May 16, 2024 • 7 mins
Taking on the Athletics ' for their third game of the series and chasing back to five-hundred baseball, the Astros pull out another win now making it 4 straight. With Bregman coming around on the offensive end, Yordan seems to be lacking a bit production wise at the plate. Is he do for a break?
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(00:00):
And we're there. The Shawn SalisburyShow continued. MAVs take a three to
two lead over Oklahoma City. TheCeltics beat the Cavs in advance to the
Eastern Conference Finals. Let's talk aboutRenel Blanco. He was indeed suspended,
as I just said, he willnot appeal, so with that, he
(00:21):
was also fined and undisclosed amount.So with that, the Astros will be
down a player. So they onlyhave twenty five men on their active roster.
They cannot bring anybody up due tothis suspension, and it looks like
the Astros will go to a sixman rotation. So ideally he's only gonna
miss one start, but either way, you are down a man. And
(00:44):
last night, prior to the game, Jospota was asked about the state of
his bullpen and he said, quote, we are very limited end quote.
Yeah, you don't get rewarded formaking a ten game mistake, right,
and so that's part of the punishment. It's not just the player, but
the roster gets punished because you can'tadd somebody, which means you're going to
(01:06):
need depth out of your six man. And I liked that they're going to
six man. I can't remember whowas I'll look it up on Twitter yesterday
and sent a message to our showTwitter after posting all the stuff coming on
the show, and then mentioned aboutbut it's six man, he'll only miss
one start, Yeah, and thatthey've talked throughout that, and this team's
been over the last two years,has made this decision to use six man
(01:30):
rotation, especially when you're playing thirtyto thirty one or twenty nine to thirty
games, why not. It alsogives the big fellow, your horse at
forty one a little bit of rest. You got deep So Fromber does I
mean it's a wise move. Butwhen we were talking about it yesterday,
it's like, Okay, which wayare they going to go? For sure?
And I think you had to waittill now. If they only had
a if there was no six gamesor ten game suspension, they still may
(01:55):
have gone. Yeah, six manrotation. I don't know if they had
made the decision already, but theystill may have gone with a six man
just because of the timing of thegames and the number of games you're going
to play. And it's a goodthing. And so there you go and
talking five games, it would havebeen Fromber would have missed too, as
we talked about. We talked toDana Brown yesterday it's ten games in a
(02:15):
miss two and he said, yeah. But also and we didn't talk about
the six man rotation because we hadso much on the plate to discuss.
But that's a that's a good thing, and it saves him from missing a
second start. You want your aceto get as many looks as you can
when I say, Ace's pitched likeit this year, So missing one starts
is a good thing. So I'massuming the rotation is going to go fromer
(02:38):
Verlander Javier Hunter Brown's got to bein there, right, has to be.
So let's see looking ahead. Yeah, Hunter Brown's back and he's gonna
throw Friday against Milwaukee. Who amI leaving out of that? Ragetty,
Araghetty, that's five. Who's goingto be six? Do we know yet?
(02:59):
Or have they not announced it?As of right now, it looks
like it'll be. So let's juststart from the top like you said so,
or I'll go through it fromer VerlanderXavier. So it's Javier today yep,
then Hunter Brown, then Verlander,then Arraghetty, then Valdez. So
they have to add somebody Yeah,that's what I'm saying. Who's going to
be the dude? And they can'tbring anybody up, so whoever it is
(03:23):
is on the current roster. Yeah, and so I guess we can do
the math of you know who whoit could be looking at it, Brian,
but they but six man, it'sokay, and you may on that
time have to use the bullpen godeep. That's what's going to be incumbent
upon a guy like Javier today tonight. Yeah. Two, Javier's got to
(03:45):
come back and be better than hewas last time. You can't pitch an
inning in a third attack this bullpennow, even with a six man rotation,
because you're sixth starter, and thisis going to be somebody who quite
frankly doesn't start all the time.So there you go. Yeah, so
Brian, I knew, Yeah,I know, I thought so. As
we were looking through the rotation,I'm like, man, who we missing?
(04:05):
Maybe did I misread something? Butyeah, I have it. I
have it in my notes. Brianmctagger tweeted it out and said astros GM
Dana Brown said Renel Blanco won't appealhis suspension and it will begin immediately.
He will essentially miss one start becauseof the six man rotation, the Astros
will play with twenty five players inthe meantime. Yeah, so who the
six man is? I don't thinkthey've told us yet. Well, we
(04:26):
can break it down process elimination,but process of elimination, but it'll have
to be Yeah, And I'm notsurprised they didn't. They didn't, considering
what Joe a Spot has said aboutthe substance, considering what Renelle Blanco said.
I don't know. After when twoguys that were part of it had
said what they said in press conference, I think appealing it would have been
(04:49):
for not Yeah, even though yousay, what's gonna hurt, it's just
to me, if you're going sixman rotation, get it over with now.
And remember I had said yesterday toone of our callers, I think
it was Shena, that wouldn't yourather get it done now under this part
of the schedule so you don't missBlanco in big time, like when you're
playing a different, more difficult partof the schedule. Now, everything's difficult,
(05:10):
but when you just look at theRock at the way they're playing these
next handful of games, I thinkit's smart to just get it done and
get him back in the rotation.But six man's the way to go,
and this team's been as good asanybody at doing it the last two years
and this year for obvious reasons.You want to get it done now because
you play one more game against Oakland, then three against Milwaukee, three against
(05:32):
LA, three at Oakland, LA. That's the Angels, Sorry the Angels.
Yeah sorry, Then that's there's yourten game suspension. So he'll be
back for the Seattle Seattle Mariners orthe Minnesota Twins. Don't think it's not
Don't think it's not why Because ifyou appeal and it gets to play,
why you appeal or the games aren'tgoing now you're into the Seattle series and
(05:55):
you may not have gotten anything takenoff your ten game or any after what
we heard them say, meaning theAstros themselves about the substance and the glove,
And so I think it is wise, and I think it is the
timing of it. If it's gonnahappen, it's a good time to have
it happen, especially now your team'sstarting to feel it yep, and they're
playing better, so you can livewithout one Blanco start. And in truth,
(06:20):
little rest might not hurt him.Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
It may not be a bad thingfor a guy who's not used to
this situation where you're like, andnow the expectations of Blanco are, Oh,
he's just gonna go out and getpeople out, and so may not
be a bad thing for him totake a little rest. So the six
man rotations wise, and the timingof it for the Astros in their situation
(06:41):
couldn't be better. But that's incumbentupon a guy like Javier tonight to give
us one hundred and eighty degrees ofwhat he gave us last time. Get
to the sixth inning and dominate,get swinging myths, make sure that high
fastball in the upper part and outsidethe zone gets people to go after it.
And he's mixed in that change upthat he's worked and get and get
rolling. Right. Yeah, there'syou can't have another four out performance all
(07:04):
absolute, especially against the A's.You got you, this is one you
can't let the ads tax your bullpen. I know they've already won the series,
but this is a series you mustsweep. There's you have to win
tonight. There's because you're still whatdo you, what are they seventeen and
twenty five, yeah, eighteen,twenty five, eighteen, Yeah, you're
still eighteen and twenty five, sevengames under five hundred. But I'll tell
(07:27):
you what the way they're headed.They mean, by the time Blanco gets
back, they could be within agame or two of five hundred. Yeah,
if they take care of their business, all right, seven one three,
two one two five, seven ninety. We see everybody on hold.
We will get to you next totalk about these Astros. And also there's
one Astros player that might need aday off. Who is it? What
(07:48):
discussing next? On Sports Talk sevenninety
And we're there. The Shawn SalisburyShow continued. MAVs take a three to
two lead over Oklahoma City. TheCeltics beat the Cavs in advance to the
Eastern Conference Finals. Let's talk aboutRenel Blanco. He was indeed suspended,
as I just said, he willnot appeal, so with that, he
(00:21):
was also fined and undisclosed amount.So with that, the Astros will be
down a player. So they onlyhave twenty five men on their active roster.
They cannot bring anybody up due tothis suspension, and it looks like
the Astros will go to a sixman rotation. So ideally he's only gonna
miss one start, but either way, you are down a man. And
(00:44):
last night, prior to the game, Jospota was asked about the state of
his bullpen and he said, quote, we are very limited end quote.
Yeah, you don't get rewarded formaking a ten game mistake, right,
and so that's part of the punishment. It's not just the player, but
the roster gets punished because you can'tadd somebody, which means you're going to
(01:06):
need depth out of your six man. And I liked that they're going to
six man. I can't remember whowas I'll look it up on Twitter yesterday
and sent a message to our showTwitter after posting all the stuff coming on
the show, and then mentioned aboutbut it's six man, he'll only miss
one start, Yeah, and thatthey've talked throughout that, and this team's
been over the last two years,has made this decision to use six man
(01:30):
rotation, especially when you're playing thirtyto thirty one or twenty nine to thirty
games, why not. It alsogives the big fellow, your horse at
forty one a little bit of rest. You got deep So Fromber does I
mean it's a wise move. Butwhen we were talking about it yesterday,
it's like, Okay, which wayare they going to go? For sure?
And I think you had to waittill now. If they only had
a if there was no six gamesor ten game suspension, they still may
(01:55):
have gone. Yeah, six manrotation. I don't know if they had
made the decision already, but theystill may have gone with a six man
just because of the timing of thegames and the number of games you're going
to play. And it's a goodthing. And so there you go and
talking five games, it would havebeen Fromber would have missed too, as
we talked about. We talked toDana Brown yesterday it's ten games in a
(02:15):
miss two and he said, yeah. But also and we didn't talk about
the six man rotation because we hadso much on the plate to discuss.
But that's a that's a good thing, and it saves him from missing a
second start. You want your aceto get as many looks as you can
when I say, Ace's pitched likeit this year, So missing one starts
is a good thing. So I'massuming the rotation is going to go fromer
(02:38):
Verlander Javier Hunter Brown's got to bein there, right, has to be.
So let's see looking ahead. Yeah, Hunter Brown's back and he's gonna
throw Friday against Milwaukee. Who amI leaving out of that? Ragetty,
Araghetty, that's five. Who's goingto be six? Do we know yet?
(02:59):
Or have they not announced it?As of right now, it looks
like it'll be. So let's juststart from the top like you said so,
or I'll go through it fromer VerlanderXavier. So it's Javier today yep,
then Hunter Brown, then Verlander,then Arraghetty, then Valdez. So
they have to add somebody Yeah,that's what I'm saying. Who's going to
be the dude? And they can'tbring anybody up, so whoever it is
(03:23):
is on the current roster. Yeah, and so I guess we can do
the math of you know who whoit could be looking at it, Brian,
but they but six man, it'sokay, and you may on that
time have to use the bullpen godeep. That's what's going to be incumbent
upon a guy like Javier today tonight. Yeah. Two, Javier's got to
(03:45):
come back and be better than hewas last time. You can't pitch an
inning in a third attack this bullpennow, even with a six man rotation,
because you're sixth starter, and thisis going to be somebody who quite
frankly doesn't start all the time.So there you go. Yeah, so
Brian, I knew, Yeah,I know, I thought so. As
we were looking through the rotation,I'm like, man, who we missing?
(04:05):
Maybe did I misread something? Butyeah, I have it. I
have it in my notes. Brianmctagger tweeted it out and said astros GM
Dana Brown said Renel Blanco won't appealhis suspension and it will begin immediately.
He will essentially miss one start becauseof the six man rotation, the Astros
will play with twenty five players inthe meantime. Yeah, so who the
six man is? I don't thinkthey've told us yet. Well, we
(04:26):
can break it down process elimination,but process of elimination, but it'll have
to be Yeah, And I'm notsurprised they didn't. They didn't, considering
what Joe a Spot has said aboutthe substance, considering what Renelle Blanco said.
I don't know. After when twoguys that were part of it had
said what they said in press conference, I think appealing it would have been
(04:49):
for not Yeah, even though yousay, what's gonna hurt, it's just
to me, if you're going sixman rotation, get it over with now.
And remember I had said yesterday toone of our callers, I think
it was Shena, that wouldn't yourather get it done now under this part
of the schedule so you don't missBlanco in big time, like when you're
playing a different, more difficult partof the schedule. Now, everything's difficult,
(05:10):
but when you just look at theRock at the way they're playing these
next handful of games, I thinkit's smart to just get it done and
get him back in the rotation.But six man's the way to go,
and this team's been as good asanybody at doing it the last two years
and this year for obvious reasons.You want to get it done now because
you play one more game against Oakland, then three against Milwaukee, three against
(05:32):
LA, three at Oakland, LA. That's the Angels, Sorry the Angels.
Yeah sorry, Then that's there's yourten game suspension. So he'll be
back for the Seattle Seattle Mariners orthe Minnesota Twins. Don't think it's not
Don't think it's not why Because ifyou appeal and it gets to play,
why you appeal or the games aren'tgoing now you're into the Seattle series and
(05:55):
you may not have gotten anything takenoff your ten game or any after what
we heard them say, meaning theAstros themselves about the substance and the glove,
And so I think it is wise, and I think it is the
timing of it. If it's gonnahappen, it's a good time to have
it happen, especially now your team'sstarting to feel it yep, and they're
playing better, so you can livewithout one Blanco start. And in truth,
(06:20):
little rest might not hurt him.Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
It may not be a bad thingfor a guy who's not used to
this situation where you're like, andnow the expectations of Blanco are, Oh,
he's just gonna go out and getpeople out, and so may not
be a bad thing for him totake a little rest. So the six
man rotations wise, and the timingof it for the Astros in their situation
(06:41):
couldn't be better. But that's incumbentupon a guy like Javier tonight to give
us one hundred and eighty degrees ofwhat he gave us last time. Get
to the sixth inning and dominate,get swinging myths, make sure that high
fastball in the upper part and outsidethe zone gets people to go after it.
And he's mixed in that change upthat he's worked and get and get
rolling. Right. Yeah, there'syou can't have another four out performance all
(07:04):
absolute, especially against the A's.You got you, this is one you
can't let the ads tax your bullpen. I know they've already won the series,
but this is a series you mustsweep. There's you have to win
tonight. There's because you're still whatdo you, what are they seventeen and
twenty five, yeah, eighteen,twenty five, eighteen, Yeah, you're
still eighteen and twenty five, sevengames under five hundred. But I'll tell
(07:27):
you what the way they're headed.They mean, by the time Blanco gets
back, they could be within agame or two of five hundred. Yeah,
if they take care of their business, all right, seven one three,
two one two five, seven ninety. We see everybody on hold.
We will get to you next totalk about these Astros. And also there's
one Astros player that might need aday off. Who is it? What
(07:48):
discussing next? On Sports Talk sevenninety
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