do anything right. Yeah,
still en up went into the division and all that.
So you know, all these guys have been through it
and seen it and experienced it, and but the veteran
guys are the ones who are going through it and
they should be able to get out of it more
and they just haven't been able to. So no, I'm
(37:19):
not I'm not sure. But again, great bullpen work, you know,
and Milner good. Webb's good against the left handed hitter.
Garcia has been good against both. He's gotten some big
outs here. And then you know Martin, Martin, Martin has
just he's there. David Robertson from last year. Yes, they
put him into whatever whatever bad situation they can think of.
(37:42):
By god, Chris Martin's going to go into Yeah, you
know and and and it's it's good to see. It's
good to see this guy. He's a great story. So
you enjoy to see this. But again, you know, kind
of kind of at a point where you can't really
nobody wants to trust the Rangers on their offense of
approach or philosophy or scouting. But my gosh, it didn't
(38:04):
they nailed this bullpen thing. They have.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
They've nailed every part of the pitching thus far, and
they've even developed some of their own, which is which
is rare and you know, almost unheard of for this
organization in its history. But this is something you do
hate to see. The you know, the notification that came
down on my MLB app this walk off little league
home run might be the wackiest ending to a game
(38:28):
this season.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Yeah, I think we I think we know which'll break
your phone? There? Think we know which one that is.
I hate.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
We're the butt, right, we're the butt of an MLB
uh an MLB notice, But it was I mean, and
that's you.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Know, in fact, that's what you said when when you.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Were walking up the stairs, you said, walk off hoham run,
I said, no little league home runs? Yeah, it's you know,
it's just frustrating. It is, and I know it is
for you guys too. And eventually to answer how the
Rangers are going to get those high leverage guys less
days of work is to score a lot blow I mean,
(39:07):
I mean that's the answer we want. I guess you
could get blown out too. But if you're doing the
blowing out, you know, then you then they don't have
to pitch.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
Every day, right right? And you know they almost they
tried to get away with it on on Tuesday when
it was you know, eight to two or whatever, and
then the A's scored a few in the in the
eighth and so they had to pitch Jackson. But you know,
you need to need a he need to need one
of those. Need two of those, yes, and one a
week would be nice, ye, Just try to just try
(39:36):
to give everybody a blowdown there.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Yeah, it'd be really nice. Now, Josh Young got hurt
and had to leave the game, and you know, I
don't want to say injured, but it and it wasn't
you know when you're watching the game, and Mike Bassett
kind of thought it was when he scooped that ball
bare handed. But the injury, the laceration on his finger
actually happened when that bat exploded in the hands. Yeah,
(40:00):
and it one of the pieces of shrapnel pretty much
just cut it. And then we began to notice it
after he made that bare handed throw. And now it's
bleeding more and he's you know, he's dabbing off the
blood on his baseball pants. So you know, but like
Mike said, bast said as he left the game, oh
my gosh, this guy is just always something little.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
And I don't mean to.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Say what happened last year was little. It was huge
that wrist that got shattered. But but it's different. It's
not normal things. Yeah, yeah, and yeah, this seems like minor.
But you know, some people complained on Twitter and about
him being fragile and all this stuff. Look, you don't
want a guy out there playing third base of his
fingers bleeding and a ball hit to him and he
(40:44):
throws it into the stands, right, you know. And they're
just some things that you know, unfortunate timing, you know,
you know, it's like it couldn't couldn't get it stopped.
So it's not like a fight doctor in there, you know,
in every even the cold press, it's just you know,
maybe if the Rangers have had a long half, any
(41:06):
cutting U but yeah, yeah, you know, and so, I
I mean, assuming everything's okay, I guess.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
He'd play tomorrow, you know, I would think so. I
doubt it needed stitches or anything like that. I mean,
that would have been something that he wouldn't even gone
out for the next half. Yeah, exactly. They would be like,
oh god, your fingers about to fall off. So yeah,
I think that he'll be fine. Just a bad break, Yeah,
just geez, you know, what can you do? And if
(41:35):
he ends up missing half a game, I don't think
that means he's fragile. It just means that ship something
weird happened.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Yeah, something very strange happened. When the bat. How many
times did bats break? They break, you know, a hundred
times a game, you know, between both teams, and nobody
gets shrapnel, but a little shrapnel him. If he was
a hockey player and that happened, he had to just
shoved that bloody stump into a glove to let it
bleed into the glove, and nobody would have known.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
It would have bled out. Maybe he might have bled out.
What if it'd been what if it had been his
left hand right, he probably stays in the game.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
Probably stays in the game, left it in the glove
and the way he goes, So, uh, just one of
those weird little instances. Corey Seger meantime appears to be
from the word we hear from boats and everybody right
on track to continue to allow this to be, you know,
just sort of a minimum on the injured list sort
of stay.
Speaker 4 (42:26):
Yeah, you know, it's kind of where they were on
the roster. You know, I think if they had had
Duran on the roster, they might have given Seeger a chance,
kind of like the Rangers used to do with Adrian Belchrae.
You know, Belcher would have hurt something and they'd be
like four days in they'd be like, yeah, he'll probably
be ready tomorrow. Yeah, but yeah, they couldn't do that.
They needed to have backing and Ahmed. Defensively, he's been fantastic. Yes,
(42:50):
he's been. Yeah, I mean not so much. He hasn't yet.
He really hasn't played since since spring training. So that's, uh,
that's gonna take some time, and he's probably not going
to play a lot to begin with. And you know,
when the Rangers have a roster move to make for Seeger,
I guess, I guess it would be Harris. You know,
(43:11):
it would be an outfielder because you're you're still gonna
want that protection. You can move Josh Smith into the
outfield to make sure he keeps getting his at bats.
But I'm not I'm not sure on that one, because
it's not it's not a deserved thing for Dustin Harris. No, no, no, no,
he had another hit today. But if they if they're
if they're now gun shy of the not having protection
(43:33):
on the infield because one of their primary infield back
because their primary backup infielder also can play the outfield, right,
you want him to do both roles. I don't know.
I don't know. I'm just talking at this point. I
guess you know you're gonna have Kevin Polar so that
helps out.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
Not sure, no, uh And and you know that's a
decision that will be made. Is core eligible at the
end of this week?
Speaker 4 (43:58):
Yeah, ten days from Wednesday, so it would be the
week this weekend?
Speaker 3 (44:03):
Yeah, yeah, So yeah, we'll see what they decide to do.
But it's look, it's good news. And the thing we
always remember about Corey Seeger virtually any time he comes
back from an injured list stint, he needs no time
to sort of get ramped back up. He's there, he's
just ready. He starts hitting right away. It's an amazing
(44:23):
thing that this guy has this ability that he amazingly
comes back and immediately starts hitting. So he's the leader, right,
He is the leader of this thing, and it'll be
great to have him back whenever the Rangers get him back.
So let's talk more about this series, upcoming the homestand
upcoming Rangers an a's for four games. We'll get you
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have been playing at home and just the fact that
they I know, they they lost the series to the A's,
(48:47):
but it felt like they played well against the A's,
Like it makes me excited, makes me think this could
be another four game series that they win. And we
know four game series are super hard to win, but
they've won one at them already this year against the
Red Sox.
Speaker 4 (49:02):
It's true, and you know they they I think they
have to face uh Sears. Yes, he was their their
their nemesis, their nemesis, but that's okay. They they can
they can figure it out. And they did just see him, right,
I mean they did see him. Isn't that supposed to
be an advantage. They just saw him. Yeah, but they
(49:23):
just saw some of the Rangers pictures too, so there
they probably see some changes in far as far as
approach and whatnot. But yeah, he's gonna he is gonna
pitch tomorrow night. And then uh old t b A.
It was supposed to be j T Gin but he
went on the injured list. Then Louis Severino on Wednesday,
(49:44):
they're big free agent guy. And then Jeffrey Springs, the
former Rangers pitcher, who's it's some bumps in the road
the last couple starts, but he's facing the Rangers and
they can't hit lefties very well, so uh, look for
look for a look for a rebound from jeff Springs.
Speaker 3 (50:01):
Yeah, and it's Corbyn tomorrow, as we mentioned. And I
did kind of think that they'd have lighter wait till
tomorrow and Corbyn go today just because of that, right
because Corbyn had just seen the A's.
Speaker 4 (50:14):
But yeah, but that would be for right handers against
the and and maybe maybe I don't give them a
different look. I'm not I'm not sure, but Bruce Bochi
said it could have it could have gone either way
with it, but anyway, they didn't. They did what they did,
and here you go. You know, I always enjoyed, enjoy
(50:36):
good homestand like like to see the West. You know,
these are always they always feel like they're more important games.
And I don't appreciate the championship games. Broncos vomit emoji
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the group. I don't know what the weather's gonna look like.
I'm gonna guess that. I'm gonna guess we'll get a
weather a roof open during this series. I'm gonna go
I'm gonna go out on a limits during this series.
Speaker 3 (51:09):
It could be the day game. I think thursdays. I
think Thursday is supposed to be nice. I hope it
is that day actually, But you know, and what the
Rangers are throwing after Corbin is is exciting. I mean,
you go to gram, you go Evaldi, and you go
Tyler Malley, who, after allowing two runs in yesterday's game,
(51:31):
watched his era balloon all.
Speaker 4 (51:33):
The way to one one forte.
Speaker 3 (51:35):
Oh my god, he's at one one four and he
allowed to get two runs in yesterday's game, two earned runs. So, uh,
he's really almost hands down across the board from a
you know, a national perspective, like one of the true
surprises of the early part of this Yeah.
Speaker 4 (51:53):
He's he's he's uh he might he might be the
ale pitcher of the Monk. Yeah, I think this started.
It will still be April when he makes it that start,
so that could that could be the resume completer, you know,
be the one that gets him over the top. But
he's been good and he's pitched well against good teams.
Speaker 3 (52:15):
Actually, I think that's May one, isn't it. Thirty Thursday's
May one.
Speaker 4 (52:20):
I can't count, so maybe then maybe his case has
already made it.
Speaker 3 (52:23):
He made a pretty good case. He did throw out
the hiccup in that. Yeah, Thursday's May one.
Speaker 4 (52:28):
And go ahead, and let's just let's just go ahead
and give it to him. Okay, Yeah, yeah, Well you
get a vote in that one. It depends. We kind
of mix it up, so like one one month it'll
be you get to vote for a hitter and rookie,
like you get to vote for a pitcher and reliever.
So it varies, but I will vote for two of
(52:50):
the awards.
Speaker 3 (52:51):
Yeah, okay, got it, got it all right, So we'll
keep an eye on that, and if you get a
vote for pitcher, we know who you'll be voting for.
But right again, I think most anybody who's paying attention,
which most of the beat writers in the BBWA are
paying attention, So anyway, it's hard to argue what Tyler
Mallley has done. Nathan Evaldi is just Nathan Evalde is
(53:12):
such a bulldog. I mean he goes out there the
other night and just shoves and throws a you know,
basically leads the Rangers to a shutout, right, and Jacob
de Gram he's just he's great. I mean, he's when
he's been doing much much better. His command is much
much better, and he's a command guy.
Speaker 4 (53:31):
Yeah. Yeah, it feels like, you know, these changes he
said he was about to about to strike on, about
to get down, feel like he's gotten him. Maybe not
probably not perfect. He's he's a perfectionist and I can't
I can't imagine him being remotely happy. But he's been
(53:52):
pretty good, so he's probably happier than he was.
Speaker 3 (53:54):
Yeah, yeah, slightly happy, but uh yeah, And that's the thing.
You know what, I don't mind that. I like a
guy who even when he I mean, look his last
what was it was it two outings ago where he
gave up a leadoff home run and then was great.
Speaker 4 (54:09):
And against the Dodgers. Yeah yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (54:11):
Then this last start, you know, and you're right, and
he's still probably going but he's he's finding it or
maybe has found it.
Speaker 4 (54:20):
Yeah, he gave up the two runs on the in
that you know, after after Langford missed the fly ball.
Otherwise he's probably looking at six scoreless Indians. Yeah, and
you know the pitch that he gave up, the the
tye hit to Soderstrom. I know that drives him crazy.
You could see on the mound he was, Yeah, he
was visibly upset with it. But it goes back to
(54:42):
the offense no margin Freyr, you know, and pitchers went back.
When kel Hamil's was on the team, t R and
I were in Seattle talking to him about one of
his starts, and he was he put together good numbers,
but he said he wasn't totally happy with it and
got away with a couple of mistakes and all this stuff.
(55:04):
And I'm like, all right. So you know, afterwards, we're
talking to him, like, what would you estimate if you
throw one hundred pitches in a game, how many of
those pitches would you say are mistakes? He said twenty wow,
and that that struck me as a huge number. But
you know, and you're gonna get away with some mistakes,
you really are, whether you have done your job changing
(55:27):
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Speaker 3 (00:51):
At the beginning, there was so much hope. At the end,
once again defeat and this time it looked a lot
like a Little League game. That's the story coming up
on the DLLs. Rangers postgame. Yeah, that's the understatement.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Of the day.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Need more runs. The Rangers lose another one run game,
and it was a head first slide at the end
as the Rangers sort of had their noses rubbed in it.
We welcome you into the DLLs Sports Studios. We welcome
you range DLLs Rangers Podcast. John Radigan here with Jeff
(01:28):
Wilson Elijah Smith over there. We watched in horror at
the end of this one.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Just I was in the bathroom for the role. I
was going to the restaurant.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
You had stepped away, so you you were spared. I'm
up here screaming, Oh and you that's right, you come
up the stairs. Is it a walk off home run?
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Sort of? Oh my god, awful.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Just awful way to see this thing end, and awful
to see a team Jeff that uh, two games in
a row now. Put some runs on the board. Early
yesterday against Robbie Ray, they were really hard to come by.
Today it didn't look like it was going to be
quite as hard to get runs, but then suddenly it was.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
It's it's the same old story. I mean, you know,
it's they apply pressure early and you know, make a
make a starting pitcher work and labor, and they may
not score more than a run and sometimes they don't
score anybody. They scored two here, and the next thing,
you know, the starter settles in, it's comfortable and the
(02:30):
Rangers can't can't hit. I mean, it's a it's happened
to numerous times. I don't know. It happened twice in
the Seattle series. Yeah, then happened the other night. It
just seems to happen, uh consistently yesterday. Yeah right, I
mean it just it just happens and happens and happens.
And so you wonder, well, where does that first inning
(02:51):
approach go? You know, all of a sudden, this pitcher
Jordan Hicks, who pitched today for the Giants, had a
six six and a half six something e r A.
It's still above six, but he managed to lower his
the ra He only gave up two runs, and again
after he threw twenty six pitches in the first inning,
fifty eight over the next four and a very efficient
(03:12):
that's the fifteen inning mark, fourteen and a half. You
want to be a mathematically precise, but it's still inexplicable.
Then you get the leadoff triple from Jock Peterson. Aldoles
Garcia just an awful at bat, chases three pitches out
of the zone, Marcus Seeming hits a grounder to first,
the infield's playing in so he can't get home. And
(03:34):
then Nick Ahmed in the game because Josh Young hurts
his finger pops out the first pitch, you know, and
the Rangers went two for ten with runners in scoring position,
both in the first inning, the first of which didn't
score a run, just moving. It was that little Jack
Peterson line drive that ended up wasn't even a line drive,
a little flare that ended up going for a double.
(03:54):
But you know, Berger had to hold it second until
the ball got through. They both ended up scoring, and
so you know, Simeon got the second hit. But again
it doesn't matter. You're thinking, hey, that's pretty good, and
then it just they just turn turn it off. Yeah,
they had.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
That's the one inning they had a triple, a leadoff
triple with Jock Peterson. The inning before that, which was
the fifth, rather, Leodi got to second base, with got
to third base, We got the second with one out
and third base with two outs, and the very next
inning there was a single.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
I mean they just.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Keep and then in the vindow on the seventh inning,
Leoti's at second again, now there were two outs. But
you get these runners in scoring position like this, two
doubles by Leoti, a triple by Jack Peterson in back
to back to back innings, you've got to bring him home.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Yeah, they aren't getting the big hit. Yeah, I don't,
I don't. I don't care anymore. What what excuses they
come up with? Oh, I'm playing in a pitcher's park. Oh, weather,
it was cold? Oh uh uh? You know Cory c
yours on the injured list. Why Langford wasn't in the lineup?
All right, No, no more excuses. It's it's bad approach.
(05:08):
It's being overly aggressive. It's chasing pitches out of the
strike zone, whether that's them pressing now, whatever it is,
it ain't working. And and you know, as we've said
now for many many times, it's a continuation of last season.
I don't think it's unique to this season. I think
(05:28):
it's a continuation from last season. And if that's the case,
and there's something organizationally that is a miss. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
And you know, yesterday after the game, Bruce Bochie sort
of addressed the media quickly by saying, Okay, is there
anybody who is any chance we can avoid questions about
the offense in this in this session, you know, and
and Boach is obviously tongue in cheek and half kidding there,
but but he's tired of talking about it too. The
bottom line of his answer, though, was every buddy's working
(06:01):
hard at this. The coaches are, the players are off
front offices, manager is every andy. He's right, everybody's working
hard at this. But are they you know, are they
working smart? I don't know, are they? Are they doing
the right things? Is it simply the execution, Jeff, when
it gets out there under the field. We did have
a couple of instances, and admittedly I think most of
(06:24):
them were with a Doolies today, who does appear to
be lost at the plate. He's even admitted, you know,
he's a little lost at the plate right now. But
we're just screaming at the chase. No, don't chase that one,
you know, I mean, it's just but part of that
is also you can you can handle a chase if
you have a little cushion, right right, there's never a
(06:47):
cushion in these games.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
If you're going for the throat, okay, if you're just
trying to get one run, yeah, just get a guy
home from third, and you can do it by hitting
a fly ball. You know, he need to ground her
up the middle, even against the drawn an infield that
probably gets through. You know. It's just it's just hard
to It's like they've all forgotten how to hit. Maybe
some of them never knew how to hit, you know,
(07:09):
a lot of the a lot of the fundamental things
and in baseball that we saw for years growing up, John,
and that probably a lot of our viewers right now
saw growing up. They don't do it, you know. And
and the you know, Saturday, when they tried to bunt,
you know, even that blew up in their face. And
it's probably not the best, a terrible idea, but it
(07:31):
didn't work. And and so even when they tried to
do what the game is presenting, it blows up. But
they still had two chances and it and and couldn't
get any anything done. So it's it's frustrating. And you know,
I know they're not they're not going up there trying
to make out and look like fools, but uh they are.
(07:52):
And so there there has to be something. You know,
you can't you can't change out the whole roster. This isn't.
You can't have a line change, you know, I mean
you can't. You can't call it blame krim. I mean
I guess you could. Well though, you know, I thought
Jake Berger had a good weekend, Yes he did, you
know Jack Peterson for cryingell out, Yeah, had a good weekend.
(08:15):
You know, So what what do you do at this point?
You know, are they so far gone that that, you know,
changing the hitting coaches wouldn't make a difference. I mean,
is that a jolt that you need? Or yeah, I don't.
I don't know. And it's gosh, it's still the first month, right,
still the first month. It's a month, it is. It's
(08:36):
just we're just thirty one month, thirty month.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Today, yeah, thirty days today, twenty eight opening right, thirty days.
And here's the thing, you know, like you mentioned that
bunt situation from yesterday's game, and it's a pop up
to the catcher. But then in their half of the
ninth inning, the Giants did execute right right, they got
(09:00):
down And that's the thing right now, it's like it
is the execution. Although where is the breakdown? Did that
breakdown start? Because I mean, are the Giants practicing that more.
I always wonder that. And and uh, I think, do
they still every every at bat at the start, or
every trip into the cage.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
At the start, at the start they put.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Put down two bunchs. Yeah, they've all something they've always done.
Maybe they got to be more serious about it.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
But too you know, seventy mile hour pitch true, true,
you know, not not anything that's that's moving and hard
to bunt. But the point is it's just something that's
not that's just it's just not in the game anymore,
I know. And if you're if you're gonna bunt and
Leoi's on the bench and you know your button put
Leoni in the game, Yes, I don't know. I mean
it's hard. It's hard to question the manager at this point.
(09:49):
I mean, he's pretty much done all he can do.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Yeah, he's trying, he said it. I mean, he's they're
all trying, and and there's no doubt about that. We're
never in you know, far be it from us to
sit up here and question the effort. That's not it.
But you know, something has to change. And at the
beginning of the road trip, you know, Boach made a
huge change with the batting order, and it worked for
(10:13):
one game. You know, if this is the first game
of this road trip, remember the Rangers started it with
an eight five victory over the Athletics, and it seemed
like maybe things were headed in the right direction offensively.
But since then it's been right back to not being
able to score a score enough runs. As we said
at the beginning, Now ten hits today, right, there were hits.
(10:35):
We mentioned it though, but they kept stranding them. Two
doubles by Leote, a triple by Jock Peterson. Peterson had
a double. I mean, you know, there were plenty of hits.
They were hitting the ball today. They hit the ball today.
They hit the ball well enough to win this game.
But like you said, two for ten, Okay. So yeah,
so then.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
You you can silver line and hey, ten hits. You know,
we're keep giving ourselves chances. It's it's gonna happen at
some point. Okay, you can you can make that argument.
Rangers struck out ten times zero walks. Yeah, you know
there were opportunities for them to walk. Ye, And so
(11:16):
that just tells you that, you know, an aggressive team
that put is putting itself in bad counts, and when
it does that, nothing could happen that and that gets
back to approach, doesn't it. I mean that absolutely is approach,
and I can't even say we I should have kept
track of how many outs were made. Swinging at the
(11:38):
first pitch, Yeah, I know A Dollies did it.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I know Simeon did it once. I mean, you know,
there were just a lot of how it is made,
I think swinging.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
At the first pitch, yeah, And you know, sometimes it's
true the first pitch is that the only pitch you're
going to get to hit. You got to be got
to be ready the second you step in the box,
you know, Shinshu Chu said that. But it seems like
they're swinging it not not at their pitch, right, they're
swinging at pitches that the pitcher wants them to swing at.
It's okay to take a pitch, you know, unless it's
(12:07):
right down the middle on strike three. It's okay to
take a pitch, you know, just because it's a strike
doesn't mean that you're going to hit it. Well. So
I think that's another thing. Maybe they need to they
need to know where they hit the ball best, and
I'm sure they do. There's just you know, either if
they don't get the pitches there or whatever, but a
(12:28):
little patience. Even Bruce Bochi said that before the game,
you got to have more patients aggressive team. You don't
want to take away the aggression because that's what makes
them great. But also sometimes you're just overly aggressive. You
got to be I don't know, how about a smart aggression.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Super super wisely aggressive, right, and that and that is, Look,
if they're if they're trying to sort of, you know,
mirror what the leader does and what their best offensive
player does. Who's on the injured list right now? Corey Seeger,
I mean, Corey Seger is known for swinging at the
first and for being very aggressive at the plate. However,
Corey Seger knows his pitches, he knows his strike zone,
(13:07):
and you don't. You don't quibble or question Corey's approach. No,
Corey gets to do whatever he wants. Yeah, okay, And
there are times that's like, uh, you know, especially like
if the batter ahead of him the first pitch it
makes it out, and then he comes up and makes
it out on the first pitch, doesn't really do a
lot of good for your pitcher.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Puts your puts the guy behind him in a tough
spot because you don't want to do three pitches on
three ounts. It's like auto take. You know, the pitcher
can throw it underhanded and the guy is not going
to swing. Yeah. Uh and and you know it's uh,
it's it's pretty remarkable though. You know how little margin
(13:45):
for eric gives the pictures, you know they you know,
so let's say it's let's say it's four to two
and Luke Jackson makes that throw and they end up
scoring around guess what, You're still alive. Yeah, you're still
in the lead. And even even if they even if
it's three to two, okay, you know what, tye game,
nobody on base, and you're still you're still going. And
(14:07):
the defense was terrific today and yesterday it really really
really was. And I know there's a peach Us defense
made us get walked off twice this week. I disagree,
Yah would Leoti's mistake Thursday was not the worst one.
I mean, losing that fly ball was the That was
a two run mistake. That was the big one. Yeah,
But nevertheless, point taken, But it's the offense that Isn't
(14:34):
pitchers a chance to make a mistake.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yeah, it all comes back to that it's got to
be rectified. That said, uh, there is a lot to
like and and most of it has to do with pitching.
And when we come back on the DLLs Rangers postgame show,
we're going to talk about the pitching jack lighter back
today some struggles and then settled down. We'll talk about him.
We'll look ahead to as we get ready for a
(14:57):
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Speaker 4 (16:12):
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(16:35):
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(16:56):
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your tickets to the fun. All right, So Lighter back
in there today, Yeah, and everybody was excited, and he had,
you know, had a couple of good rehab starts.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
And well you won but game yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Yeah, and one rehab start and then and he seemed
to have managed the blister, right, It seemed like from
what you can tell, yeah, he seemed to have been
fine with it. So you're you're optimistic. You feel like
the way he pitched for his first couple of starts
big league level this year, and what he had done
in the rehab start and then in the sim game, okay,
(17:37):
you know, Lighter hasn't missed a beat. And and then
you know, reality hits a little bit, Jeff, And again,
I mean, you just have to you have to get
back out there, and you have to do it, and
you have to face major league hitters. And really his
biggest problem today was control. He just had too many walks.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Yeah, and then you know, in the first inning he
walked three, one of them with the bases loaded, so
that was the Giants first run. In the fourth, his
last inning, walked Eli Oramos, who then stole second, later
gotten out, took him out, brought in Jake Latts, and
the run scored on Lats. But it was the it
(18:20):
was the walk in the stolen base that that that
doom Jack. But he threw thirty seven pitches in the
first inning, which is way too many, and so you know,
he wasn't going five innings, so that put the Rangers
in a spot where they had to use Lats and
Caleb Bosley. It did fine, so a little concerning it
looked a little bit like one of those one of
(18:41):
his spring starts where he was off and could make
the pitches, you could see the stuff, but just needed
to make an adjustment, which he kind of did the
rest of the way. I mean, he pitched a really
good second inning, did okay in the third, and then
the fourth, you know, just the the walk that got him.
But again it's but it goes back to those little things.
You know, the walks are major things. Three walks pretty major.
(19:05):
But you know, a walk in the in the fourth
and then you know kind of a high leg kick
that allowed the runner to take second. That's a that's
a little thing. And those those are things that are
coming back to bite the Rangers in these close games.
I mean they're playing all close games and again no
margin for air. And so I mean the Rangers gave
(19:29):
up three runs the last two days, they gave up
six runs in the series, and they're going home one
and two. Yeah, they got walked off three times on
the road trip. You know, they scored what eleven runs
the last five games. Yep, that's not going to cut it,
you know. And and the pitching staff again, you would
you would take what they're what they've been doing every
(19:49):
game exactly right.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
And that's what those one run games tell you. What
those low scoring games tell you is that the pitchers
are doing their job right now. In the you know,
in the last three the walk off to end the
series in West Sacramento, you know, they allowed a total
of four runs, no runs on Friday night, and the
game they won in San Francisco to start the series
(20:13):
yesterday three to two, today three to two. I mean,
even the game where they quote unquote got blown out.
You know, Game two of this of this road trip,
it was five to two, right, I mean even that game,
after some struggles early, you know, the pitching staff kept
them in it. This pitching staff has been unbelievable. It's
been one of the big surprises in the game. And
(20:35):
it's fantastic, and it's just it's being and nobody, none
of the pitchers will say this because they know there
will come a point in the season where they're not
getting it done and the offense carries the low. But
right now, man, for the first month of this season,
the only reason the Rangers are, you know, near the top,
and they won't be at the top. They're fifteen wins
(20:58):
and last I saw Seattle was up in the ninth inning.
So Seattle will move into sole possession of first place
in the American League West with their sixteenth win of
this season. But the reality is the only reason the
Rangers are near the top is the pitching stat Yeah,
and you know, and they are the Rangers coming home,
They've got the A's and then the Mariners.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Corbyn tomorrow, then de gram Evaldi and Mali. Yeah, so
you look pretty good about those three for sure. And
even Corbin. I mean, Corbyn's been great. He's been keeping
them in games as well. So and then those other
three guys, you know, you can almost you know, lock
those all in the bank, especially against an athletics team
(21:44):
that's that's not really found their way yet.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Yeah, especially especially offensively. They've got some they've got some
offense too, And and look, offense is down around the
league around the game, sure, but still even with that,
the Range is ranked near the bottom in almost every
offensive category.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Yeah, and and and you know it was down. It
was down last year too, and that was kind of
you know, as you review the season, that's kind of
what they were talking about early on there, like, yeah, well,
you know, offenses are down around everywhere. It's not just
a Rangers thing, you know. And there's some truth to that.
I mean, the pitchers are so good, you know, they
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you know, these pitches that are just moving all kinds
of different ways and doing all kinds of different stuff.
I get it. It's hard. It's hard to hit, and
but other teams are hitting. Yeah, there are probably you know,
I haven't looked at the stats lately, but I would
guess that there are twenty seven to twenty five teams
(22:47):
that are hitting well enough to turn the Rangers pitching
into more wins. You know, I'm sure the Rangers would
let to have the twentieth best offense in the league, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
That would absolutely you know, that would probably secured him
at least five, you.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Know, more wins if they were maybe. Yeah, I mean
it's just it's just crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Yeah, And look, it's and it sometimes is fun. I
missed yesterday with the game on nationally. I missed our
our guys calling it. But it's sometimes fun to hear
perspectives of others. And Aj Prazinski, who was you know,
he was a Rangers catcher for a year and I
actually always got along well with Aj.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
I liked, Yeah, I like he was our he was
our good guy of the year. Yeah, what was he really? Yeah?
I liked Aj a lot.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
And uh, anyway, he and he had a reputation you know,
coming in, but but yeah, he was he was a
good soldier here. But any event, I liked you know,
he said at one point, he goes, God, it's hard
to be a hitter these days, right, I mean that
because they're just throwing all this stuff at you and
a new picture will come in and his trick is
(23:52):
completely different than the guy who left.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
His trick was you know he he I remember or
at the end of thirteen the Rangers were you know,
fading and not scoring runs, and you know, like every
game we would he would be the one at his locker. Yes,
and he one day just said, you know what, go
talk to the other guys. I've talked about this enough. Yeah,
(24:16):
And he's right, you know there, And I think there's
some people who've said it on maybe in our chat
here and definitely on my Twitter. There needs to be accountability.
And I don't know, you know that that sounds like,
I mean, obviously people want this guy fired, so want
Ecker fired and all that. And again, I don't know
that that's the solution because his ways won a World
(24:38):
Series only two years ago. Now has he adjusted? You know?
Are are the Rangers stuck and confused by the advanced
metrics and biomechanics and all that stuff? Maybe, but it
just seems like, you know, what, what do you do next?
Because again you can't you can't just say all right,
(25:00):
everybody on the forty man and three guys out on
the forty man, you're coming up. Everybody else is going
on the IL for for two weeks and we'll see
if we can get this order. He can't do that, no, obviously,
you know. And so yeah, and I'm sure that I'm
sure that Donnie and Justin Veeeley are racking their brains,
pulling their hair out.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Probably not sleeping at night right, trying to come up
with anything they can.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Looking over videos, doing doing at all. But it's just
it's just not working out. So and and you know,
Chris Young is a competitive guy and he is not
enjoying this losing. I can assure I can assure you
that none of them are. But more than anybody, it's
(25:43):
probably Chris Young. And that's he's the one who calls
the shots.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
He is and he is obviously a former player who
won a World Series as a player, who played for
a long time, and he is one who can say
without hesitation and with credibility, they have to get it done, right,
I mean, And that's where and he can recognize it too.
That's the nice thing. If this is a problem with
(26:10):
the hitting coach, right, if there needs to be a
change there, the offensive coordinator or whatever we call Donnie
these days, if there needs to be a change there.
Chris Young has the eye and the experience to know it,
not just to think it, but to know it. I mean,
and he's I remember him saying it in the off season,
(26:31):
you know, and he felt like that the narrative that
the Rangers weren't weren't good at hitting four seam fastballs
last year was overblown. But in the same context, he said,
but look, our guys have to do it. They can
do it. They just got to do it, and you know,
(26:53):
puts it right back on them. And that's essentially I'm
sure one of the things he's thinking right now.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
You guys got to do this. Yeah. Yeah, And nobody
roots for anybody to get fired.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
No, that's that's for sure, especially not a good guy
like Donnie Ecker. And I don't know Justin very well.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Yeah, I mean, you may blow things off, like we're
saying here and chatting on social media, but okay, but
who are you going to change? Because Justin veely came
from the Giants and is Donnie's like protege. They are
the same same, same, same, same language, all right, So
do you go down to the minor leagues and get
(27:32):
like Cody Atkinson, the minor league kitting coordinator who knows
a lot of the young hitters really well. But I'm
not sure how much he's worked with Arkasimon, let's say.
And and I think Donnie is wanting to you know,
it's an organ he wants, he wants the minor leagues
to kind of follow his approach so that when they
get to the majors, they're they're ready to go. So
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do you go outside the organization?
Speaker 5 (27:57):
You know?
Speaker 4 (27:57):
But okay, so then who you know? Right? And the
Rockies just hired Clint Hurdle for crying out loud, you know,
and fired to Hensley Mules who worked for who worked
for Bruce Bochie. All right, let's get let's get old
Hensley in here. I don't know what you're gonna do if,
if you are to take that step, but I'm sure
they're Honestly, I really think the Rangers have thought about it.
(28:19):
They're not going to say that they have, you know.
And you know, I haven't heard any vote of confidence
specific you know, the now to vote of confidence. But
I just I think the confidence is waning everywhere on
the on the offense, and I know they say, oh,
we're going to keep. We're going to come out of it.
We're going to come out of it. Are you? Are
you going to come out? I know, I know again
(28:40):
after after after all of last season, and at all
last year.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Again, I've said that, I said it ten times at
a party this weekend. Well, I always say, don't worry,
they'll come around on offense. And then last year happened, right,
And I said it all here last year too, and
they never did. So you have to be cognizant and
and worried honestly about the fact that sometimes the offense
doesn't come around. And you may not need to know,
(29:07):
you may not need to push the panic button yet,
but you damn sure better figure out where it is
because it's uh, it's about that time. We're over a
month now, I mean officially over a month into this season,
and that is you know, that's almost twenty percent of
the year, right, And.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
And I don't know, it's gonna be interesting, you know,
now that they're home. You know, I think Ross fencer
Maker was the executive on the trip. Yeah, I don't.
I don't know that. You know, Chris and Chris Young
didn't travel. I don't think so. I would I would
(29:47):
guess that there will be some meetings here tomorrow, maybe
some phone calls taking place right now. But you know, again,
these guys are doing the best. They they're putting come
trying to come up with new ideas. They're trying to
come up with something, and whatever it is, it ain't working.
So they're gonna have to. I don't want to say
(30:09):
make tough decisions, but you know, something's gonna something's gonna
have to give here.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I like the Billy Martin approach. Let's go back to that,
just draw or draw it out of a hat. Yeah,
although they changed Boach did a pretty big change of
the batting order and it worked for one day in
a row. So but you know, who knows, Maybe try
the Billy Martin approach. Draw names out of a hat
and that is your batting order for that day. We'll
see what they do. We'll see what happens. We still
got more pitching to talk. The bullpen came through today
(30:38):
as they have really all year long. We talk about
that and we get to the injury ish to Josh
Young and update Corey Seeger. Next it's the d LS
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Speaker 3 (33:19):
Yeah, and I'll tell you one thing that is not
dysfunctioning is the Rangers bullpen, right, I mean you're gonna
look at some of the outcomes, and especially if you
look at just the fact that there were these walkoffs, right,
there's a tendency if you see walkoffs to go, well
they're the bullpen failed.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
You can't you can't point to very many.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
I mean, obviously Luke Jackson would love to have that throwback.
He hurried that throw over to first base. But for
the most part, as far as the pitching portion of
this thing has gone, this bullpen's done a fantastic job,
and in fact, maybe Jeff the best job arguably yesterday
(33:58):
when the three high leverage guys were unavailable and they just,
you know, Boats just had to go with who he had,
and who he had, you know, kept him innute, I mean,
you know, again until another walk off, in which case
the Giants just executed. Well, the Rangers had an opportunity
to not walk it off, but they had an opportunity
to take a ninth inning lead and they just couldn't execute.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Yeah, you know, And and it's it's crazy because, uh,
you know, Patrick Bailey is the guy who had the
walk off hit yesterday and in about seventies. He's not
a very good hitter, no, but he he he knew
all he had to do is put the ball in play.
The infield was in and he just had to get
one somehow into the outfield and he did and they won.
But yeah, they got the bunt down, just just execution.
(34:45):
It's I don't know what else we can say, honestly
at this point. I'm sure some news will come out
of there tomorrow or you know, talk to talk to
some guys and and and figure out what the heck
is going on. But it's just kind of we're getting
to the point where it's like, all right, hey, the
offense didn't score again, pitching staff was great, the bullpen
(35:06):
was good, but didn't have any margin for air. And
so these guys are human. You know, Jacob Webb didn't
have his best day yesterday, No he didn't, but you
know he still got out of the eighth and then
the the ninth. It just kind of didn't work out.
But you know, because they're playing all these close games,
they're having to use their leverage of guys a lot more,
(35:28):
and so you're going to run run into days where
it's like we got to go what we got, yeah,
and sometimes it's just not going to be good enough.
But but really, you know, we keep talking about it.
Hobie Milder's been awesome, He's been he's been fun to watch,
and so that's that's that's cool and a good story,
and you hope that it continues. And and after a month,
(35:50):
you know, all signs point toward it continuing, But you
do have to worry about fatigue on on you know, Garcia,
Martin and Jackson. I wouldn't be surprised if they were
to get multiple days off at some point down the
road here. So it's it's it's just a frustrating thing.
(36:12):
I would imagine that the pictures are very quietly frustrated. Sure,
you know, and what more can we do? But like
you said, they know that at some point they're going
to go through a patch where they're going to need
somebody to score seven runs and get him off the hook,
no doubt, And and maybe it all happen, maybe it won't,
but it's gonna be it's gonna be a tough one
(36:35):
in the interim, you know. It just you just I
don't I don't know that, you know. When I talked
to Corey Seeger last week, he was like, you just
have to wait it down it's like, I don't want
to hear that. Yeah, yeah, okay, Corey. You know, it's
easy to use say because you're getting hot and everything
was working out great. But he's also an experienced guy.
You know, he was on this great Dodgers team that
(36:57):
you know, was running away with it and they're like, oh,
those are the best team in baseball. And then they
lost like seventeen of eighteen. Yeah, couldn't do anything right. Yeah,
still en up went into the division and all that.
So you know, all these guys have been through it
and seen it and experienced it, and but the veteran
guys are the ones who are going through it and
they should be able to get out of it more
and they just haven't been able to. So no, I'm
(37:19):
not I'm not sure. But again, great bullpen work, you know,
and Milner good. Webb's good against the left handed hitter.
Garcia has been good against both. He's gotten some big
outs here. And then you know Martin, Martin, Martin has
just he's there. David Robertson from last year. Yes, they
put him into whatever whatever bad situation they can think of.
(37:42):
By god, Chris Martin's going to go into Yeah, you
know and and and it's it's good to see. It's
good to see this guy. He's a great story. So
you enjoy to see this. But again, you know, kind
of kind of at a point where you can't really
nobody wants to trust the Rangers on their offense of
approach or philosophy or scouting. But my gosh, it didn't
(38:04):
they nailed this bullpen thing. They have.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
They've nailed every part of the pitching thus far, and
they've even developed some of their own, which is which
is rare and you know, almost unheard of for this
organization in its history. But this is something you do
hate to see. The you know, the notification that came
down on my MLB app this walk off little league
home run might be the wackiest ending to a game
(38:28):
this season.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Yeah, I think we I think we know which'll break
your phone? There? Think we know which one that is.
I hate.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
We're the butt, right, we're the butt of an MLB
uh an MLB notice, But it was I mean, and
that's you.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Know, in fact, that's what you said when when you.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Were walking up the stairs, you said, walk off hoham run,
I said, no little league home runs? Yeah, it's you know,
it's just frustrating. It is, and I know it is
for you guys too. And eventually to answer how the
Rangers are going to get those high leverage guys less
days of work is to score a lot blow I mean,
(39:07):
I mean that's the answer we want. I guess you
could get blown out too. But if you're doing the
blowing out, you know, then you then they don't have
to pitch.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
Every day, right right? And you know they almost they
tried to get away with it on on Tuesday when
it was you know, eight to two or whatever, and
then the A's scored a few in the in the
eighth and so they had to pitch Jackson. But you know,
you need to need a he need to need one
of those. Need two of those, yes, and one a
week would be nice, ye, Just try to just try
(39:36):
to give everybody a blowdown there.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Yeah, it'd be really nice. Now, Josh Young got hurt
and had to leave the game, and you know, I
don't want to say injured, but it and it wasn't
you know when you're watching the game, and Mike Bassett
kind of thought it was when he scooped that ball
bare handed. But the injury, the laceration on his finger
actually happened when that bat exploded in the hands. Yeah,
(40:00):
and it one of the pieces of shrapnel pretty much
just cut it. And then we began to notice it
after he made that bare handed throw. And now it's
bleeding more and he's you know, he's dabbing off the
blood on his baseball pants. So you know, but like
Mike said, bast said as he left the game, oh
my gosh, this guy is just always something little.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
And I don't mean to.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Say what happened last year was little. It was huge
that wrist that got shattered. But but it's different. It's
not normal things. Yeah, yeah, and yeah, this seems like minor.
But you know, some people complained on Twitter and about
him being fragile and all this stuff. Look, you don't
want a guy out there playing third base of his
fingers bleeding and a ball hit to him and he
(40:44):
throws it into the stands, right, you know. And they're
just some things that you know, unfortunate timing, you know,
you know, it's like it couldn't couldn't get it stopped.
So it's not like a fight doctor in there, you know,
in every even the cold press, it's just you know,
maybe if the Rangers have had a long half, any
(41:06):
cutting U but yeah, yeah, you know, and so, I
I mean, assuming everything's okay, I guess.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
He'd play tomorrow, you know, I would think so. I
doubt it needed stitches or anything like that. I mean,
that would have been something that he wouldn't even gone
out for the next half. Yeah, exactly. They would be like,
oh god, your fingers about to fall off. So yeah,
I think that he'll be fine. Just a bad break, Yeah,
just geez, you know, what can you do? And if
(41:35):
he ends up missing half a game, I don't think
that means he's fragile. It just means that ship something
weird happened.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Yeah, something very strange happened. When the bat. How many
times did bats break? They break, you know, a hundred
times a game, you know, between both teams, and nobody
gets shrapnel, but a little shrapnel him. If he was
a hockey player and that happened, he had to just
shoved that bloody stump into a glove to let it
bleed into the glove, and nobody would have known.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
It would have bled out. Maybe he might have bled out.
What if it'd been what if it had been his
left hand right, he probably stays in the game.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
Probably stays in the game, left it in the glove
and the way he goes, So, uh, just one of
those weird little instances. Corey Seger meantime appears to be
from the word we hear from boats and everybody right
on track to continue to allow this to be, you know,
just sort of a minimum on the injured list sort
of stay.
Speaker 4 (42:26):
Yeah, you know, it's kind of where they were on
the roster. You know, I think if they had had
Duran on the roster, they might have given Seeger a chance,
kind of like the Rangers used to do with Adrian Belchrae.
You know, Belcher would have hurt something and they'd be
like four days in they'd be like, yeah, he'll probably
be ready tomorrow. Yeah, but yeah, they couldn't do that.
They needed to have backing and Ahmed. Defensively, he's been fantastic. Yes,
(42:50):
he's been. Yeah, I mean not so much. He hasn't yet.
He really hasn't played since since spring training. So that's, uh,
that's gonna take some time, and he's probably not going
to play a lot to begin with. And you know,
when the Rangers have a roster move to make for Seeger,
I guess, I guess it would be Harris. You know,
(43:11):
it would be an outfielder because you're you're still gonna
want that protection. You can move Josh Smith into the
outfield to make sure he keeps getting his at bats.
But I'm not I'm not sure on that one, because
it's not it's not a deserved thing for Dustin Harris. No, no, no, no,
he had another hit today. But if they if they're
if they're now gun shy of the not having protection
(43:33):
on the infield because one of their primary infield back
because their primary backup infielder also can play the outfield, right,
you want him to do both roles. I don't know.
I don't know. I'm just talking at this point. I
guess you know you're gonna have Kevin Polar so that
helps out.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
Not sure, no, uh And and you know that's a
decision that will be made. Is core eligible at the
end of this week?
Speaker 4 (43:58):
Yeah, ten days from Wednesday, so it would be the
week this weekend?
Speaker 3 (44:03):
Yeah, yeah, So yeah, we'll see what they decide to do.
But it's look, it's good news. And the thing we
always remember about Corey Seeger virtually any time he comes
back from an injured list stint, he needs no time
to sort of get ramped back up. He's there, he's
just ready. He starts hitting right away. It's an amazing
(44:23):
thing that this guy has this ability that he amazingly
comes back and immediately starts hitting. So he's the leader, right,
He is the leader of this thing, and it'll be
great to have him back whenever the Rangers get him back.
So let's talk more about this series, upcoming the homestand
upcoming Rangers an a's for four games. We'll get you
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Like it makes me excited, makes me think this could
be another four game series that they win. And we
know four game series are super hard to win, but
they've won one at them already this year against the
Red Sox.
Speaker 4 (49:02):
It's true, and you know they they I think they
have to face uh Sears. Yes, he was their their
their nemesis, their nemesis, but that's okay. They they can
they can figure it out. And they did just see him, right,
I mean they did see him. Isn't that supposed to
be an advantage. They just saw him. Yeah, but they
(49:23):
just saw some of the Rangers pictures too, so there
they probably see some changes in far as far as
approach and whatnot. But yeah, he's gonna he is gonna
pitch tomorrow night. And then uh old t b A.
It was supposed to be j T Gin but he
went on the injured list. Then Louis Severino on Wednesday,
(49:44):
they're big free agent guy. And then Jeffrey Springs, the
former Rangers pitcher, who's it's some bumps in the road
the last couple starts, but he's facing the Rangers and
they can't hit lefties very well, so uh, look for
look for a look for a rebound from jeff Springs.
Speaker 3 (50:01):
Yeah, and it's Corbyn tomorrow, as we mentioned. And I
did kind of think that they'd have lighter wait till
tomorrow and Corbyn go today just because of that, right
because Corbyn had just seen the A's.
Speaker 4 (50:14):
But yeah, but that would be for right handers against
the and and maybe maybe I don't give them a
different look. I'm not I'm not sure, but Bruce Bochi
said it could have it could have gone either way
with it, but anyway, they didn't. They did what they did,
and here you go. You know, I always enjoyed, enjoy
(50:36):
good homestand like like to see the West. You know,
these are always they always feel like they're more important games.
And I don't appreciate the championship games. Broncos vomit emoji
comment up there. So anyway, it's always good to see
(50:57):
the group. I don't know what the weather's gonna look like.
I'm gonna guess that. I'm gonna guess we'll get a
weather a roof open during this series. I'm gonna go
I'm gonna go out on a limits during this series.
Speaker 3 (51:09):
It could be the day game. I think thursdays. I
think Thursday is supposed to be nice. I hope it
is that day actually, But you know, and what the
Rangers are throwing after Corbin is is exciting. I mean,
you go to gram, you go Evaldi, and you go
Tyler Malley, who, after allowing two runs in yesterday's game,
(51:31):
watched his era balloon all.
Speaker 4 (51:33):
The way to one one forte.
Speaker 3 (51:35):
Oh my god, he's at one one four and he
allowed to get two runs in yesterday's game, two earned runs. So, uh,
he's really almost hands down across the board from a
you know, a national perspective, like one of the true
surprises of the early part of this Yeah.
Speaker 4 (51:53):
He's he's he's uh he might he might be the
ale pitcher of the Monk. Yeah, I think this started.
It will still be April when he makes it that start,
so that could that could be the resume completer, you know,
be the one that gets him over the top. But
he's been good and he's pitched well against good teams.
Speaker 3 (52:15):
Actually, I think that's May one, isn't it. Thirty Thursday's
May one.
Speaker 4 (52:20):
I can't count, so maybe then maybe his case has
already made it.
Speaker 3 (52:23):
He made a pretty good case. He did throw out
the hiccup in that. Yeah, Thursday's May one.
Speaker 4 (52:28):
And go ahead, and let's just let's just go ahead
and give it to him. Okay, Yeah, yeah, Well you
get a vote in that one. It depends. We kind
of mix it up, so like one one month it'll
be you get to vote for a hitter and rookie,
like you get to vote for a pitcher and reliever.
So it varies, but I will vote for two of
(52:50):
the awards.
Speaker 3 (52:51):
Yeah, okay, got it, got it all right, So we'll
keep an eye on that, and if you get a
vote for pitcher, we know who you'll be voting for.
But right again, I think most anybody who's paying attention,
which most of the beat writers in the BBWA are
paying attention, So anyway, it's hard to argue what Tyler
Mallley has done. Nathan Evaldi is just Nathan Evalde is
(53:12):
such a bulldog. I mean he goes out there the
other night and just shoves and throws a you know,
basically leads the Rangers to a shutout, right, and Jacob
de Gram he's just he's great. I mean, he's when
he's been doing much much better. His command is much
much better, and he's a command guy.
Speaker 4 (53:31):
Yeah. Yeah, it feels like, you know, these changes he
said he was about to about to strike on, about
to get down, feel like he's gotten him. Maybe not
probably not perfect. He's he's a perfectionist and I can't
I can't imagine him being remotely happy. But he's been
(53:52):
pretty good, so he's probably happier than he was.
Speaker 3 (53:54):
Yeah, yeah, slightly happy, but uh yeah, And that's the thing.
You know what, I don't mind that. I like a
guy who even when he I mean, look his last
what was it was it two outings ago where he
gave up a leadoff home run and then was great.
Speaker 4 (54:09):
And against the Dodgers. Yeah yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (54:11):
Then this last start, you know, and you're right, and
he's still probably going but he's he's finding it or
maybe has found it.
Speaker 4 (54:20):
Yeah, he gave up the two runs on the in
that you know, after after Langford missed the fly ball.
Otherwise he's probably looking at six scoreless Indians. Yeah, and
you know the pitch that he gave up, the the
tye hit to Soderstrom. I know that drives him crazy.
You could see on the mound he was, Yeah, he
was visibly upset with it. But it goes back to
(54:42):
the offense no margin Freyr, you know, and pitchers went back.
When kel Hamil's was on the team, t R and
I were in Seattle talking to him about one of
his starts, and he was he put together good numbers,
but he said he wasn't totally happy with it and
got away with a couple of mistakes and all this stuff.
(55:04):
And I'm like, all right. So you know, afterwards, we're
talking to him, like, what would you estimate if you
throw one hundred pitches in a game, how many of
those pitches would you say are mistakes? He said twenty wow,
and that that struck me as a huge number. But
you know, and you're gonna get away with some mistakes,
you really are, whether you have done your job changing
(55:27):
locations or speeds or whatever.
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