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Two Average Guys, One Philly Obsession: Season 2 Kickoff
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Season 2 is here, and so is another rollercoaster start for the Philadelphia Phillies. We’re just two average guys reacting in real time, breaking down early wins, brutal losses, and everything in between.
Hello and welcome back to episode number one of season two of Two Average Guys. Today, Sawyer is back on the podcast. He finally has time. No, I was just playing. Um, we had a couple guest appearances, but Sawyer's back, and opening day has come and gone. We are about 10 games into the season, and we're gonna kind of talk about some stuff that's happened in the MLB, but we're really gonna focus in on the Phillies. So, Sawyer, welcome back. You want to, you know, yeah, start us off?
SPEAKER_02I'll start off, but so like I mean, opening series against the Rangers. I think I mean we two and one in the series, not bad. We got to see a lot of we got to see Justin Crawford just ball out, still going crazy. I mean, you you talked highly about him. I mean, I wasn't as like confident, but like, dude, he's kind of like our best hitter right now. Just kind of funny.
SPEAKER_01Just really, I mean, he hit over 300 every year in the minors. Yeah. Um, they went one and two against the Rangers. Rangers are a decent team, I guess. I mean, uh, they're always decent. I think the Phillies should definitely be better, but it always seems Oh, did I say one?
SPEAKER_02Did I see two and one? No, yeah, you see.
SPEAKER_01Oh, my bad, yeah, my bad. It always feels like the Phillies start, you know, one and two. Like I'm pretty sure I saw a post that like the last six seasons the Phillies have gone one and two or something on on opening series. So I'm not too upset with that. I mean, like first 10 games. This is what game 12s going on right now as we're recording this.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, betting like 320 right now.
SPEAKER_01I think he's up higher than that.
SPEAKER_02I think he's I mean, I I'm it's updated right now, 320.
SPEAKER_01Oh, is it 324? Yeah, with everything updated. Yeah. I mean, that's that's exactly what you want. Yeah, like first 11, 12 games, and that's what you're gonna get.
SPEAKER_02That's like he's a he's a nine-hole guy, he's just there to get on, and he's doing a he's doing a great job of it.
SPEAKER_01Exactly that. He's got first walk-off, first hit, and I'm pretty sure. Um I think his first day being the majors was a single up the middle. And then, you know, he's really, really good. Another guy who's come in and been really good is Adolis Garcia. I don't okay, I won't say really good, but he's been good. Um he's played okay defense, but I know he's got I think he has two homers, and one of them was was jacked over 400 feet, I'm pretty sure. Um, so he's putting bad on ball. I don't know necessarily where his average is right now at this moment. I can check. Um he's playing today, he's batting 256, but honestly, if he can stay around 250 and hit some pumps like that, that are we talking about uh Adoles. Yeah, if he can stay around 250 and hit 30 plus bombs, like that's what we want from him.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I mean, what did he? I don't think he didn't have 30 plus last year at the Rangers, right? I don't think he did.
SPEAKER_01That was a it was a bad year.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, but I mean, yeah, great defense, like you said. I mean, we we knew that going in, getting him best one of the better defending right fielders in the league. But I mean, yeah, we're he's gonna need after seeing like him play, we're gonna need a lot of pumps out of him for him to make an impact.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it the lineup hasn't been producing nearly as well as I thought it was going to.
SPEAKER_02Yes, I agree completely.
SPEAKER_01I mean, um Schwarber's gotta get hot, Harper's gotta get hot, Bone's gotta get hot, Stott's gotta get hot.
SPEAKER_02I mean okay. Bohm wasn't I he's injured right now, I thought he wasn't in the lineup the other day because of that.
SPEAKER_01He wasn't injured, he's playing in the game.
SPEAKER_02He's playing today, yeah. Okay, that makes sense then.
SPEAKER_01And Otto Kemp goes on the left field and did not look good.
SPEAKER_02He didn't?
SPEAKER_01He he misread a ball very, very poorly that went right over his head.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, he's he's he's a liability out there, but I mean he could hit when he can hit, like yeah, and Brandon Marsh, I think, looks good. Uh Marsh has been great. I like I I still love Marsh. I think he's a very underrated guy.
SPEAKER_01I that's not good. Marshawn, though. I I I'm semi-high on Marshawn. I think he's a decent player.
SPEAKER_02I mean, yeah, he just like low-key like he hits as just as well as JT and is a way worse fielder than JT.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I I'm I I wouldn't even say he hits as well as JT. I don't think he hits it.
SPEAKER_02I mean I mean it helps that he's a switch hitter, but yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it helps that he's a switchy.
SPEAKER_02I mean he he's he's like the same or lower, yeah. But yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I don't know. Uh he'll do until JT comes back. Hopefully he won't be out too long. Seems like it wasn't that serious.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I think it'll be fine.
SPEAKER_01But but it's gotta get the guys hot. I mean, we're really just not hitting the ball.
SPEAKER_02I mean, yeah, off the bat, like our run differential was horrible because we got killed by the Nats 13-2, and then I mean, then we won the next two at least, but it was only one run. Like, our run differentiable was horrible.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so I mean, yeah, after the first series loss to the Rangers, we won two of three against the Nats, two of three against the Rockies, and we're split one and one right now with the Giants and playing game three of that series right now. Yeah, 0-0 right now. Six and five overall, not bad. Fourth in the division, really early in the division. Um, Mets and Braves, in my opinion, look good. I think both those teams look pretty good.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I mean, it it it does make me feel better that Bo's not looking the greatest.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that does make me feel a lot better.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, he's not. I mean, but yeah, ever their whole team's doing great.
SPEAKER_01He's up over 200. I'll say that. I mean, yeah, I mean, obviously, he was like 311 last year. So obviously he won him around 300, but for for how crappy he started being up to 212 is is definitely good.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I mean, talking about so like Harper probably had one of the worst starts in MLB. I like read like after at first, like I it was a guy comparing like all the like the stars that are doing bad, like Nick Kurtz at first, like through five or like through five something games, had like he was like two for like and not five games, maybe a little more, like two for like thirty. Yeah, he had he had a really bad start, but um Harper. I mean, last game or two games ago, he he came out, he came out hot, had a really good game after just last game. Or it was last yeah, I didn't I was about to say it wasn't last year.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I don't know.
SPEAKER_02He needs to like Harper he he had a bad year last year, and he really needs to step it up if he wants to do it.
SPEAKER_01Say in a bad year. People are people are quick to say in a bad year. He still hit 280. He still hit 280. Um, yeah, the power was down a little bit. Yeah, you want the average maybe a little bit higher, but 280 is not it, it's respectable, but uh people are quick to say it was a down year. I think it was an okay year. Um, it definitely wasn't an elite year, and I want him to return to being elite Bryce Harper form. Yeah. Um, but you saw that in game one against the Giants, but uh he also said he liked playing in in Oracle Park, so I don't know if that was just Bryce Harper going off on some Bryce Harper stuff, or if that's if the ballpark really has a difference for him.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I mean, yeah, I want to go into Painter though. Uh like first game, first game going into it. I was so terrified.
SPEAKER_01A live update, Rafael Devers just hit a three-run home run.
SPEAKER_02Okay, but let's ignore that. Uh damn it. Um who's pitching right now? Who's in?
SPEAKER_01Nola.
SPEAKER_02Nola's he p he he pitched through the seventh.
SPEAKER_01No, it's the bottom of the sixth.
SPEAKER_02Oh, it's still the bottom six. Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01It's the bottom of the sixth.
SPEAKER_02Long ass, long ass inning. But um yeah, well, sadly that happened. But let's go right into uh painter though. Like we were we before before anything happened, we were all terrified. I mean, first first outing, phenomenal. Uh like one one earned run, which okay, he the guy when he came out was on second end. I forget who came in, but he kind of sold it for uh for painter, in my opinion. But great, I forget how many K's he had, but uh oh he had eight K's first outing, one run, phenomenal.
SPEAKER_01I mean, his next his next game was uh but yeah, no, so he's had two starts, um nationals. We ended up winning the game. He got the win by decision. Uh yeah, the one run on five and a third, like Sawyer said. Second game, four innings, nine hits, four earned runs, only one K. Um wasn't really good, but that's kind of in the story of our pitchers, in my opinion. At least with like Sanchez, they've had one good outing and one not so good outing, or like Lazardo, his two outings, his one outing, he went six innings, six earned runs, gave up two homers, and the next and next outing goes six and two thirds, only gives up one run and strikes out eleven. Like it feels like our pitchers are having like either a really good outing or a really bad outing, and right now they've given us one of each. Yeah, except for Taiwan Walker, who's back to being very not good.
SPEAKER_02I was so uh disappointed. Like, he's been horrible every time.
SPEAKER_01You were so high on him at the end of last year, you were like, Oh, this is the guy, put him in the rotation, and now he does not he does not look like the guy. He has two outings. Uh, the first outing was against the Nationals, where we ended up losing 13-2. He went four and two-thirds, gave up ten hits, seven runs, six of them earned, with only two strikeouts, and got the loss. And then he pitched in the game that we lost to the Colorado Rockies four to one. He went five innings, seven hits, four runs, four earned, gave up three home runs, two to former Philly Mickey Moniac. Uh two walks, struck out four.
SPEAKER_02Are we talking about uh oh who gave up the bomb to those that was game oh it was Walker?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, he gave up two bombs to Mickey.
SPEAKER_02I remember I literally remember seeing uh before that game, like he has like a two ERA against the Rockies. It was like a random thing, and now he's like not anymore. Yeah, it was horrible.
SPEAKER_01He's got a seven point, or I'm sorry, he's got a nine point three one ERA on the season, which is horrible, and he's owing two, dude.
SPEAKER_02I I yeah, I hooked him up a lot. I had so much faith in him, and now yeah, I don't know, but you did you definitely did hype. Dude, he was so he he he ended his season last season amazing, phenomenal, and I had so much faith, but yeah. I mean, yeah, I think the lineup overall just has to get hot right now, at least everything, because it's like the same, it's like the playoffs we had, like only like two guys were good, and then the rest just horrible. I mean, Turner's not having a horrible start.
SPEAKER_01Uh not what we want though. Yeah, but I just like uh it's it's Turner needs to be back to 300, basically. That's what I want. Yeah. By the end of the year, I want to turn it back to 300. I want Schwarber to be around 250.
SPEAKER_02What is he at right now?
SPEAKER_01220, like 200, just about that. Harper, I want to be 290.
SPEAKER_02Um, you know, is he batting like 260 right now?
SPEAKER_01He's 230.
SPEAKER_02Damn, he's not even in the 50 range.
SPEAKER_01No, um, bohm, bone. I would like to see in the 270s.
SPEAKER_02Dude, okay. I call it crazy. I'm dude. Bone's been very like disappointing. Like the start too, like low-key chucking a Sosa.
SPEAKER_01I you know how I feel about Edmundo Sosa. I I think he should, like, oh baby, Edmundo Sosa. Hey, he played the other day and was one of the Phillies' four hits. The other three people that have hits included Trey Turner, Kyle Schwarber, Bryce Harper, and Edmundo Sosa. Those were our four hits. So, you know, I think the guy deserved the guy at least earned a little bit of time. Like, one, yeah, I know Boehm, I know Bohm leads the team in RBIs and all that. Whatever. He's in the four hole. He's gonna have a bunch of chances to get RBIs with the top three guys in our lineup and Justin Crawford hitting super well. But Edmundo Sosa should play every day, and I don't think that's crazy. I don't think that's crazy at all.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I mean, yeah, I think he should at least platoon more with maybe with stop more. I mean, he already does, but like, yeah, I do agree. Like, when when but when Bohm is cold, which is right now, I think he should be getting a lot more reps at third, at least.
SPEAKER_01That's what I'm saying. Like, yeah, he leads the team in RBIs, but he's hitting fourth, where Crawford's hitting 300, and then you have Trey Turner, Schwab, and Harper. He's gonna have chances to get RBIs. Yeah, that's why he's leading the team. Also, team leader in RBIs. He only has like eight. Like we're not our our differential for through 11 games is is negative 10. It's still negative, negative 10. Well, we just lost 6-0 to the Giants.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, you could point.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, um, Dylan Moore got in at second instead of Stott. He didn't look good. Yeah, uh, he didn't look good. Auto Kemp didn't look good. Yeah, it's been uh so our really like our true only bench guy is Edmundo Sosa. Yeah. And I'm not even sure he should be a bench guy. I would put Edmundo Sosa in the left over Auto Kemp. I don't know if that's crazy, but uh Sosa because I really do think he's a good ball player.
SPEAKER_02Oh, I think he's I I think he's a very underrated guy.
SPEAKER_01I mean, very underrated.
SPEAKER_02Nationals game, maybe you can't get it. Yeah, it might have been the Nats. Don't think it was the Rockies.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it was 5-3, bottom of the ninth, Sosa singled to left, and we had two guys score. And I was like, oh my goat. Like, I was so happy. He pinch hit for Bryson's, and he went one for two with two RBIs. Like, what more do you want from a guy that just got plugged into the lineup and you know, whatever, and he got in the whatever. Like, and then he went out and played second base. This man plays every position, and he's a good bat, and he sits on our bench. I don't I don't get it. I don't get it.
SPEAKER_02I mean, I don't know, yeah. I mean, what uh just Bohm's been there forever. Like, I I feel like, and like you know how like uh how uh or uh what's his name? Why am I blanking uh how our manager usually is like he just like favorites his guys a lot, which I mean it's fair, Rob. Yeah, I couldn't think of Rob.
SPEAKER_01And honestly, one of the things that I wasn't not super excited about going into the year is our bullpen, who's been phenomenal.
SPEAKER_02I mean, okay, I was gonna actually have him up right now. The Orion Kirkering thing yesterday was hilarious. Oh man.
SPEAKER_01Oh man. Orion Kirkering made his first uh first appearance since the game against the Dodgers in the playoffs last year. Moving on. Um, he made his first appearance, and in his only inning that he threw, like there was a comeback or hit right to him, and he jumped out of the way. So maybe a little bit of PTSD from the playoffs. Yeah, a lot, but maybe a lot of PTSD, and JT picked the ball up and or JT or Marshawn, I don't even remember who it was. It was JT. It was right. Picked the ball up and and made an arid throw that Harper couldn't get.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01One of our two errors in that game. But uh we move on. I'm excited to see Kirk Ring back on the mound.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. I I've liked everyone. Brad Keller, I thought would be like he's he's been good, just nothing like as I expected, though.
SPEAKER_01I didn't know what to expect from him. He's been alright. I mean, he's done his job.
SPEAKER_025-4 ERA through five innings, five appearances, four or five innings pitch, four strikeouts. I mean, I really expected him to come out like crazy because he he was really good for the Cubs, but I don't know.
SPEAKER_01He's been uh he's just gonna set up he doesn't have to do too much. Yeah, then Duran Duran's been Duran. So give us one-on-lead. That's all he's gotta give us.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I'm just gonna look at his stats. Yeah, one five. I mean, one five so ERA doesn't matter for closers that often, in my opinion. Seven strikeouts through five and a half inning or five point two innings. I mean, he's been great. Just Duran's gonna be Duran.
SPEAKER_01I'm upset. I'm upset by a PED boy, bro. Jose Alvarado, yeah, I'm upset by Ozempic boy, Jose Alvarado, bro. He's not been good.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I mean, I saw uh when did I watch him against the I mean he didn't do bad against the Giants the other day. I don't think he did, yeah. He didn't do too bad when I watched him.
SPEAKER_01He's like a nine ERA.
SPEAKER_02That's just yeah, 9.8 with yeah, three innings pitch, a two whip.
SPEAKER_01That's just not um he's pretty yeah. We are thir we're 11 games into the season. We've already had a position player pitch. Oh lord, who pitched?
SPEAKER_02Oh, was that oh that was that was against the Nats, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, Dylan Moore got in.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, that's bad. But I mean, going down everything, I mean, um uh they have a Mundo Sosa. I'm just going down like the MLB's roster for the Philz. They have Sosa in second after stop for second, and then also second for third.
SPEAKER_01Well, yeah, he's the backup guy.
SPEAKER_02Also shortstop, yeah. He's literally everywhere. He plays he's not on the outfield, though. Not on any of the outfield.
SPEAKER_01Well, I'm not sure he's played much outfield. He has last year, I think. I think he did last year. I don't I just don't know what to do in in left field. I I honestly I think Brandon Marshall be an everyday player. I I'm not gonna lie, Autokemp was is not the guy for me.
SPEAKER_02Damn, you're hyping him up forever, ever.
SPEAKER_01Like I'm not sure I was. Autokemp's not the guy for me.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, yeah. I I'm with you on that. He's just a liability out there, and his bet's too iffy to actually like have that out there.
SPEAKER_01Like, obviously, he had multiple games. He had like a four-hit game last year. Like, yeah, I oh yeah, he did great. I know he's good. Obviously, he's playing in the freaking major leagues, but it to me, I think I think if you're gonna play him, it's gotta be a third base.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And we have our third baseman, and we have our backup third baseman. Uh I'm not sure. There are a lot of people that could switch from like outfield to infield or vice versa, like Harper did coming in to play first.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Um I'm just not sure Otto Kemp is one of the guys that can play left field. I don't know if his range is like that. Like uh I I don't know. Uh it's just my opinion. I'm not I'm not huge on Otto Kemp. I would like to see Brandon Marsh be an everyday guy.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I agree with that completely. I mean, yeah, just Kemp's just a liability, in my opinion. And again, his bat's just not worth that liability.
SPEAKER_01I would play, I would play Turner, Schwarber, Harper. I guess I'll play Bohm. I would I like I would play our normal lineup, but just play him every day.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Like don't put an auto. Don't but if you need a pinch hitter, it should be Sosa immediately. Shouldn't even think about it.
SPEAKER_02I mean, it depends. I mean, yeah, I mean, who's our lefty off the bench? Why am I like blinking? Do we even have a lefty off the bench? I don't I don't that isn't out yeah, or that isn't uh is Dylan Moore switch fit?
SPEAKER_01No, he's a righty.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I didn't think he was. Um Yeah, I mean, I except uh except Marshawn. That's it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, we don't really have Wow, yeah, we don't really have a gotta.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. I don't know. A lot of righties, but I mean, if we're being honest, when's the last time we've had like a cre we've never had a crazy pitch hit or like appearance ever? We usually just keep our lineup throughout the whole game. Like, I don't know. No matter what the matchup is. Unless it's like Stot against a lefty bottom nine. But yeah.
SPEAKER_01Uh it's it's just it's been a very lackluster start, but every year I watch the Phillies, I feel like I say this.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Like I always sit here and go, Oh man, they should have been so much better to start the year. And then they always end up as a 80-90 win team.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it yeah, yeah. We always start off slow. I mean, it happened last year, and yeah.
SPEAKER_01Hopefully they can pick it up looking towards the next couple series.
SPEAKER_02I mean, yeah, we're gonna be we're gonna be 500 after today's game, probably, right? Yeah, 500 or no, we're below 500.
SPEAKER_01Well, yeah, oh yeah, wait, we're oh, oh yeah, we're six and five, so we'll be six and six.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I was about to say, yeah, we're five.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I'm sorry, I didn't understand what you meant, but I'm with you now.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, but I mean, yeah, and then who Lazardo's pitching tomorrow?
SPEAKER_01It is Lazardo. Lazardo.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, Lazardo. So I mean, I don't know. Hopefully he comes out hot. That'll be that'll be cool to watch.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, well, except we're facing Michael Soroka, who's 2-0 with a 0.9 ERA.
SPEAKER_02I believe in us.
SPEAKER_01So hopefully we can raise that ERA. Yeah, I mean, and then it's the Diamondbacks, like the Diamondbacks. In that game, we got Taiwan Walker. Uh he's and then Painter.
SPEAKER_02Okay, and then not a not not a bad series. I mean, uh, Taiwan kind of ruins that one for me.
SPEAKER_01Oh, that's funny. We go, we go Arizona, then we go Chicago, then we go Atlanta, then we go Chicago, then we go Atlanta.
SPEAKER_02We have two series that early with Atlanta already.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, we're Chicago at home, Atlanta at home, Chicago on the road, Atlanta on the road, and then we host San Francisco Giants at home. Oh we play, we just keep repeating teams to start the year.
SPEAKER_02Interesting. Yeah, that's why do we re yeah, that's kind of odd. Okay, but I mean I don't know.
SPEAKER_01I I just thought that was funny. I'm looking at the yeah, um, it looks like it's gonna be a good National League East.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I mean, very I mean, Mets are one right now, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Mets are one seven and four, yeah, and then Braves, Braves are seven and five, Miami six and five. Surprising. I mean Sandy has been amazing. Yeah, he's yes, amazing.
SPEAKER_02It's like it looks like his old self back in his prime.
SPEAKER_01And yeah, he almost went, he almost went, he went complete. He did a he didn't shut out. He was supposed to.
SPEAKER_02Well, he had a complete he had a complete shutout this year already.
SPEAKER_01Oh, does he?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, he did. All right, look, I like remember seeing it. I saw like the highlights and everything.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, his first outing was seven innings, zero earned runs, five K's. Then he went then he went CG, three hits, seven K's, and his last outing, he went eight and a third.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, he's been disgusting. Like it's wow, he's been fun to watch. I'll say that. It's like it's like his old self back in uh what was the year that he went crazy? It was in the teens, like I think it was like 2018.
SPEAKER_01No, it wasn't that far back, it was only a couple years ago.
SPEAKER_02No, it wasn't in the 20s, uh it might have been 21. I don't know.
SPEAKER_01You can look that up. I thought he was pretty good a couple years ago. Um Miami's lineup though, it doesn't seem that crazy, but they're they're they're playing good ball, but I'm not sure. They started the year against the Rockies, I think. Yeah, they started against the Rockies and then played the White Sox.
SPEAKER_02So it's not good. He won uh he won uh in 22, uh Cy Young.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I was gonna say, I thought it was only a couple years ago.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Eight four out of the pitcher. Um, so they started with the Rockies and then the White Sox, then went to the Yankees and the Reds. So I mean the Yankees were really their only well, let me not say that. The Reds, I guess, are halfway decent.
SPEAKER_02They are below 500.
SPEAKER_01No, they're not. They're not? No. They're eight and three, they're leading the central.
SPEAKER_02The Reds? I mean, I haven't watched the Reds. Low key, I just watch straight Phillies.
SPEAKER_01I I just kind of look at yeah, I just kind of look at you know, standings all the time. Um, the Dodgers are nine and two. I mean and the Dodgers players and even their superstars. Their best players right now has been Andy Paez.
SPEAKER_02I mean, Otani's still been good though.
SPEAKER_01Otani's yeah, but their best player has been Andy Paez. Yeah. I promise you, he leads that team in so much, and he bats seven.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01That that's oh, Shohei just went six innings, four hits, two K's today. He's a zero URA.
SPEAKER_02Wow, two appearances.
SPEAKER_01This is his third. This is his second appearance.
SPEAKER_02Oh, it's second, okay. I was right.
SPEAKER_01Both times he went six innings. He's given up, he's giving up five hits in 12 innings.
SPEAKER_02Again, I said this other day, he's going to be an eight-time MVP.
SPEAKER_01Nah, I never mind. Let me not say that. I was gonna say he might win a uh Cy Young, but he could he doesn't get enough volume for it.
SPEAKER_02Yes, I agree. He's never gonna win a Cy Young, but he's just gonna keep winning the MVP.
SPEAKER_01I'm not sure he'll ever pitch more than six innings. I'm not sure they'll I'm not sure they'll ever stretch him to seven. Yeah, now that they got Alex Vestia and Edwin Diaz, they're they're bullpen's deep enough where they don't need to stretch him.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, good point. I mean, but still the guys if the guy's cooking, you're gonna leave him in. But no, 100%.
SPEAKER_01And okay, I'm not I'm I'm never saying never. Like there might be a couple instances where he does take the ball into the seventh and go seven, maybe even eight, but I don't I don't see him ever doing like what Yamamoto does. Um I don't see him ever going nine innings or anything like that, like Yamamoto does.
SPEAKER_02I forgot about Yamamoto.
SPEAKER_01Um or doing what Sandy's doing right now and throwing, you know, 20 20 some innings and three starts.
SPEAKER_02It's crazy that the Dodgers are still probably gonna win this year.
SPEAKER_01Oh, 100%. They're like the there's like a there's like a 50% chance the Dodgers win the world series. Oh, yeah. I saw that post. It was like they have they have a plus 35 run differential.
SPEAKER_02Already, oh my god.
SPEAKER_01They have 72 runs scored and 37 runs against. Yeah, it's absolutely insane.
SPEAKER_02Their GM has the right mindset, just spend as much money until everyone gets pissed.
SPEAKER_01All right, look at this one, right? The Dodgers are nine and two, they're on a five-game win streak, and in their last ten, they're eight and two. The Cincinnati Reds are eight and three, they're on a five-game win streak, and their last ten, they're eight and two. The Dodgers have a 30 plus 35 run differential. The Reds have a plus one.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, this is yeah, that's a joke.
SPEAKER_01Milwaukee's in second in the central at 8-4 with a plus 24 run differential.
SPEAKER_02Dude, Milwaukee, Milwaukee looked gross yesterday against the Red Sox. Yeah, no, Milwaukee's a team that could be that could definitely be.
SPEAKER_01I want to watch one of his games, but yeah, he's he went five and a third, 10Ks. Um four walks, though.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I mean, he okay, he's a he's a kid who throws a hundred. He's not gonna he's gonna walk people.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but uh I get what you mean.
SPEAKER_02That makes sense.
SPEAKER_01He's in his two outings. Oh, I'm sorry, he has three outings. In his three outings, he has a combined nine walks and twenty-eight strikeouts.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I mean, I don't know. His team's winning. So, I mean, sometimes you know you gotta look away from the walks, in my opinion.
SPEAKER_01The K's make up for it, but uh he's one and one on the season. We'll see how it goes. I think the Brewers are another team, like they they should be as good as last year. Well, probably not as good as last year. I don't think they're gonna be as good as they're still gonna be as good as last year, but they're gonna be good. Yeah, the Dodgers are of course gonna be good. I mean, it seems like a lot of our predictions from what we said. The only thing that I'm seeing is the Braves look like the team that a lot of people think the Braves are gonna be, where they're gonna come back healthy and and be very competitive. I wasn't so sold on that. I don't know about you.
SPEAKER_02Uh I I I had I I I think they were gonna go into the season a lot better because last year I don't know what happened, but they could not hit for anything. Like, stride. I mean, I'm really I'm hop I'm I'm hoping to see how Strider does this year because last year was horrible watching him. It looked like he couldn't do anything. Like, I'm sorry, like he was horrible last year.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I I I mean I wouldn't say horrible, but I definitely agree with what you're saying. He he has looked way better.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I I've been watching him this year, so I'm not 100% sure, but yeah, I like to see him do good at least, and I don't want to see him do good, at least against us, but yeah.
SPEAKER_01And then the only other division I want to take a look at real quick is the AL East, where you thought that not you, but like in general, there was a thought that the Yankees were gonna be good, the Red Sox were gonna be good, Toronto was gonna be good, Baltimore was gonna be good, and then the Rays were gonna be okay. Like a lot of people, honestly, I will say, including myself, thought this was easily going to be the best division in baseball. I thought it, I thought that this was easily going to be the best division. I didn't even think it was gonna be that close. And you have the Yankees at 8-2, the Orioles at 6-6, the Rays at 5-6, Toronto's at 4-7, and Boston's at 4-8.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, they they keep hyping up Roman Anthony, but Lord.
SPEAKER_01I'm high on Roman Anthony.
SPEAKER_02Okay, okay. I I don't know. His arm it's so funny, it's so bad. Like, it's horrible, but yeah.
SPEAKER_01I'm personally very, very high on Roman Anthony. I think he's good.
SPEAKER_02I think they hyped him up a lot going to this season, and I knew it was crazy to hype him up that much.
SPEAKER_01I'm curious to see how the I mean I'm curious to see how the whole league progresses, but the American American League East specifically, in my mind, is a division that I want to keep my eye out for because I want to see in my head it was Yankees, Toronto, Boston, Baltimore, and Tampa Bay. That's what are I had going into the year. I just kind of want to see if you know, we have a very small 10-game sample size. I want to see if as everything progresses, we get kind of the evened out, what we thought Boston gets back over 500 kind of kind of feel from from the MLB, especially that division.
SPEAKER_02Well, we're talking about remember you said Cece, you didn't think he was gonna do good at all. Like, I mean, I wouldn't say at all. I mean, uh, he's going against the White Sox MA's. I mean, he I thought he was gonna be okay. Like, he's only let up three runs this this uh this season, nine innings pitch, three runs, eighteen K's.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah, I mean he's a strikeout machine. Oh, yeah, yeah. I mean strikeout dean, but it that's two appearances where we only went nine innings. I mean yeah, five and four.
SPEAKER_02Like yeah, uh yeah, one he won four, yeah. One he won five.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, it's not ideal. I mean, it plays like the blue jays just need guys to throw, but they're they're reliant, they're they're pretty hitting reliant, yeah. Um, but uh I don't know. See also like his highest ERA is against the ALE's. Like I was just kind of taking the facts that we had.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that's fair.
SPEAKER_01But um, you know, you play those guys 10, 12, 15 times in a year. You're gonna learn how to pitch them. You might make a few mistakes, um, but you're gonna learn how to pitch them. So he he should definitely adjust and be good. Um, strike out a bunch of guys, probably be over 200 K's again. I mean, oh easily, easily, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, he's on pace nearly 20 through two appearances.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, he's on pace to strike out two guys every inning. Yeah. Um, which is incredible.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I mean, just got to update Giants up 4-0 now.
SPEAKER_01Oh, sweet. Let's go.
SPEAKER_02So it's just throwing a it's throwing like just put in someone random. Just put on Rafi, just put Rafael on the mound. No, he's he's catching, actually. It's five zip now.
SPEAKER_01That's what I just saw. Devers with his fourth RBI.
unknownDamn.
SPEAKER_01Off of who's Alvarado, man?
SPEAKER_02They put in Alvarado, dude, and he comes in and just sells every time. I I mean, he gives up he gives up two hits in a run. I mean, yeah, this okay, time let's hell. I don't know, but yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, we're just you know, this was uh uh an update 10 games into the season. We'll keep you guys updated as the season progresses with more Philly stuff, more just MLB stuff in general. But this was we wanted to touch on opening day. We want to touch on you know the young guys, Painter, Crawford, kind of touch on the the stars that need to get back to their star-like form. And we're just gonna roll with the season and hopefully everything pans out.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, hopefully. Uh I'm I'm looking forward to the diamondback series. Hopefully we can lock in. We don't have our we don't have our best pitchers out, but we have like the middle to end of the rotation, so hopefully it's good.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and honestly, real quick, we didn't even touch on wheeler, who's gonna be coming back soon.
SPEAKER_02Oh, yeah, good point. Yeah, I'm I'm scared.
SPEAKER_01But I'm not, I think he looks all right. I think we're not gonna have prime wheeler, but we're definitely they wouldn't bring him back unless they thought he was ready.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that's fair.
SPEAKER_01That's not something you rush. He's I he's gonna be he's gonna be wheeler, or they wouldn't bring him back. Yeah, so that'll be a great addition to the bullpen, uh, or great addition to the rotation, and hopefully Tywin Walker can get out get out of there.
SPEAKER_02Um chill on, chill on my guy.
SPEAKER_01No, we'll we'll we'll keep you guys updated as as the season progresses with everything, and yeah, that's that's about it for the for the first week of MLB updates.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we'll see ya.