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00:55 --> 01:18 [SPEAKER_01]: And we've helped you to the episode of the Marine Lair podcast part of the just baseball podcast network recording here on Thursday evening April 23rd I did say the Mariners wrote them at Slaw, they didn't get swept And they didn't lose 12 in a row, so class half full It is a class half full, we are the positivity podcast Is that what people call us?
01:20 --> 01:21 [SPEAKER_00]: I think we're the most part
01:23 --> 01:25 [SPEAKER_00]: I think we're a realist podcast to be honest with you.
01:26 --> 01:26 [SPEAKER_01]: All right.
01:26 --> 01:27 [SPEAKER_00]: I think we should keep it up.
01:27 --> 01:28 [SPEAKER_01]: I would say, yeah, I would agree.
01:28 --> 01:30 [SPEAKER_01]: I think we're more real than positive.
01:31 --> 01:35 [SPEAKER_00]: We are positive when it's warranted, but we're realists.
01:35 --> 01:42 [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, like we would have been a little bit more negative if they went to extra innings and lost on Wednesday, but they did not.
01:42 --> 01:43 [SPEAKER_01]: They didn't do that.
01:43 --> 01:44 [SPEAKER_01]: They found a way to win.
01:45 --> 01:46 [SPEAKER_00]: What are we going to do?
01:47 --> 01:49 [SPEAKER_00]: What I've broken out of seasons over if they had lost.
01:50 --> 01:50 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe.
01:51 --> 01:53 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I'm not a broken out of seasons over if they lost.
01:53 --> 01:53 [SPEAKER_01]: And I think about that.
01:53 --> 01:55 [SPEAKER_01]: They would have been six games under 500.
01:55 --> 01:57 [SPEAKER_01]: They would have been swept by the A's.
01:57 --> 02:01 [SPEAKER_01]: They would have started their season in the division losing the first three series.
02:02 --> 02:02 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's pretty bad.
02:03 --> 02:05 [SPEAKER_01]: You like to break as long?
02:05 --> 02:06 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you like to break as long?
02:08 --> 02:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you like to break as long?
02:09 --> 02:09 [SPEAKER_00]: No.
02:09 --> 02:10 [SPEAKER_01]: I do not like to break as long.
02:10 --> 02:12 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, you know, then you wouldn't have to worry about it.
02:12 --> 02:14 [SPEAKER_01]: Because the Mariners would lose all their time breakers.
02:15 --> 02:16 [SPEAKER_00]: Wasn't that fun?
02:16 --> 02:34 [SPEAKER_00]: luckily they didn't do that because you know what in a series and during a game where they needed their stars to step up and they needed the big three to come through they did and not just in that game but honestly if you want to glass half full storyline from that series those guys did combine for eighteen hits so
02:34 --> 02:37 [SPEAKER_00]: feel like they're starting to come out of this right a little bit.
02:37 --> 02:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's hope it continues.
02:38 --> 02:42 [SPEAKER_01]: They still just need all of their best players to play well at the same time.
02:42 --> 02:43 [SPEAKER_01]: Like we are still waiting for that.
02:43 --> 02:47 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think anything epitomized that more than Wednesday.
02:48 --> 02:53 [SPEAKER_01]: You got the performance from the big three of Cal Julio Josh Nailer on Wednesday offensively.
02:53 --> 02:54 [SPEAKER_01]: That was great.
02:55 --> 03:02 [SPEAKER_01]: But once you finally get that, you get the worst start of the season from Logan Gilbert and Andre's Muno's coughs up a lead in the ninth inning.
03:03 --> 03:04 [SPEAKER_01]: It's just hard.
03:05 --> 03:07 [SPEAKER_01]: It's hard to be your peak self without that.
03:08 --> 03:08 [SPEAKER_00]: There's no doubt.
03:10 --> 03:14 [SPEAKER_00]: And when do we think all those guys are going to collectively play great together?
03:14 --> 03:19 [SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully it's not until, or hopefully it's before August, hopefully it doesn't take to the trade deadline.
03:20 --> 03:23 [SPEAKER_00]: But yes, they need those guys to collectively pitch well.
03:23 --> 03:32 [SPEAKER_00]: How much, by the way, do you think Logan start was affected because he had to take a 105 mile an hour come back or off the stomach?
03:32 --> 03:36 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, a little bit, but that was also a very Logan Gilbert start.
03:37 --> 03:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but again, that happens so early that I can't help but wonder if that affected the way he pitched he said it really hurt after the game He said it bruised him.
03:46 --> 03:47 [SPEAKER_01]: It's possible.
03:47 --> 03:48 [SPEAKER_01]: We'll see how he bounces back.
03:48 --> 03:49 [SPEAKER_01]: He's going to pitch here on this road trip.
03:50 --> 04:00 [SPEAKER_01]: He's at the hill pitch in Minnesota The the twins lineup so it hit and pretty well, but you know good Logan Gilbert is good Logan Gilbert and he just faced a really good lineup in the A's
04:01 --> 04:02 [SPEAKER_01]: He's going to get his opportunity to bounce back.
04:03 --> 04:03 [SPEAKER_01]: It's possible.
04:04 --> 04:06 [SPEAKER_01]: I'd say it's possible, but it's just hard to know.
04:06 --> 04:17 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I guess if you want to really play the concern card and I hate to do this here in April, but if you want to, I mean, you talk about how that's a typical Logan Gilbert starter.
04:17 --> 04:23 [SPEAKER_00]: At least that was more like a 20, 25 Logan Gilbert start where he struggles to work deep into the game.
04:25 --> 04:26 [SPEAKER_00]: This is total speculation.
04:26 --> 04:27 [SPEAKER_00]: We're not doctors.
04:27 --> 04:28 [SPEAKER_00]: We're not trainers.
04:28 --> 04:30 [SPEAKER_00]: We're not anything.
04:31 --> 04:50 [SPEAKER_01]: Does that elbow worry you at all because he hasn't really worked deep into game since that injury happened or the forearm whatever you want to call it I'm glad you asked this because this is actually our first mailback question so before let's let's let's do this before we actually get into the answer of this question and then we will continue on this topic.
04:51 --> 04:54 [SPEAKER_01]: A reminder to you guys, as this episode is coming out on Friday.
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05:38 --> 05:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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05:45 --> 05:52 [SPEAKER_00]: food and brunch items on the menu when you're in there on Sunday and there will be Mariners baseball on it's going to be fun.
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06:41 --> 06:42 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, let's jump into the mailback.
06:42 --> 06:52 [SPEAKER_01]: Alex has the question on patreon and his question, while is the 2026 version of Logan Gilbert looks a lot like
06:53 --> 07:02 [SPEAKER_00]: So if we're going to go back to our conversation that we were about to start before the male bag officially got underway, which is, yeah, let's just ask it.
07:02 --> 07:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Does Logan Gilbert's forearm injury from last year worry you at all?
07:06 --> 07:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Because he hasn't been the same in terms of efficiency since that injury.
07:10 --> 07:14 [SPEAKER_01]: I would love to talk to someone who's a bit more of an expert in mechanics.
07:14 --> 07:16 [SPEAKER_01]: That's where this would show up.
07:17 --> 07:19 [SPEAKER_01]: The stuff doesn't look different.
07:19 --> 07:20 [SPEAKER_01]: Do you think?
07:20 --> 07:22 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, this fastball is thrown at the same velocity.
07:23 --> 07:23 [SPEAKER_01]: So it's a splitter.
07:23 --> 07:24 [SPEAKER_01]: So it's a slider, right?
07:25 --> 07:26 [SPEAKER_01]: That all looks correct.
07:27 --> 07:37 [SPEAKER_01]: Where we would see this pop up is in command, where, I mean, his pitches in and out of the strikes, one of the same, he's thrown the same amount of strikes, same amount of balls in the zone.
07:39 --> 07:43 [SPEAKER_01]: And since the stuff looks the same, this is where it comes down to mechanics.
07:43 --> 07:46 [SPEAKER_01]: Does his mechanics look different?
07:46 --> 07:47 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't really think so.
07:49 --> 07:53 [SPEAKER_01]: I also think it was just one really bad start from Logan Gilbert.
07:53 --> 07:58 [SPEAKER_01]: Like he has him in perfect this season, but we've also seen some pretty good Logan Gilbert so far.
07:59 --> 08:00 [SPEAKER_00]: for sure.
08:00 --> 08:07 [SPEAKER_00]: But when you just look at the duration of each start, he has not gone six plus innings a bunch of times since that injury.
08:07 --> 08:20 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, remember the number that he didn't go six or more innings in a start from his second start of the year last year until after the all-star break because he was opening, yeah, he was opening the game.
08:20 --> 08:37 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's on opening day when seven last year, and then it took him till after the all starbreak to go six plus again, and then you look at this year and he's done it twice he had the two starts on a row where he did it at Texas and then in home and he against Houston, which is good.
08:37 --> 08:40 [SPEAKER_00]: but he's also had some starts where he has not gotten through sex.
08:41 --> 08:43 [SPEAKER_00]: He's gotten into the sixth, but not through six.
08:43 --> 08:48 [SPEAKER_00]: And when you talk about the command, his walk rate is not up, which is a good sign.
08:48 --> 08:53 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not like he's putting more guys on base by free passes this year than he had years prior.
08:54 --> 08:56 [SPEAKER_00]: His whip is higher though right now.
08:56 --> 08:59 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, his whip sits at nearly one three and that's not like Logan Gilbert.
09:00 --> 09:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Logan Gilbert's whip usually sits in the low ones and right now it's not there.
09:06 --> 09:19 [SPEAKER_01]: Logan's problem right now is that he's giving up more contact than he did last year and the year before and he's giving up more hard contact than he did last year in the year before his average eggs of velocity against is the highest of its career right now.
09:19 --> 09:29 [SPEAKER_01]: This is a guy we always talked about when he ever since he debuted that he gives up too much hard contact and finally in that 24 season the hard contact seemed to go away.
09:29 --> 09:31 [SPEAKER_01]: right now is hard contacts overnight.
09:31 --> 09:36 [SPEAKER_01]: It's on average the bad of balls against him is 90 over 91 miles an hour.
09:36 --> 09:37 [SPEAKER_01]: That's really high for him.
09:39 --> 09:40 [SPEAKER_01]: That's got to come down.
09:40 --> 09:42 [SPEAKER_01]: But he also might be getting a little unlucky.
09:42 --> 09:44 [SPEAKER_01]: His babbit right now is 360.
09:44 --> 09:45 [SPEAKER_01]: That's that's pretty high.
09:45 --> 09:48 [SPEAKER_01]: Much higher than what Logan Gilbert has done is career much higher than it was last year.
09:49 --> 09:50 [SPEAKER_01]: Last year was still below 300.
09:51 --> 09:52 [SPEAKER_01]: This year is 360.
09:52 --> 09:56 [SPEAKER_01]: I think Logan's going to have a little bit of regression in that category, which will help him out.
09:57 --> 10:02 [SPEAKER_01]: This topic also makes me think, Lyle, at what point is 2024 the outlier and not the norm?
10:04 --> 10:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's have to say, again, you can't know for sure, but you do just wonder about that for our, I'm a little bit.
10:11 --> 10:13 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying it's definitive again.
10:13 --> 10:14 [SPEAKER_00]: We're not doctors, we're not trainers.
10:15 --> 10:16 [SPEAKER_00]: This is pure speculation.
10:16 --> 10:17 [SPEAKER_00]: But,
10:18 --> 10:25 [SPEAKER_00]: I hope it's not the outlier and I don't think it should be the outlier because it really looked like that was sustainable what he did.
10:25 --> 10:38 [SPEAKER_00]: He had thrown just shy of 200 innings in 2023 and then he gets past the 200 innings threshold in 2024 and it felt like this is a guy that's going to be an innings eater and the stuff's really good and he can build on this.
10:38 --> 10:42 [SPEAKER_00]: And early on in 2025, it seemed like that was the case, too.
10:42 --> 10:48 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he was picking up where he left off from 24th to start a last season, but it's looked a little different since then.
10:49 --> 10:57 [SPEAKER_01]: Again, he has had trouble working deep in the games, which is why I would I would want to ask someone about his mechanics because if the arm is bugging him,
10:58 --> 11:04 [SPEAKER_01]: he would be trying to make it up in other areas of his body that would not normally be used in his normal delivery.
11:05 --> 11:09 [SPEAKER_01]: So he's like, if he's feeling sore like, this is not even right, I'm just making a hypothetical.
11:09 --> 11:16 [SPEAKER_01]: And his calf, for example, to try and compensate for the lack of juice he's getting out of his elbow,
11:16 --> 11:18 [SPEAKER_01]: then you'd notice something is up.
11:18 --> 11:25 [SPEAKER_01]: But as far as we know, I mean, the results have not been good, but there's been no, no conversation around Logan Gilbert's elbow.
11:26 --> 11:30 [SPEAKER_01]: And there's no way to know unless you ask or we get information on it, right?
11:30 --> 11:33 [SPEAKER_01]: There's just not, not something we can ask and see on TV.
11:34 --> 11:42 [SPEAKER_01]: So no, I'm, I feel like I'm trending more towards this might just be
11:43 --> 11:44 [SPEAKER_01]: I hope not.
11:45 --> 11:45 [SPEAKER_01]: I hope not.
11:46 --> 11:57 [SPEAKER_01]: But at this point in his career aisle, we have one elite season of Logan Gabbard where we put it all together and three seasons and change of inconsistent pitching.
11:58 --> 12:03 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, no, it's just odd because three years in a row he nearly reached 200 innings.
12:03 --> 12:33 [SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
12:34 --> 12:43 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, kind of kind, yeah, and I just lost my turn of thought.
12:43 --> 12:46 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, kind of efficient, but not the efficient you want is 20, 24.
12:47 --> 12:48 [SPEAKER_01]: That really just might be it.
12:48 --> 12:52 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't want Logan to go back to what he was in 2022 or 2023.
12:52 --> 12:56 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he was like good, but we don't want that.
12:56 --> 12:58 [SPEAKER_01]: We don't want 2024 Logan to go back.
12:58 --> 13:02 [SPEAKER_01]: Because that's a better version of Logan Gilbert than what those previous years.
13:02 --> 13:05 [SPEAKER_01]: Those previous years, he didn't have consistent outpitches.
13:06 --> 13:10 [SPEAKER_01]: He would struggle, he would at times still struggle with his efficiency.
13:10 --> 13:11 [SPEAKER_01]: He got hit too hard.
13:12 --> 13:13 [SPEAKER_01]: Twenty-twenty-four's what you want, right?
13:14 --> 13:15 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what that's what he should be chasing.
13:15 --> 13:19 [SPEAKER_01]: But unfortunately at this point, that is the outlier.
13:20 --> 13:22 [SPEAKER_00]: And right now, he doesn't really have an outpitch.
13:22 --> 13:27 [SPEAKER_00]: Because no, even a splitter is getting hit pretty hard right now, which was such an outpitch for him last year.
13:29 --> 13:30 [SPEAKER_01]: And that could come back to command.
13:30 --> 13:33 [SPEAKER_01]: And that pitch is also a little random.
13:33 --> 13:35 [SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't really know where it's going when he throws it.
13:36 --> 13:37 [SPEAKER_01]: It kind of just flotters up there.
13:38 --> 13:44 [SPEAKER_01]: So over the course of an entire season, that could correct itself, but he's not really getting much value on his other pitch as either.
13:45 --> 13:47 [SPEAKER_01]: He's gonna need to, he's gonna need to refine it.
13:48 --> 13:50 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if that takes his stint on the I.L.
13:50 --> 13:51 [SPEAKER_01]: Or if it just takes him pitching better.
13:52 --> 13:54 [SPEAKER_01]: As far as we can tell, he feels totally healthy.
13:55 --> 13:58 [SPEAKER_00]: But so I'd have it to take that comeback or which look miserable.
13:59 --> 13:59 [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
13:59 --> 14:02 [SPEAKER_01]: Which, again, could have very much impacted his start.
14:02 --> 14:05 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe if his ribs are incredibly store, messes up his delivery.
14:06 --> 14:09 [SPEAKER_01]: But we'll find out when he takes them out again and gets the twins.
14:10 --> 14:13 [SPEAKER_01]: Next question comes from Josh on Patreon.
14:13 --> 14:19 [SPEAKER_01]: Josh's question is, what does this team's actual identity right now and does anyone on the roster know?
14:23 --> 14:24 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a great question.
14:24 --> 14:26 [SPEAKER_00]: I hate getting stumped.
14:26 --> 14:29 [SPEAKER_00]: But I think we talked about this a couple episodes ago.
14:30 --> 14:32 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't really have a true identity.
14:33 --> 14:38 [SPEAKER_00]: They seem to want to make more contact, but it's not working.
14:39 --> 14:41 [SPEAKER_01]: You're thinking about the offense.
14:41 --> 14:42 [SPEAKER_01]: The offense doesn't have an identity.
14:43 --> 14:45 [SPEAKER_01]: The team does.
14:45 --> 14:47 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, the team itself, I mean, it's built on your rotation.
14:48 --> 14:48 [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
14:48 --> 14:51 [SPEAKER_01]: The team's identity is their starting rotation.
14:52 --> 15:00 [SPEAKER_01]: I think if you asked players on the roster, Dan Wilson or maybe you'd give you an answer, or Jerry, they'd say the rotation.
15:03 --> 15:03 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
15:03 --> 15:05 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they have a top three rotation and baseball.
15:06 --> 15:08 [SPEAKER_00]: When they're at their best, that is their backbone.
15:09 --> 15:10 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what they're carried by.
15:10 --> 15:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Even last year when they didn't have their best year by the numbers, what do you think to yourself go into the playoffs?
15:17 --> 15:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, you're going to win with your starting pitching.
15:21 --> 15:29 [SPEAKER_00]: have their greatest year, stats wise during the year last year, if you're banking on those guys in the postseason, you're banking on those guys in the big moments to lead you.
15:30 --> 15:32 [SPEAKER_00]: And the Mariners right now, as a rotation, have been very good.
15:33 --> 15:35 [SPEAKER_00]: So yes, that's the back bone of the team.
15:36 --> 15:44 [SPEAKER_01]: Good job, a comment on if you think this team has a different identity, I would be hard pressed to find something else besides their rotation.
15:45 --> 15:50 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe Cal, I think if you asked, they would want Cal Rally to be part of their identity.
15:50 --> 15:57 [SPEAKER_01]: He is part of the rotation success and he's the rest overall player, but he just hasn't performed.
15:57 --> 16:02 [SPEAKER_01]: So, that's what a question you leave the question up to the person answering it.
16:03 --> 16:06 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I guess I'd say Cal and Julio, if you're going to say Cal, those two together.
16:08 --> 16:29 [SPEAKER_01]: But that's, I feel like a collective rotation is a better defined identity than saying these two players are identity because I would want more of a specific idea because at least with a rotation like your your identity is good pitching if I say your identity is cow rally what does that mean.
16:32 --> 16:37 [SPEAKER_00]: Did he impacts both sides of the wall what she does.
16:39 --> 16:41 [SPEAKER_00]: Did he impact the rotation and the offense?
16:41 --> 16:42 [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
16:42 --> 16:45 [SPEAKER_01]: So like they hit a bunch of home runs and he still strikes behind the plate.
16:45 --> 16:46 [SPEAKER_01]: That's kind of what I was going for.
16:47 --> 16:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
16:48 --> 16:49 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what I'm saying.
16:50 --> 16:53 [SPEAKER_00]: But like a team like the Yankees, for example, what's their identity?
16:54 --> 16:56 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not saying this is a good thing, but it's usually one player.
16:57 --> 16:57 [SPEAKER_00]: That's judge.
16:59 --> 17:00 [SPEAKER_01]: It's because he hits a lot of home runs.
17:02 --> 17:03 [SPEAKER_00]: Cal, it's a lot of home runs.
17:03 --> 17:05 [SPEAKER_00]: He's starting to come out of it a little bit, which is nice.
17:05 --> 17:06 [SPEAKER_00]: I know he didn't start great.
17:06 --> 17:13 [SPEAKER_00]: I know the overall numbers aren't great, but he's had three games in a row with a home or now, and he feels like he's starting to get a swing down.
17:13 --> 17:14 [SPEAKER_00]: Again,
17:15 --> 17:27 [SPEAKER_00]: not to sit here and try to make excuses, but when you go a week in the WVC without playing and you're cold and you're not getting real abats and you miss part of spring training and you focus so much on the catching which he has to do.
17:27 --> 17:33 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's can take time to get your swings down, especially because he has to get two of them down, not one, but two.
17:34 --> 17:39 [SPEAKER_00]: So is it shocking that cows take in a couple weeks into the year to get his get into his groove?
17:39 --> 17:43 [SPEAKER_00]: No, but you also knew he wasn't going to OPS 500 all year.
17:44 --> 17:46 [SPEAKER_01]: We'll have more time to talk about Cal later in the mail bag.
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19:05 --> 19:12 [SPEAKER_01]: Next question comes from Cade, Cade asks, I know it's very early, but what is a dream bullpen arm slash arms?
19:12 --> 19:14 [SPEAKER_01]: The marathon is going to trade for at the deadline.
19:16 --> 19:18 [SPEAKER_00]: Dream bullpen arm.
19:20 --> 19:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe I'm too stuck on Joe on Derang because it was so close to getting him last summer, but he's not getting traded from the fillets because I don't see a world where the fillets are going to be selling off at the deadline.
19:32 --> 19:37 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, if he just goes instead, are the rays going to sell him?
19:40 --> 19:46 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it would be more helpful if he was going to be a free agent after this season instead of after next season.
19:47 --> 19:51 [SPEAKER_01]: That's kind of where a wrench gets thrown in there, but we don't know how good the race are right now.
19:51 --> 19:55 [SPEAKER_01]: The race end up being five games under 500 at the deadline or 10 games under the deadline.
19:56 --> 20:06 [SPEAKER_01]: Jacks is an impending, you know, walk your reliever, or if they don't trade him at the deadline, they might trade him in the off season.
20:06 --> 20:07 [SPEAKER_01]: problem with jacks has been terrible.
20:07 --> 20:10 [SPEAKER_01]: He's when worth negative one war already on baseball reference.
20:11 --> 20:12 [SPEAKER_01]: Like do you want it?
20:12 --> 20:13 [SPEAKER_01]: Do you want to trade for Griffin jacks?
20:15 --> 20:16 [SPEAKER_01]: What does he look like in August?
20:16 --> 20:17 [SPEAKER_01]: I think that'll be the question.
20:19 --> 20:20 [SPEAKER_01]: Totally totally fair point.
20:20 --> 20:21 [SPEAKER_01]: He could be much better in August.
20:21 --> 20:29 [SPEAKER_01]: But right now, I, like, Girvejax is an idea, but I couldn't say for certain, you know, who might be available while if you want to eat some money?
20:30 --> 20:31 [SPEAKER_01]: Devon Williams.
20:32 --> 20:33 [SPEAKER_01]: Simey up.
20:34 --> 20:37 [SPEAKER_01]: Do you think the Mets need a high paid reliever if they stink?
20:37 --> 20:37 [SPEAKER_01]: No.
20:38 --> 20:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Probably not.
20:39 --> 20:41 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, it's funny you look at the fillies.
20:41 --> 20:43 [SPEAKER_00]: They are not playing well right now.
20:43 --> 20:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Just by the record, the fillies as we're sitting here recording sit at 8 and 17.
20:48 --> 20:50 [SPEAKER_00]: But do I think the fillies in late July are going to be sellers?
20:50 --> 20:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Probably not.
20:51 --> 20:54 [SPEAKER_00]: If they are, go get Joe on to ram.
20:54 --> 20:57 [SPEAKER_00]: But I have a hard time believing they're going to be straight up bad by the deadline.
20:58 --> 21:01 [SPEAKER_00]: So, sure, Jack's is an interesting one.
21:01 --> 21:04 [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, Devon Williams is somebody we love.
21:04 --> 21:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Aside from that, maybe you looked at Joe Joe Romero, because he was linked to the Mariners.
21:09 --> 21:13 [SPEAKER_00]: If the Cardinals are not playing well by the deadline, which you'd assume, guys like that.
21:14 --> 21:14 [SPEAKER_01]: I have a problem.
21:15 --> 21:16 [SPEAKER_01]: Joe Joe Romero's been good.
21:16 --> 21:17 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't get me wrong.
21:18 --> 21:22 [SPEAKER_01]: Joe Joe Romero fixed the Mariners' bullpen for what they need.
21:23 --> 21:28 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll know, but you're asking for names right now, and it's hard in late April to predict two to be out there.
21:28 --> 21:32 [SPEAKER_00]: No, they need a lever jar, more significant than Joe Joe Romero.
21:32 --> 21:37 [SPEAKER_00]: You need somebody much more in the Joe on-doran bucket, and much less in the Jose Ferrer bucket.
21:37 --> 21:41 [SPEAKER_00]: You need somebody like a deran, but who's that guy going to be if he's available?
21:41 --> 21:42 [SPEAKER_00]: Devon Williams will be great.
21:43 --> 21:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Griffin, Jackson, if he turns it around will be great.
21:45 --> 21:49 [SPEAKER_00]: You want to stick in your own division to the same idea of the team will eat some money.
21:50 --> 21:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Josh Hader would be awesome.
21:51 --> 21:54 [SPEAKER_00]: but there's complications with all those guys.
21:56 --> 22:02 [SPEAKER_01]: Jojo Romero feels like if you were to combine Edward Bazarto and Jose Ferrer.
22:02 --> 22:03 [SPEAKER_01]: Does that sound appealing?
22:05 --> 22:09 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, not entirely, not if you want a legit bullpen arm.
22:09 --> 22:25 [SPEAKER_01]: No, and it doesn't feel like it makes you much better, like he's good, but see the guy you need to call on when brash is down and moonios is down or spire is down, like not really, and also do you need a third lefty in this bullpen?
22:26 --> 22:28 [SPEAKER_01]: Does a third lefty benefit you?
22:28 --> 22:32 [SPEAKER_01]: Like most teams don't roll with three lefties, so you don't need three lefties.
22:33 --> 22:35 [SPEAKER_00]: What if that lefty was Josh Hader?
22:36 --> 22:37 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, that's different.
22:37 --> 22:41 [SPEAKER_01]: Because he, Jojo Romero, someone I think of that you bring in to pitch against lefties.
22:41 --> 22:44 [SPEAKER_01]: Josh Hader, someone you bring in to pitch against lefties and righties.
22:44 --> 22:45 [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
22:45 --> 22:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, the problem with Hader is he's owed a lot of money.
22:48 --> 22:54 [SPEAKER_00]: The Astros gave him a sizable contract and he's got two and a half years left on it until he hits free agency again.
22:55 --> 22:56 [SPEAKER_00]: So would I be interested?
22:56 --> 23:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but that would also, that would involve the Astros eating a lot of money and involving them agreeing to trade him in the division, which,
23:05 --> 23:09 [SPEAKER_00]: As much as I push for Kyle Tucker, seems like that could have been a red flag.
23:09 --> 23:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Seems like that could have been a hold up.
23:10 --> 23:12 [SPEAKER_00]: The astras are like, well, we don't want to trade that man in division.
23:13 --> 23:15 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't want to give the Marine Lair of Pond and he's satisfaction.
23:16 --> 23:17 [SPEAKER_00]: So that could be a hold up with Haydor, too.
23:18 --> 23:22 [SPEAKER_00]: But if you want the big names, like he's a big name that's currently on a bad team that I don't think's going to be very good.
23:23 --> 23:28 [SPEAKER_01]: I wrote down a couple other ones, and Tonya sends a tele of the Rockies has been really good to start this year.
23:28 --> 23:36 [SPEAKER_01]: He throws, he's a right-handed arm, Pete Fairbanks of the Marlins, if the Marlins don't end up being very good.
23:36 --> 23:42 [SPEAKER_01]: He's not only a one-year deal, and then Kevin Ganko of the Diamondbacks, this is another guy.
23:42 --> 23:46 [SPEAKER_01]: I believe who's in a walkier right now.
23:48 --> 23:55 [SPEAKER_00]: If the Giants end up being bad, and again, he's got a lot of club control, so he wouldn't be cheap.
23:56 --> 23:57 [SPEAKER_00]: could you look at Ryan Walker?
23:58 --> 24:01 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just looking at teams that are not playing well and I've tried to write some names down.
24:02 --> 24:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Problem is, Walker's got even more service time left on his clock than Hader, because Hader's a free agent in 29, Walker's a free agent in 30.
24:10 --> 24:18 [SPEAKER_00]: So the giants probably wouldn't do that and that's probably a pipe dream because they're not in a position where they're gonna tear it down.
24:18 --> 24:23 [SPEAKER_00]: Even if they're bad this year, they have too many stars or start a little type players on team.
24:23 --> 24:35 [SPEAKER_00]: So, again, I'm trying to spit ball here because you're trying to predict in late April who could be available, that's a legitimate impact reliever and not in the Jojo Romero bucket.
24:35 --> 24:36 [SPEAKER_00]: But it's hard, man.
24:37 --> 24:38 [SPEAKER_00]: I think you have more clarity on that.
24:38 --> 24:39 [SPEAKER_00]: You and Far Between.
24:39 --> 24:43 [SPEAKER_00]: I think we'll have more clarity on this in a few weeks if I had to guess.
24:43 --> 24:45 [SPEAKER_00]: But, yeah, I mean,
24:46 --> 24:51 [SPEAKER_00]: In a perfect world, you were for the podries to be terrible and you poached some of those bullpen arms at the deadline.
24:51 --> 24:58 [SPEAKER_00]: Doesn't have to be Mason Miller, but any of those guys add them more a hone, a strata, but I don't know if they're going to be bad.
25:00 --> 25:00 [SPEAKER_01]: Right now they're not bad.
25:02 --> 25:02 [SPEAKER_01]: Not at all.
25:02 --> 25:04 [SPEAKER_01]: Play pretty well against the bearerners.
25:04 --> 25:08 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they look like they're going to be back in the playoffs this year, the way they're playing.
25:08 --> 25:18 [SPEAKER_01]: it's different than this time last year because this time last year you had an idea that Mason Miller could get traded away from the ace and then the podries give up an absolute haul to get him.
25:19 --> 25:23 [SPEAKER_01]: The problem is you couldn't trade for Mason Miller and a vision the ace would have never done that.
25:24 --> 25:38 [SPEAKER_01]: Imagine the price it would have cost to get Mason Miller in division if the cost to trade them to the national league was Leo Dvris.
25:38 --> 25:40 [SPEAKER_00]: Cold Emerson and Ryan Sloan to start.
25:42 --> 25:43 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you think it would be that much?
25:44 --> 25:45 [SPEAKER_00]: In division?
25:45 --> 25:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, the podries didn't give up a second prospect like Sloan.
25:49 --> 25:52 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but they play in the national league.
25:52 --> 25:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it'd be a lot.
25:53 --> 25:54 [SPEAKER_00]: That would be a lot.
25:55 --> 25:56 [SPEAKER_00]: And the Mariners would never do that.
25:57 --> 25:58 [SPEAKER_01]: No, they wouldn't.
25:58 --> 26:02 [SPEAKER_01]: It's the same thing with the match-at-man story from...
26:03 --> 26:03 [SPEAKER_01]: What was it?
26:03 --> 26:07 [SPEAKER_01]: 20, was that 2019?
26:07 --> 26:08 [SPEAKER_01]: Or was it 2021?
26:08 --> 26:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, when the Mariners wanted him?
26:11 --> 26:11 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it was 21.
26:12 --> 26:13 [SPEAKER_00]: It was later than that.
26:13 --> 26:16 [SPEAKER_00]: I think it was the season after 21.
26:17 --> 26:19 [SPEAKER_00]: I think it was the offseason going into 22.
26:19 --> 26:24 [SPEAKER_00]: And from what we've heard, I mean, the Mariners really, really wanted Matt Chapman.
26:25 --> 26:28 [SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of guys that were in that package, so we've been told.
26:28 --> 26:35 [SPEAKER_00]: in the proposal to try and get them were a lot of the similar guys that were in the packages that went out to the reds in the end.
26:35 --> 26:41 [SPEAKER_00]: I think there were, you know, a lot of those guys that were sent out to the reds were sent in a couple different trades, but we heard no LV was in that package.
26:41 --> 26:46 [SPEAKER_00]: I think we heard Brandon Williamson was in that package a couple others, but as one do it.
26:47 --> 26:53 [SPEAKER_01]: and the package was better than what the blue jays offered, the A's and the A's took that one to get him out of the division.
26:54 --> 26:57 [SPEAKER_01]: The bummer, it's really difficult to trade in division.
26:57 --> 27:01 [SPEAKER_01]: It is so hard, his these teams just don't want to see these players 13 times a year.
27:02 --> 27:02 [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
27:03 --> 27:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Last thing I'll say is if you're going to try and look at the truly bad teams, teams that you know might sell, I mean, the one that would jump out is Victor Vodnik, but he also has control.
27:17 --> 27:25 [SPEAKER_00]: So the Rockies are not going to be good within the duration of his service time, but would they trade him with three and a half years to go.
27:25 --> 27:26 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the question.
27:27 --> 27:36 [SPEAKER_01]: That's a good question, but that's why I kind of offered up sends a tele because he's on a in a walkier right now, so you could get him for next and nothing.
27:36 --> 27:37 [SPEAKER_01]: He's been really good.
27:38 --> 27:42 [SPEAKER_01]: He's been one of the best and most valuable relievers in baseball so far, which is something the Mariners need.
27:42 --> 27:45 [SPEAKER_01]: Is he a leverage reliever?
27:45 --> 27:47 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, it's just, it's so hard to know.
27:47 --> 27:58 [SPEAKER_01]: If you just pull up like fan graphs, war leaders this year among relievers, and look, most of the true lever drums that make the link base for our teams, you know, or never selling, are not gonna sell.
27:58 --> 27:59 [SPEAKER_01]: Right, that's tough.
28:02 --> 28:03 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know where this is gonna come from.
28:03 --> 28:07 [SPEAKER_01]: This is something, this is a question that's gonna need to be answered two months from now.
28:08 --> 28:10 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe more as we get closer to the trade deadline.
28:11 --> 28:14 [SPEAKER_00]: But that being said before you read the next question.
28:15 --> 28:18 [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to get answered as we get closer to the deadline.
28:18 --> 28:22 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll have more clarity on it closer to the deadline, but it needs to be answered.
28:22 --> 28:23 [SPEAKER_00]: They are a leverage arm short.
28:24 --> 28:25 [SPEAKER_00]: I think we've made that abundantly clear.
28:25 --> 28:27 [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to have to answer it.
28:27 --> 28:27 [SPEAKER_00]: And you're right.
28:27 --> 28:31 [SPEAKER_00]: It needs to be somebody more substantial than Joe Joe Romero.
28:32 --> 28:35 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to loop these next two questions together because they're essentially the same.
28:35 --> 28:42 [SPEAKER_01]: This comes from Zander and Michael on Patreon and the question is, have you guys ever contemplated traveling with the team for content?
28:43 --> 28:46 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure it's a big investment but there are some short trips like Sacramento, Los Angeles.
28:47 --> 28:52 [SPEAKER_01]: Would we have to apply for media credentials at other parks or as a universal with our credentials at T-Mobile?
28:53 --> 28:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, good question.
28:55 --> 29:00 [SPEAKER_00]: So you do have to apply for credentials anywhere you go because it goes through that team.
29:00 --> 29:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, if you're applying for credentials in the postseason, which we don't do and we've talked about, we'd rather just experience the postseason's fans, which we did last year.
29:08 --> 29:12 [SPEAKER_00]: But if you were to apply for credentials in the postseason, that's through Major League Baseball.
29:12 --> 29:13 [SPEAKER_00]: During the year, it's through the team.
29:13 --> 29:16 [SPEAKER_00]: So if we wanted to go somewhere else, yeah, we would have to try through said team.
29:16 --> 29:19 [SPEAKER_00]: If we wanted to go to Sacramento, it would have to be through the A's.
29:19 --> 29:27 [SPEAKER_01]: The only people who get the league-wide credentials, I think the broadcasters do, and then the baseball writers association do as well.
29:27 --> 29:27 [SPEAKER_01]: That's it.
29:28 --> 29:28 [SPEAKER_01]: That's it.
29:29 --> 29:30 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's DIVISH.
29:31 --> 29:31 [SPEAKER_00]: It's Kramer.
29:32 --> 29:32 [SPEAKER_01]: It's...
29:32 --> 29:35 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if Shannon part of the DBWAA.
29:36 --> 29:36 [SPEAKER_01]: That's a good question.
29:36 --> 29:53 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, but she might also get a broadcast credential too because most of the people who have season credentials at team will park have it just as team will park on it, but there are people like Aaron Goldsmith or Gary Hill that walk around with MLB credentials on, which means they can just get one at every single park they can get in every single park they want.
29:53 --> 29:54 [SPEAKER_01]: We don't get that treatment.
29:55 --> 29:58 [SPEAKER_01]: So we do have to apply if we want to go to every team.
29:58 --> 30:01 [SPEAKER_01]: Now the problem with that is not every team wants.
30:01 --> 30:06 [SPEAKER_01]: podcasters, content creators out of their ballpark, depends on the franchise.
30:07 --> 30:14 [SPEAKER_01]: So some of them are okay with it, some of them are not, which is kind of a reason why at least for the podcast, we don't really do it.
30:15 --> 30:29 [SPEAKER_01]: If we decide to take a trip, right, as business owners, because ultimately we run a business here to make money, provide content, talk about baseball, have a lot of fun, but we do make money with this, full transparency.
30:29 --> 30:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, we do if we didn't I mean not to say we're out here like Bill Gates, but if we didn't I think it would be hard to put as much time and effort as we did into it if there was no monetation with it Right, so there needs to be like a monotization or just revenue
30:48 --> 30:55 [SPEAKER_01]: For us to travel somewhere there needs to be a return on investment, whether it be meeting people or whether it be monetarily.
30:55 --> 31:06 [SPEAKER_01]: Seeing the Mariners on the road, given that we have access to roughly 81 home games a year if we want, doesn't feel like as needed because our content around the Mariners.
31:07 --> 31:09 [SPEAKER_01]: But it doesn't need to happen every single day.
31:09 --> 31:13 [SPEAKER_01]: There's not really something we can do with players every single day.
31:13 --> 31:17 [SPEAKER_01]: So the home games for the Mariners are usually enough.
31:17 --> 31:22 [SPEAKER_01]: Now for Bolpen banner, that's totally different because we're trying to get all the teams, including the Mariners.
31:23 --> 31:25 [SPEAKER_01]: We are taking our first bullpen banner road trip this year.
31:25 --> 31:28 [SPEAKER_01]: We're going to go see the Cubs and the Rockies in mid-June.
31:28 --> 31:29 [SPEAKER_01]: Which would be great.
31:29 --> 31:36 [SPEAKER_01]: Cubs and Rockies don't come to team mobile park this year, which will help us knock off a couple of, oh, sorry, the Cubs do come, but we'll be out of wedding.
31:36 --> 31:38 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I saw a lot of facial expressions there.
31:39 --> 31:44 [SPEAKER_01]: So we're able to get some players from teams that we don't actually get to see this year.
31:44 --> 31:46 [SPEAKER_01]: That's a little bit different.
31:46 --> 31:49 [SPEAKER_01]: With the Mariners, we see them all the time.
31:49 --> 31:52 [SPEAKER_01]: We're around more mariner fans at Team Mobile Park.
31:53 --> 31:56 [SPEAKER_01]: So that's why we decide, yeah, we don't really need to take this on the road.
31:56 --> 32:02 [SPEAKER_01]: Really ever, unless it is winter meetings, spring training, or all-star week.
32:02 --> 32:06 [SPEAKER_00]: And those are the three trips we always take a year as spring training all-star week in the winter meetings.
32:06 --> 32:09 [SPEAKER_00]: But we do that with the ability to
32:09 --> 32:10 [SPEAKER_00]: do that with both channels.
32:11 --> 32:14 [SPEAKER_00]: We get things done with the podcast and with Vulpin Banner when we travel around.
32:14 --> 32:17 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's mutually beneficial when we do that stuff.
32:18 --> 32:19 [SPEAKER_00]: TJ's right.
32:19 --> 32:24 [SPEAKER_00]: I think it would take an extenduating circumstance for us to need to go on the road for the Mariners.
32:24 --> 32:35 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, for bullpen banner, not only are we taking our first road trip this year for it and doing it in a few weeks when we go to Denver, but I think we're going to start to do it more often too.
32:36 --> 32:41 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to see the cubs because we would have loved to catch them in Seattle, but again, we'll be gone that weekend.
32:41 --> 32:45 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll be at a good friends wedding of ours, so we're trying to catch them in a different place.
32:46 --> 32:50 [SPEAKER_00]: The Rockies were nice enough to let us come out and say we can come do content there.
32:50 --> 32:52 [SPEAKER_00]: So, that's going to be one of our first trips.
32:53 --> 32:57 [SPEAKER_00]: If these are close, we've also never been to Coors Field, so it will not custodium off our list.
32:57 --> 33:10 [SPEAKER_00]: We got a team that not only will we not get otherwise this year in the Cubs, but and the Rockies, but we haven't gotten them period, like we hadn't done any Bolpimera stuff with the Cubs in the past, so yeah, this is.
33:10 --> 33:11 [SPEAKER_00]: This is our shot to do it.
33:11 --> 33:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we'll be fun.
33:12 --> 33:14 [SPEAKER_01]: We just we do have to be smart about our travel.
33:14 --> 33:21 [SPEAKER_01]: So we have to pick and pick and choose our spots where we feel like it is most worth it and getting all the access to the Mariners at home.
33:21 --> 33:23 [SPEAKER_01]: Not always is worth it to travel.
33:23 --> 33:23 [UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
33:23 --> 33:33 [SPEAKER_00]: And for anybody curious for the most part, in terms of the teams that aren't as open about new age media being out at their park, it's the teams you'd expect.
33:33 --> 33:34 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he's don't really do it.
33:35 --> 33:36 [SPEAKER_00]: Red Sox don't really do it.
33:37 --> 33:39 [SPEAKER_00]: There's some other teams that don't really do it, and it's teams like that.
33:40 --> 33:44 [SPEAKER_00]: But there's a lot of teams that are very open to it, which is nice, including the manners.
33:44 --> 33:56 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to speak for the teams, but it's any team you would think of that doesn't feel like they need extra attention, like they have enough attention, like the Red Sox, for example, like people talk about the Red Sox no matter what, like why should we bend the rules for you?
33:57 --> 34:01 [SPEAKER_01]: You're going to, you're going to, you're going to talk about a no matter what.
34:01 --> 34:08 [SPEAKER_01]: Some of these other teams though, they do see benefit in having a wider swath of media out of the park that promotes them in a variety of ways.
34:09 --> 34:15 [SPEAKER_01]: So, right, doesn't mean you can't get your credentials revoked if you make them look stupid, but I'd say we haven't done that yet, which is good.
34:16 --> 34:17 [SPEAKER_01]: I think our content's pretty good.
34:17 --> 34:18 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you guys for that question.
34:18 --> 34:19 [SPEAKER_01]: I was very interesting.
34:20 --> 34:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, not yet.
34:21 --> 34:21 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, not yet.
34:22 --> 34:23 [SPEAKER_01]: He or not yet.
34:23 --> 34:25 [SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully never, but as of right now, not yet.
34:26 --> 34:29 [SPEAKER_01]: Next question comes from Pucci Delgado on Patreon.
34:29 --> 34:31 [SPEAKER_01]: And then the question is, hypothetical.
34:31 --> 34:36 [SPEAKER_01]: You're majorly GM evaluating the Mariners organization for a potential new manager.
34:36 --> 34:38 [SPEAKER_01]: Who tops your list and why?
34:40 --> 34:45 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're a major league baseball team, can it be somebody that's currently in a job or doesn't have to be somebody that doesn't have one?
34:47 --> 34:52 [SPEAKER_01]: I think this question is people currently employed by the Seattle Mariners.
34:54 --> 35:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, which current Mariners assistant coach would be the best manager?
35:00 --> 35:06 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what I read that question as, because I have one name circled outside the organization but we can get to him second.
35:08 --> 35:12 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, in the Oregon isn't it probably Pete Woodworth with all he's done with the rotation?
35:12 --> 35:14 [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like it'd be him.
35:15 --> 35:19 [SPEAKER_01]: It's got to be Pete Woodworth or one of the managers in the miners.
35:19 --> 35:20 [SPEAKER_01]: I would think.
35:22 --> 35:22 [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
35:23 --> 35:26 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know who I'll say would choose again.
35:26 --> 35:29 [SPEAKER_01]: The Mariners at a left field hired Dan Wilson to be their manager.
35:30 --> 35:31 [SPEAKER_01]: No one thought he was going to get hired.
35:32 --> 35:35 [SPEAKER_01]: You never know at some point, but I'm with Lyle.
35:35 --> 35:36 [SPEAKER_01]: I would say it's Pete Woodworth.
35:37 --> 35:38 [SPEAKER_01]: He hasn't been a manager has he not.
35:40 --> 35:41 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think so.
35:41 --> 35:42 [SPEAKER_00]: No, I don't think so.
35:43 --> 35:47 [SPEAKER_00]: And trend blanks more on the pitching strategy.
35:47 --> 35:49 [SPEAKER_00]: Like he's the last of, I mean,
35:49 --> 35:55 [SPEAKER_00]: If I have it right, like his job is less like a manager's job than Woodworth's, right?
35:55 --> 35:56 [SPEAKER_00]: I think.
35:58 --> 36:03 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, because he's probably providing supplemental information to Woodworth who is managing the pitching staff.
36:04 --> 36:04 [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
36:04 --> 36:05 [SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.
36:06 --> 36:11 [SPEAKER_01]: So Woodworth would need to go for managing the pitching staff to managing an entire roster full of players.
36:12 --> 36:12 [SPEAKER_01]: I want you.
36:12 --> 36:14 [SPEAKER_01]: I think that would, I think that would be my choice too.
36:15 --> 36:23 [SPEAKER_01]: If there's one guy outside the organization, if I'm picking the next manager of the Seattle Mariners, I would offer the job to Steven Vote and make him say no.
36:24 --> 36:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.
36:26 --> 36:27 [SPEAKER_00]: And people loved him.
36:29 --> 36:30 [SPEAKER_01]: I think they loved him.
36:30 --> 36:34 [SPEAKER_01]: And as far as we know, he still resides in, I think, Olympia in the off season.
36:35 --> 36:51 [SPEAKER_00]: somewhere in Washington I think yeah that being said to there were other good candidates out there I mean like he's hired now but I like to skip shoe marker I was like that idea he could have been another I mean if you want to pick it if you could really pick anybody
36:52 --> 36:55 [SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't say makes even votes, I know, although he'd be great.
36:56 --> 36:57 [SPEAKER_00]: I'd make AJ Hensh, I know.
36:58 --> 37:01 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the guy I'd want as an manager.
37:02 --> 37:14 [SPEAKER_00]: AJ Hensh is smart, he is tactical, he is very in tune with new AJ Analytics, he's great in the press and with the media, he's had a ton of success, it would be Hensh for me.
37:15 --> 37:18 [SPEAKER_01]: I like the idea, I just don't think he'd say yes.
37:19 --> 37:20 [SPEAKER_01]: I think vote might say yes.
37:20 --> 37:23 [SPEAKER_01]: Sure, but you're talking about making somebody say no.
37:24 --> 37:27 [SPEAKER_00]: Fair point, I think he would say no.
37:28 --> 37:32 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm guessing, too, that he would cost a lot.
37:32 --> 37:32 [SPEAKER_00]: And...
37:33 --> 37:40 [SPEAKER_00]: Wasn't Divish on here telling us that the Mariners don't always pay their coaches that highly so yeah, yep, he did say that He's Steven vote.
37:41 --> 37:53 [SPEAKER_01]: I I don't think you would have to I really don't think because of his off-season residents as far as I know as far as we know You wouldn't have to overpay for that sure But some of these other guys.
37:53 --> 37:55 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you you'd have to pay top dollar
37:55 --> 38:03 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, I don't think Dan Wilson cost top dollar because that only Dan Wilson didn't have me anywhere to negotiate from when the Mariners sun them to whatever contract they did.
38:04 --> 38:15 [SPEAKER_01]: AJ Hinch can fuel the Mariners offer go back to what is it Chris Hillwich the Tigers and say this is how much the Mariners offer me can pay me more and then clearly Chris Hillwich really likes AJ Hinch.
38:15 --> 38:20 [SPEAKER_01]: So like sure yeah, I'll give you a race great yeah, yeah, I think that's right.
38:20 --> 38:23 [SPEAKER_00]: I just love to have AJ Hinch that's all he's a really good manager.
38:24 --> 38:27 [SPEAKER_01]: We could put it on your Christmas wishlist and maybe he'll show up on your Christmas tree.
38:29 --> 38:33 [SPEAKER_00]: Him, Kyle Tucker, Yordon, man, what a great holiday, that'd be.
38:33 --> 38:35 [SPEAKER_01]: That would be a pretty amazing holiday.
38:36 --> 38:37 [SPEAKER_01]: All former astros.
38:38 --> 38:42 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they were all, yeah, they would have all been on the team at the same time too, who would have thought?
38:42 --> 38:43 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
38:43 --> 38:49 [SPEAKER_01]: So we're going to go back to 2019 and say, Lyle, these are gonna be your three favorite players in the year three favorite people in the year 2026.
38:51 --> 38:54 [SPEAKER_00]: I'd say what a time to be alive and I'm sure we're going to get comments now.
38:54 --> 38:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you're supporting cheaters.
38:56 --> 39:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's still take AJ Hensh Real also talk her in your arms.
39:01 --> 39:07 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, the Mariners need to cheat more The ain't cheating you ain't trying right you if it comes with wins.
39:07 --> 39:10 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean got to do what you got to do
39:10 --> 39:16 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, the part about the Mariners not paying their coaches, we don't have any info on that.
39:16 --> 39:19 [SPEAKER_00]: It's just when Davis was on with us, maybe a year and a half ago, he did mention that.
39:20 --> 39:21 [SPEAKER_00]: So it just sparked into my head.
39:23 --> 39:23 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
39:23 --> 39:25 [SPEAKER_01]: Next question comes from Graham on Patreon.
39:26 --> 39:34 [SPEAKER_01]: Graham's question is, currently with a one and eight away record and coming up with two series against the Cardinals and Twins, how many wins should we expect in the next six games?
39:36 --> 39:38 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they should win five of six.
39:38 --> 39:40 [SPEAKER_00]: You should handle these teams.
39:40 --> 39:43 [SPEAKER_00]: So if the answer is how many should they win, five of six?
39:45 --> 39:48 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll take four, I think, force fine, just win the two series.
39:48 --> 39:52 [SPEAKER_01]: They've set the bar on the floor for how they've started on the road.
39:52 --> 39:57 [SPEAKER_01]: I will take, winning two or three against both teams.
39:57 --> 40:00 [SPEAKER_01]: The Mariners haven't played well enough to show me that.
40:00 --> 40:05 [SPEAKER_01]: They could even sweep bad teams besides the Houston Astros, because they're pitching staff is not majorly quality.
40:06 --> 40:11 [SPEAKER_01]: But these other two teams like, I will take four wins in six.
40:11 --> 40:12 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll take it.
40:13 --> 40:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'd take it.
40:14 --> 40:19 [SPEAKER_00]: I'd just like to see him win five because these are not great teams, even though the twins have been off to an okay start.
40:20 --> 40:21 [SPEAKER_00]: The Mariners should handle these teams.
40:22 --> 40:25 [SPEAKER_00]: The flip side of that is they have been terrible on the road.
40:25 --> 40:27 [SPEAKER_00]: Not just this year, but this goes back to last year.
40:27 --> 40:28 [SPEAKER_00]: They had all those problems on the road.
40:29 --> 40:30 [SPEAKER_00]: So how does that balance out?
40:31 --> 40:35 [SPEAKER_00]: I hope somehow in taking five of six or even four of six.
40:37 --> 40:41 [SPEAKER_01]: I know people aren't going to love to hear this, but the Mariners in Minnesota, you say they've just been bad on the road.
40:41 --> 40:43 [SPEAKER_01]: They've been a trotist playing in Minnesota.
40:44 --> 40:45 [SPEAKER_01]: It's been awful.
40:47 --> 40:48 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, that should give everybody a lot of confidence.
40:50 --> 40:52 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, and the last trip to St. Louis went so well, too, right?
40:53 --> 40:57 [SPEAKER_01]: Remember that game were Logan Gilbert through eight shutout innings, and they still lost.
40:59 --> 41:01 [SPEAKER_00]: I tried to forget 20, 24.
41:01 --> 41:04 [SPEAKER_00]: So it all blends together to be totally honest with you.
41:04 --> 41:07 [SPEAKER_00]: I totally believe that happened.
41:07 --> 41:08 [SPEAKER_00]: Sure, let's go with that.
41:08 --> 41:12 [SPEAKER_00]: By the way, Saturday, the mariners are facing Matthew Libertore.
41:12 --> 41:16 [SPEAKER_00]: So shut up because it's a lefty.
41:16 --> 41:17 [SPEAKER_01]: The twins don't have any lefties.
41:20 --> 41:21 [SPEAKER_00]: Not so that I can think of.
41:21 --> 41:22 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, what?
41:23 --> 41:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Joe Ryan, Ridey, Bayley over Ridey.
41:25 --> 41:26 [SPEAKER_00]: Simeon Woods, Richardson, Ridey.
41:27 --> 41:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Pablo Lopez is hurt, but a Ridey.
41:29 --> 41:31 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm blanking on the other couple in their rotation.
41:32 --> 41:45 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I would love to be able to just say like, oh, if it's not a good if it's a bad left even it doesn't matter, but in this case it does well again, you didn't hit Jacob Lopez Matthew Libertor is off to a pretty solid start.
41:48 --> 41:49 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, so.
41:49 --> 41:54 [SPEAKER_00]: It's Taj Bradley is another who's also a righty and by the way, has been dominant so far early in the year.
41:55 --> 42:03 [SPEAKER_00]: So Bradley, righty, Ryan, righty, Ober, righty, Woods Richardson, righty, Mick Abel's a righty, although he's currently on the I.L.
42:04 --> 42:09 [SPEAKER_00]: And the one other guy that's made a start because they had to call him up is Connor pre-lept.
42:09 --> 42:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Now he is a lefty, so maybe the Mariners will get him too.
42:13 --> 42:14 [SPEAKER_00]: I think he'll be scheduled to start in that series.
42:15 --> 42:16 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll let you out.
42:17 --> 42:17 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, probably.
42:18 --> 42:45 [SPEAKER_01]: Probably the bar has been lowered until they show they can consistently beat left-handed hitters a left-handed pitchers All right, we got two more questions left in this mail bag the next question comes from seahawks Shit posting and the question is is it fair to say cows back Give it another couple series, but we're pretty close You hit three straight home runs in three games like Caldeed you get eight hits in the series
42:46 --> 42:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, help anchor the team do a win on Wednesday.
42:49 --> 42:56 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, this is a man that has to manage two swings and had a whole week basically not playing in the WBC and us to do all the catching.
42:58 --> 43:00 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not that shocked that it took him some time.
43:00 --> 43:01 [SPEAKER_00]: It's frustrating.
43:01 --> 43:01 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't get me wrong.
43:01 --> 43:04 [SPEAKER_00]: You want to see arguably your best player get off to a red hot start.
43:05 --> 43:06 [SPEAKER_00]: But is he back?
43:07 --> 43:08 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I think we're pretty close.
43:08 --> 43:09 [SPEAKER_00]: His last seven games.
43:10 --> 43:11 [SPEAKER_00]: He's OPS in over a thousand.
43:12 --> 43:13 [SPEAKER_00]: He's starting to hit.
43:13 --> 43:15 [SPEAKER_01]: It's been a slow progression, listen to this.
43:16 --> 43:21 [SPEAKER_01]: It's been getting like marginally better every week essentially.
43:21 --> 43:26 [SPEAKER_01]: So on April 1st, since April 1st, he has a 108 WRC+.
43:27 --> 43:31 [SPEAKER_01]: Since April 13th, he has a 138 WRC+.
43:31 --> 43:36 [SPEAKER_01]: Since April 17th, he has a 202 WRC+.
43:36 --> 43:37 [SPEAKER_01]: It has been getting better.
43:37 --> 43:42 [SPEAKER_01]: He's going to be fully back when he starts hitting velocity in the strike zone again.
43:42 --> 43:43 [SPEAKER_01]: That has been his big cruts this year.
43:43 --> 43:47 [SPEAKER_01]: People are being able to blow fastballs in the zone by him and he's had a lot of swing and miss.
43:48 --> 43:53 [SPEAKER_01]: been getting better, especially this last week, and his last week, he's managing the strike soon as good as anyone in baseball.
43:53 --> 43:57 [SPEAKER_01]: He's got up less than 15% strike rate and 11.1% walk rate.
43:57 --> 43:59 [SPEAKER_01]: Elite, Elite, Elite, Elite.
44:00 --> 44:06 [SPEAKER_01]: He's never going to keep that up all season, but the whiff has been going down, he's been making more contact in the last week.
44:06 --> 44:12 [SPEAKER_01]: Once he extrapolates this out a month and two months, hopefully, then I think it'll be a lot better.
44:13 --> 44:16 [SPEAKER_01]: But his numbers against velocity for the season need do need to get better.
44:16 --> 44:18 [SPEAKER_01]: That's where he's lacking right now.
44:20 --> 44:21 [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's all fair.
44:21 --> 44:30 [SPEAKER_00]: But when you see him start to hit the ways, hit the last few games and he's really starting to do damage, which he wasn't doing early on, it's a pretty good sign.
44:31 --> 44:34 [SPEAKER_00]: If Cal has another good road trip, we can say he's back.
44:34 --> 44:35 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm with you.
44:36 --> 44:37 [SPEAKER_01]: Final question.
44:37 --> 44:38 [SPEAKER_01]: This is an interesting one.
44:39 --> 44:43 [SPEAKER_01]: It's Jaymo on Instagram asks, is Monataka Murakami a deadline move?
44:45 --> 44:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Wow, I mean, this one has some layers.
44:47 --> 44:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Full transparency.
44:48 --> 44:52 [SPEAKER_00]: I saw this one get submitted and I said, I think we got to answer this one.
44:53 --> 45:05 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't have to quite eat Crow yet on Murkami because it's early, but the early reports and the early results say, wow, maybe us and a whole lot of people missed the mark on this guy.
45:05 --> 45:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Because he's hitting like Kyle Schwerber right now.
45:08 --> 45:15 [SPEAKER_00]: We thought his strikeouts were going to just be too untenable to sustain and majorly baseball and he could potentially flame out.
45:15 --> 45:18 [SPEAKER_00]: He is doing the Kyle Schwerber thing right now.
45:18 --> 45:24 [SPEAKER_00]: He's striking out a lot, don't get me wrong, but he has drawn a ton of walks, and he's hitting for power.
45:25 --> 45:29 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Moona Takamerakami is legitimately murdering baseballs.
45:29 --> 45:32 [SPEAKER_00]: You want to look at the home run leaders for baseball right now?
45:33 --> 45:37 [SPEAKER_00]: In 2026, I mean, as we sit, you'll look at the home run leaders in the game.
45:37 --> 45:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Murakami is second, a high and only you're done.
45:39 --> 45:40 [SPEAKER_00]: He's got 10 bombs.
45:40 --> 45:44 [SPEAKER_00]: His OPS is almost 1, and he's on a two-year deal.
45:46 --> 45:53 [SPEAKER_00]: We can get to the Mariners layer of this in a second, but the idea of him getting traded I think is very real because he's on a two-year deal and the white socks are not going to be good.
45:54 --> 45:56 [SPEAKER_00]: So could they ship this guy at the deadline?
45:56 --> 45:56 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
45:58 --> 46:08 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if people were necessarily wrong, I think it's like the best case scenario of what he was supposed to be, which,
46:08 --> 46:08 [SPEAKER_01]: is good.
46:08 --> 46:13 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, so he's got I know a number of people love to use is zone contact rate.
46:14 --> 46:21 [SPEAKER_01]: He has a 70% zone contact rate, which is I think on like the bottom bottom tier of baseball when it comes to that.
46:21 --> 46:27 [SPEAKER_01]: So like he's really, he really has to do damage on when he makes when he makes contact and he has been doing that.
46:27 --> 46:28 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
46:28 --> 46:32 [SPEAKER_01]: So the league average while is 82, 82% zone contact rate.
46:32 --> 46:34 [SPEAKER_01]: He is 12 percentage points below that.
46:34 --> 46:39 [SPEAKER_01]: so he's really got to hit his home runs when he makes contact and that's exactly what he's been doing.
46:40 --> 46:43 [SPEAKER_01]: The problem, if you're pitching me, mood of talkamer or kami.
46:44 --> 46:51 [SPEAKER_01]: And I look at him and I ask you lie, is there any difference between Luke Rayleigh and moon of talkamer or kami?
46:51 --> 46:53 [SPEAKER_01]: Could you tell me what that is, as an offensive player?
46:54 --> 46:55 [SPEAKER_00]: There's not a ton.
46:55 --> 47:08 [SPEAKER_00]: I think the difference is, as we sit right now, Rayleigh could play right field and Murakami could de-age when you're facing right-hand pitching, and then Murakami's just on the bench against lefties, and that's when refs knight or de-ages.
47:08 --> 47:14 [SPEAKER_00]: There's probably a way to make it work, and then a couple of those right fielders aside from Rayleigh would probably lose the roster spots.
47:14 --> 47:15 [SPEAKER_00]: there's a way you could do it.
47:16 --> 47:20 [SPEAKER_00]: The flip side of this though is it is only a month into the year.
47:20 --> 47:23 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's remember how good your mean Mercedes was for the white socks through a month.
47:23 --> 47:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Then that guy was never seen from or heard from again.
47:25 --> 47:29 [SPEAKER_00]: So he's off to a really good start.
47:30 --> 47:44 [SPEAKER_00]: I will also see if there is an adjustment period made by the league where he starts to struggle because if he starts to have the numbers come way down and he's striking out a bunch at the deadline then teams are not going to
47:45 --> 47:45 [SPEAKER_00]: He's gonna have suitors.
47:48 --> 47:50 [SPEAKER_01]: This is a crazy question on about to ask.
47:51 --> 47:52 [SPEAKER_01]: Does he make the Mariners better?
47:54 --> 47:55 [SPEAKER_01]: If he keeps this up, yes.
47:56 --> 47:58 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, which I agree.
47:58 --> 48:03 [SPEAKER_01]: If he is 70% of what he's doing right now, does he make the Mariners better?
48:08 --> 48:10 [SPEAKER_00]: No defense.
48:11 --> 48:38 [SPEAKER_00]: a lot of strikeouts won't run by the way lefties would have an even easier time against this lineup he's striking out forty three percent of the time against lefties again he's got swing and miss problems I think we all knew that was going to happen he would have to keep this level of production up and will he again he's only spent a month in the big leagues there could be some adjustments made by the league where he starts to get exposed more
48:38 --> 48:47 [SPEAKER_00]: I know we've answered this question or so I know you've given this answer for a couple different questions on this mailbag, especially about trade stuff, but I think we need more time.
48:49 --> 48:55 [SPEAKER_01]: It's really hard to trade for guys three months from now because we just don't know what they're going to be.
48:55 --> 49:05 [SPEAKER_01]: He could also get hurt, by the way, like that's also a reality, but for what the Mariners line up is struggling with right now and not having enough power, he would
49:06 --> 49:10 [SPEAKER_01]: they would just really struggle against lefties and they would have a lot more swing a mess in their lineup.
49:11 --> 49:20 [SPEAKER_01]: And if I think at the general fan is thinking that monotocommer coming is going to make your Mariners viewing experience easier and more enjoyable.
49:24 --> 49:27 [SPEAKER_01]: I feel like there would be a lot of complaining about monotocommer coming.
49:27 --> 49:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Probably.
49:29 --> 49:31 [SPEAKER_00]: But it has been fun to see him play this way through a month.
49:31 --> 49:37 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he backed foot at a home run in Sacramento the other day that was nuts.
49:38 --> 49:43 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it looked like he half swung off his back foot and he sends it out over the wall the other way.
49:43 --> 49:43 [SPEAKER_00]: Left center.
49:46 --> 49:47 [SPEAKER_01]: He's got a lot of power.
49:47 --> 49:49 [SPEAKER_01]: That was never the doubt.
49:49 --> 49:58 [SPEAKER_01]: happy for him that it's working out and hopefully it parlies himself into a much bigger contract in two years or maybe while the white talks will shock us and they'll extend him.
49:59 --> 50:01 [SPEAKER_01]: Unlikely though, because he's probably just going to be a dodger.
50:02 --> 50:03 [SPEAKER_00]: Probably.
50:04 --> 50:04 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
50:04 --> 50:06 [SPEAKER_00]: If he proves his word.
50:06 --> 50:14 [SPEAKER_01]: The Dodgers told Moona Talkumer a comedy to go to Chicago for seasoning and then they will sign him to a mega deal when they're ready.
50:15 --> 50:16 [SPEAKER_00]: Correct.
50:16 --> 50:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's right.
50:18 --> 50:21 [SPEAKER_00]: And by then, Moncio probably be done, so it opens up.
50:21 --> 50:23 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's a perfect, it's a seamless transition.
50:24 --> 50:25 [SPEAKER_01]: And those two are pretty similar.
50:26 --> 50:30 [SPEAKER_01]: Right, so it's a roster fit of all roster fits.
50:31 --> 50:31 [SPEAKER_01]: Agreed.
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