June 11, 2025 • 14 mins
Brian Bogusevic Joins The Show & Talks About Inconsistencies In Astros Offense
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Eleven one on Sports Talks seven.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
How any time for.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
Us to spend ten quality minutes with our friend Brian
boga Sevic. He is working Space City Home Network series
against the Chicago White Sox. And I told Brian yesterday
I said, my good friend Shelby is working with him
on the broadcast. I said, you need to throw her
at curveball? So what did you throw her yesterday? Come on,
give me something that that threw off? What did you say?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
You know I threw at her? Was that our microphones
weren't working on the set, so we had to leave
right before game time and run back to the studio
and haul over there to get ready for the show.
That was That was the big curve ball that was
thrown at everybody here.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Now, if you were real gentleman, what you should have
done is got one of those guys as a bike,
you know, the right around downtown that gets you from
one spot to the other your parking spotcast, Yeah, rickshaw,
gets you a rickshaw next time.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
That had been really funny.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
That's a good show. First first segment of the show
from the rickshaw outside of Dikan.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
That that you'd gotten some serious TV writings to get
you a little salary bump, just telling you, Bogie, this
is how we this how we do things, So go
a little outside the box. Hey had a couple of
calls in a first hour Brian about Christian Walker. And
it's not a slow start. It's a prolonged slump for
him offensively, And every time you think he's gonna turn
the corner, it just goes back into a slump. What
(01:16):
are you seeing with your trained eye? What is it pressing?
Is it batspeed down? Combination of both, because every time
I think he's gonna turn the corner, he unfortunately doesn't.
It's two bad because I do like him a lot.
I do like his glove at first base. I know
he's trying. It's not a question to want to, but
the results just aren't in right now.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah, it's a lot of things.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I'll say.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
First of all, I don't see anything physically. I don't
think it's a oh my gosh, this guy got old
over the offseason, or the bat speed's gone, or there's
some big hole in his swing that needs to be fixed.
I think it's a combination of a lot of outside factors.
I know, you know y'all mentioned earlier the batting average
on balls in play. You know, there's a little bit
(02:01):
of bad luck. You know, some balls not falling, some
good plays being made against them, balls hit right at people.
There's also you know, he's had some pitchers make some
good pitches on him. You know, you know bad luck
that way where a borderline pitch doesn't go your way,
or you know, the first pitch is a perfectly located
pitch that that you're not going to swing at. Now
you're in a hole, and when.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Things aren't going your way.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Those things in your mind get magnified. I mean, I
remember there being times standing in the batter's box thinking, Okay,
here's my time. I'm gonna get a good a good
first pitch right down the middle of fat when to
hit and get dotted up in your O one and
it's like deflation. H here we go again. And you
can see some at bats from Christian Walker here there
when when something doesn't go his way, where you can
just see him thinking like, oh man, here we go again.
(02:47):
It's happening again. Today's not going to be the day.
I think there is also something to be said about
just the astros middle of the order in general. I mean,
it's been inconsistent at best in those three, four or
five six spots throughout the course of the year. You know,
I think not having healthy productive Yordon in there, having
(03:08):
Yainer being up and down, Houseael Tuve has been up
and down all of a sudden, Christian Walker can be
more of a focus from opposing pitching staff and how
they're game planning for the lineup as a whole. You know,
if you've got Jordon hitting in front of or behind him,
maybe they're saying, hey, Christian Walker is going to be
the guy that we're going to go after, and then
(03:28):
all of a sudden he gets some better pitches to hit.
So you know, it's usually a combination of a lot
of things. And when you're in the situation that he's
in where you're struggling, you know you're struggling, you're pressing
because you want to get out of it, all of
those things feel even more magnified than necessarily what we're
seeing from the outside. So yeah, I think it's just
a lot of things going on and swimming all in
(03:50):
his head at once.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Last question about him, they'll go to some other things.
If we were to find out Brian that his batspeed
was down a tick a significant amount.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
How do you fix that? How could you fix that?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
What adjustments would you make if you found if you
found out yourself Bolgie that your bat speed was down
from a year ago, what would you do?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, Well, the first thing I would do would be
look and see if there are mechanical reasons for it,
not necessarily strengths, age, injury, physical types of things. Is
there extra length in your swing that's slowing it down
or are you trying to do you know, are you
over swinging therefore not being as quick as you need
to be. I would first look at that kind of stuff,
(04:30):
and then what you do is you look for, you know,
game plan adjustments, approach adjustments. You look at estoc parades.
He doesn't have elite elite bat speed, but he can
turn on anything that anybody throws at him. And it's
just a matter of what pitches you're looking for, kind
of how you set up in the batter's box, how
you're working in that bat So bad speed isn't necessarily
(04:52):
the end all be all of being able to hit,
but it is a big part of the calculus in
how you go about approaching an entire at bat and
how you're going to attack certain pictures with different repertoires.
So even if that speed is down a little bit,
that's not really an end all, be all of what
you can do at the play.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Brian bogusific with us here on Sports Talk seven ninety
and not just Walker, but just Diaz or anybody who's struggling.
Can you just kind of take us through, like what
is happening behind the scenes right now in your mind
as far as you mentioned changing game plans and approaches,
what is the kind of mental battle that these guys
are going through where you don't want to reinvent the wheel,
but obviously what's happening right now isn't working.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, I think one of the biggest, one of the
biggest battles that you're fighting when you're in a prolonged
slump is not trying to do too much and therefore
digging yourself into a deeper hole. You know, oftentimes you're
not as far away as you might feel, especially you know,
sometimes you'll feel like, oh my god, my swing is
(05:56):
in a terrible spot, and then you go watch the
video and you're like, man, it doesn't look a whole
lot different from what it normally looks like. So you
don't want to go do major overhauls, you know, unless
you absolutely have to. But it's small things. It's maintenance
work in the cage, it's watching video to make sure
you're not, you know, doing something in your setup. There's
kind of low hanging fruit things that you can fix
(06:18):
pretty quickly. You know, oh, i'm a little bit more
closed off than I want to be, or alost, my
hands are drifting away from my body a little bit.
Those are kind of quick, easy fixes. So you're always
trying to stay on top of that with video stuff,
and a lot of it has to do with the
game planning. You know, who are we facing today, what
does he like to do? What is he going to
try to do against me? And how can I try
(06:40):
to tip the scales in my favor? You know, if
you're feeling a little bit long in your swing and
you're having trouble catching up to fastballs at the moment, well,
what's this guy's best off speed stuff? What counts does
he like to throw his off speed stuff? When can
I hunt something soft out over the plate that I
can use the whole field and not necessarily have to
turn on high velocities. So doing things like that that
(07:01):
can maybe get you going a little bit, because you
know what you perceive as happening when you're struggling, Oh
my gosh, this guy made a pitch against me. I'm
screwed in this at that you brush those things off
very quickly once those balls start dropping in and all
of a sudden and oh, one count is like, Okay,
he made his pitch. I'm going to get him on
the next one. So it's just about trying to play
these little mental games and almost tricking yourself into thinking, okay,
(07:24):
I'm fine now, because once you think that you usually are.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Do you think at this point, maybe Walker and some
of these other guys are just like, get me to
the All Star break. I like a mental break, some
days off and some rest and relaxation to kind of
just reset for the second half of the season.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
It could help, you know, a couple of days off,
a couple of days away from it to just kind
of decompressed. But also, you know, you can get a
fresh start without necessarily having to have that natural break
in the season if all of a sudden you have
a good series and you can say okay, from this point,
going forward, what is my season. That's as good as
a restart as you need. If you can look, you know,
(08:04):
at once you get to this point two hundred at
bats or so, you know, if you're in a hole,
you're not going to dig your way out. Like Christian
Walker is not going to hit three hundred this year,
but he can look and say, hey, starting on you know,
June fifteenth, forward, I hit three hundred with an eight
to fifty ops and just kind of play play those
games in your head. So yes, any kind of a
(08:25):
refresh restart is helpful, but it doesn't have to be
necessarily a break in the schedule.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
BALLGA.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
The Astros are in the midst of a thirteen game
stretch of consecutive games without a day off. Well going
back to a six man rotation? Are we should we
be further preparing? Should major League teams further prepare for
the eventual rotation to go to six more times than not?
And the biggest benefit obviously is keeping your starters of
(08:54):
the extra day arrest.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
The biggest negative is you're down an arm in the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah, I think I think teams are coming around to
the fact that if not using it on a very
regular basis being able to go to that six man
rotation at times. It's just with the amount of injuries
that pile up. First of all, you have to have
the depth in the organization, so you might as well
use it. And also any mileage that you can take
(09:21):
off of your guys is probably worthwhile. There's always the
balancing act of, you know, for one short in the
pen and we get a short start, how do we
make up for that? But you know, that's the manager's job.
The manager can figure that out, the pitching coach can
figure that out, and you kind of have these swing
guys that can go back and forth. But yeah, it's
it's quite obvious now that at some point during the
(09:43):
season you're gonna have to go to a six man rotation.
At some point during the season, you're probably going to
have to dip into your you know, ace nine tense
guys in the depth chart. So when you I think
we're going to see teams start signing, developing, trading for
just these gluts of starting pitching because you're going to
need them at some point, you know, going into the season,
Oh my gosh, how are they going to find innings
(10:03):
for all these guys? Trust me, you'll find them eventually.
In I think teams are just finding that it's just
going to be worthwhile to start stockpiling innings.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Come more minutes here with Brian bogas Sevic from Space
City Network. Here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross,
I am frankly surprised how much second base Jose Altuve
is playing.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Are we going to see more of that?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Because the spot has not been offensively a good spot
and the fact that Melton's been playing some left field.
You'll get yourd on back eventually, you can throw Duban
out there. What is your take on what you've seen
so far and what if you were to get your
crystal ball out how much second base will Jose play
the rest of the season.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Well, yeah, I think there's a lot of things that
play into it. First of all, I think I think
the coaches have done a really good job this year
with all of the moving pieces defensively that they have
all the different guys in the outfield, mixed the rotation
at second base. They've done a really good job maximizing
whatever they're doing on that day that they have a
really good feel for, you know, what the matchups are
(11:04):
with the pitchers and who should be ware. So yeah,
I think we're going to keep seeing guys moved around.
But the biggest question is when Jordon comes back, what
does that do? How much outfield is he going to play?
Is he going to occupy that DH spot all of
the time. I do think it is a huge weapon,
especially on the road, when you can go Melton Myers
(11:26):
and camp Smith in the outfield, that is a really
good defensive outfield, and if you're playing somewhere that has
a lot of space out there in the outfield, it's
a pretty big advantage. So if that results in Jose
moving to more second base, and look until somebody, you know,
until Mariso Dubon or Brendan Rodgers goes over there and
starts consistently hitting for an extended period of time, it
(11:46):
is going to be a rotation. And moving al two
in and out of the outfield and out of DH
to second base is going to be part of that.
But I can foresee a scenario if it comes to
this where if Rdon is occupying a ton of DH
when he comes back and we're trying to get these
three outfielders mixed in, or Dezenzo once he comes back
into the mix of Jose playing more second base, just
(12:08):
based on what you're trying to now maximize from an
offensive standpoint.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
And speaking of those guys you mentioned the outfield, another
week of sample size with Jake Melton, what you're seeing
from him at the plate and then camp Smith as well.
And I thought over the weekend that a bet where
he knocked in those two runs was a great at
bat from him seeing the cutter outside and then sending
the other way knocking in two.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Yeah. I think you know, from a mountain standpoint, the
tools have always been there. Everybody's really always raved about
the physical tool, speed, power, the defense and everything. It's
always the question has always been how much contact is
there going to be? How well can he handle the strikes?
And he's done a pretty good job. I know he's
struck out some, but it's not like these overmatched, blow
(12:53):
your doors off type of strikeouts. He's battling, he's seeing pitches,
he's laying off of tough pitches, getting pitches into the zone,
and that's that's a very good sign. I would have
to imagine that the askers are pretty pleased with how
he's handled the strike zone since he's been there, because
that will allow the tools to play, and you know,
what he brings to athletically is pretty impressive. If there's
(13:14):
enough contact there, there's going to be a lot of
tools to play. And you know from Cam Smith, he
just continues to progress. I mean, they're they're the adjustments
that he's been asked to make on the fly at
the big league level. First time seeing major league pitching,
it's been pretty amazing of what he is now versus
what he was at the beginning of the season in
terms of his setup, his rhythm, his ability to get
(13:36):
on fastballs, his ability to turn on pitches, you know
where these contact points are. So it's been a lot
of really good developments at the big league level, which
is a really difficult thing to do.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Algie, great stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Is always look forward to catching you and Shelby on
TV tonight Astros and White Sox game number two.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Thanks to the visit, and we'll talk again next week.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
All right, see you guys, Thank you got it.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
That's Brian Bogosviech every Wednesday with us at eleven o'clock
right here on Sports Talk seven.
Eleven one on Sports Talks seven.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
How any time for.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
Us to spend ten quality minutes with our friend Brian
boga Sevic. He is working Space City Home Network series
against the Chicago White Sox. And I told Brian yesterday
I said, my good friend Shelby is working with him
on the broadcast. I said, you need to throw her
at curveball? So what did you throw her yesterday? Come on,
give me something that that threw off? What did you say?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
You know I threw at her? Was that our microphones
weren't working on the set, so we had to leave
right before game time and run back to the studio
and haul over there to get ready for the show.
That was That was the big curve ball that was
thrown at everybody here.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Now, if you were real gentleman, what you should have
done is got one of those guys as a bike,
you know, the right around downtown that gets you from
one spot to the other your parking spotcast, Yeah, rickshaw,
gets you a rickshaw next time.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
That had been really funny.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
That's a good show. First first segment of the show
from the rickshaw outside of Dikan.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
That that you'd gotten some serious TV writings to get
you a little salary bump, just telling you, Bogie, this
is how we this how we do things, So go
a little outside the box. Hey had a couple of
calls in a first hour Brian about Christian Walker. And
it's not a slow start. It's a prolonged slump for
him offensively, And every time you think he's gonna turn
the corner, it just goes back into a slump. What
(01:16):
are you seeing with your trained eye? What is it pressing?
Is it batspeed down? Combination of both, because every time
I think he's gonna turn the corner, he unfortunately doesn't.
It's two bad because I do like him a lot.
I do like his glove at first base. I know
he's trying. It's not a question to want to, but
the results just aren't in right now.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah, it's a lot of things.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I'll say.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
First of all, I don't see anything physically. I don't
think it's a oh my gosh, this guy got old
over the offseason, or the bat speed's gone, or there's
some big hole in his swing that needs to be fixed.
I think it's a combination of a lot of outside factors.
I know, you know y'all mentioned earlier the batting average
on balls in play. You know, there's a little bit
(02:01):
of bad luck. You know, some balls not falling, some
good plays being made against them, balls hit right at people.
There's also you know, he's had some pitchers make some
good pitches on him. You know, you know bad luck
that way where a borderline pitch doesn't go your way,
or you know, the first pitch is a perfectly located
pitch that that you're not going to swing at. Now
you're in a hole, and when.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Things aren't going your way.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Those things in your mind get magnified. I mean, I
remember there being times standing in the batter's box thinking, Okay,
here's my time. I'm gonna get a good a good
first pitch right down the middle of fat when to
hit and get dotted up in your O one and
it's like deflation. H here we go again. And you
can see some at bats from Christian Walker here there
when when something doesn't go his way, where you can
just see him thinking like, oh man, here we go again.
(02:47):
It's happening again. Today's not going to be the day.
I think there is also something to be said about
just the astros middle of the order in general. I mean,
it's been inconsistent at best in those three, four or
five six spots throughout the course of the year. You know,
I think not having healthy productive Yordon in there, having
(03:08):
Yainer being up and down, Houseael Tuve has been up
and down all of a sudden, Christian Walker can be
more of a focus from opposing pitching staff and how
they're game planning for the lineup as a whole. You know,
if you've got Jordon hitting in front of or behind him,
maybe they're saying, hey, Christian Walker is going to be
the guy that we're going to go after, and then
(03:28):
all of a sudden he gets some better pitches to hit.
So you know, it's usually a combination of a lot
of things. And when you're in the situation that he's
in where you're struggling, you know you're struggling, you're pressing
because you want to get out of it, all of
those things feel even more magnified than necessarily what we're
seeing from the outside. So yeah, I think it's just
a lot of things going on and swimming all in
(03:50):
his head at once.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Last question about him, they'll go to some other things.
If we were to find out Brian that his batspeed
was down a tick a significant amount.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
How do you fix that? How could you fix that?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
What adjustments would you make if you found if you
found out yourself Bolgie that your bat speed was down
from a year ago, what would you do?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, Well, the first thing I would do would be
look and see if there are mechanical reasons for it,
not necessarily strengths, age, injury, physical types of things. Is
there extra length in your swing that's slowing it down
or are you trying to do you know, are you
over swinging therefore not being as quick as you need
to be. I would first look at that kind of stuff,
(04:30):
and then what you do is you look for, you know,
game plan adjustments, approach adjustments. You look at estoc parades.
He doesn't have elite elite bat speed, but he can
turn on anything that anybody throws at him. And it's
just a matter of what pitches you're looking for, kind
of how you set up in the batter's box, how
you're working in that bat So bad speed isn't necessarily
(04:52):
the end all be all of being able to hit,
but it is a big part of the calculus in
how you go about approaching an entire at bat and
how you're going to attack certain pictures with different repertoires.
So even if that speed is down a little bit,
that's not really an end all, be all of what
you can do at the play.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Brian bogusific with us here on Sports Talk seven ninety
and not just Walker, but just Diaz or anybody who's struggling.
Can you just kind of take us through, like what
is happening behind the scenes right now in your mind
as far as you mentioned changing game plans and approaches,
what is the kind of mental battle that these guys
are going through where you don't want to reinvent the wheel,
but obviously what's happening right now isn't working.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, I think one of the biggest, one of the
biggest battles that you're fighting when you're in a prolonged
slump is not trying to do too much and therefore
digging yourself into a deeper hole. You know, oftentimes you're
not as far away as you might feel, especially you know,
sometimes you'll feel like, oh my god, my swing is
(05:56):
in a terrible spot, and then you go watch the
video and you're like, man, it doesn't look a whole
lot different from what it normally looks like. So you
don't want to go do major overhauls, you know, unless
you absolutely have to. But it's small things. It's maintenance
work in the cage, it's watching video to make sure
you're not, you know, doing something in your setup. There's
kind of low hanging fruit things that you can fix
(06:18):
pretty quickly. You know, oh, i'm a little bit more
closed off than I want to be, or alost, my
hands are drifting away from my body a little bit.
Those are kind of quick, easy fixes. So you're always
trying to stay on top of that with video stuff,
and a lot of it has to do with the
game planning. You know, who are we facing today, what
does he like to do? What is he going to
try to do against me? And how can I try
(06:40):
to tip the scales in my favor? You know, if
you're feeling a little bit long in your swing and
you're having trouble catching up to fastballs at the moment, well,
what's this guy's best off speed stuff? What counts does
he like to throw his off speed stuff? When can
I hunt something soft out over the plate that I
can use the whole field and not necessarily have to
turn on high velocities. So doing things like that that
(07:01):
can maybe get you going a little bit, because you
know what you perceive as happening when you're struggling, Oh
my gosh, this guy made a pitch against me. I'm
screwed in this at that you brush those things off
very quickly once those balls start dropping in and all
of a sudden and oh, one count is like, Okay,
he made his pitch. I'm going to get him on
the next one. So it's just about trying to play
these little mental games and almost tricking yourself into thinking, okay,
(07:24):
I'm fine now, because once you think that you usually are.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Do you think at this point, maybe Walker and some
of these other guys are just like, get me to
the All Star break. I like a mental break, some
days off and some rest and relaxation to kind of
just reset for the second half of the season.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
It could help, you know, a couple of days off,
a couple of days away from it to just kind
of decompressed. But also, you know, you can get a
fresh start without necessarily having to have that natural break
in the season if all of a sudden you have
a good series and you can say okay, from this point,
going forward, what is my season. That's as good as
a restart as you need. If you can look, you know,
(08:04):
at once you get to this point two hundred at
bats or so, you know, if you're in a hole,
you're not going to dig your way out. Like Christian
Walker is not going to hit three hundred this year,
but he can look and say, hey, starting on you know,
June fifteenth, forward, I hit three hundred with an eight
to fifty ops and just kind of play play those
games in your head. So yes, any kind of a
(08:25):
refresh restart is helpful, but it doesn't have to be
necessarily a break in the schedule.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
BALLGA.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
The Astros are in the midst of a thirteen game
stretch of consecutive games without a day off. Well going
back to a six man rotation? Are we should we
be further preparing? Should major League teams further prepare for
the eventual rotation to go to six more times than not?
And the biggest benefit obviously is keeping your starters of
(08:54):
the extra day arrest.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
The biggest negative is you're down an arm in the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah, I think I think teams are coming around to
the fact that if not using it on a very
regular basis being able to go to that six man
rotation at times. It's just with the amount of injuries
that pile up. First of all, you have to have
the depth in the organization, so you might as well
use it. And also any mileage that you can take
(09:21):
off of your guys is probably worthwhile. There's always the
balancing act of, you know, for one short in the
pen and we get a short start, how do we
make up for that? But you know, that's the manager's job.
The manager can figure that out, the pitching coach can
figure that out, and you kind of have these swing
guys that can go back and forth. But yeah, it's
it's quite obvious now that at some point during the
(09:43):
season you're gonna have to go to a six man rotation.
At some point during the season, you're probably going to
have to dip into your you know, ace nine tense
guys in the depth chart. So when you I think
we're going to see teams start signing, developing, trading for
just these gluts of starting pitching because you're going to
need them at some point, you know, going into the season,
Oh my gosh, how are they going to find innings
(10:03):
for all these guys? Trust me, you'll find them eventually.
In I think teams are just finding that it's just
going to be worthwhile to start stockpiling innings.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Come more minutes here with Brian bogas Sevic from Space
City Network. Here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross,
I am frankly surprised how much second base Jose Altuve
is playing.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Are we going to see more of that?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Because the spot has not been offensively a good spot
and the fact that Melton's been playing some left field.
You'll get yourd on back eventually, you can throw Duban
out there. What is your take on what you've seen
so far and what if you were to get your
crystal ball out how much second base will Jose play
the rest of the season.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Well, yeah, I think there's a lot of things that
play into it. First of all, I think I think
the coaches have done a really good job this year
with all of the moving pieces defensively that they have
all the different guys in the outfield, mixed the rotation
at second base. They've done a really good job maximizing
whatever they're doing on that day that they have a
really good feel for, you know, what the matchups are
(11:04):
with the pitchers and who should be ware. So yeah,
I think we're going to keep seeing guys moved around.
But the biggest question is when Jordon comes back, what
does that do? How much outfield is he going to play?
Is he going to occupy that DH spot all of
the time. I do think it is a huge weapon,
especially on the road, when you can go Melton Myers
(11:26):
and camp Smith in the outfield, that is a really
good defensive outfield, and if you're playing somewhere that has
a lot of space out there in the outfield, it's
a pretty big advantage. So if that results in Jose
moving to more second base, and look until somebody, you know,
until Mariso Dubon or Brendan Rodgers goes over there and
starts consistently hitting for an extended period of time, it
(11:46):
is going to be a rotation. And moving al two
in and out of the outfield and out of DH
to second base is going to be part of that.
But I can foresee a scenario if it comes to
this where if Rdon is occupying a ton of DH
when he comes back and we're trying to get these
three outfielders mixed in, or Dezenzo once he comes back
into the mix of Jose playing more second base, just
(12:08):
based on what you're trying to now maximize from an
offensive standpoint.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
And speaking of those guys you mentioned the outfield, another
week of sample size with Jake Melton, what you're seeing
from him at the plate and then camp Smith as well.
And I thought over the weekend that a bet where
he knocked in those two runs was a great at
bat from him seeing the cutter outside and then sending
the other way knocking in two.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Yeah. I think you know, from a mountain standpoint, the
tools have always been there. Everybody's really always raved about
the physical tool, speed, power, the defense and everything. It's
always the question has always been how much contact is
there going to be? How well can he handle the strikes?
And he's done a pretty good job. I know he's
struck out some, but it's not like these overmatched, blow
(12:53):
your doors off type of strikeouts. He's battling, he's seeing pitches,
he's laying off of tough pitches, getting pitches into the zone,
and that's that's a very good sign. I would have
to imagine that the askers are pretty pleased with how
he's handled the strike zone since he's been there, because
that will allow the tools to play, and you know,
what he brings to athletically is pretty impressive. If there's
(13:14):
enough contact there, there's going to be a lot of
tools to play. And you know from Cam Smith, he
just continues to progress. I mean, they're they're the adjustments
that he's been asked to make on the fly at
the big league level. First time seeing major league pitching,
it's been pretty amazing of what he is now versus
what he was at the beginning of the season in
terms of his setup, his rhythm, his ability to get
(13:36):
on fastballs, his ability to turn on pitches, you know
where these contact points are. So it's been a lot
of really good developments at the big league level, which
is a really difficult thing to do.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Algie, great stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Is always look forward to catching you and Shelby on
TV tonight Astros and White Sox game number two.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Thanks to the visit, and we'll talk again next week.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
All right, see you guys, Thank you got it.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
That's Brian Bogosviech every Wednesday with us at eleven o'clock
right here on Sports Talk seven.
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