On this week’s edition of Inside the (Rob) Parker, Rob discusses the playoff ramifications of this weekend's series between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees, why the Los Angeles Dodgers should consider taking Shohei Ohtani out of the postseason pitching rotation, and where he was wrong about the Detroit Tigers. Later, Tampa Bay Rays centerfielder Chandler Simpson. Plus, part two of his conversation with Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Max Scherzer, Rob's latest appearance on MLB Network, and a very special Parker Pushback aimed at Giancarlo Stanton's biggest detractors.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the Burkeshars to the sound from wherever you live
in MLB America. This is Inside the Parker. You give
us twenty two minutes and we'll give you the scoop
on major League Baseball. Now, here's Baseball Hall of Fame
voter number fifty seven, Rob Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Come on, I've been covering Major League baseball for almost
forty years now, in New York, in Cincinnati, in Detroit,
in LA.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I love this game. Let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker. What
a show we have for you today.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
That's right, our vacation edition of Inside the Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
We'll talk with Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Chandler Simpson.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Man he's swinging a hot bat. We'll talk with him.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Plus we'll have part two of our interview with Blue
Jays already pitcher future Hall of Famer MaTx Scherzer. He
has some ideas about changes he'd like to see in
some of the rules and some of the rules that
he likes. That, Plus I'll have a pushback about John
Carlos Stanton that and much more.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Let's go better.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
To lead off, it's getting rocked and keep him mind.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Rob's hot take on.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
The three biggest stories in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Number one, A big series starts in the Bronx on
Thursday night, the Red Sox visiting the New York Yankees.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
And this has Wildcard implications.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Of course, the Yankees currently with a two game lead
over the Red Sox in the wildcard in the American League.
The Red Sox are second in the three spots for
wild cards, so this is a huge four game series
in the Bronx.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
The Red Sox have had their way with.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
The Yankees thus far, but here comes a big series
and the Yankees are playing better. They've won five in
coming into Thursday's game, and this will be a big series.
If the Yankees can win three out of four or
possibly sweep the Red Sox, this would be huge going
into September, but obviously no team wants to get swept,
(02:15):
but a big series. Nonetheless, Yankees Red Sox all weekend long,
starting on Thursday.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Number two. Did you hear that?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
That was show Hal Tany getting rocked by the Colorado
Rockies in four innings. He gave up five runs and
a career high nine hits to that bad baseball team
in Denver. The Rockies. He also had a right thigh contusion,
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had a ball hit off of his right thigh. Thankfully
it didn't hit the kneecap or any bones, or he
should be good. But again, you start to look at it.
The Dodgers won the World Series last year without Otani.
They're trying to, you know, work his way in so
that he can be in the rotation come post season time.
He really hasn't been. This is his first loss of
the year. Hadn't really been involved. They keep giving him
(03:09):
more and more innings, but this was a battle Tony,
and I keep wondering, shouldn't he just be hitting. Shouldn't
they just do a bay Ruth We saw the novelty.
Let this dude break every day and concentrate on hitting
rather than having the pitch as well.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
This will be interesting going out.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I know the Dodgers will continue to do this, but
I'm convinced that in time he will just become a
full time hitter in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Number three, all right, I'll admit it.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
The Detroit Tigers are back.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
My god.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
They went through a horrendous stretch where they couldn't score runs.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Their pitching was a trophies.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I think they lost twelve out of fifteen or twelve
out of fourteen at one point. They're back in the
good graces, back winning again, coming into Thursday, winning.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Eight of their last ten. They swept to Houston Astros,
which was huge.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
For them, and they still have a nine game lead
in the Central. It looked like they were trying to
give it away, but things have clicked back in the
form and now they look like they still will be
a force in the American League. Because the American League
is wide open. Obviously you have the Blue Jays lead
in the East, and then you have the Yankees and
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the Red Sox and the Tigers and in the West
the Astro, so this will be interesting.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
So the Tigers have righted the ship.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And I'm giving them my apologies because I looked like
they were going to crash and burn. So I'm wrong
about that and they're back and they're going to be
in the mix as we head towards the postseason.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
So here comes the big interview. Listen and learn.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
We're so good now.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Let's welcome into the podcast. Chandeler Simpson, centerfielder for the
Tampa Bay Rays. How you doing, Chandler good. How you
doing doing great? Thanks for joining us. I wanna talk
about your exploits at the plate. Coming into Wednesday, batting
over three hundred, hitting eight of your last nine.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
What's going right? What's clicking for you?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
All kinds of Yeah, just stay in my approach, trying
to look for a good page to hit, to execute
my approach.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
Stand on the left side of the field and you
can take you.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
On thet It's the fuel different or I mean, I
look at your stats, almost three hundred and bats big leagues.
Not too many people. The average batting average in the
Major League is two forty two. Not too many, but
three hundred bat average.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
How that feels Yeah, it feels good.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Just a testaments all the hard work and hard work
that goes in behind the scenes, and you continue to
know who I am, continue to know my game, know
my approach, and sticking to that every single day and
trying to execute that as much as I can.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Speaking of your game, stealing bases last year in the
minor leagues, one hundred and four stone bases in one
hundred and ten games. This year, thirty four stolen bases
coming into Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Does it feel the same. I know you've been caught
ten times this year.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
But what's the difference in stealing bases in the minors
and the majors.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Yeah, I mean catches are better, they got better on
better pop times.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Pitchers, they're paying attention to you more.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
So I know that every team has a game plan
for me coming into a series.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
So that's a big difference.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Just a lot of teams just paying attention more and
I'm having to really like pick my.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
Spots more often.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Now, how about as a right handed droller left handed hitter.
That's unusual a lot of people gonna do that.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Where did that come from?
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Was it the way you grab the bat earlier on?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
I did one side feel better? And how can you
not a switch here if you're a right handed thrower?
Speaker 7 (06:48):
Yeah, I guess. I mean I'm right hand dominant.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
But my dad loved Barry Bonds growing up, so he
put me on the left side and definitely the opposite
of Barry Bonds, but I'm glad he did put it
aside because it's a good way to advocate my speed.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
So how about your favorite player, Okay, your dad's Barry Bonds.
Would you want to be a Barry Bonds too? Is
it somebody else to pat of your game after.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
I love Barry, but I mean I love like the
Billy Hamilton's, the Tony Gwynn's, the Rock.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Caruz, people that just just play my game.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
And you don't know nothing about Black Crew.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
I would still as the game. I love it. I
love the history of baseball. So I mean I know
about all those.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Guys Chandeler Simpson joining us here on inside the Parker
of course, centerfielder for the Tampa Bay Rays.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Atlanta.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
My god, look at all the fresh new players coming
out of Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
You guys have something going.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
What is it in the water in Atlanta And why
you guys are developing so many baseball players.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Yeah, I mean we all kind of grew up in
the same community in Atlanta, and all of us wanted
to make a difference in baseball.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
A lot of African Americans played basketball and football.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
But I just want us just wanting to make a
difference in baseball, just coming together and get you step
by step high school college miners in the Major League.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
So it's more of what's coming for sure.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
And who's the best guy out of it, out of
out of Atlanta or Georgia.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Who's the best current player. You taking yourself out of it.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
Taking myself out of it. Oh uh see, he's going
up tear right now. I'm gonna say Michael Harris for Atlanta,
so yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Yeah, he's going crazy.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Also, I'm trying to think, uh Buxton is from Georgia.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Not Atlanta.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
He's a little older than you guys, but there is
definitely uh something going on there. And just talk about
as as we finish the season, do you have like
goals or you're just trying to be consistent? What do
what do you look at as you try to wrap
up your first season the big leagues?
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Yeah, j honestly, just wanna be consistent, continue to uh
play my game, be and be able to contribute to
the team, and continue to finish the season healthy and
then uh conside.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
To rock with these bag cause I want to lead
the league in bags. So let's definitely going.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
I was gonna say so that all at some point
in your career, to be the altar hit the base
stealer for season.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
That's your goal. I mean I feel like that's a
goal every year. I mean every year. I want to
be at the top of the list. I want to
have the Crown. So that's what I'm maaming for.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Okay, last thing, your first year in the big leagues.
Obviously there's pressure that's involved in it. You still want
to have fun. You're a young guy. How do you
balance that, like trying to go out and just have
point playing baseball, but also knowing you have a job
now this is you know, big time.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
Yeah, just remembering that's a game and as a kids game.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Just want to have fun and I mean throughout all
the work and everything that goes into it.
Speaker 7 (09:31):
I mean, it's still a game at the end of
the day. So just trying to have fuel with it.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
All right, continue success and we appreciate you joining us
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Speaker 4 (11:44):
Now let's welcome into the podcast.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Right handed pitcher Max Scherzer from the Toronto Blue Jays
join us.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Max.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
How are you Rob? How's going?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Give it over?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
You're on?
Speaker 6 (11:53):
Baseball has made some changes since you started pitching in
the big leagues, and we know that at the.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Pitch clock and thrown over from space and the shift
and whatnot.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
The games are.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Fast, or you see attendancies of viewership, is of social media?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Is up with younger people? Or those changes good? And
did they work out?
Speaker 6 (12:11):
Because at first I was questioned making the pitch clock,
if that was a good thing or not?
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Where are you on some of those days?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
For me?
Speaker 10 (12:19):
I wish there was an intermediate step before the pitchclock.
I did the issue here. There's pace of play. We
have three hour games. We need to get the two
forty five. I absolutely understand that. I completely agree with that,
and I think there's some just some basic rule changes
that could have easily accomplished that one. We don't know
what with the hitter only having one time out, We
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don't know what impact that had on the time of game,
Like that drastically changes how the pitch has to happen.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
You know.
Speaker 10 (12:48):
We also could have said, hey, once a pitcher comes set,
you have five seconds to throw the ball. So that
way that you know, you know that you can't just
choke out the hitter he only has one time out,
you know, to keep that going.
Speaker 7 (12:59):
So that way the game with you.
Speaker 10 (13:01):
Because I say that because with the clock, there are
some instances where the clock is not clean up that.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
Time, it's actually changing the way for the game.
Speaker 10 (13:09):
And that's what the how MLB came solitulius. Hey, look,
we're just trying to clean up that time. Uh, you know,
to make the games faster. Well I get it, but no,
you know, if you've actually stepped through some actual game,
some important pieces a part of the game, uh, and.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
It's affected how we do our business. Let me ask
you one thing you did?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I think I.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Read somewhere where you love the way they all start
game ended?
Speaker 4 (13:32):
You a fan of the O one w am mis Uh?
Speaker 10 (13:35):
Yeah, for also game I think the home un derby
is a way not a.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Regular season not a regular season game.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
That was actually a rule change where.
Speaker 10 (13:44):
Uh you know, you know, Skemel, this.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Was going to the big league level but actually been good.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
Is they actually un rule that's the way, the way
that has been implemented.
Speaker 10 (13:55):
Uh, that's actually a really entertaining way to in the game.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
Just have the you know, the runner on side.
Speaker 10 (14:00):
Basic start the teent. That's really added a layer and
it ends the game. It's that's it's it's been worked
out great.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
So I actually loved.
Speaker 10 (14:07):
That, you know, little stuff play that first one to
see how it played out, and you know, it's actually
been great. But we were talking about the clock.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah no, no, I know because we were getting into it,
but the clock into any So so if you were
to fixed something, what what what exactly would it be?
Speaker 10 (14:27):
Yeah, no, no, you know, I think I think about
this and you you know, as a picture like you
you're really kind of at times touffing and puffing out there.
Speaker 11 (14:36):
And where are you huffing puff the most is when
runners are on base. You know, when runners are on base,
that's when those are some of the most fatiguing throws
you get made and you got to kind.
Speaker 10 (14:46):
Of sometimes reset, so so you don't want to feel rushed,
like you don't like I'm feel rushed and there's have
to throw a pinching like you're kind of managing the game.
It's kind of weird, like the flow of the game,
like if you didn't have a clock, like you know,
my basic kind of instincts, like you're you're taking account
of the runner, the scoreboard, who's coming up, what's on,
how many You're kind of going through the mental kind
of aspect of the game, and also at the same
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time trying to recover because you got to execute these
pitches at are.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Really high level and the clock definitely definitely speed you up.
Speaker 10 (15:15):
So the thirty second clock in between hitters, I feel
like it's two pass I wish we had more time
to start get that. I think there's just a basic
level of the flow there that has been stepped through.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Even if it's just a few seconds, it would help,
It would really.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Help the pitcher.
Speaker 10 (15:33):
And then we've moved from twenty seconds to eighteen, yet
the game time really hasn't changed, and so you know,
guys are just stepping up more and resetting the clock,
so you know, has it by shaving off the two seconds,
I don't think it's really impacting the overall time of game.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Whereas a pitcher you might need those an extra two seconds.
Speaker 10 (15:52):
It's in the course of a game. Why that matters because,
I mean it affects time you work for the catcher.
A lot of young guys don't have a good time
to shake off or don't want.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
To wear them. You know, pitch come on it. So
it's changed the way guys are throwing the ball.
Speaker 10 (16:09):
You know you have a ball strike pony immediately, you
know another thing that could curtail that.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Maybe there's two or three warnings.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
Before a natural ball strike. No one's trying to actually
be slow.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
I get it.
Speaker 10 (16:20):
We want to be moon flash, we wanted to forty five.
I'm all for that, but how it has actually got implemented.
I think we need to just take a second to
think about how this is going down. Because at the
end of the day, the pitching injuries are severe. I mean,
we have guys blowing out and that has to be
party equation. And party equation when you blow out is
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you're pitching on your fatigue. So I'm not saying it's
a direct correlation. I'm not saying this is one hundred percent, No,
I get it, but is it a can ponente? I
just think it's not zero, and so if it's non zero,
how can.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
We zero that?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Max Sures are there we go? Not only is he
going to the Hall of Fame, maybe he could be
the Baseball commissioner.
Speaker 11 (16:58):
Yeah, I've had to be amotion to you with all
these rules and thinking about this and.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
Think about everybody. It was actually a great job.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Whad I did it? But it really pushed your mind
because you really got to think hitter, pitcher, everybody involved, right,
you got to think about everybody involved.
Speaker 7 (17:12):
And I've always wanted to look at that pragmatically and
do what's best for the game.
Speaker 10 (17:17):
So I guess I enjoyed it, but yeah, you know
I always had It's fun, but you know it's kind
of politics of baseball.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
You know, you get into the politics of baseball.
Speaker 10 (17:27):
You got to be on your game in order to
be you know, you're making those recommendations.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
So I enjoyed it. There he is Max Sure's or
Toronto Blue Jays ace right hand. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
In case you missed.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
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Speaker 12 (17:49):
Rob Parker in the show Down, he joins us every week.
He's here with us once again, Rob, good to see you,
welcome back.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
What's up, b K? How are you always a pleasure?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Doing well?
Speaker 12 (17:57):
A great weekend of baseball? Your Padres were hot then
got swept. I'm not overreacting to that. It happens. They
were closed as very competitive. However, a sweep either way
as a statement, I'm saying for the Dodgers, that's a statement.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
I disagree.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
I think the Dodgers were desperate and they actually had
to do something because BKA, before they won those three
games in a row against the Padres, they had won
three games in a row.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
In six weeks. Think about that six weeks.
Speaker 12 (18:28):
Yeah, but we have to say even I have to
admit because I've been saying they are tad disappointing. They're
always waiting on the stretch. One we'll put it all together.
But suddenly Snell shows up. Glass, now's there, Kershaw's good.
They're Nixon and Max in the bullpen. They got guys
that never heard of throwing one hundred and three Like
they are kind of putting it into shape. When they need,
they kind of slap it into gear when they need to.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Well, I think that that was the situation that just
came because their bats were against the wall. They had
finally given up first place. Yep, and you know how
baseball things work out. They're way too good to be
as bad as they have been for such a long stretch.
So you know, your numbers speak for themselves. Those players
are very talent.
Speaker 12 (19:11):
They're too much talent, yeah, exactly, to.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Be as bad as they were. So I just think
that these things happen, and the Padres. I still like
your team.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
I like what they have.
Speaker 12 (19:20):
Oh yeah, look, I just did an essay on them.
They have three new regulars in the position, in the
position Corps three. I'll borrow Joel shermanism. It's like the
zombie Freddie Freeman, zombie Mookie Bets, like what's left of them,
still crushing home runs, winning games. They're getting older. It's
they're not quite as great, and yet they're still kind
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of superstars. All right. Brewers have won twenty nine of
thirty four. I'm gonna say that again. Brewers have won
twenty nine of thirty four. I know your agent's tough,
are you satisfied with that.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
I mean, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I don't want to discount winning, and I get it.
You know, sports as a short MANU wins and losses.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
But when I look at the.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Brewers, the problem I have is, again, baseball has a
way of correcting itself.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Are they really that good?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
No, they're not.
Speaker 12 (20:09):
No, nobody's that good. No, nobody's that good.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
It's insane.
Speaker 12 (20:12):
However, they're winning all over the place and they have
elite talent. Contraristied the game yesterday. He's an elite guy.
He's a star. Yelich is a star. They can flat
out field, they can run, they don't give you anything,
and they've got frontline starting pitching. It's not a phantom.
These guys are for real. They are. Nobody's that good,
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but they're very good.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
But when you look at the National League, and I
get it, where that what they've done and what they've
accomplished during the regular season, But you just talked about it.
I would take the Padres, Dodgers, and Mets over the
Brewers to even start, and I didn't even mention the Phillies.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
So it is watching Mets baseball.
Speaker 12 (20:53):
You watch Mets bace like if you want to say
Phillies before they lose Wheeler. Okay, but this at least
put the Brewers have at least put themselves with Dodgers
Padres at the very very least.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Okay, But my point is the.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Mets have had some runs last year. They had a
nice run in the postseason.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
They have, They've scuffled way, way worse than they are.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
They're not as bad as.
Speaker 12 (21:16):
They've lo true, true, but the I mean, you know,
the proof is in the pudding, as we used to say,
like they're actually getting that done. I mean, it's amazing
what they're putting together, all right, but I got.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
One Brewers number.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
They've lost eleven of the last thirteen playoff games, so
they got to show me.
Speaker 12 (21:31):
Oh my gosh, you go. You know, it's like bringing
up Buffalo Bill's playoff games. It's past tense, it's Marv Levy,
it's over. I knew you'd like that. Pete Alonzo breaks
the Mets home run record, all right, big thing in
New York, it's a constant thing around here. Is it
a big thing outside of New York?
Speaker 13 (21:50):
No?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
I think it's for Mets fans. Darrel Strawberry held it.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
For a long time, a big time favorite. I get it,
Pete Alonzo, but I just think in this whole idea
of Alonso doing this, the Mets owe him an apology
and probably a new contract. They didn't even want the
god he's one of their homegrown talents.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Well, and this is a guy who's now their all
time home run leader.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
They had seven hundred and sixty five million dollars for
Juan Soto, but they had no money for Pete Alonzo,
and he's your all.
Speaker 12 (22:20):
Time home run I think they now. It's not that
they didn't want him. I think there was a difference
of opinion as to where he slots right and right.
There's a huge disparity that doesn't make sense between Soto
and Alonzo. However, he's making twenty seven million a year.
They made him kind of whole short term and he's
got an option. So he came back without egg on
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his face. I thought it wasn't insulting and take a
look at this. I just want to throw this out
because as far as like, hey, now he's you got
to throw three hundred million at him or whatever it is,
like herere Alonzo's number is his slash line and his
numbers this year, they're not all that different. The ops
plus is a little better this year because offense is down.
But just if I would tell people look around at
the slugging. He's slugging five fourteen for his career, that
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includes his monstrous rookie year, and he's slugging five nineteen
this year. Got off to a great start. But he's
kind of the same guy, Rob, which is good. He's productive,
he plays, he's a total bass guy. But he has
not hit superstar. I don't know Corey Seeger level, Sodo level,
Harper Machado level. Not quite that I'll.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Agree with that.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
But the standpoint of this, he can play in New York.
Everybody can't play in New York.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
He's produced for them.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
In big moments with big home runs, right, yes, okay, yes.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
And the other thing is he stays healthy, he's in
the lineup, he's a lot of.
Speaker 12 (23:42):
He's gonna be thirty one, right, He's gonna be thirty one.
But right, there's a place in between an unrealistic contract
and good money for you. And I'm a big believer
in this. You're homegrown guy. I'm with you on that, Rob, Rob.
I want to get to this. Commissioner Rob Manford on
Sunday Night Baseball last night, he spoke at length about realignment.
Let's listen in.
Speaker 13 (24:00):
I think if we expand, it provides us with an
opportunity to geographically realign. I think we could save a
lot of wear and tear on our players in terms
of travel. And I think our postseason format would be
even more appealing for you know, entities like ESPN, because
you'd be playing up out of the east, out of
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the West, and that ten o'clock time slot where we,
you know, sometimes get Boston Anaheim. Would be two West
Coast teams and that ten o'clock slot that's a problem
for us sometimes becomes a real opportunity for our West
Coast audience.
Speaker 12 (24:34):
Interesting, Rob, Now Rob Manford is talking down the line,
but he's talking about possibility of an eat kind of
like you know, basketball, hockey, East Coast, Eastern Conference, Western Conference.
Are we ready for that?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
I'm not ready for it.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
I get it, and I understand why leagues do it,
and financial or whatever.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
I just I'm not ready for those kind of changes.
I'm not ready for expansion. I love the baseball when
we twenty four teams.
Speaker 12 (25:01):
It'll be two teams. I think I think baseball easily
absorbs two more teams. But I'm with you in that. Yeah,
I like the idea. I'm nostalgic. I like the history
of the game. I like a National League and American League.
There were once very separate leagues. But if you were
starting getting to borrow with Joel shermanism, if you were
starting baseball today, you wouldn't start with separate leagues. You
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wouldn't have the teams in New York not playing each
other all the time, or in Chicago not playing each other,
or LA not playing each other all the time. You'd
have them playing all the time. If you're remaking it,
you'd have them playing local rivalries playing all the time.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Yeah, I don't know. I think it gets worn out
after a while.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
To be honest, I don't want to go I just remember,
as someone who lives in Los Angeles and watching the
Dodgers play the Colorado Rockies nineteen times, I was.
Speaker 12 (25:50):
Like, that's not a hot rivalry. But there's hot rivalries within,
you know, within the realignment. There's Me's Phillies, you know, Yankees,
Red Sox. Obviously, there's a lot of hot rivalries within those.
I get it.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
But there's also a lot of dog team that you'd
have to play a lot as well, just to balance off.
Speaker 12 (26:06):
Make a dog division? Have I make a dog division.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
I'm just saying there would be a lot of bad games.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
I don't know baseball. Sometimes I think you gotta be careful.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
The league is doing well, tendance is off, fans are
into a social media.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
TV numbers are good.
Speaker 12 (26:24):
Playoff while we're doing too much.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
I love where we are right now.
Speaker 12 (26:29):
Down the line. But yeah, you can you can kind
of see it coming. I get it, all right, Rob,
great by the way you look like you're in a precinct?
Is everything all right? Was like you usually have some
elaborate background.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
I'm trying to call my attorney, but I can't. I
can't get Perry Mason on.
Speaker 12 (26:42):
The I said when you came in, I was like,
are you at the seventy fifth precinct?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Where are you?
Speaker 12 (26:47):
And I'm glad that you got one phone call and
you called us.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Thank you, Thank you. If you come bail me out,
I would.
Speaker 12 (26:55):
I would drive down there myself, all right, Rob, I'll
see after the show.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Thank you. Rob usually has.
Speaker 12 (27:00):
Fancy things behind him, at least books or something, or
a mural of himself at his own high school.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
No, this is bologing.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
It's the Parker pushback shot, the rob tackles the outlandish
takes in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 11 (27:15):
Shot.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Today, I'm pushing back on all those.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
People, including my friend Mike Springer, who don't think that
John Carlos Stanton is gonna make it.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
To the Hall of Fame. They could not be more wrong.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
If John Carlos.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Stanton gets five hundred home runs, which he's definitely on
pace for, and he gets five hundred home runs, he
will be a Hall of Famer. Go look at his numbers,
top ten in home runs per at bat, despite all
the injuries, despite all the missing games. Five hundred home
runs is a magic number. This guy wants. Led the
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league in home runs, he won a National League MVP,
He's done stuff. And then postseason wise, go look, he's
on the top ten list of home runs in the
postseason as well. He's had a tremendous career despite the injuries.
And I'm gonna tell you he's just fifty six home
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runs away from reaching the magical number of five hundred.
He has two years left on his contract. He has
the rest of the season. I think John Carlos stan
will reach that number, and Mike Springer he will reach
the Hall of Fame. I'm Rob Parker and that's my pushback.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
In the words of New York TV legend the late
Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time this time until
next time.
Speaker 12 (28:48):
Rob Parker out.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
He can't Davin. This could be an inside the Parker
Speaker 2 (28:53):
See you next week, the same bat time, from same
Matt's station.
From the Burkeshars to the sound from wherever you live
in MLB America. This is Inside the Parker. You give
us twenty two minutes and we'll give you the scoop
on major League Baseball. Now, here's Baseball Hall of Fame
voter number fifty seven, Rob Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Come on, I've been covering Major League baseball for almost
forty years now, in New York, in Cincinnati, in Detroit,
in LA.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I love this game. Let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker. What
a show we have for you today.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
That's right, our vacation edition of Inside the Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
We'll talk with Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Chandler Simpson.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Man he's swinging a hot bat. We'll talk with him.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Plus we'll have part two of our interview with Blue
Jays already pitcher future Hall of Famer MaTx Scherzer. He
has some ideas about changes he'd like to see in
some of the rules and some of the rules that
he likes. That, Plus I'll have a pushback about John
Carlos Stanton that and much more.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Let's go better.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
To lead off, it's getting rocked and keep him mind.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Rob's hot take on.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
The three biggest stories in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Number one, A big series starts in the Bronx on
Thursday night, the Red Sox visiting the New York Yankees.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
And this has Wildcard implications.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Of course, the Yankees currently with a two game lead
over the Red Sox in the wildcard in the American League.
The Red Sox are second in the three spots for
wild cards, so this is a huge four game series
in the Bronx.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
The Red Sox have had their way with.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
The Yankees thus far, but here comes a big series
and the Yankees are playing better. They've won five in
coming into Thursday's game, and this will be a big series.
If the Yankees can win three out of four or
possibly sweep the Red Sox, this would be huge going
into September, but obviously no team wants to get swept,
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but a big series. Nonetheless, Yankees Red Sox all weekend long,
starting on Thursday.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Number two. Did you hear that?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
That was show Hal Tany getting rocked by the Colorado
Rockies in four innings. He gave up five runs and
a career high nine hits to that bad baseball team
in Denver. The Rockies. He also had a right thigh contusion,
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had a ball hit off of his right thigh. Thankfully
it didn't hit the kneecap or any bones, or he
should be good. But again, you start to look at it.
The Dodgers won the World Series last year without Otani.
They're trying to, you know, work his way in so
that he can be in the rotation come post season time.
He really hasn't been. This is his first loss of
the year. Hadn't really been involved. They keep giving him
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more and more innings, but this was a battle Tony,
and I keep wondering, shouldn't he just be hitting. Shouldn't
they just do a bay Ruth We saw the novelty.
Let this dude break every day and concentrate on hitting
rather than having the pitch as well.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
This will be interesting going out.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I know the Dodgers will continue to do this, but
I'm convinced that in time he will just become a
full time hitter in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Number three, all right, I'll admit it.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
The Detroit Tigers are back.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
My god.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
They went through a horrendous stretch where they couldn't score runs.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Their pitching was a trophies.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I think they lost twelve out of fifteen or twelve
out of fourteen at one point. They're back in the
good graces, back winning again, coming into Thursday, winning.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Eight of their last ten. They swept to Houston Astros,
which was huge.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
For them, and they still have a nine game lead
in the Central. It looked like they were trying to
give it away, but things have clicked back in the
form and now they look like they still will be
a force in the American League. Because the American League
is wide open. Obviously you have the Blue Jays lead
in the East, and then you have the Yankees and
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the Red Sox and the Tigers and in the West
the Astro, so this will be interesting.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
So the Tigers have righted the ship.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And I'm giving them my apologies because I looked like
they were going to crash and burn. So I'm wrong
about that and they're back and they're going to be
in the mix as we head towards the postseason.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
So here comes the big interview. Listen and learn.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
We're so good now.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Let's welcome into the podcast. Chandeler Simpson, centerfielder for the
Tampa Bay Rays. How you doing, Chandler good. How you
doing doing great? Thanks for joining us. I wanna talk
about your exploits at the plate. Coming into Wednesday, batting
over three hundred, hitting eight of your last nine.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
What's going right? What's clicking for you?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
All kinds of Yeah, just stay in my approach, trying
to look for a good page to hit, to execute
my approach.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
Stand on the left side of the field and you
can take you.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
On thet It's the fuel different or I mean, I
look at your stats, almost three hundred and bats big leagues.
Not too many people. The average batting average in the
Major League is two forty two. Not too many, but
three hundred bat average.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
How that feels Yeah, it feels good.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Just a testaments all the hard work and hard work
that goes in behind the scenes, and you continue to
know who I am, continue to know my game, know
my approach, and sticking to that every single day and
trying to execute that as much as I can.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Speaking of your game, stealing bases last year in the
minor leagues, one hundred and four stone bases in one
hundred and ten games. This year, thirty four stolen bases
coming into Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Does it feel the same. I know you've been caught
ten times this year.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
But what's the difference in stealing bases in the minors
and the majors.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Yeah, I mean catches are better, they got better on
better pop times.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Pitchers, they're paying attention to you more.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
So I know that every team has a game plan
for me coming into a series.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
So that's a big difference.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Just a lot of teams just paying attention more and
I'm having to really like pick my.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
Spots more often.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Now, how about as a right handed droller left handed hitter.
That's unusual a lot of people gonna do that.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Where did that come from?
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Was it the way you grab the bat earlier on?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
I did one side feel better? And how can you
not a switch here if you're a right handed thrower?
Speaker 7 (06:48):
Yeah, I guess. I mean I'm right hand dominant.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
But my dad loved Barry Bonds growing up, so he
put me on the left side and definitely the opposite
of Barry Bonds, but I'm glad he did put it
aside because it's a good way to advocate my speed.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
So how about your favorite player, Okay, your dad's Barry Bonds.
Would you want to be a Barry Bonds too? Is
it somebody else to pat of your game after.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
I love Barry, but I mean I love like the
Billy Hamilton's, the Tony Gwynn's, the Rock.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Caruz, people that just just play my game.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
And you don't know nothing about Black Crew.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
I would still as the game. I love it. I
love the history of baseball. So I mean I know
about all those.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Guys Chandeler Simpson joining us here on inside the Parker
of course, centerfielder for the Tampa Bay Rays.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Atlanta.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
My god, look at all the fresh new players coming
out of Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
You guys have something going.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
What is it in the water in Atlanta And why
you guys are developing so many baseball players.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Yeah, I mean we all kind of grew up in
the same community in Atlanta, and all of us wanted
to make a difference in baseball.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
A lot of African Americans played basketball and football.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
But I just want us just wanting to make a
difference in baseball, just coming together and get you step
by step high school college miners in the Major League.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
So it's more of what's coming for sure.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
And who's the best guy out of it, out of
out of Atlanta or Georgia.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Who's the best current player. You taking yourself out of it.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
Taking myself out of it. Oh uh see, he's going
up tear right now. I'm gonna say Michael Harris for Atlanta,
so yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Yeah, he's going crazy.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Also, I'm trying to think, uh Buxton is from Georgia.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Not Atlanta.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
He's a little older than you guys, but there is
definitely uh something going on there. And just talk about
as as we finish the season, do you have like
goals or you're just trying to be consistent? What do
what do you look at as you try to wrap
up your first season the big leagues?
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Yeah, j honestly, just wanna be consistent, continue to uh
play my game, be and be able to contribute to
the team, and continue to finish the season healthy and
then uh conside.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
To rock with these bag cause I want to lead
the league in bags. So let's definitely going.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
I was gonna say so that all at some point
in your career, to be the altar hit the base
stealer for season.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
That's your goal. I mean I feel like that's a
goal every year. I mean every year. I want to
be at the top of the list. I want to
have the Crown. So that's what I'm maaming for.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Okay, last thing, your first year in the big leagues.
Obviously there's pressure that's involved in it. You still want
to have fun. You're a young guy. How do you
balance that, like trying to go out and just have
point playing baseball, but also knowing you have a job
now this is you know, big time.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
Yeah, just remembering that's a game and as a kids game.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Just want to have fun and I mean throughout all
the work and everything that goes into it.
Speaker 7 (09:31):
I mean, it's still a game at the end of
the day. So just trying to have fuel with it.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
All right, continue success and we appreciate you joining us
here on the inside the Parker.
Speaker 8 (09:39):
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Speaker 4 (11:44):
Now let's welcome into the podcast.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Right handed pitcher Max Scherzer from the Toronto Blue Jays
join us.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Max.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
How are you Rob? How's going?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Give it over?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
You're on?
Speaker 6 (11:53):
Baseball has made some changes since you started pitching in
the big leagues, and we know that at the.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Pitch clock and thrown over from space and the shift
and whatnot.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
The games are.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Fast, or you see attendancies of viewership, is of social media?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Is up with younger people? Or those changes good? And
did they work out?
Speaker 6 (12:11):
Because at first I was questioned making the pitch clock,
if that was a good thing or not?
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Where are you on some of those days?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
For me?
Speaker 10 (12:19):
I wish there was an intermediate step before the pitchclock.
I did the issue here. There's pace of play. We
have three hour games. We need to get the two
forty five. I absolutely understand that. I completely agree with that,
and I think there's some just some basic rule changes
that could have easily accomplished that one. We don't know
what with the hitter only having one time out, We
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don't know what impact that had on the time of game,
Like that drastically changes how the pitch has to happen.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
You know.
Speaker 10 (12:48):
We also could have said, hey, once a pitcher comes set,
you have five seconds to throw the ball. So that
way that you know, you know that you can't just
choke out the hitter he only has one time out,
you know, to keep that going.
Speaker 7 (12:59):
So that way the game with you.
Speaker 10 (13:01):
Because I say that because with the clock, there are
some instances where the clock is not clean up that.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
Time, it's actually changing the way for the game.
Speaker 10 (13:09):
And that's what the how MLB came solitulius. Hey, look,
we're just trying to clean up that time. Uh, you know,
to make the games faster. Well I get it, but no,
you know, if you've actually stepped through some actual game,
some important pieces a part of the game, uh, and.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
It's affected how we do our business. Let me ask
you one thing you did?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I think I.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Read somewhere where you love the way they all start
game ended?
Speaker 4 (13:32):
You a fan of the O one w am mis Uh?
Speaker 10 (13:35):
Yeah, for also game I think the home un derby
is a way not a.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Regular season not a regular season game.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
That was actually a rule change where.
Speaker 10 (13:44):
Uh you know, you know, Skemel, this.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Was going to the big league level but actually been good.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
Is they actually un rule that's the way, the way
that has been implemented.
Speaker 10 (13:55):
Uh, that's actually a really entertaining way to in the game.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
Just have the you know, the runner on side.
Speaker 10 (14:00):
Basic start the teent. That's really added a layer and
it ends the game. It's that's it's it's been worked
out great.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
So I actually loved.
Speaker 10 (14:07):
That, you know, little stuff play that first one to
see how it played out, and you know, it's actually
been great. But we were talking about the clock.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah no, no, I know because we were getting into it,
but the clock into any So so if you were
to fixed something, what what what exactly would it be?
Speaker 10 (14:27):
Yeah, no, no, you know, I think I think about
this and you you know, as a picture like you
you're really kind of at times touffing and puffing out there.
Speaker 11 (14:36):
And where are you huffing puff the most is when
runners are on base. You know, when runners are on base,
that's when those are some of the most fatiguing throws
you get made and you got to kind.
Speaker 10 (14:46):
Of sometimes reset, so so you don't want to feel rushed,
like you don't like I'm feel rushed and there's have
to throw a pinching like you're kind of managing the game.
It's kind of weird, like the flow of the game,
like if you didn't have a clock, like you know,
my basic kind of instincts, like you're you're taking account
of the runner, the scoreboard, who's coming up, what's on,
how many You're kind of going through the mental kind
of aspect of the game, and also at the same
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time trying to recover because you got to execute these
pitches at are.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Really high level and the clock definitely definitely speed you up.
Speaker 10 (15:15):
So the thirty second clock in between hitters, I feel
like it's two pass I wish we had more time
to start get that. I think there's just a basic
level of the flow there that has been stepped through.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Even if it's just a few seconds, it would help,
It would really.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Help the pitcher.
Speaker 10 (15:33):
And then we've moved from twenty seconds to eighteen, yet
the game time really hasn't changed, and so you know,
guys are just stepping up more and resetting the clock,
so you know, has it by shaving off the two seconds,
I don't think it's really impacting the overall time of game.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Whereas a pitcher you might need those an extra two seconds.
Speaker 10 (15:52):
It's in the course of a game. Why that matters because,
I mean it affects time you work for the catcher.
A lot of young guys don't have a good time
to shake off or don't want.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
To wear them. You know, pitch come on it. So
it's changed the way guys are throwing the ball.
Speaker 10 (16:09):
You know you have a ball strike pony immediately, you
know another thing that could curtail that.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Maybe there's two or three warnings.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
Before a natural ball strike. No one's trying to actually
be slow.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
I get it.
Speaker 10 (16:20):
We want to be moon flash, we wanted to forty five.
I'm all for that, but how it has actually got implemented.
I think we need to just take a second to
think about how this is going down. Because at the
end of the day, the pitching injuries are severe. I mean,
we have guys blowing out and that has to be
party equation. And party equation when you blow out is
(16:41):
you're pitching on your fatigue. So I'm not saying it's
a direct correlation. I'm not saying this is one hundred percent, No,
I get it, but is it a can ponente? I
just think it's not zero, and so if it's non zero,
how can.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
We zero that?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Max Sures are there we go? Not only is he
going to the Hall of Fame, maybe he could be
the Baseball commissioner.
Speaker 11 (16:58):
Yeah, I've had to be amotion to you with all
these rules and thinking about this and.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
Think about everybody. It was actually a great job.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Whad I did it? But it really pushed your mind
because you really got to think hitter, pitcher, everybody involved, right,
you got to think about everybody involved.
Speaker 7 (17:12):
And I've always wanted to look at that pragmatically and
do what's best for the game.
Speaker 10 (17:17):
So I guess I enjoyed it, but yeah, you know
I always had It's fun, but you know it's kind
of politics of baseball.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
You know, you get into the politics of baseball.
Speaker 10 (17:27):
You got to be on your game in order to
be you know, you're making those recommendations.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
So I enjoyed it. There he is Max Sure's or
Toronto Blue Jays ace right hand. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
In case you missed.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Rob Parker on the MLB Network here's his latest appearance
on MLBA.
Speaker 12 (17:49):
Rob Parker in the show Down, he joins us every week.
He's here with us once again, Rob, good to see you,
welcome back.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
What's up, b K? How are you always a pleasure?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Doing well?
Speaker 12 (17:57):
A great weekend of baseball? Your Padres were hot then
got swept. I'm not overreacting to that. It happens. They
were closed as very competitive. However, a sweep either way
as a statement, I'm saying for the Dodgers, that's a statement.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
I disagree.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
I think the Dodgers were desperate and they actually had
to do something because BKA, before they won those three
games in a row against the Padres, they had won
three games in a row.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
In six weeks. Think about that six weeks.
Speaker 12 (18:28):
Yeah, but we have to say even I have to
admit because I've been saying they are tad disappointing. They're
always waiting on the stretch. One we'll put it all together.
But suddenly Snell shows up. Glass, now's there, Kershaw's good.
They're Nixon and Max in the bullpen. They got guys
that never heard of throwing one hundred and three Like
they are kind of putting it into shape. When they need,
they kind of slap it into gear when they need to.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Well, I think that that was the situation that just
came because their bats were against the wall. They had
finally given up first place. Yep, and you know how
baseball things work out. They're way too good to be
as bad as they have been for such a long stretch.
So you know, your numbers speak for themselves. Those players
are very talent.
Speaker 12 (19:11):
They're too much talent, yeah, exactly, to.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Be as bad as they were. So I just think
that these things happen, and the Padres. I still like
your team.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
I like what they have.
Speaker 12 (19:20):
Oh yeah, look, I just did an essay on them.
They have three new regulars in the position, in the
position Corps three. I'll borrow Joel shermanism. It's like the
zombie Freddie Freeman, zombie Mookie Bets, like what's left of them,
still crushing home runs, winning games. They're getting older. It's
they're not quite as great, and yet they're still kind
(19:41):
of superstars. All right. Brewers have won twenty nine of
thirty four. I'm gonna say that again. Brewers have won
twenty nine of thirty four. I know your agent's tough,
are you satisfied with that.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
I mean, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I don't want to discount winning, and I get it.
You know, sports as a short MANU wins and losses.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
But when I look at the.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Brewers, the problem I have is, again, baseball has a
way of correcting itself.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Are they really that good?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
No, they're not.
Speaker 12 (20:09):
No, nobody's that good. No, nobody's that good.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
It's insane.
Speaker 12 (20:12):
However, they're winning all over the place and they have
elite talent. Contraristied the game yesterday. He's an elite guy.
He's a star. Yelich is a star. They can flat
out field, they can run, they don't give you anything,
and they've got frontline starting pitching. It's not a phantom.
These guys are for real. They are. Nobody's that good,
(20:34):
but they're very good.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
But when you look at the National League, and I
get it, where that what they've done and what they've
accomplished during the regular season, But you just talked about it.
I would take the Padres, Dodgers, and Mets over the
Brewers to even start, and I didn't even mention the Phillies.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
So it is watching Mets baseball.
Speaker 12 (20:53):
You watch Mets bace like if you want to say
Phillies before they lose Wheeler. Okay, but this at least
put the Brewers have at least put themselves with Dodgers
Padres at the very very least.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Okay, But my point is the.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Mets have had some runs last year. They had a
nice run in the postseason.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
They have, They've scuffled way, way worse than they are.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
They're not as bad as.
Speaker 12 (21:16):
They've lo true, true, but the I mean, you know,
the proof is in the pudding, as we used to say,
like they're actually getting that done. I mean, it's amazing
what they're putting together, all right, but I got.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
One Brewers number.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
They've lost eleven of the last thirteen playoff games, so
they got to show me.
Speaker 12 (21:31):
Oh my gosh, you go. You know, it's like bringing
up Buffalo Bill's playoff games. It's past tense, it's Marv Levy,
it's over. I knew you'd like that. Pete Alonzo breaks
the Mets home run record, all right, big thing in
New York, it's a constant thing around here. Is it
a big thing outside of New York?
Speaker 13 (21:50):
No?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
I think it's for Mets fans. Darrel Strawberry held it.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
For a long time, a big time favorite. I get it,
Pete Alonzo, but I just think in this whole idea
of Alonso doing this, the Mets owe him an apology
and probably a new contract. They didn't even want the
god he's one of their homegrown talents.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Well, and this is a guy who's now their all
time home run leader.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
They had seven hundred and sixty five million dollars for
Juan Soto, but they had no money for Pete Alonzo,
and he's your all.
Speaker 12 (22:20):
Time home run I think they now. It's not that
they didn't want him. I think there was a difference
of opinion as to where he slots right and right.
There's a huge disparity that doesn't make sense between Soto
and Alonzo. However, he's making twenty seven million a year.
They made him kind of whole short term and he's
got an option. So he came back without egg on
(22:41):
his face. I thought it wasn't insulting and take a
look at this. I just want to throw this out
because as far as like, hey, now he's you got
to throw three hundred million at him or whatever it is,
like herere Alonzo's number is his slash line and his
numbers this year, they're not all that different. The ops
plus is a little better this year because offense is down.
But just if I would tell people look around at
the slugging. He's slugging five fourteen for his career, that
(23:03):
includes his monstrous rookie year, and he's slugging five nineteen
this year. Got off to a great start. But he's
kind of the same guy, Rob, which is good. He's productive,
he plays, he's a total bass guy. But he has
not hit superstar. I don't know Corey Seeger level, Sodo level,
Harper Machado level. Not quite that I'll.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Agree with that.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
But the standpoint of this, he can play in New York.
Everybody can't play in New York.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
He's produced for them.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
In big moments with big home runs, right, yes, okay, yes.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
And the other thing is he stays healthy, he's in
the lineup, he's a lot of.
Speaker 12 (23:42):
He's gonna be thirty one, right, He's gonna be thirty one.
But right, there's a place in between an unrealistic contract
and good money for you. And I'm a big believer
in this. You're homegrown guy. I'm with you on that, Rob, Rob.
I want to get to this. Commissioner Rob Manford on
Sunday Night Baseball last night, he spoke at length about realignment.
Let's listen in.
Speaker 13 (24:00):
I think if we expand, it provides us with an
opportunity to geographically realign. I think we could save a
lot of wear and tear on our players in terms
of travel. And I think our postseason format would be
even more appealing for you know, entities like ESPN, because
you'd be playing up out of the east, out of
(24:20):
the West, and that ten o'clock time slot where we,
you know, sometimes get Boston Anaheim. Would be two West
Coast teams and that ten o'clock slot that's a problem
for us sometimes becomes a real opportunity for our West
Coast audience.
Speaker 12 (24:34):
Interesting, Rob, Now Rob Manford is talking down the line,
but he's talking about possibility of an eat kind of
like you know, basketball, hockey, East Coast, Eastern Conference, Western Conference.
Are we ready for that?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
I'm not ready for it.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
I get it, and I understand why leagues do it,
and financial or whatever.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
I just I'm not ready for those kind of changes.
I'm not ready for expansion. I love the baseball when
we twenty four teams.
Speaker 12 (25:01):
It'll be two teams. I think I think baseball easily
absorbs two more teams. But I'm with you in that. Yeah,
I like the idea. I'm nostalgic. I like the history
of the game. I like a National League and American League.
There were once very separate leagues. But if you were
starting getting to borrow with Joel shermanism, if you were
starting baseball today, you wouldn't start with separate leagues. You
(25:23):
wouldn't have the teams in New York not playing each
other all the time, or in Chicago not playing each other,
or LA not playing each other all the time. You'd
have them playing all the time. If you're remaking it,
you'd have them playing local rivalries playing all the time.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Yeah, I don't know. I think it gets worn out
after a while.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
To be honest, I don't want to go I just remember,
as someone who lives in Los Angeles and watching the
Dodgers play the Colorado Rockies nineteen times, I was.
Speaker 12 (25:50):
Like, that's not a hot rivalry. But there's hot rivalries within,
you know, within the realignment. There's Me's Phillies, you know, Yankees,
Red Sox. Obviously, there's a lot of hot rivalries within those.
I get it.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
But there's also a lot of dog team that you'd
have to play a lot as well, just to balance off.
Speaker 12 (26:06):
Make a dog division? Have I make a dog division.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
I'm just saying there would be a lot of bad games.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
I don't know baseball. Sometimes I think you gotta be careful.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
The league is doing well, tendance is off, fans are
into a social media.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
TV numbers are good.
Speaker 12 (26:24):
Playoff while we're doing too much.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
I love where we are right now.
Speaker 12 (26:29):
Down the line. But yeah, you can you can kind
of see it coming. I get it, all right, Rob,
great by the way you look like you're in a precinct?
Is everything all right? Was like you usually have some
elaborate background.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
I'm trying to call my attorney, but I can't. I
can't get Perry Mason on.
Speaker 12 (26:42):
The I said when you came in, I was like,
are you at the seventy fifth precinct?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Where are you?
Speaker 12 (26:47):
And I'm glad that you got one phone call and
you called us.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Thank you, Thank you. If you come bail me out,
I would.
Speaker 12 (26:55):
I would drive down there myself, all right, Rob, I'll
see after the show.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Thank you. Rob usually has.
Speaker 12 (27:00):
Fancy things behind him, at least books or something, or
a mural of himself at his own high school.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
No, this is bologing.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
It's the Parker pushback shot, the rob tackles the outlandish
takes in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 11 (27:15):
Shot.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Today, I'm pushing back on all those.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
People, including my friend Mike Springer, who don't think that
John Carlos Stanton is gonna make it.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
To the Hall of Fame. They could not be more wrong.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
If John Carlos.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Stanton gets five hundred home runs, which he's definitely on
pace for, and he gets five hundred home runs, he
will be a Hall of Famer. Go look at his numbers,
top ten in home runs per at bat, despite all
the injuries, despite all the missing games. Five hundred home
runs is a magic number. This guy wants. Led the
(27:56):
league in home runs, he won a National League MVP,
He's done stuff. And then postseason wise, go look, he's
on the top ten list of home runs in the
postseason as well. He's had a tremendous career despite the injuries.
And I'm gonna tell you he's just fifty six home
(28:16):
runs away from reaching the magical number of five hundred.
He has two years left on his contract. He has
the rest of the season. I think John Carlos stan
will reach that number, and Mike Springer he will reach
the Hall of Fame. I'm Rob Parker and that's my pushback.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
In the words of New York TV legend the late
Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time this time until
next time.
Speaker 12 (28:48):
Rob Parker out.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
He can't Davin. This could be an inside the Parker
Speaker 2 (28:53):
See you next week, the same bat time, from same
Matt's station.
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