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We're valor. The Shawn Salisbury Showcontinued, Well, look at these Houston
Astros. Tonight on the Hill isgonna be Fromber Valdez taking on Griffin Canning.
Fromber coming into this game four andthree with a three, nine to
five e r A. Obviously thebig news a couple of days ago.
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We hit on it yesterday, Shawn, and you're getting ready for that golf
tournament. But Christiana Viere, joseA er Katy out and you have pretty
much a five man rotation for thenext uh, I don't know, five
or six weeks, and Fromber needsto have a good outing tonight. This
is another series that you must win. And if you can get a sweep.
I can't believe we're back here talkingabout you gotta get a sweep to
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bring into this game, Brian,how do you I know we've discussed it,
and I know Dana Brown listen asthe general manager, he has to
have glass half full mentality, right. Oh. But also in those meetings,
you could tell when he talked aboutUH, the depth of the starting
pitching was a concern. You youcould hear him say it, because think
about this, they're one more pitcheraway from going on the fifteen day.
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I l oh, yeah, that, Now where do you go from That's
why I asked him, what doyou do if another guy goes down?
Where do you I mean? Andyou know where? You immediately went to
a double A pitcher and a anda triple. A blue Blue Ball was
one of the guys that he mentioned, right, and so you start to
think, okay, but then that'sa rookie, right, that's a that's
another new guy. You're dealing withthree guys that have not been lengthened out
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in a full season of one hundredand seventy five innings, not even anywhere
near it. In Blanco and HunterBrown, and in Arraganca you got a
forty one year old Ace who's fortyone, and then you got from Er
who quite frankly not he's doing it. He's been really good as of late,
but just if he has two badoutings towards his head. So that's
the ifs you're going to get.And now the injuries, well as Garcia,
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it's still if. And then mColors they're still an if there,
and Javier and and Orkid you're forthe year. And hopefully if you heard
him talk about a ar Katy.Hopefully you'll be back next I mean our
ketys may be longer than that.It'll be sometime during the season. If
they both come back, it won'tbe at the start. Yeah, So
I'm with you, Brian, Ithink the And getting back to Dana Brown,
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well, he's got to be glasshalf full. But he emphasized heavily
about always looking for pitching, whichtells me they're looking for pitching today,
not waiting because you can't wait.Think about it, the bind you'd be
in desperate bind, you being ifsomebody else went down. Yeah, well,
huh, you know what I mean. Oh yeah. And another thing
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that was, uh, was onmy mind about this whole situation is they
had an opportunity in spring training andbefore spring training in the off season to
go and get a guy that couldeat up some innings. Michael Lorenzen was
right there for the taking, andthey didn't want to get him. I
don't even know if they even lookedat him, because at that time Dana
Brown said that he had trust inthe rotation and there was no need.
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But yet it's like, uh,what's what do you say about offensive linemen
in football? Like you can youcan't always have too many because there's also
so many different injuries, and you'vegot three guys that you'd want, you
want to be starters sitting on thebench because all five. I want you
to go down the list and tellme which teams start all five fourteen games
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or more on thirty two teams,I don't think you're gonna continuity. Yeah,
it's damn near impossible. So it'slike it's like pitching, you can
never have too many. You knowwhat I want? I want the problem
of hurting some guy's feelings, noton purpose, but hurting guys feelings that,
well, dude, you are aseventh starter. But unfortunately, and
you know what's happening. If you'rea seventh starter, guess what you're gonna
get during a baseball season. Plentyof run and you have to prepare for
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that. If this will be themost impressive season in a long time,
if they're able to go and winthe come back from seven and a half
down and win this division, consideringwhere they are, it'd be more impressive
than a lot of other seasons.Why think about what they've had to overcome.
Yeah, and then you're doing itwith three dudes, when's the most
innings any that Hunter Brown or RenelBlanco or well aarraghetti. This is his
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first year at it. I can'timagine that any of them have pitched one
hundred innings in a year. Havethey? Let me look at I know
Renel Blanco has not. I thinkthe most hestro was like, excuse me,
eighty eight? Hunter Brown? Idon't think he has either, has
he Brian last year? Yeah,last year he threw one hundred and fifty
five innings and okay, then thatmost of the other two yes by far?
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All right, so one guy,and that was both starting and bullpen
for the most part, right correctand middle relief not close. So he
got three innings at a time,two innings, one inning, five innings,
four nings, like it's almost likethe five innings this year kick started
him into being a better starter.When he had that really good relief outing
was it was it in Cleveland?I don't know where it would remember when
he came off and got the fiveinnings of relief and we said this year
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that looked yeah, yeah, andthen his starts after that have been pretty
solid. So that kind of kickedconfidence in for him. But you're counting
on three guys that nobody's re onehundred and seventy five innings. Nobody close
other than Hunter Brown once renew Blancolast year at the big league level fifty
two innings. His the most thathe's ever thrown in the miners was back
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in twenty seventeen, and he threweighty eight innings, see what I mean.
So you're counting on that. Sothis would be as impressive as it
ever gets for them to overcome this. Deal with some slow starts that you've
had. Now, Tucker, youstill you know this is obviously a deep
bruise because it's not just hey,it wasn't case. It's a bone type
of bruise. So you're you're thinking, how in the hell is this team
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going to withstand this? But yougive them because they're hitting and they've got
clutch pitching recently in the back ofthe bullpens. Seems like it's starting to
do their things. So but Ryan, this would be so impressive to be
able to overcome this, don't youagree? Yeah, it definitely would.
I mean, if you can makea run, I think for the next
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five weeks, this is the timeto do it. And attack this soft
part of another soft part of theschedule outside of playing Baltimore, and I
think they play the Twins again.I'd have to double check. But if
you can make a run and belike three four games, they got the
White Sox in this run. Yeah. Why did you see what the White
Sox didill last night? They won? They lost fourteen to the Boston Was
it the Red Sox who got him? Fourteen to two? They lost their
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that's there, Yeah, I wasthe Boston Red Sox fourteen to two,
franchise record, fourteen straight losses.Yeah. There. You want to talk
about teams that might be selling tolook to their pitching staff. If you're
talking about the Astros and you mayget somebody, well, I don't know
if you want them or not,but you start to look around. It's
just they're gonna have to be alittle lucky as well, meaning the Astros
have a few breaks injury wise gotheir way. And another thing, obviously,
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the Yankees won again last night.I think they have the best record
in baseball right now, but theybut they had to remove Juan Soto left
fore armed discomfort. He's gonna haveto have an MRI and he throws with
his left hand does, and soyou know what that would mean. Though
possibly if it wasn't, if youcould put off surgery, he could just
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DH and not play the outfield.Yeah, and you'd have to move Judge
back to right field, find somebodyfor center. I would think centerfield didn't
go from there, and Stanton wouldhave to play a little bit more on
the outfield, which is uh,you would have to because if you want
his right handed bat in the lineupis soda would have to DH. If
he can swing the bat, you'reputting him in there. So he said
that he just woke up one dayfelt the tightness and discomfort in my forum,
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and we've been working on it.We've been trying to get away with
it, and it hasn't gone away. Well, he should be playing,
he should be dhing regardless. Nowyou don't want to risk that. Can't
let him make throws from the outfield. That's a bummer because he's having a
hell of a year. He fitspretty good. He fits perfectly New York
Yankees, all right. Dana Brown, just a couple of days ago,
right here on this program, talkedabout being in the market to get pitching.
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Well, who is in that market. What pitcher could he be referencing.
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