Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Bats Go Mostly Silent as Mariners Disappointingly Split Set With Angels

Episode Date: August 8, 2022

Through the first three games of their weekend series with the Angels, the Mariners struggled mightily to capitalize on offensive opportunities and wound up dropping a pair of losses as a result. Hosts Ty Dane Gonzalez and Colby Patnode dish out some hard truths about the offensive woes, look at Colby's 30-26 ranked prospects in the Mariners' farm system and discuss what Logan Gilbert needs to do in order to get back on track against the Yankees on Monday night.Be sure to follow or subscribe to Locked On Mariners wherever you prefer your podcasts! For questions and other inquiries, email: [e-mail] up to date with all things Mariners at Inside the Mariners - a FanNation website covering the Seattle Mariners on the Sports Illustrated network.Follow the show on Twitter: @LO_Mariners | @danegnzlz | @CPat11 | @InsideMarinersFor more of Ty and Colby, check out their Patreon: patreon.com/controlthezone/LinkedInLinkedIn Jobs helps you find the candidates you want to talk to, faster. Did you know every week, nearly 40 million job seekers visit LinkedIn? Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/LOCKEDONMLB.BetOnlineBetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The Mariners offense failed to find its groove over the weekend leading to a series split with the visiting angels. Is this just a bump in the road or a concerning sign for the future? We'll tell you that. Plus, we're kicking off Prospect Week here on the Lockdown Mariners podcast with Colby's 30 through 26 rankings of the Mariners Farm System. Thank you so much for tuning in. Colby hitting. You are Locked on Mariners. Your daily Seattle Mariners podcast.

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It is Monday, August 8th, 2022. And thank you so much for making us your first listen of the day. We are free and available on all. platforms with new episodes dropping every Monday through Friday. I am your host, Tadayne Gonzalez, joined as always by my co-host, Colby Patnode. We cover the Mariners over at inside the mariners.com for fan nation over on the Sports Illustrated network. Be sure to follow the show on Twitter at L0 underscore Mariners.

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And if you're watching us on YouTube, hit the subscribe button, turn on the notification bell and give this video a thumbs up. We greatly appreciate it. We are slowly but surely working our way up to 3,000 subscribers. So if you haven't subscribed already, please help us get to that mark. So, of course, we are going to be beginning prospect week on today's show. Later on in the show, Colby is going to give you his 30 through 26 prospects in the Mariners Farm System. But first, we need to talk about this past weekend.

The Mariners end up taking two of four from the Angels, which, if you heard our show on Friday, a little disappointing from the Mariners, all things considered, especially after the Angels sold at the deadline, entered the series. without Mike Trout. And a big reason for that, of course, was the Mariners' offense. Now, I know, I know, you know, we spent all the Friday's show mercilessly dragging the angels and some of you in the comments, not a ton of you, but some of you in the comments said, oh, you jinx the Mariners, you curse the mariners. Let's get one thing straight here. The angels, and I'll let you in on a little secret here, they're still trash.

The Mariners, however, particularly on offense, we're also pretty trash, especially through the first three games of this series, right, Colby? Yeah, they were awful. And the real frustrating thing about that is that it's not even in one of those cases where a bad pitcher has his best stuff. And the Mariners, oh, well, we hit the ball hard a few times. You just went right to people.

Like, no, no excuse. They were just bad. Like the fact that they didn't absolutely destroy, Patrick Sandoval on Friday after the dude, I think had six walks and hit two guys is an abomination. And he goes, what, five scoreless endings against you? Like five and a third scoreless endings against you? It's unacceptable. It's not what any functional offense does. And honestly, functional is a good thing to question about the Mariners offense because yikes. I mean, it was bad with the exception of Sunday. So even the other win they got,

it was a two to one game. And it was tie france hitting a two more. on home run in the fourth and them hanging on for dear life. That's not a sustainable formula for success. And look, every team is going to go up against a pitcher who just has this good stuff. And for whatever reason, like, yeah, you know what, it's going to happen. I mean, if Jamison Tyone goes out there tonight and just, you know, seven scoreless innings and he's got this great stuff and, you know, the Mariners just really can't get anything going, fine, whatever, that happens.

If Jamison Tyone, you know, is throwing 94 mile an hour fastballs down the middle of the plate and Seattle's popping them up all night, that's a bad offense performance. That's not because the pitcher was so good. So low scores doesn't mean that the pitcher was good. Let's just be clear about that. And this mayor's offense is terrible. Kyle Lewis had another disastrous weekend.

Carlos Santana left a small village on the bases. He's something like six for his last 55 or something like. It's not working. And, you know, aside from really, I mean, Thai France had a couple nice hits. Sam Haggurty had another really good surprise. Sam Haggher had another really good game. Jesse Winker hit the big home run,

but right now this offense basically what it comes down to is they're going to create enough traffic to score runs. They're going to. They're going to walk. They're going to do that thing? The question becomes, do they get the big hit when they need it? And it seems like every single game,

the Mariners will inevitably load the bases, and they'll either get zero or they'll get one. Like that's the whole Mariners' offense right now. And thankfully on Sunday, it was one of the rare times where they actually took advantage of a basis loaded situation. Thanks to Jesse Winker. But it's really the Mariners offense. It's feast or famine. Either they're going to get the big hit and they're going to pile on or they're not. And they're going to force their pitching staff to try and get 27 outs without surrendering more than two runs, which even against bad lineups like, like Los Angeles of Anaheim.

It's not always that easy. So yeah, it was, it's time for the Mariners. you know, kind of look themselves in the mirror and start talking about how do we maximize our 26-man roster? Because right now it's not. And they're running out of the injury excuse here pretty soon because Julio will be back, France is back, Hanager's back, you know, Demos back, Tremel's back, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And those were the excuses for the last month about why the Mariners didn't need a bat because they were going to get healthy and it was going to fix everything. And it hasn't. Surprise, but it hasn't. So the Mariners entering Sunday's game were a three for eight team with runners in scoring position through the first three games of the series.

And they left 25 men on base, swapping 25. I'm pretty sure Santana was responsible for like half of those two by himself. So one, two, and three got on base, you know, pretty regularly. Yeah. Four, five, and six didn't do their job. So as you mentioned, Julio's expected to be back at some point during this Yankee series towards the, towards the end of the Yankee series. same for Dylan Moore potentially Taylor Tremel is likely right behind them

and is performing pretty well down in AAA right now on his rehab assignment so at that point you have all the reinforcements you've been expecting you're going to have to start performing here and if not I mean this goes back to my whole rants my giant rant after the

after deadline day that like you should have done more offensively you know you should have you know I wanted these options of, you know, of Kyle Lewis and, you know, even Carlos Santana to a degree, just to mention those guys that you mentioned to be fallback options, not the guys that I rely on. Not, you know, I don't like, right now the Mariners are putting a lot of stock into players like Carlos Santana and Kyle Lewis performing for the sake of their playoff viability, really.

You know, this isn't just, you know, guys who are going to rotate through the lineup, like, right now as currently constructed, the Mariners need Carlos Santana and Kyle Lewis to perform because those guys are going to get considerable amount of bad bats. It's just the way it is right now. Yeah, but they should. And they shouldn't. And they shouldn't, right?

And especially as they get healthier. And I mean, we've talked time and time again about, you know, eventually what do you do with Kyle Lewis here when Taylor Tremel gets healthy? I think there's no question in my mind that Tremel should replace Kyle Lewis on this roster right now. because he gives you more defensive versatility and ability in general. Yeah, which is any. And he also gives you, you know, value on the base pass.

And he, there's a non-zero chance. He's just a better hitter right now than Kyle Lewis is. That's not to smirch Kyle Lewis whatsoever. I know sometimes when I say these things about Kyle Lewis, we get comments about, oh, he's the 2020 AL rookie of the year or whatever. He's just not that player right now. He's not that player right now. He's not, he's very clearly not fully healthy.

There's no question of whether or not he'll ever be fully healthy again. And it seems like it's likely not. So now he's got to reinvent himself. He's got to figure out how he can maximize his value as the current talent that he is right now. And he's just not doing that at the moment. And I don't think he's really in a place to do that right now either. I'll just say it since, you know, you don't want to, but other people do. The Mariners don't know Kyle Lewis a dang thing.

Nothing. not an app bat, not a 26-man roster spot, not even a spot on their 40-man roster. Doesn't mean they have to DFA him. But if the Mariners DFA had Kyle Lewis this winter, I wouldn't care. He hasn't earned it, and part of that is not his fault. Yes, he's been hurt a lot, but you have to be available, period. Before all else, you have to be available. Kyle Lewis, you never know if he's going to play.

You don't know if you have him until an hour before the game. That is not beneficial to your team. at all, especially when he's not hitting. Right? Kyle Lewis, the mayors don't owe Kyle Lewis anything. They paid him his bonus. They paid him his paycheck. They helped him with his rehab.

Rehaps. They don't owe him anything, let alone at bats in a playoff situation. Zero. So if you think Taylor Tremel is better than Kyle Lewis right now, which anybody with eyeballs should agree, then it's an easy call. You make that decision. So there's no nuance here. It's not like Carlos Santana, where he's such a big clubhouse guy.

and everybody in the clubhouse loves and respects him. Like, do you want to DFA that? Do you want to disrupt something this close to the playoffs? I don't know. Maybe, maybe not. Kyle Lewis doesn't have that kind of cachet. He doesn't. He's 27 years old.

He's had one great month in his big league career. And the rest of the time he's been, he's been okay, pretty good. One great month, which was two years ago. And people act like he's a golden cow that you can't possibly replace on this roster. You can't possibly give his at-bats to somebody else. Why? because he won an award in a down year in the middle of a pandemic season.

Who cares? Kyle Luce does not deserve to be on this roster. And honestly, he's got to earn his 40-man spot over the winter. It shouldn't be safe. It shouldn't just be guaranteed to him. So, you know, we can either win and admit these type of things or we can keep on throwing the same guy out there in the same situation, hoping for a different result because we like him.

It's the old Dylan Moore. argument. I like Dillmore. Well, Dillmore can't hit, but I like him, but he can't hit. But look at these other things he does, but he can't hit. Well, I like him, so I want him on this roster. Do you want to win, or do you want to win only with the guys you like? That's your option. So what's it going to be? To me, it's a no-brainer to slam dunk, but these people who think you can't replace Kyle Lewis that Dillan Moore absolutely has to be on this 26-man roster when he's healthy. I question your motives.

Do you want the best 26-man roster that this Mariners team can put out on the field? And if you don't, then don't complain about the playoff drought. Because clearly you don't care. So that's what it is. So let's talk about some guys that Colby does like in the Mariners Farm System.

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You're listening to the Locked-on Mariners podcast. Thank you again for making us your first listen of the day, just like you do here every single day. So real quick, a programming note. We are going to be off tomorrow. We are not going to be recording an episode tomorrow. So despite that, however, we are going to be starting prospect week here on the Locked-on Mariners podcast.

And so later on in the week, we'll probably double up on these and do five prospects at a time. But today we're going to be starting with 30 through 26, especially because we wanted to do this now because trade deadlines passed. No further significant moves can be made to the Mariners Farm system at this point until November at the earliest. And so, you know, we felt this was a good time to kind of reset and just look at the farm, especially now that some significant changes have happened with, you know, the Luis Castillo trade, of course, and Noel V. Marte, Eben O'Royal, Levi-Stallup, Andrew Moore, all leaving the organization. The MLB draft.

Yeah, and then we, of course, yeah, had the MLB draft. So let's start with 30 through 26 here as determined by Colby Patnode. Number 30, Josh Hood, infielder. Number 29, first base slash designated hitter, Robert Perez Jr., old Bobby bombs. at number 28, Juan Mercedes, right-handed pitcher at number 27, Milcar Perez, infielder, and at number 26, infielder, Starlin, Aguilar. Let's start with Josh Hood. What do you like Josh Hood, and why did he crack your top 30?

Bat speed for days. Josh Hood can hit a fastball, which seems like, duh, but I think we watched Jesse Winker enough this year to know that that's not always a given, but Josh Hood can hit velocity. He was one of the best players in college baseball at hitting 98, miles an hour or harder. Just insane exit velocity numbers, too. This is very much a data-driven guy.

He's also a good athlete. Like I said, plenty of bat speed, good athlete, good runner, strong arm. We'll see if he's probably not going to stick it short. He's probably ultimately a third baseman. But he can handle short if you need him to in a pinch. Second base is a good enough athlete to play up the middle if you need him to. But there's a ton of bat speed there. There's a ton of raw power.

There are some contact issues, which is why he's not higher. on the list. But as much as I drag the guy, there is a Dylan Moore comp here. And Dylan Moore could be a valuable player if you just change everything about a swing. I don't think you have to change everything about Josh Hood's swing. But he does have work to do, which is why he's 30 and not, you know, inside the top 25 or so. But there's a lot of tools for the Mariners to work with and the data to back it up. All right. So Bobby Bombs.

Obviously, he had a sensational season down in Modesto. So finally got a call up to Everett. Why do you like Bobby Bomb so much to put him in your top 30 as a first base slash DH type? Who doesn't like dingers? It's true. It's good argument. Yeah, just a ton of power, a ton of a ton of stack cast data to back this up.

Guy hits the ball hard. He barrels it up a lot. And this is a little bit of a tricky profile to rank because he is just first base. There is no dream that he could play third or in the outfield. It's first base slash DH type. he has to hit he's a little he's been around he's got a lot of experience for a guy who's only in high a so the numbers are a little bit of skewed here but right-handed power uh that's pretty easy power i would say 60 grade at least um in game power uh is always something that is

interesting and you talk about again a guy who can really put backspin on the ball guy who hits the ball hard consistently that's a guy worth noting so this is all bad if he really struggles at high a and he has to repeat the level next year and then he's probably not a top 50 guys. So there's a lot of, there's a lot of volatility in this rank, but he's done enough this year that I think he should be in the top 30. He's worth watching. Like I said, you're asking me which one's more likely to be a big leaguer? I would probably say Josh hood. You're asking me which one's more likely to be an everyday big leaguer? I'd probably take the chance on Perez just because the power and the hit tool are pretty good right now.

So Juan Mercedes is someone that I've seen in the, you know, low to mid teens, even, you know, 20s or high 20s rather from some other outlets. But why do you have him at 28? Because I hate him. No, I like Mercedes quite a bit. It's a fastball. It's mostly 92, 93, touches, tops off at 95.

But it does have some armside run to it. You know, the breaking ball, he's got kind of a slider and curveball, but they kind of mesh together at times. And honestly, the kind of the slur when it actually does turn into kind of more of a slurve in distinguishable pitch, it's actually probably better than when he's just a true curveball or true slider. So it's, you know, it's kind of an iffy pitch there for me.

There's certainly upside to it, but it's not quite there yet. Change up, not consistent enough to count as a third pitch. So there's a question as to whether or not he ends up in the bullpen. We'll see, but it's a very repeatable delivery. he's a good athlete. Doesn't have trouble getting deep into games, holds his velocity pretty well. So it's not a guaranteed bullpen profile here.

The only other thing I would point out is that he's given up 10 home runs and 70 innings or so. That's a lot. And part of that is, you know, you're throwing as many strikes as he does. You're going to catch a lot of the plate sometimes, which goes to, again, he has more control than he does command at this stage.

There's a lot to like here, but I think there's probably enough to suggest that he, he's going to end up a middle reliever that I would push him down here. But there's a number four starter in here. So I get why people have them ranked higher than I do. I just, I want to see more from the breaking ball and the change up in particular. But in terms of like just feel and strike throwing and delivering all that stuff, it's right there. So I get why people like him a little more than I do.

All right. Milcar Perez has not had a good season whatsoever. But he still makes it in your top 30. Why do you still believe in Milcar? for us. Because I can't be wrong. No, this is a guy who was, you know, fringe top 10 for me preseason and I really thought he was going to end up being top five towards the end of it. Just taking a huge step back this year. But I, it's, you know, it's going to, you're going to have a hard time convincing

me that a guy in 350 at bats has just gone from, like, legit, hey, this is a really good prospect of this guy is just bad. Now, I, I don't see it. He's only 20 years old. He's got all the tools he had last year. And he still works counts, draws plenty of walks, has a good idea the strike zone still very CTZ profile. Just not a good year for him. And he's got to step it up. I mean, if he doesn't finish strong and kind of carries these issues into next year, he's going to be a non-prospect. And that'll be a bummer because what Milcarparez did last year was incredibly impressive. So I'm not giving up on him because of, you know, granted an extended slump, but he's just 20 years old.

So I'm not ready to write him off completely. And again, there's enough CTZ. There's enough in the bat here. And I think there's just enough defensively that he can still be an everyday player. It's just, it's definitely taken a hit. I mean, there's no doubt about that. And then lastly on the list, Starlin Aguilar, who I believe was in the late teens for you the last time you did your rankings, but has now fallen to 26.

why did Aguilar take such a big hit despite some of the names that have left the organization? Well, no home runs this year is kind of the big one. Also, he's absolutely not a third baseman. That ship has sailed along with No LV Marte staying at shortstop. Doesn't really have the athleticism to move to second. Obviously, you can't play shortstop. So it's pretty much infield or first base or left field for him. the arm is not very good either.

So it's a guy who, you know, isn't hitting for power, really is a corner guy and really only profiles at two corner spots and they're the least valuable ones that there are. The hit tool hasn't been great either. Good contact rates, hits for some average, but nothing like ungodly that makes up for no power, no defense, no base running. So a little concerned here that maybe that we're looking at. another Joe Rizzo type, but the guy is only 18 years old. He's still so young.

He's only in the complex league. So it's just, again, the tools are there. He could hit 270. He could still get to 20, 25 home run power. We're just not seeing it right now. So I'm willing to give him, you know, this winter or the rest of this year this winter and see where he's at in the spring before I drop him down further. But there's just not a ton of, I just, I don't see a ton of growth.

from him this year versus last year. And other guys have simply passed him in my mind. So the Mariners hosting the Yankees starting tonight. Can Logan Gilbert get back on track? We'll be talking about that in just a moment. But real quick, a reminder of this episode of Lockdown Mariners is brought to you by BetOnline. Betonline.net is the fastest and easiest way to check in on all your betting needs. Find all your favorite sports and events at the number one online source for odds,

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Of course, two of those losses coming against the Seattle Mariners. And so the Mariners are essentially catching the Yankees at probably no better time this season. The Yankees have been red hot aside from really this little stretch here that they've been on, this poor stretch that they've been on. Of course, they're 70 and 39. John Carlos Stanton still hurt. So don't have to face him. But they still have Aaron Judge.

They still have Andrew Ben Attendee. They still have Glaver Torres. They still have DJ LaMeyu. They still have like dudes. And of course, Matt Carpenter, who I mean. Yeah. Yeah. Matt Carpenter has been insane this season.

So Logan Gilbert saw this team last week and got shelled for six runs. It did not go well. It did not go very well. And things have not gone particularly well for Gilbert in general over his last few starts. Is there anything you have seen over the last few starts that suggests maybe he's starting to figure it out? Maybe he's starting to dig himself out of this hole. Or is he still just on a downward trend in your mind? No.

No to the downward trend or no that you haven't seen any. No to the first part. No to the first part. Okay. The bad, no. The bad no. Yeah, the bad no, the bad timeline. Yes, it's gotten so bad that I have to wonder at some point.

It's like Logan Gilbert, you should sit down to AAA for a couple of weeks to try and, you know, fix something because it's just, it's not competitive. The changeup hasn't been a pitch he can use for like three months. The slider isn't as sharp. He doesn't have as much command of his fastball as he did. And all those things came into play at Yankee Stadium. You know, it's just Logan Gilbert has a great basketball. when he gets behind three and one because he can't locate any of his off-speed stuff and he throws 98 miles an hour down the middle. It doesn't matter how good the fastball is.

It doesn't matter if it looks like it's 110. They know it's coming. They know it's going to be in the strike zone and they mash it. So again, Logan Gilbert can have success against this lineup. Certainly can. He needs a slider or his change up, one or the other, at least to have any kind of success against this lineup. Otherwise, it's going to be batting practice for the Bronx bombers and probably a game that, Logan just has to wear it because, again, the bullpen,

not in terrible shape, but not in great shape either. So it's one of those things where the bullpen's probably not in terrible shape, but if you have to use, they have to cover six innings tonight instead of three, then it can have a snowball effect on the rest of the series. So this might be a game where Logan has to wear it. The beauty of Logan Gilbert, though, is that he's young enough and he has enough upside. You never know what you're going to get out of him. So it's always possible that he goes out there and he's,

He just dominates the Yankees. He's done it once before at T-Mobile. So maybe that's a difference. Maybe it's, you know, I'm not pitching at Yankee Stadium. I don't have to be as precise. I can make a few more mistakes here and there. Maybe that helps mentally, but it's been a pretty steep downward trajectory

since really, what, the end of May. And so you hope he can turn it around. He says he feels great. I mean, I hope so. I think this is more about, this is just more about execution. and the fact that he can't challenge hitters with anything in the strikes zone

except for his fastball. It's an issue. Particularly when you're going up against these really good lineups like Toronto, like New York, like Houston. So you don't sound very confident about this, about tonight or really the series in general.

The Mariners are going to win tonight three to one. Oh, of course. Book it. Yeah. Yeah. Reverse jinks. Reverse jinks in a foul. Obviously.

Obviously. These pitching matchups are going to be something else. Oh, they're fun. Just listen to this. Jamison Tyone versus Logan Gilbert tonight. Tomorrow we get a rematch between Garrett Cole and Luis Castillo. You're going to go out on a limb and say the Mariners probably not going to score six off of Garrett Cole in the first inning, at least.

At least in the first inning. And I'm the pessimist. Clearly, yes. And then Nester Cortez, Nasty Nestor versus Robbie Ray. So we got a lot of fun pitching matchups coming up here for the. the for the mariners and i mean if you're going to go into a series against the yankees you're going to want your three best guys the mariners get their three best guys unless maybe colby at this point maybe george kirby is better than logan gilbert to you kirby's better than logan gilbert

right now right now yes yes probably i mean just like in terms of skill set too like like if i had to win a game to make the playoffs or game seven or whatever and i had to choose between gilbert or kirby kirby not close not even thinking about it for a second George Kirby. Yeah. Logan Gilbert right now is the number five. How many home runs is Aaron Judge heading in this series? Just prepare me. Just prepare me here.

Two, but he's going to walk eight times. He's going to walk eight times. It's kind of the Mariners' MO, isn't it? They're like, they're like, okay, look, we're not going to let Aaron Judge beat us. We're not going to let Yordon Alvarez. We're going to walk them if we have to. I don't care, you know, whatever, blah, blah, blah. never intentionally walked,

then we'll make our pitchers waste the pitches just, you know, and hope they don't make a mistake. But yeah, we're not going to do that. The only guy that they've ever, like, really gone right after, well, two guys that they've gone right after, even when maybe they shouldn't have.

Mike Trout and Shoahe Otani. And it works great for Otani because that dude can't hit a mariner's slider of his life depended on it, which is fun and funny. It's almost like you made a mistake not picking the Mariners, Shoah. Anyways.

sucks but no it's yeah of course I had to get in the shot show you I don't know I think like three for 22 in the series with like 11 strikeouts overrated so yeah we'll see what what judge does

you can have 22 at bats in a four game series well I mean they had the one game where I think you got six so like I don't know whatever he was he had three hits they were all singles in a sacrifice fly when it was already six to one The Mariners should never walk, Jayhothani, that guy's a bum. That's right, I said it.

They didn't even have to use Justice Sheffield to get them this time. That's true. That's true. So, like, I mean, how bad, like, how down can you be if you can't even get a hit off of not just a Sheffield? No, but Judge, I think they're very careful with him, but I think they make enough mistakes that we'll get a preview

of what the home run derby might look like next year in Team Mobile Park. maybe only once but if anybody can hit a ball out of that stadium in the game it's probably Aaron Judge Yeah or John Carlos Stanton

Who? Who? Fortunately the Mariners get to a dodge Darn no sand Oh shucks So maybe Garrett Cole sleeps wrong on his neck

And they have to push him back a couple days I don't know That would be really unfortunate For all the fans Going to T-Mobile Park Bummer How many people do you think are going to show

are very excited to see Garrett Cole. Yeah. How many people do you think are going to show up for Cole versus Castillo on Tuesday? Ooh. Because it is the end games. But it is a Tuesday night game. Yeah. I still think like 20K plus.

I'm going to go 30. Yeah. Although I wonder like tonight they'll have more people because a lot of people thought that Cassio was going to pitch tonight. It's like, I'm pretty sure they always said Tuesday. But we'll see. But no, I expect a pretty decent crowd. They got 25,000. for the Texas series.

So now is Monday through Wednesday. Yeah. We'll see. Good point. Good point. All right. So again, programming note. We're now recording tomorrow.

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