Astros Loss To Royals, Framber Headed To IL, MLB's Pitching Clock

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Shawn Salisbury, Bryan Lima, goLobos. This is the Sewan Salisbury Show.
One of their leading scorers, pointguard L. J. Cryer,
announced yesterday that he is going toreturn for another year. That's that's great.

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He came in here and did ahell of a job this year and
is a really good score and playsboth ends as well. It's good they're
they're they're there bringing the guys inand keeping the troops around so we can
watch University of Houston have another greatrun at this thing. They're gonna be
loaded. Yeah, if they cansecure all this. And I love the

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fact, you know what it tellsme. It tells me this is typical
of a Kelvin Samson team, unselfishabout themselves, care more about their team.
So when they could go and boltto the you know, an opportunity
to go play in the NBA andgo do something else and get that.
And I know, Ny and Iowe money, and the collective helps,
there's no question. But it alsotells me that the way they went out

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and haven't won a national title thatbothersome to them. That'll tell you all
you need to know about what KelvinSampson's building here. Yeah, continuing to
build or has built and continues tobuild, continuing to build with Kelvin Samson.
A right, Let's look at theseAstros. They lose four to three
last night in extra innings, Johnthey had fourteen hits to Kansas City seven.
However, they stranded thirteen men onbase and they finished five for eighteen

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with runners in scoring position. Andthat's on a night where jord On Alvarez
went four for five with two moreRBIs. Yeah, fairly inexcusable at times
for this team. You know whenthat happens, Now, I know it's
going to happen, and listen ifyou feel like you have to qualify this,
and quite frankly, I am tiredof qualifying it. Of it's early

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when we say something like, ohthey won't they won't strand runners. You
know that many runners a month fromnow, but no more qualifying. It
is early, We know that.That's that's the big old umbrella over the
entire Major League Baseball season. TheYankees are ten and two. Are they
feel like it's still earlier. Theyfeel like they're hitting on all cylinders,
they feel like they're going to headto the right. It's only early,

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you know what it is. It'sonly early when you're not winning the way
you want to win. Right now. In truth, they are four and
eight and they come out of this, they'll be six and eight if they
can take two and they can comeback here for what three against the Rangers.
Correct, Yes, so you gota chance to make up ground.
That's the great thing about baseball.You play so many you go on a
run. As Data Brown likes toemphasize to us, you know we're gonna

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win eight, nine to ten ina row at some point, And he's
right, and it'll probably happen morethan once this year. But we don't
need to qualify. Everybody in theworld knows we're ten twelve, fourteen games
in, where twelve games in formost teams in this league. Right around
there depending on delays because of weather. So, but you do have to
judge the way it's going. Forinstance, a Bray I got to tell
you now I do, and I'mgonna say it. I don't. I

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shouldn't have to qualify this. Youknow how I feel about him as a
teammate. I just the way hegoes about his business. I am a
fan, but not a fan boy. There's a big difference. And when
you see it, you know whatit feels like he's hitting. You know
when you crush when you're playing,when you're playing NERF, you get hitting
a NERF baseball with your buddies ona NERF bat and you and you crush
it. And what you call ahome run is in Major League Baseball would

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be a little bit of an infieldfly. Yeah. I don't see any
explosion off as bad. Now.We said the same thing last year.
I'm even about the power. I'mjust talking about just through the hitting zone
everything, and it's it is ait's it's fairly alarming to me. So
not to qualify it that position,I don't think you're gonna I mean,

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you'll probably see him the most thisyear, but you can't keep running this
out here, especially when your doubledigits runners left on base, and I
can go through the lineup and namesome other names if you'd like me to
that need to swing the bat better, make no mistake consistently. But so,
yes, yes, yes, whenall of a sudden done and we're
judging him one hundred and forty gamesin, will this look different? I

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believe it will. But I canonly look and see what I believe in
what I see now, So I'mnot qualifying this. Yeah, well,
when we get healthy, great,But what are we going to do till
we get healthy? When's fromberg?I mean, these are things that every
day sports is crazy, just likeevery day life. You got to show
up and do something every day.There's some way to be judged, whether
you turn on a mic, whetheryou're training your your kids, whether you're

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take can a test. You knowwhat when you take a test in school?
Oh, I got three more ofthem, but the first one mattered,
right, because then if you screwup the first one, there's pressure
to do the other three even betterand make a's if you made a D
on the first one, he's notyou get my points? Right? Yeah,
so we don't need to stress.Yeah, it's early. There's no
there is no panic, but there'sconcern about some of the individual things that

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are happening, whether it's injury,whether it's a bray. You they've got
to have more production from corner infielders. Quite frankly, offensively, you just
do and you can't leave that manyrunners on base. Now. Make hey,
they had the ten of those hitsI believe were in the first four
innings. I'm sitting here and watch. I believe they were through four.
And Reagan's is a monster. Hepumps it up near one hundred. He's
in ninety seven, ninety, helives up in the upper nineties. The

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guy can pitch, and that staffis good and they're gonna get They facing
another good one today, right,So they get it, and they got
good young players. But the qualificationsof ah, yeah, make sure you
qualify it. We know it's weknow it's early. But I'll tell you
what, there's some optics that ifthey don't concern you, then I'm watching
a different game than you are.Let me, yes, is it is?

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Are you overly comfortable with the waythey're playing on a daily basis?
I mean they're putting the ball inplay a ton of hits last night.
But guess what it's like throwing forfive hundred yards and Kevin six points to
show for it. Yeah, andlosing seven to six in a game that
they made the extra point. Youdidn't. Jose braw has started this season
two for thirty three, one walk, two singles, and twelve strikeouts.

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I've got He's been on base whatthree times? Three times? Two hits
in a walk. His I havesuch a hard time just, you know,
not criticizing, but thinking, Okay, I just can't Brian, keep
putting it into this is how hestarts, how he started. But I

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can't do it though, No,you can't because even if there is contact,
like he hit a blooper out thecenter field that was caught in the
right center early in the game,and it doesn't look like there's any explosion
in his swing. Do you knowwhat his average exit velocity is so far?
It can't be anything but in thenineties. It's below eighties eighty five.
That's that's pop gun stuff, brother, he is talking about NERF baseball.

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He is in the bottom like fifteenpercent in the league right now.
His numbers for hitting, his expectedbatting average, and again I'm not a
big stat guy, but we lookedat these yesterday. His expected batting average
one oh eight, his expected sluggingone forty six barrel percentage. He doesn't

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even have an average because he hasn'tbarreled anything up to register. On Baseball
Savant, hard hit percentage eighteen percent, sweet spot twenty seven percent. Let
you know what, Brian walks twopoint seven percent. He is in the
all of his number sean one.You've got batting average, slugging. Let's

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see hard hit percentage one two three. There's five categories here on Baseball Savant.
They're all bottom one percent of theleague. They're all blue dark blue.
If this was a second year playerthat they brought up, that they
after, like say, he hada good spring, do you know where
he'd be right now? Probably insugar Land. Yeah, yeah, But
since you're paying him nineteen million dollars, you're gonna give him run. He

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is unplayable. That's what it's gettingto the point. He is unplayable.
You're right, And like I said, the advanced stats and you know what,
I you know, you know what, Brian, though it's early,
Well, aren't you tired of hearingit. I am tired of hearing it
with with this situation, tell youwhat there's it is? Like I said,
it's only early when you're losing ornot playing consistently good baseball. Should

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I say it's late? I meanit's awesome? We don't you think the
Yankees. I'm thinking of teams thatare winning right now regularly. Do you
do you believe that in New Yorkthey're saying, oh, it's early,
they're tending to it's early. Youknow what they're saying for rail World Series
team. Yes, that's how they'refeeling. So and while it is so,
you know, callers and arrest ofus. We don't need to qualify

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that sort of We all know that. But if you don't have certain concerns
about the team, and I cantell you when you go on the i
L. If you're staying, Iunderstand it may not be anything. For
Fromer, it may just be precautionarytale because he's sore, but he's still
on the i L. He's stillgonna miss he miss the start. What
he's going to miss? One more? Could miss minimum? Okay? Yeah,
could so? Total three missed thispast one and then he could miss

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two more because he's on the fifteenday aisles. Oh yeah, fifteen retroactive
back to a day or two dayor two. So yeah, he'll miss
two to at least two more starts. Yeah, yeah, tough. There's
some concerns on the team and it'sgot to get better. Yeah, it
has to get better. Yeah.So all right, let's let's get to
the stake. Yeah, we'll continueto discuss the Houston Astros fromer Valdez headed
to the IL. It makes makesa little bit look a little bit worse

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time for the steak out here onthe Sean Salisbury Show. Sean Brown and
TRIPLEI here with you this morning.Astros losing ext ratings to the Royals.
They're back in action tonight six fortythe first pitch five thirty pms when the
on deck show starts right here onseven on your home for Astros Baseball.
Astros general manager Dan Brown gonna joinus at nine thirty. This morning,
Farmer Valdez headed to the il withelbow inflammation for as Sean my steakout question

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seven one, three, two,two, five, seven nine. Let's
talk to Andy, Andy, what'shappening this morning? Hey guys, look,
I don't uh Joe Espada has itin him, but things have to
change in this lineup. I mean, if he's gonna keep waltzing bra who

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out there, he's got a batninth, You got Breckman and this this
is putting. Alvarez at number twois not working. Two bays Btten three
thirty three, Albarez three forty seven, Tucker two eighty six, Brickman batting
under behind. All those guys shouldhave a ton of RBIs. He has

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two RBIs. Something tells me ifAlvarez is batting forth and Pena was batt
in second, Alvarez would have abouteight or nine more RBIs. Pena's betten
three thirty three, and he's waydown in the lineup. You gotta move
him up, you gotta put yougotta move Brickman down. I don't care

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what he's done in the past,right, he is not doing anything to
help this offense. I mean,you got those three guys are busting their
butt up top getting on base,and he's doing squad as much as we're
getting on that bread who which weshould. Bregman's not doing his job right.

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They've got to put both of thoseguys down down the in the lineup.
Yeah, jord On in the twohole, Andy leading the leading the
team with eleven RBI, Tucker rightbehind him with seven, Payne at seven,
Jan your Diez with five, andthen like you said, Bregman down
there with two. Hey, Andysaid, let me ask you this,
and I get what you're saying.You think if with the way, if
you put if you put Tucker andPayne and ol Twove in front of Alvarez,

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that eleven equals eighteen or twenty.I do get that. And Alvarez
four more hits last night's raking.So is this an Alvarez a spotted deal
with Alvarez and the two hole oris it more that Bregman is not?
Hey, what's his Uh? Whatyou're saying with this the power coming off
the bat, the barrel in itup? Yeah, come with Uhreman Bregman.

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Yeah. Bregman's average exit velocity Vilokabarrel up. Yeah. Exit in
the eighties, right, exit velocityfor Jose Abreya was at eighty five.
Alex Bregman this season average exit velocityat eighty six point seven. So right
there with them, Okay, Andthere's no doubt right now Bregman's in the
four hole for this reason. Andyis because of his his his history,

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right, It's not because this yearright now, you are one hundred percent
correct. So I get that.I have no problem moving Bregman back.
I don't because somebody, Hell,I'd put Alvarez, I mean, uh,
I'd put you IDAs in the fourhole right now if that was me,
and then get him more power opportunities. But it's it's sure not effect
in Alvarez. It's the guys.It's the behind him, meaning Bregman that's

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not driving any runs and he doesn'thave a lot of power. He hasn't
homeward yet, matter of fact,has he come close? No? So
that's the problem. So Andy,you're on. I think you're onto something.
But I don't think it's an Alvarez, a spot Alvarez and a two
hole. I think it's more productionfrom the four slot that we're gonna have
to get. And Reregman's got tostart hitting and driving the baseball because his

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exit velocity right now has been apop gun. It really has. But
it's just like the other day hehad three, he was three for five.
I think he had one one ofthe There's there's no situational hitting on
this team either. I mean,my goodness, they're leaving runners on base,
I mean left and right, that'sfor sure. And then you and

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then I think the pitching staff isaveraging a walk more than a walk every
two innings. You can't do thatin Major league baseball. Had a few
more we get three? Three morelast night? Was it three year?
Three or four? From uh Javier? Three three more walks a last time?
I think five for the for thepitching staff. And then here and
then guess what? Here we go? Uh Presley a brother and had he

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one inning each? Tell me thatthose guys can't throw two innings? Yeah?
I hate yeah, I appreciate thecall. Andy Josh Hater eleven pitches
last night and he was not runout there for the tenth and then Joe
Spot after the game. So wehave to be cautious of pitch counts and
remember how long this season is.Something along those lines. Well, here's

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the deal, Steve Sparks is harpedon this. Yeah, length from your
starters, some really good middle relief, so you don't tax what is supposed
to be. In truth, asidefrom the power and the ability to hit
this lineup, the strength of thepitching staff up and down with all these
injuries, is supposed to be seveneight nine, and quite frankly, right

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now it has not been. Now, I trust that it's going to get
better. But if you tax themand everybody tells me we can't, we
can't wear out a bullpen. Soguess what that means. They're getting too
much work, right, Yeah,so something's got to give, and you
probably need more Seth Martinez performances thatfrom some other guys as well, but

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you're not getting the dominant No,what do we say at the beginning of
the season, Brian that when yougot the seven eight nine done, best
back except for once in a while. People are going to have their days.
But it's done finished. That's theway it's gonna work. Well,
guess what. Right now, there'sstill the questions of is it and I

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don't like the ifs that come withthat. Listen, does Bregman got to
hit better? Yeah? He absolutelydoes. Yes, So it'll continue to
build the pressure of and Steve Sparksaid, he says the most confident baseball
player he's ever been around in hislife. So confidence isn't gonna be the
problem with Bregnant. But he's gotto start to barrel it up and hit

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that ball hard. We know he'sgonna walk. He doesn't chase a lot
of bad pitches, but the ball'snot jumping off his bat like we used
to. And the what we'll sayall the time is it's early. But
if it's too early for some ofthese guys, guess what tour. If
it's if it's too early for ahandful of them, guess what happens.
Then you're in the chase mode allthe time and say, well, now
we can't wait that extra fifteen games. We gotta make it Early's got to

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come earlier. Yeah, Okay,then late or should I say late,
it's got to come earlier than lately. Does that make sense? Yeah?
Yeah, Get back out to thephone line and talk to Roger. Hey,
Roger, Hey, guys, uhyeah, I'm with the other guy.
The corner infield is what teams cansurvive two seasons of row in a
row of bad corner infield offense.Tell you, I don't. I don't

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think you look it up. I'mpretty sure you come up with zero.
This is way too long. Wedon't know breaking anything now now, Bregman
other than a lot of money,A lot of money, I know,
but I'm serious. Hey, howmany bassports cotching have we eaten? I
understand, brother, you have tochalk that up to the game. I

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get it. We're gonna have topiecemeal this one together because you're not gonna
get rid of Bregman right now.You're gonna You're gonna have to get uh
uh carro td Car t Diaz andmaking a three man ploteam over there first
base while Diz is not catching,save his legs and and try to piece
smell that thing together. You cannotkeep on getting zero two seasons in a

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row zero pretty much until July andyou know, Gregman, these tough start
that we cannot absorb that anymore.We're just not that good. We're just
not that good. The pitching is, the pitching is, uh, until
the pitching comes back, and thenstill then you need your offense from those
guys you can't just go without.And then you know you've still got Myers.
I don't understand Myers situation, butI just just too much, too

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much and too soon, and we'rejust not catching up. And man,
I just I see him, prayyou and you know, the guy,
he's he's liibering off the plate andchasing these bad pictures. And then when
he's not chasing you the pictures likeOkay, here's my mediocre ninety fastball,
catch you up? Oh man,nothing zero, Look sit down, I'm
just the same loss and repeating withthis guy. All right, guys,

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now we'll go on. Thanks,Roger, appreciate it, Roger, Roger.
I think that's the frustrating part forme, Sean, as you're watching
him swing through ninety three mine hourfastballs, Well, dude, he's having
a hard time catching up to lownineties, and that is h But I'm
not talking about low nineties up withlate life. I'm talking about low nineties,

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did it in truth? A greathigh school baseball player. Yeah,
he's going to square up. Yes, that's just the fact. And I
mean, listen, this, noneof it's ever I know how hard sports
is. We all do. Itis hard, but it looks a lot
harder watching this play. And Rogermakes a great point. How long can
you continue to say, now,look at we just say all this and

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guess where they were last year agame away, two games at home,
with a chance to close it outand get the World Series and they didn't.
But I'm not worried about last yearright now? How many different years
can you say, slow start,slow start, They'll be okay, getting
late? How because at some pointin time, what happens if those slow
starts, that Tucker and Alvarez aren'thaving all star years again? What happens
if they falter? Then? Who'scarrying you? You're eight titter, no

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paying you, late in the inthe order, Chasmo McCormick, Who's then?
What? So? I just wecan't keep saying, oh, this
is okay, we've seen this.Yeah, it's early, but I'd sure
like to be coming out of it. Saying, you know what, what
a difference this year made the contractyear and the guy's making nineteen million or
so over at first base. Whata fast start by those guys. I

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just am not in the business ofjust kind of what a stroud We say,
he's not really a fast starter,so we'll catch him in game five.
It bothers me, but I'm notthe guy doing it. But history
says that the guy at third andthe guy at first will somehow pull themselves
out of it. But at somepoint in time, history is not going
to be on their side. Right, And then you're gonna how much does

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Jordan Alvarez have to do? Well, how much does he have to do?
Look what he's done in the lastthree or four games. He's caught
fire and they still can't win.Yeah, and then the dude goes out
and runs balls down and left field. He's freaking dressing in a phone booth.
It's frustrating. It's very frustrating.All right, Let's let's keep looking
at this lineup with the Astros.I got some further numbers here when they
have runners in scoring positions so farthis season. That's next on SportsTalk seven

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to eighty. Let's go. Thisis this Sean Salisbury Show. Sean will
ask some questions in regards to fromber. Uh. Yeah, I would imagine
that'll be near the top of thelist. Maybe jose Abraho Yes, Alex
Breckman, Yes, but he's gonnaBut they're not one ounce worried about Alex

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Bregman. You know, they're justthey're not. You know, I'm not.
I don't ever hear any concern overhere from front office and or like
Steve, they all sparks, theyall trust him right, and he's gonna
get it done so far this season. I read, uh, I read
Josea Braw's stats per Baseball Savant andhow a lot of his are in the

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blue. The only categories that arenot in the blue for Alex Bregman are
fifth percentage, K percentage, walkpercentage. We know he doesn't strike out
much. We know he doesn't chasebad pitches. His average ex of velocity
is only one mile an hour aboveJosea Brews. His barrel percentage is also
at a zero, which Josea Brewsis hard hit percentage at thirty five,

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sweet spot percentage twenty nine. That'sall blue expected batting average two twenty five,
expected slugging to eighty six. Okay, well, let's have a conversation.
Okay, I'll ask you all right, I'm interviewing you. Yes,
you'd be Dana Brown for a second. Okay, Oh god, why do
we trust Alex Bregman more than joseA Brew? Well, okay, tell

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me the numbers from last year.What Josea Braw hit for the season?
Yeah, tell me what his averagewas? Let me get the real quick.
This is not I'm just I don'tknow the answer to this. Well,
I take that back. I thinkI know history. Younger been a
part of the franchise longer, andhe uh what jose braw last season ended

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the season? Uh? Two thirtyseven, batting average two ninety six on
base a slugging of three eighty threeand an ops of six eighty Okay,
ninety RBIs Okay, Now give mebregmant two sixty two. Yeah, he
hit two sixty two. I thinkhe he was eighth in the league in
walks with ninety two. That'll alwaysbe he's one hundred walk guy happen and
we'll waiting to happen. Alleviate twentysomething bombs got it coming up real quick.

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Last season, Bregman end of theseason two sixty two, three sixty
three, on base percentage four toforty one slugging ops of eight oh four.
He had ninety eight RBIs he hit? Where is home runs? Well,
I'm not seeing home runs. Twentyfive bombs and like I said,
ninety two walks. So we assumehe said eighty seven when the hotness?
When? When when he gets hot, that he's going to put up bigger

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numbers, right, yes, Sothat then that's where I'm leading to this.
But let me ask you, forgetJuly. Bregman's not gonna hit two
twenty this season for the full season. He's currently hitting two twenty two.
Right, he will, He's gonnaget on Basically, he's gonna walk between
eighty five and one hundred times.He's not going to chase. He'll get

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going in he'll, history says,But I forget history for a second.
I'm talking about now. There's alot of different things on this and there's
every year something different. He's playingfor, in his mind, a monster
contract, right yeah, So andwe know that he'll heat up and do
all that. All that's fine.I'm talking about now, why what's the

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difference in the smoke? Well,I mean when you look at the numbers,
it's talking about twelve games in,Yeah, twelve games in for this
season, and you look at thesestatistics that I just read, especially with
these Baseball savant numbers, between AlexBregman and jose A Brayard, there should
not be a difference in smoke.So why more disdain for one than the
other ones? Of a life here? Jose catches flak more because of the

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contract and the way that he wasbrought in. People will always say,
and I'm just speaking not for me, but I'm talking what I hear and
what I read. People are upsetthat Jeff Bagwell had a big hand in
bringing jose A bray You here andfor that monster contract. Fair enough,
I'm talking to you again, I'minterviewing you. You think Alex Begman is
gonna be worth thirty minute plus milliona year if he hits like this?

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No, has the same year aslast year? You paid him thirty minute?
Me personally, no, I wouldnot to the organization pay him thirty
million, not this organization. No. Well, okay, uh, Brian
GM okay, Alex Pegman gonna beregardless of what happens this year, Alex
Begman gonna be an astron next year. Look, we're gonna, we're gonna

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try to negotiate. We're gonna we'regonna talk with Thanks Brian, But what
do you think? No, thisis not etchetin Stone just thought now twelve
games in. No, my pointis before the season started he wasn't gonna
an astrap for the season. Alot of people I felt that way,
and then you're right, I meaning, and I hear national, So I
think I heard him lebronc is maybeit was Buster only on the ESPN broadcast
was saying, assuming he's going totest free agency? Was the talk.

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Well, the reason I'm saying thisis I think that for me, as
I'm interviewing you, uh huh,the we know, the history tells us
every year that he will find away to post to post numbers. Yes,
let's just hope that everybody eld theTuckers and the alvarez Is and the

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pain is stay hot so you're nottoo far chase in a chase mode that
put with these injuries, and thatthere's no other injuries, and that frombers
isn't serious all these things that comein, and that the back end of
the bullpen gets back to their normal. They're not worn out and they're pitching
normal. That the last forty gamesof the season, two dudes don't have
three dudes don't have to carry theteam. Does that makes sense? Yeah?

(27:55):
So I guess the point is thatwe trust Bregman Moore because he's a
younger body and history says he willheat up and put himself in position to
be driving in twenty five, youknow, driving in close to one hundred
runs, hit twenty five home runs, and more than likely hitting higher than
the two sixty two he hit lastyear. That's why, correct, Yeah,

(28:17):
I think that's that's and plus he'sbeen here. This team looked different
to you this year than the last, Yeah, than the last couple of
years. Something that they don't Theydon't seem in sync. They don't seem
comfortable, urgent. They don't.No, there's not really a sense urgency
either. They just seem out.They just set because they trust themselves that

(28:37):
they know they're going to pick itup. And maybe this isn't they started
so last year. Yeah, soI'm looking at I'm trying to find answers.
I don't have them all. Imean, I have my feelings about
things. Obviously, we talked aboutthem for four hours every day. It's
just it's it's and maybe in Julywe'll be saying, here we go again.
This team's picked it up in onetwelve out of fourteen and that's it.

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And with all this said, theyhad fourteen hits last night. Yeah,
they out hit him. Yeah.And there can't leave runs in the
scoring position the bay. You're thebest yardage offense in the NFL. That
you're fourteenth in scoring, it's notthe way you want it. You'd prefer
it the other way, top scoringoffense. Yeah, And I don't care
when you finish in yards. Ifyou're scoring points, that's all I care
about. Last night left too,Ma Minyon base to go win on the

(29:22):
road. Fourteen hits against the guythat has like the ten or twelve,
no doubt, and a guy isit can pump it up there too,
let me see no doubt. Welooked at this yesterday on our podcast,
Where did it go? Let's seehere? Yeah, Reagan's had a one
point four to six ERA going intolast night. Tonight against Lugo. He's

(29:45):
got a point seven to one ERAand then a singer for Kansas City in
a couple of days point six toeight ERA. Cole Reagan's is one of
the best pitchers in baseball right nowearly in the season, and they put
up fourteen hits and stranded thirteen runners. Oh, I mean with runners in

(30:06):
scoring position. Sean, you knowwhat they have right now with an OPS
six fifty six. That's on baseplus slugging six fifty six with runners in
scoring positions so far this season.That's why they're not scoring runs. They're
not getting the timely hit. Iunderstand. I think that levels out during
a season, but optically looking atit, plus with the injuries that they

(30:26):
have and a hole at first base, that's where you get the big concern.
Like, that's where you start questioningthings. I'm sure people in the
fan base are thinking, hmmm,is the Astros run over twelve games end
of the season. That's where Ithink people's mindsets are going right now.
And you know what, I thisis gonna be bothersome at some point and

(30:51):
then at some point, yeah,they're gonna miss playoffs. I mean,
look at the Giants run Giants,Yankee, Cardinals, Yankee listen, Well,
the Dodgers keep winning, they well, Dodgers. The Dodgers want an
abbreviated World Series. Yeah, andhaven't seen it since nineteen eighty eight.
So you can call it a runbecause they're always winning. But they spend
like eight billion dollars in payroll.They should win. It should get to

(31:14):
the plus at some point time,somebody else is it's going to have.
I hope it doesn't happen for anothertwo decades, but at some point in
time, the start is going tobe. The finish is gonna be like
start. And guess what they almostcost themselves last year. Yeah, if
it's not for great baseball, Butthat just goes to show you this team
knows how to deal under pressure andduress, and they did it again last

(31:34):
year. But you can't keep livingthere is my point. But in truth,
that unpaved part of the road isbaseball. It really is. I
can tell you this. They ain'trunning away with a division, and neither
are the Texas Rangers or the SeattleMarriagers. If they get playing their normal
baseball right, it's just not goingto happen. It's not what needs to

(31:55):
change with the lineup or what wouldyou change with the lineup? Seven three,
two two five, seven ninety.Where's your concern level, fans?
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The Shawn Salsbury Showy continues last nightto the Royals. The Astros strand
at thirteen base runners finished five foreighteen with runners in scoring position and on

(34:13):
a night where Jordon Alvarez went fourfor five only counts as one. But
it's disappointing to see them leave thatmany runners on base little disappointing. Like
I said, listen, if you'renot judging every game the way you need

(34:35):
to judge it, then what's theuse ever talking about it? If you're
not analyzing each game in an individualbasis. And then as the season rolls
on, you start to point backto moments. You know, we're not
worried about Game two right now,but you know you're in game twelve heading
the game thirteen, and so yougot to analyze. Isn't that what a
general manager does and a head managerdoes every single day? That what they

(35:00):
do every pitch. You don't pullout, Henley, if you're not analyzing
every pitch, you just let themgo through it. But you pull them
out in the first inning because it'sjust not it's it's a tough start,
and they put him in a toughposition. Correct. So in that way,
as we discuss it, the panic, I have still yet to hear
a fan call in or see thepanic word. I know people can say

(35:22):
that there's no need to panic.I don't hear. I don't hear anybody
panicking. This city's really good,and the fan base is really good,
well critical because they're expectations and we'vebeen spoiled by great baseball for about eight
straight seasons here and right, andI get it. They set the bar
high and so fans are going tobe disappointed. But I have yet to

(35:42):
see maybe you have an astros too, I've yet to see somebody say I'm
panicked. Criticizing or breaking it downor analyzing is not panic. I'll tell
you what I'll tell you. Whenyou panic, two more guys get hurt
and they're out for the season,that are pitchers and there at the midway,
and then they're sixty games in andthey're fifteen games under five hundred.

(36:04):
Then you come seem with panic,and now the panic will kick it a
lot longer, a lot sooner thanthat. But point is, I don't
think there's any panic. But ifyou're not disappointed or analyzing each and every
day, you're doing exactly what afront office and a manager would do.
Yeah, and that's why I'm okaywith our fans having their concerns as they
should. If you don't have them, then because at some point your concerns

(36:25):
are going to become bigger concerns ifthis continues, leaving runners on base and
being injured. It just is.And that's why you do talk radio for
four hours and listen to our smartcallers that have concerns. Some concerns are
different than others, and that's whyit's important to discuss. And I think
and it's also cathartic. It reallyis. Leave that many runners on base.

(36:45):
I need to slap upside the headso you're not bothered by it.
Yeah, there was a couple ofpinch hits last night that I found,
Like John Singleton pinch hit for Dubonto face a arriety. Have you ever
looked at his career splits against righthand of pitching, John Singleton. I've

(37:07):
heard them talk about him. I'vetalked about Yeah, he hits a buck
forty one against right hand of pitching, and for some reason they continue to
roll with him against righty's off thebench, and he pinched it for Debon.
Right. Yeah, Here's what Idon't get. There's no time,
no analytic, no situation at anypoint in time that I've seen that would

(37:31):
would validate to me. And I'mjust an analyst and a guy who loves
baseball n fan. But I watchit fairly closely like you do at any
time in this season. I don'tcare if a bray ew and Singleton hit
a guy three years ago and we'refifteen to fifteen off him what I see

(37:53):
now. I don't care if theanalytics say that Dubon's only hit. The
Dubon is a better hitter than bothof them combined right now and has been
for the I'm not that analytic.Guess what, when you hand me that
sheet, what I'm doing. That'sgreat, that's great, Dubon, make
sure you hit. Yeah, youcan get yourself in the on deck circle.

(38:14):
I'm not pinch hitting for you.Now. The other thing's true,
Oh we got to we got aright hander out there. We want to
put a left hander in Singleton's Let'ssay he's at first base. Hey,
guess what, Singleton come back overhere. Yeah, bray you righting on?
Come back over here. I don'tcare if it's righty on, righty.
I don't unless all of a suddenDubond says, oh, I don't

(38:35):
want to be part of this guy, which Debond's not going to say.
This isn't a movie made for Hollywood. Yeah. I listen, I personally,
and I think Joe A. Spotis going to be fantastic. Disagree
with that decision. I'm with youand whatever analytic that says that analytic ain't
working. Sometimes you got to lookthrough that. That's why both matter to
me and you. He's the manager, he calls it. Now, let

(38:55):
me do that. Now, letme just say this because I know the
thing, and do do I thinkJoe Spot is going to be a hell
of a manager here, I absolutelydo. I think he's qualified and prepared
for it. But if Dusty madethat move last night, huh ha,
we know what, dude, Ourphone lines would be lit up. They'd
say fire Dusty Baker, so forthand so on. So I just I

(39:19):
think sometimes we get I think,oh man, it's not here, it's
everywhere. Get too cute that littlecard you hand me or that little sheet
that says, here's the analytics.Sometimes, No, do you know who
the better baseball player is? PretioDubon, Thank you and good night for
a team that is analytical as theAstros. John Singleton versus right handed pitching

(39:40):
buck forty one average, two sixtyone on base, two sixty slugging in
an ops of five twenty one versuslefties, he's got an eight thirty nine
OPS. I don't understand the pinchhitagainst the right hander when his splits are
just terrible against right handed pitching.But no, it's not, but it
was. It's I know, ifit works out, it's fine. But

(40:01):
you know what, I got abetter chance of working out. Dumont hit
righty on RTY. I just do. He's a better player. Let's get
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(42:02):
True's longtime friend shown Salisbury, RyanLon Lima, Go Lobos. This is
the Sean Salsbury Show. Let's talkabout from ber Valdez. Sean, he's
headed to the IL with elbow inflammation. Fifteen day, Joe Spotto was asked

(42:23):
about the UCL ligament and he saidhe didn't get any news on that ligament,
which you know, usually in anMRI you're gonna get news on a
ligament. However, I'm assuming theydon't want to share anything, you know,
how tight lip they are when itcomes to injuries. Did not hear
elbow discomfort or forearm discomfort or anythinglike that either way, Another pitcher on

(42:45):
the IL for the Astros. Thistime it's your essentially your staff ace and
hopefully we'll get some more information todayin regards to the injury. To from
er Valdez, and hopefully it's notwhat we're all thinking. You hear forearm

(43:05):
tightness, you hear elbow inflammation,especially at the state of all the pitching
injuries in Major League Baseball, andyou automatically think Tommy John, Yeah you
do, you go right to it. I don't think any of us.
I mean, where is the painwhich leads more to that. You know

(43:27):
that what the UCL right is let'shope not we were hoping it wasn't going
remember yeah, yes, they weretalking about let's let's hope it's they don't
put him on the i L andhe gets his next startup and let's go,
well, that's not going to happen. So I don't know what his
threshold of pain is. I don'tknow how severe it is. That's for
them, and we won't know.Well, I'm you know, I'm gonna

(43:49):
ask Dana Brown. He's gonna he'sgonna tell us whatever he decides to tell
us about it. And it maybe too early in the h when you're
trying to decide what it is thatis fully wrong, how how bad it
is, Maybe too early in thatdiagnosis. So we'll see. But fromber

(44:09):
Verlander or Katie Garcia McCullers, andI mentioned him, it is where do
you? I mean? It's fine, it's early. I get that.
But the part I can't control,it's the injuries breg mental control his business.

(44:35):
I would like to think sooner thanlater? Right that that, I
get that, But at what pointin time did these start to alarm?
Oh, we're going to miss twostarts? Not that big. It is
a big deal. The question ishow severe is it? You know,
we'll hopefully no sooner than later.But going on the I l ain't a
good thing that's going on. TheI l when they mentioned anything around the

(44:57):
elbow, it's your first three actionis we want to talk about panic.
You're not panis about the assholes that'llpanic your ass in a hurry. That's
where we are. Seven one,three, two five seven. I need
the number to join. Let's startwith John John. Good morning, John
Man. What's up? How y'all? How y'all doing this morning? We're

(45:17):
good man? What's on your mind? Hey man? Look man, you
know I went to sleep last nightthinking about what you guys just got through
talking about this, and you youhave to explain this to me like I'm
a five year old. I mustbe missing something here. This is the
eighth inning. The score is threethree. You it's fine, you substitute

(45:38):
you. You pinch hit for Dubon. First of all, you didn't need
to take Dubond out the game.It's late, it's the eighth inning,
it's three three. You need ahit. Don't tell me about better defense.
Dubon and Chad McCormick was playing justfine on both sides of the ball.
Okay, So you pinch hit,but du Bond in order to bring

(46:01):
in Myers at the end of thegame. And guess who gets to who
has the last opportunity to give usa hit, and that's Myers and he
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(47:29):
the experience. Salisbury Salbury, Houston. Okay, let's do this. Sean
Salisbury to USC True longtime friend,Shawn Salisbury, Ryan Lima, Go Lobos.
This is the Sean Salsbury Show.Joe Spotto was asked about the UCL

(47:55):
ligament and he said he didn't getany news on that ligament, which you
know, usually in an MRI you'regonna get news on a ligament. However,
I'm assuming they don't want to shareanything. You know how tight lip
they are when it comes to injuries. Did not hear elbow discomfort or forearm
discomfort or anything like that. Eitherway, another pitcher on the IL for

(48:16):
the Astros. This time it's youressentially your staff ace and hopefully we'll get
some more information today in regards tothe injury to from or Valdez, and
hopefully it's not what we're all thinking. You hear forearm tightness, you hear

(48:37):
elbow inflammation, especially at the stateof all the pitching injuries in Major League
Baseball, and you automatically think,Tommy John, Yeah you do, you
go right to it. I don'tthink any of us. I mean,
where is the pain which leads moreto that. You know that what the

(48:58):
UCL right is let's hope not wewere hoping it wasn't going remember, yeah,
yes, they were talking about let'slet's hope it's they don't put him
on the i L and he getshis next startup and let's go, well,
that's not going to happen. SoI don't know what his threshold of
pain is. I don't know howsevere it is. That's for them,
and we won't know. Well,I'm you know, I'm gonna ask Dana

(49:20):
Brown. He's gonna he's gonna tellus whatever he decides to tell us about
it. And it may be tooearly in the h when you're trying to
decide what it is that is fullywrong, how how bad it is?
Maybe too early in that diagnosis.So we'll see. But fromber Verlander or

(49:42):
Katie Garcia, the Colors and Imentioned him, it is where do you?
I mean, it's fine, it'searly. I get that. But
the part I can't control, it'sthe injuries, reg mental control, his

(50:06):
business. I would like to thinksooner than later. Right that that,
I get that, But at whatpoint in time did these start to alarm?
Oh, we're gonna miss two starts? Not that big. It is
a big deal. The question ishow severe is it? Well, you
know, we'll hopefully no sooner thanlater. But going on, the I
L ain't a good thing. It'snever that's my going on the I L
When they mentioned anything around the elbow, it's your first reaction is we want

(50:30):
to talk about panic. You're notpanicked about the asss that'll panic your ass
in a hurry. That's where weare. Seven one, three, five
seven. I need the number tojoin. Let's start with John John.
Good morning, John Man. What'sup? How y'all? How y'all doing
this morning? We're good man.What's on your mind? Hey man?

(50:52):
Look man, you know I wentto sleep last night thinking about what you
guys just got through talking about this, and you have to explain this to
me. I come, five yearold, I must be missing something here.
This is the eighth inning. Thescore is three three. You it's
fine, you substitute you. Youpinch hit for Dubon. First of all,

(51:13):
you didn't need to take Dubon outthe game. It's late, it's
the eighth inning, it's three three. You need a hit. Don't tell
me about better defense. Dubon andChas McCormick was playing just fine on both
sides of the ball. Okay,So you pinch hit for Dubon in order
bringing Myers at the end of thegame, and guess who gets to who

(51:36):
has the last opportunity to give usa hit, and that's Myers and he
strikes out. You know, youdidn't need to. It's too late to
be making experimenting and making changes.Hey man, you four and eight.
I know it's early, but youkeep making these bone head decisions. You

(51:57):
might never catch up. You mightnot win the is. I don't understand
this man. They needed a hit. I don't understand. I don't understand.
Why did you take Dubono? Ididn't do it. Wasn't didn't one
or two good hits. Man.Wasn't he playing the wall? I thought

(52:17):
so? Man, I thought so. Man, this man that left the
righty stuff and substituting players sometime inthe middle of a game that very rarely
worked. I don't care what thesusterest to say, because first of all,
you bringing in cold players that havenot played all night, and you
expect to bring in a player thathaven't played all night, and you expect
him to go up there and backand hit a home run or do something

(52:40):
great. Here it is you gotdubon, You got players that's already been
playing in the game. They're warm, they've been watching the picture. It's
just totally ridiculous. Man, Whatdon't tell me? Joey spotted man.
They had to ask him about that. He couldn't have talked this crap about
the lefty righty stuff. Huh.In the eighth inning and the score is
threet three. It's a little lateto be spen min You know. I

(53:04):
hope Dana Brown is listening because he'sbeen pushing Myles on us ever since the
beginning of the season, and Jaythe two because my's been getting all the
playing time at the beginning of theseason. Chad McCormack can do. Bond
back is suffering because it is Milesis the one that should be coming in
every nine then, and that's onlywhen we're leading and we're about to win

(53:28):
the game. You can't spend men. Now, you you trying to catch
up. You yourself a hole andyou you and you got to catch up.
Y'all's playing that to me. Hey, have a good day, Man,
Appreciate you, John, always appreciateyou. Think about this while go
start the leader in the divisions.The Angels at six and five, their
run differential is minus eight. Texasis plus seventeen. At six and five,

(53:51):
they're going to be hanging around allyear. The Angels see him at
the top, Guess where they're notgoing to be. That's the top.
Yeah, Oakland, you're thankful rightnow that the division's playing fairly putrid,
a very average baseball. Oakland's fourand seven. Their run differential is minus
nineteen. The Astros are even atzero, yep. And then you've got

(54:15):
minus twenty six Seattle. That's notgoing to stay like that. And well,
the Rangers are six and five andsplit with the Astros. They're plus
seventeen. If you're six and fiveand you look at the plus seventeen,
you know you're telling yourself that's agood thing. And once our pitching starts
to catch up, but you starta look at this division, it's a
good thing. You're not in theEast right now, right or quite frankly,

(54:37):
the Central's playing really good baseball.Cleveland's eight and three. I mean
they got one, two, three, Three of their teams are above five
hundred. Detroit's played pretty good baseball. Point is yes, and while twelve
games end of the season records,it's not that big a deal. But
there are signs that tell you gotto pick it up, and they've got
to and last night and the waythey hit last night, and they've had
a few games this year, whatten runs, eight runs and how many

(55:00):
runs they scored in their in thein the final game they split with the
uh the Rangers? Was that?What? So do they have? They
gone ten oh eight oh, tento two, three five, ten to
five. So in three of theirgames, haven't they scored twenty eight runs?
They beat Toronto ten nothing, theybeat Toronto eight nothing and ten to
two. Then they beat the Rangersthree to one and then ten to five.

(55:21):
Think about this, In three oftheir and then three of their wins,
they've scored ten runs or more runs. Yeah, twenty eight of their
runs have come in three games.Can't leave runs in scoring positions. I
like the sound of that. Ilike the sound in their cut. I
like the Rascal Flats. Yes,I like the sound that. It is
Western Wednesdays. Let's go good morning. Yeah, yeah, we've had a

(55:49):
little technical difficulties this morning. Ilike the sound of that by Rascal Flats
has been requested to bring us backas we eight runs of three games.
I need that. I need moreof that. I like the sound of
that. Need more of that.That's for damn sure. All right,
there's a picture that's gonna make hismajor league debut today for the Astros.
Seven one three, two, onetwo, five, seven ninety, Gary
Todd, we see you there,holding, don't go anywhere. We'll get

(56:09):
to you guys next as well.Who is that picture that's gonna make his
major league debut for the Astros today? Next sportslock seven ninety. Let the
celebration start more Sean Salisbury. It'sa Sewan Salisbury show where you miss if
you get a start, you gottatake some time off get a start.
You don't want that. No,we got too much of that going on

(56:31):
here right now with injuries, right, too much of it, way too
much. Seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety. Start
to Gary, Well triple can youpunch him up? I don't know what's
going on over here? Gary,good morning. Hey guys, can you
hear me? All right? Yes, sir, we gotcha, yep,
okay, okay. I've got acouple of things real quick. One of

(56:51):
them is about Astro's manager. He'sa rookie. So can you imagine a
rookie coming up uh in the positionlike he's in a lot of a lot
of uh, a lot of stuffgoing on, and it's overwhelms him when
he first starts batting. Once hegets in he settles a little bit.
He's gonna get better as it goesalong. Fully, so I think,

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uh a spot will be better ashe goes along. It's just kind of
overwhelming him right now. Hey,you got to make this decision. You're
the guy now, and you knownot every day even when you push the
right button like like you may havethought analytics, you pushed the right button
with Singleton, pinch it in forDubon right, it didn't work, yep,
And then you may push it fivetimes in a row and it works
like crazy. Yes, one correct, Things change and you get a little

(57:34):
more comfortable, a little more feel, no doubt. Yeah. A couple
of other things real quick. Aboutthe outfield play. Get your best three
outfielders out there and leave them inthere. Quit substituting all the time.
Put your best left fielder, centerfielder, right fielder. Keep them there
throughout the whole game, every game. Let him rest there once in a
while. But the main reason Iwas calling is about the batting lineup.

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It's so obvious to me, andI always trust managers they know or mother
than me, but not in thiscase. Bregman is not a clean up
hitter. He's a number two hitter. If you put him in the number
two spot, they're not gonna throwhim all these balls in the dirt that
that uh that he's swinging at nowand uh uh because of who's gonna be

(58:16):
behind him. Jordan's gonna be behindhim and then and then uh, the
right fielder will be He's the numberfour hitter. Bregman is better. He's
a contact here. He's better atthe spit and he and he at the
second spot, and he's gonna bebetter. He's gonna get more walks too,
but they're not. They're gonna haveto come into him and throw him

(58:37):
strikes. And I think he'll bemore comfortable in the second spot. And
that's so obvious to me. Ijust hope he realizes that makes those changes
sooner better than later. Very greatpoint, Thank Gary. Thanks. Here's
what I believe about that too.Yeah. I think Jordon can hit in
any slot. I think he's justso good that his comfort level doesn't matter.

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If you put Jord on the leadoff spot, he hit forty home
runs on the lead off spot andand would hit two eighty five. I
believe that he's that good a hitter. Forget the power, I just believe
he's that good a hitter and comfortlevel I do agree with. I don't
think Bregman's a natural four hundred hit, I mean a four whole hitter.
Do you know what are his strengths? Pitch selection perfect, great eyes,

(59:25):
gets on base, gets on baseright, whether it's walk, working,
pitch counts, yep, Aggressive whennecessary, But and maybe at times he's
got such a good eye that helays off pitches he probably could swing at.
You know what I'm saying you whenyou got such an eye that's like
a fine tooth comb eye, aball that hits on the black that you

(59:49):
may be able to push the rightfield, maybe lays off it because he's
so hell I feel like Bregman's anumpire with a bat in his hand.
Yeah, and it's it's uncanny anda lot of that from studying, I'm
sure, and growing up. Butthere's a lot of DNA in there.
It just sees the ball better thana lot of guys do. But he
is not a natural in my opinion, and I'm not the manager, but

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I've never thought he was a naturalfour hole hitter. Now do I think
he can hit twenty five home runsand eventually driving one hundred runs there of
course, because he'll put the baton the ball and doesn't strike out a
lot. But I and I wantJordon to get as many at bats as
possible. But to me, Jordonfeels like just a natural three hitter,
Tucker four to five guy. Thetruth is Jiner Diaz feels like a full

(01:00:34):
blown number four on a regular Bregmantwo in and now two of a one.
I think that for me that wouldbe the better view optics for me.
I just do. And also thepressure not to have to drive in
runs where you're the run producer.You know what that means. He'll drive
in runs from the two hole,meaning Bregmann. So listen, Jordon's raking
in the tool. But you knowwhat if you stuck him in the four

(01:00:57):
hole, what do you think Ithink he's gonna rate? Of course he
is. I'm Connie driving one hundredand twenty runs. I don't mind you
were on in the two hole.I love in the three hole. Agreed.
See, I'll go back again forme the perfect first five, my
first six today, how two Bayleads off Bregnant hits two for obvious reasons.

(01:01:19):
You'red on in the three hole,Tucker in the four hole, or
Yannier and Tucker switch that's right becauseof the lefty righty if that's what you
want, even though they're lefty leftyright now, yan d is in the
four hole, Tucker in the fivehole either way, and Jeremy Paine is
sitting at six, McCormick at seven. And who'd I leave out? You
gotta have Dubon and a Bray youor whoever's playing first base right Dubon maybe

(01:01:42):
hit, yeah, you, whoever'splaying first base in eight, and then
Dubon in the nine hole. I'mnot playing Jake Myers either. I'm playing
Dubon and Chas McCormick in the outfield, whoever you want. I'm having quarantine
and Yannyrdas switched between first and catcher. That's what I'm That's where I'm at
now. When when Yiner is notcatching and he needs right he hits in
the four hole as the DH orfirst baseman. Simple yeah. Like I

(01:02:06):
said, from my vent now,I'm not the one with the lineup card
has to make those calls in themiddle of a game. But from my
vantage point, it just feels meBregman would be more comfortable than the tool.
Now he's so confident it doesn't matterwhat we put him. But I
just think that he, for somereason I don't know, does he see
the ball better from the two holI don't know the difference, but he
does not. He works counts andhe is going to force you to throw

(01:02:27):
him a strike. And I thinkJordon, listen, Jordon's a triple crown
and now he may never hit threethirty to win the batting title. I
do believe he's a three hundred,two eighty five to three zero five guy.
It's a thirty five to fifty homerun guy and one hundred RBI guy
every year. And an ops thathovers what between nine hundred and one thousand

(01:02:49):
and an on base had of sluggingpercentage in the five hundreds right hell,
at times even above that. Soto me, Brian, I listen.
I know it's easy for us todo because we're not but I think Bregman's
a natural two hitter, and you'dsee a lot more base runners with him
there, because if Altuve also swings, Jordon may A, you know,

(01:03:09):
al two b quick pitch swing hitsa home run, gets out Jordon may
hit a lot of solo home runseven though it comes to the plate more.
You get my point. Yeah,So I don't know. I just
I like a guy whose eye saysI'm walking a lot. You know you're
gonna throw me strikes or you're not. And where the pitcher has to stress
earlier, you listen at you knowwhat you I don't know why guy throws
Altuve at first pitch fastball down themiddle of the plate. I don't get

(01:03:31):
it. Now he may pop itup. You're also risking being down one
and nothing with Bregman. He isgoing to work you. Foul ball off,
stay alive and walk with jord On. You might as well just put
four on. Just stick four upevery time that fool comes to the plate
because he's he is just wearing yourass out. But he can do it
from anywhere. So I think youand I are on the exact same page.
Those first six to me first seventynwith McCormick or echeton Stone. And

(01:03:54):
I also like, I don't know, dude. I guess I'm old school
on one point. My outfielders don'tneed a lot of rest. Yeah,
I'm just sorry. My outfielder shouldplay one hundred and fifty five games a
year held just should. I wantevery I do on my outfielders as long
as they're producing in the I wantmy outfield to be the same. I

(01:04:15):
want a hundred. I want onehundred and fifty five games, one hundred
and sixty games out of Kyle Tucker. I just do he's healthy. That's
just me. Yeah, I mean, we're frustrates me. All the talk
you know about inconsistent lineups, andyet we've seen here early through twelve the
lineup for the most part to staythe same. But there's so many different
little moves being made, and it'sit just seems kind of and singletons not
pinch hitting for Dubon at any pointin time the rest of this season.

(01:04:36):
Is it overmanaging? Maybe because it'searly, he wants to set a stamp
it up. Yeah maybe, yeah, But you're four and eight, right,
and maybe that'll change. But itis four and eight. You learn
decisions, and you know some ofthe decisions you said, I have made
that decision too, But then there'ssome decisions I wouldn't have made that decision
last night. I'm not a manager, I'm a broadcaster, but I just

(01:04:57):
at no time as Singleton pinch hittingfor Mauricio Dubon. It's not happening.
I don't give a rats, askwhat the analytics tell me. Right with
Farmer Valdez headed to the il,where will the Astros turn for innings?
And where Sean, where'sh did youturn? If you want your house paint,
you get a paint job done atsurta Pro. Just get or done?
You do I wires, I getit. I love it be doing

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some a bunch of diy stuff aroundthe home. But one thing I won't
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done interior next to her at myhome, buddy of mine who's got a
business, they've paint in their place. I got a buddy who's home that
they're painting their place. It's justwho they are because they like the look.
They're gonna be meaning my friends.And also when you're at your home

(01:05:40):
sometimes you're deciding, well, whatcolor fits this and what's the type of
paint? Do I want a glossydo I want to matt whatever it is.
They've got great experience to walk youthrough that. You don't need that
to be a stressful situation, timelyand local as well. Treat your home
like they treat their own. Theofficial painting partner is sort of pro and
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It's sort of pro painters, sortof pro, the power Pro. This
is the Sean Salisbury show. That'sbeautiful. So I guess with that five
point thirty on deck show, theA team's gonna have it, you know,
a little abbreviated show for them.Oh they get a abbreviated show.
Yea a little bit. There's ashocker. I'm kidding. Yeah, they

(01:06:50):
you know, they're the perfect timefor that schedule to kick in and give
them some time have you ever noticedhow much Matt Thomas and at clan't resemble
each other? No, explain itto me. Both handsome gentlemen, both
bald, shaved their heads, bothbasic white guys. I will wait for

(01:07:13):
you to give that one the basicwhite guy comment. Why is there a
picture of them? Yeah? Ijust I was on Instagram just now during
the break and Adam Clinton obviously inMatt Thomas Rockets. Yeah, man,
they looked dapper as hell last nightover at Toyota Center. It was the
last home game for the Rockets.Last they do. They're in, They're
in suits and doing Rockets radios.And Adam Wexer was on the TV sidee

(01:07:36):
last night for US Space City HomeNetwork, but in the studio with Calvin
Murphy. Nice. So we gotsome tie coats and ties you get.
Would you say they looked basic whiteguys? Why not? What's wrong with
you? I know, I youknow, I really haven't thought about their

(01:07:56):
resemblance. Their resemblance. We'll goback. Let me give him a liker
he uploaded seventeen minutes ago, sohe's probably Adam clann might be listening this
morning. So where is there thebald head and the average and the the
the basic white guy stuff. Yeah, and they said they both have headsets
on. Nice suits, good lookingsuits from both of them. Look at
that nice got a three piece yeahfor Adam and Matt looks uh you know,

(01:08:21):
he looks like the chiseled face readyto go. Look good memories,
memories to get man, last lasthead game for this season. You're just
basically saying it because the bald headand the pale white skin, that's what
you're saying me. No, notthe pale white skin, just white white

(01:08:45):
guy. That's right, you're white. Yeah, yeah, I was at
I'm a basic white dude as thereis why I'm right there with you.
I mean, but hey, I'lltake a cut for you, though,
I'm saying no, yeah, butthey look good. Good picture, I
like to. Can't capturing those memories, man, honestly with the with the

(01:09:08):
picks, capturing those good memories.Man. We need to take more pictures,
me and you together, a coupleof basic white guys, basic white
guys in the morning, you know, triple to add some flat yeh,
damn right, We're about to takea picture, like, dude, that's
two big basic white guy gets yourass, add some a good a better

(01:09:29):
look to this damn thing. Spicethis picture up. He always does because
he's always happy too. Is alwaysin a good mood. It's like,
uh, like a non mine.Well, don't make a reverse Oreo.
You know what I mean? Isthat what it is? Yeah? Because
an oreo is looks better than wedo anyway. True. Yeah, there,

(01:09:51):
he looks way better than guys.So bad. I appreciate it.
Thank you. See now we're justthree guys. Why don't you tell us
something we don't know? Triple soyeah, No, that's a good picture.
That's the last home game, that'sright. So, like I said,
capturing those memories. So the wholetrifecta with WEX doing the TV side.

(01:10:11):
WEX was on the baby side lastnight. Yet good stuff. That's
space That Space City Network's doing somegood things. Man. They are man
owned by the Rocket Chan Astros andcovering a lot of local sports, which
is the way it's supposed to be. I should be, especially here in
the city of Houston. There yougo, all right, where the astro
is going to turn for innings asfrommer Valdez heads to the Iowa well top
pitching prospects Spencer Arraghetti will start todayfor the we stop it, dude,

(01:10:38):
what is wrong with you? I'mlooking forward to his start. He may
he may throw a gym. Hemay throw a gym on him, aren't
we? Aren't we pumped up forthis? Been waiting on this right we
we talked about him a lot.Now have to wait long either, so
it pushes everybody else back. HunterBrown will start tomorrow, JP France Friday,
and then Blanco on Saturday, ChristianHoavier on Sunday, and then when

(01:11:00):
the Braves coming town on Monday.Nobody listed, I know, well,
how could you list? You don'tknow who's I mean, hopefully Verlander is
going to make this trek back herepretty soon. He's going to another start,
and hopefully by that time one morethan we can pencil him in a
handful of days later and get rolling. That'd be great for this franchise.
Yeah, they need it, that'sfor sure. Little you know what they
need, a little little red bullkick. We're a little five hour energy

(01:11:24):
feelm me. They really do.I mean I'm talking about where they just
where they where they kick it upand get going right. Ye get that
they need wings, they do,absolutely, And and maybe Verlander is the
one to give it to him.Maybe Spencer will give it to him today.
They need to score more runs intheir opponent. You can do it,

(01:11:45):
so say it louder. They needto score more runs than the Royals
today. That let me tell you. So that analysis is it doesn't get
better than that. I mean,what do you where do you get that
information? We get that all week, so you get to suck on that

(01:12:06):
all week. Yeah, So atwhat point in time did like you think
I'm gonna research this. I'm gonnaresearch this. I'm gonna look deep.
I'm gonna take a deep dive intothis and find out. Yeah, go
ahead, you can't find out howyou came up with one more time telling
me this, dude, I've neverheard this today. Let's talk today only,

(01:12:28):
Yeah, just today, just thirteen. Correct, The Astros need to
score more runs than the Royals towin. I'm gonna tell you you probably
will go on National TV. That'sabout what kind of stuff I'm gonna hear.
Great, Great, I'm gonna tellyou something. They said that you

(01:12:49):
were an expert. I was toldyesterday. I was told that yesterday.
Yeah, spiders, Bob all thatthat's was that was weather Channel Weather Channel

(01:13:19):
chick for the all that over thetotal eclipsed. I'll tell you, well,
whatever was like, I'll take itfor a minute as well. Her
boyfriend or husband probably like damn,Like hell, how come I don't get
that? Love? No, he'sprobably thinking that, or he's like,
hell, yeah, I'll give youa minute. No he priced it.

(01:13:40):
I'm hell for fifteen seconds, rightman? But you're analysis dude, we
yeah. I don't even know why. I really don't even know why.
How could anybody not consider you anexpert? One more time? Take us
to break with that. I needto hear that, all right? Okay,
the game's tonight, Spencer's on themound the and they need to win

(01:14:00):
this one and they need to stranda few less runners they do, So,
how do you do that and comeout with a win in game two
of this series? In order tocome out of this game with a win,
the Astros will have to score moreruns than the Royals. If you've
signed you a new deal yet anew deal? There it's time. I

(01:14:23):
yeah, we're I mean, whenyou're bringing that to the table. Uh
uh, I don't even know.I got to be your agent. I
do where do I sign You know, I don't even want a percentage.
That's good analysis. It's driven unbelievable. You are analytics, Yeah, you

(01:14:45):
are the evidence. You are themetric. Look, man, I've got
career batting splits right here in frontof me. If you hits a ball
more than you don't, you're abetter better Oh man, let's look at
some of these batting splits and someof these pinshit at bats that a couple
of people were questioning last night.That's next on sports Stock seventy Hey Men's

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Shawn Salisbury Show continues. It knowthe Weather Channel reporter that we have played
some of her audio clips or audioclip last two days. What was her

(01:16:58):
name? Triple call her called StephanieAbrams? Stephanie. Okay, so Stephanie
Abrams who called in and said thatto us Phil, Phil, Thanks,
thank you Phil. Stephanie Abrams didnot want to make sure to give her
credit for her Yeah, with thatenergy, she deserves more than just be
called the weather, called the weather, chandel girl, channel chick? Was
it puck Satani? Phil? No, he didn't call think so oh,

(01:17:23):
thank Phil, thank you for lettingus know. Then you can put a
voice with the face now and thereyou go, there you go. There's
a lot of excitement. And what'swhat's her first name again? Stephanie Stephanie
Abrams. Good for a lot ofpassion. Yeah, selling that weather man,
Yeah, good selling the eclipse.Yeah, it was a totally eclipse

(01:17:45):
of the sun, not your heart. That's exactly right. Okay, Over
she was over in Fredericksburg. Ineed to know whatever she's having, we
need to have it. It's alot of energy, you know what I'm
saying. Get you going, ohyeah, especially when you knocked down that
oh Man seven one, three,two five at seven nine, let's talk

(01:18:06):
to John one talk astros John,what's up? Look, spot us forgot
Scott has forgotten more baseball than whatwe all know. But I've got a
few things here. One Singleton,take your butt back to Triple A.
There is a reason why you area thirty something year old and have never

(01:18:29):
been to the show. Okay,you did what you did when you did
it last year? What in thehell they are doing? I don't know
why Josh Hater cannot come out forthe tenth I and nobody else knows.
Everybody better start worrying because before youknow it, we're gonna get slapped in

(01:18:50):
the face and you're gonna be ten, twelve, fifteen games behind the Rangers.
The Rangers are not going nowhere,just like we said. And who
what this idiot was that they broughtin in the tenth last night. I
ain't never seen or heard of thiscat. Now, Wander Wander Swell he
just got caught up John, Well, he needs to go back down just

(01:19:12):
like Hendley. All right, Now, got a question for you, Lema,
was that the past is the pastwith the Astros and the Dodgers and
all this crowd. And I haven'tbeen keeping up with him because my boys
back up in knockadochus and all that. So, and I hadn't talked to
him, But why in the hilldoesn't used to go look at Bauer?

(01:19:36):
Oh? John, there No,one is not just Houston. No one
is going to give that man anopportunity he has. He has more allegations
against him than we know about.That's been publicly discussed. Yeah, there's
more. Yeah, No, hefalsifying and all that. No, there

(01:20:00):
was, And that's that's where likeone side says he it was a lie,
the other says it's not. Andthen apparently here over the last couple
of weeks, there's more evidence thathas come out against him. John.
It feels like baseball and those involvedin baseball and making those decisions feel the
risk is far bigger than the reward. Absolutely no, And I didn't know
this, And this is why Iasked the question, because I'm busy doing

(01:20:25):
my thing. I'm not, youknow, just as y'all thing y'all to
answer these questions now major League Baseball. I heard Justin's interview and all that,
and we've all talked about it,but can't the players. I mean,
dude, something's got to stop.There's too many, too many of
these cats are getting blown up.And I heard y'all talking about it yesterday.

(01:20:46):
There's too many these arms and andI still think it's the damn pitch
call. It's got something to dowith that pitch pot they're not giving there.
I don't know. I'm not adoctor. I didn't sleep at holiday
in that. I haven't heard thatyears. Man. Yeah, you know,
I mean something's got to change.I mean the union or something with

(01:21:09):
this damn pitch clock. People pissingand moant it don't go to the game.
Why didn't and crying about a threehour football baseball? Man, kick
your butt at home then, Butit's ruining baseball. It's the pitch clock.
I really think, you know what, it's got something to do with
it. We still John, thanksbrother, We appreciate you. And I

(01:21:30):
think Brother, have a good one. I do believe this. Yeah,
don't we have some Tony Clark stuffwe wanted to get to yesterday. Yeah,
let me get that. I'll getthat pulled up pop on that and
we'll see how that goes. Andwe still got some Master's picks to make
it starts tomorrow. We can doit well. The two that will already
go beat off all the time.Yeah, I got you, I got
you. Yeah. With the partthree going on today, we'll be watching

(01:21:55):
that. That's always a fun watch. Solid ball striker. Oh you just
just those guys playing in this tournament, A lot of solid ball strikers.
You know who you're gonna pick?Yet? Who is it? I have
a few ida Why would you wantto know? I just maybe I want
to pick them. I know thatif you score lower than everybody else in
the field, you win the Masters. If you have a lower score,

(01:22:19):
unlike all the other sports, rightwell, the more you score, the
more you win. This is theone sport that if you hit the ball,
if you swing far less than anybodyelse and you have less when it
gets to it, you have putthe ball in the hole in less swings
than everybody else, you win.Augusta, damn it, you wear the
green jacket. I don't know howI didn't think of that. You can't

(01:22:41):
hide brilliance, that that you knowyou can lead me to water, but
you can't make me drink. Youknow what I mean. And your quotes,
So where you get it, Idon't know. It's off the top
of that dome. Brian Churchill,damn right there you go. Thanks for
some respect on it. There yougo. All right, What did Tony
Clark, the president of the PlayersAssociation in Major League Baseball, have to
say about the pitch clock. I'vegot the uh the statement here in front
of me seven one, three,two five seven Y. We'll talk about

(01:23:03):
it next in the nine o'clock houron Sports Talk seven eighty a b E
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Houston. Okay, let's do this. Sean Salisbury to usc true longtime friend,
Shawn Salisbury, Ryan Lima, goLobos. This is the Sewn Salsbury
Show. The ones right here inHouston, justin Verland are making another rehab

(01:23:53):
start this weekend. But he uhwas on the IL coming out of spring
training. Jose Erkeaty Garcia, LanceMcCullers Junior, and al Fromervaldez. That,
Sean, that is a full assrotation literally rotation five starters. Yes,
exactly what it is. How doyou how do you sustain winning when

(01:24:15):
five guys are out like that,whether it's short period or long period.
I know right now five of themaren't pitching right That that's either speaks to
the the baseball needs some's got toget done, or that this team's really
special that they can survive this.The aleen to both. Can you sit

(01:24:36):
on the fence, Yeah, Ithink you can man that, sure,
I don't know here. I don'tthink you can survive it a full season.
No you can't. You just can't. The virtual impossibility, right,
So, you know, talking aboutthose guys on the I l obviously leads
to the conversation about, uh,the injuries throughout baseball with the pitchers.

(01:24:58):
We talked heavy part of our showyesterday about the elbow injuries. We heard
from Justin Verlander talking about how thestate of pitching has changed and everyone's trying
to throw as hard as they can. The spin rates are up, trying
to throw as hard as you canwith their fastball, with your slider,
so forth, and so on.Also, he mentioned the pitchclock, which
probably plays a role in this aswell. Well. The Major League Baseball

(01:25:23):
Players Union they issued a statement thiswas a couple of days ago, and
this came from the Chief Tony Clark, and he talked about the reduced time
on the pitching clock, and hesaid quote, despite unanimous player opposition and
significant concerns regarding health and safety,the Commissioner's Office reduced the link of the

(01:25:44):
pitchclock last December, just one seasonremoved from imposing the most significant rule change
in decades. Since then, ourconcerns about the health impacts of reduced recovery
time have only intensified the league's unwillingnessthus far to acknowledge or study the effects
on these on this profound change isan unprecedented threat to our game and its

(01:26:04):
most valuable asset, the players.You want to know what the league set
back. In response, Major LeagueBaseball released its own statement and said,
this statement ignores the empirical evidence andmuch more significant long term trend over multiple
decades of velocity and spin increases thatare highly correlated with arm injuries. Nobody

(01:26:27):
wants to see pictures get hurt inthis game, which is why MLB is
currently undergoing a significant, comprehensive researchstudy into the causes of this long term
increase, interviewing prominent medical experts,across baseball which date, which to date
has been consistent with an independent analysisby Johns Hopkins University that found no evidence
to support that the introduction of thepitch clock has increased injuries. In fact,

(01:26:49):
JHU found no evidence that the pitcherswho worked quickly in twenty twenty three
were more likely to sustain an injurythan those who worked less quickly on average.
I think that there's a piece ofboth that are true. I think
that it's different for players, andwhen you're different and you change your routine,

(01:27:10):
mechanics may suffer. I think thesmallest part of the arm problems is
the pitch clock. I think that'sthe smallest in my opinion, just from
listen. If I pick up afootball and throw it and you make me
throw it fifteen seconds sooner than Inormally throw it the next time, yep,
I don't. I would not.Then you know we do that in

(01:27:30):
training Sometimes you put quarterbacks. I'vebeen through where you'll get like fifteen balls
and a guy will snap it toyou. Throw quick, quick release,
catch the next one. Quick releasetakes like you're in a two minute drill
and you got to get it outright. You're just training your arm to
be urgent and keep repeat the throwingmotion. I never found by the fifteenth
now you may be fatigue because you'renot Cardiovascuar in shape and you're doing it

(01:27:53):
and stepping into the throw. Inever felt, if you're using your legs
properly, that my arm suffered morefrom happen to speed up when I threw
the ball as opposed to now overthe course of time, fifteen throws is
different than one hundred and fifty thousandthrows doing it urgently, right, I
just I guess I try to trustJohns Hopkins more than I do major League

(01:28:15):
Baseball, even though they're the oneswho hired them for the study, and
probably more than I do somebody whowe view it from AFAR. I have
a hard time believing. I dobelieve Justin Verlander's right about so much that
he said, I have a hardtime believing that we all of a sudden
woke up and because you have topitch seven fifteen seconds faster than normal,
you know around there did all ofa sudden. If you throw strikes,

(01:28:40):
you're still throwing the same amount ofpitches, right, if you have to
pitch it faster. I don't.Your arm can't recover in eight seconds.
Let's just stop. Let's stop thatright now. If it could, then
we could actually increase them and say, well we can throw one hundred and
twenty pitches. Would have slowed downin one hundred and twenty pitches, Okay,
what would be worse? No pitchclock telling a young pitcher you go

(01:29:01):
out and throw a hard where yourpitch limit is one hundred and twenty pitches
or you got to your pitch limitsninety five. But we're gonna throw it
in between. You're gonna throw itmore urgent. You're gonna step up and
have to throw your ninety pitches more, I mean, in less time than
you throw one hundred and twenty five. What's more torque the extra thirty pitches
of the extra eight, fifteen orfifteen seconds on the clock. Well,

(01:29:25):
I think I feel like more pitchesis more devastating on your arm. Right,
That's where the baseball part comes in. Yeah, and that's where I
believe. I think with the velocity, throwing as hard as you can,
and they're talking about over twenty years, a couple decades. If you said
which one you have to eliminate onetrain the kids different about throwing as hard
as they can or and adults andgrown ups and minor league pitchers and major

(01:29:47):
league pitchers or the pitch clock?Do I think it a houstonhd T Houston
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(01:30:35):
Raghetti. He's going to pitch tonightfor the Strows, making his major league
debut. When you look at allthe injuries throughout baseball, the ones right
here in Houston, justin Verland aremaking another rehab start this weekend. But
he was on the il coming outof spring training. Jose Erkety, Luis

(01:30:56):
Garcia, Lance McCullers Junior, andnow fromer Valdez. That and that is
a full ass rotation. Literally rotationis five starters, yes, exactly what
it is. How do you howdo you sustain winning when five guys are
out like that, whether it's shortperiod or long period. I know right
now five of them aren't pitching rightthat that either speaks to the the baseball

(01:31:24):
needs, the sum's got to getdone, or that this team's really special
that they can survive this. Thealeen to both. Can you sit on
the fence, Yeah, I thinkyou can, man, that's sure.
I don't know here. I don'tthink you can survive it a full season.
No you can't. You just can't. The virtual impossibility, right,

(01:31:46):
So, you know, talking aboutthose guys on the I L obviously leads
to the conversation about, uh,the injuries throughout baseball with the pitchers.
We talked a heavy part of ourshow yesterday about the elbow injuries. We
heard from Justin Orlander talking about how, you know the state of pitching has
changed, and everyone's trying to throwas hard as they can. The spin
rates are up, trying to throwas hard as you can with their fastball,

(01:32:10):
with your slider, so forth,and so on. Also he mentioned
the pitchclock, which probably plays arole in this as well. Well.
The Major League Baseball Players Union theyissued a statement This was a couple of
days ago and This came from theChief Tony Clark, and he talked about

(01:32:30):
the reduced time on the pitching clock, and he said, quote, despite
unanimous player opposition and significant concerns regardinghealth and safety, the Commissioner's Office reduced
the length of the pitchclock last December, just one season removed from imposing the
most significant rule change in decades.Since then, our concerns about the health
impacts of reduced recovery time have onlyintensified the league's unwillingness thus far to acknowledge

(01:32:55):
or study the effects on these onthis profound change is an un precedented threat
to our game and its most valuableasset, the players. You want to
know what the league set back.In response, Major League Baseball released its
own statement and said, this statementignores the empirical evidence and much more significant

(01:33:16):
long term trend over multiple decades ofvelocity and spin increases that are highly correlated
with arm injuries. Nobody wants tosee pictures get hurt in this game,
which is why MLB is currently undergoinga significant, comprehensive research study into the
causes of this long term increase,interviewing prominent medical experts across baseball which date,
which to date has been consistent withan independent analysis by Johns Hopkins University

(01:33:40):
that found no evidence to support thatthe introduction of the pitch clock has increased
injuries. In fact, JHU foundno evidence that the pitchers who worked quickly
in twenty twenty three were more likelyto sustain an injury than those who worked
less quickly on average. I thinkthat there's a piece of both that are
true. I think that it's differentfor players, and when you're different and

(01:34:04):
you change your routine, mechanics maysuffer. I think the smallest part of
the arm problems is the pitch clock. I think that's the smallest in my
opinion, just from listen. IfI pick up a football and throw it
and you make me throw it fifteenseconds sooner than I normally throw it the
next time, yep, I don't. I would not. Then you know

(01:34:27):
we do that in training Sometimes youput quarterbacks. I've been through where you'll
get like fifteen balls and a guywill snap it to you. Throw quick,
quick release, catch the next one. Quick release takes like you're in
a two minute drill and you gotto get it out right. You're just
training your arm to be urgent andkeep repeat the throwing motion. I never
found by the fifteenth now you maybe fatigue because you're not Cardiovascuar in shape

(01:34:48):
and you do it and steping intothe throw. I never felt, if
you're using your legs properly, thatmy arm suffered more from having to speed
up when I threw the ball asopposed to now over the course of time,
fifteen throws is different than one hundredand fifty thousand throws doing it urgently,
right, I just I guess Itry to trust Johns Hopkins more than

(01:35:11):
I do Major League Baseball, eventhough they're the ones who hired them for
the study, and probably more thanI do somebody who we view it from
afar. I have a hard timebelieving. I do believe Justin Verlander's right
about so much that he said,I have a hard time believing that we
all of a sudden woke up andbecause you have to pitch seven fifteen seconds
faster than normal, you know aroundthere did all of a sudden. If

(01:35:34):
you throw strikes, you're still throwingthe same amount of pitches. Right.
If you have to pitch it faster, I don't. Your arm can't recover
in eight seconds. Let's just stop. Let's stop that right now. If
it could, then we could actuallyincrease them and say, well we can
throw one hundred and twenty pitches.Would have slowed down in one hundred and
twenty pitches, Okay, what wouldbe worse? No pitch clock telling a

(01:35:57):
young pitcher you go out and throwhard. Your pitch limit is one hundred
and twenty pitches, or you gotyour pitch limits ninety five, but we're
gonna throw it in between. You'regonna throw it more urgent. You're gonna
step up and have to throw yourninety pitches more, I mean, in
less time than you throw one hundredand twenty five. What's more torque?
The extra thirty pitches are the extraeight, fifteen or fifteen seconds on the

(01:36:20):
clock. Well, I think Ifeel like more pitches is more devastating on
your arm. Right, That's wherethe baseball part comes in. Yeah,
and that's where I believe. Ithink with the velocity, throwing as hard
as you can, and they're talkingabout over twenty years, a couple decades.
If you said which one you haveto eliminate one train the kids different
about throwing as hard as they canor and adults and grown ups and minor

(01:36:43):
league pitchers and major league pitchers orthe pitch clock. Do I think it
affects them psychologically and makes them changetheir routine. I do, and it
may have some sort of it,but there's no way pitching a pitch even
though now if you told me,well, we pitched more, got more
in, so we got one hundredand fifty pitches in and in a shorter
period of time because we wanted tonot the length of the game. Then
I'd say, okay, you're askingto do more with no recovery in between,

(01:37:05):
and they're still throwing one hundred andfifty pitches. Then now that's a
problem. Eighty seven pitches. You'restill throwing eighty seven pitches. I think
it's more with the mechanics of theroutine, right, almost a psychological effect.
I do think there's probably some ofit, but I'm in this case,
I believe the amount of how manytimes you're throwing it, how hard

(01:37:26):
you're throwing it. Some bad teacherswhile you're throwing it growing up the spin
rate, the torque on the elbowin the arm, because when you to
create spin rate, there's some snapfactor that goes into this correct. Yes,
so all those things, and quitefrankly, not enough people that I
see at a young age engauge theirlegs enough and say what you want.

(01:37:46):
But I've been training quarterbacks for threedecades and the movement with the legs and
the leg dript the difference between aquarterback and a pitcher. We have flat
ground we have to throw off.They get to stand on a hill and
throw it in and push off arubber. So you got in both of
the similarities of engaging your lower body. If you engage it more, it
takes less torque off the arm.It just does. So I think both

(01:38:09):
Tony's right because it changes routine andplayers want their routine. And there's probably
a little more stress because you've gotto speed things up and maybe your mechanics
change, which puts your arm ina position to possibly not to take that.
The torqu's even worse. But Ithink it's the long term throw as
hard as you can affect. IfI had to choose one or the other,

(01:38:30):
I'd lean towards John Hopkins. AlthoughI don't care as a fan,
and I don't mean this disrespective fan, I really don't care if you have
to watch baseball for seven extra minutesto save a pitcher's health. Then I'd
like to get rid of the pitchingclock altogether, but start to warn the
guy, dude, if you doit a third time, now it's you
know you can't. You can't keepstepping off the rubber. And fifteen visits.

(01:38:51):
I think the visits to the mounthave been great. You can't go
out there as much, step upand pitch, so it's the torque for
me. It's far more I thinkexhausting to the picture than happened to speed
up getting on the mound sooner.So then one of the things that I
want to discuss next segment is werethese injuries just inevitable? Because it seems

(01:39:12):
like over last year and then earlythis year, with the two first years
of the pitch clock, these injurieshave kind of come out of nowhere.
So were these injuries two pictures inevitable? Let's discuss seems like they're changing some
mechanics with it too, right,Brian, to speed up their process.
I think that's part of it.I'm with part of it all right.
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bf E my man threw a chairoff the sixth floor at a bar in
Nashville, and there's probably something,Oh that's really cool. You know,
he's an idiot. What an idiot? Yeah, what a dumbassy. You
may not be an idiot overall,but that's just stupid. It's very dumb.
Did he did he do it?Because apparently his ex just got engaged

(01:41:36):
or something like that. Is thatwhat I read? Ye said he loped
or something like that. Yeah,yeah, that's what it was. So
she's an X. Oh you wanta controller there? Hey left your glove
on him mount dog. Yeah,apparently apparently somebody else came out and picked

(01:41:57):
it up. So you throw yourchair off with you better bring it he
didn't, Morgan, Yeah, MorganMorgan Wallen crushed that his ex Elope with
her fiance Luke Skywalker. So that'sthe answer whenever you break up. So
we just start tossing tossing chairs offthe sixth floor. So apparently apparently it's

(01:42:23):
not linked. A couple of differentreports are out. I'll uh, you
know what I mean. My peopleget to get to their people, so
they're not linked together. That hewasn't mad at that, Well, she's
an ex, is he supposed tomean? Yeah, you can be frustrated
and have your feelings hurt. Well, you better put a ring on it.
I guess apparently Luke did. Okay, how we're calling her? That's

(01:42:44):
her her new man's name, Luke. So then this is from Foxy and
I can't wait to get tickets togo watch Morgan wall in concert if he
ever gets out. There is zeroaccuracy in the idea that Morgan wall allegedly
threw a chair off the top offthe rooftop of a Nashville bar in reaction
to Katie Smith's marriage to Luke Scornavasio. Yeah, great guy, scorn of

(01:43:08):
Voco, scorn of Voaco, greatguy Vasso. Something I got checked that.
I don't think so, but heis. Uh but he did throw
the chair though, correct did?Yeah, yeah, that's you know what
stop, Okay, what a dumbast. That's just I'll tell you what.
He's got the world by the shorthairs, right, dude, he's
got all the money in the world. You mean to tell me I want

(01:43:30):
to go see him in concert,Just don't throw a chair at me for
clapping for you go get some zoids, brother. Yeah, come on,
man, you can find him inBFF wherever you and h Florida Georgia line
are. And dude, I've beenbeen in a couple of bars before my
life, and the last thing I'veever thought about doing is throwing a chair
out the window or off the ball, off the balcony. I mean,

(01:43:50):
yeah, come on now, Morgan, and I'm not famous, Morgan Wallen
is. Yeah, he doesn't needto do that. Let me give it.
I just just a hunch that alcoholwas involved. He was Yeah,
yeah, yeah, don't do it. No, And it just happened to
landed by too Popo right, thegood police. Right, Yeah, come

(01:44:13):
on, man, stop it unbelievabletalking about pitching and she's moved on ship
exactly, dude, she went toloped Yeah seven one three two one two
five seven. Al on the southside, what's happening? Al? Hey,
what's up? Guy? Hey,Shun? If it ain't Luke Skywalker,
what about Luke Duke? Duke's ahead? I don't know. Damn right,
you damn right with some daisy Dukesto just make sure it's not Morgan

(01:44:36):
and wearing them. Yeah, whoa, whoa, Yeah, we got it,
we got it, we got it. I don't think I think you
can say that. I say no, he said, Okay, okay,
yeah, real quick. Oh,Shun, I called in a show yesterday

(01:45:00):
and you alluded to it, butI'm gonna knock your chip off the iceberg.
I heard Roger Clemens on another showwell talking about the picture and all
I was trying to say, andthen the dude whoever MLB when y'all read
that, I was thinking about thatRoger Clemens take on this, and this

(01:45:21):
was like last week. He said, he thinks what happened to the guys
running, meaning seun You know whenI was playing back in the day,
and I ain't coming from a techI call him technology players. Now they
get massages and all that. Theydon't have the grind. At the end

(01:45:44):
of the day, it's the grindin baseball. They give you a lot
of more endurance with your body inyour arm. He mentioned the running you
know back in the day, youknow used to run, He said,
get your blood flowing through those parties. He said weight room. A lot
of these guys going up pitching onthe mount of buck Fitted was soaking wet

(01:46:05):
with bricks in the fucking and thenhe mentioned getting in a pool. I
believe the training have changed so muchwith the technoledgey. These guys getting up
looking like they fitted in skinny jeanuniforms, trying to play a Major league
ball When you look at a guylike Aaron Judge come up, good luck

(01:46:26):
with that, and you weigh onehundred and sixty pounds on the mound trying
to pencil this dude, and alot of times they throwing what they own
and not they body. And youwas exactly right, because when you come
up on the rubber experience and Brian, you know this coming coming up on
the mound when you step back withyour right foot and then you turn and

(01:46:47):
then impose your other foot inside therubber. Then you raise your foot up
and push off the rubber, youknow what I mean, and you push
to get you that you know release. A lot of times these guys is
doing it what they own and theydon't have the body to push and there's
nothing behind the arm but horn.And I just think, my pin the

(01:47:08):
training getting ready for a game.You look at these guys like Raddy Johnson
and Rocket to Rocket and all theseguys showing these guys wasn't these guys was
physically fit, and I just thinkI call them technology training now to new
and then their kids. Baseball ain'tgonna change. You got to pitch how

(01:47:29):
you win in Si youngs. Yougotta starting pitchers pitching five innues, six
innings at the most. They comingout and they win in Si youngs.
You know these guys back in theday they pitch. You gotta pitch at
least eight to nine innes even thesmoke to get into a Si young Now
and they say they talented then theywas back in the day. I can't
tell these guys if these guys waspitching six and five minutes back in the

(01:47:53):
day sun of Roger Clemens, andknow the rhyme. Man them dudes finally
have a million strikeouts. But Ithink, ain't the training have changed.
There's too much technology, there's nomore grind. Get your butt out there
and run. But see the money. Don't touch my player. He's too
cute. Hey, get away fromthat back, get away from that baseball.
Watch him. He's easy, he'smy age. He's getting such and

(01:48:15):
such mellions of dollars and shun.I'm gonna hang up and ask you this
here. You know why. Iknow what Shrew Rackett was saying, who
is the best player? If youtake a poll right now, Brian and
put up who's the best playing baseballAmerican baseball? Guess what it's gonna say.
Showy Otani, he's not American.He didn't pass these players up as

(01:48:35):
the best player in baseball in Americanbaseball. And I ain't gonna get your
take on it. He's you know, they have more access to training,
to all kinds of trainings. Ifsome gimmick, some not I know this
with the quarterbacks I train, andwe talked about quarterback and pitching and thanks
for the call out. Is Ithink they're the lack of explosiveness. A

(01:48:58):
lot of players don't know how touse their legs. I think the velocity
only comes from the upper body.Now, you got to have that appendage
to throw it. But the torqueand the velocity and the bigger muscles in
your legs are more well equipped tohandle the punishment driving off a mound,
driving with your back foot, finishingand you know what I see. I'm
going through watching these last few weeks, watching of course some quarterback trainers that

(01:49:19):
don't have their guys finishing with thefollows through. It's like putting the brakes
and gas on at the same time. Guess who always wins the break?
The break right and so you andwhich puts more torque on the upper body
and the arm to come through.Now we're talking baseball football, the mechanics
are similar. So al, Ithink guys work hard, but what we're
asking them to do and McKay andyou're so right about the training techniques.

(01:49:42):
We're asking guys to throw as hardas they can for a shorter period of
time. That's what you're asking.But you know what clements through one hundred.
Randy threw a hundred. Bob Gibsonwasn't exactly chopped liver. Sandy Kofax
ramped it up. Don Drysdale couldthrow it in the mid to upper nineties.
So and they the truth is theydidn't have all the gadgets to train
with. They trained the old fashionedway, got down and grinded. So

(01:50:05):
wherever that comes into it, Ido believe there is there's major significance between
lack of leg drive and using thelower half and throwing as hard as you
can because we want a seat onthe jugs, on the on the gun
and on the radar gun, andwe want them to throw it because that
gets you drafted, It gets youin the door. Here's the problem.

(01:50:25):
Not throwing strikes doesn't keep you inthe in the building, and then it's
causing injury. There's a lot ofreasons. There's not one factor. But
I can go to my big musclesare always going to outbeat the smaller ones.
And I, to my knowledge,my hamstrings and thighs and my muscles
and my lower half is stronger thanmy upper body to my knowledge, I
think so yeah, just a hunchit. So there's a lot that goes

(01:50:47):
into it. But we don't askour players to throw one hundred pitches every
time out. The comparison is nolonger there. Give me five and two
thirds and we consider you a starand we'll put you on our shoulders.
There is a difference. Oh it'snot enough at all at all. But
throw it as hard as you canbecause it looks good too. But if
you go down the middle, they'regonna hit they're going to hit it.
And eventually the arms only got somany throws in it, right, it's

(01:51:10):
the way it works. All right, let's get the break. We've got
Astros general manager Dana Brown. He'sgoing to join the show next on Sports
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Wednesday at nine thirty. Grateful tohave uh Dana Brown on Dana Welcome in.
Let's let's get started here. Firstupdate on Frombert Nobody likes to hear
it's an elbow severity. How doyou feel and Where are we at with
that right now? Yeah? Italked to Framberg and you know, we
had a nice gol sit down andultimately we just put him on an IEL

(01:52:44):
for fifteen days. And we feellike he's going to be fine. He's
going to miss a couple of starts, you know, and I don't want
I don't want the group to panic, you know. So I think he's
going to be okay. Just youjust needs some time off, you know.
Framber I mentioned this a lot onthe show. Framber is one those
guys who post every year, allthroughout the year into the postseason. And

(01:53:04):
as I mentioned before on the show, guys get tired, you know.
Uh, they go through these youknow, down times with you know,
with their arms sometimes and now whenyou throw as hard as he throws,
you know you're going to go throughthese periods. You know. They got
It's just a tip fifteen day dL and you know, we think he
was going to be all right.Is there is there any concern about being

(01:53:28):
tired this yeah the aisle? Yeah, I got you. Is there any
concerned ain't about him being tired?If it is this soon? Is this
more? I guess? Is thismore precautionary than worried about structural for you.
Yeah, it's more precautionary. Uh. You know, as you remember
last year, you know he ranto something similar, you know, Uh,

(01:53:49):
he needed some time off. Ithink it was the ankle. Sometimes,
you guys, these guys, theyget banged up and and you need
some you need some rest and andsometimes so we'll just we'll cure all.
And so when you're posting and you'reand you're throwing as much as these guys
throw, it's just inevitable that it'sgonna you know, you're gonna need some

(01:54:10):
time off at some point. Youlook around the league, you know you
can see that Dan is it is. It speaks to something. I know.
It's early in the season, aswe've talked about, but special that
you you know, with Erkeaty andFromber and Verlander and Garcia and Lance mccullors,
that you guys are able to hangin there and still call on people.

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And we'll get to Spencer here ina second. To be able to
post as you say, and stillshow up. It hadn't been the start
you wanted, but teams don't losefive starting pitchers and can survive it.
It speaks pretty good volumes to yourteam and the way they can also swing
the bat. Should I tell youthis, I'm sleeping well. Even though
we got some guys that are hurt, right, I think they're gonna you

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know, they're gonna get back.I'm not. There's no panic. Uh.
You know, I've mentioned in onthis radio show often, I've been
in a game for thirty four years, had done thirty five. And you
know, you go through these downtimesduring the season. You have to remember,
it's one hundred and sixty two games. It's a marathon. It's not
a sprint. And you can't panic. If you panic, your toast.

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So you know, you have tostay the course. You know, you're
good, you put the work in. We got my guys that are in
the minor leagues that we can callup that like Errigating, he's gonna be
good, and so you know,we'll stay the course. We'll get these
guys back. You know, oncethese guys come back, you know JV.
Erlander, he has to start onemore start in the minors and then

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he should be up. And soyou know, look, we're gonna we're
gonna grind through this. But youknow, at some point, as I've
said often, we will get onall cylinders. We'll run off eight in
a row, we'll run off tenin a row, we'll run off eleven
in a row. We'll run offsome some games here and so, you

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know, just we just have totell a fan and look, we're still
good. Don't panic. This guy'snot falling. This is a good team.
Trust me. The bats are startingto come alive right now. So
we're a good team. Astro GMJANEA. Brown, for his weekly visit,
joins us here on Sports Talk sevenninety Sean Salisbury show. You mentioned
JV. So the plan, atleast as we sit today, is one

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more minor league start and hopefully thesecond start now, which would be his
third obviously this year, will behim on a major league mound. Yeah,
that's the goal. I mean,hopefully, you know, you know,
we can continue that, but that'sthe goal. He's been feeling good.
He's been up to ninety five inhis outings. He was up to

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ninety five even before you know therehab starts. So and he's never stopped
throwing. That's the one thing Iwant to keep emphasizing with JV. You
know, he's just got sidelined alittle bit there, but he'd never stopped
throwing. He's always you know,been at least playing cats flat round mound,
you know, throwing lives. Soyou know, we feel good about

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him coming back. And once weget him back, you know, and
then uh, you know, we'llbe on all cylinders. We've got some
good things that are happening, Likeyou know, guys are throwing well,
that's stepping up in their place,like Blanco, you know these you know,
JP France is still throwing well.We're getting good starts, so uh,

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you know, we're in the ballgame. You know, we've lost four
one run games won by two runs. You know, it's got the start
that we wanted. You know,we're you know, we're four and four
since the own four start over fourstart against the Yankees. Uh, you
know, and even in the Yankeesseries, those are three close games that

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we lost. So I want Iwant everybody to hang in there. Look,
the team is good. We're gonnabe good. I'm not panicking.
Let me ask you this real quickbefore I get to Spencer on paper.
Just the everyday lineup going into thisseason, in your mind, better than
last year's. Yeah, the lineup, the lineup's really good, you know.

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I mean think about it when withthis time last year. You know,
we didn't have you know guys.You know, we had some guys
on the I l as well,right, you know, and so I
think the you know, the lineup, the lineups really good. You know,
we didn't have Brandley, we didn'thave two Va early on swinging up.
Yeah, yeah, theer wasn't starting. So look the batchers, the

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bats are good. We got someguys that are really swinging the bat,
you know, two A. AlvarezTingya Yaners swinging the bat. You know,
Tucker's been solid, you know easy. So look, we're we're gonna
be fine. We're gonna be fine. We're twelve, We're twelve games in
with one hundred and fifty left,you know, And I I wear it

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every day, you know. SoI'm looking at it every day. I'm
in I'm in the constant grind,and you know, I'm constantly talking on
the phone and we're going through itevery single day. So it's at the
forefront of my mind. And soI don't want us to I don't want
us to panic to twelve games inSpencer Araghatti gets that start today. Give
give us a scouting report on whatwe'll see from him, the strengths and

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is he on a pitch count.Yeah, I think he's got an explosive
fastball, you know, ball takesoff at the top of the zone.
Got a really nice uh sweeper thathe's gonna you know feature. You know,
he can backdoor to the left piece, he can get right, he's
to chase it, you know,you know, we'll see about the pitch
count. We'll see. You know, when you when you call up a

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young starter, the one thing youwant is for him to have you know,
easy nons, not stressful innings,and so if he's coasting along,
we'll let him go a little bit. But if you get into some high
you know, high pressure innings wherehe's gonna throw thirty pitches or twenty five
pitches, then we may have tothink about pulling them soon. But if
he could, if he can getthrough those innings without stress, you know,

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you know, we'll see. Mayhopefully he can give us six today,
that would be outstanding. Yeah.Sure, but yeah, we're we're
excited about the young man. He'sfired up. Astro GM Dana Brown joins
us for his weekly visit here onSports Talk seven ninety Well low Brafito continues
to hit the ball out of theballpark. Our weekly update from about from
you about him and what you're seeing. Yeah, just you know a guy

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that you know, I talked earlierabout how well of the spring he had.
You know, I played very wellin the spring. He's carrying it
right into the season. As Imentioned before, it's a nice left hand
bat. He's a utility player whocould play multiple positions. So you know,
at some point we may see Oprafito. I don't know how soon,

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but at some point we'll see him. I think if he continues to swing
the bat, and the key ishaving quality at bats with these young men
when you call him up. Youknow, this is a tough game.
It's the toughest thing to do insports. Hit a round object with around
object square, And so if hecontinues to have quality at bats, you
know we could see him here soon. But we're excited about the starting off

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to no doubt about it. Absolutely, Dane. If I were to ask
you and it just came up toyou and we didn't know each other,
and I said, hey, whatabout the having yinordas in Victor Karantini,
what's your comfort level when one ofthem's not catching the other play in first
base? What would you say tome? Yeah, I would say that,
you know, we have a firstbasement right now. And the Brave

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who who, as we talked aboutbefore you flip over the back of his
baseball card, he's going to showup at some point, and so he's
notorious for having slow starts, youknow, so you know, let's let
that play out and and and seeif he could turn it on and get
hot. I believe he's going toget hot, you know, uh,
if something happens to a Brave,if he gets if he gets hurt,

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or if he goes down. Youknow, we'll kind of entertain some of
those things. But you know,right now, you know we you know
he's thirty four at bats, thenwe don't you know, we don't want
to prejudge. I mean, he'soff to a slow start. He's been
here before, and you know,we'll get him some extra hitting. We'll
figure out what is it the timingof device and his stride, you know,

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so we're looking at things like thatto get him back on track.
You know, in the in thecourse of this, if he needs the
day off, we'll give him aday off. But ultimately, you know,
we believe in a brave you know, he did a heck of a
job for us or the second partof the season last year, and so
we'll give him some time to worksome things out. And as I said,

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if we have to give him abreak, we'll give him a break.
Hey, Dana, with you yourexpertise, like you said, you're
in that grind. We talked aboutit all last year. You're grinding I
mean with a coat and tie ora golf shirt on. Damn near as
much as the players are watching andcalling and seeing and talking and visiting with
them, with your naked eye andbaseball expertise and no talent. Where's his
bat speed? I mean, isthis just typical? I know he's a

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slow starter, But do you seeanything in the bat speed? What do
you see that maybe us amateurs don'tsee? Yeah, you know what I
mean. It's a great question becausewhen I when I watch him in batting
practice, he you know, hewas launching balls the other day, and
I mean they were going pretty far, you know in Texas, and you

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know, just the VP relaxed,and the bat looked explosive through the zone,
you know. And sometimes in thegame, you know, because these
guys are you know, their jobis to get you off time, and
you sometimes you start thinking too muchabout that breaking ball and you wait a
little too long, and then you'relay on the fastball. And so I
think he's got some timing issues,you know, in terms of I thought

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about the bat speed thing, butwhen I saw him launching balls into the
seats, I'm like, yeah,the bat speed looks fine from a scouting
eye perspective. So I think it'smore timing and maybe thinking too much about
off speed, and maybe it lookslike he's going the back down because he's
worried about the off speed pitch andthen he's laid on the fastball. So

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but we're working through these things,and uh, you know, it's thirty
four bats in twelve games in anduh, you know, we got them
get it. We realize we gotto get him going, and so uh
we're we're on it. We're onit. Dana with Blair Henley, I
was watching him. Sports is tough, man. I mean I made it
look tough at times. Quarterback,trust me and pitching and hitting. It's

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tough, and in such short notice, the kid came in what psychological I
said on this show. In thelong run, this is going to turn
out good for him. He's goingto file it away. Understand it's a
tough game. And if he's astough and mentally and emotionally as you guys
think he is and I think heis, that it's going to be okay.
Although trying to tell you that whenyou're struggling, it's tough to go

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through, well, how do youhow do you get through this, you
know, some of the embarrassment ofthe tough times, and get yourself back
to work knowing that the next timewill be different. I felt for the
kid in this first start. Twothings. Great question. So first of
all, we you know, welet him know, Look, kid,
this is not the first time.Is just have ever happened in baseball?

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You have guys that quite frankly,have become Hall of famers that probably had
just a slow start, you know, or have great careers. They've been
All Stars before, they've had slowstarts, and so you know, you
talk them true in that way.And the other thing is, you know
you could tell by talking to theyoung man after the start. You know

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that he has the heartbeat for this. There was no panic. You know,
he realized what had happened. Thingsunraveled. You know, if we
make a great play here or there, you know that ball we tove for
up the middle, things could change. You know, the blue hit that
fell in, you know he hadthe walk already in the blue hit that
fell in, you know, uhseeger hit, you know that was that

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was a close one. I meanthat it ain't could have gone a different
way, but he just didn't catcha break and it unraveled fast. But
the main focus that we talked aboutwith him is, look, these guys
in the big leagues, they don'treally chase. You have to get the
ball in the strike zone. Andyou know, I think the message was

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well taken from us. You knowwhen we talked to him after the game.
I think he's totally confident. Hebelieves in himself. I think,
as you mentioned, I think he'sgoing to go down in the minor leagues
and he's gonna, you know,work on on Hey, first fitch strike,
let's get it over the plate.I told him, Look, the
great hitters hit three hundred. Theygotta fell seven out of ten times,

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so you got to throw the ballover the plate. And so ultimately,
I think it's a good learning lessonfor him. And you know, we
gave him that start because it timedup. You know, he was the
next guy in Lyne time wise,you know. But I think he's going
to learn from it, and Ithink astro fans you know, will see
him at some point again and I'llsay, hey, this guy learns his

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lesson and he's back at it.Awesome stuff. Good luck today, good
luck in this series, and we'llsee you back home when the take on
the Rangers again. Two more inKansas City. Appreciate your time, Dan,
and we'll look forward to next week. Absolutely when I talk to you
guys next week, hopefully we'll beright back in the grind and I'm excited
astro fans hang with us. Yougot it. Appreciated, Dana. Come

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back and discuss as well as giveyou a few masters picks. Who do
we like? Sports Talk seven ninetyYou're back. This is the Sean Salisbury
Show. Get back at it andwe're gonna dig through what Dana Brown talked
with you about today. Shawn Tomorrow. Yeah, a lot about deep dive
into it. Yeah, about joseBray you and things like that. And
I know the rest of our lineup. We'll talk about it as well.

(02:07:30):
Let's get out. We got somemasters. Yep, we want to start.
We pick three, and the totalthe lowest score of the three combined
wins. Fair enough. Yep forlunch. Okay for breakfast, because you
love breakfast, I do so,all right, I'll start Scotti, Scheffler,
damn it, John Rahm. Okay, give me Brooks Koepka. Uh

(02:07:54):
I stang it, man. Letme get them and get some things pulled
up here. These are all tooobvious. Somebody's gonna somebody's gonna creep up
and be really good. Then we'renot talking about So you took Okay,
you took Scheffler, And who didyou take? Scheffler and Brooks Koepka.

(02:08:15):
Okay, I took John rom Giveme Xander Schaffle. Nice choice. He
would have been my third choice.Victor Hobblins not playing great golf. You
know what, I'm gonna go aguy who can put and who's off the
charts. This is a sneaky onefor me, although it may not be
seeing give me Cameron Smith. Nice, dude, you know what I just
did. Took Cameron Smith? Youdid? You took cambeo ye? Okay,

(02:08:37):
So I've got John Rams, XanderSchaffle. Give me Tommy Fleetwood.
Nice? Why not Tommy Fleetwood?Yeah? Nice, not to be confused
with. There we go. Thatstarts. Part three is today and then
the first round. Just real quick, give me one long shot breaker.

(02:08:58):
Let's say it's a top let's golong shot. Okay, Oh, it's
my pick. Yeah, give methe long shot of gosh, dang it,
give me the long shot of thatguy. Yeah. Now, Wyndham
Clark. I'm gonna go Tony whenI say long shot, give Windham Clark's

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one. Give me, give meWyndham Clark. That's our fourth, that's
our tiebreaker. Now, really playinggood golf, he can and as long
as he puts, he'll be init because he can hit the ball of
country mile. Yeah, there's nodoubt about it. All right, that's
gonna do it. But before weget out of here, Sean, let's
talk about the Houston SaberCats professional rugby. Sean. They are five and oh
to start the season. They arethe only undefeated team in Major League Rugby.

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Don't you love what you see fromthem? Back home? Right back
home. I love the way thatthis and the physicality of it. And
we got some special stuff going on, dude with them. Ye, special
stuff going on with with the SaberCats. You go to Houston Sabercat com Frawl,
your ticket needs. This season runsthrough July. But this team is

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saying again louder sebody can hear fiveand oho undefeated, Undefeated, Let's go.
The special night that you're talking aboutis going to be this Saturday night.
The gates open at three point thirty, kick off at seven pm.
It's Honoring Heroes Night, presented byBaylor Military and first Responders. They're gonna
honor Marcus was about to say thathe's going to be there and it's going
to be awesome to see. Ye. He will be in a tendanc He's
from Loan survivor obviously the decorated Navyseal in Marcus Latrell. Also Peyton Howie,

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the country single country singer, willbe performing. It's a fun time
for all to enjoy, including yourfamily and friends. I was out there
the last time they played at home. If you haven't gone to rugby game.
You are missing out. It's onehell of a party. The physicality
those dudes are massive. They talka lot of noise to each other.
It's fantastic, phenomenal athletes with somephysicality, like you're right, and we
don't do it with many pads onwhen he comes two things too, Meet

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Marcus Latrell. The first time Idid dude, my heart was beating faster
because I think about the movie andthink about what he went through and what
a hero he is. And thenyou get great rugby combined him together and
you got a great night, andwe might give away some tickets later on.
I'm all for it. SaberCats.This have a Saturday night at SaberCats
Stadium. Kick off is at sevenpm. You got to get out there
and watch the SaberCats, the onlyundefeated team in Major League Rugby five and

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zero. That's gonna do it.For the Shawn Salisbury Show. He is
Sean Salisbury, our producer trip LeEmmanuel Elmore. I am Brian Lilima.
Thank you for listening. We're backtomorrow morning at six am. Don't go
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