July 11, 2024 • 11 mins
The Texas Rangers will have another member of the team on the field during Tuesday's MLB All-Star Game but the Houston Astros will not. Jose Altuve has pulled out of the midsummer classic with Rangers infielder Marcus Semien taking his spot. Craig and Cam discuss the changes along with the top hitters of the 2024 season. Josh Smith snubbed???
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(00:03):
We're back. It's the Craig WayShow with Hall of Fame broadcaster and voice
of the Texas Longhearts Craig Way.Hell, little baseball update for you.
Paul Skins, the outstanding rookie forthe Pittsburgh Pirates, who we saw,
(00:26):
you know, I hope we sawhim pitch and catch and hit when he
was playing for the Air Force Academyagainst Texas and then of course he pitched
for LSU, part of the big, big part of the National Championship team
back in twenty three, first rounddraft choice the Pirates, and up he
had carried a no hitter into theeighth inning, we gave up back to
(00:49):
back singles, was lifted for ColinHolderman pitcher, who promptly got two strikeout
but then walked about her. Sothe bases are loaded with two out there
in the bottom of the eight.But it's just I think a lot of
people think it's probably just a matterof time before Skeens does something like that
(01:11):
because teams have looked out helpless againsthim this year. He's lived up to
the hype. Craig. I mean, we talked about a few prospects this
season who have struggled Jackson holiday withthe Orioles Wyatt Langford. During his initial
start, Evan Carters haven't hasn't hada great year, But Paul Skeens,
(01:32):
I mean really from the jump haslooked has looked pretty darn good. Yeah,
he's been He's been pretty special inseeing that. Okay, so oh
when he just Olderman just struck outWilliam contrast the all star catcher with the
bases loaded to end the inning.So Skiing's still in line for the win.
(01:53):
He went seven innings and had elevenstrikeouts, and uh oh, I
stand corrected. Skins did not giveup the hit. They pulled him after
seven, and then he gave upHolderman was the one who gave up the
two hits. So Skeens pitched sevenno hit innings of baseball about that.
(02:14):
So that's gonna He's gonna one pointnine zero r A. Craig. Now
obviously that doesn't it doesn't count becausehe hasn't pitched enough yet, But that
would be the lowest e ra inthe majors right now. Yeah, Yeah,
it's pretty impressive stuff. Uh itreally is. Hey for you Ranger
fans, including Cameron, I knowthis is going to have a little extra
(02:39):
added, Oh for sure. Yeah. Marcus Simeon, the Ranger second baseman,
is going to replace Jose Altuve asthe starting second basement for the All
Star Game in Arlington on Tuesday night. Al two is gonna rest his left
hand, which had been sore sinceJosh Winder hit him with a fastball.
(03:00):
Willie Castro will replace Altove on theroster. He becomes the thirty fifth first
time All Star this season. That'spretty impressive. So Simon will start the
All Star Game for a third straightyear now. He finished second to al
Tuove in the final round of fanvoting. That's why he got He originally
(03:23):
made the team as a reserve byfinishing second out two A and voting among
the players, managers, and coaches, so Kirby Yate's and the pitching staff.
So the Rangers have multiple All Starsfor the fifth straight season. Are
you happy about that? Yeah?And DoLS Garcia in the home run derby.
Yeah, which I still might checkout on Monday next week since we'll
(03:45):
be up in Dallas. So Rangersare representing pretty well now, of course
they're the last year is in Houston? Correct? All Star Game? No,
it was in Seattle. He wasin Seattle, Seattle. So I
do enjoy the discourse between Astro fansand Rangers fans going back and forth on
this subject. So you do youyou like getting getting into that. It's
(04:11):
it's hilarious. It's actually hilarious,and it's fun because for a while,
Craig, you know, Rangers didn'thave any of the roof for it,
right, you know, It's justlike we didn't have any comebacks to to
the Astros World Series championship, butnow as the defending champions, we do.
So I love social media because ofthe stupid things people say, but
also any anytime there's a tweet betweenbetween Astros and Rangers fans, usually it's
(04:34):
the same two comebacks from either side. And glad to have this rivalry back.
It's good for baseball, it's goodfor Texas. I agree. I
agree with that. Okay, Imentioned this yesterday we did the mid season
report card things for a baseball TodayMLB has now this is through stats of
(05:02):
last night. They have the powerranking leaders. This is so this is
through last night. Uh, thepower rankings for the power hitting Who would
you say would be number one powerranking hitters? Yep um Man go ahead
(05:24):
and hit me because this could bea long time guess. I'll make it
ease. It's Aaron Judge. Judgein his last twenty two games has hit
four oh eight with a five twentyone slugging. He has twenty three extra
(05:46):
base hits in twenty two games.He his uh thirty barrels, as they
would say, and may smash theprevious record for any single month. By
show A Otani and Matt Chapman showA. By the way, he is
number two. He was number onelast week, so he had a nine
(06:08):
game homerless draught and he still hittwo seventy during that time, and he
still leads to Ashley with a oneeighty three ops and one hundred and thirty
one total basis. He's also,by the way, thirteen for thirteen and
stolen bases this year. Show heis so all right, he's there.
Number three. May surprise you.It's Kyle Tucker the Astros. So he's
(06:31):
at number three. One. Sotoof the Yankees dropped one spot to fourth.
Gunnar Henderson of the Orioles fifth.He had not been ranked the last
time. Mookie Betts still out ofthe lineup, but number six on the
Jose Ramirez seven, William Terris ofthe Brewers eight, Bobby Witt Junior,
(06:57):
named the home run Derby and AllStar for the Royals. Nine and Bryce
Harper, who had been injured.He's kind of been in and out of
the lineup of late. Number tenon the power hitter rankings there in Major
League Baseball. Did my guy JoshSmith make the rankings at all? He
hasn't made it yet, but Iyou know, we'll keep an eye on
him. You're you're a big fanof his. Having a fantastic season for
(07:20):
the Rangers. He's been quite thesurprise. It's been a staple in that
three hole, almost batting three hundred. Had a huge night two three games
to go for the Rangers. Andif not for him this, the Rangers
offense would be abysmal. Well,they would really be struggling, There's no
question about it. And and kindof the elephant in the room on that
(07:44):
whole deal is that their biggest guysare not hitting. Corey Seeger hasn't hit
much lately, and and Marcus Simeonhasn't hit that much lately. Despite being
named as the replacement starting second basementfor the All Star team. That's that's
kind of been an issue for them. So at the offense, it's not
been the pitching, despite not havingMiley or de Gram or Scherzer for most
(08:09):
of the season. It's it's beenthe hitting. And Josh Young, you
know, he's supposed to be backtwo weeks ago, had a hiccup in
his rehab assignment. Hopefully he's backafter the All Star break, but they
text his needs him to come backand be healthy, but also for Evan
Carter, for Adulas Garcia, forSeeger, for Simon to kind of at
least looks somewhat like they did lastyear, or else Rangers will not have
(08:33):
a shot of defending their World Serieschampionship. This is a sad note,
but it's one of those unfortunately cautionarytales. Former Major leaguer Sean Burrows,
who died the other day at theage of forty three. Los Angeles medical
(08:54):
examiner said it was that meal intoxicationwhen he died in a parking lot at
a Long Beach, California Baseball fieldruled it an accident. He died back
in May. He was found unconsciousnext to his car at a park in
Long Beach after dropping off his sonknocks for a little league game. CPR
(09:18):
was performed numbers and reviving him.He remained unresponsive, pronounced dead at the
scene shortly after. This was aguy who said that the name, the
name sounds familiar. He was atwo time that this is rare that this
happens, A two time winner inthe Little League World Series. Think about
that two times. Was a twothousand Olympic gold medalist. Drafted in the
(09:43):
first round by the Padres in nineteenninety eight, made his major league debut
in April of two thousand and two. Recorded the first walk off hit for
the Padres in Petco Park history intwo thousand and four, but he was
out of baseball in two thousand andfour, turned to play again from twenty
eleven to twenty twelve. He hadmentioned in an interview in twenty eleven that
(10:07):
he was a substance abuser before vowingto turn his life around. He also
played for the Rays, the Diamondbacks, and the Twins, a career that's
paying five hundred and twenty eight games, but again found dead. And I
think that was the suspicion all along, that it was drug related, and
it was Ventela intoxication. So thatwas the word that came down today that
(10:31):
the medical examiner figured came to thatconclusion about seeing that. So that's unfortunate
for there, and it's one ofthose cautionary tales and we hear it only
too often about how how sad andtragic of me when folks lives are taken
far too early as a result ofsomething like that. All right, coming
(10:56):
up, we're going to shift overto some football. I mentioned Empower Hit
a ranking has got some quarterback ratingsfor you at the collegiate level. When
we continue here on Sports Radio AMthirteen under the Zone in the IR Radio AM
We're back. It's the Craig WayShow with Hall of Fame broadcaster and voice
of the Texas Longhearts Craig Way.Hell, little baseball update for you.
Paul Skins, the outstanding rookie forthe Pittsburgh Pirates, who we saw,
(00:26):
you know, I hope we sawhim pitch and catch and hit when he
was playing for the Air Force Academyagainst Texas and then of course he pitched
for LSU, part of the big, big part of the National Championship team
back in twenty three, first rounddraft choice the Pirates, and up he
had carried a no hitter into theeighth inning, we gave up back to
(00:49):
back singles, was lifted for ColinHolderman pitcher, who promptly got two strikeout
but then walked about her. Sothe bases are loaded with two out there
in the bottom of the eight.But it's just I think a lot of
people think it's probably just a matterof time before Skeens does something like that
(01:11):
because teams have looked out helpless againsthim this year. He's lived up to
the hype. Craig. I mean, we talked about a few prospects this
season who have struggled Jackson holiday withthe Orioles Wyatt Langford. During his initial
start, Evan Carters haven't hasn't hada great year, But Paul Skeens,
(01:32):
I mean really from the jump haslooked has looked pretty darn good. Yeah,
he's been He's been pretty special inseeing that. Okay, so oh
when he just Olderman just struck outWilliam contrast the all star catcher with the
bases loaded to end the inning.So Skiing's still in line for the win.
(01:53):
He went seven innings and had elevenstrikeouts, and uh oh, I
stand corrected. Skins did not giveup the hit. They pulled him after
seven, and then he gave upHolderman was the one who gave up the
two hits. So Skeens pitched sevenno hit innings of baseball about that.
(02:14):
So that's gonna He's gonna one pointnine zero r A. Craig. Now
obviously that doesn't it doesn't count becausehe hasn't pitched enough yet, But that
would be the lowest e ra inthe majors right now. Yeah, Yeah,
it's pretty impressive stuff. Uh itreally is. Hey for you Ranger
fans, including Cameron, I knowthis is going to have a little extra
(02:39):
added, Oh for sure. Yeah. Marcus Simeon, the Ranger second baseman,
is going to replace Jose Altuve asthe starting second basement for the All
Star Game in Arlington on Tuesday night. Al two is gonna rest his left
hand, which had been sore sinceJosh Winder hit him with a fastball.
(03:00):
Willie Castro will replace Altove on theroster. He becomes the thirty fifth first
time All Star this season. That'spretty impressive. So Simon will start the
All Star Game for a third straightyear now. He finished second to al
Tuove in the final round of fanvoting. That's why he got He originally
(03:23):
made the team as a reserve byfinishing second out two A and voting among
the players, managers, and coaches, so Kirby Yate's and the pitching staff.
So the Rangers have multiple All Starsfor the fifth straight season. Are
you happy about that? Yeah?And DoLS Garcia in the home run derby.
Yeah, which I still might checkout on Monday next week since we'll
(03:45):
be up in Dallas. So Rangersare representing pretty well now, of course
they're the last year is in Houston? Correct? All Star Game? No,
it was in Seattle. He wasin Seattle, Seattle. So I
do enjoy the discourse between Astro fansand Rangers fans going back and forth on
this subject. So you do youyou like getting getting into that. It's
(04:11):
it's hilarious. It's actually hilarious,and it's fun because for a while,
Craig, you know, Rangers didn'thave any of the roof for it,
right, you know, It's justlike we didn't have any comebacks to to
the Astros World Series championship, butnow as the defending champions, we do.
So I love social media because ofthe stupid things people say, but
also any anytime there's a tweet betweenbetween Astros and Rangers fans, usually it's
(04:34):
the same two comebacks from either side. And glad to have this rivalry back.
It's good for baseball, it's goodfor Texas. I agree. I
agree with that. Okay, Imentioned this yesterday we did the mid season
report card things for a baseball TodayMLB has now this is through stats of
(05:02):
last night. They have the powerranking leaders. This is so this is
through last night. Uh, thepower rankings for the power hitting Who would
you say would be number one powerranking hitters? Yep um Man go ahead
(05:24):
and hit me because this could bea long time guess. I'll make it
ease. It's Aaron Judge. Judgein his last twenty two games has hit
four oh eight with a five twentyone slugging. He has twenty three extra
(05:46):
base hits in twenty two games.He his uh thirty barrels, as they
would say, and may smash theprevious record for any single month. By
show A Otani and Matt Chapman showA. By the way, he is
number two. He was number onelast week, so he had a nine
(06:08):
game homerless draught and he still hittwo seventy during that time, and he
still leads to Ashley with a oneeighty three ops and one hundred and thirty
one total basis. He's also,by the way, thirteen for thirteen and
stolen bases this year. Show heis so all right, he's there.
Number three. May surprise you.It's Kyle Tucker the Astros. So he's
(06:31):
at number three. One. Sotoof the Yankees dropped one spot to fourth.
Gunnar Henderson of the Orioles fifth.He had not been ranked the last
time. Mookie Betts still out ofthe lineup, but number six on the
Jose Ramirez seven, William Terris ofthe Brewers eight, Bobby Witt Junior,
(06:57):
named the home run Derby and AllStar for the Royals. Nine and Bryce
Harper, who had been injured.He's kind of been in and out of
the lineup of late. Number tenon the power hitter rankings there in Major
League Baseball. Did my guy JoshSmith make the rankings at all? He
hasn't made it yet, but Iyou know, we'll keep an eye on
him. You're you're a big fanof his. Having a fantastic season for
(07:20):
the Rangers. He's been quite thesurprise. It's been a staple in that
three hole, almost batting three hundred. Had a huge night two three games
to go for the Rangers. Andif not for him this, the Rangers
offense would be abysmal. Well,they would really be struggling, There's no
question about it. And and kindof the elephant in the room on that
(07:44):
whole deal is that their biggest guysare not hitting. Corey Seeger hasn't hit
much lately, and and Marcus Simeonhasn't hit that much lately. Despite being
named as the replacement starting second basementfor the All Star team. That's that's
kind of been an issue for them. So at the offense, it's not
been the pitching, despite not havingMiley or de Gram or Scherzer for most
(08:09):
of the season. It's it's beenthe hitting. And Josh Young, you
know, he's supposed to be backtwo weeks ago, had a hiccup in
his rehab assignment. Hopefully he's backafter the All Star break, but they
text his needs him to come backand be healthy, but also for Evan
Carter, for Adulas Garcia, forSeeger, for Simon to kind of at
least looks somewhat like they did lastyear, or else Rangers will not have
(08:33):
a shot of defending their World Serieschampionship. This is a sad note,
but it's one of those unfortunately cautionarytales. Former Major leaguer Sean Burrows,
who died the other day at theage of forty three. Los Angeles medical
(08:54):
examiner said it was that meal intoxicationwhen he died in a parking lot at
a Long Beach, California Baseball fieldruled it an accident. He died back
in May. He was found unconsciousnext to his car at a park in
Long Beach after dropping off his sonknocks for a little league game. CPR
(09:18):
was performed numbers and reviving him.He remained unresponsive, pronounced dead at the
scene shortly after. This was aguy who said that the name, the
name sounds familiar. He was atwo time that this is rare that this
happens, A two time winner inthe Little League World Series. Think about
that two times. Was a twothousand Olympic gold medalist. Drafted in the
(09:43):
first round by the Padres in nineteenninety eight, made his major league debut
in April of two thousand and two. Recorded the first walk off hit for
the Padres in Petco Park history intwo thousand and four, but he was
out of baseball in two thousand andfour, turned to play again from twenty
eleven to twenty twelve. He hadmentioned in an interview in twenty eleven that
(10:07):
he was a substance abuser before vowingto turn his life around. He also
played for the Rays, the Diamondbacks, and the Twins, a career that's
paying five hundred and twenty eight games, but again found dead. And I
think that was the suspicion all along, that it was drug related, and
it was Ventela intoxication. So thatwas the word that came down today that
(10:31):
the medical examiner figured came to thatconclusion about seeing that. So that's unfortunate
for there, and it's one ofthose cautionary tales and we hear it only
too often about how how sad andtragic of me when folks lives are taken
far too early as a result ofsomething like that. All right, coming
(10:56):
up, we're going to shift overto some football. I mentioned Empower Hit
a ranking has got some quarterback ratingsfor you at the collegiate level. When
we continue here on Sports Radio AMthirteen under the Zone in the IR Radio AM
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