The 1st Annual Daddy Awards (w/ Justin Halpern!)

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Speaker 1 (00:23):
Welcome to the Podrace, hot Tub. Everybody, Greg Elston, Chris read,
Rafie Canter and returning champion Justin Halpern is back with us.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Thank you, Welcome back to the show, sir.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
The last time you were here, we were celebrating the
coming together two into one, you know, Hayward and Joe,
the Hey Joe platoon in in left field, and you know,
not all marriages last forever, man, But it's it's just
funny to note the passage of time. I'm to welcome

(01:00):
you back.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
No, thank you. No, this was like a Hollywood marriage.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
This one fell apart quick this yeah, no, I'm I
it feels like years ago we were talking Hey Joe.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
Oh it was.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
It was going to be a good name too. It
was gonna be a good nickname for a platoon. But
you know, some things just wind up on the cutting
room floor. Well, we got a good show. It's it's
the All Star break. The podres aren't dead. They're in
significantly better position than they were the last time we
were here. Eight games over as opposed to one game
over five hundred. We'll talk about a series win over Philadelphia.

(01:38):
We will talk about Xander Bogart's who absolutely deserves to
be discussed and a brilliant thing from the brilliant mind
of Rafie Kantor we'll have the first.

Speaker 5 (01:51):
Annual mind Yes, from the mind that brought you poker Face,
season two, episode ten, the first annual the awards, our Midsummer.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Classic Padres hot Tubs, stylized silly awards that aren't agenda
based at all. We will have them all for you.
We will talk, we will discuss, we will have some
fun justin you know, things just continued to roll for
yourself abbed Elementary. I just saw the crossover from Always

(02:22):
Sunny their side of it come out. Getting to see uh,
your cast curse was really really fun.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah, he hearing a show that's normally on ABC one
of the characters say fucking cunt was definitely not something
I thought was gonna happen when I went to work
for ABC.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
So yeah, it was great.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
In fact, and when that was said, the other person
in the scene made the exact face that Chris made.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
Really good stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Man along the way. Obviously you're always keeping track of
your beloved san Diego Padres. So from early pre spring
training talk to now here, we are at the halfway point,
but really just at the old store break. What are
your thoughts? What are your thoughts on how this season
has gone so far?

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Honestly, I feel pretty good for two reasons. The first
of which is that we had the one which I'll
now sort of just call like the Jerkson Profar Award
happened to our team, which is that Gavin Sheets came
out of nowhere and became just a.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Solid everyday player.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
And I don't know, I'm rayfe you mentioned this a
few podcasts ago, but maybe just the fact that he's
had to play against so many left handed pitchers has
made him a better hitter against left handers. So I
feel good about Sheets, who again is under team control
for a while. I feel great about our bullpen, which
I know I was concerned about, and maybe I am

(03:53):
concerned for the second half to see how they feel.
But the thing that makes me feel the best is that,
as you guys have said many times, it is so
clear what we have to do to get to the
next tier, and everybody knows it.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Ag I knows it. Unfortunately, I think the.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Rest of the league also knows it, which is probably
what is you know, making every single call AJ makes
somebody saying it's debrees or we're not doing it, you know,
But I feel pretty.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Good about it.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
And I also feel like we didn't get that like
I mean, it may come, but we did not get
that panic aj trade where he does sell off debrees
for you know, a left hand or a right handed bat,
an outfielder, a left fielder DH that maybe is.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Not quite worth it. So I don't know, I feel
pretty good.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
About it, Chris. We talked last week about a team
that I thought, you know, five and five would be
perfectly fine as a home stand. I want to give
you credit. You shot for the stars at seven and three.
They hid in between at six and four. The win distribution,
as Rafie talked about, not exactly what we wanted. If
you were going to win six of ten, you probably

(05:05):
wanted half of those to come against the Diamondbacks, if possible,
get three out of four from Arizona. But you know, look,
you don't get to choose. You don't get to pick.
So I know, we talked about it a little bit
on last night's show, Chris, But overall, I thought the
last weekend brought a lot of decent optimism.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
Especially coming off of that Saturday night game Man really
one of the trademark wins of the entire season. I
feel like the fan base gets to go into the
All Stari break feeling pretty good. We don't get the
four game winning streak, but you know, life isn't exactly fair.
There are there's some attrition you must go through. There

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are some bad days, and today it was a little
bit of a bad day, but in it against Christopher
Sanchez to the very end, Nick Pavetta pitching like the
best free age acquisition of the off season. There was
a lot to feel good, and you know, you just
don't know what's going to happen come the off season.
The only opponent who has zero effect on the Padres

(06:13):
playoffs was the Rangers. The Phillies very well can have
some series today, wasn't.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
It that way?

Speaker 4 (06:21):
I know? Ever?

Speaker 6 (06:21):
Three and three?

Speaker 1 (06:22):
No, three and three, you're right. So now it goes
to the second time breaker. I don't know why I
thought of seven. Sorry.

Speaker 6 (06:27):
The second tiebreaker for for people who don't know, the
second tiebreaker is in division record. So Phillies NL East record,
Padres and a West record.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
That's going to be close. Honestly, that's going to be
pretty close.

Speaker 4 (06:44):
By the end of the year.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Okay, well, you know, shelvedon case it matters in the
last week of the year, but didn't lose it. So
that's something.

Speaker 4 (06:54):
I'm also going to look at what it is because
it's worth bringing up just because we just don't don't
know where fate is gonna bring us. And the Diamondbacks
really look like they're going to be sellers. Boys. It
looks like Gallon's going, It looks like Kelly and Naylor
are going, and it doesn't look like we're going to
have to get them in tiebreakers. But the Phillies still

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very much you know, are in that and right now
I don't want to look at the Dodgers, but against
the Diamondbacks we're still a little lone looking that good.
But we have the Giants where four and two against
and the Rockies are the Rockies and we're five and one.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
No worries, no worries, rafe just kind of overall first
staff thoughts before we dive into the Phillies.

Speaker 6 (07:40):
I got to go to the game on Saturday. Shout
out to surf Doc in our discord.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Unlock Jackson Merrill, shout out to you.

Speaker 6 (07:48):
That was wild. Also, there's a car alarm going off
right outside my windows, So I apologize if that's leaking
into the.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
Audio, don't okay?

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Cool?

Speaker 6 (07:57):
But uh yeah, I mean atmosphere was apps electric on Saturday,
and I got to witness mutro stress baseball firsthand, as
that was the I believe, forty ninth game out of
fifty three. Is that what you said on the post
game where either lost or within or won by one
or two runs. Yes, So I definitely felt that stress.

(08:20):
I felt like that the crowd felt that stress. A
lot of Phillies fans there as well. They do travel well.
But I think if anything that gave me hope going
to Saturday's game, it's that the back half of our
bullpen is really not a back half of a bullpen
like across like other Major League teams. I'd say maybe

(08:42):
my only concern, and I said this on the postgame show,
is Wandy Peralta, like every other guy that we're trotting
out there, Brian Hoeing, David Morgan, Yuki, Matt Suey, like,
I feel mostly okay with generally in the in the
situations that they're going to be coming into games. And
then obviously we have our four horsemen who are wonderful.

(09:02):
I'm not gonna go sort of add nauseum about the
changes that we need to make on offense. That was,
you know, that's something that we've we've documented well and
I'm sure we'll talk about as the trade deadline approaches,
and today was just another example of that. I don't know,
there's part of me that feels like I don't want

(09:23):
to skip ahead to today's game, but like Luis Rise
as a defining player of the twenty twenty five Padres,
like maybe that is you know, also jumping ahead to
our to kind of our marquee topic of the episode.
But you know, you really feel his effects in games,
regardless of whether he's good or bad. Like if he's

(09:45):
good because of his position in the lineup and because
he's getting on base typically in front of Machado and
sheets and now recently Bogart's like he's going to have
an impact. And today not just his lack of offense,
but also his life of glove really coming into play
in multiple occasions in the game.

Speaker 4 (10:06):
And so.

Speaker 6 (10:08):
I think my eyes will be glued to Luisa Rise
for the second half of the year. And uh, yeah,
I don't know. I'm kind of rambling now, but that
that that's kind of my general thoughts right now on
the team.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
I really hope Louise a Rise is not our a storyline.
I really hope he's he's like your best to see, yeah,
because that makes for me not wanting to watch as much.
The Phillies are sixteen and twelve against intradivisional on its time.
That's that's going to be.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
And I just look this one up as well. Overall
the Podres, fifty six percent of their games have been
one or two run games this year, thirty five one
run games, nineteen to two run games along the way.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
There's two ways to look at that, right The first
is that those are the kind of games you play
in the playoffs, like almost everyone, right, so we will
be battle tested by the time we get there. But
the other way to look at is that if you
have to play playoff intensity games for this long and
these many games during the regular season, when does it
take its toll?

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yes? And that you know, I just returned to my
central thesis for the twenty twenty five Podres. This is
a team that is good enough to hang in in
the middle of the season. Right now, but needs to
fix their offense to get to the end line. They
just have to fix their offense, you know, And if
Michael King never came back, that might be too much

(11:44):
to overcome. But gosh darn it, between Berger and Kohlik,
you know, all the way through the Strandy Vasquez somehow,
you know, the Padres have gotten decent back ends starting
pitching this year. Their worst pitcher has been Dylan ceas
you know, all season long. So it's just a matter
of can they get that offense together. Can they build

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it out to the point where seven eight nine isn't
a giant sucking void that other managers get to strategize
and plan around, you know, And if you can fix that,
you can fix a lot. Because now switching to our
next set, which is talking about this series, I really
want to get into the positives that happened, but Rafie,
you know, because of immediately we can start with the negatives.

(12:29):
And that was just a loss today to one, but
a loss where I was very frustrated with a couple
of things that happened along the way. And if there's
one thing I'd like to see change about the Padres
twenty twenty five from first half to second half. I'd
like Mike Schildt to have his bunt card taped to

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his waist where it's a lot harder to pull out revoked. Yeah, well,
there's a time to bunch. But I'll tell you what,
it's a terrible time to bunt. The kind of time
to bunt that's so bad that like when I was
playing stratumatic tournaments and the first year kid came in
and made a mistake late this, they'd be like, haa,

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you know it was today. The you start with campus Ono,
poor cursed Campisano coming up in the bottom of the
ninth against a lefty Matt Strom, So we pinch hit
for him for a lefty Jake Croninworth, which on its
face is a poor move. But but I'm giving up

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on campus. On campus on will never reach base again
in life.

Speaker 6 (13:36):
We'll talk about that long. We'll yeah, we'll talk about
that later.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
But anyways, they crona Worth comes in and Strom walks
him on four straight. And I have I used to
say this on the radio back in the year two thousand.
I swear to God because I used to rip Dusty
Baker for it. I remember a specific Pattery's postcamp when
a when a closer walks the leadoff man, the single
worst thing you can do is commit a sacrifice bunt.

(14:02):
It's the single worst thing you can do because that
picture right now is off his game. But what you
do is literally let Matt Strom go from a picture
to an athlete. Let him field a bunt, turn around,
make an athletic throw to first base, whow one out,
one out.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
They gave me an out. I can't throw a strike
right now. You gave me an out. Now I feel good.
I'm an athlete. I bounced off the mound, I threw
it to first I'm ready to go, and sure enough
Strom finished the inning. However, why did Mike schilt bunt?
Multiple reasons. First off, because he's addicted to it like

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a fiend in fate. That could be the underlying reason.
But from a strategic standpoint point one, he's got a
shit hitter at the plate, Bryce Johnson. Bryce Johnson is
not very good. The hitter after him is terrible. Alisd
As okay, so he's bunting with Bryce Johnson. That's a
fearful move. That's a move of If I don't move Johnson,

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Diaz will probably hit into a double play, right negative thinking.
So he commits the bunt. But now what happens if
you commit the bunt? You move a runner into scoring position.
For a guy who's got a zero WRC plus with
runners in scoring position this yearly sds so shockingly he
pops up. Oh, but now you got Toddy to the plate. Great, whoa,

(15:26):
it's brilliant managing. You got Toddy to the plate. One
little problem, you emptied first base. There goes Toddy to first.
There goes Toddy to first. He's a non factor. That
was whoo, you've surefooled me. I mean, it's stealing candy
from a baby. What happened in this game? And then

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you get a Rise who's out of sorts, and of
course he flies out to left field, because that's what
Luisa Rise has done as much as anything this year
is fly out to left field. Earlier he had Merril bunt.
There were three bunts in the game. He's bunt addicted,
and the bunts have to stop. The bunts must end.

Speaker 6 (16:06):
Can I can I also go ahead?

Speaker 4 (16:08):
Chris coming into just real quick, just for contacts, you
can tried in rafe coming into today's game, the Padres
had the major league lead with the Toronto Blue Jays
at twenty two bunts. Well they added three.

Speaker 6 (16:24):
Well, and I should also say, Craig, it's not just
you about to beat up some kid in nineteen ninety
one in stratumatic. It's also the computer telling us that, actually,
if you go through the record of every baseball game
in the last one hundred and something years, you'll find
that if you have a runner on first with nobody
out in the bottom of the ninth inning and you're
down by a run, you have a excuse me, thirty

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ish percent, you have a thirty point seven percent chance
of winning the game. If you then get a runner
on second base with one out, you have now lowered
your chance of winning the game to twenty seven point
four percent. You have shed three percent roughly of win
probability on purpose, on purpose. And you can say everything

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you just said, Craig, Well, like you got the bottom
of the order up, and you want to you know,
you know you're gonna have Aleis Diaz hitting in the
nine hole, and so you're gonna want to take away
the double playball and this and that and the other.
But just like purely from a strategy game point, and
you take out the intangibles. It is on paper a

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bad move, and to do it on purpose seems improper.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
I feel like he. I feel like this offense in
some ways has broken Shield a bit, because I feel
like he does not believe in his heart of hearts
that we can score two runs in an inning very often,
I think he thinks, and I think because of that,
he sees these opportunities and he's like, well, maybe we

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can squeak to one run here, and then one run
a few innings later, and then we'll tie it in
the bottom of the ninth, and then maybe we then
it's a coin flip game and maybe we win. And
I feel like that the last two months of this
offense has has brought him to probably his like, you know,
the part of Shield we all don't like is a

(18:17):
little louder because of the last two months, because it
made no sense today. All three months, none of them
made anything.

Speaker 4 (18:28):
No, no, the like we've gone on and on and
on again about how frustrating it is to watch and
how silly of a thing it is to do to
win ball games, to have Fernando Tatis Junior lead off
the game, getting on base and then just immediately cast
away all your momentum by having Louise a Rise bunt,
and it's a it's a symptom of him.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yeah, no, that's true. And also the way he plays
in the too hole. For some reason, Louisa rise Is
attacks the play differently as the number two hitter and
I don't get it, and he puts the bunt in
his game and he just absolutely should never and it's
so deeply disappointing. And as you were kind of alluding

(19:14):
to earlier, Rafy, I mean, this was a very Luisa
rise game, from the flyout to end the game to
the error that I mean could have been two air
Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean they gave one to Machado,
but it was mistake. It was a Rises mistake. So
Arise makes two bad plays at first base. To remind
you what the numbers have told us all the way through.

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He's one of the worst defenders at any position in baseball.

Speaker 6 (19:42):
Yeah, I mean that that first error with Machado. I
mean you can say that Arise is not at fault
in that he is, you know, not responsible for his
own genetics per se. And the fact that he's five
eight playing first base means that his reach is also limited,
and a ball that even someone like Gavin Sheets, who
might not be the best defensive first baseman, but by

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virtue of him probably being eight or nine inches taller,
would be able to reach out and grab closer to
the ground so it's not eating up as much air
and you're having to you know, anytime, this is stuff
that like we all learned in Little league too, anytime
you're playing first base and you're coming up on the ball,
it makes it way way way more difficult to catch
instead of reaching it at the ground where it is.

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And the second one was, you know, you've got Luisa
Rise back in the hole, Nick Povetta coming over to
commer to cover first base, and it's a foot race.
I think it was Bryson Stott who was racing him
to the bag, and you're asking Pavetta now to catch
a ball over his head, Nick Pavetta, not a small guy,

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while also looking down at the same time to touch
the bag within a step and a half or less
a Bryson Stott. So you know, I don't even know
if who they credited with the air on that one.
Probably Arise on that one, Yeah he did. Yeah, And
that of course, leads to the run scoring in the inning,

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which would prove to be decisive in the game.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
But you know, justin I well, I was just going
to say, did you hear Tony Gwinn Junior say this
earlier this weekend? He was talking about this exact play,
but it was on a play that was completed that
a Rise hates to throw the ball. Yes, he's like right,
he's like every single time watch him, he takes the
ball and he runs. It's because he's terrified to make
that throw.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
And when he made that throw to Paveta, he looked
terrified as he was making the throw. I saw him.
It was like he alligator armed it. It was so weird.
And it's just it really is a function of like,
I don't think his athleticism is where you need to
be to play in field.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
It's just not.

Speaker 3 (21:49):
And and I know we you know, I think vibes
vibes wise. The guys love him. He brings a lot
of energy. But it's I mean, it's what we've all said.
It's like, if he isn't hitting three twenty five, what
is he doing out there?

Speaker 4 (22:10):
I want to give like the slightest like little defense
of him, because you're right, he is the ultimate vibes guy, Justin.
And at yesterday's game, they had Luisa Rai's advanced statistics
up on the scoreboard Peen Goo Park. People don't put
his advanced metrics up there. Don't put his f wour

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up there. As he's walking up where it's double goose.
Put his batting average up there, put the Boomers stats
up there. He needs to feel good walking up and
if you're putting his f wor up there, he's gonna
feel very bad just circling back. It's a small sample
size because he's only batted fourth in nine games this season,

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but his batting average is nearly one hundred points higher
batting fourth. He was hitting three sixty one after they
dropped him back down for that briefest of moments. And
my goodness, it's if it's energy, if it's mojo. But
Luisa Rise feeds off of let's do everything.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (23:12):
I did have a question Justin for you, because for
folks who don't know, not only is Justin obviously an
accomplised writer, he also is a former college baseball pitcher.
And I wanted to ask you because you actually have
more expertise on this than any of us Yahoo's on
this show. Why is it so hard for pitchers to

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field their position?

Speaker 3 (23:35):
Well, a few reasons. One, all the training that you're
doing as a pitcher. It's not it's changed over the
last couple of years. But up until, you know, a
short while ago, the prevailing theory was, like, you know,
you do pfb's pictures fielding practice, it'd be like Grandball's
back to you covering first things like that, But you're
not training to be an athlete. You are training to

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be a pitcher. Now things have changed. They realized the
more athletic you are, the better you're gonna be on
the mound. So you know, like that play that Paveta's making.
You see like guys like Merril when he's running in
the outfield, like there's his head is steady the entire
way that he's running. Right, when you're a pitcher and
you're running towards first base, it looks like you're in

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a seven point nine earthquake, like the world is going
up and down. You haven't really learned how you've never
made it a point to run at full speed, turning
in angles and keep your head still it's just something
you don't learn. It's not something you're ever going to
learn as a picture. So you're already taking somebody who
is probably one of the lesser athletes on the field, right,

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and then you're asking them to do something at full
speed that requires hand eye coornation and foot coordination, and
it's one of the tougher plays to do. I have
fucked that play up so many times in my life
simply because, like, it is just difficult to run that
way when you are not an elite athlete.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
Well, let's put Sunday aside. You know, Nick Pavetta pitched great,
David Morgan pitched I thought really well. Morrojon's earned run
streak came to an end because of an inherited runner,
which was unfortunate for him. I'm sure very frustrating to
not give it up himself. Nonetheless, he's on a plane
to the All Star Game right now, so he's having

(25:24):
a great time, and we shouldn't be worried about morohone
Saturday's game. If Sunday's game was a microcosm of some
of the things that have truly frustrated us about the
twenty twenty five San Diego Padres. Saturday's game was a
reflection of all that can be for this team when
you saw both the way that the pitching staff attacked

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and Jackson Merrill two home runs to tie the game
to tease his back playing well Machado Bogarns. There was
a lot to love about that game, guys, and honestly
winning the series and beating Ranger Swarez and Zach Wheeler,
I think that's a big deal. Those are two of

(26:08):
the best ten starters in the league.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
Yeah, it was a playoff series. I mean, that's who
we would face in a three game series against Philly.
We'd face those three guys and to take two of
three from them, and especially in the way, it's so
funny when we talk about all the problems that Sunday
had in terms of Mike Schiltz managing, it's even crazier
to think about he had just seen proof of concept
the night before of playing in a different way like

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we we were able to let guys swing away, slug
go for a larger rating, trust that some of our
guys are going to hit for extra bases, and it
paid off and we won the game against one of
the you know, one of the best pitchers in the league.

Speaker 6 (26:48):
Yeah, you know, it's it's a reminder both Friday and
Saturday that, for better or for worse, this is the
Stars and Scrubs team and it's built on Stars doing well.
And you know, for a long time, Jackson Merril hasn't
been that guy. And so you know, it's a reminder
that even though on Saturday, you know, Tatis went one

(27:09):
for four, you know, a Rise went one for three,
Machada went zero for three, but he did have a
sack fly you know, Sheets went one for four. Like
no one's having like an amazing game except for Jackson,
And for a long time, you know, it was really
on Machado, maybe Sheets, maybe Tatis to fill that void.

(27:30):
And you know, when those guys show up, it just
takes the pressure off of everyone and it pushes the
pressure downwards in the lineup instead of keeping it all
at the top where you know, every two point seven
innings we're going to have a bite at the apple
and then if not, oh all right, you know, wait
for another go around the carousel. So yeah, I mean,
I just I can't speak highly enough about this bullpen guys.

(27:52):
I mean, we posted about it constantly on our social
media and everything. But four Horsemen is worldwide now, like
it is on the Fox National broadcast. It's Mike Schultz
saying it, and then they're gonna say it in the
All Star Game.

Speaker 4 (28:08):
We're gonna say I.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Probably will yeah. And in case you missed it, in
case you missed the ig story, it is ours. Actually
it's Chris's. Chris was the one who first said it,
and that's right, that's right. But it's my wins are
all of our wins. In fact, I believe you invented

(28:30):
the whole coy loss.

Speaker 6 (28:34):
Chris wrote the Bible.

Speaker 4 (28:37):
I did. I wrote this book. I wrote this book
called Revelations, where I revealed a lot said some of
the post game shows, you reveal more than I wish.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
All right, Uh, you know we've talked about the bullpen.
We said a lot on the postgame show. I just
want to iterate one thing that we said on postgame shows,
because this is the main show for everybody, and this
is not concerned trolling. This is I swear to God,
it's just reality. These guys are getting ridden so hard.

(29:15):
You ride a horse too hard without ever letting him rest,
he collapses. Okay, you know Old West. I've watched enough Westerns.
I know this is a fact. So I really wish,
I really wish that Morojane and Adam and Suarez would
not pitch in the All Star Game. I fear that
they're gonna fire in the same inning, like they're just

(29:36):
gonna come in one after the other after the other.

Speaker 4 (29:40):
But I fear that Dave Robertson is going to have
them each pitched.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
Yeah, you know, get out there is your name, sour
keep pitching, yeah, because those guys need to rest. They
just need to rest. I was actually kind of mildly
disappointed to see in the game today at all, Like,
give the guy a break. You know, they've been pitching
so hard so long. But I get it. You wanted

(30:09):
to chase and get the season series win against Philadelphia
was right there up for grabs. But you know, those
guys left today July thirteenth, and they will return to
San Diego July twenty seventh. So that's two straight weeks
on the road going from Atlanta straight up to Washington,

(30:29):
down to Florida to Saint Louis. That is a drag,
an ass drag of a road trip. It could be
hot and humid Florida will be a climate controlled because
they've got the roof. But that's gonna be a long
ass road trip, and I would just love to see
those guys get a chance. Mike Shilt is saying it,
by the way, because he said it just a couple

(30:50):
days ago. He goes, you know, it's legal to win
seven to three or eight to two, like that should
be posted in the clubhouse. You're allowed to win by four.
Because this is now fifty of fifty four games that
the updated statu rafe of either dropping a game or
winning by one or two, Padres have four wins of

(31:12):
three runs are better since I think it was June fifteenth,
so I mean right, And two of those were four
to one and five to one, you know, so one
of them was the game that Key k Hernandez pitched
that the Dodgers were just like Da Da Dad. So
it's it's wild how much this team has been an

(31:35):
engine running in the red, you know, and it's a
high performance vehicle, but at some point you gotta be
able to get into cruise. And I really hope we
see what we saw last year, gentlemen, which is after
the All Star break, the offense kicking into a second gear,
because if you go look at that seven and two
road trip last year, there were some eight Toto's in

(31:57):
there when they were out there kicking butt.

Speaker 6 (32:01):
Yeah, and I know that that stretch is coming for
the Padres. I think the question is is that going
to come when the offensive contributors are inevitably traded for?
Is that going to come before?

Speaker 1 (32:16):
Not sure.

Speaker 6 (32:17):
I did just want to shout out before we move on.
That first ay of the draft was today I'm injuryue
baseball draft and the Padres. I can't speak to the
talent of either of these guys, but they have eighty
grade baseball names. Like AJ, Preler continues to just draft
based on vibes alone. Our first round pick was a
guy named Cruz school Craft. Cruse is spelled k r

(32:43):
u z. School Craft is spelled like the word school
and craft smushed together. He is a six foot eight,
left handed high school pitcher from Oregon. So that's all
I know. I'm in that. We did not go ahead

(33:04):
a big Raven Clo class.

Speaker 4 (33:07):
Definitely house Raven.

Speaker 6 (33:09):
Second go ahead, Yeah no, no, no, no, no please.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
I'll just say AJ's whole strategy because he knows he's
going to trade away these guys. Is he wants someone
that sounds like they're from a fable in like a
nineteen thirty story where it's like he was so big
he picked up a rock and hurled it over his
head four hundred yacks. He was able, he was he
hit an apple with a stick and it went over
Yankee Steak. Like he wants that kind of like guy

(33:35):
so that he can trade them away at some point
and be like you got to have school craft.

Speaker 6 (33:41):
Oh my gosh, I like this idea that a j
Preller is also like brumble still skin Breads just striking
guys and he's just shrincking Dick Monford and do Agreen
to trade the deadline.

Speaker 4 (33:55):
The other thing I was, what who is number two? Rabel?

Speaker 6 (34:00):
Yes, yes, yes, so we do not have a second
number two, such an a third round pick. And his
name is Ryan wide Man literally w I D E
M A N. His father he was born in Spain
because his father was a former Clemson basketball center Tom

(34:20):
wide Man, who was playing overseas professionally. So not only
do we have a six eight and six five draft ee,
so like AJ has his he's just drafting his ensigns
y m C a rec basketball league team. This is
he wants his guys. But it's also I mean, it's
just names alone that adding that to Boston Bateman and

(34:42):
who are the other guys from last year?

Speaker 1 (34:45):
Mayfield is that cruise next to Cash and Boston in
the clubhouse, which is amazing. And I also appreciate drafting
for both height and gery in this situation. So really
well done. Uh settled down of great stuff. Great stuff.

(35:12):
As we kind of transition and head toward the Daddy Awards, guys,
I'm really glad you put this in a sentence I
never thought i'd say, But there it is, there, it is,
It's right there. I'm really glad you put into the
to the Rundown a separate spot for Xander Bogarts, because
I was gonna try and make a point of putting

(35:33):
him into the awards. But yeah, probably then, as derisive
and critical of Xander Bogart's as anyone on the show,
there's plenty more victory all out there in the world overall,
and I still don't trust him one whit. If there's
a runner at second base or beyond, it's like the ultimate,

(35:55):
you know, minus five Uh, you know nerf in a
in a game is if Bogarts.

Speaker 4 (36:02):
Is up, Yeah, he needs the blinders like the ponies git.
He just needs like a shade over. I'll take it
a step.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
I'll flip Bogarts and a rise in the lineup because
Xander Bogarts is taking quality at bats just about every
time he's coming up. He does work the count, he
does take balls, he is drawing walks, he is getting
hard contact, and he's gonna see fewer runners in scoring
position if he's hitting second, then if he's hitting fifth,

(36:33):
which is like the ultimate place, you're gonna see runners
in scoring position all the time if your offense is working.
So I'd be happy to do that. But the thing
that was happening was we were like, god, Xander, we
can't get any offense. For for like two months, we
were saying we can't get any offense. But you know what,
he's playing good defense, and we just kind of left
it alone, like, well, he's playing good defense, but god,

(36:53):
he can't get a hit every time he's up, and
so frustrated. All of a sudden, you look up and
he's got one of the best outs above average in
baseball at shortstop. He's been dynamite for like two and
a half months straight.

Speaker 6 (37:11):
Yeah, I mean ninety sixth percentile right now, and out
of a average he's at seven and that's still while
he's rocking a thirty third percentile arm strength. So and I, like,
I haven't had the time to look into the numbers.
I'm sure there is something that is different this year,
but like he has found a way to make it work,

(37:32):
which he is what the Pojects have had to negotiate
around since they signed him. You know, I think just
from an eye test standpoint being at the game yesterday,
he benefits so much from playing next to Manny Machado,
which I think is an old school and where old
school meets new school idea of like, Okay, if your
shortstop is deficient and can't really throw from the hole,

(37:54):
what if you put the third basement with like literally
the best arm strength right next to him, who also
has a decent amount of che and it specializes in
charging balls to his left. Could work, And so far
for the Padres this year, it's worked.

Speaker 4 (38:06):
Chris. Yeah. Yeah, And I also kind of give a
little bit of a hat tip to the analytics team
because we see lots of complaining in the watch party
when a ball that is hit to traditionally where you
might expect the shortstop to stand, which is, you know,
equidistant or near so between third base and shortstop, and

(38:30):
sometimes they're shifting away from that. But I have a
feeling Sanders getting told where to stand on a lot
of these that he makes the range you play that
is just within his reach. Like I feel like that's
something purposeful within the Padres because they are a team
that seems to have that infield.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Well, let me just illustrate one last thing because I'm
actually I'm officially stumping for this. I think Bogarts should
move up. And I understand the left, right, left.

Speaker 4 (39:00):
Okay, who hits third? Yeah? Who hits third? Is that Jackson?
It's still do I mean Gavin has get this?

Speaker 1 (39:07):
Now you're three right now? I know now you're three right, that's.

Speaker 4 (39:12):
Right, right, right? Yeah? Now the elite closers and relievers.
I just want to say, Gavin Sheets has the third
highest line drive rate in Major League Baseball right now.
So it's not only just that he's found money and
he's good and he is hitting home runs his contact.
Like I talked about before the year started. Like coming

(39:32):
in the second half of his year in Chicago, dude
started hitting line drives and he has not stopped at all.
So like that contacts there and at least it gives
you the shot for the elite right handed reliever.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
I mean, it's it's it's a really valid point. I
just want to pimpy. Yeah, if Meryl, we'll all be happy.

Speaker 4 (39:56):
Go ahead.

Speaker 6 (39:57):
Oh, I'm gonna make your dream come true, Craig, which
is that you can do Bogart's Tatis Machado in the
lineup three rightings because Fernando Tatis Junior has like crazy
reverse splits this year where he's effectively a left handed hitter.
Right now he is batting, he has an eight sixty
nine OPS against righty's and a six eighty four OPS

(40:18):
against lefties on the entire season, So it's effectively a
right lefty right batting order because he's he's operating in
that way.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
That's that's an interesting point as well. Just very quickly,
with nobody on base this year, Xander Bogarts is hitting
two eighty four with a seven thirty six OPS with
anybody on two thirty three with a six fifty nine ops. However,
if a runners just at first, he's hitting three twenty
eight with an eight ninety get him the second, he's

(40:49):
hitting one thirty six. Runner at at third. This year,
runner at third, he's ozer for ten okay first and second,
two twenty seventy sack flu runner at third one one
sack fly. That's his lone RBI ozerver ten with one
sack fly. Bases loaded, he's one for fourteen played appearances

(41:13):
with three RBI on zero sackflies. Those have been driven
in on ground balls, and he had one hit. Every
time he moves up in leverage, he gets worse overall
runners in scoring position, hitting one sixty five with a
four to ninety seven OPS. That's Martin Maldonado right there.
So it's the it's the one thing that for three

(41:38):
years we've seen about Xander Bogarts, but runners on base,
he panics, hits a pop fly, hits a ground ball,
screws up nobody on He's like taking great at bats.
So can we find a way for him to stop
taking as many at bats with runners in second and
third or runner at third or bases loaded and minimize

(41:59):
that well moving up in the lineup actually does that.
So I don't know. I just feel like for him,
that's a thing to think about, because even as he
has continued to start to hit really really well, and
he has he's hit really well since June twentieth, eight
eighty two ops for twenty five on base percentage. These
numbers play bass is loaded. He's you know, baby Smurf.

(42:23):
He's down there, he's doing absolutely nothing. So I don't
know who baby Smurf is.

Speaker 4 (42:28):
I just I went.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
He was cut from the first.

Speaker 4 (42:37):
Yeah, I think it's Michael Sarah. I mean, here's the.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
One thing I'll say is why I think it's we
get so frustrated with Shilt and we don't see these
changes is because Shilt has this sort of like old
school I have my finger on the pulse of this team.
I understand that. And we do have this group of
guys aside from Manny, who seem to feel like head

(43:01):
cases in distinct ways. Right, It's like Jackson's in a
two month slump or a month and a half, and
he moves him down, and then Jackson starts hitting. Bogart's
He's finally started hitting, so he feels worried about moving
him anywhere in the order, and so it's sort of
I feel like Shilt is one of these guys who's like,
we finally got their head right. They're in this space,

(43:22):
and he really puts a lot of weight to their
sort of approach and their mental health at different spots
in the lineup. And I think that it's one of
the reasons why he's always so slow to make any
of these moves that analytically seem like, oh, well, of
course you make this move, because he's like, well, what

(43:43):
if Xander gets that look in his eyes again and
he goes, oh for his next you know, twenty.

Speaker 4 (43:48):
Six He's a stubborn dude, Like, I mean, major league
leading sacrifice bunts.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
Is a fair enough, fair enough all right? With Xander
Love now officially put out there. I mean mostly love here.
I go on and on about his runners in scoring
position stats, So how much love is there?

Speaker 4 (44:10):
True?

Speaker 1 (44:11):
Hey, by the way, with a runner and third in
less than two outs twenty one plate appearances this year,
he's two for fourteen, a one forty three average, one
ninety on base, one forty three slugging.

Speaker 3 (44:22):
So that's that's the That's the kind of love that
like a father in law who doesn't really like their
son in law gives at the wedding toast, It's like, well,
I love how much he loves my daughter and you're like.

Speaker 6 (44:32):
Wet, say you.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
Didn't say anything nice about him.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
Well, let's see who we're going to say nice things about.
Now it's time for our first annual PhD Daddy Awards,
Midsummer Classic PhD Awards, as written by our award winning writer.
Let us reveal the categories and then assign our winners.
We begin with Who's your Daddy? This is just your favorite?

(45:03):
This is a ViBe's pick. This is your favorite Podrey
so far. It doesn't have to be the empirical best,
although it doesn't have to not be, but it's your
favorite Podrey so far this year. Justin as the guest
you get for swing.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
H.

Speaker 2 (45:19):
This is tough because it's between two guys.

Speaker 3 (45:22):
The first inclination was to say Manny because I feel
like when everything is going to shit, he has in
every season carried us for a certain amount of that season.
But I just read this interview with Jackson Merrill I
think today, I don't know if you guys saw it,
where they were talking about, well, what is going through
slumps mean for you and has it made you a

(45:44):
better player? And he was like, well, when I go
through slumps, it sucks for the team. We suck and
I and it does nothing for me. But it is
something where as a person, I have to learn to
deal with adversity and that makes me a better person
off the field, and maybe that makes be a better
player on the field. But for most part, I'm making
my team lose when I play like shit. And I

(46:05):
was like, that is such an astute observation from a
twenty two year old that I really really enjoyed. And
so I have to say this year, I think it's
Jackson just seeing him struggle and stay at it and
do everything he can to help the team win in
all the different ways. I just am so enamored with
the guy.

Speaker 4 (46:23):
Great answer, Chris, Great one. Mine is got to be
Adrian Motorhoon because I have been pulling for a lot
of guys to make the team this year, almost purely
because they've been in the franchise for a long time.
Tyrso Ornellis Eggi Rosario. These are guys that came on

(46:47):
as international free agents that have been with the club
for about a decade, the Eggi Rosario was the longest
tenured padre, I mean just because he had made the
major league roster a couple times, and those guys just
didn't get it done. Eggy completely collapsed like a flyun
in a cupboard, as Zard would say. And Tirso just
has not been able to get anything going, whereas Adrian,

(47:09):
who was of an absolutely legendary signing class of twenty sixteen.
This dude made eleven million dollars as a teenager coming
out of Cuba and then absolutely had a slog of it,
I mean, stunted progress as a starting pitcher as the
team couldn't quite develop him there. And then came was

(47:31):
the injury in twenty twenty one that put him out
for all of twenty twenty two. My dates may not
quite be right, but there was a rather serious injury
that some guys just never come back from. Yeah, it
was Tommy John in twenty twenty two April. That was
twenty twenty one. He just kind of sucked, but he
was he was out. Oh no, yeah, he was out,

(47:51):
and then they brought him back and then he had
to have Tommy John because he wasn't right. And then
and then you know, they convert him to the bullpen,
and you don't really know what that's gonna do to
a guy. Last year he was very good, you know,
he was dependable, He did a lot, and then this

(48:12):
year for have him to come out and be the
team's best reliever, get the All Star Game nod, and
just come out and pump the crowd up every night
that he comes and pitches. I know he had the
inherited run score tonight, which might have give even Jason
Adam the lead back as far as Eri goes, but
my goodness, he has been thrilling to watch and to

(48:34):
have one of these guys that they invested in so
young and who has been on around the team so long.
You know, Tattoos got whimsical talking about him with one
of the reporters because he was just like, that's my guy,
Like we played at Lake Elsinore together, and to have
him do that, it's been aweso so fav.

Speaker 6 (48:53):
So And I just want to say before I start,
the inspiration for this came from the fact that it
is FYC season around these parts, and uh to Tuesday
is not just the MLB All Star Game, it is
today that I Emmy nominations are now so fingers crossed
for you guys, justin so big day.

Speaker 4 (49:12):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (49:13):
So there are two guys I want to pick for
the Who's Your Daddy Award. I think one of them
is going to be one of my later picks, so
I'm gonna hang on to him, and I'm instead going
to pick the guy who was picked up walking barefoot
on a snowy December day and Gary Indiana Bye because

(49:33):
you want to ride. I was so skeptical.

Speaker 4 (49:41):
I'm so skeptical.

Speaker 6 (49:43):
And I felt my shadow side, my Teven side in
April when when Sheets got off to that heart, that
that that hot start, and I was like, you know,
I was, I was holding myself back, but there was
a little part of me that was like, it's just
a hot pocket, guys, It's just a hot pocket. Don't
make the T shirt. Don't make the Holy Sheets T shirt. Guys,
don't do it. It's gonna look bad. And I'm so

(50:07):
happy to be proven wrong, you know. I like Aj
had Profar and he had Merrily in terms of moving
him to center field and bringing him up right away,
and he had David Peralta and Dominic Slon Donovan Solano,
excuse me, and Kyle Gashiok and all these guys last
year who were hits, and really this year, Gavin's the
only one that you can say he was the role

(50:28):
of the dice that has absolutely hit and gosh darn
if this team is not where it would be right now,
which feels weird about a team to say that's struggling
offensively if they didn't have Gavin Sheets. And we've already
talked about it on the show today, but this was
not someone who I thought was ever going to be
allowed to face left handed pitching. He was forced to

(50:49):
out of desperation by this team because they did not
have a viable right handed option, which is a failure
of the organization. And yet Gavin Sheets has been able
to cover for that and show up for the team
and be viable everyday player. And I believe, I don't
think we that I have confirmation on this, but he
was not in the game today because he is in
fact becoming a daddy.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
Yes, correct, Yes.

Speaker 6 (51:10):
He's on the paternity leave. So congratulations together. He is
my literal and figurative daddy outstanding.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
I'm last to go, and this does feel kind of
like that exposition, and some of these will probably speed
up as we go. But for me, it's Paveta because
he's a surprise addition to this team. But we didn't
even know that the Padres would be able to afford
to add a starter to this team in spring training.
They got him on a really creative deal where really

(51:39):
he's making four million this year between signing bonus and salary,
he'll make nineteen million next year, so obviously it makes
up for it. But you know, here's the guy who
leads the team with nine wins, who leads the team
in terms of he's two thirds of an inning behind

(52:00):
Dylan Sees for the team inning pitch lead at one
hundred and two and two thirds eighteen starts. He's made
the turn every single time, one hundred and fourteen strikeouts,
FIP of three twenty, whip of one point zero three.
This guy has been so strong, and a stat we
brought up on the postgame show earlier in the week

(52:22):
eight and two pitching after Padres losses this year, and
that's just gigantic. That's the guy who reverses momentum and
sends it in the right way. I love his demeanor,
I love the way he attacks hitters, and to be honest,
I've like his entire career. Nippovet is one of those
guys I've like, kind of like sneaky middle rounds drafted

(52:44):
so many times in fantasy baseball because I'm like, nobody
ever picks up this guy. But he always strikes out
more batteries than in ning's pitched, and you know, he's
pretty solid, and like he's always been pretty solid. This
year he's really really good. He's been the staff ace
up to the All Star break. He should be on
the All Star team. I'm glad he's not, because it's
just one less guy that we need to wear out

(53:05):
this week. Let him go home to British Columbia for
a couple of days, you know, and and recharge. But uh,
Nick paveda a favorite for me so far. That's Award one.
Award two is who's the best so far this year?
World's number one? Daddy, the best padre so far. I'll

(53:27):
just go first to keep it well. I think this
one will be quick. It's Manny, right, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (53:30):
Manny?

Speaker 1 (53:31):
Manny's been the best this year?

Speaker 2 (53:32):
Manny out.

Speaker 6 (53:33):
Chris is shaking his head.

Speaker 4 (53:39):
No, no, Manny's been quite good, and like Justin pointed out,
there were times when it was very dark and Manny
was the guy keeping the team five hundred. But the
reason why the team is eight games above five hundred
is Fernando Tatis Junior. And that's because of his absolutely
insane start to the season and even when he was
struggling offensively. And also, so I'm going to go ahead

(54:01):
and point to my beloved f war for this, because
according to F four, Fernando is the most valuable player
on the team, coming in at four point zero, whereas
Manny is almost an entire win lower at three point one.
And frankly, f ward does not count. When bass coaches
stop runners at third or runners don't go first to

(54:24):
third because the ball was hit to right field. That
stuff isn't you know, included in there to the best
of my knowledge, And I have seen those decisions change
games in the Padres Favor. I have seen them stop
rallies because guys are terrified of Fernando's arm, and I
think that that it besides the getting off to the

(54:46):
hot start and the fantastic offensive numbers, I think that
that has been a consistent presence on the field all
season long, and therefore he is.

Speaker 6 (54:55):
And I'm just also gonna Zach here just take you
piggyback off of what you said last round, Craig, which
is that I think Nick Povetta has been unbelievable and
just to throw in a guy on the pitching side,
like he's got a three to eleven FIP right now
in one hundred and nine innings. F four hasn't updated.

(55:16):
It's he's at two point five going into today's game.
I suspect it'll be two point eight or two point
nine looking at comparable guys with that amount of innings
pitched in that FIP level, which is what f wour uses.
I mean, like you go through the rest of the rotation,
it's Cease, who we've talked about it like at length.
It's Randy Vasquez, it's you, Darvish, it's the ghost of

(55:37):
Michael King, and it's the hodgepodge of Ryan Bergert, Stephen Kolech,
Matt Waldron whatever. Like he's really been you know, whatever
you want to say about Strandy and your opinions on
him in terms of dependability, he's the only guy right
now in the rotation who I feel absolutely rock solid
with him taking the ball. So I think.

Speaker 3 (55:59):
That that's sort of just to even zag further.

Speaker 2 (56:09):
I mean, it has you have to.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
Also put Diebolo somewhere in there, because if I were
to tell you at the start of the season we're
gonna lose King Darvish, we're gonna have a ship year
from cease, we're not gonna I mean, we're not gonna
what we're gonna get from cease, and we're gonna be
relying on Randy Vasquez and Ryan Kohlick and Stephen Kohlich
and Ryan Berger and like and and As a larger point,

(56:33):
I feel like Diebo has now created this thing in
San Diego where if you're a free agent pitcher who's
like solid but not exceptional, you come to San Diego
for a year or two years, you signed that deal,
and then you're off to one hundred million dollar lands occasionally,
you know, I mean, look what, Yeah, it's allowed us

(56:57):
to be creative in free agency in a way that
we were the opposite of the Dodgers. We're basically saying,
come to us, and we're gonna make you into something
that's gonna make even more money. The Dodgers, of course,
are saying we're gonna give you a lot of money
up front and you're gonna become nothing. But I think
that you gotta look at the just the approach of

(57:18):
Dieble and think that he's he's completely figured out how
to maximize every guy that comes our way except for Dync's.

Speaker 1 (57:27):
Well, you know what, I loved all of your guys arguments,
and I feel like I'm making the dumbest one now.
But because Chris, you empirically, I mean like you look
at at Tatisa's savant page and literally he's got one
thing that's bad launch angle, sweet spot, he's eleventh percentile,
and like everything else is bright, screeching red.

Speaker 4 (57:50):
However, I wonder how much that that mess is messing
with his splits Craig, Like I, you know, just you know,
a little aimworn for later. Like I wonder if against
left handed hitters, he's just kind of taking that angle
of attack of the ball and it's just going.

Speaker 1 (58:08):
I would say, ask his dad, because in terms of
it was your daddy. Fernanda Tattis senior, you know, seems
to always be the solution for Fernanda Tattis junior. But
let me just make a narrative argument for Manny on
my standpoint and we'll move on, which is that, yes,
Tatis has had the best balance of offense and defense,

(58:29):
and his defense is never waivered. Manny has had one
of his worst defensive seasons. However, he has settled down
over the last month and a half. He's settled down.
Today he got an error, but we all know Arise
really was the error on that error.

Speaker 4 (58:46):
He also made one of the most stunning plays I've
seen in years.

Speaker 1 (58:51):
Absolutely, and the day before he saved the game with
an incredible play when when Morgan was on the mound.
So like Manny is playing great defense. He made some
mirrors early, it's going to screw up his numbers. But
when this team fell apart offensively, when Tatis went on
a two month slump, when a Rise was awry, when

(59:14):
Bogart's was bogus all the way through, Manny was the
guy that was carrying the freight for this team. Sheets
did to some extent a little bit, but it was Manny.
And if Manny wasn't hitting, the Padres weren't doing anything.
And when Manny was hitting, he was driving in the
winning run. So I feel like from a big brothers standpoint,

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which is what I've really seen him as for this
team the last couple of years. I feel like he
carried them when they had to be carried, when they
would have collapsed otherwise, he was the guy who carried
him at that point.

Speaker 3 (59:47):
Justin Yeah, he's very much though when you see only
two sets of cleat prints, it was because I was
carrying you.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
He is that poem and he's always been that guy.
I mean every year he's.

Speaker 3 (01:00:02):
And the other part of it is he was doing
that when literally everyone knew, you just can't make a
mistake to Machado. You can get through the rest of
the lineup, you just don't have to make a mistake
to Mashado. And he's still even in that those situations,
was oftentimes driving in the winning.

Speaker 1 (01:00:17):
Puns Onto Award number three. Daddy needs a new pair
of shoes, the padre you want to see run more, Okay,
so I should.

Speaker 6 (01:00:29):
I would confess to this, which is that I this
is like when they made that that Oscar category like
for like box office achievement or something where it's like
you're just trying to give an award to Tom Cruise,
like we know what's happening like and for me, this
is also so this this was gonna be my guy.
I was maybe gonna pick for my my other hoo's
your daddy in terms of favorite vibes, Padre, I need

(01:00:52):
Jake Cronenworth to run more, guys. It's fucking blowing my mind.
And you and you can see the example in today's
game two today where Jake Cronenworth gets on base with
the lead off walk and you know what what costs
you zero outs instead of one out in terms of
a sack bunt stealing a base. And Jake Cronenworth and
I've said this on the show before, has the third

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highest sprint speed of qualified hitters on this team. It
goes Fernando Jackson Merrill, who is someone who doesn't run
enough either. But and then Jake Cronenworth, Jake Croninworth is third.
And I look at our stolen base opportunity statistics. Fernando
Tatis Junior. You know, so stackcast has a great stat
which is stolen base attempt percentage, which is basically how

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often are you trying to steal a base against any
opportunity that you have on So Fernando, for instance, has
a two point five percent stolen base attempt percentage because
he's had six six hundred and forty one opportunities to
attempt to steal a base and two point five percent
of the time has actually attempted to do so.

Speaker 1 (01:01:56):
Question quick question, So does that mean is that counting
each like if there were four pitches and in a bat,
those were four opportunities to run.

Speaker 6 (01:02:05):
Yes, that's right. It's every pitch.

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
Yes, got it.

Speaker 6 (01:02:08):
So it's not it's not times on base. It is
literally every pitch. So he's been on base for six
hundred and forty one pitches with a runner on first
only no other runners.

Speaker 4 (01:02:21):
Does that makes sense?

Speaker 1 (01:02:23):
Okay? Okay, all right, got it? Got it? So open
base in front of you, chance to steal, and whether
you're on second with an open third or on first
with an open second, and did you go or did
you not?

Speaker 6 (01:02:35):
Got it precisely? And I believe this statistic actually is
only for if you're on first base with no other
runners in front of you. Okay, So it doesn't even
take second base into account.

Speaker 1 (01:02:46):
Which is funny because he's stolen third a lot this year.

Speaker 6 (01:02:48):
But anyway, Yes, So Fernando has had six hundred and
forty one stolen base attempt opportunities. He's attempted to steal
two point five percent of the time. Jake Croninworth has
had three hundred and sixty three stolen base attempt opportunities,
He's only tried zero point six percent of the time
despite being the third fastest guy on the team. So

(01:03:10):
I don't know. Again, I have a little bit of
ulterior motives with this category, but like they need to
unleash Jake Croninworth and let him run the bases, especially
when he's been hitting towards the bottom of the order.
Guys who have very little opportunity to hit home runs
and singles are gonna score him. So and he's a
guy who has like a three to sixty something on
base percentage. So anyway, at least Jake. That's all.

Speaker 3 (01:03:37):
Uh so variation of this which is that I don't
understand why, if shilt is the old school, we're gonna
bunt him over head coach. He also doesn't take the
other aspect of that old school coaching, which is hit
and run. I don't understand why we don't hit and
run more, especially when we're a high contact team that

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doesn't strike out a lot like. I just don't understand
why that's not at least what we're trying to play
at some point, especially at the bottom of the order
when we get you know, somebody gets on and Jake's
up or Bryce Johnson is up and somebody that's like
So for me, I think a I'd love to I
would also love to see Jake run Moore for the

(01:04:19):
exactly reasons that you were talking about, so I could
watch Dias strike out with him on second phase. But
I I do, I do think I wish. I wish
we hit run a little bit more. It seems like
we're kind of built for that, and when we do it,
it seems to be effective. I don't recall any time
this year when we've hit and run where somebody swung
through a pitch and we've been thrown out a second.

Speaker 1 (01:04:40):
So I've seen a couple of week attempts, but I
don't remember that specific thing. Yeah. Well, my answer to
this is simple. It's Jackson Merrill and it's an interesting
thing that you posit Rafie. I just have to throw
out there his career high for stolen base attempts at
seven and he's done it. Three times. I mean that's

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the most he's ever tried in his careers. So I
don't think Jake thinks he's a base dealer, you know.
And he might be fast, but is he good at
getting a jump, And that's a different skill getting a
jump as opposed to just straight line running. He might
be shit at getting a jump or else. Otherwise he
should really run. Jackson Merrill should run. Jackson Merrill's really

(01:05:20):
really fast. He's got the same number of stolen base
attempts as Jake Croninworth. That's a problem to me. So
run Jackson. Run. Also, get on Jackson, reach base. Jackson,
please reach base and then you can run. Those walks
have been nice lately at Chris, I think still to
answer on this one. Okay, no, I.

Speaker 4 (01:05:45):
Were the same you and I are. Jackson Merrill, I mean,
he stole sixteen bases last year, attempted nearly twenty at nineteen.
This time he's stolen one base and attempted three. It's
just it's malpractice because Jackson was also my choice to
lead the team in stolen bases this year. So it's

(01:06:05):
been pretty frustrating to be proven so completely wrong. And
in order to come close to last year's total, like
it's the pace is going to have to accelerate insanely high.
I think you've done an okay job of getting on basis.
On base percentage is the exact same as it was
last year at three twenty six. So no co sign

(01:06:28):
craignuse Lousewight shoes for Jackson Merrill? All right, onto? Are
I think one position themed?

Speaker 1 (01:06:39):
It could be so, I don't know, maybe we'll all
have different problems, but this one's called daddy issues. Guys,
this is the padre you have the biggest problem with
so far this year, the one you don't want to
return Daddy's calls and texts. Chris, would you like to
lead off?

Speaker 4 (01:07:02):
This would have to be my father. I'm not just
not gonna go there. It's so friggin easy. It's so
frigging easy. It's the guy that never should have been
on the team because all the other ones are gone.
Martin Maldonado leads the league in pass balls. He's one
of the worst hitters I've ever seen play. He's lucked
into a few, and people say that that is some

(01:07:24):
sort of way of him buying time. No, the friggin
bottom is still below us. The darkness is always darker.
He's not a major league player anymore. He's a shell
of one. And the longer he's on the team, the
longer they don't get a solution at catcher, the more
stolen bases he's going to give up, the more balls

(01:07:45):
are going to hit the bass stop, the more the
bottom third of our order is going to be filled
with suck. So Martin Maldonado is definitely the daddy I
have the most issues with, even though he's taller than Justiny.

Speaker 1 (01:07:58):
What would you like to co sign at on a
second person?

Speaker 3 (01:08:02):
Uh So, I'm going to give the tiniest I think.
I don't think Martin malton I should be on this team,
but I'm going to give the tiniest defense of him,
just simply because as somebody who as a pitcher, there
is an ability when you know that the catcher is
going to sequence someone perfectly and you don't have to

(01:08:23):
think about it at all.

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
It allows you to.

Speaker 3 (01:08:26):
Focus in a way that you don't normally focus, that
you can't and it is meaningful. I have pitched too
catchers who I think sequenced terribly and I have to
be there doing the mental exercise of like, I don't
think that's what he's set up for. I don't think
that's what it looks like, even if you have a
pregame plan. But even still, you're watching things unfold in
real time because hitters are changing their approach in real time.

(01:08:48):
So I will say that it does seem that the
pitchers love the way that Martin sequences and are able
to roll with it. That said, he should not be
on the seat there's no lay.

Speaker 4 (01:09:05):
That's he has sequenced still in.

Speaker 3 (01:09:13):
Yeah, yeah, it's simply a switch that flips up or down.
But uh, that said, for me, it's because it's Dias
and Baldonado, both of those two are they are just
black holes in the lineup, like to the point where
you just know that nothing. Craig, you said this on

(01:09:36):
a podcast on an episode like a while ago, but
you were like, they've gone five for their last thirty
three and they're gonna go five for their next thirty three,
and that is exactly what has happened.

Speaker 2 (01:09:47):
You called it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:47):
Exactly, and it is so painful. We know what's happening,
and I can tell you what. When we start to
get into these high leverage games in August and in
September where things are getting really close, there are they're
going to be shameless. It's like watching it in an
NBA game where you know, they do hack a shack
or they're fouling the terrible free throw shoot, or they
don't do it early in the season because they just
want to like see the rhythm of basketball, Like it's

(01:10:10):
they're going to the walk one to two guys to
get to him, and and so I just think it's
like it is killing us to have these two guys
behind the plate.

Speaker 6 (01:10:27):
My dad issue is with Dylan Ceese, you know what
I You know, we're really lucky with Nick Pavetta that
he's come through. You know, Michael King hasn't been healthy.
You Darvish is just finding his way back. Dylan ces
is supposed to be the guy. We traded for him
to be the guy. And when we were watching the

(01:10:50):
guy pitch NLDS Game four together, Craig was playing waffle
on his phonecause he could not bear to watch what
was happening. So yeah, I mean, look, I've defended Cease
and he might show up later for me in in
one of the remaining categories, to be honest, but because

(01:11:11):
you know, his underlying peripherals still aren't terrible. But you
have to go by the results. This is an award show.
It's a results based business, and he's been disappointing. A
four eight a d r A is unacceptable for the
guy who was supposed to be your ace. You can't
you can't, you know, put shine any shine on that turn.
So Dylan cees.

Speaker 1 (01:11:34):
Outstanding work and allow me just to finish with the
four sick horsemen here for just modeled ponies and toss
in around. Oh, this is just the worst season of
Luisa rises career. And I was just I just did
the thing on Savant where you press the play button

(01:11:57):
and watch the sliders move, because I I wanted to
like test the theory, like, wait, is it really? I mean,
guys on ex wOBA, I mean, this is by a mile,
the worst of the wee Aris his career. He's twelfth
percentile in ex wOBA right now in Major League Baseball,

(01:12:20):
And I mean, for what he's supposed to do as
a hitter, he is truly killing the San Diego Padres.
But just very briefly, okay, on the Savant page batting
run value, this is what he's supposed to be twenty
first percentile in baseball, running value, thirtieth percentile, fielding seventh percentile,

(01:12:44):
x wOBA twelfth, x slugging fourteenth, exit ve lo fifth,
barrel percentage worst in the league, hard hit worse in
the league, batspeed worst in the league. Sweet spot used
to be one hundred percent two years ago, it's down
to sixty six percent. He's one hundred percent and squared
up up one hundred percent with one hundred percent and K.
But that is it. And as you said just in earlier,

(01:13:10):
the version of him that's hitting two seventy nine, it's
just a useless player. Three twenty five he's providing value
over his weakness, but at two seventy nine, it's just
the weaknesses and the singles have to be like perfectly
placed for him to provide any value at all to
the San Diego Padres. So I think this is a

(01:13:31):
great kind of nasty quartet sadly that we've come up
with here, But I mean it's illustrative of the problems
that this team has had. They've had some real lows
to go with their highs. And to me arise, in
his walk year is contract free agent year. I mean,

(01:13:51):
who wants this kid on their team. I'm afraid we're
gonna get him as a mercy pickup in the offseason
because nobody wants him, and like, I don't know that
I want it. If he keeps playing like this, Okay,
to the next award, then we move on to Daddy
knows Best something I'm familiar with what has been the

(01:14:14):
coaching staff's greatest in season adjustment. Okay, we've already gone
around the hoint, so justin it's your turn to lead
off again.

Speaker 3 (01:14:23):
I am going to say that it is Shilt understanding
exactly how to use the bullpen. I don't think that
I have had a issue with how he's rolled out
the bullpen in weeks, maybe even months. At the start
of the year, it was like, oh really you bringing
out Wandy and this is just high leveled situation. I

(01:14:47):
think he has figured out the perfect situation for each
of the bullpen guys to come in. I agree with
Rafie that now we sort of have a bullpen guy
that I don't mind in every situation.

Speaker 2 (01:14:58):
And not only that, but I.

Speaker 3 (01:15:00):
Think he's found opportunities to build the confidence and try
out exactly what Lefty on lefty situation, Wandy might be
best in what kind of Hitterory might be best in
best against. So I really have been impressed with the
way that they have progressed the bullpen and also figured
out how to.

Speaker 2 (01:15:19):
Use the bullpen.

Speaker 4 (01:15:22):
Chris mine would be an adjustment they made and have
subsequently abandoned with Jackson Merrill slump, and that's they dropped
Luisa Rise out of the second hole and they put
him down to fourth. He started hitting again, and then

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Jackson didn't prove to be quite as reliable as they
would hope. You know, his bat at ball data was
looking pretty good, and then he was just terrible for
a long time, and they dropped and they learned the
wrong lesson. The wrong lesson wasn't that Jackson needs a
bad second even though once he has returned any close
to normal. I hope they do it every day. The
lesson was Luis A. Rise needed to be dropped down.

(01:16:07):
And I'll always tip my hat to John Pracoda, who,
on the day they traded for Luisa Rise, said this
guy is a five hole hitter just because of the
situations that he would come up and see and his
slugging percentage being so low and the walks being nonexistent,
but he always puts the ball in play, which is

(01:16:28):
something that's going to lead to sacriflies and you know,
some batted ball event luck, you know, just baseball being
random and having to pick it up and throw it.
So Daddy knew best when he got Louise a Rise
out of the second spot in the batting order, and
they should do that. And I said this on the

(01:16:48):
post game show and got a lot of crap. I
don't care.

Speaker 1 (01:16:51):
Well, that was silly. You were being a silly Yeah,
silly goof.

Speaker 4 (01:16:54):
And people said I got the fever. I was having
a brain aneurysm.

Speaker 1 (01:16:59):
I truly don't care. If it's not a louse a Rise, unhappy,
it can be anyone else.

Speaker 4 (01:17:05):
That could be Bryce Johnson.

Speaker 1 (01:17:06):
They can put Nick and I'll be happier, uh graef.

Speaker 6 (01:17:13):
This is a coaching solution to an organizational problem, which
is that they and this is something that I think
will not continue to happen. But I think out of
desperation has happened, which is that they've put Gavin Sheets
in left field and it hasn't been a disaster. He's
actually been fine. And that was a coaching solution to

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they have fucked us, and we do not have a
right handed power bat to put in the lineup, and
we need to find a way to get this kid's
bad in every day, and yet he's supposed to be
our designated hitter. And it's literally like the scene and
Moneyball with Billy Bean and Ron Washington showing up to
Scott Haddiberg's host and how hard can it be? Tell

(01:17:58):
them it's incredibly hard. And he goes out there and
aside from one dent in a qualcom ad on the
left field banner wall, he's been fine, Like he's really
like left field is not hard to play in Peco
Park relative to other left fields. He's right now a
thirty second percent tiland ausbub average with an above average

(01:18:18):
arm on stat Cast, So like he's he's not unplayable
out there. He's fine and for a temporary solution, while
hopefully aj Preller is unfucking the problem that he's fucked
up right now, after the draft is done, he can
go make some trades. Then we will have a legitimate
left fielder and hopefully they will find a way to
continue to have Gavin Sheets bat in there every day.

(01:18:41):
So that's my in season addressed.

Speaker 3 (01:18:42):
I'll tell you who he's better than in the left field.
Its fucking Soda Rayfie.

Speaker 4 (01:18:48):
Yeah sure, yeah, so does a clown fair Yes, one
hundred percent. And he's also better buy outs above average
than Jerks and Profile, who was only seven percentile last
year getting negative seven outs above average. Now, the sample
size is still small, and with defensive metrics that's very

(01:19:08):
very important. However, it brings up the exact same point
you just illustrated Justin he has not been on.

Speaker 1 (01:19:15):
I think Justin made probably the best overall point in
terms of Schiltz. Bullpen usage has been outstanding all year long,
almost impeccable all year long, and Ni Yebla deserves a
ton of credit for that obviously as well. So I'm
just going to piggyback off you, Rafe. I had pre
written all of these before the show started, and mine
was very, very very similar to yours, just instead of

(01:19:38):
left field, just playing Gavin Sheets full time, and that
was something that I advocated against multiple times. I still
know the Dodgers would have never given him that opportunity,
but he's taken advantage of that opportunity. And while it's
a little bit shiny when people go, oh, he's got
reverse splits, No he doesn't. Gavin Sheets has hit thirteen

(01:20:00):
homers against righty's and one against lefties. Okay, the ops
is eight ten to six eighty nine. But from a
batting average standpoint the last month, this guy has been
locked in. Kevin Acy actually said it when it happened,
but two three weeks ago said, you know, here's two clips.
Look how he's closed in. Now he's got a closed stance.
He's keeping his hip locked in, he's not flying open,

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and he's hitting the ball. I mean, he's had a
couple of different games where he's gotten two and three
hits against tough left handers over the last couple of weeks.
So it was a solution, just like you said, Rayfee,
born out of organizational issues as opposed to someone just going,
you know what, I think Gavin Sheets can play full time.
But Gavin Sheets can play full time and that's great.

(01:20:44):
And that was a great adjustment by the staff to
do both what you said, put him in left to
solve the left field issue. Now we have a d
eighth issue, you know, different or a first base issue,
depending on how you want to look at it. Those
are actually sometimes easier to fix than finding specifically a
left fielders. So you know, I like that going into
the deadline that AJ could go, yeah, we got to

(01:21:05):
get a left fielder, but we could get a right
handed hitting d H and we could just do it
that way, or we could get a first basement we
could do.

Speaker 4 (01:21:13):
It that way.

Speaker 1 (01:21:14):
There's there's optionality. Uh. In other words, and and I
really like that. Okay, last award guys to wrap up
the show, Soon to be Daddy, Well, the answer is
gaffing sheets literally.

Speaker 4 (01:21:30):
Yeah, Michael King, Michael King too.

Speaker 1 (01:21:34):
Luck on the journey, gentlemen, and the reward. I bet you,
Chris that those two babies are gonna scream and cry
a little bit more than CGI Baby on squid Game three,
just just a little bit more. Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:21:53):
I wouldn't expect there'll be worth more money.

Speaker 1 (01:21:58):
That's just a quick little cross promo or our latest
Crossing Streams podcast with Chris and I is a full
review of Squad Game three, So go check that out
if you'd like to. And here is rip CGI Baby
a lot more, a lot more. Okay, So the question
is which podrey you think is poised for a second
half takeoff, all right, and I think I know what

(01:22:20):
your guys, at least two of your guys answer is
gonna be. So I'm gonna not take it, and I'm
gonna I'm gonna take my boys Xander. For this team

(01:22:41):
to get to the promised Land, it's a Xander second
half launch. And whether it's moving up at the larder
or whether it's whatever. I mean, those r I SP
stats will make you scream in your sleep. But the
guys locked in. He's playing the best defense he's ever played.
He's really been hitting well for three four weeks. His
bat and ball luck was terrible at the beginning of

(01:23:04):
the year. Maybe maybe, maybe maybe I'm lighting a hope
candle here, but I'm gonna pick soon to be Daddy'sander Boguards.

Speaker 4 (01:23:16):
Craig nine thirty nine, eight sixty seven, eight sixty three.
These are ops's that Xander Voertz has put up in
his career, and to have seen him increase all of
his stats as much as he has in just about
a month, it's very exciting. The underlying metrics are there.
He's in the upper quarter of the league in k

(01:23:41):
rate and withff rate and chase rate and squared uprate.
His walk rate is just under it. His launch angle
sweet spot is in the upper quarter, is expected batting
averages in the upper quarter. I think that it leads
all this stuff leads to him going to really if
you look at his role ex wOBA, you know, changing

(01:24:02):
it from every two hundred and fifty at bats. On
May eighth, that number was two ninety four and then
today it's up to three fifty two. That's one hundred
point increase. I don't have his expecting batting average in
front of me right at the moment, but I will
bet you he's still kind of underperforming it. Coupled with

(01:24:23):
the defense, this is a dude we signed to be
a star. Padres. Fans have not seen him be a
star for longer than a few weeks. And I could
be just drinking in the hopium, but man, I really
feel I agree with you completely and I co sign
it again. We're we're buying house together again, all right,

(01:24:46):
justin let's see.

Speaker 3 (01:24:47):
If you say, Luba, no, I think that it's gonna
be Jackson Merrill. And I think that because I think
that this guy loves competitive baseball.

Speaker 2 (01:25:00):
I think when the when.

Speaker 3 (01:25:01):
The tension gets there when those August games are there,
I think he's I think he genuinely loves it. He
feeds off of it. He's shown it before. I think
there's no surprise he went through a sophomore slump. It's
a long season, but I think this guy loves playing
meaningful baseball, and I think that he's going to put

(01:25:21):
together in really great two months.

Speaker 1 (01:25:27):
Leaves you rafe.

Speaker 6 (01:25:29):
All right, So I'm gonna zig on the zig run
the football here. Okham's Razor Fernando Tatis Junior. Guys, come on,
all right. He had a eight seventeen ops on the
year so far, but if you break that down between
March and April, he had over one thousand ops in

(01:25:50):
March and April, and then in between May and June
he had a sub seven hundred ops.

Speaker 4 (01:25:57):
So I mean like.

Speaker 6 (01:26:00):
He's clearly capable of turning it back up. And it's
worth saying. I know July is only half of a
month that we have tape on so far, but he's
up to a nine to ninety three ohps in July,
and it's really you have been able to feel him
heating up as it goes along. So this is still
a guy who is capable at playing of playing at
an MVP caliber, And I think the more time we

(01:26:20):
get from that, you know, ball that hit him on
the forearm in May and Pittsburgh, and he's going to
be coming off of an All Star Game appearance and
everything else. Like I you know, it's Nantati's junior. And
that was the last category I did want to say.
I was trying to figure out a way to get
in the category of Daddy's just left for a pack
of cigarettes for a player you want to be traded most,

(01:26:43):
But then I was like, can we that's kind of
wishful thinking, and I'm like, okay, well maybe we can
do Dad who you want to leave for a pack
of cigarettes? In terms of guy you want to be
traded to the Padres, But that's going to be stepping
on our I'm sure weeks long deadline coverage that will
be coming out in the next like three weeks, but

(01:27:03):
I will give it to Justin since we like we
won't hear from him in that time. Justin, is there
anyone that you really want to see on the Padres
come trade deadline?

Speaker 3 (01:27:13):
I mean, I know Sean Murphy, We're not gonna get him. So,
but it's just any Like, the thing that I want
to just put out there to aj into the world
is that we don't need an all star catcher and
an all star right handed baton who can play left field.
We just need a league average one, or even a

(01:27:36):
league slightly.

Speaker 2 (01:27:37):
Below average one. We just need that.

Speaker 3 (01:27:40):
So if that means like we part with Brandon Nett,
you know, or we part with one of those other
guys to get that, then that's fine. But I just
I just want somebody that I know is not an
absolute out the second that they stand up.

Speaker 4 (01:27:56):
At the place.

Speaker 5 (01:27:58):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:27:58):
What's like the craziest thing over all this, Like I
was digging into these RISP stats while we were doing this,
I actually almost can't believe this. Guys, as much as
we hate Moldy Martin, did you know that he's actually
doing I'm not even going there against left handed pitching

(01:28:20):
two seventy five three forty one four hundred seven forty
one ops this year against righty's one thirty five, one
sixty three two forty seven for ten ops. If you
could somehow get a left handed hitting catcher that was
taking all the advance against righty's and then you dumped das.
I mean, well, I know.

Speaker 4 (01:28:43):
That's not how they do it, though they would have
Maldonado catch no matter who it was. That that is
just it's just that damn sequencing.

Speaker 1 (01:28:51):
If we could just get the get the AI online
turned Martine Maldonado into a fucking computer program, we need
him around anymore. We can just plug it in. Could
we run the Maldonado sequence?

Speaker 4 (01:29:05):
Please? We need Maldonado in a big tub of water
with a frigging colander on his head with a bunch
of battery cables hooked up to it, like.

Speaker 1 (01:29:18):
The Maldonado sequence. All Right, that's it for this one.
Justin thank you so much man. You're always so generous
with your time, and we really appreciate you having on
and having a great time talking ball with you.

Speaker 2 (01:29:31):
No, thank you, guys.

Speaker 3 (01:29:33):
As I've said many times, this is like one of
my very favorite podcasts. I think you guys do an
absolutely fantastic job and it is a pleasure to be on.

Speaker 2 (01:29:41):
Thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:29:44):
Well, we don't have any postgame shows this week until
maybe Friday, and I don't think we'll do an all
star reaction show unless something like Horrible or great happens.
So you know, I'd really prefer not to think of
either one of those outcomes, to be honest with you.
So that'll give us a couple of days, but nonetheless
we'll be back full strength next set next Sunday, and

(01:30:05):
hopefully some winning postgame shows from DC on the way out.
We didn't do one on the at the very beginning,
but if you've made it to the end of the show,
we say thank you so very much. If you can
do a little bit to help us out on the
free side, if you're listening to the podcast, please five star, rating,
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to drive engagement. Amazing. I want to take it to

(01:30:28):
a next step Patreon dot com, slash podres hotub. Just
today five dollars patrons got access to my ballpark tickets.
You know, I've said who wants them, and we had
somebody go to the game for free today to go
see the padres in the Phillies. Happens all the time.
Ticket marketplace Rayfie found tickets for this weekend's series right away.

(01:30:50):
Incredible resource find out. There's so many great Things Patreon
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Thank you for watching. For Justin Halper, Chris Reid, Rafie Canter,
I'm Craig Elston, Go Padres

Speaker 4 (01:32:08):
Do just what to do,

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