Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Division Day: Crossover With Locked On Astros

Episode Date: March 31, 2021

Brett Chancey -- a.k.a. H-Town Wheelhouse -- joins D.C. Lundberg for this crossover episode. D.C. talks about how Kyle Lewis' knee injury may affect the outfield situation, and also talks about the bullpen. Brett talks about the Astros' outfield, which is now sans George Springer, and also the starting rotation, which will be without Justin Verlander for a spell. At the end of the show Brett talks about his memories from those very good Houston Astros teams of the mid-to-late 90s, and D.C. explains why he no longer hates the Yankees. 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.

Welcome to this Locked-on Astros, Locked-on Mariners crossover episode. Now here are your hosts, Brett Chancy and D.C. Lundberg. Thank you very much. That was Joey Martin, the announcer on Locked-on Mariners, introducing both Locked-on Mariners and Locked-on Astros today. Yes, it's another crossover episode here on the Locked-on podcast network, or T-L-O-P-N for short or for shorter, Tlopin. Please remember to download, rate, and subscribe to both of these shows using whichever podcasting app that you personally care to use.

Ask your smart device to play Locked-on Mariners podcast and Locked-on Astros podcast, but of course not at the same time. That would be ridiculous. I am D.C. Lundberg, the host of Locked-on Mariners, and also here is one of the co-hosts on Law of Lockdown Astros, pardon me, Mr. Brett Chancy, aka H-Town Wheelhouse. How art thou? I am doing great.

I'm excited. We are less than, I guess, 48 hours or 24 hours, whenever someone listens to this, away from opening day, and this day couldn't come soon enough. Yeah, it's kind of snuck up on me personally, because it is just, it is tomorrow. We're recording this Tuesday evening, March 30th, 2021, Year of Our Lord. I think it's just about time we got started. Yes, definitely. So let's go to the, I think, most important question.

I think the brightest star in the Mariners future, your up-and-coming superstar, Kyle Lewis. Yes. It was revealed that he is dealing with a deep bone bruise that puts his opening day in doubt. It was inflamed. It says it was hurt while he was awkwardly colliding with the wall, which is not good.

No. But what is this, is this just kind of where y'all are as Mariners fans? Is this kind of one of those seasons? We've kind of gotten used to those seasons over the last couple of years. this was definitely going to be part of the rebuild for the team's future. That project is starting to come to a close. I've said on other shows that next year might be the year that their window of opportunity opens.

It certainly won't be this year. And let's make no mistake. Kyle Lewis is still a work in progress. He got off to a great start last season. Second half of the season just completely fell off the map. Strikeout rate went way up. So, yeah, it's going to hurt that he's going to be missing some time in all likelihood. still unknown if he's going to go on the disabled list or not.

There's really no update beyond what I talked about on the show on Monday for the Mariners fans who listen to that particular episode. But that kind of opens the door to get some playing time for another outfield prospect. You know, if he does miss opening day, I think there's, he's probably going to miss opening day. day. So all of this is said with the assumption that Lewis is not playing tomorrow. Taylor Tremel has made the opening day roster, which I will talk about tomorrow on Locked on Mariners. He was slated to be the left fieler. In all likelihood, he will shift over to center

field. And if Lewis goes on the disabled list, then Jake Fraley is probably going to play left field. So that'll get him some more playing time. And it also might mean some more playing time for Jose Marmalajos in left field. And also Sam Haggarty, whom I like to call Telegram, Sam. He'll be playing in left field a little bit as well. I don't know if you listen to T-Rex or not, but that's where that nickname comes from. It's an old T-Rex song. So yeah, it's going to hurt the Mariners in terms of record, but that's really not important for the Mariners, I think, this year, since it's a development year.

So obviously bad for Kyle Lewis, although it'll mean some more playing time for others in the interim. But on the other hand, you never want to see a teammate go down like that. So having James Paxton back, the big Maple Leaf, the Canadian pitcher, how big is that to have him back after going to New York? do you think that experience will be a benefit for him coming back to Seattle? Are Seattle fans excited to have him back?

Yes, and me personally, I kind of feel like that this is a bit of a coup because he was traded to the Yankees by the Mariners in the trade that netted the Mariners just to Sheffield, and now they're in the same rotation. I couldn't be happier about that aspect of it, quite honestly. In terms of spending a couple seasons in New York, last season was kind of injury-riddled, Throw it away. Almost, you can almost throw a 2020 way for everybody.

The point that I keep going back to is it Christian Yelich at 204. So 2020 stats, you know, whatever. His 2019 season in New York, his walk rate went up. It had been, you know, pretty semi-significantly lower in Seattle. I don't know if there's really anything to be benefited from with Paxton, specifically playing in New York. I think he's very comfortable in Seattle. He was a fan favorite while he was here.

I'm very happy to have him back. Plus, he's a veteran present in a young rotation, and that'll only help the young guys. No, yeah, definitely. Anytime you have veterans to help these young guys, and you guys brought in Ken Giles. Oh, punched myself in the face, Ken from the Houston Astros days. We constantly, there is a running joke. It's like, who do you blame for this loss?

And Ken Giles is always on the poll. You know, Ken Giles actually wasn't that bad when he was in Houston. He got a lot of grief towards the end. He had that brush up that was on national TV with Hinch. Ken Giles and y'all's bullpen, do you expect them to have a decent amount of success this year? Or do you think it will be rocky because of just the lack of overall depth? You know, the bullpen's tough.

I'm really not sure how to answer that question. First of all, Ken Giles is coming off Tommy John surgery, and he will in a likelihood not pitch at all this season. Okay, I wasn't aware of that. Yeah, that's all right. But it kind of seems tough or strange to say about a 30-year-old pitcher that that was a move for the future. They signed him to a multi-year deal, I think a two-year deal.

So he'll be part of the Mariners in 2022 when that window of opportunity that I'm speaking about might open up. The rest of the bullpen, it's kind of a mix of some younger veterans who have struggled, aka Keenan Middleton, and some of the players that have been in the Mariners farm system who haven't had a lot of success at the Major League level yet. I really don't know what to expect of the bullpen. To me, it's a huge question mark.

They could put it all together and be pretty good, or they could be just awful like they were last season. I'm really not sure. Okay, okay. So where do you see, we'll stick at the Mariners for a second. where do you see the Mariners in this division? You know, let's be honest. Most people are picking them and the Rangers to bring up the back end.

Do you think, is there any chance that they could get a spark and make a little run? Because the AOS, it isn't the strongest division. I mean, we'll talk about the Astros later, but is there some hope for them to maybe get into third? What do you think? Is it just as many wins as they can get is the plus? I think the plus is going to be how the individual young players progress and that the record really isn't all that important. So it's kind of like a big giant spring training as far as I'm concerned.

But yeah, there is certainly a chance that they could put it all together a little earlier than, you know, I'm predicting. This is a young team. They're going to be streaky. I'm pretty sure. Yeah, they have a chance to have a win total in the mid or high 80s, but I've also got a chance to lose 40 pounds this year, and that's not going to happen either.

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But would it be Larry Durker? Yeah, it would. In 1969, Larry Durker, first 20-game winner for the Houston Astros at that time. It was his first All-Star season. He was later an Astros manager who led the team through a very successful period in the mid-to-late 90s, which I actually want to talk about at C-block a little bit. Coming up, I mentioned the names of some great Astros of the past to make it sound like I know what I'm talking about, like Ray Montgomery.

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Absolutely. You mentioned the final four. As we are recording this, Gonzaga just beat you. The only reason I know that honestly is because my roommate was watching the game. I feel like I'm the only person in Spokane who doesn't care about Gonzaga basketball. Really? I just never got into basketball. I'm a baseball guy, a bowling guy, and a curling guy.

Nice. Men's world curling championships begin on Friday. And I could not be more excited about that, but we're not here to talk about that. We're here to talk about some baseball. We've discussed the Mariners in A-Block. And right now I'm going to ask some questions about the Astros. I just have more general-type questions. I kind of want to know what your outfield situation is going to be like as George Springer is now a Toronto Argonaut.

What's, how? Yes. He's a blue jade, ladies and gentlemen. That's great. I was like, wait, he went to the CHL. I mean, CFL. I have an odd sense of humor. Yeah, it's all good.

So our outfielder situation, we have Michael Brantley and left. We have Kyle Tucker and right. And we have Miles Straw, who was just cleared. If you're listening, Wednesday, he was cleared on the. Tuesday. He will be in the opening day lineup. He was in COVID protocol. He checked out fine. He's over the moon excited about being there. This is his first opening day roster to make as a starter, and they awarded Chas McCormick. And let me tell you, Dusty Baker called Chas McCormick in his office, and was playing some music from a Philadelphia band. And Dusty Baker sitting back,

and he said, he was kind of jamming. He's like, hey, what's going on? He said, he goes, this is good music, isn't it? He's like, yeah, this is a great. music. He goes, you know where this band's from? He goes, no, he goes, they're from Philadelphia. That's where you're from, right? And he said, yes, sir. He goes, well, this band's from Philadelphia, and they know how to jam, and it's exciting, just like letting you know that you're

going to make an open day roster, you're going to be on this team. And so, Dusty Baker has just really fit in hand in glove. He has just, I mean, the players have really taken him in. And so our outfield situation is great. Now, Alvarez is listed as an outfielder, but we all know. With this double

me surgery that we don't mind if he's Big Poppy Jr. at only being DH right now. I mean, he may start a couple games or play a couple of in the field, but I think very few. All right. On the pitching side, Justin Verlander only pitched the one game last season before getting hurt. Is he going to be ready to go to start this season? I honestly don't know what your rotation is going to look like, so if you would update me on that, I'd appreciate it. Definitely. Yeah, so Justin Verlander had Tommy John's surgery. So he was, like, I thought Ken Giles was there. Justin Verlander had that done. He started kind of throwing. My bold prediction is that he makes it back by the end of the season and pitches the

Astros into the World Series. That was my bold prediction. But we have Zach Grinky. He is doing great. He will be the opening day starter. I believe, followed by Lance McCuller's Jr. Now, I haven't seen the official, like, five-man rotation. But after that, you have, probably Jose Orkitti. I would thank Christian Javier. And then starting the first game of the whole opener is going to be Jake Oterizzy. Oh, that's right, yes.

Yeah. Now, Framber Valdez would have been that number two starter, but he's dealing with that broken finger. And again, Dusty Baker's making more Wolverine and mutant analogies. He said Framber Valdez is healing like the predator. Now he's saying he's healing like Wolverine. and they said, Brent Strong, the Astros pitching coach, said they are really excited about the results.

So I think Framber Valdez won't be out for long. Okay. But that means that one of those guys is going to have to slide into a long reliever role. Yeah. Any guess on who that might be or just wait and see? Right now, so if they bring Frimper Valdez back, I would think that the odd man out might be Christian Javier. I don't see how you can sit Jose or Kitty

unless Jago de Rizzi just isn't performing, but Jaco de Rizzi looked really good his last spring training start. He's the only guy that I think would stand a chance to be pushed into the bullpen because the Astros are Andre Scrub's starting, I believe, on the I L right now, and so he's having some shoulder inflammation issues.

He's one of their top relievers that I'd look at, and then Pedro Baez probably more be in for I think a month because of because he actually got COVID and so that set them back they had about seven or eight guys that were in COVID protocol during spring training so that was worrisome there but the starting rotation I think is set but you have some other guys that are in the bullpen that could come in and make spot starts like a brandon B-lack um like you know just different guys that they have available okay any final thoughts before we move on well here's the thing I don't think anybody in the American League wins 100 games.

I think that bodes well for the Astros. I think the Astros are by far in the weakest division in the AAL, and I think they win the AOS with 91 to 93 wins. Okay. They could surprise and win 96, 97, but I think they get to 91 wins. That's my prediction. Beating out Oakland, who will get 89 wins, they won't get quite to 90. But they recently bolstered that bullpen, so that makes me,

No, I mean, the Angels recently bolster the bullpen, so I think that's going to even things out more. There's going to be a fight for second. You may only have one team come out of the West going to the playoffs. I don't know if a second team makes it to the wild card. So winning the division is all that important. Yeah, I kind of agree with you. Well, there are two teams that might make it now that I actually think about it for more than a half a second.

But it's got to be between Houston and Oakland. Anaheim. I still call them the California Angels. Los Angeles, I think last year was, I'm surprised that they were as bad as they were. I think they're going to be better this year. And Texas, and the Mariners also kind of fall into that category. I think in Texas, we call them the J.B. Squad. But, you know, when we came into the A.L., they were kicking butt and taking names and going to work series.

So, you know, the tables have turned a little bit. Everything is cyclical. The cycle that the Mariners are just happens to be a little bit longer than average. but I think for the sake of not giving you an answer in A block, I think the Mariners finish fourth in the American League West. At this point in the program, I offered invitation to Mariners fans to send in a question or a comment if they so desire, and I extend the same invitation to Lockdown Astros listeners.

If anybody out there has a question or a comment, please send it into Lockedon Mariners at gmail.com, and I will address it on the air in a future mailbag episode. Questions and comments on any subject at on. all are encouraged. Just please keep them appropriate. It is a family show. We did a mailbag episode yesterday,

and somebody actually asked me why I call Sam Haggurty telegram Sam. Does Lockedon Astros have a mailbag segment? Yeah, we plan on having one probably the second weekend of the season. And so I would just say right now go to Lockedon Astros at gmail. I believe it's LO Astros at Gmail. Email us there. Or you can even DM. us at H-Town Wheelhouse or at Locked on Astros or Eric Talkstros, who's our main host.

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Welcome back to this Locked on Astros, Locked on Mariners crossover episode. And now here are your hosts once again, Brett Chansy and D.C. Lundberg. Thank you once again, J.M. The Locked on MLB Division preview series concludes today on Locked on MLB. Every episode from now until the 31st, that's today, features in-depth looks at each team in every division. It's all on the Lockdown MLB podcast feed right at this exact moment. Follow Lockdown MLB on the Audacity app or wherever you get podcasts. That is spelled A-U-D-A-C-Y.

The first time I read it, I thought it was Audacity, the music editing program, but it's not. It is Odyssey, kind of audio and Odyssey combined. Isn't that clever? Anyways, that's not nice. I'm sorry. Final segment, good chance to have some fun. There is something I want to ask you that has nothing to do with the current goings on in baseball. When I first got into baseball in the mid-90s, that's when the Astros were really becoming a pretty good team.

Yet they didn't break through to the World Series at least until 2004, I want to say. Yeah, that was the White Sox Astros World Series. Do you have a lot of memories from those mid-90s Astros teams that you want to show? because I'd love to hear them if you do. Yeah, you know, from the 90s, I remember a lot of Beggio, Bagwell, Camannetti, just those. I mean, I remember we had a guy named Sean Barry, and Sean Barry hit a home run. Well, it was ruled a ground rule double. He hit a shot in the Astrodome that hit the speaker that hangs over center field,

and the ball was still going up. The ball, it was projected, would have hit. the top of the dome where the roof meets the back wall. It was one of the most, like, deptifying shots that I've ever seen. I remember I was at the last game in the Astrodome when they beat the Dodgers and they clinched another division because they were in the National League.

I kind of miss us being in the National League, to be quite honest, you know, until Bud Ceeley extorted us and forced us into the AL because he did, because his daughter's like, Daddy, I don't want to go to the NL. She's like, it's okay, baby. We'll make Houston go. That's my take. I'm going to say that that's an accurate account just for the sake of making foot of

a bud's ceiling. How's that? Exactly. But, you know, my thing is we had guys like Jose Lima. Okay, Jose Lima was amazing. I remember, we saw him at the end of the game. We saw him driving off. We chased his vehicle down.

He gets out and he's like, and I'm not going to try to do my Jose Lima impression, but he's like guys guys what are you doing we're like we watch your autograph he's like you're crazy you're going to get run over he's like I'm going to squash your head he's like what do you what do you have for me to sound like a baseball he's like okay he's like do not run in the road because you're kids and it is bad and I know a baseball player but I'm not that important and and then we're like we're like Lima time and he's like leave the time and it was so cool because you could like stand there while the Astros were coming out of the Astrodome but just just games in the Astrodome was something else.

You know, I remember Tony Gwen being in the outfield and making a ring around him with sunflower seats when he was spent sunflower seeds. And I just remember those games. It was just absolutely phenomenal. And just every time I draw by the Astrodome and just know the shape it's in, it just really kind of breaks your heart because it was definitely your home away from home. Yeah. You mentioned Sean Barry, which is a name that I have not yet brought up on Locked On

matters. I talk a lot about baseball history, particularly during the offseason. Sean Barry was a very underrated third baseman back then. He had, I think, a little bit more pop than people realize. He did. He could, when he got a hold of the ball, you know, I don't know if it's a good comparison, but when you watch Martine Maldonato hit, when he gets a hold of a baseball, he puts his body, I mean, when he gets that body shifted, when he gets that, when he gets those, those hips twisted, when he's doing everything, right, oh my God, he can make a ball fly. And, you know, Sean Barry just would just lay into a ball.

And when he got a charge, and he didn't hit a ton of home runs, but when he hit it hard, it went far. Yeah. And you also mentioned Jose Lima. The pictures that I remember for the Astros, Darryl Kyle was there for a long time through a no hitter in 94, I believe, and Shane Reynolds, who is wildly underappreciated. Very underappreciated.

But, you know, I think a lot of people in Houston, if they're diehards, if they're not 17ers as some people get called, which is kind of an insult in Houston. But Shane Reynolds was one of those guys that before Roy Oswald, there was Shane Reynolds. Yeah. You know, I feel like he was a mainstay. And he actually, it's funny.

I see him quite often. If you're at Bass Pro Shop ever, Shane Reynolds is probably there. Oh, cool. You know, I don't think he has enough hunting or fishing gear. You know, he probably buys new stuff every week, it seems like. But he's a super nice guy, real good. down-home guy.

Oh, good. You know, we had guys back then, I guess, more towards the late 80s, like the Jim DeShay's type of pitchers. And we just had some really, some really neat people, some really fun players to watch. But, man, Ken Kim and Eddie, let me tell you, what a, what a tragic end to what should have been a Hall of Fame career. The guy had talent beyond compare it. And I'll share this with you.

We had a guy on our podcast, Joey Vassell, who did the, he does a secondary lead podcast where he talks about the rise and fall of King Kim and Eddie. And one of the coaches was asked, who's the best third baseman of all time? And he said, well, I used to think it was Brooks Robinson, but it's got to be Kim Kimmetti. And he said they both had something in common. They were both between their hips and their knees. They were bruised after every game because they just let every ball hit them. They didn't always catch a ball, but they stopped it. and their ability to get the ball across the diamond was uncanny.

Caminetti won at least one gold glove. You may have won a few of them, did he not? Yeah, I don't know what the count on gold gloves is off the top of my head. I'm going to look it up. Yeah, because that is something that I should know. I'm sure Astros fans are like, I cannot believe this blast to me. He won three of them. Let's see, that is 1995, 1996, and 1997.

He actually won them all as a portrait. Yes, so, oh well. Yeah. So, you know, I mean, you need to go listen to that secondary lead podcast. It's a seven or eight part series. It's phenomenal. There's a story where he was sick. He had the flu.

They were playing a game in Mexico, and he was hooked up to an IV. And right before the game, he pulled the IV out and he went in the game and hit like two home runs. Yeah, yeah, was he, that was 96 with the Padres. Yes, exactly. Yes. Yes, it was with the Padres. Yeah. But, you know, him in Beech,

and Bagwell, they had a connection, not only as players, but as family friends. And the families were close. And that's what was so cool about those teams, you know, having guys like Larry Durker coached the team. And I remember when he had, when he collapsed in the dugout. Oh, that was, yeah. Yeah. So I actually worked with his daughter for about five years at a large private school in Houston. And I remember he came up one day.

I was like, I can't believe Larry Dorker was here. She's like, that's my dad. I was like, oh, that's really cool. Didn't know that. Awesome. One more quick question, which is sort of on the same thing, because we are running out of time here. Those Astros uniforms from the mid-90s,

when they were the dark, navy blue, and the light gold, before they went to the red and black pinstripes, which I never cared for. Me neither. Thank you. Those ones that I just mentioned from the mid-late 90s, I love that uniform set. I'm sort of a jersey geek, not as much as Jason Hernandez, ladies and gentlemen,

but also the hat with the Navy Crown and metallic gold bill. I loved those things. What are your thoughts? Yes, you know, I like, I really like the 90s uniforms. Those were some of my favorite ones. I actually have a jacket, and of course I'm not going to walk away from the mic, but I have a starter jacket that my mom bought me. It was, she had just recently gone through a divorce,

and so she didn't have a whole lot of money. she went to the Astrodome gift shop and bought me an Astro Starter jacket. I've got like a starter diamond collection jacket that is still, I mean, it's still brand new. What I wear it to school now, kids are like, oh, that's lit or whatever. They say, you're dripping or whatever. And they love the throwback. And I think of all the throwbacks, I think it's a toss up between that 90s jersey

and for me, the rainbow tequila sunrise jerseys. That's the perennial favorite, yes. But I freaking love that. But yeah, I say bring back. I don't know if you go online, look for a guy named D Texans. It's D and T-E-X-A-N. I don't know that it's Z or S, but he did mock-ups. He basically put the current Astros in 90s, in their 90s uniforms, like Bregman and McCullors.

And, dude, it looks freaking awesome. Breggman and McCullors are like, we need to bring these back. So, you know, I like our jerseys now. a plane. I think they're classic and clean, though. I like you. I like the look. No, I do. I just sometimes harken back to those. I really, if I had a choice, I would want to go back to the 90s uniforms. The pinstripes, I was not a, you know why I wasn't a fan of pinstripes? Because the Yankees were pinstripes. We're not the Yankees. We're not trying to be the Yankees. We don't want to be the Yankees. We, all we do is beat them and keep them out of playoffs and in decades

out of it. You know, keep them out of the World Series for a full decade. That's what we do. And for that, we thank you. No. See, here's the thing. I used to really hate the Yankees, but that hate is gone just because it's a lot of homegrown talent from them now. And back when I despise them, it was almost exclusively free agents. That's why I didn't like them, but those days are gone. I like the young players they have now, but we're kind of getting off topic. I can talk to Stacey Gatsulius about that, I think.

But that's going to do it for this edition of Locked on Mariners and Locked on Astros. Tomorrow on Locked on Mariners, ladies and gentlemen, I will be talking about the opening day 26-man roster, and here with me to do that will be Henry Wornamont, Smokey the Bear, and a pizza paddle. And yes, tomorrow is April Fool's Day, but there will be no gimmicks, no silliness whatsoever on tomorrow's show. And if you believe that, I'd like to talk to you about some swamp property

that I'm looking to sell that you might be interested in. Take us home, sir. You know, thank you so much for tuning into Lockdown. We have the MLB Division preview series coming up. It is all this week. We talked about that, but opening days upon us. It is not too late to check out Locked-on MLB division previews if you haven't. It's the best way to get caught up on every team in your division, your league, or cross-baseball.

It's all on the Locked-on MLB podcast right now. Follow Locked-on MLB on the Odyssey app, wherever you get podcast. let's play ball. This is Joey Martin for Locked-on Mariners and Locked-on Astros, both part of the Locked-on podcast network.