Blue Jays W + bulletin board quote, Houston’s problem, Volpe’s fall, Early’s exceptional debut

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Speaker 1: Yo, did bullets in board material matter to you guys?

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Speaker 2: Or is it more fun mhms of what they was said? True, that's what they said it about.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I mean this is going to lead to our first topic. But actually I'll bring it back to something on Friday.

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Speaker 1: So A J.

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Speaker 3: Taylor rash he was on with us on Friday, and he spent most of his twenties and the miners and then he debuted, and he said he kept receipts and even sent text messages back to some that said he couldn't do it.

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Speaker 1: Do you like that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean, I don't know. I think I think that's kind of how he's sending text messages to people. But I get it. I mean people handle things in different ways. But I don't know that you need to. I mean, just being in the big leies enough, you don't need to send text messages. But that was his way of keeping receipts and making sure people knew. So good for him. I agree. I wouldn't send a text, but I definitely I definitely remember the guys that were haters early on, not like haters in the minor leagues. There's a lot of haters in the minor leagues.

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Speaker 1: Who are the haters in the minor leagues that players, coaches, everybody saying.

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Speaker 2: Because you're not there, Yeah, because you're because you're not they're not there, You're not there, You're never gonna make it whatever, like, And those are the people the minor leagues. It's because it's day to day. It's like so much every single day, Like you just kind of start tuning those people out. When you're in high school or college and people are like hating on you, It's like, wait a minute, Like I'm probably one of the better people out here, and you're hating on me because you think I'm not gonna make it. We're in the minor leagues. It's like everybody's right here, and then somebody just comes down He'll never he'll never make it. You're just like, all right, well, I'm gonna I'm gonna leave you alone because I I got goals to reach.

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Speaker 3: M hm, pessimistic haters, Okay, just want to know, let's charge.

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Speaker 1: Charge about.

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Speaker 3: So the Blue Jays had a great comeback win over the Houston Astros.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to bury the lead here. We'll get to the game.

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Speaker 3: And also some bad news for Houston, some good news for Toronto and some bad news for Toronto.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to Boba Chett, but we might.

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Speaker 3: As well start with the juicy stuff, right Buck Martinez, great broadcaster calling Blue Jays games for a long time. Now with this quote, the Yankees, they're not a good team. I don't care what their record is. They have a lot of wild pitches, make a lot of mistakes in the field. They don't run the bases very well. So, AJ, if you're a Yankee, do care at all about this quote?

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Speaker 2: Not really, I mean it's all it's the same thing that Dodgers said last year. So now we're going to get up in arms about some of the people have been talking about for almost a year at this point. I mean, Buck martinezys the right to his opinion. He works for the Blue Jays. Of course he's gonna pump up the Blue Jays and and try to take down the other teams. Now, when you see him, I'm sure when the Yankee seam and Buck comes in and tries to say hi to some of the Yankee people, they might be a little cold to him. But nothing new. It's something like this wasn't said for the last year. Dodgers said this. Everyone hate the Dodgers in the Yankee land because the Dodgers said this after they beat him, they basically said the same thing. I think it would mean more right now, if Kevin Gosman said this, or if Chris Bassett said this, or Boba Schett went onto Il and said this, like, we'll be fine. They don't play very well. But Buck said it. You know, it kind of it kind of washes. It kind of comes out in the wash eventually, but you know they're just like, okay, fine, you know, join more haters.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if he got rid of the they're not a good team part, the rest of it tracks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, but that's basically he's basically saying they're they're not gonna win because of this way. They make too many mistakes of fundamentals. And that's exactly what the Dodgers guys all said last year when they beat them. They said, they don't they we knew if he just kept putting the ball and play eventually they didn't mess it up. And that's basically I mean, if you watch the game last night, the one inning that the Tigers scored nine runs whatever it was, there was like one hit, one real hit, a blue pit and then like seven walks and like ten wild pitches and it was an ugly inning.

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Speaker 3: The Yankees counterrase, I mean their tops in runs per game, homers, ops, a number of offensive categories. Plus they represented the American League in the World Series last year.

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Speaker 1: They're not a bad team, no, are they just making a point there? And and do you think that he's more emphasizing crats the baseball part of team, right, Like if the Yankees are a quote bad team, then the Brewers are the best things in slice bread.

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Speaker 2: I think he would say that, And I don't think either. I don't think either comment is entirely true. It's more an opinion because unless he has a crystal ball and knows how the postseason is gonna go, maybe there's no place that the Yankees need to make. Maybe Rodin and Freed just dice up the lineup. They go seven innings each. You never have to go to Fernando Cruz. You just go Weaver Bednar and the game's over. Like, there's ways of hiding deficiencies in the playoffs, But when you have to beat a team, when you play all twenty six guys, or when you get deeper into the roster, then everybody's underbelly's gonna come up. Like, I think it's more of a it's more of an indictment on the American League. I think, you know, you can say that there's probably four teams that are better than every American League team in the National League. So maybe the American League's it's not that good.

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Speaker 3: Well, Blue Jays fans, I mean, they had a big win yesterday, so it's a no hitter broken up in the sixth by guess who, George Springer hit a freaking tank having a huge year, comeback, player of the Year lock unless I'm missing someone. Also stressful game manager John Schneider with the quote after the contest, I.

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Speaker 1: Need a beer.

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Speaker 3: Ikf huge pinhit pinch hit two run double in the bottom of the ninth to tie up the game, And the postgame interview with him is great.

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Speaker 1: He's like, I'm so happy to be in Toronto, point take it.

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Speaker 3: He goes from Pittsburgh to this pretty cool and tied it up at three against Brian A.

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Speaker 1: Brave.

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Speaker 3: So we watched the Astros bullpen crumble, which we've been talking about.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm more worried about the Astros in the Blue Jays right now. We keep talking about the Mirrors being the team, but what about the Astros being the team that doesn't make it. We haven't even mentioned that because they're starting. Rotation is in shambles right now. Other than Hunter Brown, Framberveldez is chucking balls at his own teammates. There are Getty's out. They lose Garcia last night. I don't know, they're bullpen haters out. They lost the other lefty the other day, he's out or struggling right now, or the Astros. The Astros, to me, are the one that we need to be looking at, saying, man, what's going to happen in Houston because they are not playing well. The Marriors just kind of went through it. They went through their last East Coast swing and now they're going to be around Seattle a lot for the last fifteen to twenty games. So Rangers are playing really well. They won the first two games against the Brewers. So listen, there's one team that we need to be thinking about, maybe beating a little bit word. I know they're the Astros and we feel like they never slew their slumproof might be the Houston Astros ft FAM.

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Speaker 2: I went on the show this morning and they asked me if I'm worried about the Astros. I'm like, you got to stop thinking the astros aren't going to make the playoffs. But yesterday with Josh Smith on the show, he glazed over the fact that he's like, yeah, I think we can catch the Mariners. But he also said, I think the divisions insight and when you let other teams in your division back in the race at the end, they feel it seems like they look at it like we got a shot. So maybe somebody catches the Astros. They just don't have They can't. They can't lose a game when a bred is in it. That was a huge hit. I I kf in a environment, playoff environment that now you know is a bray you available tonight, is a brad you available the next night. Like they need everything to line up to win these games right now because they're not scoring that many runs.

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Speaker 1: Did you guys see the Vladdie play in extras to Raso is an LTV John Schneider was like, he literally recited, he goes, I'm in the dugout and I'm going no, no, no, yes.

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Speaker 2: That is a play. That is a play that every high school they do ground ball, you know, you're doing infield outfield, and they hit one to the first basement and every high school throws the ball to third. It irritates me. I'm like, this is a play that happens twice a big league season, and the fact that he got Altuve on that play from as deep as he was, like, to me, it's a super risky play, but he got him by a mile, so it wasn't it wasn't even that much of a risk. But it is like so many high school coaches do that practice that play, and it's like, please just feel the groundball touch first base. That's it. That's all I need you to get the out.

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Speaker 1: But also you're in high school. You're not vlating junior.

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Speaker 2: Todd Hilton used to be really good at doing this all the time. Todd Hilton used to always try that and it would work that deep from that deep though, Todd Helton would do it because Todd Hilton could do it. I saw in the playoffs Kevin mar Get chucked out a third five by a Gucci or second basement on the same play. I mean, two is not even He's probably thinking like, oh, I'm a third easy, and next thing you know, the throw is right in front of him and he's he's out. So there's a great play by Vlad just when you don't see a lot. I don't know why we don't see it as much. It's like a foregone conclusion. The ball sits to the right side, we're getting the out. But the next innings it's a great play by Vlad and he made that, and he had the infield single. It was directly in AL two by space. He threw out two b out and then he had the infield single on the ground ball to AL two b that Vlad showed off that elite level first basement speed that he has. I think he was the fastest sprint speed of any first basement When we had done that earlier in the year.

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Speaker 1: Vladdie was pretty sure.

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Speaker 2: It was like Vladdie at first, Shy Lange Leers at catcher. Then we just we just hit the ones. It was the sprint speed thing that I'll hit on.

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Speaker 1: No, who is it, Flatty Junior. He's thirty two, thirty second percentile of first baseman of first baseman or no total.

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Speaker 3: But still there's first basemen that are higher than that. I promise you I will.

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Speaker 2: Find that he was cooking on that infield single when he did that last night. I was like, oh, I remember when we talked about that, but I remembered wrong. I misremembered.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I would say he's probably more athletic than most people give him credit for it. That would probably be the way to put it. But I'll find the Sprint speed one for you. We have the article in the Roar. I'll look for it.

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Speaker 1: And he concerns about Boba Schett aj knee Sprain goes on the shelf. Also on the other side, Anthony said, Dad, there's coming back soon fifty games, shoulder information rehab assignment.

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Speaker 2: Crankin is not going to mess up what they have going because they're their outfitre with oars showing Springer and Barger and some of these other guys that are just running around on They have been pretty good, so why don't we just I don't know. I mean, he hasn't done much and they're playing pretty well, so kind of like we want to mess with it. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Well, you got to bring him back.

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Speaker 2: He's making too much money. You just got to be careful and hope he comes back hot because they've been playing well without him. And Boba Schett is a big deal because but they do have IKF who can pick it. But Bobachhett to the I is a big is a bigger deal to me than sintent they're coming back at the moment because of the way they're playing, but Bobash going down hurts. They just need him to be ten days back. I just wonder if Santan there when he comes back, how much of a least do they give him, because to me, he's he puts more fear in the lineup than without him. No offense to the guys who have been doing well, but everybody looks at that lineup and they're like, I don't know if these guys are gonna beat us, and then they ended up they end up beating you. But I think with Santan there and there, there's a level of fear that one swing can put them up.

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Speaker 3: Bo also just completely returned back to what he was right last year was the outlier.

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Speaker 2: I was having a good year with three eleven eight forty oh ps. I mean just the problem is you have David Schneider, Miles Straw is having a really good year for him, for Miles Straw with his defense, I mean Springer's dh You can't really dh M because Springer has been dhing a lot. Bark shows plays a solid center field. The perfetos back up right now, Just where do you play someting. Dere is the question for me right field? I guess that's what they brought him in for. I'm not saying he has to play every day. I mean, you look at the Brewers. They told Reye Hoskins, Hey, you know what you're gonna kind of be. They didn't say bench roll, but there's not really a lane for him to get at bats right now. So he's said, I'm gonna be here ready for whatever situation they need him. That's tough. I mean, Reee Hoskins, Reece Hoskins. I think I guess I shouldn't speak too quickly, but I think he's done more than Santan Dare in his career, but Santander has done it more recently. And I just think I think you have to make a managerial decision like is is his bat in the lineup? Even if it's not. If he comes out and he's banging the first week, it's gonna be no doubt they're gonna have him in the lineup. But it's if he just kind of goes through a little spell of getting his feet wet in the big leagues.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, I got really fixated on the whole sprint speed thing.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 3: Ezekiel Duran whose just yeah, isn't really a first base he's listed on here is he played more first base than anything else.

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Speaker 2: He played first base this year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so he's seventy eighth, so he's first among first basemen they have listed. Second is Luke Rayley, who sneaky fast Luke Raley on there.

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Speaker 1: Next first base, mean.

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Speaker 3: With like, you know, a minimum of playing time here, because a lot of these guys are like five seconds into the big leagues, like Warming Bernabelle, who we haven't really.

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Speaker 2: Talked about ever. Warm. Yeah, I was wrong.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Rome Gonzales should count. I think it was Spencer Steer. Spencer Steer I think was the one on that article.

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Speaker 2: Mmkay, that sound right?

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Speaker 1: Okay, cool krats. Why don't you read that for us and.

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Speaker 2: The San Francisco Giants who waved the white flag of the trade deadline win for the thirteenth time in the last sixteen games and beat the Arizona Diamdacks five to three, moving to within two games of the Mets, and the Mets hold the tiebreaker. That's why three games is so hard to overcome.

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Speaker 1: Bob Nightingale, I like the little touch you added the commentary. So it's really three games. M hmmm, because.

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Speaker 3: If they're tied, we don't do game one sixty three anymore, folks. So the Giants have two weeks in change to catch the Mets. Not impossible, it's not happening.

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Speaker 1: Not happening.

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Speaker 2: It's not happening.

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Speaker 3: It's crazy. It looks so small on a standings board. It's like two games.

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Speaker 2: Are the Mets catching the Padres?

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Speaker 1: Probably not?

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Speaker 2: Well, then the answer has to be the same for the Giants.

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Speaker 1: No it does, I said probably not.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, I mean, I'm just saying that's your answer.

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Speaker 1: It's a cute run by the Giants here down the stretch.

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Speaker 2: It'd have to go sixteen for nineteen, and the Mets would have to lose three straight games for them to overtake them.

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Speaker 1: Right now, Wait, they'd have to win sixteen of their last nineteen, is what you're saying.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, Now, they've already won thirteen of their last sixteen, So for them to catch them, you know, that's that's how difficult it. It's really difficult to do.

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Speaker 1: Dig in Better than Box scores.

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Speaker 3: Connelly Early made his debut for the Red Sox last night in Sacramento, and it went really, really well. The A's are a decent lineup, AJ, It's not like they do strike out a lot, and we saw that last night. Eleven strikeouts, five innings, five hits, no runs, one walk. I mean, that's about as good as it gets for a major league debuting in a minor league park.

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Speaker 2: Good debut, he did nice, he pitched nice. The Red Sox have shut out the A's two games in a row with two rookie pitchers, so do you know, sorry, great crochet and then Early, so two lefties. They've shut them out two days in a row. The Red Sox are in a good spot right now. They can do it. They win tonight, you're gonna start putting some pressure on those teams in the East.

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Speaker 3: Good option to have here, Kratz. He's earned himself another start.

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Speaker 2: For sure. I mean, Dustin May is not coming back, so you earn another start. You get to do it hopefully back in a big league stadium next time. But man, this is this is shaping up to be. I forget who was talking about it, but how much better lefties have had success this year, even like the platoon splits. So maybe the team that wins this year in the playoffs has the most lefties because guys in the big leagues right now are not hitting lefties as well as they have other times, even right handers. So this is this is impressive. This was an impressive start. His last start in Triple A, right before he got called up, he punched out ten guys and now he's like, oh, the big leagues is easier.

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Speaker 3: This is randomkrats. But were you listening to the Tigers broadcast last night? That was a big topic last night. What was left the issue in baseball this year?

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Speaker 2: I didn't see that game.

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Speaker 3: Oh okay, they were talking about on the Tigers broadcast. But anyway, for the Red Sox a few days ago, okay, well, it's spreading. It's become fodder on local team broadcasts. For the Red Sox. You've got Crochet, you feel great about him, right, You've got Giuliedo or Bao in a game too, and then you're trying out game four.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, after those three, if you're in a long series.

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Speaker 2: Rookies are lined up, especially with a Mazell for an extended period. Opener Red Sox bullpen is too good for Alex cor to say, I'm gonna not lose any innings if i can get through an entire game with my bullpen.

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Speaker 1: No, totally or early.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying that's my opinion. I'm saying the Red Sox pitching development program is very, very persuasive in their decisions of who pitches and who doesn't. So just saying that, I have a heart it depends if they're up three to zero in a seven game series, Yeah, obviously you're gonna say, hey, we're gonna need one of these starters to get some innings. If they're down, I have a hard time believing that they're going to say, yeah, we'll go ahead, and we'll go ahead and throw a lefty out there that has at that point probably four starts in the big leagues. I mean, these guys could probably amass four starts total.

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Speaker 3: Yesterday, Jared Krabas, our buddy who covers the Red Sox, said a quote tweet on us talking about the call up of Connolly Early and Dustin May being ieled. He goes, I love that the Red Sox are just putting all their bad players on the fifteen day suck list.

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Speaker 1: We don't have time for that. BS in September, PHANTOMI hel.

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Speaker 2: It's not really fair. It's not really a very very fair statement.

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Speaker 1: Oh it's a little old punchy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know. I don't know if you want to be an a steam journalist. I don't know that I would throw that out there.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if you'd call him all that podcast or badass inluent too. Fan super fan for sure, yes, superfan mode for sure. Hey, somebody's stuff was ticking up in the minor leagues last night named Roki Sasaki. Remember him, mm hmm, rookie mania in the off season and then.

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Speaker 1: He goes down.

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Speaker 3: We haven't seen him for most of the year, but there was a pretty big tick up in velocity for him at Triple A Oklahoma City. Eight punch outs and four and two thirds, and Dave Roberts like, yeah, we're gonna have to pick this out pretty quickly. Obviously they're gonna have to make a decision on if they want him to appear at all on the big league club. But man, the staff cast page looks quite nice. Four seams splitter slider up significantly.

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Speaker 2: More than mhmm, A lot more than v low. He didn't land any of his splits in the strike zone, and yet six of the eight that he threw or swung at. He wasn't good when his vlow was down, and you know so now his vlow is up. Does he even have enough time, though, to make an impact in the postseason?

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Speaker 1: Four walks not good?

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Speaker 2: He won't pitch in the postseason. No, I don't think so. That's something happens. He won't pitch in the postseason because they.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, would you pitch him in the pen?

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Speaker 2: No? Too many walks?

00:25:01
Speaker 1: Okay, they work on things. That's crazy, right, send.

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Speaker 2: Them there is a fall league.

00:25:07
Speaker 1: Good idea. Hey, we're back.

00:25:10
Speaker 3: Kyle Tucker is not left cap strain retroacted to September sixth. They were doing a little day to day thing. Moys's Ballastais gets called up to try and provide a little offense.

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Speaker 1: But this isn't great timing.

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Speaker 2: Not for his free agency, enough for the Cubs. But the Cubs are gonna make the playoffs. They just need them healthy for October. They're not worried about these next fifteen games. They want them to get back in a week or so, get them at bats and be ready for the postseason because they need them. Calfs are tricky, I agree, but they need them back and they're going to try and get them back for the postseason. Because regular season, at this point, Brewers are winning the division, the Cubs are going to make the wildcard. YEP, completely agree, But I also agree that the Cubs need some offense. So Moistace, you better bring your hitt and stick because the boys need somebody to drive some runs. Did a good job last night they won six to one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's more to learn about the Cubs with Sade Charmi. He was on the show yesterday. We got into almost like a player by player situation with what's gone on with the offense because it's a pretty big storyline. How much of a swing it's been the one for me still. You know, when I was looking back at comments from that video yesterday, it was say us Azuki, he was.

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Speaker 1: So good in the first half, and it just as soon as he came back in the second half, it just it just disappeared. Powers apped.

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Speaker 2: He wanted to be an All Star. They said you're not an All Star, and he said, then I'm not going to drive any more runs in.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he was that.

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Speaker 2: That wasn't That wasn't a direct quote. Yeah, that's what he said.

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Speaker 1: That's what he said.

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Speaker 2: That's what he said.

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Speaker 1: That's what he said. That's what he said. Time.

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Speaker 3: Let's talk about the Tigers and the end. He's first off, Tigers take the first in the series.

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Speaker 1: And the Yankees bullpen unraveled. So it was a blowout twelve to two.

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Speaker 3: In this one, Mark Leider Junior had trouble and who else had trouble?

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Speaker 1: Who is the other reliever cruise band? He did? He did not. He did not know where it was going. Just didn't have the feel. Is that a splitter thing?

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Speaker 2: You know, it's like a football pitch.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm saying like that's a splitter thing.

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Speaker 2: Though.

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Speaker 3: It's like I don't have the field, so I'm gonna have no idea where I mean, he throws it what three quarters of the time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he just didn't have it. Yeah, I mean that any was It was a great job by the Tigers just they just stood there after the leadoff double, They just stood there, just let him walk him in wild pitch him to death. I think one person who was someone hit the little blue Parker Meadows, Parker Meadows got a got a hanging splitter and hit it in the right everyone else just exactly just let it happen. And the most awkward part was Meredith. Barakovich had like talked to Fernando Cruz before the game on the field and they had this whole like he was going to talk about how like this pitch was his gift from God, which I think was technically a quote that he took from Mario Rivera, but he was like this pitch, he said, I don't even really know where I got it from. And as she was talking about it, it was just like ball three, ball four, wild pitch, ball three, and it was like cut it, cut it, not the time. He's had a great year. Last night he just imploded.

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Speaker 1: For that's what he said.

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Speaker 3: I do also want to get to quotes from Aaron Boone because the questions are coming in hot right now. Joel Sherman does a nice job covering the team for a long time national baseball reporter for the New York Post.

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Speaker 1: He's been on our show and he.

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Speaker 3: Flat out said Cat Bairo should be the stop in the playoffs. Boone is doing the best he can to answer things right now, or I think he is, but Yankee fans don't. He said, Anthony, I view as our shortstop. Cabert is a really good player. I'm aware of that, and I feel a lot of confidence anytime I put him in there. Obviously he's gotten some more opportunities here of late. Where I've sat Anthony at the time of the year where we're playing for a lot right now, I look at it as all hands on deck.

00:29:24
Speaker 1: Every day we'll be at a tough game. I mean, he.

00:29:29
Speaker 3: Had first and second, no doubts, He's bunting, popped it up to the pitcher.

00:29:36
Speaker 1: He hasn't hit again lately.

00:29:39
Speaker 3: This is the storyline that Yankee fans are obsessed with right now.

00:29:43
Speaker 1: Should they be? Are the Yanks giving him too much credit?

00:29:48
Speaker 2: Uh? Six to sixty one, Ops says No. Two six batting average six to sixty one a league in airs. So Yankee fans are real fans and they see it, and it sucks for Anthony Volpi. But if you don't perform, especially in New York, they're gonna get on you. And I mean those numbers don't add up to being very good. It's art.

00:30:08
Speaker 1: If you were running the team, AJ, would you just have him be the definitely.

00:30:13
Speaker 2: Try to give him a break the Cabo Yuro come in and get a day or two at least, I don't know, it's too late now. They can't send him down, so I mean, what can they do. They're they're kind of stuck and sucks for a Volpi. He seems like a nice fellow, but they're in a bad spot right now because they can't get rid of him. They can't find anyone else. And this is the guy they've been counting on for years, Yankee fans and Yankees organization to be their short stuff for a long time, and he's actually gotten kind of worse every year.

00:30:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's not like Caberra has had superstar numbers this year, but he'll get on base more than Bli and run around less pop than Vulpie, but not that much less. Honestly, this year, what do you think, Krats at this point?

00:30:58
Speaker 1: What do you do?

00:30:58
Speaker 3: I know you've talked about it every once in a while, but it's late, it's September tenth. Are you gonna try and hope that you catch lightning in a bottle?

00:31:05
Speaker 1: Because he is streaky.

00:31:06
Speaker 3: It's just that the streaks on the downside have gotten really really long. Right, He's off to a nice start first ten days or something like that, and Paul's off for a while. There's been like a few little power stretches, but besides that, he just gets really off kilter and the confidence doesn't look like it's there.

00:31:26
Speaker 2: That would be the last thing he said about the confidence is definitely something that this is what This is what the jungle, this is what the Bronx does to you. And I think it's I think it was blown out of proportion early, but I think now the defensive part of it is where I would lean towards sitting him because if he hits, let's see, his numbers are two oh six, two sixty eight, three ninety three for an ops plus of eighty two at the shortstop position. That is okay if you're playing goal glove defense. But because the defense is going the way it is this year, I don't think this is a normal thing. But if you watch games, there's a lot of hesitation when he fields the ball. There is a lot of you know, double pumping, double clutch feet are still moving off bounced throws where it could have set his feet. I think that's where I would look to sit him, send him to Triple A at this point of season. No, even if you'd send him down for what, what are you gonna send him down for ten days? You can't mimic the nerves and the pressure in Scranton like you can in the big leagues. And maybe some of it, you know, maybe he's not comfortable, you know, where they're having him play, Maybe his range is affected by that something. But you're talking about a gold Glove defender who's now I think Ellie has more more than him, but I think he has the most airs in the American League right now.

00:33:06
Speaker 1: They should have sent him down earlier this year.

00:33:08
Speaker 2: Oh this is what? Done? What? But I'm done? What?

00:33:11
Speaker 1: Let him regain his confidence?

00:33:13
Speaker 2: This is what he is now, This is what he is?

00:33:15
Speaker 1: So what is he? How do you describe him?

00:33:17
Speaker 2: What he is? Here's my question for the Yanks. And I know they're analytic driven and they want everyone to hit thirty homers, But one hundred and sixty seven strikeout was twenty three hundred and fifty six last year. He's at one hundred and forty this year. Maybe we could try to tell him to hit thirty homers and we try to hit line drives and get on base and steal. Everyone wants to make everybody the same player. Maybe we don't make him that player because he's not that guy. I mean, listen, I could have struck out two hundred times too if I was trying to hit twenty homers every hit a home run every single time, and hit the ball in the air. His game is supposed to be fast and play. If I guarantee you his defense would approve he got more hits, I'm sorry. But but if he's not getting hits and every time he goes up there like we need X have lost in the air and he said his best well, or he's striking out and they're catching, it lowers your confidence. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Try something different. Not every player is Aaron Judge. AJ said it. He is who he is. His career OPS is six sixty one. This year, his ops is six sixty one. Right now, that's okay, that's okay if that's all you're gonna get out of a goal glove defender. But when his defense goes down, try what AJ said, Like, man, you feel so good about yourself. You even think my shirt looks good. When you are two for four like everything looks good. Like when you're zero for four, you're like, oh, I gotta figure it out on defense because I gotta hold my I gotta hold my spot here. And he's still young. I mean, he's twenty four in the big leagues. Like it's okay, he can try to make a change. He doesn't have to hit twenty homers a year. But you know what's gonna happen if he try, if he acts, goes to more of like a line drive approach, put the ball in play type of approach. I bet he hits more homers because he's making more contact with the ball. It's not like he's an on base god, like two sixty eight on base percentage this year career, two eighty two on base percentage, Like that's like my realm of on base percentage. Like you're gonna make contact with a lot of balls, don't hit weak fly balls in the air.

00:35:31
Speaker 1: It's a good point.

00:35:32
Speaker 3: And hey, a lot's going right for this team for the Yanks, they're one of the better teams in the American League. They lost yesterday, but Cody Bollinger had a big homer early off of Casey Myies and the left on left thing. You're talking about her just hitting lefties in general. Obviously, it's nice to have a Cody Bellinger lefty bat who's just annihilating left handed pitching all year. But bringing up the downside here, this is what fans are expecting. They're expecting better from that position. They've got a guy who can replace him, and we'll see what they go with in the playoffs. It's a little bit more time, I guess for auditioning, and they're hoping that he catches lightning in a bottle. Hey, Philly fans were like, Aaron Nole is see it next year? And then they're like, just kidding, we loved that last out and just kidding. I know it's different. I'm just saying things can change, but do I see it now. I don't think it's going to change, but maybe they do. We spend a lot of time on the road. We are often concerned about our online security when you're logging in from all over the globe.

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00:37:40
Speaker 3: We didn't get to this one earlier in the show, but Kyle Schwarber's got fifty pumps this year pretty damn good. Apparently, his first words after he hit it were finally, because it had been ten games. I guess when you're hitting fifty, right, and when you hit fifty homers in a season ten games, which is what two weeks feels like a long long time.

00:38:04
Speaker 2: It was the longest stretch, longest stretch of the season. I think the thirty six or seven at bats, that's crazy. That's some people's career average thirty six or seven, thirty six or thirty seven at bats per Homer.

00:38:20
Speaker 1: He thought he was slumping by the way. In that game Mets fall Philly's win.

00:38:30
Speaker 3: Ranger Suarez had a nice performance, Sean and I had didn't. He's still going to keep doing his thing his turns in the rotation. But man, it's gonna be fascinating to see what the Mets end up doing with their rotation three game series.

00:38:46
Speaker 2: Yeah. Especially this goes back to Brook when we had her on. Soto stole his thirty at base with two outs and down by five, stole third. Like that's why some stats aren't created equally. Yeah, he went thirty thirty, but you know, stealing third, down five two, while its like yeah, go ahead one, you can have it. Had your stat Yeah, they know on the telecast. On the telecast, they were like, they were like, yeah, I guess he really wanted to get to third to get his thirty thirty season. It was really just like, uh, like it should have been a moment to celebrate.

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