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Speaker: Hello and welcome to Two Front War, a biweekly podcast that covers the Yankees and Giants 2024 season. I'm Andrew and I'm Liam. Well, Liam, we are back. It is opening or opening week is officially over. How are you feeling? How are you feeling at the at the end of this? I am amazing. I am ecstatic. This is fun. Baseball is back and baseball is fun. Baseball is back.
Speaker: That's fun. After this opening week, I think it probably could have spent a little more time in the oven for me. For you. For me, yeah. But before we get started, Liam. Yeah. How's your week been? You do anything fun? I'm a film student, so I've been roped into a couple more sets of various degree.
Speaker: been working on that and just catching up on a bunch of design work I gotta get done so I pass classes and all that grows but in between I've been indulging in some fantastic Yankees baseball if I do so myself that's good that's good I found the the joys of MLB the show multiplayer
Speaker: Not doing good. Not not not doing great. Not doing great. I'm only two and I got destroyed by Vogelbach. Oh, yeah. I gave up a three run home run to that dude. You're in good company. You share that with Garrett Cole. That's using. Yeah, that's my Gary Cole moment. It's been I find that I'm actually a better hitter online than I am against the computer. So that's.
Speaker: That's cool. Well, let's get this started. Uh, why don't you give us, uh, your opening week recap Liam for the, them, their Yankees, them, their Yankees, these damn Yankees. Let me tell you starting the season off going to what Michael K has said to be our new arch rivals, the Houston Astros in Houston. We have two away series before we see the Bronx at all, but we're starting it out and the
Speaker: I think the most populated city in Texas. But we're going there, and we're not just going there for three games, we're going there for four games. So heavy implications especially, because if we end up with tied records, whoever walks away from this series is the tiebreaker on who gets like a higher seed or who gets into the playoffs at all. So a lot at stake for the first series of the year. We're going in with a lot of question marks in the rotation and in the lineup.
Speaker: We don't know who exactly is like an everyday guy in some aspects. We don't know who's going to be a utility guy for the season. Mm hmm. But the Yankees walk away. Sweeping the new arch rival. Nice. And after you guys got swept. What, two years ago. I think even there was a last year, I don't think we won. I think we only won one regular season series.
Speaker: over the past two years between them, but we've definitely got some time over the past two years in the post season about two years ago. Oh yeah. Two years in the post season. Yeah. They got clobbered, but what a series. I am so happy of just guys producing guys immediately becoming useful. It
Speaker: Could not have gone better. I don't think the only way it could have gone better is if there was like a no hit or like I shut out but To touch on some of the highlights. I talked about people immediately becoming useful Grisham and Soto two of the newest acquisitions immediately leaving their mark Soto coming to the plate getting magic done Grisham great defensively both of them great defensively Soto had a game saving play. I think it was like the first game
Speaker: just watching a rocket from right field back to home, where he made the out, which could have saved extra innings. It could have even saved like a rally to win the first game of the season. But that was great. And then Grisham ending the game with a great catch, great diving slide kit. What's Grisham play? What's his position? He was playing left field in that game. The big question mark throughout the past play.
Speaker: three years. Now, Andrew, I have a question for you. Okay, if I were to ask you, starting out the season, who's going to have their breakout year, or even just like, breakout couple games to start off a new season, a new era of the Yankees, who would that be? To do like a breakout?
Speaker: Yeah. Who is going to have a breakout just to start off their, start off their lines, start off their season. I mean, my, my first guess would be Soto just because he's, he's young and he's, everyone seems excited for him. Not, not terribly wrong. He was up there, but the king of the mountain would have to be Oswaldo Cabrera, who for this entire series just decided to become the greatest baseball player who ever lived.
Speaker: Nice. That's awesome. I mean, I'm seeing the stats right here. And look at these stats for these guys. That is four thirty eight betting average, seven hits, two home runs, six RBIs, three runs scored in four games. Wow. That's great. He continued that trajectory like bonds would be sweating. He immediately became useful. And I believe reading that as a standard procedure, he was going to get pulled out and they were going to put in their
Speaker: new trade acquisition in from the Marlins. I'm blanking on his name, but I will pull him up soon. Just like for rotation reasons, keep him healthy, but he's hot. And Aaron Boone decided to keep him in for that fourth game. And I think it made the difference. I think he stayed hot throughout all of this. And I'm just so happy just because I've been a fan of him ever since he came up. And after a down year last year that would have
Speaker: some guys, you know, reconsidering some life choices. He answered the call. He made some changes to his swing. I think he did this little toe tap thing and he's either gotten rid of it or it's like been very minimized. So it's like just like a slight, maybe like bring forward of like his big toe. But also the way he's just like holding his bat, it's coming in at a much stronger angle. I'm loving the changes he's made. I hope he keeps producing. He's produced
Speaker: in the next two series that we've also covered, but I'll also have to talk about some other people so this might be the last time I'll be mentioning him by name. But Oswaldo Cabrera, amazing job. He almost convinced me to buy the new absolutely terrible fanatics jersey just because I wanted
Speaker: to memorialize this run he went on. That's my MVP for the series. That is giving him some flowers, man. You want to buy these see through jerseys, see through pants, see through jersey. I'll buy the see through pants. I'll be the I'll buy the see through socks. When you're watching any of these games, could you see through their pants? Because I could see through Shohei's pants during our game or series against the the Dodgers. And let me tell you, I was not.
Speaker: I was not pleased seeing that. Um, I don't think for the away stuff and I don't even think, I think the Yankees have got off pretty clean just because it's the same color on the same color. And they're like, they're, I think they're different textures really. They, or the, just the colors themselves give off different textures that gray on gray. It's all that hard to see through. And then the white on white, especially with the pinstripes, they like flow into each other better. Okay. Yeah.
Speaker: And I'll have to wait until it rains. The only thing you'll have to worry about is just those sweat stains. Yeah. All right. Well, we can go into. Oh, wait, no. Before we get that, we're not done with you yet. Yeah, I have a little bit of a hot take. I didn't know we might lose. We might lose what little listeners we have with what I'm about to say. But my LVP, my lowest valued player of the series is Aaron Judge. Oh, no. The prodigal son. The face of the franchise.
Speaker: Golden boy, what do you do? What are you doing? How do you uh? He only had two hits and 125 batting average over four games and only contributed to in RBI in a single run scored which I Mean if I came up to the big leagues and hit 125 with two hits scored a run and batted in another player I'd be going to bed with my head held high knowing that I did something that not a lot of people would do but I
Speaker: to start off the season, especially for a player of his caliber. I was looking at everyone else's stat lines for for a player who who in the twenty twenty two season broke the home run. American League home. American League home run record. And then in twenty twenty three was on set to get real close to it, if not beat it. But then. Yeah. Considerable portion on it on the shelf.
Speaker: Yeah. So hopefully it's just, you know, that that. Injury that. That's not lingering, but. It's not like a. But like, hopefully it's just like, OK, he didn't play a whole lot last year, so he's got. He's also spring hurt, if I remember correctly from a couple of months back, but I'm nothing. None of my LVPs for these three series are like
Speaker: Spiteful indictments of them after some Duke from some due time like we're very early on and yeah It's a role that needs to be filled on the script. So yeah Yeah, like this is personal just kind of like oh boy you were not great for this Sorry, your stat line was objectively the worst out of everyone Okay. Well, well Let's hear about them Giants. Oh, all right. Yeah Giants
Speaker: Opened up the season against the Padres. Four game series, ended splitting it 2 -2. Game one. It was a beautiful day in San Diego. It was perfect to do some barbecuing. And there were two giants who were cooking that day. Logan Webb and Michael Conforto. Logan Webb had an amazing opening day.
Speaker: 97 pitches. He's probably the only pitcher for opening day that got remotely close to 100 pitches. Yeah, that's a crazy number. Six innings pitched. He faced 24 batters, which is almost the lineup three times.
Speaker: five strikeouts, two walks, and only two earned runs. And backing him up on offense was Michael Conforto, who went three for four with one home run, one RBI, and three runs. How do you think that went? I mean, if this is game one and I got three runs, don't tell me they blew it. The Giants lost. No. I know. How? How, right? How? Three runs.
Speaker: Off just one player. Off just one player too. So no one else performed really? There were a total of 10 strikeouts. With a Giants head. In one game. And despite the clear sky, there wasn't any solar power. Because Solaire did not perform. And Poirier has struck out three times. And not even enough who gave very generous calls so the Giants could get on top of that lineup.
Speaker: I could get the top of the lineup on base. On the defensive side, we had Luke Jackson when he came in for relief, did some walks and then immediately got pulled. I think he walked the bases loaded and then got pulled because he got injured. Yeah, so sorry. He was removed after only facing three batters and giving up two runs. After this game, Mikey Stromsky was put on a plane to go for the be there for the birth of his second child and which was followed by paternity relief.
Speaker: So I'm hoping his outing, the bad outing, his mind was on something else, rightfully so. Well, maybe he shouldn't have been there. Game two brought the first game or the first win of the season, also the first night game. Kyle Harrison, rookie. Well, he debuted last year under some not great conditions.
Speaker: So I kind of consider this to be like his true debut, especially as a starter. He also killed it. Six innings pitched, 23 batters faced, four strikeouts, five hits, 200 runs. And behind him on offense, you had Matt Chapman, who had five at bats, three runs, five RBIs and two home runs. The Giants showed off what the NOS can expect from rookies and veterans alike. They had a total of eight runs off 13 hits compared to the Padres three runs off eight hits.
Speaker: Two of the runs being Manny Machado's solo home runs and one Tatis Jr. solo home run. It was another amazing start for the Giants rotation and this time it was not wasted by a lack of offense. There was a scary moment with Tyler Rogers when he brought it into a two run lead for the Giants.
Speaker: Before getting out, the bullpen remained rested with three delivers pitching, only one inning each. Game three had an amazing start. It was amazing game both offensively and defensively until the ninth. It was another great start for giant starter Jordan Hicks, who I'm going to get into later at the end of this episode, but I slept on him last the last episode. Five innings pitched, 81 pitches.
Speaker: He had a face, a total of 20 batters, six strikeouts, no hits. And he did. Like I said earlier, he flew under my radar for years for your contract for $44 million. He made the transition from relief pitcher to starter. And this is how he's going to perform. The Giants got him for a steal. They got him from the Cardinals. Got to give him his flowers. Yes, definitely.
Speaker: Offensively, the game was standard Giants fair. A lot of a lot of strikeouts and things went wild in the eighth top of the lineup. John Hooley at bat went out to one account and he hits his first MLB homer. His first hit was the previous game, I believe. Game one or game two, I forget. I don't have my notes in front of me. Poor guy did it and then got picked off immediately.
Speaker: I must be confused. I was, uh, from what I heard, I was expecting him to start the year in the IL, but I guess he got over whatever. Yeah. You scared me in last episode when you brought that up. I ended up editing it out, but, uh, cause I was, I was very, I was like, what is he talking about? Like, I'm not, I'm not seeing anything about this. Um, but, um,
Speaker: Junghoo Lee was at bat, there was one out, 2 -1 count, hits his first MLB homer. Jorge Soler gets a single, Austin Slater pitch hits and gets to walk on a full count. Matt Chapman gets a single, Wilma Flores gets a single, and an RBI. Michael Conforto comes up, and boy does he deliver. A grand slam. The lineup wrapped around a Junghoo Lee again, who granted out on a 4 -3 play to end the inning. A smooth sailing from here. Eric Miller came out, came after a great eighth inning with his first in the game.
Speaker: and gave up two runs. So now Camilo Deval comes out coming off of an all -star game and a 70 save season. The excitement was palpable. And it started with a commercial break, a commercial break pitch clock violation. Epic. Yeah. So I commercial rate come in one ball. What happened? Even Dwayne Kiper was confused. Like, did he get a violation during the commercial break? And he did.
Speaker: the ump even allowed him an extra pitch practice pitch and he decided to throw another one and the ump gave him a ball. He ended up getting another during his outing and gave up a three run homer to a rookie. Things were looking bad with one out and many much ought to do with empty bases. The score was 9 -6. Thankfully Camillo got out of it and after the game Bob Melvin noted the two violations in the post game saying not ideal for a closer. I'll talk to him. Camillo is a great young pitcher but these violations and lack of pressure on the base
Speaker: Heard his numbers. He does not hold anyone to the base. They they just steal. They steal on him. And I'm also hoping that with Bob Melvin and his new higher standards that we'll see how the young guys develop. Yeah. And the last game of the season started with. Joey Joey Bart being DFA and eventually getting traded to the Pirates. Oh.
Speaker: Very interesting to see how that happened. I feel like, you know, like I talked a lot of trash last episode about Joey Bart, but man, I can't help but feel bad because he got put on after Luke Jackson got hurt. He got DFA'd to allow a new pitcher to come up. And so we'll see how he performs with the the Pirates.
Speaker: And game four was not good. It was the first game of the season that I jumped out of early. And that's your story about this by Dalton Jeffries, who's out and ended in the second inning with nine runs, eight of them earned. And a score of oh, nine, the giant struggled until giving up in the eighth with a position player, tired Fitzgerald on the mound. Then it closed the gap by that point to four twelve.
Speaker: And this was unfortunately also the debut of Kai Wei Teng, a Taiwanese pitcher. After a rocky and consistent start, he did eat up three innings with 68 pitches. And Wilmer Flores got hurt in the bottom of the first, going after a foul ball, falling into the Padres dugout. He almost got the ball, though. He almost got it. I mean, Kulfi did. But that was scary because he runs into the dugout.
Speaker: flips over the bar and then missed that first step and fell all the way down. So that could have ended with some sort of neck injury. So I'm glad he's OK. I want to give a shout out to Kai Wei Tang. I feel bad that he, this will be going more for the next episode. But I just kind of want to note that this poor guy is really good.
Speaker: It only seems to come out when things are looking bad and he delivers. And it's just like, man, it'd be real nice if he could, you know, come out when when things are going well. The Giants split the series to two, so not the worst start, you know, to your opening series. At least you break even there. Highlights, I want to give my MVP award to Michael Conforto for the series.
Speaker: He was a hit machine. He went six for 17, six runs, two home runs, five RBIs and one grand slam. My least valuable player. I got to go to Jorge Soler. He went three for 16 this series, four strikeouts and way, way too many double play balls. Sometimes it kind of there's like a point where you just start to feel like, do you not like
Speaker: Jungkook Lee because whenever Jungkook Lee was on base, it was a guaranteed grounded to double play. And that's all I got for this opening season or opening series. Who do you want to see more from as of right now? Just like if you can name one or two players that you want to see step up, who would they be? To see step up. Like as in get better or just like see more of them?
Speaker: Yeah, just get to see, get better, see, get better. Um, Tyro Strada, that'd be nice. Uh, he's been struggling. Yas has been struggling. Uh, at this point, you know, in his first series, Jorge Soler was, he struggled in spring training. He struggled in, uh, the series.
Speaker: Matt Chapman was good. I want to see Alex Cobb get better so we can have a full rotation yet again. His recovery got delayed. You know, see Dalton Jeffries go back to the bullpen and kind of figure that out, you know, figure out what he's doing there. I don't know. This opening series left a lot to be desired, in my opinion. Anything else you'd like to add or do we want to get back out of it to the other front of this war? We can go to your series two against the DBACs. It'll be a lot more fun, I feel like.
Speaker: Oh, because it only gets worse for you from here for the Giants. The Diamondbacks, the Diamondbacks, National League, reigning National League champions. Got a new awards. There's one around. Got a new got a little bit of a new look to them. They got like this cyan little outline said like the the tannish kind of color that they had before. But they came. They're coming into the season with a lot to prove. And maybe the Yankees could have been an example out of them.
Speaker: could have been made an example out of, but didn't quite happen. A series was won by the Yankees two to one with just more stars picking themselves up and showcasing why they're here. I mentioned the last episode that I had a little bit of a hot take going on about Anthony Volpe, hot take for
Speaker: Yankees fan standards. Can you remind everyone what that hot tank was? I didn't really like his defensive or offensive presence all that much. I think despite winning a golden glove, he still had a lot to prove on that side of the ball, on both sides of the ball, really. But I think those days are behind us because if I'm able to talk about a highlight while also giving out an MVP award, Anthony Volpe is my MVP for this series.
Speaker: with a 4 .17 batting average off of five hits in RBI and three runs scored in three games. And he has become an absolute unit over his shortstop, the alleged successor to Derek Jeter, who is not as bad defensively as YouTubers will have you know.
Speaker: He has more than enough clutch plays in post -season history to justify being in the Hall of Fame. YouTubers, you wicked SOBs, you. What an important position on the infield, you know? It really is. If you have just a normal shortstop, you might not feel how important it is.
Speaker: But when you have either a really good shortstop or a really bad shortstop, you immediately can tell the difference. Yeah, you can see the difference. You can see how important that position is. And if you have a bad shortstop, you want to kill yourself. IK up. Yeah, because when you have that bad shortstop, it's like, oh, there's what should have been an out at first, now a single. Or if it's real bad, if
Speaker: You know, the outfield is expecting a big hit and they're, you know, out, but it's like a grounder and it gets past the shortstop. You're like, okay, that might be a double now because now the left fielder has got to like sprint, like, you know, basically into the infield because your shortstop's like, where'd it go? Where'd it go? Where'd it go? Or they try to like do a diving check catch and just absolutely flopped. I believe during this game, during one of these games, he had an actual like a
Speaker: Jeter kind of moment, a Jeter play at first that set Yankees Twitter a fire. So I do want to give this guy his flowers, even though I'm still going to be inspecting him through a big ass microscope. Just checking his everyday production, making sure these fundamentals are my liking. Another thing I don't like when short steps do the double pump where they like.
Speaker: rear back, they're throwing arm like once or twice, and then make the throw to first. Don't like that. One of my biggest pet peeves in the sport. It has been shown to like just waste time and compromising a play at first. Nothing that Volpe has done in particular is all that egregious. But to move on a little bit, there was a lot of talk going into the series. What if the Yankees came home and they're undefeated? Imagine that.
Speaker: Wishful thinking, but not everything can be perfect. But I want to note this as a low light, Nestor Cortez, fan favorite.
Speaker: goofy guy, very funny. He's quite a character. He came out to a game with cleats made of denim. He's got the mustache. I attribute him to bringing facial hair back to the Yankees in some form or another. He does have a really nice mustache. He does. But his start against the Diamondbacks was not it, giving up three runs on eight hits. And
Speaker: also two walks only having two strikeouts in five innings he hasn't tallied a win or a loss yet which wins and losses don't really matter through pictures but he hasn't tallied a win or a loss just because he hasn't gone that far in games uh his other starts haven't been all that bad relatively speaking he's gotten the job done uh every other time really just this start in particular when
Speaker: you know, narratives are starting to form and everything. It was a real momentum killer, but I'm nothing indicative of him yet. You know, uh, I was talking, I think last episode where before the pitch clock, he was a pitcher that kind of like had to trick every battery face on the plate with like crazy, like, uh, like pumps and like just strategies to like mess up your timing. And you can't really do that now. I'm not saying he's not, he's still not a bad pitcher, but he still has some kinks to work out.
Speaker: but I have all the confidence in him in what I think the team sees as their number one starter until Cole comes back. I do question that, but I do question his placement on that rung. I think you should at least be one down and we'll get into who I think should be number one in a little bit. Is he number two or is number three? I think he's a number two, but I'll get into who's number one, uh, next series. But, uh, other than that, um, that's,
Speaker: That's my piece on Nestor Cortez. But to give out my LVP award, it's got to go to Giancarlo Stanton, who's kind of had an egregious couple of games up until going into the series. In this series, he did nothing. In two games, he had no hits, no production whatsoever.
Speaker: I think that spurred Boone to pull him out and give Judge a DH start. But John Carlos didn't LVP for first series against the Diamondbacks. Maybe only series against the Diamondbacks, so I'll double check. I think you guys took a 2 -1. That's good. We took a 2 -1. Even when I have some more negative things to say, everyone's production was still up. Nothing really all that egregious coming out.
Speaker: I was just a little more critical of players who I expected to get off to. A normal start, not even a hot start. When you go home, 6 -1. Nice. Oh boy. You ready for the, uh, the giant snow good, very bad game in Los Angeles? I can make my, you're going to make my whining sound like childish.
Speaker: You know, it's just like last year when we thought about the podcast where I was like, what is like, what's a podcast? This, you know, hypothetical podcast is going to be, is it going to just be you being like, I'm having a great time and be just like.
Speaker: Oh, I'm struggling. We're eating. We've resorted to eating our children. Like this is, this is less like a podcast for, you know, love of baseball and more like me on suicide watch. And that's where we are after this. Oh, three series against the Dodgers got swept. To be fair, if I'm biased, I think the Yankees are a one or two team in the league to have one or two, the other
Speaker: team I'm thinking is a top one or two is the Dodgers. Okay, well, how about you keep your opinions to yourself? Ooh, ouchie ouchie ouchie. Because this was the first sweep of the season and the first look at the billion dollar team. Even with the struggling Shohei and a swing happy Mookie and Freddie, and a shockingly competent bullpen, the Dodgers embarrassed the Giants in this three game series.
Speaker: It also shows how being the face of the team as a pitcher is a double -edged sword. The Dodgers have seen a lot of Logan Webb, and they use those years brutally. They saw everything, and poor Webb only made it through 3 .2 innings. He gave up on his slider, I think, and made him a little bit more fastball -dependent.
Speaker: Um, he's typically like a good, like his, his fastballs typically, uh, and his, his least used pitch. He's, he's more of a ground ball kind of guy and the Dodgers just weren't having it. Uh, there's really not much to say. I mean, it's, it's a sweet, like the, the, the first game of the series was eight, three. And the last two games were a little bit closer at five, four. Um,
Speaker: Shohei is obviously not all there yet, whether that's because of his injury or because, you know, recent events around Ipe. I don't know. But he had Shohei at at least one strikeout per game, which I think is a silver lining for us, you know. Yeah.
Speaker: You got them at at least once, you know, greatest player on the planet. But you know, when you're when you're the the Dodgers are going to be a scary team for for anyone who plays, plays against them. I mean, their their first four, it's Mookie Shohei, Freddie. And I think Will Smith, the Dodgers first four, it's Mookie Betts, Shoyo Tani, Freddie Freeman, Will Smith, and then Max Muncie.
Speaker: that it's just a brutal, brutal lineup, man. There's no rest. Half the lineup, you know, are people that are not just fast, but they're all power hitters, man. If I can, if I can diagnose your your problem that was showcased a lot during the series, it would be
Speaker: The Dodgers have cemented themselves as a team that even when they're not producing can just grind you down and outlive you. Yeah, they grind and they grind and they grind. They broke our starter, they broke our ace. They broke them. 3 .2 innings. Even when they don't have their biggest stars performing, they have at least enough pieces in the lineup to
Speaker: get players on base, send players home. And then when they turn over to the other side of the ball, they just need to get out. And they've effectively really been good at keeping runs down and keeping batters from stepping out of the box. A lot easier when you're the slowest team in the league. Yeah. As of right now. They're really the anti -giants, if you think of it. That's how they're built. As of this recording, the Giants have yet to steal a base.
Speaker: Logan Webb was the, uh, he started the second game. It was Keaton Wynn starting the first one. Um, and then you had Kyle Harrison starting the last one. And I, out of this, uh, poopy poopy, uh, game or a series, uh, I'm going to give my MVP to Kyle Harrison who had, uh, a less than great debut last year. He showed up because the rotation sucked and was plagued by injuries.
Speaker: He's supposed to be on a strict pitch limit, but as the season went on, last season went on, and we got a little desperate. He stayed in longer and longer. Last year he was obsessed with getting strikeouts, but he has said that now for this season, his goal is to stay in as long as possible, to make it through at least six. And so far he's been doing that. This was a tough loss for him.
Speaker: But I think he stayed strong and he kept the game close as best as he could and even got a few strikeouts including a Shohei strikeout I believe Shohei had he had at least one strikeout per game unfortunately against
Speaker: It was against the Giants that Shohei got his first home run as a Dodger, and that will live in infamy for the rest of Ubi's fall history. And my LVP has to go to Mikey Shremsky. He's been in a slump from the very beginning of the year. At least in the opening day game, you know, he had to go to the birth of his child. I could look, you know, I could look over that, I could look past that, but okay.
Speaker: But in his one Padres game and for the entire series so up into this point from Opening day until this the end of this Dodger series. He has an ERA of zero Yeah, I'm hoping that he's able to pull out of it sooner rather than later. Just so what a What a disaster of a series that was made you put yourself in a hole and now you gotta like to who you got coming up to dig yourself out and
Speaker: after yeah after that that series uh... we're now you know the poverty is not yours it's your two and five and it's like that's not fun it's not fun fun record to have coming home yet and uh... that i want to talk about this year's anymore so we'll go back to you to go to the other side of the war at the other front you're like uh... you know to keep with this this war analogy you know you're like post -d day allies and
Speaker: The Giants are the Russians in Stalingrad. Just throwing anything, just throwing bodies into the grinder and hoping to get a win out of it. So early in the season, damn, bro. It's rough, man. I'm feeling the roughness from you.
Speaker: Contrary to popular belief, I don't hate our indivision rivals to Blue Jays. When I was of a weed lad, I think I had my best baseball season in a Blue Jays uniform. So when they had their new era logo with the black and the silver outline, a logo that I actually like, contrary to a lot of Blue Jays fans even. But they hold a little special place in my heart
Speaker: and they hold a very special place in my heart this season because they have two of my fan favorite players, IKF and Justin Turner. Justin Turner, one of my actual favorite players in the league, maybe of all time. I think he's just a very good character, a very good face, and boy does he produce. They needed another power hitter, and so far they got him. I don't like that he's playing third base majority. His age, I don't know how
Speaker: mobile he's gonna be and a very injury -prone position to put him in especially after he learned I think he was a First base when he signed with the Red Sox nice. He's got three either IKF Didn't resign which he gave an interview for yes when he came back for this series saying that he still misses a lot of the guys in the clubhouse and he would have liked to come back but there isn't really a
Speaker: a place for him in the lineup. I think after the season he had last year where he was kind of that big utility man kind of player, he expected some more playing time or at least some more money. But the Blue Jays had a more tailored offer for what he was asking for compared to the Yankees. So he headed up even more north.
Speaker: Started out in Texas. He was a ranger when, I think, at one point, when he won his Golden Glove. But now he's probably in the farthest place from Texas. But it was great to see him back. I think he got a couple of boos when he struck out. But I was happy to see him back in the Bronx to give us a little hello. Did he get a little welcome back video? Yeah, he got a little bit of a welcome back video. That's always fun.
Speaker: It's even sweeter because the Yankees won this series, two to one. I have much nicer things to say about this series just because of, I can now look back at all the other series and compliment people there, give them their dues. But rotation issues that we thought we might have haven't really reared their ugly head so far. Sure, Nestor has a, I think a,
Speaker: He has a one win, one loss, but nothing too egregious. And our number four, number five starter, Clark Schmidt and Louis Gill. Not terrible. Not terrible. These are numbers that can be worked with. They both have just over a little bit of nine innings pitch. And I'll talk about them more in depth if we get to our next segment, but getting into who deserves flowers for this series. And maybe I haven't mentioned beforehand.
Speaker: Marcus Stroman, uh, came in, would it ideally be a number three kind of starter, but he at the moment, I think is a number one starter guy right now. You guys picked him up in the, uh, the off season, picked him up in the off season. You had some really nice things to say about him. And last episode during this series, at least he did not allow any runs on three hits and all he gave up one walk and had six strikeouts and six hits. That's pretty good. And to give him.
Speaker: And to give him even more flowers, he has not let up a run this entire season. So far after 12 innings of work, how many starts, uh, two starts Nastria, I think is the only guy at the moment with three starts. Okay. So after two, he's coming up soon. We, uh, it's just because he only has two starts that I have not given him my MVP award for this season, for not this, this series, which I'm, uh, I'm going to double dip two time MVP, Anthony Volpe, two time series, series MVP this season alone.
Speaker: after I kind of grilled him a little bit. Yeah. And then he immediately made you your words immediately, uh, four 55 batting average, this series on five hits, three runs scored in three games hats off to the kid. Yeah. He's getting it done. He's known improvement. What's his, what's his on base percentage on this percentage, uh, four eight, eight two home runs so far, four 17 average six 67 slugging.
Speaker: 1 .154 OPS. He's getting his due. He's showing why he belongs here and why despite we have other shortstop prospects in the farm system already that are slowly making their way up and maybe one that's already major league ready. He's showing that I think this is his spot to lose and I don't think I don't see anything really stopping at the moment. Maybe maybe pitchers around the league get together and
Speaker: figure out all the changes he made and plot against him. But he's had a really, really good three game, uh, three series, uh, Anthony Volpe, MVP, uh, to get into a little clutch moment. Soto hailing from the Dominican Republic, heavy Dominican population in New York. Got his first hit place going ballistic. It's going to, he says it's going to be feeling like the world baseball classic every home game.
Speaker: And I can't wait for the summer where I think we're definitely going to be seeing that. And you'll see, uh, the, uh, he's in full form. Uh, he's just been an amazing character for the team and for the fan base to interact with. I don't think it was during these series, but I think it was like yesterday, maybe against the Marlins where he was signing baseballs right before the opening pitch was about to get thrown out as in like the game is about to start. Oh.
Speaker: Starting pitcher on the mound He's going to take his spot his spot in right field and he gets close enough to the fans where he can like hear them and he's like talking back and forth at one of them and He gets up close someone throws him a baseball and just has like a marker From wherever yes, and he signs it and throws it up to the guy before I think Actually taking a spot. I think an actual pitch was thrown but don't quote me on that but he's just one of those guys where it's like
Speaker: I think he really cares about the fan base and he wants to do right by them. So it's just these nice little moments that he has where he's just, I think amazing. He put over, uh, he put over, uh, Jose Trevino, who people are kind of like a little bit over at the moment. Uh, everyone's kind of getting on the Austin Wells train, uh, Trevino, of course, being the catcher, Austin Wells being the prospect that we brought up to be our number two guy for now. But.
Speaker: Trevino won platinum glove two years ago and kind of had a down year last season but Soto put him over saying when he made that a game -saving play at first at a at home rather That first series saying he's a platinum glove You know you you throw it at him and he'll if you throw it near him He'll catch it and do the thing and if he did the thing just some some great moments from him But uh to get into some low lights
Speaker: nearly blowing a seven run lead in game two. That's rough. Yeah. Not, not the best. They, they, Yankee social media had a very good post where it's a Vlad Guerrero Jr. He was celebrating a rounding third base. Oh yeah. And he does like his little like, he does this little like, Oh, Vlad Guerrero really, uh, making the Yankees pay cutting the lead down to six.
Speaker: So some more things happened and maybe they should have been a little more worried. But you still came away with the win in game two. Whenever you're watching because, you know, we have two very different teams. So whenever you're watching and you see your team have a seven run lead, are you kind of like sweet? Like it's just maintain guys or are you worried? How I might even turn the game off depending on what editing is in. But if I if I see maybe like
Speaker: If let's say it's like seven, nothing, if I see like three runs come on by, then I start getting worried. Yeah. Like with me, if we had like a seven run lead, I'm looking at that and I'm just thinking it's not enough. It's not enough. Because if it's, if it's deep enough into a game, it becomes a bullpen problem. And I never want to have a bullpen problem. The Yankees reputation is that they always get more out of less. They just have.
Speaker: that kind of system where it's the pitching coaches and fundamentals will just be worked into a spot that they really like. I less so like their approach with starting pitchers, even though I think some of the starters kind of need that where they'll kind of like confine them to a certain system that like was working for them at the time with at least one guy. Like I forget who, but they were trying to embolden them in the same like style as Tanaka when
Speaker: he just doesn't throw the same kind of pitches as Tanaka. So it's like square peg round hole guys. You got to figure out what works for him specifically. It's new age stats. I think they can take too much of a dive into. And that might hurt some development that we've seen, especially last season. But I never like having bullpen issues. And if I see that we have bullpen issues,
Speaker: I start to panic because games are one in late innings, you know, you got to maintain with whatever lead that you have. And if you don't have it, you kind of got to get it back. And the easiest way to get it back is to get on the offensive side of the ball as fast as possible, uh, to give out an LVP award real quick. This is the weakest, maybe LVP award I've handed out so far, because every other instance he's come out in spring training and this season, he's been mighty fine, but.
Speaker: Ian Hamilton during his appearance during the series Three runs in point two innings, but they're the only three runs. He's let up his picture for closer He's a relief type picture people are there's a lot of talk on who's gonna be the closer I think he's in that conversation or he might just be a very good setup man. He says he's pitched total 6 .1 Okay, okay, so Okay, that's not bad at all. He's gotten some reps in four games started so far
Speaker: a 4 .26 ERA. That'll go down naturally with time. Am I right in thinking that his when you say that he gave up three runs and point two innings? Is that the the game that they almost lost the seven or lead? Yeah, that was that game. I remember where I found it now. If he were to end his if that was the only game he pitched this entire season, his ERA would be 40 .5. It's so funny. He's like early in the game because the Dodgers did this.
Speaker: Um, where you could see like their, their stuff for the pitchers and they would update their ERA in real time. Like, like, even if it was like, they're like, so it was like really funny to just like seeing, you know, the guy come out. It's his, like, he gives up a run as his first outing. And it's like, ERA is like, you know, I was like 40 like, okay, calm down Dodgers. I'm going to, I'm going to ask your permission to cheat. If I could give out another LVP award, go for it. Angel Hernandez for existing.
Speaker: Yep, a particularly egregious call literally right down the middle dead center of the strike zone against a glaber Torres called a ball Not only call the ball. It should have been an indictment against the catcher Because he like stepped off and stepped back on and didn't even look at labor before he threw the pitch so that should have been an infraction and he should have been awarded a ball but
Speaker: It was, that's how he was struck out and there was a little bit of a heated argument there. I think Boony came out a little bit to kind of diffuse the situation, but not a good look for maybe the worst umpire of all time.
Speaker: Uh, no, I believe, uh, officially the, the worst lump of all time when he sued the MLD for racial discrimination. And, uh, I'll let him whine all he wants, but I mean, at least call some, some involvement strikes. The, uh, well, the MLB had receipts and they had, they had his performance and they're like, he's not good. He's statistically like the worst guy.
Speaker: Yeah, just yeah, he's just he's just a worse and well Siri my ready for a giant series number three Let's talk about them Giants. Yeah, what an NL West heavy? Scheduled this was for the Giants Padres Dodgers Padres Well, the the Giants have their first winning series and it's at home they took the series to one and
Speaker: Despite that, I don't think all is well. Some red flags were popping up. The Giants offense continues continuing to struggle and the two wins only occurred due to bizarre events and a frankly bad call in Jorge Soler's favor. For the bizarre stuff, Tatis hit a ball with all his might and it traveled a whopping two feet.
Speaker: They need to be called foul. He just heard her. Yeah. Thinking that it was going to be a foul wall. He just stood in the box. Patrick Bailey got the ball and tagged him out while he's still in the box. Always run. And then again, later on in a key double play moment, the ball is thrown to Hassan Kim, who attempts to tag out Soler going to second base. Hassan Kim was then throwing out two Bogarts for the double play. Or at least that's how it was supposed to happen.
Speaker: Instead, Solaire ran into Kim's glove, knocking the ball out, breaking the double play. So I thought, okay, Solaire is going to be called out on the tag, if not for interference, right? But that didn't happen. The young called Solaire safe, and safe at second, and the Giants were given the fattest gift of the season so far. Because Solaire should have been called out. I don't understand. The ball was in Kim's glove, and Solaire runs into the glove, and then the ball gets knocked out.
Speaker: But after Kim's hand gets kind of knocked back, right? Yeah. So I thought it was at least going to be a call. And maybe, maybe the reason the UMP decided not to call Solaire out on the tag or the potential interference is because earlier in the game,
Speaker: That gave a disgusting, disgusting, late in field fly roll call. After the Padres, I think it was Kim again, dropped the ball and it was called an infield fly roll that ended the inning early. We came back from commercial break with Bob Melvin just yelling at the ump that I was going to get tossed, but he did not. That just kind of like,
Speaker: Blew my mind, you know because like the infield fire rule is Already confusing as is and the fact that it is umpire discretion doesn't make it any better And then just for it to to be like You didn't you you called you didn't call the infield fire rule Until after the ball was dropped is utterly ridiculous but
Speaker: Highlights for the series is Jordan Hicks. As I said earlier, I completely overlooked him in the offseason and I'm a fool for it. He was a trade from the struggling Cardinals and Hicks to me was seen as an admission from the front office that they dropped the ball. Because the move from a reliever to starter is great for Hicks.
Speaker: But at the same time, with Shohei, Yamamoto, Snell, who at the time was unsigned, and Shota, who was with the Cubs, digging the spotlight, he just kind of seemed underwhelming to me. He was pulled out early in his first start as a precaution, and that rifling made him mad.
Speaker: So what do you think Hicks did? What did he do? Liam, he delivered. He delivered. There was a second start, his second time against the Padres. And this felt like a real test, because I've seen him before. They know what he can do. So Hicks pitched seven innings, only allowed five hits, only two runs. One of them was earned. And one of them was only a run because he had an errant throw to second for the attempt of a double play.
Speaker: And he had five strikeouts. Five Ks. That's nice. Five Ks, yeah. It was a beautiful start. Guess what his ERA is for the season? That's only two start. Yeah, for the start. Hit me. All right. Well, I want to kind of show you what our ace is doing right now. Logan Webb currently has an ERA of 4 .86 off three starts. Jordan Hicks, two starts, ERA of 0 .75.
Speaker: And obviously, that's going to change. It's only two starts. But for someone to go from the bullpen as a reliever to a starter, I think he's showing some good promise. And I hope that he continues to succeed.
Speaker: There's also some clutch moments. One notable one, I think, is a struggling Tyro Ostrada, who hits it in the left center field for an RBI to walk off the game. He really needed that. Unfortunately, that clutch play was not enough to get him out of his slump. He's had some very, very ugly swings. I'm talking like...
Speaker: Because it's at least one thing if you swing, striking out, going for a ball that hits the dirt, but at least your bat was where you anticipated it to go. Tyro is swinging at balls that hit the dirt, but his bat is in the middle of the zone. He's just not seeing it. But he got that clutch RBI. And like you, Liam, I'm double dipping. You're double dipping. Except it's for a low light. No. I know. I'm sorry. Micah Shremsky.
Speaker: LVP yet again my favorite guy on your team. I know I I like your stream ski and you know, I would say that if there's one criticism is that our Low lights are definitely reactionary and they are not Indicative of you know what he may do or what he has done But yes struggles are continuing an entire row don't think that you aren't lined up to be on this list either Yeah, it's got his first three hits of the season So that's good
Speaker: I he ended the series with a batting average of like one point seven or one point six. And I think honestly, the only thing that's kind of keeping him on the team right now is the fact that he's a great defender. Otherwise, I think Luis Matos would be coming up series. They end opening week. What is that? Four four six. Yeah, four six and series four six.
Speaker: And before we get to our next segment, Liam. I just nearly called the other guy. Yeah. I'm keeping track of the umpire scorecards. You can find them on x at umpscorecard and also on Instagram now. So I'm just kind of keeping track. We'll go for the Giants first because that's just who I have up right now.
Speaker: The total right now as of As of right now April 9th Before I think before any of our teams play The um differential for For the Giants is negative 1 .22 So the Giants have lost almost a run in a quarter the worst differential was negative
Speaker: 0 .73 or 0 .73 runs for the padres. That was umpire Vic Carapaza. And our best differential was against the Dodgers, Phil Cuzzie, who gifted the Giants 1 .46 runs. And just think how crazy that is. In one single game, the Giants were given 1 .46 runs. And our differential is still negative 1 .2.
Speaker: If you want to take a look at the Yankees, you have a total differential of positive one point seven eight. Yeah. Your best differential was against the Diamondbacks. It was one point two eight. You're used to one point two eight runs and umpire was Brian Walsh. And you probably already know this one. Your worst differential was against Toronto at negative point five two. And the ump was Angel Hernandez. Say it ain't so. It is so.
Speaker: And we'll just keep track of that for the, uh, the whole season. Um, and we'll just see like, you know, how the, the differentials, you know, what the, it's going to be interesting to see who, who's, who do you think is going to be favored the most at the end of the season between our two teams? Probably me. Probably my yanks. Probably probably the numbers. Uh, what three times as many or favorite runs over the, uh, you love to see it. Uh, how was there a run differential last year?
Speaker: Total favoritism for the Giants was negative 1 .9. Yankees got .31. So pretty fair for the Yankees, all things considered, I guess. Over the course of the 162 games, only a third of a run. So we'll see how this goes for the year. All right, let's get to this last segment here. How's that sound, Liam? This sounds like a great idea. Liam, explain to the listeners what this is. Ladies and gentlemen, we are combining our arms.
Speaker: we are going to be comparing our number one, number two, number three, number four, and number five starters. And we're essentially creating a starting rotation by mashing together our two lineups. Maybe one will be more dominant than the other. It is an odd number after all. But we're going to be seeing who has the better number one starter, the better number two, three, four,
Speaker: And five. And this is going to be changing throughout the season. We'll periodically keep you all updated. We are eventually also going to get to the rest of the lineup. Rest of the lineup. You can pay attention to if you've been paying attention to our name, you're going to realize what stat we're going to put above the rest. All right. So for our first one, starter number one, Logan Webb versus Nestor Cortez. Logan Webb for the 2024 .2 war.
Speaker: No wins, one loss, 4 .86 ERA, three games, three games started, 16 .2 innings pitched, 13 strikeouts, and a whip of 1 .560. And who's he facing against? Nothing left is going to be facing off against Nestor Cortez, or not calculated yet. A win -loss total of 1 -1, 500 record, over three games.
Speaker: 18 in its innings pitch is a let up 15 hits seven runs one home run For walks 13 strikeouts with a 3 .50 ERA and a 1 .06 whip Are you looking at the MLB stats or? Okay, well let me go over for a
Speaker: Mr. Webb. Mr. Webb here. Does he have his we have his hits? I can send you the link. I think I have the. Giants people. OK, here we go. I got right here. OK. The Logan Web has given up 22 hits, nine runs, nine runs, one home run. Total 278 pitches.
Speaker: For 16 .2 innings pitch. So look at Nester Cortez. All right, Andrew, let's put our brains together. Do we want more? Oh boy, we should have had a way to figure out these ties, because this is this is a tough one. This is a tough one.
Speaker: I'll make my argument for Nestor. And then I'll wait to hear you out on argument for web. We will write down who we favor. And then at the count of three, we will reveal who we both picked. Does that sound like a plan?
Speaker: Nestor Cortez compared to Logan Web. Nestor Cortez has 18 innings pitched compared to Logan Web's 16 .2. Through what I have heard, Nestor might have had some rougher starts, but he has been left out in the game for longer, just through innings pitched, at least. He's only given up one home run.
Speaker: Compared to logan webs one. So they're tied in that aspect. Uh logan webs era 4 .86 nester cortez era 3 .50. Okay. Uh nester cortez is pushing three games compared to logan webs. So working with the exact same window there. I think my argument for logan web
Speaker: is going to be that I think he has better longevity compared to Nester. I rest my case. Logan Webb doesn't rely on games, you know? Ground ball. He's a ground ball guy. And as long as you have a confident defense behind him, he's going to succeed. And I feel like with some of these stats, you know,
Speaker: What keeps Logan Webb? What holds him back is the rest of the team. Giving up one run, two runs really shouldn't be. It shouldn't kill the game, but when Logan Webb's on the mound for some reason, there's no offense. I don't know how you calculate that, but I bet if you put Logan Webb
Speaker: And a just a, what you consider to be a normal defense behind him. He has a way lower ERA and, uh, way better, uh, more quality starts. Um, like I said, in, for his, his first start of the season, 97 pitches, five strikeouts and only two earned runs.
Speaker: Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. That is my defensive log in web. That's your defensive log in. All right. You got your pick down? I do. All right. You want to count us down for this first one? All right. Three, two, one. Log in web.
Speaker: I think absolutely, especially because Mr. Cortez has not had to play a three game series against the Dodgers. Yes, that is also true. I don't think I don't think the Astros are anything to scoff at, but I think the Dodgers are a far better team than them. Speaking of the Astros, Ronell, back to back, no hitters. Wild. Keep an eye on that guy.
Speaker: Alright, ready for starter number two? Ready for starter number two. It's going to be Kyle Harrison versus Carlos Rodan. Oh, Harrison Carlos Rodan. I got Carlos Rodan stats real quick. I'm going to be honest, not too shabby. Carlos Rodan? Yeah. Let's take a look here. Let's see. Go, go over stats.
Speaker: He's going over Carlos Rodin's stats. He's given up three runs in two starts. He has a 2 .79 ERA over 9 .2 innings pitched. He's led up 12 hits. However, let me check his, where's his Ks? Where's his Ks?
Speaker: He has seven last seven games strikeout seven seven strikeout for the 2024 season I don't know why I can't find his case right now. It's staring me right in the face seven seven strikeouts over two stars And a 1 .76 whip we're comparing that to Kyle Harrison Kyle Harrison
Speaker: uh... his first full season as a starter any area of four point nine he's one and one after two starts eleven innings pitched nine strikeouts and he has uh... c total better space forty six his k over nines is seven point three six uh... his uh... walks overnight is two point four five
Speaker: Same thing for home runs. Did I say nine strikeouts? Because he has nine strikeouts. That's pretty cool. Off two starts. That's like four and a half strikeouts per game or per start. So what is your defense of Kyle Harrison?
Speaker: That's your guy. Oh, sorry, Carlos. Carlos Radon, sorry. Carlos has induced seven double plays. Carlos Radon, seventh strikeout. Over two games. 9 .2 innings pitched. Only three runs. Only three runs for a guy that was
Speaker: I don't know really I expected him to be farther down in the lineup I was maybe expecting him to be a number four guy believe it or not. Okay, but I Think at the moment is the second best pitcher If he only if he only could get up to maybe around like a Comfortably around where nesters at in terms of innings pitched Not even Esther. Let's say strowman strowman has a
Speaker: 12 innings pitch right now if he hadn't more like 12 innings pitch. I think we're gonna see a lot of the same Other than that, I believe he has a 2 .79 here To Kyle Harrison 4 .91 Okay
Speaker: I mean, the only thing I had to say for Kyle Harrison is he's a young guy. This is going to be his first complete season. He debuted in late August. So at the end of the season, when it was kind of like, I don't know if we're going to make you guys. His right now for the season, twelve hits, six runs, six earned runs, three home runs.
Speaker: And he only hit a base, he only hit a guy once, and three walks. Nine strikeouts. I don't know. I think between these two, I think it's going to be Rodan. I was also going to say Rodan. We'll go with Rodan for starter number two. And now we have a very interesting picture three round. Yeah, picture three round is going to be a tough one. Jordan Hicks versus Marcus Stroman.
Speaker: Jordan Hicks 2024 season stats one win no loss ERA of 0 .75 to off two starts 12 innings pitch 11 strikeouts Let's take a look here. I will see how many He's allowed only two doubles you got one double play
Speaker: Off of seven double play opportunities. And. I don't know, like I just think that off of these two starts, this is. This is a. Strong, strong start for someone who. Who is condemned to to be a reliever.
Speaker: I definitely see this changing, maybe even when Strowman gets out of this spot. And someone else slides in. Marcus Strowman, 10 strikeouts in two games. Zero ERA. Oh, zero, okay. Over 12 innings. Only has 11, seven hits. No earned runs. Whip of 0 .83.
Speaker: little thing stronger than point seven five runs zero is here oh man also be a tough one I see so he's allowed four doubles compared to the two for Jordan Hicks and neither of them have allowed triples
Speaker: He has one double playoff of five opportunities compared to Jordan Hicks. One out of from seven. Oh, man. Marcus Stroman has one hit by pitch. How many strikeouts does Stroman have? Ten, I believe. Ten. OK, compared to Hicks is eleven. I got to go with with Jordan Hicks. Really? Yeah.
Speaker: I disagree. I don't know. I think there's just something about moving your way up from relief pitcher to starter. That puts him over for you. Yeah. And the fact that he got pulled out early in his first start, he got pulled out in the fifth, I think. I don't know. I don't know. I wonder what it would look like if he stayed in the whole start.
Speaker: The fact that I was against the Padres both times so like He has like that that he He was seen twice like the line the the Padres has come up against him twice and they did worse the second time When they probably should have done a little bit better I think that speaks a lot, but I can't in good conscience
Speaker: all through so this might this might be a tie it might be a tie in his second start 17s pitched five hits two runs only one earned run five strikeouts I don't know like it's gonna be a tough one cuz like I think these are two guys that if they keep on the same trajectory they have
Speaker: they might be compared to each other quite a bit yeah I think so I don't know man this is gonna be a tough one well we can keep a tab on this we can mark it down as a tie we can we can no decision here much like many how a lot of
Speaker: Giant starts are going to be. I thought you were going to say swing state voters. No, no. Decision. I think I spelled decision, right? We'll come back to that. We'll see how that is. We'll keep a tab on it. We'll update y 'all throughout the season. Yeah, and then we've got Keaton Wynn, reverse. Mark Schmidt. Keaton Wynn, let me bring up his stats real quick.
Speaker: Keenwin, 0 -2, 5 .73 ERA, 2 starts, 11 innings pitched, 7 strikeouts. 1 whip. Clark Schmidt, 9 strikeouts over 2 games, 9 .2 innings pitched, 4 .66 ERA,
Speaker: only allowed 13 hits and five runs and one home run only only three walks okay uh keen wind loud one home run he has seven earned runs i don't want to go with clarkshman on this one really keen i mean keen one has uh i'm expecting what's up no i'm i'm still inspecting but please go on
Speaker: I don't know. The only thing, the one thing that Kainwin definitely has going for him is that he was not supposed to be in the lineup. And he's seen more innings than Clark Schmidt, someone who is expected to see the lineup. He's Kainwin was supposed to, he's filling in for Alex Cobb while he continues to recover. I think he's going to end up taking Dalton Jeffery's spot, or no, not Dalton Jeffery's spot, because now our lineup is complete with Snell and
Speaker: So so keen would not probably be demoted to the You know the bullpen once Cobb comes back and I think Don Jeffries is out Nothing wrong with having an emergency starter. No, no But I don't just think that Because a strumming has how many total innings pitched 12
Speaker: Well not the Stromer. Clark Schmidt. Clark Schmidt, yeah. He has a 9 .2. 9 .2? So he has more innings pitched. But I think he won me over to Clark Schmidt's side. I think Schmidt is just a more proven type of guy. Yeah. So we'll go Schmidt. We'll go Schmidt. Clark Schmidt.
Speaker: And number five is going to be Dalton Jeffries versus Luis Gil. Can I name one stat and then we can compare just one step between the two and then make our judgments? Luis Gil. Well, first Dalton Jeffries, one strikeout. Luis Gil, 14 strikeouts. OK. He leads the team in strikeouts. Well, let's take a look at that ERA though, huh?
Speaker: Three twenty two point five. Oh You got me you got me Put dolphin Jeffries on on there on for the win how many how many innings pitched? How many innings pitch? Pitch nine innings pitch. Okay, Don Jeffries to Looks like it's gonna be a Louise Gill
Speaker: Blue scale 14 strikeouts good for him. Yeah, even supposed to be here You were even invited Okay, that'll finish our combined arms I Think next episode we'll We'll do we'll come back to the Jordan Hicks verse Marcus Roman. We'll update people there You want to do like the outfield or something right now I
Speaker: Next time next time we'll do the joint. Yeah, we'll do the outfield. We'll do the outfield next time cool. All right, I Think that'll be it for this this episode There's a nice little nice little shindig we got going. Yeah For the the Giants whenever we come back we are going to be playing against The Nationals Tampa Bay
Speaker: Miami, Arizona, and we'll end it before we start the next episode will be up before we can start the Mets series against the Mets. No. And I'll see you soon. That episode, though. What about New York? What's New York looking like? The ones that went to our next recording date.
Speaker: April 21st. So I got it right here. I got it. We are currently in the middle of a series with the Marlins. OK. But then we will then go to the Guardians, then back to the Blue Jays, and then we'll finish up with the Tampa Bay Rays. Tampa Bay Rays. OK. Oh, and we're going to be just shy of a four game series against the
Speaker: gets the athletic. Oh man, I wonder how that's gonna go. Oh man, let's get some nice early stat padding. Are you guys excited for that episode? It's the athletics and Mets episode. The athletics and Mets episode back to back in the same episode. That's awesome. Oh man. All right. Well, now they'll do it for this episode. It's quite good. Wow. See you guys in two weeks. We'll see how it all goes.
Speaker: Enjoy some baseball, y 'all. Have a good one. Bye.
