Yanks HR Derby, Pham v. Jays Part II, Pirates promote Bubba, Little Leaguers diss Ohtani/Soto, Judge/Boone injury miscommunication

00:00:01
Speaker 1: Prats. How was the bank popping popping?

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Speaker 2: Not a seat to be not a seat to be had. I don't understand.

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Speaker 3: It says to sellout, But there were seats all there were seats next to me, had great seats, had a great time. I got to send some of my younger sons some videos. You know, my son's their travel games. Maybe AJ doesn't do this, You go up there to the fence and your video. So I sent some of my kids.

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Speaker 2: You don't. I'm sure AJ doesn't do that.

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Speaker 3: They have they have people following their team, but you send them, you make the videos, and then you send them out to colleges for recruiting. So I did that for Alec Baum and Big Dumper so they can hopefully get a scholarship to to a nice college someday.

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Speaker 1: I hope. So.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I can honestly say I never did that, and maybe I was in the minority. I mean, probably I should have, but I never did the video.

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Speaker 4: Thing, video of the kids and sending it to the school's situation.

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Speaker 2: I just never did see it. I just never did it. My son didn't care, and I just didn't do it. And I don't think it helps our hurts and recruiting because I feel like if the coach likes you and he hears about you, come see you anyway. So I didn't know that it would. Yeah, maybe maybe I'm wrong in that, but some people send them all the time and they coaches just go.

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Speaker 1: Also depends. I mean, we don't care you're in a hot spot.

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Speaker 4: What if you're in a spot that's not very hot and you feel like you're not getting the right well, I.

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Speaker 2: Feel like, you know, Crowds's kids playing enough tournaments around the country. I mean he was in where it was Massachusetts and Bounce I've seen him in Atlanta. I mean, if you're in enough tournaments, the kids will be seen. Plus, you know, listen, air Crafts, your name is air Crafts and you're you're on a national television show. You played in the big leagues for a while. If you call up a college coach and say hey, I'm air Crafts. I played in the big leagues, most of them are going to call you back.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I agree.

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Speaker 4: The real problem I had with last night was where's the Durantela video? Did you post anything on your socials? Did you enjoy the moment? Were you one of those enjoyed the concert. Who actually puts the phone down, which is what I have been doing very frequently lately. Like no phone. It either doesn't come with you, or it's in your back pocket or whatever, and you're just there for the durantula experience. The John Duran ninth Ending Entrance.

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Speaker 3: I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it without my phone. They do have a thing on the screen. Now, I've never seen this.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: It always says like phones out, lights on, that kind of thing. So when the lights go out, everybody's phone.

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Speaker 2: It looks cool.

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Speaker 3: Now they have a QR code on the screen that you can scan. I have no idea what it was because they then my phone out. But there's a QR code, not unlike the Phillies QR code down at the bottom here Philly show. But you scan it and something comes up. I don't know. But from when I went an alumni day two Sundays ago till now, the Phillies have kind of, uh it tweaked the cinematronics on the like the picture the Tarantula's there's a bunch of durantulas that are going all over the screen. The one from The Twins was kind of it was cool. The new one from the Phillies. It's kind of a creepy spider like it's that's awesome.

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Speaker 2: What it does if you do the QR code is it sinks your phone to the light show. That's what you're supposed to do. That's what they want so you can see get the QR code sinks your phone. So like when the lights bounce, your phone does the same thing.

00:03:31
Speaker 1: That's cool.

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Speaker 3: The lights on your phone, yeah, will match it.

00:03:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's cool. Why they do that? And then also, did you yell at Robertson? No.

00:03:42
Speaker 3: I took a picture of him fielding a swinging bunch and I just put underneath of it Mini van and I sent it to him.

00:03:48
Speaker 2: He thought it was funny. I'm sure he got it.

00:03:50
Speaker 4: He got his wish. You got the win and you got to see Durantela for the first time. It was like the perfect day for krats to hit the ballpark. Duran retired seventeen of nineteen six saves since he was acquired, Alvarado was reinstated. Christopher Sanchez was a g It was a good day for you.

00:04:08
Speaker 2: Only one guy struggled, Kirk, Yeah, he was the only one that really had enough.

00:04:13
Speaker 1: To have saved him.

00:04:15
Speaker 4: Christopher Sanchez first pitch strikes to twenty six of twenty seven hitters.

00:04:20
Speaker 2: He is knocked that we couldn't throw enough strikes. That's why he was in the bullpen all of a sudden. Now he can throw lots of strikes. Big improved its eleven and four with a two something.

00:04:28
Speaker 4: He's got good numbers, and they're gonna rely on him because we don't know the deal with Wheeler.

00:04:31
Speaker 2: Dude, Okay, so I'm gonna say this about wheel I don't know this, okay, but I saw a guy today that had kind of the same thing that Wheeler had. I don't know if it's the same thing or not. He had a he had aneurysms. He had an aneurysm in his shoulder. He was a right handed pitcher, pitchers in big leagues for a long time, and he got blood clots in his fingers so he couldn't feel it. So they had to go in and take care of the aneurysm in his shoulder. Now, I don't know if that's the same thing. He was out for eight months. I'm not saying that's what Wheeler's looking at. He's done for the year. I'm just saying that he told me we had conversation about it. I'm like, didn't you have and he said, yes, I did, but it was it wasn't exactly. He didn't think it was the same thing.

00:05:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, Wheeler things around the shoulder here, right, Yeah, he's.

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Speaker 2: He had a scar on his shoulder where they had to go in and fix the eneurism. But he was getting blood. He couldn't feel his fingers. Yeah, so I don't know if that's the same thing that Wheeler has or not. But he said eight months. He's like, because if it's even close to what I had, He's like, there's no way he's pitching again. This again not saying so everyone's relaxed, but I'm not saying that's what Wheeler has. But he was just giving me background on what he had.

00:05:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, they haven't said anything yet. You know, obviously the.

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Speaker 2: Biggest thing he had to get feeling back in his fingers. It took a long time to get feelings back in his fingers.

00:05:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't pitch if that's the problem of your fingers.

00:05:44
Speaker 2: But that's also the thing is why haven't the Phillies given us a.

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Speaker 4: Timetable because they might not know yet or okay, or it's a little bleak, so you don't want to necessarily share it if there's a five percent chance, you know, to say there's a five percent chance, but probably they did it, and then he does the check up after and yeah, to be continued.

00:06:08
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00:07:11
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the Yanks.

00:07:13
Speaker 4: Let's charge them out, charge them out. They did this on March twenty ninth, Nine home runs in one game.

00:07:24
Speaker 2: Torpedo back.

00:07:26
Speaker 1: That's the headline. Say it again, that's the headline.

00:07:29
Speaker 2: They finally found the torpedo bats. The sonar found the torpedo The left later yep, jumping last, Shane Bos was shamee. Bos was not happy to be a pitching as these guys last night.

00:07:43
Speaker 1: Wait, so, what's the conspiracy theory? Crats?

00:07:46
Speaker 4: They used them right off of spring training, and they ordered more and they just never made it to anywhere. And it was at spring training they get to their spring training home in Tampa, they picked them up and then they hit nine homers.

00:07:57
Speaker 1: I'm kidding.

00:07:57
Speaker 4: Also just as a as a preface here, but what's your what's your joke?

00:08:03
Speaker 3: No, my joke would be my conspiracy theory would be maybe the Rays need to check for some speakers in the in the facility somewhere. Maybe they knew what was coming because they heard their pregame just saying it's there, it's their home. Maybe they should do a sweep or do their meetings outside in the heat.

00:08:27
Speaker 4: Oh no, that's some conspiracy stuff. That's some good stuff. I mean, I like it. I like it.

00:08:35
Speaker 3: Or maybe or maybe if you look at every one of those pitches, of those nine home runs, maybe there's a consistent theme of where those pitches were. And the Yankees know they were trying to go apple. How many how many opposite field home runs as Jason Domingos have hitting right handed? I think that was one last night. Yeah, there was a concerted effort to go to right field. They know that park.

00:09:04
Speaker 1: Well, right exactly. They know that park well.

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Speaker 3: Maybe some of the guys stayed in their own house too, down down in Tampa. You know, some of them might have a place, don't. I don't know that for sure. But look, you're not gonna hit nine home runs every night. But they came out and the ball was, like Ajay said, the ball was jumping and g is g is you gotta find a way to keep him in the lineup and healthy. I get it, but he's swinging it right now. He's not quite playoff g but he is swinging it.

00:09:37
Speaker 4: I think a good way to keep him in the lineup would be they had Judge into the outfield as quickly as possible.

00:09:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, but here's the thing about Stanton. Stanton always goes like this. When he's hot, he is hot as anything, and then he goes then he goes to a slumper. Fans are like, I get him out, he's done, and then a week later he's hitting ten homers in seven games. That's just the way Stanton is and that's the way he's build. That's fine.

00:09:58
Speaker 4: The playoffs alone last year should shut everyone up for a long time.

00:10:04
Speaker 2: His performance, agreed, agreed. Just keep him healthy, figure out a way to keep him healthy, and if Aaron Judge is right, he's going to be back soon. Not according to Aaron Bone, but according to what.

00:10:13
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge said, back for a minute.

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Speaker 4: Adam Jones at the Padres game last night, this actually happened twice last night with fans rush in the field. They said it was the first time they think it happened all year. At a home game, and this one involved a kid. Clearly, I mean, unless it's somebody that just looks incredibly young, skincroutine.

00:10:32
Speaker 2: But what are we doing?

00:10:34
Speaker 4: Luis or ees like, hey, let's not kill the kid on the field at the same time where the parents at.

00:10:42
Speaker 2: At the same time. Don't jump on the field because if you get killed, that's your own fault. Don't jump on the field.

00:10:46
Speaker 1: I agree.

00:10:47
Speaker 2: I mean it's like you should KILLI.

00:10:49
Speaker 4: Right, not literally, but like securities knocking pretty good in fairness, security is not going to be like, wait, hold up, someone rushed the field.

00:10:57
Speaker 1: They might be fourteen.

00:10:58
Speaker 4: Let's let them go a little bit or see if they'll hold our hands, like the kids trying to dodge people.

00:11:03
Speaker 1: It is what it is. Where's your parent true?

00:11:07
Speaker 2: True? Where are the people parents responsible?

00:11:09
Speaker 4: If a kid who's twelve, you know, punches Timmy at school and freaking knocks him out, as Timmy's obviously in trouble, but your parents are responsible for the kid?

00:11:20
Speaker 1: Sorry about it? Hmm our eyes crats.

00:11:24
Speaker 2: On the field. Don't be an idiot, basically, don't.

00:11:26
Speaker 4: You don't be People are like, oh, well, he's a kid, Oh so kids can jump on the field.

00:11:30
Speaker 2: Now I have two of them have been idiots at times too. Trust me, if you have a kid, you know, yeah, every kid can be an idiot at times.

00:11:37
Speaker 3: They need to be punished. It's okay, that's not but that's Scott. Sorry, that's not the world we live in now. It's well, it's okay, we'll figure it out.

00:11:46
Speaker 4: Everyone gets now three years in prison for that kid, please, I'm kidding.

00:11:51
Speaker 2: But Big Trouble and the Astros scored any runs.

00:11:59
Speaker 1: Okay?

00:12:00
Speaker 4: Part two Hot Corner Tommy Fam versus the Blue.

00:12:04
Speaker 2: Jays, Buddy Tommy favers the world.

00:12:07
Speaker 4: So we did a segment on this. We were reacting live to things that were going on. So obviously in the comments of the video that was posted later on, people are like, yo, it's this, It's that. It's like, I got it. Things were happening live. Now we've since gotten more quotes to add to the table. This was the original spark Tommy Fam on social media telling a random fan that the profile picture of Addison Barger is of someone who takes steroids. Loser words from Tommy Fam after he had gotten into it with Heinemann and the Blue Jays. Mitch Bannon, who covers the Jays said he spoke with Barger before yesterday's game and wanted it clarified that he was suspended for a stimulant, not a steroid. Fifty games in twenty nineteen, I thought restricted list CHATCHYBT was wrong. Couldn't find anything, but there was an article saying he did get suspended, but it was a stimulant, not a steroid, and Barger said he's been tested every year since, as every player is with no discipline since Well, Tommy wasn't done stop by the Pirates clubhouse. Keegan Matheson did. Who covers the Jays fam didn't want to elaborate on his post after last night's game, but he made it clear he stands by them and wanted this note to be passed along. Quote let them know I speak in facts.

00:13:30
Speaker 1: This is WWE.

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Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. It's awesome. I mean, it's great for the game because people are talking about it.

00:13:38
Speaker 1: But what if you're Barger. Okay, Well, Barger did what.

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Speaker 2: He had to do, and he stood up and said it wasn't for steroids. It was still it was for another PD, which is stimulants.

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Speaker 4: Right, But you guys both played right and you were involved in plenty of not this, but back and forth right fun stuff that we followed a lot, and there.

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Speaker 2: Was never I was never really that. There was never really that much back and forth between players on other teams. It wasn't because.

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Speaker 4: Most of the time trash talk in the games, but not like that, never in the media like this. So so then take me through this part right, This is the second portion of the saga. Barger clarifies, I got suspended for a stimulant, not a PD, which is still against the rules. Fam stands by what he says. If you're Barger, are you like, hey, I'm squashing this. I'm not answering about this anymore. I said my piece. And behind the scenes, are you still super pissed because you're like, why is this guy?

00:14:29
Speaker 2: I said what he said. He said the truth, which is he wasn't suspended for steroids because he said steroids. It wasn't steroids, it was something else.

00:14:36
Speaker 1: But Tommy Fam said, I speak in facts.

00:14:40
Speaker 2: I mean what everybody has. Listen, everybody has their own reality in life. And some people I played with people, not saying this about Tommy Fam, but I played with some people that I could sit here and tell them that my hat was black and they thought it was white, and they will die on that sword thinking that my hat is white.

00:14:58
Speaker 1: You play with some flat earthers.

00:15:00
Speaker 2: I don't. Yeah, I'm sure I probably did that, but I'm just saying there are people and crats played with them too. No matter what you tell them, their opinion is always right and you could be dead on correct and they're like, no, that's not right. I don't believe it. And you're like, well, dude, my hat is black. It's not white. It's black, but they wouldn't believe it no matter what you told. So hey, whatever, that's what makes it. World go around, different strokes for different folks.

00:15:23
Speaker 3: We we do love when somebody says something with their chest and Tommy fam said it.

00:15:28
Speaker 2: With his chest.

00:15:31
Speaker 4: He says everything with his chest. So krats, if you're Barger, what do you do? What are your thoughts after you hear the comeback?

00:15:41
Speaker 1: To the comeback?

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Speaker 3: I mean he said, I like how Barger was not like, oh, I'm not going to comment on it because then everyone's like speculation of whoa what was it?

00:15:50
Speaker 2: He said it?

00:15:51
Speaker 3: It was a stimulant whatever classify classification that is, it's still performance enhancing Tommy Fam wasn't afraid of backing from that. As Barger, I'd be like, you know, you just got you kind of check that guy off your list. Tommy Fam might be writing him on his list. Actually, I think Tyler Heineman's on his list. And then we found out today Gerriy Sheffield Junior's on Tommy FAM's list. Tommy's list is getting is getting bigger. But if I'm Barger, I'm like whatever, like I have to, I said my part. If somebody comes back up to me again, I'll say, look, I said what I said. I don't know what he's talking about. He has his right to his own opinions. You just kind of squash it. But you're not like I don't think Barger's gonna sit there and be like, I'm getting that guy. I don't care if he's Tommy Fam. He defamed me by saying I did steroids, like he came out and said he didn't. They published it, Keith and Thompson published it, or Keithen Matheson published it, And so to me, he doesn't have anything. He doesn't have to go back, he doesn't have to comment on the comment of the comment.

00:16:59
Speaker 4: The one thing that I want to throw in here from my experience covering the player and my experience talking to other players, is that when Tommy fam is on your team, he is I don't want to say beloved, but he is well respected.

00:17:13
Speaker 1: Guys enjoy him as a teammate.

00:17:16
Speaker 2: He comes to play every day and there that you cannot replicate. That brings an intensity. He who was it the Mets last year that they talked about when fam was there, how much he meant and what he taught them, and how he taught them how to work like guys like lind Dorrince. We're talking about that. It's a big compliment.

00:17:35
Speaker 4: Now he starts crap, but with other teams, right, so when he's on your corner, when he's in your corner, I mean, sure, do the Pirates want to get in a fight with the Blue Jays right now over war words? Probably not. But my point is that tons of comments are filled with how is this guy still in the league, you know, as if he's committing a crime or something like that, And I'm like, I don't think you understand that the guys that play with him generally love him.

00:18:03
Speaker 2: And he's usually and he's been a pretty productive player too.

00:18:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, productive player.

00:18:08
Speaker 4: And also when you meet him in person, I don't think he is who you expect him to be. Right, He's like one of the most calm guys. His voice is calm, am.

00:18:19
Speaker 1: I wrong.

00:18:20
Speaker 2: No, I've known Tommy. I've played with Tommy came up in twenty fourteen. I've known for ten eleven years now, and I've told you the story about how he helped my son, and I couldn't have been a better guy. So till so, the way I'll say this to the day I died. Listen, he's funny, he says some things, but Tommy, you were always good to my kid, and for that you'll always have my respect.

00:18:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it.

00:18:42
Speaker 2: That's it. And every time I see him, he asked about my son. How's he doing? His eyes at what's going on? And that's all you can ask for. He was good to me as a teammate. I mean, he was a rookie and he was good. He was there, he did the right things. And now he's got ten plus years in this league, been on a lot of teams. But one thing I'll tell you about how I mean, he has always been good to me. So I will you won't hear me saything bad about tom and krats.

00:19:04
Speaker 4: Ninety nine point nine percent of the people that go after him with their Twitter muscles would not hold up well in a cage match. I feel like some people don't realize he's a big dude, even height wise, Like I don't know. When I first saw him on TV, I thought he was like five to ten, and then I met him in person, He's like six to two. So yeah, I'm obviously I'm not defending what he did on this case. My point Kratz is that he is on teams for a reason, and I think that reason is overlooked by many that just catch a viral moment.

00:19:38
Speaker 3: There's front office, there's front office people that are afraid to have a Tommy Fam on the team because Tommy Fam the intensity they showed there. Whether if I was coaching him and he was a high school kid, I would say what he said to Tyler Hanneman was out of line. You shouldn't say fu too a catcher for you know, arguing that whatever. But that intensity is brought every single day. You said before, You're like, oh, he just pisses off other teams. That's not Tommy Fam. Doesn't like put on this like mask for games and like turn into the incredible Hult. He's that intense with everything. When we used to work in the cage. If anybody's ever seen the cage underneath in Tampa at the trap, it is like a cave. Like the ceiling. They literally have to tighten the left side of the cage so it doesn't so it doesn't hit the ceiling.

00:20:33
Speaker 2: It's really low, so you feel like you're in this cave.

00:20:36
Speaker 3: And when Tommy would come into the cage, he would just like his intensity and his work, he would get pissed at himself just as much as he would get pissed at another team doing something that he didn't agree with, or he would get pissed at somebody else in the cage who was who was messing around and like not taking it seriously. So there's there's an intense that once he gets to the ballpark, he parks his truck, goes in and it's business. And I think when situations like this show up, people look at it like, Oh, he's just trying to start stuff.

00:21:10
Speaker 2: No, he's just.

00:21:12
Speaker 3: Not letting anybody get in the way of him.

00:21:15
Speaker 4: M for Blue Jays fans, they are like, hey, we want to just keep having an absolute blast enjoying our team in our season. For Pirates fans, this team has been irrelevant for months and really for many years. So Tommy fam is leading the charge.

00:21:29
Speaker 2: For the headline traded.

00:21:32
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think he could be a dump deadline guy in a week and a.

00:21:36
Speaker 2: Half because he's a little bit of money picked him up.

00:21:40
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:21:40
Speaker 4: I mean, for Bob Nutting, could be a no brainer unless he's like, hey, I like this guy.

00:21:45
Speaker 1: He's bringing us some pr in mid August.

00:21:48
Speaker 2: He doesn't know who he is now.

00:21:50
Speaker 4: He doesn't, but I do think that, Yeah, they'll they'll probably put him on waivers, and it's not for the performance. It's because he costs more than the league minimum and another team can pick them up for the playoffs.

00:22:01
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00:22:08
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00:22:33
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00:22:39
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00:22:45
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00:23:01
Speaker 1: Get after it. Welcome to the show, Bubba Chandler.

00:23:04
Speaker 4: And by the way, on the Baseball America YouTube channel, we have a prospect profile with more information about one of the top pitching prospects in the sport.

00:23:11
Speaker 1: Ohiles broke this news.

00:23:13
Speaker 4: Alex Stumf adding to the cause here he covers the team for MLB dot Com. Ohiles is fantastic who breaks a lot of Pirates news these day. Pittsburgh Post Gazette Anyway, I'll read this from Alex Bubba. Chandler will be used as a bulk reliever with the Pirates, and by the way, he's getting called up Friday, the team views him as a starter long term. He can get starts this year, but the club wants him to get major league experience, and this is consistent with the role and expectations of other young pitchers like Ashcraft.

00:23:38
Speaker 2: I'd rather see him start, Sam Sam.

00:23:42
Speaker 1: It's it's the Pirates.

00:23:43
Speaker 2: I'd rather see him start. It's you can control his innings better. I feel like as a starter, you're gonna put him in, but you want to see if he's going to be a long term starter. Why not let him start.

00:23:50
Speaker 1: There's five weeks left in the season. Begin the game.

00:23:54
Speaker 4: What's the worst that happens, Like the top of the order gets a couple runs off of him. Great, you're gonna have to deal with that as a starter.

00:24:04
Speaker 2: I don't.

00:24:04
Speaker 3: I don't like it either, because one of the things he struggled with this year was his command. He had a banger April I think even one Pitcher of the month for the International League.

00:24:16
Speaker 2: And then they you know, they let him.

00:24:18
Speaker 3: Squander in the minor leagues and his command and he's been a great command guy and he kind of lost his command. Now you're gonna throw him out of the pen, which when I look at his stats, he has not ever done. Oh no, I'm sorry. He did it three times. He did it three times. He's thrown out of the bullpen three times. Like I just I don't see it. I don't see the reasoning.

00:24:42
Speaker 1: I'm with you.

00:24:43
Speaker 4: Hey, congratulations to Tarik Schooble to enter strikeouts. Also, while we're on this series, yesterday was awesome Schooble versus Brown, dealing two best starters in the al right now right? Two threes eras for both of them. But what the hell is going on with the ash.

00:24:59
Speaker 2: Shows you might run again? Already down six?

00:25:01
Speaker 1: Do you know what the scoreless streak's at?

00:25:03
Speaker 2: They's been over three games now.

00:25:05
Speaker 4: Thirty and in this game that's going on right now around third, fran Rivaldez couldn't get out. It's already six nothing Detroit in five minutes. Yeah, what is going on?

00:25:15
Speaker 2: But game last night it was fun to watch Hunter Brown, thank you for covering my k prop walk off walk, walk off walk. By the way, the bullpens banged up, there's no offense for Houston promise. You can't win a game either.

00:25:28
Speaker 4: That is potentially going to be covered later in the show. Seattle can't wait to get back to the West Coast.

00:25:33
Speaker 5: Seattle can't win a game?

00:25:34
Speaker 6: Now?

00:25:34
Speaker 1: Who else can't win a game?

00:25:35
Speaker 4: The Rangers al West is crumbling? One more I wanted to throw out here about this series. Kyle Finnegan's numbers since joining the team eight and two third shutouts, two innings, two hits, one walk, eleven strikeouts. I didn't like their overall set of moves. We did like that one bingo.

00:25:57
Speaker 2: Charlie Morton's been good for him too.

00:25:59
Speaker 1: That's true. That's true.

00:26:00
Speaker 2: He's pitching today. He's been good for him too. He was good for the O's before they trade him.

00:26:05
Speaker 3: But Finn never never fit like he fits kind of into the bullpen in the sense that he's kind of like the other guys that they have not a lot of punch outs. So far in the eight innings, he's he's punching out more guys than he did before. Maybe that's splitter. You don't get a few more strikeouts in the American League. Maybe in CA America.

00:26:25
Speaker 4: Who knows, Hey, Nathaniel logos to the Red Sox hit a huge homer from them last night.

00:26:30
Speaker 1: They ended up losing. That was a fun game. By the way, it was a bad loss of chances.

00:26:36
Speaker 2: I think they went over something with the runners in score position. It was a bad, bad night for the Red Sox.

00:26:44
Speaker 1: It was a bad loss.

00:26:45
Speaker 2: That's when them losses. You look back. He didn't win the division or something by one game.

00:26:49
Speaker 3: That's the game you look back to as a player and you're like, gosh, someone just could have got a hit.

00:26:52
Speaker 4: We would have won, right The Orioles were given it to him again and again they're relievers.

00:26:56
Speaker 2: Were walking guys.

00:26:57
Speaker 1: They anymore doors walking on me, they walk off.

00:27:01
Speaker 2: But it was a lot.

00:27:01
Speaker 1: Kittridge hurt, Bautista hurt. They traded away Baker.

00:27:06
Speaker 4: Or traded Sorry, Kittrid traded uh Domingos traded, Soto traded Bautista's hurt.

00:27:12
Speaker 1: They've got like none of their normal guys.

00:27:14
Speaker 2: They had bas loaded.

00:27:15
Speaker 4: By the way, Rinco Garcia was I texted you, guys. It was one of the most impressive innings I've seen. I mean he did like triple change ups for the strikeout, tripled sliders for the strikeout of the next day B But yeah, the Red Sox blew it.

00:27:31
Speaker 1: In the weeds.

00:27:32
Speaker 4: What's to deal with Aaron Judge and he's playing? Is he going to be back to one hundred percent? Well, it depends who you ask. We could start with the Iron Boone comments on w fa N that began this discussion, because then throughout the day we got another Boone comment, we got another Judge comment, and we had plenty of times since that game was in delay before they hit a billion homers. So let's start with Aaron Boone in the morning talking about Judge.

00:28:00
Speaker 1: On a scale of one to ten without holding you to it. Is he in six? Where is he at?

00:28:04
Speaker 5: Yeah?

00:28:05
Speaker 2: I think he threw out to one last time.

00:28:07
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, trying to get through where he can, you know, let it go with ease and be able to protect himself obviously. You know, I don't think we're going to see him back to like throwing like he normally does at any point this year. But not okay too, but we got to feel like he can go out there and be able to protect himself and represent himself.

00:28:32
Speaker 4: Okay, and then Judge on Boone's comments later on in that day, I don't know why he said that he hasn't seen me throw for the past two weeks, so I'm pretty confident I'll get back to one.

00:28:45
Speaker 1: Booney backtracked a little bit. Where's the boony quote? I mean, he basically just said, maybe I overstated that.

00:28:58
Speaker 2: We don't the trainers tell him what.

00:29:00
Speaker 1: Yes, But Judge was like, you haven't.

00:29:02
Speaker 2: TV throw, But the trainers tell him, don't they?

00:29:05
Speaker 1: You guys tell me.

00:29:06
Speaker 2: I thought, It's not like the manager goes out and watches every person do their rehab.

00:29:10
Speaker 3: Nope, trainers and manager and the general manager or if the general managers not their assistant general manager. They all sit down and they all go over all the injuries, the injury report. Everybody's up to date on where everybody's at. So I'm sure Boonie just got told that. Maybe maybe Boonie was trying to make sure like when he gets out there, other teams are like, hey, we're gonna run on Judge, and Judge He's like, no, no, no, that's not gonna happen.

00:29:45
Speaker 2: I don't know, don't think it's wild to me, But I hope Aaron Judge comes back full strength. Don't we all hope he comes back full strength? Oh? Yeah, yeah.

00:29:53
Speaker 4: So Chris Kirshner covers the Yankees for The Athletic. He said, Judges Batsby has remained the same pre and post injury, but the contact quality metrics are vastly different. It's obviously small sample size since returning, but something to monitor moving forward.

00:30:12
Speaker 1: That actually happens for a lot of guys.

00:30:14
Speaker 2: Contact quality metrics. Yeah, hear that in.

00:30:18
Speaker 3: Your nineteen years a contact quality metrics. No, I'll tell you how.

00:30:24
Speaker 2: I'll tell you how I knew I was going to have good quality contact is if I got hits or not. That's when I knew I was having good quality contact. I don't know about the metrics, but if I got it, if I was getting hits, I was good. I don't know. I don't I don't really care getting hits and haveing good at bats.

00:30:37
Speaker 1: Oh you know, I'm just gonna mention Krats.

00:30:41
Speaker 4: Our friend Ninosorus put out a story this morning on Frinando Tatiskauz. He's got a big power average that's been going on. He said his contact point is to blame.

00:30:54
Speaker 3: But oh wait, wait, he's not hitting the ball in the air, so he's not hatching it out front as much.

00:31:04
Speaker 2: Holy contracting more up? Oh yes, that's what he has to do. Stump the barrel and swing more up. You start swinging more up. No, get that. If you get that thing I've seen where they tie the thing around your neck and you have a little paddle, and you go, that's the thing, the little thing around your neck. You haven't seen that video, it's online?

00:31:25
Speaker 1: What is it?

00:31:26
Speaker 4: Like?

00:31:26
Speaker 1: An upper cut promoter?

00:31:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, they have like a they have like these one of those little bands, you know, the little physio bands, and they have like a little paddle and then all these kids are going on one leg and they're going.

00:31:39
Speaker 1: That's like a bobble bat that you don't want to be a part of.

00:31:42
Speaker 2: I never see anbody swing like that. Have you ever seen anybody swing on one leg and go like this? I don't even I don't even want to get into that topic.

00:31:48
Speaker 3: But Posaus is saying, is saying everything that I'm sure every hitting coach or even tatists would be saying. Just not elevating the ball enough. Why am I not elevating the ball enough. Well, now we have a metric. Now we have a you know, a high home whatever cam of something to be able to tell you where your hawkeye, where your contact point is. If your contact point is you know, an inch or two too deep, you're gonna hit the ball on the ground, You're gonna hit line drives. If your contact point can get out front, you're going to elevate the ball. It's all things quality, contact quality metric. It just means AJ came back, Aaron Judge came back from the IL, and he's a little rusty. But now we have a word and we have metrics for rusty. That's what happens. It's really hard to hit a round kit. Reach my bat right now, round ball, round bat, especially when you take time off, especially when you're sitting on the bench, to consistently have contact quality metrics be where they need to be to be an MVP candidate.

00:33:01
Speaker 1: I know one thing. Judge is pretty old school with this stuff. It's like, I'm good, guys'll be fun.

00:33:09
Speaker 2: That means the next week he'll go ten for seven.

00:33:14
Speaker 4: Yeah, he'll be okay. I mean he's still been great compared to most players. He just for what the last couple of weeks, isn't he's been at a Superstar less.

00:33:24
Speaker 2: He's been fine. He'll be fine. Yeah, So let's let's say that right now.

00:33:29
Speaker 4: This isn't like the you know, the Kyle Tucker slump that we talked a little bit about yesterday. Like he he will be fine too, but he has been going through a prolonged slump.

00:33:39
Speaker 2: It happened.

00:33:39
Speaker 4: Judge sets the bar up here, So if you're not seeing a home or every other game, people are like, what's wrong.

00:33:46
Speaker 2: By the way, I don't know if this is true or not. This is breaking news, not on the Judge, but in the division. Felix Bautista is having had shoulder surgery for rotator cuff. Where did you see that Oils announce the raider Felix?

00:33:58
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know if it's true or armand breaking news in the chat he's.

00:34:02
Speaker 2: Usually so I means he's out for all of next year.

00:34:05
Speaker 1: He's usually our news guy. But you gotta be careful.

00:34:07
Speaker 2: I know, I'm just saying I said, I don't know if it's true or not. I just said that I.

00:34:11
Speaker 3: Did hear you say that. All I heard you said was breaking news. Then I started making news.

00:34:15
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's true or not.

00:34:16
Speaker 4: On Oriols Twitter, I don't see it, but Armand's usually pretty quick with it.

00:34:21
Speaker 2: But that's crazy. That's true because that guy was a huge piece.

00:34:28
Speaker 1: Armond. We love you.

00:34:30
Speaker 4: But from now on, what you gotta do is you got to source it. Tell me where it's from so I can see it. Is it Jake Real, j Drill Jake Real?

00:34:40
Speaker 2: Is Jake Rill or Drill Real, jakeril d Real Jake Real?

00:34:45
Speaker 1: Okay, that's that's just a source.

00:34:47
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, no, that is. I just want to know where it is so I can find it. He's the Orioles beat writer for MLB dot Com.

00:34:52
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:34:53
Speaker 3: By the way, you guys are doom scrolling like screen agers. Judge his numbers. We got to make sure everybody judge's numbers. He's hitting three thirty three with a four forty seven on base percentage eleven thirty four ops. So when we say Judge is slumping or his contact quality metrics are not quite up to par of where he used to be, it's okay, he'll be fine.

00:35:23
Speaker 2: Did we just say he'll be fine? Yes, he's gonna go. Like I said, he's gonna go. He's gonna go twenty for ten the next to the next week, so he'll be fine, agreed. I mean just means he's due to get high. Judge is gonna be fine. I think the more you know he gets some guys don't go on rehabs anymore. So if you missed ten to two weeks at the Big leaguers, they don't know. Guys don't really go on rehab because they don't want to waste the swings and the pitches on the.

00:35:46
Speaker 4: Rehab, especially if it's Judge and his rehab is still like an eight eighty ops.

00:35:52
Speaker 1: So you take that all day in the big leagues.

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00:36:17
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00:36:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what he said.

00:36:57
Speaker 1: That's what he said.

00:36:59
Speaker 2: That's what he said.

00:37:01
Speaker 1: That's what he said.

00:37:05
Speaker 4: It's a fun one. We're gonna do a kid say the darnedest things. That's what he said. Since the Little League World Series is going on right now, and we are going to start with a young girl on Australia's Little League World Series baseball team, as she was interviewed a couple of days ago on the Kids Cast, and she said this.

00:37:24
Speaker 3: So I went to La back in twenty twenty three to watch the Angels game in which Shania Turney was still an Angel, and then he did a home run into an area where the fans couldn't go.

00:37:35
Speaker 2: And then this guy got the ball and gave it to my brother.

00:37:38
Speaker 5: So the next day we went to the VIP rocks at the front and I asked for.

00:37:42
Speaker 6: His signature, but we gave me on the side eye.

00:37:45
Speaker 2: I'm like, not a nice glance.

00:37:47
Speaker 6: So after that, like, I've never liked another since he's not really humble. So yeah, it's not my.

00:37:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, epic epic. I mean, who knows?

00:37:59
Speaker 2: Okay, what I get it. But here's where you have to everyone that says this guy signs for every person. They don't. Okay, nobody does, nobody does, nobody can. Guys, do the best you can with what you're giving, and if you have time, you'll try and sign. But you don't know. When she asked him, he could have been warming up to pitch right and be like, hey, sign my ball, and he's like really right now.

00:38:21
Speaker 1: But kids don't understand this. I'm saying. I'm trying to because it's funny what this is said.

00:38:26
Speaker 2: I agree, So this is this crass. This takes me back to a couple years ago. I was playing in a golf tournament, right and there was all these seekers we call them seekers, autograph seekers, and I'm and I hit a ball over the green and I had to chip up to get back and I'm literally mid back swing and the guy goes, hey, ay j will you sign my car? And I stopped and I'm like, right now, you're asking me right now? He goes, what are you doing? And I go I'm about to hit my shot. He goes, oh, I didn't think anyone would miss by that much, and I was like, are you kidding me? Then I proceeded to scull it, fired my club because I was pissed, made double bogie, and then he walked by me. He goes, so, I you're not going to sign my card and I was like, and.

00:39:03
Speaker 1: This wasn't a kid the speaker.

00:39:07
Speaker 2: You don't understand. It's all about timing, of course, so you don't know the timing.

00:39:11
Speaker 1: So this did.

00:39:11
Speaker 2: Should you have signed for a kid? Yes, but maybe he was in the middle throwing his bullpen to warm.

00:39:15
Speaker 1: Up for You just don't know.

00:39:16
Speaker 2: That's that's why, and kids don't understand that. You just can't stop and just sign everybody's ball.

00:39:21
Speaker 4: No, bet you can zero blame on show. Hey, I just thought it was epic that on national television on this kid's cast, She's just like, yeah, hey, Joe Hayden signed for me.

00:39:31
Speaker 1: Side.

00:39:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, MLB wanted to bleep her out like she was cursing anything about show.

00:39:38
Speaker 2: Hey, he doesn't talk to anybody.

00:39:41
Speaker 5: He is never available. We don't know what he's thinking. He's the best player in the world, but we don't know much about him. No way, he didn't sign for somebody. This happens. My brother in law saw Cal Ripping Jr.

00:39:55
Speaker 3: When he was playing, and it was he was the only one going out to his car, and my brother in law said, he was the only one who's still a kid.

00:40:04
Speaker 2: He's like, he's like, hey, mister Ripkin, can you sign?

00:40:07
Speaker 3: And Cal said, if I got if I signed for you, I gotta sign for everybody. They say, turned around and there's nobody there. He's like, well, I guess not. Then Cal Ripkin wasn't his favorite player. But it's like, you don't know, Like maybe there's like fifty people on the other side of the parking lot that he comes over this side and all of a sudden, you know, they're like spiders, so they just come running around and he gotta sign, you gotta sign. Maybe he had to go somewhere, maybe he was late. Like players live lives.

00:40:43
Speaker 4: There's one more Wan Sodo caught strays from the Little League World Series too. This is you want to get, if any players in specific I want to get. Okay, all right, Wan Soda is a popular one, Misha.

00:40:55
Speaker 1: What about you Wan Soda on your list as well?

00:40:57
Speaker 5: Eh, got over right, He's all right.

00:41:06
Speaker 1: Initially bias. His defensive numbers aren't great. You should be getting go glove consideration.

00:41:14
Speaker 2: I love these Australian kids. Man, they shoot for the moon. Ohtani and Soto like the Canada kid's more homeble He's like big tumbrels. Sign for me.

00:41:22
Speaker 1: I think the Australian kids are hilarious.

00:41:25
Speaker 7: Were at the Pirates game today to the Australian kids, is there as on Australia about Let's get them to comment on the Tommy fam situation. All right, we got to hit slap pants, will bear it back.

00:41:47
Speaker 4: Slap pants. Let's get crats hats and then we'll make an announcement.

00:41:53
Speaker 3: Exactly because I always like to. I don't know just the colors. The colors sick. It's the best spring training hat that there is out there, these guys.

00:42:02
Speaker 1: It matched your shirt nicely today too.

00:42:04
Speaker 4: Good luck right, but the color scheme is working for you.

00:42:10
Speaker 1: You nailed it.

00:42:11
Speaker 4: Hey, next week we are going to be in Alabama doing our shows. Krats will be in the bunker, but AJ and I will be in Alabama for I know.

00:42:21
Speaker 1: But you're going to be involved. You're here, You're here. We're relying on you when we need you for the questions.

00:42:26
Speaker 4: Uh, We're going to be in Bama for the pro We did this the beginning of the year was January, I believe, and so we'll do this again. There are a ton of big names that are gonna be out there. John Smoltz, Chipper Jones, the baseball list alone for our purposes, a.

00:42:41
Speaker 2: Lot of good hockey players and football players and Peterson Yep, NBA.

00:42:46
Speaker 4: Guys, Tony Romo, Matt Ryan, Vince Carter. But for our purposes, for our audience. On the baseball portion, we're going to have a good list of names.

00:42:55
Speaker 1: We'll talk to Kevin Malar.

00:42:56
Speaker 4: We've got a lot of guys Mallar I mentioned because you two. That segment alone with the trash top will be fantastic.

00:43:03
Speaker 2: I mean, when Malar's I said, when Malar's in sixty seventh at eightieth Place, I just can't wait. I'm just gonna wear him out of LA. Are you play golf every day, dude? In your sixty seventh at of eightieth place.

00:43:14
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a good competition.

00:43:15
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00:43:21
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