1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Welcome back to the show everybody. We are back. We took a week off. We have a lot to cover in the last two weeks of the Major League Baseball season. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:13,000 I've got Brady and Kenji with me. We're talking trade deadline. We're talking the Angels. They're not selling no Tony sneak peek. 3 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:17,000 Uh and a lot of different fun series to watch. So let's get right into it. 4 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:28,000 Yeah, Joe's not here with us. We're really sad. So don't don't turn off listening right now if you guys are listening to this and you're mad Joe's not here. 5 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:38,000 But um we are said Joe's not here. So Joe we love you. Um I hope you're back next week. But we have a really good crowd on hand today for an action packed episode. 6 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:44,000 We got Brady and Kenji with us. We're talking the trade deadline. A whole bunch of other things to cover. 7 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,440 and Kenji with us. We're talking the trade deadline, a whole bunch of other things. 8 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:50,400 First and foremost, Kenji, how are you holding up, man? 9 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:56,880 I'm happy that we're not trading on Tani and we're buyers, not sellers. 10 00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:01,120 Yeah. We'll get into the angels philosophy in a little bit, but I guess that's- 11 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:05,120 But that's not what I'm saying. Like that's, I'm happy. That's all that matters. 12 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:07,840 You're just happy. Okay. Hey, no, we'll take it. We'll take it. 13 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:09,200 Brady, how are you doing, sir? 14 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:15,520 Oh, you know, we're the opposite around here. Really dumpster fire. It's not looking good. 15 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:21,440 Yeah. Philly's been struggling a little bit. Yeah. Well, we're going to get into both teams, 16 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:27,120 how they've been playing. And we're going to even talk about Joe's Rangers. So a little sneak peek. 17 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:33,120 They've been kind of going crazy the last 48 hours or sad he's not here. Oh, probably get a 18 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:39,040 little FaceTime instant reaction from Joe here in a little bit. But yeah, so without further ado, 19 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:43,040 hopping straight in, the deadline is on Tuesday. We're recording this Sunday afternoon. So the 20 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:49,600 deadline is in the morning of August 1st. So yeah, that would be Tuesday. So it's coming up quick. 21 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:55,680 It's been a really interesting trade deadline. Do any of you guys want to cover it or should I 22 00:01:55,680 --> 00:02:00,720 just run through the trades we've been seeing? Or actually you guys give me the biggest trade, 23 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:04,960 the best trade you've thought so far for either team, anything you guys have seen. Brady? 24 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:09,760 Brady? Well, I've seen the news that the Cardinals aren't trading. 25 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:12,480 Can you see all the trades anywhere? Kenji? 26 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,880 Hold on. I want to know, can you see the trades? Is there a place where you can see all the trades? 27 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:19,600 Yes, there is. Yes, there is. There's a trade tracker. Yeah. 28 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:25,920 Yeah. Okay. Back to what I was saying. Obviously the news that the Cardinals are going to build 29 00:02:25,920 --> 00:02:33,520 around and not trade Nolan Aronato. Big move. And then today they've made two big trades. They 30 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:38,080 traded away Jordan Hicks and Jordan Montgomery. Yeah. 31 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:42,560 Both away to get, I'm not sure what they got. They didn't announce what they got. 32 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:48,320 I have it right here. So the Rangers acquired Jordan Montgomery and right-handed pitcher Chris 33 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:55,920 Stratton for a bunch of minor leaguers. Thomas Geese, that's the last name, Sag Geese. And then 34 00:02:55,920 --> 00:03:04,000 Tekoa Roby, John King. And then they traded Jordan Hicks to the Blue Jays for Adam Klopfenstein 35 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:09,120 and Sam Roberts. Klopfenstein, that sounds like a guy who should work at the North Pole. You know 36 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:10,560 what I'm saying? Yeah. 37 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:14,160 Totally. I mean, that's basically what Toronto is at this point. 38 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:20,160 Effectively, yeah. So then what's the take on that? Because as an O's fan, 39 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:25,760 we were looking at both of those guys. So to see them both go elsewhere kind of makes me 40 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:28,960 sad. But what do you guys think of those two trades, Brady? 41 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:34,960 Well, the Rangers are really building the high velocity team with acquiring Chapman 42 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:39,920 and Jordan Hicks. I'm really kind of curious. Toronto got Hicks. Texas got Montgomery. 43 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:45,680 Oh, even still Montgomery still got that VELO, but it's another big starter with DeGrom being 44 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:53,200 made of glass. You know, Eofaldi, Montgomery, and Scherzer now, which is going to be pretty good. 45 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:59,200 Hopefully it can keep them going down the stretch, even though they're getting hurt like crazy. 46 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:02,800 Yeah. We wish we had Joe to talk about the injuries that have kind of ravaged the Rangers 47 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:07,040 of late. Kenji, any trades stand out to you first and foremost? 48 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:13,920 I mean, like, G-Ludo is cool, but he's like average. I'm not really sure if I'm happy to 49 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:14,880 have him. Yeah. 50 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:20,800 Our pitching staff already, you know, has a thousand average pitchers. 51 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,800 Yeah. Is he really going to help us win? 52 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:28,800 No. But I think the Marlins one, what's his face again? 53 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:31,520 Robertson? Yeah, Robertson was really good. 54 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:36,160 Yeah, David Robertson to the Marlins for- He's solid. He doesn't get a lot of runs. 55 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:39,840 He does his job. It's just the Mets never gave him or put him in a position to actually 56 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:46,800 do his job. Right. And the Marlins are great at giving closers an opportunity. It's just 57 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:51,040 unfortunate that their guy looks like a toad and- 58 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:54,000 Who? AJ Puck? Is that what you're talking about? 59 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,320 AJ Puck just can't save the game. He just can't save the game. 60 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:58,400 Kenji's a guy. We're so ready to castle out home run 61 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:02,880 at the bottom of the line, thinning every tiny pitches. So what a good thing. 62 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:07,120 First and background, everybody, Kenji in our fantasy baseball league, which is the most 63 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:13,360 important thing in all of our lives, I traded AJ Puck to Kenji and Puck has done nothing but be 64 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:20,160 horrible for him. He's been horrendous. Yeah. So I mean, I'm glad I got him off my hands, 65 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:24,720 but now Robertson is the closer for Miami and that'll be good because Miami's contending, 66 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:28,160 they're playing good. I know they've struggled out of the break, but they've been playing well. 67 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:33,600 The one that stands out to me the most, I mean, actually, before we get to that, 68 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:38,240 did you guys see the return for the Gio Leto trade with the angels that had to give up to get them? 69 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:43,440 They gave up their number two and number three overall prospect to get Gio Leto and Lopez. 70 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:46,400 Gio Leto is like their third best pitcher on the white side. 71 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:49,760 Yeah, no, it's unbelievable. There were a bunch of people that were talking about it 72 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:55,360 and I couldn't believe the market for like a mid tier, like a number three starter they're giving up. 73 00:05:55,360 --> 00:06:00,320 Kai Bush, is that the guy you're talking about? Kai Bush and Edgar Caro. Caro is their better 74 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:06,320 prospect. Caro, I think aside from Logan Ohapi was their best prospect. 75 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:12,800 Ohapi might come back to shoot, man. Yeah, Ohapi might come back, but still, 76 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:18,400 they're kind of empty in the farm for Otani to show that they're going to keep him. We'll get 77 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:23,040 into more of Otani and the angels in a little bit, but I thought it was fascinating the return for 78 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:30,240 a guy like Gio Leto. The big one, I mean, we have to talk about this one. Max Schurz are going to Texas 79 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:35,680 to from the Mets in exchange for Ronald Acuna Jr's little brother. 80 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:42,400 So Brady, you know more about the Acuna brother than I do. What do the people need to know about him? 81 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:51,680 Well, I saw this thing that in double A ball right now, he has 42 stolen bases and an 830 LPS, which is 82 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:59,040 pretty good. Yeah, I would like to say so. I don't think it'll be too long before he ends up 83 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:07,200 out there because let's be honest, the Mets are going to Met. So hopefully he gets some time 84 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:15,520 there towards Seattle. It doesn't even say. I don't know. I don't remember exactly where, 85 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:22,160 but I know he's an infielder, but it won't be too long before we can maybe see some action from him. 86 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:28,640 Shortstop slash second level. Because obviously they have Francisco, but who plays second? 87 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:35,200 Is it McNeil? Yeah, no, they haven't been playing McNeil. I thought he has been playing second. 88 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:40,640 They had him in the outfield day that day. I don't know. I watched Mets games occasionally. 89 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:44,240 Their outfield is kind of crowded, isn't it? But what's crazy about this Acuna guy, Brady, 90 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:49,280 you were telling me this a little bit yesterday in how many games has he played in the minors? 91 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:58,320 So 84 games in the minors this year for Texas. He's stolen 42 backs. So Buddy can fly. 92 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:06,960 And he doesn't have that much pop, only seven homers, 51 Rubies, but 42 stolen bases is crazy. 93 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:14,560 He's got an 830 OPS. So the Acuna brother is good. And Scherzer was pitching not that great this year. 94 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:19,760 And so he's more of a rental anyway, because he's owed like $44 million over the next two years. 95 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:24,960 But Acuna was a good return. That one was one I wanted to mention. That'd be something Joe 96 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:28,960 would talk about a lot if he was here. Joe was happy about the Scherzer trade. 97 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:32,320 Joe's what? He was super happy about it. He was super happy about it. 98 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:37,280 Yeah, no, I see. Let's see how it works for him. Certainly. I mean, it's better than Perez. 99 00:08:38,560 --> 00:08:42,400 John Gray. Perez has been bad. Gray's been bad. Gray's been bad. 100 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:51,760 Dane Dunning just, you know, is a go. And he's, of course, best pitcher in the league, but also 101 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:58,160 not that good. Yeah. Yeah. And then you have all these slowing down, right? He's 102 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:04,320 down. So I think it's only going to benefit him. I think it's a good trade for him. I think that 103 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:07,440 with how good their staff has been so far this year, even without DeGrom, 104 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:12,960 even though some of their guys are getting hurt lately, it's impressive to see how well, like 105 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:18,720 their rotation, I think is top five in the league in ERA. And so a new ad, a guy in Scherzer who has 106 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:23,680 the potential to be that guy. I think that that's a good trade for both teams because the Mets were 107 00:09:23,680 --> 00:09:29,360 not going to make it. They're selling. And now you get the Rangers obviously get a premier line 108 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:33,280 starting pitcher. So I like that one. The last one I'm going to talk about in a little bit of 109 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:39,520 detail is the Dodgers getting Lancelin and Joe Kelly. I love Joe Kelly. We love Joe Kelly here 110 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:46,240 on the program, friend of the show. Not really. That is the man on the planet to ladies and 111 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:52,320 gentlemen. Yeah. His little crybaby face he did to Correa a couple of years ago was the best. And 112 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:56,960 then in return, the White Sox gave him Trace Thompson, who's Clay Thompson's brother for 113 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:00,800 anybody that might have lived under a rock over the last few years. Except for the first two weeks of 114 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:07,120 the season. Yeah. A guy named Nick Nostraini and Jordan Leisure. That's a fun last name, Leisure. 115 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:14,400 But yeah, Lancelin is one of those guys. He has his highest strikeout rate of his career this year. 116 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:19,600 And you think the Dodgers and the Rays were the two guys interested in Lynn. And that's probably 117 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:23,440 because, I mean, their pitching staffs are better than any, if you're rooting for any other team, 118 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:29,360 they'll probably have better pitching coaches than you do the Rays and the Dodgers. And you think 119 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:35,520 that they can unlock that strikeout potential, maybe get his walks down. But that's what I got 120 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:40,960 for the trades. Now moving forward with the deadline coming up, we're going to talk about our ideal 121 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:47,360 trade. So whether it's for our favorite team or just for the league, who would you love to see go 122 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:53,840 somewhere? We've been stewing on this for a minute, Brady and Kenji. Who are we thinking? Kenji, we'll 123 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:58,960 start with you. Can I just say one that I wish would happen? Not that I think would happen. 124 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:05,440 Sure. In my dream world, I would love for the Angels to trade for Cody Bellinger. 125 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:11,520 Wow. I would love nothing more to have Mike Trout come back and then see Mike Trout, Mickey 126 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:20,160 Moniac, Cody Bellinger in my outfield. And then Taylor Ward. I like him a little more now. And 127 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:24,560 then we can put Cody at first base and then stop playing all these old slobs that we picked up from 128 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:29,680 random teams throughout the season. We'll hit 250 and make my team a little bit better. 129 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:34,560 He's hot right now. Mike Trout, Cody and him and Ohtani in the lineup, I think would be 130 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:39,200 a really good way to give a lot of energy to this team. 131 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:44,960 Okay. All right. I got some respect for that one. Brady, who you got? So we have Bellinger to the 132 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:47,440 Angels. That's kind of a hot take. I'll give you a little sizzle. 133 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:50,560 They said no, though. They said they're not going to trade them. They came out and said, 134 00:11:50,560 --> 00:11:54,560 we're going to keep them. Yeah. That's what I was going to say is that the Cubs have won, what, 135 00:11:54,560 --> 00:11:57,600 seven in a row, eight in a row, or maybe did they lose yesterday? I can't remember. 136 00:11:57,600 --> 00:11:59,840 Who cares? You're not going to win the playoffs. You guys suck. 137 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:06,000 Bellinger's only on the rental too. So it's like they're not going to re-sign him because 138 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:10,800 he'll get paid way more money to go to somewhere else. True. Brady? 139 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:18,720 So for me, I would love any starting pitcher that is remotely half decent would be fantastic. 140 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:27,840 To the Phillies? Yes, absolutely. My ideal choice, also a Cub actually, my man, Marcus Stroman, 141 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:34,160 I would love since he's basically, he's one of the hottest guys on the market right now. 142 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:37,440 Yeah. Yeah, for sure. I would say. I think it would be 143 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:44,320 big time if we go and snag him. I don't know what we'd give up. I have frankly no idea, but 144 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:49,760 I think it would be worth it. Whatever it may be. Do you guys have a strong farm system? Trey Turner? 145 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:56,480 I mean, we do, but we just had our number one prospect, Andrew Painter, go on and get Tommy John. 146 00:12:56,480 --> 00:13:01,440 Yeah. Okay. Other than that, I think it's pretty good for the most part. So we could 147 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:06,560 throw some of those out there, maybe give them Garrett Stubbs, our backup catcher, 148 00:13:06,560 --> 00:13:09,760 who's pretty good, but just doesn't see the light of day because- 149 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:15,760 So you want to trade for the premier starting pitcher on the market with a backup catcher? 150 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:22,240 Well, no. Okay. I'm just trying to understand. I promise you, I'm not trying to make funny. 151 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:29,520 I'm just curious. Is Garrett Stubbs like that? He's a piece we can add to the trade. 152 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:37,920 He's not that guy, but he's a piece to add to the trade. Because even in the world baseball classic, 153 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:46,480 he plays for a team that no one really watches. But he's not bad, but he just doesn't see the 154 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:52,000 light of day as much as he probably should because we have JT. So you could throw him in there. He'd 155 00:13:52,000 --> 00:14:00,480 have some value. You can throw in some prospects, just some of our prospects that we would want. 156 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:05,120 I don't know. I guess I can't really think of what the Cubs desperately need. 157 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:10,640 So just give them a bunch of prospects that are all over the board. 158 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:11,440 I'll give you relievers. 159 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:17,280 And I would love to give them some of our relievers. That would be great. Just get them 160 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:24,800 out of there. But I would love to see Marcus Stroman in the Phillies red pinstripes instead of the blue. 161 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:27,520 That would look really sick. 162 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:28,960 That would look good. Stroman would look good in that. 163 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:30,240 It would look very nice. 164 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:35,280 It would look very nice. I got a couple of interesting ones. I want to get your opinion 165 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:40,560 on these. The one I'm most intrigued by, the team I'm most intrigued by that I think will be selling, 166 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:47,200 the Padres. I know in the past I've said that I think that they'll sneak into the wild card. 167 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:53,040 They just haven't played good out of the break. They just are still mediocre. And the NL wild 168 00:14:53,040 --> 00:15:03,040 card is an unbelievable place to be. Brady can attest to that. But Juan Soto to the Tampa Bay race. 169 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:08,960 Oh, that would be quite crazy. But I don't think there's any plausible way. 170 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:15,200 Listen, this would be hilarious. I think it would be crazy. I'm just for the sake of entertainment. 171 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:17,680 Just hear me out on this. Juan Soto to Tampa Bay. 172 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:24,640 I would say that. Tampa has the prospects to go after him. They have the prospects to go after. 173 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:30,080 Soto's a rental. He's a free agent. And so they wouldn't have to give up a crap ton to get him. 174 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:35,600 And then they get a premier and on base guy who can hit for pop at the trop. I didn't intentionally 175 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:41,840 mean to rhyme there. But Juan Soto to the Tampa Bay race, it's really probably unlikely it's going 176 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:47,280 to happen because it's a superstar to a really contending team. But he's the thing the Padres 177 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:52,400 would ask for an arm and a leg in return. But that's kind of my sneaky one. Can you get a good 178 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:57,200 reaction to that? Juan Soto to start off that lineup. And if those are going to get out of 179 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:03,120 this slump a little bit, I'm going to be a seriously deadly. It would be really cool. 180 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:09,120 I don't think there's any way that gets done though. You don't think so? I don't think so. 181 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:14,560 I don't think the Padres are going to ship out as much as people think. Okay. So then that brings 182 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:19,280 me to my next one as an O's fan. I know I have the Mets hat on today, but as an O's fan, 183 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:31,360 I would love to see Josh Hader go to Baltimore. Josh Hader to Bautista would be the most unbelievable 184 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:37,040 one to in the history of the league. I would quit. Why would you quit? Why would you quit? 185 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:43,120 That is my boy. And I would hate to see him in the orange where he's not needed anymore. 186 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:47,040 He was originally a member of our organization. He's originally an order. 187 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:54,720 Peter is drafted. I'm aware of this, but he's not even going to be needed. That's the problem. 188 00:16:54,720 --> 00:17:00,560 You have Felix and Kano. He's not needed. Yeah, but Kano's given up hits now. Kano 189 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:05,760 is kind of struggling. Kano has a, on the bat bit, it's one of my favorite stats for pitchers, 190 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:10,560 batting average on balls in play. It tells you basically how hard are they hitting the ball and 191 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:17,120 what their average is on the ball. Kano's bat bit right now is 330. So when people put the ball in 192 00:17:17,120 --> 00:17:24,240 play, they're hitting 330 off of him. And so I don't trust Kano as much. Fuji has looked gross. 193 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:33,840 I love Fuji. When he can control the ball, I'm a fan of Shintaro. But I think the O's need another 194 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:39,360 reliever in the middle. And what better way to get a reliever in the middle than by adding the 195 00:17:39,360 --> 00:17:46,640 best one at the back end? No, no. Then it's like, it's such a, Brady's really upset. No! 196 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:55,520 Have that. That would ruin everything for him. I would hate that. Brady would get no more saves. 197 00:17:56,880 --> 00:18:01,440 I'm just saying the O's have the prospect base to be able to give up. What if they got Blake 198 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:09,440 Snell and Josh Hader for like four bucks? Oh, I saw this meme today. And it was Soto, Snell, and 199 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:15,680 Hader. And then it was for like Westberg, Kouser, and some other prospect. Oh, I know what you're 200 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:23,200 talking about. It goes Orioles will literally hear this on the call and hang up. Or I said 201 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:28,160 Phillies. The Orioles. Yeah, the Orioles would. Orioles would hang up the phone on that trade. 202 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:35,600 I think it'd be stupid not to. If they got Soto, Hader, and Snell in a package for four 203 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:40,880 prospects, I think you have to answer that call because then you get a great bat. It's not going 204 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:46,240 to happen. So I don't want to entertain it. But I think that it's a joke because I know what the 205 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:50,640 meme you're referring to, because it was from an Orioles Twitter account originally. And I saw it 206 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:54,640 and I was like, really? You mean we would hang up the phone if Soto and Hader were getting offered 207 00:18:54,640 --> 00:19:00,240 to do us? But I'd love to see that I was getting a reliever. A starter would be better. They just 208 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:06,080 sent down Tyler Wells today because he's been really struggling with command and he's been 209 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:12,080 getting rocked. Aaron Judge, I hate that guy. I can't believe he came back three for five with 210 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:17,600 a home run in the first game. I can't stand that dude. Can't stand him. I don't want to talk about 211 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:21,120 it. We're moving right past Aaron Judge. Jaden, Ben, if you guys are listening, we don't care. 212 00:19:21,120 --> 00:19:25,120 But I mean, I would love to see us getting our reliever. I think Hader is like the premier guy 213 00:19:25,120 --> 00:19:28,720 on the market still. I don't think the Cubs are going to be willing to part with a guy like 214 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:35,520 Alzolai. I love Alzolai as well as some of those other middle relief guys. I just don't see it 215 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:42,560 happening. But yeah, it's a weird deadline for me because in the past couple years, we've had these 216 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:47,360 huge blockbusters. But this year it's kind of like just almost in the middle where there's so many 217 00:19:47,360 --> 00:19:51,200 contending teams that have good pieces but don't want to sell them because they think they can 218 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:57,680 sneak in. So it's a bit of a weird situation. But those are my two crazy ones, Juan Soto to Tampa 219 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:06,400 and Josh Hader to Baltimore. What about Stroman in the desert? What about Stroman going to the desert? 220 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:12,560 I'll stay on for Joe. Do you imagine him in Arizona? What about Stroman in the desert? Kenji, 221 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:17,760 hear me out for a second. Marcus Stroman to the Dbacks? What about that? 222 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:26,800 Hemingallen? Hemingallen, front end. The problem with the Diamondbacks, they need a closer. 223 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:32,080 That's true. They've rotated like three guys and they're all just horrendous. Yeah, they do need 224 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:38,320 to close it desperately. They need good relievers. They would be a great fit for Hader, honestly. 225 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:44,080 Yeah, but I don't think they would trade them in division. That's fair. Me and Joe joked about 226 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:50,240 if Hader went to the Rangers. Hader to the Rangers? Rangers could do that. No. Because 227 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:58,320 Chapman is great. But I don't know if I would want Chapman as my day-to-day closer. Is he closing 228 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:04,800 for them right now? No, him and Smith rotate. Okay. But if you brought Hader in, Smith is a great 229 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:09,920 ERA guy. He doesn't allow a lot of runs, right? He can just be like a setter rapper. Is that what 230 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:17,040 it's called in English? Set up man. Yeah, a set up man and some Chapman. And then for bullpen's fine. 231 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:21,040 The bullpen's what's been the Rangers problem all year. You have those three guys who you can really 232 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:26,480 rely on, all lefties too. And then you have your other righties, which they have a couple of decent 233 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:31,760 ones mixed in. They fix their pitching. And I think with that one, once everybody comes back, 234 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:37,760 they'll make such a good push to playoffs. But you think they add another lefty? They have two 235 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:43,280 lefties in the back end right now. I mean, if they could get Hader, I don't know why they wouldn't 236 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:51,440 hesitate because that is just, that's scary. I would like Hader to go to a calm and safe place 237 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:57,360 that is neither of these, please. Okay, Brady. So then as a resident Hader sexual, where's 238 00:21:57,360 --> 00:22:02,720 where do you want Josh Hager to go? Obviously, really would be cool, but that's not gonna happen. 239 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:10,720 No, that's not gonna happen. Gregory Soto for a World Series MVP. No, that's even worse. That's 240 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:17,200 that's that's just a that's a felony right there. Right then and there. But somewhere safe and sound. 241 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:23,680 I like him in San Diego. I really do. I don't mind it. I loved him in Milwaukee because this is 242 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:29,680 another safe and sound place that isn't in a dumpster that won't be a dumpster fire with three 243 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:35,840 lefties in our bullpen. Not the O's. Come on, man. No, no. But that's what he wants. He wanted to 244 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:41,680 close. You want him to be the man. He just wants to stop. He is the clothes. He's the closer. He's 245 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:48,320 the guy. He's the dog. He's the man. Okay. All right. It shouldn't. If you are a lefty reliever, 246 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:54,560 who faces a righty dominant lineup in the ninth inning and you're still that good, 247 00:22:55,920 --> 00:23:03,040 like, how can you not? How can you not keep that guy there? So then let me ask you a question. So 248 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:08,160 where do you where where's the most likely so say he's getting traded hypothetically, 249 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:13,280 he's going somewhere. Where is the best fit for him in the way you see it? 250 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:20,160 Where is the best fit for him in the way you see it? Let's see here. Toronto just lost their 251 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:26,160 closer for the IO Jordan. I wouldn't mind that one. I'm not going to lie. That's where they 252 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:30,880 traded for Hicks, right? They did get Hicks, but Hicks has been so inconsistent. It's kind of one 253 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:37,840 of those weird ones to me. Well, they had, they also got a guy named Garcia from, I can't remember 254 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:45,200 he pitched today. He's a he's actually he has command. Yeah, Toronto got this guard like this 255 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:50,240 lefty named Garcia today and I watched the pitch. They actually got a really disgusting slider. 256 00:23:50,240 --> 00:24:01,280 Okay. 9596. Gotcha. Okay, I think my favorite place here we go. Here we go. Hear me out. I 257 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:09,680 think my favorite place for him to go would be Tampa. I do. I think it would be so waste. 258 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:15,520 That's such a waste. It is. Pitches like twice a week. It's the same thing because Fairbanks is 259 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:21,920 their guy. Yeah. That's just saying it's Josh Hader. And if you really need to make a run, 260 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:27,280 is Kittredge going to be the guy to do it for you? I don't know. Fairbanks is their guy. 261 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:32,400 Fairbanks is their closing. Sorry. Fairbanks can be the guy to get it done in this push that you need 262 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:40,560 for the World Series. He looks the most boring guy ever. Fairbanks? Yeah. I remember the first 263 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:47,360 time I saw him in the 2020 playoffs, I had COVID. I was in the the U hotel room and I remember 264 00:24:47,360 --> 00:24:51,280 watching him on TV and I was like, that guy did coke before he came out on the field. Because 265 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:55,840 he's got these big old bulging eyes and he just looks like he's like, he's like, cracked out of his 266 00:24:55,840 --> 00:25:03,440 mind out there. That's my take on Fairbanks. I think Tampa or Toronto would be ideal. I do. 267 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:10,080 Okay. Because both of them are looking to make a playoff push. Yankees? No, absolutely not. 268 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:16,160 You should be locked up just for even saying that. I'm just saying, man. I'm just saying. 269 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:20,960 I wouldn't cry. We're running a sports podcast here. We've got to be realistic with that. 270 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:26,480 That's worse than him going to the Orioles. What? That is worse than him going to the Orioles. 271 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:35,520 Sure. You're right, Kenji. Let's move on. Otani is not getting traded. We can go there next. 272 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:40,320 We'll do a little bit of update on the variety of different teams here. We can start with the 273 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:44,640 Angels and Otani. Kenji, you want to talk about the update? I do want to mention, if you're not 274 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:51,120 going to, that double header he had against Detroit, I hope you were, as well as what the team's 275 00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:59,440 going to be doing now that they have Jalito. That double header was very cool. Tell them. Tell 276 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:08,080 the people. Well, a complete shout out was pretty awesome. Nine strikeouts, one hit. Yep. Went all 277 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:16,960 for five, then went two for three with two home runs. Kind of a weird bonkers, honestly. 278 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:22,640 Now, here, you sound so excited to be here. It's because I was upset because I didn't get the 279 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:29,040 complete game. Yeah, Kenji was mad because he has Shohei on his fantasy team and he only lets you 280 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:34,080 put him at one position. Kenji forgot to put him as a pitcher. No, no. When you have a double header 281 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:39,760 in fantasy, for some reason, you can't take him out of the lineup after the game and move him. 282 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:44,640 It doesn't make any sense. So either start pitching or hit him. And I thought two games 283 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:48,240 were hitting or one game of pitching. There's no way he's going to throw a complete game shout out, 284 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:56,720 right? He hasn't thrown a shout out outing since the first game of the year. Yeah. And finally does 285 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:01,120 it. And he's been, oh my gosh. That's why I wasn't excited because I was so off watching. 286 00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:06,640 Yeah. But I'm going to talk about that for just a second. Maybe the most impressive feat in the 287 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:11,200 history of professional sports, to be honest with you from what Otani did in that double header. 288 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:17,120 I mean, for reference, that's like Patrick Mahomes throwing for 400 yards and three touchdowns, 289 00:27:17,120 --> 00:27:24,320 and then going out and getting like five sacks. I mean, we've never seen anything like it. An hour 290 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:29,600 after throwing a complete game shout out, it was Detroit, but still. He goes out and hits two homers 291 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:35,520 in a game. Like I just, we've never seen anything like it. And one of those, one of those homers was 292 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:42,480 mushed rocket. Yeah. It was the right center, right? The right center homers. So pretty. It was so 293 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:46,960 pretty. Yeah. I, everybody go listen and watch it. Cause it's, it's just, it's gorgeous. 294 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:54,960 490 foot one that he hit like a month ago, but yeah, that one was nice. Yeah. Yeah. It was a 295 00:27:54,960 --> 00:28:02,160 really nice one. Um, yesterday against, I think it was yesterday or two days ago against Gosman. 296 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:07,760 Okay. Only one Gosman allowed was in the first inning to a, a pulled by Otani. And I don't know 297 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:12,480 if you guys saw this. You guys see Chapman start chirping at his coach. Yeah. He was like, he's 298 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:16,160 like, why the fluff would he throw it to him? Because he's the only dude that can hit. 299 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:23,360 I'm, I don't, if I was him, I would cut Chapman. Cause that boy sucks. Are you kidding me? 300 00:28:23,360 --> 00:28:29,200 You had one good month in May and you think you're, dude, you, you have 112 strikeouts this year 301 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:35,600 and you think you can talk to your manager about who to walk? That guy's a moron. I hate Chapman. 302 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:41,520 Honestly, I think he's terrible at baseball. Okay. All right. He's my DFA, whatever my jigger, 303 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:46,880 like get the freak out of here. Okay. You're DFA guy. Yeah. All right. Okay. Oh, actually going 304 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:52,000 back really fast. Um, nevermind. You, you said hater to the Rangers, right? You already, 305 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:56,320 that was Joe's trade that you mentioned with him. I mean, Joe like joked about it. Okay. Nevermind. 306 00:28:56,320 --> 00:29:01,360 Sorry. Continue with the angels. What's their, what's their path to the playoffs? What is it? 307 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,960 What's the, how do they, how do they get there? What do they need to do? When did, 308 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:10,000 what's trout's availability to, uh, I don't think trouts coming back for at least two more weeks 309 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:16,000 from if we count the six to eight weeks. Yeah. I pretty much look every week. I count the weeks 310 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:22,560 calendar since he got hurt. And I'm like, when six to eight never changes, but you know, I keep 311 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:28,640 hoping that the month changes. Um, but until he comes back, I don't see us doing much. We keep, 312 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:34,480 we pull up so many prospects. We've traded for so many guys because of injuries. It's just like not 313 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:41,760 working. Like Zach nettles hurt again. Taylor. Honestly, did they rush nettle back? No, he 314 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:46,800 hurts back a little bit, but he's not on IO. He's just resting. Okay. Taylor ward just got hit in 315 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:50,160 the face. I don't know how long he's out for. He's been our hall hitter. 316 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:55,520 For Taylor ward, man. That boy got hurt. Yeah. I mean, I actually, I didn't like Taylor ward in 317 00:29:55,520 --> 00:30:01,040 the beginning, but I really like him. Yeah. Fat boy Alec Manoa through right. It's true. That guy 318 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:04,480 sucks. Yeah. Send him back down to the Florida Gulf coast. 319 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:10,080 Yes. No, but honestly, the angels, it's, it's hard to watch them play. Like our hitting is horrendous. 320 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:13,760 There's no spark, especially when they keep intentionally walking on a tiny, there's like, 321 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:18,880 just nothing gets the team going anymore. Right. Out trout is like, no, we'll live. 322 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:28,000 You're a real leader. Okay. Pitching is just so mediocre. Our leaders are dying. So yeah, I hate 323 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:35,200 being an angels fan. We warned you, man. We told you before you started the season that being an 324 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:39,520 angel fan is one of the most demoralizing experiences somebody can put themselves through. 325 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:44,240 I know that we're not talking football. We're not talking football, but Dylan, my good friend, 326 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:51,120 Dylan Chargers fan hates his life. Not really. I love you Dylan, but that's kind of the same thing 327 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:56,640 for being an angels fan. So yeah, Brady, you want to talk about the fans? Yeah. Yeah. 328 00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:00,720 Brady, you want to talk about the Phillies briefly? Let's run through these team recaps just a little 329 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:09,280 bit. Well, we're a giant dumpster fire. That's all I can, that's all it is. We suck. We are making 330 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:14,320 terrible mental, physical mistakes. How about Harper getting thrown out last night from, 331 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:25,360 on that single? So bad. It's so funny. They were playing Pittsburgh and Harper hits like a single 332 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:30,480 to the gap and Henry Davis is out there in right field. And the best picture I've seen of the 333 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:36,000 season is Harper touching first base as Henry Davis is throwing the ball back in the second. 334 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:44,240 And Harper tries to push for two and he's out by like five feet. Brady's shaking his head. 335 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:53,520 So stupid. That's the kind of stuff we've been doing since the All-Star break. It's so bad. 336 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,960 Wait, so Harper hit to right and he got thrown out first base? 337 00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:04,160 At second. No, at second. It was like just a single to right. And he tried going to second, 338 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:09,520 had no real reason to go to second, except for thinking that Davis's arm was bad. 339 00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:11,920 Dude, Davis is like an insane arm. I don't know what he's thinking. 340 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:15,600 He's got a good arm and Harper was out by five feet and then just immediately got up and walked 341 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:19,840 right off the field. He knew exactly, he was like, yeah, that was a mistake and just walked right off. 342 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:28,080 It's so stupid. I hate everything. It's so bad. The only way our playoff or postseason push would 343 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:36,400 do any good is if we just turn on the jets again. We figure it out again and make another insane run. 344 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:42,080 But I honestly, at this point, I would be really, really happy to see it happen, 345 00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:47,680 but I don't think it's going to happen. I think we'll go into the wild card and do nothing. 346 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:49,600 Do you know what inning it was in? 347 00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:54,400 I have no idea. I can try and find you the video and send it to you, Kenj. 348 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:57,760 I'm like looking it up because they don't have the specific video. So I'm just going to see if I can 349 00:32:57,760 --> 00:32:59,840 find it on the highlights from yesterday. Okay. 350 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,000 Brady, do you remember what part of the game it was on? 351 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:12,480 No, I don't remember. But anyway, terrible, absolute blasphemy. I'm so upset. I hate everything. 352 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:19,840 Philly suck. Thank you and good night. They did take two out of three from the O's, 353 00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:26,560 though. They did. Absolutely. That's the only good thing I've seen since the All-Star break. 354 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:34,160 Yeah. Yep. I'm trying to find a way, Kenj. I think I'm kind of close. I watched Bryce Harper 355 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:38,640 strike out twice on Balls in the Dirt. Yeah. He got thrown out again today. 356 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:44,720 Oh, yes. But it wasn't his fault. So Trey hits a sack. 357 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:48,720 Brady, what's going on with your team, homie? Dude, we're falling apart. 358 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:52,240 What is going on, bro? This is a disaster class. 359 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:58,480 It's so bad. So Trey Turner hits a fly baller with... So we're in the 10th inning. There's 360 00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:05,680 runners on third and second with nobody out. Trey hits a sack fly to right and Harper draws 361 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:15,040 the throw because it was too close for him to go home. So he draws the throw, but as he draws 362 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:21,840 the throw, Bohm is halfway to third base. So then they throw back to second to get Bohm. 363 00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:26,160 But then when they did that, then Harper goes home and is thrown out by like a foot again. 364 00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:37,840 It is so bad. It is the epitome. I'm so sick of it. Can we figure it out? Please. 365 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:45,760 We have to put in a headphone warning for everybody. Help me. Please. 366 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,520 That's pretty great. So bad. 367 00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:59,760 So then what's next for Phillies? What's next for the Phillies fans? What's your reason to live? 368 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:05,760 What's your reason to watch games, Brady? Hope and pray they figured out and actually 369 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:11,040 be productive. Hopefully. What really makes me upset. Another thing that makes me upset. 370 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:21,280 The Phillies hitting actually comes through for once and Aaron Nola 371 00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:25,680 throws it away in the garbage can into the dumpster into the garbage truck. 372 00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:37,440 It is so bad when our hitting has been the it's been very inconsistent. But as soon as it is 373 00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:43,360 consistent and we put up like five runs in the first three innings or two innings and Nola throws 374 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:53,680 it away and lets up seven. I think it was it was close to that. Tell us how you really feel, man. 375 00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:59,120 Hope and pray that we figure it out. That's it. That's all I got. 376 00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:08,400 I'll go briefly into somebody's other team. So Joe's Texas Rangers are four and six in their 377 00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:13,280 last 10. I don't make a habit of watching too many Rangers games, but four and six in the last 10. 378 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:17,360 Isn't good, especially when Houston is a game and a halfback and they've been six and four in their 379 00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:22,720 last 10 injuries, man. Yeah. Andries are kind of ravaging them. Hopefully Scherzer can come in and 380 00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:27,680 give them a little jolt as well as Montgomery. Do they pick up any bats? Do they sign it? They 381 00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:32,720 get any bats? Probably not. I don't think so. No, they like my bats really because there's no room. 382 00:36:32,720 --> 00:36:38,320 That's true. Yeah. And that lineup is gross when they get hot. They need Perez to stop pitching. 383 00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:43,440 Period. He was an all star last year, right? Yeah, he was. What was weird was he accepted a 384 00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:47,840 qualifying offer because most players usually don't accept their one-year qualifying offer 385 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:52,720 because they can go get more money for a longer term elsewhere. But Perez accepted his one-year, 386 00:36:52,720 --> 00:36:55,040 $20 million deal. Maybe because he knew he was bad. 387 00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:01,760 But then if you know you're bad, why would you not? Why would you not? Exactly. Exactly. 388 00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:05,600 But he did. Maybe he was just stupid, honestly. Maybe he was just stupid. 389 00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:13,120 But so that's kind of the update over there in the West. The AL mid is still mid. The O's are 390 00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:18,640 only a game up on Tampa Bay in the East. Tampa has gotten a little bit better. They're four and six 391 00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:23,680 in the last 10. O's are six and four. Did you see them get spanked yesterday? Yeah, that was so fun. 392 00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:29,120 Wasn't it? Four to 17 or something. That was so fun. I can't stand Tampa Bay. Who pitched 393 00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:32,240 yesterday, Brady? I know you have a couple of Tampa guys on your fantasy team. 394 00:37:32,240 --> 00:37:38,400 Neither of them. I don't know who it was. Okay. So none of the big guys. Probably Bradley. That 395 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:45,600 guy has kind of got a problem. Probably. Excuse me. Atlanta still running away with the East. 396 00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:50,000 Cincinnati and Milwaukee are tied in the central. Milwaukee's beating Cincinnati in their head to 397 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:55,280 heads. But Milwaukee hasn't played as good outside of that. And then the Dodgers are three up on the 398 00:37:55,280 --> 00:38:03,440 Giants in the West. Padres still suck. But yeah, I think tonight the O's have a big game, I think, 399 00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:07,760 in just an hour and a half or so. The rubber match against the Yankees on Sunday night baseball, 400 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:12,880 which will be the first time they've been on Sunday night baseball in like seven years, 401 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:21,920 six years. So it's like the Lions getting a prime time game on NFL. But hey, we'll take it. We need 402 00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:28,160 a win tonight. Luis Evarino, hopefully he gets shell tonight against Kramer. But now we're moving 403 00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:33,280 into the best segment of the show. Maybe, maybe, maybe not. Kenji wants to talk about intentional 404 00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:39,680 walks. We were going through our plan before we hopped on and started recording. And Kenji said, 405 00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:44,160 make sure we talk intentional walks. So maybe not the most exhilarating thing in the sport, 406 00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:49,840 but here we are. Kenji, let's have at it. I'll do what I do best, just complain. 407 00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:52,880 Self-described complainer. 408 00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:58,640 Nothing but complaints about the Blue Jays manager, a little torp bag, 409 00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:05,440 sits all high and mighty on his bench, with his stupid looking sunglasses and his stupid beard, 410 00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:11,440 and walks Ohtani on the fourth inning, just because he's afraid of letting up for one 411 00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:19,360 run in the fourth inning. I was so pissed off. Because last week, I think he got walked like 412 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:26,480 10 times. He got walked, I think, seven times or six times in two games. Intentionally, like half 413 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:33,200 of them too. I'm like, I'm so bored watching. And then, you know, Chapman's getting mad for pitching 414 00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:41,040 him, which, you know, freak him again. But I know it's part of the game and everything, 415 00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:48,160 but it's so boring. And I know, I don't know, for them, their lives are on the line or their jobs 416 00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:54,560 are on the line, as if one game makes a difference or anything. But it's just, it's just, 417 00:39:56,880 --> 00:40:00,800 it's stupid to me. I think there should be a rule that you can intentionally walk to, 418 00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:04,800 like, after the seventh inning or something. Those are lifeless eyes right there, coming from you, 419 00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:10,080 Kenji. That's a sad look. I'm just casually watching baseball right before Joe talks at 420 00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:16,240 churches with Austin next to me. And we're like, oh, Ohtani's up, perfect. You know, 421 00:40:16,240 --> 00:40:21,680 Ranheef just hit a double. We're like, oh, great. He hits a single and then they walk. 422 00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:27,920 Fourth inning with two outs. I was like, are you kidding me? 423 00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:28,880 Don't want to let him beat you. 424 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:33,920 Next inning, next time he's up to bat. Two outs, runner's on first, pass ball, 425 00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:38,640 runner goes to second. Oh, let's walk him again. Cause there's a free base. Oh my gosh. 426 00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:44,400 It's been so boring watching Ohtani play because the guy just can't get pitches. 427 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:48,240 Welcome to the Barry Bonds special. 428 00:40:48,240 --> 00:40:50,240 Yeah, it's effectively Barry Bonds. 429 00:40:50,240 --> 00:40:55,200 So I like to just call out any coach that intentionally walks anybody that I think are 430 00:40:55,200 --> 00:41:01,360 an absolute loser. I would never intentionally walk anybody. All right. I don't know how good 431 00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:04,400 they were. So I hope. 432 00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:07,040 We'll come back to you. We'll come back to you in the playoffs when they're 433 00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:11,040 playing like the Yankees or something and judge is up to bat in the eighth inning. 434 00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:11,840 And you're just walking. 435 00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:16,560 They should have a commitment before the game be like, I want to intentionally walk judging. 436 00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:20,080 You don't want to intentionally walk Ohtani and we'll have a lot. And if you walk, 437 00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:24,080 it's actually a free base walking is a post move. 438 00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:28,960 Okay. All right. Hot take. I don't really want to talk about intentional walks anymore. 439 00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:32,400 Brady, do you want to? Yeah. Okay. Cool. Thanks. 440 00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:36,720 Coach Kent Murphy is writhing in his grave listening to Kenji talk about intentional walks. 441 00:41:36,720 --> 00:41:42,480 We'll quickly move forward then. Just a fun, just a few fun series to watch this week. 442 00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:48,880 O's at Blue Jays, Monday through Thursday, Astros at Yankees this coming weekend, 443 00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:52,080 Blue Jays Red Sox also this coming weekend. 444 00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:55,680 And then one that Kenji I'm sure will be watching Mariners at Angels. 445 00:41:56,560 --> 00:42:00,400 You might be asking why the Mariners gave the Yankees a chance to win. 446 00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:05,840 You might be asking why the Mariners gave they suck. And you'd be right. They do suck. 447 00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:11,360 But they're both kind of meddling for that. The bottom of the wild card right now, 448 00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:15,440 Mariners are trying to kickstart it and the Angels are just trying to get something going offensively. 449 00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:20,400 So it could be a battle of like, you know, you win a series and you can separate yourself. 450 00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:22,640 Or if you lose a series, then you're kind of out of it. 451 00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:29,360 So that might be a fun one to watch. And then rolling into the last part of the show, everybody, 452 00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:32,960 the different watches. So we got our DFA watch and our players to watch. 453 00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:34,880 It's everybody's favorite part of the show. 454 00:42:36,240 --> 00:42:39,840 Brady, Kenji, how we DFA watch. You guys got somebody in mind? 455 00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:42,320 I do. I have both of them. 456 00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:49,040 Okay. Kenji is a professional hater, everybody. Kenji, who's getting DFA'd? 457 00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:54,000 Should I do somebody on the Angels or somewhere else? 458 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,000 Whatever you want. I know you already mentioned Matt Chapman. 459 00:42:56,000 --> 00:43:01,760 Yeah. Matt Chapman, get him out of there. Andrew Velasquez on the Angels, get him out of there. 460 00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:03,040 You've said him before too, yeah. 461 00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:07,360 I've said him before. Me and Austin hate him. We're both Angels fans, you know. 462 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:11,040 But no, a guy that I would say that should honestly just 463 00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:20,480 leave baseball in general. I think is, I've talked about this before. Oh, Javier Baez. 464 00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:21,680 I talked about him, I think. 465 00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:24,400 Oh, yeah. Send him to the Florida league. 466 00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:26,800 I think Javier Baez needs to just disappear. 467 00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:33,600 I don't understand how somebody looks at that swing and says, I want that on my team. 468 00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:36,480 That's like a $300 million swing from what the Tigers paid him. 469 00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,800 Dude, I don't get it. The guy sucks. 470 00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:46,320 I don't know why pitchers throw fastballs. Literally. Oh, I do want to say one thing. 471 00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:50,240 This is actually kind of funny. I want to ask you guys, if you could confidently step on the mound 472 00:43:50,240 --> 00:43:55,680 and face a batter, which batter would you want to face? In full out, I think you can strike him out. 473 00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:57,680 Who do you think you could strike out in the MLB? 474 00:43:57,680 --> 00:43:58,720 Javier Baez. 475 00:43:58,720 --> 00:44:04,320 My Javier Baez. All you do is you throw a slider or curveball. Throw it from the outside part of 476 00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:10,720 the half, outside the strike zone, and he goes. Every time. Every time. 477 00:44:10,720 --> 00:44:11,440 Get him out of there. 478 00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:13,840 Nice. Javier Baez. Brady? 479 00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:22,160 What? DFA Watch, the entire Phillies organization as a whole. Just kidding. No. 480 00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:31,040 Person I just can't stand watching right now. I guess I wouldn't say DFA Watch. He's just 481 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:40,560 been really, really bad lately. It's Lourdes Guerrero. He's not playing very well. He hasn't 482 00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:46,560 gotten a hit in a week and a half. I don't think he's gotten a hit since the All-Star break, 483 00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:53,840 for all I know. It's so bad. And he got it today, actually. He got one hit today. 484 00:44:53,840 --> 00:45:00,320 And that's his first hit since the All-Star break. It's so bad. He's just so bad. 485 00:45:02,240 --> 00:45:04,000 Just so, so bad. 486 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:09,200 Okay. All right. Well, I'll give you my DFA Watch. I'm kind of shuffled back and forth between a few 487 00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:16,240 guys. I know I mentioned Ryan McKenna before. The O's have such bad middle relief. I can't stand 488 00:45:16,240 --> 00:45:21,520 Brian Baker every time he comes in the game because he has no change up. And it's like this 489 00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:28,080 weird overhand breaking ball and a fastball that just gets hammered. So he would be one. 490 00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:32,320 Tyler Wells just got sent down, but Tyler had a good first half. So I don't want to hate on him 491 00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:37,200 too much. How did he drop off so bad? He was really, really good. 492 00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:42,560 He's reached his career high in the most that he's ever thrown in a season, and it's July. 493 00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:48,880 I think it's fatigue. I think teams are just getting a little bit better. He's facing guys for 494 00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:53,280 the second, third time this year. And I think they're just hitting him better. 495 00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:53,680 Which is sad. 496 00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:59,040 Was his deeper stats pretty bad? Because I know his ERA was nice. Now that doesn't tell the full 497 00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:02,720 story. What are they called? Not deeper stats. 498 00:46:02,720 --> 00:46:04,880 The expected stats, things like advanced. 499 00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:07,600 Yeah, advanced stats. Were those poor for him? 500 00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:13,440 No, they weren't poor. They were just barely average, but above average. And so it wasn't 501 00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:16,880 anything where you were like, oh, you knew he was going to get shelled. But lately he's struggled 502 00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:23,120 with command. He's walking two, three, four guys a game. And then on top of that, he's not locating 503 00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:29,600 very well. So for example, yesterday, he got ahead of Judge, I think a one, and it was a one, 504 00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:34,800 one count or something. And Adley went down to the low and away and wanted the fastball low and away. 505 00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:42,720 And Wells threw it middle high and Judge smacked it. And I was like, oh, great. Cool. Thanks. 506 00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:50,160 It's just that kind of guy. But I wouldn't even say to DFA him. 507 00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:54,480 It's Haunton Dare. 508 00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:57,440 No, but he had a walk off Homer the other night. 509 00:46:57,440 --> 00:46:59,360 Oh, he's been bad lately though. 510 00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:03,840 Yeah, he hasn't been badly. I'm not going to say it's on there. I guess I'll go with Brian Baker 511 00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:07,680 then. I can't stand Brian Baker. That guy looks stupid. He looks like, what's the name? What's 512 00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:16,240 the comedian? Bill Burr. He looks like Bill Burr. But I, so I'm going to DFA that guy. And then 513 00:47:16,240 --> 00:47:21,040 we'll quickly go into our players to watch and then we'll let everybody get on their merry old 514 00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:24,800 way. So Brady, who we, who's supposed to be watched this week? Who's, who's popping off? 515 00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:32,720 As the weeks continue, he just stays on the list. Mr. Bryson Stott, the man himself, 516 00:47:32,720 --> 00:47:37,680 still hitting over 300. About the only good thing the Phillies have going right now. 517 00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:44,080 That's about it. I wish he would have done this last year in his rookie year, but here we are. 518 00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:46,160 I'm going to pray the Phillies get it going. Kenji? 519 00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:47,920 Justin Casas. 520 00:47:48,720 --> 00:47:51,760 Yeah, he's been good. He's been winning for the Red Sox. 521 00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:56,080 Yeah. 426 since All-Star break. Is he hitting with Pop too? 522 00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:58,640 Or is it just him? He's hitting Pop. He's got six homers. Yeah. 523 00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:02,320 Oh, right. He's got like, I think 10 plus RBI. I mean, he's hot. 524 00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:09,680 Yeah. He only plays against righties or righties, but I think he's going to start earning more time 525 00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:12,480 with lefties just because of how good he's played. Just because of how hot he is. Yeah. 526 00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:18,800 And I'll say Trey Turner can play second base really easily. So it opens up their hole in 527 00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:22,640 field for them. Gotcha. Side note watch, Cody Bellinger. 528 00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:26,880 Yeah. Okay. If you haven't been watching Cody Bellinger for the last month, 529 00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:28,400 then you're just stupid. So no. 530 00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:32,240 Cody's been one of the best players in the league the last month. 531 00:48:32,240 --> 00:48:37,040 Unreal how good he's hitting. Yeah. I'll go with, I like my guy, 532 00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:41,600 Riley Green. He's had a great start coming back out of the All-Star break. He gives you a little 533 00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:46,240 bit of speed, but he's got great hands, good average, good Pop. So I'll go Riley Green, 534 00:48:46,240 --> 00:48:51,040 Ronald Acuna Jr., NL MVP. Does it count? 535 00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:55,920 I know. Listen, no, I'm just kind of spitting off guys here. Acuna just stole his what? 40th 536 00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:57,920 bag or something. I don't know. 50th bag. 537 00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:00,160 This is 50th? No, it's 40th. Sorry, 40th. 538 00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:02,880 Oh, I was going to say. He'll be at 50 next week anyways. 539 00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:08,000 He'll be at 50 next week. Yeah. And I know I said Ha Sung Kim last week, 540 00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:11,360 but I'm going to go with Ha Sung Kim again, because I freaking love that guy. 541 00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:15,680 It was 50. Thank you very much. 542 00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:18,240 Well, it's 50? Oh my goodness. 543 00:49:18,240 --> 00:49:23,760 Oh my gosh. He'll get to 70 before the end of the season. 544 00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:27,920 That's crazy, dude. That's a crazy number. 545 00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:31,760 And to hit for 330. That's just stupid. That's so crazy. 546 00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:37,520 It's so dumb how someone can play that good. Yeah. But so those are my guys. I would say too, 547 00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:42,720 actually, Aaron Savali, Cleveland pitcher. He's pitched great his last couple of times out 548 00:49:42,720 --> 00:49:47,600 Kansas City. And then today, I believe against the White Sox, he pitches in the AL mid. So it's like, 549 00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:51,360 if he pitched in the East, he wouldn't be as good. But when you're going up against the Royals and 550 00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:57,920 the White Sox half the time, you're pretty good. But those are our players to watch and our DFA 551 00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:03,360 watch. That's kind of our episode. Kenji, Brady, what do you, you guys got any last things you 552 00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:07,280 want to say? Should we, I mean, what are we thinking? Trade deadline, anything crazy about 553 00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:11,200 to happen? Hot, super hot take? Or we just, we're just getting out of here. 554 00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:16,960 Bobby Whit Jr. is my favorite player after, uh, okay. Yeah, that's worth noting. 555 00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:24,480 Send somebody to Philly. I don't care who it is. Help is on the way. Help is on the way. 556 00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:30,000 Somebody send help. Yes. That's about it. It's all I got. 557 00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:35,680 Like the Shannon Sharp. Okay. All right. Mets are selling Padres. We will remain to be seen if the 558 00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:42,320 Padres are going to sell here in the next couple of days. Um, yeah. Go O's tonight and, uh, 559 00:50:42,320 --> 00:51:04,320 yeah, Joe, we miss you. We love you. Hope you're on next time.