PHNX Arizona Diamondbacks Podcast - Juan Soto headlines busy MLB trade deadline day but the Arizona Diamondbacks stand pat

Episode Date: August 2, 2022

The Diamondbacks stood pat on trade deadline day, but AJ Preller sure didn't. How will the Diamondbacks compete in the NL West with Juan Soto in San Diego? Join Jesse Friedman and Jacob Franklin as they react to the final moments of the MLB trade deadline.SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube: https://bit.ly/phnx_youtubeWebsite: https://gophnx.com PHNX Locker: https://phnxlocker.com/Head on over to The PHNX Locker to pick up one of our new PHNX hats!SOCIAL: Twitter: https://twitter.com/PHNX_DbacksInstagram: https://instagram.com/PHNX_Sports Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app now (https://bit.ly/3Jl1dMX), use promo code PHNX and make your first deposit and get a RISK-FREE BET UP TO ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS. Minimum age and eligibility restrictions apply.If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, crisiscounseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER (1-800-426-2537) (IL/IN/MI/NJ/PA/WV/WY), 1-800-NEXT STEP (AZ), 1-800-522-4700 (CO/NH), 888-789-7777/visit http://ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-BETS OFF (IA), 1-877-770-STOP (7867) (LA), 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY), visitOPGR.org (OR), call/text TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN), or 1-888-532-3500 (VA).21+ (18+ WY). Physically present in AZ/CO/CT/IL/IN/IA/LA/MI/NJ/NY/PA/TN/VA/WV/WY only. Min. $5 deposit required. Eligibility restrictions apply. See http://draftkings.com/sportsbook for details.OGeez! is dedicated to creating innovative and memorable cannabis infused products that flavor life’s journey. If you’re interested in trying the amazingly delicious variety of flavors that OGeez! Brands has to offer, go to https://ogeezbrands.com.FOCO has you covered with the best Arizona Merchandise. They have officially licensed gear for men, women and kids and everything from bobbleheads to swimsuits to crocs. Head on over to foco.com. For all non pre-sale items use the promo code “PHNX” for 10% off 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, hello, everyone. Thank you. Thank you for bearing with us through some technical difficulties. We are now live. I am Jesse Friedman alongside Jacob Franklin for one more day. Derek is, I believe, traveling home from Disneyland today. But Jacob, we have a lot to talk about today because the MLB trade deadline is about five minutes away as we speak right now. Before we jump into that, though, I want to tell you all that this show.

is brought to you by the Draft King Sportsbook app. America's number one rated sports book app. Jacob, the Twitterverse, is insane right now. Yeah. It is virtually impossible for us to keep track of everything as we are live right now, but we will do the very best that we can. Noah Cindergarde is sort of the most recent news as he has been moved from the Angels to the Phillies.

Any big surprises with that one, Jacob? No. Noah Cindergarde a few years ago probably would have netted you a lot more than he does now. I still think they didn't give up a whole lot for him because he's still young, still has a projectable arm. He's still got stuff,

but they gave up, I think it was Mickey Moniac and another prospect for him. That's all they gave up for him. Right. So that's a pretty surprising deal to me, but nothing was as big as the other one. So I don't think anything will ever match up. Which trade are you possibly talking about, Jacob?

I have no idea. I'm talking about the most recent Jordan Montgomery trade. Ah, makes sense. Juan Soto. Juan Soto did not get dealt. I am still in the denial phase. Eric Hosmer said no, so it can't happen. Maybe question mark. Oh man. That was that was an ordeal for sure. Unfortunately, whether we want to deny it or not, it is true. Juan Soto is a member of the San Diego Padres. And Jacob, it was interesting, like the way it was reported initially. It was like, oh man, this is like a very light return for Juan Soto. And then more details came out.

out and eventually it sort of, yeah, eventually it sort of made sense. But this was the final trade. That's sort of the trade of the day, right, is the Juan Soto deal to San Diego. So the Padres acquired Juan Soto and Josh Bell, who is a very, very good first baseman. Both of those guys on their way to San Diego in exchange for, there's a lot of names here, shortstop, C.J. Abrams, left-handed pitcher McKenzie Gore, outfielder Robert Hassel, the third, who is the number one-ranked prospect in the Padre system, according to MLB Pipeline, outfielder James Wood, who's their number three prospect, right-handed pitcher Jarlin Susanna, who I believe was ranked number 14 on MLB Pipeline, and then first baseman Luke Voight.

That part of the deal was just recently. If you're Luke Voight, how mad are you right now? Yeah, poor Luke Voight thought he was like part of this powerhouse contender, and now he's on his way to the Washington Nationals who no longer have like their two best players, basically. So that was interesting how things worked out. But yeah, basically Eric Hosmer, of course, was initially part of this deal. And then he decided to exercise his no trade clause. And he said no to this trade.

Yeah, I mean, he has the right to do that. And honestly, I feel for Eric Cosmer because, like, think of the two choices that you have in that situation. You can either accept the trade and go play for the Washington Nationals, right? as your team is like gearing up for the playoffs, or you can reject the trade and stay in San Diego, but have everyone hate you because you're the reason that theoretically they don't have Juan Soto.

Of course, that's not how things worked out. Hosmer was ultimately dealt to the Boston Red Sox in a separate deal. But all around just sort of crazy how that deal went down where everyone was reporting that the deal was essentially done. At least that's what it appeared. And then Eric Hosmer said no. And then the deal was not done. So it was pretty crazy.

I don't know how to feel about it. Like that's just the honest answer right now because internally am I screaming that Juan Soto might be in the National League West for the next 15 years? Yeah. Probably. But at the same time, I still feel like I don't know where the Padres money is coming from.

Like at some point I just feel like this is a well that's going to dry up. Yeah. And they eventually can't pay any more guys. Like there is a limit. They're not the Dodgers. No, they're not. And they are getting close to Dodgers level numbers when it comes to their payroll. Yeah, no, they really are.

I think at some point, they just bankrupted five out of their top 11 prospects. Like, they just moved them. They just moved five of their top 11 prospects. Whoever is in charge of their top 30 list on MLB pipeline has a lot of work to do because there is lots of, lots of shuffling there. As far as Diamondbacks news is concerned, we don't really have anything to report other than a tweet from Gambo a couple minutes ago. said just a few minutes left, but I'm hearing no trades for the Diamondbacks.

Move David Peralta and Luke Weaver, and looks like that will be it. Lots of calls on Mantiply, but Arizona was not going to give him away with four years of control, which we did sort of suspect that Mantiply was a little bit less likely to get dealt. No Ian Kennedy move? It's officially three o'clock, too. It is officially three o'clock. You are absolutely right. So anything that trickles in now, it all got done before three.

Yeah. Yeah, and I mean, yeah, and we've seen deals like trickle in at like three. 25 like his latest 3 30 even so definitely things could still happen but jacob how do you feel about the diamond back side of this just that they they made that trade uh with luke weaver yesterday which we'll talk about more in a second of course that happened like right after our show yesterday um and then of course there was the david peralta move but all and all not a whole lot of action for the diamond the the the peralta move to me was obviously the inevitable one that one felt like it was coming for a while. That one felt like it was maybe necessary, maybe not necessary. The Luke Weaver one took

me by a little bit of surprise. It wasn't a name that you had heard thrown around because it was a name that not many people probably had interest in. You had a great article up on Luke Weaver and kind of his storyline throughout the career in Arizona that he had. And it was quite odd in the way that he always had the talent to be really, really, really good and a frontline starter. But it just never seem to click here, right? And that's a story that we've seen with a lot of guys, Robbie Ray, I don't want to go on because it'll make my heart hurt. The list is in the article. To me, it's less about what the DEBX did than about the reactions that we're getting, right? And I was texting you a lot last night and I was

texting you a lot today about how frustrated I've been seeing a lot of the comments be floated around from fans, from people. It just feels like fans don't want to. to pick a side right now. It feels like fans are mad at Mike Hazen and the rest of his crew if he doesn't move away from people. But the people that they're mad that he isn't moving, they're just as equally mad if he does move them. So like I just need people to pick aside because I don't understand what people are upset

about. It just feels like they're mad to be mad. And I don't, that to me isn't productive, right? Like I for one have applauded Mike Hazen for a lot of what he's done building the farm system. The D-Bex had probably the worst farm system in Major League Baseball as well as a god-offal baseball team. He came into a really, really bad situation.

Yeah, he did. And he's done his best to make that work. He's built the farm system up. Has he swung and missed on a few different trades? Sure. Every general manager is going to do that. But from a fan perspective, just pick aside whether you want him to move people or not move people. I mean, I guess the Diamondbacks fan base is maybe just sort of split on that. It sort of feels

like just about everyone is angry in general because the team is not, you know, they've lost, you know, four in a row now. Things haven't looked great the last few days leading into the trade deadline. But yeah, and of course, we're not talking about any of you in the comments. You guys are all completely saintly when it comes to your reactions to what the Diamondbacks have done or not done. But all of the other Diamondbacks fans out there, all the people who don't listen to the PH and next Diamondback show. Those are the people we're talking about. But no, I think you're absolutely right, that there is a sense of, there's a lot of negative

energy towards Mike Hazen, towards Ken Kendrick, really just anyone who's anyone in the Diamondbacks front office right now. There's just a lot of that going on. And I sort of understand. I mean, I think any time a team is losing, anytime a team is not really in the trade deadline, or is not really in the playoff picture and is not really doing much of the trade deadline. It's sort of a weird spot to be.

It's like you're not contending, but you're also not really trying to cash in on some of the chips that you have. And I understand how that could be a little bit strange for some people. Yeah. It's just a little frustrating because unfortunately this front office was in shambles for just years.

I mean, we're talking about some of the bad deals that Hazen has made. Let's not even go into the deals that the previous regime made before that. It's really no comparison. We traded Danes v. Swanson for Shelby Miller. And just about every team in Major League Baseball would have told you that is an awful deal to make. It would have been awful one for one, but they also threw an injury in C.R. T and Aaron Blair just to make it more interesting.

Blair didn't really shape up to anything that he was supposed to be, but it still hurts to watch Danes v. Swanson right now. Yeah. But it's just, I mean, we're talking about some deals that were bottom tier of bottom tier before this. And then Mike Kaysen came in, and I think I mentioned the. on the last show, he swung and he got J.D. Martinez in his first year here. Yeah. And that was a phenomenal move. And I think people have been chasing that feeling, right? They've been chasing that J.D. Martinez feeling where every year since the organization doesn't want to go into a full rebuild, people are still looking for them to say, okay, well, let's just make the move for another J.D.

Martinez and make a run out of it this year. Yeah. And I think that they've been doing something completely different where they're hiding that their true intentions are obviously. a rebuild. They just don't want to outwardly say it because that affects ticket sales. Sure. Yeah. And they're making moves for guys that they like a lottery ticket like Christian Serta. You know, he could easily move in the top 30 prospects that the Vex have if he puts up good numbers wherever he goes.

Yeah. It is. I mean, so let's talk specifics here about what the Diamondbacks did or I guess really didn't do today. So I was fairly confident that the Diamondbacks would move Zach Davies, just given the fact that they rushed him back. I mean, at least as far as we know, the outsider perspective, it looks like they rushed him back. He only threw like 56 pitches in that game, which is not really normally how you work a guy back from the injured list, right? You would have him throwing sim games or, you know, going on a minor league rehab assignment, that sort of thing.

But the Diamondbacks brought him up. He didn't pitch that well yesterday. but I thought he pitched well enough. He at least showed that he was healthy, which I think is probably what teams were looking for more than anything else. And the Diamondbacks decided to hold on to Zach Davies today, which is very interesting because there is a,

unless he really, really has a tough stretch in the second half of the season, it is highly, highly unlikely that the Diamondbacks are able to keep him at the end of the year. He's very unlikely to hold up his side of the mutual option that he has at the end of the year. end of the season. So I'm not totally sure I understand the thinking there. I guess maybe the D-backs are just thinking that they don't have a lot of pitching depth and, you know, maybe the offers that they

got just weren't really what they were looking for. And they're like, hey, we're just going to, you know, keep the pitching depth in place that we have rather than trading it for what might not be very much. But I thought that was, I thought that was interesting. And the same argument could be made for Ian Kennedy, who's also still here as far as we know. Yeah. You know which side of this that I was. on. I was on the side of I would prefer to trade just about everybody that you get a good offer on. I mean, obviously, don't trade them for nothing because there are valued players on this roster, right? You would get value from a Joe Mantipa. You would get value from Merrill Kelly. I've been on board the trade as many players as you can because you're still building for two years out from now. Right. This team not making any moves to me is probably the worst thing that they could have done today.

Great. in my book anyways. I don't know how other people would quantify it. Now, Merrill to me is a guy that I think his stuff does play for another five years. Like Merrill Kelly, after his two years, three years of control that he has left,

I think his stuff still plays and you can still have a spot for him in this rotation. Sure. Because he doesn't pitch for power. He is a precision pitcher, and that stuff typically doesn't go away. Look at a Zach Granke. I mean,

Zach Granky pitch for power early in his career, came back, made a resurgence with a D-Bex not throwing 97. He was throwing 92, 93 because he had stuff that worked, right? I'm not saying Merrill Kelly is on the level of a Zach Granke, but his stuff will still play beyond a certain point. So to me, like, he still has a place here, but not trading Zach Davies, who's going to walk for nothing, not trading in Ian Kennedy. There's a team option there. I think it's 4.75 million. And so the Diamondbacks, Mike Hazen told us the other day that, you know, part of what he was looking to do at the deadline was to, like, get ahead of what he might need to do in the off season.

And so maybe keeping an Ian Kennedy is his way of, like, getting ahead of what he might do in the off season. Maybe they feel that Ian Kennedy is worthy of that $4.75 million club option, and they're just going to bring him back next year. And maybe they try to move him in next year's trade deadline. Yeah, just remember that you're not the Colorado Rockies. Just remember that you're not the color. What did the Colorado Rockies do? The Colorado Rockies did all of a big fat, nothing. They literally were the only team in Major League Baseball that did not make a move before the trade deadline.

But they did extend Daniel Bard, which makes absolutely no sense as far as I'm concerned. But the Diamondbacks did make a trade yesterday that we haven't talked about yet. It happened. I told you when we left yesterday that the moment I got in my car, the Diamondbacks would make a trade. And sure enough, there I was listening to the radio hearing about this trade, having to pull over and figure out who Emmanuel Rivera was. And that's who the diamondbacks got in a trade with the Kansas City Royals. They sent Luke Weaver to Kansas City. They got back Emmanuel Rivera, who is a 26-year-old third baseman.

Obviously, the debacks are a little bit thin at third base on their depth chart. They don't have a whole lot of options there beyond Josh Rojas, who's pretty much been playing there every day. Mike Hazen when talking about the move said that what they really liked about Emmanuel Rivera more than anything was his ability to hit left-handed pitching, which he has very good numbers this year against lefties. I think he's hitting 288 and slugging like 550 or something like that. So the numbers look pretty good there. So a move that very much came out of left field. I was not expecting Luke Weaver to be a hot trade deadline commodity, which I guess in some ways he wasn't. I mean, the Royals had a had a use. form and the diamondbacks had a use for Rivera so there's not a whole lot of um value on on either sides of these deals and in on other sides of these of this deal in terms of assets but um i don't know how do you feel how do you feel about this jacob the luke weaver deal to me felt like a greener grass on the other side type thing like maybe luke weaver gets his stuff together if he's not in arizona maybe emmanuel rvera comes here and hits well like it just felt like one of those

let's just swap. That's what it felt like to me. I mean, I didn't really associate, there was a time and a place where I associated Luke Weaver is probably the third starter in the devax rotation. Maybe two years ago I would have told you that I was confident that he was a third starter at worst.

Yeah? I didn't really include him in the future of this team after last year. And this year, like he just, he wasn't going to work. It was, he started to look like he was pitching a little bit better toward the end of this,

but it just didn't seem like, it seems like they have a lot of confidence in who they have in their system and they felt maybe that they had a higher ceiling out of those guys than they did with Weber. Yeah, yeah, I think that's a pretty accurate assessment. Luke Weaver, I mean, such an interesting pitcher, right? I mean, there aren't that many guys who throw 97 and have like a good wipeout change up and are now working out of the bullpen and don't walk very many guys and put up pretty good strikeout numbers.

Like, Luke Weaver's been baffling baseball scouts and analysts for years because the eye test tells you, like, there should be something here. Like, this guy really has some good stuff. But in reality, he just hasn't really been able to put it all together, at least not since 2019 when he gave like a little bit of a glimpse. He was really good in 12 starts in his first stint with the Diamondbacks right after the move was made. But since then, it's just been a lot of, You know, at times he's been serviceable.

Like he can get by. He flashes and then he doesn't flash. Yeah, he flashes. Like he'll be good for two or three innings. We've seen a lot of that and then things kind of fall apart after that. So, yeah, I wrote an article over at go phnex.com where I wrote about Luke and his progression over the years and how it just hasn't quite lined up with what a lot of people thought he could be. And how unfortunately that's a bit of a trend in the Diamondbacks organization where there have been a lot of young, promising pitchers that come through here that just don't really.

turn into like what you think they could turn into. And that's not to say that like developing pitchers is easy because it's not. It's very much not. There's not some team out there where like every single one of their Luke Weavers is like turning into an ace, right? Like that's not a, that's not what you're expecting. But it's been pretty rough in Arizona as far as pitching development for a while. Yeah. That's not to say that I'm not excited to see Tommy Henry tomorrow. I mean, there are there are a couple names right now that I'm still really, really high on in that system. And some of these names, we also have to remember a lot of the guys in the system right now are dealing with the unfortunate circumstance that they were either drafted around the pandemic era where there was not a lot of time to scout players and or just not a lot of appearances to go around for some of them. Like a lot of them are in Reno after being in the minor leagues for like a year.

Yeah. And that is just not a common thing for pitchers to do. Right. And so that that has to be hard because, A, the Diamond. Backs, unfortunately, have two of the most hitter-friendly places to be a pitcher in their minor league systems. And so you're dealing with a lot of guys that are, A, inexperienced, and B, not in great places to pitch.

Yeah. And it's not, you know, easier if you go to Chase Field. I mean, Chase Field is known as an notorious hitters ballpark as well. Well, it was. It was. Until the Humidor. Yeah, until the humidor and the turf. Really, both of those things contributed.

Actually, this year, it's pretty bizarre. Chase Field is grading out as, like, one of the, you know, the most pitcher-friendly parks in baseball right now, which is pretty wild. I'd like to think that's based off the pitching. The pitching itself. Yeah, no. I mean, the Diamondbacks pitching has been a lot better this year, but yeah, I don't think that's the reason for the ballpark factors being different.

Reisela Iglesias has been traded from the Angels to the Braves. Yeah, it was the last thing. Yeah, that was the last thing that came out. There have been, it's been a flurry of a few things happening here. Nothing super significant. it looks like Wilson Contreras will remain with the Chicago Cubs, which is very interesting. He seemed like, out of all the guys on the trade market,

he seemed like one of the more likely guys to get moved. The Cubs decide to stick with Wilson Contreras. Whitman Merrifield has been traded to the Toronto Blue Jays as well. That was a pretty so low. He did not return much. Yeah, he is not. Whitmanerfield has had some outstanding seasons in the big leagues, but not quite as much this year.

But yeah, as far as this Diamondback situation is concerned, I'm glad you brought up Brandon Fott and Tommy Henry. I guess you brought up Tommy Henry. I did bring up Tommy Henry. Brandon Fott is also being promoted, not to the majors, but to AAA. So he's sort of taking Tommy Henry's spot in AAA. But this is exciting. I mean, this is something we've been looking forward to for a while, right? Seeing Tommy Henry at the big league level and we'll get that opportunity tomorrow.

I feel like Tommy Henry is just one of those minor league pitchers that just has really projectable stuff. Yeah. Like he's not a mixed bag. You know what you're going to get from him. Like he's a strike thrower. He does not walk a lot of guys. He's not going to overpower you.

He's got some swing and miss. But, I mean, sometimes what you need in Arizona is a good ground ball pitcher. Yeah. There you go. You need a good ground ball pitcher. And that might be what you get from Tommy Henry. You're going to get a guy that can locate the pitches. Like, it's just that's what he does.

He locates the pitches. There you go. That was probably the worst way for me to say that. No, but it is exciting to see that tomorrow. It looks like the Diamondbacks just reshuffled their rotation a little bit. So yesterday we talked about how Madbone would go on Wednesday, but they have now swapped him out. It'll be Tommy Henry. There were a lot of people who were speculating if the Diamondbacks were making a trade involving Madbum because of the mysterious, like all of a sudden it was listed as TBD on MLB.com.

But I don't think it's normal for organizations to tip their hand, like to that to go. agree. If you're like about to make a trade, you're probably not going to make it obvious by like switching to the pitching. Scratching the pitcher the day before. Yeah. I don't know. And like, I don't know, making it public like before you've made the trade public. Like that doesn't really make any sense. So I think that was sort of always a non-starter. We also we have another tweet here from Gambo. He says, Diamondbacks were not going to trade players they have under control. Walker, Mantiply for low level minor leaguers, which were the offers they were getting. So Diamondbacks. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it seems like, thank you, Chris. I appreciate that. Oh, there we go. I very rarely get on shows. But hopefully I have found a home with the DeBex guys here and I will be on a few more shows. We'll see what Derek thinks about you when you come back.

I'm going to show us your audition tape from the last few days. I think Derek really likes me. Okay. Derek texts me all the time. Okay. So I'm of the opinion that Derek likes me. You're out. Okay.

Well, I'm glad you have that opinion, Jacob. That's a good place to be. Damn. I'm just getting getting hated on over here. No, we've enjoyed having you the last few days, Jacob. You've done all right.

Anyway, yeah, it sounds like the Diamondbacks were getting offers of lower level minor leaguers, which it does make sense. That's not really the route that they were looking to go. They've said pretty publicly that they're looking to make moves that would improve the major league roster, which always felt a little bit like a stretch, like a little bit

difficult to pull that off with some of the guys that they were dealing. but it sounds like they did not get what they were looking for for some of those guys. Yeah, I think Joe Mantipi had a few of those outings before the All-Star break that maybe would have detracted from his value. Christian Walker certainly struggled for the last few weeks, which doesn't help his value. But it seems like it's almost a little more scary to me that other teams were not valuing

some of the DeBax guys as valuable as we thought they might have been. Yeah, I mean, that kind of happens, right? Like you overvalue your guys a little bit. I know there was an article that Zach Buchanan wrote over the off season where he talked to Mike Hazen about how the Diamondbacks evaluate their players and what their process is. And Mike was very open to the idea that like maybe we're kind of overvaluing some of our guys and viewing them in a lens that the rest of the league doesn't really see them in. So, yeah, we'll have to see.

We'll have to see what turns out there. I mentioned my article earlier, which you all should go and read right now. It is over there on go phtnx.com. I had Jacob read it before I published it because Jacob proofreads basically everything I do in life at this point. So anyway, go over to go phnx.com, become a member of the family. If you do so, you will either get a free t-shirt from the Ph.NX locker like the one that I am wearing once again today. No, no pH and X shirt for you, Jacob. Just the hat.

You've got your hat. Just the hat today. We can accept that. I couldn't find, I mean, honestly, I think all of my one, my shirts are dirty. Yeah. I wear them. I mean, we all, like, everybody in the PHNX office, like, we all wear these shirts pretty much every single day.

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And you can interact with us in the Discord. Jacob is popping in there every now and again these days, probably more often than we see Derek in there at times. So, you know, shots fired. There you go. Derek, if you'd like to join us in the Discord, the invite is open. He hasn't figured out how to download it on. his computer yet and so he can only do it on his phone. He had to choose between the Disneyland app or Discord.

Yeah. And for over the last week, it was pretty easy choice for him. Yeah, it's the wrong choice. Yeah. But, you know, understandable. Anyway, yeah, we'd love to have you in the Discord and interact with you there. As far as the Diamondbacks are concerned on the field, Jacob, they did play a game yesterday. And they are about to play a game pretty shortly.

Yeah, not very long from now, which does it feel, particularly relevant given all of his trade deadline stuff. But yesterday's game was a little rough. You kind of felt like you'd seen this movie before, maybe about 24 hours prior against the Atlanta Braves. It was sort of a similar story there. Mark Melanson was in a tough spot in this one. He had to pitch two innings. It kind of turned into a bullpen game for the debacks. Zach Davies didn't last very long. And they just sort of ran out of pitchers. I think Taylor Widener was the only guy left in the bullpen. And to where he said after the game, game that he was lined up for the 11th inning if it got there. And they kind of needed a

pitcher for the 11th inning if it got there. So I'm not sure they really had any other options other than rolling with Mark Malanson in that spot. But unfortunately, it did not end well for the Diamondbacks. It honestly was a great ball game. Like if you're going, if you're going into the game expecting like I thought it was a really good baseball game. Yeah. I mean, it was a super competitive baseball game until the end. Like obviously the end has a lot to do with the way people think about a game. This is true. But the game. But the game. The game itself is, it was a pretty good game. Like, it was back and forth.

It had everything he would have wanted. The bullpen looked phenomenal. Yeah. Minus the unfortunate circumstance of Ben's comment here. It says, do runs scored by Ghostrunners, comments earn runs. No, they don't. So it does not go as an earned run against Mark Malanson.

Correct. Yeah. So, you know, it is hard for Mark Malanson to catch a ton of flack there. Like, I think my anger was more so directed at the hitters for not bringing their ghost runner around at least. in the top half of the inning because that is always like a As soon as you don't bring your runner around in the top half of the inning You basically feel like you're gonna lose in the next half inning

Yeah And Mark Malanson almost worked his way out of it Like he got close He got close, he did get close Yeah Which is I'm pretty much over the experiment at this point But sure, yeah I mean He took his 10th loss and I feel kind of bad for him on this one

Because it is true that those runs don't count as earned runs but you still can take a loss for allowing them, which feels like not great. I don't know. I kind of feel for Mark Blanson to spot like this, but 10 losses for, you know, theoretically your best relief pitcher is not ideal. So Kevin Ginkle for closer.

Yeah, yeah. So that's the other story that came out of yesterday. Kevin Ginkle was called up from Reno. I guess we should talk about why Kevin Gingle was called up from Reno as well. Caleb Smith had an interaction. An ouchy. Yeah, where he was. Don't punch walls, kids.

Don't punch walls. You can fracture your hand, which is unfortunately what happened to Caleb Smith. So he was placed on the 15-day injured list after this or after that. Tori Lavello expressed some frustration with that situation there. Understandably so. But the Diamondbacks brought up Kevin Ginkle and he looked outstanding in the game yesterday. He was throwing like 96, 97 miles now. On the black.

on the black yeah like literally on the black yeah like dotting corners the slider looked really good I think he had three strikeouts out of the like four or five hitters yeah yeah extremely intimidating squat thing going now in his pitching motion can you react it for us I can you stand up and do the squat I cannot reenact it for you vote at the back of the room and in the chat should he stand up and reenact the squad absolutely absolutely I think you should try and show us how maybe maybe we should say that maybe we should say that that's some video for behind the paywall. I don't know.

Oh, that is definitely paywall worthy. I have to, like, I need a substantial raise if I'm going to do something like that. So, I don't know, maybe we'll make Derek do it tomorrow.

We'll see if I could pawn it off on someone. But no, we should, one of us should probably reenact what Mark Malancet did because... The chat agrees.

It'll be behind the paywall. Super chats. Oh, super chat. How much in super chats would we need to get you to get you to get you to reenact the squat?

See, I don't even like remember enough detail about the squat exactly to reenact. Oh, but you do. I remember that he did a squat. I don't really remember what it looked like. Sounds like fake to me.

Just fake news. Do you think you could reenact the squat? Ah, okay, I see how it is. See, I'm not a permanent fixture on the show. Ah, so you just get to request things from the other people. Jesse will indeed be throwing it back. Oh, absolutely. Anyway, yeah, I'm going to skip over that for the moment.

Anyway, yeah, Kevin Ginkle was absolutely outstanding in that game yesterday. And I know there's a, there's a growing Kevin Ginkle for closer movement that is out there. I don't know where it started. It might have been new. I don't, yeah, I'm not sure where it came from. But, but yeah, it is out there. It has been, I honestly don't remember what the Kevin Ginkle squat looked like. So, yeah, I would try.

I really don't remember. But anyway, yeah, so I think it was just really cool to see Kevin Ginkle come up in this spot and make the most of an opportunity that he probably wasn't really expecting at that particular moment. I guess you don't really expect guys like Caleb Smith to go down with an injury so suddenly like that. And Kevin Ginkle has put up outstanding numbers for the Diamondbacks in Reno this season. His strikeout to walk rate was insane.

It was probably only a matter of time before. before that happened. So, oh my gosh. Jesse can squat when Pity does his dance. Leah, has Pee did his dance? He has not, and it's actually very annoying, but he has an idea. So now that he's finally back from being gone for three months, he can execute it. Okay.

Yeah, I guess Peey had other things to be worried about other than dancing, although he could have just sent a video of himself dancing. Exactly, but you know what? We can't fault him. I mean, we can. Everybody go tweet at him at S. Peters Hockey. We want to see the dance. I'll do it.

You know, if Petey does it, then maybe I'll do it. Maybe we'll do one of those things. Give the people what they want. Anyway, do you have anything else on Kevin Ginkle, Jacob, other than trying to make me impersonate his new pitching motion? I was thinking about the fact that the Debex bullpen next year might honestly be kind of good. Like, thinking about some of the pieces that they have, like watching that game yesterday. Like Kyle Nelson, we've given show.

much love to Manciply over the course of the season, but Kyle Nelson has almost been as good just with less appearances. Like Kyle Nelson has looked really, really good out of the bullpen. He has. That's true. So you get Kyle Nelson, Joe Manipy, Kevin Ginkle, hopefully, I mean, we're basing this off of one appearance. Off of one major league appearance.

That's reasonable, right? But we're looking for hope here. Ian Kennedy has not looked awful. So if they do exercise the option on him, he comes back. He can be a piece in that bullpen. and then you're looking at a couple guys in the minor leagues that might actually come up and have an impact. I mean, J.B. Bukowskis, I'm still really high on him. Yeah.

There's a couple pieces that you're hoping are coming to fill some of those slots. But you're starting to look at the shapings of maybe what might be a homegrown bullpen that looks better than some of the ones that they've tried to put together in recent years. Yeah. Yeah, a homegrown bullpen in Arizona would be remarkable. That's something we've ever seen, like have the Diamondbacks ever had? A notable relief pitcher that came up through the Diamondback system. Since I like started actively following this team, I'm not sure. Jose Valverde, I think he came up.

I believe is the only guy. I think he came up through the system. So that would make sense. But yeah, you think about other good relievers. The Diamondbacks have had JJ puts, had a long career elsewhere prior to that. Fernando Rodney was pretty decent in 2017. Fernando Rodney experience. Fernando Rodney experience.

He was like 40 years old when that happened. So obviously, Arizona was not the first stop in his major league career. I don't know. Brad Ziegler, he was with the Oakland A's for a while. So Debeks haven't had many homegrown relievers. And I think it's possible that some of the pitching prospects that they have might turn into some of those guys as well. To Ben's comment, Noe is extremely handsome. some yes. I do feel really bad for him with his ERA because I feel like he's the guy that just gets thrown in in the awful situations and he is constantly getting thrown into baseball games. Like his appearance numbers are extremely high. Like he comes in a lot to just eat a lot of the crap in the blowout games. I do feel kind of bad for how overused he's been and in just terrible situations. Like he does have good stuff. Yeah, he does have good stuff. And he showed it last year. I mean, he had.

a really good season last year. So we'll see if the debacks keep him around. He's probably a little bit, a little bit more on the edge. Daniel Hudson was a good reliever. He was. He still is. Still is.

He didn't come up with the diamond backs. They got him from the white socks, I believe. And he was a starter. He was a starter in the 2011 playoff. He was a very good starter. He had like, you were like 220 innings or something ridiculous that year.

And then his elbow did not like that. Yeah, twice. Twice. Twice. And still throws 97. Yeah, yeah, Daniel Hudson has an absolutely remarkable story. But anyway, speaking of remarkable stories, Jacob, we should talk about our friends at OGs. Oh, geez. Yeah, did I not say weird like I did?

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He needed to. He needed to. How did he earn the right to be on this graph? He needed to make his way into the show. Yeah. And so he somehow found his way into the show. He'll always do that. You know, he leaves, but he finds a way to impose himself anyway.

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Any final moves that we're going to trickle in have probably already done so by now. So we have made it to the conclusion of the MLB trade deadline. Jacob, how do you feel just in general about what happened just sort of across the game of baseball? Was this, I don't know, did you find this trade deadline to be compelling or interesting for you personally? I think there was one trade that everybody expected to happen that kind of dominated all

of the headlines, which maybe to me kind of took a little bit of the fun out of it. Sure. Like there was three teams kind of in the mix, but not really in the mix. Like it really was down to two teams, but even then we really just knew who the main team was. Sounds like the Cardinals didn't want to give up Dylan Carr. I feel like most deadlines, there's a few superstars that are trying to find their way on to other teams. And we just didn't have that this year. Yeah.

There was just not a ton of superstar movement. Like Juan Soto ate up a lot of the headlines, right? Every team that wanted a superstar wanted Juan Soto. It was who could pay for him. and so to me I just felt like this deadline was a little lackluster and I think maybe we got a bad end of it because there was only two deals and both of our deals took place before the actual day where most of the stuff goes down. It's a little more fun when it comes out at like 307 or something like that.

It's like, oh, there's big news right at the right at the buzzer. Yeah. It was a pretty boring day to be honest. I just kind of like I felt like my anxiety was high all day waiting for something to happen and then nothing ever happened. Yeah, it's like my computer and phone like. basically died by 11 a.m. because of how much I was refreshing Twitter. And it was sort of all for not when it came to the Diamondbacks. No, no movement there. But on the whole, I think a lot of teams did do quite a bit. The Minnesota Twins made several

moves that really, I think, make them interesting. Tyler Malley, maybe the highlight there. I like that deal. Yeah, really, really good. Really, really good pitcher with the Cincinnati Reds, who the Diamondbacks saw recently. And I believe he, he spun a gem against the Diamondbacks not too long ago. So, yeah, the twins got a lot better. The Orioles sort of decided to sell. They were part of that. They traded Tray Mancini.

They traded Jorge Lopez as well to the Minnesota Twins. Yeah, I mean, I don't know if the Diamondbacks are in that spot next year. You want the Diamondbacks to sell if they're like two games over 500 this time of year? How I feel about the, that is a funny comment, Benjamin. The Padres did indeed not do enough because they added. you know, four guys, moved 19 prospects, and we need to see more Juan Soto's on the San Diego Padres. AJ Preller just slacked off this trade deadline. Where was my train of thought before that?

Where did I, where was it coming from? You were talking about, um, it was not notable. Apparently it wasn't very important. Oh, no, you were talking about if the diamondbacks, if the diamondbacks were in the same spot as the Orioles, what would they, what would you want them to do? I mean, if it's guys. like Tray Mancini, like, how old is Tray Mancini? He's probably a little younger than I would imagine. But if we're talking, he's 30.

If we're talking the debacks are on the fringe of competing, but they're not necessarily in a spot to compete. And you find deals for guys like Tray Mancini netted them a nice deal. Like he netted a 12th prospect from Houston. Like he did net them a good return. Yeah. So to me, like those deals make sense. So, like, if you do get to next year and Merrill Kelly all of a sudden is still a

two-eight guy and he's going to net you some top prospects that are ready to hit the big league soon and or a couple younger big league arms or maybe a big league third baseman that's good. Like, those are deals I could see them making that I would be okay with them making. Like, you're still making moves that better your, like their timeline is not next year. Yeah. And I think that's something that everybody just needs to accept. while they might be competitive next year and a 500 baseball team next year, their timeline is not next year.

Yeah, that's an interesting, interesting comment. Ben says isn't trading Mancini, kind of like trading Walker. I guess there are some similarities there just in terms of both guys pretty much being first baseman. Mancini is a little bit different in that he's on an expiring contract. Christian Walker is still around for a few years. So I guess that's the big difference there. As far as the San Diego Padres go, I know. know they sort of stole the show and I hate to cater to their, to their narrative here. But we sort of have to have a conversation about like,

what the heck are the Diamondbacks going to do, right? Like the Padres are pulling moves like this. The Dodgers obviously are doing things like this on the regular. It's a little intimidating for a team like the Diamondbacks that is on the rise, but still has a pretty long way to go. Like if Juan Soto winds up there for a while and Josh Bell winds up there for a while, I mean, the Padres have an opportunity to be every bit is elite as the Dodgers at least on paper. Yeah, you're just kind of praying that your farm system pans out in a way that you think it's going to pan out, right?

Yeah. Like, we were talking about this last night, and this gets me, like, I'm extremely excited to think about this. The fact that you said Keith Law has Corbyn Carroll listed as his number one prospect of baseball, correct? Yes, correct. You have Corbyn Carroll as the number one prospect of baseball. Jordan Lawler, albeit that he's struggling in Hillsborough right now, has the ability to be a number one prospect in baseball. Like I think he's number 11 right now on MLB Pipeline.

Yeah. And then you have Drew Jones who certainly has the talent to be a number one prospect of baseball. And he will have shoulder surgery tomorrow, we just found out. Yes, he will have shoulder surgery. But so did Carol, right? Did he get to shut him down? Jordan Lawler had the exact same procedure. So I'm not too concerned about that.

you have three guys that can eventually be number one in baseball like number one prospect in baseball now are they going to pan out you don't know like it just is such a weird thing all we're looking at is prospect rankings if we headline the prospect rankings that's hope that it pans out right

because if you end up with all of those players on your roster and they all pan out to what you think they can be I think you are competitive with the Dodgers and the Padres at least on paper your starting lineup is competitive with the Dodgers and the Padres, and you will still continue to build through all of this. And like we said, they have a plethora of guys that might not ever see time.

Like there are a ton of guys that just might not fit in because there's too many guys that need playing time. And that's when you start making moves for guys that'll help you be competitive at the major league level eventually. Eventually. Yeah, I mean, I think the... So the Padres as far as... I know there's like this question of like,

how are the Padres doing this? like they're a pretty small market team. I was listening to Burns and Gambo earlier today. And Gambo was talking about, he had some good information on this, and he was talking about how apparently the Padres got like a $300 million capital investment recently. That'll do it.

That'll do it. Yeah, I'd go trade for Juan Soto and try to resign him too if I had $300 million sitting around. So, and basically what we know about the Padres ownership is just that, like, they don't have any problem losing money year after year. Like, they don't need to have the attendance to counteract what their payroll is every year in order to be willing to do it. And they just really want to win.

And you can see right now with how AJ Preller, how aggressive he was, they're trying to win at all costs. Like, the Padres are not even, if you look at their record, like, there haven't even been that good this season, right? Like, it doesn't feel like they're on the verge and just needed, like, a couple pieces to put them over the top. This is like a rare situation where a team is like sort of in the middle, but they do so much at the trade deadline that you're like, yeah, they might have still put themselves over

the top. I guess we'll have to see how it turns out. Yeah, the Padres are obviously now completely in the thick of it, right? Like you're putting them up with the Braves and the Dodgers. Yeah, I think you have to. I mean, because Fernando Tatis is about to come back. And then you have Tatis and Machado and Soto and Josh Bell in the same lineup. And there's no more Eric Hosmer.

I don't know why you're worried, Jacob. But Eric Cosmer doesn't scare me. No, Eric Cosmer doesn't scare me. Although Eric Cosmer was like a Diamondbacks killer. He was a Diamondback killer. He was indeed a Diamondbacks killer. We also have a great tweet about Eric Hosmer, I believe, is a graphic. Eric Stephen tweeted, this is the most power Eric Cosmer's had all season, talking about when he was in position to use his no-trade clause.

and basically stop the trade from happening. Of course, there's sort of a, there's sort of a stigma around Eric Hosmer hitting a whole bunch of ground balls and not really having a whole lot of power. I just want to throw this out there that the Padres are currently beating the Rockies without Tatis, Soto,

Hosmer, Voight, Abrams, and they're beating them seven to three. Yeah, it doesn't know well. So let's just add in a Tatis and a Soto. Sure. And add in a Josh Bell. It's probably like, I don't know. Maybe a brand of jury hitting somewhere in there.

Yeah, Brandon Jury too. This is tough. This is tough. It's a tough time. Hey, but I actually was thinking about this earlier today. It's kind of nice to know that next year the scheduling is going to change. Next year they will not be playing the San Diego Padres. 17, 16, 17 times?

Yeah, usually it's 17 or 18 times. You will not be playing them that many times, which is nice. That is nice. You don't have to deal with it as much. You just have to deal with the fact that they're in. in your division and it's hard to win as many games as them. Yeah. That's a minor obstacle.

It's a minor obstacle. Oh, man. Yeah, the Diamondbacks, frankly, have their hands full moving forward. But, I mean, I don't think this was like a huge shock to anyone. I mean, the Padres have been loaded on prospects for a while, and they've pushed in a lot of their chips recently, and it kind of only made sense for them to just, like, go all in and really go for it right now. So, yeah, it's going to be.

It's going to be tough. Alec Thomas has hit a lot of ground balls, but he still has more war than Hosmer. Yeah, I mean, Eric Cosmer plays first base, and Alec Thomas plays a pretty darn good. Defensive war is a big thing. Defensive war is a very big thing. Not everybody can be Christian Walker. No, no, not everyone can be Christian Walker for space. Although Eric Cosmer is one of the better first baseman.

Charles Woodall Pikes is trade us to the A.O. West for Seattle. Ah, there you go. That's the trade that Diamondback should have made this stuff. Actually, I will float this. If expansion teams come into the fold, which Manfred has talked about wanting to do whenever it's going to be within the next 10 years. You're a big fan of them bringing a team to Portland based on your running yesterday? Yes, I would like them to bring a team to Portland. I think baseball would thrive there.

However, if expansion teams come into the mix, do you start shifting divisions around? I mean, baseball's floated doing just two sides. Like, they've just floated doing no divisions. Which would be really weird. I mean, I guess the NBA does have divisions, but you don't really notice in some ways. Yeah, like the playoff picture is all conference related. So, yeah, I mean, that is possible that that could happen down the road at some point. I'm not totally sure if that's happening anytime soon.

Probably don't. Within 10 years. Within 10 years. That's possible. I can see it. I'll be old and gray and have a child before then. There you go. Jacob.

Oh, man. You're younger than me. Shush. Anyway. He's like, I have no idea how to respond to this. I don't know how to transition from that one, but we're going to try. Jacob, have you made any good bets on the Draft King's Sportsbook app in the last 24 hours? My bet last night did not pan out for Seth Beer to hit him on the other.

No, I did not. I don't think he got a ball in the air last night. No, I was going to get some. Well, no, he did. He lined out to second base. That counts as air. That sort of counts. Yeah, I was going to give you some flack on Twitter for that yesterday, but I refrained.

You'll be happy to know. Hey, I'm still three for four on this. You're three for four. I'm three for four. I think what it is. Professional better is like 60% or above. So like 75% I will be a okay with. I think it only works if you tell it to Sean.

You give Sean advice, then it will happen. Sean did bet on it. I do feel bad. I do feel bad. I did bet him. I did tell him. But to be fair. You didn't like tell him specifically for him.

You said you mentioned that you said it on the show. So I think I think this is proof that you have to just tell Sean directly and then it'll be successful. There you go. Okay. Anyway, you all should go and download the draft king sportsbook app now. Use promo code pH and X. Make your first deposit and get a risk-free bet of up to $1,000. That's promo code pH and X only at draft king sports book.

Minimum age and eligibility restrictions apply. see show notes for details. Jacob, are you interested in trying again? Do you want to make another prediction for... I have to... You keep going. I have to look at the lineup. Okay.

All right, you do that. We have... What is it? 23 minutes before the game starts? Something like that. While you're looking that up, I will give everyone a quick word from our friends at Focco,

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Tristan McKenzie. Okay. However, if you're going to twist my arm, this is not counting against my record because I'm being forced to make one on the show. It has to happen naturally. Is that what I mean? I will go Alec Thomas tonight. Okay. For a home run? Yeah.

Presumably. Okay. All right. No, just Alec Thomas. Just in general. I mean, that's just a good bet in general. Like, just bet on Alec Thomas. It doesn't matter, like, what it is.

It's just like always a good bet if Alec Thomas is involved. Anyway, there you go. Listen to Jacob or don't listen to Jacob. If you listen to him yesterday, I apologize because you probably lost money because of him. But, interesting. Did you not know enough about Tristan McKenzie? Yeah, McKenzie gives up home runs. I mean, I knew yesterday that Quantrol had given up quite a few home runs.

Sure. So maybe that's just a Cleveland thing. Maybe just giving up home runs. Like, that's all the runs they give up is just home runs. Right, right. I'm sure that's how it works. What's the case yesterday? Tristan McKenzie, 17 home runs allowed in 114 innings.

That is pretty high. Yeah. His career home runs per 9 is 1.5, which is very high. So good, good call. It's a pretty good, pretty good day to bet on a diamond back hitting a home run over on the Jack King's Sportsbook app. But anyway, we've been here for like an hour and poor Leo wants to go home. We have nothing else to say. We have nothing else to say.

We're just going to keep her here and talk about nothing. Right. Well, you could do that, but the Cardinals also need to talk about their day. It's true. Go watch PHNX Cardinals in about 10 minutes. There you go. There you go. They're going to have a phenomenal show.

There was a fight at practice today. Really? Yes, there was an all-out fight. I think we have to talk about this fight now, right? We have like 10 more minutes, right? No. No? Okay.

All right. We thank you all so much for joining us today, as always, for those of you joining us in the comments, we really appreciate it. If you're joining us on the audio side of things, we really appreciate you subscribing and leaving us a five-star review over there as well. Jacob, an interesting trade deadline all in all, maybe not quite what we were looking for from a Diamondbacks perspective, a little bit. it anti-climactic all things said and done but hey we thank you again all for joining us and remember kids

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