Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Should the Mariners Take the Chance on Luis Robert Jr. or Jazz Chisholm (or Both)?

Starting point is 00:00:00 Gregory Santos is finally set to make his Mariners debut. We'll tell you if he can be the difference maker Seattle needs in the bullpen than weigh two of the team's biggest potential trade targets against one another coming up here on the Lockdown Marrars podcast. Colby, edit. You are Locked on Mariners. Your daily Seattle Mariners podcast. Part of the Locked on podcast network, your team every day.

Starting point is 00:00:29 Ahoy, Sailors. It is Tuesday, July 9th, 2024. This is Tanya Gonzalez and Colby Patnaud for the Lockedon the Marriss podcast, part of the locked on podcast network of your team every day. On the show today, we're going to talk about the mayor's bullpen getting a potentially big time reinforcement. We'll also discuss jazz chisholm and Luis Robert, how the cost of acquisition for both of those guys could differ and who we ultimately prefer out of the two.

Starting point is 00:00:54 And we'll also go over some quick thoughts on the team's upcoming series with the Padres, as well as Logan Gilbert being selected to the All-Star game and Andres Munoz getting snubbed. Before we get into that, though, shout out to our title sponsor today. FanDuel, make every moment more this summer. FanDuel is hooking up all customers with a boost or bonus daily. That's right. There's something for everyone every day all summer long. Visit fandwell.com to get started.

Starting point is 00:01:21 And if you want to hear from me and Colby, even more and help support the show. Check out our Patreon. The link is in the description. And you can sign up for free seven day trial. So after several setbacks, Gregory Santos is finally. finally ready to enter the Mariners Bullpen. He has officially been activated off of the injured list. Emerson Hancock was sent down yesterday to make room for Santos on the 26th man roster.

Starting point is 00:01:46 It seems like Brian Wu will be able to make a start before the All-Star break in that Anaheim series. Santos, if you don't remember, all the way back in the early stages of this year was acquired from the Chicago White Sox for Zach Deloach, Pallander Baroa, and the 69th, nice overall pick. in this upcoming draft. Santos was supposed to be a part of a three-headed monster with Matt Braschen, Andres Munoz. We obviously know what's happened with Brash. And of course, Santos hasn't pitched at the big league level with the Marrars as of yet.

Starting point is 00:02:18 But hopefully we'll at least get to see a little bit of what we were dreaming on this off season when they acquired Santos. And the Marys could certainly use it. This Marys bullpen has been in desperate need of some high leverage help. And hopefully Santos, the idea was when they acquired him that he would be able to help with that.

Starting point is 00:02:39 Hopefully he is able to help with that coming off of this injury. So Colby, do you think he will be able to do that? And in general, what do you think the marries are going to be getting in Gregory Santos? He certainly has the potential to do that. He did it for stretches last year for the White Sox. The one thing he doesn't do at a kind of a high leverage rate is he doesn't, induce a lot of strikeouts. Last year was about one per inning,

Starting point is 00:03:09 which isn't bad, but again, typically high leverage guys, you're talking, you know, 11, 12, K per 9, but not always necessarily, but, you know, just in general, when you're in these high leverage spots, you kind of need a strikeout and then a groundout or something like that. Like the strikeout becomes important. So I do think Santos can get more strikeouts.

Starting point is 00:03:30 He certainly has the stuff to do it. The other thing that's a little bit, you know, a little bit of something we need to see is that his walk rate last year was very, very good. And that's not, hasn't been typical now. Last year was kind of his first full go in the big league. So it's a little tough to draw any conclusion other than what he did last year. Yeah, he only had five and two thirds. That means of work before last year.

Starting point is 00:03:53 Right. But, you know, what is his control going to look like? Is he going to walk, guys? Because we know that you can have great stuff like Ryan Stanick. but if you don't have, you know, enough control and command and you're in the middle of the plate, you're going to get touched up and you're going to have games where you surrender like a huge home run and all of a sudden you turn what was probably a win into a loss and it sucks. It sucks, right?

Starting point is 00:04:16 So he has to have better control and command. Stuff-wise, it's very good. It's 98 to 101 with a two-seamer that just gets insane run. It's a bowling ball type of sinker, which helps him get a ton of ground balls. He also has a pretty good slider. I would say most of the time it's the league average slider. When paired with the fastball, it's a very good pitch. But we have seen times where it is a legit 60-grade plus pitch.

Starting point is 00:04:43 Then he has a four-seamer that he'll throw on occasion two, typically up in the zone, and that one is 97 to 100 as well. So it is definitely high upside stuff. Command and control, you know, we'll see. That's kind of the X factor here. but it is a sinker-heavy package rather than a four-seam-heavy, which does kind of limit his strikeout upside a little bit. The sinker is just an easier pitch to put in play,

Starting point is 00:05:09 although it's harder to square up. So, yeah, Santos certainly can be that high upside arm. I still think that they need to go add another one out there at the deadline, but Santos should almost certainly help. And as long as he can keep the walks down to what they were last year, he's going to be a sizable upgrade to the back end of this bullpen. So what can we expect in terms of usage, especially right away, coming off of this lat injury that he is,

Starting point is 00:05:35 and only, you know, a handful of rehab appearances? Yeah, probably no back-to-backs. Probably not going to be going more than three times a week, would be my guess, early on. They are going to bring him along slowly. I'd be pretty surprised if we saw back-to-back outings from him or outings on back-to-back days from him for at least a month or so. You know, you got to remember is that he didn't really have a spring training. He reported and he was behind and, you know, every time they kind of ramped him up, they ramped him back down.

Starting point is 00:06:10 So he didn't really have a full spring training. He's only appeared in, I think, two rehab assignment games, official rehab assignment games. And there was plenty of rest between those two. So I think they're going to be very intentional with this. I don't think that this is a guy who they're just going to. going to be like, well, you know, we'll see if we need you in the eighth today. I think they're going to have like the days he's pitching mapped out, you know, pretty, pretty firmly. And so it'll be a couple weeks before they kind of be like, hey, you know, we have this spot in the order coming up.

Starting point is 00:06:39 Let's go to Santos here. You know, they're going to be very careful. They're going to be very patient and they will map out his workload here for at least a couple of weeks as they kind of try and build him up. if he pitches today, he's not pitching tomorrow, just, you know, make that mental adjustment. There are going to be no back-to-backs for a while. They're probably not going to ask him to finish an inning and then start the next one. They're probably going to, you know, once you leave the field, you're done for the day, and you're done for the next day too.

Starting point is 00:07:12 So, yeah, they're also probably not going to ask him to throw more than 20 pitches in an outing. So if he's struggling or whatever, then they're going to get him out of there as soon as they can. So they're going to be very careful with him. They want him in August and September and October. So, yeah, just don't anticipate that he's going to be available every single day. And if there seems like there's an obvious spot to use him and they're not going to him, it's probably because he's just not flat out. He's just not available.

Starting point is 00:07:38 Right. So last year, 66 and a third innings pitched 895, case per 9, 231, walks per nine. That's 66 strikeouts to 17 walks. 339 ERA 265 FIP 331 X-FIP 1.6 F4 only two home runs given up over those 66 and a third innings pitch 52 and a half percent ground ball rate as well with a 70.3 percent left on base rate so let's real quick before we we move on here let's talk a little bit about Logan Evans because we haven't talked about that since the news came out about him being converted back to a starter.

Starting point is 00:08:19 We talked about it a little bit on the Patreon yesterday, but just want to get your thoughts on that because he was also someone that we kind of expected would get called up around the same time that Santos would get activated as, you know, even more help for this bullpen. But that has not worked out as intended. So just, yeah, tell us a little bit about what you think about

Starting point is 00:08:41 how that all transpired. Yeah, I think ultimately the Mariners took a shot. to see if they can get a guy with, you know, pretty good stuff to see if maybe they shorten about, put him in a one- inning roll, if they could get, you know, great stuff out of him. And you can kind of be a pseudo high, or a pseudo-like high leverage type of arm. But I think, you know, they looked at it for a month. The stuff didn't really tick up enough, mainly the breaking ball. Didn't really tick up enough.

Starting point is 00:09:11 They kind of probably looked at it and said, you know, this guy, could he help our Major League bullpen right now? probably, but in what role could he help them? Middle relief? And if you're the Mariners, you're looking at it, you're like, well, we have Austin both who's pitching really well. We have Trent Thornton who's pitching really well. We have Saucato who's pitching pretty well. You know, we're going to push Stanick down a rung here pretty soon when Santos comes back.

Starting point is 00:09:35 So we actually have the middle of the bullpen pretty well, you know, figured out. And this guy, do we need another middle reliever? No, not really. So let's just put them back in the rotation. we also now have yet another issue with Brian Wu that we need to contend with as well. So just have more options available to us just in case something else bad happens. And also, you know, the hidden bonus of moving Evans to the bullpen, you know, even though it didn't work, you have now kind of effectively managed his workload enough that he should be able to pitch through the end of the year

Starting point is 00:10:11 because they were going to have to shut him down or they were going to have to skip starts. and now for the last month or so he's thrown like 10 innings, 11 innings, that's going to be more than enough to kind of keep him going throughout the year. So if you do need him in September, if you do need him in October, he should be available to you and he should be stretched out and all that stuff. So yeah, I just, I think they looked at it and they said, you know, is it worth, would we rather have a high leverage arm or sorry, a mid-leverage bullpen arm or like a number six starter in case we need Hancock

Starting point is 00:10:42 and somebody else at some point this year? they probably chose the right the right option it's just the mid leverage guy is something they can replace and i mean Colin Snyder's doing it right now so uh yeah i i just think that was i don't think that this means that they're trying to trade brian woo or anything like that i just think it means that looked at it didn't quite tick up the way we want didn't really lose anything so let's just move it back into the rotation yeah now evans is also probably a guy that's getting uh quite a bit of interest in these trade talks at the marries are of course having right now as they gear up for the trade deadline we're going to talk about the

Starting point is 00:11:17 deadline a little bit more here specifically about jazz chisholm as well as louise robert and just a moment but first a reminder this episode of the locked on airs podcast is brought to you by fan duel i know i'm saying the obvious here but i love sports i love them so much i never want them to stop but as the playoffs wind down unfortunately we get fewer games and the sports aren't sportsing like i want them to. But FanDuel lets me keep the sports going whenever I want. All I have to do is open the app and dream up bets anytime I'm in the mood. And this summer, FanDuel is hooking up all customers with a boost or a bonus daily. That's right. There's something for everyone every day all summer long. So head on over to FanDuel.com slash Lockdown. That's LOC, KD, ON, and start making

Starting point is 00:12:05 the most out of your summer. FanDuel, official sports betting partner of Major League Baseball. And you're listening to the Locked-on Marrars podcast. The Marrers are kicking off a quick two-game series with Padres tonight. You can catch all the action on the Marriss hometown broadcast, series XM via the SXM app. All you have to do to find that is search the word Marrars. So we mentioned this briefly on yesterday's episode. Craig Mish,

Starting point is 00:12:31 who is essentially the Ryan Divish of the Marlins world, had reported that the Mariners are a team to watch when it comes to Jazz Chis. He also threw out the pirates and the royals. Now Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports and Fowl territory has kind of added some fuel to that fire, saying that jazz chisholm is going to get traded. I don't think there's much question about that, end quote. So it seems like the Marlins are going to be dealing jazz at some point.

Starting point is 00:13:03 And with the way that Craig Mish kind of worded his report, it seems like the mergers might be the most aggressive in that regard. It seems like with some of the wording it, the Marlins seem like they're, they're hearing what they want to hear in these trade discussions. And they feel pretty good about getting a deal that they want to move on from Chisholm. So let's just talk about that first and foremost here before we kind of get into the Luis Robert stuff and all that that I want to talk about. Jazz Chisholm just in a vacuum, what do you think of the player?

Starting point is 00:13:35 What do you think of the fit with regards to the mirrors? A solid player. I don't think he's a great player. He's a left-handed hitter. He's obviously right-handed throw. Good athlete. Certainly has some pop. So two and a half years of club control. So you'd get him theoretically for three-pennant races. He's R. Beligible. He was R. Beligible last winter. So he'll be R.P two this year. So, you know, probably going to make five, six million bucks next year. And then probably, I don't know, 10-ish the following year. So, you know, for three pennant races, you get them for, I don't know, $16 million, give or take. Not too shabby on the price tag there. He's playing a lot of, he's playing exclusively center field the last two years, but he's also a natural shortstop who broke into the big leagues as a second baseman. He's a good athlete.

Starting point is 00:14:31 He can handle both spots pretty well. So if you're a Mariners fan, you know, and you're looking for second base help, Jazz Chisholm could be the guy. even though he hasn't played second base in a while. It is his position that he came up playing. So he has a lot of experience there. And he's pretty good. He's pretty good out there.

Starting point is 00:14:47 He's pretty good in center field too. He's at least average in center. Graded out as above average last year. He's been slightly below average this year. So you figure he's about average out there. He can also handle a corner. So get some versatility. You get a left-handed bat with some pop.

Starting point is 00:15:03 You get some speed, something that, you know, this lineup could use some more of. you get a guy who certainly brings like an aura to the club and he certainly has a personality so there could be some juice and like injected into the clubhouse there so there's some positives here

Starting point is 00:15:24 sure the negatives is that he's only had over 500 played appearances once in his entire career he's never played more than 125 games I think is his career high yeah yeah so you know know he's never been a three-win player, although he was on pace to do that. In one of his injury short season, he was on pace to be like a four and a half five-win player that year. Yeah, 2020.

Starting point is 00:15:47 He was worth 2.6 out four and just 60 games played that year. Right. So about a third of the season, he's on pace to be, you know, six-win players. So he certainly has that upside. One of the other downsides. So, again, obviously, not a guarantee to stay healthy. His slugging is way down this year. So that's a little something to be concerned about.

Starting point is 00:16:05 So is everyone's, to be fair. Right. He has struck out. He does, he has had strikeout issues in the past. This year, it's a little bit better. It's, you know, from a Mariners perspective, it's great from the rest of baseball perspective. It's below average still. And before this year, he was a pure platoon guy. He just couldn't hit lefties. This year, he's actually hitting lefties better than he has righties. So he's been above average against both handedness pitchers, though. So, you know, you kind of look at it. Chisholm overall, pretty solid player. Is he like an all-star level caliber player? He might make an all-star team or two, but I don't think that's his ceiling. I think he's just an above-average three-win player who can help you on defense.

Starting point is 00:16:51 He can help you on the base. He can help you in the batters box. You can hit a home run. He can steal a base. Like there's just a lot of like tools here. And again, another bonus is that he's 26 years old. Yeah. He doesn't turn 27 until February.

Starting point is 00:17:05 So you're getting a guy who, in his athletic prime, who's starting to figure out how to hit lefties, who can play second base and the outfield for you, is going to bring some speed and some energy and some power to your lineup. So, yeah, there's a lot to like here. It's a good player, but it's obviously not a great player. There are some pretty serious warts on jazz chisholm. So you slashed in 255, 326, 407 this year.

Starting point is 00:17:33 That's a 105 WRC plus, 1.4F4F4. He's lowered his K rate quite substantially. He's running his lowest K rate of his career right now. Also running his highest walk rate of his career just by 0.1% though over his previous career high in 2022. He's already played 87 games, 10 homers, 40 ribs, 17 steals. The Marlins are probably going to try and sell him as a star. Because he's kind of just, he's always kind of had that billing with him. but it's never really been earned by his play outside of 2022.

Starting point is 00:18:11 And again, that was 60 games. So I hesitate in terms of what it could cost. So that kind of brings me to what I wanted to ultimately talk about here. Luis Robert, Jazz Chisholm, those are two guys that I think the mayors are doing a lot of homework on right now. We've heard reports that the White Sox have been scouting,

Starting point is 00:18:33 Mariner's prospects. Now there's the thing from, Mitch about the mayor's being a team to watch in regards to jazz chisham. Just trying to put two and two together here. It seems like they're doing a lot of groundwork on this on both of these guys. It does seem like it's one or the other. Even though that I don't think that those guys should even cost really in the same universe when you stack them both up together.

Starting point is 00:19:00 Even though that both of them pretty similar in terms of like there's a lot of questions specifically about their health. But, you know, at least Luis Robert. He's played 140 plus games in a season before. Jazz Chisholm can't say that. And Roberts' high has been much higher than Chisholm's high in his career. There's also another year of club control with Luis Robert and it's cost controlled. He's making 12 and a half this year.

Starting point is 00:19:31 That's obviously going to be prorated by the deadline. then 15 next year, then a pair of $20 million club options in 2026. In 2027, meanwhile, with Chisholm, like you mentioned, he's Rube eligible. It's probably going to be like $5 or $6 million next year. And then who knows, in 2026. So again, though, because of kind of like the star power, if you will, that Chisholm for one reason or the other carries, feel like the costs are going to be relatively similar.

Starting point is 00:20:07 It's going to be a heftier package overall in terms of just quantity for Robert, I would think. But Chisholm is probably going to still cost you like a Harry Ford or someone like that, which is also, you know, someone that could possibly be involved in the, in the Robert trade as well. So if you had to go one or the other and try and just guess what the cost could be here, Who would you like to see the mares go after? I'd rather than take a shot on Robert. Higher upside, more impact at the bat, better defender out in the outfield, the extra year club control.

Starting point is 00:20:47 I think all that really does add up. Like I said, it's a big risk, you know? And you ask me who's less of a risk? I'd probably say jazz just because, well, he's going to cost less. So it's probably less risky than Robert. But I think, how much less, though, do we think? I think I think Robert or I think jazz is going to cost you like a Harry Ford as the headliner. Whereas I think for Robert, Harry Ford is a co-headliner at best.

Starting point is 00:21:23 So that's pretty significant. I mean, like for Robert, you probably have to do something like, young and Ford, whereas for jazz, it's probably one or the other to headline that deal. So, yeah, you know, if I'm only able to get one of these guys and have to pick which one I'm going to go after, I'm going to go after Robert because I think that he can bring me something that nobody else on this market can do. Whereas in terms of Chisholm, while he's a good player, I feel like I can get something close to that level of production without. having to give up, you know, a top prospect for it.

Starting point is 00:22:04 Because like, what is Chisholm at the end of the day? Really right now? Outfielder who's slightly above league average offensively. Like when you really break it down, that's what he is. Because also, could I go out and get like Luis Robert and Jonathan India? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:22:22 Or Nico Horner. It's like Robert and India or jazz and like, you know, jazz and. I don't know. It was a little bit better of a second basement, but you don't want it like, jazz and Horner or, or, you know,

Starting point is 00:22:38 Robert or in India. Like, you know, I think you could certainly make an argument for either side, but I'd rather take the upside shot of Robert and, and, you know, just count on India to basically be,

Starting point is 00:22:50 uh, what I was hoping Chisholm would be. And I mean, again, that's assuming that India is even available, which we don't know. Right. The reds might be adding.

Starting point is 00:22:58 We'll see. Um, but yeah, you know, obviously it's such a hard market to figure out here. But, you know, obviously a lot of hesitation here with both of these guys because it's just, it's going to cost so much. This is a franchise altering decision specifically when it comes to Luis Robert.

Starting point is 00:23:17 And again, it's someone that's played over 100 games once in his entire career out of five possible seasons. And this year, you know, he hasn't been particularly that great. you know 308 games played he's been hurt already missed time yeah he's been hurt and since he's come back with 33.3.3% K rate he's striking out a third of the time right now 10.1% walk rate which is nice that's significantly higher than his his career norms but he slashed in 224 302 4090 117 WRC plus 0.9 f4 lastly here I just I have to ask do you think think it's possible they could get both. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:24:05 So that would be like Harry Ford and what do you think the secondary piece for jazz would be? For jazz? Maybe like a Tai Pete. Okay. Maybe, I mean, it kind of depends on what Miami wants, but it could be a Logan Evans. It could be a, you know, how long do they want to wait type of situation here? So, yeah, I think type Pete or if they want somebody a little bit closer, Ben Williamson, like, I think you're probably looking at like Ford and like a top 10 to 15 guy is the second piece. Right.

Starting point is 00:24:44 So it would be forward and let's say just on the high end Pete and then Montas and Young. Young, Montez, Locklear. Yeah. For Robert. Brandon Garcia, something like that. Yeah. It's a lot. That's a lot. But you would add two guys who are club controlled for for multiple years. Right. You get five full years combined of those two guys. Who both have very high upsides. Robert more so than jazz.

Starting point is 00:25:17 They're mid-20s. Yeah. So I mean, maybe. Might be worth it. Yeah. All right. So let's switch gears here. Let's talk a little bit about Logan Gilbert getting selected to the All-Star game on Andreas Munoz getting snubbed and then give you our quick thoughts on the Padre series. Coming up here in just a moment, the first reminder of this episode of the Lockdown Amaris podcast

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Starting point is 00:28:06 So let's talk about Logan Gilbert, who's starting tonight. Get into that a little later on. But first, he has been selected to the All-Star game. His first All-Star selection and will be the Mariners lone All-Star representative. For now, we'll see. He is not going to pitch in that game, though, because he is currently slated to start the last game of essentially the first half of the season for the Marers in Anaheim on Sunday before the All-Star break.

Starting point is 00:28:36 So it's possible that his teammate, Andreas Munoz, who for whatever reason was snubbed, in the first place, could replace him on the roster or someone else. We'll see, because there are certainly going to be more than just one opportunity for him to replace someone on the roster. So firstly, Logan Gilbert, the Mariners' lone All-Star representative, well-deserved, right? yeah absolutely um you know he's been particularly good the last month or so so uh right when he needed to kind of you know stake his candidacy or whatever uh he really stepped up his game so yeah if they only

Starting point is 00:29:20 got one probably deserves to be logan i think they should have had more than one but i mean like only two uh so uh but if i had to pick one i would probably say Logan has been uh the most to be on the squad. So, you know, kudos to him and congrats to him and his family. You know, I'm sure he's a little bum that he's not going to be able to pitch in that in that game,

Starting point is 00:29:44 but he'll still be there. He'll still hang out and he'll still be part of the festivities. So, you know, probably not the last time. Logan Gilbert heads to an all-star game. But that is his first time. So congratulations to Logan.

Starting point is 00:29:57 And then Munoz doesn't make it in, partly because Clay Holmes made the roster, which I don't understand. Clay Holmes, of course, gave up that, what, four-run lead in New York to the, to the Marrers. I think we all remember him for that. But also, he's been, he's been pretty good this year.

Starting point is 00:30:17 He just hasn't been as good as Andres Munoz. Like the numbers for Munoz are significantly better, pretty much across the board than, then Holmes. And also then you factor in how important Munoz has just been to the mergers in general this year, especially with, with the context. of what we talked about earlier on in the show

Starting point is 00:30:34 with Santos not being able to pitch so far and Brash obviously missing the entire year. And all the times that, you know, Munoz has been asked to complete, you know, four out, five out saves for this team. He's been huge. He's been one of the most valuable relievers

Starting point is 00:30:50 in all of baseball. It's an absolute crime, an absolute shame that he is not even on the initial roster. Like, even if he makes it as a replacement, like it's still, like, I feel some type of way about that. like he should have made the initial roster in general but hopefully he's able to make it uh still as a replacement he absolutely deserves it he's been fantastic this year so um all right so let's get into the game tonight Padres Mariners Padres have actually been pretty solid this year but they're you

Starting point is 00:31:20 know one of those teams are so kind of just hovering around the wild card like the rest of most of the national league they're 49 and 45 this year and this comes after you know trading Juan Soto Um, they acquired Dylan Cs, of course. We're not going to see him. We're going to see Adam Mazer tonight who, uh, I know you believe the, the mayor should jump all over, but as we know, uh, with this offense, it doesn't matter who they face on the bump. And like I said in my prize picks ad read, if they breathe and they're pitching against

Starting point is 00:31:54 the mayors, take more on their strikeout total. Uh, I think that's a pretty safe way to go in that regard. but yeah it's Logan Gilbert against Adam Mazur I mean on paper that's a game that you absolutely should win but who knows as the Marys go for their 50th win of the season so what do you think I mean there may not be a more mismatch pitching match up you're going to see for the rest of the year and I still have very little confidence that the Mariners are going to win this game so tells you everything you need to know about where the offense is right now yeah so you know we'll see.

Starting point is 00:32:30 Maser doesn't get swings and misses. He doesn't get strikeouts. He walks a lot of guys. His first six starts have been really bad at the big league level. So in his first one, he was actually pretty good. So think about how bad he must have been in the rest of them for those numbers to look like that. So in theory, this is the perfect guy to face when you're trying to, you know, get your groove back at the plate. But does it really matter with this offense?

Starting point is 00:32:56 I guess we're going to find out. but yeah, it's certainly going to be, it's certainly more likely they figure something out tonight than it is tomorrow when they have to face Michael King. So hopefully they do win tonight so they could secure at least a series split. These little two-game series are tough. But, you know, I feel like this is a game that they absolutely should win, but it's just really hard to, like, I wouldn't put any money on it.

Starting point is 00:33:26 I'll say that. Yeah. we know the deal. We've watched this offense, especially over the last three weeks. It's been horrific. And we all saw what happened on those final four innings of that Blue Jays game on Sunday. So hopefully not too much

Starting point is 00:33:40 longer that we have to watch this offense as currently constructed. So see. All right. That is going to do it for us before we get out of here. A reminder that locked on has launched the first ever national sports 24-7 streaming channel on YouTube. And now it's also available on Amazon Fire TV

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