September 6, 2024 • 23 mins
Our good buddy, your good buddy and EVERYONE's good buddy... Geoff Blum joins The A-Team for his weekly visit. The former Astro turned Space City Home Network analyst joins the show as the news breaks about Kyle Tucker making his return to the team. He also talks about dealing with a similar elbow issue during his career, like the one it appears Alex Bregman is battling through right now. Plus, he talks about the likelihood that the Astros can keep Bregman in their uniform past this season.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You look at it. Look at Oh yeah, this is radio.
You listened to it on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Astros broadcaster Jeff blom On seven ninety is brought to
you by Low T Center. Guess what blommers in studio
and guess what else. Kyle freaking Tucker just got activated.
So breaking news here on Sports Talk seven ninety and
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Space City Home Network, as we get you ready for
a weekend full of football. The best right fielder in
the American League, Yes, said it could be. Uh, well,
I think I'm gonna say he's gonna be in a
lineup today.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Why else would you bring it back? Exactly? Yeah? Right, WEX.
Can you confirm this please?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I can confirm the Astros have something above their necks
that contains a brain. So yes, if you're activating him
today their last probably the lineup today, or else you'd
activate him tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
By the way, that's your fault. Yeah, being all do,
I'll take all that the entire cities.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
You know what, though, it was like an excruciating death
by a million cuts slash blowout.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
So I realized that we were so bad against Cincinnati
for so long?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
How could you never play them? And yet man We
lost to them every single time we play them. Never
they don't see the.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Very times I think in the last eight years or something,
a little much losing streak. Yeah, I was there for that.
They lost fifty five games the whole year, and three
of them were that week against Cincinnati. So I was
at that series and I thought it'd be a lot
of fun. But it was smoltering hot. The team was
playing terrible skyline Chili is ass and I wanted no
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part of that. And so when the opportunity came, and
you know, and the great people at Space City Home
Network said, hey, you know what you've got. We we
have a couple of days off. Do you want to
take them anytime? And you know, and I was. I
looked at the schedule and I saw Cincinnati. Yep, you know,
in a day off in between the series. I was like,
double yeah, oh yeah, yeah, only.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Three games, but get to take You know what he.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Did and he knows this because we both worked with
Randy McElvoy. Yeah you had a burn a few days man.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, if you can combine that, which was so random,
I had somebody asking me. My buddy Larry was texting,
He goes, is this normal?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Did.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
They usually have a day off in the middle of
a series, and I'm like, atually in April. Yeah, I
couldn't think of the last time that it even happened.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
And a lot of the times, unfortunately, Major League Baseball
with their first week and I'm doing that well, they
do that with four or five teams play on opening Day, right,
take the day off and then picked back up as
the weekend appear.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
We say it's a rain day, like in case you
get rained out, and with you, I.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Was like, you couldn't get the season started because that
was an Apple TV game because Jeremy Pania was hitting
a home run while his parents were being interviewed. Yes,
that was the last time I remember a day off
randomly like that happening. Yeah, that happens quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Usually it's in April when they do it, or like
that first road trip because they're trying to protect the
you know, the potential for doubleheader or anything like that,
or having a team come back in September to replay
a game. So they just have those days off built in.
But I don't know why this day off was in
the middle of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Well, so at least the Rangers are bringing up the
rear of last year's World Series participants.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Since the Diamondbacks are in town. They're good, They're really good.
And you know, I sat there getting ready for today's game,
and I'm saying, Okay, you just got shut out swept
by Cincinnati. You're coming back home where you've been playing
really good baseball. You beat up on a Kansas City
team who I think is maybe better all the round
than some teams give them credit for. And then I
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look at the numbers that Arizona has, I'm like, Okay,
our offense could get going against these guys because their
pitching staff is twenty six, twenty seventh as far as
starters in bullpen, and our offense scuffled a little bits
against Cincinnati. And then I went our offense scuffled against Cincinnati,
who isn't much better as far as pitching. But being
here at home where they've played a little bit better,
the crowd's going to be a little more involved. I
think these guys are going to feel a little more intensity,
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and I hope that they kind of go out there
with the intent of we can beat these guys, and
we would have beat them last year if they were
in the World Series if they could have just won
one home game and gott into the World Series and
played against Arizona. So I hope there's a little to
that lingering saying, you know what, we can beat these guys. Uh,
But you're right as far as Arizona, you can't take
them for granted. Their offense even without Cotel Martin in
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it right now and I'm not sure when he's coming back,
but they absolutely rake. They get on the face of
a crazy clip and their ops is huge. At least
they don't have ty France in their lineup. Oh what
the hell is that? That's what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
What ty France does against one team one?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
France has gotten a Yeah, he should get an extension
just playing against US.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I have sports hate for that guy in my heart
and maybe regular hate too.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
That was so mad. Well, he got hits every time.
But I've met the dude. He's a great dude. Whatever
if he was in.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
An astronst for Jones too, I don't trust you, Larry, Larry.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Anyway, get us back on track, wax too much what you.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Said about Arizona. I mean, I'm just playing my part, Yes, Dad,
It's so funny because it's actually the opposite of what
the team they're playing is. The reason why the Astros
ascended to the top of the division are ten games
over five hundred, are in the driver's seat is because
their pitching has maintained an unbelievable level of success for
about two and a half months, which has allowed their
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offense to go through all the roller coaster that you mentioned.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
The opposite for Arizona.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
They give up a ton of runs, but they score
a ton of runs plus one, and that's why they
are eighteen games over, seventeen games over five hundred after yesterday,
and it is a team that you might not look
at their roster and say, wow, how do you get
through this team? But each bat at bat is another challenge,
and then they are very much a past the baton
type of offense. So that's what you're up against this week.
Kyle Tucker has been activated. The other two moves that
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went along with it for the Astros that they announced,
Zach Decenzo was sent back down to Triple A and
Parker Mashinsky, the lefty, was designated for assignment. They've been
pushed up against this forty man limit for quite some
time because Dana Brown has been working the roster at
a fever pitch all year. Claim a guy DFA guy,
claim a idea. It's a process they've had to go
through because of all of the things that have health
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wise and performance wise gone wrong. The lineuper Until we
see it, I can't confirm it, but Kyle Tucker, Jordan Alvarez,
I believe, Alex Bregman again, can't even say for sure.
Jiner dis Jose Altuve, that's five, Jeremy Diaz, Victor Karattini,
that's six and seven. What could be your best lineup
based on who's on the roster today? So how can
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you feel confident if you're Joe as Body, if you're
Dana Brown. That with the Kyle Tucker inclusion in most
of our upcoming lineups, because I'm sure he'll still get
a day off here soon that you've expanded it, you've
extended it. It's not get through the top three in
your gold and get through the top four and you're good.
But now pitchers are looking at five, six, and seven
as a much more overall dangerous astros group.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Now, that's one thing that we've preached over the last
seven eight years is the depth of this lineup, and
now that you get Kyle Tucker back, all of a sudden,
you insert him in that three to four spot where
he's been And you know, Bregman's interesting to me just
because it feels like Joe's protecting him a little bit,
putting him in that five spot, saying we want you
to get at bats, but we don't want to blow
you out in the two spot because you're guaranteed four
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maybe five at bats every single time you go out there.
So you put him in that four to five production spot.
Let him go out there and drive RBIs in with
four at bats as opposed to five and maybe pushing
it a little bit. But if you say you do
have an Alex because you're going out touve you or
don Jiner Alex, it would have been Jeremy Penia or
do you put do you put him behind Yiner protect Jiner?
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I mean, where do you put Tucker in there? No
matter where you put him in. All of a sudden,
you're telling me that you've got a Kartini and Jeremy
Pania being your your seven eight type guys. I mean,
that's kind of crazy to think that lineup could get
that thick that quick with just one guy.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
And it's just so clearly different, which is what they've
been overcoming with all this pitching. What they've had six
seven eight nine. That's why Ben Gamble has an astros uniform.
That's why Jason Hayward has an astros. It's why they
stitched leon on a leone on a uniform number, descends
on a uniform number. What anybody who's next, That's what
they've had to do with six seven eight nine in
the lineup and in those spots that have been vacated.
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Wanted to just quickly get onto the bregman because as
soon as the injury came up with his elbow, everything
else that's weird has happened to him. He got hit
in the head and stayed in the game. He got
ejected from his first game ever he almost again he.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Didn't and that guy's defense, I mean, what the hell happened?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Why do we even have replay? That's a good point,
and the thing is what what I told him.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Let me ask you, what is the point of replay? Like?
Why was replay instituted.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
To help the guys out that can't get it right
the first time?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
To maintain the you know what I mean. I mean
just at the game and make sure we get the
right call. How about the fact, how about we just
send that up there and go did you see a
foul tip? Did you see a hit by pitch? Well?
I didn't see either, So guess what, it's a ball.
Why can't we do that? Why do we have to
sit there and go, No, the call stands when you
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know it's it's it's blatantly wrong, even if you didn't
even if you didn't see the hit by pitch where
I saw a little bit of jersey just watching on
my couch. But if I actually had a replay center
in front of me, I'd be like, you know what,
if we were actually doing our job, we would say,
that's not even a foul tip. I'd tell you what.
Brian and Noorra whoever the crew chief was on on
that crew, I'd be like, it's all wrong. It's a ball.
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It didn't hit the bat, it didn't hit the hitter,
it wasn't in the strike zone. Why the hell would
you check down if you said it was a foul tip,
by the way, and they said it wasn't a swing,
it's a ball. Just send it back and say it's
a ball, let's move off, because guys who wouldn't have
been pissed David Bell wouldn't have been pissed the manager
of the Cincinnati Rats, you'd been like, almost got you.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
The very onset of the call.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
As Todd and the other Jeff are going through the
call on Space City Home Network with a Jay and
one less letter, they're both watching all about you managers
come out of the dugout?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Why is David Bell out of the dug out? Why's
Joe out of the dugout? Why did they need to
challenge it? He called it.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
You couldn't even tell what Onora was indicating at the
onset of here's what we're going to do to make
everybody ended up as a strikeout, which was then, of course,
followed by two batters reaching base. Instead of having three
on base with one out, you had two on base
with two outs in a game where you lost one nothing.
I don't know what would have happened, but these are
just some of the things that they definitely will happen.
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Over a one to sixty two. They do have the
ten game lead. It's our ten game over five hundred.
The Mariners did finish off their series with the A's
with a couple of victories, and thus it's a little
bit tighter. The Mariners are now better than average. They're
seventy one and seventy now, and so they're four and
a half games back of Houston one difference and total
number of games played. But every game seems to be
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against Cincinnati is not really in it. There's very few
spoilers left on the Astros schedule. The Diamondbacks aren't spoilers.
They've got a series with the Padres, they're not spoilers.
The US series with the Angels, one.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
With the Ames. It's really good.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Those two series and the one you mentioned with the
those are their three remaining series against teams they could
play that role that certainly have played that role.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
The A's did it to the mayor.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
The Astros are hoping the Angels don't do it to them,
and they even walked.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Off the Mariners a couple of times.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
So Mayor has seen all sorts of things under new management,
it doesn't seem to be any different than what they
had before. The old management was asked to walk out
the door after nine years of looking up at the Astros,
just like everybody else was doing.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
We're one segment in with Jeff Blum.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Of course we on the call tonight back in the
booth with Todd Over on Space City Home Network with
the first pitch of seven to ten. Both of us
will head to astros on deck at six o'clock tonight
Space City Home Network and of course right here on
Sports Talk seven ninety. But another segment with Jeff, we'll
get into what the lineup looks like, what's on the
pitching side of it, the newest, latest guy we'll call
the Ace from Bravaldez on the mound tonight for your
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The eight team continuing here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
If we sound more excitable than usual, it's because Blummer's in.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Geoff Blum, Well, for me, it's because Kyle Tucker's back.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
No, Yeah, we're all bad together.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
You know how I knew that it was official when
the Astros released a graphic that said the King returns
and they photo shopped a crown on his his helmet.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
So now Tuve Alvarez Diaz Go one, two three.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Kyle Tucker is back, though he's not being asked to
use his glove tonight. He's the designated hitter Jeremy Pania,
who was batting fifth and playing short man.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
That means something, h yeah, interesting he being asked to
use his glove tonight. He changed gloves. I don't know
if anybody noticed that watching it, but he changed gloves.
He was using a different glove in that series as
a dad joke about his gafs lately know, but but
it surprised me. I was like, I know what you're saying,
but I legit noticed he had a new glove.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
He was assessed an error since yesterday the changed.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
The arraghetty you're going when you get errors overnight.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
So the six earned runs that were once are now
unearned runs from that first down.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
But he bots fifth tonight.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
John Singleton's over at first Gamble McCormick and Dubon go seven, eight, nine,
And if you were listening closely, I did not say
the name Alex Bregman Moriso Dubon batting ninth, is that
third Bregman is not in tonight's lineup.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Hopefully we'll hear in a few from Joe what.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
The status is if it's in he's available but not playing,
or we need to give him a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Well, well more, I mean I have a theory. If
you don't, I want your theory. Here's the place for it.
Right from ber Valdez, league leader in ground balls. Mm
hmm if I mean, that's just more opportunities to aggravate
the elbow for Alex if he's playing a third base
with a bunch of right handed hitters. So go ahead
and just let Dubon make all the plays and we'll
see you some other times.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
And should listen to what he's saying. It's it means something,
not that they're trying. I mean, obviously what he said,
trying to minimize the impact on a bum elbow. This
is exactly the player you would die to have in
your lineup with Valdez on the mount. I mean, he
must vacuum up fifteen balls a start and turns the
five threes they get. So that's the one that's if
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they're not putting him in the lineup. It's so clear
that there is a sizeable issue that if we didn't
know already, is going to be a witch to get
through the rest of the season.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Okay, but if he you know what's interesting though, is
that did he did he start feeling the effects of
this more so in the field or at the plate?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
And I think you said you had had a conversation
with him.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I think I can say this now, Yeah, that it
was more about when he was batting, that he was
feeling the effects of it.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah, originally, Well, if you I mean, you know, you
can you can alter your delivery or your arm path
for lack of I'm not sure if I'm saying that right,
but just the way your arm moves toward you can
drop down, you can get further on top, you can
short arm it, long arm it, you can you know,
the arm swing behind you can be different. So you
can kind of manipulate your arm a little bit. It
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may cause other issues maybe later on, but you can
protect the elbow a little bit thrown across the diamond.
But if you're doing it ten to fifteen times a day,
that that's where the issue kind of because then all
of a sudden it's the wear and tear of the robber. Yeah, well,
I mean, he's doing his job.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Catchers and pitching coaches, some managers dart out of the
dugout when they notice anything from a pitcher, because when
you alter what you're doing because of something else, you're
liable to make it fifty times worse. And they never
want to let that happen. And so that's just where
they are with Bregnan. Quite obviously, it still allows them
to have a you know, a one, two, three, four five.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
But in that batting stand, the way he gets tucked
with that arm bent at the beginning of his swing,
so compact everything is. But what happens when he gets
to contact, All of a sudden you have that explosive
move where you're kind of like punching a punching bag
and you have that extension and that snap in that
l But when you get extended through the ball, that's
where the issue might be for him as someone who
is a utility infielder.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Yep, that's just a fancy way for saying you could
play all the positions.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I was a master of many, not one. You're a chameleion.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
You were saying that you had experience with grimlins in
the past.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Oh literally, yeah, No, I mean, I can talk about
it openly and I don't know what's going on here,
obviously in this situation because I'm not that guy, but
just in my past experience and understanding what I had
to go through as a player, I had shrapnel all
over my elbow went back in and it was kind
of weird. It was I think it was nineteen ninety
eight I had my first elbow surgery. I was out
for four weeks. They just cleaned it out, got range
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of motion, back strength, and boom, we were back on
the sill. Junior, I just want to tell you that, yeah,
you do that a lot. It's our thing. So ten
ten years after that, I had elbow surgery again. It
was the same thing. I just felt a pop on
the field and I had swelling in the back of
my elbow and the loose bodies, bone chips, whatever you
want to call them, got into the joint and I
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couldn't bend my elbows, so they had to go in
clean those out. But it's just maintenance. It's nothing. There's
nothing structurally that's damaging or extended or catastrophics. It's just
a four week get your range of motion back, and
then you're on the field like a basketball player has
creaky knees.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah, is it exactly of the position, like if you
were just in a north petition?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Yeah. Yeah, everybody takes it for re bread. Sure, I guess. Well,
pictures go through it, you know, pictuers obviously put a
lot more stress on it. But I mean for an
infielder or outfielder who gets this kind of injury, it's
just the repetition of the exercise and the amount of
times you do it today, because what you're not seeing
is that these guys are taking forty to fifty ground
balls before the game, throwing the ball across the diamond,
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and then you get in the game and you continue
to throw the ball. So it's just it's just wear
and tear. I mean, if I'm guessing or speculating, just
in my past experience.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
So to your experience when you went in for the
first time to have something done or to get them
to look at it, did they indicate there was a
reason for it other than what you just described.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yeah? No, I actually the back of my like I played,
I did the same thing. It happened to me. I
vividly remember nineteen ninety eight Syracuse, New York. I just
remember the turf field and we were playing catch before
the game. I threw a long toss and I hear
this little pop and I'm like, huh, that was kind
of weird. I just kind of shook my arm out,
ran out, played, played the game, got a couple of knocks.
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Wake up the next day. In the back of my elbow.
It looks like somebody shoved a soft ball into the
back of my elbow, and I'm like, okay, it's just
swollowing up. You go to the field, you ice it up,
you try and play again, and it doesn't work, and
you're like, okay, something's wrong, and then you get the
X ray or MRI. I was. I had to go
to Canada, so I had to wait three weeks I think,
for an MRI. But the X ray showed that there
were there were bone chips, just fragments, you know, bone
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spurs build up and then they break off and they're
just in that joint. And that's what sucks. That sounds terrible,
so Bregman not in that's bad, But the recovery's easy
because once it's out of there, you're like, oh, hey,
they got the range of motion and you're good to go.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Hopefully they get his new as good as new elbow
for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
So, in other words the interviews, he he won't need
to go on workouts with his new teams because everything
will be fine.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
The right thing, we'll be fine.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Yes, but this is one of those teams we could
talk about that. Give me your quick thought. Matt Chapman
signs a six yell, I think that's one million dollar deal.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
There's your baseline, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
It tested sets a mark and it takes somebody off
the market.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Yes, So both of those things would seem to suggest
when both are clients have the same agent, this is
going to help one of those two clients, and that
he got what he wanted, he's able to stay there.
It's going to help the other client also in a
different way, and that obviously is Alex Bregman as he
goes down the season. Five days after the season ends
is the time of the window. The Astros would have
an exclusive negotiating window, and then he would be free
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to negotiate with every team, including this one.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Well, I would imagine, I mean, just knowing what we know,
I would imagine the second call Boris made after congratulations
to Matt Chapman, was to Dana Brown, I'm guessing. I mean,
I think that would be the fun part of my
mind imagination saying, hey, you know, we just signed this guy.
You know, we've got a baseline on what's working over
here because your third basement's a year younger. He's also
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a little bit better. So what you say, let's talk.
You're talking about Scott Boris.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Obviously the Astros have gotten not one but two extensions
done with Al Tubay, who's also a client of his.
But it was very it was made very clear during
both of those processes, especially this last one, that he
told Scott, I want to be an Astro for life.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
And good for alt for saying that too. What are
the odds that Alex says that? What are the odds
that I mean if we're if if if Altuve is
listening to this, al tuove go talk to Alex. Yeah no,
but I mean.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
I think he wants to be an Astro for life
in the way that others who did not become Astros
for life have said it. Carlos Carreis said it, but
knew the process was moving through. We haven't come to
an agreement this year or this year every situation.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
First, Alex was just way younger, hyper talented, different things.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
They're looking to leave, but I think they're looking to
do what's best financially for them, and there.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
The six year deal doesn't that I mean this, let's
just talk about the AAV is going to be what
it is. But I think that the idea of six years.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Which Crane hasn't done, but it's that would be more
appealing than a ten or.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Whatever, like what Tucker is gonna want to ge, you
know what I mean? Yeah, but again different sis on
a time, brother, Sorry I tug on the brain. No,
I just think it's really interesting because I mean, I'm
not on that side. I'm not the agent side, and
I you know, we have a better understanding maybe what
teams like to do. But at the same time, I mean,
it's kind of fascinating to see somebody who comps very
well with Alex. You know, Alex is a year younger,
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has a little bit, has one more game or went
above replacement whatever I yees to me, but they're really
good comps and we've seen him so much playing against
each other that you kind of understand where each is
at and how you could basically just take the framework
from one and move it to the next one.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Other seemingly significant detail is the deal he signed initially,
which he could have opted talking about Chapman could have
opted out after this year. It's a three year, fifty
four million dollar deal. That's eighteen million dollars a year.
He just signed a deal for twenty five plus. Alex
Bregman is currently making thirty point five off of the
backside of his one hundred million dollar extension. Is aav
clearly was in the twenty right around or at twenty,
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but the back end of it paid him significantly more.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
He's made this money roughly.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
For the last two years, so he's certainly not likely
at age, you know, thirty thirty one, thirty two to say,
oh no, no, go ahead, pay me less.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
I can take yeah in a different place.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Chapman got a significant annual raise and additional years of
comfort and guarantees. Bregman is looking for both at US,
I would think, and deservedly so at a significant higher level. Absolutely,
so these are things in their immediate future, but they're
our immediate future.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Is allowing Jeff to make to the ballgame on time. Yeah,
we got to get you out of here, so leave, yeah,
go bye. Leave. Be talking about we'll be talking about
all this. We appreciate you coming in as usual and
it's good to be here at be seen. You guys
are so famous now on TV.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
We'll see you on TV tonight and we'll see you
guys next segment
You look at it. Look at Oh yeah, this is radio.
You listened to it on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Astros broadcaster Jeff blom On seven ninety is brought to
you by Low T Center. Guess what blommers in studio
and guess what else. Kyle freaking Tucker just got activated.
So breaking news here on Sports Talk seven ninety and
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Space City Home Network, as we get you ready for
a weekend full of football. The best right fielder in
the American League, Yes, said it could be. Uh, well,
I think I'm gonna say he's gonna be in a
lineup today.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Why else would you bring it back? Exactly? Yeah? Right, WEX.
Can you confirm this please?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I can confirm the Astros have something above their necks
that contains a brain. So yes, if you're activating him
today their last probably the lineup today, or else you'd
activate him tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
By the way, that's your fault. Yeah, being all do,
I'll take all that the entire cities.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
You know what, though, it was like an excruciating death
by a million cuts slash blowout.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
So I realized that we were so bad against Cincinnati
for so long?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
How could you never play them? And yet man We
lost to them every single time we play them. Never
they don't see the.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Very times I think in the last eight years or something,
a little much losing streak. Yeah, I was there for that.
They lost fifty five games the whole year, and three
of them were that week against Cincinnati. So I was
at that series and I thought it'd be a lot
of fun. But it was smoltering hot. The team was
playing terrible skyline Chili is ass and I wanted no
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part of that. And so when the opportunity came, and
you know, and the great people at Space City Home
Network said, hey, you know what you've got. We we
have a couple of days off. Do you want to
take them anytime? And you know, and I was. I
looked at the schedule and I saw Cincinnati. Yep, you know,
in a day off in between the series. I was like,
double yeah, oh yeah, yeah, only.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Three games, but get to take You know what he.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Did and he knows this because we both worked with
Randy McElvoy. Yeah you had a burn a few days man.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, if you can combine that, which was so random,
I had somebody asking me. My buddy Larry was texting,
He goes, is this normal?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Did.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
They usually have a day off in the middle of
a series, and I'm like, atually in April. Yeah, I
couldn't think of the last time that it even happened.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
And a lot of the times, unfortunately, Major League Baseball
with their first week and I'm doing that well, they
do that with four or five teams play on opening Day, right,
take the day off and then picked back up as
the weekend appear.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
We say it's a rain day, like in case you
get rained out, and with you, I.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Was like, you couldn't get the season started because that
was an Apple TV game because Jeremy Pania was hitting
a home run while his parents were being interviewed. Yes,
that was the last time I remember a day off
randomly like that happening. Yeah, that happens quite a bit.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Usually it's in April when they do it, or like
that first road trip because they're trying to protect the
you know, the potential for doubleheader or anything like that,
or having a team come back in September to replay
a game. So they just have those days off built in.
But I don't know why this day off was in
the middle of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Well, so at least the Rangers are bringing up the
rear of last year's World Series participants.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Since the Diamondbacks are in town. They're good, They're really good.
And you know, I sat there getting ready for today's game,
and I'm saying, Okay, you just got shut out swept
by Cincinnati. You're coming back home where you've been playing
really good baseball. You beat up on a Kansas City
team who I think is maybe better all the round
than some teams give them credit for. And then I
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look at the numbers that Arizona has, I'm like, Okay,
our offense could get going against these guys because their
pitching staff is twenty six, twenty seventh as far as
starters in bullpen, and our offense scuffled a little bits
against Cincinnati. And then I went our offense scuffled against Cincinnati,
who isn't much better as far as pitching. But being
here at home where they've played a little bit better,
the crowd's going to be a little more involved. I
think these guys are going to feel a little more intensity,
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and I hope that they kind of go out there
with the intent of we can beat these guys, and
we would have beat them last year if they were
in the World Series if they could have just won
one home game and gott into the World Series and
played against Arizona. So I hope there's a little to
that lingering saying, you know what, we can beat these guys. Uh,
But you're right as far as Arizona, you can't take
them for granted. Their offense even without Cotel Martin in
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it right now and I'm not sure when he's coming back,
but they absolutely rake. They get on the face of
a crazy clip and their ops is huge. At least
they don't have ty France in their lineup. Oh what
the hell is that? That's what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
What ty France does against one team one?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
France has gotten a Yeah, he should get an extension
just playing against US.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I have sports hate for that guy in my heart
and maybe regular hate too.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
That was so mad. Well, he got hits every time.
But I've met the dude. He's a great dude. Whatever
if he was in.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
An astronst for Jones too, I don't trust you, Larry, Larry.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Anyway, get us back on track, wax too much what you.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Said about Arizona. I mean, I'm just playing my part, Yes, Dad,
It's so funny because it's actually the opposite of what
the team they're playing is. The reason why the Astros
ascended to the top of the division are ten games
over five hundred, are in the driver's seat is because
their pitching has maintained an unbelievable level of success for
about two and a half months, which has allowed their
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offense to go through all the roller coaster that you mentioned.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
The opposite for Arizona.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
They give up a ton of runs, but they score
a ton of runs plus one, and that's why they
are eighteen games over, seventeen games over five hundred after yesterday,
and it is a team that you might not look
at their roster and say, wow, how do you get
through this team? But each bat at bat is another challenge,
and then they are very much a past the baton
type of offense. So that's what you're up against this week.
Kyle Tucker has been activated. The other two moves that
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went along with it for the Astros that they announced,
Zach Decenzo was sent back down to Triple A and
Parker Mashinsky, the lefty, was designated for assignment. They've been
pushed up against this forty man limit for quite some
time because Dana Brown has been working the roster at
a fever pitch all year. Claim a guy DFA guy,
claim a idea. It's a process they've had to go
through because of all of the things that have health
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wise and performance wise gone wrong. The lineuper Until we
see it, I can't confirm it, but Kyle Tucker, Jordan Alvarez,
I believe, Alex Bregman again, can't even say for sure.
Jiner dis Jose Altuve, that's five, Jeremy Diaz, Victor Karattini,
that's six and seven. What could be your best lineup
based on who's on the roster today? So how can
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you feel confident if you're Joe as Body, if you're
Dana Brown. That with the Kyle Tucker inclusion in most
of our upcoming lineups, because I'm sure he'll still get
a day off here soon that you've expanded it, you've
extended it. It's not get through the top three in
your gold and get through the top four and you're good.
But now pitchers are looking at five, six, and seven
as a much more overall dangerous astros group.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Now, that's one thing that we've preached over the last
seven eight years is the depth of this lineup, and
now that you get Kyle Tucker back, all of a sudden,
you insert him in that three to four spot where
he's been And you know, Bregman's interesting to me just
because it feels like Joe's protecting him a little bit,
putting him in that five spot, saying we want you
to get at bats, but we don't want to blow
you out in the two spot because you're guaranteed four
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maybe five at bats every single time you go out there.
So you put him in that four to five production spot.
Let him go out there and drive RBIs in with
four at bats as opposed to five and maybe pushing
it a little bit. But if you say you do
have an Alex because you're going out touve you or
don Jiner Alex, it would have been Jeremy Penia or
do you put do you put him behind Yiner protect Jiner?
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I mean, where do you put Tucker in there? No
matter where you put him in. All of a sudden,
you're telling me that you've got a Kartini and Jeremy
Pania being your your seven eight type guys. I mean,
that's kind of crazy to think that lineup could get
that thick that quick with just one guy.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
And it's just so clearly different, which is what they've
been overcoming with all this pitching. What they've had six
seven eight nine. That's why Ben Gamble has an astros uniform.
That's why Jason Hayward has an astros. It's why they
stitched leon on a leone on a uniform number, descends
on a uniform number. What anybody who's next, That's what
they've had to do with six seven eight nine in
the lineup and in those spots that have been vacated.
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Wanted to just quickly get onto the bregman because as
soon as the injury came up with his elbow, everything
else that's weird has happened to him. He got hit
in the head and stayed in the game. He got
ejected from his first game ever he almost again he.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Didn't and that guy's defense, I mean, what the hell happened?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Why do we even have replay? That's a good point,
and the thing is what what I told him.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Let me ask you, what is the point of replay? Like?
Why was replay instituted.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
To help the guys out that can't get it right
the first time?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
To maintain the you know what I mean. I mean
just at the game and make sure we get the
right call. How about the fact, how about we just
send that up there and go did you see a
foul tip? Did you see a hit by pitch? Well?
I didn't see either, So guess what, it's a ball.
Why can't we do that? Why do we have to
sit there and go, No, the call stands when you
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know it's it's it's blatantly wrong, even if you didn't
even if you didn't see the hit by pitch where
I saw a little bit of jersey just watching on
my couch. But if I actually had a replay center
in front of me, I'd be like, you know what,
if we were actually doing our job, we would say,
that's not even a foul tip. I'd tell you what.
Brian and Noorra whoever the crew chief was on on
that crew, I'd be like, it's all wrong. It's a ball.
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It didn't hit the bat, it didn't hit the hitter,
it wasn't in the strike zone. Why the hell would
you check down if you said it was a foul tip,
by the way, and they said it wasn't a swing,
it's a ball. Just send it back and say it's
a ball, let's move off, because guys who wouldn't have
been pissed David Bell wouldn't have been pissed the manager
of the Cincinnati Rats, you'd been like, almost got you.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
The very onset of the call.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
As Todd and the other Jeff are going through the
call on Space City Home Network with a Jay and
one less letter, they're both watching all about you managers
come out of the dugout?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Why is David Bell out of the dug out? Why's
Joe out of the dugout? Why did they need to
challenge it? He called it.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
You couldn't even tell what Onora was indicating at the
onset of here's what we're going to do to make
everybody ended up as a strikeout, which was then, of course,
followed by two batters reaching base. Instead of having three
on base with one out, you had two on base
with two outs in a game where you lost one nothing.
I don't know what would have happened, but these are
just some of the things that they definitely will happen.
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Over a one to sixty two. They do have the
ten game lead. It's our ten game over five hundred.
The Mariners did finish off their series with the A's
with a couple of victories, and thus it's a little
bit tighter. The Mariners are now better than average. They're
seventy one and seventy now, and so they're four and
a half games back of Houston one difference and total
number of games played. But every game seems to be
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against Cincinnati is not really in it. There's very few
spoilers left on the Astros schedule. The Diamondbacks aren't spoilers.
They've got a series with the Padres, they're not spoilers.
The US series with the Angels, one.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
With the Ames. It's really good.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Those two series and the one you mentioned with the
those are their three remaining series against teams they could
play that role that certainly have played that role.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
The A's did it to the mayor.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
The Astros are hoping the Angels don't do it to them,
and they even walked.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Off the Mariners a couple of times.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
So Mayor has seen all sorts of things under new management,
it doesn't seem to be any different than what they
had before. The old management was asked to walk out
the door after nine years of looking up at the Astros,
just like everybody else was doing.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
We're one segment in with Jeff Blum.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Of course we on the call tonight back in the
booth with Todd Over on Space City Home Network with
the first pitch of seven to ten. Both of us
will head to astros on deck at six o'clock tonight
Space City Home Network and of course right here on
Sports Talk seven ninety. But another segment with Jeff, we'll
get into what the lineup looks like, what's on the
pitching side of it, the newest, latest guy we'll call
the Ace from Bravaldez on the mound tonight for your
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Houston Astros, which were just getting rolling on Friday on
the eighteen.
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The eighty.
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The eight team continuing here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
If we sound more excitable than usual, it's because Blummer's in.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Geoff Blum, Well, for me, it's because Kyle Tucker's back.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
No, Yeah, we're all bad together.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
You know how I knew that it was official when
the Astros released a graphic that said the King returns
and they photo shopped a crown on his his helmet.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
So now Tuve Alvarez Diaz Go one, two three.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Kyle Tucker is back, though he's not being asked to
use his glove tonight. He's the designated hitter Jeremy Pania,
who was batting fifth and playing short man.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
That means something, h yeah, interesting he being asked to
use his glove tonight. He changed gloves. I don't know
if anybody noticed that watching it, but he changed gloves.
He was using a different glove in that series as
a dad joke about his gafs lately know, but but
it surprised me. I was like, I know what you're saying,
but I legit noticed he had a new glove.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
He was assessed an error since yesterday the changed.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
The arraghetty you're going when you get errors overnight.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
So the six earned runs that were once are now
unearned runs from that first down.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
But he bots fifth tonight.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
John Singleton's over at first Gamble McCormick and Dubon go seven, eight, nine,
And if you were listening closely, I did not say
the name Alex Bregman Moriso Dubon batting ninth, is that
third Bregman is not in tonight's lineup.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Hopefully we'll hear in a few from Joe what.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
The status is if it's in he's available but not playing,
or we need to give him a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Well, well more, I mean I have a theory. If
you don't, I want your theory. Here's the place for it.
Right from ber Valdez, league leader in ground balls. Mm
hmm if I mean, that's just more opportunities to aggravate
the elbow for Alex if he's playing a third base
with a bunch of right handed hitters. So go ahead
and just let Dubon make all the plays and we'll
see you some other times.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
And should listen to what he's saying. It's it means something,
not that they're trying. I mean, obviously what he said,
trying to minimize the impact on a bum elbow. This
is exactly the player you would die to have in
your lineup with Valdez on the mount. I mean, he
must vacuum up fifteen balls a start and turns the
five threes they get. So that's the one that's if
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they're not putting him in the lineup. It's so clear
that there is a sizeable issue that if we didn't
know already, is going to be a witch to get
through the rest of the season.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Okay, but if he you know what's interesting though, is
that did he did he start feeling the effects of
this more so in the field or at the plate?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
And I think you said you had had a conversation
with him.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I think I can say this now, Yeah, that it
was more about when he was batting, that he was
feeling the effects of it.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah, originally, Well, if you I mean, you know, you
can you can alter your delivery or your arm path
for lack of I'm not sure if I'm saying that right,
but just the way your arm moves toward you can
drop down, you can get further on top, you can
short arm it, long arm it, you can you know,
the arm swing behind you can be different. So you
can kind of manipulate your arm a little bit. It
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may cause other issues maybe later on, but you can
protect the elbow a little bit thrown across the diamond.
But if you're doing it ten to fifteen times a day,
that that's where the issue kind of because then all
of a sudden it's the wear and tear of the robber. Yeah, well,
I mean, he's doing his job.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Catchers and pitching coaches, some managers dart out of the
dugout when they notice anything from a pitcher, because when
you alter what you're doing because of something else, you're
liable to make it fifty times worse. And they never
want to let that happen. And so that's just where
they are with Bregnan. Quite obviously, it still allows them
to have a you know, a one, two, three, four five.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
But in that batting stand, the way he gets tucked
with that arm bent at the beginning of his swing,
so compact everything is. But what happens when he gets
to contact, All of a sudden you have that explosive
move where you're kind of like punching a punching bag
and you have that extension and that snap in that
l But when you get extended through the ball, that's
where the issue might be for him as someone who
is a utility infielder.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Yep, that's just a fancy way for saying you could
play all the positions.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I was a master of many, not one. You're a chameleion.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
You were saying that you had experience with grimlins in
the past.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Oh literally, yeah, No, I mean, I can talk about
it openly and I don't know what's going on here,
obviously in this situation because I'm not that guy, but
just in my past experience and understanding what I had
to go through as a player, I had shrapnel all
over my elbow went back in and it was kind
of weird. It was I think it was nineteen ninety
eight I had my first elbow surgery. I was out
for four weeks. They just cleaned it out, got range
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of motion, back strength, and boom, we were back on
the sill. Junior, I just want to tell you that, yeah,
you do that a lot. It's our thing. So ten
ten years after that, I had elbow surgery again. It
was the same thing. I just felt a pop on
the field and I had swelling in the back of
my elbow and the loose bodies, bone chips, whatever you
want to call them, got into the joint and I
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couldn't bend my elbows, so they had to go in
clean those out. But it's just maintenance. It's nothing. There's
nothing structurally that's damaging or extended or catastrophics. It's just
a four week get your range of motion back, and
then you're on the field like a basketball player has
creaky knees.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah, is it exactly of the position, like if you
were just in a north petition?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Yeah. Yeah, everybody takes it for re bread. Sure, I guess. Well,
pictures go through it, you know, pictuers obviously put a
lot more stress on it. But I mean for an
infielder or outfielder who gets this kind of injury, it's
just the repetition of the exercise and the amount of
times you do it today, because what you're not seeing
is that these guys are taking forty to fifty ground
balls before the game, throwing the ball across the diamond,
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and then you get in the game and you continue
to throw the ball. So it's just it's just wear
and tear. I mean, if I'm guessing or speculating, just
in my past experience.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
So to your experience when you went in for the
first time to have something done or to get them
to look at it, did they indicate there was a
reason for it other than what you just described.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yeah? No, I actually the back of my like I played,
I did the same thing. It happened to me. I
vividly remember nineteen ninety eight Syracuse, New York. I just
remember the turf field and we were playing catch before
the game. I threw a long toss and I hear
this little pop and I'm like, huh, that was kind
of weird. I just kind of shook my arm out,
ran out, played, played the game, got a couple of knocks.
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Wake up the next day. In the back of my elbow.
It looks like somebody shoved a soft ball into the
back of my elbow, and I'm like, okay, it's just
swollowing up. You go to the field, you ice it up,
you try and play again, and it doesn't work, and
you're like, okay, something's wrong, and then you get the
X ray or MRI. I was. I had to go
to Canada, so I had to wait three weeks I think,
for an MRI. But the X ray showed that there
were there were bone chips, just fragments, you know, bone
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spurs build up and then they break off and they're
just in that joint. And that's what sucks. That sounds terrible,
so Bregman not in that's bad, But the recovery's easy
because once it's out of there, you're like, oh, hey,
they got the range of motion and you're good to go.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Hopefully they get his new as good as new elbow
for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
So, in other words the interviews, he he won't need
to go on workouts with his new teams because everything
will be fine.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
The right thing, we'll be fine.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Yes, but this is one of those teams we could
talk about that. Give me your quick thought. Matt Chapman
signs a six yell, I think that's one million dollar deal.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
There's your baseline, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
It tested sets a mark and it takes somebody off
the market.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Yes, So both of those things would seem to suggest
when both are clients have the same agent, this is
going to help one of those two clients, and that
he got what he wanted, he's able to stay there.
It's going to help the other client also in a
different way, and that obviously is Alex Bregman as he
goes down the season. Five days after the season ends
is the time of the window. The Astros would have
an exclusive negotiating window, and then he would be free
(20:23):
to negotiate with every team, including this one.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Well, I would imagine, I mean, just knowing what we know,
I would imagine the second call Boris made after congratulations
to Matt Chapman, was to Dana Brown, I'm guessing. I mean,
I think that would be the fun part of my
mind imagination saying, hey, you know, we just signed this guy.
You know, we've got a baseline on what's working over
here because your third basement's a year younger. He's also
(20:47):
a little bit better. So what you say, let's talk.
You're talking about Scott Boris.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Obviously the Astros have gotten not one but two extensions
done with Al Tubay, who's also a client of his.
But it was very it was made very clear during
both of those processes, especially this last one, that he
told Scott, I want to be an Astro for life.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
And good for alt for saying that too. What are
the odds that Alex says that? What are the odds
that I mean if we're if if if Altuve is
listening to this, al tuove go talk to Alex. Yeah no,
but I mean.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
I think he wants to be an Astro for life
in the way that others who did not become Astros
for life have said it. Carlos Carreis said it, but
knew the process was moving through. We haven't come to
an agreement this year or this year every situation.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
First, Alex was just way younger, hyper talented, different things.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
They're looking to leave, but I think they're looking to
do what's best financially for them, and there.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
The six year deal doesn't that I mean this, let's
just talk about the AAV is going to be what
it is. But I think that the idea of six years.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Which Crane hasn't done, but it's that would be more
appealing than a ten or.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Whatever, like what Tucker is gonna want to ge, you
know what I mean? Yeah, but again different sis on
a time, brother, Sorry I tug on the brain. No,
I just think it's really interesting because I mean, I'm
not on that side. I'm not the agent side, and
I you know, we have a better understanding maybe what
teams like to do. But at the same time, I mean,
it's kind of fascinating to see somebody who comps very
well with Alex. You know, Alex is a year younger,
(22:19):
has a little bit, has one more game or went
above replacement whatever I yees to me, but they're really
good comps and we've seen him so much playing against
each other that you kind of understand where each is
at and how you could basically just take the framework
from one and move it to the next one.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Other seemingly significant detail is the deal he signed initially,
which he could have opted talking about Chapman could have
opted out after this year. It's a three year, fifty
four million dollar deal. That's eighteen million dollars a year.
He just signed a deal for twenty five plus. Alex
Bregman is currently making thirty point five off of the
backside of his one hundred million dollar extension. Is aav
clearly was in the twenty right around or at twenty,
(22:58):
but the back end of it paid him significantly more.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
He's made this money roughly.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
For the last two years, so he's certainly not likely
at age, you know, thirty thirty one, thirty two to say,
oh no, no, go ahead, pay me less.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
I can take yeah in a different place.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Chapman got a significant annual raise and additional years of
comfort and guarantees. Bregman is looking for both at US,
I would think, and deservedly so at a significant higher level. Absolutely,
so these are things in their immediate future, but they're
our immediate future.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Is allowing Jeff to make to the ballgame on time. Yeah,
we got to get you out of here, so leave, yeah,
go bye. Leave. Be talking about we'll be talking about
all this. We appreciate you coming in as usual and
it's good to be here at be seen. You guys
are so famous now on TV.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
We'll see you on TV tonight and we'll see you
guys next segment
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