PHNX Arizona Diamondbacks Podcast - Aaron Judge and Paul Goldschmidt dominate MLB Award SZN as they close in on the MVP crown

Starting point is 00:00:08 Hello and welcome to another edition of the PHNX Debaks podcast right here on PHNX. Of course, I am your mayor of PHNX, occasionally known as Derek Montia, and I'm joined by my vice mayor, the Thunderstick, Jesse Friedman. Derek hot stove season. It's here. It's here. Sort of. Sort of, I guess.

Starting point is 00:00:29 Also, award season rolls on, Jesse, as we get closer and closer to those big award announcements, but we have some to announce that came. out yesterday and honestly could be a preview of who wins the MVP in both the American League and National League. Before we proceed, of course, we got to let you know. This show is brought to you by the fine folks at the Draft King Sportsbook app. America's top-rated sportsbook app. Jesse, the Hank Aaron Award was given out in the National League to old friend Paul Goldschmidt and then the American League to Aaron Judge, of course, because I mean, I'm surprised

Starting point is 00:01:07 somebody named Hank didn't win it. Like they got an Aaron winning it. You got a Hank winning it. That's how the award should be distributed, right, based on who is the best player with those names, right? That's way better than picking the actual criteria. But of course, it just is a way for me to mask my pain of seeing Paul Goldschmidt achieve more greatness somewhere else.

Starting point is 00:01:29 Yeah, no big surprises on this one. Aaron Judge, again, we talked about it the other day. you are very pro Shohei Otani in the MVP race as opposed to Aaron Judge, which I understand. Don't get me wrong. I don't think Shohei Otani is going

Starting point is 00:01:49 to win it. I just think he is clearly the most valuable player. That's my opinion. But again, like with our grading yesterday of Zach Gallen, you seemed to grade Zach Gallen on different criteria than I graded Zach Gallen on.

Starting point is 00:02:05 And in this case, I'm sure people that select the MVP and the Hank Aaron Award are looking at other criteria, including, as we mentioned before, winning, having your team be a success and being a part of a big part of that success for your team. Right. Well, I graded Zach Gallen on, you know, relative to his talent level. That's where I came up with my A-minus. I think there's a little bit more there.

Starting point is 00:02:33 You graded Zach Gallen relative to like the, pitchers who've made it in the Hall of Fame, apparently he's only a B plus in that class. Is that how that worked? You still don't get it. And I'm still amazed by that that you don't get it. I don't. It was grading his 2020 season. That's what we were grading. Right. You don't grade people as a teacher, Jesse. You're grading their work. Right. So I was grading his 2022 school year, essentially. There's no way you can give Zach Gallen, in my opinion, an A plus for last season.

Starting point is 00:03:09 Even an A seems too high to me, but this is a whole other discussion for when we give out more report cards. Maybe when I give Merrill Kelly that D, you rain. We can cover it then, but no, American League MVP, like you said, is

Starting point is 00:03:26 you know, of course, show Hey O'Hawani is an incredible player, but Aaron Judge is by far in a way the favorite to win it and the Hank Aaron Award has been somewhat of a preview of who is going to win the MVP. Going back historically, it's not a certainty. But if you just take a look at the last five years prior to 2022, seven out of the last

Starting point is 00:03:51 10 Hank Award winners in the American League and the National League in the past five years, like I said, went on to be the league MVP. So it does tend to be a bit of a preview, even though it doesn't always completely coincide with who the Hank Aaron Award winners are. Yeah, it looks like 2021 and 2020 in the National League. They were consistent. It was Freddie Freeman in 2020. And then Bryce Harper last year in 2021, both winning the Hank Aaron Award and also winning the MVP award.

Starting point is 00:04:21 In 2019, they were different in the National League. You had Cody Bellinger winning the MVP award versus Christian Yellich getting the Hank Aaron Award. And then it's sort of similar in the American League, where actually just, last year, we saw a difference between those two things. Shohei Otani was the MVP in the American League versus Vladimir Guerrero Jr. getting the Hank Aaron Award in the American League. But if you go back a few years, there's quite a bit of consistency there. So, yeah, it's always been as much as, I mean, Hank Aaron's legacy is legendary.

Starting point is 00:04:57 And there's certainly nothing wrong with him having, you know, this award that's given out every year. I think it's great. But it is a little confusing in a sense because it's like the, it's like 70% of the MVP award, but like not necessarily the entire thing. You may or may not get it. It's just a little bit odd. But in this situation, my gut is that this is a preview of who our MVP award winners will be.

Starting point is 00:05:24 I expect it will be Aaron Judge in the American League and Paul Goldschmidt in the National League. Well, we haven't had a chance to do this yet. I don't believe. I'm sure we've probably had it as a mailbag Monday question or something. of the sort, but if we were giving out a team MVP for the Arizona Diamondbacks, who are you giving that out to? Who's your Arizona Diamondbacks MVP for the, again, Jesse, the criteria here is for the 2020 season and how they performed within the 22

Starting point is 00:05:58 season. I think, I think it's your, I think it's your B plus man, right? I mean, it has to be that gallon. I don't know how you could give it to anyone else, really. I mean, you're right, Zach Gallen is far and away, the best player. But I think that there are a couple of guys who you could maybe toss their name in there. I think, believe it or not, Jake McCarthy would maybe be a finalist for my Arizona Diamondbacks MVP and probably, you know, Cushin over there at first base. that would probably, you know, these guys added a tremendous amount of value to this team and generated a lot of offense, generated a lot of things happening.

Starting point is 00:06:43 So it's, again, there's Zach Gallen probably far and away. And then there's some other guys that could be at least considered for their contributions in 2022. Yeah, I mean, you're right. Like, as much as it feels like Zach Gallen is kind of the obvious choice here, at least if you go by wins above replacement, he actually finishes in second place. And first place is not Christian Walker. It's actually Dalton Varsho.

Starting point is 00:07:14 There's our guy. The Diamondbacks. All the tools. All the tools. He led the Diamondbacks with 4.6 wins above replacement. Zach Allen was at 4.3. Christian Walker was 4.1. And who was more valuable when you really think about what he did,

Starting point is 00:07:30 how many positions he played, how good he was, in all of those positions. Varsho was supposed to be a catcher, and it was probably his weakest position that he played, right? His ability to play the outfield, especially at home at Chase, was second to none. And it's, you know, again, there's, there's Alec Thomas, who was very athletic, but there's something to be said about the way Dalton Varsho played the outfield. And the number of kind of jaw-dropping catches he made and plays that he made out there were incredible. You know, he made routine stuff or he made stuff that was difficult look routine.

Starting point is 00:08:08 And that's the thing that I think all of our young outfielders are very good at. But yeah, there's, it's, it's also the fact that like, yeah, a pitcher should can be an MVP, but, you know, who was doing it on a regular basis to bring, you know, this team up the, what, 22 game improvement that they had from the prior season. So I think there's, you know, again, there's, there's a few names out. there besides that gallon, I think. And obviously, I didn't even mention Varsho, but Varsho, yeah, he'd be another great, great choice. I think, I think McCarthy would have a case if he had played more of the season in the big leagues. It's just, it's only 99 games. So it's hard to,

Starting point is 00:08:52 it's hard to get too far down that road for me. But he was pretty good. I mean, he hit 283, 342, 427. He had 23 stolen bases. And again, just a little bit more than half a season. Like Jake McCarthy could come back next year and steal 40 bases. That wouldn't surprise me. That's just like sort of what he's on pace to do based on his 2022 season. So not this year for him, but if he's able to continue this into next year, we could be talking about Jake McCarthy as at least being one of the best players on the debacks next season. Well, in other news as far as team's best players, Justin Verlander from the Houston Astros,

Starting point is 00:09:32 Did I say it right there, Saul Bookman? I think you, I think you did say it right. And now every single, every single time I see his name in an article or a tweet or anything, I like pronounce his name in my head like seven times over. And every time I do it, I'm like not sure if I can say it right. Like normally I don't have problems with these kind of things, but like Verlander, Verlander has come off the tongue just so easily for so many years that going to Verlander just doesn't it still doesn't feel right to me.

Starting point is 00:10:05 Yeah, well, it is what it is. It is what it is. But Justin Verlander is a free agent now, Jesse. He has elected free agency. Interesting to me, not really interesting. Like, of course, World Series, all that kind of stuff, right? But he's to the point in his career where, you know, I would think that he would just want to kind of not have too many major changes and wrap things up. Houston is going to continue to be a competitive team.

Starting point is 00:10:35 So, I mean, maybe this is a move just to get resigned with Houston for more money. I don't know. But again, it definitely seems unnecessary if you can understand me saying that because, I don't know, just he's been pitching for so long, you know, and I'm amazed that there would be any kind of desire to, like I said, either move or, you know, really need to make more money. But who am I? I'm just a guy that doesn't make, you know, 10 to 20 to 30 million dollars a year.

Starting point is 00:11:11 So, you know, what do I know? Verlander, I mean, Verlander. See, I'm like, every single time. I just like, I get in my own head about it now. It's going to be rough. You got the, I have the pronunciation version of the Yifts. Yeah, after, after Verlander. was as good as he was this season.

Starting point is 00:11:33 I don't think there's any question that this was the choice that he was going to make. I mean, it was a two-year deal with the option for the second year, and it's only $25 million, which, again, it feels crazy to say only in front of a number that's that high. But the man went 18 and 4

Starting point is 00:11:52 with a 175 ERA and a 0.83 whip. Like, he was in another... He's still got a ton to give. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not trying to. to take anything away from him as far as what he still has left to give. I'm just saying, like, in the grand scheme of things, yeah, still trying to maximize your, you know, your dollar

Starting point is 00:12:11 amount at this point of his career is crazy to me. They maximize the amount of money you're making is crazy. But it's savvy. I mean, might as well. You have to know that you're not going to have too many more years left in the tank after this. And this could be potentially his final deal with a baseball team, whether it's depending on how short term it is, right? But again, it's just something to me that's kind of, like you said, it makes sense based on his performance, but it's still kind of mind-blowing to me. It once again shows that nobody is ever really, you know, like super loyal to any franchise, no matter how much they've won there, no matter how much money they're going to make there. Even if the amount of money they make seems absurdly high to the rest of us, you know,

Starting point is 00:12:58 regular citizens of earth. It's again, in his mind, there's the, there's money left on the table for him to possibly get, especially after a year where you had those numbers and you won a championship. So my, my best comp is Max Scherzer, I think. And it's not a perfect comp because Scherzer last year,

Starting point is 00:13:21 um, was 37 years old, whereas Verlander is 40, um, going on 40. So it's not an exact comparison, but last season, Max Scherzer was 15 and 4 where the 246 ERA had an outstanding year for the Nationals and the Dodgers. And then the Mets in the offseason gave him three years and $130 million. That works out to $43 million per year.

Starting point is 00:13:50 So if Verlander just had a season that's arguably better than that, than what Scherzer did a year, ago, if anything. I know he's a few years older, so it's not an exact comparison, but he's probably going to get multiple years and you're probably looking closer to like 40 million a year than 30 million a year. That sounds about right. Yeah, he could probably get two years 80, 85 million, something like that. And it wouldn't be out of the question at all at this point. He's also said he wants to pitch until he's, he's also said he wants to pitch until he's 45. So he's not going to get, he's not going to get a contract that's that long yet. But But who knows?

Starting point is 00:14:29 Maybe this isn't the last one. Please take Mike Hazen's phone away from him. Please do not let the Diamondbacks contact Justin Verlander. Not only do I not want them to spend that money on a guy like that because it's totally their type. Of course it is. But Jesse would just have a miserable year of the Yips and trying to say his name. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:14:51 We can't have him playing for the Diamondbacks because I can't pronounce his name. Saul would always be here correcting you. it would be the worst. Speaking of contracts and new deals, we have agreed to terms with our friends at OGs. Of course, we've been talking about this new agreement, and we still don't have the terms of the deal, but the two sides have agreed on really having a good time,

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Starting point is 00:16:40 with a current plan to have multiple times a week games will only be the ABS system. Then other times during the week, they will have the ABS with the hitter, pitcher challenge system that we saw out at Salt. River Fields during Arizona Fall League play, which is very exciting. One of my new favorite things about baseball, and of course, this means we are one

Starting point is 00:17:04 step closer to robot umpires in Major League Baseball, Jesse. We're getting there. We're getting there. I don't think it's too far away. Once something gets to AAA, I mean, you know it's pretty close at this point. It's interesting that they're doing a combo,

Starting point is 00:17:21 like they're testing out both of these systems. So like the full-on automatic ball strike system versus the system that like you described, we saw in the fall league. My article on Jordan Lawler is out. Quick plug there. It's basically just a Q&A. We talked about a whole variety of different things about the fall league and his season. And one of the things that you can read about in there is his perspective on the challenge system that they had in play in the fall league. and I'll at least give that part away on the show.

Starting point is 00:17:54 He loves it. He absolutely loves the challenge system. And I asked him, do you prefer this over straight up, you know, just having the robot tell the umpire what to call on every single pitch? And he said he does. He likes having the human element. So he likes having an umpire back there, but then having the challenge system, which we got to see a lot. We really enjoyed one of my favorite parts about it. Really?

Starting point is 00:18:19 And this is a testament to the teams and their ability to impact the way that this stuff is accepted and enjoyed by us as fans. But the dugout reactions, as we discussed in the past, was one of my favorite things. The huge pop, the immense celebration that would occur in one of the dugouts when their hitter either won the challenge or the hitter or the hitter loss. it and the essentially the team defensive team in the field, their their outfield and their dugout would would react, you know, accordingly. So it was a lot of fun to see that reaction from the players. And the best part about it, to be honest, was how quickly it occurred. I mean, they had the system that where they tapped on the top of their helmet for the review.

Starting point is 00:19:14 And Jesse and I saw this so many times at Salt River Fields. The review would occur instantly. It would just happen up on the screen, up on the board, and it was kind of exciting because it's kind of like the MLB layout of what you see when you're watching a game through their game day setup where, you know, the ball comes in and it comes from the mound and you get to see its path and you get to see where it landed in the strike zone. If it did land in the strike zone or not.

Starting point is 00:19:45 I also like the fact that if the ball caught even just, a little bit of the strike zone at all, it was a strike. I dug that. And like everything about it seemed to be really well done and put together in a way where it doesn't seem like it's going to delay the game immensely when someone challenges the call, which is one of the most annoying things right now about challenges at an MLB level. Yeah, that's the one concern that I've heard a lot of people voice is that like in this

Starting point is 00:20:17 era where we're trying to limit mound visits, we're trying to limit, you know, how many, how many relievers you can use. There's a minimum of how many hitters they each have to face, right? We have all these provisions now to try to make the game shorter. Why are you going in and establishing a new challenge system that makes the game longer, right? And there's no way around that. It's going to make the game longer. But after watching some of these folly games, it's not like guys are challenging every other call, right? It happens a handful of times in a game, and each time it happens,

Starting point is 00:20:52 it's maybe, you know, 10 or 15 seconds. So you're looking at one to two minutes. It's not that much. In some cases, too, Jesse, I mean, before we had a pitch clock, before there was any kind of timer in baseball, even being discussed or potentially implemented, how often would batters kind of jaw with an umpire

Starting point is 00:21:13 after a bad call and then kind of spend some time swinging the bat extra hard out of the out of the box before they got back in and got ready you know for for the next pitch right so it's like that's really not much different as far as time wise as as these reviews take you to take place the reviews really were thorough and done in a way where it doesn't delay the game like you said a minute or two, that might even be a bit much. That's, that's a, that's a pretty, you know, when you actually, if you're timing it, it's, it's probably less than that because it happens so fast. So, you know, I think it's something that is going to be interesting to see how it develops. I'm still mad that we don't get actual robots. I know that, like you said, Jordan Lawler likes the actual umpire being back

Starting point is 00:22:03 there. I do not. I don't want umpires behind the plate. I want a robot. And as I've told you in the past. I want a real robot, a droid, something that looks like it's from Star Wars. And actually, to talk about that, I have a guest here today who's getting very impatient and wants to discuss it with me. But Jesse, I want you to welcome on the show. It's a droid. It's actually a baseball umpire droid, uh, R342, R342. Welcome to the show. It's good. That will think that's, great, great to have you on. Great to have you on. Now, what are your thoughts on the fact that they might not actually put robots behind the plate for baseball games. I mean, yeah, I'm disappointed as well.

Starting point is 00:22:51 I think it's fucking ridiculous, you know, if I'm being frank, excuse my language. Okay, thanks. But here's the thing is, do you think that you would get calls better and maybe save time without having a human being back there made of flesh and obviously that can be incorrect versus having, you know, this, the system where they can challenge balls and strikes and then have it come up on the screen. Yeah. I'm in favor of that, too, Jesse. Last worst, worst umpire in baseball, one that you're just sick of seeing. Angel, Angel Hernandez. That's a good one. I don't, I don't know. I don't know, Jesse. I mean, I think, I think,

Starting point is 00:23:37 uh, we're, what? See. See. Okay. CB Buckner. Yeah. Okay. And, yeah, Doug Eddings. Okay. Yeah, well, I mean, these are Brian O'Nora. I don't even know who that guy is.

Starting point is 00:23:51 Ron Culpa. Yeah, that's a good one too. Yeah, no. Name it all the bad umpires. Well, I want to thank you, uh, our three for coming in today. And I hope to see you behind the plate very soon, uh, at least at a double a level. Yeah, go sod poodles. I agree.

Starting point is 00:24:07 Uh, Jesse. I, I don't think, I don't think that. there was any more of a case that needed to be made for robots than that. But once the technology is perfected, right, with all the rest of this stuff, uh, we have to at least move on aesthetically to get robots, right? Like even like let's,

Starting point is 00:24:26 fine, let's just say it's all screen related. The robots aren't really, uh, doing anything, right? But like, like they could be like Disneyland, uh, you know, attractions, right? Where we just have one back there just for fun.

Starting point is 00:24:41 Just one robot just to make the calls, maybe to have that, you know, the punchout sign. Yeah, so he agrees. I don't know. Anyway, what do you think, though, will end up happening? Do you think that baseball will adopt just the hitter challenge system? Or do you think one day we will see still a home plate umpire person back there to make calls, just like we'll have it first base and, you know, at every, we'll stop a crew, right? But essentially is it just going to come down to like showing it on the screen and having

Starting point is 00:25:19 the, the ball and strike automatically get called with no human being getting in the way of that? Or what do you think the end result of all of this is going to be? I think that how it works as much as I don't know, we might want to say goodbye to R342 before I say this, because it might hurt his feelings. I don't know. Um, the current, the current arrangement, as far as I know is basically umpires just, I don't know if it's some sort of an earpiece or what it is, but, um, they just have the call relayed to them electronically, but they're still there. They're still making the call. Yeah. The eye test, it looks, it doesn't look any different from a normal game. It's just they have something telling them what to do. So that's boring. That's, yeah, it is. it is our our 342 would be a much more compelling i mean i'm not i'm not i'm not i'm not doubting you at all like we all know that but i think like even the idea of again like what we saw kind of with the with the

Starting point is 00:26:24 the the the pitcher hitter challenge system if we took away the umpire behind home plate making the call and just had that strike zone shot up there. It doesn't make any sense to me to even have a human being doing it when we can when we can have that what we saw in the Arizona Fall League on every pitch and just there you go. There's the strike call. Where did it land? I know there's a human element to it. I get that there's, you know, like a changing of a strike zone based on a hitter's stance and how big they are. There's lots of things. But I feel like they've taken that into account with this system. So if they can perfect it to a point where it's it's that accurate then why why why do we even need a person

Starting point is 00:27:16 having it relayed to them just i think it would even be more exciting to have it have the pitch like happen and then look up on the screen and see if it's a strike or or uh you know a ball but that's just me because i felt like it was exciting the way that they did it with the challenge system. I suspect, and I know I talked to Jordan Lawler about this and just from some of the discourse I've heard across baseball at large, I suspect that the new system that they had in place in the fall league is the one that's going to win out. I think that it's really telling that like based on what Lawler said, of course he wants correct calls, but he also wants like the human element. Like players don't want to.

Starting point is 00:28:02 lose the human element of the game. There's also the fact that like, you know, like catchers would really become a lot of catchers would become substantially less valuable if they put in an entirely automated system because then then framing has no use. And still framing would be less useful in a situation where challenges are in play. But, but yeah, for a number of reasons, I think it's going to be something like this challenge system that ultimately wins out. I just think it's going to be weird. Like, like, just imagine this guy just like standing behind home plate, like just kind of announcing what the robot tells him. Like, it's just such a weird job. There's nothing like that in sports. It's so weird. It is. It is. But of course, robots are better than us. Thanks, Arthur. All right. But we'll see what happens. And like I, that's interesting, though. That's an interesting. perspective and one that I don't typically think about is that the players still want an umpire back there.

Starting point is 00:29:11 They still want, they still want the ability, both from a pitching perspective and catching perspective and as a hitter, to be honest, I'm sure that they want it there because of, of the impact that their stance and other factors can have on how the umpire is calling the strike zone versus an automated system that they don't really know, you know, where, where it's framing them at or how it's coming in at.

Starting point is 00:29:38 But all they know is that a screen is telling them that the ball came across for a strike, you know, so I definitely can understand that, but I still want robots. All right. Well, anyway, if you don't, just calm down, all right. Well, I'm advocating for you, okay? But make sure to check out Jesse's writings over at go phtonx.com. He does have that article up with Jordan Lawler now, and you can check that out. And also make sure to get yourself a membership over at PHNX.

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PHNX Arizona Diamondbacks Podcast - Aaron Judge and Paul Goldschmidt dominate MLB Award SZN as they close in on the MVP crown

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