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August 22, 2024 11 mins
Since the beginning, injuries have played a vital role in the Astros fluctuating season. Somehow still leading the AL West, the Astros have made the necessary adjustments to still win games. With Bregman limited production play, the guys pose could Alex look to start on first base in the future? 
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
But the Sewn Salisbury Show continued. Joey Vata retired, by
the way.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah, and he retired. And that's where he's headed, right
to the broadcast booth. You think, oh, yeah, if if
he wants to, if he wants to, he will because
he's got great sense of humor.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
He does.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Former MVP in the National League. You know, he's played
a long time. He'd be a great ad. I fully
expect that to happen if he wants to do it.
I imagine they'll stand in line for him. But he loved
he said. An uber driver asked him if he does
a ballplayers that yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
He said, are you a yeah? Are you a player?
As he's driving to the ballpark and he said, no,
that's crazy. Hall of uh not hall of fame, but
hall of very good yeah, hall of really really good.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
And great teammate. He has a crazy stat about his career.
It's something like he's only had like twenty five popouts
in his career or something crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
That pretty special, man. He's got a really good run
seventeen seasons, I believe in the majors.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Seventeen impressive. So what is that crazy status?

Speaker 2 (01:09):
I don't know. Snuggle bunny stop it.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
It's something like at one point he had like under
thirty times flying out or something.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
I don't know. That's pretty impressive something.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, he's got some kind of crazy, crazy stat uh triple.
He found the audio where Alex Bregman talks about what's
going on actually in the elbow, and this is Bregman.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Talking about it.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
There's swelling. Obviously, there's no nothing structurally wrong with the UCL,
but some little gremlins in there causing some swelling that
I'm just gonna have to try and mitigate through the
rest of the year and keep the swelling out.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Okay, there's some gremlins in there causing some swelling. They're
gonna have to mitigate it through the year. So all right,
let's take a look at this, Like let's just look
last night or yesterday.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Afternoon, Tommy John, is that what you're saying? God, I
hope not.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
He had an elbow injury in twenty nineteen as well
that he had some minor surgery on afterwards.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
So I'm hoping something floating around you can scrape out
when the season's over.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, that's a bone fragment. Yeah, that's that's a bone fragment,
let's hope. So it's not that serious.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
So this was the lineup last night, and again they
were playing at Mini May Park, right or yes after
you know, excuse me said it again. Bregman DHD, Jordon
was in left, Jiner at first, and Carteeny at or
behind the plate, Jake Myers in center. Al two A
was out, so Dubon was at second base, Shay Whickham
at third base. So just looking ahead, let's just say

(02:36):
so you're going into ballpark Baltimore. It's a bigger ballpark.
If you want Jordan in left field, okay, that's fine,
put Jake Myers in center or no, let's take it back.
If Jordon is your DH because of a bigger ballpark,
and you want to give the big fellow maybe a
little bit of rest on his knees, where does Bregman play?

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Then you play Dubon or Wickham at third base, and
you start at first base.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Okay, So then then you would have.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
And you have whoever you want to catcher, and you
have the ability that Keratini does what he's done, comes
off the bench, fills in when you need him to,
and you got a great bat. You have a guy
that if all of a sudden you need relief for
Das behind to play it and vice versa. And in
the days you want a DH and if you want
to here here's another reason. If you want a d
H d As but you still want to play Jordon

(03:28):
and you don't want Bregman's bat out of the lineup,
there's only one way to do it, since he's not
going to play third base right now? Is Jordon on left,
Das dhing and bregmant first. When you want a DH Bregman,
that means Jordon's in left, Victor Krottini goes to first
base and yer Das is your catcher.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, that's that. There's that. That's the one.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
If you're going to do it and want to do
it and milk it now, are you Are you secure
enough to keep both guys on a daily basis and
Daz and Carotini in the lineup at the same time
with no third catcher? Right?

Speaker 3 (04:02):
This is how it's gonna have to be, though, and
you never know they might come in coming into September,
which is a couple of days away a catcher.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
You might bring up Sazar South.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
That's what I'm saying add a third guy to the rock,
which it expands the roster, also gives you more bandwidth.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
So this is what's gonna have to be regardless if
you put Bregmant somewhere at first or d h Rdan's
gonna have to play a lot of left field going
through the rest of the season because that's gonna get
Karatiny and Yainer in the lineup. Joe spotted just a
couple of days ago, talked about trying to get Krotiny
more at back.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
If you want the best lineup, the best lineup, now,
listen whatever you say. Now, if you want Dubon in centerfield,
let's just say they're gonna stick with Jake Myers. Yeah,
your best lineup is going to be Dubond slash wit.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Come at third, or just Endo a third, whatever whoever.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
You decide a third. Your catcher is going to be
one of the two. And the guy who's not catching,
the guy who's not catching. If you really want your
best lineup, the guy who's not catching the first baseman.
Bregman's the DH Jordon's in left field. If you want
all the bats, yes, if you want Bregman in the lineup,

(05:08):
every day and Ordon in the lineup every day. Since
Bregman's not playing third I said this to the top.
I'm gonna tell you again, Jordon left it. Bregman has
to play first base. He has to if you want
Keratini and d has to be a part. I mean,
we know DS is gonna be if you still want
that bat. But if you want Bregman in the lineup

(05:30):
every day and Ordon in the lineup every day, then
let's just say Jordon and Bregman every day, and Bregman's
not playing third base, so you have the choice. You
can't DH Jordon. If you want Bregman in the lineup
every day, dhing do you make do? That makes sense?
So the best way to do it is put Bregman

(05:50):
at first base. Jordon can DH, and you can on
those days and Rdon's dhing, Bregman's at first the Keratini
DS thing behind the plate, and then you go get
your little whoever's playing left field that day? Is it Debon?

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (06:03):
I don't care who it is, Trey Cabbage, whoever you
got out there in left field, even if you believe
McCormick's the guy when Bregman, if you want Bregman and
jord On in the lineup every day, along with the
ability to have bandwidth with the catcher position in the
first base, what do you lose dhing das other than

(06:23):
the if you get a third count on what the
rosters expand too. But if you want Caroteny and Diaz,
then Bregman's got to play first base. Who do you
trust the glove at first base? More Diaz or Bregman?

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Uh? Bregman?

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Sure you do? You want their bats in the lineup.
This is if you want the bats in the lineup.
Bregman at first base gives you that opportunity and doesn't
relegate only yord On playing left field. If Bregman's at
first base, I have the flexibility to put yord On
at DH. Y I don't run him out there thirty
five to forty five games counting the playoffs in left
field because I believe if they wanted to do that,

(06:56):
he'd been the all time left fielder.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
They don't want to do that.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
So if you want him in at the DH and
Bregman can't play third base, where else you putting him?
I can't leave his bat on the sidelines for a
three game series.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
No, you can't, especially now and with Tucker still out,
can't afford to haveman out of the lineup.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
Bregman at first base, the ds Keratini thing, ds Keratini thing,
DH wise two and jord on a left field first
base if I want, if I want those guys in
the lineup all at the same time, it's simple. Krotenis
at first dass catcher, Jordon's in left field, and Bregman
is the DH. But if I need to move it
around and need a first basement, so I don't want

(07:36):
Jordon to play left field, you have to and I
have to have Bregman's bat. He's the first baseman. He
is the first baseman. What what's the issue with that?

Speaker 4 (07:48):
Show?

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Tell me the negative with Bregman playing first base? There
is other than you don't have him full time at
third base. He's not gonna playing third base anyways, that's
my point. But you want him in the lineup. Cannot
get him in the lineup. How do you get yord
on him, Diaz and Kartini with the flexibility with the
two catchers to get him in either in the lineup
every day or have him sitting over there. If we
don't expand with the third catcher, he has to play
first base. If you want Jordan in left field full time,

(08:12):
then he doesn't. But if you want Jordan a DH
most of the time and in left field once in
a while, Alex Bregman's your new first baseman the rest
of the season.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
If he can't throw it, if he's not gonna play third, yeah, simple,
you gotta have him in the lineup. That's like, there's
no other way around it.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
You if you want him in the lineup and you're
not willing to put him at first base and that
magical glove, Jordan's in left field for the next thirty
plus games and in the playoffs and World Series if
they get there.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yep. Yeah, who do you trust more in the lineup?

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Does Zenzo at first base, Shay Whitcomb at third or
Dubon and Jordan and left field and then Alex Bregman
is your dage the truth?

Speaker 1 (08:51):
And not have Kartini in there.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
If you had to do it every day, if you
wanted to play Jordan on the left field every day,
it's Jord on a left field, Karatini at first base,
Diaz catching or vice, and Alex Bregman is your DH.
But I don't think they want to play jord on
a left field every day, so that limits you. If
you know, if you get a DH Jordan, you can't
Where are you playing Bregman if he's not your first baseman.

(09:13):
We know he could swing the batty homeward right, yeah,
first game, back four games. I'm just telling you now
that if they don't play Alex Bregman at first base,
they're not looking at all the They're not looking at
all the opportunity.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
I don't see how you don't play him there. It's
it's too logical. It's either it's that or you lose
his bat in the lineup. That's exactly what do you
want to do. Or he's got to play through it
at third base. Either way, ask from everything we've heard
from the audio, that.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Could lead to far more problems.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
So what's more, what are you more worried about Bregman
being out of the lineup and not swinging the bat
every day or Bregman, Oh he's over at first base?

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Will it be the same.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
I trust that Bregman's glove is good enough to put
a bigger mid on and play first base, then I
do that. The Astros are more explosive without him in
the You can't afford him not in the lineup. With
the fact that Tucker ain't gonna be here before Labor Day,
you can't take that battle lineup. That bat needs to
go to first base. Jordon needs the dh and play
left field. Once in a while, you move him to
left field.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
When you want.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Karatini and Diaz in the lineup and Bregman at the
same time, then you go him in left field das
Or Krotena behind the play it daz Er Kartini as
the first baseman.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Bregman is your DH.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
When you want to change things up your normal lineup,
one of those two at catcher, one of those two
dhing Or at first base, jord On at dh R
and left field, and Bregman at dh R at first base.
When Bregman is not dhing and you need his bat
and you're gonna need it, he has to play first base.
He has to, yeah, because you're gonna lose one of
those bat.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
That's exactly right. Got to figure it out.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
And I got news for you come postseason. If it's
nut cutting time and I got games to win, I
may not play him at third base. That guy ain't
standing on it. He's not sitting on a match. No, no,
And how do I play him? Jordan on your DH
and today Bregman have the big glove. You're playing first base?
Figure it out.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
YEP seven one three, two one two five seven ninety
is the number to join. We'll get to your calls next.
Continue to talk about the Houston Astros. Justin Verlander made
the return to the mound last night. How did he perform?
We'll talk about it next in Sports Talk seven Hinty
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