June 13, 2025 • 14 mins
The Athletic's Chandler Rome joins the program to pledge his loyalty to Murray State in the College World Series while setting up Houston's final series at Daikin Park against the Minnesota Twins!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Adam Clinton and Adam Weckfler are dam all right.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Let's get right to Baseball at five, our favorite segment
of the week each and every Friday during baseball season.
When Chandler is available to join us at five on Fridays,
that's what he does, and here he is. The A
team continues wex Ac and Chandler Rome as the Astros
get set for the Twins this evening, continue to win series.
But doctor Chandler Rome, we need a medical update from you.
Estac Perettis, Jordan Alvarez and the other two outfielders that
(00:32):
join ord on on the IL. Did Joe Espada update
us all on their situations?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I think this is a hip of violation. I don't
think I can he's on brand right a game or
if you.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Want the media relation's newest spin, it's against the CBA,
so CAT can't be too specific. But what we have
is that Eastock Paradus is getting an MRI. I assume
as we speak, they claim that there will be a
results around game time. Whether we get those results is
a different story. He remained he was on the lineup
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card in the clubhouse today, which means he is not
on the IL.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Of course, that can always change.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
I will be looking at Triple A sugar Lands lineup
when it comes out in a couple hours or so
to see who may or may not be in it,
and we'll have maybe a better idea. Chas McCormick swung
off hit off a te today, your and Alvarez and
Zach Dezenzo are not swinging bats yet. So that's about
the extent that I have on those guys.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
The situation with ESAK and the situation with your ongoing
We didn't really get into this a whole lot with
you previously, but it seems warranted in light of the
potential for information now the manner in which information was
given on Zach Decenzo and Renel Blanco. Do you think
the Astros will moving forward publicly respond differently to injury information.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I think they're gonna have to because once you reach
rock bottom, there's nowhere really to go but up, and
that in that Alvarez situation, I mean look like like
I mean, we can joke, we can joke all we want,
but like I mean that that was a bad look.
It was a bad look for the team. It was
a bad look for a medical staff that like I
refuse to believe this medical staff is like incompetent, Like
they all have degrees from whether it's athletic training degrees
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or medical degrees for medicals like these are not dumb people,
but they are being made to look as such by
the way that this team communicates things.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
And I think maybe.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
This was an inflection, Maybe the Alvarez thing was an
inflection point that they realized that they had to do
something different. I will give them credit in the in
the last couple of weeks it has been different. They have,
you know, come out and said, here's what is wrong,
here's the course of action moving forward.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
And it's gone like that.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Like I mean, the day they put out what was
wrong with Zach Dezenzo, they said, we'll reimage him in
two weeks. I don't think we've asked a question about
Zach Dezenzo since they put that out. It lets the story.
It says, here's what it is, here's the timeline going forward,
and that kills the story. But the more you bring
out and say, oh, he's feeling better today, Oh he
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could do this today, he could do that today, just
keeps the story prolonging. And that's just how it goes,
but I think they are. I would hope that they're
moving in a different direction.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Just as it's full sincerity when I asked this question
in your opinion, obviously, why do you think they went
about business that way?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
You know, this is, as I've said many times, this
has spanned three field managers, This has spanned three general managers.
The general managers are all very different than one another.
The managers are all very different than one another. The
only constants in that timeframe are the training staff and
the team physicians, the media relations staff, and the owner.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I don't know, I can't.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
That's the only thing I can give you is those
are the constants that have been here throughout it. I
will say this, players and agents sometimes get involved. There
are players that are in contract years or players that
are in our years that you know, don't want certain
things out there, and those entities that I just talked
about have to, you know, acquiesce to that and have
to respect that. So don't underestimate too that there are
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some there's some player involvement here that players dictate what
gets out and what doesn't get out, what they want
out and everything.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
But still it had that is that is.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
That way across the league, Like players across the league
are like that, and somehow this is the only team
that keeps running into.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
These issues something you mentioned. That's where just note to
everybody the space Cowboys are and Reno they've got a
later first pitch tonight. Obviously there'd be some time for
a player to make their way here to begin with,
but just something to notice. You head into the weekend
against the Twins, Uh, to the to the ball field
tonight and here say eight to nine hitters or Dubon
and Rogers. You're playing a much better Twins team than
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you saw the first time you beat them two out
of three. There, you're playing much better baseball at eight
games over five hundred, I guess go to the top
of the lineup. We hadn't seen this before, but uh,
Jiner Diaz. Do you think the Diaz that we've been
much more familiar with over the previous seasons hitting the
baseball is the one we're now seeing over the last
thirty forty games.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, he's been better.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
I'm certainly a misops is higher now than it's ever
been this season. It's again, it's the same approach that
you're seeing like he's gonna swing early accounts. He's going
to be aggressive. That's just who he is. They haven't
changed that, per se. But he's picking better pitches, he's
picking better things to swing at. He's picked. He's not,
you know, just going up there in swing mode. He's
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searching for a pitch and if he gets it and
it's the first pitch of a plate appearance, he's going
to swing at it. And he's got such good back
to ball skills and such good contact ability that he's
more often than not going to put the bat on
the ball.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
So it's going well for him.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
It's going to be a very stark departure in the
two hole from what they had. They had the guy
that saw the most pickness per plate appearance on the
team in the two hole, and now they've got the
guy that I don't have the stats in front of me,
but I would assume he sees the fewists pitches.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
For play appearance on the team. So it'll be a
little bit different.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
But I think given what Joe has to work with,
given the hitters available to him, I think this was
probably the best course of action to go with.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Talking to channeler Roam of the athletic here on Sports
Talk seven ninety Space City Home Network, you know, by
way of just kind of summing things up, and it's
it probably is more pronounced when you consider how many
of their draft picks they hit on all those years.
Just how would you kind of put a bow on
the Forest Whitley situation, the fact that he's been now
traded away to the Rays and all the chances and
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opportunities and just it just never seemed to come together
for him here in Houston.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I mean, yeah, I think disappointing is probably the biggest
ward because even as he's being traded now, like it
is not a stuff problem, and Joe Aspata has said that,
Dana Brown has said that, like the stuff is still incredible.
I just think it really got to a point where
when he if and when he can get in another
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uniform where he's just another guy, where he is not
quote unquote Forrest Whitley, the guy that you know every time.
I mean he was in such a name in this organization.
I think when he gets somewhere where he can put
a different uniform on, kind of be anonymous, not be
the guy that is going to do a ton of interviews,
every time he's in a clubhouse. Not a guy that's
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going to be looked at as you know you were
you were once the savior, Like I think that'll help
him out a lot. A lot of what happened to
him was out of his control. Obviously, he wasn't trying
to get hurt. He wasn't trying to get injured as
many times as he did. The drug suspension did not
help things, but he came back from that and that
was just kind of a blip in the road. But
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it never has a guy needed a change of scenery
more than Forest Whitley did. And and personally, like you
have to be happy for him that he's going to
get that, he's going to get another chance with a team,
with a contending team, and with the team in the
Rays that knows what they're doing when it comes to pitching,
like if they traded for him, like you know, they've
found something or they have some thing within them that
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they think that they can.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Unlock with him.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Who's going to challenge the astros in the division. You've
seen everybody for roughly seventy games. They obviously are all
under five hundred. Maybe based on both what they've done
and what you expect their general managers and ownership to
be willing to do. Who do you think is the
actual chaser of the Astros the rest of the way.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
I got yelled at for saying this on opening day
on this station, So I guess I'll say it, like
I think you can't convince me.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
That the Rangers aren't going to hit.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Come on, Jaylor, Like I just I look at that
lineup and like, I think they're going to hit at
some point. Well, they hit enough to get out of
the hole that they've dug themselves. I don't know they're
pitching so well right now that like that to me
would be the one that I look out for because
we say that and like Chris Young, they're they're president
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of baseball operations like he is. As bold and as
aggressive as they come, Like I mean, they fired their
hitting coach, like fifty games end of the season. They
did some deadline stuff. They got sures are a couple
of years ago in they sense that they could go
for it, Like that's probably the team that is going
to be the most bold. Don't discount Jerry Depoto in
the Seattle Mariners. Jerry Depoto makes more trades than anyone.
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I would be stunned if they don't go out and upgrade,
try to get a couple of bats at the deadline.
But they're pitching like everyone's talking about the mirrors not
being able to hit, and that's been the constant refrain.
But their pitching has taken a step back. And that's
why what they did last year was so just dumbfounding.
Because they wasted a once in a lifetime season from
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their pitching staff.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
You knew it was never going to be that good again,
and this year's proving that.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
So I would probably say the Rangers just because, like
I think Chris Young is going to do a lot
at the deadline and that team, the hitters on that
team are much better than they've been performing.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
So I would say the Rangers.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
But honestly, like I don't think anyone's going to be
a legitimate challenger. I think they all have a to
of flaws and they have all put themselves in such
deep holes that I think it's going to be difficult
for any team to really really challenge the Asters to
the point where it becomes a real dog site.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
We talked about this earlier. As we get closer to
Spencer Aarraghetty being on the mound or at least throwing
the live hitters before maybe he ultimately begins to rehab assignment.
The timing of his return is going to take till
very close to sometime in July, most likely sometime a
lot closer to the deadline. The Astros have two established arters,
Lance mccullors, and question marks currently, and Araghetty is a
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question mark. How do you think that's impacting Dana Brown's
ability to really get after trying to solidify the rotation.
I guess similarly to how he ultimately did it the deadline,
the very end of the deadline with Hussey Kakuchi.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Yeah, I mean, wect we're on with something with like
this deadline and last deadline feel like the feel identical,
like they're without one of their best hitters for a
prolong period of time. Both of those best hitters had
fractures that the team didn't tell you about, so that's
another wrinkle. The rotations were ravaged by injuries and they
had to decide do we want a left handed bat
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or do we want a starter? And last year they
decided to go get a starter. I think they really
like talking to people that would know.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I really think.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Right now they are kind of up in the air
that they want to see how the Arraghetti rehab goes.
They want to see how Javier and France and Garcia,
how their rehabs progress, before they really decide wholeheartedly here's
what we need to do. They have that luxury because
there's seven weeks until the deadline and they have a
four and a half game lead in the division, Like,
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they don't have to act with much urgency right now.
But if it were me, this is clearly a run
prevention team. This is a team that has distinguished itself
with an elite defense and with a very good pitching staff.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
I would add to that, I would add to.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
What you are already good at, and I would probably
afford the rotation if I were them. Again, not you
don't need to go get a Grinky. You don't need
to go get a Verlander. I don't even think there's
one of those available. But you're looking for a guy
that can be a bridge that you know, maybe doesn't
start a playoff game for you, but can bridge the
way to when Arraghetti is backing at full strength, when
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Garcia and Javier and France are back at full strength.
I think you need a veteran guy like that that
can go out get you into the sixth inning every
fifth day post you know, maybe not the greatest stats
in the world, but can come here, come to pitching
car wash that the Astros have and turn into something
pretty decent. And I mean that's what you say Kakuci
was last year. Like I think we forget that because
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of how well he came and pitched, But like that
was the profile on him last year was that, hey,
this is just a guy that was going to get
them to October, that was going to help solidify the
middle of the rotation. Then he came in and pitched
like an eighth. So I if I were them, that's
what I would do. But I'm not making the decisions,
and the people that are making decisions are not even
close to finalizing what their priorities are.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Do you get to answer one of these two questions
on your way out? Either tell me who your team
is your pick to click at the College World Series,
or measure your level of excitement that college football universities
can now directly play their players.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
I'll go to College World Series because I tell to
Jacob Melton about Oregon State for a while. Today, I
want Murray State to win the whole thing, Like I
think that'd be so cool, because Jacob and I were
actually talking about it, like Jacob who went to Oregon State,
who was also in the field in this era in
nil when you can like when you have football and basketball,
when you can buy championships, and like, you know, the
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haves are so much better than the have nots, Like
baseball is the one sport where like it doesn't it
sometimes it doesn't matter, like Jim flass Nagel spent so
much oil money at Texas to build a good roster.
Billy Luci spent so much money to build Texas A
and M's roster and they couldn't even make the turn.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Like baseball, it just it's such a.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Game where you gotta go out in the field and
do it. And I would love to see Murray State
win it. I would love that. I know l Is
shoes in the field. I hope they do very well,
but Murray State's I'm a big Racers fan.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I hope Murray State wins the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
What's your favorite Metallica song?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Is it bad that I can't name one.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Come on, Chandler, now I gotta yell at you twice.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I really, I really cannot name Metallica's.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I'm so disappointed in you, and I'm never disappointed in you.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Well, you're one of the few. It just never fails.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
All right, Well, great segment as always, and go brush
up on your Metallica this weekend.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
All right, I'll try.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Thanks, all right, Chandler Roam of the athletic Here on
Sports Talk seven nineties, we continue getting you into the weekend.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
The eight on
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Sports Talk seven ninety
Adam Clinton and Adam Weckfler are dam all right.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Let's get right to Baseball at five, our favorite segment
of the week each and every Friday during baseball season.
When Chandler is available to join us at five on Fridays,
that's what he does, and here he is. The A
team continues wex Ac and Chandler Rome as the Astros
get set for the Twins this evening, continue to win series.
But doctor Chandler Rome, we need a medical update from you.
Estac Perettis, Jordan Alvarez and the other two outfielders that
(00:32):
join ord on on the IL. Did Joe Espada update
us all on their situations?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I think this is a hip of violation. I don't
think I can he's on brand right a game or
if you.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Want the media relation's newest spin, it's against the CBA,
so CAT can't be too specific. But what we have
is that Eastock Paradus is getting an MRI. I assume
as we speak, they claim that there will be a
results around game time. Whether we get those results is
a different story. He remained he was on the lineup
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card in the clubhouse today, which means he is not
on the IL.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Of course, that can always change.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
I will be looking at Triple A sugar Lands lineup
when it comes out in a couple hours or so
to see who may or may not be in it,
and we'll have maybe a better idea. Chas McCormick swung
off hit off a te today, your and Alvarez and
Zach Dezenzo are not swinging bats yet. So that's about
the extent that I have on those guys.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
The situation with ESAK and the situation with your ongoing
We didn't really get into this a whole lot with
you previously, but it seems warranted in light of the
potential for information now the manner in which information was
given on Zach Decenzo and Renel Blanco. Do you think
the Astros will moving forward publicly respond differently to injury information.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I think they're gonna have to because once you reach
rock bottom, there's nowhere really to go but up, and
that in that Alvarez situation, I mean look like like
I mean, we can joke, we can joke all we want,
but like I mean that that was a bad look.
It was a bad look for the team. It was
a bad look for a medical staff that like I
refuse to believe this medical staff is like incompetent, Like
they all have degrees from whether it's athletic training degrees
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or medical degrees for medicals like these are not dumb people,
but they are being made to look as such by
the way that this team communicates things.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
And I think maybe.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
This was an inflection, Maybe the Alvarez thing was an
inflection point that they realized that they had to do
something different. I will give them credit in the in
the last couple of weeks it has been different. They have,
you know, come out and said, here's what is wrong,
here's the course of action moving forward.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
And it's gone like that.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Like I mean, the day they put out what was
wrong with Zach Dezenzo, they said, we'll reimage him in
two weeks. I don't think we've asked a question about
Zach Dezenzo since they put that out. It lets the story.
It says, here's what it is, here's the timeline going forward,
and that kills the story. But the more you bring
out and say, oh, he's feeling better today, Oh he
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could do this today, he could do that today, just
keeps the story prolonging. And that's just how it goes,
but I think they are. I would hope that they're
moving in a different direction.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Just as it's full sincerity when I asked this question
in your opinion, obviously, why do you think they went
about business that way?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
You know, this is, as I've said many times, this
has spanned three field managers, This has spanned three general managers.
The general managers are all very different than one another.
The managers are all very different than one another. The
only constants in that timeframe are the training staff and
the team physicians, the media relations staff, and the owner.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I don't know, I can't.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
That's the only thing I can give you is those
are the constants that have been here throughout it. I
will say this, players and agents sometimes get involved. There
are players that are in contract years or players that
are in our years that you know, don't want certain
things out there, and those entities that I just talked
about have to, you know, acquiesce to that and have
to respect that. So don't underestimate too that there are
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some there's some player involvement here that players dictate what
gets out and what doesn't get out, what they want
out and everything.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
But still it had that is that is.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
That way across the league, Like players across the league
are like that, and somehow this is the only team
that keeps running into.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
These issues something you mentioned. That's where just note to
everybody the space Cowboys are and Reno they've got a
later first pitch tonight. Obviously there'd be some time for
a player to make their way here to begin with,
but just something to notice. You head into the weekend
against the Twins, Uh, to the to the ball field
tonight and here say eight to nine hitters or Dubon
and Rogers. You're playing a much better Twins team than
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you saw the first time you beat them two out
of three. There, you're playing much better baseball at eight
games over five hundred, I guess go to the top
of the lineup. We hadn't seen this before, but uh,
Jiner Diaz. Do you think the Diaz that we've been
much more familiar with over the previous seasons hitting the
baseball is the one we're now seeing over the last
thirty forty games.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, he's been better.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
I'm certainly a misops is higher now than it's ever
been this season. It's again, it's the same approach that
you're seeing like he's gonna swing early accounts. He's going
to be aggressive. That's just who he is. They haven't
changed that, per se. But he's picking better pitches, he's
picking better things to swing at. He's picked. He's not,
you know, just going up there in swing mode. He's
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searching for a pitch and if he gets it and
it's the first pitch of a plate appearance, he's going
to swing at it. And he's got such good back
to ball skills and such good contact ability that he's
more often than not going to put the bat on
the ball.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
So it's going well for him.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
It's going to be a very stark departure in the
two hole from what they had. They had the guy
that saw the most pickness per plate appearance on the
team in the two hole, and now they've got the
guy that I don't have the stats in front of me,
but I would assume he sees the fewists pitches.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
For play appearance on the team. So it'll be a
little bit different.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
But I think given what Joe has to work with,
given the hitters available to him, I think this was
probably the best course of action to go with.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Talking to channeler Roam of the athletic here on Sports
Talk seven ninety Space City Home Network, you know, by
way of just kind of summing things up, and it's
it probably is more pronounced when you consider how many
of their draft picks they hit on all those years.
Just how would you kind of put a bow on
the Forest Whitley situation, the fact that he's been now
traded away to the Rays and all the chances and
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opportunities and just it just never seemed to come together
for him here in Houston.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I mean, yeah, I think disappointing is probably the biggest
ward because even as he's being traded now, like it
is not a stuff problem, and Joe Aspata has said that,
Dana Brown has said that, like the stuff is still incredible.
I just think it really got to a point where
when he if and when he can get in another
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uniform where he's just another guy, where he is not
quote unquote Forrest Whitley, the guy that you know every time.
I mean he was in such a name in this organization.
I think when he gets somewhere where he can put
a different uniform on, kind of be anonymous, not be
the guy that is going to do a ton of interviews,
every time he's in a clubhouse. Not a guy that's
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going to be looked at as you know you were
you were once the savior, Like I think that'll help
him out a lot. A lot of what happened to
him was out of his control. Obviously, he wasn't trying
to get hurt. He wasn't trying to get injured as
many times as he did. The drug suspension did not
help things, but he came back from that and that
was just kind of a blip in the road. But
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it never has a guy needed a change of scenery
more than Forest Whitley did. And and personally, like you
have to be happy for him that he's going to
get that, he's going to get another chance with a team,
with a contending team, and with the team in the
Rays that knows what they're doing when it comes to pitching,
like if they traded for him, like you know, they've
found something or they have some thing within them that
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they think that they can.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Unlock with him.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Who's going to challenge the astros in the division. You've
seen everybody for roughly seventy games. They obviously are all
under five hundred. Maybe based on both what they've done
and what you expect their general managers and ownership to
be willing to do. Who do you think is the
actual chaser of the Astros the rest of the way.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
I got yelled at for saying this on opening day
on this station, So I guess I'll say it, like
I think you can't convince me.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
That the Rangers aren't going to hit.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Come on, Jaylor, Like I just I look at that
lineup and like, I think they're going to hit at
some point. Well, they hit enough to get out of
the hole that they've dug themselves. I don't know they're
pitching so well right now that like that to me
would be the one that I look out for because
we say that and like Chris Young, they're they're president
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of baseball operations like he is. As bold and as
aggressive as they come, Like I mean, they fired their
hitting coach, like fifty games end of the season. They
did some deadline stuff. They got sures are a couple
of years ago in they sense that they could go
for it, Like that's probably the team that is going
to be the most bold. Don't discount Jerry Depoto in
the Seattle Mariners. Jerry Depoto makes more trades than anyone.
(09:15):
I would be stunned if they don't go out and upgrade,
try to get a couple of bats at the deadline.
But they're pitching like everyone's talking about the mirrors not
being able to hit, and that's been the constant refrain.
But their pitching has taken a step back. And that's
why what they did last year was so just dumbfounding.
Because they wasted a once in a lifetime season from
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their pitching staff.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
You knew it was never going to be that good again,
and this year's proving that.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
So I would probably say the Rangers just because, like
I think Chris Young is going to do a lot
at the deadline and that team, the hitters on that
team are much better than they've been performing.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
So I would say the Rangers.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
But honestly, like I don't think anyone's going to be
a legitimate challenger. I think they all have a to
of flaws and they have all put themselves in such
deep holes that I think it's going to be difficult
for any team to really really challenge the Asters to
the point where it becomes a real dog site.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
We talked about this earlier. As we get closer to
Spencer Aarraghetty being on the mound or at least throwing
the live hitters before maybe he ultimately begins to rehab assignment.
The timing of his return is going to take till
very close to sometime in July, most likely sometime a
lot closer to the deadline. The Astros have two established arters,
Lance mccullors, and question marks currently, and Araghetty is a
(10:33):
question mark. How do you think that's impacting Dana Brown's
ability to really get after trying to solidify the rotation.
I guess similarly to how he ultimately did it the deadline,
the very end of the deadline with Hussey Kakuchi.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Yeah, I mean, wect we're on with something with like
this deadline and last deadline feel like the feel identical,
like they're without one of their best hitters for a
prolong period of time. Both of those best hitters had
fractures that the team didn't tell you about, so that's
another wrinkle. The rotations were ravaged by injuries and they
had to decide do we want a left handed bat
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or do we want a starter? And last year they
decided to go get a starter. I think they really
like talking to people that would know.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I really think.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Right now they are kind of up in the air
that they want to see how the Arraghetti rehab goes.
They want to see how Javier and France and Garcia,
how their rehabs progress, before they really decide wholeheartedly here's
what we need to do. They have that luxury because
there's seven weeks until the deadline and they have a
four and a half game lead in the division, Like,
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they don't have to act with much urgency right now.
But if it were me, this is clearly a run
prevention team. This is a team that has distinguished itself
with an elite defense and with a very good pitching staff.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
I would add to that, I would add to.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
What you are already good at, and I would probably
afford the rotation if I were them. Again, not you
don't need to go get a Grinky. You don't need
to go get a Verlander. I don't even think there's
one of those available. But you're looking for a guy
that can be a bridge that you know, maybe doesn't
start a playoff game for you, but can bridge the
way to when Arraghetti is backing at full strength, when
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Garcia and Javier and France are back at full strength.
I think you need a veteran guy like that that
can go out get you into the sixth inning every
fifth day post you know, maybe not the greatest stats
in the world, but can come here, come to pitching
car wash that the Astros have and turn into something
pretty decent. And I mean that's what you say Kakuci
was last year. Like I think we forget that because
(12:42):
of how well he came and pitched, But like that
was the profile on him last year was that, hey,
this is just a guy that was going to get
them to October, that was going to help solidify the
middle of the rotation. Then he came in and pitched
like an eighth. So I if I were them, that's
what I would do. But I'm not making the decisions,
and the people that are making decisions are not even
close to finalizing what their priorities are.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Do you get to answer one of these two questions
on your way out? Either tell me who your team
is your pick to click at the College World Series,
or measure your level of excitement that college football universities
can now directly play their players.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
I'll go to College World Series because I tell to
Jacob Melton about Oregon State for a while. Today, I
want Murray State to win the whole thing, Like I
think that'd be so cool, because Jacob and I were
actually talking about it, like Jacob who went to Oregon State,
who was also in the field in this era in
nil when you can like when you have football and basketball,
when you can buy championships, and like, you know, the
(13:42):
haves are so much better than the have nots, Like
baseball is the one sport where like it doesn't it
sometimes it doesn't matter, like Jim flass Nagel spent so
much oil money at Texas to build a good roster.
Billy Luci spent so much money to build Texas A
and M's roster and they couldn't even make the turn.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Like baseball, it just it's such a.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Game where you gotta go out in the field and
do it. And I would love to see Murray State
win it. I would love that. I know l Is
shoes in the field. I hope they do very well,
but Murray State's I'm a big Racers fan.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I hope Murray State wins the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
What's your favorite Metallica song?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Is it bad that I can't name one.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Come on, Chandler, now I gotta yell at you twice.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I really, I really cannot name Metallica's.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I'm so disappointed in you, and I'm never disappointed in you.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Well, you're one of the few. It just never fails.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
All right, Well, great segment as always, and go brush
up on your Metallica this weekend.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
All right, I'll try.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Thanks, all right, Chandler Roam of the athletic Here on
Sports Talk seven nineties, we continue getting you into the weekend.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
The eight on
Speaker 3 (14:50):
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