PHNX Arizona Diamondbacks Podcast - After blowout loss to Mets, what options do the Diamondbacks have for their starting rotation?

Episode Date: September 13, 2023

After two subpar performances from Arizona Diamondbacks starting pitchers Zach Davies and Ryne Nelson, are changes to their rotation needed in order for this team to make the playoffs? We discuss the D-backs splitting the first games with the New York Mets, Jake McCarthy returning to the major league roster, and a big welcome to our new family members from PHLY.An ALLCITY Network ProductionSUBSCRIBE to our YouTube: https://bit.ly/phnx_youtubeALL THINGS PHNX: http://linktr.ee/phnxsports PHNX Events: Get your tickets to D-backs Takeovers, Knockout Nights & Suns Watch Parties at BetMGM, and MORE here: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/phnx-56002330273 WATCH YOUR FAVORITE TEAMS: https://www.fubotv.com/phnx WIN MONEY THROUGH SPLASH SPORTS: https://www.splashsports.com/phnx Head to https://factormeals.com/phnxdbacks50 and use code phnxdbacks50 to get 50% off.Go to https://saturdayneon.com and use code PHNX for 10% off your order today. Free shipping for orders over $200!Gametime: Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code PHNX for $20 off your first purchase.Pins & Aces: Check out https://pinsandaces.com and use code PHNX to receive 15% off your first order and get free shipping.Circle K: Text PHNX to 31310 to join the Circle K SMS subscriber club and get BOGO 32 oz Polar Pops! Head to https://www.circlek.com/store-locator to find Circle Ks near you!OGeez!: Score 25% off a bag of your favorite OGeez! Fruits of Creams. Go to https://theflowershopusa.com, add a bag of OGeez! to your cart, enter promo code “PHNX” and pickup at a local The Flower Shop dispensary.Four Peaks: Follow them on social @fourpeaksbrew & @fourpeakspub! Must be 21+. Enjoy responsibly. When you shop through links in the description, we may earn affiliate commissions. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. 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.

Hello and welcome in to another edition of the PHNX D-BACs podcast right now on PHNX. My name is Derek Montia, occasionally known as the mayor of the All-City Network. I'm just giving myself a promotion. Yeah, I just went there. Did the people of Philly know? I don't know. Well, there is an image of me at a podium in Philadelphia. It looks very mayoral, so I don't know how you could really argue with that.

That's kind of crazy. Is anybody else claimed a mayorship over All-City or Philadelphia? No, I mean, besides the actual mayor of city of Philadelphia. There's no democracy? Sometimes it can be, but if a position is just open, sometimes you just got to take it. Well, that's fine. But if that's how we're going to operate,

then we're going like Roman times. I will. Just watch it back. Wow. Well, I will, because now that we've got the whole network on the line, like, now I'm power. Well, we have a lot to talk about when it comes to that. This man is my betrayer, apparently.

He's also Mr. Electric himself. Sean DeBos. And of course, it's the one and only voice of reason around this joint. It's the one and only Jesse Friedman. My vice mayor, your thunder stick. And boys, the Diamondbacks lost tonight by a score of seven to four. The score feels much closer than this game actually was. The Diamondbacks definitely had some excellent chances to capitalize on bases loaded situations with one out.

And in both of those, they did not do that. And that seemed to be the deciding factor in this game. offense was fairly inactive tonight but the Mets tried to do everything they could to give this game back to the Diamondbacks right was a suck fest it was a suck fest like Espo and I in fantasy this week yeah yeah yeah it was yeah it was yeah it was yeah it was yeah it was I beat Bo Brock so hey Boe just wanted to give a shout out just to let everybody know I won't have I beat Jesse I don't know if I was really hoping no one would bring that up I didn't want to talk about me Jesse Joe Burrow forgot how to play football this past weekend and a lot of dudes did yeah yeah yeah yeah Jesse named his team though the Waffle House wagon and I feel like he's already setting himself up for success I would argue that that is a genius strategy if you come in as like I'm gonna lose guys I'm gonna lose and then anytime you do anything good it's a surprise and then he like the the floor is the ceiling he had the most egregious loss of the week I mean he was up to a 99% win probability

You lost by 30. You lost by 30. You lost by 30. It's wild. And, yeah, I don't, I don't want to talk about it at this point. I'd much rather talk about this than the Diamondbacks game tonight. That's for sure. But we have a lot to talk about, including welcoming our brand new family members from the P HLY Network.

We are so thrilled to be expanding and growing. And Philadelphia is just an incredible sports market. So we are very excited to have those folks joining us. Some of that merch makes me want to start rooting for Philly T's. Oh my God. The merchandise in their. locker is already incredible. I'm going to be really sad if we have to beat them in the in the postseason. I'm going to be really sad about it because I will not be sad about that. I'll do it gleefully.

But back to the same. Yeah, that's right. They'll look good losing. I'm talking a lot of shit for you really are. Wait until we get to the opposite. I have no right. But again, the Diamondbacks offense was inactive tonight. The Mets offense, to be honest, wasn't great, but they were able to do some things against. Ryan Nelson. Jose Budo held the Diamondbacks to just two hits. Is that how you say his name correctly? Yes. Yes. It's not how I said it yesterday in my first attempt. He made the Diamondbacks offense look like Butto tonight.

He got 13 whips on his change up. He had 13 whips in his career on his change up coming into this game. And he got 13 tonight against the Diamondbacks. I'm just laughing at you fighting off laughing at your own joke. It's a good joke. It's a good joke. It was amazing. He did. I think he genuinely pitched well.

I mean, I don't think this was just the Diamondbacks like, you know. I mean, they obviously didn't have a good day at the plate either. But I really think he deserved some credit. His changeup had a lot of movement and he was consistently locating it in basically the perfect spot. DeVex had a lot of lefties in the lineup and it was consistently down and away off the edge of the plate and, you know, below the strike zone pretty much the entire game. So. Frustrating that. He frustrated Debex batterers.

Cotel Marte in the fifth inning after he struck out, threw his bat down in disgust. And we, you know, Marte and Lindor had the, like, a little collision on the base path. Yeah, where Katel kind of tackled him a little bit, kind of fell over and they both fell together. And it was the nicest thing like that could ever happen.

It was too like the nicest men in the entire league. Right. And Katel is like that. Cotel's normally very, very even keeled. But he definitely... I think with other people, but when it comes to, I think he holds himself that. Obviously, he holds himself.

I think it had a little bit to do that. He also had a little bit of some gripes with the strike zone. But for the most part, it didn't feel like this game was called terribly. This just felt like Budo was using that change up very effectively to frustrate D-Bex better. To no help from Alvarez. And they were, you were saying that like that was abnormal for Budo, right? Like, based on what he had done. Yeah, he came in with 13 change-up wiffs in his career, which granted was only 21 innings.

but still 13 whiffs over 21 innings on that pitch. He got 13 in this game, including nine in the first two innings. So the debacks were not at all picking up that pitch. And, you know, they did have their opportunities in this game. I know you said earlier, the offense was inactive today, which is true, I would say. And I mean, it had when it mattered for sure. Yeah, they had six hits and, you know, in 31 at bats. They had under 200 as a team.

But they had a lot of base runners. They had a lot of traffic because they, you know, there were seven walks. There were three hit by pitches. in this game to the benefit of the debacks and they just really struggled in big situations. I mean, you go through this game in the top of the second inning. They had first and second with nobody out,

strikeout, line out, strike out, not able to score there. Top of the third inning, the debacks had second and third one out. That's when Christian Walker was in a three-o count and popped up. Smart of that. Which was a hard moment. Alec Thomas struck out to finish that inning.

You go to the top of the six. This is after Budo exited the game, now against the New York Mets bullpen. you had the bases loaded with one out. Evan Longoria grounds into an inning-ending, double play. And then the exact same thing happened in the eighth with Corbyn-Carroll at the plate. Basis-loaded one-out, inning, ending, double play.

So the debacks had their opportunities. And you didn't even necessarily need hits in these situations. I mean, if you go second and third one out in the top of the third, if you get one run on a sack fly, if you do the same thing in the sixth, if you do the same thing in the eighth, you could have had three runs there without even getting hits in those situations. And that would have been enough, you know,

to theoretically get this. game even so you know you're not always going to do well with with runners in scoring position you're not always going to go you know five for 10 or whatever it is but you still have to have productive at bats in those situations and and the debaks were not able to do that today the frustrating thing for me too is like kind of we talked about it earlier being a suck fest like the the mets did the same thing like they left the game wide open for them they they were one for 13 with runners in scoring position 10 runners left on base like that's even worse and the diamond back still weren't able to win the game which makes it even more frustrated

m col 42 says lures goryl jrille jr has been bad since all-star break i don't i don't know about that he definitely had a stretch but lately he's actually been fairly good for this team he still only hits home runs when nobody's on base but i think he was two for four tonight he definitely hasn't been too 96 over his last 15 games yeah 208 over his last seven yeah exactly right like yeah definitely not terrible he's been better like yeah he was really bad out of the all-star break that's for that's definitely but also So was the whole team. If we look at him all together since the All-Star break, he's at 249, 296, 434 to 730 OPS.

That's pretty bad. I mean, a 296 on base percentage is pretty rough for a guy who's a key part of the line. But how much of that is skewed by how bad he was during that stress. Oh, yeah. Like, I feel like it's not necessarily indicative of how good he has been lately. Yeah. Yeah, that's fair. The last week or two have been better.

Definitely. But the offense just I mean they couldn't like you said they couldn't get that big hit Ryan Nelson he was decent tonight he limited the damage to just one run early until that fourth inning when Met's newcomer Ronnie Maricio which quite possibly might be the coolest guy in baseball guy in baseball I mean everything that like de la Cruz wants to be it's the coolest name he's got three he's got he's got three earrings two names the way it should be yeah right instead of two earrings three names right um green hair he wears a pink sleeve like time me up and he hit an absolute fucking blast of the upper deck at city field first for his career home run 440 bat flip 2 440 112 off the bat and then yeah a bat flip yeah it was wild um and you know

nelson again he he just wasn't good tonight he went four and a third innings he gave up seven hits six earn runs, two walks, three strikeouts. And, you know, when you take a look at game one for this series, the Diamondbacks, good news, they won that game. But you still can't be super encouraged about the starting pitching. I mean, Tommy Fan was three for five with a home run and a double, and he absolutely did work against his former club. But Davies went four innings himself, gave up four hits, three earned, three walks, five Ks, obviously not as bad of a night as Ryan Nelson had.

and the Diamondbacks won that game. But, you know, just after two nights of Dback starting pitchers, not making it out of the fifth inning, what are the Diamondbacks going to do about this starting rotation? I mean, is this one of those situations where at this point you just kind of hope you can, hope you can get to the playoffs, hope you can win a couple of these games when these other three guys

that aren't Zach Gallen and aren't Merrill Kelly are pitching? I just really don't know. I mean, do they have any options right now that they could possibly turn to? Yeah, it's not great. I was crunching some numbers earlier. If you combine several deback starters numbers, some of the guys who have struggled this year, Madison, Bumgarner, of course, there was four starts early in the season. Brandon fought has made 15 starts, but he's really been the starter in 16 games because

he obviously pitched out of the bullpen in his last start, but he was his last appearance, but he still threw six innings. Zach Davies has started 16 games. Ryan Nelson, this was his 26th start of the year. If you add up the numbers from those four guys, that's 62 starts. That's 42% of the games that the Diamondbacks have played this year have been started by one of those four guys. And their combined ERA is 6.01. And they're averaging under five innings per start, right?

I mean, that's almost half of the games that you've played where you're getting a pretty low level of starting pitching, at least, at least, you know, all together, combining those numbers together. So, yeah, it's tough. And I think someone said it in the chat earlier, like, how are the Diamondbacked 76 and 70 right now with this starting rotation? Yeah, that doesn't make any sense. And I mean, it speaks to how good Zach Allen and Merrill Kelly have been. Yeah. Great point. It speaks to this team's ability to kind of eke out some wins that, especially over the last few days we've seen that.

I mean, just one run win after. Yeah, after one run win, you know, they have won their share of those games this year. But yeah, I mean, it's a big. weakness of this team clearly after gallon and kelly they just haven't really had any consistent options the whole year there was Tommy henry it was good for a while but it looks like he's out for the season now so yeah in terms of where do they go i don't know i mean slate caconi is still in triple a he's still an option bryce jarvis is in triple a although he continues to be used as reliever i mean those are kind of the two guys you have in the system i think i saw rich hill was placed on on waivers today

Dick Mountain? That's the one. But that would be the craziest. Like, like after, you know, all of the trade deadline shenanigans that we went through. All the battles that we had. And then just like, okay, you know, the deadline's over. You're not getting anybody again.

And then obviously, I mean, he obviously got like seven of you that. But like to get Rich Hill out of nowhere. Dick Mountain out of nowhere in September. He has a 9.2.7. I don't want it for the baseball. If we're talking, this is like Mike Trot thing. If we're talking about baseball, I do not. I don't want him here.

But yeah, I don't think it makes. You keep your fingers crossed, right? Like, I mean, you know, we did that. We've done this a lot with Diamondbacks picking up guys, Dallas Kikell. He was a guy. Like, we didn't think that that was going to be the answer, but we wished it was. We hoped it was, right? And I mean, I just don't know, like, obviously as far as the season goes, there's not a lot of games left.

So I don't know if they would take action. you know and actually do anything call up even even calling up slade or turning to Bryce but I just can't help but wonder what are they going to do if they do reach the playoffs in a three game series in a five game series yeah what are they going to do as far as pitching like obviously I feel like in a five game series they if it were to go five games they have no choice but to literally turn the gallon and merrill twice oh in the series right with some other person filling the the role. I mean, would you foresee it being maybe a bullpen

start like we talked about yesterday where, you know, like you said, Jesse, there would be pictures available that they probably wouldn't use because of the rotation. So they might just piece something together with Zach Davies and Brandon Fott potentially and then going to the bullpen from there. Yeah, I mean, at this point, it's just

find your way into the playoffs. That's the bad. Once you get there, you're, you know, hope for, sorry. Sorry, I'm not trying to look far ahead, but we are like 20 days away from this so i mean like they it's not a lot of time until we are in the playoffs and i just honestly

don't know really what the plan would be i mean we've kicked around who our third starter would be but i don't really know if any of us particularly about anybody you you can't feel good yeah i mean i feel like like we were talking about that the bullpen out and especially in the wild card series is like seems like the most logical or like i mean really their only option right because i mean even if even if you don't go in with the mindset of having a bull bullpen game, right? Like we talked about, you'll have starters that are coming out of the bullpen. So even if you start with Zach Davies and Brandon fought, like their leash is going to be

so short in that situation that if they aren't good, it's going to be a bullpen game. Yeah. And even if they are good, it's like you might not let them go through the rotation. Why would you? I mean, you saw today what happened when you let somebody who shouldn't be going through the rotation at third time go through the rotation at their time. He got rocked. Yeah.

Like it, you can't. I, so I ultimately don't think there's going to be much of like a decision be made. It may be a decision about which one comes out of the is like the actual first inning starter. But like ultimately, I think their hand is going to be forced to where they, they have to, they have to turn to the bullpen. One thing I will say is the debacks don't have to do a full five man rotation even the rest of the season. They have some opportunities to skip guys using off days and you have to believe they're probably going to take that opportunity. I've tried to just like map out starters for the rest of the year. This is sort of my own.

speculation, just kind of assuming that the debacks would skip guys where they can in order to maximize Zach Allen and Merrill Kelly. I only have, if I'm counting this correctly, I have three starts left for Zach Davies and I have one start left for Ryan Nelson. So you can kind of avoid, you know, you don't have, you don't have to have Ryan Nelson make three more starts this season. You can, you know, theoretically you'd need him on Sunday against the Cubs because the debacks don't really have they don't have any off days they can't they can't skip anyone they could maybe bring up slates to coni i guess the theoretically um although i'm not sure i need to check which day he's eligible to come back that might that might even be too soon i'd have to check on that but yeah

you might be able to get away from you know needing to use both davies and nelson you know to the max the rest of the season but regardless there's no getting around the fact that maryl kelly and zach down can't start every game the rest of the way and at some point you you're going to have to rely on these guys a little bit. Give me Kevin Ginkle, StarCab three of the wild car. You're going Kevin Gingle, the seven innings one run. Why not? I'll tell you.

You know who I don't want to see is Paul Seawald, because Paul Seawald has not been very good for this team. He has managed to close the games out, which is something that cannot absolutely be said about the other guy. It's the Rick and Morty clip. How do they keep getting away? How do they keep doing this? They can't keep doing this.

Yeah, no. I mean, Saul, he has not had a one, two. two, three, inning in any save opportunity with the debacks this season. No, and I'm not, I'd have to go back and check. I'm not sure he's even. Done it with Seattle? No, well, no. He absolutely.

He was very good in Seattle. I mean, that's not a question at all. But I'm not sure how many he's had where he's only given up one base runner. I mean, it's felt like it's at least first and second pretty much every time Paul Seawald is out there, opposing hitters of a 379 on base percentage against him. That's crazy. which is really, really high against your clothes. Fucking, almost 40%.

He has a 1.71 whip with the Diamondbacks as well, which is also not ideal. But he has a sub for ERA, and that's kind of been the story with Paul Seawald is, you know, bend don't break and, you know, raise some people's blood pressure, but find your way out of it anyway. For people that aren't aware, would you say that like a league average ERA is like four and a half? Like four to four and a half? League averages, yeah, for relievers, it'd probably be more like four flat, like low fours. Sure. But for a starting pitcher. Yeah, for a starting pitcher, yeah, around four and a half would be probably league average.

But yeah, one seven one is an outrageously high width for either a starter or a reliever. Those are, that's a really, really high number. A lot of walks, a hit. Yeah. I'm just picturing a scenario in which, like, if we are in the playoffs and it has to get to Paul Seawald, like it's just not going to be fun. It's not going to be. Or, I mean, if you're a baseball fan, it's going to be awesome. I'm going to have several panic attacks.

And if he does break, it's going to be like, geez. Yeah, of course. He wasn't great in the playoffs for the Mariners last year. I think he gave, I can, I can find the numbers. I know we don't need those numbers. We're just going to go ahead. We're going to push along and not ignore. We didn't need to start looking at numbers.

So his first appearance. He gave up four runs in two thirds of an inning. His second appearance, we gave up three. runs and two thirds of a day four runs and two thirds I did but he gave a he did not give up a run and had four strikeouts in his in his final appearance in the post season he was pitching he pitched two in a third inning and his one appearance well so so he had two outings of two thirds of an inning one of those came in the ninth one of them came in the fifth oh and then he also yeah I pitched two innings from the 11th to the 12th in a game against the astros a game that the the

Mariners lost one to nothing. So, I mean, it's only three appearances. So I wouldn't read too much into that. But, yeah, the history there isn't, isn't great. Also, it was against the Astros, wasn't it? It was, yeah, the first game was against Toronto. The second two were against the Astros. The Astros had a pretty good year in the last year.

They were pretty good in the playoffs. Yeah. Did they, did they, yeah, they did do pretty good in the playoffs. Yes, they did. But, like, going back to some of these comments here, I think piece of Yoshi said something Wait, keeps going back I think he said why does Jesse exist

Just to make us suffer Yes, I don't think that was the car I don't think that's what you were looking for That's the one I wanted up there Of course, speaking of suffering, we didn't know Who to give this King Snake to tonight So you know what? We're giving it to Sebi Zabalovia.

He suffered for it. He suffered for it And he got, he went 0 for oh for oh He did not, he did not, he did not record it out And he got an RBI so he did more than most of the team. that is such a good stat line 0.01 in my pitch, one RBI. This is up by far our worst

Kingsnake. I was going to say, I don't think anything will ever touch this. Cogs is our worst king's snake. What are we talking about? We gave it to Coggs one time. Cogs, don't take that. I'm not. I'm not going to attack Cod. I mean, listen, he came in, he did his job. He was two for three last night. So, I mean, in the win, we actually, you know, I mean, he's, we were joking about it last night. But I mean,

if the diamond bags can get production from anybody it really doesn't i i just i don't think it matters at this point they just need to try to find uh you know somebody like tony fam i know he hasn't like really been much different than he was for the mess but he's still he's come over here and become yeah he may he's made the team better he's been a clutch very productive in some very big spots absolutely including being a huge part of the game one victory but but i mean to know just to the same thing like they The Diamondbacks had a chance to win this game. And like when they had the bases loaded and they started like him like they, they ended up scoring at least one more run that inning. Right?

Did they score two? How many were? What I'm saying? Are we talking about? Yeah. The inning he got hit by bitch. They did score two. All I'm saying.

Because they walked in one and he was he got hit and one came in because that was unfortunately how the diamond backs kind of had to score runs. Yeah. Yeah. He was a part of what could have been a game changing rally. He was called around. He brought in a run. That's all that matters. And in this game, not many guys did that.

But again, we'll also give a shout out to Loris Guriel Jr. Who was two for four tonight. And again, nobody was great. But this team definitely can't afford to lose games at this point against teams like the Mets. I think the comment I was looking for him from Peace of Yoshi was earlier. He had said that there were 16 games left. Pretty much have to go 9 and 7 to hit 85 wins at this point, which looks like it might be the benchmark to make it into the playoffs.

I don't know how difficult that truly is going to be, but they have, you know, two games against the Giants team that isn't playing very well. Three games against the White Sox, three games against the Yankees. And then outside of that, rough riders are someone called their rail riders. Yes. Yeah, the rail riders, yes. But I mean, like those, those as winnable as those are, are you going to go in and sweep those teams? And how is that going to, you know, what are you going to do against the other teams? What are you going to do against the Cubs this weekend?

and how are you going to finish off this series with the Mets? I'd still happily take a series split with the Mets at this point and, you know, get out of there, maybe get win this series against the Cubs and things are looking a lot better. There's four wins right there and you really just need to find five more between the series with the Yankees, the series, you know, with the White Sox and that final series of the year against the Astros. But there's just not a lot of time left. At this point, they can't really have starting pitching continuing to struggle. and go this short as far as the outings go

and expect to be successful because this bullpen will be absolutely taxed before you do have the extra arm which is which is very beneficial for them at this point in the year another thing I guess they could do on the starting pitching front is just like go straight up bullpen game where you don't you don't have like the bulk guy necessarily you're just kind of trying to piece it together

obviously that would be probably more of a case by case thing because you have to make sure that you have the length in the bullpen in order to do that and guys are well rested enough which as you're saying has sort of been a challenge recently uh but yeah i mean there may come a point when the debacks feel that that gives them a better chance to win games than you know some of these starting pitching performances that we've been seeing all right well we appreciate you guys being here in the phnxport youtube channel right now if you haven't subscribed to the channel yet make sure to do so sign up for notifications that way you don't miss when any of the wonderful shows we have on our network

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Yeah, it was pretty sick. It was awesome. We get a few cool things like that around here. Also, speaking of cool things, Jake McCarthy is back. He was recalled from AAA Reno prior to today's game. And there's no, again, there's no surprises for these three guys over here

because we saw what McCarthy was doing for the Aces. And after winning his back-to-back PCL player of the week awards, it seemed like it was only a matter of time until Jake was recalled. In nine games this September, he slashing 409, 426, 818 with a 1.244 OPS. And, I mean, if you extrapolated out a little further, he's been even better. That's just in the month of September. But he was not in the lineup tonight. He was available.

He was in the dugout. But Jake, Jake just, you know, we talked about it yesterday. He brings so many intangibles. he brings so much potential chaos which we've missed and if he can hit anything like he is hitting recently in Reno he should be able to help this offense kind of get a get a jump start he also seems like a vibes guy like it seems and not not to by any means suggest that like the guys don't like pave it or something like that but I mean it just seems like Jake is just like got such a young like energetic energy there's the happy jeweler picture those are our guys in

the happy jeweler picture am I not wrong? I'm wrong. Jake McCarthy, it's Alec Thomas, it's Corbyn Carroll, like, Drey Jamison, these are the guys. We saw that picture, we were like, these guys are cool as fuck, and that's the guys we want to be like the future of this team. It's, like you said,

there's so many intangible reasons for why Jake being up here makes sense and is exciting. And then there's like a lot of tangible reasons too, like we said, he's one of the best base dealers in all of baseball. He's sprint speed is in the 99th percentile or something like that. I think his outs above average is in like the 75th percentile.

So like the man is just a great defender. He's extremely fast. He adds a lot of he just adds a lot of options to Tori LeBolo's lineup. He does. Yeah. And I don't know if we'll, I don't know if we'll see him in the lineup tomorrow. I think it's Joey Lucasey starting that game for the Mets.

So yeah, that would be a left on left matchup. We'll see if he gets in that one. But yeah, he's probably not going to see a ton of it bats, which is just not ideal. and you know you'd like to get him up here and give him some opportunity but the diamondbacks are in a position right now where they have to win as many games as they possibly can so elise makes a great

point she asked too bad he didn't get any pinched opportunities tonight if yeah were in the managerial shoes would you maybe let jake take a swing in one of those innings with the bases loaded or one of those opportunities yeah i just i don't know if he's going to see a lot of pinched opportunities this year frankly because he's an outfielder and he's and he's a left-handed hitter so you know you do have some right-handed hitting outfielders on this team, but I don't think you're pinch hitting Jake McCarthy for Tommy Fam or Jake McCarthy for Lordis Gurriel. It's like which, you know, which right-handed hit hiter on this team would you pinch hit Jake McCarthy for? Like, is there a clear enough upgrade there where you'd be willing to do that? So I'm sure it'll happen occasionally, but you might

see him more as, you know, kind of a spot starter, maybe a couple times a week. In addition to, of course, being used defensively and I'm sure he'll be used as a pinch runner on occasion as well. So it'll be interesting. I haven't heard what Tori said about this. It'll be interesting to see how the Diamondbacks use him. Well, he's not the only minor league player that is making, I guess, making some headlines. Christian Robinson, who at one point was DFA'd and cleared waivers and came back to the organization, was recently promoted to AA Amarillo Sot Poodles.

and his story continues to be a positive one. He continues to find his way back in the baseball, especially with this organization, which honestly feels really good because I feel like there was a chance that we might have seen this take place elsewhere. And should he find success? I feel like that would hurt after, you know,

kind of being such a big piece at one time to the Diamondbacks. Yeah. You went one for three with a double in his first game with the sod poodle. A nice, nice early impression there for him. And 60 games with Vassalia, Hillsborough, and the Arizona Complex League. He's slashing 288, 521 with 12 home runs, 23 steals, and 79 strikeouts. Not terrible.

Like, pretty good stuff, right? Yeah, good stuff. Still against a lower level, you know, and not putting up, like, we've talked about it. We've talked about Jake's numbers. We've talked about Kyle Lewis's numbers, you know, seeing guys put up 400, 450 over, over or two weeks span or over a month and then come up to major league uh major league pitching and hit 116 just shows how difficult it is sometimes to make that transition from the minor league level up until the majors but again just christian's story continues to be one that that you know is positive

in the turnaround since that incident that he had and hopefully uh he can continue to to progress as a major league ball player here soon yeah i think it's also possible you see him in the a on a fall league. Those rosters should be coming out fairly soon. And if anyone needs like, if anyone needs reps, right? I mean,

Christian Robinson obviously needs a lot of reps. It would be ambitious. I mean, you know, you don't see too many guys who have very little double A experience in the fall league. But there have been some. The debacks pushed the envelope last year.

Justin Martinez, I don't think had much double a experience. Davidson de los Santos was pretty new to that level as well. And the diamond backs. still send him to the fall league. So yeah, it's possible that here in a few weeks, you're seeing Christian Robinson here and here in Arizona. And we are, of course, your fall guys.

So make sure to stay tuned this fall for, for the Arizona Fall League. We'll have all your coverage for that. Cogs asked the question, did the sod poodles win? We need at least one Diamondbacks team to make the playoffs. The sod poodles are absolutely going back to the Texas League playoffs for the first time since they won it all in 2019. And actually,

they currently lead the Texas League circuit with a team OPS of 811 and 8001 runs scored. So no lack of offense from the sod poodles. And just to kind of double up on 801 runs. That's crazy. It's crazy. They're averaging six runs a game. Yeah. Piece of Yoshi says also Reno is very hitter friendly.

Amarillo also hitter friendly. So yeah, I mean, that's the reason why when we take a look at some of these numbers, they can't you can't really compare them to the majors until they get up here because we've seen guys hit the cover off the ball at a triple triple a level and and not be able to do it for the diamond backs in major league baseball so continue to see the development of those guys and hopefully jake mccarthy here can get back in the lineup soon and and impact this team because like we said earlier he very much is a he's just an agent of chaos he's just a guy that makes uh makes teams make mistake and makes things happen on the base path. I also feel like you kind of gets guys fired up. Like, guess that your whole your vibes sting. Yeah, like I, you just know that like it just seems like the best buddies.

Like they like like it does it. It feels like Corbyn, Jake and and Alec are like the Thunder buddies. Like old time old. What was it? It's the no flasm. That's Andrew Benintendi. Jackie Bradley Jr. Go out to the.

We don't want to do the ski. It's always like, Red Sox. They were like the first, they were like the first outfield that started doing all the celebrations and stuff in the center field. And they made that popular. Like, that's what I'm like they seem, they seem like a unit. Like it's that Arizona Diamondbacks out, even though it's like not obviously because you have Lordess or somebody in there. But like it just feels like they are the youth. Yeah.

Like you kind of were talking about. It's that it's that look that Corbyn had on his face when you were there at the press conference when they said Jordan Lawler was getting called up. It's that little eyebrow raise and a little smirk. That's what makes them all best buddies. He's like that one friend you have. It's just like, you have friends, and then you have that one friend who's like a good person in every way. And you're like, that's just a best friend. That friend that shows up with a bag of OGs to share it with you.

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I will say this I'm gonna say it right now You know what's crazy is that they are doing A post game show from the East Coast Yeah it's gonna be brutal You ever think about that? It's gonna be brutal Yeah Like if you're playing a 7 p.m. game out west

Good luck Good luck That's a 10 p.m. game start time on the East Coast We already finished way past Eric's bedtime. Like, my God. I would not. They started on that.

I mean, we, we love the game, but they love the game dog. You got to, you got a little bit. They got it. When you are in East Coast sports, man, you love the game. But you didn't let me get to it because, uh, I'm done. I gave them their shine. I, I said nice things. Now we need to now we need to destroy it.

This is sickening to me. Can we pull up now the new all city graphic? Do we have the new all city? That's disgusting to me. It literally in a day, we just got booted from second to third. In this division, too, what do I? No, we're second in the NOS. Why are we third here?

I don't like this. This was our division. We had a double-digit lead on this division at one point. Now we're third-in-look up at the Phillies and the Cubs. I hate it. I hate it. It is crazy how this is also just the N-O Wildcard race. Like, at this point, basically.

And there's a few other teams. Well, yeah, but I'm just saying, like the white socks. and the Rockies are a little further out than the Marlins and the Giants. Yeah. But all I'm saying is like those top three, the right there, that's the ideal and a wild card. Let's go. Do we have the wild card standings? Because let's like you look at that beautiful bean footage.

It looks a lot like what we just saw. Yeah, I mean, it is literally in, yeah, I mean, of course, in that order, that is literally what the wild card. We are, we are the wild cards. We are. The all city wild card, baby. We're the all city wild cards is what we are. It's a damn shame.

It sucks, though, because I would rather the Cubs. leapfrog the Brewers and and oh no because then we have to play them. Yeah. I don't. I was trying to think of a way in which we would get to avoid. No. I absolutely do not want to play the Brewers. Yeah, there were some lightning, a little big lightning outside of our window.

You want to hear about the Brewers last starts from their top three starters. Oh God. Corbyn Burns, Brandon Woodruff and Freddie Peralta combined for 23 in a third innings pitched. They gave up eight hits total. eight hits one run 23 strikeouts a 0.39 ERA I'd rather play the Cubs and the Brewers you want to play them in the playoffs good luck my god I mean Mike Faron did just talk on this show about how it's more right it's more possible for a good starting pitcher to have a bad off day than for like an entire lineup of yeah I mean I guess you'd rather have the the solid offense across the board

than the starting notation but you rather play good starters than good hitters. I don't know that that gives me a little bit of horrifies me. Yeah it does it does I mean listen at this point the Cubs are the only one that we have recently

shown any kind of success against true otherwise I don't want I don't want smoke with a single one of the teams in the NL playoffs very true any of them no none of them not even a little bit not even a little bit cogs is expanding the All-City network in our chat, and I appreciate him for that. But at this point, I don't know if I want more All-City teams in this division,

making us move down the line anymore. I don't like that one bit, but the Diamondbacks do still control their own destiny. Like I said, the rest of this was 16 games like he talked about. I mean, they definitely have a chance. And of course, with the Cubs being on that schedule and the Giants being on that schedule, they have an opportunity to kind of secure things with wins in those six. a bit. But it's not just those series, right? Like, they don't just need to beat the teams that are around them. They also need to win some of these other games that could kind of be trapped

series. You go into a series against the White Sox. You go into a series against the Yankees. Neither one of them have anything to play for except spoiler. And maybe that's enough to Yeah. Although I will say, like, I feel like it's got to be really hard to get the guys up to play spoiler in a inter-inter league. Like, if you're the with like no time left. going into the Yankees clubhouse and you're like third to last series and you're like, hey guys, let's go spoil the Arizona Diamondback season. You're like, yeah, that's going to get me. That's going to get the boys.

Remember that 2001 World Series? That's going to get the movie going. Like, so I don't know how much of that. Like, if the whole spoiler thing is really going to play too much of that. Was Jason Dominguez even alive? We're so. We got to get out there. We got it.

I still take it over. I can't get over Reese. Oh, one of our, I guess we can call him an intern. He's not really an intern. He's just like a. stat lackey reese he's helpful he says he helps yeah but he was born after the release of high school musical and that rocked my world 2006 i don't want to have these conversations at all i don't want to have conversations about years of my life that i actually remember things what were happening to me

i actually know it's the first time it's happened to david it's going to happen a lot more to you guys as you get older this is the first time we have heard something special derrick yeah i know Me and Sean experienced this for the first time. It's really hard to take. You would think I'm callous about it now. You think I'd fucking like washed over. You see me. I still get mad every time you guys bring up age on the show.

I'm furious to be as old as I am. Every day you do. It's terrible. I hate you. I would never do such a thing. No. When born in 2006 is supposed to be like, well, like seven, eight years old. Not an infant.

There's no way there. No, he's a grown man. I've seen him. He's been in this office. They still walk in lines to class and stuff like that. There's a line leader in a caboose and there's jobs in class and you got a spots and shit like that. Yes, Elise. You don't get to drive here.

You don't get to drive here. Oh, terrible. Terrible. He drove here. Yeah. Oh, Cogs was born in 2006. Great. Well, that's why we DFA'd Cogs.

So that makes all the sense in the world. All right. He said he's two weeks younger than high school musical. I have still never seen high school musical. You need to live a little dead. I have also not. I have also not. I got that.

I'm happy to be on the same page. It's a great movie. The Diamondbacks do have two more games with the Mets. And obviously, very important. Like we said, I guess you could be satisfied with a split at this point. But really, they want to go for the win with these guys still remaining in this particular probable scenario. Do we have the probabilities, Damon? So how have we not talked about Francis Galbra as just owning Lee?

Because I don't want to talk about that. He is six for 14 with four homers in his career against the Diamondbacks. which is not a long career. No. Six for 14. Six games or seven, whatever it's five games. Five games.

Yeah, I think it's five games. That's stupid. Let's see the problems. Do you have problems, Damon? All right. I'm mad now. I don't know. I did that to myself.

Yeah, I know. This looks a lot better. I like this. I mean, obviously we know that this impacts that Cub series, knowing neither one of these guys are going to be available for the Diamondbacks there. So that's like you guys said about the playoffs.

Let's worry about that when we get to that. But for right now, the Diamondback seemed to be in a good spot to potentially take three out of four here against the mats with these two guys still left to go. Yeah, baseball, Sean, is juiced for the Kodi-Senga, Merrill Kelly matchup. Kodai, Mar-Sengah, a fun-final matchup. If Zach Yon doesn't take care of business tomorrow, I mean, he needs to take care of business. That's an important game because, yeah, Kodai Senga has pitched extremely well. And I don't think he's going to win the Salyang Award, but he's like,

not that far away. I mean, he's been that good for the Mets this season. Which is, it's crazy that we can be talking about someone winning the Sion and have him be eligible for rookie of the year and not even be in the conversation. That's what I was thinking right now. Like, that's absurd. Corbin's the best.

Corbans the goal. Pitchers just don't really win the rookie of the year. Yeah, I'm trying to. By Burlander did, right? Last year, Spencer Strider, yeah, I think so. Last year, Spencer Strider, in my opinion, should have won the NL rookie of the year. Did Strasbourg one were here? That I couldn't tell you.

But yeah, like Michael Harris had a really good season. But I mean, if you look at what, I mean, Spencer Strider last year had like 200 strikeouts and 130 innings and an incredible ERA. Devin Williams for the Milwaukee Brewers in 2020. Show Hey, O'Haw-Tonnie in 2018. That doesn't count. If ever a pitcher winning rugby of the year did not count. It was the guy who also hits 300. Michael Fulmer in 2016 for the Tigers,

Jacob de Grom, Jose Fernandez. Yeah, like there's not a lot, though. Jesse's absolutely right. Like, I mean, there's definitely. If it's close between a position player and a pitcher, then the position player is going to win. And you could make a case that Kodi Singha is not particularly close to Corbyn Carroll, at least in terms of like wins above replacement.

It's not, it's not particularly close. Yeah, I mean, I was by no means trying to argue that he should be in a conversation. I just think it's hilarious that we're... He shouldn't, like, he shouldn't be in the conversation to win. the award but like he should be in the conversation for the award and yeah like he should probably show up on on some on some ballots there so yeah he he's been outstanding and you know this is a

series where if you're the debacks you you know obviously you want to win every game but like this weekend against the cubs doesn't line up so well from a starting pitching perspective as we talked about yesterday you're going to have a three game series where neither zach gallon nor maryl Kelly pitch for the debacks whereas the cubs i believe will have justin steel going and kyle Hendricks in that series. So things don't line up so well this weekend. And yeah, I mean, that just makes these next two games all the more important. When you do have Gallin and Merrill on the mound, especially against a team like the Mets,

a team that you're theoretically supposed to beat, even though the D-backs have not really done that to this point. I think they're one and four against the Mets this season now. You know, these are important games. These are the games that you should win on paper. Fun fact, the last time two pitchers won the rookie of the year for both leagues. was the same year I was born, 1981. Really?

Who were that? It was Fernando Valenzuela for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Dave Regetti for the New York Yankees. That is the worst year of my life. Actually, was born and the Dodgers and the Eagles were getting flowers. Jeremy Hellens and Craig Kimball both wanted in 2011. How could it be the worst year?

That's a fair point, Jesse. You weren't even close to a live. Tushay. Tush. Fair enough. My mom was 10. Yeah, there we go. God, damn it, I'm just so old.

All right, well, that's what we got. You really are. I know, I am. That's all we got. David just had to step in and be like, you're right. I was fucking wrap this up right now. I was trying to make you feel younger by saying my mom was 10. That does not make me feel younger.

Not at all. I work with you. We're like peers and you're sitting here telling me how your mom and I are basically the same age. No, I was saying my mom is older than you. I'm telling you that does not make me feel any better. That does not make me feel. feel any better. I would hope that all of your moms are older than me. I would really

hope that. Am I crazy or Damon? I have a really young moms for the record. Okay. So like I was, that's in my mind, it was, I wasn't trying to compliment you, but in my mind that wasn't piling on. It's not. It's not to compliment you. I wasn't trying to compliment you.

It's fine. It's fine. Buy me a margarita illegal peats. That's all right. I appreciate the fact that these young people do group me in their group and not with Craig and Peety. Yeah. You're No, that makes you feel good. I don't consider you like one of the old guys. Oh, God, that feels great. By any.

That's all I needed. That's all I needed at this point. I'm not going to see here because I don't want this. This isn't time like I'm blowing smoky grass. I don't consider like when I refer to the youths, I don't refer to you either. But I don't get that. When I can refer to the old folk, I don't refer to you. All right.

I'll take that. That's the best compliment. So he just doesn't fit into any of the crash. Shut up, Jesse. There's this. I feel like going on them the middle is like it's a forgotten generation. Yeah. It's in Johnny, Bo.

It's the cool dad. It's the cool dad's age. It is the cool dad. I will kick it with Johnny and Bo. I can be both of them in fantasy football. We kick it with all of y'all and you are your parents. Being the cool dads is pretty cool. For the record, Jacob is 24 and he's cool dad.

He's not even older than me in many ways. He might be old man. He might not even be cool. He might be old man. I don't think Jacob is 24. No. That is neither here nor there. 26. I knew he was a year.

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