Bogusevic Sounds Off on Carlos Correa’s Season-Ending Injury and Astros Injury Crisis
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yord's Talk seven ninety, Home of your Astros, and it
will be the rubber game of a three game series
between the Astros and the Dodgers. The storyline obviously not
a bollwing involving the game today per se, but what
is going around the team as we welcome you to
today's edition of the on Deck Show, Matt Thomas with
you on Sports Talk seven ninety Astros and Dodgers. Will
(00:21):
get to more details on that coming up in a
little bit, but first things. First word that a popped
tendon will send Carlos Korea to the injured list. He
has done for the season. Brian Bogosvic will be on
the call for the pregame show on Space City Home
Network here in just a few minutes, and the joints
us now from Dykin Park. Obviously a somber mood around
the organization right now, and the list continues to pile up.
(00:44):
Bogie on these just terrible injuries the Astros have gone through.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, it's getting to the point to where it's just
kind of unbelievable that you keep having these significant injuries
to your best players. And you know, we don't need
to sit here and discuss us what Carlos Korea means
the to the team from the on the field standpoint,
but the fact that you're losing, you know, one of
the steadying voices and one of the leaders who you
(01:09):
know can be the guy to keep everybody moving in
the right direction as they try to pull themselves out
of the hole. And just thinking about it from from
a whole team standpoint, it looks like they might finally
beginning to the other side of this injury thing. You know,
Allen came back this week, then Atsusa came back. You're
starting to see these pitchers getting out on rehab assignment
(01:30):
and maybe the light at the end of the tunnel
there and then to have back to back, you know,
Jiner goes down, Carlos Korea goes down, and for extended
period of time and it's just like this this black
cloud that that's been injuries, that's hanging over the team
and it just won't go away.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Bogie, is there something some sort of voodoo around the
batting cage? You brought it up? You have jan Air
Diez gets Hart two days ago. Yesterday it was Carlo's carea.
They're all obviously that's fluky, but man had this happen
in back to back days. Is just a terrible aura
around that part of the stadium before the first pitch.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
It is, and the most maddening thing about it is,
you know when you're looking at when guys get hurt,
and you kind of look at it in hindsight and say,
what are the what are the events that led up
to this? What can we have done differently? How can
we prevent these things from happening in the future. There
were no signs pointing to any of this. Jiner said
that he had not felt anything in his side oblique
(02:27):
area leading up to the swing where he got hurt.
And Carlos obviously, you know, he was out yesterday taking
ground balls early, bouncing around the field, looked great, looked
looks strong. And then he goes in to take a
couple of swings before the game and the ankle tendon
just explodes on him. And there's really nothing you can
do leading to to try to prevent these kinds of things.
(02:49):
It's just, you know, it's it's just bad luck all around.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Bogy. You're losing a guy that not only you mentioned
the intangibles, but he has been playing from a lot
of shortstop of me Payina out. That left side of
the infield is very very inexperience right now.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Absolutely, And it just gets to the point to where,
you know, you kind of laugh at it saying, we
thought we had this covered. You know, you had Jeremy Pania,
who's an emerging star and a Gold Glove winner, to
be the shortstop. The backup plan is Carlos Korea, who's
a Platinum gold Glove winner, Platinum Glove winner and a
and an All Star and that, and now you're onto
the option number three with Nick Allen and the Mets,
(03:29):
who's a former Gold Glove finalist. But Brayden Shoemake's over
there today. It's depth is one thing everybody has to
build up. There's something that you have to try to
plan for and have contingencies going into the season. But
when you're talking about you know, shortstops number three and
four and starting pitchers number nine and ten, there's only
so much you can do.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Bogett feels like you want to go find Dana Brown,
you want to go find Joe a spot to give
him the hugs. But this is a doggy dog world.
This is a you know, injuries are a part of
every baseball team. Obviously the Astros have been through way
more than anybody had in the last couple of years.
But their thoughts right now, I've just got to be
worried about the health of their current team, trying to
(04:12):
put out a competitive team and all by the way,
they're still working on trying to keep their jobs beyond
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, I'm sure kind of in the back of their
minds somewhere they're kind of throw your hands up and say,
you know what, what can I do? What could we do?
But the message has to be simple, The message has
to be straightforward to the team of it doesn't matter right,
it doesn't matter who's in the lineup, it doesn't matter
who's on the mound. Our job is to go out
there and win. And other teams are dealing with injuries
(04:40):
and they're certainly not going to come in here and
feel bad. They're going to see an opportunity to make,
you know, kind of put you down in too deep
of a hold to crawl out of. So what can
you do is go out there and try to tread water.
Try to tread water until Jeremy Pania comes back and
he can slot back into short stop, try to tread
water until Hunter Brown comes back and you get some
of the arms back. And until then, it doesn't matter
(05:03):
who you are. It doesn't matter where you started your season,
what organization you are in on opening day. If you
are here, your job is to win a game today.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Let's get a couple of positives in here, and then
we'll get through Sugarland real quick. A thought or two
about yesterday. Peter Lambert was fantastic. Bryan King embraced the
role of getting the two innings taken care of. And
when you are going to hold your head above water,
as you say, you've got to rely on a couple
of key hits and some good defense. And the Astros
got that last night.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, I think they got kind of everything they needed
in the sense of you need some big individual performances,
right Obviously, Peter Lambert steps up and was great, stood
toe to toe with shoe Heo Tani and out pitched him.
And you need those kinds of individual days from guys,
but more so the good days from the team as
a whole. And you look at the game yesterday and
(05:52):
you got very good pitching, You've got timely hittings, You've
got an offense that was able to scrape some runs
against a very good starting pitcher who did have his
really good stuff. It's not like Sho Heeokani was off yesterday.
They played great defense. They've played a lot of really
good defense. So is that model repeatable? Well, maybe not
get seven innings of shutout baseball from your starter every day,
(06:12):
but the idea of playing good all around baseball and
having those kinds of clean games to consistently give yourself
a chance not have blow up days, not have days
where you just didn't play well enough to win in
under any circumstances. They need days like that moving forward.
So that's as good of a sign as there is
for individual guys stepping up and having those days.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Farlot's you're on. You got to do the television a
few minutes. We were obviously at the ballpark yesterday and
did not see what happened in sugar Land with the
reports on Hater, We're obviously very good. We'll give a
detail on that in a minute. Emi is scheduled to
pitch next week for the Astros. Pitch clock issues, mound hardness, whatever,
I mean. You don't want it to be one excuse
(06:57):
after the other. But that was a little bit of alarming,
And I guess the question is is using someone that
played overseas and changing of rules for Emi. He knew
the pitch clock was going to be a factor. He's
got basically a week to get it fixed because this
astro's rotation needs him right now in the worst way,
because we've seen way too many bullpen games the last
couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, there are there are adjustments that you need to make.
There are things that are different about you know, Japanese
baseball and American baseball and all these things. But your
job as a player, wherever you are, whatever league you're
playing in, it is to perform, and it is to
adjust so that you can perform. And he's gonna have
to figure it out, and he's gonna have to figure
it out at the major league level. That they're trying
(07:38):
to give him some leeway to get comfortable and have
these couple of minor league starts to hopefully find that comfort,
and it doesn't appear that he's really done. So just
the alarming number of how few strikes you through in
the walk numbers, but there's just that a point to
where they need him here. You know, you can cover
(07:59):
up for injuries and the pitching staff in the short term,
and you can dip into that depth until guys come back.
But when you're in a situation where you're running out
you know, starters who are seventh day ninth in the
depth chart coming into the season, you can only do
that for so long. And with Hunters still out, with
Christian Javier still out, you have a guy and am
(08:20):
I who by all accounts is physically healthy. Well, you
got to be out there on the mound, and it's
just gotten to that point. And the biggest thing is
if he's going to have to find a way to
throw more strikes, because if you're out there throwing forty
percent strikes against major league hitters, you're not going to
be out there for very long and that's going to
be a problem.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Bogey, Thanks for the great work. We'll talk again next wenes.
You appreciate it. Look forward to seeing you on Space
City today.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
All right, cool,
Yord's Talk seven ninety, Home of your Astros, and it
will be the rubber game of a three game series
between the Astros and the Dodgers. The storyline obviously not
a bollwing involving the game today per se, but what
is going around the team as we welcome you to
today's edition of the on Deck Show, Matt Thomas with
you on Sports Talk seven ninety Astros and Dodgers. Will
(00:21):
get to more details on that coming up in a
little bit, but first things. First word that a popped
tendon will send Carlos Korea to the injured list. He
has done for the season. Brian Bogosvic will be on
the call for the pregame show on Space City Home
Network here in just a few minutes, and the joints
us now from Dykin Park. Obviously a somber mood around
the organization right now, and the list continues to pile up.
(00:44):
Bogie on these just terrible injuries the Astros have gone through.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, it's getting to the point to where it's just
kind of unbelievable that you keep having these significant injuries
to your best players. And you know, we don't need
to sit here and discuss us what Carlos Korea means
the to the team from the on the field standpoint,
but the fact that you're losing, you know, one of
the steadying voices and one of the leaders who you
(01:09):
know can be the guy to keep everybody moving in
the right direction as they try to pull themselves out
of the hole. And just thinking about it from from
a whole team standpoint, it looks like they might finally
beginning to the other side of this injury thing. You know,
Allen came back this week, then Atsusa came back. You're
starting to see these pitchers getting out on rehab assignment
(01:30):
and maybe the light at the end of the tunnel
there and then to have back to back, you know,
Jiner goes down, Carlos Korea goes down, and for extended
period of time and it's just like this this black
cloud that that's been injuries, that's hanging over the team
and it just won't go away.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Bogie, is there something some sort of voodoo around the
batting cage? You brought it up? You have jan Air
Diez gets Hart two days ago. Yesterday it was Carlo's carea.
They're all obviously that's fluky, but man had this happen
in back to back days. Is just a terrible aura
around that part of the stadium before the first pitch.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
It is, and the most maddening thing about it is,
you know when you're looking at when guys get hurt,
and you kind of look at it in hindsight and say,
what are the what are the events that led up
to this? What can we have done differently? How can
we prevent these things from happening in the future. There
were no signs pointing to any of this. Jiner said
that he had not felt anything in his side oblique
(02:27):
area leading up to the swing where he got hurt.
And Carlos obviously, you know, he was out yesterday taking
ground balls early, bouncing around the field, looked great, looked
looks strong. And then he goes in to take a
couple of swings before the game and the ankle tendon
just explodes on him. And there's really nothing you can
do leading to to try to prevent these kinds of things.
(02:49):
It's just, you know, it's it's just bad luck all around.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Bogy. You're losing a guy that not only you mentioned
the intangibles, but he has been playing from a lot
of shortstop of me Payina out. That left side of
the infield is very very inexperience right now.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Absolutely, And it just gets to the point to where,
you know, you kind of laugh at it saying, we
thought we had this covered. You know, you had Jeremy Pania,
who's an emerging star and a Gold Glove winner, to
be the shortstop. The backup plan is Carlos Korea, who's
a Platinum gold Glove winner, Platinum Glove winner and a
and an All Star and that, and now you're onto
the option number three with Nick Allen and the Mets,
(03:29):
who's a former Gold Glove finalist. But Brayden Shoemake's over
there today. It's depth is one thing everybody has to
build up. There's something that you have to try to
plan for and have contingencies going into the season. But
when you're talking about you know, shortstops number three and
four and starting pitchers number nine and ten, there's only
so much you can do.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Bogett feels like you want to go find Dana Brown,
you want to go find Joe a spot to give
him the hugs. But this is a doggy dog world.
This is a you know, injuries are a part of
every baseball team. Obviously the Astros have been through way
more than anybody had in the last couple of years.
But their thoughts right now, I've just got to be
worried about the health of their current team, trying to
(04:12):
put out a competitive team and all by the way,
they're still working on trying to keep their jobs beyond
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, I'm sure kind of in the back of their
minds somewhere they're kind of throw your hands up and say,
you know what, what can I do? What could we do?
But the message has to be simple, The message has
to be straightforward to the team of it doesn't matter right,
it doesn't matter who's in the lineup, it doesn't matter
who's on the mound. Our job is to go out
there and win. And other teams are dealing with injuries
(04:40):
and they're certainly not going to come in here and
feel bad. They're going to see an opportunity to make,
you know, kind of put you down in too deep
of a hold to crawl out of. So what can
you do is go out there and try to tread water.
Try to tread water until Jeremy Pania comes back and
he can slot back into short stop, try to tread
water until Hunter Brown comes back and you get some
of the arms back. And until then, it doesn't matter
(05:03):
who you are. It doesn't matter where you started your season,
what organization you are in on opening day. If you
are here, your job is to win a game today.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Let's get a couple of positives in here, and then
we'll get through Sugarland real quick. A thought or two
about yesterday. Peter Lambert was fantastic. Bryan King embraced the
role of getting the two innings taken care of. And
when you are going to hold your head above water,
as you say, you've got to rely on a couple
of key hits and some good defense. And the Astros
got that last night.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, I think they got kind of everything they needed
in the sense of you need some big individual performances,
right Obviously, Peter Lambert steps up and was great, stood
toe to toe with shoe Heo Tani and out pitched him.
And you need those kinds of individual days from guys,
but more so the good days from the team as
a whole. And you look at the game yesterday and
(05:52):
you got very good pitching, You've got timely hittings, You've
got an offense that was able to scrape some runs
against a very good starting pitcher who did have his
really good stuff. It's not like Sho Heeokani was off yesterday.
They played great defense. They've played a lot of really
good defense. So is that model repeatable? Well, maybe not
get seven innings of shutout baseball from your starter every day,
(06:12):
but the idea of playing good all around baseball and
having those kinds of clean games to consistently give yourself
a chance not have blow up days, not have days
where you just didn't play well enough to win in
under any circumstances. They need days like that moving forward.
So that's as good of a sign as there is
for individual guys stepping up and having those days.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Farlot's you're on. You got to do the television a
few minutes. We were obviously at the ballpark yesterday and
did not see what happened in sugar Land with the
reports on Hater, We're obviously very good. We'll give a
detail on that in a minute. Emi is scheduled to
pitch next week for the Astros. Pitch clock issues, mound hardness, whatever,
I mean. You don't want it to be one excuse
(06:57):
after the other. But that was a little bit of alarming,
And I guess the question is is using someone that
played overseas and changing of rules for Emi. He knew
the pitch clock was going to be a factor. He's
got basically a week to get it fixed because this
astro's rotation needs him right now in the worst way,
because we've seen way too many bullpen games the last
couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, there are there are adjustments that you need to make.
There are things that are different about you know, Japanese
baseball and American baseball and all these things. But your
job as a player, wherever you are, whatever league you're
playing in, it is to perform, and it is to
adjust so that you can perform. And he's gonna have
to figure it out, and he's gonna have to figure
it out at the major league level. That they're trying
(07:38):
to give him some leeway to get comfortable and have
these couple of minor league starts to hopefully find that comfort,
and it doesn't appear that he's really done. So just
the alarming number of how few strikes you through in
the walk numbers, but there's just that a point to
where they need him here. You know, you can cover
(07:59):
up for injuries and the pitching staff in the short term,
and you can dip into that depth until guys come back.
But when you're in a situation where you're running out
you know, starters who are seventh day ninth in the
depth chart coming into the season, you can only do
that for so long. And with Hunters still out, with
Christian Javier still out, you have a guy and am
(08:20):
I who by all accounts is physically healthy. Well, you
got to be out there on the mound, and it's
just gotten to that point. And the biggest thing is
if he's going to have to find a way to
throw more strikes, because if you're out there throwing forty
percent strikes against major league hitters, you're not going to
be out there for very long and that's going to
be a problem.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Bogey, Thanks for the great work. We'll talk again next wenes.
You appreciate it. Look forward to seeing you on Space
City today.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
All right, cool,
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