October 27, 2025 • 39 mins
Football chat waits for tomorrow after Chiefs MNF tussle with the Commanders. Today let's visit with David Lesky from "Inside the Crown" for World Series insights, and a look at the Royals potential Hot Stove maneuverings. Come on along!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to the Danny Clinkscale Reasonably irreverent podcast, insightful and
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Welcome to a Major League Baseball postseason extra. Our football
Monday podcast waits for Tuesday with the Chiefs playing Monday
Night Football and a great chance to catch up on
all things baseball. Don't like to ignore the great game.
I have been heavily immersed in the playoffs. I get
mad when people watch NFL regular season football instead of
postseason baseball. But I can't control what people like to do.
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But anyway, we're going to spend time with David Leski
of Inside the Crown. It's always a pleasure to do so.
He's a busy man in the off season, provides a
lot of content. His free posts move to Friday. Of course,
he does a podcast as well with Saren Petro, So
he's around and about talking baseball, and we love doing it.
World Series Game three comes up tonight. The Blue Jays
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injected some drama into the series by winning the first game,
which a lot of people thought maybe they wouldn't even
win one. The Dodgers bounce back and Yamamoto has been
out of this world good so far in the first two.
It's the Dodgers starters that can control this series. We'll
see if they do. Blue Jay's bats have been awful
hot so far, but they were cooled off in Game two.
(01:23):
We'll talk about the postseason in general and the World
Series and where we're at right now with David, and
then we'll switch gears in part two and talk about
the offseason for the Kansas City Royals. Where they're at,
the accomplishments that they procured or could do so, or
from their seasons in twenty twenty five, where they rank
in the ability to maybe get a lower level free
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forward to working with you. Welcome back. The World series
is in full flow. Of course tonight people in Kansas
City will either be watching it on a side TV
or paying no attention whatsoever, or watching it later. I'm
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kind of hoping the Chiefs take care of business fast
so I can concentrate on baseball, David. But anyway, we'll
see what happens tonight. I do not have a multi
television setup, som'd be I'll be doing a lot of
flipping around and everything. Been an interesting postseason so far
in general. I think we've had a mixture of really
high drama and lopsided games, tremendous performances. Just maybe a
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overall take or two on the postseason in general before
we headed to the World Series.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
So I've said this before, maybe with you.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
I can't remember, but I think this is the best
postseason we've had in a long time in general, Like
it just feels like the games are more competitive.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
I don't know, maybe maybe it's maybe it.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Goes back to the Mariners Tigers fifteen inning game and
I just can't get that out of my head.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
It was so good.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
But like that that whole the Mariners Blue Jay Series
was great, tons of drama, obviously the home run.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
On the seventh to ultimately win it.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
Even the Dodgers Philly Series was really really competitive. Dodgers
Brewers was not so much, but like even the Wildcard rounds.
It was just a couple of years ago there only
been one that went past two games, and this year
with three.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Of the four, right, Yeah, three of the four went
to three games. So I this has been a really
fun postseason. I don't know, do you do you do
you feel that way or am I just absolutely was
recency biased?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah, but part of it is also, you know, it's
difficult for me because I do love base and I
love postseason baseball and each pitch you're riding on it,
and obviously you know I've lost my team quite early,
but I don't really care. And also I generally enjoy
the broadcast teams that are on. I'm a huge fan
of John Smoltz and I'm glad he's on the World Series.
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I think he's more of a Baseball Geeks type of
color analyst, and I find that that's great. And as
somebody who fancies himself and knowing a lot about baseball,
I learned things from John Smoltz. I'm going along pitch
to pitch with the thinking of the pitcher. So I
very much enjoy John Smoltz. He's added a lot of
the enjoyment for the postseason to me.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
I agree I think Smolts hit an issue for a while,
but he was bashing baseball too much. I think during
his broadcast, talking about all it's different, it's not as
good as it used to be. In that mindset kind
of drives me nuts on a broadcast because part of
your job as an announcer is to grow the game.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
I think he stopped that. I don't.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
I'm trying to think as we're talking a moment where
and the private couple where he said something that was
very much a back in my day comment. But for
the most part, it's you're right. The actual analysis is
excellent from him, and it would it's nice now that they're.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Not not so much doing that. But yeah, that that's
been huge.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
My wife actually the other day we were I can't
remember it was Game one or two. We were talking
about how how different it feels just to watch a
playoff game versus.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
A regular season game.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
And it's right.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
You can feel the energy through the.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
Television even and I love playoff base by Baseball and
hockey I think are the two best playoffs.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I would agree with that.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I think we are also the playoffs that are the
most different, maybe from regular season action, you know, that
the people aren't standing on their feet on every strikeout
or every strike for that matter, you know, and sellout
crowds and the fans are engaged and their team is
good and they have hope, and so it's really cool
and they and also many of the games are very
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low scoring, so uh, that hasn't been always the case
in this postseason, and that's probably spiced it up a
little bit too, but many of them are and one
little mistake, one base running mistake, you know, one big
swing of the bat can be so important in these games,
so that that makes it really cool. And the other
aspect about John Smoltz, and I'm not going to just
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go on and on about him, is the guy was
you know, he was a Hall of Fame pitcher, but
he was like a Hall of Fame starter and outstanding
closer for a couple of years too. So he's kind
of got all aspects of the game covered.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
Yeah, no, he's got He's been in every part of
the game. I mean, playing deep into the playoffs, WHATNY
World Series even five of that.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Yeah, it's just he's been He's seen a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
To put it lightly, Well, let's talk about this series
I think coming in people were, you know, sort of
rolling their eyes, especially if they're not the biggest baseball
fans in the world. Maybe this is the time of
year where they do lock in on baseball a little bit.
And oh, it's the Dodgers again, and they've got all
these stars, and you know, they got three Hall of
Famers at the top of the lineup, and all of
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a sudden, as the season was winding down and the
playoffs were rolling out, all the Dodgers starting pitchers start
to get healthy to the point where they could just
take one of their great starters and make him a closer,
and he looks like out of this world doing that.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
But the Blue Jays can hit.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Anybody, although they didn't hit Yamamoto in Game two, but
they showed in Game one with their approach, which probably
puts the smile on Royals fans' faces because they're a
high contact team, even they don't hit a tremendous amount
of home runs. For instance, Bobashitt drove in over one
hundred runs this year and he didn't even have twenty
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home runs. So but you know, power pitching can take
that away, as we saw in Game two. But at
least we've got a split of the first two, and
the Jays really just need one to keep it alive,
although I would advise them to if they're gonna try
and win the series, they better take two in l A.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Yeah, I think there's a couple of things.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
One, it's the same thing I said before the NLCS
that if the Dodger starters go six.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Or more, they're probably going to win that game. They
did not.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
Lake Snell didn't get out of the sixth on.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Friday, Friday, the first game, Yeah, Friday, they lost.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Yamamoto went nine in Game two and they won. So
it's it's not it's not a very difficult formula to
figure out, but if you get to the middle of
their bullpen, you but the chance you're gonna win. And
and that's that's what the Blue Jays did on Friday,
but they didn't do on Saturday.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
And I think the other side, Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
I thought the Blue Jays needed to win both games
in Toronto to start to have a real shot because
once you get past you know, Kevin Gasmin's really good,
Tray Savage obviously looks.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Looks like the real deal. Uh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
And I think you can match up with those two,
I don't know what you're gonna get from Max suers
Er or or or Shane Bieber. And that's not to
say that both those guys couldn't go out and just shove.
But it diffy. I mean, Max suers are We're not
that far removed from him not getting out of the
first inning in Kansas City, and he gave up seven runs.
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I think he was a third of an inning, right,
he only I think he only got one out in
that game. And that's it's not very long ago. It
was September. It's only it's still October. So there's there's
every chance in the world that that they.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
That they can't.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
They don't do anything until they get your Savage back
in Game five, and by then it could be three
to one. If it's three to one, the Dodgers aren't
losing that lead, I'm sorry, I don't anything can happen,
So it's I guess it's possible.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
But I would bet, I would bet heavily it gets happening.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
So well, they really need I think they really need
to win two games in Toronto, But now they win
two games in La it's the same situation.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
So I do think that that's they probably are.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
Not going to win the World Series because they lost
Game two. But like baseball is weird, teams they did
to win three out of five games, and really bad
teams can be really good teams three out of five times,
So it would not be a surprise if a really
good team to be a really good team three out
of five times.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Either.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Well, we've seen something historic which wouldn't have been historic
up until I don't know, fifteen years ago. And that's
Yoshinobu Yamamoto. And I'm only going to say both names once.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
There you go. I got it. It's right in front
of me. So that's the only one.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Yoshi.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Yeah, Yoshi, there you go.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Pitch back to back complete games and done it under
the highest spotlight in the postseason. His combination of the
high velocity, low fastball with the splitter is really devastating.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Is that the key to what he does?
Speaker 7 (13:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I mean he's He was good last year as a rookie.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
This season, though, it feels like he's figured out how
to combine the experience with being just better than everybody else.
Because he is. But that's that's just what he is.
He's better than everybody else, and he throws strikes. He
throws difficult strikes to hit. I think that hitters have
a really hard time picking the ball up out of
his hand. Everything you want in a pitcher is what
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he is. And they were talking on I don't think
it was the World Series broadcast. I think it was
the NLCS broadcast. That he would routinely go eight nine
innings in Japan and then it comes to the Majors
and obviously had some injuries last year.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
I think he got hurt against the Royals. Is that right?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
That's not familiar to you, familiar to me.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
I think he left that game in l A against
the Royals. That that was the Melenda's Grand Slam game.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
I believe. And my mind is stupid. It doesn't. It doesn't.
I don't remember what to get at the grocery store,
but I remember that.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, the epic Melendez Hall of Famer MJ. Melendez Grand Slam.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
Yeah, it was like remember the twelve or thirteen pitch
at bat? Yeah, I can trying to Why do I
this is so stupid?
Speaker 5 (14:14):
I should not.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I hope, oh you should's that's what makes a fan
a fan, and an analyst and analyst.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
So oh, no, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah. The other thing about Yamamoto to me is the
fact that this is an era where people try to
run the fastball up in the strike zone and he
really doesn't do that.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
No, and he'll show it up there, but you're right,
he does. He gets the work done at the bottom
of the zone.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
And it's what everything is, a cat and mouse game, right,
When everybody's going high, you go low, and you're different.
When everybody's going low, you go high and you're different.
And it's just about adjustment. And it would not surprise
me and baseball, I think sports in general, but baseball
really is a copycat game.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Right, And so people started to see and it was
a lot.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
The Astros were kind of, I don't know the first team,
but they were the team to do it the most.
Get that high fastball going. You remember when when they
got to care Cole and they they did that. It
was with Verlander a little bit, although Verlander was already Lander.
But I wonder a little bit if you start to
see some guys try to be more like Yamamoto, and
you start to see the low fastball come back into vogue,
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and maybe it never does because hitter swings are geared
to drive that pitch, and Yamamoto is just so good
that it doesn't matter. But I wonder a little bit
if we start to see a little more of that.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
So it sounds like you think the Dodgers maybe polished
this one off by the time they and don't have
to go back to Toronto. Is that I think that's possible.
I hope it doesn't happen, but I think it's definitely
pot I.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
Mean, I always if the Royals are not in it,
I always root for seven games or five, you know,
in the earlier round.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
But so I'm hoping it doesn't. I I think there's
a chance that they did.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
This series ends before Toronto sees another game in hit home,
and it's just disappointing. But also again, if they go
out there tonight and it's it's class now, right, he's
pitching in Game four.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
If if last now goes four and a third, I
think the Blue Jays probably win the game.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
So I don't know that I've ever seen a team
so reliant in the modern game, in the very modern game,
so reliant on their starters giving them six plus innings.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
It's just counterintuitive to everything.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Every other, right, and they really tried hard to build
that bullpen up. I mean, they didn't, and it just
shows how validile bullpens are because they spent money, they
made acquisitions, they did everything that.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
At the outset of the season, it looked like, well
everybody was talking about them winning one hundred and twenty
five games or something because they had bolstered the back
end too.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Yeah, and I mean, look some of the names in there.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
It's just crazy to think for a team that signed
Canner Scott and Kirby Yates and had Evan Phillips and
had Brudge Dark Gradual and and and all those guys.
Michael Kope, like all those guys. Jack Dryer, right, he's
a he's a you know, I'm not quite.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
A leverage guy.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
But like, they've got a Edgardo Henriquez Enriquez on their staff.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Have you ever heard of him?
Speaker 7 (17:12):
I had because I'm a nerd, but most people haven't.
And they got Will Klein, former Royal pitch to pitch
the game in the World Series. And they've got there's
this other guy long really, I don't know if you've
heard of him, Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
Yes, he's I mean, it's just it's so interesting how
their how their team has evolved to this point that Yeah,
like you said, they spend a ton of money on
Scott and and a short term money on on Kirby Yates.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
But I was thirteen million dollars and.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
They spent a lot of money on that bolt And
and you're getting like Emmitt Sheehan, who I really like,
by the way, is pitching important innings in the World Series.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
It's it's crazy how that's hurted out for them.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Let's talk a couple of offensive notes before we break
and talk some royals here. Uh, Guerrero is just a
joy to watch. He's almost really just a He doesn't
look like his dad really, but his hitting style is
a replica of it though, although he does even though
he can hit anything, he does add in contact and disaplineages. Yeah,
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so that's he's been amazing. But you can talk to that.
But also maybe the biggest surprise of the postseason is
the Dodgers just aren't hitting and they've got got quite
a lineup.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Yeah, I mean, Guerrero, he's he's just fun.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
I mean, I before the season, I picked the Blue
Jays to finish last and the reason I did, and
I think I said this to you before I did
my predictions before they signed him to the extension, which
was like the day before opening Day or something like that,
and I thought, oh, well, they're not going to get
it done. It's too late. He's passed the deadline. They're
not gonna get done. They're going to trade him. And
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I think that he is that important to them, that
he's the difference between them being a playoff team and
finishing in last place in that division. And obviously they
got to they never traded him, which I thought that
they trade him, they're gonna trade the shit, and so
that's that. That was my thought process. But he is
just so important to this team. And you're right, he's
his dad's hitting ability with the eye of an actual,
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you know, a good eye. And he walked eighty one
times in six and eighty play bards. That's really good,
one of the one of the better rates in baseball.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
There were three eighty one.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
On base percentage last year was three eighty six. He
was four oh one and twenty twenty one when he
almost won MVP. It's he's incredible, But also you're right,
the Dodgers, and they're they're in the postseason and hitting
is down generally because the pitching is just better. You're
not facing number five starters, you're not facing middle relievers
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as often it they have.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
They seem to struggle a little bit.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
But what's interesting, they have the second highest way to
run created plus of any postseason team this year at.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
One oh seven.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
They're one of three teams of the twelve who are
above average.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Offensive this postseason. But it feels like they're not because
everything is so down right.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
But I mean, also, yeah, fifty five runs in twelve
games is you know, four and a half per game,
but for them, it feels like nothing. They've also struck
out a fair amount. Twenty four percent right out right
is high for them. But again, everything goes up in
the playoffs, and you know, they you feel like their
lineup should be better. But you know, I wonder a
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little bit, and this is a longer topic for another day,
are they how much can the Dodgers sustain? Rookie Betts
is not getting younger, Freddie Freeman is not getting younger.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
I mean, Otani's gonna be fine, but yeah, they're they're
gonna need to find another.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Their position players are old. I mean yeah, period. But
before we break, I would be remiss if I didn't
talk about Otani the epic game for the Ages, although
he hasn't hit in general very well. But one stat
I hadn't even registered with me during the season is
that he hit more home runs than he struck out.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
It's like Joe DiMaggio I did.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Is that true. I didn't not even realize.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I think he struck Maybe maybe he was wrong, maybe
I heard it wrong, but I think he had.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Fifty No, no, he struck out one seven.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Oh okay, that's wrong.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
It must have been the amount of people at times
he struck out batters in.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
The postseason or something. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I'm glad you straightened that out, because if he was
doing that, I don't even know what to think, but
that that was the greatest game ever, wasn't it?
Speaker 7 (21:28):
If it's not its top five? I mean I was,
I was listening, he was MLB network radio was talking
about it, and somebody said, look, I know it was
a great game, but Dunn Larson threw a perfect game,
and I get it, But also he didn't hit three
home runs.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
No, No, I mean that was a regular season There
was a regular season game where Rick Wise pitched a
no hitter and hit two home runs too. Yeah, but
that's a regular season game.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I mean, yeah, I think.
Speaker 7 (21:57):
When you factor in the meaning.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
And and and what what that what and then.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Clinched the postseason series too, and if they lost, if
they still were won the series.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
So that's it's a little bit, a little bit of
a ding. But it's also game four of going to
the World Series.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
That game happened when they clinched going to the World Series,
which they could not have.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Been more nonchalant about, by the way.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
I thought that was crazy. But I mean, yeah, that
three home run six No, it wasn't shut out. He
gave up a run because he gave inherited run scored.
But incredible. I mean, at some point, again this is
another topic for another day, they're going.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
To have to rename the m v P A right
and give the m v P.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
Yeah, he gets he's Any year he pitches and hits,
you can't give it to anybody else because there's nobody
more valuable, So somebody else has to win it at
some point.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
But yeah, it's he's incredible. He is.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Indeed, let's talk about the Kansas City Royals, what maybe
we've learned, if anything, from the postseason, and what they
might or might not look to do in the off season,
which has a long way to go. And of course
we're starting up the process here pretty soon with David
Leski from Inside the Crowd. It's our MLB Postseason Extra
presented by ASFCA.
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Speaker 3 (26:33):
On we'll go the Royals.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Do you expect an active Royals off season?
Speaker 5 (26:41):
I think so.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
I mean maybe not in the way that people want
it to be active, but I would anticipate at least
one player.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
No, I'm gonna be more. I'm gonna be a little
bit bolder.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
At least two players from the big league roster who
you expect to be core or core adjacent traded and
then by that, like I think Chris Boobach gets moved,
I really do.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
I don't if they're able to. I think the health
obviously is a big issue there.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
But I think you're gonna see him. I think he's
gonna be dangled. And if it's not him, maybe no,
Cameron gets moved. They just have to me, they have
too big of a hole on the offense and too
much depth on the pitching staff not to make that
move where they trade one of their starters. And the
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two who make the most sense to me are No
Cameron and Chris Boobach. Again, Boobage gets tough because the
shoulder injury.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
But whether you're going to get the value you want
for him, or whether somebody is willing to take a flyer,
you know, maybe a bigger market team might say, you
know what, We're fine if he doesn't pitch for a
while and we've got prospects, we'll trade him to you.
We think this guy's got tremendous upside boom.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
We'll do it exactly exactly. And there's one name that
I've heard. I've heard the Cubs are kind of in
that mindset of, hey, we've got a retool. Is what
we're doing isn't working, So let's shift focus a little bit.
And a guy say it's.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Suzuki's gonna be a free agent after the season. He
to me, I don't.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
I know, the defensive metrics aren't very good for him,
but he's also he's fast, he's got a good arm.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
I don't know why they don't work. And I guess
the same thing could be said for MJ. Melendez.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
He's quick, he's got a good arm. Why doesn't it work?
It just doesn't defensively. Offensively is another story. But I
could see a boobache for say a Suzuki deal.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
I could see that makes sense. Both guys are free
agents after the season. The Cubs need some pitching. Justin
Steel is not going to be back for a while.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
They might lose him an Aga, you know that there's
some there's some need there, and the Cubs have also
shown a willingness to take on some injury risks.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
They signed Matthew Boyd to a two year deal, So like,
maybe maybe that.
Speaker 7 (28:56):
Makes some sense there, or look, maybe maybe the physical shows, hey,
he's perfectly healthy. I could see that too, that a
physical would would clear everything up for him. So but
I think you're going to see a couple of guys
traded who maybe you aren't ready to see traded. One
person told me, I don't I have not vetted this.
I have not I'm not saying this is actually going
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to happen. But somebody said, don't be surprised if they
dangle Kaglion, which.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
It's interesting. I don't know what, but it's interesting.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
I think it's interesting. I'd dangle him. I think he's
shown me enough enough enough bad that yeah, it could
blow up in your face. But he looks more to
me like, he looks more to me like I'm trying
to think of who it is. It's not him, but
somebody like Travis Hafner. It's not Travis after but it's
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somebody else who has a short shelf life of hitting
a bunch of bombs.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
And that's about it.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
I mean Joey Gallo, Yeah, yeah, maybe more joe that's
a better comp. That is a better comp. Yeah, you know,
a guy who's who's been an effective player for you.
Although Gallo is a very good defender.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
So uh, that's true. That's that. That is the difference.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
And but interesting about Gallo, he's he's going back to pitching,
so that's.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Another side and note there.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
But I don't again, I don't know if that's actually
a real thing. But and I and I think if
they were going to trade Taglion, it would not be
for just a random no, you know, would.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
It wouldn't be for say a Suzuki. Let's say they'd have.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
To get back a legitimate big league middle of the
order bat, which I don't know that they can.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Get for Taglion right now. But I thought that was
really interesting. Yeah, I mean maybe maybe.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Although people just don't trade too many middle of the
order bats, I mean, they know.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
There's one name that I had heard was might be available,
and I'm going, okay, this this could makes some sense.
You look at like Caatel Marte, who, right, there's been
some reports in Arizona, like, okay, so he's a second base,
switch hitting second baseman. The Diamondbacks could use a first baseman.
You start to build the trade in your head, and
you go, March is also thirty one, and there are
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questions about him in the club house.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Do you trade Caculi owned for him?
Speaker 7 (31:18):
But so, I don't know what that would look like,
but I would expect to hear. I would expect to
hear pretty much all the typical names in trade talks.
Jared Duran, will you or a bray you with the
Red Sox, I think Suzuki with the Cubs, Taylor Ward
with the Angels, who he's down to one year of control,
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whereas two years ago, you were trading for two and
a half years of control just never happened.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
Joe Adell with the Angels is another one.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
I think there are a lot of outfield names out there,
but the Royals I would be very surprised if they're
not connected with almost every single one of them, because
the need is just obvious.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Yeah, you pointed it out in your in your newsletter,
the fact that the Royals have four Silver Slugger finalists,
yet their offense stinks.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
I mean, but but but we saw what happened after
the deadline and in the second half, when when the
guys around them didn't stink, they got East Treemsky, who
was better. And I think that to me, I think
you look at Okay, how do we build this lineup
to be let's use the Blue Jays. How do we
build this line to be more like the Blue Jays?
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The Blue Jays chase pitches, they don't strike out, they
don't walk. They have the difference between the Royals and
the Blue Jays to me is that the Blue Jays
have a deeper lineup because I would take Garcia with
Pascorentino and Salva Prez up against a good chunk of
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the Blue Jays top five, right, I mean like that
you it's when you get to the bottom of the
lineup that you see a real difference. I mean, I
who do you put in their top five? So Springer, Guerrero,
Bashett when he's healthy, Kirk var Show somewhere, and you
know that that group.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
I take the Royals forsome over.
Speaker 7 (33:11):
I think we're at least close, but they've got as
in Barger Clement turned into a really good season. Again, whoever,
you don't pick a Kirk or var Show for that
top four is a better player than than what the
Royals have beyond their top four. So I think you
can make an argument that that that's how you want
to go. And to me, I've said this before. To me,
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I think that they need to find somebody who turns
Salvado Perez from a five hitter to a six hitter.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
Because I don't think you can count on him continuing
to do what he's done.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
And he's so streaky that is that's never going to
change everything.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
No, No, it's just the way he is.
Speaker 7 (33:52):
And I think you get somebody to turn him into
a six hitter, and then you get somebody to hit seventh,
and all of a sudden, you have the lineup.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
That is basically what the Blue Jays have put out there,
and it's doable. It's very doable. But they they need
I don't know, two more bats and who are those supporting?
Who's the supporting bat?
Speaker 7 (34:14):
Is it Mikey Stremsky back on a free agent deal?
Are they trading for Gavin Sheets? I don't know Gavin Sheets.
I was looking at the list Ian Happ. I wouldn't
trade for Gavin Cheats, is it. I don't even know.
I don't even know where they go. But I think
they need a legit middle of the order bat and
a supplementary bat. And if they do that, I think
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you're looking at a prety decent lineup in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
Yep. And it's just going to take it takes money
or players or both.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Well.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Interestingly enough, speaking of Yustremski, there's an article out today
Jim Bowden picks the top fifty free agents and says
what the best team fits are, et cetera. And you
don't see the Royals and best team fits in any
until you hit number forty eight and number fifty, and
that is Mike Yastremsky and Cedric Mullins.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
Yeah, what do you think?
Speaker 2 (35:10):
I mean, I think Yustremsky seems completely natural. It seemed
like you fit in.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
He performed.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
You know, his career has generally been a pretty good
on base plus power plus reasonable defense. You know, he
did have a flat spot and maybe he was getting
old or maybe it was just a flat spot. And
also the contract prediction from Bowden that I'm looking at
here is one year, six million dollars. I mean for that,
I'm just even if he was awful, it wouldn't hit.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
What have you lost?
Speaker 5 (35:40):
I mean I was. I was looking at it a
little bit before. I hadn't seen this yet. I mean
I saw it. I had looked at it before we talked.
I saw that it was there.
Speaker 7 (35:48):
I had eight million on Yastremsky in just looking at
some like contracts. So because I'm actually working on just a.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Little preview, I've been doing these JJ for a Day
articles and more Great Free Agent one. They're fun to write.
They're really big credit to Seth s.
Speaker 7 (36:03):
Geyser who does it with the Chiefs, and he's leached
for a day basically, and I just works.
Speaker 5 (36:08):
Out the JJ and day rhyme it's perfect, but I
had an eight million on that, so I might update
that a little bit. But I I think he makes
a lot of sense.
Speaker 7 (36:22):
He was, like you said, really good with the Royals.
He seemed to like it in Kansas City. He seemed
to excel in Kansas City. I also think that there's
some an interesting lineup dynamic with him leading off against
righty's and Garcia leading off against lefties. I would obviously
want to make sure that Garcia handles moving back and
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forth in different spots in the lineup well, but I
think there's a lot to like there. I it just
it makes sense to me and the other side. And
this is I brought this up a couple of times,
and I think people are a little bit iffy on
the idea. But with the Royals are in a kind
of a tough spot because you can't count on him
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in twenty twenty six and you expect to be a
playoff team. There is no doubt that the Royals expect
to make the playoffs in twenty twenty six, and they
have to operate with that in mind. So you can't
count on Jack kagleon but you also can't block Jack Kaglion,
because if they are going to be the best team
they can be, he breaks out right, and so you
put yourself in a really tough spot.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
And I think the best.
Speaker 7 (37:29):
Way to go about that, if you're not going to
just say, hey, we don't care if he's blocked for
a year, is you go get a platoon, and a
platoon of like Mikey Schremsky and Lane Thomas just an example,
could be any any lefty, any righty. But you get
two guys who you feel okay playing every day but
would really love to platoon them. I think that sets
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you up to account for a potential Kaglion not doing
it and not block him if he does break out.
And so I think that makes a lot of sense there,
because you have two outfielders. If you need to sit
start them both, but you really rather not. So I
think that's where they go.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Well, we could talk about a million other things like
the bullpen and everything, but we've got a whole offseason
to do it. David, always fun talking baseball with you.
I hope we get a full seven game World Series.
I don't know if we will, but baseball is fun
for me. The postseason has been great as we talked about,
and I appreciate you taking the time.
Speaker 5 (38:25):
Absolutely thanks for having me.
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or paying no attention whatsoever, or watching it later. I'm
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kind of hoping the Chiefs take care of business fast
so I can concentrate on baseball, David. But anyway, we'll
see what happens tonight. I do not have a multi
television setup, som'd be I'll be doing a lot of
flipping around and everything. Been an interesting postseason so far
in general. I think we've had a mixture of really
high drama and lopsided games, tremendous performances. Just maybe a
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overall take or two on the postseason in general before
we headed to the World Series.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
So I've said this before, maybe with you.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
I can't remember, but I think this is the best
postseason we've had in a long time in general, Like
it just feels like the games are more competitive.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
I don't know, maybe maybe it's maybe it.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Goes back to the Mariners Tigers fifteen inning game and
I just can't get that out of my head.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
It was so good.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
But like that that whole the Mariners Blue Jay Series
was great, tons of drama, obviously the home run.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
On the seventh to ultimately win it.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
Even the Dodgers Philly Series was really really competitive. Dodgers
Brewers was not so much, but like even the Wildcard rounds.
It was just a couple of years ago there only
been one that went past two games, and this year
with three.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Of the four, right, Yeah, three of the four went
to three games. So I this has been a really
fun postseason. I don't know, do you do you do
you feel that way or am I just absolutely was
recency biased?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah, but part of it is also, you know, it's
difficult for me because I do love base and I
love postseason baseball and each pitch you're riding on it,
and obviously you know I've lost my team quite early,
but I don't really care. And also I generally enjoy
the broadcast teams that are on. I'm a huge fan
of John Smoltz and I'm glad he's on the World Series.
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I think he's more of a Baseball Geeks type of
color analyst, and I find that that's great. And as
somebody who fancies himself and knowing a lot about baseball,
I learned things from John Smoltz. I'm going along pitch
to pitch with the thinking of the pitcher. So I
very much enjoy John Smoltz. He's added a lot of
the enjoyment for the postseason to me.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
I agree I think Smolts hit an issue for a while,
but he was bashing baseball too much. I think during
his broadcast, talking about all it's different, it's not as
good as it used to be. In that mindset kind
of drives me nuts on a broadcast because part of
your job as an announcer is to grow the game.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
I think he stopped that. I don't.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
I'm trying to think as we're talking a moment where
and the private couple where he said something that was
very much a back in my day comment. But for
the most part, it's you're right. The actual analysis is
excellent from him, and it would it's nice now that they're.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Not not so much doing that. But yeah, that that's
been huge.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
My wife actually the other day we were I can't
remember it was Game one or two. We were talking
about how how different it feels just to watch a
playoff game versus.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
A regular season game.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
And it's right.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
You can feel the energy through the.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
Television even and I love playoff base by Baseball and
hockey I think are the two best playoffs.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I would agree with that.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I think we are also the playoffs that are the
most different, maybe from regular season action, you know, that
the people aren't standing on their feet on every strikeout
or every strike for that matter, you know, and sellout
crowds and the fans are engaged and their team is
good and they have hope, and so it's really cool
and they and also many of the games are very
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low scoring, so uh, that hasn't been always the case
in this postseason, and that's probably spiced it up a
little bit too, but many of them are and one
little mistake, one base running mistake, you know, one big
swing of the bat can be so important in these games,
so that that makes it really cool. And the other
aspect about John Smoltz, and I'm not going to just
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go on and on about him, is the guy was
you know, he was a Hall of Fame pitcher, but
he was like a Hall of Fame starter and outstanding
closer for a couple of years too. So he's kind
of got all aspects of the game covered.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
Yeah, no, he's got He's been in every part of
the game. I mean, playing deep into the playoffs, WHATNY
World Series even five of that.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Yeah, it's just he's been He's seen a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
To put it lightly, Well, let's talk about this series
I think coming in people were, you know, sort of
rolling their eyes, especially if they're not the biggest baseball
fans in the world. Maybe this is the time of
year where they do lock in on baseball a little bit.
And oh, it's the Dodgers again, and they've got all
these stars, and you know, they got three Hall of
Famers at the top of the lineup, and all of
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a sudden, as the season was winding down and the
playoffs were rolling out, all the Dodgers starting pitchers start
to get healthy to the point where they could just
take one of their great starters and make him a closer,
and he looks like out of this world doing that.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
But the Blue Jays can hit.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Anybody, although they didn't hit Yamamoto in Game two, but
they showed in Game one with their approach, which probably
puts the smile on Royals fans' faces because they're a
high contact team, even they don't hit a tremendous amount
of home runs. For instance, Bobashitt drove in over one
hundred runs this year and he didn't even have twenty
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home runs. So but you know, power pitching can take
that away, as we saw in Game two. But at
least we've got a split of the first two, and
the Jays really just need one to keep it alive,
although I would advise them to if they're gonna try
and win the series, they better take two in l A.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Yeah, I think there's a couple of things.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
One, it's the same thing I said before the NLCS
that if the Dodger starters go six.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Or more, they're probably going to win that game. They
did not.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
Lake Snell didn't get out of the sixth on.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Friday, Friday, the first game, Yeah, Friday, they lost.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Yamamoto went nine in Game two and they won. So
it's it's not it's not a very difficult formula to
figure out, but if you get to the middle of
their bullpen, you but the chance you're gonna win. And
and that's that's what the Blue Jays did on Friday,
but they didn't do on Saturday.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
And I think the other side, Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
I thought the Blue Jays needed to win both games
in Toronto to start to have a real shot because
once you get past you know, Kevin Gasmin's really good,
Tray Savage obviously looks.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Looks like the real deal. Uh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
And I think you can match up with those two,
I don't know what you're gonna get from Max suers
Er or or or Shane Bieber. And that's not to
say that both those guys couldn't go out and just shove.
But it diffy. I mean, Max suers are We're not
that far removed from him not getting out of the
first inning in Kansas City, and he gave up seven runs.
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I think he was a third of an inning, right,
he only I think he only got one out in
that game. And that's it's not very long ago. It
was September. It's only it's still October. So there's there's
every chance in the world that that they.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
That they can't.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
They don't do anything until they get your Savage back
in Game five, and by then it could be three
to one. If it's three to one, the Dodgers aren't
losing that lead, I'm sorry, I don't anything can happen,
So it's I guess it's possible.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
But I would bet, I would bet heavily it gets happening.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
So well, they really need I think they really need
to win two games in Toronto, But now they win
two games in La it's the same situation.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
So I do think that that's they probably are.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
Not going to win the World Series because they lost
Game two. But like baseball is weird, teams they did
to win three out of five games, and really bad
teams can be really good teams three out of five times,
So it would not be a surprise if a really
good team to be a really good team three out
of five times.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Either.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Well, we've seen something historic which wouldn't have been historic
up until I don't know, fifteen years ago. And that's
Yoshinobu Yamamoto. And I'm only going to say both names once.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
There you go. I got it. It's right in front
of me. So that's the only one.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Yoshi.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Yeah, Yoshi, there you go.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Pitch back to back complete games and done it under
the highest spotlight in the postseason. His combination of the
high velocity, low fastball with the splitter is really devastating.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Is that the key to what he does?
Speaker 7 (13:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I mean he's He was good last year as a rookie.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
This season, though, it feels like he's figured out how
to combine the experience with being just better than everybody else.
Because he is. But that's that's just what he is.
He's better than everybody else, and he throws strikes. He
throws difficult strikes to hit. I think that hitters have
a really hard time picking the ball up out of
his hand. Everything you want in a pitcher is what
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he is. And they were talking on I don't think
it was the World Series broadcast. I think it was
the NLCS broadcast. That he would routinely go eight nine
innings in Japan and then it comes to the Majors
and obviously had some injuries last year.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
I think he got hurt against the Royals. Is that right?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
That's not familiar to you, familiar to me.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
I think he left that game in l A against
the Royals. That that was the Melenda's Grand Slam game.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
I believe. And my mind is stupid. It doesn't. It doesn't.
I don't remember what to get at the grocery store,
but I remember that.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, the epic Melendez Hall of Famer MJ. Melendez Grand Slam.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
Yeah, it was like remember the twelve or thirteen pitch
at bat? Yeah, I can trying to Why do I
this is so stupid?
Speaker 5 (14:14):
I should not.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I hope, oh you should's that's what makes a fan
a fan, and an analyst and analyst.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
So oh, no, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah. The other thing about Yamamoto to me is the
fact that this is an era where people try to
run the fastball up in the strike zone and he
really doesn't do that.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
No, and he'll show it up there, but you're right,
he does. He gets the work done at the bottom
of the zone.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
And it's what everything is, a cat and mouse game, right,
When everybody's going high, you go low, and you're different.
When everybody's going low, you go high and you're different.
And it's just about adjustment. And it would not surprise
me and baseball, I think sports in general, but baseball
really is a copycat game.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Right, And so people started to see and it was
a lot.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
The Astros were kind of, I don't know the first team,
but they were the team to do it the most.
Get that high fastball going. You remember when when they
got to care Cole and they they did that. It
was with Verlander a little bit, although Verlander was already Lander.
But I wonder a little bit if you start to
see some guys try to be more like Yamamoto, and
you start to see the low fastball come back into vogue,
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and maybe it never does because hitter swings are geared
to drive that pitch, and Yamamoto is just so good
that it doesn't matter. But I wonder a little bit
if we start to see a little more of that.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
So it sounds like you think the Dodgers maybe polished
this one off by the time they and don't have
to go back to Toronto. Is that I think that's possible.
I hope it doesn't happen, but I think it's definitely
pot I.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
Mean, I always if the Royals are not in it,
I always root for seven games or five, you know,
in the earlier round.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
But so I'm hoping it doesn't. I I think there's
a chance that they did.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
This series ends before Toronto sees another game in hit home,
and it's just disappointing. But also again, if they go
out there tonight and it's it's class now, right, he's
pitching in Game four.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
If if last now goes four and a third, I
think the Blue Jays probably win the game.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
So I don't know that I've ever seen a team
so reliant in the modern game, in the very modern game,
so reliant on their starters giving them six plus innings.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
It's just counterintuitive to everything.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Every other, right, and they really tried hard to build
that bullpen up. I mean, they didn't, and it just
shows how validile bullpens are because they spent money, they
made acquisitions, they did everything that.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
At the outset of the season, it looked like, well
everybody was talking about them winning one hundred and twenty
five games or something because they had bolstered the back
end too.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Yeah, and I mean, look some of the names in there.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
It's just crazy to think for a team that signed
Canner Scott and Kirby Yates and had Evan Phillips and
had Brudge Dark Gradual and and and all those guys.
Michael Kope, like all those guys. Jack Dryer, right, he's
a he's a you know, I'm not quite.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
A leverage guy.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
But like, they've got a Edgardo Henriquez Enriquez on their staff.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Have you ever heard of him?
Speaker 7 (17:12):
I had because I'm a nerd, but most people haven't.
And they got Will Klein, former Royal pitch to pitch
the game in the World Series. And they've got there's
this other guy long really, I don't know if you've
heard of him, Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
Yes, he's I mean, it's just it's so interesting how
their how their team has evolved to this point that Yeah,
like you said, they spend a ton of money on
Scott and and a short term money on on Kirby Yates.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
But I was thirteen million dollars and.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
They spent a lot of money on that bolt And
and you're getting like Emmitt Sheehan, who I really like,
by the way, is pitching important innings in the World Series.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
It's it's crazy how that's hurted out for them.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Let's talk a couple of offensive notes before we break
and talk some royals here. Uh, Guerrero is just a
joy to watch. He's almost really just a He doesn't
look like his dad really, but his hitting style is
a replica of it though, although he does even though
he can hit anything, he does add in contact and disaplineages. Yeah,
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so that's he's been amazing. But you can talk to that.
But also maybe the biggest surprise of the postseason is
the Dodgers just aren't hitting and they've got got quite
a lineup.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Yeah, I mean, Guerrero, he's he's just fun.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
I mean, I before the season, I picked the Blue
Jays to finish last and the reason I did, and
I think I said this to you before I did
my predictions before they signed him to the extension, which
was like the day before opening Day or something like that,
and I thought, oh, well, they're not going to get
it done. It's too late. He's passed the deadline. They're
not gonna get done. They're going to trade him. And
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I think that he is that important to them, that
he's the difference between them being a playoff team and
finishing in last place in that division. And obviously they
got to they never traded him, which I thought that
they trade him, they're gonna trade the shit, and so
that's that. That was my thought process. But he is
just so important to this team. And you're right, he's
his dad's hitting ability with the eye of an actual,
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you know, a good eye. And he walked eighty one
times in six and eighty play bards. That's really good,
one of the one of the better rates in baseball.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
There were three eighty one.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
On base percentage last year was three eighty six. He
was four oh one and twenty twenty one when he
almost won MVP. It's he's incredible, But also you're right,
the Dodgers, and they're they're in the postseason and hitting
is down generally because the pitching is just better. You're
not facing number five starters, you're not facing middle relievers
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as often it they have.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
They seem to struggle a little bit.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
But what's interesting, they have the second highest way to
run created plus of any postseason team this year at.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
One oh seven.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
They're one of three teams of the twelve who are
above average.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Offensive this postseason. But it feels like they're not because
everything is so down right.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
But I mean, also, yeah, fifty five runs in twelve
games is you know, four and a half per game,
but for them, it feels like nothing. They've also struck
out a fair amount. Twenty four percent right out right
is high for them. But again, everything goes up in
the playoffs, and you know, they you feel like their
lineup should be better. But you know, I wonder a
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little bit, and this is a longer topic for another day,
are they how much can the Dodgers sustain? Rookie Betts
is not getting younger, Freddie Freeman is not getting younger.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
I mean, Otani's gonna be fine, but yeah, they're they're
gonna need to find another.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Their position players are old. I mean yeah, period. But
before we break, I would be remiss if I didn't
talk about Otani the epic game for the Ages, although
he hasn't hit in general very well. But one stat
I hadn't even registered with me during the season is
that he hit more home runs than he struck out.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
It's like Joe DiMaggio I did.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Is that true. I didn't not even realize.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I think he struck Maybe maybe he was wrong, maybe
I heard it wrong, but I think he had.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Fifty No, no, he struck out one seven.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Oh okay, that's wrong.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
It must have been the amount of people at times
he struck out batters in.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
The postseason or something. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I'm glad you straightened that out, because if he was
doing that, I don't even know what to think, but
that that was the greatest game ever, wasn't it?
Speaker 7 (21:28):
If it's not its top five? I mean I was,
I was listening, he was MLB network radio was talking
about it, and somebody said, look, I know it was
a great game, but Dunn Larson threw a perfect game,
and I get it, But also he didn't hit three
home runs.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
No, No, I mean that was a regular season There
was a regular season game where Rick Wise pitched a
no hitter and hit two home runs too. Yeah, but
that's a regular season game.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I mean, yeah, I think.
Speaker 7 (21:57):
When you factor in the meaning.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
And and and what what that what and then.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Clinched the postseason series too, and if they lost, if
they still were won the series.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
So that's it's a little bit, a little bit of
a ding. But it's also game four of going to
the World Series.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
That game happened when they clinched going to the World Series,
which they could not have.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Been more nonchalant about, by the way.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
I thought that was crazy. But I mean, yeah, that
three home run six No, it wasn't shut out. He
gave up a run because he gave inherited run scored.
But incredible. I mean, at some point, again this is
another topic for another day, they're going.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
To have to rename the m v P A right
and give the m v P.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
Yeah, he gets he's Any year he pitches and hits,
you can't give it to anybody else because there's nobody
more valuable, So somebody else has to win it at
some point.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
But yeah, it's he's incredible. He is.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Indeed, let's talk about the Kansas City Royals, what maybe
we've learned, if anything, from the postseason, and what they
might or might not look to do in the off season,
which has a long way to go. And of course
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Speaker 3 (26:33):
On we'll go the Royals.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Do you expect an active Royals off season?
Speaker 5 (26:41):
I think so.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
I mean maybe not in the way that people want
it to be active, but I would anticipate at least
one player.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
No, I'm gonna be more. I'm gonna be a little
bit bolder.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
At least two players from the big league roster who
you expect to be core or core adjacent traded and
then by that, like I think Chris Boobach gets moved,
I really do.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
I don't if they're able to. I think the health
obviously is a big issue there.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
But I think you're gonna see him. I think he's
gonna be dangled. And if it's not him, maybe no,
Cameron gets moved. They just have to me, they have
too big of a hole on the offense and too
much depth on the pitching staff not to make that
move where they trade one of their starters. And the
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two who make the most sense to me are No
Cameron and Chris Boobach. Again, Boobage gets tough because the
shoulder injury.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
But whether you're going to get the value you want
for him, or whether somebody is willing to take a flyer,
you know, maybe a bigger market team might say, you
know what, We're fine if he doesn't pitch for a
while and we've got prospects, we'll trade him to you.
We think this guy's got tremendous upside boom.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
We'll do it exactly exactly. And there's one name that
I've heard. I've heard the Cubs are kind of in
that mindset of, hey, we've got a retool. Is what
we're doing isn't working, So let's shift focus a little bit.
And a guy say it's.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Suzuki's gonna be a free agent after the season. He
to me, I don't.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
I know, the defensive metrics aren't very good for him,
but he's also he's fast, he's got a good arm.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
I don't know why they don't work. And I guess
the same thing could be said for MJ. Melendez.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
He's quick, he's got a good arm. Why doesn't it work?
It just doesn't defensively. Offensively is another story. But I
could see a boobache for say a Suzuki deal.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
I could see that makes sense. Both guys are free
agents after the season. The Cubs need some pitching. Justin
Steel is not going to be back for a while.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
They might lose him an Aga, you know that there's
some there's some need there, and the Cubs have also
shown a willingness to take on some injury risks.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
They signed Matthew Boyd to a two year deal, So like,
maybe maybe that.
Speaker 7 (28:56):
Makes some sense there, or look, maybe maybe the physical shows, hey,
he's perfectly healthy. I could see that too, that a
physical would would clear everything up for him. So but
I think you're going to see a couple of guys
traded who maybe you aren't ready to see traded. One
person told me, I don't I have not vetted this.
I have not I'm not saying this is actually going
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to happen. But somebody said, don't be surprised if they
dangle Kaglion, which.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
It's interesting. I don't know what, but it's interesting.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
I think it's interesting. I'd dangle him. I think he's
shown me enough enough enough bad that yeah, it could
blow up in your face. But he looks more to
me like, he looks more to me like I'm trying
to think of who it is. It's not him, but
somebody like Travis Hafner. It's not Travis after but it's
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somebody else who has a short shelf life of hitting
a bunch of bombs.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
And that's about it.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
I mean Joey Gallo, Yeah, yeah, maybe more joe that's
a better comp. That is a better comp. Yeah, you know,
a guy who's who's been an effective player for you.
Although Gallo is a very good defender.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
So uh, that's true. That's that. That is the difference.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
And but interesting about Gallo, he's he's going back to pitching,
so that's.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Another side and note there.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
But I don't again, I don't know if that's actually
a real thing. But and I and I think if
they were going to trade Taglion, it would not be
for just a random no, you know, would.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
It wouldn't be for say a Suzuki. Let's say they'd have.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
To get back a legitimate big league middle of the
order bat, which I don't know that they can.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Get for Taglion right now. But I thought that was
really interesting. Yeah, I mean maybe maybe.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Although people just don't trade too many middle of the
order bats, I mean, they know.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
There's one name that I had heard was might be available,
and I'm going, okay, this this could makes some sense.
You look at like Caatel Marte, who, right, there's been
some reports in Arizona, like, okay, so he's a second base,
switch hitting second baseman. The Diamondbacks could use a first baseman.
You start to build the trade in your head, and
you go, March is also thirty one, and there are
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questions about him in the club house.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Do you trade Caculi owned for him?
Speaker 7 (31:18):
But so, I don't know what that would look like,
but I would expect to hear. I would expect to
hear pretty much all the typical names in trade talks.
Jared Duran, will you or a bray you with the
Red Sox, I think Suzuki with the Cubs, Taylor Ward
with the Angels, who he's down to one year of control,
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whereas two years ago, you were trading for two and
a half years of control just never happened.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
Joe Adell with the Angels is another one.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
I think there are a lot of outfield names out there,
but the Royals I would be very surprised if they're
not connected with almost every single one of them, because
the need is just obvious.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Yeah, you pointed it out in your in your newsletter,
the fact that the Royals have four Silver Slugger finalists,
yet their offense stinks.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
I mean, but but but we saw what happened after
the deadline and in the second half, when when the
guys around them didn't stink, they got East Treemsky, who
was better. And I think that to me, I think
you look at Okay, how do we build this lineup
to be let's use the Blue Jays. How do we
build this line to be more like the Blue Jays?
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The Blue Jays chase pitches, they don't strike out, they
don't walk. They have the difference between the Royals and
the Blue Jays to me is that the Blue Jays
have a deeper lineup because I would take Garcia with
Pascorentino and Salva Prez up against a good chunk of
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the Blue Jays top five, right, I mean like that
you it's when you get to the bottom of the
lineup that you see a real difference. I mean, I
who do you put in their top five? So Springer, Guerrero,
Bashett when he's healthy, Kirk var Show somewhere, and you
know that that group.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
I take the Royals forsome over.
Speaker 7 (33:11):
I think we're at least close, but they've got as
in Barger Clement turned into a really good season. Again, whoever,
you don't pick a Kirk or var Show for that
top four is a better player than than what the
Royals have beyond their top four. So I think you
can make an argument that that that's how you want
to go. And to me, I've said this before. To me,
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I think that they need to find somebody who turns
Salvado Perez from a five hitter to a six hitter.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
Because I don't think you can count on him continuing
to do what he's done.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
And he's so streaky that is that's never going to
change everything.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
No, No, it's just the way he is.
Speaker 7 (33:52):
And I think you get somebody to turn him into
a six hitter, and then you get somebody to hit seventh,
and all of a sudden, you have the lineup.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
That is basically what the Blue Jays have put out there,
and it's doable. It's very doable. But they they need
I don't know, two more bats and who are those supporting?
Who's the supporting bat?
Speaker 7 (34:14):
Is it Mikey Stremsky back on a free agent deal?
Are they trading for Gavin Sheets? I don't know Gavin Sheets.
I was looking at the list Ian Happ. I wouldn't
trade for Gavin Cheats, is it. I don't even know.
I don't even know where they go. But I think
they need a legit middle of the order bat and
a supplementary bat. And if they do that, I think
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you're looking at a prety decent lineup in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
Yep. And it's just going to take it takes money
or players or both.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Well.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Interestingly enough, speaking of Yustremski, there's an article out today
Jim Bowden picks the top fifty free agents and says
what the best team fits are, et cetera. And you
don't see the Royals and best team fits in any
until you hit number forty eight and number fifty, and
that is Mike Yastremsky and Cedric Mullins.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
Yeah, what do you think?
Speaker 2 (35:10):
I mean, I think Yustremsky seems completely natural. It seemed
like you fit in.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
He performed.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
You know, his career has generally been a pretty good
on base plus power plus reasonable defense. You know, he
did have a flat spot and maybe he was getting
old or maybe it was just a flat spot. And
also the contract prediction from Bowden that I'm looking at
here is one year, six million dollars. I mean for that,
I'm just even if he was awful, it wouldn't hit.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
What have you lost?
Speaker 5 (35:40):
I mean I was. I was looking at it a
little bit before. I hadn't seen this yet. I mean
I saw it. I had looked at it before we talked.
I saw that it was there.
Speaker 7 (35:48):
I had eight million on Yastremsky in just looking at
some like contracts. So because I'm actually working on just a.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Little preview, I've been doing these JJ for a Day
articles and more Great Free Agent one. They're fun to write.
They're really big credit to Seth s.
Speaker 7 (36:03):
Geyser who does it with the Chiefs, and he's leached
for a day basically, and I just works.
Speaker 5 (36:08):
Out the JJ and day rhyme it's perfect, but I
had an eight million on that, so I might update
that a little bit. But I I think he makes
a lot of sense.
Speaker 7 (36:22):
He was, like you said, really good with the Royals.
He seemed to like it in Kansas City. He seemed
to excel in Kansas City. I also think that there's
some an interesting lineup dynamic with him leading off against
righty's and Garcia leading off against lefties. I would obviously
want to make sure that Garcia handles moving back and
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forth in different spots in the lineup well, but I
think there's a lot to like there. I it just
it makes sense to me and the other side. And
this is I brought this up a couple of times,
and I think people are a little bit iffy on
the idea. But with the Royals are in a kind
of a tough spot because you can't count on him
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in twenty twenty six and you expect to be a
playoff team. There is no doubt that the Royals expect
to make the playoffs in twenty twenty six, and they
have to operate with that in mind. So you can't
count on Jack kagleon but you also can't block Jack Kaglion,
because if they are going to be the best team
they can be, he breaks out right, and so you
put yourself in a really tough spot.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
And I think the best.
Speaker 7 (37:29):
Way to go about that, if you're not going to
just say, hey, we don't care if he's blocked for
a year, is you go get a platoon, and a
platoon of like Mikey Schremsky and Lane Thomas just an example,
could be any any lefty, any righty. But you get
two guys who you feel okay playing every day but
would really love to platoon them. I think that sets
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you up to account for a potential Kaglion not doing
it and not block him if he does break out.
And so I think that makes a lot of sense there,
because you have two outfielders. If you need to sit
start them both, but you really rather not. So I
think that's where they go.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Well, we could talk about a million other things like
the bullpen and everything, but we've got a whole offseason
to do it. David, always fun talking baseball with you.
I hope we get a full seven game World Series.
I don't know if we will, but baseball is fun
for me. The postseason has been great as we talked about,
and I appreciate you taking the time.
Speaker 5 (38:25):
Absolutely thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
David Leski from Inside the Crown. It's great stuff.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
You can get it for free on Fridays or pay
not very much for it, and you really should if
you're a baseball fan. You'll learn more, you'll have fun.
He's a fun writer. It's not just it's kind of
a Bill James.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
This thing to me.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
A lot of analytics and a lot of smiles too.
From David Leski from Inside the Crown, joining us on
our MLB Postseason Extra presented by ASFCA.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
We hope you enjoyed the latest Danny Klinkscale reasonably irreverent podcast.
Come back soon for something fresh and new. This podcast
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