Konnor Griffin debut day! Carter Jensen's rookie mistake, Mets new acquisitions' slow start

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Speaker 1: The Year of the Rookie continues. Happy Connor Griffin debut day to those who celebrate, I know someone celebrating right here. Should we do crattats before we even start the show today, because it's so obvious?

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Speaker 2: I mean, is there any other iconic hat that worn forward or backwards like a buffoon is better than the Pirates throwback? I think it's like seventies when they were like legit. And for everybody on Twitter that came after me about my Connor Griffin, I was actually I was actually in favor of this the Pirates. I feel like did a really good job. Good job Pirates. Not everything that is said about the Pirates on the show is slander and hate. Okay, so great job Pirates. You've got extra value out of not disclosing when you're going to sign Connor Griffin to an extension like everybody else would do.

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Speaker 1: I think we're better off doing days when Twitter doesn't come after krats AJ and we can ask him why people are not coming after him.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know Twitter. Twitter people are funny whether they come after or not. I mean, who cares, but listen, uh, it is Connor Griffin Day. It's gonna make his major leque. Deb I can't wait to see how the kid does. And if he goes over in the first game, then let's not everyone think he should still be in Triple A. Okay, And yes, they will announce an extension soon. It's just funny to me that you know they're not they're not talking about her, or they haven't announced it, even though people are reporting that it's very close to being done. They don't want to do that because they don't want to lose the draft picks and all that stuff. This whole thing is is crazy to me. I'm just happy that Connor Griffin is there. He's one of their best players. He should be on the Pirates and he should be trying to help them win, not not manipulate when he comes up up and not all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: And we'll hopefully get to more of that later. One more thing before we charge. I saw some comments say that the Pirates were just trying to hook up Indianapolis with a week with Connor Griffin. But you know what's funny to me, they sounded serious. They were like, yeah, some teams make sure that their prospects get to each level, even for a little bit it's part of being good partners to their affiliates.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that might be true, but we're not making big league decisions based on what level they should be at. Like there might be some like I know big leaguers sometimes are encouraged to go rehab at different places. But that's not I let's put it this way. I'll make a call. I'll text to see if teams actually have those decisions because I one thing I did do. I spent a lot of time in the minor leagues. So Connor Griffin did not get sent to Triple A so that Indianapolis could have six nice gates at the Indianapolis indian Stadium Victory Field.

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Speaker 1: You do that for us, You do some homework. Let me know how much say they have? I'm assuming it's just about zero. All right, let's charge. Let's charge. What do we have here? Aj Carter Jensen, who is a rookie promising player for the Royals, their catcher of the future, showing up very late to the ballpark a five to one loss for the Royals. He was supposed to catch. Instead, it's Salvador Perez, the thirty six year old vet who takes over. He was scratched quote. I didn't wake up to my alarm, slept through it. Don't really have an excuse, nor should I. It sucks it happens. I feel like I let teammates coaches down, just learn from it, and just know it won't happen again. Does this happen often?

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Speaker 3: I I don't think I've ever heard of this at the big league level, honestly. I mean there's been times where in TRIPAA where we almost missed planes because the planes were like at four in the morning, but that you had a roommate at the time and to check on people. So I've never, honestly, at the big league level. I'm sure it's happened before. I've never heard of this because I listen. I was always freaked out when there was a day game, and I listened. I went out before day games and had some adult beverages and got back to the hotel two, three in the morning.

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Speaker 2: Whatever.

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Speaker 3: Fine, But I had like a wake up call. I had an alarm set I told people to call me. There was no way, and plus I never really slept when I knew that I had to be up. I still don't sleep if I know I have to be up super early. I don't sleep. I'm checking my phone, I'm checking the time. I'm checking my watch every I'm like this, Oh what time is it?

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Speaker 2: Boop?

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Speaker 3: Oh it's oh okay, I got two more hours. Okay, I can go back to sleep. It's a constant thing. So I've never heard of this. I'm sure it's happened before. But hopefully he learns from it. And I love what Vinnie said. I thought Vinnie nailed it.

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Speaker 2: I think I've seen it happen in spring training Ryan Roberts, who became tatman after his time with the Diamondbacks. But he slept through his alarm and we were already out on field three doing whatever you do in spring training, and he's rolling in. Taxi dropped him off, so he got to run sprints on the treadmill for an hour the next morning at six in the morning. So, yes, it's happened in this case in the big leagues. The fact that he was getting a start like Salvado Perez. While he doesn't play as much as when I played with Salvado Perez, he still plays a lot. And it was your chance to start. Carter Janssen. I bet he doesn't make the same mistake. I was twenty three years old in short season ball and my roommate and I shoot, Richmond Richmond. I forget what his first name was, but anyway, Paul Richmond. We both slept through our alarm and they started the bus up. And it was one of those hotels that was like we were on the first floor but or below ground, and I could hear the bus start up, and we both jumped out of bed, got our suitcases, and we're on the bus in like seven minutes. That's the closest I've ever been to missing a bus, or never sleeping through a game, or getting to a game too late.

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Speaker 3: Spring training is different than a big league game. I mean spring training. Yeah, I've seen guys oversleep in spring training. That, okay, I get it. That's a little different, but not a game like a big league game. I've seen guys rolling late to spring training. I've never seen a guy usually also, there's somebody calling him, somebody calling his apartment, somebody checking on him, whoever that person is. I mean, this game was at one o'clock. It's not like it was at seven in the morning. So listen. And the biggest thing for me is when people don't understand is when when Vinnie Paspentino said Salvi had to go from being the DH to be in the the catcher. There was a huge difference as someone that was a catcher and then all of a sudden, Oh I got to play or not DH. If I'm schedu DH, it's a huge difference in prep. It's a huge difference in mental prep. It's a huge difference from any everything. I remember when I played with Barry Bonds, Barry Bonds the day games that have two different lineups. If he played, I wasn't in. If he didn't play, I was in the lineup, and I had to wait for Barry to make that decision. But you still have to get ready for the game like you're catching. So that was a big thing, and I agree with what Vinnie said. You know, it was a big thing for Salve. Salve handled it of course like a pro. He was ready to go. But yeah, I just I've never seen this, and I'm glad that that Vinnie said what he said. He said everything right. Jensen. Jensen came out after said everything right. They'll move on. But I just never seen this.

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Speaker 1: Let's get Vinnie passed beintween a past Quentino's quote. This is what he said about the incident.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you got a thirty six year old catcher who's preparing to DH today and then his work gets a little rocked that an hour and a half before the game, he's not going to be not gonna be dhing.

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Speaker 2: So your credit to Salvy today.

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Speaker 3: For being ready.

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Speaker 4: First and foremost, we're glad Carter's okay, right, I mean that was kind of the initial thought when you're trying to get ahold of his parents and everything like that and just make sure that he's okay. But once you find out he's okay, it's like, all right, it's a growing moment. He's really young. There are some things that cannot happen, and that's one of them. So he's gonna have to wear it on the chin the same way anybody would have to. So it can't happen, and you know, hopefully it doesn't happen again. But it's one of those things that you just you can't afford mistakes like that in this game. So just gotta move forward the best that he can. I know, I know he feels really bad. I know that it was not his favorite drive. To the field this morning, but it wasn't our favorite morning either, trying to figure out what was going on. So you know, he'll learn from it and grow up a little bit, and you know we're here for him. Though it's not like where anybody's you know, mad at him. Things happen, but you gotta learn from mistakes like that and maybe get another alarm clock or.

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Speaker 2: Something at home.

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Speaker 1: Great last line there, Then he's a pro.

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Speaker 3: So by the way, I guarantee his teammates gifted him alarm clocks. There's somebody who told you there was Vinnie or Salvey or one of his teammates. I promise you went to the clubhouse guy and said, hey, as a joke, we need to get this guy a bunch of alarm clocks. And he probably has forty alarm clocks now sitting in his locker off for this road trip. But he'll never do it again. He'll learn his lesson and he'll move on. But yeah, it's just Vinnie handled it like a pro. The Royals handle like a pro. It's just something I'd never seen before.

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Speaker 2: Being late. Being late is not a like, it's not a thing like you're to the point where when I saw this and it made I told my wife, I'm like, oh great, I'm gonna probably have a bad dream about being late to the field, because that was my reoccurring dream in baseball, was being late to the field, whether it was not necessarily showing up late, but like, I'm going out to stretch, I'm going out and starting, and I looked down and both my socks are different colors. So I'm like, okay, it's fine, it's fine. Six thirty five and when I got to be out there for seven o'clock game, and so I thought last night, after hearing this happened during the day yesterday, I'm like, oh great, now here comes my being late to a baseball game dream coming back. But fortunately it's okay, Carter I slept fine tonight.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so wait, but happened. Some guys showed up late consistently. It's just that it's before game time. I mean, Jaci Olpuige, I know, had tons of issues with this where he was showing up super late. Didn't even like yeah, but he never missed a game.

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Speaker 3: He never you're.

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Speaker 1: Saying through the game time, I played.

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Speaker 3: With guys that were late to stretch or late to be or stuff like that, and that happens. What, there's a million different reasons. Sometimes you don't even know. Guys have something happen with their family and you're like, oh, man, why was this guy late today, and then you come to find out there was like their kid was sick or I mean, there's been times where guys have been sick, they've missed stuff. I mean I played with Octavio Dotel who was notoriously late to everything, and he kind of made a joke out of it, but he never missed a game five minutes before stretch and stuff like that. That wasn't a big deal. I mean, yeah, annoyed people, but it wasn't the end all be all, like missing an actual game time. That's where I've never seen. That's the thing I've never seen.

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Speaker 2: Lasting's Millage. I got two stories. Last Thing's Millage. When he came over to Pittsburgh. He told me a story that his first week in the big leagues whatever, it was his first day off. The night before, the manager told him, you get the day off tomorrow, and he had. I don't know if you remember when Lasting's Millage made his debut, it was like big hit high fives going down the line going back out to the outfield, like there was a lot of fanfare, and they told me you had the day off, and it was like six point thirty and they were calling him, they were like, bro, where are you. He was like, you guys gave me the day off. So whether that was a true story or he was trying to be funny, and I've I've believed it for the last fifteen sixteen years now. It was a story that made me laugh. And Roy Holliday was also another one. Never ever saw him late. When you're talking late, like it's time to prepare. He's already at the field, sweating before other people are for his before his start, and I show up at the field and Doc's not there yet. A day started here on ninety five, which is the main highway that runs right outside of Citizens Bank Park, there was an accident blocking all three lanes or two lanes whatever it is there and they had to send a police car to go into traffic the opposite direction get him around traffic to be able to get him to the game in time for his start.

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Speaker 1: There was a little bit of a setback for Carlos Rodan. It's never good, but right now the Yankees are rolling. They're in good shape with their rotation. Rodan called his hamstring tightness a bump in the road and said he hopes to throw from a mount tomorrow. If that goes well, his next step could be a rehab assignment. So this news came this morning, So just a drop of the speedbump. Aj Yankees pitching looks really good.

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Speaker 3: Yank's look really good so far. It's early, but they look good so far.

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Speaker 2: Scoring runs, hitting dingers, and the rotation is doing quite fine without Rodin and Cole. Imagine when they get those guys back.

00:13:17
Speaker 1: Sheepersh Cam Schlitzler looks like he's gonna be an ace.

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Speaker 3: It looks, yeah, he looks. And I love that he talks trash too.

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Speaker 2: They were saying, they were saying that that cutter is new. But to me, it just looks like his fastball that he's just getting around a little bit, which I thought he did last year. But they're saying it's new. Whatever it is, it's when you're blowing dudes away with a ball that's going that much right to left, it's it's pretty impressive.

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Speaker 1: Well, Kratz, your boy. Johann Oviedo did not look good the other day, and now he is on the ail with a right elbow streen. I think he's gonna visit one of the doomed to see if there's worse news I don't.

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Speaker 2: Want to see. You don't want to see right elbow strain or flexer strain or oh it's just this in the elbow. You never want to see it. So hopefully he gets good news. But when you have an outing like that where your command's not there, your velocity is not consistent. How long was he dealing with it? Sucks?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he had TJ in December of twenty twenty three. You remember he missed all of twenty four, came back at some point last year, showed some signs. Keith Meister is the visit for him coming up. And he was great on our show AJA when we had him. But that is not the doctor that you want to be asked to see.

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Speaker 3: No, that is not the guy meister Andrews. Job used to be job remember job, yep, elect not the guys. Those names are the names when you're a player, you don't want to hear that. Hey, I got to go see those guys because he usually doesn't end very well, no, it does not.

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Speaker 1: One more roster move for the Al East. This with the Rays. Garret Clevenger good reliever, right calf tightness hits the shelf hunter Biggie gets.

00:15:12
Speaker 2: Called biggie, Biggie, Biggie. Can't you see you just got we called to this show?

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's good analysis. The Rais are two and four, by the way to start the year. The Yeah, in a tough division. They're quite blah aside from Junior Camonaro and Yandi.

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Speaker 2: Yanni's gonna have a nice year, go for a batting title, Get traded, get traded.

00:15:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the year he gets traded. This trade deadline.

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Speaker 3: You think this is the one that finally happens.

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Speaker 2: I do. I mean it's been a while. Yeah, he's he's been on the block for a minute.

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Speaker 1: If they're in bad shape like it, I think they will be as in, not a terrible team, but not a team in the playoff mix. I think this is the year where they'll try to capitalize. The Rays are so good at making sure that they take a guy in a good spot, stock is high, and they trade him away. Yandi's coming off a great year. If he looks good again in the beginning of this season, you trade him to a team that needs some offense, there will be plenty of teams that need offense better than box scorers. Will just wrap up what we saw on Thursday before we move on to these Friday games. So the Mets lost to the Giants, and they've got a number of issues to address here. First of all, most of their new acquisitions are off to a slow start. It's very common, but we're only dealing with a small sample size right now. And I know we mentioned yesterday how they were chasing, maybe more than usual outside of the zone with runners in scoring position. Again, it's early in the season. The guy that got picked on last night was Marcus Simon after Francisco Lindor was picked on the night before for a couple of gaffes that he made that were uncommon for him. So for Simeon, on a particular pop up, he whiffed and the probability was ninety percent. We're showing it right now, AJ, isn't that Louise Roberts.

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Speaker 3: Paul, Yes, yes, I don't know why Simeon's getting in trouble with this. That's Louise Roberts ball. He's standing right there, Papa priority. You do it every day in spring training, every day, especially in Arizona when it was no sun, no clouds in the sky and Wendy blowing forty. Coaches be like, ah, we're gonna do Papa priority guys, and everyone's like, oh, because we know someone's gonna miss there, We're gonna miss a couple, someone's gonna lose one in the sun. And then the coaches get to yell at you that you're not concentrating. So I thought that was Louise Roberts Paul. He easily could have got there. Listen, Simeon's taken the hate heat for that, but I feel like that wasn't. He actually went a really long way to even get a glove on it.

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Speaker 2: Please say something, please. One of my biggest pet peeves is when guys come from travel programs or other schools and they're like ball when the balls in the air. One time, to me, Luise Robert has to call him off. Now, did Marcus Simeon wave him off? Yes, he did everything he's supposed to do. As an infielder, you're supposed to run as hard as you can to get a ball, and you'll see at the end of the play. Yes, he waves them off right here, he waves them off. Louise Robert, that's your ball. Marcus Simmy will just keep running and just go by the ball. He'll make the turn. It won't even be a play like he has to take ownership. It's center field, then it's the corner outfielders, then it's the shortstop. Then it's a second baseman, and it's a corner infielders. Pitchers beat it and then the catchers get anything that stays close to the dirt.

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Speaker 1: Let's move to the pitching. Sean Mania started to hear in the bullpen. He picked up some significant innings last night in relief of David Peterson, seventy four pitches for Manaiah. The problem for him in spring training was the velocity. It has not picked up for him. It's from John Harper, who covers the team every day. He said he was eighty nine to ninety one in that seventy four pitch, outing four hits, including the Devers homer, two walks, and you had a fan who commented about how the Mets are paying fifty five million dollars per season to Manaya, Clay Holmes and Frankie Montas, while the Yankees during the same free agency period a couple of years ago signed Max Freed and they're paying him twenty seven mil per year. Obviously that deal is for a longer period of time, but the debate does rage on with signing more proven aces or mixing and matching and looking for gold. I don't know if Manaia is quite the example you can use, since they did have gold a couple years ago. AJ, But your thoughts on what we're seeing from Manya right now, I mean, he's in his mid thirties. You hope you gets the velocity back, as they signed him for big money and they'd like him to be a contributor in the rotation eventually. But also the bigger picture of how the Mets have been looking at paying pitchers long term. You know, we'll see what happens with Freddy Peralta. I actually thought that they would. I've gotten an extension done with him in spring training. No word on that, so it might not happen during the season for them. But we have learned that David Stearns is very, very firm about the way that he looks at starting pitching long term. It does not sound like he believes in the five to six seven year plus deals for starters.

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Speaker 3: I just, I mean, I have one question for how many World Series has David Sterns won?

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Speaker 1: Zero?

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Speaker 3: I just I don't know. I just I'm asking that, And I don't mean that as a shot at David Stearns, but he hasn't won any. And the Frankie Montos, I think people on here question that as soon as it came out. Did we not like, man, how does this guy keep getting sixteen seventeen eighteen million dollars a year when he's hurt every year? And he got hurt again, right, and then the Mania thing. He was really good for him at the end of twenty four because remember they beat the Mets, went and beat the Brewers, and they beat the Phillies in the DS and then they went to the LCS and lost the Dodgers in a great series and manyah was their best picture. So the the Mets he was a free agent. The Mets were thinking, man, if this is the sham Maanayah we get, then he's worth it. And nobody was complaining about the sham Mania deal. Let's not forget when he signed that. Okay, so the Manya thing. Then he gets hurt last year and I think he hurt it? Did he not hurt? His shoulder and shoulders are hard to come back from. Remember he changed his arm angle and he dropped down start throwing crossfire like Chris Sale. Well, he just hasn't bounced back. So at the time when listen, I have no problem with Seaman and i A signing the deal and the Mets signing Shamanya. Well when he signed that he was their best picture, he was their guy in the playoffs, he was their number one. He was a free agent, perfect timing, and then he unfortunately got hurt. So to say Max reed or this or that, I mean mania, listen to Montas one we can argue that we're blue in the face. What was the other one was Manaiyah Vontas? And who was the man.

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Speaker 1: Was pointing out Holmes? You know who had been good last year?

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Speaker 3: This is the ra look at Holmes did last year. Holmes was good, Holmes was under he was like a top ten in era last year. I think Clay Holmes has been fine. Clay Holmes hasn't.

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Speaker 1: Been pro No, I agree, And that's not a huge contract. So that's the point is that you're going to hit on some of those. It's just that your success rate on deals like that is probably what, less than fifty percent? And I think your success rate what Kratz you think? I'm I'm on the money there, less than fifty percent the money And those aren't cheap deals. I mean they're mid range deals.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you can't I don't. I don't care what the price is. I don't care when you're having a fifty percent success rate. If that's the number we're setting out there, you can't do that. You can't bring in ten guys on those types of deals and expect it to work out for your team. Did it really work out really well in twenty four? Absolutely, seam and Iya made the adjustment that I think he can make again. I think he can get his velocity up. I feel like maybe his arm angle has dropped a little bit lower, and he doesn't look like he's quite as much crossfire when you're looking at his extension point. Before he was really far over here and he's really extending out now. Just looks like it's low, but he's also coming out of the pen. He's given the guys seventy four pitches out of the bullpen. That's not ideal. But if your success rate saying oh, this is our reclamation project, this is our three year reclamation proh, we're going to turn this reliever into a starter, and that success rate is fifty percent, to me, it's that you're not going to win a championship. I don't think David Sterens went from Milwaukee, where he was doing really well, was brought in by Steve Cohen to say we're gonna do really good. No, they want to win a World Series and I just don't think that that is a formula. And I think they addressed that a little bit this year. They brought in a number one in Freddy Peralta for one year. But over the long term, can you do these three year deals, capping out pitchers at three year deals and win a World Series? I have a hard time believing. Unless you get a young guy like Nolan McLain, unless you get a unless somebody hits like you know another you know, you bring in another prospect, or you always trading your prospects to bring in the one year rental. We'll see how it goes. Maybe David Sterns doesn't have a long enough leash. If this team doesn't win.

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Speaker 1: It's rare that you see a team grow all top end, playoff level starters. I've seen one team do it in the past. What I can remember, ten fifteen years, I'm talking about like four or five guys. I would say the Mariners are probably the closest on the homegrown front to being able to develop that many pitchers that are that good in one organization during one winning window. I can't really think of any other team. I'm sure there's one or two I'm missing, but it is really rare. Look and they still have.

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Speaker 3: Look at who won the World Series. Look at the teams who won the World Series, the Dodgers, Glass now Snow right, Yamamotoie Suzaki, right. And then before that, the Astros brought Erlander. Right, they went out and got some guys. They couldn't just have the homegrown guys who I mean, just run through the list of the World Series champions, the Rangers, right, they Evaldi into Grom and all those guys. Right, It's not that easy to just develop these guys. You have to go out and you have to spend money, and honestly, you have to spend money on the big names. Just the lower named guys are nice and it's cute and trying to find victory in the margins. But at the end of the day, I always go back to the twenty sixteen Cubs and it's ten years after that. Who did they go get Lester Lackey boom right to leave the rotation? Guess what they did? They won a World Series. Yes they had Hendrix, Yes they had you know, Arita Arietta who they traded for. But they had to go out and sign the big free agent starters to put them over the top. That's usually how it has to go.

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Speaker 1: Just mixing in some injury and rehab updates during the TV commercial breaks here so you get more on YouTube. Trey Savage working his way back from the old shoulder thing. He slated to pitch three innings in a minor league game for Class A Dunedin today. This according to Ben Nicholson Smith. Blue Jays manager John Schneider estimated that he would be back in the majors first, followed by Jose Burrios, then Shane Bieber and aj We actually learned that Cody Ponce is going to get more insight I think early next week related to his injury. Sounds like it's going to be a long term thing for him. But point is, there is a very good starting rotation on the shelf right now for the Blue Jays, and guys will be working their way back.

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Speaker 3: Well, this was one of the worries about the every team and people said, oh, the Blue Jays have too many Remember they signed Scherzer and people said, oh, they got too many starting pitching. You can never have too much starting pitching. I'm sorry, and this is just more proof of it. All the guys that have gone down sadly for the Blue Jays, but they're all going to come back at some point hopefully and make this team stronger and give them a chance to win another World Series. So this is why you build depth. But yeah, it's been kind of a freak thing for the Blue Jays as year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a I think it's a tough start, but it's also why you build depth. And I hope they're not taking it too fast for any of these guys. But the part with Shane Bieber coming back after Burrios, that one's concerning to me because I thought Bieber would be back before Housey Burrs but we shall see.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and when you start thinking about the team from a win total perspective, you might have to measure expectations. I think this is still really a good team. But again, the most common factor that you see after a deep October run is a pitching staff going through it. This is not uncommon at all, especially when it's the same staff. The Dodgers were able to essentially have a completely different looking starting rotation from twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five. That helps for the Blue Jays. These are the names that we saw through that long run last year. I'm not saying that was the cause of the injury, but it is common to see this stuff pop up. So for them, is there a world where they have to sneak in as a wildcard versus a division winner? I mean they almost were in that case last year. They won the division by basically a tiebreaker over the Yankees. And bet MGM players will receive in any sport odds boost token if you haven't already, You can use that token ad of wager made up of bets from any sport to your bet slip. And there's a lot of sports to choose from. Right now, tis the season, activate the token. If you win your wager with the token, you get extra winnings with bonus dollars. Gambling problem, more concern, there's help, Call one eight hundred gambler. Yeah, let's lap a few things to do. We'll start with the rally sombrero. This is something that I am excited to see AJ sample when he is in Arlington. AJ, would you like to describe.

00:28:58
Speaker 3: When I go to Arlington at already in the words, it's already been sent. All the new food, all the parks I'm going to there, they will all be tried.

00:29:07
Speaker 1: So so this is a sombrero that you can wear on your head, but it contains a lot of nachos and other fun stuff around it. So if you would like to get food for the fam and you are out of hands, this is helpful, right because you can put this on your head and then still have two hands to carry a lot more food and drinks.

00:29:31
Speaker 3: I'm trying to figure out how you get the microphone, put the little boo over over the sombrero, over the headset.

00:29:38
Speaker 2: You gotta grind, you gotta work, you gotta you gotta get it done. Like there's no reality is you got to buy it for the person in front of you. They have to wear it and so that when you're sitting in your seat you can just lean forward like you can't have it on your own head, and like, now, that's that's tragic.

00:29:56
Speaker 1: That's a great idea, right you. You talk to the person in front of you and say, hey, I will buy you a beer if you allow me to eat my nachos from your head, and let me know how that goes.

00:30:08
Speaker 2: I wouldn't repeat it like that. I would think, you know, different way, but hey, you know what, nachos are delicious? Those look delicious. I'm gotting, I've got hungry right now.

00:30:19
Speaker 1: All right, well, we'll see if this can help particular your fancy. Dylan Cees is an artiste. He is pitching right now, and we can talk about the weekend of games too, but cease right now. With four K through two innings, one run given up to the White Sox, that's a tie game. And he gave this painting to John Schneider. What do we think here, guys, It's gotta look he's.

00:30:40
Speaker 3: A renaissance man that Dylan sees. He's not your normal guy.

00:30:42
Speaker 2: Man.

00:30:42
Speaker 3: Have you seen his hair and his mustache thing he's got going right now. He likes frisbee golf, and he's into he's a he's a real life renaissance man. It's a he's an interesting guy. Have you ever talked to him? He's got a lot of thoughts in his head and he's he's a fun guy to talk to.

00:30:57
Speaker 1: He's a hobbyist.

00:30:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a hobbyman. He's not just locked only into baseball. But I'm gonna go like art dealer, like people who collect art, say I hate it, two million dollars, please, I'll abuy it. I hate it, I don't love it at all. Four million fine final price, four.

00:31:16
Speaker 1: Million dollars, and then ten years later sell it.

00:31:21
Speaker 2: For devil because I hated it when I bought it. Now I love it. It's grown on me, it could grow on you. Two six million dollars. That's it, no more.

00:31:32
Speaker 1: That's good. And hey, Anthony Rendon, you can sorry, he's going to catch strace here. You can love things outside of baseball and still be really good at baseball, Dylan Cees example one many interests in hobbies.

00:31:48
Speaker 3: Still, that's the way good. I know we have other things to get to, but can I just discuss this with you guys. And I'm gonna bring this up as a White Sox guy. And I'm not questioning Will Venable. He knows his team way better than I do. But Grant Taylor is one of your best levers and you're counting on him to be a late inning guy. It's a home opener. Why do you throw him in the first inning and now he's out of the game in the first inning. Yes, he had one inning and one strikeout, no runs, but why is he then you have then you back in with Sean Burke, who was, you know, one of your better starters last year. Why do you not just start Sean Burke? Why do you bring and then you don't have him available? And the open has been a problem for the White Sox already. I'm just I don't know, I don't I don't understand that, But maybe I'm way.

00:32:27
Speaker 2: Off on that. The fans were electric to see one of their high end relievers start the game. That's what Chicago has been clamoring for since two thousand and five, when Paul Kinerko and aj Prazinski and Jermaine Dye were gracing the field Qualcomm X Stadium.

00:32:49
Speaker 1: No.

00:32:49
Speaker 2: This is not like, play the game out, play the game out. There are more important things. Have him face Vladimir Guerrero, Have him face Springer, have them faced. I'm not sure who else the other top three in their lineup is right now, have them face them in the big spots when you know what, they're starting to get into the rhythm of the game and it's a close game because your starter Sean Burke is actually like pretty good and he's had a really good outing and he's had success for you. Let him stay in that role. But no, you know what, we'll figure it out. We'll change We'll change the game.

00:33:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, bullpen game to welcome your fan base to the twenty twenty six season.

00:33:32
Speaker 2: So that's right. I don't get it.

00:33:33
Speaker 3: I mean I can listen. I understand when guys are openers and I get matchups early in the game, but usually you don't throw your eighth inning guy, right. It's usually a guy that matches up well that you know is this sixth seventh inning. You're trying to just get a matchup here and there, But it's not your like guy you're counting on in the eighth inning to come in and punch tickets.

00:33:54
Speaker 2: Maybe they didn't think they were going to be winning. Maybe they didn't think they were going to be winning, so they're like, well, we got to bring them in when we're still winning. We did all we could do. We don't trust our players.

00:34:06
Speaker 1: Most interesting thing I learned this week is that about twenty years ago, seven eleven sponsored the White Sox and they would start games at.

00:34:12
Speaker 3: Seven to eleven and we never got a slurpeing machine, which is bull crap. We fought a slurpey machine.

00:34:18
Speaker 1: What days for life?

00:34:21
Speaker 2: That would be electron