PHNX Arizona Diamondbacks Podcast - The Diamondbacks continue to roll, taking three out of four against the Reds

Episode Date: August 28, 2023

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Hello and welcome in to another edition of the PHNX DVax podcast right on PHN. My name is Derek Montia. Of course, I am your mayor of PHNX in about three days. Once again, this man was going to just... Totally a little bit right there. Yeah, he went. That's why he's Mr. Electric. It's the only Jean de Paz.

Jesse Friedman will be joining us shortly from Los Angeles, where he will be covering this very, very big series the Diamondbacks have against the Los Angeles Dodgers. And I don't mean to overhype that because at this point, the Dodgers aren't even in our, in our, in our, in our eyesight. I mean, it's, it's, it's, depending on how you're looking at the rest of this year, it's either not relevant at all or it's, it's like every series is important. So they all. It is. But in terms of like all the other opponents that they face, like most of them are either are like in this wild card race. Arguably, it's their toughest week because they take on the Los Angeles Dodgers followed by a series back here at home with the Baltimore Orioles.

which are a very hot baseball game. But in the meantime, you can make sure to follow Jesse for all of his adventures in Los Angeles. And in the meantime, we will have him on later to preview that series. But we want to talk about this enormous win for the Arizona Diamondbacks over the Cincinnati Reds. They did not pull off the sweep, but they got as close to it as you humanly could.

I don't want to talk about Saturday's game too much, but I do want to say this, even though things went completely off the rails for this team and they blew a game that they honestly should have won, I can't help but appreciate their ability to fight back late in that when they were down in extra innings and tie it again. I really thought that they were sunk. And of course, that amazing ball game ends on a bach,

which is just awful. But anyway, we won't talk about that one. We will talk about, of course, how good the Arizona Diamondbacks pitching staff was in this one. And when I say pitching staff, of course, I mean the starters. The starting pitchers were just absolutely fantastic for this team. Merrill Kelly, seven innings pitched, one hit, no runs, no walks, 12 strikeouts, had to leave the game due to hamstring cramping. Otherwise, that might have been eight innings, nine innings, who knows. Brandon fought five and a third, three hits, two earn runs, one walk, five strikeouts. He probably could have gone

longer, too. He probably could have gone longer. And that was a big bit of a topic for debate as well, Davey's the guy we really worried about five innings pitch five hits one earned run take you walks five K I'll take it I mean the diamond backs take it they did end up losing his start yeah because of him necessarily I'll take it that's all you can ask for him was that davy's start is that he is not the reason the team loses yeah and then slade five and two thirds three hits one earn run zero walks five case definitely take that do we have a pitching staff I think we might have a pitching staff. I'm not ready to I'm not quite ready to say

that Zach Davies is like rounding out this pitching staff but brother there's outside of him you throw any of the other four starters out I'm feeling good about the debatch chances in that game at least from a pitching standpoint. Four earned runs from four starts three walks

in four stars yeah and those are four starts that don't include oh yeah and you don't lose that gallon like like it literally is if there was if this if something's going to go on the pitching staff it's going to be in one of those more than likely i mean at least based on how fath been pitching one of those last two games there and it yeah it didn't really at least again

from a starting pitching perspective so they keep doing that then the team becomes like they become a much harder team to beat because there's no there's no game in which you can you can rely on the pitching staff or at least the starting pitching staff shooting the bet at this point and i think the other thing here is that lovolo knows that he can go he doesn't want to he probably should try to refrain from doing it, but he can turn a Slade Chaconi or a, and Jesse makes sure, because Tori's calling him Chaconi, right? I don't care what baseball reference says. We're putting the chut in there.

Baseball reference is unofficial anyways. Yeah, they just take a guess at it. Yeah, they say themselves unofficial. But let me tell you, if they have to turn to a bullpen game, I don't think Tori's going to shy away from doing so, but hopefully he won't need to with the numbers these guys are going to put out. Yeah, and I mean, again, this is all about the postseason, right? And you look at these guys.

Merrill Kelly, I mean, again, he obviously had the cramping issue, but he probably is going further. I mean, he's definitely going further in that game. He went out there to pitch that last inning, or that eighth inning, I guess. So there's that. Then there's, you look at, fuck, I kind of lost my train of thought there. Oh, they're going to like, they're going to let these guys go further into games. Like, like, fought is going to get to go further into games. Absolutely.

Obviously, like, if you're in the postseason and. And like they're going to, they're not worried about pitch count. Yeah. Whereas like, especially with the fought start, right? Like he probably could have gone further in that game. Well, and there's, there's other things, too, to take into consideration. Like a lot of times it's not as much the pitch count as much as Torrey wanting to refrain from. Matchups and through the, well, them going through the lineup of third time.

Usually that can be a big reason why. But we've all seen how that can backfire in the postseason. We've seen how that can backfire with Tori. I mean, that straight up almost happened. But yeah. In the postseason specifically, there was going to be. going to be there is no worrying about pitch count or or arms or anything like if you're the guy or the guy you're going out there and you're going to pitch until you can't anymore and so that's

kind of encouraging right like if your concern is the performance of the bullpen you're probably not going to have to rely on them as much in the postseason assuming these starters keep performing the way they are and some of these starters might end up coming out of the bullpen instead right like a slade you're probably not getting a slade start in the post season yeah um probably Hopefully not getting a Zach Davies start in the postseason. Those guys become great weapons out of a bullpen, though, if they end up getting used in that way in a post season. Absolutely.

And I mean, at this point, I hate to be negative or already saying, like, the Diamondbacks aren't going to go very far, but you're right. Like, at least as far as the matchups that they need to worry about here initially as a wildcard team is a three-game series, right? So, like, your three-game, your pitchers in that series is going to be Zach Gallen, Merrill Kelly, and Brandon Fott? Or do you put Brandon Fott in the middle there?

that you have Merrill Kelly perhaps to go. Yeah. It depends on what happens in game one, right? Right. I mean, yeah, definitely. That's a big point. We're definitely getting a little of rehearsals. Yeah, we are getting ahead of ourselves.

Before we get on to playoffs and wildcard talk, let's take a look at the numbers for this series because the Arizona Diamondbacks, once again, that's starting pitching ERA. Big reason, big reason why they won this series. And I don't know so much about that relief pitching ERA. But, yeah, we have here 25 to 20, 36 hits, 28. Cincinnati Reds,

they made a lot of mistakes in this series. I mean, their youth really showed and the Diamondbacks, I think, did an excellent job at taking advantage of it. Maybe not in all instances like they should, but they did do a good job of taking advantage of it in many of these instances. So, this

has been fairly impressive for me. And honestly, that starting pitching ERA for me is something that's just kind of wild. Like the Diamondbacks in a four-game series put up a 1.57 ERA against one of, you know, the better offensive teams in baseball. Yeah, you know, it is, I mean, it feels very much like them kind of playing the baseball that they were playing at the beginning of the season, like them being aggressive and chaotic and taking advantage of other teams making mistakes and them not being the ones making mistakes. Right.

But I think, you know, as we're rounding into the postseason here, like this is starting to become kind of what the idea. people have had about this team like all and although that wasn't the case during like the losing streak i think the bullpen's the weak point you have solid starters you have a lot of of of capable offensive weapons it's just a matter of them all putting it together like it's just a matter of how much the bullpen is going to have to be relied on because you can't really rely on them all that much no this this was atrocious yeah so it's like i mean we we joke about it we throw up the bullpen may mean we do all of that stuff but it really felt like the bullpen was active working against the team at times.

Again, so frustrating because during the dark times, that's just how I'm going to refer to that month and a half, the dark times. Like, the bullpen wasn't bad. It wasn't the problem. So, like, it's so frustrating to, again, and it kind of was the theme of the season. I think, just all put it together at once. It become very tough to beat. But I think, I think

the reality of what the bullpen is, is much closer to what you've been seeing of them recently than what you saw of them during the dark times. It's just not the best bullpen. It's not the worst, but it's not the best. They outstole bases, though. They stole bases, though. They stole more bases than the race. Eat your hard alley, Daly Cruz.

That's right. You got to get on base to steal them. Well, and speaking of that, I mean, obviously, we have the Corbyn Carroll milestone here, where Corbyn Carroll becomes the fourth rookie in Major League Baseball history with 20 home runs and 40 stolen bases. I believe only one of them has not one rookie of the year. Well, he came second. And that's right. And there's only one guy to do it since 1977. And his name, Mike Trout.

Michael Trout. Michael Trout. Not a bad guy to be associated with. but Corbyn Carroll did put both Ellie De La Cruz and Matt McLean in their place as far as this whole rookie of the year to pay. I mean, I feel like they kind of put themselves in their place. They really did. They sucked. Let's talk about it.

Let's talk about it because Ellie, Ellie De La Cruz is getting all of the hype for a throw, a throw when this man went one for 16. One for 16. Let's focus on the throw for a second. One for 16. Like people are always talking, are talking about this throw. Oh, he threw it 99.7 miles per hour or whatever it is. First off, he was out by like eight feet. Any shortstop in baseball gets Corby and Carroll out there.

You want to know why? Because they might not be throwing it as fast, but I bet you they throw it with the home plate, not five feet up the third baseline and has Corby and Carroll running into the shins of the catcher. Like, the throw in and of itself is impressive because it's going damn near 100 miles per hour. But like, ah.

Yeah. Yeah. Any shortstop makes that point. Clay. Corbyn Carroll, six for 12, one home run. Pretty good. Two triples, one double, five walks. And then one of those triple. Two strikeouts, two for two on stolen bases.

Zero errors. Ellie De LaCruz, one error. Matt McLean, two errors. Three for 18 for Matt McLean. One homer. No walks. Seven strikeouts. He also had a stolen base.

So Ellie De LaGroes. Elie De La De La Cruz also struck out seven times. So I don't know. I think that we can, Damon, I think you can put your efforts elsewhere for now. I think there's other guys you need to maybe take out. Matt McClain is really good. Yeah.

But he's also terrible at defense apparently. Well, let's take a look at how good Matt McClain and Corbyn Carroll are, shall we? Because we have a little comparison graphic for those two gentlemen. And, of course, advantage Corbyn Carroll once again. This is a bar for Brian that he tweeted. L.A. won the battle with the throw, but Corman's going to win the F war. Ha! Look at that.

Fantastic. And he does. He does win the F4. 4.9 to 3.3. 40 stolen bases to Matt McLean's pathetic 14. 22 home runs to a poultry 16 for Matt McLean. You're starting from the bottom up. It is, I feel like,

I'm going in the wrong direction. I'm going in the wrong direction. I'm going to acknowledge that Matt McLean has 113 less plate appearances. Sure. Because he's not as good of a player and he doesn't play as much as Corby Carroll does. Okay, yeah, yeah, we can go with that. Is that fine? Talk to him, Derek.

I'm trying. I'm trying. Talk your shit. No, but honestly, it seems like there's always another guy. And that's one thing that we've been saying since the James Outman days is there's always another guy. I'm sure Outman's name is still being thrown around with his performance since the All-Star break and such too.

The biggest thing here is that Corby and Carroll continues to do it. He continues to do it consistently. He even had that slump. I know we're all very well aware. We all asked what the hell was wrong with Corbyn Carroll during that period of time. But Corbyn Carroll hitting his way out of it lately because he's been very good. I really like to see what the MVP race was if he didn't go through that slump. Because now it's Mooky's award apparently.

Well, I mean, Mookie did take over as the NL favorite for the MVP award. And I'm sure that's going to continue to change. But just like the rookie of the year thing is going to continue to change. I don't think it is. I don't mean change. I mean, there'll probably be another guy that pops back up here. We'll probably get James Outman's name thrown back up here around. We'll probably get a couple of other guys.

Alvarez? That's the only one that hasn't really been thrown into it. Yeah, like the Mets guys have not really been thrown into this conversation as much as they probably should be. Should they? I mean. I guess, yeah, because rookie of the year isn't the same as like an MVP where the performance of the team really should impact what you think of the play. When I say should be thrown into it, I mean, in the same sense that Ellie and Matt McLean should be thrown into it in the sense that nobody should be. But if we're putting people in it, then maybe they probably should be in that.

Maybe Senga, but I don't know about Alvarez. I've just heard good things. I haven't really looked at his numbers. And Senga's also 30. Yeah. So how do you feel about that? How do you feel about that? Like him and Masataka Yoshita.

Like, because Masataka Yoshita has gone on record and said that he doesn't want rookie the year because he's not a rookie. Yeah. Because he's played professional ball in Asia for whoever. How do you feel about that? Like it's, it's something I feel. And the rookie of the year versus newcomer of the year, I guess. We were, we were discussing the rookie of the year MVP combo that Corby

Carol might potentially be a candidate for. And of course, Ichiro is the other person that gets brought up. And Ichiro was like 28, 29 years old. Yeah, it is kind of funny how he can be rookie the year and also have like the most hits in professional baseball history. It's like, okay, you're counting all of these hits from Japan, but also even working the year, which I don't really have a problem with. Like, I love itchiro.

It just has to be one or the other. Yeah, it can't be a rookie if you've played professional sport in a different country just because you're new. If you want to call it new cover the year, like I'm fine with that. That's what they do in like the PAC 12 of RIP. Like they call it the newcomer the year instead of freshman of the year. Or no,

I think they have both, don't that. But yeah, I don't know. Yeah. I'm with you. I'm with you. Regardless,

the point of this whole conversation is Corby Carroll. He's your rookie of the year. But let's take a look at the wildcard standings because things continue to heat up for the Arizona Diamondbacks as far as this goes. They continue to put some distance between them

and the teams that they need to put distance between. I still don't understand how the Diamondbacks had such a good weekend and the Cubs are still up by half a game. That was wild to me. But they were up a half a game after Thursday, I believe, due to the, they had the, you know, the downbacks didn't play. And then they won. And then the Reds also won.

They're doubleheaders. So that's how things kind of switched around there. But this is looking nice. This is looking very nice. And the better thing about this is after the Marlins, which aren't featured here on this list, is the Padres. No, no, no. After the Marlins is the Padres, who I believe now are eight back.

And at one point, before the Diamondbacks played the Padres, I think there were one game separating them and the Padres and that final wild card spot. So now things are looking good, guys. Things are looking good for this team. I mean, I feel like this is, again, as we get closer to playoffs,

like things start to shake out, and I think you're ultimately going to get the six best teams in the playoffs of the National League. And I think, like, I was just talking about this with one of Max intern Savannah, who's a Giants fan. She's from the Bay Area. And I was like, the Giants don't make any sense.

They're not that good of a team. Like, the roster's not that good. They shouldn't be that good. Their batting lineup is terrible. It doesn't make sense. And it's not like they have a Siong candidate either. Like, it's not like they're pitching steps. Yeah, but it's not like they have any.

Logan Webb is there. It doesn't really make it in a whole lot of sense. That's why they're playing that. Well, I think ultimately you're getting like the Reds. I think were over before when they got that shot in the arm from, from Ellie and they, they were obviously really hot. But like, I think ultimately you're getting the sixth best team.

Or let me take that bad. you're getting three division champions and then the three next best teams because I don't know that the brewers are one of the six best teams but that's just how this works fair enough uh but joining us right now by the way to talk about this Arizona diamond back series with the reds just a little bit is the one and only jesse freeman Jesse are you here Jesse big blurry Jesse I think I'm here am I here here uh Jesse what were your thoughts on the starting pitching in the series for the diamondbacks against the reds uh they seem to be pretty damn good Yeah, it was incredible, right? I mean, everyone going into this series was concerned because the Diamondbacks are playing their biggest series of the year. And they didn't line up Zach Gallen to pitch the finale of the series. It seemed like a missed opportunity going in. And you look back now, I mean, I think Diamondbacks starting pitchers combined for 23 innings in this series.

And they allow to combine four earned runs. There's literally one earned run per game on average. That'll play. That'll play in the biggest series of the year. The Diamondbacks were, you know, they were able to take care of business against the Reds. And, you know, that was their biggest series of the year. And, you know, things are only going to get more and more importance down the stretch. But to this to date, that is, you know, I mean, this weekend was huge for them.

They got big offense when they needed it, which is something that we haven't really seen them be able to do at times. We've seen them lose a lot of close games and not be able to get that big hit. But it felt like in the series, they were able to, you know, kind of convert some Reds mistakes into some big innings as far as offensive numbers go. Lourdes had a huge solo home run on Sunday that tied it in the seventh. And the offense, of course, you know, got those runs across in the 8th. Even in the loss, I felt like it was fairly impressive that they were able to muster up enough runs there at the end of the game in extra innings to tie it up after the Reds had gone up by, I think it was three runs. And so this team just offensively feels like they are getting things back on track.

Yeah, on some level, you feel like you could have had a sweep here, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah. I don't know if the Diamondbacks really, I don't think they really deserve to win that game because, I mean, they scored three runs against Alexis Diaz and in the bottom of the 10th and all of those runs were unearned. Matt McLean, as you guys talked about earlier, did not showcase the best defense at second base in this series.

the Diamondbacks were able to take advantage of that. It was a winnable game. It was an extremely winnable game when all was said and done. Of course, Paul Seawald, you know, had an opportunity to close that game and, you know, just win a clean nine inning game over the Cincinnati Reds. I wasn't able to pull that off. But, but yeah, you know, you'll take three wins out of four for sure, even if you, you know, definitely had a chance to win that fourth game.

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we are in a different division now. We are in the wild card division. And that's what we are focusing on because the Dodgers have been playing such good baseball that they have just ran away with the NL West. And really with a double-digit lead, I don't feel like it's even healthy for us to try to say we can catch the Dodgers or even focus on that at this point. But still a three-game series with the Dodgers, very important and a very difficult week for the Diamondbacks overall that kicks off with this series. Yeah, our Dodgers and Orioles, right? Yeah.

We did our power rankings a few days ago. I think we had the Dodgers second and the Orioles third. So you're basically playing, you know, two of potentially the top three teams in baseball right now this week. So, yeah, every game matters for this Diamondbacks team down the stretch. You don't necessarily want to think of it as like every game is a must-win game. But it sort of feels that way. It sort of feels like every –

Every game is a must-win game at this point. So, yeah, this is going to be a... Sorry about that, Jesse. We have a little bit of delay, so excuse me, if I talk over Jesse like that. But this team, 80 and 49, Jesse, just really impressive what they've been able to do this season. Yeah, people coming into the year were like,

oh, the Dodgers won't be that good, right? The Padres were sort of like the trendy team. That's the team that a lot of people are picking to, win the NOS division. Of course, I was not one of those people. I never would have made that prediction. I absolutely did make that prediction. But yeah, you can see the Dodgers have, I mean, in some ways they are, they're not as good of a team as they. I see here. They're starting in this year, this year is 4.48, which is very high for this Dodgers team. I want to say that would be the highest they've had in a very long time. But when you've got Mookie bets and you've got

Freddie Freeman. I mean, those two guys right now, along with Ronald Acuna, probably the best three position players in baseball right now. Those three, the Dodgers have two of them. So, yeah, I mean, when you have a team OPS of almost 800, you know, when your bullpen is above average, not great, but above average. And the Dodgers continue to play good defense as well as you see there with their 29 defensive run saved.

That ranks in the top half of the league. So, yeah, they're basically, you know, pretty deep. decent at everything except on offense they are spectacular they are you know a top four offense in baseball um and yeah i mean i mean i must do that's it's amazing what having you know two of the best players in the game on your team can can do for your lineup uh those two have a combined ops of over 1,000 this year by the way uh and mooky bets is now the betting odds favorite for national league MVP by the way surpassing ronald a cunia junior which was a bet i told you all to take not too long ago and I hope you did because the field is just too wide open.

And me and Sean said you guys we laughed in your face. He told me I was idiot. They did it on the show. They did it privately after the show. We did it amongst each other when you weren't a present. Yeah, when I wasn't even here they were like, what a dumbass. And I was like, Derek's the biggest idiot. I know.

How the turntables have turned. How the turn tables have turned. Well, Jesse, you will be in Los Angeles covering the series. so we again think did he leave? He bounced. Hopefully his house isn't burning down. Yeah, I need to do a dress guy.

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And, of course, it's Monday. We know what we do on Monday, but you know what we do all the time. This guy loves it because every month, right? Every month on this show, Black History. Oh, yeah. Every month on this show, Women's History Month. Every month on the show, Black Women's History Month. Where's Latino, Latina History Month?

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every month on this show. Every week on this show is Shark Week. Every day on this show, Earth Day, because we recycle. But on Mondays, we go to the mailbag. Let's go. Always something interesting in my mailbox. I'm trying to get to everything in my mix.

We go out. All right. Let's go. What do we got? First question. First question comes from Gabriel, boldest bronze on Twitter. Gabriel says,

Now that we're back, what's the ceiling and floor of this team record wise? Wow. I mean, I think as far as what your expectations for this team are concerned, the ceiling should be 90 wins. Yeah, 31 games left. They're at 69. So that would be 21. That'd be winning the majority of their games left.

Yeah, so I guess the ceiling is technically, the ceiling is 162. Yeah. Obviously, they're not to do that. I think he means from this point. going forward well that's what I'm saying like the the the the record yeah I get so yeah I guess the feeling technically speaking is 31 and oh yeah um and the floor is oh and 31 but we can't expect that we can't either of those are realistic it's like asking them to sweep the reds they

tried to do it they couldn't they couldn't hold it um but yeah I feel like 90 with like can they go can they go 21 and 10 can they hit I I'm 90 wins I I I think that based on what they have left on their schedule, it's going to be difficult. But when you're asking me what like the absolute best that they can do would be, I would say 90 wins. Yeah. Because of course, like I said, they have, I think two series left with the Colorado Rockies. I know they have one series with the White Sox. And?

And then they have one series. They have two series. Oh, one four game series with the Mets who are absolutely have to have given up. And of course, a three game series with that poverty franchise known. as the New York Yankees. Bums. Did I say that right? Bums. Bums.

A lot of them. Bums. By the way, did you see what went low, low said in the Rays? Do you see what happened in the Rays Yankees series? No, what happened? There was, the bench was cleared twice because they kept hitting Yankee, or they kept the Yankees kept hitting Rays. And in their defense, they all suck at baseball, so it probably wasn't on purpose.

But they kept hitting Rays. Rani O'Rez Arena got pissed. And so the bench was cleared once he got hit. and then he obviously they separated and then a rosarina stole second and stole third and then the pitcher they both stayed in the game started talking shit to errosurina again bench just cleared afterwards they asked low about it and they were like well that's just a team that's just a bottom of the standings they're just trying to find anything they're just spark we're in contention so we can't concern ourselves what they're doing and i'm like damn fucking straight got bombs got so that's a series they should be able to win um getting back to the actual question floor floor i think it's i think you flip it i mean we've seen them we saw them in the dark times being the worst team in baseball. Yeah, I think I don't think you can expect them, again, can't expect them to lose 31 straight games, but I think the ceiling, if things get bad fat,

or the floor, if things get bad fast again, would be about the opposite for them to go 10 and 21. Yeah, no, I agree with that. I agree. I think anything, I mean, they're at how many wins right now? 69. Nice. They, I think 10 wins or less is an absolute.

Oh, my God, yeah. If they lose, if they win less than 10 games, Tori needs to lose his job. Yeah, I mean, that's... Especially, because, like, going into a... You're in a playoff spot right now. If you choke that away in that drastic of fashion, like, that's how managers lose their jobs.

Right, right. So there's your ceiling and floor. I guess those reverse records, 21 and 10, 10, 21. What else we got? Michael, I love this question. Michael Rokicke asks, if you can only keep one in free agency, do you keep Lordeus Gouriel or Tommy fam? Yikes.

Why, right? I mean, recency bias is obviously. Tommy fam. I mean, you can't even say that really because Lordas had a big home run yesterday. He had a huge home run. But I mean, Tommy Fam the hitting streak and just everything that kind of has sparked since then it's like the problem

with Lordus is I don't think that the Diamondbacks are willing and I said this before. They're not going to be willing to pay Lordis. Yeah. As much as another team is willing to pay Lordish just based on the fact he was an all star this year and put up good numbers during a stretch, which is what Lordis does

kind of throughout his career. been kind of a streaky hitter where he has these really good stretches and then he has really bad ones and then it evens out to be some pretty decent numbers but depending on which version of him you watched you are going to have a completely different opinion lordis is vibes guy like alice says right here lordis is lord absolutely but i mean i mean you need leadership fam is a different kind of vibes guy yeah he brings a different not a vibe not a vibe not a vibe but he brings a real i don't know if you call that a vibe but let's be real and tommy fam thank god he's on our team great player great but we're seriously going to sit here and act like that dude doesn't seem like a like kind of like a total

dickhead i feel like i feel like i feel like he no i feel like he this is like probably the coolest guy in the club i feel like Tommy fam is the kind of guy who just goes like you saw that i i was texting y'all about the post game i was texting you at least about the post game press conference he had the other day or an interview i had with jody on the field and it was like the fun like it just it sounded like he had just learned his teammates names like he was calling everybody by the first name and he was like our pitcher merrill and and and and and Tell Marte and it was so like it was so weird and I loved it like it was just like he showed up and he's like he wants the rest of the team to like him he doesn't give a shit about nobody else

else has had the organization but he wants he's here for it listen I mean like you were saying if we're including the the financials of this I think Tommy fam was a much more realistic target especially with some of our other goals in the offseason like you'd like to save that money and again Lordus is a rather streaky player Elizabeth says FAM's vibe scare me, that's what we want Yeah, that's exactly what we want

I think there's a spot for both of those guys on your team You need a guy like fam and a guy like Lourdes But what I guess I'm saying is What hurts your team more to not have on your team How is, wait, but the problem is Catell's already a vibes guy Yeah?

Yeah, well my... Cotel's vibes are good My thing about Tommy FAM is that like he's not that good. Like what he's doing now is kind of an outlier. I mean, you look at his career,

like he's a solid. I don't want, I don't want to say that he's not that good. He's a solid player. But he's like kind of outperforming, especially at this age of his, he's 35 years old. Like he's doing more than I think you could have reasonably expected from him

based on what you, what you've seen from him the rest of his career. And to be fair, he's a journeyman for a reason. And Lordus Gurriel has more defensive runs saved this year than I would even have imagined. He's a surprisingly good defense. But he's not, but he is, right? Yeah.

So he makes some good plays, but then there are times seeing him in left field. On Saturday when that ball went like an inch over his glove and you were like, oh, that was, that was like probably should have been a catch. Yeah, right. Right. Right. Yeah, yeah. I had a good view.

I was in left field and I was like, I don't know how he didn't catch. Yeah, right, right. Yeah. And he's a very tall guy. So you would think if he just jumped a little bit. But then he made a good play later in the game. Right. And that's kind of what you'll get out of them.

So I think if we're just doing baseball player for baseball. 12 player, I'd rather have Loris Gurriel, but I think when you consider the money, you're probably getting Tommy fan for a whole lot cheaper. That's a good point. I'm family with Lordus, so I think I have to decide with Lordus as well. But I'd say the same thing he said. What else we get? Kevin Lundberg says, if the playoffs started today, which pitchers are you wanting on the

roster? Starters and relievers. Well, I will say right now that the majority of the starters that are all the majority of the starters that are on the roster right now are the guys I want there. I will say that maybe Ryan Nelson deserves to, you know, have another chance. Yeah, I would, yeah. You know, but for the most part, after this series, I'm riding high on this particular roster. And of course, you know, especially with Zach Davies and Slade, it's a matter of what are they going to do in their next start, right?

I still, it's still too small of a sample size, but I will say that right now this team doesn't have a lot of options as far as, as far as this goes. What's the most recent on Tommy Henry? Tommy Henry sounds like he's going to be done for the year. So he's going to be shut down for the year. We're still awaiting to see if Trey Jameson can potentially come back. Dre avoided Tommy John surgery and everything sounds very positive about Dre coming back. I think Dre, if he was at 100%, would be an absolute, you know, great addition to the bullpen.

I've said it like 50 times that I think he would win this team playoff game, but obviously. it's all depending on it becomes but how's it. Tori would it be if he was like Zach Davies is our number three starter in the playoffs over Brandon fought

if he was like we're going with the experienced guy that would be the most Tory shit ever it would be on a certain token I almost wouldn't mind it too much if if fought and and Slate are both available

and it's just like if we can get those good three innings that we get from Zach Davies sometimes off rip like go for it because I would much rather an opener kind of deal. I would much rather have Zach Davies come in the game on a clean slate at the beginning and figure out real

fast if he's going to be dog shit that day than because the options for like he's going to be on the roster. He's either starting or coming out of the bullpen. I would much rather like I don't want a situation where Miguel Castro was loaded the bases and it's like oh here comes Zach Davies. Like I would much rather Zach Davies start and have a short leash and let these

other younger guys who are probably mentally better suited to come out of the pen if I had to guess I think that would probably be a better setup assuming you have to use them especially after hearing Zach Gallin talk about like the one thing that was kind of important to him at the All-Star game about starting

was the fact he got to keep his routine To be fair I mean that's that Zach Davis has sucked all year so you're not going to stay here and pretend the routine has been like yeah it's like I also got to do with getting his routine counterpoint Brandon Fawts us

savage. Brandon Bond is a savage, but also this is a kid who at the beginning, the first half of the season, we're talking about how flustered he seemed. Postseason is a pretty big deal. Especially, you know, if you're going to, I don't know, Citizen Bank Park or what does it call? That's what they play at, right? Citizens Bank. I think so. Yeah, or, or, or, or, Riggly in the postseason. That's going to be, that's going to be tough. Yeah. I would rather, I would, you know, I might take the veteran experience. And again,

The least for all three of these guys at the bottom of the rotation, I think is going to be incredibly short, obviously. Like, it's you fuck up. One of the other two is coming in. I think is how it ultimately should operate. So it almost doesn't matter who is the starter there. I just think Zach Davies has the smallest opportunity to really fuck this up for the Diamondbacks if he starts as opposed to coming out of the bullpen. That's just me. You know who's on my postseason roster?

Ryan fucking Thompson. The guy is a beast. Stud. He must be protected at all costs. Seawald who? No, let's not go that far. Ryan Thompson, absolutely made the entire organization look good in that finale game there. But yeah, that's still going to be interesting.

I mean, there's a couple of guys that I'm growing weary of myself. And, you know, Miguel Castro hasn't been super reliable. That's the hard part about answering. Justin Martinez, another guy. Like, yeah, there's just. The bullpen just everybody's kind of been unreliable. I mean, Paul Seawald and right now, Ryan Thompson and Paul Seawald are in, for sure. Yeah, Ginkle, I think.

And Ginkle. And Kevin Ginkle, that's your 7-89 potential. You have, presumably, I'm just going to say for ease, the sake of these, I guess, like Soconi or Chaconi or Bryce Jarvis. Like those and and Fah are in the pen. Maybe it's Davies, whatever. So you maybe have the really, maybe Dway Jameson's back. So then there's, that's another guy you might be able to.

And it really is a question of like you look like a guy like Bryce Jarvis do you Are you willing to time that's kind of a risk in the postseason? Yeah I mean Do you go with a guy like this like obviously like Scott McDon't be in the roster but I'm saying like in a in a terms of who you turn to at any given point like are you going to go to that guy that you've seen have Dominant stretches during the regular season although you've also seen him be really bad or are you gonna Roll the dice really with a guy like Jarvis like that's going to be kind of an approach question that we're going to have to wait and see. Yeah, interesting.

The bullpen is not an easy question. No, because like you said, the biggest thing is, you know, who makes it on the starting rotation and then who might find their way into the bullpen, especially when you're talking about that three-game series. So we'll see what the nine-backs do. But really, I think for me, the impression that's been made on me by a couple of guys,

like even with Paul Seawald. Like, let's be honest, Paul Seawald had, what, nine games in a row without allowing a run and then things fell apart for him. But even in those nine games, things got close to falling apart for Paul Seawald. It wasn't like any of his saves for this team. There's been one or two that were relatively stress-free. But a lot of them have involved runners being on the base path and Seawalt kind of working through, you know, I won't say not having his best stuff, but not necessarily going out there and being

completely dominant. Yeah. Oh, my God. I just, there's a. Paul Seawald is almost... Paul Seawall is going to load the bases for Bryce Harper in the... 100%. We are going to be in a situation where...

I don't like this. This is not a... This is not a mailbag. It is 100% I don't want to talk about this. Cody Bellinger or Bryce Harper are going to be at the plate with the bases loaded, and Paul Seawald's going to have the ball on his hand. That is going to be Paul Seawald or Miguel Castro. One of those two things is going to happen with the bases loaded.

I'm going to feel much better about one of the other. One of them is going to have us... One of them is going to upset our stomach. The other one is going to force it. It's Miguel Castro. In that situation, Tori needs to be gone. I agree. I feel like Damon needs to be on camera for the faces he's making right now because they're making me sick to my stomach.

Oh, my God. It's the same way he looks at me in the ninth inning when they bring in Miguel Castro or they bring in Scott McGuff. We're going to have to figure out a way to have Damon a part of that. Yeah. A part of the watch along said happening in the post. We have to. What else we got? We got more mailbag Monday questions.

Ryan Hanley. First, it's my birthday today. Happy birthday, Ryan. He wants to know who starts in a must-win game. Zach Gallen or Merrill Kelly. I did that kind of backwards. Merrill Kelly or Zach Gallen. It's Zach Allen.

It's Zach Allen. Like, I get why you ask this question. Does it matter if it's in home or on the road? Most likely. Yeah. I like, I guess not most likely. But there's obviously the chance that's on the road. Because see, here's the thing.

Like you said, Zach Gallin's going in game one. Yeah? Zach Gallen wins. Game two, they lose. Yeah, Merrill Kelly. maybe available, maybe waited to yeah, honestly, I agree. I think it would be pretty cool.

I think it would be pretty cool. I think it might be smart to, you know, throw, maybe do that, that fought, Cicone, uh, Davies thing in the game two, whatever we decided to do with that third arm.

Yeah. Um, and then, yeah, you throw Merrill out there in game two, especially, or in game three or game one in the next series, especially because he's the mainstay.

And if you do kind of a bullpen game in the game, too, you can somewhat reasonably rely on him giving your arms somewhat of a day off the next day because he's so efficient. And again, it's the postseason. So you, I'm barring like the cramp thing flaring back up. You could probably, you feel pretty good about Jack Davies or about Merrill Kelly pitching into the ace probably. Like, he should be able to accomplish that. So I wouldn't mind that kind of. It's such a weird thing that we're having this conversation. and it's a real conversation because Merrill Kelly has been outstanding for this team this year.

Zach Gallen obviously has been outstanding. Zach Gallen has been damn near unhittable at Chase Field, but Zach Gallen has had his ups and downs. You've got to resign Zach Gallen too at some point. You can't be telling Zach Gallon he's the number two. Like at a certain point that stuff does matter. And I think it would be far too detrimental to this team to insult Zach Davies. If you went with Merrill Kelly all of a sudden. Why do I keep saying Zach Day?

To insult Zach Gallen by having Merrill go one. That's a good point. I think that would be too disrespectful. Yeah, I agree. He did start the All-Star game, and he is currently your Syung betting favorites. That's also true. He's going to be fresh off of Tsai Young. You're going to tell him he's not starting.

Yeah. What else we got? Drunk Pirate 24 on Twitter, which I love that name, Nate. Nate Cleveland asks, first, I think we might be back. We are back, Nate. We can confirm. I know. We are back.

Second, can we change Martinez's nickname from J-Mart to Wild Thing? That's something I've seen a lot on Twitter. I don't know if, I don't know if Justin Martinez deserves a wild thing nickname yet. I mean, I understand. Is this a, yeah, is this a because he throws wild. Yeah, like I don't, listen, I, I'm sorry, drunk pirate. I don't mean this to be kind of any kind of insult. But I think just calling a pitcher who throws triple digits and doesn't have control,

wild thing is lazy. Like, of course. Is it as lazy as calling someone with the last name that starts with Mart? That's fair. That's fair. But I don't consider,

J. Mart. Kmart. I don't consider J. Mart like a nickname. It's just like a shortening of his name. And the same like A-Rod is not. I don't really consider A-Rod to be Alex Rodriguez's nickname. It's just a shorthand.

It's my high school teammates used to call me demon. Hmm. Because D-E-M-O-N. And I like that. I was a big fan of that. Yeah. Like I had a, I had a,

my chemistry teacher in high school, call me E-D-P, Eric DePaz. My first name's Eric, if you didn't know that. Like, I didn't really consider that a nickname. It was just like,

I'm only calling you, DDP. Well, I like EDP. I like EDP. Petey just calls me DEP. That's got complications. I'm not like,

that Eagles fan. Oh, yeah. He's gotten a lot of trouble. Yeah. I'm not sure that's what you want. Yeah, I know. That's like,

it was a lot cooler in 2016 or 2015. It is now. Yeah, that's very true. I'm sorry, Nate. But like, I just, I, you know, it's not just like, it's a lot of people

calling him but like everyone it's I feel like that's just a natural like he throws fast it doesn't have control I feel like it's just naturally oh it's wild thing but he's more wild thing than like any other that that's fair that that is fair like he is that's the best he is like the textbook in the in the in the dictionary you look a wild thing it's literally draw one oh three five feet off the plate like so I'm like I get it it's not a bad nickname we also have Luis Frias who could also be called wild thing I just feel like we gotta get more creative because there's so many people that can get called wild thing like we gotta we got to get a little more like that's why I was a huge fan of giving him my mr. electric nickname

yeah because but he hasn't really been that electric it's yeah that's been that's very true as well it's been electric it's more like a bolt of lightning you don't really know where it's gonna go or when it's gonna show up but yeah there's electricity involved it could damage some shit though it could fuck some shit up what else we got yeah next question comes from a z sports girl 224 I want to talk about Paul Seawall breaking anymore. I thought I said that. Did we break Paul Seawald on Saturday night? Maybe I hope not.

I don't know. Like I said, Paul Seawald, he hasn't been to a point where all of a sudden Saturday night's performance was a surprise. It just felt like things finally came to a head after he seemed to like kind of struggle a little bit more to make that ninth inning lock down. And then what happened? But I mean, can you attribute it also to his use? usage and how much the Diamondbacks have been calling on him as of late.

I mean, I know that's your job as a closer. Yeah. And essentially, if you're a closer on a good team, like what happened with Felix Batista with the, with the Orioles, you're going to get called on a lot, right? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, listen, I, yeah, it's tough because, like, I feel like I don't want to put too much value into this, but the same time, I feel like there's such a sample size I have to, like,

kind of adjusting the, the idea of what success for a closing pitcher looks like when it's an Arizona Diamondback closing pitcher. Like it just, nothing smooth here. They're obviously going to, so like, of court, yeah,

it's difficult and he doesn't make it easy. Um, by and large. And obviously he's had a couple of, of, of, of, of,

of, of, of, of, of that has gone really bad. Um, but like, uh,

it's so much better than what we had. I, I still trust Paul. I trust Paul than literally anybody up, any other pitcher that you were going to bring out of it. No, honestly, you,

you, you tell me, it's the ninth inning of in a save situation of a world series game whatever it's zat yallon meryl kelly and then paul seawald in terms of my trust level yeah like and so that's just going to be what this is i don't really care like and i don't think anything Kevin ginkle play tennis i'm putting Kevin gable fourth but i'm putting Paul seawald before him for sure like i trust Kevin ginkle with my life i trust Paul seewell with my life too um like i i just that's going to be what this is. So it's not going to, it might not be smooth. I still trust him and I don't think he's broken.

I don't know. Also, back to the wild, wild thing thing. Um, the wild thing. Um, I would really like to hope that J-Martart just needs glasses. Like, like, because that would be that James Winston, you want to talk about a wild thing? That's James Winston. Because I was like, he was, he was wild. It was all over the place 30 and 30. And then it was like, oh, but he got LASIC. He's going to figure it out. He didn't figure it out. But that would be incredible. Like if he, if it's just glasses and he gets glasses, then, then while I'm all in. He puts on Zach Gallin's goggles and figures out that he's the exact same prescription. It's got to be the frames with the school cross-over middle.

No, that's fine. We'll get them those. But I'm just saying, like, like, he figures it out. Actually, he does one of those like, oh, my God, let me see how Brian you are. Let me put on your glasses. He's like, oh, my God, I can actually see with these. And it's, oh, maybe you actually need glasses. Like every conversation I've ever had with anybody who's ever wanted to try my glasses.

Yeah. Wow, it's really clear. Yeah, it's because you have a stigmatism. Go to the fucking eye doctor, you weirdo. Yeah, he's not wrong. I look better with glasses. I think I look better with glasses. But I think I look okay with glasses.

Like, everyone's just like, ah, I'm going to look weird. No, you're not. There's 8 million different kinds of glasses. They can be a fashion statement in their own right. Get your eyes checked. There you go. And fix your smoke detector. Get your eyes checked.

Put batteries in your local elections. And don't forget to drink water. Okay. What else we got, Damon? Elizabeth wants to start a holy war here, knowing that Sean's on the show. Yeah, I mean, I'm not answering. What do you think Sean's answers? I'm not answering this question.

What do you think? I don't know. It could really go anywhere. Elizabeth asked, well, hold on. Let's get the question out there for the audio listeners. Elizabeth asks, which team has the worst fans? Everyone knows what my answer is, so I'm going to eliminate them. New York Yankees is the worst.

Damon and I have had this conversation a couple of times recently, and I get like, I'm also going to kind of eliminate the Dodgers because, of course, it's the fucking dog. Padres fans fucking suck. They are the worst. Padres fans are the worst. A, they're dog shit people, as we learned with the whole time you fan experience the last weekend, or two weeks ago, I guess. And B, like, for what?

And this is not by any means an original tank. This is something Damon's set up. For what? You all been dog shit your whole existence. You don't have anything to show for it. You got cool jerseys and you signed some good players who haven't really done jacked shit. And you're going to talk all this shit just because you got jerseys that look like highlighters threw up all over in, which I like.

And you brought the brown and gold. Like cool, bro. You haven't done anything. You're worse than Dodgers fans in that regard. At least they have that Mickey Mouse ring to show for it. You don't have an accomplished shit. Shut up. Don't talk to me.

We're a more successful franchise than you are. Go away. Stop talking to me and stop talking about players. You're all dog shit. Go go to one of your other professional sports teams. Oh, wait, you don't have any because your fan base is a joke. I knew that was coming. Go away.

Also, Yankees fans suck. They're the worst. Yeah. They're the worst. I'm going to go on a different direction. and I'm going to say Marlins fans are the worst. They don't deserve that. What Marlins fans?

That's the point. The Marlins have two World Series championships in comparison to these fucking Padres that he's talking about that have zero. And they still don't come out and still don't support their team. I get it. It's Miami. There's cool shit to do. I was going to say it's like a million things to do there.

I get it. Then move the goddamn team because they don't deserve to have a team if they're not going to come out and show love for the team. Well, you know, I will say this. In their defense, City of Champions, they have, they've had like other successful teams since then. So there's like, they do have two rings. But like as far as Miami's concerned, they haven't, there's like the heat, even the, the, the Panthers have been more successful than they have been.

So called the fucking Arizona Diamondbacks, the Phoenix Diamondbacks tomorrow, they would still be the same team. And that's the point I'm trying to make is they're still the same team. About the Marlins is to be fair with those two rings, they sold off their entire team both times. It's hard to get continuity with a phase when you get, you. You win at all. And then the ownership's like, well, we're not paying anybody. But what's worse? Overpaying guys like the goddamn Padres did to end up eight games back in the fucking

wild card or fucking get rid of these assholes and get guys that hit to 25% of the time instead of 27% of the time and fucking succeed financially and on the field. I don't get it. But, yeah. I like I'm saying, like the Marlins, they haven't been good in like 15 years. They haven't really been worth shit. They're good right now. Barely.

Barely. Their Sy Young pitcher, their defending Cy Young pitcher was dog shit for the first half of the year. They had Derek Jeter show up, trade their best player in the last, like, 15 years to his former franchise. Like, I wouldn't be that in on the team either. They've changed their branding three times in the last decade. We're both wrong. We're both wrong. Elise said it.

She said, let's be real. It's Nuggets fans. Oh, yeah. Are we, oh, did I say baseball fans? Did they just say fans? No, he said fans, but I mean, she's right. Like, let's, Bill Stealers fans really suck. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Fuck those guys. Fuck those guys all the way. What else we got? We got one more question. As we wrap things up, and it comes from the one and only Chris. Chris asks, create the best outfield plus one for total players from any DBAX roster all time. Four Alec Thomases.

Yeah. Yeah, no. I'm assuming we're not getting much done at the plate. Yeah, I'm assuming we're talking both offensively and defensively. I mean, are we building a team? or we want like this is like a historical all-star team well because like how do you

I mean then Corbyn's got to be on it right yes yeah in my opinion Corbin's right field in my opinion Gonzo's left field Justin Upton Center Steve Finley's center maybe Justin Upton as the alternate Are we getting guys at their peaks?

Yeah I think you go Adam Jones Upton was a top five MVP Oh Adam Jones shit If we're getting peak Adam Jones If we're getting peak Dbacks Adam Jones You gotta go with Dbacks Yeah I don't know time here it would

Timula Castro. Yeah, yeah. We need to be on the base path. I think yours is the right answer. Yeah, that sounds. Yeah, I mean, because that's the big, I mean, like, Alec Thomas, I want to be there. I think Alec Thomas, when I look at a lot of the outfielders historically for this team, is probably the one of the best defensive outfielders there.

But Steve Finley was fucking incredible as an outfielder. Stephen Finley, Justin Upton, when he, like, gave an effort was awesome. Parolta was really good as well. Yeah. It would be, I think the last spot should be between Peralta and Finley. If we were doing the show. Upton, Luis Gonzalez, and Corvin should be automatic. David Peralta is hard because I've never thought of him very much, like as much as what he was to this team.

And I think that's what hurts of him being a Dodger so much is like we call Gabby Moreno, Mr. Diamondback. Yeah, but that was just like to say, if we were doing the show four years ago, David Peralta is Mr. Diamondback. A thousand percent. So, I mean, that's a, that's a hard one. And I mean, honestly, Gabriel Ferrer said it too. All-Star season, A.J. Pollock was an incredible player for this team as well. Just, all these guys went to play for the Dodgers and broke my heart afterwards. So, oh, I mean, what do you do?

J.D. Martinez, technically an outfielder. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we're talking about that fourth outfielder spot. But again, you're talking about outfielders, like in the concept, or that's what we were saying earlier. You're like both defensively and at the plate. So I'm trying to think of like, but I mean, the best player we had that way.

Are you, are you upset if you got to stick J.D. Martinez in the field? No, no, not at all. Right field. He'll be fine in right field. Yeah, I don't, I don't really know who you kick out in that situation, but you guys want to hear something absolutely nuts.

That's always. Offensive war leaders, career leaders for the debacks. Corbyn Carroll is 19th. Hmm. What? Wow. In his rookie season.

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The whole singing Nashville, you Venmo the baby about 20 bucks. They'll play you any song. There you go. Well, we'll do the same thing here if you want to talk about anything Diamondbacks related. That's what Mailbag Monday is before. Big enough super chat. It's free. It's free.

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