August 29, 2025 • 57 mins
Toddfather and Kratz educate us on Little Leaguers using Big League tech, which could be why the scoring is down.
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15:11) Mets catcher Francisco Alvarez now has two hand issues to battle through.
(16:57) Breaking News during FT: The Red Sox release Walker Buehler. Who will pick him up and can he find it again like he did last October?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Phrase your Friday baby running Kratz too. What's up Kratz,
You'll like this. I think I had the first ever
FT dream of mine, first time ever that I had
a dream and it was about FT and I was
at my apartment. It's a little hazy, but there was
like internet issues and then you had to take over
and they were like, it's fine, Kratz has it. He's
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hosting the whole show.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I kid you not.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I couldn't watch it, so I was just screened off
and they're like, you're good, don't worry. Kratz is running it.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
So was it a dream that turned into a nightmare?
Or was it a dream that turned into a dream.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I just love hearing you say nightmare.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
So what is that word again? Don't say that? Oh
my god?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
How they say nightmare in Philly?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Nightmre, mirror, nightre.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
It's a nightmare. It's scary. Nightmares are scary.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Todd one day, Kratz host the whole show?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
What do you think I think you would do?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Just fine.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I don't think it would be a nightmare.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I think I would need two beers with that nightmare.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
And you could go to it, and you could go
to a tournament.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
That's the real word tour.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
In your tournament and use a cupon.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
That's true too.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
All right, before we get into biz, todd father first
show with us since Little League World Series, Great job
had it go?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
It went well, man, I thought it was good. I mean,
the only the only thing was seventeen shutouts. The pitching
was absolutely tremendous. A lot of new faces got great recognition.
The team from Connecticut did awesome. I thought they had
a chance to make the finals with this team from
Nevada truly incredible run the first time ever making it
(02:03):
to the USA Championship. Let him known the World Series Championship.
They ran into a juggernaut. Le sin Saw was absolutely incredible.
He could throw up to eighty three miles an hour.
He threw eighty two miles an hour one pitch in
that last game. He didn't need to. He stayed seventy
five and that's just absolute fuzz. His hands were the
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same size as his mind. I think Kratzy years would
be a little bigger because you got bigger hands.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
But this kid was tremendous.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
You know, they weren't the best hitting team, but you know,
literally when you got the best hitting team, our pitching team.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Good things are gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Kid look dominant. Must have been the launch angles. Launch
angles have probably made it to little league Little league
coaching now, So I don't know offenses down. What's wrong
with these kids? Unbelievable. It can't hit eighty three miles
an hour from from forty five feet? Oh crazy, no chance.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
One more question, in all seriousness, do you think that
teams are using cameras and analytics to help them pitch better?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I think these kids go to specific coaches and they
have all these mechanisms and what's the thing called where
you know it shows all the numbers on their cratzy
you mean like ah man, I forget what it's called.
But you like track man, rap soda all that at twelve.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Oh my god, at eight years old.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
People aren't People don't even go to facility. Like if
you go to a facility and it doesn't have that,
kids are gonna be like this is boring. What are
we doing? Like why are we even here? Like they
want to see like every swing they're like, bang, what
is it?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
And they have like competitions in games. It's like a
video game for kids, and they throw balls and they're like,
what was it? WHOA, that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Yeah, yeah, it's It's truly incredible the gifts that these
kids have nowadays instead of what Crats and I did.
Get in the cage and take as many swings as
you can until they kick you out.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Pretty much, I didn't even have a I didn't even
matter a cage. I didn't have a cage. Oh it's
totally better because you learn it, you learn it, but
I didn't even have a cage. Our high school didn't
have a cage. I didn't have a cage at my house.
I saved up my money one time and I bought
a soft toss machine that I still have. I'll take
a picture of it and a net that I hung
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from my mom's clothesline, and that's how I would hit.
I would hit into it, and the soft toss machine
it would like slowly drop a ball down in beak
and it would hit and I would hit it and
I would hit it because I got sick of hitting
off the tee. So I think it was like it
was like seventy two dollars or something. I saved up
my money and bought it. Still got it to this day.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
The high speed cameras cost a little bit more than that.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I'm still a little bit tronic.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
When I was watching, I was just like, I wonder
how much everything camera, why tech wise is helping these pitchers.
And there you go, clearly a ton. So we've hit
a point where pitching's dominating at the little league circuit.
Let's charge, Let's charge them. I mean we've been doing
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this all week. Kyle Schwarber four home runs, not that
although we have had three of these this year. Nick Kurtz,
as well as Gino Suarez, just punishing the baseball. Schober
had a shot from five. His kryptonite is position players,
So if you're trying to get them out in the playoffs,
position players, just keep that in mind. As the Phillies
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beat the crap out of the Braves, we're going to
go live to our Pennsylvania reporter Eric Kratz with more
on the Phillies being the team of the week, first
in a bad way, now in a great way.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Reporting live from Boston, the Philly reporter Eric Kratz sees
the ups and downs of the Phillies offense. I mean
it came out and just hammered. There's a lot of
guys that had a lot of good, good numbers against
cal Quantrill last night. I'm not saying he didn't have
a chance. I'm saying the Phillies got home, they got
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boat raced in New York. And I just I think
that the Citizens Bank Ballpark fans just they hit different.
They really do. And I know people are gonna be like,
oh man, well what about this place. Well, but there's
other places that are great. I'm saying that this group
of players, including Kyle Schwarber, feeds off of this this
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fan base, He feeds off of this stadium. And to
do something like this historic. The number that's crazy to
me is twenty one people have ever done it in
Big League history. Three have done it this year. Now,
this was a laugher. Kurtz. His game was a laugher.
The one that Suarez dead earlier this year was they
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needed every one of those four home runs. But we
were driving in the car and we had actually hit
traffic last night and somebody texted me that he has
four home runs and we were stopped dead in traffic
on eighty four, which, by the way, New England traffic sucks.
But I got to see him face Videl Vidal Bruhan,
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and I really thought he was gonna do it. I
obviously have been brutal with my locks this year, but
in the moment, I'm like, oh my gosh, this is it.
How Schwarver is gonna be the only person ever to
hit five home runs? And he popped it up. Ha.
It was awesome to watch, though.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah, I mean, he is having a ridiculous year, godfather,
and this is his best year ever in his mid thirties.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
In his walk year, in his walk yere.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
He is putting up some video game numbers that you know,
when it comes to home runs and home runs and games,
he's taking that city by storm. I gotta be honest
with you. He is fun to watch. He's built for Philadelphia.
Cratzy said it too. He had an easy, probably the
easiest chance to get that fifth home run, and he
said himself, He's like, I wish I wasn't trying to
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hit a home run.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Easiest thing he could have got a single.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
I don't know, the guy's got forty nine home runs.
You know, if he does that every day crowds, he
might have ninety home runs. I think that'd be pretty cool.
But it's not going to happen. He is, you know,
all joking aside. This is a guy that every team
is going to want, and would want and should want.
He is a guy that will bat first, he'll bat fourth,
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he'll bat any position, and he is a leader, and
he brings that pain every day to the ballpark. And
I think it's truly incredible. I love him, absolutely love him.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
He stepped in. He stepped in as a leader, exactly
what she said Todd because I think, you know, they
signed Bryce Harper, and I don't necessarily think every time
he signed a superstar that they're the leader in the clubhouse.
I think there's too much on their plate, and I
think Kyle Schwoba has taken that. He kind of helped.
He kind of helped along with Reese Hoskins when he
first came here, then Reese left, and I don't think
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he ever stepped on Reese's toes in that way. I
think it was like, hey, I can help, I have
this expertise. He's just a guy that everybody wants to follow,
like he's he's the dude. The thing that he's improved
this year. His batting average is up, his strikeout percentages down,
he's doing his damage against lefties. I think he has
the most home runs versus lefty relievers this year in
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Major League Baseball. Before it was like, oh, just stack
your team with lefties, bring him in and he can't
do jack against him. He's got another one last night,
and it's it's awesome to see, especially since he's a
guy who's going to free agency. We don't know, we
don't know what free agency looks like for a essentially
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only DH. He's played a few games and left, I
think like eight or nine games and left. But it'll
be exciting to see because we saw Pete Alonso not
have a great year last year and the market kind
of hurt him. I'll be so interested to see what
happens here because he really he looks like a twenty
five to thirty million dollars a year d H. Some
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teams are just automatically going to be out on that,
and he is. He is essential in Philly.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Next year will be his age thirty three season. That's
a factor too. But wait, I want to spend a
couple of minutes here before we get to Kenny ballgame,
and we'll get his take on this. Let's cw the
Kevin Pillar tweet from last night and our buddy in
the ft team, he said, need to start talking about
this man for National League MVP now. The way I
(10:33):
look at it, many of the younger writers just look
at all thing called war and on the Fangrafts War list,
Kyle Schwarber is, does anyone want to guess where he
is placement wise.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
In all baseball towards his number.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
In all of baseball? Where he's place.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Fifteenth, twentieth the way you're talking, Scott, I feel like
it's not that good of a number.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I'm gonna say thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
You had it first. He's nineteen. You said twenty. I'll
take that first hand.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I got nervous. I got nervous.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
No, I know, I didn't want to. I poker faced it.
I just wanted to stay cool. But yeah, he's got
four and a half war. There's tons of NL players
ahead of him, including Shoeo Tani, who's third in all
of baseball at Fangrafts War with a seven point one number.
So when Polar puts that out, you get a lot
of the Dodger fans are playing like, oh that's cute,
Like did you see Otani pitch the other day too,
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even though Tani's obviously at DH as well, he's pitching,
and you know, you don't want to lose sight of
what he's doing and how different it is from everyone
else and the fatigue of that. But Trey Turner has
a five point eight war. He's ahead of Kyle Schuberkratz
Perdomo on the Diamondbacks and Corbyn Carol on the Diamondbacks,
Pete Crow, Armstrong, Fernando Tatis, Christopher Sanchez. I'm not gonna
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I'm gonna skip the pitchers because I think that's a
different world. But Lynn Dor Kyle Tucker all ahead of
Kyle schober By fan grafts war. Do you think that
he should be a candidate for the top spop Cose
he's gonna get votes, but should he win the award?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Uh? Is it two thousand and six? Is it two
thousand and eight? Then maybe yeah, But again we had
this argument before when when the players voted Ronald Acunya
the best player in baseball, it's Sho Heo Tani. Unfortunately
for everybody else the MVP award because you know, unless
they make up another new rule for show, hey, he's
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gonna win it. He should win it. He's the most
valuable player as far as value goes. Because we start
talking about value, y is he the most valuable player
of the Phillies team right now? Yes, but he's not
more valuable than what show Hay is in the game
of baseball because he pitches and hits. Sorry, it's just
it will become one day. I don't know if we'll
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be alive. It'll be called the show Hey Otani award.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Wow, Okay, I think we'll be alive for it.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
We got a second, so I can go on this
for a second or yeah. Yeah, So I wrote down
all I wrote down.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Before I got on here, some significant stats here, and
I compared Swarve with o'tana. You know, average two forty
eight swar but two seventy eight Otani. Okay, I'm not
the biggest on average, but I'm also realistic that, you know,
to forty eight is probably not going to cut it
for an MVP in my opinion. And then I looked
at RBIs and home runs. Swarber's beating him significantly in
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RBIs by about thirty four RBIs if my math is right,
I mean, that's that's a big number. For me, Uh,
he's up four in home runs. I mean that's pretty close,
and then Otani pretty much beats him on everything on
base percentage, you know, slug ops runs by you know
about thirty and change. So if we're going on numbers alone,
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I think Otani still is that guy. But some significant
stats like RBI's is big for me. I think that
still has to play. So I think you still have
to put Swarbur in that conversation for sure.
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Francisco Alvarez broke his pinky on a hip Bi pitch,
so he's hopeful he's gonna play again. That sucks, though, Kratz.
I mean, he's got problems now with both hands. He
is getting beat up. You're rehabbing it. Then you're hit
by a pitch in the minors.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I don't know if it was a hip by pitch
or if it was a Oh, if it was a
foul ball, I think it was. I think it was
a foul ball when he was catching. But either way,
dang it, man, dang it, because this Mets team is
starting to get that momentum without him in there. I
think he brings something to this team that they're now
going to be out another It's amazing to me that
(15:50):
broken pinky is like two to four weeks. It feels
like it should be way longer, but still like hand
issues when you're swinging todd you are a good hitter.
A nobody wants that.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
No, and I think to make it short and sweet.
Dusty Baker always told me the two things you have
to worry about in baseball are your hands and your feet.
Everything else you can kind of find a way to
get through for the most part, but make sure those
hands and feet are okay.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
And this guy I.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Smiled because you just think of your pinky being this
little finger, then it causes a lot of problems.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah, Anthony Tacoma, Yeah, exactly. Doctor Evil has other thoughts.
Anthony Dicomo covers. The team said, the hope is that
he can play in two to three days, given that
it's a small fracture of the pinky. But it's a
broken bone, not ideal. And he was out playing catch yesterday,
but he had a trainer catching the ball for you.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
It's a big deal. It's a big deal if you
can't frame. If you can't frame the ball, now you're
not catching it squarely. It affects everything and it drains
on you. When your hand hurts catching, it sucks. All good.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Hey, we have some ft breaking news. This. According to
Jeff Passing, the Boston Red Sox released veteran right handed
Walker Boehler, So he is cut. I believe that another
team can pick him up if they want him in
time to put him on a roster. That could turn
into an October appearance for Walker Buehler. But it's been
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a rough year. Are you surprised about this one? Top father?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Yeah, just because of the name alone. I mean, this guy,
you know, pitching wise came in and won a World Series.
I mean, it doesn't seem too long ago, right, It's
just I don't I mean, listen, wow, Yeah, I mean,
I know a bunch of teams I could take a
picture like this in their caliber and just bring them
in for the rest of the year. This one, you know,
(17:46):
I'd like to read more into this and understand why
you know this seven and seven you know, you know,
like a one point negative war, all right, I don't know,
I don't know. I'm very confused. I know the Red
Sox are doing really well. It's just one of those
scenarios where I would love to hear about you know
what the what else?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Is going on.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah, they bumped him the rotation. I mean the Red
Sox are looking for another starter, which they hope to
be Peyton Toley. Right, they've got their big three right now,
absolutely thriving with Crochet. What a pickup for them this offseason.
And then Brian Bao has really found his form. Same
with Lucas Giolito, Kratz. You know, it's funny with Bueller.
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He's very straightforward. So he's like, I get it. I
mean I'm paraphrasing here, I know why I was bumped
out of the rotation. And then of course we'll get
word from him on this next move from Boston after
a one year contract. His regular season numbers are almost
identical from a run prevention standpoint two last year, and
then all of a sudden in the postseason he looked different.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I mean, that's a it's a bold move by the Socks.
They feel like they're in a strong position to be
able to let this to be able, let this happen,
you know what. Just like Todd said, you gotta be
there to see kind of more more than just his
stat line. His stat line is not very good, and
it's an example of when guys have surgery. They don't
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always come back to be the guy they were before.
A lot of the time, yes, but not always. And
he hasn't consistently held his velocity, hasn't consistently been able
to shape his breaking ball. But in the playoffs last year,
everybody remembers how he finished out the game and he
threw you know, he threw the curveball to finish out
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the World Series. And I think he had thrown like
one or two other times. But the start before he
had a stinker two starts before, and then he came
out and he had a great start where he was
punching tickets. So to me, I bet he's thrown out
of the bullpen for the Dodgers by the time, by
the time postseason rolls around.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Wow, wow, Hey, remember last year they have to game
three NLCS against the Mets. At the command was tight,
and then I was looking back, best drop ever on
his knuckle curve, most sweep right, most horizontal movement ever
on his sweeper, most fade on the sinker. Spin rate
was the highest it had been some sticky stuff enforcement,
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which you know, you look at that time period a
few years ago, it's different. He finished the playoff run
with thirteen consecutive scoreless innings, including the final three outs
of the World Series. Again, if you're a Boston friend
right now and you're watching this and you've been watching
him perform all year and not perform at a nice level,
a five and a half is cra just like the
Dodgers watched from him last year, Like see, we've got
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our big boy prospect coming up, Peyton Pulley, We've got
a big three right now, and maybe may finds it
a little bit for us. We're good. But I'm with you,
Todd father. I love the good storyline, and I hope
that he gets scooped up by another team and we
get playoff Walker Buehler, because I mean, he'll say like,
I'm missing that. Have you behind my pitches last year?
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And then all of a sudden he found it?
Speaker 4 (20:59):
He did, He did for sure, So again, what have
you done for me lately? Attitude? I guess if that's
the case, then yeah he should be gone. But to
know the caliber of picture he is, he still got
a lot left in the tech.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Scott was Scott in? Were you insinuating that it got
a little stickier as the postseason went on? Were you
insinuating that the jump in spin rate the jump in movements,
Scott Braun, you are devious.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
On a Friday, I just dropped things on the table.
This is my job all day. I just dropped things
like this, and then I just see what everyone picks up.
And Ira Kratz has actually mised her conspiracy theory.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
So I just dropped it.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I truly don't know. Of course I don't know, but
I also just like to say, hey, here's what the
statistics are reading. What do you think.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
My thought, yeah, my thought is he did a great
job of making a positive adjustment for himself in his
last thirteen innings. But I also don't want to escape
the fact that because we harp on the Pirates being cheap,
Walker Bueller is making twenty one point zero five million
this year. You break that down for September. Now, I
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know he's released. I know he's released. It's not a
waiver dump, but there's some cash there that maybe they're
gonna think again about how they spend their money in
the offseason instead of going twenty one million dollars for
a I hope it works out kind of picture. Solidify it,
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go and take do what it takes to get Corbin
Burns to not sign with the Diamondbacks. I know he
got hurt, but do what it takes to put another
monster piece in this rotation to pair with Crochet. He's
gonna be there for a long time.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I remember I watched one game start recently and I
look back. I found it on the eighth of August
where he shut down the Padres and it's the post
trade deadline Padres. Six innings, four hits, no runs, two walks,
four strikeouts, nine ground balls, ninety six pitches. So sometimes
guys get cut right and they'll have these kind of
numbers on the season, and then you look at the
(23:17):
recent numbers over the past couple months and you're like,
I can't find a good outing results wise, there's something here. Yeah,
Dodgers fans are losing their mind right now, at least
some of them, because many of them probably haven't been
watching Walker Buehler this year. Right, we do have somewhat
of a regional sport with the way that teams consume
or with the way that fans consume their team's games. Right, Like,
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you might listen to FT during the day, but then
if you've got the red Sox playing and then you're worried.
Oh well, if you're on the West Coast, you might
still be at work, and then you're watching your Dodgers
at night, you might not see much of Walker Bueller.
So you're like, hey, those are the same numbers as
last year. Let's give it a shot.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
I'm interested. I'm interested to see what happens now because
he was released. He was released. This isn't waiver dump.
The Red Sox are paying the entirety of the rest
of his salary. I'm interested to see because there's no motivation.
No team is going to pay him more than the
minimum for the month of September. I'm interested to see
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where he chooses to go and how that like not
courting process, but like how that process goes, Like he
essentially gets to choose from all the teams that want
to want him to pitch because they're all going to
pay him the exact same.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Oh, He's going wherever he feels like there's a team
that can help get him right.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
I'm interested. Spota, spota.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
There's no much more. There's no more to say really
about it. It's just just one of those things where
as you get older. It's like, you know, a s
Kratz and I got older, and the opportunities like you
want to be on a winning ball club too as well.
So oh it's it's tough. You want to play and
then you get in situations. Well, well let's see who
wants me first, and then you go from there.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Yankees, wouldn't that be great? What do you think?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I mean?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I'd love to see it. I'm looking up to see
who he dealt against this year and see if because
there's a lot of recency bias. He dealt against the Phillies,
he deal against the Padres, he dealt against.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
The Rays.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
But you figure he wants to try and go to
a team where he can pitch in October and reprove himself.
That's what he did. I mean here in this contract
based on October. Before October, you're looking at Walker Deeeler
and you're like, he's gonna get a small deal. He's
going to get a one year contract. But he was
gonna get a one year contract at a much lower rate.
And remember the Dodgers also didn't throw the qualifying off
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or his way. The Dodgers were like, hey, we want
you to be in a good spot. That's something that
many team games canon won't do, and maybe they were
thinking about if that was going to end up being
the number, and you know he was going to take it.
So they said, hey, no qualifying offer, go out there
to the world, don't be attached to a camp pick
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and selected.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
They did him a solid.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
It was pro, it was pro. So yeah, I'm with
you here, I'm looking at where else he thrived this year.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Pitch well against He's pitched well against not not many.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Yankees and Padres. But I mean for me, it's more
sorry Phillies and Padres. Who needs him?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Right?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Who's interested in picking up a guy that can be
a fifth starter for you and maybe catch fire in
the postseason?
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Cubs, it's a good name.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I like that too. That's a good name. Someone's gonna
do it, so we'll see it's a league minimum guy
at this point. Red Sox eat the money anyway. Breaking news,
Walker Buehler cut by the Boston Red Sox. Boston's in
a good spot. I mean, this was the part of
the team that you were probably concerned about, was do
they have the pitching. They have the pitching right now,
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and if you believe in all these prospects that are
coming up right now and thriving. Then they might have
just added themselves another guy who can pitch big boy
innings for them in October and they looked at the
roster Alex Korra. Kratz is pretty decisive and he has
more control of the roster than I think most managers do.
Would you agree with that?
Speaker 3 (27:40):
I would think so yes. I mean that would be
my initial read from what you see out there, because
I think he kind of has that GM mentality too,
So I think there's conversation. If there's somebody has more,
it would be his cohort in Houston. I think A J.
Hinch probably has more. But okay, I think I think
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Klora is up there for sure.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Yeah, decision has been made. Anyway, let us know if
you're looking at this afterward, or if you're watching this
lab right now, where you think he could end up
and if you think he can find it again like
he did last October. OKAKP, this is your first arena
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There are some other cards that we're chasing, and you
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Now let's open up our pack and see how we do.
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Pirates have placed ikf on outright waivers. He can continue
playing for the Pirates throughout the processed playoff. Teams have
until the rest of the weekend to claim him if
they want him for the postseason?
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Krats, what do we call that dump deadline? How did
we forget that? We even talked about the Pirates yesterday?
We said Andrew he and he's already on the waiver wire.
How is Tommy fam not on the waiver wire? And
then we completely forgot about a guy who can play
four big league positions at above average level. Of course
he's gonna get picked up.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
And of course he's eighty one played appearances, shy a
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars roster bonus. He of
course has performance incentives tied to his deal. Todd father
for me at this point though, I mean, I know
he got moved over there, but don't do performance bonuses
if you're gonna be with the Pirates. Just know that
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as a free agent. What Kratz, what are we missing?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Oh no, no, just two years in a row. Pirates
did this again last year. But don't worry about They're
definitely trying to put the best team out there. Pirates fans.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
They did this to ikf last year. Remember they put
him in that super awkward spot. They're like, oh, we
can put you back in if you want to screw
over this other player that we now put in front
of you.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Yes, and then he plays it all year this year,
so it happens to him two years in a row.
And they cut rowdy last year also, so it's not
just two times. They've done it three times that we.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Know of.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Balloney man, don't if I'm a player, no more incentive.
Just pay me the extra money, then go after the
extra bag.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
They won't Pirates won't sign you. Then good that you
know that, Todd, they cut you.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Better than box scores. First off, let's just do a
shout out to Taylor Rashie, who, after six minor league
seasons and a serious injury, made his major league debut
yesterday afternoon at twenty nine years old. Three scoreless innings
picked up to save Diamondbacks beat the Brewers again. Brewers
an old funk, but that's okay, not a crazy funk.
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They just were on a ridiculous run. But krats, this
is an e K special right here for the congrats
to a guy who has persevered, gone through adversity, done
the whole deal just to make it to this moment.
You know what this is like?
Speaker 3 (31:48):
It's so awesome. I hope he was able to soak
it in decently long out outing that they put him
out there for. But I hope he was able to
soak it in. I hope he didn't. Nothing got in
the way of like enjoying it, because stuff can really
go fast as much as you're like, man, I had
six he had six years to like prepare for this moment,
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Like it goes fast. I had, however many years. I
had eight or nine years to prepare for it. And
when you get caught up, you're like, oh, I gotta
do this, I gotta do that, I gotta do you know,
I gotta be here.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
You know.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
It's it's such an awesome moment for him. I hope
he got to really enjoy it. And the part where
you know, the injuries or injury, the serious injury he
had a he had to overcome that. That's a level
I don't understand, like that is really really tough. So
it has to feel fulfilling for him.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Resilient, resilient, just keep going.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
It's just one of those stories, just like Krats had
and so many other guys, just the battle of day
in and day out, grind of being in the minor leagues,
with injuries, not seeing your family, everything plays a part
in it. And for that day for him, I'm sure
he went home, sat on his you know, his hotel.
Ben was like, wow, it was all worth it. So
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congratulations to him. Three scoolless innings and got to save
get that scorecard, big dollar hanging up in your house.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
You well deserve.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
There you go. All right, Let's get to the New
York Mets, who fell to the Marlins after the big
sweep of the Phillies. The one down spot with the
Mets even in that Phillies series was Ryan Helsley continuing
to struggle. And this just came out from Anthony to
Como covering the team that Mets officials believe he is
tipping pitches and the frustration level is high for him
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right now. They've been aware of the issue for weeks,
but it's still a problem as they think that, you know,
hitters are getting really good swings on fastballs and that
there are really good takes on his sliders. In the
story here from Dacomo, he said they identified the issue
as a little tick the right hander makes with his
arms when coming set. That arm position changes based on
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whether Helsley's throwing a fastball or which quote makes it
a whole lot easier to hit? And then here's the
quote Crafts from Helsley. He said, I'm not trying to
sound arrogant or anything, but I feel like my stuff's
too good to get hit around as consistently as it
has since I've been here. We've played mostly teams in
the hunt, and a lot of teams nowadays will have
guys who look specifically for those things. It's pretty glaring
and obvious when I'm doing it. I mean, they have
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been smashing him. I mean he's given it more than
a run an inning right now in his first i
think ten appearances with the Mets.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
He's also been throwing less strikes. His walk rate is
definitely up, but he's throwing less strikes early in account
than he ever did at any point in his Cardinal's career.
He didn't just pick up a tick when he went
to New York. He didn't just pick up a tick
because now he's not throwing in the ninth inning and
he doesn't have his walkout music like his The way
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he's attacking hitters, whether it's a mindset because he's throwing
in a seventh or eighth inning, whether it's the pitches
that are called, whether it's the Mets. I mean, the
Mets have done such an amazing job of, you know,
getting the most value out of guys may not work.
Their approach or their mindset of how they're doing things,
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how they're approaching attacking hitters may not work for everybody.
So to me, it's okay that it's not a tip.
Now they're saying it's a tip, he's tipping. My question
would be in the thirty six innings that he threw
for the Cardinals, he wasn't tipping, and now in the
almost nine innings that he's thrown for the Mets, he's tipping.
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To me, it is based on his early count strikes,
So anything oh oh one to oh two to oh
two to one, his ball percentage is higher than it
ever has been at any point in his career.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Yeah, and as good hitters as all these professional guys are,
I mean, you know, you come set. If you see
just a little all of a sudden or a little
hand moment, yeah, it's gonna show.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
I mean, listen, this guy's got nasty stuff. Should he
be getting hit like this?
Speaker 1 (36:10):
No?
Speaker 4 (36:10):
But they're professional hitters. When you know what's coming. And
I tell this to everybody, even if you know what's coming,
it's still hard to hit. But you're gonna square the
ball up a lot more. Whether it goes and play
or you don't get a hit, you're gonna your swing
is gonna be a lot better when you know what's coming.
So especially as a professional hitter, and it is frustrating,
and guess what, you gotta figure it out. You got
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to change something soon because playoffs are coming. They're right
around the corner.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Yeah, this dude can top out at one oh three,
but he's got a ten to three, eight eeright eleven
appearances since joining the New York Mets to be continued.
This team's going to be in the playoffs most likely,
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from ten games to seven upon the appeal, and he's
gonna begin serving it tonight. So it's a week of
one man down on the roster for the Seattle Mariners Crats.
That's a big jump.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Ten to seven, it's a huge jump. And anything over
the way I heard it explained, anything over five for
a position player is massive. Five or more is a
massive suspension. So when it came out of ten, you
knew it was gonna go down. I thought I'd go
down to eight. But whatever, seven, it's a lot except
the malicious intent they've set. They've drawn the line in
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the sand with a seven game suspension for maliciously throwing
the bat at a pitcher, no matter what the situation was.
He didn't toss it like Wilson Contreras did. But I
don't know, I don't know. I feel like seven's a
little little cheap, little thin.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
I remember seeing this video down like every time he
got it. I'm laughing because you don't usually see anything
like this. You know, I'm not condoning it at all.
It's just, you know, I don't know what the right
suspensions should be. But if I'm this guy right now,
I really need to check myself and understand, like, man,
I need to calm down. I'm playing professional baseball. I
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know I got to hit a bunch of times it
wasn't you know, MLB caliber guys. So you got to
really understand, to take a step back and understand, like
guys you know down in the bushes per Se don't
throw him many strikes, but he needs to go find
a high school team and get some swings in before
he comes back.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
There's a big risk for the Yankees to send all
that pitching to San Diego in a trade for the
big outfielder. It's coming from Mike Petrello. It turns out
Trent Grisham was worth it. That's cute. I mean, Todd Pyther,
you can speak to that. I mean, obviously the Soto,
it was the Sodo trade, but it's also turned into
the Trent Grisham deal where some people are like, why
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are they taking on Trent Grisham and whatever it was
last year five million bucks. He's been a banger for
them this year.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
Banger, and he's playing more so. I think there's a
couple of things. He's he's his starter. You know, he's
not going back and forth not playing. It's hard to
do as you get a little older in your career.
He's got a knack for the zone. He knows his zone,
and I think that is something that needs to be
said and in a good place because a lot of
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guys are free swingers. This guy, when he gets a
pitch in his zone, he's not missing it. He's got power.
He squares the ball off, and he's just been doing
it this whole year. You got to give kudos to
him for coming back and just getting after it and
helping this club. You know, especially when a judge goes
down or Stanton hasn't played in a while, they're gonna
need some key cogs like a Ben Rice and Trent
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Grisham to step up, both left handed hitters, and they're
not to be messed with. Those two guys have been
doing really well and Grisham has been a great center
field or two. So for him, I would be proud
if I was him, especially where he was last year.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
For sure. And this is a great example of the
theory that I have that regular everyday guys, when they
become bench players, what exactly would their numbers be. He's
having a great year. This is probably this is easily
his best year that he's ever had. But to go
from hitting one ninety, he had a ops plus of
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ninety one which was one of the lowest of his
career too. Now he's at one twenty nine. All are
great numbers. All are great numbers to me. His value
is the fact that they can keep Judge healthy by
pushing him back to right field. All the wear and
tear that center field put on can put on Judge's
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body over the long course of two seasons in a row.
I think it's huge and that's there's no value in that.
I mean, there's no like statistic for that, but there's
a huge value in the fact that the big fellow
can keep playing. That's what he said.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
He said, all right, now, we're going to throw to
our al East reporter Todd Father, Todd Fraser to get
the lowdown on this division. And we're gonna start it
with a quote from Jazz Chishol, who's always good for
a quote. And he's shown the confidence that the Yankees
are not just thinking about the playoffs, they're thinking about
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the division. So let's cue it up. And he said
of the Yankees, now four games back up Toronto Boston,
what is three and a half back? He still believes
they can win the East. Quote, we want to win
the division. We don't just want to get to a
wildcard spot right now. It's just like, we're going to
go out there and win that, and then we're going
to go and win the World Series. I expect nothing
less from a confident player like Jazz Todd father, what
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was he going to say, We just hope we get
in as a wild card. That would be fun, that'd
be swell.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (42:50):
No, I mean you've got to have the confidence of
your team first and foremost. Jazz is a different kind
of dude, bron and I respect it in a way,
and some times I'm just like, what is he doing?
You know, and the funniest, you know, out of control way.
But yes, the division is still at hand, and I
still think the Yankees, I still think the Red Sox
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and Blue Jays all have a really good shot. Out
of course, the Blue Jays have the best shot because
they're winning. I looked at both all the schedules. The Yankees,
I feel like, have a little bit of the easier schedule.
The Blue Jay is gonna have a tough schedule, you know,
during this stretch coming up. Yeah, why wouldn't you have
the confidence of thinking that you're gonna win, you know,
the division and win the World Series, you know, putting
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yourself in that situation. And if you're not talking about
winning the World Series, then why even play? So you
gotta have confidence, you got you gotta let your team
know and understand that, you know, there's still a chance.
Four games is nothing with you know, a little over
a month to play. I mean, there's a lot of games.
And they all got to play each other. So when
the Red Sox play the Blue Jays, Yankees play the
Blue Jays, vice versa, they all played each other. One
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team is going to gain a game or two over
the other. So again, this one is up for grabs.
I love his confidence. He's gonna tell you how it is.
You know, you can't knock a guy for that.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
But are they gonna do it? Are they gonna win
the division? Top needed? I mean, we can't. We can't
waffle here.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
If I had to choose right now, I would say
no right now.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
And where was Jazz saying this ten ten games ago
when they were swooning, when they weren't hitting dingers? Like
it's always that the the rhetoric in baseball is ride
the highs, ride the highs, and diminish the lows. When
you're riding good, enjoy it. But when you're riding bed,
just hey, you know what, we're gonna bounce out of it.
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So you gotta have that kind of positive mindset. No team,
I've never met a legitimate big lee player that said,
pretty sure we're gonna lose this game today. I don't
think we have a chance like that would be That
would be a brutal way to go through a season. Hey.
Speaker 1 (44:56):
Also, I think this is a good time to remind
everyone that some teams are really good and some teams suck.
And schedule watching and predicting things on schedules are real.
Now is your Can you run into a team that's
playing better ball?
Speaker 3 (45:12):
Right?
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Like? Are the Rockies now? Like the Rockies in April
or May? Of course not right? If you are following
the season on a daily basis, then you can look
at the schedule and say, hey, right now, that's a
team I'd run a run into. Right, And just in general,
Todd Father, let's pick the Yanks coming off a bad
weekend against the Red Sox. How about the Washington Nationals?
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For you? Are you not you kicking, cheering and screaming
in the clubhouse about who you get to face next
and say, hey, boys, time to pad the stats. Time
to get back on track and beat the crap out
of a team that we are much better than, and
take all of our frustration from the weekend out on
a team that doesn't have the pitching to keep up
with us.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (45:55):
I mean, listen, Yankees are nine to three in their
last twelve. I mean, they've been hitting homers left and right,
and they've been playing bad teams. We understand that. I
think we all get it.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
But guess what.
Speaker 4 (46:06):
You gotta beat these bad teams. You gotta stomp them.
And that's the best part of the winning ball clubs.
They find ways to you know, sweep teams. Take three
out of four. Those you have to do during a
season in order to be top in your division. Okay,
well you make the playoffs, you know, winning two out
of three from these teams, of course, you know. But
you know, everyone's like, oh, they beat the bad teams. Yeah,
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you're supposed to beat the bad teams. Okay, they haven't
done well against winning teams. But again, what gets you
back into the division, what gets you back into that
playoff atmosphere and talked about, is beating the teams you're
supposed to beat. So again, if I'm the Yankees, if
I'm any team that's playing a White Sock, a Colorado,
a pirate team, a national team, it's sweep or go home.
Speaker 2 (46:50):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (46:51):
And you have to think that way coming into all
these games. And you will see if you take care
about your team winning, you'll worry about the other team's
gonna work about having to chase you at the end
of the year.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
Yeah, krats. It drives me nuts sometimes when I'll see,
you know, a baseball broadcaster, wright or whatever, be like, well,
anythinking happen, it doesn't matter. Looking at the schedule is overrated.
I'm like, no, it is rated. It is rated accurately.
The Yankees are playing the Nats in the White Sox
this week, and they're slugging the crap out of the ball. Okay,
so let's do this. Let's play a game. Let's look
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at the schedules. There's only one month left to go
on the season. And you asked Todd father if you
thought that a team could catch the Jas. He said, no, krats.
I'll read out the schedules for you and you tell
me if you feel like there's a shot, and also
then Todd Father, you can think about this one. Which
team has a better chance, Yankees or Red Sox of
catching the Blue Jays based on what's left in the season.
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So first I'm going to start with Toronto and what
they have left this year. So they're playing this weekend
against the Brewers. Brewers, Hey, you would rather catch them
now than two weeks ago. Then they're in Cincinnati, Then
they're in the taken on the Yankees. Then they take
on the Astros for three and the Oriels for three,
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followed by the Rays for four down in Tampa. And
they'll be on the road for three against Kansas City,
followed by the twenty third through the twenty fifth of
September against Boston, and then again finishing up with the Rays.
That's the Blue Jays schedule, and as you can see,
they're three and a half games clear of the Red Sox.
Next up with the Red Sox. Would you say, Kratz.
Speaker 4 (48:31):
Said, I said, I said, that's a tough schedule for me.
In my opinion, I think that might be the toughest
schedule out of the three.
Speaker 1 (48:40):
Okay, so Red Sox coming up this weekend, and I
know its schemes tonight with their rookie Tolly. But they've
got the Pirates for three this weekend. The Pirates suck.
They've got Cleveland after that at home, so a six
gamer with Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Then they hit the road
for the Diamondbacks, where not the same team. I mean,
they played pretty well this against the Brewers, but not
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the same team that they were in the first half.
The A's were playing pretty good ball. This is their
time of year. Then they've got their series against the Yankees,
last one of the year from the twelfth to the fourteenth.
Then they're home against the A's. Then they're on the
road against Tampa and Toronto, and then their last series
is against a Tigers team that you do want to
face for those last three games because they most likely
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won't be playing for anything. And lastly, Todd Father, you've
got the Yankees finishing up with three more games against
the White Sox. Then they have three in Houston, three
against Toronto at home, three at home against the Tigers,
three in Boston, three in Minnesota. Oh man, they love
the Twins, three in Baltimore, three at home against the
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White Sox, and then three at home against the Orioles.
You're right, I think the Jays have the toughest schedule
of the three that I just mentioned.
Speaker 4 (49:50):
The Yankees last thirteen games, they can easily go ten
and three, in my opinion, easily ten and three, if
not eleven and two with the teams they're facing, with
the Twins and the Orioles in the White Sox, that
might be the one where it kicks them to win
the division. I feel deeply in my soul if it's
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a three four game race, I could see them jumping
a Blue Jay or Red Sox team to win the
division solely on the last thirteen.
Speaker 2 (50:20):
Games of the year.
Speaker 3 (50:22):
So now they are going to win the division?
Speaker 4 (50:25):
I said, you didn't hear what I remember. I said,
as of right now, I don't think they're going to
win the division as of right now. Anything can happen,
an injury, you know, yeah, somebody goes away hot streak.
Speaker 3 (50:40):
I think it ultimately comes down to head to head,
and I think the four game lead is too much
to overcome because it's so hard to go in and
sweep this Blue Jays team. They have to go in
and beat the Red Sox, which they have struggled to do.
We spent a whole week talking about how the Phillies
struggled to beat the Mets. The Yankees need to beat
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the Red Sox, And to me, home field is going
to be huge. If you look across records of all
the playoff teams, all the teams in baseball right now,
road records are just they're abysmal compared to home records,
and I think that's gonna be a huge thing in
the playoffs. But as far as to win the division,
I just the series where the where the Yankee for
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the Yankees, where they play the Red Size, I mean
where they play the Yeah, the Red Sox and the
Blue Jays, that's huge. All the other stuff, to me,
that's just that's just chalk, that's just a wash. I
think it really needs to be those head to head matchups.
And if they're not winning those head to head matchups,
just gonna they're gonna be to come up short.
Speaker 1 (51:45):
I like that there's three teams in it NA. They're
close enough. I like a good race down the stretch here,
because as far as playoff teams, it seems like we're
pretty much set, you know, in terms of who's actually
going to make the dance but we got a month
to play. Let us know your thoughts. If you think
that Boston or the Yanks can catch the Blue Jays,
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drop a comment for us if you're watching live or
later on at t tweet. What is that Michael Parsons
trade in baseball terms? Guys? We got some current answers
like Devors to the Giants, and then we got some
hypothetical ones like Paul Skeen's to the Mariners or the
Blue Jays, Otani to the Padres for Arise, Akunya to
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the Tigers, Soto to the Brewers, Judge to the Phillies.
What do you like? Skiens to the Cubs? What do
you guys like.
Speaker 3 (52:40):
Trout to the Phillies?
Speaker 2 (52:43):
That's it, No.
Speaker 1 (52:44):
Only one.
Speaker 3 (52:46):
I was poking at Todd there, I was poking at Todd.
Michael Parsons is a bigger deal in the NFL than
Trout is in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (52:58):
Well, Parsons is in his prime. He's what twenty six
years old. It's like Luca last time too. It's one.
It's one of the best. And I'm not mister football here,
but it's one of the best defensive players in the sport.
Moving over to another team in the NFC.
Speaker 3 (53:14):
I think it's Skans. I think it's I think it's
Skeens because he's not He's not that like superstar quarterback
where you know Michael Parsons. Yes he plays on defense,
but he's one of the best ones out there. He
could win Defensive Player of the Year. Skeans could win
Cy Young. I think it's schemes to whatever team I
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think it's. I think it's more blown out of proportion
because it's Cowboys and Cowboys fans wind and complain about
a lot of stuff because they haven't won in thirty years.
But I love seeing it. I love seeing stars on
the move like this. I think the Pirates should do that,
should do this because it's kind of hurting Skeins's value.
Schemes wouldn't be eight to nine with a to zero seven.
Speaker 1 (53:58):
Yeah, but the Cowboys and Pirates could not be more different, right,
And also the Cowboys trade him to a team that
Michael Cowboys fans tells us, Yeah, but they I mean,
the Packers kick their ass when they made up in
the playoffs too, So you'd have to think of a
team like to me, it would be like.
Speaker 3 (54:17):
Maybe both owners suck and they'll know what they're doing
and get in the way. Bob Nutting gets in away,
Jerry Jones gets in a way. Michael Parsons is on defense,
so he's not as sexy as the quarterback. Paul Skeins
isn't as sexy as you know, somebody hitting dingers. So
to me, I think it's Paul Skeens and he's free.
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Michael Parson's free of the cowboys, just muck that they're
living with in their life. And I hope Michael Beer
hears this. He's free, he gets a championship. Paul Skeins
would go be free and get to win a championship somewhere.
Speaker 1 (54:52):
Hey, Todd, father, did you see this story or story
early this week from Boomer Size? And who's you know,
a big radio host in New York and big former
quarterback in the NFL. So he's in the Ring of
Honor for the Bengals and they sent him the invite
to attend because now, once you're in the Ring of Honor,
you're supposed to go when someone else gets inducted. And
they're inducting two other players, right, So he gets the
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email invite and he gets two free tickets for seats
in the stands, with an option to buy more seats
if you would like to buy more, and then a
discounted rate at the local hotel as part of a
room block. So he basically gets himself out there, pays
for the hotel, and they have him a couple of
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tickets in the seats where you were in Cincinnati somewhat frequently,
Todd father. I mean, you are a man of the people.
You love them, But if you're sitting out in the seats,
people just all over you the whole time. So it
sounds like he's probably going to decline the offer. Do
you think the Bengals should offer a little more, as
like a five and a half billion dollar franchise.
Speaker 3 (55:59):
That is Britian.
Speaker 2 (56:00):
I see where you're going with this, But no, no, he.
Speaker 1 (56:03):
Should just go out there and do his thing. Is
that out? I don't know genuinely how this works. I'm
not saying that you get paid, but don't They usually
take care of them and be like, hey, hang out
in the owner suite and yes, we'll put you up
for a night.
Speaker 2 (56:15):
No, I got you.
Speaker 4 (56:16):
But that the sweet the sweet thing, Yeah, put them
in a sweet I find that weird that they're not
going to put him in the suite, but you know
you're getting two tickets. I mean it's just to me,
people feel like because of what you know, you did
in the past, at the end of the day, it's like.
Speaker 2 (56:38):
They have to do this and that.
Speaker 4 (56:40):
I mean, listen, dude, if they don't put you in
a suite, I find that as a problem. That's not
a problem.
Speaker 2 (56:45):
But you're getting up. You're getting it, says a discounted right.
They're not giving them a hotel on his own either.
Speaker 1 (56:53):
No, that's what I'm saying, dude. I mean, these things
happen all the time.
Speaker 3 (57:00):
Of them, right.
Speaker 4 (57:03):
Yeah, they should take your hotel and put them in
a suite. Anything else after that is whatever.
Speaker 1 (57:08):
That's all I'm asking for as his rep. Now I'm
now his rep. That's all I was asking for. Okay,
So we're on the same page here. It's weird. That's
why it was a story. Happy Labor Day weekend every Monday. Yeah,
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You're done. Tayson Tyler Anderson left on left we oh,
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Phrase your Friday baby running Kratz too. What's up Kratz,
You'll like this. I think I had the first ever
FT dream of mine, first time ever that I had
a dream and it was about FT and I was
at my apartment. It's a little hazy, but there was
like internet issues and then you had to take over
and they were like, it's fine, Kratz has it. He's
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hosting the whole show.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I kid you not.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I couldn't watch it, so I was just screened off
and they're like, you're good, don't worry. Kratz is running it.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
So was it a dream that turned into a nightmare?
Or was it a dream that turned into a dream.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I just love hearing you say nightmare.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
So what is that word again? Don't say that? Oh
my god?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
How they say nightmare in Philly?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Nightmre, mirror, nightre.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
It's a nightmare. It's scary. Nightmares are scary.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Todd one day, Kratz host the whole show?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
What do you think I think you would do?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Just fine.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I don't think it would be a nightmare.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I think I would need two beers with that nightmare.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
And you could go to it, and you could go
to a tournament.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
That's the real word tour.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
In your tournament and use a cupon.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
That's true too.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
All right, before we get into biz, todd father first
show with us since Little League World Series, Great job
had it go?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
It went well, man, I thought it was good. I mean,
the only the only thing was seventeen shutouts. The pitching
was absolutely tremendous. A lot of new faces got great recognition.
The team from Connecticut did awesome. I thought they had
a chance to make the finals with this team from
Nevada truly incredible run the first time ever making it
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to the USA Championship. Let him known the World Series Championship.
They ran into a juggernaut. Le sin Saw was absolutely incredible.
He could throw up to eighty three miles an hour.
He threw eighty two miles an hour one pitch in
that last game. He didn't need to. He stayed seventy
five and that's just absolute fuzz. His hands were the
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same size as his mind. I think Kratzy years would
be a little bigger because you got bigger hands.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
But this kid was tremendous.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
You know, they weren't the best hitting team, but you know,
literally when you got the best hitting team, our pitching team.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Good things are gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Kid look dominant. Must have been the launch angles. Launch
angles have probably made it to little league Little league
coaching now, So I don't know offenses down. What's wrong
with these kids? Unbelievable. It can't hit eighty three miles
an hour from from forty five feet? Oh crazy, no chance.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
One more question, in all seriousness, do you think that
teams are using cameras and analytics to help them pitch better?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I think these kids go to specific coaches and they
have all these mechanisms and what's the thing called where
you know it shows all the numbers on their cratzy
you mean like ah man, I forget what it's called.
But you like track man, rap soda all that at twelve.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Oh my god, at eight years old.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
People aren't People don't even go to facility. Like if
you go to a facility and it doesn't have that,
kids are gonna be like this is boring. What are
we doing? Like why are we even here? Like they
want to see like every swing they're like, bang, what
is it?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
And they have like competitions in games. It's like a
video game for kids, and they throw balls and they're like,
what was it? WHOA, that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Yeah, yeah, it's It's truly incredible the gifts that these
kids have nowadays instead of what Crats and I did.
Get in the cage and take as many swings as
you can until they kick you out.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Pretty much, I didn't even have a I didn't even
matter a cage. I didn't have a cage. Oh it's
totally better because you learn it, you learn it, but
I didn't even have a cage. Our high school didn't
have a cage. I didn't have a cage at my house.
I saved up my money one time and I bought
a soft toss machine that I still have. I'll take
a picture of it and a net that I hung
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from my mom's clothesline, and that's how I would hit.
I would hit into it, and the soft toss machine
it would like slowly drop a ball down in beak
and it would hit and I would hit it and
I would hit it because I got sick of hitting
off the tee. So I think it was like it
was like seventy two dollars or something. I saved up
my money and bought it. Still got it to this day.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
The high speed cameras cost a little bit more than that.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I'm still a little bit tronic.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
When I was watching, I was just like, I wonder
how much everything camera, why tech wise is helping these pitchers.
And there you go, clearly a ton. So we've hit
a point where pitching's dominating at the little league circuit.
Let's charge, Let's charge them. I mean we've been doing
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this all week. Kyle Schwarber four home runs, not that
although we have had three of these this year. Nick Kurtz,
as well as Gino Suarez, just punishing the baseball. Schober
had a shot from five. His kryptonite is position players,
So if you're trying to get them out in the playoffs,
position players, just keep that in mind. As the Phillies
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beat the crap out of the Braves, we're going to
go live to our Pennsylvania reporter Eric Kratz with more
on the Phillies being the team of the week, first
in a bad way, now in a great way.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Reporting live from Boston, the Philly reporter Eric Kratz sees
the ups and downs of the Phillies offense. I mean
it came out and just hammered. There's a lot of
guys that had a lot of good, good numbers against
cal Quantrill last night. I'm not saying he didn't have
a chance. I'm saying the Phillies got home, they got
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boat raced in New York. And I just I think
that the Citizens Bank Ballpark fans just they hit different.
They really do. And I know people are gonna be like,
oh man, well what about this place. Well, but there's
other places that are great. I'm saying that this group
of players, including Kyle Schwarber, feeds off of this this
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fan base, He feeds off of this stadium. And to
do something like this historic. The number that's crazy to
me is twenty one people have ever done it in
Big League history. Three have done it this year. Now,
this was a laugher. Kurtz. His game was a laugher.
The one that Suarez dead earlier this year was they
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needed every one of those four home runs. But we
were driving in the car and we had actually hit
traffic last night and somebody texted me that he has
four home runs and we were stopped dead in traffic
on eighty four, which, by the way, New England traffic sucks.
But I got to see him face Videl Vidal Bruhan,
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and I really thought he was gonna do it. I
obviously have been brutal with my locks this year, but
in the moment, I'm like, oh my gosh, this is it.
How Schwarver is gonna be the only person ever to
hit five home runs? And he popped it up. Ha.
It was awesome to watch, though.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah, I mean, he is having a ridiculous year, godfather,
and this is his best year ever in his mid thirties.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
In his walk year, in his walk yere.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
He is putting up some video game numbers that you know,
when it comes to home runs and home runs and games,
he's taking that city by storm. I gotta be honest
with you. He is fun to watch. He's built for Philadelphia.
Cratzy said it too. He had an easy, probably the
easiest chance to get that fifth home run, and he
said himself, He's like, I wish I wasn't trying to
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hit a home run.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Easiest thing he could have got a single.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
I don't know, the guy's got forty nine home runs.
You know, if he does that every day crowds, he
might have ninety home runs. I think that'd be pretty cool.
But it's not going to happen. He is, you know,
all joking aside. This is a guy that every team
is going to want, and would want and should want.
He is a guy that will bat first, he'll bat fourth,
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he'll bat any position, and he is a leader, and
he brings that pain every day to the ballpark. And
I think it's truly incredible. I love him, absolutely love him.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
He stepped in. He stepped in as a leader, exactly
what she said Todd because I think, you know, they
signed Bryce Harper, and I don't necessarily think every time
he signed a superstar that they're the leader in the clubhouse.
I think there's too much on their plate, and I
think Kyle Schwoba has taken that. He kind of helped.
He kind of helped along with Reese Hoskins when he
first came here, then Reese left, and I don't think
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he ever stepped on Reese's toes in that way. I
think it was like, hey, I can help, I have
this expertise. He's just a guy that everybody wants to follow,
like he's he's the dude. The thing that he's improved
this year. His batting average is up, his strikeout percentages down,
he's doing his damage against lefties. I think he has
the most home runs versus lefty relievers this year in
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Major League Baseball. Before it was like, oh, just stack
your team with lefties, bring him in and he can't
do jack against him. He's got another one last night,
and it's it's awesome to see, especially since he's a
guy who's going to free agency. We don't know, we
don't know what free agency looks like for a essentially
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only DH. He's played a few games and left, I
think like eight or nine games and left. But it'll
be exciting to see because we saw Pete Alonso not
have a great year last year and the market kind
of hurt him. I'll be so interested to see what
happens here because he really he looks like a twenty
five to thirty million dollars a year d H. Some
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teams are just automatically going to be out on that,
and he is. He is essential in Philly.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Next year will be his age thirty three season. That's
a factor too. But wait, I want to spend a
couple of minutes here before we get to Kenny ballgame,
and we'll get his take on this. Let's cw the
Kevin Pillar tweet from last night and our buddy in
the ft team, he said, need to start talking about
this man for National League MVP now. The way I
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look at it, many of the younger writers just look
at all thing called war and on the Fangrafts War list,
Kyle Schwarber is, does anyone want to guess where he
is placement wise.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
In all baseball towards his number.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
In all of baseball? Where he's place.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Fifteenth, twentieth the way you're talking, Scott, I feel like
it's not that good of a number.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I'm gonna say thirty eight.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
You had it first. He's nineteen. You said twenty. I'll
take that first hand.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I got nervous. I got nervous.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
No, I know, I didn't want to. I poker faced it.
I just wanted to stay cool. But yeah, he's got
four and a half war. There's tons of NL players
ahead of him, including Shoeo Tani, who's third in all
of baseball at Fangrafts War with a seven point one number.
So when Polar puts that out, you get a lot
of the Dodger fans are playing like, oh that's cute,
Like did you see Otani pitch the other day too,
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even though Tani's obviously at DH as well, he's pitching,
and you know, you don't want to lose sight of
what he's doing and how different it is from everyone
else and the fatigue of that. But Trey Turner has
a five point eight war. He's ahead of Kyle Schuberkratz
Perdomo on the Diamondbacks and Corbyn Carol on the Diamondbacks,
Pete Crow, Armstrong, Fernando Tatis, Christopher Sanchez. I'm not gonna
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I'm gonna skip the pitchers because I think that's a
different world. But Lynn Dor Kyle Tucker all ahead of
Kyle schober By fan grafts war. Do you think that
he should be a candidate for the top spop Cose
he's gonna get votes, but should he win the award?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Uh? Is it two thousand and six? Is it two
thousand and eight? Then maybe yeah, But again we had
this argument before when when the players voted Ronald Acunya
the best player in baseball, it's Sho Heo Tani. Unfortunately
for everybody else the MVP award because you know, unless
they make up another new rule for show, hey, he's
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gonna win it. He should win it. He's the most
valuable player as far as value goes. Because we start
talking about value, y is he the most valuable player
of the Phillies team right now? Yes, but he's not
more valuable than what show Hay is in the game
of baseball because he pitches and hits. Sorry, it's just
it will become one day. I don't know if we'll
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be alive. It'll be called the show Hey Otani award.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Wow, Okay, I think we'll be alive for it.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
We got a second, so I can go on this
for a second or yeah. Yeah, So I wrote down
all I wrote down.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Before I got on here, some significant stats here, and
I compared Swarve with o'tana. You know, average two forty
eight swar but two seventy eight Otani. Okay, I'm not
the biggest on average, but I'm also realistic that, you know,
to forty eight is probably not going to cut it
for an MVP in my opinion. And then I looked
at RBIs and home runs. Swarber's beating him significantly in
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RBIs by about thirty four RBIs if my math is right,
I mean, that's that's a big number. For me, Uh,
he's up four in home runs. I mean that's pretty close,
and then Otani pretty much beats him on everything on
base percentage, you know, slug ops runs by you know
about thirty and change. So if we're going on numbers alone,
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I think Otani still is that guy. But some significant
stats like RBI's is big for me. I think that
still has to play. So I think you still have
to put Swarbur in that conversation for sure.
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Francisco Alvarez broke his pinky on a hip Bi pitch,
so he's hopeful he's gonna play again. That sucks, though, Kratz.
I mean, he's got problems now with both hands. He
is getting beat up. You're rehabbing it. Then you're hit
by a pitch in the minors.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I don't know if it was a hip by pitch
or if it was a Oh, if it was a
foul ball, I think it was. I think it was
a foul ball when he was catching. But either way,
dang it, man, dang it, because this Mets team is
starting to get that momentum without him in there. I
think he brings something to this team that they're now
going to be out another It's amazing to me that
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broken pinky is like two to four weeks. It feels
like it should be way longer, but still like hand
issues when you're swinging todd you are a good hitter.
A nobody wants that.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
No, and I think to make it short and sweet.
Dusty Baker always told me the two things you have
to worry about in baseball are your hands and your feet.
Everything else you can kind of find a way to
get through for the most part, but make sure those
hands and feet are okay.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
And this guy I.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Smiled because you just think of your pinky being this
little finger, then it causes a lot of problems.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah, Anthony Tacoma, Yeah, exactly. Doctor Evil has other thoughts.
Anthony Dicomo covers. The team said, the hope is that
he can play in two to three days, given that
it's a small fracture of the pinky. But it's a
broken bone, not ideal. And he was out playing catch yesterday,
but he had a trainer catching the ball for you.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
It's a big deal. It's a big deal if you
can't frame. If you can't frame the ball, now you're
not catching it squarely. It affects everything and it drains
on you. When your hand hurts catching, it sucks. All good.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Hey, we have some ft breaking news. This. According to
Jeff Passing, the Boston Red Sox released veteran right handed
Walker Boehler, So he is cut. I believe that another
team can pick him up if they want him in
time to put him on a roster. That could turn
into an October appearance for Walker Buehler. But it's been
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a rough year. Are you surprised about this one? Top father?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Yeah, just because of the name alone. I mean, this guy,
you know, pitching wise came in and won a World Series.
I mean, it doesn't seem too long ago, right, It's
just I don't I mean, listen, wow, Yeah, I mean,
I know a bunch of teams I could take a
picture like this in their caliber and just bring them
in for the rest of the year. This one, you know,
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I'd like to read more into this and understand why
you know this seven and seven you know, you know,
like a one point negative war, all right, I don't know,
I don't know. I'm very confused. I know the Red
Sox are doing really well. It's just one of those
scenarios where I would love to hear about you know
what the what else?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Is going on.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah, they bumped him the rotation. I mean the Red
Sox are looking for another starter, which they hope to
be Peyton Toley. Right, they've got their big three right now,
absolutely thriving with Crochet. What a pickup for them this offseason.
And then Brian Bao has really found his form. Same
with Lucas Giolito, Kratz. You know, it's funny with Bueller.
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He's very straightforward. So he's like, I get it. I
mean I'm paraphrasing here, I know why I was bumped
out of the rotation. And then of course we'll get
word from him on this next move from Boston after
a one year contract. His regular season numbers are almost
identical from a run prevention standpoint two last year, and
then all of a sudden in the postseason he looked different.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I mean, that's a it's a bold move by the Socks.
They feel like they're in a strong position to be
able to let this to be able, let this happen,
you know what. Just like Todd said, you gotta be
there to see kind of more more than just his
stat line. His stat line is not very good, and
it's an example of when guys have surgery. They don't
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always come back to be the guy they were before.
A lot of the time, yes, but not always. And
he hasn't consistently held his velocity, hasn't consistently been able
to shape his breaking ball. But in the playoffs last year,
everybody remembers how he finished out the game and he
threw you know, he threw the curveball to finish out
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the World Series. And I think he had thrown like
one or two other times. But the start before he
had a stinker two starts before, and then he came
out and he had a great start where he was
punching tickets. So to me, I bet he's thrown out
of the bullpen for the Dodgers by the time, by
the time postseason rolls around.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Wow, wow, Hey, remember last year they have to game
three NLCS against the Mets. At the command was tight,
and then I was looking back, best drop ever on
his knuckle curve, most sweep right, most horizontal movement ever
on his sweeper, most fade on the sinker. Spin rate
was the highest it had been some sticky stuff enforcement,
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which you know, you look at that time period a
few years ago, it's different. He finished the playoff run
with thirteen consecutive scoreless innings, including the final three outs
of the World Series. Again, if you're a Boston friend
right now and you're watching this and you've been watching
him perform all year and not perform at a nice level,
a five and a half is cra just like the
Dodgers watched from him last year, Like see, we've got
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our big boy prospect coming up, Peyton Pulley, We've got
a big three right now, and maybe may finds it
a little bit for us. We're good. But I'm with you,
Todd father. I love the good storyline, and I hope
that he gets scooped up by another team and we
get playoff Walker Buehler, because I mean, he'll say like,
I'm missing that. Have you behind my pitches last year?
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And then all of a sudden he found it?
Speaker 4 (20:59):
He did, He did for sure, So again, what have
you done for me lately? Attitude? I guess if that's
the case, then yeah he should be gone. But to
know the caliber of picture he is, he still got
a lot left in the tech.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Scott was Scott in? Were you insinuating that it got
a little stickier as the postseason went on? Were you
insinuating that the jump in spin rate the jump in movements,
Scott Braun, you are devious.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
On a Friday, I just dropped things on the table.
This is my job all day. I just dropped things
like this, and then I just see what everyone picks up.
And Ira Kratz has actually mised her conspiracy theory.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
So I just dropped it.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I truly don't know. Of course I don't know, but
I also just like to say, hey, here's what the
statistics are reading. What do you think.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
My thought, yeah, my thought is he did a great
job of making a positive adjustment for himself in his
last thirteen innings. But I also don't want to escape
the fact that because we harp on the Pirates being cheap,
Walker Bueller is making twenty one point zero five million
this year. You break that down for September. Now, I
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know he's released. I know he's released. It's not a
waiver dump, but there's some cash there that maybe they're
gonna think again about how they spend their money in
the offseason instead of going twenty one million dollars for
a I hope it works out kind of picture. Solidify it,
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go and take do what it takes to get Corbin
Burns to not sign with the Diamondbacks. I know he
got hurt, but do what it takes to put another
monster piece in this rotation to pair with Crochet. He's
gonna be there for a long time.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I remember I watched one game start recently and I
look back. I found it on the eighth of August
where he shut down the Padres and it's the post
trade deadline Padres. Six innings, four hits, no runs, two walks,
four strikeouts, nine ground balls, ninety six pitches. So sometimes
guys get cut right and they'll have these kind of
numbers on the season, and then you look at the
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recent numbers over the past couple months and you're like,
I can't find a good outing results wise, there's something here. Yeah,
Dodgers fans are losing their mind right now, at least
some of them, because many of them probably haven't been
watching Walker Buehler this year. Right, we do have somewhat
of a regional sport with the way that teams consume
or with the way that fans consume their team's games. Right, Like,
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you might listen to FT during the day, but then
if you've got the red Sox playing and then you're worried.
Oh well, if you're on the West Coast, you might
still be at work, and then you're watching your Dodgers
at night, you might not see much of Walker Bueller.
So you're like, hey, those are the same numbers as
last year. Let's give it a shot.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
I'm interested. I'm interested to see what happens now because
he was released. He was released. This isn't waiver dump.
The Red Sox are paying the entirety of the rest
of his salary. I'm interested to see because there's no motivation.
No team is going to pay him more than the
minimum for the month of September. I'm interested to see
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where he chooses to go and how that like not
courting process, but like how that process goes, Like he
essentially gets to choose from all the teams that want
to want him to pitch because they're all going to
pay him the exact same.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Oh, He's going wherever he feels like there's a team
that can help get him right.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
I'm interested. Spota, spota.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
There's no much more. There's no more to say really
about it. It's just just one of those things where
as you get older. It's like, you know, a s
Kratz and I got older, and the opportunities like you
want to be on a winning ball club too as well.
So oh it's it's tough. You want to play and
then you get in situations. Well, well let's see who
wants me first, and then you go from there.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Yankees, wouldn't that be great? What do you think?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I mean?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I'd love to see it. I'm looking up to see
who he dealt against this year and see if because
there's a lot of recency bias. He dealt against the Phillies,
he deal against the Padres, he dealt against.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
The Rays.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
But you figure he wants to try and go to
a team where he can pitch in October and reprove himself.
That's what he did. I mean here in this contract
based on October. Before October, you're looking at Walker Deeeler
and you're like, he's gonna get a small deal. He's
going to get a one year contract. But he was
gonna get a one year contract at a much lower rate.
And remember the Dodgers also didn't throw the qualifying off
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or his way. The Dodgers were like, hey, we want
you to be in a good spot. That's something that
many team games canon won't do, and maybe they were
thinking about if that was going to end up being
the number, and you know he was going to take it.
So they said, hey, no qualifying offer, go out there
to the world, don't be attached to a camp pick
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and selected.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
They did him a solid.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
It was pro, it was pro. So yeah, I'm with
you here, I'm looking at where else he thrived this year.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Pitch well against He's pitched well against not not many.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Yankees and Padres. But I mean for me, it's more
sorry Phillies and Padres. Who needs him?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Right?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Who's interested in picking up a guy that can be
a fifth starter for you and maybe catch fire in
the postseason?
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Cubs, it's a good name.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I like that too. That's a good name. Someone's gonna
do it, so we'll see it's a league minimum guy
at this point. Red Sox eat the money anyway. Breaking news,
Walker Buehler cut by the Boston Red Sox. Boston's in
a good spot. I mean, this was the part of
the team that you were probably concerned about, was do
they have the pitching. They have the pitching right now,
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and if you believe in all these prospects that are
coming up right now and thriving. Then they might have
just added themselves another guy who can pitch big boy
innings for them in October and they looked at the
roster Alex Korra. Kratz is pretty decisive and he has
more control of the roster than I think most managers do.
Would you agree with that?
Speaker 3 (27:40):
I would think so yes. I mean that would be
my initial read from what you see out there, because
I think he kind of has that GM mentality too,
So I think there's conversation. If there's somebody has more,
it would be his cohort in Houston. I think A J.
Hinch probably has more. But okay, I think I think
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Klora is up there for sure.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Yeah, decision has been made. Anyway, let us know if
you're looking at this afterward, or if you're watching this
lab right now, where you think he could end up
and if you think he can find it again like
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Pirates have placed ikf on outright waivers. He can continue
playing for the Pirates throughout the processed playoff. Teams have
until the rest of the weekend to claim him if
they want him for the postseason?
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Krats, what do we call that dump deadline? How did
we forget that? We even talked about the Pirates yesterday?
We said Andrew he and he's already on the waiver wire.
How is Tommy fam not on the waiver wire? And
then we completely forgot about a guy who can play
four big league positions at above average level. Of course
he's gonna get picked up.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
And of course he's eighty one played appearances, shy a
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars roster bonus. He of
course has performance incentives tied to his deal. Todd father
for me at this point though, I mean, I know
he got moved over there, but don't do performance bonuses
if you're gonna be with the Pirates. Just know that
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as a free agent. What Kratz, what are we missing?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Oh no, no, just two years in a row. Pirates
did this again last year. But don't worry about They're
definitely trying to put the best team out there. Pirates fans.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
They did this to ikf last year. Remember they put
him in that super awkward spot. They're like, oh, we
can put you back in if you want to screw
over this other player that we now put in front
of you.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Yes, and then he plays it all year this year,
so it happens to him two years in a row.
And they cut rowdy last year also, so it's not
just two times. They've done it three times that we.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Know of.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Balloney man, don't if I'm a player, no more incentive.
Just pay me the extra money, then go after the
extra bag.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
They won't Pirates won't sign you. Then good that you
know that, Todd, they cut you.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Better than box scores. First off, let's just do a
shout out to Taylor Rashie, who, after six minor league
seasons and a serious injury, made his major league debut
yesterday afternoon at twenty nine years old. Three scoreless innings
picked up to save Diamondbacks beat the Brewers again. Brewers
an old funk, but that's okay, not a crazy funk.
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They just were on a ridiculous run. But krats, this
is an e K special right here for the congrats
to a guy who has persevered, gone through adversity, done
the whole deal just to make it to this moment.
You know what this is like?
Speaker 3 (31:48):
It's so awesome. I hope he was able to soak
it in decently long out outing that they put him
out there for. But I hope he was able to
soak it in. I hope he didn't. Nothing got in
the way of like enjoying it, because stuff can really
go fast as much as you're like, man, I had
six he had six years to like prepare for this moment,
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Like it goes fast. I had, however many years. I
had eight or nine years to prepare for it. And
when you get caught up, you're like, oh, I gotta
do this, I gotta do that, I gotta do you know,
I gotta be here.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
You know.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
It's it's such an awesome moment for him. I hope
he got to really enjoy it. And the part where
you know, the injuries or injury, the serious injury he
had a he had to overcome that. That's a level
I don't understand, like that is really really tough. So
it has to feel fulfilling for him.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Resilient, resilient, just keep going.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
It's just one of those stories, just like Krats had
and so many other guys, just the battle of day
in and day out, grind of being in the minor leagues,
with injuries, not seeing your family, everything plays a part
in it. And for that day for him, I'm sure
he went home, sat on his you know, his hotel.
Ben was like, wow, it was all worth it. So
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congratulations to him. Three scoolless innings and got to save
get that scorecard, big dollar hanging up in your house.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
You well deserve.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
There you go. All right, Let's get to the New
York Mets, who fell to the Marlins after the big
sweep of the Phillies. The one down spot with the
Mets even in that Phillies series was Ryan Helsley continuing
to struggle. And this just came out from Anthony to
Como covering the team that Mets officials believe he is
tipping pitches and the frustration level is high for him
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right now. They've been aware of the issue for weeks,
but it's still a problem as they think that, you know,
hitters are getting really good swings on fastballs and that
there are really good takes on his sliders. In the
story here from Dacomo, he said they identified the issue
as a little tick the right hander makes with his
arms when coming set. That arm position changes based on
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whether Helsley's throwing a fastball or which quote makes it
a whole lot easier to hit? And then here's the
quote Crafts from Helsley. He said, I'm not trying to
sound arrogant or anything, but I feel like my stuff's
too good to get hit around as consistently as it
has since I've been here. We've played mostly teams in
the hunt, and a lot of teams nowadays will have
guys who look specifically for those things. It's pretty glaring
and obvious when I'm doing it. I mean, they have
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been smashing him. I mean he's given it more than
a run an inning right now in his first i
think ten appearances with the Mets.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
He's also been throwing less strikes. His walk rate is
definitely up, but he's throwing less strikes early in account
than he ever did at any point in his Cardinal's career.
He didn't just pick up a tick when he went
to New York. He didn't just pick up a tick
because now he's not throwing in the ninth inning and
he doesn't have his walkout music like his The way
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he's attacking hitters, whether it's a mindset because he's throwing
in a seventh or eighth inning, whether it's the pitches
that are called, whether it's the Mets. I mean, the
Mets have done such an amazing job of, you know,
getting the most value out of guys may not work.
Their approach or their mindset of how they're doing things,
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how they're approaching attacking hitters may not work for everybody.
So to me, it's okay that it's not a tip.
Now they're saying it's a tip, he's tipping. My question
would be in the thirty six innings that he threw
for the Cardinals, he wasn't tipping, and now in the
almost nine innings that he's thrown for the Mets, he's tipping.
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To me, it is based on his early count strikes,
So anything oh oh one to oh two to oh
two to one, his ball percentage is higher than it
ever has been at any point in his career.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Yeah, and as good hitters as all these professional guys are,
I mean, you know, you come set. If you see
just a little all of a sudden or a little
hand moment, yeah, it's gonna show.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
I mean, listen, this guy's got nasty stuff. Should he
be getting hit like this?
Speaker 1 (36:10):
No?
Speaker 4 (36:10):
But they're professional hitters. When you know what's coming. And
I tell this to everybody, even if you know what's coming,
it's still hard to hit. But you're gonna square the
ball up a lot more. Whether it goes and play
or you don't get a hit, you're gonna your swing
is gonna be a lot better when you know what's coming.
So especially as a professional hitter, and it is frustrating,
and guess what, you gotta figure it out. You got
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to change something soon because playoffs are coming. They're right
around the corner.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Yeah, this dude can top out at one oh three,
but he's got a ten to three, eight eeright eleven
appearances since joining the New York Mets to be continued.
This team's going to be in the playoffs most likely,
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from ten games to seven upon the appeal, and he's
gonna begin serving it tonight. So it's a week of
one man down on the roster for the Seattle Mariners Crats.
That's a big jump.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Ten to seven, it's a huge jump. And anything over
the way I heard it explained, anything over five for
a position player is massive. Five or more is a
massive suspension. So when it came out of ten, you
knew it was gonna go down. I thought I'd go
down to eight. But whatever, seven, it's a lot except
the malicious intent they've set. They've drawn the line in
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the sand with a seven game suspension for maliciously throwing
the bat at a pitcher, no matter what the situation was.
He didn't toss it like Wilson Contreras did. But I
don't know, I don't know. I feel like seven's a
little little cheap, little thin.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
I remember seeing this video down like every time he
got it. I'm laughing because you don't usually see anything
like this. You know, I'm not condoning it at all.
It's just, you know, I don't know what the right
suspensions should be. But if I'm this guy right now,
I really need to check myself and understand, like, man,
I need to calm down. I'm playing professional baseball. I
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know I got to hit a bunch of times it
wasn't you know, MLB caliber guys. So you got to
really understand, to take a step back and understand, like
guys you know down in the bushes per Se don't
throw him many strikes, but he needs to go find
a high school team and get some swings in before
he comes back.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
There's a big risk for the Yankees to send all
that pitching to San Diego in a trade for the
big outfielder. It's coming from Mike Petrello. It turns out
Trent Grisham was worth it. That's cute. I mean, Todd Pyther,
you can speak to that. I mean, obviously the Soto,
it was the Sodo trade, but it's also turned into
the Trent Grisham deal where some people are like, why
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are they taking on Trent Grisham and whatever it was
last year five million bucks. He's been a banger for
them this year.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
Banger, and he's playing more so. I think there's a
couple of things. He's he's his starter. You know, he's
not going back and forth not playing. It's hard to
do as you get a little older in your career.
He's got a knack for the zone. He knows his zone,
and I think that is something that needs to be
said and in a good place because a lot of
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guys are free swingers. This guy, when he gets a
pitch in his zone, he's not missing it. He's got power.
He squares the ball off, and he's just been doing
it this whole year. You got to give kudos to
him for coming back and just getting after it and
helping this club. You know, especially when a judge goes
down or Stanton hasn't played in a while, they're gonna
need some key cogs like a Ben Rice and Trent
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Grisham to step up, both left handed hitters, and they're
not to be messed with. Those two guys have been
doing really well and Grisham has been a great center
field or two. So for him, I would be proud
if I was him, especially where he was last year.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
For sure. And this is a great example of the
theory that I have that regular everyday guys, when they
become bench players, what exactly would their numbers be. He's
having a great year. This is probably this is easily
his best year that he's ever had. But to go
from hitting one ninety, he had a ops plus of
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ninety one which was one of the lowest of his
career too. Now he's at one twenty nine. All are
great numbers. All are great numbers to me. His value
is the fact that they can keep Judge healthy by
pushing him back to right field. All the wear and
tear that center field put on can put on Judge's
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body over the long course of two seasons in a row.
I think it's huge and that's there's no value in that.
I mean, there's no like statistic for that, but there's
a huge value in the fact that the big fellow
can keep playing. That's what he said.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
He said, all right, now, we're going to throw to
our al East reporter Todd Father, Todd Fraser to get
the lowdown on this division. And we're gonna start it
with a quote from Jazz Chishol, who's always good for
a quote. And he's shown the confidence that the Yankees
are not just thinking about the playoffs, they're thinking about
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the division. So let's cue it up. And he said
of the Yankees, now four games back up Toronto Boston,
what is three and a half back? He still believes
they can win the East. Quote, we want to win
the division. We don't just want to get to a
wildcard spot right now. It's just like, we're going to
go out there and win that, and then we're going
to go and win the World Series. I expect nothing
less from a confident player like Jazz Todd father, what
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was he going to say, We just hope we get
in as a wild card. That would be fun, that'd
be swell.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (42:50):
No, I mean you've got to have the confidence of
your team first and foremost. Jazz is a different kind
of dude, bron and I respect it in a way,
and some times I'm just like, what is he doing?
You know, and the funniest, you know, out of control way.
But yes, the division is still at hand, and I
still think the Yankees, I still think the Red Sox
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and Blue Jays all have a really good shot. Out
of course, the Blue Jays have the best shot because
they're winning. I looked at both all the schedules. The Yankees,
I feel like, have a little bit of the easier schedule.
The Blue Jay is gonna have a tough schedule, you know,
during this stretch coming up. Yeah, why wouldn't you have
the confidence of thinking that you're gonna win, you know,
the division and win the World Series, you know, putting
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yourself in that situation. And if you're not talking about
winning the World Series, then why even play? So you
gotta have confidence, you got you gotta let your team
know and understand that, you know, there's still a chance.
Four games is nothing with you know, a little over
a month to play. I mean, there's a lot of games.
And they all got to play each other. So when
the Red Sox play the Blue Jays, Yankees play the
Blue Jays, vice versa, they all played each other. One
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team is going to gain a game or two over
the other. So again, this one is up for grabs.
I love his confidence. He's gonna tell you how it is.
You know, you can't knock a guy for that.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
But are they gonna do it? Are they gonna win
the division? Top needed? I mean, we can't. We can't
waffle here.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
If I had to choose right now, I would say
no right now.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
And where was Jazz saying this ten ten games ago
when they were swooning, when they weren't hitting dingers? Like
it's always that the the rhetoric in baseball is ride
the highs, ride the highs, and diminish the lows. When
you're riding good, enjoy it. But when you're riding bed,
just hey, you know what, we're gonna bounce out of it.
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So you gotta have that kind of positive mindset. No team,
I've never met a legitimate big lee player that said,
pretty sure we're gonna lose this game today. I don't
think we have a chance like that would be That
would be a brutal way to go through a season. Hey.
Speaker 1 (44:56):
Also, I think this is a good time to remind
everyone that some teams are really good and some teams suck.
And schedule watching and predicting things on schedules are real.
Now is your Can you run into a team that's
playing better ball?
Speaker 3 (45:12):
Right?
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Like? Are the Rockies now? Like the Rockies in April
or May? Of course not right? If you are following
the season on a daily basis, then you can look
at the schedule and say, hey, right now, that's a
team I'd run a run into. Right, And just in general,
Todd Father, let's pick the Yanks coming off a bad
weekend against the Red Sox. How about the Washington Nationals?
(45:35):
For you? Are you not you kicking, cheering and screaming
in the clubhouse about who you get to face next
and say, hey, boys, time to pad the stats. Time
to get back on track and beat the crap out
of a team that we are much better than, and
take all of our frustration from the weekend out on
a team that doesn't have the pitching to keep up
with us.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (45:55):
I mean, listen, Yankees are nine to three in their
last twelve. I mean, they've been hitting homers left and right,
and they've been playing bad teams. We understand that. I
think we all get it.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
But guess what.
Speaker 4 (46:06):
You gotta beat these bad teams. You gotta stomp them.
And that's the best part of the winning ball clubs.
They find ways to you know, sweep teams. Take three
out of four. Those you have to do during a
season in order to be top in your division. Okay,
well you make the playoffs, you know, winning two out
of three from these teams, of course, you know. But
you know, everyone's like, oh, they beat the bad teams. Yeah,
(46:27):
you're supposed to beat the bad teams. Okay, they haven't
done well against winning teams. But again, what gets you
back into the division, what gets you back into that
playoff atmosphere and talked about, is beating the teams you're
supposed to beat. So again, if I'm the Yankees, if
I'm any team that's playing a White Sock, a Colorado,
a pirate team, a national team, it's sweep or go home.
Speaker 2 (46:50):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (46:51):
And you have to think that way coming into all
these games. And you will see if you take care
about your team winning, you'll worry about the other team's
gonna work about having to chase you at the end
of the year.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
Yeah, krats. It drives me nuts sometimes when I'll see,
you know, a baseball broadcaster, wright or whatever, be like, well,
anythinking happen, it doesn't matter. Looking at the schedule is overrated.
I'm like, no, it is rated. It is rated accurately.
The Yankees are playing the Nats in the White Sox
this week, and they're slugging the crap out of the ball. Okay,
so let's do this. Let's play a game. Let's look
(47:25):
at the schedules. There's only one month left to go
on the season. And you asked Todd father if you
thought that a team could catch the Jas. He said, no, krats.
I'll read out the schedules for you and you tell
me if you feel like there's a shot, and also
then Todd Father, you can think about this one. Which
team has a better chance, Yankees or Red Sox of
catching the Blue Jays based on what's left in the season.
(47:46):
So first I'm going to start with Toronto and what
they have left this year. So they're playing this weekend
against the Brewers. Brewers, Hey, you would rather catch them
now than two weeks ago. Then they're in Cincinnati, Then
they're in the taken on the Yankees. Then they take
on the Astros for three and the Oriels for three,
(48:07):
followed by the Rays for four down in Tampa. And
they'll be on the road for three against Kansas City,
followed by the twenty third through the twenty fifth of
September against Boston, and then again finishing up with the Rays.
That's the Blue Jays schedule, and as you can see,
they're three and a half games clear of the Red Sox.
Next up with the Red Sox. Would you say, Kratz.
Speaker 4 (48:31):
Said, I said, I said, that's a tough schedule for me.
In my opinion, I think that might be the toughest
schedule out of the three.
Speaker 1 (48:40):
Okay, so Red Sox coming up this weekend, and I
know its schemes tonight with their rookie Tolly. But they've
got the Pirates for three this weekend. The Pirates suck.
They've got Cleveland after that at home, so a six
gamer with Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Then they hit the road
for the Diamondbacks, where not the same team. I mean,
they played pretty well this against the Brewers, but not
(49:01):
the same team that they were in the first half.
The A's were playing pretty good ball. This is their
time of year. Then they've got their series against the Yankees,
last one of the year from the twelfth to the fourteenth.
Then they're home against the A's. Then they're on the
road against Tampa and Toronto, and then their last series
is against a Tigers team that you do want to
face for those last three games because they most likely
(49:22):
won't be playing for anything. And lastly, Todd Father, you've
got the Yankees finishing up with three more games against
the White Sox. Then they have three in Houston, three
against Toronto at home, three at home against the Tigers,
three in Boston, three in Minnesota. Oh man, they love
the Twins, three in Baltimore, three at home against the
(49:43):
White Sox, and then three at home against the Orioles.
You're right, I think the Jays have the toughest schedule
of the three that I just mentioned.
Speaker 4 (49:50):
The Yankees last thirteen games, they can easily go ten
and three, in my opinion, easily ten and three, if
not eleven and two with the teams they're facing, with
the Twins and the Orioles in the White Sox, that
might be the one where it kicks them to win
the division. I feel deeply in my soul if it's
(50:12):
a three four game race, I could see them jumping
a Blue Jay or Red Sox team to win the
division solely on the last thirteen.
Speaker 2 (50:20):
Games of the year.
Speaker 3 (50:22):
So now they are going to win the division?
Speaker 4 (50:25):
I said, you didn't hear what I remember. I said,
as of right now, I don't think they're going to
win the division as of right now. Anything can happen,
an injury, you know, yeah, somebody goes away hot streak.
Speaker 3 (50:40):
I think it ultimately comes down to head to head,
and I think the four game lead is too much
to overcome because it's so hard to go in and
sweep this Blue Jays team. They have to go in
and beat the Red Sox, which they have struggled to do.
We spent a whole week talking about how the Phillies
struggled to beat the Mets. The Yankees need to beat
(51:01):
the Red Sox, And to me, home field is going
to be huge. If you look across records of all
the playoff teams, all the teams in baseball right now,
road records are just they're abysmal compared to home records,
and I think that's gonna be a huge thing in
the playoffs. But as far as to win the division,
I just the series where the where the Yankee for
(51:24):
the Yankees, where they play the Red Size, I mean
where they play the Yeah, the Red Sox and the
Blue Jays, that's huge. All the other stuff, to me,
that's just that's just chalk, that's just a wash. I
think it really needs to be those head to head matchups.
And if they're not winning those head to head matchups,
just gonna they're gonna be to come up short.
Speaker 1 (51:45):
I like that there's three teams in it NA. They're
close enough. I like a good race down the stretch here,
because as far as playoff teams, it seems like we're
pretty much set, you know, in terms of who's actually
going to make the dance but we got a month
to play. Let us know your thoughts. If you think
that Boston or the Yanks can catch the Blue Jays,
(52:06):
drop a comment for us if you're watching live or
later on at t tweet. What is that Michael Parsons
trade in baseball terms? Guys? We got some current answers
like Devors to the Giants, and then we got some
hypothetical ones like Paul Skeen's to the Mariners or the
Blue Jays, Otani to the Padres for Arise, Akunya to
(52:28):
the Tigers, Soto to the Brewers, Judge to the Phillies.
What do you like? Skiens to the Cubs? What do
you guys like.
Speaker 3 (52:40):
Trout to the Phillies?
Speaker 2 (52:43):
That's it, No.
Speaker 1 (52:44):
Only one.
Speaker 3 (52:46):
I was poking at Todd there, I was poking at Todd.
Michael Parsons is a bigger deal in the NFL than
Trout is in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (52:58):
Well, Parsons is in his prime. He's what twenty six
years old. It's like Luca last time too. It's one.
It's one of the best. And I'm not mister football here,
but it's one of the best defensive players in the sport.
Moving over to another team in the NFC.
Speaker 3 (53:14):
I think it's Skans. I think it's I think it's
Skeens because he's not He's not that like superstar quarterback
where you know Michael Parsons. Yes he plays on defense,
but he's one of the best ones out there. He
could win Defensive Player of the Year. Skeans could win
Cy Young. I think it's schemes to whatever team I
(53:35):
think it's. I think it's more blown out of proportion
because it's Cowboys and Cowboys fans wind and complain about
a lot of stuff because they haven't won in thirty years.
But I love seeing it. I love seeing stars on
the move like this. I think the Pirates should do that,
should do this because it's kind of hurting Skeins's value.
Schemes wouldn't be eight to nine with a to zero seven.
Speaker 1 (53:58):
Yeah, but the Cowboys and Pirates could not be more different, right,
And also the Cowboys trade him to a team that
Michael Cowboys fans tells us, Yeah, but they I mean,
the Packers kick their ass when they made up in
the playoffs too, So you'd have to think of a
team like to me, it would be like.
Speaker 3 (54:17):
Maybe both owners suck and they'll know what they're doing
and get in the way. Bob Nutting gets in away,
Jerry Jones gets in a way. Michael Parsons is on defense,
so he's not as sexy as the quarterback. Paul Skeins
isn't as sexy as you know, somebody hitting dingers. So
to me, I think it's Paul Skeens and he's free.
(54:39):
Michael Parson's free of the cowboys, just muck that they're
living with in their life. And I hope Michael Beer
hears this. He's free, he gets a championship. Paul Skeins
would go be free and get to win a championship somewhere.
Speaker 1 (54:52):
Hey, Todd, father, did you see this story or story
early this week from Boomer Size? And who's you know,
a big radio host in New York and big former
quarterback in the NFL. So he's in the Ring of
Honor for the Bengals and they sent him the invite
to attend because now, once you're in the Ring of Honor,
you're supposed to go when someone else gets inducted. And
they're inducting two other players, right, So he gets the
(55:13):
email invite and he gets two free tickets for seats
in the stands, with an option to buy more seats
if you would like to buy more, and then a
discounted rate at the local hotel as part of a
room block. So he basically gets himself out there, pays
for the hotel, and they have him a couple of
(55:34):
tickets in the seats where you were in Cincinnati somewhat frequently,
Todd father. I mean, you are a man of the people.
You love them, But if you're sitting out in the seats,
people just all over you the whole time. So it
sounds like he's probably going to decline the offer. Do
you think the Bengals should offer a little more, as
like a five and a half billion dollar franchise.
Speaker 3 (55:59):
That is Britian.
Speaker 2 (56:00):
I see where you're going with this, But no, no, he.
Speaker 1 (56:03):
Should just go out there and do his thing. Is
that out? I don't know genuinely how this works. I'm
not saying that you get paid, but don't They usually
take care of them and be like, hey, hang out
in the owner suite and yes, we'll put you up
for a night.
Speaker 2 (56:15):
No, I got you.
Speaker 4 (56:16):
But that the sweet the sweet thing, Yeah, put them
in a sweet I find that weird that they're not
going to put him in the suite, but you know
you're getting two tickets. I mean it's just to me,
people feel like because of what you know, you did
in the past, at the end of the day, it's like.
Speaker 2 (56:38):
They have to do this and that.
Speaker 4 (56:40):
I mean, listen, dude, if they don't put you in
a suite, I find that as a problem. That's not
a problem.
Speaker 2 (56:45):
But you're getting up. You're getting it, says a discounted right.
They're not giving them a hotel on his own either.
Speaker 1 (56:53):
No, that's what I'm saying, dude. I mean, these things
happen all the time.
Speaker 3 (57:00):
Of them, right.
Speaker 4 (57:03):
Yeah, they should take your hotel and put them in
a suite. Anything else after that is whatever.
Speaker 1 (57:08):
That's all I'm asking for as his rep. Now I'm
now his rep. That's all I was asking for. Okay,
So we're on the same page here. It's weird. That's
why it was a story. Happy Labor Day weekend every Monday. Yeah,
we'll see all Tuesday. Tuesday, Monday, we're off. Good luck
to everyone tonight. And also you can win to share
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You're done. Tayson Tyler Anderson left on left we oh,
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